Hex Unrest

-HEX UNREST-
Sonic and tails are heading to the lost hex upon hearing a rumor about eggman being up to his old tricks again. Although Tails is worried that the deadly six might still be out there, Sonic feels that things are going to be fine, considering a total boss fight smack down given earlier, but a few surprises are in store for them in finding out what's been going on at the lost hex while they've been gone...

CHAPTER 1- Memory Lane- why u no QUICK!?

It had been a loooong flight. Like, 12 hour straight, next to the creepy silent dude in 3rd class with no stops, movie, or I Pad, kind of long. Sonic was so bored, and, yeah, Tails needed to concentrate, but a little conversation couldn't hurt, right?
"So how much longer?! I'm FRICKIN DYING OF BOREDOM." He said.
Tails sighed. Being a pilot with your only passenger clinging onto the wing of your plane could be rough.
"Dude, it'll only take about twenty more minutes till we see it. The view will probably help your mood, crabby patty."
"Yeah, well, you're not exactly Mr. Sunshine either, Tails. What're you so worried about?" Sonic asked.
"You haven't guessed? The last time we were here, we had to fight six maniacs, team up with Eggman, AND I got captured and turned into a robot! So yeah, I'm a bit tense."
"Ah, come on, what's gonna happen? I told you, the last time I saw the deadly six was in a volcano, and that volcano was collapsing. Besides, you look good in chrome!" Sonic said, while scanning the horizon for their destination.
Tails decided to ignore his friend's snickers. He had to focus on flying the plane.
"Besides, what if I'm right? What if the six are still out there? If they are, the second they see us, they'll be trying to put US on their menu..." Tails thought worryingly.
"TAILS! TAILS! THERE IT ISTHANKCHAOSITHOUGHTIWASGONNADIEOFBOREDOMIFWEDIDNTLANDTHATANDTHATBIGTHUNDERSTORMWEFLEWTHROUGHBUTSTILLIMGLADWEREFINALLYHEEEEERE!!!!!"
"Hmmm, uh Sonic? I know you're excited and all, but you're speaking über- fast, could you slow it down a bit?" Tails asked.
"Oh, sorry. Heh. It's just been such a long flight. I hope Eggmans running amuck, otherwise we just flew all this way for nothing." Sonic stated.
"Nah, if Eggman isn't here, then it still wouldn't be for nothing. We could still treat some zeti to some FOX CASSEROLE." Tails said dryly.
"Ah, don't be such a sourpuss Tails. What could possibly go wrong?"

CHAPTER 2- A lot, so remember kids, never say what our hero just said.

So, about 3,900 miles away, ( Not a bunch of Miles Prower, but actual MILES.) a bit of unhappiness about who does what was under way at the Deadly Six's HQ. ( Tails later earned himself an "I TOLD you!" Why? For being right, duh.) Ok, kiddies, time for a brief (and fake) history lesson! So basically, when Sonic and company left the Lost Hex, and the Six were done recuperating (thanks to a soon to be named character) they had destroyed Dr. Eggmans military bases, and went back to hanging out in their HQ, basically a large cave system under The Desert Ruins- (what? I always thought it had the best soundtrack, Ok?) just making sure no one trespassed onto the Lost Hex, and had basically let bygones be bygones (at least, our newest character) the rest had basically decided to forget about Sonic. But Zomom still wanted to eat Eggman, but that's just because Eggmans fat, and Zomom never stops eating, THE FATTY. But enough about my balls. Anyway, Zavok, Master Zik, and Zazz we're going on a secret mission and someone needed to watch and train our newest character, Zona, while they were out. Zazz was currently telling her how to have the perfect war howl.
"So, to have THE PERFECT HOWL, ya need to feel like your gonna wipe the floor with yo enemies BRAINS. Or at least make them think so, but I prefer to do tha whole, floor brain wipey... Thing. Anyways, ya need to have a deep start,"
Zona crouched down, like a cat about to poke your eyes out-
"A wild look,"
She started making her eyes squint-
"And be loud as possible, now go!"
This'll be easy, she thought. I'm already as loud as possible, or at least that's what my bro-ham says...
She crouched down, eyes a-squintin, and...
Nothing.
Not a roar, not a howl, all she got was a high pitched whine sound from the back of her throat. (Actually, on Tails biplane, a bit of the glass cracked, but who believes in coincadinks, anyway? NOT ME, HA! GOTCHA!)
SERIOUSLY!? THATS ALL I GET!? She brain yelled at herself.
"Uh, no offense, but that sucked sushi that was so bad." Zazz stated.
"Uh durr, yeah, ya THINK!? How can I have any blood lust if you guys never let me do any MISSIONS?!" She shouted.
That was mainly directed towards master Zik and Zavok, who were working at the monitor. (How'd they get a monitor? You might ask, uh, yeh, they stole it from Dr. Eggman. Deal with it.)
"You must learn patience, young one." Master Zik said, because he's like the evil Yoda of the sonic series.
"I've been learning FRICKIN' patience since I've started training! What's worse is that you guys are always going on secret missions and I haven't even been told to catch a pig!" She shouted.
"Well, at least I get a break while you, Zazz, and Master Zik are out." She said, walking towards the exit. She was a bit peeved that Zavok, Zazz, and The Master were going on another mission without her, but she didn't get many relaxation days. 'Oh well,' she thought. 'When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade.'
"Oh, no you don't. You are going to be trained by Zomom, Zeeny, and Zor, while we're gone." Said Zavok, grabbing her shoulder. (Zeeny: only female in the Six, loves her nails, takes forever on them too. Zomom: heaviest of the Six, never gets full. Seriously, he's eaten a twenty foot Long sandwich and asked for seconds. Zor: the Six's current sneaky spy, and is so emo, he somehow finds blue roses EVERYWHERE, enjoys pain, and when he smiles, it hurts so he thinks it's "cool". Master Zik, really short, really old guy who trained and formed the Deadly Six. Saying he's old is an understatement, the guys 1,000- but that's 60 in Zeti years. Zavok: the leader of the Deadly Six, and the one who sort-of thought of turning Sonic into a robot. {yeah! they sorta caught Tails by accident, but it still worked in freaking Sonic out though.} And Zona: not technically one of the Six yet, but hey you think your name sucks, hers means prostitute, and she'll break your mouth if you say anything about it.) And you know what her soon to be babysitters were thinking? "Oh crap, no nail time!" "Oh crap, no eat time!" And "oh crap, no sulking time... :(" Zona looked over at the three, one sitting on the monitor, doing her nails, one eating a giant turkey leg covered in bacon and peanut butter, and the last one doing his nails while sitting in that shadowy corner of the room.
"This is gonna be a long day." She muttered.

