Sonic's Pov

Trees whizzed past me as I ran through the forest, Metal was completely out of sight but I was barely, just barely able to make out his path. I skidded to a stop and jumped behind a bush when I came to the edge of another clearing. One of Eggman's battle ships sat in the clearing as Metal walked in, I darted to another tree keeping out of sight. The ramp to the ship began to pull up, I dashed in at the last second barely getting in.

"I'm coming Soni, just hold on." I whispered, then began running down the corridor. I was at a crossway when I narrowly hide from guard robots patrolling the ship, I heard talking coming a few feet away. I crouched against a cubby in the wall listening in to who was talking.

" I'm on the verge of a breakthrough, If I could only figure out how to transfer Soni's DNA with out it collapsing." Egglina's voice echoed through out the hallway, I leaned a little bit out of the cubby to hear better.

"Oh? How many experiments have you tried?" Metal. That had to be him, I clenched my fist. They were experimenting on Soni like she was some lab rat.

"At the very least fifteen, but all have failed and have not showed given me the slightest clue of how to transfer it." Egglina sighed, my ear twitched as I heard the sound of clicking on a keyboard.

" How much longer do you plan to keep this lab a secret from the Doctor?" Metal said as their footsteps began to fade away, I was barely able to catch the last few words

"Until I eliminate Soni and create her clone, but until then-" All I could hear was the sound of a soft click then nothing, I sat there for a moment thinking over what they were saying. So Egghead wasn't in on the project…I could use that against her but my first action was to bust in there and get Soni. I stepped out of my hiding spot and over to where I heard them talking, the wall was completely smooth. Where was the door? I ran my hand along the wall trying to see if there was a certain place to push open or something! I thought I heard clicking but there was no key pad, there literally was nothing. I sighed then realized what I had to do, stakeout. Waiting, my favorite thing to do. I sat back in my hiding spot, and waited and waited and waited. I did everything I could to keep myself hidden and to keep myself occupied. I closed my eyes

"Later Loser!" Soni and I shouted making a L on our foreheads as we both fell back laughing, clutching our stomachs (A/N Chapter 7).

"Aww, how sweet!!" We cooed as Shadria and Shadow growled at us, we both clutched out stomachs laughing(A/N Chapter 10).

I sat behind her wrapping my arms around her, the sky lit up with stars. I could still feel her trembling from the nightmare, she relaxed a moment in my arms. For that one moment it seemed that the world was at peace(A/N Chapter 15).

"I'm just glad we were able to get away from them. Trust me, I'm NEVER going to laugh when Amy begins to chase you!" Soni said her eyes glittering from the adrenaline(A/N Chapter 16).

I smiled at the memories, her sparkling jade eyes, she always had a bright smile that could light up anybody's face. Then another memory flashed through my mind

" I was sent here by Dr. Eggman. He modified me so I could have a real body like yours. But it seems that this time hedgehog you're too late." Metal said glancing towards Soni. I gasped at the sight of Soni, I was next to her in an instant. Her blond hair slightly covered her face as I held her, her arm fell limply to the side.

"What did you do to her!" I snarled looking up at Metal. Metal grinned at me as I clutched Soni in my arms.

"I came and completed my mission." Metal laughed wickedly.

Grimcing I pushed the memory back, holding my head in my hands. I just had to save her, I…I… I think I may lo- My thoughts were cut off at the sound of the soft click, then the sound of footsteps getting closer then began to fade. I jumped from my spot and dashed to where the click came from. There was a door, I looked at it for a moment then ran in before it could close. With another soft click the door shut, erasing what little evidence of the lab there was. I shivered, I hated hospitals and this looked just like a surgery room. Tubes, wire, machines and computers were covering the entire room, I looked around I could feel my self trembling from how close I was to rescuing Soni. That was when I saw a large shape covered by a large cloth, I walked over to it and pulled off the cover. I turned my head for a moment as I tried to regain my composure, my knuckles were turning white from how hard I was clenching my fist. Soni had wires everywhere on her, I ran to the main computer and began push buttons. I heard a loud sigh as the liquid in the pod that held Soni began to drain, I walked back my hand lightly resting on the glass. Once all the liquid had been drained I pulled on the door of the pod, it instantly released opening the pod. I lightly touched the side of her cheek, then began pulling off the wires. She fell limply into my arms, I moved her so she was resting in my arm ,bridal style. I looked down at her then sighed in relief, my head snapped up at a voice

"I must commend you on your persistence. I thought that fall would have knocked you out for quite a while-" Metal sneered as he watched me

"Well apparently you were wrong, I got what I came for so I'll gladly leave." I retorted , Metal snarled and jumped into a homing attack, just like I wanted. A the last second I dodged to the side as he crashed into the wall behind me, leaving a opening to the outside. It was already pitch black out, I smirked then ran out the opening-

" Thanks Metal!" I laughed as I started to run into the forest, I couldn't hear him following me. It was so dark that I nearly crashed into a tree, when I heard a small moan. I stopped for a moment then looked down at Soni. She shifted a little bit, then her eyes began to flutter open. Bright emerald eyes looked into mine.

"S…Sonic?" She said her voice hoarse, I smiled. She was back.

Tammy's Pov

Morning's dawn finally peaked over the horizon, everyone was already up and scouring for the last crystal shard. Tails walked over to me looking at the emerald dector, we were able to switch a few wires and change it from an emerald detector to a crystal one.

"Has it mal-functioned any?" Tails asked I passed it to him, I reached past him and held up a branch out of our way.

"It hasn't so far, but it still hasn't picked up on the crystal's location. Mmmm.." I said flashing back to when we first started on this adventure, I knew it would be dangerous but not like this. I sighed then continued to push on, I was able to glimpse a red spot then it disappeared. Kay and Knuckles were practically tearing down the forest or more like jungle.

"My feet hurt, can't we stop for a minute and eat breakfast?" Amy called out from behind us, she and Amery were behind us like tag-a-longs.

"Please, Kay! I don't I can go on-" Amery began to whine, I sighed… here it comes

"Listen you two, you have done nothing but whining! Do you or do you not want to rescue Soni?" Kay growled almost appearing out of no where, Amy and Amery jumped back in surprise.

"I do, but we have to stop. Five minutes won't hurt, please?" Amery sighed then started to walk to a fallen log, Kay growled.

"We have to keep looking for the last crystal shard, if your that tired then stay here!" Kay said her voice rising, then we heard a laugh.

"Aww come on Kay! You just can't stop looking for that dumb rock now can you?" A figure stepped out from behind a tree, Amery jumped up and ran for her.

"SONI!!SONI, YOU ESCAPED!!I'M SO HAPPY TO SEE YOU!!!" Amery cried as he latched himself to Soni's waist, she laughed and gave him a quick hug. Sonic stepped out from behind her grinning as Kay sighed shaking her head.

"Just when I was enjoying the quiet-" Kay muttered to herself, Soni smiled and wrapped her arm around Kay's shoulders.

"You know you don't mean that! You missed me and you know it!" Soni said grinning wildly, Kay growled then stopped for a second realizing something.

"What do you mean dumb rock!!" Kay shouted shoving Soni away from her, Sonic chuckled to himself saying

"Some things never change!"


Hi, again really sorry about the long wait!! Well here's another chapter, sorry if it seemed rushed or anything. I felt really, really bad for not updating this story in a while so I kinda rushed. Sorry again for that, but I hope you enjoy it! Please check out Oblivion and please,please,please,please, review,review,review,review!!!~God Bless!~