Act one

Beginning

Chapter 3: escaped from New Yoke


-before the prism shattered-

in green hill, lashanie, tails, knuckles, Amy, and rouge are fighting the badniks up on the mountain where the cave is.

"where's sonic?" Knuckles questioned, punching the bots away. "How long does it take to collect rings? I thought we were doing this together."

Amy hammers away the bot.

"sure would be nice if he'd stick to the plan."

she hammers the catapillar robot, but another knocks her back and crawls towards her. Someone knocks it away and rouge throws it.

"tell me about it, no gem is worth me losing my wings."

rouge kicks away two badniks. A small device zaps another one and files in a circle as tails controls it.

"don't worry, guys, sonic will show. I know he will." he said as he zaps more badniks." I just hope it's in time."

lashanie backs away from the badniks before jumping off the rock wall and grew vines with her spear then would crush the robots.

"He better be quick. It's unlikely of him to be late. And he should've listened."

on the ground, sonic spots explosion in top of the mountain where lashanie and the others are fighting.

"oh, no. My friends."

sonic turns to shadow.

"look, shadow, I'm late--"

shadow cuts him off by punching him In the face.

"learn to focus." he said.

three blue flickies fly around sonic's head when he suddenly gasps at something behind shadow.

"Oh, no! Eggman!"

Shadow turns around.

"huh?"

but sonic spins and knocks him into rocks before running off through green hill.

"hate to hit and run, but I gotta spilt, shadow."

sonic picks up some rings on the way to his friends in the mountain. Rocks and cliffs shake as the rocks that fell on shadow go flying. His fists tight as shadow glares ahead before shaking his head with a low growl. He speeds towards the mountain and zooms past Big and froggy, causing big to fall on his butt.

"whoa... Uh... Shadow?" big questioned, looking to where he had gone.

shadow passes the smoking crater and follows the cracks up the mountain. He spins and smashes through rocks on the way as he skates.

"I hope I'm not too late to save my little sister..."


Now in the chaos council, rusty holds lashanie against the wall as lashanie struggles to get out her grasp.

"terminate."

Rusty throw her robot fist, but suddenly stops short on lashanie's face just a few inches away and jerks. Rusty starts glitching as her red eye flicker to yellow then backs to red. Behind her, Nine looks relieved and types at her computer screen. An image of her turns green.

"Now paired

Nine smiles and adjust a pistol device and aims it at Rusty. A light in one robot eye changes from red and yellow.

"new admin privileges, colon, bsckslash, backslash, affirmative, now paired."

"A-Amy...? Are you... You?" lashanie asked.

"no, she's still a chaos council tool of destruction lucky for you. I'm in control of the robot now. You're welcome. Attack!" Nine said.

Rusty let's go of lashanie and turns to see more eggforcers running in as one files. Rusty takes them down with her robot arms and flips them among the others and hits them with robot legs. More eggforcers come up through the floor. Rusty leaps and beats the floor back down and she rises from the flames on the floor hole. With her extending robot legs, she steps back into the lab. Nearby, sonic ducks from the wild extractor laser.

"whoa...! Lashanie! You alright?"

"yea, I'm fine."

lashanie gets up, snoothing her neck before turning to eggforcers. She brings out her robotic wings and flies up and flaps her wings to blow the wind towards the eggforcers. Eggforcers would get slam into a wall very hard and get damaged. New eggforcers run in through doors and get hit by the laser.

"Rusty Rose, close that door." Nine ordered.

Rusty stalks through the lab and shoves the eggforcers out of the way. She stretches her arms and pulls the door closed. Rebel, Knucks, lashanie, and Nine watches Rusty.

"uh... She's with us now?" knuckles asked.

"Duh!" Nine sassed.

"For now." lashanie said.

Rusty spots control panel nearby and punches it. She lets go of the doors, which stayed closed and turns to lashanie, Nine, rebel, knucks.

"we did it! Bring it In, fam!"

sonic spins around the team and pulls them into a group hug. But all he received are complaining as they remove themselves from him.

"Hey, hey, hey, hey, get off!" knucks said.

"get off of me, sonic!" lashanie scolded, glaring at them.

