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Chapter 20

Blaze the cat, princess of the Sol Dimension, opened her eyes to see the cemented ceiling above her. It took a while to register that she was not in her bed, she was in the secret base that she brought Sonic and the others. She did not remember what happened when they went inside though. She only remembered seeing Sonic's smiling face when they were finally safe before suddenly blacking out. She must have fallen asleep. She groaned lightly as she sat up, her muscles now responding to her commands. The lavender cat threw her legs over the side of the mattress Sonic, no doubt, must have placed her on.

She looked up to look at the metallic door separating her from the others. The blue hedgehog must have decided she got her separate quarters. She was grateful for that, but she believes one of her people slept on it instead. She could take the hard ground.

Pushing herself to her feet, Blaze stumbled toward the door. Her body still ached from everything that happened yesterday. She slowly pushed to door open to see all her subjects on the ground in comfortable sleeping bags or sleeping on mattresses. Sonic's team was taking less comfortable ways of rest, besides Silver who was placed on a mattress after his own blackout. Knuckles, Sonic, Shadow, and Rouge were all up in the rafters sleeping on the beams.

Blaze smiled as she saw them resting. The smile faded as she looked around. Anonymous must have left after helping them here, he said he would. The cat was not as sure as before on whether she should trust him of not, but nevertheless she was thankful he was helping them. If he had turned to Tails' side then they would have a major problem.

The princess sighed as she stumbled back only to catch herself on a nearby chair. She shook her head sternly "No, no, Blaze! You need to stay strong. Need to plan on what to do next."

She looked around and her eyes fell on a note on the table. She walked over and spotted it. It was from Sonic to her. She picked it up and read: "Hey Blaze! Hope you're feeling better from yesterday. Figured you might be up before anyone else considering your attitude about this whole thing. Just wanted to let you know that before Anonymous left he helped us organize ourselves in and told us that since we were now safe we should rest for an entire day so that everyone could get back into a fighting figure. So we were going to do that. I'm sure, based on everyone's' condition, you would agree. No point in fighting if we're all too tired to fight, right? –Sonic."

Blaze placed the note back down on the table. She looked around once more. Anonymous is right. Everyone needs rest. Sonic and the rest were so tired that they were just falling down, literately. Sonic was totally beat up when she woke from distracting the ship, Silver went down, then she could hardly move. She sighed as she turned. She winced and lightly brought her arm up to wrap around her ribs. She walked back to her room and shut the door behind her. The cat then walked up to her bed, sat down with a heaved breath, and then slowly turned bringing up her feet to rest. She placed her head gently on the pillow and stared up at the ceiling. Her eye lids slowly fell, blocking her view. Tomorrow, they would think of a plan.

/

Lee, Alber, Nike, and Deen sat around in a group at the site of Anonymous' secret terrorist group. The four were barely eating the four given to them, and since Anonymous figured they would not eat as much he gave them small portions and told them nicely, if plausible in his monotone, to try and eat. They all only took one bite before seemingly getting tired of it.

Deen was now just drawing a circle in the dirt, Lee sat with his arms crossed, Nike was lying down looking up at the clouds, and Alber just sat there staring into the ground with a blank and empty stare. The four were such a depressing sight.

They only react as someone walked up to them. It was Anonymous "You have hardly touched your victuals."

Deen glared at him "Yah?! Well, we're not exactly hungry now, are we?!"

Anonymous seemed unfazed at the harsh tone "You may starve yourself if you wish, but as you know I require everyone here to have a job."

Lee looked up at him "We no longer have any spirit in us A."

"I know, that is why I'm giving you a job that will probably never be used."

Alber seemed to have not noticed Anonymous at all as she continued to stare at nothing. Nike looked at her worriedly before turning to the terrorist leader and halfheartedly asked "What is it?"

The terrorist pulled out a piece of paper and handed it to Nike "If I ever required sending a message to Sonic and his friends, I need messengers to go to their secret base hideout."

"Secret?" Nike took it and looked at it "Wow, lucky for them, and considering your lack of needing their help we would most likely never be sent."

Anonymous nodded "I still need to be ready just in case I do need to send for help. That is your job." He turned and walked away.

Nike looked at the note with a sigh "This is about… five miles away from here. Could easily make it there in about a minute." He handed it to Lee who looked then gave it to Deen who snatched it away and threw it up in the sky so he did not have to look down.

Deen then gave it back to Lee who then, hesitantly, lightly handed it to Alber. At first she gave to response to the action, but then slowly brought her hand up and took it with light fingers. She brought it up to stare blankly at it. The group decided to do nothing as she only continued to stare at it.

Anonymous looked at them, his arms crossed. He wanted to make sure they were not listening in. He turned to his lieutenant and spoke "Free our 'prisoners'. They need to start working. I have no doubt this will go accordingly. Make sure those four do not notice you've freed them though. I do not want to deal with their shenanigans they continuously use even before the Mysterious Villain." The lieutenant nodded "After that, tell everyone that phase two is over, and phase three is now underway. I must go." He turned and blasted off.

