Cloud and Aerith Captured/Sonic's Group Captured

*(Back at the river, Sonic's group are hanging around, unaware of what happened back at the palace, with Sonic skipping some pebbles across the water)*

Sonic: Hey, Knuckles! Bet you can't skip a pebble better than me.

Knuckles: You wish.

*(Knuckles tossed another pebble and it skipped across the water, much to the group's amazement)*

Knuckles: Ten skips!

Tails: A new record!

*(The group, except Meowth's group, cheered and applauded. Cloud and Aerith then turned to Sonic's group with grins)*

Cloud: Well, Sonic, boys, that is a bunch of fine rock skips you made.

Aerith: And you will make great trusted assistant advisors, we assure you.

Cloud: As a reward even more for opening us up to Meowth's group.

*(Sonic's group smiled. They leave Cloud and Aerith as they go back to a still glum Meowth's group)*

Sonic: Well, Meowth, guys, looks like we're having a lot of fun thanks to this quality time.

Knuckles: And it's all thanks to you!

Meowth: (Sighs) Don't bother thanking us.

Meowth's group: Not really.

Sonic: (Confused) What do you mean?

Tails: (Confused) And I wonder why Meowzie is taking long to come here.

*(Suddenly without warning, cloaked thieves on black horses came out of nowhere riding past them going at Cloud and Aerith)*

Sonic's group: You're majesties!

*(Sonic's group tried to run to help the two but someone pushed them to the ground. They looked and sees three certain villains on one of the horses)*

Sonic's group: (Shocked) Merlock, Dijon, and Splatter Phoenix?!

Dijon: Surprise!

*(The other horse riders grab Cloud and Aerith and ride off, nearly running over Sonic and Meowth's groups and Marahute in the progress, getting away. As the villains, except Splatter Phoenix, got away with Cloud and Aerith, the heroes recovered)*

Sonic: Come on! We gotta save them!

*(They were about to run when they see Meowth's group standing there, doing nothing in concern)*

Tails: Meowth, guys, come on!

Knuckles: They're getting away!

*(Then Splatter Phoenix smirked evilly at them)*

Splatter Phoenix: (Sarcastically) My, didn't you know? Team Rocket and the Fearsome Four here set this up. They have no intention of reforming whatsoever.

*(She rides off. The heroes looked at Meowth's group in disbelief)*

Sonic: It can't be true.

Tails: Tell us it's not true.

*(Meowth's group didn't say a word, hanging their heads in shame. A wave of betrayal slowly descending on them, Sonic's group and Marahute got slowly angry and Knuckles grabbed Megavolt by his jumpsuit)*

Knuckles: You traitors!

Sonic: We trusted you, yet you lied to us!

Meowth's group: But you...!

*(But the confession-proof spell prevented them from continuing, unnoticed by the heroes)*

Tails: We're not stupid!

Knuckles: You set us up!

Cloud and Aerith: Guys, help!

*(Concerned for Cloud and Aerith, Knuckles threw Megavolt onto the ground in anger)*

Knuckles: We'll deal with you later!

*(Sonic's group then let Marahute fly them to the villains and two captives. After catching up to them, the heroes saw that the riders are going towards a cliff)*

Knuckles: Good! They would be trapped on a cliff soon! So when they stop....

Tails: Uh, Knuckles?

Knuckles: Yeah?

Tails: (Pointing) They don't look like they are going to stop.

*(Suddenly the horses jumped off the cliff and began to sprout black wings, much to the heroes' surprise)*

Sonic: Merlock's gang know magic?

*(Shaking off the surprise, the heroes flew after the flying riders. Cloud and Aerith looked concerned as Aerith tried not to look down. Marahute quickly flew around the cloaked riders very fast. As the riders looked confused, Sonic's group grabbed Cloud and Aerith and they flew off, making their escape)*

Dijon: (Surprised) How did they do that?

Merlock: Get the rulers!

Splatter Phoenix: Now!

*(The heroes turned as they began to go back the way they came. It seems that they are safe until a big whirlpool came from the water and rammed into the heroes, knocking them off course. Suddenly Cloud and Aerith were pulled into it)*

Cloud and Aerith: Guys!

Heroes: Cloud, Aerith!

*(They flew to the whirlpool just as the rulers of Agrabah are about to disappear. Sonic's group leaned over to try to grab Cloud and Aerith's hands. But suddenly the whirlpool lifted a water tendril up and pulled the heroes in. Then Sonic's group got spit out, leaving Marahute trapped in the whirlpool with Cloud and Aerith. Sonic's group fell into the water and begins to drift towards a waterfall. Sonic's group grabbed onto part of the cliff. But then they looked up and yelped as they see Merlock, Dijon, and Splatter Phoenix laughing evilly on their horses as they kicked Sonic's group, causing them to let go. Soon the three boys are about to fall over the waterfall)*

Dijon: Yes!