"huh. Oh yeah, the whole 'Eggman messed up the universe thing.' okay."

"you think that's the reason?! Sonic! Come on!" lashanie growls.

they all casually duck from the laser that keeps moving around.

"Fine." sonic said, not listening to her again. "Introductions. Hello, I'm sonic, the high-speed hedgehog hero who always saving the day."

sonic zooms to lashanie as she has her arms crossed glaring at him.

"this here is my little friend hedgehog, lashanie. She's can grow vines with her spear, granted by the nature spirit which she could make plants grow faster or healing process, and a greatest friend you'll ever have to her kindness, she's even kind of a greatest fighter just like her big Brother sha-"

sonic gets cut off by lashanie.

"Don't you.. Dare.. Mention him.." lashanie glared, pointing a finger.

sonic moves to nine, who's checking his pistol.

"and this wily fox is the crusty and benign tails--"

Nine snaps at him, cutting him off.

"Nine! It's Nine. The emphasis is on the Nine!"

he zooms over to rebel and knucks and places his hand on their shoulders.

"and these two slightly thuggish party crashes consist of the alluring and kick-butt international bat of mystery, Rouge..."

They duck from the lasers again. Rebel remove herself away from sonic.

"it's rebel."

"And knuckles." sonic finished his sentence.

knucks crossed his arms, moving away from sonic.

"it's knucks. And will someone please stop this laser?"

sonic zooms over to rusty.

"and Amy is..."

rusty cuts him off.

"I am a killing machine created by the chaos council to enforce their autocratic rule."

"Well, Amy's the sweetest friend you could ever ask for."

knucks, rebel, lashanie, sonic, and rusty ducks the laser.

"but... No one remembers any of that."

Lashanie rolls her eyes as she growls.

Lashanies anger face faded away by rebel and knucks hugging her.

"oh, we're glad to see you alive and okay, nightingale."

"where have you been? We thought we lost you."

Frowning, lashanie gently pushes herself away from rebel and knucks.

"I'm sorry, but the nightingale you're talking to is not here."

"what are you talking about? You're obviously right here." rebel chucked.

"yeah, not the time to joke around." knucks said.

lashanie looks away and grasps her arms, looking uncomfortable.

"no I'm serious. I am lashanie. Just lashanie. I'm just another girl who's not from around here."

"it's true. I scanned her with her having powers... She's... Sadly not the nightingale we know." Nine confirmed with a frown.

rebel and knucks stares at lashanie, seeing that she doesn't know anything about the name 'nightingale'.

"but isn't your full name, nightingale lashanie?" knucks asked, thinking it's still a joke.

"no. I'm lashanie. Lashanie the hedgehog. Let me ask you this, does your nightingale have a sibling?"

"... Well, no." rebel replied.

"but I do."

this made the two realize that she's not the nightingale as the world crumbles down before rebel and knucks.

"oh..." rebel frowned.

"I'm sorry..." lashanie said, looking down. Her ears goes droop.

knucks looks down and clenche his fists. Rusty looks at them and frowns, sensing awkwardness and sadness. Sonic though doebg notices.

"we're going to fix it because we got the whole band back together."

everyone turns to the door that's getting pounded.

"this way, or you're finished."

Nine runs across the lab and types on the keypad. Eggforcers open the doors, but the lasers cuts them down. Nine shoots at the council camera that are watching them. The lab doors opened and sonic walks out smirking. Nine, knucks, lashanie, and rusty follows him. Rebel files above them. Thru make their way down the corridor. Suddenly, eggforcers run in two directions. Sonic speeds ahead down the corridor.

"baddies this way."

then off the corridor.

"baddies that way."

sonic comes back to the group.

"they're coming from both sides."

Nine opens doors and they go a third way. Eggforcers fly after them and smash into each other. Knucks runs back to the pile of eggforcers and smacks one. He pulls a weapon off and fires at them. He drops it and runs on.

"come on, gotta get out of here."

"wait, stop. We shouldn't be trying to escaped" Nine said.

"what are you talking about? There's robots after us."

Nine drops down Infront of Knucks.