CHAPTER 3- Ya want EGG-BOTS with that planet, miss?

So, yeah, Dr Eggman is, indeed, planning world domination for the Lost Hex. (Should they change the hex's name? I dunno, it's not technically lost anymore... Uh YES, it's name should be changed.) Anyways, he had Orbot and Cubot with him, and we're admiring the scenery. "Ahh!" The doctor breathed. "It's been so long!"
"Boss, it has been about five months." Said Orbot.
"So, would you look at this scenery! Sparkling lakes, trickling creeks, flowing river, (gotta use the restroom yet?) green grass... I can't wait to pave it over!" Eggman said excitedly.
"Boss, uh, what're we gonna do about the Zeti if they come to eat our faces?" Cubot asked. (He's the dumb one of this trio, or at least the one who doesn't get the jokes.)
"Well, Cubot, I have recently re-acquired a Cacophonic Conch, and I have a great plan this time! No one will stop me this time! Ho ho ho ho!" (Cacophonic Conch: a shell that hinders the Zetis innate ability to control magnetic fields, which allows for them to make mechs and other electronics do their bidding. Ho ho ho ho: Eggman's ridiculous laugh.)
"It's time for a bit of revenge! Those zeti foiled my greatest plot yet last time, and the rebellious swine will pay!" Eggman chortled.
"But I thought you said this plot was your greatest yet." Cubot said.
"SHUT UUUP!"

Chapter 4- Why'd Eggman get such a short chapter?

(Because his plan is secret. Why are you complaining, anyway?)
So training was going to take place in the Desert Ruins, and basically they were drawing straws to see who would go first. Zomom lost. They were basically going to give Zona their chores. Yeah. Zonas first task: make a large fifteen foot long double decker sub sandwich with extra mustard. It's a long process. After that, she was doing push-ups with him on her back, on scalding hot sand.
Yup, training- she thought as she got onto her seventieth push-up. It's the bees FRICKIN' KNEES.
Next came Zor, but all they did was try to write sad poetry. 'Well, at least I got that daily damper from Zor, didn't know what I'd freaking do without it,' She thought.
After Zor came Zeeny, and all Zona did was paint Zeenys nails for her while she examined herself in the mirror. She was very careful with Zeeny's nails because she could have a real temper if you messed up her appearance.
After that, they all just wandered around the ruins, Zomom eating random food, and Zeeny trying not to get sand on her wet nails. Zor went off to chaos knows where, so that was that.
Zona had gone into the pyramid to "reminess"
"I can't believe this." She was ranting, a sport she was quite good at. "After that whole volcano incident, I still don't get a chance to prove myself? I mean, after that incident with the volcano, you would think-" she froze. An image flashed through her head of cracked horns, bent tails, and injured bodies laying on a volcanoes charred crater, and that demented laugh. The laugh of a man who enslaved her friends and family, the only people she had, and drove them to the point of revenge... And the conch, always the conch she feared. What if the man came back and took them away again?
"No," she said to herself. "Don't think about that. The only reason they're not letting me go on any missions is because they don't want that happening to me too, so no need to get spiteful." But...what if? What if the man was going to come back, to try his luck on revenge too?
"Yeah, do NOT think about that, dingus." She muttered.
"NOOOOO!!!!!" Someone was in some pretty deep anguish outside.
"Zona! I have a training thing for you!" Zomom said when she exited.
He was brandishing a turkey leg.
"Oh bother..." She said. What was it this time?

CHAPTER 5- Keep Calm, and get a Sonic.

So Sonic and Tails were flying around looking for Eggman when they saw it. "It" being a large robot factory pumpin' out mechs more than McDonalds grease on Fat Friday.
"Well, looks like we've found ourselves an Eggman nest!" Sonic shouted over the wind. "I think I'm gonna drop off here, Tails. Be ready to pick me up when this factory's leveled!"
"Wait just a second!" Tails shouted. "I'm coming with you!"
"What!? Why!?" Sonic asked.
"Err, I don't wanna be left alone while there might be a bunch of zeti on the loose." Tails admitted.
"Ah, I see. You're chicken!" Sonic laughed.
"Come on man, I'm serious! I can help! All I need is my blaster!" Tails said, taking out his dual barrel Miles Electric TM mech eliminator.
"Well, if you insist!" Sonic said.
Now, I'm gonna let you imagine the fray, so you can have a bit of fun with Tails and Sonic fighting, finding the true meaning of friendship, and making out (you guys know who you are.) if you want. Anyway, that got to the central command, and there Dr. Eggman was.
"Sonic!? How on earth did you find my base, you meddling hedgehog?!" Eggman shouted.
"Well, it wasn't hard, all I had to do was follow the trail of robots, if you must ask." Sonic stated.
"That and your security system looks like it was patented by a 7 year old!" Tails laughed.
"GAH! LAUGH THIS ONE OFF YOU IDIOTIC FOX!!!!" Eggman shouted. He took out a blaster aimed it at Tails and fired. (I guess someone's having a bad day. Poor Eggman...)

