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Tails had made a full recovery from his 'battle' with Zephyr. When he had woken up the next morning he wanted to resume his training imediatly. Everyone was having doubts about the young fox. Everyone exept for Zephyr and Shadow that is. Zephyr agreed to continue training Tails.

But Sonic interjected, "I won't let Tails train with you if you think you can get away with hurting him!" Everyone but Shadow and Tails backed Sonic up on this...

"But Sonic, to properly train Tails I will have to fight with him." Zephyr had tried to compromise.

"Then I will train with him. If you think for a moment you can hurt him without consequence you're sadly mistaken." Sonic thretened.

Zephyr was about to say something when Knuckles cut in, "Yea! What Sonic said! Plus whatever they can take I can take twice whatever training you give them."

"Us too!" Amy and Winter said with a hint of venom in their words. Zephyr sweat dropped and looked around at all the angry and persistant faces and finally gave in.

"Fine. I'll train you all." Zephyr crossed his arms. Everyone's tension lightened as Zephyr said that. "On one condition." Zephyr added.

"And what's that?" Sonic said.

"Depending on your power levels I will asign training partners to compete with. You must agree to try and surpass the other person whenever we train. Agreed?" Zephyr asked the small crowd. Everyone looked around at each other before turning back to Zephyr.

"Agreed!"

"Alright then. Seing as I saw this kind of situation coming, Tails please get your laptop." Zephyr looked to Tails.

"Huh? Ok?" Tails jogged to the Tornado and got his portable computer from under his seat. "Why do you need my computer Zephyr?"

"I'm going to put a power level scanner on it of course." Zephyr said.

"You're going to do what!? Do you even know how to build the components?" Tails said with a shocked expresion on his face.

"Don't need to build one. I've already got one." Zephyr pulled out a small and slightly damaged piece of machinery.

Everyone's jaw dropped a few inches and Tails said, "Where in the world did you get that!?"

"While everyone was unconcious I stole it from Metal before I obliterated him." Zephyr stated to everyone's shock.

FLASH!

Zephyr was standing in front of Metal, his fist raised. "Hayaiken!" He called out. He launched his fist at Metal, but it turned into four! Metal was getting rapid fire punched to the chest, face, and abdomen! "HAAA!" Zephyr yelled as he asaulted the robot. He just kept punching and punching until Metal hit a wall of rubble. He kept moving him back into the wall. He was imprinting him into it, so to speak. He finaly stopped when Metal was embeded into the wall. Every part of the robot that Zephyr had punched was cracked and damaged. It looked like he had brought him back from the scrap yard just to finish the job!

FLASH!

"It was durring my Hayaiken attack that I cracked Metals forehead open and stole this component of his 'brain'. With a little work and a USB port we can make a portable scanner!" Zephyr explained to Tails.

Tails litterally had sparkles in his eyes, "Zephyr, you're a geneous!"

"Well thank you Tails." Zephyr said, "Now how would we go about fixing this?"

"Well it looks like we need some..." Tails and Zephyr walked off back to the Tornado discussing the repairs for the scanner.

Later...

About fifteen minutes after Tails and Zephyr had walked off there was a large green flash from the plane! Everyone started to rush over to the plane but was stopped by Shadows voice, "It was only Chaos Control. They probably went back to town for suplies and tools to fix that little gadget."

Everyone breathed a sigh of releave and went back to hanging out at the foot of the steps.

Later... Again...

Roughly an hour later Tails and Zephyr returned to the training camp site with a bag a piece in their hands. When they got back everyone ran over to them and started bombarding them with questions.

"Where have you two been?"

"Did you get the parts?"

"Did you fix it?"

"When does our training begin?"

"Can I have a hug Tails?"

Everyone looked at Winter with a sweat drop. She walked up to Tails and leaned into him. He put his left arm around the back of her waist. He smiled and handed his bag to Zephyr. His mentor frowned at first but gave them a warm smile as he took the bag.

Zephyr looked back to the small crowd in front of him, "In order; ALL of the computer stores in Station Square, yes, not yet, soon, and yes." He motioned his hand toward Tails and Winter, "I guess i'll get it started then Tails?" Zephyr said.

