A/N : I'm too caught up with the other stories and the forum I role play on (fights going on, I'm thinking of leaving it, because two of the members had already left as far as I can tell), and the fact that my cellphone is out also does not help.

Disclaimer : I don't own Sonic The Hedgehog, I only own my character, Levinski. Starlight belongs to Shadow's Party Girl 96.

Day 4 : A New Hope

Unlike his twin, Tails didn't sleep last night.

He was too thrilled to sleep. His only thought was to bring Cosmo back before she die for the second time. The plant now looked even paler and more pitiful than ever. Tails could've sworn two of the leaves had already left one of her small branches.

Last night, Levinski had listed all of the ingredients, and to say that they were far too complicated than Tails had imagined would be an understatement.

Tails had already broken some of the vital carbon structures inside the fluid. Now he knew how to create a rough Regeneration Liquid, with instant, non-permanent healing. The other atomic structures were a lot more complicated. He needed Levinski's help for it.

The green fox was snoring on his desk behind Tails. He still doesn't have his usual shirt and pants. Tails looked at his brother, chuckling a bit. The twin-tailed fox didn't want to disturb his brother's peaceful sleep, so he decided to work on his own until his grass-furred twin wakes up.

It didn't take long before he woke up, or to be exact, before he was woken up. The lab door opened, revealing a purple feline with red highlight. Levinski shot out from his sleep, looking at the Mobian cat, "Starlight?"

"I heard about what happened from Tails…" said Starlight.

Levinski looked at Tails, narrowing his eyes. The golden vulpine just replied, "I told her when she called last night."

"I see…" said Levinski, who then turned at Starlight, "So you know?"

"Don't worry, Grass" Starlight kneeled at Levinski, "No one blames you, not anymore."

"Except me. I blame myself for what happened. It's my fault"

"Grass… please. No one anticipated it. At least you can still do something about it. I will help…"

"No" Levinski cut her off, "It's my responsibility, not yours."

Starlight looked down, "Okay, I understand, but don't you ever attempt to suicide again, or I will never forgive you, even in afterlife."

"Okay. It's a promise…"

The feline smiled at the vulpine, "If you ever need me, just call okay? I'll be there faster than you can ever imagine"

Starlight left the lab. She glanced back from the doorway, worrying about Levinski, 'I hope you're not really thinking about leaving this world, Grass…'

Back with the Prowers, Levinski went to Tails' desk, taking a look on their project, "How's the ingredients?"

"Not good, Lev." replied the kitsune, "Tell me, how do you manage to make one?"

"Well, mixing them all up. Also using some electricity to speed up the process. Lots of them…"

"Okay, my result so far is only a temporary healing. You think that electrifying them will work okay?"

"No," said Levinski, "It doesn't work that way. There's the substance that actually keeps the healing wound from opening again..."

"Great! Then…"

"…but it's also the same substance that doesn't get along with the plastids."

"Aw, man…" Tails then looked at the ingredients available, "So which one's the substance?"

"The purple one…"

Tails took a test tube with dark purple substance, "So basically we need to identify what part causes the negative reaction?"

"Actually, I do know the part. But removing it will require us to go through a complicated substance reconstruction. It's gonna take a couple of weeks or so."

Tails had enough. He slammed his fist on the desk and yelled, "Then tell me the fastest way to solve our problem! We only have 2 Chaos-damn days left! Don't just tell me something that can't be done!"

"Tails, I'm sorry…"

"No… I'm sorry…" Tails dropped his head, "I shouldn't have yelled…"

There was an awkward silence, before Levinski broke it, "There's another way…"

"What?"

"This might be able to work." but then he stopped, "No, the chances are far too slim…"

"What is it?"

"Well, we can put the use of high frequency rays to remove the substances."

"Okay, so what's the problem then?"

"If we're not careful enough, we'll mess up the other parts, and makes the liquid dangerous to use."

"What's the chance of us succeeding in this?"

"I'd say roughly 5%. We can do it repeatedly, but it'll take hours, and right now we're short of the fluid."

Tails turned back, thinking out loud of the idea, sure it was fast enough than breaking the components piece by piece, but if they fail…

"Look, I understand if you don't want to do this, we can find another…"

"No. We'll use this way." said Tails, turning at Levinski, his face so determined, an expression that was rarely visible from the fox's face, "If we are to find another way, we'll just waste more time. We have to use this idea, no matter what."

"I'll prepare the equipments." said Levinski, going to his desk.

The noon passed, so was the afternoon. It was now 6 pm. Tails and Levinski had failed 14 times already. The Regeneration Liquid they had at their disposal was only enough for 6 more experiments.

"Alright, let's try it again…" said Levinski as he put a pot of severely damaged plant. Its leaves were brown, dry and dead.

Tails finished the 15th prototype of the fluid. He poured the liquid on a plant standing on the pot. The leaves suddenly turned pale before it turned brown.

"Failed again."

"Alright, let's keep trying…"

The brothers finally used the last 20th tube. Tails took the finished tube and pour some of the liquid on the last plant on the pot.

