"That's great news Amy! Hold onto that Chaos Emerald and spend the rest of your time traveling however you want until we find them all. I'll relay the news to the other groups later." Tails hangs up and continues browsing Apotos from a boat. He looks at his phone, which displays a map of the Chaos Emerald's location.
"Approximately, we are about a few minutes away from our destination. It's straight ahead according to the map." Notifying Saffron, whom had her binoculars on searching around for anything suspicious, searching across the isles like a guard, so intimidating!
"Wait…Tails check this out!" waving him over, "I think we're having some company."
"How so…?" taking a look through the binoculars, he sees a cave with a bunch of familiar enemies occupying, "Those look like Dr. Eggman's badniks!" he hands her the binoculars and runs over to his duffle bag, taking out a rocket launcher.
"What the heck? Where'd you…?
"I made it. It's able to fire about 20 total missiles; could you do a favor and lower your head and cover your ears?"
She ducks down and closes her eyes and covers her ears; Tails pulls the trigger and a huge rocket fires from the gun with a loud bang erupting. The rocket blasts the group of badniks away; they arrive at the cave a few minutes later.
"So he got there first…" states Saffron, stretching in preparation for a battle.
Tails halts her and exits the boat, with a custom made Race yellow blaster in his hand. He scopes the area and then signals her over; they both venture in to the Dark cave.
"This is a large cave! We've been walking for a while now." says Saffron, feeling the wall.
They arrive at the center of the cave and find the purple emerald waiting for them; Saffron grabs it with ease-expecting something to happen.
"I guess we're all good!" she says tossing him the emerald.
"But this doesn't feel right…" catching the emerald, he takes out his phone and issues a call to everyone. "Come in, I repeat, come in. Has anyone obtained a chaos emerald? If so, did you have and run-ins with Dr. Eggman or his badniks…" the head set gets all frying sounds since reception isn't good since they're in a cave.
"Maybe we should just head back, luck might be on our side." Taking a head start; leaving Tails behind.
Tails stands along in the room, pondering the Chao Emerald. Wait…when we got here, there was a small group of Dr. Eggman's creations here…if they aren't here, then they must be…! Saffron storms back to tails, her clothes are partially ripped.
"Tails, there's more badniks than before! I saw a dozen heading this way, who knows how many might be outside!" Tails stays composed, opening up his bag pack.
"Here..." handing her a gun casually.
"Whoa...!? I don't use guns though…" holding the gun at a distance by the tip of her fingers; Tails gave her a plain look.
"Look, we need to escape this cave. We already have what we came for, and they don't." he takes out two twin blasters instead of his yellow pistol, "I'll take down as many as I can. You make a straight run for the boat when a path is cleared, I'll follow right behind you…" he gives her the Chaos Emerald and checks for the enemy. Saffron looks at Tails, confused; Knuckles said this guy was a nerd...must be the cool ones then.
The badniks shoot at them aimlessly; Tails rolls across the ground-shooting. He lands two headshots on them, "Ten to go." Tails blasts five more in succession and then tosses them in the air-performing a back flip scissors kick on another badnik, catching both blasters in midair and shooting another two down; Saffron gives him applause.
"That was awesome!"
"Alright, let's continue moving!"
They rush out the cave and reach the cove where an army of Eggman's badniks awaits. Tails shoots a bunch down, taking cover by the rock as the remainder fire at them. He grabs a grenade from his bag and throws it at the pack, causing a huge explosion.
"Run!" directs Tails, running into the giant cloud of smoke.
They arrive at the boat and make their getaway; Tails bombards a bunch of rockets from his rocket launcher to silence the mayhem. Tails contacts the others to let them know that they've secured the second Chaos Emerald. Saffron pilots the boat as Tails briefs them on what's happened.
"Seems like Dr. Eggman knows we're coming!" says Sonic on the other line.
"We've secured the third emerald!" reports Vector from Holoska.
"Same here, the fourth emerald is in our possession." States Julie-Su; Knuckles was in the background yelling about something.
"I just defeated a large amount of badniks…But I also have an emerald with me, make that five." Adds Espio, hanging up immediately.
"Sorry, we're currently battle some badniks of our own. We'll let you know when we obtain the Chaos Emerald." Says Mighty; badniks could be heard in the background.
"Sonic, have you found your emerald?" asks Tails, relaxing back and admiring the sea breeze.
"Not yet. I'll make sure to notify everyone when I do." Hanging up afterwards in a hurry; He must be tired by now since he opted to run instead of using a plane.
Tails hangs up and turns to Saffron, "this works out much better than I thought. Now, we just need Sonic to collect the final emerald and we can finally launch a counter attack."