ACoF Part 2 again by CaptainKBX -See Part One; It's too long!-

The 'rangers' flew on their hoverboards toward South Island. "Oh, wait," Duke said, "Wasn't that... What was his name? That robot guy. Didn't he say he was using the Scrap Brain as a base?" "Wait," Alexis replied, "You're right! Let's go!" She turned her hoverboard and sped off. Duke made sure Diana was following, and quickly sped toward Alexis. "Alexis! I don't think Amy's at that guy's base!" Alexis was slightly ahead of Duke, and suddenly, a huge rock wall rose from the ground. "ALEXIS!" Duke yelled as he was cut off. Alexis was on the opposite side of the wall. Duke and Diana looked for some way to go around the wall. "Oh, DUH!" Diana said, slapping herself in the face and riding her board upward. Suddenly, a bolt of lightning shot from the wall, hitting Diana's board. She fell. Duke luckily caught the fox-girl, and she rode with him. "Alexis..." Duke said, looking to the sky, "What now?"

Alexis was startled by the wall forming. Looking back, she said, "Duke! DUKE! Where are you? Conner, help!" She noticed a Chao in the corner of her eye. Turning to it, she called for it. "Chao," she called, "Hi little guy! What's your name?" The small creature quickly took off. "Come back!" Alexis yelled. The Chao did so, and motioned for the Bat to follow. "What?" Alexis asked, "You want me to follow you?" "Chao, Chao!" the creature nodded. It sped off, and the girl followed.

Duke noticed Zenith Alpha atop the wall. Without thinking, he ran up the steep slope and tackled the Android. They fell.

Diana was watching the hedgehog and the android fight. She screamed when Duke fell. She tried to run up the wall, but was knocked out when the thing zapped her.

Alexis arrived at... where was she? She was in a cave. A watery cave. It was a rock cave, with symbols on the walls. It was a wreck. "Hey... Labyrinth Zone!" She started hearing moans. "...Hello?" She called. The moans began getting louder, so she ran off.

Alexis ran into the Chao again. It was a "Dark" Chao. It tried to attack, and Alexis quickly ran away. Before she could turn around, she found herself with both Conner and Duke, in some strange place. "Which one of us do you really love?" they asked. Looking at them both, Alexis cried. "You both are the same person!" she yelled. Suddenly, Duke disappeared, and Alexis turned back into Arianna. She then said, "Conner, I love you..." and the two kissed.

Suddenly, Duke approached and asked Alexis to wake up. "Huh? Whaddya mean?" The girl asked. She then found herself next to the wall with a terrible headache. She looked around, seeing a damaged android. "Gotta go before it wakes." Duke told the girl.

Meanwhile, on West Island, a blue-black hedgehog was chatting with a cyborg monkey. "Mojo," the hedgehog asked, "Are you like, really pale under your cyborg parts?" "Stella," Mojo sighed, "I'm completely robotic there; There's not a single patch of skin there." "Whatever..." Stella laughed.

Duke and Alexis had made it about a half-mile away from the wall. "Hey," Alexis realized, "Diana? Where's she at?" "Damn, Diana!" Duke yelled. The two ran back toward the wall, only to find Zenith awake.

Duke quickly knocked the robot out and ran off, remembering the day before he came to Sonic's world.

--(FLASHBACK)--
"SEVEN RINGS IN HAND
SPEED THROUGH NIGHTS WITH FEET IN SAND
SEVEN RINGS IN HAND
WONDERS ALL UNDER COMMAND
SEVEN RINGS IN HAND
WILD WITH JUST ON SINGLE HAND
SEVEN RINGS IN HAND
ARROWED HEARTS CATCH FIRE NOW!!"
The time was 6:30 AM, and Conner woke up, continuing construction on his Dimensional portal. He was awakened by another invention; Basically, he hooked his mp3 player up to his laptop and downloaded a program, which opened a file at a certain time. Finished with the day's work on the device, Conner thought, Hey, at this rate, It'll be done by tomorrow! He ran back to his room and unplugged his mp3 player from the speakers, and plugged in a set of headphones. Pressing the power button, he started it up and pressed play. "LIVE AND LEARN HANGING ON THE EDGE OF TOMORROW!" it screamed. "OW! DAMMIT!" Conner yelled, ripping off the headphones. He pressed the "volume down" button and put them back on. Humming to "Live and Learn", he shoved his laptop into his backpack. He swung it over his shoulder and ran out the door, onto the school bus.

