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"Manic, what the heck is going on here?" Ferral asked.
"Tell ya later, Ferral. Right now, we've got a major job to take care of." Manic said.
"C'mon, we have to find Lady Windemere!" Sonia said.
"Chill Sonia, we'll find her." Manic said.
"Manic, you know her?" Ferral asked, pointing at her.
"Yeah, known her for about three years, the same day you got turned into a…well." Manic couldn't finish.
"Oh, I get 'cha, so, how many dates you been on?" Ferral asked.
"WHAT?!" Both hedgehogs screamed, making Sonic and Eddy laugh until they fell over.
"Manic, who are all these kids?" Ferral asked.
"They're my friends: Sonic, Sonia, Knuckles, Shadow, Ed, Double D, Eddy, Kevin, Johnny, Plank, Nazz, Rolf, Sarah, Jimmy, and Shelby."
"Pleased to meet 'cha kids." Ferral said.
"It's very nice to meet you too, Ferral." Double D said.
"Manic, what do the glasses say about Lady Windemere?" Sonia asked.
Manic placed the glasses over his eyes. He quickly checked the information before, pointing down the hallway.
"They say that she's that way."
"C'mon, we don't have much time!" Sonia said, starting to walk ahead.
"What's with her?" Ferral asked, starting to follow.
"Her adopted mom, Lady Windemere, was roboticzed the day you were. We're trying to rescue three certain people from Ro'butt'nik's grasp. You're the first." Manic answered, quickly following.
"What about these other two then?"
"Lady Windemere for Sonia and Sir Charles for Sonic."
"You mean the other two who were roboticzed with me?" Ferral asked.
"Yeah, now c'mon." Manic started dragging his foster father and started catching up to the others.
(Flashback)
The younger Sonia looked out the rain-drenched window and sighed sadly.
"Is something wrong, Sonia?" Lady Windemere asked.
"I'm just…a little lonely I suppose." Sonia said, looking back out the window.
"Now, now my dear. Join me for tea, it will make you feel better." The elder woman said, placing her hands on the hedgehog's shoulders.
The pink hedgehog nodded her head sadly and followed the only person she had yet to call mother. Once in the Tea Room, Sonia quietly sipped her tea, still feeling a little sad.
"Sonia, is something the matter dear?"
"Well, I guess I've just been feeling a little sad lately." Sonia sighed. "Nobody at my school wants to be my friend and all because I'm the best in physical education. I think there's something wrong with me."
"You're more beautiful, dear. That's the way they show that they wish that they had your smile. They're just jealous of you." Lady Windemere insisted.
"You really think so?" Sonia asked.
"Yes. Just you wait and see, things will get better for you."
Sonia thought for a minute.
"May I be excused to my room?" She then asked.
"Why yes, but whatever for my dear?"
"I have an idea for tomorrow's "Write a Song" project."
And with that said, Sonia ran to her room to write her song. She spent well over an hour working on it until something finally came. After a few hours, Lady Windemere entered the room to check on her. To her surprise, Sonia had fallen asleep at her desk, a pencil in one hand.
Windemere smiled, pulled a blanket from the closet and covered the young hedgehog with it. As she placed it over Sonia's shoulders, she noticed a paper with writing on it. It was a song about a girl not being able to fit in because she was different.
Lady Windemere smiled softly at the paper. In her eyes, Sonia deserved an A+.
(End flashback)
Lady Windemere could only remember those days now, not that they'll ever be back now. Robotnik had put her on the crap heap, and now, she was waiting to be crushed in the crusher. It was hopeless to try and call for help her robotic body wouldn't let her. She looked up the shoot she had been thrown down and sighed in her mind. It was hopeless. Of so she thought.
There was a thunder of feet above her making her wonder which Freedom Fighter group it was this time.
"Sonic, stop!" A male with a surfer accent called.
There was a screeching sound and the footsteps stopped.
"She's in there!" The voice said again.
"Oh man, we've gotta hurry. That's the crusher!" A male voice said, which was somewhat similar to the first one.
"The crusher?" A girl asked.
"Sonia?" Lady Windemere thought.
"Robotnik only puts broken SWATbots in there, never roboticized victims!" A third, much older, male said.
"What?" A much larger group of voices cried.
"That does it! I'm going in!" Sonia's voice said.
"Wait, Sonia, don't-"
"Manic, give me those!" She demanded.
"I'm going with you." Another male voice said. "You'll need someone to pull you both out."
"Thanks, Eddy." Sonia said, before there was a loud rusty noise. Someone had opened the hatch.
"Careful, there's bound to be more then Windemere down there." The male with a surfer accent said.
"Don't worry Manic, we will be." Sonia said.
There was a sudden buzzing of bee winds coming down the hatch. After about a minute, two figures came out of the hatch. It was Sonia, who was holding onto a bee, who was flying her down.
"Lady Windemere? Lady Windemere?" Sonia called.
"She's gotta be around here somewhere." The bee said.
