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"How long," I asked

Aso didn't answer; instead she rummaged underneath the wreckage of the X-tornado, continuing her modifications.

"Question of my life," Aso huffed, dragging a circuit board and drilling it into place.

Aso had labored with the mechanism for hours at my request. And she was clearly struggling. "If the question is how soon I can get us into the sky. A day, earliest. This is plasma damage! All major up links are fried, I can't even get the radio to work!" She hit the side of the jet in frustration.

I sighed. The longer we kept waiting the closer we got to complete annihilation. But I knew there was nothing we could do. It was all up to Aso.

"Hey Ivory," Aso asked turning around "Are you sure this is a good idea?"

"It's the best plan we got," I reasoned

"I know that, but" She sighed closing her eyes as she let her twin tails droop. "There are too many unknowns; Delta—sorry—Beta-Moblius is just going to get stronger. I heard what he said over the intercom. He has more evolutions, and considering how strong he is now, how can we—how can we bare it?"

"That's why we're taking the risk," I explained, "It's the only way to know for sure."

She stared at me, her usually energetic blue gazes filled with sorrow and darkened with worry: "I'm scared, ivory."

Aso was just an eleven-year-old girl. She shouldn't have to be fighting this war. It was too big for her, too big for any of us.

"I'd be surprised if you weren't," I said giving her a hug.

"Yeah…well I am," She sniffed, she let me go and she began tinkering with a couple of bolts. "Just don't expect me to hang in there when the going get's rough. I'm pulling out as soon as I hear the first TSSH!"

I laughed at her joke, Aso stared at me angrily.

"I'm serious! This baby has been through too much." She smacked the broken ship, causing a chain reaction of clangs and booms.

"I believe you." I wheezed

Her tails whirled in frustration

"Alright Aso, I'll see you later. Gotta make sure Shock hasn't hurled anybody out of a window."I left her staring at the pile that used to be our jet.

I didn't envy her position.

I wasn't wrong when I said Shock was going to throw someone out of a window. Because was holding a man by his ankle.

"Aah!" The human screamed as Shock continued his torment.

"What did you say about me, punk?" Shock snarled, contorting his face in such a way that even the most ferocious beast would quail. A crowd had gathered around the two.

Civilians watched the scene with mild interest but then return to their food. The soldiers paced the floor, guns in hands but unsure if they were willing to shoot. Krystal and Ember were closest to Shock, waiting to see if they should intervene.

"I said that you were a Mobian scum! And that your kind should have never come to earth, you ruined everything!'" The man was braver than most for he did not shy away from Shock deadly glare, instead he focused on his face, trying to appear dignified. Which wasn't easy when someone had you upside down, believe me I've tried.

Shock apparently had enough of the man speech, because he threw him to the side. I hurried over to catch the missile but Shock's aim was true. The stranger landed in a thicket of dumpsters. He arose from the squander, unharmed, but smelly strongly of a waste. A banana peel clung to his face.

"We didn't ask for this war!" Shock howled at the stranger "We didn't start this mess."

"Yes, but now we have to finish it!" The stranger scream at Shock, it's only because of you Mobians-" He never finished his sentence, because Shock was charging straight at him:

"Enough I shouted raising a wall of energy to stop him. Shock completely ignored the barricade, forcing his way through with extreme ferocity.

"Shock, you have to stop this! You're going to wreck the entire city just because of one man!" I struggled to reign in the enchinda but he was too strong he continued with the force of a bullet train.

Shock reached the stranger grabbed him viciously and raised him to eye level: "Listen here; I don't care who you are, or where you from but you do not diss Mobius. Here we are trying to save you sorry butt and all you do is complain. Right now we have bigger enemies to worry about."

The man still showed grit, but even he was starting to see the logic in Shock words.

"Indeed you are right young enchinda," McCain's voice boomed, shocking the onlookers from their stupor. He walked down the stairs slowly and the crowd parted to allow him through. The soldiers all stood at attention, even the starving men and women gave their respects. Anthony was a powerful man even when not in uniform.

