Roleplay:The Nebulae

 Many years ago, the Retora Empire created one of the most powerful weapons ever to be invented, the Nebulae, on a planet eons away from Mobius. The Nebulae was able to harness the power of space and time to the bidding of the user; its power had no end. But alas, in one final battle, the Retora forces were defeated, and the empire crumbled. Everyone thought that the weapon was gone too... until now. A rabbit girl named Joanna, a descendent of the Retora people, has come to the Freedom Fighters with the bad news that Mammoth Mogul has stolen the weapon. Can they get it from him in time? And then, what happens next? Many other villains want to get their hands on it too. Then, some of the heroes, like the Freedom Fighters, think that the weapon should be destroyed, while others like G.U.N. would find it useful for their own purposes. What will be the Nebulae's fate? It is up to you to decide!

Note: This story will take place in the Archie Sonic Comic continuity, right before the Genesis saga and the Ixis Naugus takeover.

Characters
Below are the categories of characters. The heroes are defined as those trying to get the Nebulae away from the villains, and the villains are those who want to use the Nebulae to take over the world and the like. The anti-heroes are those who don't want to rule the world but are trying to make some money on selling the weapon or stealing some of the other Retora treasures. In addition to the Sonic characters, the roleplay will include a crossover with the world from the Percy Jackson book series (with additional fan-made characters from that world). You can add your character to this list or claim an existing one to use.

Sonic World
Joanna (CarrietheCat)

Heroes
Blaze (CarrietheCat)

Cream

Monkey Khan

Rob o' the Hedge

Carrie the Cat (CarrietheCat)

Sara-su the Echidna (CarrietheCat)

Rotor (CarrietheCat)

Freedom Fighters
Sonic (ShelatheWolf)

Tails (CarrietheCat)

Sally

Amy Rose

Bunnie

Antione

Nicole (CarrietheCat)

Chaotix
Knuckles (CarrietheCat)

Julie-su (CarrietheCat)

Mighty (ShelatheWolf)

Ray

Vector (CarrietheCat)

Espio (ShelatheWolf)

Charmy

Saffron

Gem the Echidna (ShelatheWolf)

G.U.N.
Shadow (ShelatheWolf)

Rouge

Omega (ShelatheWolf)

Commander (CarrietheCat)

Hope (CarrietheCat)

Gi the Hedgehog (Shadowsic)

Zerofuse the Hedgehog (RapidTH)

Anti-Heroes
Nac the Weasel (CarrietheCat)

Nic the Weasel

Babylon Rogues
Jet (CarrietheCat)

Wave

Storm

Villains
Mammoth Mogul (CarrietheCat)

Dr. Eggman (CarrietheCat)

Scourge

Fiona

Dr. Finitevus (CarrietheCat)

Heroes
Percy Jackson (ShelatheWolf)

Annabeth (Crystal1999)

Leo (ShelatheWolf)

Talon (Fan-made) (ShelatheWolf)

Crystal (Fan-made) (Crystal1999)

Siria (Fan-made) (ShelatheWolf)

Gods/Immortals
Chiron

Poseidon

Athena

Apollo

Airis (Fan-made) (Crystal1999)

Dionysis

The Rules
Don't try to control other peoples characters.

Please, no cussing whatsoever.

You can be in love with someone, but no sexual innuendos.

Don't try to control the story. This is a joint effort of all who want to be a part of it.

No killing of any characters.

Basically, follow all the other rules the wiki has in place for this sort of thing.

The Story
One night, Tails was doing some work at the old Freedom HQ. It was just him and T-Pup until Nicole suddenly showed up. "Tails...we have a vistor."

"Who?" Tails asked.

"I don't know, but she's outside signaling me. She seems to want us for something."

"You don't think she's a villain?"

"Hard to know for sure, but she has no powers as far as I can tell. No weapons on her, either."

"Well, I guess it wouldn't hurt for me to talk to her."

Tails went up to find her. She was a young rabbit, probably about his age, and she looked rather worried. When she saw him, though, she lit up. "Are you Tails the Fox?" She asked in a foreign accent.

"Well, yes. Who are you?"

"My name is Joanna, and I bring horrible news. I am of the Retora, a destroyed empire far from this planet. Something important has been stolen by us from a large mammoth with a scary face. He took our most powerful superweapon, the Nebulae. It is extremely dangerous!"

"A mammoth? That might have been Mammoth Mogul!"

"You know him?"

"Yeah, we kind of go way back."

"Well, I tracked him to your planet, and I find that you were heroes, no? You freedom fighters could help!"

"Well, of course we will. I'll go tell the others. But wait, what does this weapon do exactly?"

"It manipulates the forces of space and time."

"Wow, we really need to get this away from Mogul. Come on, I'll take you to New Mobotropolis."

In Search of the Mammoth (Freedom Fighters)
"Sonic, are you in here?" Tails called.

Sonic zoomed past, doubling back when he heard Tails call. "What's up, Tails?" he greeted as he skidded to a stop.

"Sonic, I need to talk to you.  We may have a big problem.  A girl came here last night from another planet looking for us.  Some powerful time-bending weapon got stolen from her people, and I think it's Mammoth Mogul who now has it.  Sonic, we can't let him use it!"

He held up his hands in the universal hey-calm-down motion. "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let me get this straight. Some chic claims that Mammoth Mogul randomly showed up and stole a weapon that does what exactly?"

"She said it manipulates space and time.  Truth is, I have no idea what it does exactly or how it does it.  Perhaps we should talk to her.  She's at Chuck's Diner."

"Well, that sounds not dangerous at all in the hands of some ancient elephant dude," he remarked. "Let's go talk to her to make sure that when she says manipulate space and time, she actually means that the thing can rip our universe to shreads and destroy the timestream. And besides, I've been craving a chili dog lately." Sonic zoomed off towards his uncle's diner.

At the diner, Sonic and Tails found Joanna sitting at a table, wringing her hands in a worried fashion. "Oh, you must be Sonic!" she greeted. "Please, I must ask you....what is this mush you people put on sticks of meat?  You call it a 'chili dog'?"

"Yes, yes we do," he answered, dashing into the seat next to her and picking up the chili dog in an admiring fashion. "In fact, some people may see the chili dog as one of the wonders of the world, with its perfect mixture of chili and dog (not a real dog of course), all inside a perfectly toasted bun." Sonic paused and gazed at the chili for a few seconds longer, and then rushed into the seat across from her. "Anyways, on to business. Tails said that old elephant butt stole your doohickey?"

"Yes, of course.  It was taken by a giant mammoth; your friend said his name was Mammoth Mogul?"

"Did you see him take it?" Tails asked.

"Yes, I did.  It was my turn to guard it, deep in an underground cavern.  All of a sudden, the Mammoth came out of thin air through a hole and took it."

"Nice security," Sonic mumbled, but then asked, "So what exactly is this thing capable of?"

"Well, I don't know precisely.  My ancestors built it, but me nor any of my people today have seen it work.  All I know is that it could control space and time....and I believe it swallowed a planet once?"

Sonic sprayed his soda all over Joanna's face. "It did what?!? And you people just sit around, standing in front of the thing like an obsessed echidna all day, without even knowing exactly what it does?" he questioned anxiously. Then he mumbled, "At least Knux knows what he's doing."

"How would I know?  The only thing I needed to know was it was dangerous and needed to be guarded at all times.  One of my village elders mentioned the planet thing.  I think he is the only one who knows about it.  Besides, if no one knows about it, no one can use it.  Your Mammoth friend may never figure out how it works."