On the bus, he heard a voice, "Conner, Whatcha doin after school?" it asked. "Oh," Conner replied as he removed his headphones, "Nuthin' much, Arianna, I might come over..." Just then, the bus stopped. Conner's friends, Jurgen and Wolfgang Unger got on, as well as Arianna's friend, Diana. Jurgen sat next to Conner, who had fallen asleep.

Conner was sleeping quite peacfully... that is, until Jurgen turned up the volume on Conner's mp3 player. "C'mon, Conner! We're at school!" Conner picked his head up, and looked out the window. Jurgen wasn't lying, at least not this time. Conner grabbed his backpack and stood up. One by one, students got off the bus. Conner got off and ran toward his classroom.

"Alright, class," The teacher, Mr. Bobbert, said, "I ain't gonna give ya much work today... Just write me a one-page story about whatever ya want!" "Conner quickly wrote a Sonic the Hedgehog story. "Done!" he said with a smile.

Hours later, the dismissal bell rang. Conner rode the bus back home. This time Arianna woke him up. He proceeded off the bus and went home.

He laid in his bed for a little while. He picked up his electric guitar, looked at the picture of him with Jun Senoue, and began playing "Open Your Heart". "Thunder, rain, and lightning. Danger, water rising..." he sang. His watch beeped, indicating that it was now 4:00 PM. Quickly, he jumped out of bed and grabbed his acoustic guitar.

Walking outside, he began playing "Wanted Dead or Alive". He walked next door to Arianna's house. He knocked on the door. "Hey, Conner!" His watch beeped again. "Sorry! I gotta go work!"

Conner got in his Dodge Challenger and sped off toward town. Drifting through the parking lot, he slid right into a spot in front of the CD Shop, owned by Hans Unger, Jurgen's father.

After working for 2 hours, Conner went home and went to bed. Tomorrow would be a long day...

--(END FLASHBACK)--

Duke and Alexis arrived again at Angel Island. The two frantically screamed for everyone to find Diana.

Somewhat far away, in Station Square, two green...people showed up, out of nowhere. "Jon," the female one said, "Where are we?" "Around, June..." Jon replied, "We're in the past! Like, when Dad was young, y'know?" "Oh, right," June chuckled nervously. "Okay," Jon sighed, "So we're at Station Square, and we wanna find Dad. Best bet would be an 'older' area. Let's head to South Island." The twins hopped on their hoverboards and sped toward South Island. Their route would take them straight through Angel Island.

Duke and Alexis were frantically searching for Diana as two strangers sped past on hoverboards. "Huh? Who are they?" Duke asked. Suddenly, the two pulled around quickly and stopped right in front of the Hedgehog and the Bat.

"I'm your son, and my name is Jon." Jon said. "And I'm your daughter, April. But my real name is June." "Umm...okay... so how come your nickname is April, but your real name is June?" Duke asked. "Well, my name's like, June, but I like, don't like it, 'cause it's like, a boy's name, so like, I wanna be April, and it's like, the month I was born anyway, so like, yeah." "How's June a boy's name?" Duke asked. "Well, like, y'know, Jun Senoue? He's like, totally your favorite guitar guy, like, totally, and everything." "Ah, I see... So I named you after Crush 40?" "Yep," Jon smiled, "I'm surprised Mom agreed!" "So...Why are you two green?" Duke pondered, scratching his head. "Cause we're like, so totally twins." "June," Jon sighed, "Stop with the stupid act! You have a friggin robotic parrot that you built!" "Well, maybe I'm like, teaching it to like, totally talk like this." June frowned.