It looked really healthy. In fact, its cut stems were starting to heal rapidly.

Tails couldn't believe his eyes, "W-we did it!"

Levinski turned to Tails and the plant. "Really?"

"Yes! We really did it, Lev!"

"Oh, thank God…" the grass green fox took a deep breath, "Now we only have to pour it to Cosmo!"

Tails nodded and quickly pour all the liquid on Cosmo's plant.

Strangely enough, there was no reaction.

"…what?"

The foxes couldn't believe their eyes. All their hard work, it was all for nothing…

"No…" Tails' eyes became glassy, "No, no, NO! NO!"

"Tails… I'm… sorry… Look, I know…"

The kitsune raised his hand on his brother, silencing him. "This is not over. I refuse to give up, not after what we've been through."

"But, we're out of the fluid… and the Terran Colonial Authority's next shipment will only be available in 5 days"

"So we have to 'borrow'"

Levinski's eyes widened, "You're not going to steal GUN's property, will you?"

"I thought you were going to say TCA instead of GUN, and no. Those organizations aren't the only one who has them. There's still someone who might have them…"

"You mean…?"

"Eggman."

Levinski shook his head, "Eggman only works on robots. Mostly robots at least. Chances of him having the Liquid is too slim."

"We have to give it a shot."

"Alright, I'm going with you then."

Tails went to the door, "First we have to prepare the X-Tornado."

Levinski groaned, "Aw, man… can it be anything but X-Tornado? We can use the Extreme Gears instead, you know…"

The sky had darkened, the X-Tornado was flying up high on the dark of the night, carrying its 6 passengers to Eggman's base.

Those six were Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Starlight, Amy, and Levinski. Sonic and Knuckles were sitting outside, while the others were on their respective seats ("Sonic, why can't you just sit inside with me?" exclaimed Amy).

Tails looked back to the passengers. Levinski was really sick, wanting to puke. The fox really had serious airsick issue, but at least he didn't protest that much.

The fortress was visible. The defenses aren't detecting their enemies high in the sky, yet. Tails slowed the plane down. The fox tried to look for any entrance on the tower, but he found none. "Sonic, it looks like we have to make our own entrance…" Tails told Sonic outside.

"Leave that to me!" Sonic quickly spin-dashed off the plane to the tower, creating a hole as he broke through the metal wall. It was enough for a small person to get inside.

Knuckles followed Sonic, breaking on another part and creating a bigger hole on the tower. Amy went inside the hole made by Sonic, widening the gap as he smashed the wall with her hammer.

"And I thought we were supposed to do this incognito…" muttered Levinski as he saw them breaking through the tower their own way.

"Oh, come on. We're falling behind now…" said Starlight, preparing to jump off.

Both the feline and the vulpine hopped off the plane, going through the wall made by Knuckles. Tails smirked as they were gone. He quickly turned the plane into its X-Cyclone mode. With it, he controlled the robot to kick through the wall (A/N : Remember that 'Cyclone Kick' by Ella?) "Talk about a cool way to make an entrance. Not really…" he muttered.

Sonic dashed away from the robots trying to mow him down. "Sorry guys! No time to talk, gotta run!" said Sonic before leaving the robots. "Okay, medical center, medical center, medical cen… ah there it is!" Sonic quickly entered a door with 'Health Center' printed on it.

There were lots of test tubes and equipments. The blue hedgehog looked for the teal liquid-filled tubes on the desks, but couldn't find one. "Oh come on… where do you keep it, Egghe… oh?" Sonic stopped at a first aid kit box on the wall. He opened the box, and found a jar full of the fluid he was looking for. "Aha! Jackpot!"

At the same time, the wall broke down, revealing Knuckles, who just punched through the wall, followed with Amy smashing the wall from the other side with her hammer. Next was the door, which was being cut off by a Starlight's claw and Levinski's machete. Sonic sweatdropped, "Hey, what's with the thrashing entrance?"

"Well, that's how we make an entrance on Eggman's base…" said Knuckles, "Crush this, crush that. Isn't that how you get in? Break through the walls, shattering the windows, ramming against the machineries?"

"Okay, but I do remember about keeping the noise to a minimum."

"Wow, that's the first…" said Levinski.

Suddenly the alarm went off, alerting the group, "Great, now everyone awakes…"

Everyone quickly made a dash through the doors, crashing through several walls for shortcut. They made it to the X-Tornado without any significant difficulties. Tails was waiting patiently as the group went back to the plane, "You got the Liquid?"

Sonic then lifted up the jar. Tails smiled at him, "I knew you could do it! Alright, let's get out of here before someone realized that he was theft."

The X-Tornado took off, creating yet another hole through the wall. Everyone whooped as they escape to the darkened sky. "Wow, Eggman's gonna have lots of gaps to cover now…" said Sonic.

"You got that right, Sonic…" Knuckles chuckled.

A/N : That's Day 4! Let's see if they can actually make the right cure for Cosmo in the next day!

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