CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Amy was still watching Shadow and Jasmine make-up, but then she noticed something was wrong.

She turned around, finding Elise missing.

Amy started to panic, she ran to the other side of the building and was looking back and forth, not able to find to Elise anywhere.

Amy ran back to Shadow and Jasmine. "Shadow! Jasmine! You guys can make-up later! Right now, we have a problem!" Shadow and Jasmine look back at Amy.

"What is it Amy? Something wrong?" Shadow asked concern.

Jasmine backed away from Shadow's personal space, to look at her best friend, that's when she noticed someone was missing. "Amy? Where's Elise?" Amy looked down at the ground.

"Oh my god, she's gone isn't she?" Amy nodded, to her and looked up at her friend.

"What happen?" Shadow asked. "I don't know! One minute she's there, the next she's gone!" Amy panicked. She covered her hands, over her face, so she wouldn't have to look at her friends.

Jasmine walked up to her and put her arm around her shoulder. "Hey, we're not mad. But all that matters, is we find the Princess. If we're lucky, Sonic might show up sooner." Jasmine looked at Shadow, nodding their heads to each other. "Come on let's see if we can find her!" Amy looked at her and gave her a small sad smile. And started running around the city, to find Elise soon.

Jasmone and Shadow looked at each other. Shadow nodded to her and they both starting running, same speed to find Elise soon.

BACK TO SONIC AND HIS FRIENDS

After Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles entered the portal, they were coming straight down, to the ground.

"Ow...!" Tails fell on his bottom again, Knuckles landed on his head again also, and Sonic landed on his feet smoothly. Soon they were looking around the city, if anything had happened, while they were in the future.

Nothing seemed suspicious or out of the ordinary, yet.

Sonic looked side to side at building to building to make sure nothing was broken, by the time he knew, it was day two. Two days after the Festival! Sonic looked around for a clock to make sure, there was enough time left, to save Elise.

"Looks like we made it back, in one piece!" Knuckles explained.

"Where did Shadow and Rouge go? Did they appear someplace else?" Tails asked concerned.

"Those two, can keep care of themselves." Sonic said. He knew that they would just go back to working, on missions, from G.U.N.

Sonic was looking for a newspaper, to see the date and any breaking news, that Elise and Eggman dies on his battleship. The Sonic found a newspaper, lying on the sidewalk. Sonic ran up to it, and picked it up and was looking through through it. Knuckles and Tails followed him and looked at the newspaper also, to make sure they made it in time.

Knuckles and Tails were still confused by Sonic's attitude, but they will let him tell them, at the right time.

BACK TO ELISE

Elise was in eternal darkness. Dreaming of the same hill where Sonic and she was, Elise was looking at Sonic and was smiling at him, she knew he would find him.

Sonic looked at her and smiled at her, "Wake up Elise..." Elise looked confused at a moment, was about to speak to Sonic. "Elise, this isn't really... Wake up..." Elise was getting scared, she started panting and taking deep breathes, when she saw the hill was on fire. Elise looked back at Sonic, he was nowhere around. She was looked behind her to see if Sonic was over there, but he wasn't. She closed her eyes, and turned back around, until a figure came up to her, putting his hands on her shoulder. "Wake up Elise!" She screamed, as she saw Sonic all dead in skeleton bones.

She woke up, with wide eyes and sat up quickly. She closed her eyes, putting her knees close to her chest, and hugged them. She ran a hand over her sweaty head and reopened her eyes, to look at her surroundings. She saw she was in a train, looking back and forth she found Eggman standing there staring at her.

"Finally, I've been waiting so patiently for your return, Princess." Eggman said impatiently. She looked down at the ground. "Why are we in a train?" Elise asked Eggman, not really wanting to listen Eggman talk about watching her sleep.

"We are here to get out of the city, Princess." Elise looked at Eggman shocked. "I rather stay here in the city..." Elise trailed off a little. "Ahh... Why would you want to stay here? Because you believe Sonic will save you. Well to remind you something, he's gone." Elise closed her eyes, feeling a stab through her heart.

Till a familiar voice came yelling. "Hey Eggman! I think you have something, that belongs to me!" Sonic voice came out yelling from the top if the train, he was on. He had his hands on his hips, and is looking really mad.

When Eggman heard his voice he stomped his foot to the ground. "How did he get back?!" Eggman yelled. He looked at Elise and smiled, and started walking towards her.

Elise is trying to move away, while she was still on the floor, but Eggman grabbed her hard making her stand up and bring her hands together and brought out his rag and started tying her hands on the rail. She looked scared of what Eggman was thinking, her hands hurt when Eggman put a double knot, going to leave bruises on her wrists. She saw him leave the cart to the next and the next until he hit to the control room, and started putting more coal and making the train go faster.

Sonic saw Eggman go into the next cart, he started walking towards the cart Elise was on until, he felt the train go faster. Sonic didn't have enough time to hang on to something, before he fell off of the train, onto his side.

Once, Sonic felt the hard ground on his side, he looked up where Elise cart was, until he widen his eyes. He saw Elise trying to get her hands free from the railing, where Eggman tied her up, to escape, but she gave up and turned where Sonic was, and he heard her voice yelling. "Sonic!" She yelled before a tunnel blocked the train, that's when he notice that Eggman, is trying to get her out of the city.

Elise looked through the darkness not anyone able to see what was going on. Elise somehow got the rag undone and went running to the nearest exit. When she got of the door and stopped herself when she looked down, it was a big gap to the next cart, but she heard the door opening.

She looked up at Eggman.

Eggman was looking at her, he couldn't believe she got out easily. When he took steps back, looked ready to jump over the big gap to get the Princess, Elise looked to the side of her and found a ladder to the top of the roof of the train.

Elise ran to it the ladder and started climbing on it, she was on top of the train, wind blowing hard on her face and dress. She started running to the end of the train, but stopped herself in time. She saw the mental railings that support the wheels and the wood floor boards underneath them, she didn't want to jump and kill herself.

When, Sonic got up to his feet and started running to catch up to the train, he ignored the pain, on his side. He went full speed into the tunnel, and saw lights, bright enough to blind him, but kept running toward the light, where he would find the train. The train was out of the tunnel finally, and now they were outside. He ran fast enough, to go through the door. He he ran through the door, broker it in small and big chucks of wood, when Sonic looked in the room Elise wasn't on there. She must of got freed when she was in the tunnel.

Then Sonic heard footsteps on the roof of the train, he went to the end of the train and looked up and saw Elise's dress blowing in the wind, on top of the train.

She turned around and is facing Eggman on the other side of the end, where he just climb the ladder. He laughed at her, "What are you going to do now, were you really going to jump?" Elise looked back down and saw a hint of blue. Then Sonic's face appeared and he smiled at her and nodded to jump. Elise turned back to Eggman and saw a tunnel coming ahead of them. She smirked at Eggman and jumped.

Eggman ran to the other end where the Princess just jumped and saw Sonic run with her, in his arms and he looked at Eggman, pointing his finger to look behind him. Eggman turned around, jumped down, laying face down on the rooftop, when the tunnel appeared.