Hi, everyone! I finally got a break from classes and classwork to update! Once again, I apologize for this unforgivable delay! But here you go! I own the two new characters this chap, and those at the end. And as you all know, the rest are Sega/Archie. So let's wait no longer! Chapter 6:

If you think YOU have problems, just listen to this recap: Sonic and his team: Amy, Mighty, and Lupe have spent half a day combing Mobius Z in search of a mysterious, unknown Zone that threatens very existence of the planet itself. But with a tracker with only a 25 mile radius range, the end of their first day proved unsuccessful. And besides that, Knuckles and the rest of the gang have just been informed by a transmitting Rotor that their original plan in finding the Zone will have to be replaced by a brand new one; one Sonic may be unaware of. And besides THAT, where we last left off, two unknown figures who were keeping a watchful eye on Sonic and his team sleeping inside an Ice Cap Zone cavern withdrew a gun-like weapon, and aimed ready to fire! And besides THAT, (umm, never mind! That's everything…)

"Locked on target……Aim……" The figure's finger clenched the trigger.

'Click!' Sonic's eyes flew open to the sound. "HEY!"

"FIRE!" 'T-SEEEEEWWWW!'

A laser fired from the weapon! Sonic reacted just in time to avoid it, and watched as it shot past him hitting the ice wall behind him. The blast woke up the others.

"What tha-? What was that?" Mighty asked wide-eyed.

"Guys! Look out!" Sonic shouted at them. "We're under attack!"

Amy and Lupe stood up with a start. They looked outside to see two silhouettes blocking the sun from their eyes outside the cave entrance. The figure fired again.

'T-SEEEEEWWWW!' This time, everyone ducked as the shot disappeared into the darkness deep within the cave.

"Alright, that's it! You asked for it!"

Sonic got up and ran for the outside. The shooter was wide open for a Sonic-style tackle. So as he charged straight toward him…

"Gotcha!" 'BAM!'

He flew back a few feet upon contact and fell to the ground with a 'thud', dropping his weapon into the snow. The others ran outside to join Sonic.

"Yeah! You got him, good!" said Amy.

"And now to finish him off!" Sonic and Mighty stepped toward the figure, but watched as he raised his hand while slowly getting up.

"Wait! Wait a second!" he shouted.

As he stood up, the gang finally got a look at the mystery man. Who technically wasn't a man at all! His body was entirely metal, with rectangular shaped limbs and spiked elbows, claw-like hands, and a jagged, cube-like head with two red eyes in front. His entire body gleamed with numerous aqua colored highlights, and he was the same height at Sonic.

"It…it's a robot!" Lupe confirmed.

"You are correct, miss." He answered in a slightly metallic voice.

Sonic's expression showed he wanted a few answers.

"OK, you. What's with the unwanted light show all of a sudden?"

The robot answered. "Orders from my master, to quote 'All undesirable aliens, trespassing or otherwise, must be eliminated!'"

"Wait! Hold on!"

Everyone turned to their right to see another robot approach the one standing before them. This one looked a bit different however: its torso was triangular, its limbs more cylindrical shaped, its hands almost human-like, and its head more circular, with clear pinkish eyes, and what appeared to be a metal bow on its chrome hair shaped top. With it's magenta and violet highlights covering it, and from the sound if it's higher pitched voice, it was obviously a feminine design. She was Amy's size.

She began to speak to the other robot. "Maybe we don't have to follow orders this time!"

The other robot looked puzzled. "Wha-what are you saying?"

"Did you see how fast and strong that blue one was with just one attack? Maybe they can help us…"

Hearing this, he seemed to understand what she meant. However, the same couldn't be said for Sonic, Amy, Mighty, and Lupe.

"If none of you mind," Sonic began, "I believe a possible explanation is order, if you please?"

After a few seconds, the aqua colored robot stepped forward and began to speak.

"Very well. To start, allow me to introduce myself. I am Scyzor, and this is-,"

"Krystal" the feminine robot answered.

"Let me first apologize for that rather rude awakening I gave you all. I've always had a bad habit of being too quick with the trigger. Hard to break, I guess…" Scyzor admitted.

"You might want to make that a priority." Amy suggested.

"If I may ask," Mighty started, "You said something about us trespassing, right? Where exactly are we trespassing? This planet is supposed to be deserted."

