Sonic Series Fan Fiction ❯ Sonic Hazard ❯ Double the Trouble: Let there be REIN pt.1 ( Chapter 3 )

Sonic Hazard: Chapter 2

Double the Trouble: Let there be Rein (pt.1)

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Time: 43:07pm (15:07pm (3:07pm)

Place: The Memory of Sophia

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"Fellow colleagues, as a side project, I have acquired the genetic structure of Shadow, the black hedgehog you see before you on the screen with my granddaughter, Maria Robotnik." An aged man in a white lab coat stood in a wide, dark room of the Bernoulli Space Colony-the same room Sonic retrieved Tails from.

The only light that brightened the room was from the monitors. Pictures of Shadow the Hedgehog and Maria Robotnik were displayed everywhere.

Several men, assumed to be scientists, stood before the senior as he began to enlighten them. "I have also compiled the nucleic acids localized especially in the cell nuclei from the blood of my dearest Maria."

"Deoxyribonucleic acid." A younger, more attractive specialist spoke from the masses.

"DNA!" a much older scientists but still younger then the elderly man that stood before them spat out.

"Indeed," the light from the monitor's screen beamed off his head, "together I used both Shadow and Maria's genetic structure and formed it to one, placing it within one of the regeneration capsules inside the isolation chamber." The senior held up a metallic cube. "Within the boundaries of this prism is a special device designed only for the life form I have created."

"This is absurd Professor Gerald Robotnik!" one of the men in the group argued.

"A brilliant mind such as your self should be perfecting the biological lizard of `Project Shadow', not creating abnormal monstrosities!" another scientist ridiculed.

"No, no. For the past two months as we worked on ripening `Project Shadow', I also worked on perfecting one of my most cherished works." He stroked his long beard downward, "By taking the genetic structure that makes up the biological lizard, I was then able to inject it into the regeneration tube as the embryo of my life form matured." Professor Gerald elucidated as he walked over to one of the monitors.

"Over time, it was easy for the fetus to develop because within the isolation chamber, time speeds up. In just two months, nine months had passed for the gestation period of the embryo." Professor Gerald clutched the metallic block as he pushed a button on the edge of the monitor. The screen changed.

A variety of `awes' escaped the mouths of the scientists.

On the monitors were diversified shots of a blurred figure in countless scenes. In one demonstration, the figure stood among gigantic androids, blasting away at their existence. In another, the figure was as if floating among space, but shielded by the sun. And in another, the figure was blasting at the Bernoulli Space Colony.

"As you can recollect, a week ago, the Bernoulli Space Colony was attacked by an unknown life form for two days without tiring. This life form was the twin to the one I perfected." The professor held his head.

An array of gasps filled the room.

"The embryo that I was perfecting split into two during the two months, both growing in the same tube fore if I tried to separate them before the two months were over, they would both have died." The professor looked back at his colleagues. "Over the two months I transferred information to the two fetuses. The information consisted of knowledge of mechanics, knowledge of astrology, and knowledge of creating great carnage towards those that defile our cause. They were superior…"

The scientists were left speechless.

"These WERE the essentials of making a perfect life form-not just by making the being indestructible or too dynamic like we did with the bio-lizard. The perfected life form SHOULD be imperishable, but nothing can be unbreakable."

"But you instructed us, you were the one who said the ultimate life form would be indestructible! You wanted it to be robust!" a professor shouted as the others agreed with him.

"The bio-lizard is pure, a taste for destruction, a god." Professor Gerald pushed the button by the monitor again. The screen went blank. Darkness fell upon the room. "Truly INdestructible, the bio-lizard is the perfect life form… of destruction…" The screen flashed on revealing words that scrolled upward.

"But what happened to the twin of the first embryo…" one of the scientists piped up, going off topic.

"The twin over fused HER artificial brain that I had to install into her." The scientists stared at him perplexed, "You see, during the gestation, the embryo that split from the fetus had everything but a brain within her skull. I wired a cable to the back of her head that pumped information from a computerized chip located in her back." The professor faced his colleagues. "She became a cyborg…"

The scientists still stood without words.

"When the twin short circuited, I revitalized her yet I soon placed her within a chronological sleep, to reawaken whenever an unauthorized personnel enters my most personal of all labs located within the ARK, yet a mystery to all of you. The twin was out of control and had to be overcame by the ORIGINAL twin." Professor Gerald began fiddling around with his wild mustache.

"Why did the twin go out of control?" the same scientist that asked a question previously piped up again.

"The twins are very much so different, mainly because of the time they were conceived. The original has been able to show compassion and feelings towards living things, even though it had a fake birth it is very much human, characteristics it took on from Maria. The twin, taking on the characteristics of `Project Shadow', has showed malice and jealousy towards its equal believing that it was nothing more then a doppelganger. Sort of like Sibling Rivalry. The twin despised its other half because she had a better intellect then one's self. The twin was driven to a fit of jealousy and took it out on the colony hoping to destroy its equal."

The colleagues passed glances with one another.

"The original was able to distract the twin long enough in order for it to take all its energy out on her and short circuit herself." Professor Gerald looked back at the monitor. It had stopped scrolling and highlighted a variety of words. "Regenerated Entity Influenced Narcoleptic… R.E.I.N. This is what I named the twin. Regenerated from its equal, an Entity of life, Influenced by jealousy and envy towards anyone, and Narcoleptic for the fact that she always goes into deep sleep because of her artificial brain needing time to recuperate the nervous system."

The scientists began chatting among one another about this life form code name Rein.

"If I brought her here to show you I would have had to release her from her chronological sleep causing her to destroy the ARK. Rein has lost all senses and only sees destruction, like the bio-lizard, as her true cause." Professor Gerald talked over his fellow specialists.

"What about the original!" Another scientist shouted from the group as they began to settle down.

"That is why I assembled you here." Professor Gerald opened the metallic cube and divulged to be holding a circular object. A platinum half ring, half chain. The chain part of the necklace had a strange quartz-like crystal embedded in the front of the it. "This, is Light Heart-Foot crystal." The professor pointed at the crystal lodged in the chain. "Heart-Foot is very rare and symbolizes tenderness being Heart and asperity being Foot. When the chain side is upon the Original life form facing forward, the original will become ruthless and filled with malevolence. When the ring side is upon the Original life form facing forward, the original will then become passionate and filled with affection. With or without the necklace, her special ability is that she can pick up a specific or various life form for over a one hundred mile radius."

The specialists began chatting among another once again but suddenly stopped to hear more.

