Hey, thanks to all my friends for supporting me, and to Sega and 4kids for making this possible credit to the respective people that stuff I use belongs to and all that.

If you need a description for where the story is from, see Chapter 2.

That's it from me, enjoy!

For the first bit, you can just watch this:

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Chapter 3- Sonic the Hedgehog

I landed on the hull of the ship, flames burning at my back from the robot I'd recently smashed.

Alarms started wailing around me. Some more robots appeared about 100 meters in front of me. The weapons went up.

"FIRE!" I heard my nemesis yell.

I started running, all the missiles exploded just behind me.

I ricocheted between droids in a blue streak. All of them now destroyed, I flew up in the air, landed, and hit the ship running. A huge purple robot in front of me tried to smash me as I ran under it. I spun it around and kept running as it exploded. Several more came directly in front. I spun through them, and sped up as they too, exploded. There was nothing left but shrapnel.

My nemesis jumped down to my level as I got closer to the command center. He was in a huge red suit of Mecha armor.

He shot his machine guns at me, but all of the bullets missed me by a hair. As I blasted through the wreckage, he shot at me again, but I leaped over the attack with ease. I jumped again and this time aimed directly at him.

"Why you little…" I heard him growl from my position in the sky.

He continued to shoot at me in the air, but managed to miss every time.

I hit him and the Mecha smashed open like a tin can. My momentum took me down the passageway behind him.

He had escaped, and was already in another Mecha, shooting at me as I ran.

Surprised, I took off up the wall to dodge. I scaled it no problem and continued to sprint down the tunnel to the control center.

"You're not getting away!" Eggman threatened as he shot the hand of his Mecha down the hall to try and grab me.

He succeeded, and I was yanked back to his ugliness.

But, I had one more trick up my sleeve. Closing my eyes, I summoned the chaos emeralds to surround me. He tried in vain to cover me so I couldn't focus, but I was already Super Sonic.

The machine's arms exploded under the sheer power radiating from my quills. I floated for a second, and then smashed the rest of his Mecha to bits.

Realizing defeat, Eggman boosted out of his Mecha in his pod in a last-ditch effort to escape. His little hover-pod flew off down another hallway at top speed.

Naturally, I followed him.

I blasted through closed blast doors like they were paper, it felt great to be unstoppable.

Eggman had set the ship to explode when he realized that he had lost this battle. But as the space-battleship detonated in a fiery inferno I only had eyes for the tiny pod zooming into another ship. I took a shortcut and flew straight through one of his fleet of space-battleships on my way to follow the doctor. It too blew up in my wake

We flew into the next ship, obviously his command ship, and he banged into the walls in his rush. His pod bumped one too many times, and he flew out of it and hit the floor hard.

I burst up from the floor and saw him stutter "S-S-Sonic?! I-I'm sorry! R-Really! L-Look, go easy on me!" then he started groveling, it felt good to see the evil doctor admit defeat. "I'll turn over a new leaf, I swear! Just give me a chance!" he fell to the floor, bowing with his hands clasped together at my feet.

I had to admit I was a bit surprised. "Well this is new. Showing remorse, Eggman? If you played nice, I wouldn't have to break all your toys." I added with some smugness.

Then the doctor growled, and a button I hadn't noticed before appeared in his hand. Too fast for me to react, he pushed it down.

"Gotcha!" he yelled triumphantly.

I was trapped, some new device of the doctors that suppressed even my Super form's power. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't break free.

The doctor laughed as he rose on a pedestal in the room. I turned to glare at him, expecting another long-winded speech about how he was going to take over the world this time, but screamed in surprise as I was met with a sudden burst of pain from all directions. I tried to take the pain, but it just grew, and soon it was too great for me to handle, and I yelled again.

Somehow, Eggman had managed to change me back to my original form. And the chaos emeralds surrounded me in reverse. The ship opened up beneath me and my nemesis laughed yet again.

"Oh, I've waited a long time for this!" he declared, "FIRE!"

The ship fired an intense purple blast at the planet below.

The earth below broke apart, and purple tendrils of energy radiated from it.

"Whoooa!" the doctor admired his handiwork.

The pain continued and intensified, and one by one, the emeralds turned black and fell to the ground around me.

The doctor laughed again. "Success! A brilliant success!"

The pain abruptly ended, but I was too spent to do anything about it.

"It's just as the Gaia Manuscripts foretold!" he continued to boast. "The entity that was sealed within the planet has been awakened. Now I just need to harness its power. Eggman land will finally come to be! Nyah ha ha ha!"

"You've really… gone and done it this time, Eggman." My own voice was strange, deeper, and rougher than normal.

