Light inhaled deeply, then exhaled slowly, feeling her energy flow through her. She was in the training area with Shock and they were about to begin their first session.

"Okay," Shock brought his hands together, "Before we can begin dueling, we need to work on control. I'm not saying you're not good at controlling your power, there are just higher levels of more control in what your doing. For instance, I used to only be able to shock people when they touched my hands. Now it's my whole body. Another thing, which is harder, is focusing on one spot for long periods of time. I still have difficulty doing it."

Light nodded. She hadn't tried doing wither of those before. She never needed to become stronger or more focused dueling Silver. Although, she's sure she wasn't really dueling him now that she knows what her uncle is capable of, "What should I try first?"

Shock took Light's hands and held them up, "Try focusing your light bulb abilities on only your hands. If that's too difficult, try a larger area. The thing about beginning, is that you want to focus on the area you're trying to use, when that's not going to work. Kind of focus on pulling on everywhere else, while using your powers."

He stepped back and shielded his eyes in preparation. Light allowed her power to extend from her, brightening the room. She wasn't sure what to do at this point. She held her arms up and remembered what Shock said. Her first instinct was to focus on spreading the light in her arms, but tried to pull it in everywhere else. It wasn't near as easy as Shock made it sound. She was sort of focusing on two things at once. Her eyebrows pulled together in concentration, her arms tightening.

She felt hands on her shoulders and she tensed even more.

"Relax," Shock breathed in her ear. Light looked at him in surprise. His eyes were closed against the blinding light, but his hands remained on her shoulders in support, "You're thinking of it like it's a physical thing. Your powers are controlled completely with your mind."

Light thought about that and closed her eyes as well. She imagined her body with her mind's eyes as an infrared object with her shape. She imagined the power was a green glow around her and she focused on pulling the areas into the red image, except for her arms. She could swear she felt the power around her dimming, and wondered if she was even lit up at all.

"Open your eyes Light," Shock whispered. Light opened her eyes and looked down. She broke into a huge grin and jumped up with excitement.

She wasn't illuminating her arms, just her hands.

However, the moment she stopped focusing, the light came out again. Shock closed his eyes, chuckling, "That was easy. It took me months to get that right!"

Light let her powers go and hugged Shock tightly. The green hedgehog shouted in surprise, but hugged her back hesitantly. Light pulled back enough to kiss him lightly on the cheek, "You didn't have an awesome teacher!"

Shock's crystal eyes were wide open and someone could have bowled into his mouth. Light laughed and turned around, trying her power again. Because her eyes were closed, she didn't see Shock smile slightly and touch his cheek.

They practiced on that move for a couple hours. After that, Shock declared her a master of it. Light was sure he just wanted to be able to keep his eyes open.

"Okay, so. Is your lightning power limited to your hands, or..." He rolled his hand, waiting for her to answer.

Light nodded, "I've only ever been able to use my hands, but I haven't exactly needed to expand it."

Shock thought a moment, "Okay, once again, this is in your mind so whatever you've been doing, stick to that. The thing with electric powers is they are mostly triggered by some sort of emotion. Anger, jealousy, love, something like that."

Light raised an eyebrow, "My dad can so some super cool explosion that expands pretty far and you guys say he used to have no emotion."

"I said he showed none. Not that he didn't have any. Besides, Shadow can't do that without a chaos emerald."

"Wait!" Light interrupted, "A what?"

Shock looked like he wanted to smack his own forehead, "It's a magical gem that has strange properties and awesome power. Hedgehogs have used them to expand their powers for centuries. They give you the ability to travel in time, slow time and emit a huge blast of energy. Time control is called chaos control and the blast is chaos blast. You got it now?"

Light nodded eagerly, "That's amazing!"

Shock laughed, "Yeah, that's why Robotnick's been after them for so long. Now, let's work on that lightning."

"Sorry to interrupt your playtime, but Twig's found something," Rachael burst in. Light and Shock followed her to the main room where Twig was. He sat on one of the chairs with a laptop on he table, typing away quickly.

"What's up T?" Shock asked as he pulled up a chair beside him.

Twig looked up from his screen for a moment, "There's a pair of twins locked up in a van headed this way. We need to stop the van. They have some useful abilities that could help us."

Light looked at the screen over Twig's shoulder. It showed two profiles and a map with a route.

"Squirrels huh? Husk and Buck. Sound like real powerful heros."

Rachael rolled her eyes, "Powerful and heroic or not. We need numbers and Robotnick can't just go around plucking creatures from the street. Try to take this seriously rookie."

Light chuckled, "I'm just trying to keep the mood light. I'm glad you guys are trying to help. In fact, I want to join. It would kinda be like helping my dads."