"So... Why are ya green, anyway?" Duke asked. "Wha? Oh, side effect of time travel." Jon answered, closing his eyes while making a fist. Jon glowed white for a second, but soon faded. His fur now looked brown. "Ah, there ya go!" Duke grinned. June did the same as her brother, and also became brown. Her parrot came out of her backpack. "SQUAWK! LIKE, SO TOTALLY FAB!" it screeched. "Told ya, bro." she grinned at Jon. "Okay," Duke laughed, "It worked I guess! So anyway, whaddya need so bad that you gotta come back in time for?" "Well," Jon shrugged, "We, uh, kinda came to see ya!" "Huh? I dun understand. Why do ya need to come back in time to see me? I'm perfectly fine in the future...ain't I?" Duke asked. "Hey, hey, hold up," Alexis yelled, "Me and Duke are half-human. Aren't you two then?" "Yeah," June replied, "But we dun change much; We were born this way, and we usually stay this way...usually." She turned human for a bit and did a twirl, showing her human form.

Amy Rose was still stuck in Eggman's base. "Oh, I wish Sonic was here!" she sighed. Suddenly, she heard banging in the other room. "SONIC! I'M IN HERE!" She yelled. It wasn't Sonic. Zenith Beta ran into the room and grabbed Amy by the throat. He held her against the wall. "You're such a fan girl." Zenith grinned, in a Sonic-like voice. Gasping for air, she whispered, "Chaos...c-control."

Amy found herself in a strange place. She saw... all purple. "Amy..." she heard. "Sonic? Where are you?" she asked. Suddenly, everything got all white. "Right here, Amy." Sonic smiled as Amy opened her eyes. Amy closed her eyes and puckered her lips, only to be dropped on the floor. "Ow, hey!" she shouted, annoyed. She stood up, and Sonic grabbed her hand. "Oh, Sonikku, how sudden!" she said, blushing. Sonic sped off out of Eggman's base, dragging Amy along.

Duke and Alexis were walking back to the portal. They went through. Reappearing in the shed outside of the Smith house, they walked in. Duke looked at the clock in his room. "7:30?" He asked himself. "Looks pretty light to me... So we can make it to school?" Alexis shrugged. The two returned to human form. "So," Ariana sighed, "Do you actually think we'll get married in the future?" "Well, I dunno... maybe..." Conner shrugged. "Well," Conner said, grabbing his backpack, "Guess we're goin to school!"

Stella was sitting against a tree on South Island. "Jason," she sighed, "I miss you so much!" She began to cry. "Stella," she heard, "I'll be with you, always."

Conner and Ariana were at school. The teacher was calling roll. "Conner?" she called, looking at the list of students. "I'm 'ere" Conner said, in a southern accent. "Ariana?" "HERE!" Ariana shouted. It's great that Conner tutored me to get to his grade level, she thought, But the work's hard! "Jurgen?" the teacher called. There was no response. "Jurgen?" She asked again, looking up from the paper. "He's in the Sonic world," Ariana explained. The teacher looked at her with a bewildered expression. Realizing she said too much, she looked at Conner. He motioned for her to continue. "Well, ya see, Conner made this portal-y thing and it takes ya to the Sonic world. Me and him came back, though. 'Cause we're good kids." The girl explained. The class erupted with laughter. "Seriously, guys!" Conner shouted. The class still laughed. Aggravated, Conner became Duke. "Now do ya believe me?" He asked with a smirk. The class was speechless. The teacher called channel 10 news. "Hello?" she said, "This is Ms. Joan Zachariah from Griffith Academy, I have a student you must see... come over right away."