"Like I said before, it was only designed for the original and if in the hands of an unauthorized personnel or of someone without hereditary match up, the necklace shall explode like an atom bomb, capable of blowing up one half of a planet-just like the true power of the Eclipse Cannon. If fallen into unauthorized hands it will have a five hour time delay before destruction, between that time you must lace it back around the original's neck."

"This is mad!" one scientist spat out.

"Indeed it is, yet if it is to keep one of the greatest secrets a secret, let it be mad." Professor Gerald began to chuckle. "The only authorized personnel that can come to grasping this item is the original, myself and any of my own family bloodline. Of course there is Project Shadow, Shadow the Hedgehog, and Rein because of their DNA also matching the original."

"What if it is off the original's neck?" a scientist asked.

"The original will then be nothing but her defective side." The specialists all arched their eyebrows. "The importance of the necklace is to enhance her abilities and to one day over ride them and become a deity of destruction just like Project Shadow. Without the necklace, she will be nothing more then just a servant to the first person she sees, doing whatever they say with a compassion for it, and would just dwell on uncertain memories." Professor Gerald pushed a different button on the monitor. The lights from the ceiling flickered on as the screen of the monitor went blank.

"Where is this original life form then!" a young specialist asked as the others agreed with him.

Professor Gerald didn't answer the question directly at first, "Like Shadow the Hedgehog, he is nothing more then the shadow of Project Shadow, he was the prototype and I gave him to my granddaughter, Maria. She is a very sweet and beautiful girl that didn't have a friend on this Colony so I gave her Shadow. Like Rein, she was nothing more then a clone yet the more destructive side of the original. But the original seemed to be more defective, like Shadow. The original will become my assistant while Shadow will be Maria's."

Professor Gerald walked over to the trap door Tails had wandered in. He placed his hand over the lever and pulled it up. "Rein will be the bio-lizards trump card. But in the event of Rein turning on our cause, the original will destroy her." The door slid open and out came a being that now stood beside Professor Gerald. "I give you, Sentinel Omnipotent Perfected Harpy Insipid Arcanum… Sentinel being guardian of life, Omnipotent being almighty as in deity, Perfected being perfecting herself by finding new challenges, Harpy being the goddess of the air, Insipid being lacking qualities that interest or stimulate her need for self-pity or low self esteem, and Arcanum being mysterious knowledge within the corners of her mind… The qualities of a perfect life form, Sophia Light Heart-Foot."

The specialists stood in awe for what their eyes showed them.

A female pale-green hedgehog stood prior to them. She was dressed in black-a black sleeveless vest and a black knee length skirt. But not everything was black on her body. She wore dark green chunky sneakers that appeared to have white, woolen X's stitched on the top. White socks escaped the soles of the shoe but only went up past her ankles. And then there were the fat, red streaks that were scene on her skirt and vest when she walked or moved her arms.

The scientist quickly flocked over to Professor Gerald and the hedgehog. They began chatting up a storm.

"Fellow Colleagues please, let me clarify further." Professor Gerald pushed them back a little, "From the characteristics of Maria-Sophia's feelings, emotions, and gender was created. From the characteristics of Shadow the Hedgehog-Sophia's animal type was created. From the characteristics of Project Shadow-Sophia's animal type was also created, not the taste for death like Rein." Professor Gerald held up the necklace.

"Taste for death…" many scientists gasped and began chatting again.

Professor Gerald placed the necklace over Sophia; it became a snug fit upon her neck. The ring side faced forward. "Her taste for death and destruction is quite rare and would only act if someone was in danger. As for her animal type, she is ninety-five percent hedgehog and five percent reptile."

Sophia's ears began to twitch as she shook her head back and forth, her wavy shoulder length hair fluttered. "Eminence…" she spoke, her voice calm yet rueful.

"Why is her voice so depressed?" a young specialist said in admiration.

"She may be benevolent, but she has not yet experienced joy so no trace of happiness would be felt in her speech." Professor Gerald began to stroke his wild mustache again.

"Eminence…" she said again as Professor Gerald, and all the other scientists, stared at her.

"Yes, Sophia?" he spoke.

Sophia's powdered purple eyes began to sparkle. "Eminence…" Sophia pointed towards the door that was the only way out of the room, "Who are the black male hedgehog and young human female peering from the corridor through the crack in the doorway?"

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Time: 43:08pm (15:08pm (3:08pm)

Place: Dr. Eggman's Hidden Base

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The group of FIVE stood in silence, no sound came from within the control room of the pyramid.

Sonic's ears began to twitch.

The pale green hedgehog stood with a straight form, staring at the ceiling of the control room with wide eyes and mouth hanging open.

Sonic's nose began to twitch, synchronized with Sonic's ears.

Knuckles began to look around the room, waiting to know why everyone was so quiet.

Sonic began grinding his teeth; he couldn't take the waiting.

Tails stood looking at the life form he had released, his eyes were sparkling at such a discovery he made.

"That's it! We don't have ALL day!" Sonic broke through the silence enraged. "What?! Did she fall asleep!" Sonic began pacing the floor.

"You're too impatient…" Knuckles began tapping his foot. "… Okay… It is taking a lot of time…" Knuckles began to grow uneasy.

"Eminence…" the hedgehog female finally said bringing her head down to face the group of five.

Eggman's mustache furrowed as he noticed that she was looking at him and him alone.

"Eminence, Professor Gerald Robotnik…" the green hedgehog began to pass everyone else up as she walked slowly towards Eggman.

"!!!" Eggman jumped for the over-sized beanbag chair he was sitting on. "I am not my grandfather, even though he had a brilliant mind, I would have to say I wouldn't mind being him!" Eggman began to bellow.

The green hedgehog stopped in her tracks, her purple eyes widened. "You are not Eminence? You are grandson of Eminence…" she clutched her fists and turned around to face the remaining four. "Send me back to the Bernoulli Space Colony, Eminence is waiting for me…"

"No can do, the transporter is out of alignment, you would just implode in the transportation beam, it's suicide." Knuckles admonished as he stepped forward.

"And even if we could, those GUN forces have seized the ARK." Sonic stepped in front of Knuckles.

"Hugh!" the girl hedgehog's eyes widened even more. "Shadow!"

The group of five jumped at what she had said.

"Shadow?" Sonic looked around the room, he finally caught on to who she meant, "ME!" he pointed at himself.

