Well, I have a disclaimer for you guys, since I forgot to put one in.

Disclaimer: I don't own Sega, Sonic the Hedgehog, or any other characters that belong to Sega. I do however, own this fic!

I know the last chapter made some of you confused, but trust me, I'll explain everything eventually.

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That's right, you heard me. Danny started flying. I started running as fast as I can go.

I think you all have probably figured it out by now, but we have what everyone calls "powers". We were born that way, but both my parents are ordinary people. In fact, everyone on Earth is an ordinary person except for us. Dad says that either it's a strange birth defect that the world hasn't seen yet, or Mom did something that involved radioactivity at the science lab she worked at from morning 'till noon.

We all can do different stuff. I can run. Fast. Not at speeds when you just lapped a kid on your school track, but at speeds that make people turn to the person next to them after I've passed and think to themselves WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT THING?!?!

Danny can fly. But you already knew that. But he's also a psychic, in a way. He can feel if events in the future are going to be good or bad. He's also known as the smartest kid on the planet, since the IQ tester we went to see let him go early, because he finished his IQ test ten minutes early. How long does it take for someone to usually pass an IQ test? Ten minutes. At least, that's what Danny says. I don't believe him on this one.

You'd think since we're twins that we'd have the same powers. But no. I guess since we're different genders we can do different stuff.

Maddy-well, let's just say that she's so strong, she'd make Superman cry. Yet she's the baby of the family. That's enough being said right there.

All of us have more powers, too. You'll figure them out eventually. Either that, or I'll just tell you what they are at some point.

We entered the archaeological site with a flourish. I jumped down from a high ledge as Danny began to descend. I pulled out my cell phone, and dialed Dad's number.

"Diana! You're here already?" Dad asked. Honestly, my dad could be a complete idiot sometimes.

"Do you still not know how fast we can get here when we want to?" I asked my clueless father. "Danny can fly really fast now, you know. I think that's a bit insulting."

"Well, I'm just glad you're here. I'm going to bring you up to where I am. Do you see that tunnel the guys made in the ledge across from the railroad?"

I looked. Sure enough, there was this gaping tunnel with a bunch of rocks there in front of it. "Yeah, I see it. Why?"

"I need you to go in there," Dad said. "When you get to where it ends, there's a ladder. Climb up it, and just keep going. Then, you're there."

"Okay. Thanks, Dad!" I hung up. "Okay guys, we're off!" I ran up to the tunnel and-after making my way past the huge rocks-sat at the entrance. "Well, what're you waiting for?" I taunted. "Come on! Dad's not going to be here all day. He's got work to do!"

Danny and Maddie made their way over as fast as they could. Then, we set off on our little journey through the tunnel. I followed the directions Dad gave me. However, I stopped when I got to the ladder.

"What the hell, Diana?" Danny spat. But I think he got the message when he looked up. "Oh," he said quietly.

The ladder was leading up more than 300 feet of cave wall. At least, that was my estimate. I did not want to climb up that thing. So I decided that we'd go the simpler way.

I grabbed onto Danny's hand. So did Maddy. Danny sighed. "You guys can be jerks sometimes." He jumped, and soon enough, we were flying, passing the ladder with extreme speed. In thirty seconds, we were at the top.

I suddenly felt light-headed. "How high up are we?" I asked Danny.

"Really high," he answered. "That's about how long it takes me to get about as high as a plane or high-flying bird can go."

I sighed, and started walking. How did Danny stand the cold air and lack of oxygen that came with going high up?

As we walked, we saw strange things. Grass was growing in here, and I thought that was strange. I saw a wall of ice covering a section of the wall on my right. Too bad I couldn't see through it. If I could, I would be able to see if there was anything behind it.

As we were walking past that wall of ice, we came across two familiar figures. Two figures I liked to call: Mom and Dad!

"Hi, Mom! Hi, Dad! How goes it?" I asked, walking up to them.

They seemed startled to hear me, but they turned around and smiled at us. I realized at an early age how much my siblings and I look like our parents. All of us have blond hair, like my mom's, but it's dark enough to be able to have a small resemblance to my dad's light brown hair. The three of us also have blue eyes, like our dad does, but they are sort of a paler blue, which resembles my mom's eyes.

"Hey, guys!" Dad said enthusiastically. "Come on, I'll show you guys what I was talking about. Helen, you come too. I know you've already seen this, but it's just too strange to explain."

Mom rolled her eyes. "As if I could explain it. Just because I stayed in science doesn't mean I know everything." She sighed as Dad grabbed her wheelchair and pushed her along with him. Me, Danny, and Maddy followed, too.

Dad led us down the tunnel-thing. Then, I saw brighter light up ahead (the cave was lined with torches for light), and I knew I was about to see what Dad had been talking about.

There seemed to be what looked like a door that had opened up. The digging team must have opened it up or something. When we walked through the "door", I was speechless.

This was far more than I had ever dreamed of an archaeologist site being capable of uncovering. I was standing on the strangest thing I had ever come across. I suddenly knew what it felt like to be Danny, or at least Maddy when Danny was carrying her. What I was seeing couldn't be real. I knew it was no dream, but I wondered how it could be possible.

I looked at the floating chunks of land I was seeing. These were like asteroids floating in the sky, only they were flat on the top where you walked and had grass on them. The biggest one was the first one I saw, and it looked like it had some sort of building on it. I suspected there was supposed to be something on top of it, but there was nothing.

"Can we go up there?" Maddy asked Dad. She knew that Danny would probably fly her up there. I assumed that there was once a bridge leading from here to the big island, since I saw remains of it hanging down from the land I was standing on. If it was still up, she wouldn't need Danny's help at all.

But Dad didn't see the fun in exploring ancient ruins, apparently. "Sorry," he said, "but we're still researching the area. They keep telling us to come and see if we can help them out with this, but we still hardly know anything. If they hadn't knocked down that wall, this never would have been uncovered, and we wouldn't be here. It's strange, though. I feel like I've seen this place before, but I can't remember when."

Mom laughed. "Well, while you try to remember your forgotten childhood, I'll let the kids go home. You guys got let out of school today, didn't you?"

"Yup," Maddy said. "But we'll go home now. It took us a while to get here, despite how fast these two can go, and you know how late they get let out of school." She pulled my phone out of my pocket and checked it. "It's already six!"

"Well, we'll se you at home then," I said, waving to them. I could not believe this. Was this what Danny meant by having a Summer we wouldn't forget? I had a feeling that this was probably part of it, but not all. When we were heading home, I hoped that our journey had only just begun.