CHAPTER 6- BEES KNEES AND HONEY PLEASE.

"WHAT do you need me to do?!" Zona asked, bewildered.
"Well, I forgot to put honey of my turkey bacon and peanut butter meat leg! (Or TBPBML for short,) and I was wondering if you could go to the bee hive and get me some?" Zomom asked.
"Well, it does seem like a challenge, should be good practice!" Zeeny shouted happily. (She just wanted Zomom to shut up.)
"You do mean that giant bee hive in the woods, right?" Zona asked.
"Yup, that's the one." Zomom said.
"I'm on it!" She said dashing away.
Now, Sonic may be the worlds fastest hedgehog, but Zona is Lost Hexes fastest zeti. She had reached supersonic speeds by the time she exited the desert ruins.
"Ok, bee hive, beehive, beehive... Wait." She stopped.
"BEES FREAKIN' STING!" She realized. "Dang it! Why'd I get talked into this!?"
She pouted, heading back toward the ruins. "I'm just gonna end up looking like a lumpy red mess! Like Zomom! I CANNOT LET THAT HAPPEN! EVER! IM NOT GOING!" She shouted, then stopped herself. 'Dang it. Orders are orders,' She thought, psyching herself up. Soon, she had arrived at the hive. "Well, I'd better get in there.." She muttered.

CHAPTER 7- MARKSMANSHIP WITH THAT EGGMAN, PLEASE.

Eggman aimed, and fired. Of course, he was in that Egg mobile, but he didn't use that auto aim blaster, so he pretty much aimed a mile off.
"DANG IT! I CAN'T EVEN DESTROY ONE OF YOU!" He shouted, speeding off in his Egg-mobile. "I'll not let you foil my plans this time! I'll handle you two later." He said, speeding off with Orbot and Cubot in tow.
"Jeez!" Sonic said. "Talk about touchy!"
"Yeah, all I did was state as a matter of fact, that his security does indeed, suck." Tails said.
"Yeah, well, I wish I had one of those wisps with me. That fight could've been a lot quicker." Sonic stated.
"Yeah, but if Eggman's plan is so important to his attention that he doesn't even build a boss battle arena, I think it could be very serious." Tails said.
"Then we'd better catch up to him!" Sonic said excitedly.
"I'll go get my biplane!"

CHAPTER 8- HONEY HONEY, YOU FOILED MY ESCAPE...

"Ok," Zona thought. "This'll be a piece of cake. Get in, steal a honeycomb, get out."
That, and don't think of the possibility of millions of bees in there waiting for you. Don't think about their giant stingers. Don't think on how here, they're the size of your arm. Don't think about any of that. Oops. She thought. Upon entering the hive, she noticed that it was mostly hollow, but had little bridge like archways here and there. Most of the bees were asleep.
"Piece of cake." She thought. After a bit of sneaking around, she had gotten a nice thick honeycomb, full of the golden stuff. "Mmmm, maybe if Zomom doesn't eat it all, I can have some! And master could use it for his tea, too. And maybe Zeeny could use some too... Hmm. Maybe I'd better get more," she thought. And with that, she got herself an even bigger honeycomb. Luckily Zeti have super-human physique. As she was leaving, what she thought was solid amber when she saw it earlier, it was actually a pool of honey when she stepped on it, about three feet from the door, might I add. She sunk down to her neck.
"DANG!" She shouted. Unfortunately for her, that woke the bees up.
"Oh damn." She muttered.

CHAPTER 9- WHO YA GONNA CALL?! SONIC? WHY NOT?!

So, Sonic and Tails were walking through the forest when they passed by a beehive. He and Tails thought nothing of it when they heard a, "DAMIIIIT!" Emanating from inside. Tails and Sonic promptly went to save our damsel in distress, Zona. (She was forced to dive pretty deep into the honey to escape the bees, but one stung her before she could act.)
What Tails thought was, SOMEONES IN TOUBLE!! What Sonic thought was: Mmmm, honey... OH CRAP A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS! MUST HELP!"
Sonic and Tails shooed off the bugs, and helped the girl out. She was covered in honey, so it was hard to tell what she was, but the voice sounded like a girl so...
"Dude, are you OK?! What's with all the bees?" Sonic asked.
"Umm, just getting a honeycomb. I'm fine though," She stuttered. 'Oh,' Sonic thought. 'She's holding a giant honeycomb complex. How did I not notice that?'
"So," Tails said. "You from around here? Have you seen the Deadly Six? Can I have some honey?" Tails said in about three seconds flat.
"Tails! Will you stop worrying?!" Sonic asked. "Sorry about my friend. He's just worried that this group called the Deadly Six are around, but I thought they were destroyed." Sonic apologized. "Have you heard of those guys?" Sonic asked.
"Um, yeah, they're still around," she said. "Why, do you wanna meet them, cause they don't like people entering the lost hex,"She said. "Hey could you help me get this honey off my face? I can't really see, like, at ALL." She asked.
"Ok, sure." Sonic and Tails answered. When they had successfully helped her get the honey out of her eyes, when she opened them, they we're greeted by purple iris' and YELLOW SCLERA.
"GYAH!!!" She and Tails exclaimed.
"What's wrong?" Asked Sonic.
"Z-z- ZETI!!!!" Tails exclaimed.
"S-S-ss- SONIC!!!" The stranger screamed, and streaked toward the desert. With the honey.
"What's her problem?" Sonic asked.
"Dude, she's a ZETI! She could've eaten our faces! And ITOLDYOUTHEDEADLYSIXWEREOUTANDYOUDIDNTLISTENSOSHECOULDBEASPYANDTELLTHEMWERREHERANDTHEYLLTRYANDEATUS!!!!!!!" Tails exclaimed.
"But to answer your question, no I don't know why she freaked out." Tails said, taking some deep breaths.
"Dude, still. Why'd she freak? Either way, we've gotta go after Eggman. But it couldn't hurt to check out those ruins..." Sonic said.
"Oh, boy..." Tails moaned.