"Shadow…" the female hedgehog appeared in front of Sonic in a flash, she grabbed hold of his hands. "Sentinel Omnipotent Perfected Harpy Insipid Arcanum, Sophia Light Heart-Foot! Maria sent you to Earth, where is she, where am I, I need to save Eminence…"

Sonic shook his head, "I'm not Shadow…" he said as his head lowered. "… I'm Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog…" he tried to crack a smile but couldn't come to do so as he remembered how Shadow helped him save the Earth.

"Shadow is dead, the same with Professor Gerald Robotnik and the girl, Maria…" Rouge walked over to Sophia, she made the information sharp and direct.

Sophia's eyes bulged but then she lowered her gaze, her hands slipped away from Sonic's.

"Here." Rouge gave a wry smile as she placed her hand on the green hedgehog's shoulder. Rouge held something clutched in her hand towards Sophia. The female hedgehog let what ever it was fall into her hand.

It was Shadow's arm band Sonic had salvaged from the battle with the bio-lizard.

"But, I thought you left that on the ARK?" Knuckles spat out.

"I went back for it, before we left…" Rouge covered her mouth with her right hand, she began to blush, "D'ah! Since Shadow is gone, I thought I could sell it!" Rouge lied.

Knuckles shook his head.

Sophia's eyes grew darker. How could they treat this situation so lightly. "How did Eminence die!" her voice picked up in volume.

"It was an unsure cause." Tails finally said something. Sophia turned around and faced the two-tailed fox. "The same with Maria Robotnik… Shadow however, fell to Earth from space during the battle with Project Shadow, the fact that Shadow is still alive is highly impossible, I'm sorry." Tails tried to be sincere.

"Project Shadow! The biological lizard! You defeated Eminence's greatest work!" Sophia held her head. "If Project Shadow was defeated… Then he was never the ultimate life form… Is everyone that resided on the Bernoulli Space Colony… Are they all dead…"

"… Hu?" Tails hesitated to say as the rest of the group looked at Sophia. "I'm afraid so, you were the only one I found."

Sophia lowered her head and closed her eyes. `What is this feeling… Pity, Anger, Sorrow… Why do I feel this way, why was I cursed to feel these emotions, why did you make me this way Eminence…' Sophia shook her head.

"Are you okay?" Tails asked, the rest of the group began to form around the two.

"… Eminence…" Sophia brought her head up and gazed at Tails. "You are Eminence now…"

"HUH!" the entire group shouted in unison.

Sophia threw her arms over Tails and rested her head by his ears, "I was placed in a chronological sleep in the chamber that no one was ever supposed to find. Professor Gerald wanted to protect me from the one's that were against our cause and wanted to shut down the Bernoulli Space Colony. The same with Maria Robotnik sending Shadow to the planet Earth." She brought her head up and looked into Tails' light blue eyes. "I wanted to see Shadow again… at least one more time… But now, that will never happen."

"Don't you think you're getting a little to personal there!" Sonic growled, "He's only ten, hope ya' know that."

Tails began to blush widely.

"To get personal? Personnel? Unauthorized Personnel cannot be here, no other life entities detected within the one hundred mile radius." Sophia's eyes began to sparkle.

"Eh?" Sonic huffed.

"That fox boy doesn't deserve to be called Eminence!" Eggman roared as he pointed at Tails.

"What, and you do, lardman?" Sonic spat at him.

"GAH! I'm of Professor Gerald Robotnik's bloodline, I should be Eminence towards this life form, I can study her and figure out her past!" Eggman made a good argument.

"Are you that lonely at night." Sonic insulted with a sly smirk.

"No, no. Eminence is position of superiority. Professor Gerald created me, he was of high rank and always perfected me. I was his assistant, and now, now that he has met his demise, along with his fellow colleagues, I must now become the servant of the one who released me from my sleep. This one named Tails, shall be my superior." Sophia faced the rest of the group, she clutched the wrist band of Shadow's.

"Ah! Don't defile me in my own stronghold!" Eggman shouted as several of Eggman's robotic inventions appeared behind him. Egg Keepers, Spiky Spinners, Bladed Spinners, Rhinotanks, and Leons all stacked up behind Eggman. "Our teamwork is over, I suggest you leave in three seconds!"

"All this because you didn't get the girl, come on, you got Bat girl." Sonic mocked, Rouge was grinding her teeth as she looked at Sonic.

"I am the president's spy, I only worked with Dr. Eggman to investigate Project Shadow, and to get me some high class diamonds!" Rouge struck a pose.

"Seems more like you're choosing the winning side." Knuckles laughed.

"I won't say this again!" Eggman bellowed, "now will you join me, Sophia Light Heart-Foot, or will you rather kill yourself by joining these losers." He was ready to order his robots to attack.

The rest of the group of four turned their eyes to Sophia. "Oh…" Sophia's eyes narrowed, "you can't be of Professor Gerald's bloodline or sincere Maria's blood line… You seem to be pig-headed and too obnoxious to be a brilliant mind."

"Yeah! Tell it how it is, good comeback." Sonic laughed.

"Comeback, what is comeback? But I am right here." Sophia asked clueless.

"You insolent little bi-" Eggman shouted in fury.

"Chow, Lardman!" Sonic chuckled as he began to jog in place and held up his middle finger.

"GET THEM!" Eggman ordered furious.

Sonic began to pick up speed and rushed towards the mechanical creatures. They halted dumbfounded at what Sonic was doing. He was circling around the enemies and created a gigantic tornado of smoke. The rush of smoke blew everywhere around the control room as Eggman was sucked into the onslaught. Suddenly, the tornado fanned out and revealed that Sonic and everyone else had escaped unharmed.

Eggman rummaged from the bottom of a pile of his robots. "D'AH! He got away?! I hate that SONIC the Hedgehog!!!!" Eggman shouted as a small bee robot slammed him in the head. He fainted.

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Time: 43:20pm (15:20pm (3:20pm)

Place: On a sand dune two miles from Eggman's Hidden Base/ Pyramid

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"Looks like you're sticking with us… Sophia was it." Sonic laughed as he looked back at Eggman's base. "I bet Lardman is still spinning, ne?"

"I'm still spinning, you spiky-haired rodent!" Knuckles groaned holding his head as he lay on the sandy floor.

Sonic made a thumbs up and winked at Knuckles.

"Now that this hazard is over, I can finally collect my reward." Rouge began to laugh holding her hands together.

"I thought you said you would take a break from that," Knuckles got up from the ground, "On the ARK, you said there was something else you liked, more then jewels…"

Rouge's face beamed bright red.

The red echidna began to chuckle. "Also, I'm able to start back on track with guarding the Master Emerald," he went off topic, "unless I get another intruder that wants to steal it again." He stared at Rouge.

