Authors note: I apologize for Chapters 1 and 2 being the same and not putting up the correct chapter. I'm not sure why that happened. Thank you, Guest, for finally pointing out my mistake! I will make sure to post the correct chapters in the future.

Jade woke up cold and alone. Her leg was no longer bleeding but it also wasn't bandaged up. The wound was completely gone, though, one of the many perks the Chaos Emerald gave her. However the side effect included turning her eyes grey.

"Fascinating." The voice was familiar. It was the fat man. Jade looked beyond the bars and saw him and his two robots. "Your body has completely repaired the damages."

Damages? Oh that's right. She suddenly remembered she had some scrapes and bruising due to the training. Her brothers…what were they doing?

"You've signed your own death warrant. I hope you know that." She said in a cold voice.

"Did I? Strange I don't remember signing anything." He was mocking her but she wouldn't give in so easily.

"Patient anger." She whispered to herself.

The cube shaped robot looked up at his boss. "She doesn't seem harmful! Why is she in there, Eggman?"

Eggman! Of course! That was his name.

"Because she could still escape." The spherical robot replied.

"And that's bad?"

It seemed that they were all idiots.

"We want the Chaos Emerald that merged with her, remember, Cubot? Orbot, is everything ready?"

Orbot nodded. "Yes, boss. The next thing would be to transport her."

"I'll leave that up to you." With that he walked away.

The bar doors opened and Jade slowly stood. Her leg didn't feel weak like it should have, in fact it felt stronger. Her first reaction was to flee but as soon as Eggman left other robots came in, their guns trained solely on her. Though there were probably no bullets in them, she still didn't want to chance letting her only routes of escape go. She would play it cautiously until she found a sure fire opportunity to escape. Until then she would comply with their demands and hope that her family found her in time.

Zik couldn't imagine who would've taken his daughter. Adopted or not, he felt the worry no parent should have to face. Even Zavok was worried, the Zeti hardly worried about anything.

Zor sighed. "It's hopeless, isn't it?" He asked Tails, who checked something on his computer.

"Don't say something like that!" How could Zeena be filing her nails at a time like this and scold Zor for being depressing? "I'm sure she's okay."

"Sonic," the fox called over his friend. "Doesn't that look like…?"

"Yeah. It does. What was he doing there?"

Zik couldn't help but get curious. He walked behind Tails and looked over his shoulder. The image was grainy but it was clear as day to see who took Jade. Tails pressed a button and they could see the image but not hear a word they said. Jade, despite seven robotic guns trained on her, tried to run. For about two minutes everyone was out of the camera's line of sight but then they came back into sight, the robots carried an unconscious Jade.

Then the thought suddenly occurred to him at an inappropriate time: when had they set up cameras in the Hex? Zik shook the thought from his head. He'd ask later.

"Why did Eggman kidnap Jade?" Zomom tilted his head.

"It must be for the Chaos Emerald." Zik concluded.

"It can't be. Nobody knows about that except the ten of us, if you include Knuckles and Jade."

Sonic rubbed the back of his neck. "Um…I may have told Amy."

"You what?!" Tails pointed an accusing finger. "We promised each other we wouldn't tell anybody!"

"Well I left some details out."

"Foolish hedgehog." Zavok pointed a finger at him. "This is your fault!"

"Hang on…"

"Zavok is right, Sonic. If you hadn't told anybody anything she probably wouldn't-"

"Let me talk, guys! Eggman already said he was going back anyway. This can't be entirely my fault!"

Zik stroked his beard and looked outside.

"What are you thinking about, Master?" Zeena's voice pierced through the bickering of the three boys.

"I am thinking that maybe we'd better find Jade quickly. Who knows what might happen if we don't get her back."

Sonic was getting more and more frustrated at these two! This couldn't have entirely been his fault! Still Tails and Zavok pointed accusing fingers, saying this was all his fault if he had just kept his mouth shut…

But he did remember Eggman announcing at the end of their last meeting on the Hex that he would be back when he found his lost conch. Did this mean he found a conch? Probably not or he wouldn't have left the Hex.

Finally the old man's voice broke their yelling, "Yelling and pointing fingers will do us no good. Even if this is Sonic's fault we must find her and bring her home at once."

"Where do we even start looking?" Zor's voice seemed like that of defeat already. It didn't surprise Sonic one bit.

"I think I have an idea. Eggman always has a moving base. She's probably in the sky." Tails went to his computer. "I can only carry a limited number of people, though. Besides Sonic and myself we can take one member. I can take two if one of the smaller Zeti want to come." Tails was specifically talking about Zor and Zik. They were a lot lighter than the rest of them, or at least they appeared to be.

"I'll go." Zavok piped up before anybody else could. Nobody seemed to object to Zavok going.

"Alright then. As soon as I can pinpoint where exactly Eggman is we'll leave." Tails promised. "Sonic, you go see if anybody has seen Eggman recently."

Sonic didn't like the idea of leaving Tails alone with six Zeti but he did as his friend asked anyway. Where would he even start?