Rachael frowned, "I don't think so, you've only begin training..."

Shock wrapped an arm around Light, which took the hedgehog by surprise, "Oh don't worry, she's way advanced. She can already focus her power to her hands."

Rachael still looked hesitant, but Twig jumped in, "C'mon Rache. We could use the extra set of hands."

Outnumbered, Rachael threw her hands up in exasperation, "Fine! But if things go wrong, it's you're fault!" She pointed at Light and trudged out of the cave.

Twig waved it off, "It's her past talking. Don't worry about it," He then returned to pounding away at his keyboard.

Light waited for Shock to remove his arm, but he didn't. Oddly enough, it didn't upset her. It didn't even annoy her.

...I'm in trouble.

"Okay guys. Get your game faces on. They'll be here in twenty minutes."

Light and Rachael were crouched in the rubble. Rachael was fairly focused on the task ahead, although Light was sure Rachael was just annoyed she was tagging along. They were supposed to jump out and distract the mechs as they drove up while Twig and Shock get the twins out. The plan was simple enough. Now Light just has to not screw it up like Rachael expects.

"Get ready!" Rachael warned as her muscles coiled. Light placed one foot in front of her, ready to spring into action. The lights grew closer and soon the van was only a couple feet away.

"Now!" The girls jumped out of their hiding places, Light at nearly Sonic's speed. As the van came near, Light turned on the lights, blinding everything around her. She spread her arms out as if that would help, which it probably didn't.

"Rache! I've got this! Go help the others!" She shouted at the fox. Light charged her hands as the two mechs exited the van. She waited, feeling instincts she had inherited from her dads. She'd never felt them before, but she knew what they were. It was as if she was waiting for the perfect moment to strike, and she'd know when that was.

The mechs came closer, their arms outstretched. Light could hear their gears turning, the small hum of their engines. Now it was time to destroy them!

"Who wants smoked droid?" She asked as she released her strongest bolt at the drones. She could hear their circuits frying, but didn't take a moment to marvel at her work. She dashed to the back to help the others.

And boy did they need it.

There were two metal boxes bolted the the back with small air holes that Light guessed held the twins. Shock was pinned down with a board, blocking his electric power from the drone holding him down. Rachael was holding off another drone who was about to pluck the feathers out of Twig.

Light grabbed hold of the drone that had them, distracting him, "stand clear! I'm frying this hunk of junk!"

She let her lightning run through the bucket of bolts. It fried and dropped quickly. Light turned for the boxes, certain the others had the last drone. It was a metal holding box with an electrical lock. She would have to somehow ruin it without making fried squirrel. She placed a single finger and took a deep breath, clearing her mind of everything else. She imagined an infrared hand, and held back the power from everywhere but that single finger. She heard the hiss of an electrical complication and the click of the box opening.

A male squirrel with lean muscle and a long, bushy tail stepped out, His black eyes swept the area quickly, noting the chunks of metal that were once the mechs, "Is this a rescue?"

Light nodded, "Yeah, you and your sister are safe now, "She placed a hand on his shoulder in reassurance as Shock opened the other door.

Light's rescue went to his sister immediately, "Husk! Are you okay?"

She hugged him back, her slender arms held on for dear life, "I don't know Buck! I was sure they had us!"

"Come on guys! Let's go back to the hide out and explain things there," Twig suggested, "I mean, I'm glad you're safe and all but we need to get away from the wreckage before Robotnick looks into it.

The rest of them nodded and headed for the tunnels quickly.

It took a while to explain the situation to the squirrels, but they understood. They even wanted to help. It seems Eggman wanted Buck for his super strength and Husk for her invisibility. Light was just jealous of her looks. She had chocolate brown eyes that seemed to sparkle. A long, blonde pony tail that swept back along her silky back and a slender waist. Light hoped she was just as pretty.

Shock seemed to be unable to keep his eyes off of her, which seemed to bother Light for some reason. She brushed it off as irritation at the boy's hormones.

They had very soft accents, but Light couldn't place where they were from. It didn't matter now though. They all needed rest. The rescue had taken a lot out of them and Light had training with Shock tomorrow. She curled up on the cot Rachael had scrounged for her. Rachael lie next to her, explaining that the twins needed her cot for tonight. Light didn't really care.

"Listen, sorry about earlier. I'm always antsy before something exciting. It's nothing personal," She said before turning over. Light shrugged and closed her eyes. She hoped her dads were okay, and wondered what they were doing. A pang of sorrow ran through her. How she wanted to curl up to Shadow, or pick on Sonic. Hopefully this will all end well and she will be able to do it again.