"Please sir, would you mind freeing my solider?"

Shock grudgingly let go of his prisoner and walked past us, glaring at the floor and huffing angrily.

"What happened?" I hissed at Ember

"I tell you later," she mouthed back

I wanted the answer right then and there but this was not the time to argue amongst ourselves. Grudgingly I returned my attention to Anthony McCain and the solider.

. "What is your name solider?" McCain's asked, his voice even scaring me, it was like a wind that penetrated even the most powerful of armors.

"I am Jason Blake…sir," He replied not looking the general in the eyes. "Captain Blake"

"Well Captain Blake, you of all people know that we need the Mobians assistance if we are ever going to go back to the way things were. And even then we are going to need the help," Anthony raised his voice encompassing the perimeter of the courtyard: "Our planet is broken, are country is in shambles and yet we sit here bickering amongst ourselves and creating enemies of our allies. We cannot let this tyrant continue to rule. He who is neither man nor Mobian. An abomination that must be stopped!"

The crowd moved towards McCain like a moth drawn to light. McCain was a voice of reason in a cloud of chaos. He was their rock. And nothing was going to push him down.

"For too long we have fled from Delta-Moblius. Who amongst you is strong enough to continue the fight? Who amongst you will help me take back your homes, who amongst you will dare strike back at the robotic hands that binds you into this place? Is it not wrong that man created technology and that man is ruled by it? Strike back into the heart of Beta-Moblius or whatever counts as his heart. We must take back what is ours!"

The crowd roared its approval, shouting praises and threats towards Beta-Moblius. Humans were the weaker race but they were tenacious and nothing, save death would stop them from bringing Beta-Moblius to his knees.

After the invigorating speech I had exited courtyard.

Shock words were true I mused. We couldn't complete this alone. We had to work together; apparently Shock had tried speaking to Blake but was severely disrespected by the young captain. And it was already like dancing through a minefield when speaking to Shock, let alone when he was in one of his foul moods.

Then to top it all off, we were without guidance. Our parents had been our rock, our voice of reason and now they were gone. I began choking on fear; I wasn't even strong enough to fight Delta-Moblius let alone Beta. How the heck was I suppose to do this.

I reached a temporary gym that the G.U.N members had set up for the seven of us. When I opened the door I forced myself to calm down: Don't think about them, I told myself. Just train.

When I turned around, I found that Delphian had, had the same idea. His gym bag was plopped at the edge of the stage.

He was working solo, whaling on battle dummies with his blade Demolous.
Delphian was dripping with sweat. His expression was so intense; his life might've really been in danger. I watched fascinated, as he disemboweled the whole row of dummies, hacking off limbs and basically reducing them to a pile of straw and armor.

They were only dummies, but I still couldn't help being awed by Delphian's skill. The guy was an incredible fighter. It made me wonder, again how we could've possibly failed at our quest. Our team was strong and work well together. We just couldn't do it alone.

Finally, he saw me, and stopped mid-swing. "Ivory,"

"Hey," I replied casually moving a couple of the dummies in front of me. "You're really mad at those dummies aren't you?"

Instead of replying Delphian sheathed his swords and grabbed his bag, tossing it over his shoulder with malice. "Playtime is over Ivory. Beta-Moblius took our parents; he's planning on destroying Mobius."

I stood dumfounded as he pushed past me, a distinct smell of ozone surrounding him. He twisted to the door and strolled out.

"This is war."

Delphian's words rang true, this was war. There were no more chances. If my plan failed we would be licking our wounds in defeat. Nothing save for victory would stand to gain if we didn't succeed.

After training with no enthusiasm for awhile I felt the need to go to my room. There was nothing to do save for wait and think. And waiting wasn't my strong point, thinking didn't help one bit.

"He's right you know," A voice stated behind me

"Agh!" I whipped around fist spurting with energy.

