Disclaimer: Don't own nothin' except Guile and my own twisted tale of what happened to Shadow, which is in Sorrow For A Machine. GO READ IT! So you'll know what goin' on in this story. ____________________________________________________________________________ ______

A couple of months have passed since E-102.0 was completed and everyone has silenced. Tails and Guile have been working together on building new gadgets and things, Amy's been happy enough to have her robotic friend back. Shes continued chasing Sonic as always. Sonic's been dodging Amy as much as possible and Knuckles has kept to himself up on the Floating Island. Ominously a new enemy lurks beneath the noses of them all. As well as an old friend and two new one's yet to be discovered.

"So, is that all for repairs and upgrades?" Guile asked, turning to Tails as they stood infront of yet another Tornado Two. The weapon upgrades had been kept and it now had three forms. Casual transportation, fighter jet, and mech. Yet despite all this, the plane was still as average sized as ever. Guile and Tails had done a magnificant job on it.

"Yup, I'd have to say thats about it." Tails replied, looking back at Guile, his face covered in dried oil and other stuff. "Heh, you look like crap Guile." He said, pointing at Guile who's face was the exact same, if not worse.

"Your one to talk Mr. Grease Monkey." Guile retorted, with a bit of a grin on his face. The two had been having these friendly fights ever since they'd met. It was just a little thing they had in common, a habit for sarcasm. "Meh, I see ya later Tails, I'm gonna go wash up and head into the city. Need any parts or somethin' bud?" Guile asked, turning and heading for the bath room.

"Uh, yeah. As a matter of fact I do." Tailes answered running over to a wall and tearing off a little sticky note, and adding some more things to the already filled sticky note. After a few minutes Guile came out, fully dressed and clean once again. Tails handed him the sticky note. "I need everything on here Guile." Tails said.

"Ok, sure. Looks easy enough." Guile replied, taking this sticky note and heading for the door. "I'll be back in a few minutes." He added, opening the door and then closing it behind him. Suddenly with a burst of speed he dashed off towards the edge of the ruins at a high speed. He was just about as fast a Sonic. As he drew closer to the edge he pressed a button on a wrist band and a loud bang was heard just as he ran off the edge. The wrist band had a gadget that displaced the area around him and could create an invisible tunnel in midair through which he could go through, and come back one time. Guile continued to zoom through the transparent tunnel of displaced air, over the water as he watched waves crash into each other. His eyes traced to his left side and caught a huge storm cloud, lighting flashing within it every few seconds. Without a doubt it was a good one. His eyes then moved back to the veiw ahead of him he continued to run. After about a minute he skidded to a halt and into the middle of the street of station square and headed down the street. "Thanks to that invention of Tails' I don't have to take the train again. That thing was way too slow for me anyway." He said under his breathe, chuckling a little.

He entered the heart of station square and headed directly for the tech store to get Tails' items, about 20 minutes later he exited the large building, carrying a duffle bag full of parts, the logo read: Tech Parts Inc. He'd had to buy the bag because he had nothing to carry the parts with. He next headed over to the Grocery Store. They had been a little low on food for a while and pizza was starting to get a little sickening. He once again left the store with a few plastic bages in hand full of fresh food. As people passed by they could only stop and stare at the hedgehog. Never had they seen a red hedgehog with silver highlights, blue hair, and violet bangs, not to mention wearing clothing. The only others they'd seen were Sonic and the rest of his friends. Sonic hadn't been seen for a good while, he was no longer the reliable person Tails and the rest had once known.

Afew hours later, the storm cloud had finally begun to hide the city from over head view. Guile was just leaving a shoe store, his old ones were getting a little worn out and he needed new ones bad. After all of these items were in hand he started to head towards the end of the city, for the tunnel. Rain was begining to fall and he had to hurry, running at half speed all ready he reach the tunnel and burst into full, another loud bang could be heard and the end of the tunnel quickly caught up with him, but stayed about 2 feet behind him until he reached the ruins and then it disappeared all together. Guile continued running at full speed, reaching Tails' place in a matter of seconds and skidding to a halt at the door. He opened it and walked in casually as always.

He took one glance around the room, everything was torn apart, glass lay shattered all over the floor and Tails lay under a table, unconcious. Suddenly Guile felt all air escape him as he was punched hard in the stomach by unknown figure. The last thing he saw before he too passed out was a white echidna, with sapphire highlights on his dread locks. A mop top of blonde hair, and red eyes. He wore a trench coat, lined with blue flames, two silver braclets with three sapphires in each, knuckled gloves, blue jeans, and blue skate shoes. The last thing he heard was, "You'll tell no one of my presence..."

~Who is this new echidna and why has he attacked Tails and Guile? What are his intentions?~ ____________________________________________________________________________ ______

Ok, for those who have read my profile you know who the Echidna is. Anyway, sorry it took me so long to get this up, I had most of it done, but I got wrighters block and had to leave it be until now. Anyway, I'm sorry but I do NOT have a new Pain and Torture on the way, it WILL have TWO guest stars this time around though, but I havn't gotten around to another episode of P&T yet, sorry. Flame me, spam me. Do whatever ya want, it's not going to speed things up. Anyway, R&R