Thunder crashed in the dark and stormy sky. Citizens of the town below the storm ran for their houses in hope of evading the rain. The town was surrounded by a large wall consisting of many large and sturdy rocks. At the far end of the town rested a castle with a lavender cat staring out the window.

"This storm has been going on for days. Clear skies all around but a storm right over my town…" Her thoughts were interrupted by a Silver hedgehog walking into the room.

"Man that's some strong rain outside. My quills are soaked." He stated as the hedgehog wringed out the large quills on his forehead.

"Yes but what does it mean…" the cat asked.

"Ummm… that its spring?" the hedgehog respond. The cat sighed.

"You can be such a fool sometimes Silver." She stated.

"Don't ask a question if you don't want an answer Blaze." Silver replied. Suddenly he burst out laughing.

"What is so funny?"

"Ha, imagine how badly Sonic would be freaking out if he saw all that water outside." Silver joked.

"Sonic…" Blaze thought. The silver hedgehog finally stopped laughing and looked at the sadness in Blazes eyes.

"Hey, you ok?" Silver asked calmingly. Blaze just shook the thought out of her head.

"Ya, I'm fine." She lied. Blaze turned away from the window and looked at the large pile of papers on her desk. "Well I got some work to do. See you tomorrow Silver."

"Hmm… ya see you tomorrow." Silver said before leaving the room.

Meanwhile in a dimension not too far from Blaze a blue hedgehog was zipping around a house. He stopped in front of a yellow two tailed fox.

"Wow Tails. These shoes you made me work great!" Sonic told him.

"Ya, with those shoes you should be able to break the sound barrier in seconds! But can you do a few more laps just to make sure there are no flaws in my design?" the fox asked. Sonic nodded and continued to run around some more. Tails wrote something in his notepad.

"Well they seem to work fine. " Tails said. Sonic stopped and looked at him with a huge grin on his face.

"Hey, mind if I go show off these babies to Shadow?" Sonic asked.

"Sure but be careful not to over-do it with them." Tails warned. Sonic nodded again and shot off. Tails wrote in his note pad again.

Sonic zipped all around town trying to find Shadow. After an hour of searching he gave up and went to ask Rouge if she knew where he was. Sonic arrived at a night club with a large sign that read "Club Rouge". He ran in and saw a bat lady clearing cups from a table.

"Sorry but we don't open till 8:00." She said without looking up.

"Hey Rouge, do you know were Shadow is?" Sonic asked. Rouge turned around.

"Oh, it's you. Sorry but I haven't seen Shadow since last night." She told him. Rouge began to walk towards the bar. "Care for a drink?"

"I thought you said that this place isn't open?" Sonic joked as he walked over.

"Well I can make an exception for a friend. What will you have?" Rouge asked.

"I don't know, you got Coke?" Sonic asked. Rouge giggled.

"Not the legal kind." she joked. "Besides this is a club. Not a fast food joint. How about a shot of rum?"

"You do know that I'm 14, right?"

"Ha-ha, so what?"

"Err… I don't drink." Sonic responded. "Well I got to go find Shadow. Catch you later Rouge!" Sonic jumped out of his seat and ran out the door. Rouge continued to clean glasses when a moaning sound came from the stairs. She put down the glass and went to see what it was. Shadow was leaning against the stairs.

"Shadow? Have you been here all night?" Rouge asked.

"I don't know. Where is here anyway?" Shadow asked. Rouge just sighed.

"Oh, and Sonic is looking for you. He just ran outside." Rouge told him. Shadow groaned even louder.

"I freaking hate hangovers…"

Sonic was still running around looking for Shadow. He ran over bridges, highways and stopped in the park.

"Where can that hedgehog be?" Sonic wondered. Sonic was about to run off when he heard a loud bang. A large plume of smoke was rising from the far side of the park. At least 40 egg pawns were shooting everything in sight. An egg-shaped man road behind them in a small hovercraft. Sonic ran behind a tree and listened to what he was saying.

"The readings are coming from right here." He shouted. "You, start digging!" A red robot with a large shovel began to dig.

"He must have found a chaos emerald." Sonic thought. He jumped out from behind the tree and started to smash robots.

"Ahhh! How dare you! ATTACK!" The man yelled. More robots came running. Sonic continued to destroy them. The robot that was digging stopped.

"Objective found. Now retrieving." The robot beeped as it bended over and picked up a gray stone. Sonic stopped and stared at the stone.

"Wait, that's not a chaos emerald!" He turned and faced the man. "What are you up to Eggman?" The man stared at the rock in complete shock.

"That's a rift stone!" Eggman stated. "I guess Nega is not as stupid as I though." Sonic took a step back.

"Nega! Do you mean Eggman Nega?" Sonic stuttered. An evil grin stretched across the doctor's face.

"Yes and with this stone we will control both dimensions! Mahwah!" Eggman said. He then looked at Sonic. "But first…" A robot appeared behind Sonic and hit him on the head. Sonic blacked out.