"I'll be there in just a second." Tails said not looking away from Winter.

"Yea whatever Romeo." Zephyr called. He sat down on the steps of the Master Emerald Shrine and began to work. He took out some small tools and parts to begin the repair of his power level scanner. He went to work on fixing it.

Later...

Zephyr had finished working on his power level scanner and was applying the caseing. He snapped two pieces of black plastic together and it was finished. Well, almost. He got out a small paper stencil and a marker. The paper stencil had the Z cut out and the marker was white. He placed the stencil over the semi-finished product and colored on the letter Z. Now, it was finished. He looked satisfied with his work and plugged it into the USB port on the side of the computer.

A small window apeared with a blue title bar and white words reading 'Power Level Scanner'. Zephyr smirked.

"Hey guys it works!" Zephyr called to everyone. They all rushed over to see Zephyr's new invention in action.

"How does it work?" Tails asked.

"Well when someone brings out their power this machine" Zephyr pointed to the scanner, "will measure how strong the energy is."

"Can we test it?" Sonic said.

"If i'm going to train you then yes we will all 'test' it." Zephyr said.

"Ok then i'll go first." Sonic said confidently.

Zephyr shrugged, "Alright then. To start bring out your maximum power."

Sonic thought for a moment, "Then wouldn't I need the Chaos Emerlds to go Super Sonic?"

"No. We are going to see how powerful you can become in your normal state. That way you will still be increasing your maximum power level without hurting your parnter." Zephyr explained.

"That makes sence I guess." Sonic paused again, "Uh... How do I bring out my power? I'm used to gathering the power from the Chaos Emeralds."

Zephyr sighed, "Just like Tails. Concentrate on the center of your body until you start to feel a pull. Then the energy will come out and flow through your body."

Sonic sweat dropped, "I think thats a little easier said than done in my case."

Zephyr set the computer down next to him and stood up, "I'll give a demonstration." He walked over to Sonic and lowered himself into a power up stance. "First, like i've said three times now, concentrate on the center of your body until you feel a pull." Zephyr said with gritted teath and a smirk. He gathered a decent amount of energy. "Then bring it out!" He puffed out his chest and arms for a little extra effect as he let the energy out. A flaming blue arua was brought out around Zephyr.

Tails marveled at the energy, "Wow Zephyr your power is enormos!" Tails said.

Zephyr smirked at his student, "Tails this is only a fraction of what my true strength is."

Everyone's jaw dropped, "This is only a fraction!? No wonder you were able to beat Metal so easily!" Knuckles said.

Zephyr nodded and let his aura dissipate, "Alright Sonic if you would be so kind as to follow suit? Remember bring out your maximum power!"

Sonic sweat dropped and nodded. He walked over in front of the scanner and did as he was shown. Sonic's aura wasn't a bright or as flashy as Zephyr's but it was still impressive! "Alright lets see what the sanner sais..." It took a few moments for the numbers to go up in the count. When it stopped Zephyr said, "Two hundred thirty!"

"Cool!" Sonic said. He let his aura disperse and he fell to his knees. He started breathing heavily as he held his chest.

"Sonic!" Amy yelled as she ran to his side, "Are you ok?"

"He'll be fine. Bringing out your max power takes alot out of you." Zephyr said.

"I guess i'll go next then." Knuckles brought out a flaring red aura. Surprizingly enough it was bigger than Zephyr's! "Ha, take that Zephyr!"

"What ever you say Knuckles head..." The scanner was still racking up numbers until it beeped three times in succession, indicating it was done. "Three hundred!"

Knuckles let his aura disperse and he was still standing, "Piece of cake." He started to walk away but stumbled out of exhaustion.

"Shadow you're up." Zephyr called. Shadow 'hmphed' in responce and brought up a yellow aura like it was nothing. Like before the scanner was going up and up and up.

"You ever done this before Shadow?" Zephyr said.

"No." He replied apatheticaly.

"Well, the scanner sais you have a power level of three hundred and eighty points. You're done for now." Zephyr said.