"we get oue hands on their energy crystal, we shut down their entire operation..."

"...and take back our world." rebel finished the sentence in realization.

"The crystal?" lashanie perked up.

"energy crystal?" sonic questioned in recognition and zoomed over to Nine and Knucks. "Hold-a-wait-a-what-a-sec. Did you say crystal? Is it a big crystal thingy? Shiny, reflect-y, and prism-y?"

they look at him funny before Nine replied.

"sure"

"The paradox prism of course!" sonic said.

Nine, sonic, Lashanie, Knucks, looks back to see laser being fired.

"that's how eggman did all this. The changed city, the messed-up you guys. If me and Lashanie get it, maybe we can change it all back."

"if what my friend said is true..." lashanie started before looking at rusty. "Rusty, where's the prism?"

"I do not have clearance to the subsectors of the core."

sonic laughs.

"Subsectors? I can make my own clearance."

shocks fire and sonic, lashanie, Nine spots eggforcers coming. More smash through not pile. Sonic, lashanie, and their friends back against the wall.

"in case of emergency, always use the stairs." sonic said, gesturing to the back of the doors.

knucks, rebel, and Nine cross the corridor and go with sonic, Lashanie, and Rusty to a stairwell.

"come on, team. Together, we're gonna fix the world."

"let's do this!"

Sonic and lashanie drops down in th middle of the deep stairwell. The team follows. Eggforcers reach the stairs and watch them fall. So does the council. Sonic dives then flips to feet first. A hand grabs sonic by the throat and shoves him into a wall, causing him to fall to the floor.

"ow!"

"prepared to be amazed, then deceased, by the one and only Dr. Deep."

Deep in his robot suit poses with two poses with two bots. Sonic ducks a laser that was being shot towards him.

"Okay, actually cool."

in the stairwell, Nines fires a grappling hook and it pulls him up. Lashanie brings out her robotic wings and flaps her wings and blows the wind at the eggforcers and uses for her to pull herself up before kicking it away and landing besides the eggforcers. Knucks jumps to a landing. Rusty grabs the railing and her robots arms and pulls her upwards. She slugs a bot on the landing and flips away from the punch and strikes back. Rebel flies to another bot and swings it into more bot. A bot jumps downstairs at rebel. She kicks, loops around, and kicks it again.

sonic dodges a flame disc with his spin dash and kicks Deep back. Deep swings at sonic with two flame discs and knocks him back. A disc gets stuck in the wall after sonic jumps and spins on top of it and gets away. Nine crawls on the ceiling with his robot tails while he fires at attackers. A bot sends Rusty flying and she jumps back and hits it, slamming it against the wall. A bot files and pushes Rebel upwards. Knucks comes to rescue and punches it back down.

lashanie saw two bots standing on either side of her, aiming their blasters at her. She dropped down into a spilt at the last second, and the two bots shot each other down. Lashanie brought her legs in as she stood back up. She sees rebel in trouble and brings out her robotic wings, she flies forward as she kicks at the bot with her foot. Rebel looked at her in time. The blade hit the bot in the head, and rebel hit it to the ground. She nodded at lashanie in thanks before they went back to fighting.

sonic spins at Deep, but Deep notices and brings out his flaming disc, which caused him to bounce off. The sword missed sonic, who run up the wall to attack. A flame disc knocks sonic down and two sword cross and traps him.

lashanie jumps down from railing to railing and lands on two swords front of Deep and kicks him back, releasing sonic. She lands and glares at Deep, who smirks.

"let's see what you've got, nightingale."

Lashanie glares harder as she growls.

"it's lashanie!!"

she and Deep charges with a battle cry. Before she knew it, she found herself getting pinned down by the railing of the stairs.

"Bet you think, you're pretty slick."

lashanie glared as she growls at Deep as she twisted the hand that he was holding, and twisted his robot arm. She tripped Deep, spin him around on his robot back, and slammed her foot on his chest as she stood up.

"I have my moments." She said slyly.