As the two began chatting, Sophia sat on the grain texture and ran her hands threw it.

"Hm?" Tails glanced from the rest of the group and stared towards Sophia. "What're you doing?"

"This is planet Earth, Eminence? Nothing but a hot, desert wasteland?" Sophia asked, gleaming at Tails confused.

"Huh?" Tails gasped but began to laugh. "No, there are different places all over the planet much better and cooler then this desert. Haven't you ever been to Earth from the Bernoulli Space Colony?"

"No, I was to stay and work in Professor Gerald's laboratory since I was his assistant, I could go anywhere on the Bernoulli Space Colony but only for a few minutes, I always wasted my time looking at Earth then… I never learned about planet Earth either, but I wanted to learn, Professor Gerald always said nothing good can come from learning or visiting Earth…" Sophia stood from the ground. "Will you show me all of Earth, Eminence?" she asked bowing her head.

"Of course!" Tails made a wide grin. "Wait until you see my workshop, and then there is the rest of the city close to us, the people there are very nice!"

"Uh hu…" Sophia looked up at the sky, her gaze intense. `So this is it then? I was awoken in this time to live like the life forms from planet Earth? Goodbye, Professor Gerald… Maria… Shadow…' Sophia closed her eyes.

"I better get back to work, I got other cases I got'ta work on!" Rouge smiled as she began to walk off.

"Already?" Knuckles asked. "But the party's just beginning, why not take a break for a few days." Knuckles gave an impish smirk.

"There are no breaks in the world when there are jewels to be had." Rouge placed her index and middle finger to her lips and flung them back, blowing a kiss goodbye, "Maybe we'll cross each others path again."

"Only the path I have already treaded on." Sonic joked.

"Whatever…" Rouge closed her eyes as she smiled one last time. She jumped really high in the air and began to glide off into the distance. The last thing they saw from Rouge's retreating figure, was her waving good bye.

"Well, I guess we better get going, got'ta get to my own celebration! I'm gon'na party tonight! YEH!" Sonic laughed as he placed his hands on top of his head.

"I better be going too." Knuckles piped in.

"You gon'na go after bat girl?" Sonic asked with a sly grin on his face.

"Why would I!" Knuckles cheeks shimmered pink but only a little. "I have too many responsibilities right now!"

"Well if I were you, I would go after the one I-"

"Shut up!" Knuckles roared.

"Hey, um guys…" Tails spoke just in time, right before a fight between the two broke out. "Where's my Cyclone?" he asked noticing he couldn't see his mechanical walker anywhere.

"Cyclone?" Sophia asked confused.

"Huh!" Sonic and Knuckles gasped in unison as they looked around the area.

"Oh no!" Knuckles gasped as Tails grew uneasy. "We forgot! Amy is-"

Sonic looked up at the sky with wide eyes, "Oh Shi-"

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Time: 45:00pm (17:00pm (5:00pm)

Place: Tails' workshop (located in the Mystic Ruins)

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"The president has given G.U.N., the high-level military force whose base has been abolished by Dr. Ivo Robotnik earlier, the rights to infiltrating and obtaining the research facility ARK. Two hours ago, G.U.N. has obtained the space colony and they now have it stationed in a fortress that was meant to be a back-up base. The head general of G.U.N. requested that its whereabouts were kept secret. The ARK is a very massive colony ranging over most of North America and its height is undefined as of this point. The president also has hired the greatest minds of the entire world to examine the space colony further. The Eclipse Cannon is left restricted in an isolation chamber located inside G.U.N.'s stronghold after they dismantled it from the ARK. Some of the greatest specialists are preparing to anatomize and investigate the Eclipse Cannon within the hour."

"Crap!" Sonic shouted slamming his fist on the worktable where the small television sat.

"Calm down Sonic, they didn't actually say that they found anyone on the colony, maybe Amy got away." Knuckles spoke up next to Sonic as the broadcast continued.

"She got away?! Bat girl explained before that if anyone took the transporter after the time limit was up, they would have exploded. Come to think of it, I could've taken my time if I was gon'na come back to Earth either way thanks to G.U.N.! I could've then zoomed out of their base without being rushed." Sonic was on edge as he clutched his hands.

"Imploded actually." Tails corrected him with a tranquil tone.

"They're the same thing!" Sonic shouted. "Why are you so calm!"

Tails was engineering the Tornado 2 on the higher floor above Sonic and Knuckles. Sophia sat on the rail looking down on Sonic and Knuckles without a care in her eyes.

"I doubt the fact that Amy tried using the transporter after Rouge made it so blunt about what might happen." Knuckles tried to calm Sonic down. "She said she would wait for you, and I think that is what she did."

"So what, it's my fault!" Sonic growled.

"In a way, yes. You told her to guard Tails' Cyclone until you got back and you just up and forgot her!" Knuckles roared back.

"I thought she left with you guys, Knuckle-head! If I would've known she was still there I would've sacrificed myself in order to get her safely back here." Sonic grabbed Knuckles by the shoulders.

The two began to roll around on the floor and punching each other.

Sophia leaned back and then jumped off the rail. She walked over to Tails. "Eminence, who is Amy, why do they fight over her, do they both have a romantic relationship with her?" Sophia said as she held up Tails' tool kit.

Tails glanced at Sophia, his eyes welled up with tears. He was sitting on the floor.

"Eminence… Tears escape your eyes, are you in pain." Sophia dropped the tool kit.

Tails sniffled, "No… But this is all my fault. If I never wandered off, Amy would be here and not you…" Tails tried to make his statement light. "Hand me the monkey wrench."

Sophia bent down and grabbed the tool from the kit. She gave it to him, "I do not understand. You cry tears of regret? You regret releasing me…"

"It's not like that. You do open the doors of unanswered questions, but Amy was my friend." Tails stood, not even using the wrench.

"And now I am your assistant, your servant, Eminence." Sophia walked back over to the rail.

"I'm only ten, I don't need a servant… You can be my friend or my assistant, if you stop calling me Eminence." Tails threw the wrench back in the tool kit and walked besides Sophia, both stared down at Sonic and Knuckles still rolling around on the floor. "By the way, how old are you."

Sophia's eyes sparkled and her ears twitched, "Memory dates back to… I am fifty-one years old. But in appearance I am sixteen."

Tails itched his head as he realized how much her eyes would flash. "Um, your eyes, why do they sparkle like that?" Tails asked.

