The giant airship plummeted toward the ground as the three chased after their nemesis.

"Get Back here, Eggman! You can't get away from us this time!" Sonic, Shadow, and Silver were gaining when the doctor reached his final mech and jumped inside.

"Not so fast." The doctor drove the mech forward, causing the three to jump out of the way narrowly avoiding the mech's feet.

"Eggman, there's no time for games. The ship is falling from the sky, and you'll die in the crash." Shadow delivered his line with a level head, as always.

"Well then, looks like I have to show off my real plan." The doctor pushed a button, and the Chaos Emeralds raced around his machine. "Sonic, Shadow, Silver, it's been nice knowing you, but now, with this device, I will transfer us all to another world, a world where I reign supreme."

"That world can't exist. We'll beat you anywhere!" Silver couldn't help but feel a bit frightened at the doctor's words, but he didn't show it.

"Ah Yes, but how will you know to defeat me, when you don't even know who you are!" He pushed a button on his control panel, and the Chaos Emeralds began to react. "Witness the dawning of the Eggman Empire! Chaos Control!" The world went black.

The alarm clock blared, causing Chase to groan and turn over in bed. He hauled himself to his feet, silencing the accursed beeping in the process.

"Another day another hassle, here we go." He grabbed his blue jeans, and a matching blue shirt, and headed off to grab a shower before moving on to school. He hopped out and quickly got dressed, leaving his hair in its natural spiked state. The doorbell rang a few seconds later.

"Chase, Let's go!"

Chase sighed as he headed down the stairs and popped on his shoes. He opened the door and headed out toward the source of the voice, Chase's best friend, Miles. Miles was a few years younger than Chase, but the elder boy had never met a better person. Miles was a genius too, always tinkering with machines and other gadgets. Chase sighed as he stepped out his front door.

"Don't rush me so much, Miles, you're earlier today than yesterday."

Miles sighed, "Sorry Chase, today's a big day for me."

"Right, the small engine competition, we can grab breakfast at school. come on, let's get where we're going." And with that, chase locked his house, and the two took off toward the school.

In another part of town, Amy sighed as she relaxed in a warm bubble bath. She couldn't help but think of Chase as she lay there. She had been after that boy for years, but all he seemed to care about were his friends and the track team. It wasn't fair, Amy had known Chase longer than almost anyone, but had gotten nowhere fast.

"What does it take to get through to that boy, Honestly?" She climbed out of the tub and grabbed her towel, drying off in a bit of a hurry.

"Dammit, this is why I shouldn't try to squeeze a bath in before school, she tugged on a red dress and quickly styled her hair. She grabbed her bag and headed out the door. "Maybe today I'll win him over."

Heavy metal blared from the speakers as the boy in black rose from his bed, showered, and threw on a set of black clothes. He headed out his front door to meet up with none other than his best friend. She was dressed as always, in a purple tank top with something that the boy barely called shorts. "Marci, you act like we can't tell you're wearing a corset under that shirt." He joked playfully with his best friend before granting her a peck on the cheek.

"Shut up, Daniel, and can you refrain from putting your mouth on me, in public at least?" She smiled and fell into step as the two headed toward the school, laughing and joking.

"How's your boyfriend?" Daniel asked, causing his friend to blush a bit.

"He's actually really strong, dominant in bed too. Any more questions?"

"You know what I meant Marci..." Daniel sighed, her typical reaction always made him feel bad. He respected that they were together, but that never meant he had to like it.

"The answer is the same as always. We're doing fine, and if we ever break up my body is yours." She kissed his cheek lightly. "Now don't worry so much. We have that big test today, and if you don't pass you'll be stuck with Miles and Sue-Ellen."

Daniel only shrugged. He didn't get along well with Sue-Ellen, but having Miles around would be a plus. The younger boy was already a year ahead of his class, so Daniel respected him, but all in all he realized his best friend was right, if he didn't pass he would be stuck in the tenth grade while Marci and Alistair moved up to eleventh.

"Daniel, Marci!" They both turned to see Alistair, in his usual long-Sleeved red shirt and black track pants, head toward them.

"There you are ya big lug." Marci playfully punched him. "We were wondering where we would find you."

"I woke up late. It's strange because I don't usually do that." The boy replied, and the three all fanned out, with Alistair in the middle.

"That is strange, did your alarm not go off?" Daniel queried as they made their walk to school.

Simon woke up, showered and threw on some white clothes stopping to grab his phone and iPod before leaving the house. He smiled as the sun hit his face. His first day of school was going to be a good one. He made his way to the building and noticed several bunches of people relaxing before the first bell and sighed. He had moved from far away, and was kind of sad he didn't belong in any circle of friends. His smile brightened when he saw a girl in purple sitting alone. He decided to at least try to make a friend and headed over to the girl.

"Hi, I'm Simon, who are you?" He smiled politely as the girl looked up at him.

"I'm Emily. So I'll take it you're new here, have a seat, first bell doesn't ring for a few minutes."

So Simon sat, and the two talked, quickly realizing that they had quite a lot in common.

Paul was in the school gym, warming up on a hanging bag. He had bandaged his hands, but blood was soaking through.