"Ah, Sonic, that's a good look for you. Festive!" Eggman replied.

What did he mean? I was still me, right? I didn't get too long to dwell on it because the doctor ejected me into space.

"So long, Friend!" he mocked. A push of a button, and one of the glass walls opened.

I was sucked into space towards the planet below with the dead chaos emeralds.

END DREAM~

Sonic the hedgehog woke up in a cold sweat.

"Oh, it was only a dream. Thank goodness!" he realized, relieved. Then he shuddered, "More like a nightmare. I must be really stressed to be dreaming about that now. At least we're heading back towards Mobius where I can finally stretch my legs a bit!" he remembered.

He looked over at the clock on his wall. It read: 5:43 a.m. well, I'm not going to get any more sleep, he thought. I might as well go see who's up and have some breakfast.

First, he headed towards the cafeteria where he grabbed a bowl of cheerios for his breakfast. He liked to eat them dry, so he skipped on the milk.

He took his bowl of cereal to the cockpit to see if Tails was up yet. He was guessing that the fox would go there if he was awake. His friend was always fussing over the ship's mainframe and diagnostics and such.

He found the kit typing away on his keyboard in the control seat.

"Hey Tails, how's it going?"

The fox jumped at the sound, he hadn't notice sonic come in. "Oh, hey sonic, you're up early, I'm ok, just improving the alarms system for when we land. We don't want anyone to be able to just fly off with our ship." The kit answered. "How are you?"

Sonic finished munching on a handful of Cheerios before replying. "I'm ok, just had a weird dream. Have you even slept, Tails?" he asked, noticing the rings under the fox's eyes.

"No, I've been working on the ship all night." The fox answered sheepishly. "But I've got a lot done on the weapons system, and we should be able to take an attack if one comes our way now!" Tails continued proudly.

"You really should get some sleep; it's not good to be awake all night. What if we were attacked right now? You need to be rested, anything could happen." Sonic chastised the fox.

"I know, Sonic. It's just, I don't want to leave this ship defenseless, I promise to get a lot of sleep once we land back on Mobius." He assured his best friend.

"You better, I'll make sure of it. Speaking about attacks, is it just me, or do you think it's strange that we haven't heard much from Eggman or the Metarex lately?" He inquired.

"Yeah, Sonic, I expected them to at least pass by this area or something, but I guess they really didn't anticipate us to head back home. It looks like restocking and repairing our ship is not going to be a problem." The fox said with a grin.

"That's good, but it feels almost eerie…" the hedgehog replied.

"What does?" Knuckles entered the room with a half-eaten granola and raisin bar in his hand.

"Hey Knuckles!" Sonic greeted the echidna. "We were wondering how come we haven't heard much from Eggman or the Metarex lately. What are you doing up?"

"Humph, I don't care much for either of them. They're just lucky they've kept their distance." He retorted. "And I don't know much about you hedgehogs, but I'm an early riser, I'm always up before 6."

"Ok, take it down a notch knuckles, we don't want you getting a big head about yourself." Sonic teased the short-tempered echidna.

"Who are you calling big headed?!" Knuckles exclaimed.

"Jeeze, Knuckles, I was only joking. You don't have to go and blow your top like that."

The echidna silently fumed, but didn't get a chance to reply as all the monitors suddenly showed Eggman's mustached face.

"Well, hello hedgehog, and company" their nemesis began on the screen.

Sonic was surprised. What the heck? Well, I guess it's about time he showed his ugly face.

"As you can see, I have… Blah Blah Blah… you are now in my grasp." The annoying doctor drawled.

Sonic thought this was a fine time to let the doctor know that they could take whatever he could dish out.

"Oh yeah Eggman? What makes you think you can win? We aren't exactly helpless!" he retorted, remembering Tail's upgrades to the weaponry. He silently thanked the fox for his devotion to machinery.

Sonic noted that Eggman grimaced from his response with some pleasure, and grinned wider in reply.

"Well, hedgehog, this time, I believe that I have the upper hand." Came the doctor's response.

Pfft. Sonic thought. Yeah right, we always win. "Oh yeah? You and what army?" he replied, not really expecting an answer.

But an answer came anyways. "Well, I am actually glad that you asked that, Sonic. This army."

And then the screen changed to the doctor's icon. Typical, Sonic thought, go ahead and make me wait for your army of stupid robots. He started tapping his foot.

A couple of minutes later, the screens turned back on, with Eggman looking very pleased with himself.

"Sonic the hedgehog, behold your doom." He said with relish

Nothing happened.

"I'm waiting, Eggman!" the hedgehog shouted impatiently.

Really, the least he could do is actually make something happen. Sonic was mentally complaining. What could it be this time, invisible bugs?