"My sensory organs pick up life forms in a one-hundred mile radius. My eyes `sparkle', as you say , so I can become aware of my surroundings. Also to keep you safe from harm, Eminence." Sophia said with no emotion to her voice.

"Keep me safe…?" Tails trailed off when his attention focused on the news broadcast. He held his breath as his sclera in his eyes grew making his blue irises in his pupils much smaller.

"Eminence, there is no oxygen protruding from your body, are you dying?" Sophia asked still with her depressed expression. She had said her sentence so loud that she had caught the attention of the quarreling duo on the lower floor.

Tails had to choke out his words in order to tell the others what was on the television screen. "… Amy! S-She's right… THERE!" Tails shouted and pointed to the television set, leading all eyes towards it too.

Sonic pushed Knuckles away from him and was in front of the set in just under half a millisecond. "Amy…"

The news reporter on the set shifted some papers and began to talk again as a picture of Amy huddled by Tails' Cyclone was shown in the right corner of the screen. "It seems that when G.U.N. was decontaminating the ARK thoroughly, they have come across a life form possibly living on the ARK ever since it shut down-"

"Living on the ARK? How wrong can these newscasters be!" Sonic shouted slamming both his fists on the worktable forcefully, making the television's picture become fuzzy for five seconds.

"-The life form resembles a young hedgehog female and could have been assisting Robotnik on the ARK. Reasons because are from this mechanical walker that was found with her. G.U.N. has found out that there is a wide assortment of arsenal attached to the walker. The hedgehog and the machine are now considered dangerous. The female insists that she had nothing to do with Robotnik's causes but G.U.N. will take her in for further interrogation. Because of the strange mishaps happening upon the ARK, scientists plan on dissecting the girl in order to study her if she was once from Earth. As for the machine, scientists are planning on also dismantling it in order to study it too."

"What! You can't do that to a living and breathing creature!" Knuckles yelled at the television set.

"Tails! We got to find out where they took Amy!" Sonic shouted clenching his fist as he stared at his two-tailed friend.

Tails shook his head vigorously and began to say, "Sophia, I-"

Tails stopped himself when he noticed Sophia had jumped from the railing and was now on the lower floor. She stood bewitched by the television set.

"What's wrong with-" Knuckles couldn't finish his sentence as he saw her eyes. Not only were they sparkling but the sclera was turning red. Her knees were wobbling as she stared endlessly at the television.

Sonic stepped back as he looked at the news broadcast.

"A strange necklace was found on the ARK just two hours ago. It was made from an outrageously valuable crystal and is in the strangest of designs for a necklace." A picture appeared in the right corner of the television showing one of the scientists holding up the necklace. "The specialists have place the necklace within and air lock chamber located within the stronghold of G.U.N. Scientists are planning on dismantling it as well in order to see if it had any connections with the Eclipse Cannon. Coming up, a full report on the minds behind the funding of the ARK, stay tuned." A close-up image of the necklace behind a glass window was the last thing that was shown on the screen before the broadcast went on break.

Sophia's sclera returned to its original white color. She turned around and grabbed Sonic's hands. "They have Light Heart-Foot!" she shouted squeezing his hands.

"What is Light Heart-Foot?" Knuckles asked trying to loosen her grasp on Sonic's wrists.

"I knew that crystal looked familiar!" Tails called. "I remember seeing an article flash over the control panel when I released Sophia from that isolation pod on the ARK. Just before Sonic showed up."

"What is Light Heart-Foot!" Knuckles asked again staring at Tails with fists in a clamp.

"On the article it talked about the necklace being able to control the conscience of Sentinel Omnipotent Perfected Harpy Insipid Arcanum, I have no idea what it means but I do remember it being around Sophia's neck… It must've fallen off when we fell from the blast G.U.N. had impacted us with!" Tails pondered.

"That was the clinking sound rolling back down the hall!" Sonic finally realized.

Sophia loosened her grasp on the blue hedgehog. "I can feel it within me. Light Heart-Foot crystal is pulsating as we speak. It wants to be found…"

"Pulsating?" Knuckles murmured.

"Professor Gerald was a genius, he never wanted anything to fall into the hands of anyone of unknown origin. He designed it to detonate, taking half the planet with it if it was held by a life form with unidentified heredity match-up." Sophia held her head down.

"WHAT!" the group gasped in unison.

"This is just great, not only is Amy gon'na die if we don't save her, we got'ta find a way to destroy this Light Heart thing before it self-destructs!" Sonic smacked himself in the head.

"NO! You cannot destroy it! It was designed to ignite on contact if ANYONE tampered with it." Sophia stared back up towards Sonic, locking her gaze with his.

"So as soon as those scientists crack that thing open-" Knuckles started to say.

"Now I can see how Eggman and this professor are related." Sonic tried not to make his statement sarcastic.

Tails broke out in a sweat, "Sophia! Is there a way to stop the necklace from detonating?!"

"Affirmative, of course. The Light Heart-Foot crystal has a five hour time delay, within that time, Light Heart-Foot must be placed back around my neck. But, I remember Professor Gerald inputting something about the different sides of Light Heart-Foot during my gestation time within the isolation capsule before I was born, but, my memory seems faint…" Sophia held her head.

"Five hour time delay! They said that they found the necklace two hours ago. We have less then three hours to find out where this stronghold is and save the Earth once again!" Knuckles groaned in frustration.

"We can never get a break…" Sonic shook his head becoming impatient.

Tails used his two tails and propelled himself towards the lower floor. "Sophia, you said you can feel Light Heart-Foot crystal pulsate within you. Could it be that it is drawing you towards it?"

"Positively, undoubtedly. The pulsating is coming from a mix of directions but is strong in just three." Sophia turned her powdered-purple eyes towards Tails now.

"Just three?" Tails began to grow pensive.

"Eminence… Two of the impacting pulses are coming from the northeast direction while the fainter one is coming from the south."

Sonic began tapping his foot.

"If I could somehow hot wire a transmitting device with your brain waves, you might be able to locate the exact positions of the three unknown pulses." Tails kept talking as he used his fox tails to fly back up to the higher floor to get to work.

"Could it be that there are more than just one Light Heart-Foot crystal? It would explain a lot…" Knuckles asked Sophia.

"No, there was only one. Professor Gerald annihilated the others by jettisoning them to the luminous celestial burning star 93,000,000 miles from Earth." Sophia acknowledged.

"Just say `the sun', you're beginning to remind me too much of Eggman." Sonic tapped his foot faster. "Come on! We're wasting time just standing around!"