Sonic stood up abruptly and thrust his hands down on the table. "Who even told you to guard in the first place? The same people who built the weapon and destroyed planets with it? Mammoth Mogul probably watched it happen the first time! It won't be long until he's blowing up planets and conquering dimensions." He slumped back against the booth, realizing that he needed to calm down. It was just that he knew deep down that Mammoth Mogul was not one to mess around with. And if they do help Joanna get the machine back from him, would they just be taking it from a psycho just to give it back to some more psychoes?

"Umm... Sonic?  Maybe we should talk this over with the others.  Thanks for the information, Joanna," Tails smiled apologetically at Joanna and pulled Sonic off.

"Sorry bud, just lost my cool for a sec," he laughed nervously. "You're right, let's go talk to Sal and the others."

Greek Earth
Meanwhile....

Percy hit the ground hard, Talon's foot on his chest. "Okay Water Boy, you are no longer 'undefeated' in the sword-fighting arena." He rolled at from under her and jumped to his feet.

"Well played," he spoke with a wild grin, "but..." He swiped the butt of Riptide at Talon, forcing her back. She raised her sword to defend herself against his blow, but he simply capped his sword and jumped over the fence. "Until next time!" he hollered as he walked away.

Talon yelled back, "Wimp!" Shaking her head, she simply stretched her wings and flew off.

Suddenly, a giant rip appeared in the sky through the space-time continuum, out of which came a giant mammoth who landed right in front of Percy. "Where is your 'god' Zeus!?" he demanded.

Percy gulped, but then smiled his crazy maniac smile. "Someone needs to lay off the cheeseburgers," he said disapprovingly, shaking his head slowly.

Just then, Crystal apeares out of the sword-fighting arena. "Percy? Where are y- Holy Mammoth!"

"How dare you disregard me, puny mortal!" the mammoth glared at Percy.

"Who are you calling a mortal, fat-head?" Percy yelled up at the mammoth.

"I am Mammoth Mogul, bringer of your doom!  I was disgraced by your incompetent 'gods' years ago. Now I have come back to destroy them and your world!"

Percy shook his head impatiently, "Sorry, big guy, but I personally like Earth," he replied, pulling his pen out of his pocket. "Besides, the gods don't tend to like visitors."

"With what shall you defeat me!? Your pen!? I have the power of chaos itself, and I command the forces of space and time!"

"I don't know...I've been told that I'm pretty chaotic," Percy replied cooly, fiddling with his pen in one hand, and tracing over an old bucket filled with water with the other.

"You got that right.." Crystal muttered.

"You will pay for your insolence!" Mammoth Mogul sent a blast of chaos energy at him.

He rolled to the side, a trail of water following at his fingertips. "Where have I heard that before?" he replied sarcastically as he shot an arrow of hardened water towards the mammoth's wooly chest while uncapping Riptide.

"Augh!  Enough of your foolishness!" he thundered, throwing more bolts of chaos energy. "Show me to your gods at once!"

Suddenly, a bright flash of light appears. As Airis step forward, she said, " Ok, I have reports that there is a talking elephant disturbing Mr. D's beauty sleep. Why do I always get the weird stuff?"

Siria appeared too, following Airis out of the portal.

Percy looks at the goddess in dismay. "Aww...I wanted to fight him." The trail of water sunk down and splashed at his heels.

Mammoth Mogul turned to Airis and Siria in rage. "You dare mock me!?  Enough!  It is time to pay for your insolence and that of your mortals and your fathers!" He brings out a giant odd-looking machine as big as his head. "With this your planet shall be no more!" With he released a giant spurt of energy directed at the sky, creating a black hole.

Talon quickly landed right next to Siria. "It can't be..." Talon muttered, "Not him."

Siria looked up at the black hole, all to knowledgable about what it was capable of. She glanced at Talon, then at Airis. "We can't fight him when he has that," she nugded Airis, pointing at the black hole.

Percy stared at the sky in horror, a mass of water collected from random places, swirling around him.

"I believe you," Airis replied, while watching the black hole with horrid fascination.

Talon motioned the rest of the demigods to her. Percy ducked under Mogul's legs and ran over to her. "What is that thing?" he asked her.

"Something very bad," she muttered, not peeling her eyes away from the sky.

"Well how do we stop it?" Percy asked anxiously.

Siria looked at the black hole as it stretched over the sky. "Without dying or getting lost in time?" she answered sadly, "We can't."

The demigods looked at the sky in dread, bristling with the anticipation of fighting to save their world.

Mobius
Sonic ran through Castle Acorn, searching for Sally. When he dashed into one hallway, he nearly collided with one of the servants. He looked at the hegdehog with a sigh. "She already left to go find you," he replied, already knowing what Sonic was going to say.

"Err, thanks," Sonic answered as he ran to go catch up with her. The servant simply sighed and went to go look for any of the pieces of some relic that was shattered by the reckless hero.

He saw her down the road, and he skidded to a stop in front of her.

"Sonic!  I've been looking everywhere for you!  Nicole said something about Mogul getting a huge time weapon?"

"Darn it! I'll beat her one day," he vowed, looking around New Mobotropolis.

"Did you get any details on the weapon?"

"Err...Apparently it blew up a planet once, can bend time to its will then snap it like a twig, and is being guarded by people just standing around it like a clueless, obsessive echidna," he replied.

"Sonic!  This is no time to be making fun of Knuckles.  We need to get a plan and fast before Mogul uses the weapon to destroy some other planet!"

"Well, let's get going then." Sonic grabbed Sally by the wrist and zoomed towards Chao Lake, the meeting place he and Tails decided on, and dragged Sally along with him.

Greek Earth
Meanwhile, on the Greek Earth, havoc was being wreaked by Mammoth Mogul on Camp Half-Blood, destroying whole buildings with his chaos energy as the black hole sucked in the rest. Satisfied with the damage being wrought, Mogul proceeded to exit the zone through the rip from which he came.

As Annabeth lept from the remains of her cabin that were being pulled into the black hole, she exclaimed,"Oh my gods, what just happened?"

Percy beckoned her over. "Well, a large talking mammoth just popped up, created that-" he motioned towards the black hole in the sky, "basically dooming us all, and then left."

"Well, I didn't miss much, now did I?" Annabeth replied sarcastically.

Just then, Leo came running out of the forest. He waved his arms around frantically and panted. "That-that thing in the sky, it-" he broke off, looking near to tears.

Crystal came over and put her arm around him. "What happened Leo?"

"It-it took Buford!," he cried, "He was just harmlessly flying around, not minding anyone's business when the sky turned black and sucked him in!"

"Well, I'm sorry about your... table,"Crystal said. "Does anyone know if we can stop the black hole?"

Talon bit her lip. "Well, in...theory," she began slowly, "going into the black hole could seal the rift. However, it could send us anywhere, or any time, possibly in pieces."

Siria nodded, "It could work..." she agreed, "but it could be difficult to get back, granted we survive."

"So do we just throw everyone into the black hole?" Airis said, eyeing Leo as she unfurled her wings.

"Well, yeah, I guess," Talon replied.

"Wait...what?!?" Leo screeched.

"Expendable people first!" Airis said as she hoisted Leo up and tossed him into the black hole.

He screamed, "I'm too young to have my particles rearranged!" as he disappeared into the black hole.

She turned around to look at the rest of the demigods. "Who's next?"

Mobius
"So what n-" Sonic began to say as a three-legged table fell from the sky. He approached the table and nudged it with his foot. "Is raining furniture a sign of the timestream being ripped apart? 'Cause if it is, then we might be doomed.

