Tuesday, November 14; 4:50 a.m.

Several hours have gone by. The Egg Carrier has been flying over Kingdom Valley, and right now, things aren't looking too good. An alarm is going off, and Elise wakes right up in her chair. Eggman and Robot come in the room. Robot checks on the princess, while Eggman checks his computer.

"What's going on?" Elise asks.

"None of your business!" Eggman answers loudly.

"Doctor, what's going on?" Robt questions his boss.

"It seems the engines are malfunctioning!" Eggman explains, frantically typing on his keyboard.

Elise gives Eggman a mad look. He'll answer to Robot, but not her?! Come on! "What do you think happened?" she wants to know.

"I have no idea!" the doctor answers. "I think we put too much fuel in the Egg Carrier back in White Acropolis!"

He then sees a cliff nearby. Eggman tries to steer the ship, but it's not working! "No!" he screams. "We're about to crash!"

"What do we do, doctor?!" Robot panics.

Eggman answers the robot by running to a different room, grabbing the Egg Mobile. As he and Robot get in the vehicle, Elise walks in and screams, "What about me?!"

"Uh... Sorry princess," Eggman says. "but you're on your own!"

"Too-da-loo!" Robot waves good-bye to Elise as he and Eggman escape the malfunctioning Egg Carrier.

Great. Now that those two left, Elise has nowhere else to go. Guess she's just gonna end up dying alone...


Outside the aircraft, it seems to be set on fire on the back. Eggman flies by Sonic, Silver, and Blaze (who have just arrived) and cackles in an annoying way. Sonic wonders why Eggman and Robot are going the opposite direction until he sees the Egg Carrier in flames. What happened to the ship? He then remembers something from Crisis City: Elise dies in a fiery explosion! Eggman's battleship crashes and explodes!

And in the nick of time, the Egg Carrier crashes into the mountain, exploding. They were too late. The princess is dead. And Eggman and Robot escaped.

"ELIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISE!" Sonic cries for the deceased princess.

The blue hedgehog falls to his knees, slamming his fists to the ground. Silver and Blaze mourn over the princess's death as well. Chasing the Egg Carrier on foot was a bad idea... What were they thinking?!

"Wait..." says Silver. "There's still a way to change this."

Sonic gets up and angrily asks him, "Oh let me guess: does it involve unicorns?!"

"Why are you blaming me for this?" Silver asks.

"Because if you didn't tag along with me, I would've saved the princess just fine!" Sonic screams.

"I was just trying to help!" the white 12-year-old defends himself.

Blaze barges in the argument and screams, "Guys, stop! Fighting won't solve anything! You're just making the situation worse."

She turns to Sonic and says, "All Silver was doing was making up for his mistakes."

Yeah, Sonic sarcastically says in his head. Sure he was!

"He didn't mean to let Elise die," she says. "I'm sure the Egg Carrier malfunctioning was just an accident."

She then turns to Silver and asks him, "How are we going to change this?"

Silver then answers, "I was gonna say... If we travel back to an earlier point in time, we might be able to save her."

Did this guy just say something smart? Sonic is amazed. "You...you actually came up with a decent idea."

"Really?" Silver smiles.

"Yeah," Sonic answers.

He gets out his cyan blue emerald, while Silver gets out his...uh, silver emerald. They hold the emeralds together and shout, "Chaos Control!"

A space-time rift opens, and Sonic gives Silver his Chaos Emerald.

"Sonic, why did you give me your emerald?" Silver asks him.

"Yeah," Blaze wants to know. "You have an infinite amount of chances to save her, you know."

"Don't worry," says Sonic. "I can handle this myself. Besides, don't you two have to fight Iblis in the future?"

Silver's mouth drops open. How did Sonic know that?! Getting that out of the way, he answers, "Yeah..."

"I'll make sure to change Elise's fate," says Sonic. "And saving her should change your fate, too Silver."

"It'd better!" Silver responds. "I've been fighting Iblis for nearly half my life!"

"He's not wrong," Blaze adds.

"Thanks you guys," Sonic says. "for trying to help me."

"You're welcome," says Blaze.

"And make sure you save the princess!" Silver replies to the hedgehog.

"I will," Sonic answers as he jumps into the portal. As Silver and Blaze jump into the portal as well, a large amount of flames shoots up from the Egg Carrier, indicating that Iblis has been released from Elise's dead body.


Monday, November 13; 5:50 p.m.

Sonic jumps out of the time portal, and as he does, he looks at a clock on a tall building.

5:50. Not too bad. He runs over to the hotel, hoping he will get some answers from Tails.


Meanwhile...

Team Dark are at the peak in Dusty Desert. Now that they have a new Scepter of Darkness, made by Soleanna's archaeologist, and some lattes, they have everything they need in order to find Mephiles.

"It seems Mephiles is heading for those ruins," Rouge says, pointing to some ruins up ahead.

"Thanks for the observation, Captain Obvious," Shadow comments to her with sarcasm. "I totally didn't see him."

"Are you sure?" Rouge asks him. "Because no other being is made out of black blobs of goo and is missing a mouth."

"I was being sarcastic," the black hedgehog says.

Omega senses something up ahead. "Guys...There is...a...Chaos Emerald...up ahead," he says.

"We need to get that emerald before Mephiles does!" Rouge cries as she and the rest of the team head to the ruins.


And that was Chapter 19! Again, another short chapter (at least 1,000 words at this point). Here's what's happening in the next few chapters: Sonic officially saves Elise, Team Dark fight off Mephiles, and Silver and Blaze fight off Iblis's final form. The next chapter will be focusing on Sonic's last part.

I want you all to go down in the review section and tell me your favorite character/part of this story up until this point. Remember, I want positive reviews! I will see you in Chapter 20!