"Alright, follow me." Ianthe turned back to the corridor ahead and swiftly ran across it, her movements graeful and silent despite her speed, coming to a stop beside the open doorway to the Throne Room. Carefully, her back pressed against the wall, she leaned round the corner and peered inside, her emerald green eyes intense and piercing as she surveyed the area.

Empty. That was a surprise. She'd at least have expected a guard or camera of some kind. Slowly she motioned over her shoulder for TH and Dakar to come with her, and began to advance into the room carefully, constantly casting about for any sign of movement.

Something caught her eye to the right of the throne, and she tensed like a wild animal about to pounce as she turned to see one of the Acorn guards ambling out of one of the side entrances to the room with some papers in his paw. The figure, a Wolf of quite a few years with long whiskers gracing his upper lip, jumped as he spotted the intruders, nearly dropping the message he was carrying. "Wha...??? You...you shouldn't be here!"

(OOC: Guard is an NPC, feel free to use him anyone who wants.)

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Wraith let out a cry as he slammed into the desk, his bronze colored armour letting out a ringing metallic CLANG as he dropped to the floor. The armour had stopped any serious damage from Diamond's powerful kick, but the Echidna was still severely winded, unable to catch his breath as he crumpled on the stone like a paper sculpture unable to stand. His breath came out in long, moaning gasps as his arms clutched his middle, his teeth clenched together from the pain. He was tough, very tough, but Diamond was a powerful fighter!

Even as he slowly recovered, he could see the Hedgehog picking up the improvised weapon and stepping towards the cowering Snivley very slowly and deliberately. Wraith staggered to his feet, forcing his lungs to work as he overcame the shock of the blow Diamond had delt him, but he'd never be able to cross the room in time to stop the abomination doing his work...he didn't have Sonic's speed. Snivley was doomed!

As he staggered, his foot hit something that rattled on the hard stone floor of the chamber, and he looked down to see the severed arm of a SWATbot still clutching the long, thin shape of a metal fighting staff, gleaming dully in the lights from the celing above. Ianthe's staff! It was his only chance! He had no skill using the weapon himself, but skill actually fighting with it wouldn't be nessecery, if he could just...

Reaching down, he grabbed the thin metal pole, shakin the remnands of the robot's arm off it as he swung it up to eye level. Aim was everything here...he couldn't let the still throbbing pain in his gut distract him now! Leaning back, arm slung out over his shoulder as he carefully positioned himself, he launched the staff across the room like a javelin, aiming the weapon squarely at the back of Diamond's head as he stepped towards the 'King'...

T.H *pulls out his Teknolia gun and points it at the Guard obviously he wouldnt kill him in such case he would wound him if he dares to do something against them* Dont move or I will have to shoot you

Guard *when he sees the Teknolia gun he doesnt dare to move in fear*

Dakar *he quikly runs takling down the guard to disarm him* I got you

OOC: Okay, really, the lack of posting on my part is inexcusable, so, my sincerest apologies, and though I'm nto sure if this is still going, I'll at least do a post.

IC:
Tassiel clenched her teeth as the pod headed earthwards, as soon as it landed she'd be off this thing and finding some answers. Briefly, she glanced at the few others in the pod and wondered what there plans were. For a few seconds she contemplated actually teaming up with a few, but then shook her head to rid herself of the idea; they'd have their own problems.

"Hey, how long until we actually land?" She called out.

OOC: Whoops forgot to post on this rp sorry, I only remember when I saw SF post on it.

