Starting and finishing something off.

First a few things you might need to know about the story:

1. it's set about a month after sonic hereos.

2. Eggman shall be called by his original name, Robotnik since I prefer to call him by his original name.

3. When the story starts/stops or switch's to a different place it will be marked with an X.

Disclaimer: I don't own sonic and CO, trust me if I did there would be a lot of changes in it.

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Sonic couldn't help but grin as he lay spread out on a beach chair under the sun instation squares hotel. It was around a month after sonic and the gang had saved the world from metal sonic and his evil, it was also a month since Robotnik had been last seen as well. True he should be happy about that fact but Without him and his robots to destroy things had been getting to… well boring for his liking so he had decided to finish off his vacation at station square hotel that chaos had ruined.

"ahhhh… this is the life er tails?." he asked an 8 year old kitsune who was sitting on a beach chair a few metres away, tinkering with a misty blue sphere. "You're still working on that tails?."

"I'm almost finished sonic…" Tails shouted over to him with his eyes still locked on the weird object.

"Tails is it impossible for you to forget machinery for at least a minute and just relax…?" sonic shouted over to the fox who simply glared at him, then quickly it turned into anevil smile which made sonic sweat nervously. the last time he saw that tails had been using him as a target for his new robot.

"Okay I'll go take a swim, that's relaxing." Tails said as sonic eye's widened, you had to be ten or over to go alone to take a swim in the hotel pooland since tails was still underage he either had to go in there with him or watch him close by.

"Tails I'm not going to spend to hours which I could spend under the sun, watching you swim about!" sonic exclaimed as tails smiled.

"Oh but I think you are!" tails said while laughing as he rushed towards the swimming pool, put the mechanic sphere on the floor to stop it short-circuiting and dived in as sonic sighed. For someone with such a high IQ he really did act like a kid sometimes, then again tails was only 8 so…

"I guess I have to watch him now…" sonic sighed as he walked reluctantly towards the swimming pool and stood by the edge of it with his arms crossed like shadow. "Heh, shadow would flip if he saw me now…

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On the other side of the hotel…

A glass door slid open automatically as a strangely egg shaped man stepped through them to the hotel lobby to the reception desk with two dark blue suitcases. He could have been an identical clone to doctor Robotnik if it weren't for that the fact the he had black hair, no moustache and was wearing a Hawaiian shirt, white shorts and sunglasses. Not Robotnik's normal type mind you.

"May I help you sir?." The receptionist asked him as she looked up from her magazine.

"Yes I am Doctor Marvin and I have a resevationhere." He said as he handed her a ID card as she began to type on her computer rapidly.

"Ah we've been expecting you doctor, your on the third floor room 3C." she told him as she pressed down a bell, summoning a bellboy. "Take Doctor Marvin's things to room 3C Reggie."

"Right." He said as picked up the suitcases and carried them off with the doctor in tow who was grinning. One of his plans was working perfectly… for once.

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Angel Island.

A strange tropical island with all the weather conditions on it, mountain, deserts, forest you got it.

But the strangest thing about it was that it could fly or float above the ground, it depends on how you think about it.

This was all due to one thing: the master emerald and it guardian knuckles the echidna.

Right now it's current pisition was over the ocean somewhere and the nearest civilisation to it was Metropolis.

Not much has happened recently, apart from the discovery of a new chamber in the marble gardens.

Now being curious like all living things are, knuckles went down there to check for the cause of the disturbance and instead found a strange stone tablet or maybe just a piece of the wall which fell off, he didn't know.

That had been a few hours ago and right now knuckles was back at the emerald shrine, studying it carefully.

"Hmmm… it's differently not written in echidnan." Knuckles mumbled while gazing at the strange writing. "I don't get it, why would a tablet not written in echidnan be in ancient echidnan ruins?."

Rustle.

"Who's there!" knuckles shouted out as he got into a fighting stance as he heard something move in a nearby bush, and out came a pink hedgehog. "Amy! What are you doing here?."

"Finally I found you knuckles!." The pink hedgehog known as Amy shouted out to him as she clumsily stumbled out of a clump of bushes and dusted herself off.

"That still doesn't answer my question to why you're here uninvited…?" knuckles asked her as he walked down the shrine steps with the stone in his hands.

"Oh just a friendly visit that's all!" she exclaimed as she looked at him and noticed the tablet. "What's that knuckles?."

"First off none of your business, second of all what's the real reason why you're here?." Knuckles asked her suspiciously.