Suddenly a boy appeared in the sky, screaming. He hit the ground with a thud, then looked up to see the table. "Buford! You're okay!" he yelled.

"It's just a ta-" Sonic began to say as the table's legs began to move, and it walked towards the kid. He embraced the table, Buford, affectionately.

Then two more figures appeared and began to fall over the lake. One, a girl, pulled up with a flap of her large wings, while the boy continued to plummet. He landed in the lake with a splash. As he surfaced, the chao began to flock towards him. "I'm being attacked by cuteness!" he hollered as he launched himself out of the lake. Two chao still clunged to him, and then Sonic realized that he wasn't wet. Lucky.

As he got closer, he recognized that it was Percy, a Greek demigod they had met when some Titan stole a chaos emerald. Well, that explained a lot. He turned around and then realized that the boy hugging the table was Leo. That also explained a lot.

Before he could greet them, more teens began to fall from the sky.

Crystal fell into the lake with a splash. As she jumped out of the water, Airis an Siria landed gracefully next to her, Siria still holding Annabeth. "Sorry that I dropped you, Crystal," Airis said sheepishly while folding up her wings.

"It's okay," Crystal replied. "It's not your fault that a piece of stray cabin wacked you."

"Sooo..." Sonic tapped his foot on the ground rapidly, "What's up, guys? Besides, you know, the sky, which I'm sure you're all very familiar with right now."

"Well," Crystal replies," This large mammoth guy appeared, went on the usual rant people go on when they try to take over the world, created a black hole, and we got sucked up in it and spit out here."

"Sounds about right," he decided. "And to you new faces out there, 'here' is Mobius."

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G.U.N. (Team Dark story)
Meanwhile, at G.U.N. headquarters, the Commander got news of Mogul possessing a highly sophisticated time weapon in Mercia. Analysis showed that it held the power to bend space and time, making it a potentially formidable weapon. With the intention of getting the weapon away from Mogul and into the hands of G.U.N., he called upon field agents Team Dark for the job.

"So you want us to get a weapon from Mammoth Mogul that can obliterate planets, to do what?" Shadow inquired.

"We intend to use it on a small scale for operations with major threats on Mobius," the Commander replied. "It would also be useful in case of an interplanetary crisis to provide a threat to the other side, as would be needed if we face another threat like the Xorda.  Of course, first priority is to get the weapon away from Mammoth Mogul before he uses it to destroy Mobius."

Shadow still seemed uncertain. "It doesn't seem like a 'small-scale' sort of weapon. Something could easily go wrong..."

Omega patted Shadow on the back with a big, clunky arm. "Do not fret, Shadow. With the weapon I...we will be able to purge our enemies, even time," Omega proclaimed wistfully.

"Hmp." Shadow let the subject drop for now, but he still didn't feel right about treating a weapon like that so lightly.
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Mercia (Freedom Fighters/Greek people story)
"I fear I know not the whereabouts of the mammoth you seek.  Prithee, what is the weapon you say he holds?" Rob o' the Hedge asked. The Freedom Fighters and Greeks had just arrived at Mercia looking for Mammoth Mogul, and wondered if any one had seen him, but no one in the village had.

"Well, maybe Nicole was wrong," Sonic guessed, "It's not like it's easy to miss a giant, two-ton, mammoth. That or he's just, like, ready to pop out any second." He leaned against a tree. "In case he is, I guess we just have to wait, as much as I hate just standing around."

Siria stared at him disbelief. "You're completely okay with just waiting for that monster to show up?!? What if it's an ambush?!?" She paced through a small strip of land, beginning to burn through the grass.

Percy tried to stop her, but he had to jerk his hand back because she was extremely hot to touch. "Fine, wear a hole to the center of the Earth, err, Mobius," he muttered, rubbing his burnt hand.

Airis reached out and grasped Siria's arm, her burning skin having no affect on the goddess. "Siria, we won't let anything happen. Now, stop smoking unless you want to fall to the center of the planet."

"Okay, here's the plan," Sally proposed. We'll split up into smaller groups and spread out over the area. Perhaps we could find a sign of-"

BOOM! A bolt of chaos energy left a giant crater in the middle of the group. Out of the rip in the sky came Mammoth Mogul, with the weapon by his side.

Percy looked up at the mammoth. "I thought I told you to lay off the cheeseburgers!" Percy yelled, while bringing out Riptide. Sonic laughed and Talon simply gave herself a face-palm at his remark.

"The insolent mortal boy!  You survived the black hole!?  No matter - you shall be destroyed with the rest of Mobius!"

Sonic made yapping motions with his hand. "Insolence, insolence, insolence. Dude, get a thesaurus. And haven't we proved that Mobius is pretty hard to destroy by now?"

"Don't you dare mock me, hedgehog!  Now, your planet will face not only my limitless chaos power, but also the power of the weapon, the dreaded Nebula!" Mammoth Mogul began to charge the weapon with energy to create yet another black hole.

Crystal realized what he was about to do. "Guys, he is going to make another black hole!!" she cried in alarm.

Heeding Crystal's warning, he spindashed in Mogul. "Don't even think about it!" he warned.

"Umf... Insolent hedgehog!" Mogul recoiled and aimed a bolt of chaos energy at Sonic.

He skidded to the side, dodging the blast. "What did we say about overusing the word 'insolent'?" Sonic teased.

Percy and Talon seized the opportunity, pulled out their swords, and launched themselves at him. While Percy rolled under him and slashed his ankle, Talon flapped upwards, reaching back to summon lightning. With a crackle, electricity ran through her and she sent the bolt flying towards him out of her fingertips.

As the lightning hit the mammoth, Airis launched off the ground, her huge white wings glowing as she brandished her sword. Her eyes started glowing, and a bolt of pure light flew from her sword, striking him in the chest.

"Urghhh!  Fools - you dare try to stop me!" Mogul released a massive blast of chaos energy.

Percy and Talon, who were the closest to him, were slung back. Talon skidded into the dirt, while Percy hit a tree hard, falling limply back to the ground.

Sonic dashed back up to him after he unleashed the chaos energy and kicked against his tusks, knocking him backwards.

Mammoth Mogul gripped his wooden cane and swiped it under Sonic's feet. "Enough of this!" he shouted as he reached for the machine.

Before he could start it, Siria darted inbetween him and the machine, stretching her wings out. Bright fire flickered off her body and her white wings turned orange with flames; her eyes were as bright as the fire emmiting from her. "Back. Off!" she shouted as a ring of blinding fire encircled him.

Mogul fumed with rage. "You are no match for me!  Fools!  Insolent fools!" He tried to create another blast of the chaos energy, but was hindered by the fire.

"Sonic!" Tails shouted. "Grab the weapon before he gets up!"

Sonic jumped up and dashed to the weapon, pulling it farther away from Mogul.

Seeing that sonic was struggling to pull the weapon farther away from Mogul, Airis swooped down and grabbed it, using her super-natural strength to hoist it in the air while flying away from the furious mammoth.

Leo ran through the ring of fire Siria created, launching himself at Mammoth Mogul before he could shoot Airis down. He latched himself onto the back of his head, pulled out a wrench from his toolbelt, and began to beat him upside the head with it, heating the metal up in his hand.

"How dare you mock me, mortal, with your puny tools!" Mogul peeled Leo off his head and charged a blast, but then was blasted in the back of the head by Bunnie, who had shifted her arm into a cannon. "Oh no ya don't!" she yelled.

"Everyone, pull back!" Sally yelled. "We have the weapon, now let's go!"

