The creatures were relentless. They had burned once green forests and reduced great cities to rubble. No one knew where they had come from, only that when they did, time and space themselves seemed to be unraveling. There was only one who could stop them. The hedgehog.

"Take that!" yelled Sonic as he rammed into the blue beast with his spines. But nothing seemed to work. The creature seemed to be as hard as diamond. Taking advantage of the blue hedgehog's failed attack, the other, pink creature generated a wave of energy that struck him. But instead of disintegrating the hedgehog, Sonic was teleported about 50 yards away. He couldn't take much more.

I have to keep fighting, Sonic thought. He looked down. "I have to defeat those things, whatever they are. My friends are counting on me!"

"Hello! Earth to Sonic! We're not helpless you know!" shouted a certain echidna.

"Well, Knucklehead, do you have a better idea?"

"As a matter of fact, I do!"

Knuckles charged at the blue beast and managed to land a right hook straight it its gut. A glowing purple-blue gem flew straight out of the creature's mouth.

"The indigo Chaos Emerald!" Rouge gasped.

Shadow looked perplexed. "Wait, there's an indigo Emerald? I thought that was supposed to be the pink one!"

"No, the pink Emerald was a texture error. Just like your Super form." Rouge replied.

"Oh, right, error. Champagne…"

"That's the last Emerald we need!" Tails exclaimed.

A look of anguish and rage formed on the creatures' faces. In a last attempt, the pink and blue beasts fused their power in a vast spatial and temporal rift, which was amplified by the seven Chaos Emeralds.

Elsewhere…

"Blaze?" A white hedgehog ushered to the purple cat next to him.

"Yes, Silver?"

Silver pointed toward a strange white light coming from the sky.

"What is that thing?"

"I don't know. But it certainly looks strange…"

The light engulfed the surrounding area.

"Blaze, hold on to me! Don't let go!' cried Silver with fear in his voice.

Then everything went black….

Author's note: There's more! This is just the setup. This is my first try at writing something halfway serious, although there will still be plenty of humor throughout. No romance unless you readers really, really, really want it. Then maybe I'll make an exception. The Chaos Emeralds have been shown in many different colors. In my fic, they are the colors of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet).