AN: My longest Chapter ever! Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Either way, Enjoy the Story!

Chapter 1: Zero City

"Sonic's the name, speeds my game!" The blue hedgehog hero said on the big screen. As the interviewer spoke to him his trademark grin was implanted on his face and his green eyes seemed to smile along with him. The thousands came to see the big raceon the massive screen in the centre of this one city alone. It was the lead up to the finals of the World Rider's Championship, where only the best ride their individual hover boards to the finish.

"Hmph, can't be bothered to sit and watch this..." A cyan hedgehog youthsaid to himself, who was watching it from a large block of flats from a distance. He stood there holding the board upright with one hand on the nose and his bright yellow eyes unwavering. He threw his hover board into the air and landed on it, with his back foot pressing down on the tail of the board,causing it to burst forward in speed as the hedgehog flew off the building. The hedgehog smirked to himself and let out a laugh, "Now this is what it's all about."

As he caught air he landed on a rail which went all the way to the ground, "What? Why a mid air grind? Meh, must be a Gear park." He grinded all the way down, even in the dead of night the wind flowed through his hair causing all his fur to stand on end.

"Lets see if I can't make this more... interesting." He then jumped a little above the board doing a 180 degree spin and landed on the board backwards, so he had no idea where he was going. He zoomed onto a dark alleyway at a crazy speed. He spun 360 degrees in the air, closing in onto the exit and... He lost control.

The hedgehog slipped on the board and fell off of it, causing him to roll of the floor straight into a wall, and the board to land directly on top of him. The quick sharp pain made him grit his teeth and his body stiffened.

"Well done, I couldn't of done it worse myself." The cyan hedgehog heard in the distance. What the? The hedgehog brought himself to his feet and leaned against the wall with his board by his side,

"And you are?" He replied slowly, but the character in the shadows only grunted,

"None of your concern, but who are you?" Our yellow-eyed friend quickly realised he isn't going to get anywhere with the person, and only sighed,

"Trey, I've got a surname, but I'm sure you don't need to know that. And I'm a hedgehog, as you can obviously see." The character nodded as he thought, anarrogant clown I see,and at seeing his head move his outline resembled a black hedgehog.

"To be fair you're not a terrible rider, I've seen plenty worse. And with that in mind, you want a race?" Trey thought for a second, before he replied,

"I need your name before doing that." The character then slowly walked out of the shadows, and he indeed was a hedgehog. A black one with crimsonred stripes following down the middle of his 5 quills, while wearing white gloves like Trey but with golden rings around his wrist and over his shoes by his ankles. The character's shoes were white and black with red on the bottom. However what was most notable was his crimson red eyes, matching his quill's stripes, which seemed to pierce through you as he stared, in such a way it felt as if he was looking into your soul,

"But someone is missing from the race!" A female fox on the big screen in the distance exclaimed to the audience, "Where is Shadow!" It was then that the cyan hedgehog knew who he was,

"A race you say? That's interesting, but where's your board." At this Shadow the Hedgehog almost smiled.

"I've got my jet boots, they should be fast enough to do the trick." Trey shook his head as he said,

"Although I know little of you, I do know you can run as fast as Sonic in those, meaning you're still to fast for my board, I'm not a professional, you know." The black and red hedgehog sighed to himself,

"Fine." He then clicked his fingers, and instantaneously he was on a black and grey hover board and looking at Trey, "Well then?"

The young hedgehog looked at him with wide eyes, what the hell was that!? He must of stood there close to a minute before snapping out of the trance,

"Are we racing or what?" Shadow asked him, Trey shook his head again a few times before he jumped on his own board,

"Where to?" Shadow thought for a second before he remembered something,

"To the big screen, ready?" Trey adjusted his backpack and slung it properly over his shoulders and shook his yellow boots as he said,

"Whenever you are." Shadow nodded as he spoke slowly,

"3... 2... 1... Go!" And with that they were off in an instant. They weaved in and out of buildings, Trey only knew the route because he studied to city from the rooftop, but he couldn't see much due to it being the dead of night, with only lamps to light the way.

Trey was only just behind Shadow when the reached a half pipe. "Ha, got to love this city." The cyan hedgehog said to himself. The hover boards don't have an unlimited supply of air, they gain air from pit stops or doing tricks, and with no pit stops around, a half pipe is perfect.

Trey jumped from the edge of the pipe doing a 360 spin before landing on the other side of the half pipe. Shadow on the other hand did a 1080 degree spin, jumped of the board and did a front flip, all mid air. Also the more tricks you do the bigger the speed boost as you land, so needless to say, Shadow went zooming off as he landed, leaving the surprised hedgehog behind.

