"Gotcha."
Tails had finally caught the frog that she had been chasing. Truthfully she had gone quiet far but now that she finally had the frog she felt releaved. The only problem now was how was she going to get it out of the frog. She thought about it but she couldn't figure out how. She knew that Sonic would probally just reach in and pull out the emerald or worse cut it out of him, thus killing it. But she was certain that there was a way to get it out without doing that. So she decieded if Rotor could help. She made her way back to the Flight Brothers' workshop. As she did the frog seemed quiet a bit but every so often it'd make a vain atempt at struggling to get out.
"Don't worry," Tails said to the frog, "I won't hurt you. I just need to get that Emerald out of you then you can go free."
Strangely the Frog squirmed a bit more after that. But Tails had a firm grip on the frog and wasn't about to let go.
"Come on now," Tails said the frog quieted down a bit. So Tails took her gaze off the frog and back onto her path, only to be met with a bright light.
"What's happening?" She said as she blanked out.
Tails awakens as she's standing up right. She looks around and notices that she was not where she was at. The place looked to be some kind of anceint place yet looked like it was new.
"Where..." She began to say then noticed that the frog was gone, "Drat it, where'd that frog go."
She looked around but didn't see any sign of the frog.
"Great now what am I going to do," Tails said as she thought about it, "Well it's got to be around here somewhere."
So Tails set off. Trying to find out where the frog went. Tails' search brough her to what looked to be a rather tall prymid. The prymid looked familer like she's seen it before. But as she pondered on this she caught some one in the corner of her eye. It looked to be a group of Mobians. She turned towards them to get a better look and was met by a surprise.
Echidnas.
Tails couldn't believe it. She's only heard that Echidnas where from Angel Island. But as she looked around she knew that she was not on Angel Island. After all when she was on Angel Island she never saw any place that looked like this. Plus she was under the assumption that Knuckles was the only Echidna on Angel Island.
"The keepers are the Seven Chaos."
huh? Tails thought. Her intrested peaked but the voice was not coming from the group of echidnas. She turned and looked towards the pyrmid again. In front of it was a girl echidna about her age. So Tails headed over to the girl. Wondering what she was talking about.
Tails got up to the girl. The girl noticed as she turned her attention to her.
"Oh hello," The girl replied pleasently.
"Hi," Tails said, "Say what was it that you were just saying, about the seven Chaos?"
"Oh that?" Tikal said, "Well it's something my Grandmother taught me. I'll never forget it."
"Is there more to it?" Tails asked her curiosity rising.
"Yes," Tikal said, "It goes like this: The keepers are the Seven Chaos, Chaos is Power enriched by the heart, The Controller is the one who unifies the Chaos."
"I see," Tails said, "But what does it mean?"
"I'm not sure exactly," Tikal said, "But I do know that the number 7 is the same as the number of emeralds."
This piked Tails intrest even more.
"Emeralds?" Tails asked.
"Yes," Tikal said, "By the way I can't say we've met before. I'm Tikal and you are?"
"Well I'm..." But before Tails could finish something strange began to happen. Her surrounding began to fade as if she were having a dream.
"Testing one, two, three."
Robotnik's voice called out over the speakers of the Egg Carrier. Now that he saw that they were working properly he brought his attention to the four E-series before him, E-102 through E-105.
"Now listen up," Robotnik said, "For I have an assignment for all of you."
The E-series Robots were at full attention or so it looked because they couldn't really show facial expresstion. Robotnik pressed a button on his controls and a screen behind him show a picture of a rather large green frog. It also gave other data on the frog.
"Now do you all see this frog?" Robotnik said.
The robots all nodded in unison.
"Well this frog has a Chaos Emerald in it's possestion," Robotnik explained, "And I want you to collect this frog and bring him to me."
The E-series robots nodded in agreement.
"Good, now go," Robotnik said.
The E series robots gave a solute then were off.