"That's enough, Paul. Go get cleaned up." Coach hollered from the next room. Paul drove the bag from the hook with a final punch. He put the fallen bag back in the closet and stepped into the shower. The water ran down his body, cleansing him of the sweat and grime of his workout. He tugged on a red polo and some khaki shorts and went to find Chase.

Sue-Ellen rose from her bed and hopped in the shower, taking great care in cleaning her long hair. She smiled as she finished, hopping out and putting on a red dress with a white bow, and some white leggings. She brushed her hair and put it into two loose ponytails. She walked downstairs, following the smell of breakfast that her mother had been cooking. She smiled as she sat down to a pancake breakfast. She finished and headed to brush her teeth, stopping to pet her cat, Cheese. She brushed her teeth and headed out the door and off to school.

CHASE

The first bell rang sending the students off to their first class. Chase, Miles and Paul were in Chemistry, their instructor was absent for the day, so the principal, E. G. Greene , had stepped in in his place. The principal was a science major, but few of the students could take him seriously with his auburn mustache.

"Alright students, I was told you were to have read up on the procedure last night, since I'm convinced few of you did so, you all have six minutes to review."

Chase gave a sigh of relief and began to quickly read over all the steps that he was supposed to have finished.

He leaned over to Miles, whispering quietly. "You understand this, right little buddy?"

"I got it, no worries." The boy whispered back.

Chase had a general idea of what the goal of the procedure was, but all the different concentrations and chemicals made his head spin.

"All right, now get into your lab groups and begin, this titration should only take about thirty minutes." The principle declared, and the students began, donning goggles and aprons, setting up buret clamps and beakers, and adding the acid to their burets. The procedure was a simple titration, so the class was finished rather quickly, and the equipment was packed up and put away. The class began to do their calculations, when Chase got an eerie feeling, sure enough, when he looked up Principal Greene was watching him. Chase felt strange, not like strange when he thought he had a thing for Amy, but strange like he knew the principal watching him should be a bad thing, but it wasn't.

The bell rang shortly after, and the three friends headed their separate ways, Chase to the gym, Miles to the small engine classroom, and Paul to calculus.

Chase couldn't shake the weird feeling he felt earlier, why was principal Greene staring at him? Why did it even bother him at all? It didn't matter, maybe his time in the gym would clear his head. He stepped into the locker room to see Daniel badgering the new kid about his white boxers.

"Daniel, drop it, so the new kid likes white, you like black, there's not much difference."

"Can it, Chase, I do what I want." Daniela's reply was sharp, but Chase didn't care.

"How about this then?" The new boy spoke up. "The three of us race, and the winner gets to say they're the best, I'm Simon by the way." The other two smiled, and as the three changed into their gym clothes the excitement continued to build. The three laced up their shoes, stretched a little bit and headed out.

The coach was thrilled at the enthusiasm, and quickly set the three on the track. The rest of the class sat in the bleachers and watched, eager to watch the track stars move.

"So glad there are only six of us in this class, otherwise this would never work." Chase said as the three got down on the starting blocks. The coach stood at the starting line.

"All right, this will be a one hundred meter sprint between our school's champions, Chase and Daniel, and their challenger, Simon, you may begin when you hear the whistle."

The whistle blew and the three took off, and less than a minute later they had passed the finish line, and were bewildered by the winner.

"And the winner is, Simon, by one hundredth of a second!" The coach was surprised as well, no one had ever beaten both of his best runners. "Simon, come here please." The boy headed over to the coach, who smiled, shook the boy's hand, and offered him a spot on the team. Simon gratefully accepted, and the coach led the class back into the building.

AMY

The news traveled fast, Chase had been beaten by a new kid, and Amy was livid. Sue-Ellen was sitting at lunch when Amy came over, sat down, and began eating her banana.

"I'm Mad!"

The younger girl smoothly replied "Yes I can tell by your violent banana chewing."

Amy began to rant as Big Dan sat down next to the two. His purple shirt didn't seem to make him look any thinner, but Amy and Sue-Ellen didn't care, he was a good guy, innocent too.

"You look angry, Amy, what's wrong?"

"Some new kid came in and beat Chase in a race. It's got me all riled up!" Amy stopped short, "Look over there, Emily has a friend." This made the other two turn to look, as the girl in question wasn't usually around anyone, but there she was, laughing along with a boy in white that none of the three had seen before. "She seems happy, that's good, but I wonder who that guy is." Amy quickly stood "I'm going to find out."

She headed over to the other table and sat next to the two friends.

"Hey, Emily." She chirped cheerfully.

"Hello Amy." The girl's response was the same as always, but Amy was undeterred.

"So, who is this?" She gestured to the boy in white who was sitting across from them.

"I'm Simon, I'm new here." The boy spoke, and Amy nodded.

"Not many people have ever gotten through to Emily, treat her right." Amy chided playfully. "Wait, you said you were new here, do you have Gym in the mornings with Chase?"

"I do, he's a nice guy, quick too." The boy smiled.

"So you're the one who beat MY Chase! You have a lot of nerve!" Amy's anger returned in a fervor. Simon didn't seem to care.

"So you're the one he was talking about."

Amy didn't understand, "wait, what?"

"Don't worry about it." The boy looked to Emily, "would you like to go to the library? It's quieter there." She quickly agreed, and they left a bitter, confused, Amy in their wake.