Then huge spaceships started appearing from nowhere around the ship. A dozen alarms went off above the three creatures' heads. Screens started flashing with the message: 'Large mass of Metarex nearby'

Sonic's first reaction was shock and fear. It was just part of his hedgehog nature to fear any threat. But he quickly subdued this reaction I am the fastest thing alive, I cannot be stopped. He reminded himself.

He heard Eggman say something about surrendering and allowing him and his friends to live. He looked at his friends scared, but determined faces, and the ships still revealing themselves outside. He almost decided to let Eggman win this one, if his friends would at least be safe. But he saw the defiance in Tails' eyes and the fight in Knuckles' stance, and all doubt of whether they would win this fight evaporated from his mind.

"I will never surrender to you, Egg-Butt!" he yelled as defiantly as he could manage. He threw in his favorite insult to the doctor for good measure.

All around him, his friends started agreeing to his statement. Others on the ship had come to see what the commotion was about and many were still in their pajamas.

"We'll beat him, just like we always do, Sonic!" shouted Tails.

"I'm right behind you! I won't let you down!" Knuckles assured him.

"No need to worry! I'm by your side!" Amy yelled, still in her purple nightgown.

"I've got your back, Sonic!" Chris called out, his hair a mess.

"I'll help you Mr. Sonic!" Cream chimed in, her teddy bear in her arms.

"Chao! Chao!" her pet Cheese added excitedly.

"I'm here for you!" Cosmo chirped in a quiet voice.

Sonic was filled with newfound confidence, and gratitude for his friends. He saw their ashen, scared faces, but they masked them with confidence and courage for his sake. He felt a whole new level of appreciation for them.

This time, when he looked back to Eggman, there was no fear in his eyes; he glared straight into his nemesis' gaze with a burning resolve.

To his amazement, Eggman looked neither intimidated nor resigned, he looked… amused.

"I was hoping you would say that." His nemesis gleefully said. "Now this is going to be so much more fun! Watch out, because I'm not going to go easy on you! Now, Crimson Egg! Fire all weapons!" He finished triumphantly. Sonic braced himself for impact when the screens all went back to normal, but none came. Tails had been busy during the conversation with Eggman, and the attack was blasted out of space. However, they were not prepared for the millions of shots from the Metarex warships that followed.

Sonic dashed out of the room as fast as possible to deflect as many missiles as he could. First, he took out the projectiles coming towards the glass control room's dome, and then he went around the ship to destroy the ones headed at the landing bay and the sleeping areas. People may not give him much credit for being able to think, but he did know what was important. He knew how to prioritize. The weaker energy blasts were deflected by the ship's energy shields. There were also Metarex troopers on jetpacks heading towards the ship, but they were held back by the shields for the time being.

Sonic dashed around the ship at nearly the speed at sound jumping and smashing missiles and the stray Metarex droid that made its way through the shields.

But that was before the shields failed.

At first, it was just a few energy blasts made their way through, but then, the whole force field flickered. Then it just disappeared.

Sonic was forced to head back to the glass dome to protect it from the waves of Metarex now attacking it.

All this happened within a matter of minutes. A couple of seconds later, Knuckles ran out to assist him. They started to push the waves back. It helped that the dome was small, and the Metarex could only come at it so many at a time.

A minute or two later, Amy ran out with her hammer, still in her nightgown, and started whacking away at the droids. They really started to make progress on the waves of battle robots now. And thank goodness, Tails managed to put up the shields again.

There was a loud boom as Tails shot at a missile that got too close and it exploded just over our heads. We were thrown back a few meters, and so were the Metarex in the area. We took advantage of the distraction, and used the time to fight off the other Metarex around the dome.

Cosmo ran out carrying the chaos emeralds. I was filled with relief at the sight. Finally! We can get the upper hand!

"Mister Knuckles! Tails needs you at the master emerald! And Sonic! Catch!" She shouted over the cacophony of robot warriors around us.

She threw the emeralds at me. I felt their warm glow as they began to encircle me. Their power made me feel unstoppable. I looked away from the battle for a fraction of a second; it wasn't like the robots could do anything to me at this point. But it wasn't me the made a break for.

Time seemed to slow down around me.

I watched in utter horror as one measly robot hit its mark, a robot that had I been paying attention, would have already been destroyed.


All right! The story can move on now! Yay! Nobody like sonic to tell this dramatic part, so expect some more from him in the next chapter. They won't be single-view chapters anymore, but don't worry, I'll make sure character P.O.V. changes are obvious.

Again, credit to all those whom deserve it for this story

And by the way, I'm fixing chapter one, so that will be replaced soon. Next chapter will probably be done by next week, so look out for it.

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