Breeze cocked her head, totally unfazed by my reaction "Are you going to sit on me Elephant-head?"

"No," I admitted "You just scared me, that's all"

She chuckled and sauntered over. "I do have that affect on people." She stared at the balcony her green eyes flashing like a storm.

I laughed nervously. "What do you mean? Who's right?"

"Delphian is." She kicked a loose pebble off the roof of the balcony. It flew a hundred feet before gliding to a stop. "This means war. The fight is reaching its climax; it's not just about earth anymore."

"How so?" I asked sharply

"The others and I have been talking," She started "This 'evolution' of his, is just the beginning. He was too weak as Delta-Moblius to attack Mobius."

"But he's not anymore," I finished for her.

"Exactly," she exclaimed "We need to strike while the irons hot."

"You want to rescue our parents?" I inquired

She gazed at the storm clouds for a long time; she finally spoke after a moment: "No, that would be suicidal. None of us are strong enough to face Beta-Moblius right now."

"So you see why my plan is so important."

"Yeah, I see that necessity of it, but not the results," She stated "What if this is just a wild goose chase? There could be nothing there at all."

"We have to try," I insisted "You said yourself that it was necessary, without this we would be running into battle blind."

There was silence for a long amount of time. The chaotic clouds threatened to break, struggling to hold back the tide of lighting and rain. The tempest was almost like this conversation, ready to break into blows and harsh words. I need to migate the direction of discussion.

"What did you mean by striking while the iron's hot?"

She smirked at me: "How do you stop a robot?"

"Uh? Break its head," I shrugged

"You break it before it's finished."

I sense of amazement washed over me, and disbelief. "Your kidding right, the Factory."

"It's the only way," She assured

"No one has ever tried to break into the Factory. It's basically impenetrable, even Dad and the others wouldn't have tried."

"This is why it's the perfect plan. No one will expect us to strike there."

I grunted my disapproval. The Factory was an evil place. One of the only locations that we knew for sure was building the bulk of Delta-Moblius's army. It worked constantly night and day, supplying Delta with the bodies of thousands of Seribods, Splicers and Emeth droids. The Factory was guarded by many of its products; it was almost like trying to fight the sea.

"No way," I growled "I will not put my team in danger like that."

"What!" Breeze yelled "Why not? We're going traversing across the jungle, why not head towards the Factory while were at it?"

"We're eight Mobians Breeze!" I seethed "We don't have the strength to attack that place."

"We could if we have an army." She concluded

"Where are we going to find an army Breeze?"

"We'll get the humans to help us."

"And risk more lives, no!"

"Will you at least think about it?"

I stayed silent; giving into her demands would be easy. Her plan made a boatload of sense. If the humans could stage an assault, we could get inside and destroy the Factory. But it was too much of a risk. I had already lost once; I wasn't ready to take a chance like this again.

"I'll think about it." I finally conceded

She tried to hide the smile on her face, but I saw it anyways. The two of us lulled into silence. We continued to stare at the squall, it was oddly inciting.

"We need more people if we have to face him," Breeze sighed

"We have the humans now and the Mobian warriors are coming."

"No that's not what I meant. We need more than just the humans and a handful of fighters; we need a full scale invasion. If he was planning to take Mobius he would've had to get through our armies anyways. Why wait until he comes to us, we need to go to him."

I watched her in awe; there was nothing that got Breeze excited more than planning ways to destroy her enemies. "Have I ever told you that I'm glad I'm not your enemy?"

"No, but it's very sweet of you." She laughed. I chuckled alongside her. I stopped suddenly. I was so close to her I could feel the ends of her fur rubbing against mine. Oddly enough she didn't shy away from the contact.

I glanced up and caught her gaze. Her eyes were still beautiful, mesmerizing even in the dark. "Breeze?" I started

"Yeah?" She breathed

"What's going to happen to us?

' "What do you mean?"

"I mean…when this," I gestured around the room "Is all over what's going to happen to you and me?"

