Good evening boys and girls, this is Big Red speaking with your new chapter after his school semester being over for now. I've told you guys that I'd be back and I had used this time wisely the brainstorm for the plot other than the obvious college studies. Just as a bit of a recap, the Rin Sisters had met Reala's group on their Subspace Ship after the unfortunate death of Lan Di. The Oasis traitor Isaac talked about his past the reasons for why he had joined the Legion, while falling for one of the Rin Sisters in the process. Meanwhile, Zavok and Nack had mad it to Tails's group while they were relaxing and declared to our blue rival that they would drag him back to their boss Eggman. Now relax and get ready to read an amazing chapter that will make you root for Sonic's possible victory!

The improved Marvelous Queen aims its red cannon at the blue hero with a steady eye. The targeting screen scanned every detail of Sonic's body, taking note of his abilities and emotional state with the red targeting icon locking on. He prepares to make a run for it since he is aware of what possible upgrades that he's up against when facing this wily weasel's "girl". Zavok makes sure to keep an eye on his blue nemesis for which he is Nack's backup in case he thinks about running away.

"Let's make sure you head falls off like a silly marionette. Fire!" Nack shouts before firing the napalm blaster.

The cannon glow brightly and blast a massive red bomb at its desired blue target. Sonic evades the shot and runs around the area, giving Zavok the cue to make his move. The red Zeti leapt off the hovercraft and manipulates the flames from the blast from his next attack.

"Let's see if these flames will be enough to incinerate your only means of escape" he snarled before launching a hellish burst of the flames.

Sonic curls into his spinball form to curve in another direct until the blast had met his direct. The flames had spread like wildfire throughout the western edge of this rocky arena and trailed in various directions to surround the supersonic warrior.

"Whoah, you must be really serious about wanting to get rid of me," said the surprised Sonic.

This statement was enough to make Nack prepare for his next attack measure as he fiddled with the controls of the Marvelous Queen.

"Get rid of you? You must be seriously out of your mind if you don't want me to get paid. I said that I've wanted to entrap you in the best way possible so that Egghead can hold you hostage," he said when the Laser Net Controls were found.

The blue hedgehog had launched himself into the air out of harm's way and began to spin in midair. The Marvelous Queen had aimed its second cannon to prepare a special green blast for this hopeful hero. Sonic finally executes a Homing Attack towards Nack at the same time that his hovercraft fired the special net that he had in store for him. Instead of attacking the net head on, the cocky hedgehog knew better to cancel the spinning and execute an aerial side dodge. But this wasn't all since Nack had another special trick up his sleeve judging by his smug grin.

"Oh no you don't, my baby is completely untouchable with this new shield," he remarked before pressing another button.

The Marvelous Queen had generated a massive green shield to intercept the hedgehog's attack at the right moment. The impact was hard enough for Sonic to flatten his face like a fly hitting a driving truck's windshield at full speed.

"Shoot, that ….. wasn't my best chance," he said in pain.

The blue hero fell to the ground face flat only for the eager Zavok to greet him with a severe punch to his face.

"Watch as your face drags against the floor from my enhanced strength. Let's see if you can retaliate with the same amount of force," the red Zeti gloats as Sonic is sent towards the stone stairs.

He had hit these steps due to the sheer force of that last attack and tumbled back down to the battlefield in pain. This was enough to prove him defenseless against the green net that is now hovering above him. It turns out that the net had remote control functionality all along as Nack used the black stick to maneuver it for perfect accuracy. He chuckled like a greedy hunter and pressed another red button for the deed to be finished.

"Time for you to be put to sleep, Sonic the Hedgehog!" he yells as the net drops above his good hearted foe.

Sonic looked up at the last moment before the nettled form of energy would crash in that area at full force. Clouds of dust had formed from the crash's impact, making it hard for Nack or Zavok to see what happened to him. The Deadly Six leader stepped even closer to this area to see if their bounty had been captured. Not a single sign of life could be heard or see from it, prompting Nack to set his Sonic Tracker on. Then he had hesitated once the dust clouds had cleared to reveal the energy net being intact. Though the real issue was that their target wasn't captured and he had disappeared from their sights. Zavok raised his brows in surprise while his purple master dropped his lower jaw in shock.

