Chapter 1: Pamilyn

Knuckles came back from his walk and saw the familiar form of a bat, ("Rouge." He growled), fighting a hedgehog he had never seen before. As the jewel thief flew off, threatening to bring Shadow next time, Knuckles approached the stranger. The hedgehog was female, and over her white muscle shirt, she wore a black leather biker jacket, and flare-cuffed black jeans. "Who are you?" Her golden eyes instantly locked onto his violet eyes. "I am Pamilyn."

Dustcloud's POV:

Whoo boy, today has been very strange I'll admit, but... oh great, the phone just HAD to ring. "Hello?" "Hey Dustcloud!" "Knuckles!" I smiled at my adoptive brother in delight, it had been awhile since we'd seen each other. "How are you?" "I'm good. Um... do you mind if I came over later today? With a friend?" I smiled, "Julie-Su?" My adoptive brother gave a playful frown, "Nope, she's off searching for Rouge to give her a beating." I chuckled, "She had another go at stealing the Master?" Knuckles smiled, "Yes she did, the friend I'm bringing over is a hedgehog." "Sonic?" "No. She's a girl, you'll meet her soon enough, I'll be there at..." I see him look at a clock behind him, "... 2:00, is that okay?" I check the calendar, "Sure, we have nothing scheduled today." I heard a crash from the living room, and that made me wince. "What's wrong?" Asked Knuckles, looking concerned, after checking I slap a hand over my face. "What is it?" Asked Knuckles, looking alarmed, I quieted his fears by explaining, "It's Thunderfist, apparently he scheduled something for today." "What?" "Endless gaming, he's in a bit of a fit because Princess Peach beat him in Mario Kart Wii." "Princess Peach?" "You know Sonic's rival from that place you can only get to through Subspace?" "Yeah, Mario. Why?" "Princess Peach is one of the people from that world. But she's not here, he was racing some ghost she put online and it beat him, he was playing Bowser so he's in a bit of a temper."

Knuckles looked like he thought I was crazy, "Okay... Well, see you soon." "You too cuz." He hung up and so did I.

End Dustcloud's POV.

"Hey Thunderfist!" "What?" Asked Thunderfist furiously pressing buttons on his controller. Dustcloud paused his game and then clicked the TV screen, it became black. "HEY!" Thunderfist jumped up, he might have spiked fists like Knuckles, but unlike Knuckles, his gloves had individual fingers. "Knuckles is coming over today with a friend." "Oh, a friend eh? I'd better get ready." Dustcloud shook his head, amused, as Thunderfist changed from angry, to busy as he went to get himself ready. "Sometimes that guy could be fifteen different people." Dustcloud said as soon as Thunderfist disappeared upstairs. "Well, I'd better get ready too." And Dustcloud headed out to get some kind of food, as he knew that Thunderfist would most likely invite all their friends over for a party.

Author note: MWAHAHAHA! A cliffhanger! What exactly is Pamilyn? Does Shadow have another sister? Find out all this and more in the next chapter of Happiness and Heartbreak!