"I don't know, I guess we'll just muddle on through." She giggled nervously.

"No Breeze, I mean…I—like you, I really do and I don't know what I would do without you-"

She placed a hand over my mouth; her eyes showed a discomfort I've never seen before.

"Ivory," She started "I can't….We can't….." She sighed "We need to focus on the mission, if we don't finish off Beta-Moblius it'll all be over. We can't be distracted right now."

I closed my eyes accepting the news with surprising finality.

Breeze lifted her hands and backed away. "I need to go Ivory, I got to contact my mother and Tikal about the war plans."

She turned away and walked out the door without looking back. Above head the storm had finally broken, pelting the ground with bullets of rain and settling over the city with a dark shadow.

Krystal hated the rain.

It reminded her too much of her old life, the gloomy down pours, and the bitter winds always gave her the creeps.

Krystal remembered one moment in her life, when she hadn't felt afraid. It was when she had turned three. It was raining and the lighting overhead had frighten her. Her mother had came into her room and consoled her. Maria had told her stories of her time as a human and how her grandfather had helped her after she was wounded mortally. She had told Krystal about her time with Shadow and how brave he had always been.

Krystal had always dreamed of meeting her father, and she could very well see why her mother had fallen for him. He was very striking and had an air of grief and sorrow masked by indifference.

Krystal had often cursed her fate. She never had a stroke of luck and all of her nineteen short years of life. The luckiest moment in all of her existence was when she had came across Ivory's broken body in the river.

She would have never guessed the impact that moment would change her life forever. She had a new family now. A brother and a new mother. And with the entire package she had finally gotten the chance to speak with her father. She was even able to find her surrogate father Anthony McCain.

After years of thinking he was dead she was finally rewarded with seeing him again. McCain had explained that Delta-Moblius had been searching for any humans left in powerful position all over the world. He had already killed the President and the original leader of the G.U.N. if he had gotten to Anthony McCain there would have been no telling when the humans would be strong enough to overthrow Delta. While Krystal had known it was necessary for Anthony to fake his own death, she didn't like it one bit.

A crack of lighting crashed through the sky, jolting Krystal out of her thoughts. Krystal had to find the nearest shelter so she could dry off and wait the storm out. Considering she was too far away from her accommodations.

While she sprinted towards an abandoned building she noticed a figure standing over the rooftops. He was a Mobian but other than that she couldn't make out any disgusting features. A bolt of lighting cleared up the confusion in a second. It was Shock the enchinda.

Krystal had mixed feelings about him. He was so angry and violent. She remembered the way he had glared at her as he passed her earlier that day, and the way he had held up the man, he almost seemed to have enjoyed his suffering.

But despite all of that Krystal had come to enjoy his company. He was so strong and solitary. Krystal wasn't sure what it was but something about Shock had piqued her interest. He was hiding something beneath all of that anger, a deep seated pain.

Before the courage to speak escaped her she yelled: "What are you doing up there."

Shock acknowledged her after a bit, but refused to speak instead motioning for her to come up to his level. Krystal steadied her breathing and forced herself to jump. She landed on the building roughly. She squealed silently to herself in delight, with a single bound she was able to scale a twenty foot building. Ever since she met Ivory, she had been training, and now her physical fitness was superb.

Krystal walked towards her buff team mate taking care not to glance at his rippling muscles. "What are you doing up here?" She questioned again. "Why are you in the rain?"

"I like the rain, it calms me down," He replied

"I guess you needed a little calming down after that fiasco," Krystal laughed meekly.

Shocks chuckled a little, but then continue to stare at the rain. "You don't have to be here, Krystal. I'm perfectly capable of handling the rain. You should be inside."

"You're my team mate, and it's not the rain I'm concerned about,"

Shock looked at her incredulous

"It's being alone." She finished

He remained silent but Krystal had guessed she had struck a nerve. She didn't know how but she was able to sense more than just a person's external pain, she knew what it felt like to hurt inside. And being the kind person she was, Krystal thought it was her duty to help.

