And here's chapter one and Chapter two should be up now too! I didn't realize how refreshing it would be to start writing these characters again. Granted this is a completely different universe than Ground X but eh. It's still fun and I hope you guys have fun with it too!

Please R&R so I know how I'm doing here. Enjoy the story!

He sat in his room, staring up at his ceiling with something clutched tightly in his fist. His eyes focused on nothing in particular as his mind wandered anywhere and everywhere it could. Though he wished it wouldn't. He wasn't known for thinking. He didn't like thinking. But sometimes there was no avoiding it.

And of course he just had to think about that. Well, that was what he thought about most of the time anyway. He wasn't sure if hated it or not. It definitely wasn't pleasant but he didn't want to forget about it either.

"Hey, you okay?"

He silently gave thanks for the distraction as he was snapped out of his trance. Sitting up, he gave his visitor a large grin, "Yeah, just bored I guess."

"Then you can come help me out here," she suggested, "We could use all the help we can get."

"No prob. I'll meet you out there in a sec."

"K."

As soon as she had left his smile dropped and he moved his clenched hand from behind his back. He was lucky she hadn't noticed.

Slowly he unwrapped his fingers from around the object resting in his palm, reveling a shining guitar medallion.

Sonia typed silently in the darkness of her room. The sounds of the keys echoed quietly against her walls as the time ticked by. She yawned, stretching her arms above her head. The pink hedgehog stared at the screen, her eyes going in and out of focus.

She slowly started sliding out of her chair, but barely noticed. The only thing that kept her from hitting the floor was a pair of arms catching her right before impact. She had fallen asleep instantly as her brother sat down with her.

Manic looked up at the computer his sister had just been working on. A long series of strange symbols ran down one side of the screen with various notes parallel to them. Why was she so intent on deciphering that old book? Sure they had gotten it from the Oracle who had told them to translate the old thing, but that wasn't worth losing so much sleep. She'd barely gotten any in the past week. What had gotten her so set on this task?

She mumbled in her sleep, curling up closer to her brother's warmth. The green hedgehog sighed and rested his chin on her head. He may be the youngest, but he was the only brother around now.

They had no idea where the eldest of the three was. He had just vanished one day. No note. No nothing. At first they had thought he was just on an extended run or that he had gotten lost, but as the weeks continued on, they realized that it wasn't so simple. They could never figure out what happened to him. They tried not to think that he might have been taken or, worse, just run away. The two refused to consider the latter. Sonic just wasn't that kind of guy.

It'd been a little over a year now. They sorely missed their blue bro, even if he could be especially annoying sometimes. But they managed. They continued on with their Freedom Fighter duties and took over the ones left behind by Sonic. Of course his disappearance had affected HQ too. The entire based seemed quieter and much less cheery as the days stretched on. Anyone who had known the speedster personally had been especially affected. But eventually things had gone back to some sort of normality.

He was taken out of his thoughts as his sister once again stirred. The drummer smiled as he moved passed out hedgehog to her bed as carefully as possible. He looked at the small clock in the corner of the monitor as he passed. 5 AM. He would have to call Cyrus and tell him that they couldn't come in tomorrow or else the workaholic would pass out.

Right before he could leave to head back to his own room, he noticed a certain picture taking up a majority of the book's side of the screen. A stone, broken in half, with the halves being held together by two figures. A brown one and a blue one. Parallel to the picture, his sister had written in all caps: SONIC?!

"Sonic!"

The blue hedgehog spun around toward the voice, "What's up Sal?"

"We need your help over in the lab. Mind coming over?" she yelled from a couple houses down.

"No problemo. On my way," he was next to her within the next second, "Hi."

The princess's eyes turned toward the sky before taking the dork's hand, "Come on. We're having trouble with Bunny's new upgrades. We need someone try and keep her parts from going crazy while we work on them."

"Cool. I can keep her from goin through the roof," Sonic joked, referring to the last time they had upgraded the rabbit's mechanical legs.

"Oh she'll be going through more than the roof this time."

"Wha-"

Smirking at the hedgehog's reaction, she opened the door to Rotor's lab. "You'll see."

The hut was littered with abandoned parts and tools like always. Bunny sat on one of the tables, swinging her legs right above the ground. She smiled and waved as the two came in. Rotor was sitting at his computer, his back turned away from the door, running through calculation after calculation. He raised a hand as he heard the two enter, but didn't stop his typing.

"Hey there Sonny boy."

Sonic smiled as he turned toward his robotized uncle, "Hey Unc. How's it goin?"

"Excellent. We're almost ready to head to Robotropolis."

"Just gotta finish up this and it's all set," Rotor explained as he moved away from the monitor, "We're going to need all the power we can get to fix up Robotropolis."

"Definitely," Sonic agreed, "We don't even know what to expect down there. Who knows what sort of failsafe or what else Robotnik set up."

"True. Robotnik is a crafty one," Chuck admitted, putting a hand on each of the two's shoulders, "But now that you've defeated him, we'll be able to erase any trace that he might have left behind."

"Totally," the blue hedgehog grinned ear to ear. 'And I'll be able to meet up with some old friends.'

"Hey Rot, when ya gon a get all that set up? Ah'm gettin all sore sittin here for so long." Bunny asked from her seat, stretching up toward the roof with her ears pointing up as she did so.

"Don't worry Bunny I'm all done. Just have to start. Ready Sonic?"

"Let's do it to it."