Here we go again. Time for a new chapter!

Poisoned Palace Act 1 & 2

We just got out of the forest and what we saw at the end was indescribable. We saw a temple looking building made of stones and plants and it stood next to a river. On the walls were different carvings and drawings of the planet and a weird looking monster holding some kind of energy or ball. There was also some hero drawn on it with what I think were the aliens surrounding him. We instantly recognized it as the palace of Mother Wisp, Yacker's mom. But the problem was that it was affected just like the other areas. The plants were drooping and the palace looked like it was worn down badly and to top it off, the river it was next to was poisoned with disgusting purple water.

Suddenly, we felt a small tremor.

"MAMA!" Yacker yelled. "She's in trouble! We have to save her!"

Yacker tried to lift off of Tails' arms, but was too weak to stay floating. He slowly fell and Tails caught him.

"Yacker! Save your energy!"

"This time Eggman took things too far! Let's go find his mom, Tails."

We made our way to the entrance of the palace and looked inside. It was pretty big inside and we noticed that some of the poisoned water found its way inside the palace. The palace itself looked like it could collapse on us at anytime. There was another tremor and some pieces of the ceiling fell. At the other end of the room was yet another capsule with aliens. I spent no time in acting. I ran over to the capsule, avoiding the water on the way, and broke it open releasing more aliens. Some of the aliens came over to Yacker, showing concern for his condition.

"Yacker! Are you alright?" a yellow wisp asked.

"I'm…okay. I'm just feeling…very weak,…like my energy is…slowly diminishing. Where's Mama?"

"She was captured by Baldy Nosehair. He's using her for our hyper-go-ons and he also found the core." said another white one.

"What core?" asked Yacker.

"Mama hasn't told you yet? It's the core that's the limitless energy that we and the entire planet thrives off of. Without the core, our planet will die and so will we."

"Wait a minute!" I said. "I thought that when all of you are completely drained of power, you transform into those freaky nega wisp things."

"I have an explaination for that, Sonic." said Tails. "I think that when Eggman uses the aliens to power his machines and robots, their hyper-go-ons are drained, but the machines leave behind another energy source that allows the aliens to survive: nega-go-ons. It's this energy that transforms them into nega wisps. However, if the aliens lose their hyper-go-ons naturally, they die. The plants and other wildlife here work the same way."

"So in order to save the planet, we have to protect the planet's core."

"Exactly!" said the white wisp. "The core that Baldy Nosehair stole was broken into six pieces for him to use."

"Does the core happen to glow like a white ball?" I asked.

"Right! How did you know?"

"We've already rescued two of the pieces. We just have four more to save."

"The next one is with Mama. Baldy Nosehair is using this really scary digging thing to find it and is using Mama's energy for power."

Another tremor.

"That's what's causing the ground to shake."

"Don't worry, you guys. I'll handle it."

"The scary thing is behind the palace. You can get there through the doorway behind us."

"Thanks guys." I said.

"One more thing. Can you guys take care of Yacker while we're fighting whatever has your mom?" asked Tails.

"Of course" said the white wisp.

Poisoned Palace Boss Act: Egg Driller

We left Yacker in the care of his friends while we walked through the doorway in the back. It lead to a backyard of sorts. We saw yet another one of the holes we saw before. But this time the hole was deeper.

"So where's the 'thing' that the wisps were afraid of?"

As soon as he said that, from the hole came a big drill shaped robot. It was partly yellow, with a large silver drill for a nose and behind it was a glowing blue container. Inside was Mother Wisp trapped along with another few wisps.

"Don't worry, Yacker's mom! We'll save you!" I shouted.

The robot attacked by shooting homing missiles from its sides. I had an idea.

"Tails! Fly me over to the robot's backside and make sure those missiles follow us!"

"Okay!"

With the missiles chasing us through the air, we flew over to the other side of the hole. I climbed onto the container holding the aliens and jumped out of the way as soon as the missiles got close. The container cracked and some white wisps slipped through and were absorbed by both of us. The robot got mad and drilled into the ground.

"Sonic! What's it doing?"

"I don't know!"

Soon we felt an earthquake and the ground in the hole started crumbling. The hole got deeper and we fell into it.

"Tails! Grab my hand!"

He flew over to me and tried to carry me out of the hole.

"I…can't…lift you up!"

"Use the energy that you got from the aliens, but go after the robot!"

His tails spun faster and we flew down that hole fast. We soon caught up with the robot and it was ready for another attack.

It drilled a small hole on one of the walls of the cavern and poisoned water was starting to fill the hole. Then the robot was trying to dig away from us. We had to act fast. I boosted into the robots container while he was drilling away and some more aliens escaped, some white and two of them yellow.

"Hey! You guys want help show this robot how to drill the right way?"

"Sure thing!"

They both entered me and Tails along with the other white aliens.

"Let's drill Tails!"

"Gotcha!"

DOUBLE DRILL!

We each turned into separate drills, circling around each other. We burrowed into the ground and chased after the robot. The robot was too slow to even hope to get away from us and we eventually caught up to it.

"NOW TAILS!"

CHARGE! DUAL DRILL ATTACK!

Tails and I separated and and we locked on to the robot. We both drilled into the robot's hull and was easily cut through by our attack. It went berzerk and dug it way upward.

"Sonic! Let's get out of the ground before our energy runs out!"

"Good idea, Tails!"

We burrowed our way upward to the back of the palace and we saw that the robot jumped out of the ground and exploded in the air. All of the wisps inside escaped unharmed, including Mother Wisp. Another ball of light, which I knew was another piece of the planet's core, decended down into the hole and restored the palace to its former glory. The stones and plants became stronger making it look more amazing, the hole where it came from got filled up magically, and the river was cleaned of the poison. In celebration, I bro-fisted Tails.

"Awesome work, Tails! I couldn't have done it without your help."

"Thanks, Sonic."

The wisps who took care of Yacker brought him outside to see his mom.

"Mama!" he yelled in excitement.

"Yacker, are you okay? Are you hurt?" she said.

"I'm fine, Mama."

He tried to fly again.

"I…just…"

He fell. Mother Wisp picked him up with her mind as far as I could tell. She didn't even touch him.

"Don't worry, sweetie. I'll help you feel better."

She held him with her arms and closed her eyes. She looked like she was giving him more energy. After a few seconds, she let go of him and Yacker looked stronger than he was before. He started flying around in loops and circles wildly.

"I feel so much better! Thank you, Mama."

"You're welcome, Yacker. Thank you, Sonic, for helping out my children. But it isn't over yet. You still need to restore the other three pieces of the core."

"Don't worry, ma'am. I'll make sure to stop Dr. Eggman from misusing your planet's energy."

"Well, let's get going!" said Yacker excitedly.

We were about to leave when…

"Yacker, before you go," we turned to Mother Wisp. "be sure to save your energy. You'll never know when you'll need it most."

"Okay! I will, Mama!"

Just then, something small fell out of the sky.

"Look! It's my super sensor!"

The tiny machine reinserted itself into Tails' handheld. Tails pressed a few buttons and he found out something.

"Sonic! I found where Eggman's HQ is."

"Where is it?"

"It's a thin tower that he built not long ago. Maybe a few days. It's located next to a large and deep canyon. It doesn't look like it's too far. We'll have to pass through the remains of his construction zone."

"Alright! Let's go!"

"Good luck to all three of you!" Mother Wisp said as she and the other aliens waved good-bye.

Hope you guys enjoyed this longer chapter. Took me a bit to write. See you next chapter!