As they passed by a window in the hall Jade found out they were up in the sky. Maybe her siblings would never find her. She concluded they'd most likely go after Sonic first before looking up here. She needed to have faith that her siblings were smarter than that but it was hard to keep positive when reality tells you differently.

"Are we done looking out the window?" Orbot folded his arms, he was becoming very impatient.

"I never knew how beautiful it was up here," she lied. She was getting better at it, no longer did he face get hot when she lied but she felt she was still bad at lying anyway.

"It's very beautiful, isn't it?"

"Hey, guys, let me see!" Cubot jumped up between Jade and the glass. "Whoa! We're so high up! You'd die if you fell."

Was this a scare tactic to keep her from escaping? No, they were too stupid to come up with such a plan. If this had been a different situation maybe she would see the beauty in the clouds, but all she saw was grey and darkness. Was this how Zor saw the world every day? It was quite possible.

"Alright you two, come on, if we don't hurry Eggman won't be pleased." Orbot ushered Cubot and Jade from the window. "Make sure you block all the windows." He whispered to one of the robots. "We can't have any more distractions."

One of the robots went ahead of them.

It took a few more minutes to get to a room with only one huge window. Eggman was nowhere in sight but on the floor marked a giant X. All the other robots ran from the room minus the ones with their guns trained on her. Around the X were a few gems of different colors on the floor. One spot on the floor was empty.

There were three pillars around the X as well. They were cocked and resembled a little bit like a spider's leg.

Jade looked behind her to see a window of another room just above her. It jutted out of the wall like a viewing platform but the windows were darkly tinted.

"Just stand on the X please."

The girl was hesitant. He was planning on taking the Chaos Emerald from her body but…why?

A voice in her head whispered, Stand on the X and imagine the Chaos Emeralds being a part of you.

Figuring it was her own instincts Jade stood on the X.

"That's a good girl."

The spider leg pillars struck her with electricity. Jade screamed out as each one took turns shocking her and leaving a mark on her body.

Will the Chaos Emeralds to you! The voice said.

I can't. It's too painful. She closed her eyes. Behind her eyelids she could see herself standing on black water with six of the seven Chaos Emeralds. She glowed a bright white light. She was a Chaos Emerald herself.

No. She wasn't. She reimagined the situation so all of the Chaos Emeralds surrounded her. Each shock that went through her body was from an Emerald striking at her. Suddenly the pain didn't seem so bad. It was nice and warm and inviting.

"What's going on?" Eggman demanded.

When Jade opened her eyes she could see the world in a new light. Looking down at herself she could tell there was a change but she didn't know what it was. There was no time to figure it out either. She quickly turned and jumped through what felt like a thin piece of glass but when she looked back she saw it was actually an inch of glass or more. It was bulletproof.

"Get her back here!"

There was a buzzing sound of robots.

Sonic immediately heard a buzzing shortly after stopping to talk to Amy about who exactly she told the story to. Her answer was a gasp and she pointed to the sky but Sonic didn't need to turn around to know it was Eggman's robots.

He turned to see them, their guns trained on him, but they were hesitant. He didn't wait to see why. Sonic immediately jumped on one of them and waited until his buddy shot at him then moved out of the way so he didn't get injured while the robot was destroyed.

The other one seemed slightly confused by the destruction of his buddy, assuming robots can even feel confusion. Sonic rolled into his ball and shot out at the robots head, destroying him instantly.

"What was that all about?" Amy wondered aloud.

"They looked like they were looking for something."

"Do you think…do you think Jade could have escaped?"

Sonic shrugged. "One way to find out is to find Eggman. They came from that direction, right?" He pointed south. At Amy's nod Sonic rushed to Tails, who waited at home with six Zeti.

Zavok didn't remember the last time he felt his black heart beat so fast, or the last time he was so restless. How could everyone just sit around and relax out in the sun? He could feel himself getting angrier and angrier.

"Patient anger will always work, Zavok. Trust me." He could hear Jade's happy voice in his head and he could see her bright smile. Even in the darkest time her smile was always so bright.

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. If he didn't calm down he feared he may kill everyone in sight. He could hear Zik's rhythmic tap of his cane as he walked closer.

"You're uneasy, Zavok."

"Why wouldn't I be? Jade's missing and we have no idea where she is or where to even begin looking."

Zik sighed. "I know. I'm uneasy too."

"You don't look like you are." Zavok tried to hide the growl in his voice.

"There's not much I can do except sit around, Zavok." Before his master could finish a blue blur ran inside the house. Zavok and Zik followed it inside.

Tails was nodding at the story his friend was telling. He turned to Zavok as he entered the house. "I think Sonic might be onto something. We're going to go check it out."

"What did he find?"

"I found some robots but they looked like they were looking for something. I think Jade may have escaped and they're looking for her."

Escaped. The word allowed this weight on his chest to be let off so he could finally breathe. But if she wasn't with Eggman where was she?