"The broadcast said that the ARK ranged over most of North America… So it couldn't be anywhere between here and South America." Knuckles said itching his head.

"Those continents are out of the question… The only thing I learned about Earth was the continents on it… none of which are vast in diameter to contain the Bernoulli Space Colony without innocent bystanders to notice…" Sophia grew doubtful.

"No wait." Knuckles began to think.

"Ne?" Sonic looked towards Knuckles.

"There are two places on Earth that might just be where the ARK is." Knuckles grew a smirk on his face.

"Where is this place?" Sophia asked blinking her eyes.

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Time: 46:45pm (18:45pm (6:45pm)

Place: The Tornado 2 (flying over the Atlantic Ocean)

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"The two strong signals seem to be generating much faster as we get closer to Asia." Tails announced. He had goggles with a brown outer casing covering his eyes as he piloted the Tornado 2.

"Asia… It does range farther then North and South America, but Eminence, how could it fit the Bernoulli Space Colony?" Sophia asked shouting through the onslaught of the sharp wind stinging the uncovered parts of her body as she held onto the vertical stabilizer of the plane for dear life. Covering her eyes and the rest of her head was a metallic helmet with an antenna sticking out from the right side. She was able to see because transparent eye lenses were drilled into from the front.

"Russia is the largest country on Asia, the signals are emitting from there, so it has to be somewhere in Russia." Tails shouted back as he held a remote device in his hand. The device had a radar installed into it and was getting signals submitted from Sophia's brain waves that were getting the pulsing signals from somewhere in Russia.

"Tails!" Sonic shouted as well. He was standing on his usual spot on top of the Tornado 2. "Where has Knuckles ran off to?" Sonic was the only one that didn't have a device Tails created in his short time-of course he wouldn't have a transmitting helmet since he couldn't feel this crystal pulse inside himself and also, he didn't have time for that technical stuff.

"Knuckles took the other remote and went to the place emitting the fainter signal. Antarctica." Tails responded.

"But what if Antarctica is where the ARK really is?" Sonic questioned.

"We're taking a big gamble…" Tails sighed.

"Eminence… I know it must be in this Russia. A strange aura pulsates in synchronous with my own, feels as if it could be a part of me, not an enhancement of me." Sophia's voice grew silent. The fans at the front grew louder as the conversation between the group was now mute.

"Um, Sophia, do you remember the purpose of the Light Heart-Foot?" Tails asked breaking through the silence.

"I cannot remember… The only thing I know is that the Light Heart-Foot is to enhance something about me… But my memory is spent." Sophia rested her head down on the vertical stabilizer.

Sonic crossed his arms around his chest. He looked up at the sky; not caring for the sharp gust of wind that kept hitting his body over and over. The blue hedgehog closed his eyes and didn't feel like talking for the rest of the way. `… Amy… Hang in there…'

"We have now just entered Europe." Tails spoke out, the last voice to be heard until they met their destination.

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Time: 47:05pm (19:05pm (7:05pm)

Place: Fifty miles outside of Dikson, Russia

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"No wonder no one noticed the ARK… They secluded it in the Arctic Ocean!" Sonic's ears began to twitch.

"Not only that, but also is buried under the North Polar Land." Tails read off the remote device.

Sonic, Tails, and Sophia were conversing behind the Tornado 2. The Tornado 2 was well hidden behind a large snow mound. Out of the whole area was nothing but a dead, froze over wasteland with a very significant fragment sticking off in the distance. The G.U.N.'s second stronghold stretched out all over the area, ranging farther then the eye could see. The base did resemble a gigantic, metallic fence since it was outlining a fraction of the ARK-a very small part of the ARK seemed as if it were sinking into the water but you definitely couldn't see how far below it was extending because the G.U.N. stronghold was in the way.

"Makes you wonder if they DID build this knowing someday they would have the ARK imprisoned within their walls." Sonic's ears began to twitch faster.

"The compound is rather large and Amy, the Cyclone, and Light Heart-Foot could be anywhere." Tails walked over to the right side of the snow dune and peeked out. "Most likely, Light Heart-Foot and the Cyclone could be in the same room since the pulsating from the two signals are coming from the northwestern direction heading through the ARK."

"So the objects are in the ARK, what about Amy?" Sonic yelled frustrated.

Tails walked back over to his other two comrades. "Um, Sophia, could you scan the area again, just like you did in my lab."

"What's that gon'na do!" Sonic asked irritated.

"Of course, Eminence. Since this G.U.N.'s fortress is within a little under a hundred mile radius from here, I can do as much." Sophia stood from her crouching position. She walked over towards the right side of the snow dune where Tails just was. Her eyes flashed for five seconds before she turned back around to the pair.

"Amy's life force signature is located towards the western part of the compound. Other signatures that were noticed were many human life forms with different ethnicity surrounding her." Sophia nodded, looking back at Tails. "Will that be all, Eminence?"

"Uh... YEAH!" Tails spat out with a goofy grin as sweat broke out over his face.

"Those are the scientists… Tails…" Sonic began cracking his knuckles.

"Yeah, Sonic?" Tails spoke up.

"I'm going after Amy." Sonic began to walk towards the two.

Tails jumped, "But Sonic! We should try and stick-"

"Tails!" Sonic's expression grew enraged but it suddenly softened, "Tails… You go and find your walker and stop that bomb from detonating. I don't work well with that mechanical stuff anyway…" Sonic now walked from the cover of the snow mound.

Tails nodded as Sophia stood expressionless, as always.

Sonic turned back to his partners; "I'll distract those gung-ho forces' fire." He held up a thumbs up. "This is a promise, time to fly!"

Sonic descended from over the top of the snow dune and raced off towards the base.

Sophia turned towards Tails as Sonic was now out of their view. "Why is Sonic the Hedgehog feeling guilt and regret?" she asked. "It is unprobable that an ordinary creature can take on a military fortress by themselves…"

Tails looked at Sophia with a smile, "Come on, let's get to work." Tails began propelling himself in the air with his two tails. He extended his hand for Sophia to hold on. "Besides… Sonic is not an ordinary creature…"

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Time: 47:15pm (19:15pm (7:15pm)

Place: Inside G.U.N.'s stronghold

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"Emergency, all personnel-repeat-emergency, all personnel report! Security breech on levels one, two, and three. Dispatch and obtain the intruder! This is not a drill!" A mechanical voice ringed over the assortment of intercoms all over the base.

Red lights flashed and tumultuous, bloodcurdling sirens drowned out through the area. Military forces rushed out from different rooms suited up and ready for battle.