Deep growled at her before pushing her off and jumping to his feet. They both withdrew their weapons at the same time, and charged at each other. Deep swing his sword at lashanie, who blocked them with her robotic wings before taking out her tanto. She kicked deep in the chest and started flapping her robotic wings at him, blowing the wind. Deep blocked with his two swords. She shoved him away and kicked him, knocking him off down the stairs. He landed on his feet on the ground, still holding his swords tightly. Lashanie jumped off and raises her tanto as headed straight for deep, who stood up, his sword, raised as they're about to clash.

Rusty jumps from an attack and punches two eggforcers, but another bot knocks her back. Rebel grabs the bot and drops it down the stairwell. Knucks punches two bots. Nine shoots three more bots and files upwards. Behind deep and lashanie, a bot grabs Nine. When deep turns to them, lashanie nods to sonic and he knocks deep over. With a flying punch, sonic smacks a bot away from Nine. Sonic spins back at Deep, who holds up a flame disc. Sonic gets past it and smacks Deep. He bounces off walls and knocks Deep into his bots.

"thanks for the save. High-five."

sonic grabs Nine's hand and high-fives him and runs. Nine looks at his hand with a small smile.

"'high... Five'?"

suddenly, the eggforcers stand with spark and red bolts glowing as if they're charged up with a high level before charging at the team. One knocks back at sonic. A bot hits Nine. A bot pummels down lashanie before she could blow electricity at them with her robotic wings. Another hits rebel. An eggforcers punches knucks. Another kicks rusty. The bots land more blows as the team let out pained groans along the way. The bots keep hitting and rebel falls on the floor. Rusty hits the wall so does Nine. Knucks and lashanie hits the floor. Sonic lands safely.

"we're done for. They're too powerful, too fast" knucks said.

sonic and lashanie look at him funny.

"'too fast'? You need to learn to spin-dash,my friend." sonic said with a grin.

"spin-dash?"

"watch and learn, bud." lashanie smirked before sonic spins and bounces off four bots.

he knocks one's head and hits other. Sonic lands infrong of knucks.

"you're up! You see that bad guy over there?" sonic asked, pointing to the coming eggforcers.

"uh, yeah."

sonic grabs knucks.

"Now... Spin!!"

she throws knucks, who spins in a red streak, at several bots. Sonic grabs Nine and throws him.

"you too."

in a yellow streak, Nine and breaks the bots apart. Blue, red, and yellow streaks cross over the stairwell. Knucks lands on a bot. Rebel punches an eggforcer down. Rusty opens her robot hands and leaps down a stairwell onto an eggforcer. Another one lunges at sonic, who dodges. Sonic spins and knocks it onto the railing. He jumps into the eggforcer and rides it down the stairwell. Lashanie slides under the bot. She stood up behind it and kicked it to the ground. She spots sonic and flies down with her robotic wings. Sonic jump off and lands on a pile of bots. Lashanie slowly lands on a pile of bots.

"what kind of budget are these guys working with?" sonic asked.

"we're at the sub level. Where's the exit?" Nine asked.

knucks digs into the pile and hits the door, catching their attention.

"Found it!"

they all got out and made it to the corridor.

"that was awesome!" sonic exclaimed.

"good work, you guys. Let's go." lashanie said.

Nine watches sonic shoes and lashanies robotic wings and tanto.

"your shoes, your wings and tanto. Stop, it's that way."

sonic and lashanie stops and runs over to Nine.

"well, how do you know?" knucks asked suspiciously.

"they're connected to the prism energy, and thanks to my handiwork, sonic shoes and lashanies wings and tanto are picking up on the energy's signature."

"he's right. It's like they're calling out to it." sonic said.

lashanie turns over her shoulders as she brings out her robotic wings and sees it glowing.

"I didn't notice."

"Look." sonic said, running back and forth. "Hot, cold. Hotter, colder, blazing hot."

A loud bangs catches their attention.

"uh..." Nine said, turning to see Deep and the eggforcers.

"I'm going to origami those two hedgehogs! Find them!" Deep shouted.

"come on, let's go."

Nine, sonic, and lashanie lead the way down another corridor. Bots runs and fly past it. Deep runs with them, and stops.

"huh?"

he steps back and looks down at the corridor.