CHAPTER 10- OH NO...

"OHCRAPOHCRAPSONICSONICSONICISISISISHEEEERRRRE!!!!!" She thought, racing along. "What am I gonna do? Better get back and act like everything's fine." She muttered. She was covered from head to toe in stings, but Sonic had saved her, and she didn't want to blow his cover. When she got back, Zavok, Zazz, and Master Zik were back, just in time to see her arrive, covered in honey and beestings carrying a giant honeycomb, and pass out from exhaustion.
"What the hell!?" Zavok exclaimed. "What did you guys tell her to DO?! RAID a beehive?!" Zavok shouted. Zomom was too busy to notice this, because he was dunking his TBPBWML in the honeycomb.
"Uh, is she dead?" Zazz asked. "If so, then too bad. If we all died then we wouldn't have a replacement." Zazz said. Juuust whistling.
"*ghasp* NOT DEAD. DEFINITELY ALIVE," Zona gasped. "Enjoy the honey, passing out now." And promptly did.
"Who the hell is responsible for this?!" Zavok asked. He was losing his cool. Scary thing, since he doesn't do it often, so the others were trying to calm him down.
"She isn't DEAD, that's for sure," Master Zik said. "At least she completed the task she was given, even in the face of such danger, that shows determination."
"Hey, at least we've got honey!" Zazz said. "We get free caffeine, some tea ingredients for Master, and supplies to make a good sticky trap!" Zazz assured.
"Eh, at least Zomom's going to shut up, his mouth's stuck shut!" Zeeny exclaimed.
"Narf, nom, shmack," Zomom chewed. Pretty sure those were some words of assurance, or something about donuts, or something.
"What time is it?" Zona groaned.
"10:00 A.M." Master Zik announced.
'Crap, I'm getting tired of being right.' She thought.

CHAPTER 11- EGGMANS PLAN OF DASTARDLINESS

"Cubot! Give me that conch!" Eggman shouted.
He was currently in his laboratory, building a giant organ-like machine.
"Ok, boss. Here's your conch. You know, why can't you just take up a hobby or something?" Cubot asked, handing Eggman the conch.
"What're we building again?" Cubot asked.
"I, Cubot, am building the perfect Zeti controlling device!" Eggman exclaimed.
"It's going to enslave the ENTIRE zeti race in a matter of minutes (PLOT TWIST!) once it's completed!" Eggman exclaimed.
"So, what's taking so long?" Orbot asked.
"I'm having problems duplicating the conch's abilities so that I can make more shells, considering they're so rare, and it would be impossible to collect enough," Eggman said. "What I need is a Zeti to test it on... Wait a minute! ORBOT, CUBOT, DO WE HAVE ANY MORE OF THOSE TELEPORTING CAGES THE ZETI USED?!" He shouted to his two henchmen, who were playing cards across the room.
"Yeah boss. Why?" Cubot asked.
"I want the mechs to place them everywhere. I'm going to catch myself a zeti! Ho,ho,ho,ho!" Eggman cackled.

CHAPTER 12- WHAT'RE YOU DOING HERE?!