IC:

"Hey, how long until we actually land?"
Shadow heard someone call.
"Any second, I hope you all strap in!" just then he received a message from Star.
"Shadow it's not their, it's not their!"
"What's not their!" bark back Shadow.
"The Island it's gone!"
"We'll it is a moving, flaoting Island, are you sure it just didn't just move to another location?"
"If it had I would of least see it some where far in the distance, it doesn't travel that fast!"
"Then what are you going to do?"
"I've still got alot of fuel, I'll go heading for Knothole, see whats being going on their"
"Okay, I'll be crashing into a forest soon so I'll try and meet you their when I can"
"Okay, oh Shadow don't die you still own me five dollars"
"Thanks for your consern..."grumble Shadow.
"Your welcome, oh and Nightshade says hi"
The message went silent and Shadow was left with trying to land safely in a crowded forest.
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Missing most trees he luckily landed in a small clearing.
"Okay everybody out!" Shouted Griff
Them and their passengers quickly exiting the pod ship.
After seeing that all their passengers where safe and unharmed Shadow then then started to speak again.
"Okay here's a plan, you can either leave now and go off on your own journey or you can come with me to Knothole to find out what's been going on?"
He then waited for his reply.

OOC: Sigh sorry for not posting in ages.

IC:

"I'm heading to Knothole anyway, I might as well go with you, and anyone else that wishes to tag a long" The hyena called. Now that they were safely landed she was eager to get going; enough time had been wasted already and she wanted to get to the bottom of things.
She scanned the nearby forest aroudn them for enemies, and wondered how long it would take to get to Knothole form here, did anyone even have a map or compass? Or did they jsut know the forest so well or something? She glanced back at the others who ahd been dragged into the pod, she wasn't sure how fast these guys would move either, she hoped that no one would slow her down.
Ah well, it can't be helped now, whatever happens, happens

(OOC: We need Eggy )

"Hold it." Ianthe stepped forward slowly6, raising a paw to stop the other two before they tried to dismember the guard or something. "He may be a valuable source of information."

Kneeling down beside the prone wolf, she met his gaze with her beaming emerald eyes. "What happened here?" she asked quietly. "How did Snivley take over? Where is the Royal Family?"

T.H *lowers his Teknolia gun* Ok

Dakar *holds firmly the wolf puting his hands behind his back awaiting his answer* Alright speak

IC:
Star had use up the remain fuel to turn around, doge eggman's fleet and doge missel and laser firer from the enemies below and now was heading straight for the royal family castel.
"We'll going to crash!" shouted Star who wish she hadn't as their came loud screaming from behind her seat.
"Come on Star you can get this thing to land right?" ask Nightshade hoping for a yes.
But their came no anwser as the pod went crash threw the window's of the royal family castel...
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Meanwhile back with Shadow and Griff...
"Okay from what I remember the Knotwhole was in a Noth-east direction, so those who are coming let's move out!" shouted Shadow who was now running in a north-east direction into the forest with Griff following close behind.

OOC: =( Yeah, we do need Eggpire, any idea when he'll return?

IC:
Well, at least we're moving, finally.
Hurrying after what appeared to be her new travelling companions, the hyena wondered what sort of trouble they were heading into, as she was in no doubt that was exactly what they would find in knothole.

OOC: Pretty lame post, sorry

OOC: Believe me when I say that I am truly sorry for my (EXTREME) lateness. I guess it's true when they say no one has control over what life throws you. I started this RP with one thing in mind, and that was to out do the previous version. A similar occurrence happened that prevented me from posting on my RP. However unlike the last time I will not let this RP go down without a fight! If anyone is still interested in playing I'm all game! I'm not going to promise anything because look what happened last time, but I do assure you that I will play as long as long as there is involvement! So once again I am EXTREMELY sorry, and if you don't feel up to continuing I understand! Thanks much! ~EGGPIRE

PS: I really dig the new spellcheck!

OOC: Yes, I'm around and am willing to throw CS and Factorea back into the mix at some point, if everyone else is still interested in this I'll support the reactivity.

(OOC: I'll give it another go, yeah. Can't guarentee how well I'll be able to pick up again after such a long pause, so if my posts are a little lame please forgive me, but I'll try it out. Just give me a few days to read through it again to remind myself where we all are and everything...)

OOC: Good! I'm glad to see that there is still some intrest in this RP! Since it was my fault that this RP almost died, I feel I should make the first post! I'll start exactly where we left off!

IC:
The impact of Wraith's desperate attack had nearly an impact on the monster known as Diamond. The hedgehog raised his arm to the heavens as the crude dagger shimmered in the fires of what was once Snively's lab.

