I forgot to say the first chapter that I don't own Sonic the Hedgehog or any other characters.

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Chapter Two

"What could Eggman possibly be planning?" Asked Sonic is an hush voice as they walked down the darkened corridor of the Egg Carrier. The only light come from one of Tails computerized inventions he was holding "Whatever it is can't be that bad..."

"He's an mental genius that wants to take over the world." Stated Knuckles bluntly. "It could be very bad. You should stop underestimating him all the time."

Sonic was getting very annoyed with Knuckles "What do you mean by that?"

"Now is not the time for fighting." Said Tails, Sonic saw the screen of Tails invention, he was scanning something, what he was looking for with it Sonic didn't know, but he didn't ask. Tails will tell him soon enough.

"We're not fighting." Hissed Sonic walking further ahead. He wanted to punch Kunckles but it wasn't the best place for an scuffle. "I though the Egg Carrier would be more defended." The truth is they got on board very easily. Almost to easily.

"Eggman not on board." Said Tails looking at his scanner carefully "Just hibernating robots. My guess they will wake up if we walk though certain sensors or hack into the computer systems."

"We haven't set anything off yet have we?" Asked Sonic. Tails shoock his head "That's odd."

"Not really." Said Tails at once "Not if he is using that energy somewhere else. It's very simple to transfer the energy from one place to another. Eggman latest invention must need extra the extra energy to work, Eggman can't magic energy from thin air ..." Tails didn't noticed Sonic and Knuckles looking at him. He was too busy fiddling with his scanner as he was talking.

"Can you locate where this energy is?" Asked Knuckles quickly before Tails could go into an deeper scientific explanation about energy.

"My guess is, the middle of the ship." Said Tails "That were all the robots are. If they wake up we are trapped."

"Well better not wake them up then." Said Sonic wondering what Eggman was up. They went deeper into the Egg Carrier till Tails told them to stop. He didn't have to say anything, they could see the lasers beams clearly. "This seem simple enough." Said Sonic confident, he could get past them without touching.

"Sonic wait." Said Tails "It's not just the lasers you have to watch out for. Eggman got motion sensors too. We go to find another away around."

"I'm faster than most sensors." Pointed out Sonic

"This is Eggman we are talking about, do you want to risk it?" Said Kunckles "We find another way, we need to be smart not reckless."

"Are you calling me reckless?"

"You can't argue that your not."

"At lest I'm not gullible, how often have you fallen for Eggman tricks?"

"You have fallen for plenty yourself."

"Guys!" Tails bark. That may Sonic and Knuckles stop at once. Tails rarely barks at anyone even when fighting Eggman. "We need to find out what Eggman doing, all the extra electrical energy can not be good." Tails glare at them for a moment "I'm youngest one here remember, why dose it feel like I'm the oldest?"

Sonic growled "Okay, no more fighting with Knuckles, promise. Have you find another away around with your scanner thingy?"

"The vents." Said Tails simply "They will get us there quickly and all defences in them are turn off."

"It's been an long time since we crawled though vents." Said Sonic opening the grate closes to them and went inside. He heard Knuckles and Tails follow him. It was colder in the vents so Sonic went crawled faster. Tails call put directions from behind him, Tails was getting too good with his inventions lately - maybe he should give Tails an pay rise or something.

They come out in to another corridor deeper inside the Egg Carrier. They saw the tall robots staying guard. "Hey bro, you said they were sleeping right?" Asked Sonic so quietly his two friends could barely hear him. Tails nodded his head next to him. They walked at silently as they could so they didn't alert the robots to their present.

"It's in that room, whatever Eggman been up too." Said Tails looking at the large metal door infort of them. "I don't know how we can open the door without some alarm going off."

"Is there another way in?" Asked Sonic impatiently. "The Vents?"

"The vents going in to that room will be too cold, we'll freeze." Said Tails "All the energy Eggman using is guaranteeing lots of heat. The vents are need to cool the room down so that..."

"Okay, I get it. No vents." Said Sonic, he didn't have the energy to pretend he knew what Tails was going on about. "Can we open the door and you stop the alarm straight away?"

Tails started typing away on his scanner. After about an minute Tails nodded his head "I can do it." He said "But you can't damage door or the hinges..."

"How about picking locks?" Asked Knuckles sharply.

"That the only way." Said Tails

"This is taking too long." Moaned Sonic, as Kunckles started picking the lock. "Way too long."

Knuckles didn't take his eyes off what he was doing. "If you went alone, you would of set off the motion sensors ages ago. We wouldn't of make it to the door." The door open an red light flashed once before dying down.

"We got five minutes before the alarm will go off." Said Tails, as they walk into the room "Five minutes then we need to be out of here."

The room was large and in the middle was an huge metal archway with blue mist in it. "Something tell me we should stay away from there." Said Sonic "This must be what Eggman using all the extra energy on right?"

"Right." Said Tails "I'm guessing Eggman is making some kind of... portal. Why would Eggman do that?"

"We need to shut it down." Said Sonic at once getting ready to destroy the archway.

"Sonic!" Tails grabbed his arm quickly "If you spin at it now, the energy will have no where else to go. It will explode, us with it. We could end up though the portal with no way back or whatever though the portal might end up here. We have to close down the system first before you destroy the gateway."

Sonic nodded his head feeling useless, so far he haven't done anything useful, today would be Tails victory. Tails was already busy hacking on to the computers mumblings techo nonsense under his breath. "What do you think Eggman password is?" Asked Tails "If we guess wrong, we are doomed..."

"Egg123?" Guessed Knuckles rubbing his chin " .sonic?"

"I'm serious." Said Tails, looking at the screen deep in though.

"So am I." Snapped Knuckles "Eggman would chose an password that was easy for him to remember. He didn't expect anyone to get into this room."

"Try EggCarrier03." Said Sonic sharply "This is the third Egg Carrier and he got more than one mode of transport..."

Tails type this In and held his breath before letting it again. "It worked."

"Good, now shut this thing off." Said Kunckles, eyeing the portal.

Tails went to typing very fast, then he stopped and paled a little "S..sonic..." He stutter.

"What?" Asked Sonic at once, racing to Tails side. "Buddy, what's going on?"

"I know what Eggman was planning." Said Tails. Sonic eyes followed Tails gaze. On the scene was Sonic first enemy. Someone he hadn't seen in years.

"Doctor Robotnik." Said Sonic, under his breath. "But...how..." Sonic shoock his head "Can you shut this down now?" He asked Tails

"I don't think so... The codes on here... It don't just Eggman it's... His as well...i can't break though..." Tails was panicking for the first time this mission. Sonic wasn't doing much better.

Knuckles step in quickly and grabbed the fox by his shoulders. "Tails, you've got to try. Your the smartest person I know. Think Tails, think."

Tails took a deep breath "We got two minutes before the alarms go off, I can't do it in that time."

"Me and Sonic can fight the robots while you are working. We will fight Eggman if we have too." Kunckles turn to Sonic who nodded. "You got to try Tails..."

"This is more advanced computing than I have ever study." Said Tails had an lost look on his face "I'll try, I swear I'll try..." Tails went back to the computer, while Sonic and Kunckles braced themselves for an fight.

"This is bad" mumble Sonic "Really really bad..."