So that blue menace decided to escape Master Nack's special net? Whereever he is, he can't run forever since we aren't going anywhere without his hide.

Nack decides to activate his Sonic Tracker to pinpoint his prey's location since he didn't have the patience to be humiliated by him after every upgrade his Marvelous Queen had.

"Well, I have nothing to lose since I'm not going to be ring-less any longer. And being ring-less one of the few things I…."

Zavok was eventually attacked from behind by powerful blue sonic boom, which caught the attention of the impatient bounty hunter. The red hurt Zeti caught the ground with his right hand and glared behind him to see his attacker happily greeting him. Sonic had narrowly avoided his capture and waited for the appropriate time to attack his enemies beforehand.

"That was a close capture that you guys tried to do for my good side. Though I've got to say, that I would give you an "N for Negative" for not doing the right thing," Sonic declared while doing his trademark waiting pose.

Nack snarled in anger with his right hand clutching the controls and trying to adjust his hat with his left hand. Zavok growled while slowly standing up to face his arrogant blue target.

"I guess this is where I'd have to fight you guys at full throttle in order to really tire you guys out. Because if you think that you can snatch me away from my allies, then you'll have to step it up!" he continued with a smug grin.

Nack looks through his weapon menu to find what other danger weapons to test out on his prized bounty.

"Fine Sonic, you'll just have to be my living test dummy for my full arsenal. Because I ain't leaving this dump until you're gagged and bounded like a pork roast!" he shouts while pressing a series of buttons.

His hovercraft opens up the hatches on its sides to reveal even more cannons, these looking even more dangerous than the Net Launcher or Napalm Cannon. A storm of black red-headed missiles were shot out of these cannons to fly towards Sonic. The blue hero scoffed and ran towards the east end of the rocky arena to lead these missiles elsewhere. He curled into a ball and turned towards the bottom stairs, with these countless special missiles on his trail like ants following their leader. Zavok made sure to launch another fully charged fireball at these stairs to keep him from escaping and did his sinister laugh.

"Let's see if you can run anywhere else when you're trapped like rat in a fiery cage," said the devious Zeti.

The fireball managed to not only destroy the stairs, but to create a massive flaming pillar that guaranteed no escape for the hedgehog.

This is forced Sonic to drift into another direction to run elsewhere since nearly 70% of all ledges are engulfed in powerful flames.

These guys are very serious about getting me involved in a hostage situation, but that will never happen as long as I buy some time for a supersonic escape.

The blue hedgehog had dashed towards the Marvelous Queen at full speed for his next tactic for stopping these missiles.

"Oh no you don't, Sonic! You're not to going to damage my precious girl," the snarky weasel remarked.

Nack activated his shields again this time and gave his blue adversary the chance to use them as a means to launch himself into the air through a Homing Attack.

"That wasn't what I was about to do, you greedy scoundrel. I'll have these missiles be destroyed by your defense mechanism," his blue foe remarks before spinning towards the green force field.

The impact of this spinball method felt like the equivalent of a basketball bouncing off of a glass dome, essentially launching Sonic forty feet into the air with the missiles flying forward. Though this plan unexpectedly didn't work for which these smart missiles had split up to avoid crashing into the shield and rise into the air. Nack grins at the sight of his adversary's failure and watched his heat-seeking weapons speed towards their airborne target.

Shoot, these missiles were even smarter than I thought! I would Homing Attack all of them to get it over with, but I'd rather not succumb the effects of whatever's in them. There's got to be a way that I could avoid being hit by them.

Before these missiles could reach him, Sonic glances at Tail's workshop and blasts of in a beam of cyan light. He had no choice but to use a straightforward Light Speed Dash to give him that boost needed to escape these missiles, though that wasn't enough. A familiar mechanical dragon appeared out of nowhere knocked him away from his only means of escape. It appeared that Zavok had called for reinforcements and he appeared directly on his trademark robot's head. Sonic slowly widened his eyes in shock as he fell back from the force of that powerful ambush.

"Heh heh heh, you've think that you could escape use that easily? Well that was as shame that you could have your friends save you from your imminent capture," he said in his sinister tone.

Before the hedgehog could react, the onslaught of these missiles had attacked him in many unfortunate ways as according to Nack's plan. Several missiles were explosives that were mean to wound him, while the next bunch was more of the napalm variety to ignite the target. Then Sonic was shocked with 200 volts of electricity from another set of missiles, putting him in more excruciating pain to much of Zavok's pleasure. The sadistic red Zeti was enjoying this violent sight since this was something he had wanted to see in a while. Last of missiles had rose before the hedgehog's very eyes with his heart racing and his weakened face barely reacting for this last attack. This last attack was a massive blue explosion that was one par with a nuclear bomb and Zavok's dragon was fast enough to escape it in time. Nack was able to watch the whole thing from his radar and he cackled like a madman in response to this.

"We've won, we had successfully defeated my arch nemesis! Now all that's left is to aim this last net shot and clam our well deserved prize," he said.

He gave Zavok the signal to let him know that the net is ready to be fired at their blue nemesis. The red Zeti nodded and maneuvered his mechanical dragon towards the ground to hover near his master. The Marvelous Queen's right cannon had fired the net into the air at high speed to make its way towards the massive storm of dust. Inside of the workshop, Amigo was seen the whole thing with his own eyes to much of his horror. Seconds ago he had thought it was just fireworks, though actually walking up to the window to see a massive dragon and a blue creature being attacked by missiles was enough to let this formerly festive monkey know that Sonic was defeated.

"Oough ouugh eeuuk eeeuk ook?" asked the curious AiAi who grew worried about his sombrero wearing buddy being alarmed.

Amigo sadly pointed at the missiles' dust cloud and showed his monkey compadre Sonic's photo. This had hit him had enough to point of his making a sorrowful moan, just the thought of their blue friend being bested before anyone was able to help him out. They weren't the only ones who had been aware of the explosion, since everyone had been debating on what could have happened. Azel and Orta were heading outside to see what had startled their dragons with Ali in the lead while Tails and NiGHTS flew out the windows for their sky search. Everyone else like Jack Frost and Guilus were preparing to leave from the front door until the later called out the two monkeys' attention.

"What are you two standing around for? We have intruders in the midst of our secret haven and two of you need to leave this very workshop," the dwarf bellowed.

AiAi and Amigo were startled by his words and obediently followed him outside of the wooden door. All four of them attempted to take the stairs until they've noticed that they were already destroyed by the rough battle.

"Uh oh, looks like we we're too late to save Mister Sonic hee! Those flames look like they would be too much for me and I wouldn't want to lose my cool body, ho," said the bewildered snow sprite.

A blast of energy had it that area only to make the Earth Spirit Bow rise out of that area with a toothy grin.

"Guys, bounce off Bow's head to land into the site of the attack! We need to stop these guys before it's too late!" the prince shouts before using his plant familiar to his advantage.

Amigo and AiAi had made haste towards Bow to do as their told with Gilius and Jack Frost following behind. Soon as they've reached the ground they were already able to see something saddening: Zavok brutally beating the entrapped Sonic with his own bare hands. It was something that Amigo couldn't bear to watch since violence were one of the few things that he had always hated. The worst part was that Nack was having his fair share of the fun by tasering his foe with his new multipurpose pistols. Sonic had cringed and screamed within in each round, since he was already rendered immobilized from that last explosion. This was enough to make AiAi break into tears due to seeing his friend suffer that much. Jack Frost slowly grew angry with his frozen mitts clenched as Gilius had clenched his axe with a mightier grip. Even the prince himself couldn't feel any remorse for these two and their cold blooded torture of their leader while causing the power of the Golden Armlet grows.

"Get the hell away from our friend or else you'll be crushed by our hands!" Ali shouts angrily.

This had caused the devious duo to stop what they were doing and glance at the heroes before them in surprise. Ali took out his prized crossbow and aimed towards Zavok's chest to make sure his ally's "death" is avenged. He has shot the spear shaped ammo at the Zeti where he stood, only for each projectile to be burned by his bodily flames. Jack Frost charged right at him to caste an up close Bufula spell to freeze his body. The Zeti was caught off guard by this and Ali had successfully shot his exposed shoulder thanks to his chilly friend.