Suddenly, A blast of black chaos energy hit the ground. Out of a warp ring came Dr. Finitevis, who knocked Airis out of the sky. He chuckled as he caught the machine for himself. "This should make an excellent doomsday device," he pulled back into the warp ring and vanished.

Airis peeled herself off the ground, runing over to where Dr. Finitevis had been just seconds ago. "Who was that?" Airis questioned, desperation peaking in her voice. "Do you know how to stop him?"

Sonic stared at the spot where Finitevis' warp ring came and went. "That was Dr. Fin...Finawhatsit....Finitevis! He's this dude who was, like, infused with negative chaos energy. He mainly picks fights with Knuckles and the Chaotix, but sometimes he goes all "global purge" and attempts to wipe everything out so he can start everything over. As for stopping him..." Sonic broke off, thinking to himself about past events including the white echidna, searching for an answer. "Well, I got nothing..." he concluded uneasily. He looked at Sally to see of she had any bright ideas.

"Well," Sally tried to provide an answer. "We could start by tracking him down, then if we could take him by surprise..." She stopped there, realizing that such a plan was impossible. There was no way you could trace a warp ring, and Dr. F was never surprised, it seemed. "We could start by going to the Chaotix for help, since they know him best.  Besides, if Finitevus was to strike somewhere, chances are he might strike them first."

"Wait a second," Annabeth said. "Who are the Chaotix?"

"They are another freedom fighter group," Sally replied. "They're located on Angel Island in Downunda, with their leader being Knuckles, the guardian of the echidna people.  They have dealt with Finitevus a lot in the past."

"They also consist of Knux's girlfriend, Julie-Su, Knux's sister, Gem, an extra-loud crocodile, Vector, a ninja chameleon, Espio, two engaged bees (even though one of them doesn't remember...), Charmy and Saffron, a super strong armadillo named Mighty, and Ray, a lovable flying squirrel," Sonic added.

"You are sure they will help us find the weapon?" Crystal questioned.

"Yeah," Sonic assured, "as hard-headed as Knuckles can be, he's a cool dude."

"How will we get to Angel Island?" Airis questioned.

Sonic glanced uneasily at Percy, whom Talon was helping up. "We fly," he replied. Percy turned a shade paler.

"Well, this should be interesting," Airis comented as she hoisted Crystal up into the air, flapping her huge wings.

Angel Island
Gem shuddered as she felt ripples through the chaos force. Someone else had tapped into it, but she wasn't sure who. Shrugging the feeling off, she got up and walked over to the master emerald. "How is it going over here?" she asked the others, knowing that the Master Emerald was feeling the disturbances too, but unsure that the others were aware of it.

"I saw the Master Emerald spark out a bit!" Knuckles yelled back.

"But it's cool now!" Vector added.

The feeling faded. "I'm sure it's fine!" she yelled back, walking closer to them.

Just then, the Tornado came into view, and winged figures holding some others were right behind them. The plane landed and two of the winged people landed, setting some others on the ground. Another one, Gem recognized Talon, held a boy who clutched onto her tightly, glancing down occasionally.

"Percy, you can let go now," Talon shook him off and he rolled onto the island, really happy once he realized he was on solid land. She landed next to him. She glanced at Gem, but then looked back at the boy again quickly before anybody noticed. Gem would wait until Sonic and the others introduced them before they talked.

Knuckles came up to them. "Hey guys, is there something wrong?"

Sonic hopped off, then scratched the back of his head sheepishly. "You can definately say that..." he responded.

"What happened, Sonic?"

"Well, there was this weapon that Mammoth Mogul, who regained his superform by the way, stole from some people that can maniplulate space and time. He nearly destroyed their planet," he jerked his thumb towards the demigods, "and then came back here. We stopped him from opening a black hole here, but then...well, Finitevus showed up and took it," he explained.

Gem realized then that the disturbances in the chaos force must of been Mogul, who can also manipulate the force. And if he got another chaos emerald and re-gained his super form... This could be bad.

"He got what!?" Knuckles nearly busted an artery.

"I already told you. He has a weapon that can possibly destroy the universe and life as we know it," Sonic replied.

"So you're trying to tell me that a maniac bent on having a global purge has a weapon with the potential to do just that, and you couldn't have even tried to follow him through the warp ring or something!?"

"Hey, we were a bit busy," Percy retorted, rubbing the bruise on her side where he hit the tree.

"You're not helping! Dr. F is about to doom us all and you Greek people are just going to make it worse by mixing up with our villains.  Face it, your gods can't do anything right!  And Percy, seriously, I thought you were better than this!"

"Everyone does..." Percy muttered.

"Your gods can't do anything right?!" Airis said, a deadly tone seaping into her voice. Her eyes started glowing out pure anger. "You better watch what comes out of that mouth, foolish mortal."

Siria took a step back. "This is not good," she mumbled.

"Wait, who are calling a 'foolish mortal'!?  If you're so great, fix this mess already!!" Knuckles fumed.

Julie-su got in between them. "Stop it!  Both of you!  We don't have time for this!"

Airis stopped, and her eyes slowly faded back into blue. She glared at Knuckles. "If this was any other time, you would be a smudge of black on the ground." she fumed.

Vector elbowed Knuckles. "Nice way to make new friends, as always," he teased.

Percy walked up to them. "It's not entirely his fault, he spent too much time with Clarisse and I think Ares imprinted on him.

"Nope," Sonic corrected, "He's always been like that."

"Can we get back to the point already?" Crystal asked, trying to change the topic of conversation.

"Fine," Knuckles growled, glaring at Airis. "We need a way to get to Dr. Finitevus; any idea where he plans to strike?"

"Well..." Sally started. "We thought he might attack you."

"Oh, well I guess that isn't too far off.  He will probably try to get the Master Emerald at some point.  Maybe the 'god wonder' has a suggestion?"

Talon faced-palmed. Here we go again. Siria took a few steps back. Even Percy got out of their way. Gem was right, Knuckles was impossible.

"That's it!!!" Airis growled. She stepped forward, her eyes glowing. She lifted her hand, and a beam of white hot light blasted out of it, throwing Knuckles backwards. She unsheathed her sword, stalking towards where he landed, a murderous look in her eyes.

"Ugh!  You'll pay for that!" Knuckles shouted, launching himself at Airis to punch her in the gut with his spiked fists.

Right before his fist conected, Airis leaped up in the air, fliping over his head. She landed behind him, kicking his feet out from under him and planted her foot on his chest. Leaning in close to his face, she snarled, "One false word, you will spend the rest of your life as a normal, NON-TALKING, fluffy, little bunny."

"Hey!  No one makes a fluffy bunny out of me!" Knuckles yelled, muttering "No offense Bunnie."

Bunnie flattens her eyes. "Ah'm not 'fluffy'," she taps her metal arm.

Knuckles then started getting power from the Master Emerald behind him. "You're in for it now!" he yelled as he let out of chaos blast at Airis.

Airis flew backwards into the air. With a flap of her wings, she stopped mid free-fall, turning around and glaring at Knuckles with pure hatred. "How dare you!!!" She yelled. The pendant around her started golwing, the glow slowly spreading to her entire body. She summoned a huge, glowing ball of pure light, then procceded to hurl it strait at Knuckles.

Before the ball of light collided with Knuckles, Gem flashed foward, to intercept them. Her eyes glowed a dangerously bright green, and the Master Emerald sparked behind her. She sent of bolt of pure chaos energy straight through the ball of light, shattering it. With a swipe of her arm, a wave of chaos energy knocked Airis backwards. Another stream of chaos energy grabbed her waist, and Gem yanked her down to the ground.