"they're headed for the core. They're headed for the core! Guys, guys, guys!"

bots snacks into deep and fly down the corridor. More smacks at him as they follow. They chased the team, firing. Nine points ahead at the pair of doors with red signs.

"that's gotta be it."

"close all corridors!" Mr. Doctor eggman's voice orders.

"they're shutting the doors! Hurry!" Nine urged.

Rusty jumps between two closing doors and holds them open. Sonic, rebel, lashanie, knucks get through. Knucks throws a canister that wedges the next doors open. Lashanie brings out her wings and move her robotic wings in a circular motion, generating electricity then fires the bolt at the another doors, blowing a huge hole in it. The team gets through, but the bots don't as lashanie blocks it with her canister using her whip to catch it and throw it at the hole.

"Open the doors! Open the doors!" Deep demanded.

The doors open and the chase continues with bots firing. Ahead, the team duck to the sides out from the line of fire.

"I guess dreams don't come true." knucks said.

"Aw, come on. You don't believe that, do you?" sonic asked.

"Well, prove me wrong."

"I think my friend can handle this one." sonic smiled.

they turned to se lashanie summoning her green bubble around herself before charging at the eggforcers as the beams bounces off the bubble. Knucks throws another canister and it blocks one of the flaming beams the bots shoots. Lashanie watches then keeps running through the beams with a bubble protecting her. She then unbubbles herself and dodges all the beams like she's dancing and jumps up the flying canister as another shield against the beams, flying against them.

From the side, rebel watches so does knucks. Rusty watches too while sonic watches with a smile on his face. Flaming beams strike the canister harmlessly as it files with lashanie behind it. Nine clings to a wall watching. Bots keeps running and firing. Lashanie files closer to them and scowls. With electricity sparking around her, all full speed, lashanie spins and drives all bots back. Deep looks up and screams as the bots slam into him. Lashanie pushes them off the lab through a wall of council headquarters. Residents watch them fall as on points at lashanie.

"that's her—nightingale!"

lashanie looks down from the hole in the wall and jumps from a pile of bots and runs back up to the corridor. Ahead, babbles bot stands in the way with a baby in the cockpit. Babble gibber angerily. Lashanie stops and groans.

"great..."

other bots head for rusty, nine, sonic, knucks, and rebel at the door to the core.

"Nine, how are we doing over there?" lashanie asked.

nine types quickly on the panel.

"I need more time."

before lashanie could act, sonic speeds through and grabs lashanie and moves her to knucks and the others before coming in view of babble.

"Hey, it's me you want. Come and get me."

"sonic! What are you doing?" lashanie called, glaring at him a little.

"Don't worry, lashanie! I got this! You go help our friends!"

lashanie hesitates before nodding. Sonic leads babble and some of the bots away. At the doors, Rusty defends Nine from the bot attacks with lashanie helping as she takes away their energy before blowing electricity at them. Lashanie straightened up as she raised her giant fist whip and threw it out, hitting several bots. Then she felt something grabs her ankle, and she looked down to see a fallen bot grabbing her. Knucks punches a bot in the head, freeing lashanie. Another bot came up to lashanie, but she stabbed its chest with her tanto. She lifted her other hand and grabbed the line of her giant fist whip when it came back to her. She made her whip disappear.

"I never knew you're a master. You're more interested than I thought. where did you learn that from?" rebel said in Amazement.

"uuh..thanks.. My big Brother teached me stuffs like that so that's how I learned it" lashanie said.

lashanie caught the movement out of the corner of her eye. And she quickly threw her tanto out. It hits the target and hits the bot in the head and it crumbled to the ground in a heap.

"wow" knucks said.

"I'm almost impressed by your skill." rusty commented as lashanie snatched her tanto out of the bot.

Nine keeps working and then finally sparks fly out from the panel.

"I got it, we're in."

lashanie, rusty, rebel, and knucks turn to the door as they slowly open. Nine and lashanie spots sonic coming.

"sonic, we didn't think you'd make it back." Nine said.

lashanie notices sonics expression. She crosses her arms, raising her eyebrows.

"are you okay, sonic?"

"Yeah, I'm fine." sonic replied, not looking at her.

"come on, let's go." Nine said.