"Zavok! I'll make sure to chase these pests away after loading our bounty in the Marvelous Queen," Nack barked.

A mechanical claw had lowered to grab the abused and defeated hedgehog for him to be carried away. He noticed Gilius getting ready to wound his precious hovercraft and began to quickly rise into the air for the escape.

"You aren't getting away that easily, you vile rodent!" said the prideful dwarf before he launched himself into the air for that deadly attack.

The frightened weasel quickly activated his shields to save himself from the angry dwarf's onslaught. Thought it was easily shattered in a single swing thanks to the blessed power of the Golden Axe, making Nack panic immediately. Gulius was unfortunately falling back to land since he had reached his jumping peak and rendered the sly weasel lucky enough to escape with Sonic unharmed.

"You were lucky to escape my wrath, you scoundrel. I would have gladly sent you crashing with the axe's true potential if you didn't have Sonic in your possession!" he swore as he fell.

Nack had sighed in relief after that close call and focused on trying help out Zavok, though it appeared that he didn't need his help. He had singlehandedly defeated both Ali and Jack Frost during the time Gilius had pursued his master. The jolly snow sprite was both bruised and semi-melted while Ali is covered in bloody bruises since he was foolish enough to not use any summons for Zavok.

The red Zeti laughed as he stood above him to deal the final blow until massive maraca knocked him in the other direction. An angry AiAi had also dropped onto the unconscious Zavok and violently rolled on him with his monkey ball like a maniac. This gave Jack the opportunity to cast his Mediarama spell to fully heal his and Ali's wounds in a manner of seconds. The blonde prince could feel his entire body getting less sore and every bloody bruise started to patch up to keep the blood flow from leaving his boy. He slowly stood up from the ground and took out his Black Knight Sword in anticipation of his enemy's next attack. The green dwarf had landed onto the ground next to his chilly friend as he seems to have the appearance of a perfect snowman after his healing spell.

"Ho, now we are much better now! I wonder what … hee … our monkey friends are doing," said the jolly snow demon.

Zavok was already being annoyed by Amigo's attempt to lead him away from here with his samba music and AiAi made sure to around him with enough peels to keep him from charging.

"Eaugh eaughh eeeehhh eeek eeeek!" the angry orange wearing monkey hoots.

Both of these guys were very serious about making sure that the Deadly Six's leader doesn't escape. Before Zavok could defend himself, a few suspicious bananas had landed behind the monkey duo and tempted the monkeys to pick them up.

Gilius knew that these weren't real bananas and called, "You two, drop those bananas immediately!"

It was too late, both bananas started to blink a bright yellow rather violently to much of their shock. They were both succumbed to a massive yellow explosion that would spray a special gas around the area. From the scent alone, Gilius knew that it could be something that can put any living thing into a sleep like state and backed up as the others did. The fact that even Zavok started to levitate into the air was a dead giveaway that this gas could be potentially harmful to them.

"Guys, we need to back up from that gas or else we'll be knocked out by it. It's too late to save AiAi and Amigo now!" he ordered.

Jack, Gilius, and Ali tried to retreat towards the damaged stairs as means to escape with the yellow mysterious gas closing in on them. Despite efforts to summon Bow and us him as a stepping stool, they were already too late the gas had swallowed all of them. Both Tails and NiGHTS had spent most of their time inspecting the dust clouds of the recent explosion to see if there were any sights of life or clues that they could have. The yellow fox has escaped with his Nightmaren friend, coughing from suffocation and exposure to polluted air for nearly fifteen minutes.

"N…NiGHTS I don't think we could ….. find any evidence here and I could have at least invented some …. gas masks for this occasion before hand," he said after his last cough.

"I understand Tails, it was our best interest to see if we could find anything at all. I wonder how the others are doing to stop these subspace intruders," said the Nightmaren said weakly.