"Was it that easy to spot?." knucklesnods in response. "Well I've always wanted to explore this place after sonic rescued me from little planet. He told me all about this place and how beautiful it was, and after putting some serious thought into it I decided to stay here for a week! Plus there's a chance sonic might come here!" She squealed excitedly as knuckles raised an eye-brow, since when had sonic even liked Angel Island? espically since both the times he visited knuckles had unrolled th' unwelcome mat for him?.

"Without modern comforts? Phf you won't last a day!" knuckles mocked her as she shook her head.

"At least I fared better than you in the lost jungle!"

"Don't remind me…" knuckles mumbled as he shook the memory of tails dunking him into the swamp and then getting covered in spit by that huge crocodile when it tried to eat them, out of his head. "And besides what makes you think I'll allow you to stay here for whatever time?."

"Simple, with these!" she said sweetly as he held an enormous bunch of grapes in her hands.

"0.o… you think you can bribe me with a bunch of grapes! Forget it!" knuckles shouted at her, furious that she could even think that he could be brought with a mere bunch of grapes! Even though they did look really good grapes and not like the ones he found near the emerald shrine, then again they didn't look like the best kind of store brought grapes either.

"How about an entire groove of grapes on Angel island?." She said slowly while still smiling innocently as knuckles blinked in confusion. He knew every part of this island and the best places to find grapes but he had never found an entire groove before! But she, someone who had never been to Angel Island before had found one of the very thing knuckles had spent most of his free time doing! This was weird but you know knuckles and grapes, they go better than oxygen is to fire, and knuckles is the fire. And besides It's not like the master emerald is going to get stolen in the next five minutes was it?…

"Oh all right but I want to see them now!" he told her as she nodded and started to walk off with him reluctantly close behind.

X

The south islands.

A group of warm tropical islands somewhere in the south pacific.

It was pretty muchquiet apart from a loud banging which was being made by a black hedgehog and his compainion, a robot who was just watching him.

"Sonic! Open the door! This is urgent!" the black and red hedgehog exclaimed as he bashed on the door to a beach hut multiple times.

"Shadow you've been doing that for 5 minutes now, it's obvious that there not here or they would have to be deaf to ignore all that noise you were making." The robot pointed out the obvious as shadow stopped bashing on the door and sighed.

"I guess your right omega, come on let's check inside for any clues to where that Fakers gone." Shadow said as he opened the door and walked in. He still couldn't believe omega had somehow convinced him, the ultimate lifeform that he would need the faker's help in finding his emerald and that stupid piece of junk.

"That would be the best choice now." Omega bleeped as he stepped in after shadow and began to take a good look around. The room was quite big, it had a blue and orange bed in the upper left and right corners of the room, a TV with PS2 and Gamecube DS underneath, a computer and a dartboard… with mario's face on it. "What the?."

"pfhh typical sonic." Shadow rolled his eyes as he searched through one of sonic bedroom draws and pulled out a glass sphere. "What's do you think this Omega?." He asked omega as he gave it to the robot to examine.

"From what it says on the side, a screen-omatic." Omega says as he notices shadow's confused look. "It looks likean improvedversion to one of Robotnik communicators he installed on his robots."

"Oh… Well what are you waiting for? He's probably got another one just like it so turn it on omega!" shadow instructed omega while he just nodded and pressed something on the side of it, making an image appears on the screen.

however it didn't work properly like omega predicted. they could make out a vague image of the station square hotel in the background, but that was only for a secound since thescreen went blank the next secound.

"wha?." shadow said started as the screen went blank "er wasn't that surposed to work?."

"i thought it would. i guess the other end wasn't working properly." omega stated as shadow roughly shoved the communicator back into tails drawer.

"so i guess we got to go all the way to station square huh?." shadow sighed as omega nodded in responce.

"Come on shadow's it's not that bad. All we have to do hitch a ride on a boat and we'll be their in a couple of hours!" omega said trying to cheer shadow up as they walked out from the beach hut, slamming the door to the house shut.

"I surpose, I just hope that this journey will benot as bad as the lastone with that fishermanwe hitched a ride with." Shadow shuddered at the thought of that nerve racking journey. espically since they got caught in the middle of a storm and shadow get's sea sick very easy...

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Chaoticdragon: well that's about it for now. I hope you guys like the chapter. I will try to post the next one in the next week but I can't make any promises. Anyway remember to R and R! I'm always open for suggestions.