Scyzor continued. "Krystal and I make up our recon team, codename G-79. It was our duty by our master to prevent any unknown travelers from reaching anywhere near the city."

This got Sonic's attention immediately.

"City! What city?"

Krystal answered. "Our home: The Metal Metropolis Zone, or Metal City for short."

Sonic had never heard that Zone name before!

"That must be the unknown Zone we've been looking for!"

"Pardon me?" Scyzor asked curiously.

Sonic explained. "Well, to try to make a long story incredibly short, we've got a Zone to find, so we can destroy it!"

The two robots looked surprised at such a statement.

"But, whatever for?" Scyzor asked.

Amy answered this time. "Because, a Zone that isn't supposed to exist here is disrupting the dimensional balance of all the other Zones on the planet. And if we don't find a way to remove it for good, the planet could be in danger of ceasing to exist!"

Scyzor looked confused. "I have no idea how this relates to our home, but if you request, we shall take you to our city. And if I may ask, will you possibly aid Krystal and I in a rather extreme task?" he asked.

"Just how extreme are you saying?" Lupe wondered.

There was a long pause until Scyzor answered.

"We'd like you to help us overthrow our master!"

Sonic's mouth dropped open. "WHAT?"

"What are guys, rebels or something?" asked Amy shocked.

"Yes, but for the greater good and well-being of our people, I assure you!" Krystal said.

Hearing that got their attention once more, and Krystal and Scyzor told their story:

"For almost a year now, our robot race has lived in peaceful harmony within our great city. We were all treated as equals, without any superior authority to keep us in any uncomforting order. It was a perfect, free way of life."

"But about 10 days ago, that all changed. One afternoon, one of our people spotted something falling from the sky. Everyone in the city gathered to watch as it drew closer. As it came, we all discovered that it was actually a robot heading right toward us! After only a few minutes of discovering that, he made a dead center hit in the middle of the city!"

"When the smoke cleared the crash site, we found his body in great disrepair. Our paramedics picked him up and took him to be fixed up ASAP, or else he would've shut down within minutes. As soon as the operation was pronounced successful, that's when the trouble began!"

"He stomped out of the recovery ward, and attacked the doctor droids who helped him live! Our people watched in terror as he showed some unusual power and absorbed their body parts and constructed himself a bigger, stronger body! We were all much too afraid of his strength. And after his showing of such great power, he instantly began to take over!"

Their story hit them hard. It reminded Sonic of how much his freedom had been taken away from his home time and time again. Scyzor clenched his metal fist with rage.

"I'll never forget hearing his cold, dark-hearted voice boom for the first time!":

' "You want us to take you………to our leader?"

"Don't be stupid, you fools! I AM your leader!" '

"What happened next?" asked Amy curiously.

Krystal continued. "Since he's taken over our city, he now rules over us with an iron fist (both metaphorically, and literally). He forced us into slavery to keep any trespassers like yourselves away from ever reaching close to the city. And worst of all, he forces our people to constantly construct new soldiers for his tyrannical army of combat machines!"

Sonic's expression looked angry. "You two may not know it, but we all know exactly how that feels."

"If it keeps up," Scyzor said, "our freedom will be nothing but history."

"Not if we have anything to say about it!"

Scyzor and Krystal looked at Sonic with surprise.

"No need to ask us for help, you two. Fighting for freedom is what we all do best!"

Amy, Lupe, and Mighty all nodded in agreement.

"Just lead us to that jerk, and his days will be numbered!" Amy said with an eager grin.

"Thank you…" said Scyzor. "We greatly appreciate your generosity."

Sonic gave him his trademark smirk. "Save the dramatics for later pal! And how 'bout you two take us to the Metal Metropolis Zone, ok?"

"You got it!" Krystal said cheerfully. She then pointed behind her to the hills in the horizon a few miles away. "Just follow us over those few hills in the west. We should be there by this afternoon."

"Just how far is that?" ask Mighty.

"Exactly 26 miles!" she answered.

"26?"

Sonic got out the Zone tracker, which still read blank.

"Figures……We were just one measly mile away from finding it!" Amy said annoyingly

Mighty could help but laugh. "Ha ha ha! That's life, pal!"

Sonic turned to face his team. "So guys, you ready?"

"You bet!" said Amy.

"Ready for anything!" said Lupe.

"Let's give it to him!" said Mighty.