Merlock: They're done for!

Splatter Phoenix: (Slyly) Not necessarily.

Dijon: (Confused) Eh?

*(Suddenly one of the riders held up a hand and shot Sonic's group with a blast, stopping them before they reached the bottom)*

Dijon: (Shocked) What are you doing to them?!

Splatter Phoenix: It looks like they're being saved for now.

Merlock: We know that!

*(Sonic's group, unconscious, were carried over the gorge and landed in the river safely. The boys then began to drift downstream, unaware that they got saved. Merlock, Dijon, Splatter Phoenix, and the riders landed on a cliff. The angry wizard got off his horse along with his gang and go to the rider that saved Sonic's group)*

Merlock: Why did you save them?!

Dijon: We were close!

*(The riders then climbed off as three of them transformed back into Vanitas, Don Karnage, and Negaduck. The two formers that are genies glared at Merlock and Dijon along with Splatter Phoenix)*

Dijon: We almost got rid of those miserable...!

*(Dijon was cut off when Splatter Phoenix grabs him by the collar)*

Splatter Phoenix: LISTEN YOU...!!

*(She calms down and released Dijon, chuckling slightly)*

Splatter Phoenix: Remember, we aren't going to kill those boys yet.

Negaduck: No, we know of a more painful way to do it.

Vanitas: Which is why I levitated them into the river for now.

*(Realizing, Merlock understood while Dijon got sheepish while the thieves pulled the unconscious Cloud, Aerith, and Marahute out of the water after the whirlpool subsided)*

Dijon: (Sheepishly) We knew that.

Merlock: (Flatly) Sure you did.

Don Karnage: The time will be at hand, our friends.

Vanitas: And soon, Merlock, you will finally get your third wish.

Dijon: Oh boy! You're going to get your third wish!

Merlock: (Greedily) Oh yes...

*(Vanitas, Don Karnage, and Negaduck smirked as they turned to Meowth's group who are still feeling guilty)*

Vanitas: And you guys, you have done well.

Meowth's group: (Sighs sadly) Don't mention it.

*(Evening came later as Sonic's group are washed up onshore in the desert. They wake up catching their breath)*

Tails: Are you okay, guys?

Knuckles: No, we are not okay!

Sonic: Our friends are captured!

*(Sonic's group got up and began to run back to Agrabah's direction. In the dungeon back at the palace, Cloud and Aerith, now awake, are chained to the wall next to Chip, Vanilla, Cream, Cheese, and Toby as the villains looked on sinisterly. Meowth's group are nearby still feeling guilty)*

Aerith: Vanitas' group, you traitors!

Cloud: Why are we not surprised that you are behind this somehow?!

Aerith: And I bet you used Meowth's group...!

Vanitas: Oh, but if it weren't for Team Rocket and the Fearsome Four here, none of it would've happened.

*(Merlock, Dijon, and their gang, meanwhile, are trying to restrain Marahute, also awake, who is trying to escape)*

Merlock: Guys! This bird is giving us problems!

Dijon: And it kicks badly!

*(Marahute knocked Merlock and Dijon into their thieves, allowing her to escape their hold. She then made her getaway to a nearby window)*

Chip: Go, Marahute!

Vector's group: Get help!

Meowzie: Hurry!

Don Karnage: (Laughing) Sorry, but no can do for her.

*(Vanitas and Don Karnage held out their hands and zapped Marahute. They dragged her over to a wall where chains proceed in chaining her to the wall)*

Toby: (Groaning) Aw, great!

Cream: She almost made it!

Vector: (To the villains) Stupid jerks!

Cloud: (Angrily) Mark mine and Aerith's words, Vanitas' group.

Aerith: When Sonic's group get back here...!

Vanitas: On the contrary, I am counting on them to do so.

Negaduck: And we got one more surprise left for them.

*(Vanitas then rips Cloud's left knee part of his pants and Aerith's bottom part of her skirt with his Keyblade and then with one slash, cuts Cloud and Aerith's palms, covering the cloths in their blood)*

Dijon: What's up with that idea?

Vanitas: These cloths are very important because it will be needed for our plan.

Dijon: What for?

Don Karnage: Why, to seal Sonic's group's fate.

*(Then Dijon realized something)*

Dijon: Wait a minute! What if the princesses and those boys' guard friends...?

*(Realizing upon hearing him, the villains calmly gestured him to quiet)*

Splatter Phoenix: Not to worry.

Negaduck: We'll make sure they don't intervene.