"Hello, I'm Reginald Roundtree," said a man on TV "And I'm Heather Van Nest," his partner said. "Today we have some...strange news. A boy at Griffith Academy has...well, become a hedgehog, as in Sonic the Hedgehog. We now go live to Mario Diaz." Reg reported. "Thanks, Reg. Uhh... local teen Conner Smith transformed into a hedgehog today, apparently at will. He'll be taken to a hospital soon, to be... studied. Back to you, Reg." "Thanks, Mario. In possibly related news, musicians Johnny Gioeli and Jun Senoue have been reported missing. They composed the soundtracks of Sonic the Hedgehog games since 1998." "This just in," Heather Van Nest announced, "Conner was part of the 'Sonic Fan Club' at Griffith, and now some students are also missing." "Heather," Reg sighed, still on camera, "Today's a big day..."

Arianna's parents were very worried. "Marie," her father said, "What'll happen to our little girl?" "I dunno, Ronnie, she turned into some...thing!" "Weird critter or not, she's still our daughter!"

Back at school, an ambulance and several police cars arrived. Quickly, the grabbed Duke and put him in the back of the Ambulance. "WAIT!" Arianna cried, "COME BACK!" She figured this was the last time she'd see Duke. She walked home, depressed.

Duke was at the hospital. The doctors quickly got a couple of x-rays. They studied the pictures to find out about Duke's physiology. Then Dr. Wilson asked, "So how long have ya been able to do this, kid?" "only like, 2 or 3 days... Ever since I found some gem thing in the Sonic world..." Duke replied. "May I see it?" the doctor asked. "Well, I dunno... I dun trust it enough..." The doctor sighed, and stuck a needle into the hedgehog's arm. Duke quickly nodded off and fell asleep.

Arianna was at home, practically wasting away in a chair. "Anna, honey?" her mother asked, "What's wrong?" "Conner's been taken to the hospital..." Arianna sighed. "Oh, dear! What happened?" "He turned into a hedgehog... in the middle of school." Quickly remembering that her daughter could do the same, Marie Harris said, "Well, turn into a bat and save him! By the way, how'd you do it?" "Well," Arianna answered, "Ya like, think hard of transforming..." She turned into Alexis the Bat and left.

Everyone in Conner's class at the time was shocked... Particularly a friend of his, Rena. The two knew each other quite well... Rena was baffled when Conner said he was making a portal device, almost ending their friendship. She thought the kid was crazy! Now that she knew he really was that smart, she went for Arianna.

Running toward the Harris family's house, she stumbled upon a bat. "Rouge?" she called, surprised. Alexis the Bat turned around. "Rena?" she asked. "H-How do you know my name?!" Rena was shocked. "It's me, Arianna!" Alexis said, returning to human form. Rena fainted.

Meanwhile, Jurgen and Wolfy headed back to the portal. "Where's Conner?" Wolfy asked. "He's obviously back home..." Everyone grouped together and left through the portal.

Rena found herself at Arianna's house. Being a good cook, she made some snacks and prepared to go rescue Conner and visit Sonic...

Duke had been locked away in the ICU section of the hospital. Having been drugged by the doctor, he was in a shallow coma. He dreamt he was fighting against everyone he loved.

"Conner, you idiot! How could you?!" Duke asked as he fought Conner in his dream. Conner quickly dodged Duke's attack and countered it with his own. Of course, since they were the same person essentially, Duke grabbed Conner's fist and twisted it around. "C'mon, Duke! Whaddid I do? I'm sorry, okay?" Conner sighed. Quickly everything disappeared and Conner awoke in the hospital bed as Duke.