After a long day of ACTUAL TRAINING Zona set out to look for Sonic.
"Have to know, have to know, have to know..." She thought determinedly.
I've gotta know if Eggman is back, she thought. If so, I've gotta stop him. I have to.
He's not going to cause as much havoc as last time.
"But I've got to make sure which means I've gotta find myself a blue hedgehog." She ranted. She was going subsonic right now, scanning the skies and the land.
I wonder why that little fox guy freaked out, too... She wondered. Ah well, maybe I can ask, She thought. Suddenly, she saw them. They were flying toward the frozen factory. Hmmm, if they land, it might not take too long to get there, but I could take the island route... Ah, screw it. Just follow 'em until they land, she thought, and kept on running.
So actually, they landed in the frozen factory, so she was right, BUT, one of Eggman's telo-catching zeti device. Hmmmm... She thought. That little guy seemed a bit high-strung... Better approach this carefully.
Sonic and Tails were looking around for Eggman, and Sonic was trying to get Tails to calm down.
"Tails, buddy, they might not know we're here, and we can't just get distracted from finding Eggman right now." Sonic stated.
"Yeah, but what if Eggman's working with the Six? We could be walking into a trap RIGHT NOW." Tails worried.
"Hey, hey, I got rid of that shell thing the last time we were here, how could Eggman team up with the Six without it, huh?" Sonic asked.
"Yeah, but still..." Tails murmured.
"Um, hey," said a voice behind him.
"ACK! SONIC! WHATRE WE GONNA DO, I TOLD YOU IT WAS A TRAP!" Tails screamed upon seeing Zona.
"Dude, calm the freak down!" The stranger shouted.(she is, technically, a stranger to our other heros.) "I come in peace, or whatever, I just have some questions."
"SHES A SPY!! GYAH! RUN, I THINK WE CAN MAKE IT!!" Tails was freaking out.
"Tails, calm down, seriously!" Sonic soothed. "Hey," he said, holding Tails by one tail to keep him from running. "I'm Sonic, Sonic The Hedgehog."
"I'm Zona, of the Deadly Six. What're you doing here?" She asked.
"GYAH! DEADLY SIIIIIIX!!!! RRRUUUUNNNN!!!" Tails shouted.
"Oh, I know who you are!" Zona exclaimed. "You're that little fox guy the others robotized." She realized.
"YEAH, AND NOW YOURE GONNA EAT MY FACE!" Tails shouted.
"Oh, so that's why you're freaking out for," she said. "You got all your ideas of my species from six maniacs you met first time here." She glared. "That's totally a racist thing to do! I mean, you got your opinion from only SIX ZETI. Most of us are peaceful, and only a few are evil. Namely, The Deadly Six."
"Um, how do you know the Six?" Sonic asked.
"Oh, right" she was still covered in honey. She promptly jumped into the nearest ice pool. When she came out, you saw a red zeti with cyan hair, tucked into a pony-tail and cyan claws. She had yellow sclera with purple iris. She had a long red tail, and she had black spines on her shoulders, and black markings on her legs resembling leggings, and her feet had two front claws and one on the heel, all cyan. She was about Sonic's height, with long legs and a muscular build. She looked a lot like...
"Uh..." Tails stammered, since he'd calmed down after Zona's rant. "Are you related to..."
"Zavok? Yeah, he's my big brother," She said. "Please try not to freak out." She said, rolling her eyes.
"That's cool..?" Tails said.
"Uh, yeah..?" Sonic asked.
"No it isn't, you guys don't have to fake it," she said. "Constant training, meditation, chores, it's not an ideal life, but I wouldn't have it any other way."
"Do the other six have siblings?" Tails asked.
"No, siblings aren't very common in zeti, but when it does happen, they tend to look alike." She stated. "Now, about my questions." She said. "Why are you here?"
"We're following Eggman, he seems to be up to something." Sonic said.
Zona stumbled, she looked like she was about to pass out. "Are you ok? You look ill." Tails said.
"EGGMANS HERE?" She asked. "CRAP!"
"Why? What's wrong?" Sonic asked.
"Eggman kind of enslaved my friends and only family, and tried to take over the Hex, yeah, I'm a bit worried." She stammered.
"Ooh. That makes sense." Sonic said. "Wait, are you mad at me, or something?"
Those images again. Her friends, battered and bruised, recuperation pods...
"No, spite doesn't accomplish anything in life. Besides, they're all healed up now."
"How'd they get fixed up?" Tails asked.
"Well, I had been looking for them since Eggman captured them, and after a while I heard an explosion from the volcano, and when I got there..." She said, " there they were. Bent, bruised, and burned, but alive. Once I got them back it took them three weeks to get better, and three more to get in fighting condition, though they didn't need to. Since then, they thought I should get a chance to become one of the team. Ever since then, I've been trying to earn that spiky wristband." She said. (Official members of the Six wear spiked black wristbands. Zavok, Zazz, and Zomom wear them, but Master Zik is retired, and Zeeny thinks it's unfashionable, and Zor strives to be different, so it's not very well known info. But you didn't hear it from me...)
"But, I was a bit worried that since you're here, Eggman might be back, and if that happened I wanted to stop him before the Six found out, just in case he still had that conch, ya see? She explained.
"Ah, I get it. So, you want to help is stop Eggman?" Sonic asked.
"Yeah, pretty much," Zona said, then looked at Tails. "If you guys didn't mind, that is."
"Nah, we don't mind," Tails said. "Right Sonic?"
"Right!"
"Ok, then let's get going. Oh, hey, it's one of those animal pods." Zona said, staring at a large crate not twenty feet away. "I'll go get that." She ran towards the pod a pond just as she hit the button, she FELL THROUGH.
"GYAH!" She shouted, just as it blinked off to God knows where.
"Zona!" Sonic and Tails shouted, far too late.
"How come we always lose people JUST as we meet them?!" Sonic shouted.

CHAPTER 13- UNLUCKY NUMBERS, AND ZETI.

Zomom, Zeeny, Zor, And Zazz were looking for Zona in the desert, since they hadn't seen her in over 3 hours, and Zavok was busy looking in the jungle.
"HEY, ZONA! WHERE THE HECK ARE YOU?" Zazz shouted.
"I wonder where she went off to?" Zeeny asked.
"That's what we're all wondering." Zor said.
"What I'M wondering is, why'd she leave? Was it that LAST mission that set her off?" Zeeny said, glaring at Zomom, who wilted like Zor's rose in the desert under her stare.
"Hey, don't blame me!" Zomom whined.
"Why not? You're the one who got us into this LAME scene." Zor drawled.
"Ah, shut up and keep lookin' otherwise the boss is gonna have a fit if we don't find her!" Zazz shouted, scanning the horizon.
"Du- uhmm, hey! I think i see something! Over there! In the woods!" Zomom said.
"What is it?" Zeeny asked.
"I dunno. It's moving pretty fast though, might be Zona." Zor said, not really caring.
"Let's go after it!" Zazz shouted.
And off they went. It was actually Sonic they were chasing, with Tails close behind. As thay got closer, Tails noticed them.
"Um, Sonic? I think about four of the Deadly Six's members are on our tails!" He shouted.
"Great! That'll make this so much easier!" Sonic said, and stopped.
"Zazz and the others were pretty out of breath when they got to them, so they didn't notice that it was Sonic and Tails they were chasing until they got back to breathing right.
"HEY!" Zazz shouted. "WHAT THE HCK ARE YOU GUYS DOING HERE!?"
"Oh, nothing, just trying to stop Dr. Eggman from paving this place over, if you must ask." Sonic said.
"GRAH! IM STILL ITCHIN FOR SOME REVEENGE, SONIC!" Zazz shouted.
"Ok, before we get to that, you know those teleporting storage units that you guys caught Tails in?" Sonic asked.
"Uh, yeah?" Zazz said, caught off guard by Sonics behavior.
"Yeah, how do those work?" Sonic asked.
"Well," Zeeny said, flipping her hair with a hand. "You designate a location for them to go to once triggered, then wait until something steps on it. Why do you ask?"
"Well, you might not like this..." Tails started.

