"Alright!!!" Sonic shouted as everyone packed all their belongings and placed them in the X-Tornado. "Whadda you guys say we get the hell out of here and go find Robotnik!?"
Tails smiled as he placed his hand on his best friend's shoulder, "Remember, we need to get Tikal home right away."

"Yeah." Knuckles interrupted.

"Actually, I think that might be a bad idea." Blaze intervened, "Don't you think that would be the very first place Robotnik would look if she wasn't with us?"

"Then what should we do?" Tails asked.

Sonic grinned, "Why don't we hold on to Tikal, then when Robotnik come to get her, we'll have him right where we want him."

"We're not using Tikal as bait!" Knuckles shouted.

"We're not! We're just going to hold on to her so we can catch Robotnik."

"That's BAIT you nimrod!"

"I have an idea." Rudolph said causing everyone to stop and look at him.

"Whoa!" Sonic cooed. "This is a first, so what's up?"

"There's this place that we can take her, and place only I alone know how to get to. It's not too far from here, but if we can get her there, she'll be safe."

"Really?" Tikal asked as she walked up to Rudolph, "You would do that for me?"

"Of course, your safety is my number one priority."

Sonic could help but grin. "Hey Rudy, I understand you're hittin on her and all but don't make it seem like you're the only one who cares about Tikal, we care too dude."
Rudolph glared at Sonic as he said, "Yeah, but I wasn't the blue big headed bigmouth numbskull who suggested using Tikal as bait." Then Rudolph simply walked past Sonic and the group, jumped into the second cockpit, and waited for everyone.

"Ouch." Sonic winced. "Did he have to be so mean?"

"You know," Shadow said as he walked next to Sonic, "I'm starting to like that guy." Then Shadow laughed as he walked past Sonic, "Blue big headed bigmouth numbskull, ha! He's good."

"Shut up faker!" Sonic called to Shadow but he just ignored him as he kept walking to the X-Tornado.

"Hmm."Tails said to himself as he looked at the X-Tornado.

"What's up bro?" Sonic asked.

"I'm not sure if there will be enough room for all of us."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean that I'm not sure if there will be enough room for Tikal."

"Why?"

"Well, with you, Knuckles, Blaze, and Shadow riding on the four wings and me and Rudolph in the only two cockpits, where is Tikal going to go?"
A large smirk began to form on Sonic's face as he turned to Rudolph. "Hey Rudy!" Sonic called causing Rudolph to turn to him. "We're running out of room so, Tikal's gonna have to sit on your lap!" After shouting this both Tikal's and Rudolph's face began to resemble that of Knuckles.

"S-s-s-Sonic." Tikal stuttered. "Are you sure?"

"It's ok, Tikal." Sonic grinned. "Besides, Rudolph said that your safety was important to him. This way, he can keep a close eye on you."

"Ok." Then Sonic picked up Tikal and jumped onto the jet and let her down on her feet. Then he jumped onto the wing in front of them. "Uh… Rudolph… can I sit with you?" Tikal asked as they two of them began to blush even harder.

"S-sure." Rudolph stuttered. Then Tikal slowly sat down on his lap with their faces becoming redder with each passing second.

'I'm so evil.' Sonic thought as he looked at the two and it took him every ounce of self-control he had in every molecule in his body to keep himself from laughing.

"Ok Rudy." Tails said over the intercom, "I need you to type in the coordinates."

"The location in 32w and 76sw from here." Rudolph said. "And when did you start calling me, Rudy?"

"I don't know." Tails laughed over the intercom. "Wait, are you sure this is right?"

"Trust me."

"Ok. Get ready!" Tails shouted as the jet suddenly took off forcing Tikal closer to Rudolph causing the two to blush again with Sonic unable to contain his laughter any longer.

A few hours later, the group was still flying with Sonic lying down on the wing of the X-Tornado. He glanced to his left and saw a cloud of smoke coming towards their direction. Sonic stood up and brought his watch to his mouth. "Hey Tails."

"Yeah Sonic?"

"I think we have company."

"What do you mean?"

"Look to your left."

Tails followed Sonic orders and saw the cloud of smoke. "Uh oh."

"What is it, bro?"

"A mechanical triceratops."

