Rise of Lyric

by Pandow00 and The Chuckinator

Chapter 1: The Portal

It was a beautiful day on Earth. Sonic the Hedgehog was running through the city of Station Square, looking at all the sights. He knew Knuckles was busy, guarding the Master Emerald, Shadow was usually doing missions for G.U.N., Silver was somewhere (he usually saw him, but today he was out of sight), and Amy, most likely looking for him. He stopped in front of Tails' house. He decided to give him a visit, so he knocked on the door. The door opened and Tails stood there. Sonic smiled.

"Hey buddy. How have you been doing?" Tails asked.

"I was running through Station Square, and I thought I'd give you a visit. Everyone's busy, so I thought of you. So here I am..."

"Well don't just stand there, come in!"

Sonic went inside. He looked at Tails and smiled. "So, how have you been?"

"I've just been working on the Tornado, nothing else lately. Has Eggman done anything recently?"

Sonic shook his head, "No, not really. I've just been relaxing at home, not doing much either."

"I was just wondering. It's been odd that Eggman hasn't done anything for awhile. Maybe we should go see what he's up to. We might find out a thing or two."

"We don't want to go looking for trouble, Tails."

"I know. I just thought he'd have a plan. Usually when it takes this long, he has something big. Well, do you want to do something together? We haven't done that in a long time."

Sonic thought about it and smiled. "Sure. What do you want to do?"

"We could go and see Knuckles. We haven't seen him in a long time, and Angel Island is a nice place. We'll go in the Tornado."

"All right. Let's do that."

Tails smiled and Sonic followed him. Sonic and Tails got to the Tornado. Sonic saw the new things Tails had added. He was amazed, but fine at the same time, because he knew Tails was really smart, and he's seen the things he built. So they got in and set off for Angel Island.

"Have you built anything recently?" Sonic asked him.

"Yeah, but mostly I work on the Tornado. It's a machine where you can travel through dimensions. I'm still working out the bugs. I'll tell you when It's ready. Hey, there it is!" Tails exclaimed when Angel Island was in sight.

Sonic smiled and they landed. Knuckles saw the plane land and thought it was one of Eggman's robots. So he ran to it, only to see it was Sonic and Tails.

"Hi," he said. "What do you two want?"

Tails smiled and said, "We just wanted to visit. Is that okay?"

"That's fine."

They all started walking back to the Master Emerald. "I'll just say it. Eggman hasn't done anything recently, Knuckles. We don't know what's up, but I think he's up to something."

Knuckles nodded. "That's what I'm thinking also. Shadow would know. "

"He would, wouldn't he? He does work at G.U.N. after all..." Tails thought about it as the climbed the stairs to the shrine.

"We could go see him," Sonic said.

Tails and Knuckles nodded. "Should we call Shadow, or G.U.N.? Or just go to G.U.N. In general? He could be on a mission, and I don't want to bother him. You know how he is."

"We'll go to GUN."

"Okay. Let's go to the Tornado." They all went back to the plane, climbed on, and headed for GUN.

Meanwhile at GUN, Shadow had just been called by the Commander to go see what Eggman was up to. He had just left, and saw the Tornado land.

"Hey," he said. "What do you guys want?"

"We were wondering if you knew anything about Eggman and his plans. He hasn't done anything in a long time, which made us suspicious. Do you know anything?" Tails asked.

"I was actually on my way there now. You can come if you want."

"Great! Let's go." Shadow smiled, and Chaos Controlled them to Eggman's base. Once there, they looked around.

"Where is he?" Sonic asked

"How should I know. We haven't heard from him in months. Unless this place is abandoned."

Sonic shrugged and walked inside. Shadow and the others were right behind him. They came to the lab and looked around. The lights were on, but no sign of Eggman anywhere. Sonic nodded. He walked around and saw some sort of machine.

"What's that?" He wondered.

"I don't know. Let me see it." Tails examined the machine and found the on button. He pressed it. It started up. Suddenly, a portal appeared, and Tails gasped in shock. "Wow! Is this a time machine?"

The others shrugged.

"Who knows?" Knuckles asked. "It might be why Eggman isn't here."

Suddenly, a film of Eggman began to play. "Attention to anyone who finds this machine, I have gone through the portal you see before you. I do not know what lays behind it, for I am testing it. It is a-[gets pushed into portal by robot]"

"I guess we'll never know what this portal's for..." Tails starts to stare at the portal.

Suddenly, the portal started sparking. It hit the four friends, who screamed and vanished into it. Silver had just walked in and got caught as well. Meanwhile, Amy was looking for Sonic, as usual. Today she couldn't find anyone. She went to Tails' house and found a note saying 'Out to Angel Island. Be back later.'

"How am I suppose to get to Angel Island?" She asked herself.

She decided to look around the city again for her friends. She passed by GUN, and remembered Shadow worked there. After talking with with the commander, she went to Eggman's base. She found a security video of them going into the portal, watched it and decided to go after them, then opened the portal and hoped through.