CHAPTER 14- CHECK, ONE TWO THREE, IS THIS THING ON?

Zona was sitting in a small, enclosed space. There was a little window to see out of,but it was hazy and she couldn't see through it. From what she could tell, the room her confinement was in had metal plating on the walls, and a light was on above the door, so she guessed the pods arrival had triggered a motion sensor. She had been there for about four minutes, but they seemed like an eternity. She decided to see if someone would notice if she said anything.
"HEY? ANYBODY OUT THERE? I COULD REALLY USE A WELCOME WAGON!" She shouted. You could say subtlety was a word she chose not very often. She heard a creak, and a small, round robot floated in, followed by a cube shaped one, and a fat guy with a huge 'stache.
"Who the hell are you?" She asked. "Do you guys work for Eggman, or something? 'Cause I've got a fist with his name on it that needs to be delivered to him, pronto."
"WHAT!? You don't even know what the great Doctor Eggman even looks like? Because he's right in front of you, so feel free to feel privileged!" Eggman boasted.
She looked at the cube-shaped robot. "Nice to meet you, Doctor." She said holding out a hand, even though she was still in the pod.
"That imbecile isn't the doctor! I AM!" Eggman said, suprised. Not many people didn't fear his face.
"Huh," said the voice from the pod. " expected you'd be a bit leaner."
"I presume you are one of the fabled zeti?" He asked.
"Yeah, why?" Said the voice.
"Perfect! I was just needing one of you for a few tests!" Eggman chuckled, delighted at his luck. A zeti, on his first try? Dang, this must be fate!
"You sure are a reclusive bunch!" Eggman said, cheerily. He was in a much better mood now.
"Yeah I guess," said the voice. "If you don't know where to look, which I'm not telling!" It shouted.
"Well, just so you know, I have a cacophonic conch with me, so don't try any funny business!" Eggman warned. He was taking his new test subject not near as seriously as he should have, in hindsight. The figure stepped out. Eggman recognized the coloration immediately.
"Ho, ho, ho, ho! Revenge will be much easier than I thought! He laughed. This day was getting better and better! The zeti had her hands in the air, looking as calm as could be.
"Where to, Doctor?" She asked sounding much more pleasant than she felt. On the outside, her body language spoke calm and laid-back. On the inside though, rage and thoughts of revenge were going head to head in her brain harder then two midgets in a pillow fight. Every cell in her brain said, KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIIIIRE! But her more rational side said that he wouldn't do much harm if he thought that she was harmless. And that was true, since Eggman always underestimated opponents who SEEMED weaker then they actually were, and he thought that only the Six had great physical and mental attributes, but all zeti are like that, unfortunately for Eggman.
"You, my dear, are heading to the sound chamber." Eggman lectured. "For we have some interesting things that only a few can be affected by."
"Don't call me dear," she muttered. "My name is ZONA."
"Doesn't that mean prostitute?" Eggman chortled. Ohh, you are SO going to pay for that, she thought. But she had to be patient until Eggman let his guard down,
And then, it's PAYBACK TIME. She thought as she stepped into the sound chamber. It was a small room, that wouldn't cause any echo, like at a recording company, with a large, reinforced window for viewing.
Eggman took out a real cacophonic conch, though she couldn't see it, and promptly blew into it.
"GYAH!"

CHAPTER 15- WHOA WHOA WE-WO!

"Whoa whoa we-wo, say WHAT?!" Zazz shouted. "You mean to tell me that the boss's sister got 'napped by Eggman?!"
"Unfortunately, yes, that's what happened." Tails sighed. They had to explain this to the foursome of zeti in front of them several times. Strange, they had just made an ally, then immediately lost her. She was nice too, in a snarky way...
"Well, we've got to save her before Zavok finds out what happened!" Zeeny said.
"A bit late for that, I'm afraid, my students." Said a voice in a tree above them. It was Master Zik, with Zavok for that matter. Zavok looked calm, but Master did too, but they both seemed to be radiating anxiety.
"Hello, brash hedgehog," Master Zik greeted. "It seems you have learned at least some degree of respect since we last met."
"Uh, yeah, I just wanna stop Eggman's plan, whatever that might be." Sonic said stubbornly.
"That's what The Master and I were trying to find out." Zavok said calmly. He was trying hard to be civil, considering Sonic WAS trying to help his home and sister. "We noticed Eggman had landed yesterday, and haven't been able to find his main point of operations yet, though."
"Hmm, well, I DO have an idea that you guys might be able to track that tele- pod to Eggman's base and we'll be able to take him down!" Tails said, trying to remain calm. That incident with being turned into a robot was a lot worse than one would think.
"Yes, but when we did spot him, he had a cacophonic conch with him, and if he caught us with that, we wouldn't be able to do much to stop him." Zavok contemplated.
"Well, we've got to do something fast. Who knows what's happening to your sister right now." Tails wondered. He hoped she was all right...