"Heh, that's all?" Sonic grinned. "Keep the X-Tornado going, I can handle this." Sonic grinned as he backflipped off the wing and began running alongside the jet. In no time the triceratops caught up to the group, but with the ready-to-go Sonic waiting for it, the mechanical triceratops turned its attention to the blue hedgehog. "All right then! You ready to go!?" The triceratops roared catching everyone's attention. "Just what I was thinking, let's go!!!" Sonic shouted as he spindashed into the triceratops causing it to stumble, thus slowing it down. "Heh, that was too easy." But then the triceratops quickly ran toward Sonic, trying to stab him with one of his horns. But Sonic quickly jumped into the air and landed on the mechanical beast's head causing it to jerk its head leaving Sonic to fly in the air. But Sonic simply curled into his spindash and lunged himself into the triceratops' back stopping it in its tracks. Sonic jumped off its back and grinned at the mechanical triceratops. "Wow, I didn't mean to hit you so hard buddy." But then suddenly the triceratops quickly lunged forward catching Sonic between its horns and began shocking him causing him to scream. Then the beast stood up, and thrust its head and Sonic into the ground.

"Tails!" Knuckles shouted, "Stop the plane!"

"On it!" Tails said as the jet came to a stop and landed.

"Damnit Sonic!" Knuckles shouted, but before he could jump off, Shadow was already on his way to Sonic and with a quick kick, the triceratops flew off Sonic who slowly step out of his crater.

"You know I didn't need your help." Sonic said as he brushed the dirt off his clothes.

"Whatever." Shadow sighed as the triceratops slowly stood up and stared at the two hedgehogs. "He's coming."

"I know that!" Sonic shouted as the triceratops charged for the two. Shadow quickly jumped over the beast, but was immediately swatted with the triceratops' tail slamming him into the ground. Sonic near instantly jumped into the air, curled into a ball, and began spinning in place creating a tornado hurling the mechanical triceratops in the air. Shadow quickly stood up and raised both his arms creating hundreds of gold lights around the midair triceratops.

"Chaos SPEAR!!!" Shadow shouted as the lights transformed into arrows of light and closed in and destroyed the mechanical triceratops in and instant. After that, the two turned to the jet to see the group running up to them.

"Hey guys, what's up?" Sonic grinned.

Knuckles and Tails ran to Sonic, "Sonic, are you ok?" Tails asked.

"A little banged up, but no worries." Sonic grinned with a thumbs-up, but his grinned slowly left his face as he noticed Blaze walking over to Shadow.

"Are you hurt, Shadow." Blaze asked.

Shadow simply stared at Blaze and then smiled, "Not at all."

Blaze smiled, "That's good."

"Yeah." Knuckles grinned. "I thought I was gonna have to help."

"You're pretty tough for a hedgehog." Blaze grinned.

"Don't think so highly of yourself, princess." Shadow grinned right back.

Sonic glared at the two and was about to say something until, "Sonic!" Tikal called. Sonic turned to Tikal who ran up to him. "Are you ok? You're not hurt are you?"
"I'm fine," Sonic said with a smile. "Clothes are a little messed up but no need to worry 'bout me."

"That's good." Tikal sighed.

"Well then," Rudolph cut in. "If everyone's fine, I'd suggest you'd hurry up."

"What's your rush?" Shadow asked.

"I don't know too much about machines, but I'm pretty sure that thing has some kind of tracking device in it, so with it destroyed, Robotnik will figure out our location any minute."

"He's got a point." Tails said.

"So let's get going." Rudolph grunted as he turned to the jet with everyone following him.

"So Tails, how far is place Rudy told us to go to?" Sonic asked as everyone got settled and they began to take off.

"I guess we'll be there in like 5 minutes." Tails responded as the jet reached its top speed.

"Well there's no need to rush, you can slow the X-Tornado down."

"Why?" Tails asked in confusion.

Sonic turned to the blushing echidnas in the back cockpit, "No reason really. Just… taking in the view, that's all."

"Well… ok… but it's a little too late for that."

"Why?"

"Because we're here." Tails as the jet slowly came to a stop.

"Uh… Tails, we're in the middle of nowhere." Sonic said as he looked around the endless plains of the desert. "Hey Rudy!" Sonic called back. "Are you sure we're in the right place!?"

"Yes." Rudolph answered calmly.

Tails looked around as he asked, "So… what do we do now?"

"We walk." Rudolph answered causing everyone to turn to him.

"Walk?" Sonic stated in confusion.

"Yes. Where I'm talking you is forbidden grounds by everyone other than my tribe. I can't show you the location."

"But if we leave the X-Tornado out here like this," Tails began, "Robotnik will at least figure out the region we're in."

"Yeah," Knuckles added. "Seeing this thing out here is like leaving a giant arrow for him to follow."

"I can't." Rudolph grunted.

"Please Rudolph." Tikal pleaded. "I don't want to place my friends in danger."

Rudolph stared at Tikal then sighed in defeat. "Fine. Head south, southwest for 3 miles."

Tails smiled, "Thanks!"

"Yeah thanks." Sonic smirked. "Although I would've enjoyed the run.

"What's so funny?" Knuckles asked as the jet began to pick up speed.

Sonic slightly turned to Rudolph and Tikal before he turned to Knuckles, "Nothing."