She sent a beam at Knuckles too, pushing him back. "ENOUGH!" she screamed. She looked out Knuckles. "You need to calm down and NOT pick fights with a goddess at a time like this!" She whipped around and looked at Airis. "And you need to leave my brother ALONE!" Chaos energy still flickered around her in rage.

The glow in Airis eyes faded, though she still looked mad. "Fine, I won't attack your brother, as long as he promises to keep his annoying mounth from spouting out annoying insults." she inquiered angrily. "Will you let go of me now?"

The glow from Gem's eyes then faded, and she dissipated the chaos energy that was holding Airis. "Don't worry, he'll keep his mouth shut," she glared out Knuckles, "at least he better."

"Fine," Knuckles repressed the urge to knock Airis off the island (which wouldn't work anyways...). "I won't say anything - for now." Suddenly the island started to shake. "What's that!?"

"Hello, Knuckles.  Did you miss me?" Finitevus sneered, flying out from under the island, holding the Nebula with his black negative chaos energy.

"You again!" Knuckles balled up his fists for a fight.

"Aw man, you did survive the fall,"  Vector muttered.

Just then, a chameleon appeared out of thin air and ran over to them. "Guys, Finitevus is shaking the isla-" he imformed, stopping short when he saw that Dr. Finitevus has already shown himself.

"Shaking the island?  Why yes, it is quite astounding what you can do with weaponry these days, no luck to you," Dr. F blasted the island with chaos energy. "Round 2?"

"Yeah, I was thinking the same thing," Knuckles lunged himself at Finitevus, knocking him back. "This time I'm gonna make sure you stay off my island!"

Percy cringed out the sight of the albino echidna. "Well, he's not pleasant, now is he?" He uncapped his sword and pushed himself off the ground, launching himself at Finitevus. He caught him by his cape and swung around, connecting his foot to his chest.

"A demigod, I see?  Knuckles, remember when you were one?" Dr. F grabbed Percy's ankle, swinging him away.

"Why, you sick little-"  Knuckles aimed a punch at Dr. F's face but was knocked back by his energy blast.

Julie-su got out her proton blaster and tried to hit Finitevus. "Knuckles, don't let him get to you about the you-know-what!" she urged.

Crystal made a spining coulum of water rise out of the ocean and blasted it at the hand in which Dr. F was holding the weapon.

"Percy!!" Annabeth yelled, turning to glare at Dr. F. "Your going to regret that," she yelled at him, drawing her dagger and charging forward.

"Of course," Dr. F used a bolt of chaos energy to knock the dagger out of her hand.

Percy jumped back up, encircling the water Crystal used around him. He lashed it out at Finitevus before he could hit Annabeth again. "What did you say about demigods?" he questioned, as he shot the water at him.

Dr. F was knocked back but got up and aimed another chaos blast at Percy. "Oh, Knuckles didn't tell you?" Dr. F asked with mock surprise. "He was once the demigod Enerjak, the most powerful form of an echidna who served very nicely to assist me in global purge and nearly destroy his 'friends.'  It was quite an improvement, I would say," he grinned mockingly at Knuckles.

Knuckles fumed at him, "You did that!  You were going to destroy the world, and the fact you were doing it through me and you killed my father in the process just makes it worse!  There is no way I'm letting you destroy everything again, no matter how many fancy weapons you have!" Knuckles built up power from the Master Emerald, "Chaos Control!" He sent a major blast at Finitevus, hitting him straight-on.

Finitevus got klnocked off the island. It looked like he was out... until he warp-ringed back up to the surface, landing on Percy, who was just trying to get up from the last blast. "How many times must you knock me off your little island in attempts to be done with me.  No more fooling around," Finitevus took out the weapon and fueled it with his own chaos energy, creating yet another rip through space and time.

Airis' eyes started glowing. "No!" She shot a beam of light at the Nebulae, knocking it out of his hands, then shot another at his stomach, pushing him backwards.

Finitevus pulled up, chucking softly. "Fools," he sneered.

Suddenly, as the Nebula hit the ground, it let out a flash a light. Next instance, the ones nearby the weapon - Knuckles, Julie-su, Vector, Leo, Percy, and Airis - were gone!

Gem's eyes shot wide in horror, along with the others who watched their friends disappear. She ran over to Finitevus and heaved him off the ground by thr front of his shirt. "What did you do to them?!?" she demanded.

Finitevus grinned slyly. "I thought you did your research.  The weapon manipulates space and time.  I was able to easily create a portal for them to elsewhere in the past.  The weapon is not simply a black-hole-making machine."

Gem growled in frustration, realizing that he was right. She threw him back down and placed her foot firmly on his chest. "If anything happens to them, you'll wish you were thrown off the island," she promised.

"Of course I will," he threw her off with another bolt of chaos energy.

Talon rose up in the air and dived at Finitevus, picking him back off the ground. She swooped upwards into the clouds with him dangling below. "Tell us how to get them back, or I'll turn you to a smudge on the ground," Talon threatened.

"Please, I have no idea where they are.  The weapon was powered by chaos energy - very unpredictable you know.  Perhaps I could lend you a warp ring to chase after them, but I couldn't very well do that as a smudge on the ground, could I?"

Frustrated at his smugness, Talon let go of him. She dived after him, catching him before he hit the ground. She landed, but she still held the echidna in her fists. "You enjoy this don't you?" she growled.

"I suppose I do.  Now, about chasing after your little friends?"

Talon plucked a warp ring off of his wrist, and threw him to the ground. "You're sick and twisted, you know that right?"

"Of course," he smiled.

Annabeth stalked over to Talon. "We need to find Percy before he gets himself or anyone else killed," she groaned, "You know how well he makes friends," she said sarcastically.

"Just as well as Knuckles," Gem muttered. She looked up with Talon tossed the warp ring over to her.

"You know how to use it better than I do," she explained.

Gem looked over Dr. Finitevus and snarled at him. "Well, we better go find out where they are," she said as she flipped open the warp ring. She placed her hand on it and tried to visualize the people who went missing. "Let's just hope we can find them," she muttered.

Lost in time
Another time, another place...

"Well I say, give me a few good reasons why I shouldn't lock you in the dungeon forever?"

Knuckles, Julie-su, Vector, Leo, Percy, and Airis stood before an angry queen in her throne room. They were unexpectedly teleported to another planet 500 years in the past, and they just so happened to land right in the middle of the treasury, leading the queen to believe they were thieves. This could be a problem.

Percy responded to the queen's rhetorical question, "Well," he suggested, giving his armpit a quick sniff, "we smell horrible, and would probably stink up the place."

"Please excuse his manners, your Highness. He was dropped on his head as a babe." Airis said, a little bit of old age English seaping into her words.

"No excuses!  Thieves you all are!  The nerve of you, trying to steal my great nation's gold in their time of crisis!  Have you no respect!?  Have you no patriotism!?!? Oh, wait, of course, you're foreigners, making you spies as well!" she spat.

"Should we start smashing these guys now and make a run for it?" Vector whispered to Knuckles and Julie-Su.

"Not yet," Julie-su whispered back. "Your majesty, perhaps you could reconsider.  We were...being attacked by your enemies (whoever they are).  They flung us into the treasury, making it appear like we were... robbers."

"Hmmmm," the queen rubbed her chin. "I suppose I am technically allies with the echidna nation as of now.  I have no idea who your friends are," she glared over at Percy, "But I suppose you could be one of the ones sent by your queen...  Fine.  I'll let you go, for now.  But I want you all to go to my army right away so you can assist in the next attack, if you are really sent here as a fighter.  Now leave my presence!"