"I can be alone." Shock grumbled shifting his weight from her.

Krystal sighed: Sometimes people just didn't want to be helped.

She was insisted and forced the big oaf to look her in the eyes. "Being alone can hurt you in more ways than one. And as your team doctor it is my duty to nurture anyone's wounds external and internal got it."

Shock stared at her dumbfounded, but finally managed a wolfish grin "Yes ma'am."

And so the two of them sat in the downpour, talking of nothing of importance but getting to know each other in the process. And as the rain lifted Krystal said to herself:

'Maybe the rain isn't so bad after all'

The x-tornado flew at almost impossible speeds, whipping over the landscape in a matter of minutes. It amazed me how fast Aso was able to reconstruct the jet. Compared to the wreckage I had witnessed yesterday, the X-tornado was a metal plated miracle.

Aso was currently asleep at the helm and she had precariously given the controls over to me. I had set the jet on auto pilot about a hundred miles away from Detroit. The gray city had slipped by in a blur; I couldn't say that I would miss it.

I had told the General of our plans. He had acted with indifference for most of the speech; he also had his initial doubts but had agreed that it was a necessary evil, if we were going to defeat Beta-Moblius. Before we had left he given us the coordinates to the secret base the G.U.N had hidden in for years.

And so we had left. The ride was uneventful and we had soon passed through most of the states.

I stood from my chair and faced my team. Shock and Wave were arm wrestling on their side of the table. Ember was chatting alongside Krystal, and Delphian was sharpening his sword. I avoided Breeze's eyes though preferring to look at her twirling hammer instead. She and I hadn't spoken at all since that night and I wasn't really eager to have a repeat.

"Listen up team, it's time I explained the full plan," I raised my voice over the chaos.

"You bet it is," Wave grumbled "do you know how long it took me to get over the fact that I might die because of this-"

"As I was saying," I glared at the purple hedgehog "Our mission is pretty simple...We are looking for any information on Beta-Moblius and any of his higher forms. And the only place to find information like that is at the place he was built."

"And where would this place be." Ember questioned

"South America, the last known location of Dr. Eggman." The group paused, unsure of how to react.

"You mean the Dr. Eggman?" Shock gaped "The one who terrorized the entire world, like multiple times."

"I've never said that it was going to be safe," I seethed "We might run into traps or any diabolical plot he might cook up, but think what the payoffs could be."

"Oh sure, I'd much rather be have a dusty old blueprint than my foot," Shock mocked

"Look you-" I started

"Enough!" Delphian yelled "We are arguing amongst ourselves over nothing. We already agreed on doing this mission and we will see it through to the end."

Shock mumbled but gradually sat down.

"Thanks." I whispered

Delphian grunted but continued sharpening his sword.

I place my hands on the center of the table, with a flick of my wrist a hologram appeared. This is the last place Dr. Eggman worked in before he was murdered. We do not know the exact location, but it is somewhere in the Amazon forest. We'll make sweep searches throughout he entire jungle if we have to."

The group muttered their consent and rushed to their respective positions. I didn't move though. I placed my head in my hands and began to think.

The dreams were getting worse, every night I dreaded going to bed, and I was haunted by vision of my team members dying. And less frequently real dreams of the future.

A cryo-chamber continued to haunt my head; it pushed towards me, violating my entire dream. It was important, I knew it was but I couldn't understand why it advanced at me like that.

"Hey," Ember motion me over, distracting me from my thoughts "I think I've got something here."

I hurried over to my sister, on the monitor a cluster of buildings appeared. The thermal-scan showed no living beings but there was an underground bunker. A perfect place to hide a secret base.

"What do you think it is?" Ember asked

"Our heading," I murmured "Take us down, Wave."

"Roger," He mocked

We slowly descended down. The Amazon jungle seemed to welcome us, spreading its canopy trees and whip lashing vines to the sides. The X-tornado was halfway down the ascent when a flash of light invaded my vision.

