We'll be together again someday

Mission: Match Up

Cosmo was on the bridge and Sonic came with a few boxes.

"Oh, this isn't the cargo hold." Sonic said.

"Oh... Hi, Sonic." Cosmo said.

"How's it goin', Cosmo?" he asked and spun off the bridge.

Tails and Chris were on the Runway finish erecting the palm trees on the ship.

"That's the last one." Tails said.

"I've been meaning to ask you, what's the point of having these artificial palm trees? It's not exactly tropical out here in space." Chris said.

"Yeah, I know, but it's all because of your grandfather. Chuck once told me that it's important to make a ship like home to keep up the crew's morale."

"Really?" Chris said. "His ideas sure are original."

On the Blue Typhoon Amy hammered a dent until it was repaired. Sonic arrived with his stack of boxes.

"Hiya, Amy. Watch this stuff for me, will ya?" Sonic said and He set the boxes down and started to leave.

"Wait Sonic!" she said and he stopped. "Uh, do you think Shadow is okay?"

He saw Shadow diving after the Crimson Egg.

"Don't worry. He's always makin' a comeback." he said and left.

"Hey! What should I do with this stuff?"

She sighed in frustration as Sonic continued running.

At the Engine room Cream and Cheese were helping Knuckles with repairs on the ship. Knuckles was tightening a nut with a wrench.

"It's lucky for us you can control the Master Emerald. It saved the ship!" Cream said.

"Chao!" Cheese said.

"Do you think that Rouge is going to be okay?"

The Crimson Egg descending into the gravitational field.

"Who cares about that bat? It serves her right for fluttering around where she doesn't belong!" Knuckles said.

On the Bridge using tongs, Chris placed a chip into a circuit board.

"I'm almost done..." Chris said and felt a pain blossoming in his leg.

"What's wrong?" Tails asked.

"Just a little sore."

Tails stood up.

"That was a tough fight." he said.

"The Metarex are totally relentless." Chris said sa the crystallized Planet Egg. "They keep collecting Planet Eggs. I know they're transforming them somehow, but I can't figure out why."

"Planet Eggs and Chaos Emeralds all have huge amounts of power. I bet the Metarex want to use that energy to take over the galaxy."

"How are we ever gonna defeat them? Red Pine said there were three other commanders out there with armies of Metarex ready to fight!"

"I don't know if we can win, but if we give up, the galaxy is doomed."

On Yellow Zelkove's Battleship Metarex General Yellow Zelkova pondered Red Pine's death. He was flanked by Metarex Troopers.

"How could Red Pine have been defeated? He was almost as strong as Me!" Yellow Zelkova said communicating with the two other Metarex Generals, Black Narcissus and Pale Bayleaf.

"What you and Red Pine never understood is that strength must be balanced with intelligence and skill." Pale Bayleaf said over the Radio and Bayleaf fiddled with a red Chaos Emerald. "You're far too proud of your power. Your strength is your weakness."