As they were herded away by some guards, Leo rubbed his clothes like there was something on them. "Fascinating..." he mumbled. When Percy looked at him questioningly, Leo explained, "The machine left a thin residue on us when it sent us here. It must have bent time, and because we were next to the collapse, we fell through. The residue shows that we came from the present, and that we are currently displaced in the time stream.

Percy blinked at Leo. He hated it when he went on his scientific tantrum and started using big words and terms that only a child of Hephestus or Athena, or another techno-savy person, could understand.

"It means that when we were sent through time, something got stuck to all of us, which that means we don't belong here," Airis summed up, sighing.

"I could've guessed that..." Percy muttered defensively.

Outside, the gang was led to camp for the Desermanian army, coupled with Mobian and Maracian forces. At the head, the general, a Desermanian, was giving a speech in light of the coming battle. "Now is not the time for backing down!" he yelled. "Now is the time for rising up!  We are going to face the Yerconians like never before, and never surrender!  Now is no time for weakness!  Now you shall go out there and never come back unless this enemy is vanquished! You!" he point to his new arrivals. "Come to join, heh?  Well it won't be easy for you sap-suckers!  I'm watching you all!  Do not become a weakling and disgrace yourself and your-"

BANG! There was an explosion at the edge of the camp. They were being ambushed by the Yerconian fleet! "Battle Stations, now!"

"What does sap-suckers even mean?" Airis questioned.

Leo was about to answer, but then seemed puzzled. "I don't exactly know. I think it means some sort of weenie... But man, that guy sounds just like Coach Hedge," he playfully jabbed Percy with his elbow.

"Dude, you're right," Percy agreed, while he instinctly uncapped his sword.

Leo grabbed a cro-bar out of his belt, then stopped, holding Percy back. "If we're in the past, then wouldn't interfering make the timestream even more unstable and alter the future?"

"Dude, why are you asking me?" Percy shrugged.

"Well," Julie-su responded while blasting enemies with her proton blaster, "All I know is that when Knuckles tried to change the past, all he ended up with were a bunch of alternate timelines."

"Hey, I was desperate," Knuckles retorted, punching a Yerconian in the gut.

KRA-KOOM! The Yerconian fleet started dropping bombs on the camp, causing complete chaos.

Vector got knocked to the ground by a blast. "Dude, they're going to crack this place like a pinata!"

Airis shot a Yerconian that was just about to impale Vector with a beam of light. "Who are the Yerconians anyways?" she asked.

Percy swiped at a Yerconian and hit him in the back of the head with the flat of his sword. "I have no idea," he responded.

A nearby Echidna warrior answered. "They are invaders from another galaxy, come to conquer our worlds and make it part of their empire.  We echidnas have allied with Desermania, Maracia, and the Acorn Kingdom to stop them.  Wait, how do you not know...?"

"Uh, I have been a-" Airis started to say, stopping suddenly to keep from being impaled. The Yerconian's sword had cut a long gash in her arm, golden icor spilling from the wound. Angerily, she stabbed at the person who slashed her arm.

Leo, who was wacking the enemy senseless with a crowbar, stopped her sword before she made the final blow. "Killing anyone who isn't supposed to die is a big 'no-no'. Our interference is already making the timestream unstable. Making any permanent changes could utterly shatter it, either drastically changing the future or causing another collapse, destroying the whole planet! Don't you ever watch sci-fi movies?" he warned Airis.

He then turned to answer the Echidna. "We knew all of that," he bluffed, "what my friend was trying to ask is who exactly are the Yerconians and why they hold such a grudge, with the, er, Desermanians."

"Oh, of course," the echidna appeared uneasy. "I suppose I shouldn't really answer that one, my friend, not unless the queen wills it known."

Vector body-slammed a Yerconian into the dirt. "Yeah, well-" he noticed Airis' wound. "Dude, why do you have gold blood?" he asked her.

"I am a goddess, remember?" Airis reminded them. "On my planet, immortals have golden icor instead of blood."

Vector stared blankly at her. "You all have golden blood?"

Percy was fighting a Yerconian who also had a sword, locked in combat. Then another one came at Percy and slashed his side. He cringed and knocked his attacker off balance with his foot. Looking at the red blood seeping out of his side, he replied, "Oh no, only the gods have golden blood, us mortals can die at any time. In fact, I think I could die any second, right now!" Percy dodged an arrow that flew straight towards his head.

"Sooo..." Vector started after clunking a Yerconian in the face. "If you're 'immortal,' does that mean that if someone kills you, you get right back up, or are you just invulnerable or something?"

Airis sighed. "Do you not know what the word immortal means?" She asked, "I can not die."

"But Shadow is immortal, and I'm pretty sure he can die," Vector pointed out.

"Guys, focus!" Julie-su shouted. "We need to find a way- !"

BOOM! The Yerconian airship suddenly released a new bomb which caused spontaneous combustion throughout the camp, leaving Percy, Airis, and Knuckles stuck in the center of a ring of fire. The camp went into a state of complete and utter chaos, even more so than before. "Fall back!" the general ordered.

"Su! Vector!  SU!!!" Knuckles shouted through the fire. "Where are they?!?"

Percy shrugged his shoulders. "How should I know? I'm right next to you! True, I'm taller...but still! Where's Leo? He can get us out of this!" He shrank back when a stray flame roared up in his face.

"True... but how can you joke around at a time like this!?  You're as bad as Sonic!"

"It's a gift."

"Percy, is there any water around that you could douse the flames with?" Airis suggested helpfuly.

He looked around and spotted a small area of damp ground. Percy drew up the little water that was there. "This is all I have, but I can try," he replied. He swirled the water around and lashed it at the flames. Normally that amount of water wouldn't harm the fire, but the force Percy slashed the fire with caused the flames in front of them to die down. "Come on!" he shouted as he leaped over the flames.

Knuckles followed right after. "Su! Vec! Where are you!?" They searched through the flames.

"Knuckles! Don't-"

"Su!?"

Knuckles lunged in, followed by Percy, but they were taken by surprise by a bunch of Yerconians. They were takeing them fine until a huge Yerconian guy with fancy armor (looked like a leader) came in and knocked them both out. Airis came in after them but was knocked out by a missile. Airis woke up first and saw that they were on the fleet in a "dungeon" kind of area, which consisted of a big room with iron bars at the entrance, primitive as ever. Around her were Knuckles, Percy, Vector, and Leo, all out cold.

Airis lept to her feet, scanning her surrounding. The only other thing in the 'cell' was a coil of rope and a jug of water. She strode over and picked up the jug, walking over to where Leo was hugging Percy's arm like a baby. SPLASH! She threw the contents of the jug on top of the two demigods.

"Ahhh!" They both jumped up, their heads clashing against each other.

"Where are we?" Leo mumbled, rubbing his head and wringing out his clothes.

"Uhnn..." Percy groaned. "What's with all the answerless questions!" He winced as he sat up, clinging to his bleeding side. He then mumbled something about defective, foreign, contaminated water.

Vector started waking up, holding his head. "Owwww, feels like my head got hit by a bus.  Wait a minute, oh no!  Those coldblooded Yakconian creeps!"

"Aren't you coldblooded?" Leo pointed out.

"Well, yeah, but....not the point.  They took my headphones and mp3!  All my tunes were on there!  Those monsters!"

"You care more about your music player than the fact that we have been taken hostage?!" Airis said.

