I deleted all of my notes at the beginning of this chapter, clever me... Oh well.

HI and welcome to my Maximum Ride and Sonic the hedgehog crossover! Its set just after the second book in Maximum Ride. No idea where in Sonic though.

Hope you like it!

Disclaimer:

I do not own Maximum Ride or Sonic. Only Christal.

Chapter 1

Max's P.O.V

Okay, I've had some really rough fights in the past and woken up in strange places but this one takes the biscuit. I remember searching for and finding the flock at Itex, fighting the Max clone they made and Gazzy and Iggy blowing the lab up before we left and found this gem thing and when the newest member of our flock Christal touched it everything went white and I woke up here, wherever here is. And the worst part? Where the hell is my flock?

"Max?" I opened my eyes and saw a pair of crystal blue eyes staring looking down at me, Christal. "Are you ok?" I sat up and glanced around the clearing we were in again especially at the checkered ground

"Yeah I'm fine Chris. Where are we?" I asked her as I stood up; she followed from where she was crouching and fiddled with one of the bracelets she wore not answering "Chris!" she looked up at me

"I-I don't know Max. I'm sorry." She answered before returning to what she was doing. I don't know why she always wore those bracelets, she never took them off. I knew she wasn't telling me something though because she never really spoke much unless absolutely had to, she had asked me whether I was ok, not normally what she did. Christal shook her long blonde hair before running her hand through one of her blue highlights

"Do you still have that weird gem thing?" I asked after a few minutes of silence, she pulled it out of her backpack. It was a purple diamond in an emerald like shape about the size of my hand; the gem was giving off a weird glow and it was entrancing.

The gem is called a Chaos Emerald, there are seven in total. The Voice supplied, I rolled my eyes, 'and do they have anything to do with where we are, Voice?' I asked it yes, I do believe. But I do not know exactly where you are... Christal might, if you can get her to talk. I was shocked by that, not only did the voice answer a question but it told me to ask Christal, Christal who said she didn't know where we was and didn't correct me on the name of that weird ge- I mean Chaos Emerald, as I suspected she knows more about this place than she's telling.

"Chris what are these emeralds called?" I asked, she spun around to face me

"Shush Max." She said before turning back to peering through one of the bushes at the side of the clearing

"Chris what are you doing?"

"Hush up,"

"Christal what the hell are you doing? Where the hell are we? And what the hell are these gems called? I know you know so don't deny it, and don't shush me again!" I said standing with my hands on my hips; she spun back around her blue eyes wide

"No Max! Shut up! I'm trying to not be noticed okay?"

"Oh right sorry." I said before Christal turned back to her spying. I crouched down next to her and also peered out of the bushes into another smaller clearing where a white bat wearing a black bodysuit was standing, 'wait what? A bat, in the middle of the day, wearing clothes, that surely isn't right,' I thought frowning. Following the bat was Angel carrying Total; before I knew it I was running into the clearing to grab Angel

"Wait! Max!" I heard Christal yell after me

"Max!" Angel shouted happily running towards me and into a hug

"Well well if it isn't Christal Blue. She finally returns." The bat said grinning at Christal who returned the grin

"How'd you recognise me Rouge?" she asked

"Nice to see you too. Your accent is unique in this part of Mobius, hun, and anyway I thought I detected Chaos energy around here."

"Christal what the hell? Where are we? Dammit!" I asked very confused

"Max, Christal will tell us later. Right now we have to go." Angel said, I looked down at her before looking at Christal who nodded

"We have to go where sweetie?" I asked Angel

"Yeah where Rouge?" Christal asked

"Well away from here would be nice, before Knu-"

"ROUGE! GIVE ME THAT DAMN EMERALD SHARD!"

"You tried to steal the master emerald again?" Christal asked

"Yes but Knucklehead broke the emerald, I have one of the shards though." Rouge answered starting to run Christal and Angel followed, when Angel noticed I wasn't following she yelled back

"C'mon Max! We have to go!"

"Yeah you really don't want to get caught by Knuckles, especially when he's angry." Christal also yelled unfurling her yellow, blue and white wings and taking off after Rouge, I followed them then, Angel followed. We caught up with the others a few seconds later,

"The names Rouge the bat." Rouge said flying beside me but far enough away as to not get hit by my wings.

"Max, Maximum Ride." I said, 'Voice who are they, well rather what are they? And can I trust them?' I thought. You trust Christal, she will tell you about her people. 'You are no help Voice, but still...'

"Christal! Care to explain now?" I shouted flying beside her

"Okay, if I have to." She sighed before saying, "You are in Mobius, I come from here. The main and original inhabitants of Mobius are sapient animals like Rouge, they are called Mobians, and humans also live here on Mobius. Some Mobians can hide their true form with the help of a Chaos Emerald; there are seven Emeralds in total and all together they have enough power to destroy the world. I am a Mobian myself but I used the Emeralds to hide on earth as a human." Christal finished her explanation before adding "It's starting to get dark, you can stop at my place, in the morning I will help you find the rest of your flock and then I will help you find a way for you to get home."

"Hey Chris, here's your key back." Rouge threw something which Christal caught. A few minutes later we landed in front of a smallish house in pretty much the middle of nowhere but quite near the sea, Christal opened the door and let us in. The house was small on the inside, from where we were standing just inside the door to the left was a lounge, straight ahead was the kitchen and to the right was some stairs leading upstairs.

"There are a few rooms upstairs; Rouge can have my room." Christal said pointing upstairs before flicking a light switch on, I nodded and followed Christal upstairs, Angel and Rouge followed me, I was given a room with a nice view of the ocean, it was a smallish room, like the rest of the house and was sparsely furnished there was a small bed, a chair and a desk. Angel had the room opposite me; hers was also furnished like mine apart from there was a small bookshelf in a corner of the room. Rouge had Christal's room which was next to mine, there was another room but the door was closed and locked, and a small bathroom. I looked out the window at the setting sun when it had set over the ocean I climbed into bed and for once instantly fell asleep.