MYSTIC RUINS

"Sonic..."

"Sonic?"

"SONIC!"

Sonic awoke with a start at first his eyes were out of focus and everything was a blur. But seconds later they went back into focus and he saw that Tails was standing over him.

"Tails, thank God Your okay" Sonic mumbled getting up. Tails smiled, "Yeah, thanks to you." Sonic looked around he saw that Station Square Police Department (SSPD) cars were parked all over the place as well as many Ambulances and GUN military Trucks. "So, GUN is here?" Sonic asked. Tails nodded "yep"

GUN didn't like Sonic, even though they once thought he was a criminal, on the quest to clear his name he destroyed many GUN robots causing 7.3 Million dollars in damage.

"Thank you for saving me Mr. Sonic" said the little Blond haired girl that Sonic pulled out of the train cart before it exploded. Sonic looked down at her, "You're welcome" he smiled. "This girls name is Hope" Tails said. Sonic looked at Tails puzzled wondering if they had met her before. "See told me while you were unconscious"

Sonic looked back down at Hope, "nice to met you"

"Good to see your finally up" said a familiar voice.

Sonic turned to see Knuckles the Echidna standing behind him grinning. "Knuckles! When'd you get here?" Sonic asked. "I got here 8 hours ago and I found you all lying there unconscious so I called the police."

"8 hours! I was unconscious for 8 hours!"

"Actually it was more like ten hours" Tails said

"If I was out cold for that long then what time is it?" Sonic asked.

Knuckles looked at his watch, "Its 4am"

A police officer walked over to the four and said: "Sonic, do you have any idea why this Doctor Eggman invaded that Train?" "Yeah, he probably did it because he was just trying to kill me." Sonic replied. Sonic was overwhelmed with guilt that Eggman killed all those people just to get to him. Tails put his hand on Sonics shoulder, "It wasn't your fault" he said trying to cheer him up. Yes, it is my fault! Sonic thought.

"Actually…" Tails started. Everyone turned there glances toward Tails. "He might have been after this" Tails reached into his pocket and pulled out the Blue Chaos Emerald. "Whoa!" Sonic said then he snatched the Emerald out of Tails hand and studied it.

"Where'd you get this?" Sonic asked. "I found it in Windy Valley yesterday while I was exploring"

Sonic gently tossed the Chaos Emerald up and down as if it was a base ball. "So…" the Police officer said writing down everything they had all said, "You believe this Eggman invaded the Train because he was after the Chaos Emerald" "yep" Tails replied. The officer looked at Sonic, "do you agree with Tails?" "Well…" Sonic started "he has been known to go out of his way to get those emeralds"

Suddenly another Police officer ran up to the four of them with a look of panic on his face. "Chief! We have a situation here!" he said

The officer turned around, "what is it?" the other officer was huffing and puffing. "Come on spit it out!" The other officer stopped gasped for air and blurted out: "It's Eggman, sir he's been spotted in the Jungle by the ruins of the Echidna Temple!"

"Deploy the troops now!" the officer said, "And make sure he doesn't get away! He's already killed seven people!" The both officers ran back to gather up the troops.

"Woo hoo! Ya hear that Tails its payback time!" Sonic said handing Tails back his Emerald. Before Sonic and Tails ran off, Hope gently nudged Sonic. Sonic looked at her and she said: "Good luck Mr. Sonic"

"Thanks Hope"

Hope sighed and looked down at her shoes. "What's wrong" Tails asked. "My parents were killed in the explosion and my closet relative lives in Japan and it'll take a week for them to arrange for me to get there. I don't know were I'm going to stay until then" Hope replied. Sonic and Tails exchanged glances, "Tell ya what Hope" Sonic pointed at Tails workshop, "that's were we live, you can stay with us for a week"

Hope Smiled, "You mean it?"

"Yup" Sonic said. "Thank you Mr. Sonic!" Hope shirked. "No Problem, now we got to go kick the crap out of Eggman, until then go up there and make you're self comfortable"

Hope smiled and skipped her way up to Tails workshop. "Sonic, you softy" Tails said crossing his arms. Sonic blushed and rubbed the back of his neck with his right hand. Sonic looked around to find Knuckles but he was surrounded by police asking questions. Sonic knew he didn't have time to wait for him.

"C'mon Tails" Sonic Said. With that, Sonic Dashed toward the jungle, Tails trailing behind him using his double tails as propellers. Soon they approached the mine cart. Sonic hoped in and waited for Tails to hop in before he pulled the lever. With a loud screech the cart rolled down the track and through the gates toward the Jungle.