"Hey!  It's a very nice mp3 player, and I take my jams very seriously.  Besides, it could be a weapon, too."

"It's true," Knuckles noted, just waking up. "Loud enough, that thing can crack a eardrum.  Still," turning to Vector, "You have many more.  Wait a minute, where's Julie-su!?"

"I dunno, the girl's dungeon?" Percy guessed.

"Excuse me???" Airis said, glaring at Percy.

He looked sheepishly at Airis. "Sorry, forgot you were here." He collapsed back to the ground. "In my defense, I can't think straight with only half of my blood in my body."

Airis pursed her lips and continued to stare daggers at Percy "I don't see how you could forget I was here considering that I am standing right in front of you and I happened to be the one who dummped a jug of water on your head."

"You can argue about Percy's memory later!" Knuckles shouted at them. "We need to find Julie-su!"

Leo got up and walked over to Knuckles. "I know your, like, worried about your girlfriend, but it's not like we can just roam the place and look for her. We don't even know where we are!"

"Well then let's get out and look!  These cheap iron bars can't be too hard to crack!" he punches the bars, which sent back an electric shock on him. "YOW!"

"Well, that looks safe," Percy muttered as Knuckles got shocked.

"Yeah...I guess they're not that cheap after all.  But we still got to get- !"

Presently, some Yerconian guards came into the dungeon. "We're here for the echidna with the sideways moon tattoo.  The king wants to see you."

"Sideways moon tattoo?  You know its a... oh, yeah, sideways moon tattoo.  Fine, I think I would like to have some words with your king."

When they left with Knuckles, Leo whipped around to face the others. "Ok, we need a plan to get out of this bug-zapper so we can grab the echidnas and blow this popsicle stand."

"How about I just blast the bars?" said Airis, raising her hands and shooting a beam of at light the electrified bars, which fell over and hit the floor with a resounding clang.

"I guess you could do that..." Leo stated, already holding rubber gloves and a screwdriver. He quickly stuffed them back in his belt, and helped Percy get up on his feet. "Well, come on! Let's go!" He ran out of the cell.

They ran out to find a bunch of creeky spiraling stairs leading up out of the dungeon.

Airis turned around to look at them, in the process of unfurling her wings. "Well, as much as I would love to walk up thousands of old stairs with you, I should probably fly ahead and see what waits at the top." With that, she launched into the air and flew upwards.

At the top, she found a bunch of guards standing around what appeared to be the entrance of a throne room. "Look!" one of them shouted. "One of the prisoners has escaped!  Get her!"

Sighing, Airis turned around and leaped down, plumeting untill she snapped out her wings at the last second. "Guys, we have a problem," she informed them, gracefuly closing her wings. "Five armed guards were up there, and now they are coming down.

As if on que, they all heard loud footsteps cluncking down the stairs and angry yells.

Percy then took control of his own blood, and, hardening it, he sent it flying up the stairs to impale the guards. Hit, they stumbled down, only to be met by Leo, who knocked them out by whacking them in the head with a hammer. He then grabbed them and threw them in the dungeon they were previously in.

With Vector's help, they lifted the iron bars back up, and Leo welded them back to the wall. "Come on! Let's go before more come!" Leo shouted as he ran up the stairs. Percy and Vector followed, leaving Airis to fly back up.

"Now what?" Leo asked when they reached the top.

Percy came up panting behind him. He pointed at the grand doors in front of them. "That looks promising," he stated.

Airis landed behind him, folding her wings. "Thats probably where they took Knuckles," she stated. "But before we go in, I should proboly heal your side Percy. Your losing a pint of blood every minute."

"Yeah...that's what I was trying to say, but I don't heal easily without salt water..." Percy commented.

"My dad is Apollo, remember?" She said, walking over and kneeling next to his side. She placed her hand on the wound and whispered something. She stood back up and watched with satisfication as the wound closed its self up and faded until not even a scar was left.

"That will always freak me out," Percy stated.

Leo tapped his foot impatiently, "For the love of Hephestus, let's GO!"

They slipped inside the massive throne room on the castle-airship and hid behind a table near the wall. There were no guards near the door because they were all surrounding Julie-su and Knuckles, who were talking with the king. They recognized the king to be the guy who knocked them out earlier. He was sitting on a immensely elaborate throne, and the whole room took on a blue-black color scheme.

"For the last time...WHERE IS YOUR QUEEN!?!?" the king demanded of the echidnas.

"We don't know, okay?" Julie-su responded, obviously annoyed. Knuckles looked like he was resisting the urge to punch the king in the gut right there and now.

"If you don't cooperate, I will make you talk.  I will find her! I will!" the king ranted in a half-crazed sort of way.

"Why do you want her, anyways?" Su ventured.

"Like I would tell you!  You know what I mean - she betrayed me!  Your entire kind betrayed me!"

"Then how?"

"Don't act like you don't know, echidna!  I was a genius!  I was going to empower the world!  But you, your most despicable kind, didn't see any of that!  Your 'most amazing queen' the Ancient Walkers picked out for you stopped my project before it could come to light, after your council had promised to help me!  Well, the subject must pay for the crimes of its leaders!  Guards, take them away!  In fact, take them to the chamber.  I would like to see just how much the echidna's link with their 'chaos force' would make them react to my crystal."

Percy pointed to them dragging Knuckles and Julie-su away. "We have to act now!" he urged them.

Airis shot up to the ceiling, creating a small ball of light. She dropped it towards where the gaurds, Knuckles, and Julie-su stood. As the ball dropped, it grew. When it hit the floor, an explosion of light flooded the room, blinding the guards, but also, sadly, everyone else.

Leo jumped foward, feeling his way through. His familiarity with fire made it easier for his eyes to adjust. He could just make out the shape of the echidnas, and he grabbed them and pulled them over to where the rest of them were.

As they darted out of the room, the king started to come to his senses. "What was that infernal thing?  Wha- they're getting away!  Guards, after them!  After them, you fools!"

"Where are they?" the guards were still blind.

"What, where?  Well, they would have left, fools!  They're going to escape the ship!  After them!!!" he stumbled out of the room and put the airship in lockdown.

Leo pulled the echidnas out, but they were still blinded. "What's going on?" Knuckles feels Leo's arm but assumes he is a guard and punches him in the gut.

"Oof! What did I do?!?" Leo gasped.

"Oh, sorry," Knuckles sight was coming back. "Well...come on!  We got to get out of here!"

"You think I don't know that?!? Let's go before the guards get their sight back too," he lead them to where Percy, Vector, and Airis were ready to go.

"Now what?" Percy asked.

Leo ran out onto the sky deck. "We're over a lake!" he looks at the others, and they silently knew what they were going to do.

"I'll take Vector," Percy offered, grabbing him and jumping off the deck, hurtling towards the lake.

Knuckles jumped off, and glided down.

Leo looked at Airis. "Well, we aren't aquatic and we can't fly..."

Airis face-palmed then grabbed Leo and unfurled her wings. "I have wings, remember?" she said. And with that, she jumped of the edge of the ship.

"I meant me and Julie-su can't fly! I'm not that stupid!" Leo protested when they reached the ground.

"Well, you were looking at me..." she said. "I need go back and get her." Then she jumped off the ground, going back up to the ship. She grabbed Julie-su and started to make her way back to where Leo was standing, Julie-su in her arms.

Leo saw that a Yerconian showed up at the rail of the ship, aimimg a gun at the girls. "Look out!" he warned, chucking a flaming hot wrench up towards the dude, which suprisingly made it, knocking him out.

