Sonic the Hedgehog and the Space Ace Transformers - Episode VII by Space Ace Part 8 The ruler of the planet not far away formulates her strategy of sorts with her assistant chiming in now and then as we listened in. ALICIA: Okay, Miles and I will slip into that lab to get the antidote formula and slip out before the enemy detects our presence. MILES: Hopefully no one will know we were there. TAILS: Good luck, you're going to need it. MILES: Thanks, dude. TAILS: Hmmph! KIMBERLY: Cool it, inventor. Anti-Sally tried not to laugh but could not stop leering and chuckling into her gloved hands as Sally glowered back with arms crossed defiantly since she still did not like her clone double at all. SALLY: And I suppose you think that's funny, yes? ALICIA: I'm not laughing at you, my lady. Nor am I insulting your husband either. ACE: As if... SALLY: Ace?!! Don't tempt her. ACE: Now why would I do that, huh? SONIC: Can we get going here, time's running out for our friends back home. HOPE: Aye, our sick friends are dying and they need the antidote. That brought me back to what was happening at headquarters again so I urged Alicia and Miles to get going, the two Suppression Squad warriors nodded and faded away as their morphing rings disappeared both of them in seconds flat. Using our rings to watch their progress like X-Ray vision scanners we watched the two mutants approach the work tables, weave among the apparatus equipment setups. Just then who should enter the chamber but Belladonna the witch whippet chuckling to herself as she began gloating over her evil plans, checking up on progress so far. BELLADONNA: Hm-hmm-hmmm...so far so good, he-he! Drago and Sleuth did well in delivering the poison formula as I instructed them to carry out, ha-ha. ROUGE: It's that witch sorceress, she poisoned our friends! SHADOW: How dare she carry out such an attack on us, huh?! HOPE: Wait, Alicia and Miles are about to grab the antidote. Sure enough the two Anti-Freedom Fighters stopped before the table where the antidote formula bottle sat, unnoticed by Belladonna at the moment who was too busy conjuring up more evil potions of such. Carefully, cautiously Miles Prowler reached out with the ring's power as did Alicia Acorn, calling upon the magic of the morphing rings to carry the antidote to their hands. SONIC: It's working, they're doing it. TAILS: All right, just like Jedi Knights using the Force. KIMBERLY: Something like that, partner. SALLY: A little more closer, easy-easy... don't drop it. MILES: Come to my hand, I command you... ALICIA: Come to us, antidote cure... All of a sudden the witch happened to see out of the corner of one eye the bottle containing the cure rise into the air and start floating through the air. Her head snapped around to watch this spectacle, eyes going wide in shock and mouth dropping open. BELLADONNA: What?!! Hey, what's going on here, where's that bottle floating to, huh?!! ACE: Uh-oh, she sees it! Freeze, don't move! The witch is watching you. MILES: Oops, not good. ALICIA: Gulp! KIMBERLY: Oh, no. She's trying to figure out what's happening. Hope, Sonic, Tails, Shadow, Rouge, and Sally with eyes wide and faces contorted in terror looked on without saying a word. Belladonna continued glowering suspiciously at the hovering bottle in midair. BELLADONNA: If there's someone or somebody in here, show yourself right now! Don't think of stealing that potion, fools, idiots. SONIC: That's it, I'm going in! SALLY: Sonic, no! Too late as he charged into the lab, running straight at the witch who wheeled to confront him but as she prepared to throw energy bolts at him the hedgehog hero slammed full tilt into the whippet sorceress as a spinning blue ball. The impact drove Belladonna off her feet and she crashed onto the floor where she lay stunned, unmoving and groaning in pain. The others and I sighed in relief then silently cheered before Kimmy spoke to Miles and Alicia via her ring. KIMBERLY: Okay, grab the antidote bottle and get back here. ALICIA: 10-4, redhead. MILES: On our way. Minutes later the two Anti Freedom Fighters slipped back to our hiding spot and morphed back into full view again as Sonic rejoined them. Sally glowered at him, hands on hips posture. SALLY: What was the meaning of that stupid move? She could've struck you down, you know. SONIC: I had to distract her so they could get the formula, Kay? SALLY: Still, you could've been killed and I would've been lost without you, never forgive myself in the end. SONIC: Sorry, boss. She hugged her #1 boy and cried softly with tears in her eyes while he hugged her back, apologizing in return and shushing her tears. Meanwhile Alicia handed over the bottle to me. ALICIA: Antidote retrieved and secured. ACE: Well done, Anti-Sally. MILES: Whoa, did Sonic do that to her? Uh-oh, she's coming back around, waking up. HOPE: Uh-oh, she looks angry. BELLADONNA: Grrrrrmph, why that pesky-no good hedgehog?! I'll cast a curse upon him, ooooooooooh... TAILS: Whoops, she's mad. It was then another Decepticon presence entered the chamber and interrupted the witch's revenge motives for the moment, it turned out to be Professor Drakken of course. DRAKKEN: How are the potions coming along, witch? BELLADONNA: Professor, uh...I, ah, yes, ahem...they are going smoothly as of now. DRAKKEN: Were you angry at someone because I overheard you plotting on casting an evil spell on that unknown person. BELLADONNA: Yes, it was that stupid Sonic who attacked me again as usual. I'll let him have it when I get my paw hands on him, ha-ha-ha! ALICIA: It looks like she hates you, hero. SONIC: Darn it, not my personal fan I guess. KIMBERLY: You could say that. Just then the professor and whippet sorceress begin discussing some evil scheme of how to use the deadly chemicals being concocted that is. ACE: Check it out, they're planning something BIG. SALLY: Yes, let's listen in on their plan, dear. SHADOW: What hair-brained scheme has Borf got in store for the people of Mobius this time, I wonder... HOPE: This doesn't sound good to me. We slip around to the far side of the cavern still unseen or undetected by the opposition forces for the moment and continue to eavesdrop in on the conversation between Drakken and Belladonna as the two gloat over the use of the poison potions, giggling and chuckling evilly all the while as if they could see the deadly results of their handiwork. TO BE CONTINUED... www.geocities.com/silverstarr3224/