BOOM!

The jet ricocheted off a tree as we were thrusted forward by missiles. The team was on alert. Breeze shouted orders to the others. Aso was up in an instant floating over to me with anger in her eyes.

"What just hit us?" She screamed

"I don't know," I yelled back, struggling to hold the wheel.

Aso scrambled to the controls, typing in words so fast that I could barely compute. "Looks like some defensive mechanism hidden throughout the base. Bad news is that we just triggered some traps."

"How many?"

She gulped "All of them."

Flares shot through the forest, and missiles tunneled through the forest. All heading straight for us.

"Oh man," I moaned, I shook my head and barked orders"Shock, Wave get to the turrets."

They ran to their positions and immediately began mowing down missiles. I jumped quickly over to my seat and garrisoned the controls. With a mighty pull I twisted the X-tornado away from its leafy confines.

Whish! Whoosh! More and more missiles barricaded past us, the explosions shook the trees and damaged the vegetation. The jet blared into the sky and followed my movements.

"Aso!" I screamed at her "Get the cannons online, now!"

"Fine," She clicked a few buttons "X-Tornado, Battle mode engaged."

The jet transformed into a more battle ready vessel. "Right!" I shouted, we pulled through the sky dodging missiles left and right, nothing could hit us, but it was mostly luck I could barely keep the rust bucket moving. Even with Aso earlier maintenance.

Wham! A stray projectile crashed through the outer hull. We were going down "Brace for impact!" I screamed at the team. The jet tumbled through the sky and hurtled towards the ground. We landed with a heavy thud.

Smoke hurtled out of the newly shaped hole, but everyone seemed to be uninjured. Out of the corner my eye I saw Breeze punch a fragment of the hull out of her way it flew hundreds of feet in the opposite direction.

"Well, you got us here. Let's hope it was worth it."

It wasn't hard finding the base. First of all it was shaped like a gigantic egg and it smelled like burnt rubber.

"Do we really need to go inside there?" Wave grumbled

"If you want you could stay with Aso." I argued

I knew that wasn't an option for Wave, especially considering Aso was throwing a fit trying to keep the jet running.

"Never mind," He squeaked

The seven of us plunged down into the interior of the base, unsure of what would come next. The inside of the plantation was no less creepy than the outside. Crates and barrels of unknown contents littered the floor and oozed liquids that smelled putrid. There were even scattered robot parts surrounding the interior.

"Well..." Delphian stated "This is disturbing."

When Delphian was freaked out, you knew something was off.

"So what were we suppose to find here?" Ember buzzed

"I told you some blueprints, or something that can help us,"

So we're just suppose to dig through all of Eggman's stuff," Shock grumbled

"Yeah, what if we're attacked again!" Wave exclaimed

"Listen, we need to stop fighting," Krystal motioned "And look here."

"What do you mean?" I asked

She didn't say anything but continued to point. I followed her finger, finally seeing something I never thought I'd see. The cryo-chamber. I walked toward it slowly, like I did every night in my dreams only this time it was for real.

"Wha-what are you doing?" Breeze stammered

"I've seen this before." Reaching out to touch the encrypted metal, freezing air shot out of its valves. "We need to open this."

"What? Are you crazy?" Ember hissed "We don't even know what's in that thing."

"It could help us, besides it was in my dream."

I could tell that the rest were about to argue but Breeze silenced them with a look "Open the casket, this better not be a mistake."

I gave her a look of thanks "And grabbed at the door with my psycho kinesis. It ripped off easily and clattered onto the floor.

Cool air exited out of the chamber, flooding the room with an impenetrable haze.

"What is it?" Wave called

I was just about to give the ceremonial 'I don't know' When a robotic voice answered:

"It." The contents of the chamber spoke, dragging it from the container "Boy, I am the most famous inventor who ever lived. The one and the only DR. EGGMAN." The massive robot hefted itself up "It's about time you all showed up."