"Alright! LET'S GO!"

Knuckles leaned into Rotor's holo-projection as he continued to transmit new orders to the gang still sitting within the Sandopolis Zone.

"Ok! The good news is that my equipment in the suitcase is all you guys will need to accomplish your mission!" he said to everyone.

Knuckles eyes lit up. "Well, let's hear it, Rote! What do we do with this stuff?"

Rotor began to explain. "These gizmos have been programmed by me to produce a type of temporary, synthetic Chaos Control energy! It has the ability to draw dimensional energy from the other Zones, and therefore can cause the necessary dimensional reaction to solve our problem!"

Shadow didn't look too convinced. "Fascinating, but I really don't see how that can help us without me or Sonic providing the energy ourselves."

Rotor looked toward Tails. "Hey, Tails! Get out the equipment so I can show you all how this can and WILL work!"

"Don't bother with me." said Rouge, who began turning around facing away from Rotor. "You'd probably lose my attention if I tried, anyway."

Espio and Geoffrey huddled closer to listen. Tails separated the equipment listening to Rotor's instructions. There laid a large, rectangular shaped silver container, and seven glowing tubes containing some sort of energy flowing inside each of them.

Rotor explained. "That big one is the main booster, and the seven tubes are reactors that will provide the energy necessary for it to create a dimension hole large enough to remove the Zone from the planet's surface for good!"

Everyone's eyes opened wide upon hearing that.

"Once each reactor is in proper place, it will be able to maintain its energy hold for exactly five minutes until it shuts down."

Geoffrey frowned. "Only FIVE, Rotor? That doesn't leave us much time to act now, does it?"

"Think about it, St. John." said Espio. "This is supposed to produce synthetic Chaos Control. Be happy that it'll work at all!"

Tails looked at Rotor again. "Well, now that we know how this works, where do we end up placing these gizmos to do their stuff?"

"I can answer that for you!"

The sudden voice came from above. Everyone looked up to see someone standing on a hole in the ruin's ceiling above their heads. Geoffrey and Shadow didn't recognize him. But as Knuckles, Rouge, Tails, and Espio spotted him, they all gasped in shock.

They were all staring into the light blue eyes of Necronos!

A/N: The plot thickens! HAHA! Once again, it'll probably be a while before I can update again, folks! I really appreciate your patience with me. I really do! Thank you all…

Well, now that a new mission has begun, how will this affect our heroes' race against the clock? Can they save a whole race and planet before one falls first? With the villain EVER be revealed? Whatever you do, don't miss the action next time! So until then, TTFN! R&R please!

But since I'm such a nice guy, continue reading below for a Bonus Segment! YAAAY!

Far away, a dark tower stood overlooking the vast metallic city surrounding it. The silence outside was broken by the sound of loud footsteps. A lone, orb torso robot was running through the entrance into the chamber within. Deep inside the structure, two armored robots, with swords clenched in their hands had spotted the runner.

"Master. Master!"

The two guards crossed their blades, blocking the runner from proceeding.

"The master doesn't wish to be disturbed, now. Wait where you are!"

"You don't understand!" the robot persisted. "I have an urgent message that can't wait!"

But the guards remained steadfast. "When I say to wait, YOU WAIT!"

"And when I say it can't wait, IT CAN'T WAIT! GOT IT?"

Suddenly, the three turned around as two dark sinister eyes pierced the darkness from behind them. A deep voice boomed form within.

"SILENCE! What is going on out here?"

The runner took the opportunity to speak. "Master! I have urgent news for you from city security!"

"Oh. From security, is it?"

"Yes sir. The recon team G-79, has been spotted returning to the city, but despite your orders, have failed to eliminate the trespassers, sir!"

"Hmmm……I see. Have you been able to identify these trespassers, soldier?"

"Security has confirmed sir: they are a wolf; female, an armadillo; male, and two hedgehogs; one of each gender."

"WHAT?"

"G-79 is leading them here as we speak!"

The guards stood up. "Sir, shall we dispose of them for you?"

There was a pause, and then the voice spoke again.

"No………Let them come here unharmed. I will deal with them myself! Inform me immediately upon their arrival, soldiers!"

"Yes, Sir!" And the three soldiers departed from the dark chamber.

"Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh…………And so, rebels. It looks like we will finally meet again! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA……………"