Rarity smiled happily as she looked at her bed. After a full day of swimming with her friends, she was ready for a full night of beauty sleep. Just as she had sat down and was grabbing her blanket, there was a knock at her front door. Rarity sighed as she stood up, checked her hair in the mirror, and walked to the door.

"Who's there?" She asked as she opened the door. It was dark outside, and the streetlights barely provided any light. All Rarity could see in the doorway was a silhouette that looked like Sonic.

"Sonic, what are you doing out this late? Come in." Rarity grabbed the silhouette's arm and felt the cold feeling of metal. After that, she felt an electric shock flow through her body. Rarity crumpled onto the ground and didn't move.

"First target, acquired." A metallic voice said.

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Next, we find ourselves in Fluttershy's house. She was also preparing herself to get some sleep. Just as she was about to climb into bed, there was a strange sound coming from outside. Fluttershy recognized the sound as some kind of wounded animal. With her instincts taking over, Fluttershy rushed out of her house to try and locate the wounded animal. All she found was a dark silhouette standing right outside her door.

"Excuse me." She whispered. "Have you seen a hurt animal?" The silhouette responded by placing a hand on her shoulder. Fluttershy then felt an electric shock flow through her as she fell to the ground, unconscious.

"Second target, acquired." A metallic voice said.

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Now it's the morning, and we find our hero rising from his bed. Bandages were wrapped around his arms and the back of his neck. After doing a few quick stretches, Sonic walked out of his room to find Tails tinkering with some kind of machine.

"What are you working on Tails?" Sonic asked.

Tails looked up from what he was working on and said, "I'm making some long distance communicators to allow us to stay in touch while out on missions."

"That's pretty cool. These will definitely come in handy." Just then there was a frantic knock at the door. A second after thee first knock had finished, the knocking began again. Sensing the urgency, Sonic sped over to the door. He threw it open, revealing Twilight, who still continued to knock at where the door was.

"What is it?" Sonic asked, trying to stifle a laugh from the display at the door.

"Fluttershy and Rarity have gone missing!" Twilight shouted. Sonic didn't have anymore trouble stifling his laugh after that.

"Did they leave anything saying what happened?"

"Nothing! Just two empty houses!"

Sonic turned to Tails. "When we were in Gimme Shelter that other time, there was a computer there, right?"

Tails nodded. "Yeah, and it was a pretty big one too."

"Do you think there would be any recent data stored on that?"

"Maybe, but I'd only know if I were able to access the computer."

Sonic turned back to Twilight. "I'm going to need you to do me a slight favor."

"What kind of favor?" She asked.

"I'm going to need you to make another portal into Gimme Shelter."

"Are you crazy?"

"Slightly."

"I'm not going to do that, especially after what happened last time!"

"If you don't help me, I'm going to break in myself."

"You wouldn't."

"Are you willing to bet that?" Twilight still refused to create another portal. Partly because of how dangerous it was, partly because she had teleported them to Gimme Shelter on accident last time.

"Tails, follow me." Sonic said as he walked out the door and past Twilight. Tails got up and grabbed a few tools before following after Sonic. Twilight ran in front of the duo and stopped in front of them with her arms out to her sides, attempting to stop them.

"You're going to get hurt!" She shouted.

"Probably." Sonic said as he ducked under her arm.

"But what's the reward without a great risk?" Tails asked as he ducked under the other arm.

"You two are crazy!" Twilight shouted.

"Glad you finally get it." Sonic said without looking back. At first, Twilight fell to her knees and dreaded what could happen to the duo. Then, she stared at them in confusion, wondering how they could walk into danger with such courage. Finally, she decided to follow after the two.

"Is there anyway that you can get us into the base without tripping any alarms?" Sonic asked Tails.

"I don't think so." Tails answered.

"Good, then we get in my way." The three of them walked through Central City into Night Babylon. When they stood just outside of Gimme Shelter, Sonic cracked his knuckles and did a few stretches.

"What I'm about to do is stupid and really shouldn't be done. When I do it, I want you to sneak to the computer Tails, because we are going to set off a lot of alarms. I'll cover you." Sonic explained as he finished stretching.

"What should I do?" Twilight asked.

"It's going to be dangerous in there. Like you said, we could get really hurt. All I need you to do is stay out here, away from any of the danger." Twilight didn't like that idea. The thought of her hero throwing himself into danger while she stood to the side safely angered her. She agreed to his plan, but secretly decided to sneak into the base while Sonic wasn't looking.

"Alright then. 3, 2, 1, go!" Sonic shouted as he began a Sonic spin. He blasted right through the front entrance at full speed, and set off plenty alarms in the process. Tails jumped through the hole in the wall and rushed for the computer as robots climbed down from the walls.