The lieutenant ran off to do the bidding.

/

Miles 'Tails' Prower, a genius and the infamous 'Mysterious Villain', walked into the control room of his secret base. He smiled as he stared at the monitors. The fact that everything was going to plan made his insides jump. He would finally be rid of that pestilent hedgehog and his annoying friends. The fox turned to look at Phi who was pressing commands on his device similar to a tablet. The fox walked up "Progress?"

"Everything is moving nicely master." Phi did not even look up and continued to press buttons on the screen "At this rate we should be done in a week."

The fox's eyes widened "A weak?! WHAT!"

Phi now looked up "Most of the robots have been destroyed by Sonic and his friends. The rest we have are now using our parts, but we're running out."

"What about my ships?!" The fox was now annoyed.

"They lack the robots to gain any materials. They were never designed to pick up anything they want on the ground. Besides, the ones with robots are out looking for Sonic."

Tails growled and bashed a computer monitor, smashing it into pieces. Phi sighed "We needed that computer master."

The fox grabbed his head puffing out air as he shook in apparent rage. A piece of wood was lifted and the fox snarled as he slamed it with his fist. The wood then shattered into bits. Alpha Omega One, who held up the wood, threw the dust of it off his hand "Is that better?"

Tails huffed "Slightly."

Alpha One looked at his master sadly "I am sorry master. We lacked the supplies before you came. We hardly had an army and we do not have much of our bases as we did back on our world during the time of Destructor's birth."

Tails crossed his arms "I do not blame you. I only wanted this done by tomorrow."

Phi placed the tablet under his arm "Only if we had more hands and materials."

Tails rolled his eyes "I know that!" Phi lowered his head understanding he was only frustrating the fox.

There was a sudden flash of red and an alarm went off. Tails spun toward the camera monitors. There in front of the doors to his base, was none other than the infamous Anonymous.

The fox blinked "How'd he find this place!" Phi, with now glowing red eyes, reached out to press a button. The fox, however, raised his arm to stop him "Wait!" The two robots looked at him "Let him in."

Phi would have blinked if he were not a robot "Master?"

"He's not here to fight. He wants to talk."

Phi looked at Alpha One. One looked back at him and nodded. Phi pulled his arm away from the first button and pressed the second. The alarm turned off and the doors in front of Anonymous opened. The terrorist walked in as if he was expecting it.

The terrorist did not even look around as he passed multiple robots glaring at him. He walked up to a door and stopped to let it pull itself up. He walked in to the room the fox was in not even a minute ago to see Phi and Alpha One staring at him curiously. "Where is he?" Anonymous asked in his well known monotone.

Alpha One turned and walked up to a door and pushed it open. Anonymous did not look at him as he passed to enter the room. Tails sat behind a desk fiddling with a strange box and did not look up as Anonymous walked up "Well, well ,well. Anonymous. What a surprise… or is it? I think I know what you meant by 'you had all that you needed.' When you 'hacked' into the fake desktop I made I accidently told you by doing that it sent a signal to this base so it could send robots after you. All you did was trace the signal to here."

Anonymous did not even move. He remained in a military like pose, both arms behind his back, legs a shoulder with apart, and looked at the fox respectfully. "I figured you'd find out what I meant. All I wanted was to know where your secret base was."

"What about the other base. The one your men attacked me at. How'd you know that was not the main base?"

"The mind likes making certain patterns. Varying from such a pattern is not comfortable at all. Just like Destructor you are making a secret base that is also your secret weapon."

Tails looked at his then tilted his head back "…Yah… I can see that. It's also a good tactic. Why did you want to come here though? Come for more mind games?"

"No."

The fox looked at him perplexed "I know you're not here to hack this place. The code is too good, even if you are the best hacker in our universe… I don't have a clue why you're here."

"You know my background." That sounded more like a statement.

"Yes."

"If you take it into consideration it would be abundantly clear why I am here."

"… which part of your background?... The one where-." The fox stopped and his eyes widened, they then narrowed and the fox tossed the box he had on the table sitting up to look at him "What's with the sudden change."

"There was no sudden change. This was my plan from the start."

The fox sat back and placed the ends of his fingertips together "You want a partnership."

"I want an alliance. You will have full command over my men and my resources. My men will work with you and help you. You're running out of materials and you need more hands to help. I am offering it to you only on one condition." Tails eye cocked up "After you destroy this world, you come back to our world secretly and destroy it suddenly so no one suffers."

The fox blinked "Really? That's all?"

"That is all I desire. It was my goal to do such a feet from the beginning of my crusade, but Ralph and his four friends kept stopping me."

"The last four would still fight."

"I wanted to leave them with Ralph and Sonic, but since you have ended him my plans have changed… for the best though."

"What do you mean?"