"You're done for!" Diamond announced victoriously, "I will punish you once and for all my dear king!"

Diamond bit down on his lip, as he prepared the final blow. Blood began to trickle down his chin from the punture wound brought on by his vicious teeth! Wraith could only watch as Diamond began to bring his weapon down, aiming for Snivel'y left eye!

"Oh GOD!" Snively shrieked as he saw the blade rushing towards him.

For Snivley it all happened in slow motion. It seemed every inch that the shard of debris came closer to his demise, took at the least a minute! Everyhting became muffled. Snively could only focus on his own breathing! A reminder of his own mortality, a reminder that he was experience his last moments! But it was all to werid! People would always tell stories of nostalgia as they pass away, as if they were experinceing it all over again. However, the only thing going thorugh the crooked king's mind was a sudden realization on how precious his life actually was. Snively didn't want to die, but it seemed fate had a different hand to play! Snivley quickly shut his left eye. Perhaps as a natural reaction, or in the wild hopes that his one eyelid was enough to prevent the dagger's tip digging into his eye! The tip of the balde began to cut into the eyelid Snively had desperately shut for so called protection. Blood began to seep thorugh the wound as the blade began to go deeper. That was when it happened!

Whether it be by pure luck or divine intervention Snively was saved. At the exact instant that the crude dagger began to cut out Snivley's eye, a strange hovercraft erupted through what used to be the ceiling! It came from the direction of the castle, and in that instant struck Diamond and drove him deep into the ground saving the wicked King's life. The impact had sent Snively flying trough the air into a nearby tree.

"What?" Snively began, but stopped as he noticed the hover pod that was his savior.

Snively beagn to wipe the blood that rolling down his face from the injury he had sustained from the attack. He looked up to the sky as if thanking the all mighty himself. However, Snively quickly looked down at the small crater just to make sure Diamond was no more. In far corner of the lab he could see the equally confused and grateful Wraith looking on at the pod. Snively took this opportunity, to escape. However with the busted leg of his the only place he went was face first into the earth beneath the tree. The king could go nowhere. As this realization set in he also began to wonder if him being saved had any impact whatsoever considering that he would surely rot in a jail cell for the rest of his days! At that Snively began to crawl in a desperate hope that no one would see him!
TBC

OOC: There, a little overdue, but better late than never, correct?(EDIT: while I'm at it lets see if I can stir some new interest in this RP!)

...but there was little chance of that. No sooner had he begun to crawl away than Wraith was at his side, grabbing him by the back of the collar to restrain him. "No way bro. I feel for your injuries, but you have way too much to answer for."

Making sure to keep his grip firm on the now deposed 'King', he turned back towards the transport that had landed, looking up and down it's length with a penetrating eye. Snivley needed to be questioned, and the Royal Family found, but first it would have to be seen if the occupants of this vehichle were friends or enemies. Knowing his luck, it would probably be Robotnik coming to beat Snivley down and take over himself...

(OOC: By the way Egg, you ok to take the Guard Ianthe, Dakar and TH are questioning just for the duration of his responce? I'm not sure how he'd answer that question.)

OOC: Sure thing, Wraith!

IC:

"HA!" the guard crackled out a dry laugh, "Why would I answer you? Such short tempers, and toy guns really do a poor job persuadeing a seasoned war hero! However since I'm such a nice gentleman, and I feel for each and every one of you, I just might know a little something or other!"

The surrounding area became strangely silent as the small group awaited the guard's response. It seemed he wasn't going to say anything until Ianthe broke the errie silence. "Well, speak!"

"I don't know much, but I just happened to overhear a conversation between Snively and somebody else. Snively was using a headset so I couldn't hear who was on the other side of the line," the guard took in a breath, "However the topic of the converstion was all about a mystic power hiddenwithin the royal family! Now I haven't a clue what they were babbling about, but I do remember the princess also talking about this same "power"! Maybe she knows what Snively was after or if he had already aquired it! Now as to her or her families whereabouts, well that's anybody's guess! Now if you will, can I go about my business? From the looks of things Snively's Knothole domination seems to have been cut short!"
Ianthe, Dakar, and TH just stood around the guard deciding what their next course of action will be!
TBC

OOC: I hope that's good enough, if need be I can revamp it just a little!