Robotnik sat back in his chair. All was going to plan so far. Chaos only needed 3 Chaos Emeralds. He knew where two of them were and had ofcourse taken the nessisary actions to aquire them. The other he was certain, Sonic had in his possestion but he was unsure of what he did with it for he didn't have it on him. Robotnik brought his attention to his monitor. He then noticed that Zero was on his way back.
"Good boy Zero," Robotnik said as he pressed a button and changed the course of the Egg Carrier to the Mystic Ruins.
Sonic arrived at the Mystic Ruins. He noticed that the robot carring Amy was down on the ground. Sonic dived at the robot but suddenly a black hovercraft came and swept up the robot.
"Shoot," Sonic said he landed and tried to grab the hover craft but he was too late as it flew into the sky out of his reach. Then Sonic saw where it was headed. For up in the sky Sonic saw what Robotnik called the Egg Carrier.
Sonic clinched his fist. He had to get up there. His gaze was brought to Angel Island which wasn't far off. If he could get to the peak of that red moutain he may have a shot. So Sonic took off.
***
Tails opened her eyes and found herself standing right outside the pond not far from the Flight Brothers Workshop.
"What a strange dream," Tails said, "But how'd I get here?"
Tails was intruped by her thoughts by something moving in her arms. She looked down and saw that she had the frog in her graps once more.
"How did...?"
"FROGGY!"
Tails turned to see a rather large purple and white Mobian cat running towards her. As she watched the Mobian cat triped and fell right in front of her. But as he did Tails was startled as she accidently let go of the frog. The frog hopped off.
"Oh no!" The Mobian cat said as he got up and gave chase to the frog.
"Hey!" Tails called after them but something sparkled at her feet. She looked down to see the Red Chaos Emerald. She reached down and picked it up as she felt her relief. She was glad that the frog left it. So she made her way to the Flight brothers workshop. When she arrived she saw that Dash was heading out the door.
"Tails, you came back just in time," Dash said.
"How's that?" Tails asked.
"Well..." Dash's gaze fell to the emerald in Tails' hand, "Oh you found it. That's a relief."
"Found what?" Tails asked then held up the red Chaos Emerald," The emerald?"
"Yeah, well you see we kinda lost it," Dash said, "Where'd you find it anyways?"
"In the Tornado," Tails told him then she remember the crash, "Oh allmost forgot, we crashed and the tornado's in that mystic ruins forest."
"Oh," Dash said, "We'll send someone to go get it afterwards. But in the mean time Rotor said he's finished with your plane."
"Really?" Tails said smiling a bit, "The Cyclone's up and running?"
"Yep," Dash said, "And it looks as if you can test it Because we just saw Sonic headed towards Angel Island. We think he's trying to use it to get up to the Egg Carrier."
"Huh?" Tails asked and Dash pointed to the sky behind Tails. Tails turned and saw the huge ship flying through the sky. Not far from the Angel Island but it looked as if Sonic would be to late if he wasn't allready on the Egg Carrier.
"Right so where's my plane?" Tails asked as she turned back to Dash.
"It's in the shop ready to go," Dash said, "Follow."
So Tails followed Dash into the workshop. Once inside she saw that both Jazz and Rotor were inside.
"Look who decieded to drop by," Dash said.
The two looked up.
"Officer Tails," Rotor said, "The Cyclone is ready."
Tails nodded.
"Looks like I'm going after Sonic," She said then remember something a few months back and smiled.
"What is it?" Jazz asked.
"Well," Tails said as she got into the Cyclone, "This is close to the time me and SOnic went after the Death Egg."
"Last time I was knocked out," Jazz pointed out.
"Oh that can be arranged, " Dash said smilling to his brother.
They all laughed. Dash then flipped the switch and the wall opened so Tails could fly the plane out. Tails started the propeller and manevered the plane out onto the run way.
"Oh Officer Tails," Rotor called out to her, "Open a link to me so I can run you through a new feature."
"All right," Tails said as she opened the link on her COM. She then placed her goggles on and manervered the plane down the run way. Then she pulled back on the lever as the plane took to the air. She then turned the plane towards Angel Island.