Shadow's aura died down slowly and he didn't apear to have any physical strain. Zephyr shrugged it off, "Who's going next?"

Tails walked up in front of Zephyr with a confident look in his eyes, "I'm ready."

Zephyr nodded, "Ok Tails. Go ahead."

Tails concentrated and breathed calmly. Like with the Chaos Emeralds, a bright gold aura apeared and flared up around Tails! Zephyr's eyes widened with shock, "Tails, I can feal that your power level is waay up there! I guess the emeralds super charge really helped?" Zephyr said as he watched the scanner just keep going up.

"Really? I don't feel much different." Tails said.

When the scanner stopped Zephyr had a satisfied smirk on his face as he read aloud, "Two fifty!"

Everyone smilled and gave a congradulatory symbol to Tails. Well, everyone except Shadow. Tails let his aura disperse slowly like Shadow aand he panted a bit before sitting with Winter.

Amy got up and said, "Alright, it's my turn!" She concentrated and with a little difficulty, produced a small pink aura.

Zephyr had to siffle his laughter as the scanner almost immediatly finished, "Thirty!" Zephyr called.

Amy collapsed to her knees before moving back over next to Sonic, Tails and Winter, "Well... Guess i'm up." The snowy fox said.

Also with difficulty, Winter produced a bright white aura. Zephyrs eyes widened before saying, "Fifty five!" Winter went down on her knee and panted with a smile before moving back over to Tails and the rest of the group.

"Alright, thats everyone. Now we move onto the training." Zephyr was about to continue but a certain gold fox had his hand raised, "Yes Tails?"

"You still haven't gone." Tails said.

Zephyr raised his eye brows, "Huh? I guess you're right. Do you really want to see my full power?"

"Yes. Of course we do." Sonic said.

"Well alright then. Here we go." Zephyr handed the computer to Tails and stood back as he started powering up. He grunted and produced a fierce aura around himself! As his power rose, a small breaze picked up. Everyone was in awe at the ammount of Zephyrs power. It was the one of the most powerful things they had ever seen. "Tails, scanner readings?" Zephyr asked.

Tails blinked a few times before looking down at his computer. His eyes when wide as he saw Zephyrs power level rise. The scanner currently said [Power Level: 1000] and it was still going up! "It's... It's over a thousand Zephyr!" Tails said in shock.

"Really? I'm almost to my peak, so it shouldn't go much higher." Zephyr responded.

Tails' mouth hung agape as he watched the scanner go up; one thousand one hundred... One thousand two hundred... It finally stopped and Tails read aloud, "One thousand, two hundred and fifty..."

Zephyr took a breath and let it out. He dispersed his aura and walked over to the group, "Now you believe that I easily beat Metal?"

Sonic was forced to nod and agree with Zephyr, even though he didn't want to believe it. "I guess you are as powerful as you say you are." He said with a smirk.

"Told you so. Now, like I was saying, I will assign training buddies acording to power levels. Sonic and Tails, Knuckles and Shadow, and Amy and Winter-" Zephyr began but was interupted by sudden maniacle laughter

"What the?!" Sonic yelled as everyone looked up to find none other than Ivo Robonik in his sons floating pod. He laughed as several drones were sent out of the ship and towards the Chaos Emeralds!

"Ha, good luck trying to get the chaos emeralds Robotnik!" Knuckles said.

Robotnik stopped laughing for a moment to look down at the group, "And why would I have trouble?"

"Because I put force fields around the emeralds with the Master Emeralds power!" Knuckles said.

Ivo thought for a moment then said, "Well, that shouldn't be to hard!" A small cylindrical object was produced from the front of the pod and shot a yellow lazer at the emeralds! The beam didn't travel far before it split into seven and hit all the chaos emeralds at once! The force fields apeared suddenly generated a small amount of electricity around them and then dispersed violently leaving the Master Emerald without a glow.

"What!? How did you do that Robotnik?" Knuckles asked.

"I wouldn't expect you to know Knuckles. He shot reverse polarity beams at the force fields. That made the energy reverse themselves and cancled the shield." Zephyr explained, "But that won't be good enough Ivo! You're going to have to go through me before I let you steel the Chaos Emeralds!" He launched himself at the floating pod and threw his fist in the doctors face!