Airis and Julie-su got to the ground as the airship started to fly off, though it seemed clear that wasn't the last they would see of the Yerconians. "Nice shot," Su complemented Leo.

Vector pulled himself out of the lake with Percy. "Dude, what was that for?!"

"Well, Airis couldn't carry everybody and I doubt Knuckles could have 'glided' with someone holding him down, and you are a crocodile..." Percy explained.

"Well, sure I'm an awesome swimmer... but I can't bend water to my will.  Wait a minute...my headphones!  They're still on the ship!  We got to go back for them!"

"Seriously, Vector?  You have more at home." Julie-su pointed out.

"But, they were my favorite headphones!  You wouldn't understand, anyways.  Did the Dark Legion even have music at all?"

"No, but that's not the point, and you're really bringing that up?"

Percy muttered to himself, "No 'Thank you, Percy, for taking the hit even though that I weigh a TON!' I'm really underappreciated..."

Airis looked over at Vector. "Actually, I found your headphones in the 'throne room'" she said, tossing them over to him. "I knew if I didn't take them we would be hearing about this for all eternity."

"Yeah!  My baby!  And still intact!  I'm so glad to see you and I'm not letting you out of my sight again!"

"That's awesome," Julie-su rolled her eyes. "Well, what now?  We have no way of getting back to our time, and we're at a major risk of changing this one!"

"It should be fine for now if we didn't really change anything," Knuckles conjectured. "Still, we need to get back before we do, now that the king of Yerconia or wherever is out to get us, but I'm sure the others will be able to find us."

Cracking the weapon
Angel Island, present day:

Gem banged her head against the shrine. "I can't believe we can't find them!"

Talon walked over and placed her hand on Gem's shoulder. "I'm sure we'll find them. Who knows? Maybe Sonic found them," she jerked her head towards the open warp ring that Sonic was currently in.

Just then, Sonic ran out of the warp ring. An 'unwelcome' mat attached to a missile chased him through. "Close it, close it, close it!" he shouted.

Gem jumped over and closed the ring before the missile came through.

"It was only Knuckles back when he was 'Mr. Paranoid' and had all of those missiles and traps," Sonic explained.

Espio, who was sitting on the steps of the shrine meditating, opened his eyes. "The warp ring works better with a location in mind. Thinking of only our friends will send you to any given point in their life."

Nearby, Tails was working furiously on figuring out the Nebula weapon, which Dr. Finitevus had left behind when he escaped through a warp ring. He wanted to know how to shut it off to stop the black holes on the Greek Earth, but unfortunately, it proved to be even more complex than anything in Mobian technology. "Perhaps, seeing that the weapon was powered with chaos energy and would have sent them to a place completely random, it would have been more likely to send them to a place that already has a rift in the timestream, to give it a place to connect.  Chances are, they wouldn't be anywhere in their own pasts... maybe we could try picturing them against a blank background?" he suggested.

"I guess that would be the best chance we have," Talon replied, "but I already tried that and it sent me to Percy in a white bathroom..." She shuddered.

"Of course..." Tails continued. "There would be that possibility... I'll try figuring out a place that might fit the description of having that sort of a rift already...once I get done here." He then muttered to himself, "Man, I wish Leo were here..."

"I really hope Knuckles didn't pick another fight with Airis," Crystal said.

"Don't worry," Gem assured her, "Julie-su is there. She won't let him do any thing stupid. I just hope they don't cause havoc, or end up in some death hole..."

"Well, if they are back in time, then they might be reaking havoc on the timestream without even meaning to," Talon pointed out.

"It would be just their luck to be transported back into the middle of war. What happend if they kill people who were not supposed to die? Crystal questioned.

"That would be bad...it could alter the course of time drastically, or it could be minor, but not likely," Talon replied. "Anyone else want to try and find them?" she then asked, holding up the warp ring.

"I haven't tried yet," Crystal volunteered. She went over and grabbed the warp ring. "How do I work it?"

Gem walked over to her. "Simply flip it up in the air like you would flip a coin, then touch it and think of your destination, or in this case, friend. Once the portal appears you just hop right through."

"Sounds simple enough," Crystal said. She pictured Leo's face in her mind and flipped it up in the air. When she caught it, a portal appeared. "Here goes nothing," she said as she stepped through the portal.

Leo's past
When Crystal emerged out of the portal, she started falling.

She heard someone scream. As she grasped onto the side of the canyon she looked up and saw Leo falling over the side of a glass bridge. As he caught a purchase on the rocky side of the grand canyon he yelled back up, "Help! Rope, please? Bungee cord? Something?"

Suddenly, she saw some one else leap over the side of the bridge. As he lept down the rocky face of the canyon, she saw that he had goat hooves.

So that must be Coach Hedge... she thought. Leo had told her the story of when he had fell into the Grand Canyon plenty of times. Then she realized she shouldn't be seen, and the satyr was getting closer by the second. She scrambled up the wall untill she was level with where the portal was still hanging open in mid-air. She pushed of the wall and dove through the portal just as Coach Hedge looked down to where she had been holding on for dear life seconds before.

Angel Island
When Crystal got back to present day, she shot out of the portal with so much force she almost rolled off the side of the island.

Talon had caught her before she did, though.

Siria walked over to the warp ring. "I haven't tried yet either,"she said. She flipped it up and pictured Airis clearly, trying to see her on a white background like Tails had suggested. The golden, liquidy portal appeared, and Siria stepped through.

Food Fight on Olympus
Siria stepped through to the other side, only to duck behind a large pillar. All of the gods sat around a long table, in a white room. (Go figure...) Airis sat next to Iris, her mother, on the half of the table that seated all of the goddesses. Across from them, were all of the gods. Zeus sat at the head.

Golden chunks of ambrosia were on all of their plates, and nectar was in their cups.

"...so that's when I released the snakes, to throw off the slimy Persians, so they wouldn't even know I took their precsious rug," Hermes bragged.

Airis rolled her eyes as Apollo added on to the stupid conversation. "Well, I'm sure that was great and all...but who cares about a rug? No, you should have seen it when I defeated Boreas in his attempt to make sure the sun didn't come up. He rigged my chariot to fall apart, but I still made it up, even with only one pegasus, half a reign, and the wheels."

Hermes tried to top Apollo's story. "Well one time, a brave mortal tried to steal from me. The poor guy didn't know what hit him. When he snuck into my temple, I launched a boulder at him like this-" He chucked a piece of ambrosia at Apollo.

He shook it off. "Well, I would've done it like this!" He sent another piece flying at Hermes, but he ducked, leaving it splattered on Ares instead.

"You're going to pay for that!" Ares growled, throwing his whole plate at Apollo.

He then ducked, and the plate full of ambrosia flew across the table, sending its contents all over Airis, Iris, and Athena.

Athena pulled out her spear, and swung it at Ares, breaking his glass full of nectar, spraying its contents on Ares. Ares then picked up Hermes glass and threw it at Athena, but missed, sending it all over Aphrodite.

"My dress!" she screamed.

Quickly, godly food flew all across the room. Before things got worse, Siria hopped back threw the warp ring.

Angel Island
When Siria stepped out, she closed the warp ring. "That was...interesting," she stated.

Crystal was getting up from the ground, dusting herself off. "What happened? I know it can't be worse than falling down the Grand Canyon." she said.

"I saw the gods have a food fight. I was kind of disturbing..." Siria explained.

"Well, it can't be worse than seeing Percy go to the bathroom..." Talon muttered, shuddering.

"Now I want to see that happen," Crystal said, then looked around, "The food fight, not Percy going to the bathroom" she clarified.