It was obvious they weren't going to land because of all the metal everywhere and most of it was rusted. Get a cut from that and who knows what kinds of diseases you could get.
"There she is!" Sonia cried, pointing.
That was when Eddy got a good look at Lady Windemere. She was pale and pretty much had brown hair, what was once qan aqua green dress, with a purple cape. At the moment, she looked like a lifeless rag-doll.
"Let's hurry." Sonia said.
The bee nodded and flew over to Lady Windemere. He carefully set Sonia down next to her foster mother. Sonia reached into the backpack on her back and started looking for something.
"Where is it? She growled through her teeth.
There was then a groaning sound.
"What was that?" Eddy asked.
Sonia looked around before figuring out what was going on.
"The crusher has been activated!" She cried.
Sonia grabbed Windemere with one hand and the bee's with the other. Not wasting another second, the bee started flying back up the hatch. But with the extra weight, it was hard to do.
"Eddy, hurry!" Sonia cried.
The bee, apparently named Eddy, beat his wings like never before. Sweat was pouring down his face as he flew, trying to pull them both up.
"Sonia, Eddy, hang on!" The male with the surfer accent called down.
"Duh!" Sonia called up.
"We're sending a rope down! Eddy, grab onto it and we'll pull you up!" A boy called, probably slightly younger then Sonia.
"Just get it down here! The crusher is on!" Eddy called.
There was a loud sound of running feet above them, trying to accomplish…something.
"Heads up!" The surfer called.
A rope fell into their sights, as the bee grabbed in at once.
"Hurry, pull us up!" Eddy called up.
"PULL!" A collection of voices cried together.
The rope gave a sudden jerk upwards.
"PULL!"
The rope went even father up.
"PULL!"
Again.
"PULL!"
"We're almost out of the crusher's path!" Sonia called up.
"Keep going!" Eddy called.
The rope was being pulled as fast as possible.
"We're almost out!" Sonia said happily.
The crusher's walls were closing in on them, there was actually less then ten feet left and they had fifteen feet left to feet to safety. It all depended on which was faster: the crusher, or the people pulling them to safety.
"Oh we'll never make it at this rate." Sonia said, looking back.
"We'll make it, don't worry." Eddy said.
"No. You and Lady Windemere will go on ahead without me." Sonia said.
"What do you mean?" Eddy asked, looking back.
Sonia swung her arm upwards and threw Lady Windemere up. Eddy barely managed to grab the robot but still held onto Sonia. However, Sonia had other plans. She let go of Eddy's hand and fell.
"SONIA!" Eddy cried, when he realized that she was no longer in his grip.
As she fell, Sonia began spinning around, and, to Lady Windemere's great surprise, a pink tornado was formed, and it was slowly lifting.
"HA HA! Way to go Sonia!" Eddy cheered happily and continued flying.
"Eddy, I can see the rope!" Sonia called from her tornado.
The young bee looked up to see the rope and smirked. With everything he had in him, Eddy pushed himself and Lady Windemere up towards the rope. Eddy reached out with his free hand and barely managed to grab the rope. Sonia slowly floated upwards, stopped spinning, and grabbed onto Eddy's ankles.
"PULL!" They both called up the shoot.
"On three, everyone pulls at the same time!" The surfer told what sounded like many others. "One…two…THREE!"
With that one word, the hedgehog, the bee, and roboticized citizen were suddenly being jerked up twenty feet in three seconds. They looked down, to see the crusher's sides crash into each other.
"Phew." Eddy sighed, and started climbing the rope, with Lady Windemere in one arm, with Sonia following suit.
Above them, Manic and the others were pulling on the other end of the rope.
"They're almost out!" Double D said, calculating it all in his head.
"Keep going!" Sonic said, starting to walk away from the hatch, still holding on.
"How much does this robot weigh?" Kevin asked, still pulling.
"At the most, I'd have to say, two-hundred pounds." Nazz answered.
"Hold on, they're out!" Manic said, dropping the rope and running up to the hatch.
He pulled on Eddy's hand, helping him and the robot out of the hatch.
"Where's Sonia?" He asked.
" I'm down here!" Sonia called from inside the hatch.
Manic reached inside, and pulled Sonia out at once.
"Thanks, Manic." Sonia said.
"No problem, here's the ring." Manic said, handing her the Power Ring.
Sonia thanked him and walked over to her foster mother, who had been laid on the floor by Eddy. She sighed, held the ring up to Lady Windemere's heart, and focused. At once, the ring started glowing, and, like Manic, a beam of light shot from Sonia's heart and medallion.
Slowly, yet surely, Windemere, slowly felt herself take control. After the light died down she looked around and saw Sonia.
"Sonia, my dear?" She asked, feeling tears build up.
"Lady Windemere?" Sonia asked, to make sure it was her foster mother.
"Yes, my dear."
Sonia couldn't hold herself back. She jumped on top of Lady Windemere and into her open arms.
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Again, sorry it's so late. Like I said, it was hard for me to come up with this chapter. R&R please.