"Just try and find the locations of Rarity and Fluttershy!" Sonic shouted to Tails. Tails nodded in response and began to get to work on the computer. "Alright metal heads, come and get me!"

The robots all turned to face Sonic as they're guns began to warm up. Sonic jumped into the air and put all of his focus on one robot. He then curled into the air at the peak of his jump, and shot towards the robot, propelling himself with pure focus and willpower. Sonic slammed right into the robot's chest and was propelled back into the air as the robot exploded. He repeated this pattern with the other robots all around the room.

Twilight began to slip through the hole in the wall and entered the base. Unsure of how she could help, she snuck off to the side and hid behind some metal barrels. Things seemed to be going well, until one of the robots noticed her over there. As soon as Twilight noticed the robot standing behind her while pointing a gun at her back, she screamed for help.

Sonic lost focus for just a second as he heard the scream. This second was all that was needed for him to mess up one of his homing attacks, leaving him vulnerable. Taking advantage of this, three robots all slammed down on his back with their guns at the same time. Sonic fell to the ground with a thud, and he had lost his breath.

Twilight saw this, and it made her steaming mad. She held up her hand towards the robot who was standing behind her. A circular shield went up around the gun. Twilight pulled her hand towards her, pulling the force field toward her. This ripped the gun off of the robot's hand. Twilight then grabbed the gun from the force field and pointed it towards the robot. It took a second, but she found the trigger and fired at the robot. A few holes appeared in the robot, and it fell over, no longer attempting to fight.

The robots that were surrounding Sonic were then shot by Twilight, freeing Sonic to get back up and get back in the fight.

"Are you almost done Tails?" Sonic shouted.

"Give me another minute!" Tails responded. So Sonic and Twilight held off the robots. There weren't anymore close calls, and Twilight held her own pretty well. Of course, Sonic always kept her in his line of sight just in case she needed his help.

"Done!" Tails shouted.

"Where are they?" Twilight asked.

"They're out at one of Eggman's bases in the Holy Summit."

"Good enough for me!" Sonic shouted. He ran towards Twilight and grabbed her hand. "Let's go, Tails!" Tails nodded and flew away from the computer towards the hole in the wall. Sonic ran in the same direction, dragging Twilight along with him. He threw Twilight through the hole after Tails had flown through, and then followed after them.

"Give me the gun." Sonic said. Twilight looked down at the gun and held it out to him grudgingly. Sonic took the gun, examined it, and then put it into his pocket as best as he could. "How deep in the Holy Summit is the base?"

"About five miles north." Tails answered.

"I'm going to run back to the house to grab a bag and then head out to the base. You two stay safe."

"You're not going without us." Twilight said.

"Yes I am. Eggman knows that we're coming after him so a team of one will be the best way to do this. Since I can get there the fastest, fight the best, and I'm the hero, it only makes sense that I would be the one to go."

"At least take us to the base with you." Twilight pleaded.

"After that stunt you just pulled, I'm not taking you anywhere near there."

"Wait, Sonic, take this communicator with you." Tails said as he held out one of the communicators from earlier.

"Have you finished these?" Sonic asked as he took it.

"It's good enough to work for now, just don't try and test it."

"I'll keep that in mind." Sonic turned around to run off, but his arm was grabbed by Twilight before he could run. She then pulled him into a hug.

"Stay safe." She whispered to him.

"When don't I?" Sonic asked before running away. He ran back to Tails' house and grabbed a backpack. He slipped the gun into it along with the communicator. After that, Sonic took off towards the Holy Summit. Five miles north would be no problem. He had made it to the base in no time at all. The main reason that he knew it was the base was the amount of robots in the area.

Sonic looked around to try and find the entrance. Once he saw the door, he looked around at the enemies. Not too many of them were located near the door, but all of them were equipped with enough fire power to kill anything trying to get to the door. Well, anything that wasn't moving at extremely fast speeds.

Sonic began to run in place, his feet becoming blurs. As he did this, he pulled out the gun and aimed at the door. Sonic charged straight at the door with great speeds and fired at the hings of the door. It fell over as he ran through.

"They just don't make them like they used to." Sonic muttered as he ran through the doorway. He was in the base now, and he had to make it to wherever Rarity and Fluttershy were without getting seriously injured or killed.

Sonic put the gun back in the bag and continued down the first hallway. There were many doors to the sides, but Sonic didn't know which one held his friends.

He pulled out the communicator. "Tails, do you happen to know where they are in this base specifically?"

"They're about two floors below you. That's all I've got." Tails' voice came from the communicator.