(OOC: Yeah that's fine...lol with him being a Knothole guard I kinda expected him to be more sympathetic to his possible allies, but it's all good, no need to change anything )

Ianthe didn't respond for a moment, seemingly deep in thought at the reply, but as the guard moved to walk off, she raised a paw to stop him. "Hold on, we aren't done. Where's Wraith?"

OOC: yeah the guard's attitude was intentional! I just wanted it to seem like he just didn't have a care in the world what happened to anybody except for himself!

IC:
The guard stopped, "Who, that echidna? Ha the last time I saw him was when he rushed off towards Snively's lab! If you must know it's in that direction!" the guard points toward the west side of the castle, "However, I wouldn't reccommend going there! Place is a disaster, surely if anyone was there they are dead by now! Now if you will may I leave now?"
TBC

OOC: Im still in this rp as well =)

T.H *is still pointing his Teknolia gun at the guard*

Dakar *looks at Ianthe* Do we let him go Ianthe?

Ianthe was staring at the guard thoughtfully. He had answered all their questions quickly and precisely, seemingly helpfully, but something about his attitude rang alarm bells in her mind...she didn't trust him. "No." she responded after a moment. "Tie him up, just to be on the safe side." Stepping over to the wall of the throne room, she reached up and pulled one of the long Acorn decorational banners down from it's fastenings, swiftly rolling it into a long, thin tube of fabric to use as a rope. "As soon as we're done we'll check out this Lab. Sit him in the throne, we can tie him to it."

"Tie me up!" the guard shrieked, "What the hell? I answered all your damn questions and this is how you thank me?"

"You were so quick to defect on the king, what makes you think we can trust you?" Ianthe said to the guard!

"Forget this crap!" At that the guard begins to bolt, "I've got too much stuff to deal with right now! I have no time for all these useless delays!"
TBC

Dakar *sees the guard run away* Hey stop!

T.H Dont worry I got him *shoots the with his Teknolia gun a paralising laser so he wont get away*

OOC: Soz, for not replying to the email Eggpire, here now though, lol

Tassiel had been walking a long with the small group heading towards knothole, but her impatience finally got the better of her and she raced ahead. There were a few mild protests as she darted past the leading party members but she ignored them; they would probably only get in her way anyway.
I hope I'm not too late for anything particularly interesting...

What the hyena did not know though was that in the time that the pod had crashed in the forest, quite a lot had happened, and so by the time she reached the outskirts of knothole, Snively had been deposed, and held captive, Diamond was still beneath a pod, and an ex-royal guard was about to be tied to a throne.

Now that she could actually see knothole, she was more reluctant to enter and slowed her pace. Cautiously she climbed a tree and among it's uppermost branches she looked in surprise at what knothole had become. Particularly at a large hole in the roof of a building.
The place also appeared to be surrounded by guards, which normally would make approaching undetected rather awkward, but it seemed that with the arrival of the pod some of the machines had began moving towards the crash site to investigate, leaving a smaller number of guards than before.
How handy for me...