Sonic jumped of the cart before it stopped and leapt of the mountain and into the Jungle. Before he hit the ground he landed on a tree branch. He stopped for a moment to see how far behind Tails was. He saw that Tails was high above the jungle using his propeller flight. Sonic hopped of the tree and ran frantically through the Jungle, dodging trees and leaping over streams. His urge to kick the living CRUD out of Eggman kept him going. Sonic normally didn't take Eggman seriously (I mean would you take a fat guy that calls himself Eggman seriously?) but Eggman almost never licked Sonic like he just had, and Sonic the Hedgehog REALLY hated to get licked, especially by Eggman!

Sonic finally reached the ruins of the Echidna Temple; he saw that nothing was there. "What?" sonic said looking around. "Where's Eggman?" Sonic asked himself. Suddenly, a strong wind started and it started getting stronger and stronger every second. That's no wind! Sonic thought. Sonic looked up to see the Egg Hawk hovering down toward him.

"Eggman!"

"Sonic the Hedgehog, Bwa ha ha!" Eggman yelled, "I see you survived our last encounter!" Sonic grinned, "You act like you're surprised!" Eggman frowned, "Egg Pawns destroy him!"

Sonic stood there for a few seconds waiting for Egg Pawns to come swarming out from their hiding places, but nothing happened. "Are you getting delirious in your old age or something?" Sonic said. Just then Tails landed beside Sonic. Eggman smiled and pointed up. Sonic looked up to see a hundred Egg Pawns falling from the sky, but these Egg Pawns had glider wings on there arms. One Egg Pawn landed right next to Sonic and it had a lance and struck Sonic right a cross the face with it. "Gah!" Sonic said falling to the ground.

"Sonic!" Tails shouted

Tails ran over to help Sonic but before he even moved he was tackled by 2 unarmed Egg Pawns. Eggman laughed at the two heroes being beat around by his army. Sonic got up and spit some blood out of his mouth. Alright no more games, he thought. Sonic punched an Egg Pawn in the face then lunged at the 2 Egg Pawns that had Tails pined to the ground with a flying kick. Tails got up, "Thanks Sonic they had me pined pretty hard"

Suddenly, Knuckles came bursting out of the Jungle and started beating any Egg Pawn that he could get his hands on.

"No problem Tails" Sonic Said as he punched three more Egg Pawns. Sonic, Tails and Knuckles stood together and started fighting of the pawns but they just kept coming and coming! "SONIC! We need a better plan!" Tails said as he tail swiped an Egg Pawn. Sonic looked up at the Egg Hawk. Sonic had an idea, he homing attacked an Egg Pawn before it landed then homing attacked another that was still in the air and by then he was high enough to homing attack the Egg Hawk right on its cockpit.

Sonic fell back down to the ground and landed right on his feet. The Egg Hawk shook a little. "Alright… now it's my turn!" Eggman murmured.

The Egg Hawk started to lower it self so it was hovering just 2 meters above the ground, and it started firing lasers from the turrets that were on the wings. Knuckles held of the Egg Pawns while Sonic and Tails went for the Egg Hawk. Sonic and Tails easily dodged the shots until they got close enough to attack the Egg Hawk. It started shaking violently then exploded. Sonic and Tails covered there eyes from the flash, when they opened them they saw that the Egg Pawns were running away, the Egg Hawk was a pile of scrap metal and Eggman was floating there in the Eggpod which he had detached from the Egg Hawk right before it exploded.

"Well, well, well…" Sonic said chuckling, "You should know by know that it'll take more than some bird shaped piece a shit to beat me!"

Eggman laughed.

"What the hell is so funny?" Sonic asked. "ha ha ha… because you may think your all that now… but you'll be begging for mercy once I've destroyed Station Square!" Eggman laughed.

Sonic looked at Tails "I've heard this before…" he said. Tails nodded.

Eggman frowned, "If you don't believe then just look!" Sonic looked up and saw the Egg Carrier flying above Mystic Ruins. "So that's were all those Egg Pawns were coming from..." Tails said. "Wait! How come we didn't notice that before?" Sonic said. Eggman smiled evilly, "because of its latest function… Stealth mode!"

Sonic gulped, with stealth mode the Egg Carrier could be flying right over Station Square and no one would notice! Eggman turned his Eggpod around, "Until next time" a ray of green right fired from the Egg Carrier and surrounded Eggman then he slowly started descending up to the Egg Carrier. Then the Egg Carrier flew of into the distance at incredible speed.

"Guys…I think we got a problem…" Sonic gulped

thats chapter 4! thanks to everyone that Reviewed! But Im not posting till I get at least 2 more Reiews!