CHAPTER 16- SHES NOT, THANKS FOR ASKING.

Searing pain shot through Zona's brain as she walked out of the sound booth. There were a lot of different looking conchs, but they all had the same effect. Each time that horrible doctor blew into one, she felt the link between her and her powers being cut off like a heroin addict faced with no heroin ever. She could barely hear Eggman's questions, and was in such a weak state of mind she couldn't even conjure up any lies to stop his plans.
"So, how did you feel when the conchs sounded?" He asked. (Didn't really care though...)
"Awful." (She was so stunned by pain she couldn't even be sarcastic.)
"Could you use your powers when I blew into the other ones?"
"No." ( the other ones were made of metal, so she could tell the difference.)
"Are you going to try anything to do with escaping tonight?"
"...eh, no. Probably not. Most definitely not." (She was getting stronger by the minute- there was still hope!)
After an hour of agony, she was put back into her pod, and she began to think of ways to make her escape...
In Eggman's whole life, he had never made an instrument quite like this one. It was a massive organ, never the less mounted on an Egg- mobile, but instead of just plain old copper pipes, it had a special feature. At the top of each pipe, there was a phony cacophonic conch, which he now knew, ACTUALLY WORKED! He almost leapt for joy, though if he did that, Orbot worried that the building might collapse if he did.
"Well boys," Eggman sighed, taking a good look at his latest creation. "Isn't she a beauty?" He asked, wiping away a tear.
"Yessir!" Cubot sighed. "What the heck is it?" He finally asked.
"This, Cubot, will be the key to controlling all the zeti on Lost Hex!" He shouted triumphantly. As it so happened, he said his entire plan on going around and playing the organ while ordering the zeti to come out so loudly that Zona could hear the whole thing.
"Oh sweet flapjack Sundays that is NOT GOOD!" She whispered, standing up. "I've gotta get out of here!" Though that's a lot easier said than done. While it was easy to make the pod open, it was another thing entirely to get out of the room itself. She tried using her telekinesis, but those conchs had given her a real migraine, so she couldn't concentrate. Dammit! What was she gonna do?! She spent the next hour scratching the metal with her claws before she realized that she could just use her God given gifts to open that door. (Magnetic fields, you know?) but she was worried that he would notice and just blow into the conch again. 'If I get out of here, Eggman's gonna PAY.' She thought opening the door as quietly as possible. Eggman was still celebrating, so he and his henchmen didn't know this was going on.
"Well boys, revenge is going to be sweet! I'll have the power of all the zeti under my control, and I will finally be able to destroy that blu nuisance, Sonic! HO HO HO HO!" He laughed.
Zona was sneaking out when she noticed something on the table. 'Hmm, sonic earplugs. We don't have the supplies to make THESE on the Hex," she thought, grabbing them. 'WAIT A JAM JUMPING MINUTE!' She thought, putting them in. 'These might work to keep the conchs from hurting me. I don't need my powers to kick Eggman's butt!"
'Now to destroy that organ...' She said turning toward the lab door. "I'll be back..." She said, terminator-style.

CHAPTER 17- DOUBLE TEAM! ITS SUPER EFFECTIVE!!

Zavok was at a cross roads. Sonic and Tails had just left for some reconnaissance, so when they came back it gave Zavok two options. Either destroy Sonic and Tails and rescue his sister with his team, or, due to Sonic and Tails' experience with handling the Doctor, team up with them. Decisions, decisions. He was leaning toward the destroy option when his SISTER ran up! "Hey guys what's up?" She asked, just as Zavok gave her a bone crushing hug. "WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED, ZONA?!" He said holding her at arms length to examine for any injuries. "What'd that psycho do to you?! Are you hurt?" He asked. He wasn't crying though, because tough dudes don't cry... His eyes were just a bit sweaty from looking so hard. (LOL)
"I'm fine, the only thing wrong is that Eggman is planning something big." Zona reassured.
"What's he planning?" Sonic asked, walking up with Tails. 'Well, eating them is down the gutter,' Zavok thought.
"Well..." Zona said, and told them Eggman's plan, and I just said that because I don't want to repeat the whole thing, alright?
"So, what're we going to do about it?" Tails asked.
"I have a plan to stop Eggman's plan, so we're stopping Eggman's plan with a plan, but Zavok might not like my anti Eggman plan plan." Zona explained.
"Come on, why wouldn't I like the plan?" Zavok asked.
"You just won't like it." Zona warned.
"Try me."
She told him. He did NOT like it.