"Alright, that's all I should need." Sonic said before putting the communicator away. "I wonder if there's an elevator here." Sonic muttered to himself. Looking around, he saw too many doors. If he was ever going to get down two floors below him quickly, it wasn't going to be through the use of stairs or elevators.

Sonic jumped into the air and curled into a ball, putting all of his focus on the floor directly beneath him. He was then propeled downward with great force and slammed right through the floor. After landing on the floor below him, Sonic repeated the process.

"I really need to think of plans that don't involve me slamming my head through something." Sonic sighed as he rubbed his head. Looking around, he noticed that this floor didn't have many doors, and each door was labeled.

"All I have to do is find the room that they're being held in." Sonic said. It was then that the alarms went off. "Perhaps I should also avoid any robots that come my way." He ran towards the closest door and threw it wide open. Inside were a bunch of pods with a green liquid inside. The liquid surrounded some kind of figure in the pods, but Sonic didn't have time to investigate.

He ran to the next door and threw it open. Inside was a computer that seemed to be processing some kind of data. It went on like this for a few minutes, Sonic running to a door, opening it, and finding nothing of use inside. The strangest part was that no robots showed up within this time, even though the alarms were still blaring.

Finally, Sonic found the door that held his friends. He knew it was the right door considering it wouldn't open.

"Am I going to have to do this again?" Sonic muttered as he curled into a ball. He began to spin so that he could break through the door, but it opened just as he fired off towards it. Sonic bounced around the room as he attempted to uncurl. Once he finally managed it, he saw the destruction that he had wrought in the room.

Sonic shrugged as he scanned the room for his friends. He saw a cage in the middle of the room and decided that his friends would most likely be in there. He walked up to the cage and could hear a faint rattling from the inside.

"Anyone there?" Sonic asked as he approached the cage.

The rattling stopped and a voice said, "Sonic, is that you?" Sonic breathed a sigh of relief as he heard Rarity's voice.

"Don't worry, I'm here to spring you out." Sonic made it to the side of the cave and saw Rarity and Fluttershy sitting on the floor with their pajamas on. There was a lock on the door of the cage, and it seemed very complicated.

"Did you see this key for this?" Sonic asked. Both Fluttershy and Rarity shook their heads in response. Sonic sighed and looked around for something to break the lock with. When he found nothing, he pulled out the communicator and examined it for some kind of device that would pick a lock. Luckily, Tails had decided to add such a feature to the communicator.

Once the lock had been picked, the two girls quickly got out of the cage.

"Alright, let's get out of here." Sonic said as he turned towards the door.

"Wait." Rarity said as she held up a glowing blue gem.

Sonic's eyes widened as he looked at what she held. "A chaos emerald!"

The chaos emeralds are seven emeralds that are made of pure energy. Just one alone grants the owner considerable power, but when all seven are gathered together, the owner obtains the ultimate power. The fact that Eggman had one just lying around was absurd.

"Where did you find that?" Sonic asked.

"It was in the cage with us when we woke up." Fluttershy whispered.

"Why would Eggman just leave a chaos emerald in a cage where he was holding prisoners?" Sonic wondered aloud. "Anyway, we should get out of here." He took the emerald from Rarity and led the girls to the hole he had made in the ceiling. After helping them through the two holes, Sonic led them to the entrance of the base. That was when things started to go wrong.

Stationed outside of the front of the base was a whole squad of robots, each one of them pointing a weapon at the trio that walked out of the door. Sonic's ear twitched as the first robot fired. Sensing the danger, he pushed the girls out of the way, and just in time. After the first robot had fired, the other robots also fired their weapons.

Sonic held up the chaos emerald as the bullets were fired. He didn't know why he held it up, but he did anyway. Since he had pushed the girls away, the were out of the danger, but Sonic had no more time to react to the rest of the bullets. His body shook as the majority of the bullets met their mark.

When the firing had stopped, Sonic turned towards the girls. He collapsed while facing them, and they raced to his side. Sonic smiled and held up the chaos emerald. He didn't know what to do, but a voice in the back of his head seemed to.

"Chaos control!" Sonic shouted without knowing he did. Two things happened before the ability known as chaos control teleported them away. The two girls stared into Sonic's eyes and felt something inside of them change. He had taken many bullets while protecting them. Sonic had put his life on the line just to save them. Deep inside the two girls something had changed, a new feeling had surfaced. Rarity and Fluttershy had fallen in love with the blue hero.

Meanwhile, Sonic used the last of his strength to reach into his backpack. His hand moved around inside of it, searching for a specific item. His hand closed around an object in the bag, and there was a dinging sound as he grabbed it. After that, the trio were teleported out of the area and away from the robot threat.