"Hold your ground men!" a general shouted in a raspy voice. All the G.U.N. troops followed the order. They all kneeled down and held their rifles up towards one of the main gates into level four. The men grew edgy and most of them hand their fingers trembling on the trigger, ready to fire. As the troops grew zealous, they had forgotten one important thing.

"Don't fire until you see the-" The general began to call until he halted himself.

A strong gush of wind blew past the entire squadron; most of the men were knocked back on their behinds. The troops obviously forgot to close the wide gap going through the center of their forces. A blur of blue was seen for at least a millisecond before it was out of their sight.

The general jumped up from the ground and began shouting, "Men fire!"

His orders fell on deaf ears. All the other men were still lying on the floor as if the wind was knocked out of them. One troop member stood up and faced the general.

"Blast! What now, cadet!" the general asked enraged. "Move so I can shoot!" he said about to pull the trigger.

"Sir," The cadet saluted and bowed, "Your gun… Is pointed to your face."

The general accidentally pulled the trigger before he heard this.

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Time: 47:20pm (19:20pm (7:20pm)

Place: Research lab (Inside G.U.N.'s stronghold)

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"Hey lemme out of here! Lemme go!" Amy pounded on the thick glass. She was in an isolated room with white, puffy cushions attached over the walls, floor, and ceiling. It was as if they thought she was psychotic.

Amy couldn't hear what the scientists were saying because of the sound proof room she was in but when she noticed the red lights flashing, she knew that couldn't be good.

Suddenly, a blast from the door broke through the room out side of the glass window. The scientists had fled, leaving Amy trapped within the room. A fire broke out and Amy had no way out. Amy could've given up hope if it wasn't for the figure that flew from the blaze and stood in front of the glass with a devious smirk on his face.

Amy gasped and her cheery tone rang in her voice. "Sonic!"

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Time: 47:31pm (19:31pm (7:31pm)

Place: Inside the ARK's cargo area

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"Quickly, open the door before G.U.N. finds us." A scientist with a narrow face and bushy hair, resembling that of Albert Einstein, proclaimed looking over his shoulders.

Two men stood in a dark, vast area aboard the ARK. An eerie mist surrounded the perimeter. Since there was no lighting the only thing that flickered in the dark passage was a blowtorch scorching through the wall.

"To think, all this time, the answers to one of the greatest questions of the universe would be right here behind this wall!" the scientist laughed in a low pitch. "Whoever that intruder was that broke into the base, I might have to congratulate him for distracting everyone else long enough for us to make our disappearing act."

"Hn." The other, burly, scientist groaned through gritted teeth. He was operating the blowtorch obviously and didn't seem much for words.

"If I never discovered that message on the disk in the central control room of this vessel. This room would remain a mystery!" the skinnier scientist began rubbing his knuckles. "Who would've guessed the answers were located in the most uncanny place. Behind a wall of the cargo area!"

"Mh." The brawny man grunted as the sparks from the torch lit up his face. He was clean-shaven and had caterpillar eyebrows.

"Of course, my fellow colleague, I'll mention you somewhere in my great speech when I sell this information! All the heavyset people I had to step over to get where I am! No offense my friend." The scrawny scientist patted his companion's back.

"Eh." The robust man snorted. The square shape he was cutting fell back from its place and hit the inside of the empty room in front of them.

"Ah, we're in." the greedier man's voice echoed through the cargo room.

Both men stepped into the room, causing dust to camouflage the air as soon as their feet made contact. Both men began to cough when the particles entered their nostrils.

In an instant, millions of lights flickered on, blinding both men for a second as they got use to the room not being as dark as the cargo area. When their eyes opened to the room for the first time, they stood astounded.

Two wide screens were each on opposite sides of the room with a control counsel in the middle of the room. Behind the control counsel was a vast, mechanical tube that had a tiny triangle shaped window at eye level. It was slanted back with numerous wires hooked into the back. The triangular window seemed frosted over.

The skinny scientist bolted over to the control counsel and began glancing it over. The other scientist walked calmly over to the mechanical receptacle.

"These controls! YES! Where should I start, how will I decipher?!" the bony man grew excited.

The thick-bodied scientist was looking through the small glass. He couldn't see well into the isolated chamber, but he could make out a shadowed figure. He turned his attention back towards his FRIEND when he heard a clicking sound.

In the right hand of the taller man was a pistol aimed right at the shorter man. "No use both of us claiming the fame? I told you how I walked all over every heavyset man just to get to the top, you were just in my way. No hard feelings, ne? I'm so glad I could toy with you just to get where I wanted!" the demented man began to chuckle, "Any last words, comrade?"

The stronger man stood expressionless. He didn't seem to cower in fear as he stood peering into the eyes of this traitor. He closed his eyes and sighed, "Th…"

The maniacal scientist began to bellow, "Even in your last seconds of life, you still are a lack for words?! Pathetic!" He left the devilish sneer on his face. "Adios!"

The man fired the trigger, but, at the same time, the room began to shake. Making the psychotic scientist's aim off target. The stout man ducked as the bullet broke through the triangular window of the container. A freezing haze exited on impact. The tube began to crack open and glow red.

A shard from the glass blew out from the tank and struck the skinnier scientist right through the heart, dying on contact. The pistol fell to the ground simultaneously with the deranged scientist. Dark red puddles of blood grew under the man as the shard from the glass was easily seen jutting from his back. Another blast blew out from the container, knocking the heavier man through the entrance from whence he entered.

The hidden lab caught on fire from the previous blasts. The brawny man couldn't believe what he saw before his vision blanked out. Impossible. Standing among the flames, clothed with the inferno, a creature, eyes full of the dancing flames.

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Time: 47:50pm (19:50pm (7:50pm)

Place: In a research lab in a hallway outside of the cargo area of the ARK

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"Eminence, something doesn't feel right…" Sophia's voiced reverberated through the room. She was sitting inside of Tails' mechanical walker. Tails, on the other hand, was trying to crack a code on a large, iron seal of a mechanical door. All the scientists had deserted the entire floor just as soon as Sophia and Tails entered the ARK, they didn't know what the cause for that was. Maybe they were assigned to leave because of the break in.

"Hmm, wait, no…" Tails was talking to himself, ignoring Sophia's words. He had hooked a wire from the remote device into the panel of the iron seal.

"Eminence, the pulsating from the direction slightly from here has gotten stronger. And, two life properties have suddenly disappeared in that same area. We need to leave now." Sophia admonished standing up in the seat of the Cyclone.