Ivo smirked as Zephyr aproached and phased right through him! Zephyr stopped after phasing through Robotnik and looked back to see a fuzzed up image of Robotnik, "Hologram... Should have guessed it from such a coward." he said under his breath.

"And with that remark i'll be leaving and taking the emeralds with me!" Robotnik said.

"Oh no you won't!" Sonic yelled and rushed the seven badnicks that were currently steeling the emeralds! The badnicks turned, and in an 'I' formation, they shot seven lazers! "Oh no!" Sonic didn't have time to think, so he reacted as any hedgehog would; he put his arms infront of his face and pulled his legs up to his chest to curl up into the ball and took the attack head on! The attack sent him flying down the steps with a harsh thud when he landed on his back and he uncurled. His fur and quills were singed and he was smoking from where the lazer had hit. When he had opened his eyes in the next few seconds, Amy was already there helping him to a sitting position.

"Like I said, i'll be leaving with the emeralds now." Ivo said as the seven badniks came back to the pod.

Sonic looked up at him with a disgusted look on his face, "So I guess you are finishing what your son started?"

"That I will. Killing you and all your little friends will satisfy myself and it will bring my son back to the dark side where he belongs." Ivo said as he snapped his fingers. All the badniks raised the chaos emeralds above their heads, "CHAOS," Ivo began.

"I don't think so!" Sonic lept from where he was and up into the pod just as Ivo was finishing his chant, "CONTROL!!" He, the seven badniks, the chaos emeralds, and Sonic were all gone.

Tails reached for the place that his best friend had been moments ago before everyone yelled in unison, "Sonic!". Tails sat there a moment before hanging his head. Where did he go? Will I ever see him again? Those kinds of thought were running through his mind right this second.

Zephyr floated in the air with crossed legs and arms while he thought, "I can usually trace chaos energy like the kind produced from another person or from a chaos emerald... So why is it so hard to trace a chaos control movement?" He driffed down to the ground and continued to think before something on the ground caught the sun just right and 'twinkled'. He crawled over to the object and found a small metal sphere with a small button on one side. He pressed the button and a small hollow gram of Eggman sitting in a black turning chair, wrapped in bandages appeared. He seemed to be out of breath and bleeding from his old woulds and some new ones!

"Tails, if you're seeing this then my father has already taken Sonic. I don't know what he's planning to do but it can't be good. All I know is that he's planning something big, and whatever it is it's going to happen at midnight on the night of the next full moon. I fear the worst for Sonic. Please, stop my father before he does something that will affect the entire worlds safety! For the sake of human and animal life you may have to take his." Eggman paused to look back at something and a large bang was heard, "I don't have much time. To Tails, I leave my lab and everything in it. To Knuckles, I designed a body armor for you. It will reduce all damage you take by about thirty percent. To Amy, I leave all of my books. To Rouge, I leave all of my expirimental ores. To Shadow, I leave the upgraded Hover Shoes and Ring Gloves. And to Sonic's new friend, Tails told me about how your pod was all messed up and broken so I fixed it for you and upgraged it a little." Another loud bang was heard and next a crash. Eggman looked back for a brief moment before looking towards the camera point and waving.

The next thing Zephyr knew, a thick liquid covered the hologram. He closed his eyes and shut off the hologram. He placed the item in his pocket and walked over to the group who was currently either wondering 'What the hell happened to Sonic?', or 'Am I ever going to see him again?'.

"Everyone...?" Zephyr said. The group looked up at Zephyr. "I think we should all head back to town."

"What!? We're just going to leave Sonic? We're not even going to look for him?" Tails yelled at the blue hybrid.

"Tails, calm down. Sonic will be fine. For now we need to continue our training and prepair for a big attack." Zephyr said.

"What do you mean a 'big attack'? Is Sonic involved?" Tails grabbed onto Zephyr shoulders.

"Tails..." Zephyr looked him in the eyes. Tails looked back intently before Zephyr said, "When's the next full moon?"