The loud roar of a massive creature bellowed from the east and both flying heroes took a look at what it could be. It turned out that Azel and Orta were having a serious dog fight with Zavok's mechanical dragon the entire time and it wasn't that much of a cake walk. The dragon itself was faster compared to both organic dragons and he could barely get a scratch from their powerful laser blasts.

"There's Azel and the others! We have to help them fend off that robot somehow!" Tails panicked.

NiGHTS could see nothing wrong with this since he felt that a robot like that couldn't be too problematic for them.

"It don't look like they are having trouble at all, it barely looks like something that even my dragon form couldn't handle," the Nightmaren replied.

"No, that mechanical reptile was giving them some trouble alright. Take a look at the dragons' conditions," said the cautious fox.

He directed his purple ally's attention at the Azel and Orta's steeds to see what the problem really was. Atolm had received some severe laser wounds and battering bruises from the enhanced robot's onslaught, giving the impression that even a legendary dragon like him could easily be bushwhacked from a tinier metal dragon. The condition of Orta's dragon was no better, for which it had plenty of scars along its body and his right wing is severely damaged. Both of their respective rider's were barely in any condition to keep this dogfight rolling since Zavok's improved dragon was too much for them to handle.

"Tails, I'm going to end this myself before things get any worse," the serious Nighmaren remarked before putting on the right Persona Mask.

Tails decided to give NiGHTS the room he needed to transform and left him behind to see how his other fiends were doing. Soon as Dragon NiGHTS left to go help the others Tails had noticed that the entire ground was already plagued with the yellow gas from earlier. The young fox hyperventilates in fear and tried to see if his friends were OK.

A familiar voice then said, "Well if it isn't that dreaded hedgehog's friend that we had roboticized during our last encounter. I knew that we would eventually see each other again."

The twin tailed fox knew who it was from his tone alone and decided to great this person with a severe glare. The Deadly Six's leader had hovered even closer to Tails with the company of his sly master's hovercraft. Even Nack himself was enjoying Tails' serious face a bit too much.

"Awwwww, is the little brat sad about his beloved friends being defeated one by one? Well too bad because we are setting an example of what happens if any of you were to interfere with our plans of ruling this world," he sneered.

"Nack, tell me what happened with Sonic? I really have no time for games and I want you to answer my question!" Tails demanded.

The smug weasel bent over to the left side of his ship to point at his dangling prize that is held by the Marvelous Queen's mechanical arm. Tails couldn't believe his own two eyes once he had seen what happened to his heroic blue partner. His entire body was bruised as seen from the inside of his green netted prison and he appeared to be in a state of a coma. Just thinking about the torture he had been thought while looking at his friend's lifeless body was enough to make Tails do something that he hadn't done in a while. He had this hidden surge of anger that started to grow and he has clench both of his fists even tighter.

"You inconceivable monsters… I will….," he said while preparing to do a pointing gesture.

Since it didn't appear that Tails had a weapon, both Zavok and Nack couldn't take the young fox's action serious and laughed.

"Never forgive you for that!" he shouts with tears streaming from his eyes. Out of nowhere, a massive mechanical arm with a boxing glove appeared knocked Zavok towards the rocky mass to the west. The red bruiser had crashed hard to the point of causing the cliff above him to collapse. He had regained his senses and looked above to see his imminent doom occur before his eyes.

"D….d…damn you, ….Tails," he said in pain before getting buried by the falling debris of that shattered cliff.

"Whaaaaat!? You were able to defeat Zavok that easily compared to the others?" the weasel said in surprise.

"Nack, if there's any thing that you need to learn. It is to never underestimate a genius like me," said the angered fox.

NiGHTS had no problems with his battle against the mechanical dragon since he's a much more experienced fighter in the air. Both Azel and Orta were watching the fight from a distance since both of their dragons were too wounded to continue their battle even further. All means of the dragon's self defense were easily destroyed by powerful Ideya blasts that NiGHTS had up his sleeve for this fight. It's red and black armor were also severely damaged that's to the many Drill Dashes he has done after the acrobatic chains he had up his sleeve.

This guy should do no harm anymore after I aim for its head. My rocket form should be enough to put him out of its misery if I perform the right amount of chains with little to no interruptions.