"You wanted Sonic's entire friends to come here and witness your victory." Tails nodded "I know their secret base location. This base is brand new and Blaze did not have time to implement it into her computers. You do not know where it is." Tails straitened up. He was listening "I could get the four to go get Sonic and the others and bring them here."

"How?"

"Those four may be down, but their suspicions would rise if my camp suddenly became active and those who attacked you suddenly were helping. I have already commanded my men to start gathering materials for you and they are around the base waiting for my command. The four would send one to get Sonic because of the sudden activity and the rest would follow my men to find we are now suddenly helping you. They would run back and tell Sonic this and they all would attack this place."

Tails scratched his head "That would work well with my plan. I do need the materials and extra hands… but I don't trust everything about you." Tails slowly stood with a smile "I have read your reports from Ralph about your honesty. You will never lie to someone you truly respect. I know for a fact you respect me so I know that is trustable, but those who attacted me."

"I have told them to do so."

"What?" The fox was shocked.

"I told them to act as if they despised you and attack you so I could trick Sonic and his friends to trust me, even if slightly. Did you really think the men and women I have recruited, whom respect me so dearly they would even die for me, would suddenly disobey and attack you? We listened as Sonic confessed to the heinous crimes he inflicted and we watched as Sally showed of the monstrosities preformed on you. Everyone who is on my team only saw you as a victim only striking out in revenge he deserves. You are only proof to why I want the world to end. That form of suffering has gone on for so long that any form of 'peace' between countries or between societies would never end it. History has proven so. Treaties have been broken, police have turned blind eyes, and lies are spoken every day. If everything we have tried failed, why do we ignorantly keep trying? We are only poking at our wants with the full knowledge that it will never come true. We make laws; criminals break laws, why would they suddenly obey them if we make new ones. Kingdoms' make treaties and allies, only for one to spy on the other or even break the treaty. Betrayal, suffering, hate, and dishonesty; they're still here after all these years, why would they leave now?"

Tails stopped. Come to think of it, that makes sense. The only time the ones that acted professional were when they were about to attack. They only were throwing him around after that. IF they were trained by such a mastermind they would know you never let an enemy gain an upper hand yet they fought as if waiting for him to somehow escape. Then there was Anonymous forcing them to leave. They could not just leave by retreat. If they wanted it to look real they had to be apparently forced. The fox looked at him "Wait, Alpha One mentioned the group of terrorist on the boat he climbed on were making a mess and were angry that I won my case. Those were your men."

"Yes."

"Why were they acting that way?"

"I told them to. I saw the waters suddenly bubbling with green and told them to do so once you won. I wanted Alpha One to think they were pathetic so he would speak aloud."

"Why were you there?"

"I was unsure if Destructor was indeed destroyed."

Tails scratched his chin "Well, they could not repair him so they left him in the ocean, so sorry for disappointing you.… If you never lie to someone you respect, how did you tricked Sonic and his friends to believe your men were attacking? Ralph was there."

"The five in Ralph's group was the only ones I respected there. I disrespected Sonic for what he has done, I have no problem lying to them. I had my soldiers who were going to 'attack' talk about it, in what appeared to be secretly, around the four companions of Ralph that were with me. They heard and rushed to tell me. So I did not lie to them. As for Ralph and the others I was not talking to Ralph. If you were there you would notice I only looked at the group I did not fully respect, meaning I was talking to them, not Ralph. The fact that Ralph was listening to our conversation was a fault his, not mine."

Tails looked impressed "This whole time… was just to be on my side."

"I never considered you my enemy."

The fox smiled "So. You offer everything you have to my services and give me the location of Sonic and his friends and the only thing you want in return is I secretly go back to our world and destroy so no one suffers."

"Correct. I have no hidden meaning behind any of my sentences. After this world I want our world."

"After this world."

"You would not be making a world destroying weapon here if you were only going to use it on our world."

Tails smiled "True. That is a major deal, but I want one more thing." Tails leaned in "Anonymous, I dislike the unknown." Anonymous did not move, but he knew where this was going "I do not lie as I say this as well. You tell me everything there is about you. Then I will accept your offer. Don't worry, only you and I will know this. Alpha One, please leave. He won't harm me." Alpha One bowed and closed the door. "Tell me everything. From your birth to the origins of 'Anonymous'. Tell me everything there is to know about you. I know you deleted your information from the databank so I have nothing about you to prove it." Tails leaned in "But I know you won't lie to me."

Anonymous looked back at Tails behind that metal mask with an unknown expression, if there even was one.

Alpha One and Phi looked at the door where Anonymous and Tails were talking, eager to know what was happening. The doors suddenly burst open and Tails walked in with a smile and Anonymous at his side "Ready the robots for assistance. We have new workers." Tails threw out his hand toward the terrorist with a satisfied, evil smile "A deal is a deal… Anonymous."

The terrorist did not even hesitate as he grasped the fox's hand "You are correct sir."

The fox's smile widened. The greatest terrorist organization in his universe was on his side the entire time. Sonic stood no chance whatsoever.

End Chapter

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