*(We now see Sonic's group as they continued to cross the desert, unaware of what's about to happen once they get back to Agrabah. In Sally's group's room, they hung around with Darkwing's group when suddenly, a huge shadow looms over them, and, upon noticing, they turned and gasped in horror)*

Sally and Darkwing's group: You?!

*(Then we fade to black. Meanwhile, nighttime fell at Agrabah by the time Sonic's group returned to the palace. After they climbed up some steps, they looked up and saw Doom waiting for them, looking angry)*

Sonic's group: Doom!

Tails: Thank goodness!

Knuckles: Listen, there's trouble!

Sonic: It's Cloud and Aerith! They...!

Doom: (Pointing at them) Seize them!

*(The weasel guards grabbed a shocked Sonic's group as the leader continued)*

Doom: You three are under arrest, for the murder of Cloud and Aerith!

Stupid: Bad boys!

Sonic's group: (Shocked) What?!

Knuckles: No, wait!

*(They struggled helplessly as the guards took them away. In the dungeon later, Doom listened to Sonic's group as they explained their story)*

Doom: So after that, you went over the waterfall? *(Scoffs)* How did you survive that?

Sonic: Well, we don't know.

Tails: We lost consciousness when that happened.

Knuckles: That's right.

Doom: (Scoffs) Good story, but not good enough to consider me otherwise!

Sonic: Doom, it's the truth!

Knuckles: Why won't you listen to us?

Sally: (Voice-over) Because we know you're trying to lie to us.

*(Sonic's group looked and saw to their shock Sally and Darkwing's groups at the doorway of the dungeon holding the cloth pieces that belonged to Cloud and Aerith that are covered in their blood)*

Cosmo: (Angrily) We found these cloths in your room.

Amy: (Angrily) Bloodied as if someone has cut them through!

Darkwing: (Angrily) With no mercy!

Darkwing's group: (Angrily) That's right!

Sonic's group: (Shocked) Sally, guys! We...!

Sally: We should've known better than to love you!

Amy: You are using us all along so you can take over Agrabah!

Sonic: Sally, guys, that isn't true!

Cosmo: Don't lie to us, traitors!

Sally: (To Sonic's group) Yeah, silence! *(To Doom)* They shall die at dawn, for the murder of me and my sisters' parents!

*(Sally and Darkwing's groups exit the dungeon, closing the door on their way out)*

Sonic's group: Guys, listen!

Doom: (Pushing Sonic's group) Forget it! You are in my hands now, street rats!

*(We now see Sally and Darkwing's groups walking up some stairs. After that, we see the captive heroes still chained up. Next to them are Sally and Darkwing's groups. Wait, Sally and Darkwing's groups?! That's right, it turned out the shadows that loomed over them were the villains capturing them, so someone could make replicas of them to trick Doom and his guards into believing Cloud and Aerith were "Murdered." They struggled helplessly as the thieves check to see if the chains are tight. When they stepped away, the replicas came into the room. They smirked evilly at the real ones as they changed into their true selves in the form of Vanitas, Don Karnage, Negaduck, and Splatter Phoenix)*

Splatter Phoenix: It has been done.

Vanitas: If only you were there when Sonic's group had those looks on their faces.

Don Karnage: The looks that Princesses Sally Acorn, Cosmo the Seedrian, and Amy Rose and even Darkwing and his group have sentenced them to death!

Heroes: (Shocked) What?!

Darkwing's group: (Angrily) You monsters!

Sally's group: (Shocked) No, Sonic! (Tails!) (Knuckles!)

Merlock: (Laughs evilly) Yes! Soon I will get my third wish!

Vanitas: (Annoyed) Yes, you will soon get your third wish.

Don Karnage: Indeed.

Amy: (To Meowth's group) I can't believe you! We were willing to give you another chance and you betray us!

Bushroot: (Sighing) You don't understand....

Don Karnage: My, my. You have such great spirit along with your sisters, princess.

Vanitas: Indeed.

*(Vanitas held Sally's chin and pulled his hand away as Sally tried to bite him)*

Vanitas: Perhaps a few days in chains will calm you girls down, especially if you want your parents to remain healthy!

*(The villains turned to Meowth's group who still felt guilty nearby)*

Vanitas: Betrayal really stings, doesn't it?

Negaduck: Shocking, isn't it?

Meowth: (Sighs) If you insist.

Meowth's group: Betrayal really hurts.

*(The captives got concerned, mostly Meowzie)*

***Coming up: Dawn arrives, and not wanting to see their friends suffer even more and Sonic's group about to die, Meowth's group redeem themselves in order to save Sonic's group and the heroes from doom, and clear Sonic's group's names. But will their redemption be accepted by Sonic's group once that's all done?***