"Yeah, I thought you'd be flatter than a snake's belly." knucks said.

Just then, a giant bot hand grabs rusty, rebel, and knucks.

"need a job done right, do it yourself. Step away from the core, or your friends are toast." Mr. Doctor eggman said through his giant bot.

The door slams shut and sonic and lashanie struggles to pull them open. Nine steps in front of them.

"sonic, lashanie, we have to get to the core!"

"no! We've got to save our friends." sonic said.

"They need our help!" lashanie said.

Rusty gets them free by hitting the bot in the face. Eggmans bot grabs her hand and smacks rebel against the door. Rebel looks at the doors.

"Sonic, lashanie, go. You have to get to the paradox prism, or it'll all be for nothing."

She then files away to fight off eggman's bot.

"you heard her. Come on."

Nine run towards the pink light. Sonic and lashanie frowns, looking back at the doors for a moment.

"come on!" Nine urged them.

sonic and lashanie eventually walks away from the doors and looks ahead.

"wait. Is that...?"

they run with Nine to the core. A red crystal floats in it.

"that's... Not the paradox prism..." lashanie voiced out.

"it's way too tiny. The prism was... Was..."

sonic flashes back to the cave and the prism with different color crystals.

"we don't know what the prism is capable of. Be carefull." tails' voice warned.

sonic spins straight into the prism with lashanie grabbing onto him.

"I remember now."

"you do?" lashanie asked, not liking where this is going.

"SONIC!" tails called.

"I was so focused on winning. I didn't listen... I... You and the others tried to warn me." sonic said, looking at lashanie.

sonic flashes back to Amy, knuckles, rouge, tails, including lashanie.

"all of you."

his ears drop down.

"all this time, I thought eggman figured out how to harness the prism energy, and that's why everything's so wracked, but it's not that. Eggman didn't created this world..."

sonic flashes back to shattering the paradox prism and him and lashanie floating into the void. Sonic floats among many shards and crystals. One of them was the red crystal.

"you did." lashanie concluded in realization and horror.

The crystal glows bright in the core. Sonic looks down sadly and shakes his head a little. He looks up while lashanie was in shock. She knew they're in a different universe, but not what caused all of this. The doors behind them started shaking.

"I shattered the paradox prism while lashanie tried to stop me. I broke... Everything." sonic said softly, looking at the Nine and lashanie.

"so, this is just one small shard of a bigger energy source? There's... more?" Nine asked in shock.

a heavy thud could be heard as the doors shake. Mr doctor eggman's giant bot starts to open them.

"you guys get the shard now. I'll deal with them." lashanie said.

she as about to charge when sonic grabs her by the arm. She turns to see him looking at her with a regret and sadness.

"I'm sorry for not listening to you, lashanie. You are right. I should've kept my promise."

lashanie looks at him for a moment before signing and hugging him.

"it's okay. I forgive you, sonic."

in a spit second, lashanie generates electricity and fire bolt at Mr. doctor eggman's bot, sending him flying. Lashanie jumps out from the doors before they closes. She glares at Deep and Don't, who quickly hides. Deep pulls out his sword, ready to fight only for lashanie to generate electricity again and fires it straight in the chest. The resulting explosion causes deep to slam into the back wall. Don't was about to turn on the panel, but lashanie launches electricity blast infront of him before he can reach it. She shoots another electricity which he dodges and files away in his floating chair. Lashanie shoots another lighting bolt at the eggforcers that are guarding Rusty, knucks, and rebel, which causes them to exploded. She sees Eggman's bot about to get up and begins charging another electricity attack. She shoots him, which he quickly dodges by jumping away to the side.

she brings out her robotic wings and files toward to Mr.doctor eggman's giant bot. She starts spinning around eggman's bot, making him feel dizzy.

"what's going on?!"

in speed of her robotic wings, she starts tying her wings around him and before he knew it, lashanje stands besides her shocked friends and pulls both of her whips down, causing the bot to fall to the ground with a loud thud. Lashanie turns to rusty, knucks, and rebel.

"you guys alright?"

"Y-yeah. We're fine." knucks said.

rebel looks at her for a moment.