"Damn, guess he was suppose to be in the final, in fact, why is he here?" And with that mutter from Trey he looked around almost desperately for a short cut. "And... got it!" He gate crashed into a building and flew up the spiralling flat floor and flew outside an open window. Upon landing he was on a grinding rail with lead to the roof of another building.

Trey then jumped off that building doing a front flip as he landed. He could see the screen as he closed in on it at a break-neck pace. He couldn't see Shadow in the distance, and looked behind and couldn't see him anywhere, "Ha, I could actually win this!"

"In your dreams, kid." A deep voice said above him, Trey looked up confused as he saw Shadow flying above him and landed in front of him. Once he landed he got a zooming boost and he skidded to a halt as they reached the massive crowd of people.

The cyan hedgehog sighed to himself as Shadow looked at him, "And I didn't use my powers or my full strength. Oh well." But Trey looked at the black hedgehog sceptically as he said,

"You are a pro, you know. And I haven't competed in a single tournament, what was you expecting?" Shadow hesitated for a second as he heard this, then thought for at least 10 seconds.

"Well then-" He was interrupted by a loud explosion coming from the screen. As they looked up towards it a massive monster appeared out of no where and the contestants looked up at it, willing to fight. "It seems I must take my leave, by the time I come back, I'm expecting you to have one a tournament, or at least a competitive race, with a prize to prove it."

This made Trey almost jump on his board as he looked back at him, "What are you-" This time Trey was cut off as he realised Shadow had already gone. "Talking about..."

The hedgehog sighed to himself as he tightened the straps of his backpack as the screen cut off. Everyone was surprised but Trey only muttered, "You know, after all that planning on getting to this place, I completely forgot to get somewhere to stay..."

"Isn't he just so amazing!" Trey's face was confused within seconds as he heard this, assuming the voice was talking to him, replying to what he said.

"What?" Trey said aloud without noticing,

"I mean Sonic, he's just so heroic, taking on that beast all by himself!" Trey turned around to see a pink hedgehog with a simple red dress with a white outline, which colour coded with her red hair band and red and white striped boots. Why am I only meeting other hedgehogs?

"Wasn't there all the others helping him out, and I assume that's where Shadow was going, so Sonic's hardly alone." Trey said calmly, it was then that she turned around properly to face Trey,

"Wait a minute, how do you know that's where Shadow's going? He didn't even turn up to the tournament?" Trey shrugged at the girl before he said,

"We had a race, then he told me he had to go, right at when the explosion happened." Her face was one of surprise as he looked at him, "That's strange, normally Shadow wouldn't talk to new people, and if he did it was only because it benefitted him."

Trey thought for a second before he said, "Well he did want a race, isn't that enough?" Though the girl only shook his head,

"Not normally, he only really does these races to prove he's better than Sonic, even though that's impossible, and there also always has to be a chaos emerald involved." Trey was, once again, fairly surprised, at her mountain of knowledge as he said,

"How do you know so much about Shadow? 'You friends with him?" Though she shook her head again,

"Not exactly friends, I only know him because of his interactions with Sonic." It was then Trey came to a slow realisation,

"Oh! You must Amy Rose, am I right?" She nodded her head at this as she seemed to come to life,

"Yes I am! Sorry, I completely forgot to introduce myself, got carried away again. What's your name?" Trey laughed as he said,

"No problem, the name's Trey. But why aren't you with Sonic, I thought you stuck to him like glue." Amy sighed to herself and looked down on the ground,

"Well... for the tournament he sort of... put a restraining order on me, but it only lasts for the tournament!" Trey looked at her plainly for all of 5 seconds before he started laughing crazily,

"What the heck! A freaking restraining order! I thought it was bad but not that bad! You're something else!" At this Amy's bright green eyes seemed to fade a little bit as she walked away slightly sadly, Trey quickly caught on and walked beside her,

"Sorry, I didn't mean it like that, but I'd see it as a blessing. It means for a time, even if its short, you get to see the world, or at least the city, with your own eyes. Its why I left my parents house in the first place!" Amy looked at him with tears welling in her eyes as she ran off,

"Amy wait!" He didn't normally get close to people, but Trey couldn't just make a girl cry and laugh at her without trying to rectify what he has done. He got on his hover board and fly in front of her in an attempt to stop her running but instead Amy didn't see him and caused her to fall on top of him as they hit the ground.

