CHAPTER 1

WE'LL TAKE THE CASE

Later that morning at the Chaotix Vector was waiting for the phone to ring hoping for it to be a case they can solve. "The damn phone hasn't rung all morning!"

"Calm down, Vector besides I got something to take your mind off of that phone." Charmy wanted to tell them what he saw earlier. "It was a beautiful Tuesday morning and I took the X-jet out of the city limits to take it on a test run, until I saw a strange floating island ahead of me."

"A floating island? Charmy, whatever your on try cutting down." Shadow thought it wasn't true.

"I'm for real, I saw the floating island hovering above the sea!"

"Unlikely story." Espio just knew he was making it up.

Rouge wanted to believe him, "Charmy may have something here."

"Come on Rouge, you don't actually think that he saw some island floating in the sky without an explanation. I mean come on, his story is a load of bull shit and you know it." Shadow thought he was seeing things.

"Just because it was early in the morning doesn't mean he's lying."

"The plane even reacted to a Chaos Emerald." Charmy added.

"A what?" Tonya was getting interested in his story.

"Yeah a Chaos Emerald, but the plane was reacting kinda weirder than usual."

"Must be a very powerful emerald." Shadow thought.

"Now do you believe me?" Charmy hoped they did, he was telling the truth.

Vector finally had his mind off that phone "If Charmy said he spotted an emerald, then I believe him. We need volunteers to investigate the island." He looked at Shadow.

"Don't look at me, I'm not believing any of this." Then Shadow felt his hand go up. He looked over at Rouge holding his hand in the air.

"We'll volunteer."

"You mean you", He took his hand away from Rouge.

"Come on, Shad. Besides we need some time to ourselves." She said in a seductive voice. She knew Shadow couldn't resist.

That changed Shadow's mind, "Okay, lets go."

Later at the garage Charmy was getting the plane ready for Shadow and Rouge. He walked over to them, "Okay, the X-jet is ready for take off."

Shadow and Rouge got aboard the plane.

"Be careful you guys." Espio said hoping they'd make it back.

"We will, don't worry about us." Rouge hoped they would anyway.

Shadow started the plane and the X-jet took off.

Moments later they found themselves in the outskirts of the city. Shadow and Rouge were looking for the floating island.

"See anything?" Rouge was hoping he saw it.

"Nope, not a damn thing. This proves that Charmy was lying the whole time." He was giving up.

"Shadow, look!"

Shadow looked ahead of him and saw a floating island hovering above the ocean. "Oh my god, he was right. The floating island...it's real."

Rouge smirked, "Aren't you going down there?"

"Well we were assigned to check it out, lets do it." Before he could land on the island a white blast came out of nowhere and hit the wing of the plane. Shadow couldn't control the plane any longer. "Hang on, we're gonna crash!" The plane hit the island with a huge impact.