CHAPTER 18-THE AMATEUR PLAN
"Come on, just a bit higher!" Zona urged as Sonic and Tails were hoisting her through the window to her cell room.
"Are you sure about this?" Sonic asked as Zona climbed up onto the windowsill.
"Oh course I'm not," She answered. "This isn't exactly a master plan, Sonic."
"Yeah," Tails muttered. "We're trying to stop a master plan with an amateur plan."
"You bet! This is gonna go great." Zona chattered. "Besides, the plan is going pretty well so far, considering how I'm improvising!" And with that she dropped into her cell. She had just gotten into the crate when Eggman entered.
You guys are probably wondering what the actual plan was, right? Well, I'll tell you. Zona overheard more of Eggman's plan then I told you. She heard him talk of robotizing her after a "victory feast". Basically, she could tell this was going to be a long feast, so she probably had a lot of time to check in, and get back. She wasn't intending on escaping her fate of robotization. She was actually counting on it. She planned on having in the earplugs while it happened, so they wouldn't fall out, and use her new mech blaster to destroy the organ, and scare Eggman into leaving. 'Sure hope this works,' she thought as Eggman and his carrier mech walked in.
"Pick up that crate." Eggman ordered the mech.
"Where are you taking me?!" Zona asked. She had to act like she wasn't about to win this game of plans that she was playing. She had to make it appear to Eggman that he had a royal flush, when she had all aces.
"Well," Eggman explained this as if she were a baby, "I am robotizing you, if you even know what that means."
"Why?" She asked. "What in the world did I ever do to you?!"
"Sigh, it was not you that did anything, but your brother. Let's just call what happens next good old fashioned revenge." Eggman chuckled.
"You monster," she said as she was put into the chamber. This time she wasn't acting.
"You are mistaken," Eggman said, walking away. "I'm the one talking to a monster." And with that, she was put unconscious.
When she woke up, she didn't feel anything. You might think this isn't that bad, but it's like when your leg falls asleep, though when she moved her arm it wasn't stiff, and there was no pins and needles feeling. "Geez, how the heck did that creep figure out how to do this?" She decided to see if her powers worked at all. She tried opening the door to the chamber, but it appeared as though there were small speakers in her helmet that had recorded sound bytes of the conch.
Ok, I'm going to give you the basic run down of what she looked like as a robot. She basically had the same robot bits as Tails did. Happy? Anyways. That was when Eggman walked in.
"Robot!" Eggman ordered.
"Yes sir?" Zona asked.
"I have a task for you. I need you to hunt down and kill the Deadly Six, no matter what." Eggman commanded.
"Yes sir." Zona said, and walked out of the room, and went into the lab. She was greeted by the sight of Dr. Eggman's massive pipe organ. "Hello!" Zona shouted. "Aren't you big?"
"What are you doing in here?!" Eggman asked. "I gave you specific orders, mech. Now go on, scooch!" He ordered.
Oh Hell, no. Zona thought. That is it, This guy is going DOWN.
"Ex-CUSE me?!" Zona shouted. Eggman, Orbot, and Cubot backed away. "You are NOT my boss! I am absolutely SICK of you, you know that?!" She said walking towards Eggman. ""Do you know what I've had to deal with?! HUH!?"
"You've enslaved my friends," she said, poking Eggman in the gut with every accusation, her voice filled with pure malice. "Tried to pave over my world, tortured me, turned me into a freakin' ROBOT, PULLED THE PROSTITUTE CARD, AND EVEN KIDNAPPED ME, BUT NO ONE, AND I MEAN NO ONE, TELLS. ME. TO SCOOCH!" Eggman was now backed up against the wall. "That's IT.you are going to PAY for what you've done!" She shouted, pointing her blaster at him. "But first, it's time to do some damage." She said pointing her blaster towards the pipe organ, and fired. It then exploded. Don't worry, though. It was quite some distance away. "And now," she said pointing her blaster at Eggman once more. "Any last requests?"
"Wait!" Eggman squealed. "I'll do anything! Just don't hurt me!"
"Anything?" Zona asked. She was pretty relieved. She wasn't ready to take a life.
"Yes! Yes! Anything at all!" Eggman shrieked.
"You know what, Eggman?" Zona asked, her voice dripping venom. "Since I'm such a cool person, I'll strike you a deal."
"What?" Eggman asked.
"If you leave right now and never come back to The Hex, I might not hunt you down for sport."
"Ok! I'll leave right now!" Eggman said. He was hoping to do a double cross. There was a blaster on his egg mobile that he could use to destroy this new threat! He started scampering over to his waiting egg mobile, sitting under the lab skylight. He was almost there when...
"Oh, and Eggman?" Zona asked, and fired her blaster towards the egg mobiles weapon, just missing Eggman's mustache. She looked at him balefully. "Just in case you get any ideas." And with that Eggman promptly got out of there with Orbot and Cubot.
Zona leaned against the lab wall. She had never been so angry in all her life. That, and acting scary was EXHAUSTING. No wonder her brother was such a grouch! She then stripped out of the robot garb and met Sonic and Tails outside.
"What happened in there?" Tails asked. When we saw Eggman flying off, we thought you were finished!"
"Uh, you were the only one who was worried, Tails." Sonic said.
"Where did The Six go?" Zona asked.
"They went back to the ruins." Sonic said. "But me and Tails were thinking of asking you something before we left."
"Whassat?" Zona asked.
"Well," Tails said. "We were wondering if you'd like to come back to Möbius with us."
"Wait, what?" Zona asked. "You want me to come back to Möbius, with you?!" She exclaimed.
"Yeah," Sonic said. "You're a pretty good fighter, and we thought maybe you would like to help us kick Eggman's butt?"
"But it's okay if you don't want to," Tails said. "We'll understand."
"Are you kidding me?!" She shouted. "That's the best offer I've ever heard in my entire life! Of COURSE I'm coming with you! I was planning on stowing away anyways." She confessed.
"Wow, are you sure?" Sonic said. "What will your brother think?"
"I explained my full plan too him in private. The part about me stowing away was the part he didn't like." She revealed. "But he understood that I've chosen my path, and he said that he'll support me."
"Well, then what are we waiting for?" Tails asked. "Let's go!" And off they went.
~THE END~
(OR IS IT?...)