Iota was running expeditiously through a wide expanse of desert. She didn't know how or why it started but it did and that was all that mattered. She heard Zenith calling for help and was running towards his voice.
"Help! Somebody!"
It seemed strange that Zenith would be calling for help; his pride was usually too prominent to ask for help. But if he was asking for help, it was more than likely something very serious, life threatening even. She called back to him. "Zenith! Don't worry, I'm coming!"
"Iota!? Please hurry!!"
Even stranger was the fact that no matter how fast she ran Zenith's voice never got any closer. Iota had expert hearing, with her eyesight being gone. Zenith's voice should have been getting closer.
"There's no time left! Hurry up, please!!"
There was a whine in the sapphire hedgehog's voice. Iota hated being so slow compared to Zenith. If only she was faster.
"Ahhhh!! Get off of me!! Noooooooo…"
Iota stopped running gradually. She dropped to her knees and cried hot tears. Zenith was…gone. And she hadn't the power to save him.
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Cyeta, like her professed boyfriend, had a bit of a sadistic nature within her. She laughed at Iota's tears coursing down her face. Iota, Amy, Rouge, and Blaze were all hooked up to cliché mind control chairs, strapped in the chairs in several places. She was torturing her arch-nemesis with images of her precious boyfriend perishing. Iota's worse fear, probably. She was doing similar things to the other three, although Rouge's nightmare was the most difficult to produce.
"Cyeta! Report to the bridge, now!"
Beta's harsh, commando voice startled Cyeta from her favorite activity. "I'm not your servant!" Cyeta yelled back.
"Hurry up!" Beta yelled again, ignoring her even though he could very clearly hear her.
Cyeta mumbled something and left the room, the machine still running. When she closed the door, Amy's eye popped open.
Cyeta entered impatiently. "What is it?"
"Its Mephiles!" Beta answered. "I can't find his signal!"
Cyeta feigned shock. "What?? The all-powerful Professor Beta Dhartma has failed? My, my what a shock!"
Beta cast her a withering glance. "All these gods are the same. We'll have to do without him. He better stay out of my way and get his crystalline ass back into that damn scepter of his." Beta expected Cyeta to make some crude remark. When she didn't he turned his chair around and found her laying half asphyxiated on the floor. Beta jumped down from his chair and checked her pulse. She was still breathing, and her heart rate was still steady. Beta was about to tend to her injuries when he felt a cold, sharp hand on his shoulder.
"Ah, now Beta," the crystalline god said mockingly and deadly at the same time. "You don't really think that do you?"