Allowing the departing guards time to get out of the immediate area, she got herself comfortable and opened up her sports-bag, carefully unpacking her crossbow, checking it, then arming it with a bolt.
Steadying herself on her perch, she took careful aim and then fired; the shot drove right through the optic sensors of a nearby robotic guard. With a screech of metal and sparks it took a step back form the force of the attack before tipping over, spurting out random coded nonsense as it's systems failed. Immediately the nearer metallic guardians closed in on their fallen comrade and began scanning the vicinity for intruders.
As their sweeps became gradually wider, Tassiel loaded another bolt and wound up the firing mechanism. With a small smile she aimed again and took out another bot, this time it fell against one of the still scanning protectors and the sudden weight forced the other over as well. Biting back a chuckle, she quickly secured her weapons, and swung down from her branch, just as she was spotted and a burst of weapon fire eviscerated where she'd been crouched only a few seconds before.
She landed on soft but crunchy leaf litter and rolled to not only absorb the impact, but to move her safely behind another tree for cover. She could feel the trunk vibrating with the rounds of gun fire penetrating it's armour of bark, and chips of wood flew around her, stirring up more leaves. She brought her crossbow back into her waiting arms and loaded it again, meanwhile frowning at the new hole in her carrier; they'd pay for that.
She waited for a pause in the shooting spree behind her before breaking cover and catching another guard right between the eyes, or rather, the sensors. At this section, there was now only one guard defending the area, and she doubted that things would stay that way for long.
Behind yet another tree she began reloading her weapon as she heard the machine's approach; the weight of it body bearing down on the soft earth and organic matter and giving her plenty of warning of it's whereabouts. There was no time for another bolt, so she grabbed one of her blackened blades. Aware that the threatening entity was beginning to progress around the trunk, she scuttle little way up the tree before hurriedly moving around to the right, towards the back of her current opponent. It's scanners picked her up almost immediately and it began to turn, but that had been her plan, as she leaped onto its back, and stabbed at the swiftly rotating head.
Gotcha
She dropped away from the dying machine as it fell to the ground; now she had to get to the crash site...

OOC: Okay, sorry about the post lol, is 7am in the morning and I don't think well ;P

(OOC: I'm a tad hesitant to update Ianthe too much without updating Wraith too. Just to check btw, the transport that crushed Diamond...is it the same one the bunch of escapees from Station Square are travelling in? I'm guessing it is, so we'd be waiting on the occupants to respond, am I right? Or is it something else that needs more imput on my part?)

OOC: The transport is in fact the one which escaped form Eggman. I was waiting for some response fromone of the Players on board the trans, however I am uncertain whether or not groovygerbil is still in the game or not! Due to theis I really don't know if I should advance that plot forward or not! I the meantime I will post an IC that shall merely build upon this almost haphazard plot!^_^

IC:
Meanwhile in Station Sqaure the New capital of the Eggman Empire...

"Dammit!" an angry Robotnik bellowed as he recieved word of the status on the small band fleeing Station Square, "Well, what about Snively and that accursed monster he had unleashed?"

"Diamond is dead and Snivley is in Freedom Fighter custody!" a long slender SWAT-bot reported!
"Did we retrieve the Master Emerald from the ruins of Angel Island yet?" Eggman said with a sigh as he slumped downin what used to be the presidents chair.
"No not at this moment we haven't sir!"
A vain could have been seen bulging from the good doctors neck as he leapt from the chair, "WHY not!?!"
"Sir various Energy spikes are preventing us from homing in on the target!"
"Knuckles! It has to be Knuckles! He must be scrambling us somehow using the chaos force!"
"Sir wasn't he last reported in Knothole!?"
"Last reported yes, but he did leave! To where we were never able to track down!"
"So naturally..."
"He would return to his home, yes!"
Eggman began to walk towards a makeshift computer monitor.
"Finding our bauble shouldn't be too hard, if it is Knuckles then his energies are split meaning the Emerald would put off a more powerful energy reading!"
EGGMAN THEN BEGINS TO PLAY AROUND WITH SEVERAL KNOBS AND SWITCHES!
"Wh-What's this!" Eggman began in shock.
"Sir is something the matter?"
"A massive energy build up is forming in the heart of Knothole!"
"Meaning"
"Something big is about to happen!"

Elsewhere...
"We have decided on the fate that will befall the planet Mobius." a Magestic veiled figure announced setting atop her throne, surrounded by darkness, "Our proposed fate can only be achieved if the other player agrees to our conditions. Well now do you agree to uphold all our rules and carry out our tasks without hesitation?"
"Yes master, I am you loyal serverant for time eternal!" another cloaked figure pledged.
"Then go and carry out our wishes with haste for you have accepted our terms you cannot go back on you promises!"
The second figure arises and walks off into the darkness!
RBC