Without noticing the awkwardness of their position, Trey continued, "Look, how can I make it up to you? I'll apologise a million times, I'll take you out to dinner, I'll tell Sonic to-" And with that Amy giggled to herself as she placed a finger to his lips and said,

"Don't worry about it." She got up on her own two feet and Trey did the same, "Just could you... walk me home?" Trey nodded and smiled to her as he waved his hand out,

"Lead the way." They then walked in comfortable silence for a while until the cyan hedgehog said, "By the way... I heard a rumour that when people annoy you that you usually get a massive hammer out and chase after them... How come you didn't do that with me?" Amy remained silent for a time before she said,

"I guess being away from Sonic has changed me... somehow." Trey couldn't think of anything to say, so they continued walking in silence. But he did notice as they walked they got closer and closer together, coincidence? Maybe.

Eventually they reached Amy's house and she sighed quietly, "Well.. Thanks for that, its good to have company, even if it was forced." Trey quickly shook his head multiply times,

"No, no. Don't worry, it was my pleasure. I guess I'll see you around!" As Trey was about to walk off Amy called,

"Where... Where do you live! So maybe we could... see each other again sometime." Though Trey only looked away,

"Well... um... about that." Though Amy only continued,

"Do you know the street name?" It took some time for the cyan hedgehog to find the right words,

"I.. um... Don't actually live here, I kind of just came to the city, and I forgot to book accommodations, and because of the event on screen, you can guarantee or the hotels will be booked up... so I'll just glide around town I guess."

Amy looked wide-eyed at this before she said, "You don't have a place to stay! Well... Why don't you stay with us, in my house I mean, I'm sure there is at least a sofa for you." But Trey just shook his head,

"I couldn't do that, I'd only be a burden to you and those that live with you." But the pink hedgehog still fought her corner,

"I'm sure they'd understand, please just come on in!" Trey sighed, its hard to counter arguments that you actually want to happen,

"Ok... Ok. I'm coming." He walked over to Amy as she knocked on the door twice and opened it with the key. They walked in quietly expecting the others to be asleep until they saw 2 rabbits sitting on the couch watching TV. They both turned to them in unison and they spoke plainly, starting with the mother,

"You're a little late Amy." then in turn the younger one said,

"We were worried about you." then back to the adult,

"And with a boy too."

"I wonder what you've been doing this whole time." They both tutted at the same time.

Trey didn't know whether to laugh or cry at this, it was funny as he knew what they were thinking, but creepy by the way their voice had no emotion and their bodies were completely still, what he did see though was Amy sweating bullets,

"Wait, look, its not like that! You know me, we were just talking about Sonic and-" They continued their creepy stare as the adult rabbit said,

"Sure you were." And then a silence instilled on the room and Amy look like she'd seen a ghost. Then the rabbits laughed.

They laughed so loudly it felt the whole neighbourhood would be able to hear them, to be fair they'd entirely got Trey by that point, they were just creeping him out, and Amy looked close to fainting.

"We knew you were coming late, Amy! We were expecting you to run after Sonic when you saw them in trouble, we weren't sure if we'd see you in weeks!" The adult rabbit exclaimed, and the younger one continued,

"Sorry, miss Amy, but your face was priceless!" Amy looked like she was about to burst into flames as her whole face went red in embarrassment, it probably didn't help that Trey was laughing too.

"I'm... I'm going to my room! See you tom- tomorrow!" And with that Amy stormed out the room and the laughter died down,

"Is she going to be alright?" Trey said to them,

"Yes, yes. Don't worry about her. This is the first time we have scared her like this though. My name is Vanilla, pleasure to meet you."

"And I'm Cream!" The younger girl said, the hedgehog smiled to them both,

"Its good to meet you to, my name is Trey. But, um. By the way. Is it alright if I sleep here? That's what Amy brought me here for. Its alright if you want me to leave, its just that-"

Vanilla cut in before he could finish as she said, "You can if you wish, its no problem. Although we don't have a room, so is it alright if you sleep on the sofa?"

Trey nodded happily as he said, "Its better than where I was going to- I mean thanks a lot." They nodded to me but Cream was obviously still curious, but she said nothing,

"Well we're off to bed, good night Trey." Vanilla said calmly, and Cream followed up with,

"Good night!" I smiled to them and replied with the same as I found a blanket on the sofa and snuggled inside the blanket.

"They are really nice people, I don't feel like I belong here..." He then shook his head as he said, "No, you can't leave, you must respect their hospitality." He felt like a nut-job for talking to himself, but he had a thing for doing that when unsure of himself.

"Tomorrow, I get money, how? From the races."

Edit: Fixed some bits and actually spelled checked it, xD Courtesy of/inspired by my reviewer Lord Kelvin, R&R And cya later!