NiGHTS started to perform a series of dodges to the dragon's many desperate attacks, performing an aerial trick within each one to build his momentum for the last attack. Orta had watched everything in awe like her mother did to watch the true aerial master do his work.

"Go NiGHTS, take out that mechanical menace so that we can see what became of the others!" she cheered.

"NiGHTS, make sure you attack that steel creature in the right spot so that it can be completely dispatched from existence," the black haired creation said.

The purple Nightmaren had flown to a great height with his mechanical rival following him in a rough manner. The dragon then stops and began to charge some energy in its metal jaws. NiGHTS had kept flying at high speeds from the momentum of his tricks with trails of yellow stardust flowing from his hands.

"At this rate, I'm positive that this monstrosity will go down from this next attack," he said desperately.

The more it watched its purple target fly, the larger the ball of energy grew in its mouth. The purple floating jester stared at his target intensely and then dove at speed that could be comparable to Sonic's. He eventually appeared as purple streak that left trails of stardust as far as both female dragon riders could tell, which they could best describe as "visually impressive". The dragon managed to fire its massive blue mouth laser at the diving NiGHTS in hopes of destroying him. But it wasn't enough since the speed that he had achieved was enough for him to cut through the blast like a sword slicing through wood and successfully ram though the dragon's mechanical face. Moments later, the entire robot started to suffer from a series of internal explosions and break apart into factions due to the force of the attack. Both Azel and Orta cheers in victory as their wounded dragon's watched the results.

"Did you see that, Mom? NiGHTS had this fight planned unlike us and dealt with that mechanical monster with no problem!" he said with glee.

"Now if there's something that we should do, it's to see how the others are doing. I can already tell that they are in a much worse situation compared to our dragons," Azel said while dropping her cheerful tone as she saw the mass of gas in the arena below.

Soon as Orta seen what her mother had spotted she thought about what could have happened to Prince Ali. Her heart raced as she thought about it and she felt very scared about what fate he could have during their fight.

"We need to clear that gas somehow to see if he and the others are already. I really do not want to lose someone close to me that quick," she said.

Before Azel could answer her pleas, it appears that NiGHTS has already flown in that direction to solve the issue quickly.

"Don't worry girls, I'll handle it from here!" he called before focusing on the gassed up area.

Soon as he reached his destination he started form massive circles around the entire are to form one huge Paraloop to surround at the fast rate. Within seconds, vortex has formed in the middle of the area to inhale every ounce of gas in it and expel it above him at a fast rate. While he were doing this both Atolm and Orta's dragon drew even closer to inspect the clear areas. Over where the destroyed stairs were was something that shocked Orta very much: Her lover and his allies' lifeless bodies lying on the rocky rubble. Even someone as strong as Gilius was defeated by the powerful gas in the middle of battle.

Soon as NiGHTS has stopped spinning, the vortex slowly started to subside and he darted towards the stairs to see what happened. Before he could do so, he noticed Amigo and AiAi's bodies lying to the east of him. He couldn't believe his eyes since these two had too been the careless ones to fall victim to this dangerous gas. The saddened Nightmaren drew even closer to their bodies and saw the lack of life from their faces alone.

"No, you two couldn't have been the ones to suffer this badly. If only I were here to help them, none of this could have happened," he said in depression.

Orta had already landed her dragon on the area for him to rest from flight and dashed towards the site of her prince's defeat. She could barely breathe due to the catching of her breath and the tears running down her face. Azel had landed from falling off Atolm's back to follow her daughter, allowing the legendary beasts to fly back towards the docking area to rest. Orta had made it to the site of his defeat and climbed up the rocky debris to reach her lover's body.

"Ali! Ali! Please get up!" she shouts while desperately shaking his body.

He didn't react act all and his body felt as cold as a corpse due to being void of life. She could barely look at him like that and shuts her eyes as the tears dripped onto his face and her arms tightened their grip.

"Please get up and show me that you aren't dead! You can just leave me this quick! You don't don't know how much I've loved you, Aliiiiiii!" she sorrowfully yelled.