"hey... You may not be our nightingale, but we're happy to see you again."

lashanie slightly smiles back.

"To be honest, I'm happy to see you guys again. When I got here, I thought me and sonic are... alone. But after seeing you guys, it made me realize that you guys are always there even if you're from the different universe."

lashanie smiles. She inhales in exhausted feeling herself about to faint when the lights go out and turn back on.

"backup systems engaged."

Mr. Doctor eggman's gets back.

"they have the energy crystal!" he yelled in horror.

"we gotta go now!" lashanie urged.

Don't managed to sneak his way to the panel while she was distracted with checking on her friends and gets the door.

"got it."

Lashanie was about to fight the chaos council only for eggman, don't, and deep to run past them, paying no mind to them as they're more worried about the shard than the enemies as they go inside the room. Lashanie waits for Nine and sonic to get out, only to see Nine sneaking out, crawling on ceilings and walls holding the prism shard with his two tails.

"Nine! Where's sonic?" lashanie asked, zapping the eggforcers away the kept coming.

Nine looks down at them, mostly at lashanie. He hesitates for a moment when he heard Eggman's voice.

"Find them. They can't be far."

Nine looks back and frowns at lashanie, who looks confused and worried.

"Nine?"

"Sorry, lashanie."

Nine puts away his pistol and crawls past the coming eggforcers and jumps down and runs away with the shard. Lashanie, rebel, knucks, and rusty watches in disbelief and betrayed.

"NINE!!" lashanie yelled then started to growl, getting angry. "I TRUSTED YOU!!!"

she let out an electric explosion with a yell that causes all eggforcers to shut down. Lashanie then runs after Nine with rebel, knucks, and rusty following her. She manages to spot Nine about to go through the hole of the headquarters walls she made.

"MILES TAILS PROWER!!"

Nine froze at the sudden full name he was called and slowly turned to see her very angry as she stalks towards him.

"you better come back here right now with that shard! Where is sonic?!"

"H-he disappeared right after he touches this sh- shard." he stuttered, feeling small from lashanies wrath.

"then we'll find a way to get him back if you hand it to me! We need that to bring their home, too."

"No. This world is nothing but darkness and full of heartlessness. I can fix it."

"how?! By ditching us?!" lashanie shouted as rebel, rusty, and knucks stood beside her.

"I'm sorry, but what if sonic said is true about there being more than one shard, I can use it to build a brand new home."

"by fixing your home, right?" lashanie gestured to this place.

No. Away from this world."

she couldn't believe what she's hearing.

"wait. You're going away form your home?!"

"that's why you're ditching us?!" knucks shouted in anger.

"this isn't my home anymore! Think about it! With this, there wouldn't be anymore suffering." Nine said." you get it, right, Lashanie?"

"No. Not like this. You're not learning from your past, aren't you? You're running away from it!"

Nind flinches her harsh words as lashanie was now close to him.

"Give.me.the.shard. You have no idea what it's capable of."

she grabs his tails and tries to take the shard only for him to pull it back.

"No! I need it!" he exclaimed.

"No! We need it! To fix the world and get sonic back!!"

the two struggles to take the shard back as they tug on back and forth. Rusty looks back and see the eggforcers coming."

"we need to move."

But lashanie and Nine aren't paying attention to that.

"Give me, Nine!"

"No!"

at the moment, lashanie touches the shard and the red strand of her robotic wings and her tanto started glowing brighter than ever as sparks jumps into her hand.

"w-whats happening?!" lashanie questioned.

Nine, rebel, knucks, and rusty watches in shock. The red shard starts losing its color and it drains down leaving half of the shard grey and at the same time it starts to suck lashanie in. Lashanie struggles to pull it back, and it kept pulling her close. She turned to her friends with fear.

"GUYS!!"

before Nine, rebel, knucks, and rusty could grab a hold of her, lashanie sucks fully in the shard and disappears.

"LASHANIE/NIGHTINGALE!!" they shouted in unison.

knucks turns to Nine angerily.

"what did you do?!"

Nine looks at the shard to see it halfway red, leaving him wonder what was going on and where did she go now along with sonic.