Hi! Here's another new episode of Sonic Adventures! The reason it says '9' instead of '8' is because episode '8' is another holiday special and I want to do it around that holiday. Besides that, I am halfway done with Season 1 (not counting holidays)! I don't know when I'll be done with it since I'm busy with school and having different hobbies. Anyways, let's get on with the story!

Saturday, January 15; 3:05 p.m.

What a beautiful day in Emerald Hill. Not! Instead the weather decided to be pouring rain as a family of three foxes try to find their way to civilization. Who are these people exactly?

The male fox, whose fur is bright yellow with blue eyes, is Steve, who happens to be an unsuccessful inventor. His family got kicked out of their house due to not paying the bills on time. Besides that big flaw, Steve doesn't look like someone who is unsuccessful; as he is wearing a white buttoned-up polo shirt tucked in blue jeans with a brown belt at the waist, and brown hiking boots.

The female fox, Cassidy, has tangerine orange fur and lime green eyes. She is wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, black leggings, black tennis shoes, and her hair is tied up in a low ponytail. She has tried multiple times to move in with her sister's family, but during all those times Cassidy has never been successful. Why? The sister has a bad history with Cassidy.

Finally, the baby fox wrapped in a sky blue blanket and being held by Cassidy: Miles. These people have not had a home in over a month, and yet this little guy is only five months old! How he is able to survive is something the world would never know.

"How long will we find the streets?!" Cassidy asks her husband, Steve.

"Not sure!" Steve responds, while trying to look at his compass and carry his and his wife's bags at the same time, "But we'll get there!"

As a dreaded ten minutes passed, the three foxes made it in Emerald City. They find a small hotel and fall straight to the floor. Just then, a female light blue leopard wearing the hotel's uniform walks up to them and asks, "Are...you okay?"

Steve tries to get up while answering the leopard, "Y-yes... We're fine. We just walked over thirty miles through Emerald Hill just to get to...(looks around because he has no idea where he is) wherever this place is."

Then the leopard starts blabbing happily, "Oh! You're in Emerald City, my friends! It just happens to be one of the finest cities in the state of California! Along with its sister town, Station Square, it has rich performing schools, beautiful hotels, big and small, and lovely beaches! It also has..."

The fox couple are starting to get annoyed by the woman's yapping as Cassidy asks her husband, "Is she going to stop?"

"I doubt it," answers Steve.

Finally, the leopard stops talking and asks, "May I get your first and last names?"

The male fox then greets himself and his wife, "My name's Steve Prower, and this is my lovely wife Cassidy."

"And this little bundle of joy is our son Miles," Cassidy says as she shows the leopard Miles' face, though his eyes are closed due to him taking his nap. He has yellow orange fur and a white muzzle; something he got from both his parents.

The leopard's eyes start to form tears of happiness, "Aw... He's adorable!"

"Thank you," Cassidy says.

"Yes...thanks," Steve says, then gets on his knees begging, "but we really need a place to stay! Please! We're homeless! I don't care if we don't have money! Just give us a room!"

The lady looks down at Steve, feeling sorry for the yellow fox. Homeless people are very rare in Emerald City and she can't just not give the Prower's a room. So finally she says, "Yes, but for one day only. I can't just give anybody a room and hotels are very expensive."

"Yes!" the Prower couple cheer.

But what these people didn't know, was that behind a window are none other than Dr. Eggman and Robot, spying on people for no reason. After one of the workers gives the Prower's their room key and the Prower's walk away, Eggman bursts out laughing.

"HAHAHAHA!" Eggman laughs, "What a bunch of losers! They're homeless! HAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Robot gives a worried look to Eggman saying, "Doctor, it's wrong to laugh at homeless people. Besides, you don't know what they've been through."

"Shut up, Robot!" Eggman commands his sidekick, "We're villains! We're supposed to laugh at the homeless! After all, I did get my mechanics degree at Seaside City University!"

Robot facepalms himself wondering, Is that why he's stupid? The college Eggman went to wasn't even a big fancy one like UCLA (University of Los Angeles), UCSB (Santa Barbara), or Yale. Why is that? The only good thing from going to Seaside City was that it was the college where Eggman first created Robot.

Anyways, the two villains walk into the hotel because Eggman sees an obese human woman in the hotel's work uniform. The grown man walks over to the woman and asks her, "Excuse me miss, but can you help me with something?"

The woman seems to be nervous as she only says, "Uh..."

45 minutes later...

Eggman barges into the Prower's guest room pushing a cleaning cart and wearing the exact same outfit the human woman was wearing earlier: a blue blazer with a white ruffled blouse under it, some white gloves, a blue pencil skirt stopping just above his knees, and black low heels with white knee-high socks. Robot is hiding in the cleaning cart, looking claustrophobic.

Eggman leans over to the cart and whispers to Robot, "Go to their bathroom. I don't want to see your face."

"Yes Doctor," says Robot as he rolls over to the bathroom using his wheels.

The evil scientist turns to the Prower couple, who are trying to find something to watch on TV, and says to them in a girly voice (or he tries to anyways), "Hello, cute couple. Is there anything I can do for you?"

"Uh...yeah," says Steve, "What channel is the news on? We can't find anything to watch."

Eggman facepalms himself, thinking about how dumb these foxes are. But then again, the Prower's are homeless, so he can't complain. He then answers, "It's on Channel 6."

"Thank you," Steve says as he turns to Channel 6. The news is showing a human woman, the news reporter, in front of some award show.

"Hi, this is Chelsea Newman, coming to you live from the Role Model of the Year Awards!" the woman says, "I don't have anything else to say, so let's go on to Chad!"

Chad appears to be a yellow cheetah. Chelsea gives the microphone to her male companion and says, "Hey Chad. I heard you have searched for a very rare jewel. What is it exactly?"

"Yes I have, Chelsea," says Chad, as he pulls out a green emerald from his back pocket, "You see, my brother, who's a construction worker, was digging up random objects the other day while building a new building, and he ended up finding this emerald. But this isn't just any emerald; it's a Chaos Emerald."

Chelsea is very surprised at this: she thought the Chaos Emerald was an urban legend! How did Chad's brother just happen to dig one up in Emerald City?!

"Wow!" she exclaims, "A Chaos Emerald?! That's crazy! I thought it was just an urban legend!"

"I thought so too!" Chad also exclaims, "I heard there are six other emeralds, but in different colors: blue, red, yellow, silver, magenta, and aquamarine; and guess what?! They all happen to be here in Emerald City! And also, if you find all seven of them, something crazy and magical will happen!"

As Chad and Chelsea kept talking, the Prower couple seems to be very interested about this.

"A Chaos Emerald?!" Steve shrieks.

"We thought those were an urban legend!" Cassidy shrieks along.

However, Eggman is more interested in those emeralds than the Prower's were. "I need to find those emeralds," he says in his normal voice, but was whispering so that the foxes don't hear them. But just as he was about to get Robot, his orange yellow sidekick comes out of the bathroom holding baby Miles, who is still sleeping.

"Look Doctor," Robot says, "Isn't their baby cute?"

Eggman takes a long look at the sleeping Miles and answers, "No; and put that filthy infant down! We're going on a scavenger hunt!"

"A scavenger hunt?" Robot seems interested, "That sounds like fun!"

"Oh, shut up!" Eggman says as he and Robot walk out of the room. This is going to be one heck of an adventure.

And that was Chapter 1! Wow; I don't remember the last time I put that much effort in a chapter. Anyways, what do you think of it? What do you think Eggman's going to do with the Chaos Emeralds? Write your thoughts in the reviews and I'll see you in Chapter 2!