Azel had made it and observed the bodies of Jack Frost and Gilius in an observant manner. She placed her hand on the right wrist of the dwarf and listened for the sound of beating in his chest, seeing if they were truly dead. The black haired woman knew that this couldn't be the case of death, but the state of a coma from that aforementioned gas. She slowly stepped behind her crying daughter and placed a hand on her shoulder. The silver haired young woman looked up at her mother with her tear soaked face see what she had wanted.

"They aren't dead, but they are in a state where their entire body lacks consciousness. Meaning they are alive, but probably won't be fully functional until whenever we have a doctor inspect them," she said in a concerned tone.

This gave her daughter some hope that he was in an OK condition, making her fell less conflicted and on the verge of despair.

"If that's the case, I'm really happy that this gas wasn't anything worse that that. I just hope we can right the right person to take care of them all," she sniffled.

Azel smiled and lifted Orta into the air to embrace her into a motherly hug. NiGHTS knew that the situation was handled well from what he had seen, but it didn't stop him from being concerned about what Tails was doing. The Marvelous Queen had received some serious damaged from the fox's many inventions and Nack was already overwhelmed from their last fight despite still having Sonic hostage. Sparks were emitting from the machine and there were massive scars from the attacks that it suffered, even the canons themselves were dented from the fight. Tails himself is spinning a massive black cord above his head as flail while breathing heavily in fatigue. His intense eyes glared at the already frightening weasel like a fox would do to corner his weakened prey.

"It's over Nack, there's no point in defending yourself anymore. If you don't hand over Sonic while you have the chance, then I will singlehandley destroy your precious girl and retrieve him myself," he said in a serious manner.

Nack felt like he was close to death and could bear to handle his ride getting trashing this much any more.

"Please Tails, understand the fact that I can't show my face to Eggman unless I've bought Sonic back alive. I just can't bear to have those rings spent wasted when you are cruel enough to crush my girl!" he begged.

Tails had enough to begin with and decided to raise his cord flail even higher and spun it at a rate even faster than his own Tails. During this, Nack had noticed a large figure reminiscent of his Zeti henchmen appear directly behind the young Fox's back. He had dropped his fear completely and grew a huge grin in response; this even made his aggressor wonder why he had felt so smug all of a sudden. NiGHTS had finally looked into the air and noticed this mysterious being preparing attack Tails from behind and desperately called out for his name.

"Tails! Tails, look out from behind immediately!" the Nightmaren shouts.

Before Tails had turned around to see what it was, it already had a massive right arm to strike his smaller target down like a bludgeon. The fox would eventually be sent flying towards the ground with his entire body in pain and his mind beginning to blank out. NiGHTS has seen the whole thing and felt his heart sank like a good dream being consumed by a nightmare.

"He …. lost. But … not only that, but Sonic had been dragged away …. by the treacherous hands of those ruffians," said the shocked Nightmaren.

The last thing the young fox could see was the attacker flying away with Nack to complete their task of returning the captured Sonic to the Legion of Subspace. NiGHTS had already flown over to where Orta and Azel were to inform them on Tails's saddening defeat at the hands of that machine.

"So..so…so sorry for … not being… able… to save…. you," he said like a dying boy.

The during the process of saying his last words, his body had grown cold and his eyes had fully closes to enter a state close enough to death. Since then, he couldn't be able to feel his body hit the ground or see the desperate look of his friends observing his body. At this point, he had failed to same his blue brother figure and the only means of for his team to stop the Legion's plans.

And there you have it, Nack and Zavok had fought the entire crew valiantly after managing to capture the Blue Blur thanks to the new weapons that Eggman had installed for them. Too bad they had lost despite how bravely they had fought, even the closest friend to our hero with the twin tails and blonde fur. So expect an even more heartbreaking scene in the next chapter as our heroes hopefully recover from their failure to protect Sonic and we'll hopefully see what become of our favorite hedgehog. Just as a heads up for you Atlus fans, a very special guest will make her first debut and she'll be happy to reveal how "under the knife' her job to tend the heroes is. Before I leave, I'll let you guys know to expect a new chapter by next week and TheFlyingRedJerk will see you until then. *imitates Gin Ichimaru's "Bye bye" scene while leaving*