"… We have to stop the detonation… You know that, I couldn't stand by and see people die…" Tails said lowly.

"But we've wasted so much time, Eminence… This door is impossible!" Sophia shouting for once, slamming her fists on the control panel. Fortunately for her, she had just pushed down on a button that activated the Cyclone's Volkan Cannon's full power.

"Eminence!" Sophia screamed as the shooter on his walker began to power up to full force. Tails turned around. The Cannon fired a luminous beam that blinded the area for a few seconds.

When the light faded, Sophia had jumped out at the nick-of-time, knocking both her and Tails onto the cold floor. They slid towards the wall.

"Sophia!" Tails shouted.

Sophia pulled him upward until he was standing back on solid ground. "What is wrong, Eminence? Were you hurt. If only I acted sooner…" she clenched his shoulders wanting answers.

"N-no!" Tails broke out in sweat as his cheeks began to glow pink. "It's just, you opened the door!" he pointed out.

Sophia turned around and then looked back at Tails, "But you're okay, ne?" she wanted to be sure.

She hadn't noticed that he had slipped from her grasp and was now in his Cyclone moving onward. "Since the remote device was hooked up to the door's mainframe, it was easy to break the code because you surged the energy of the blast through the wire, destroying the door…" Tails droned on.

Sophia walked in front of the door. A narrow hallway with a wide assortment of lights beaming off the floor. Something was coming, but she couldn't remember what. The pulsating in the pit of her chest got stronger. Time was almost up. "What is this feeling? Concern! A bad omen is coming!" Sophia sniffed something. "… Fire?"

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Time: 47:55pm (19:55pm (7:55pm)

Place: Outside of G.U.N.'s stronghold on top of the snow dune

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"Do you see them?" Amy asked Sonic holding her hands together in a plea.

"Darn, I don't see them! If it wasn't for all those helicopters and military forces fleeing all over the place." Sonic `s ears began to twitch in frustration. "How much time left?!"

"I.. don't know… Time left for what?" Amy was left clueless, not knowing what the other story to coming to the base was.

"I'm going back!" Sonic spat out about to rush down the snow hill.

"Sonic-" Amy began to say.

"Get in the Tornado 2 and fly as high as you can to the sky." Sonic interrupted her, he then took off before she could argue. She lost sight of him in the crowd of retreaters.

Amy stood puzzled, "But… I don't know how to operate the Tornado 2…" she spoke to no one in the icy, not-so-desolate-anymore wasteland.

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Time: 47:57pm (19:57pm (7:57pm)

Place: At the end of the narrow hallway from the research lab by the cargo area

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"Impossible…" Tails stood outside of his Cyclone looking through a glass door at the end of the hallway. Of course there was a miniature airlock foyer made of plastic behind the door leading to a room also encased in glass behind another door. In the center of that room was what must have been, or what was made out to be, the Light Heart-Foot; the half ring, half chain necklace with the Light Heart-Foot crystal lodged in the chain portion.

Wires-too many that could be counted-were hooked up into numerous places all over the necklace as it sat there, isolated from the outside. You could hardly see the small necklace completely because of so many wires.

"There are no suits or oxygen tanks. How am I supposed to get in there fast enough without losing oxygen. I could try holding my breath… No, there's a chance that I could get caught in all those wires, then I would risk Sophia's life by having her come in and saving me." Tails was getting paranoid.

Tails leaped in and glanced at the timer on the counsel of his Cyclone, 7:58pm

`I'm running out of time!' Tails began to think, `I'll just blow the door off so oxygen will seep into the room. But the blast might hit one of the wires sending a surge of fire that can rupture and detonate the necklace! No choice!' Tails fired his Volkan Cannon again in a haste. But this time, when the light cleared, the door remained intact.

"NO!" Tails shouted bemused. "Oh no! Less then two minutes left! What do I do?!" Tails broke out in a cold sweat as his eyes bugged out. "I'll just have to go in and hold my breath, hoping for the best!" Tails spat out in a rush as he jumped from his Cyclone and turned the lock on the door.

"Stop, Eminence!" Sophia finally jolted into the scene. She ran up behind Tails and knocked him back. He slammed into the front of his Cyclone, "I'm going to take this risk, you have too much to live for… Get out of here… You have your friends waiting for you…" she spoke with her same expressionless face. She turned the lock on the door and flung it open. "Adios." Sophia was sucked into the foyer and the door shut behind her, the lock turning back to its original position and now locking from the inside with an access panel for exiting appearing on the inside of the door.

Tails ran to the door, "Oh no!" he tried to turn the lock so it would open but it was jammed tight. `Sophia won't have enough time to figure out the code inside! Why didn't I see this sooner! She'll sacrifice herself in order to save a planet she never even been to?!' Tails' eyes grew wider, "Sophia!"

Sophia inhaled as much oxygen as she could and opened the second door to the main room. She was drawn into the airless chamber and floated over to the center-It was as if she was in space since there was no gravity to go with there being no air. She began pulling the wires from off the necklace in a haste-she was moving slower each time one came off.

Her lungs began to tighten as the last one was removed, revealing the necklace as it shined in her hands. It was heating up and began to burn through her gloves, singeing her palms. Her vision became feckless and her mouth opened for air. None was there for her as her eyes began to close and she grew nauseated from the pressures on her lungs. Her fingers grew lifeless and the necklace slipped from them.

"Five seconds left! Sophia!" Tails cried out to her.

The necklace was fully out of her hands and sinking further away as her form floated backward stagnant. He cried out to her again, but what was the use… She couldn't hear anything anymore… Nothing was there for her anymore… Nothing but the sound of a beating heart…

"Sophia!"

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Time: 48:00pm (20:00pm (8:00pm)

Place: One mile outside of G.U.N. stronghold

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"Omigosh! Look!" A man from the military crowd pointed towards part of the ARK off in the distance surrounded within the base.

"Get out of my way!" Sonic shouted pushing fleeing people out of his way, making it hard to run without knocking into someone. He grew even more frustrated.

Suddenly, the entire crowd, as if dead, grew mute and motionless. They stared dumbfounded at what they saw flickering through the sky.

Sonic made his way to the front and looked off into the distance. His pupils in his eyes shrunk in size. "… No…" is what he wanted to come from his mouth but no sound came from within. The sky was lit up from the explosion that emerged from the ARK. The entire ARK was engulfed with flames as the fire was spreading throughout the area and extending further. The crowd began to run away from the massive ravaging, but Sonic stood without running away. His eyes welling up but still widened as the annihilation drew closer.

"… Tails…"

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To be continued…?