Rena, Arianna, and several Police officers showed up. The girls went to Duke, who returned to human form. "Conner, are ya alright?" Arianna asked. "I'm fine! How're you?" He replied. "Good... So, Rena wants to see Sonic now, how 'bout it?" "Sure thing... just gotta get ready...ugh" Conner sat up, but the IV's stopped him from getting far. "Hey, doc," He called as the cops were escorting the Dr. Wilson away. "Gimme outta this, please?" Quickly, the cops let him go and he removed the IV's and bandaged Conner's arms. "Thanks, man," Conner smiled as he offered the man his hand to shake, "Y'know, I've heard they letcha out early for good behavior." Suddenly, as the doctor was shaking Conner's hand, something slipped from under his coat. Conner picked it up. It was simply a nametag. Conner handed it back, but as the doctor snatched it, the boy noticed a familiar symbol on the back... it was something reminiscent of the one on Eggman's devices... "Hey, doc, where'd ya get that nametag? That symbol looks kinda familiar..." Conner asked. "This? It's just from another job I had..." the doctor chuckled. Conner didn't buy it. Something was wrong.

Conner and his friends went out the door and quickly ran to Conner's House.

They arrived, and quickly packed up their things. "Hmm..." Conner said, "d'we need anythin' else?" "Nah, I dun think so..." Arianna sighed. The three kids then ran out to the shed. "Lessgo now!" Conner yelled, Hopping up, doing a flip, and becoming Duke. Rena and Arianna followed quickly.

They found everyone waiting in Station Square. "Wow...it's so...amazing!" Rena admired the town. Shadow and Rouge were with Tails. Rouge was almost crying as the fox tried to repair E-123 Omega. Quickly, Duke ran in. "'Ey, Tails, Lemme try some'n on 'im a sec." Duke looked over to the damaged robot and inspected him. "He needs a new power source...hmm...Can't just build some kinda Ark Reactor like Tony Stark offa Iron Man..." Duke said, half to himself. "Wait," Tails realized, "You might have a bit of a point; I mean something's gotta be powering the Space Colony Ark..." "That's right..." Duke laughed, "But wha'bout some kinda BioFuel maybe? Like, so he could 'eat' food and it would fuel him..." "Maybe... but let's fix him up first." Tails said. The two repaired the robot's arms. "What if...What if we do make some sorta reactor? The only ingredient for that Ark Reactor I know of is palladium... If we had some... we could experiment until we get some sorta reaction..." Duke babbled. The two did so, and built something similar to the Ark Reactor, though not as powerful.

"Omega, can ya hear me?" Duke asked. "Affirmative. Sound receptors operational." Omega announced. "Maybe I oughta fix that annoying robotty voice..." Duke mumbled. "How are you feeling, Omega?" Tails asked. "Power levels above normal. Output capacity increased by 300." the robot replied. "Alright, Omega, I'm going to shut you down again so we can finish, is that okay?" "Affirmative." Omega agreed. Duke shut down the miniature reactor and began working on the robot's legs. "I dunno how long the reactor will last, Tails. On the movie, Tony Stark's first one only lasted for 15 minutes powering the Iron Man prototype..."

"Hey, Shadow, lemme see your shoe for a sec." Duke commanded. Shadow complied, taking off his Airskate and handing it to the red hedgehog. Duke gagged at the stench for a second, then looked at the air jet mechanism. "Hey, it's just like I thought it'd be!" Quickly, Duke tossed the shoe back and began to mimic it with Omega's foot. "Tails, how 'bout we put Air compressors in his legs? Make the jets real powerful, y'know?" Duke suggested. Tails nodded, and the two disassembled the robot's legs and completely rebuilt them with air compressors inside. "Now when I'm done with this, I wantcha to help me make an Iron Man suit, okay?" Duke laughed.

Meanwhile, Rena and Arianna were with Amy and Cream, boxercising. "How d'ya do this, Amy?" Arianna asked. "Well, ya box!" Amy said, throwing a punch. Arianna quickly dodged it and threw a punch at the pink hedgehog. "Ow, like that!" Amy laughed. Just then, Duke, Tails, Shadow, Rouge, and the new Omega walked in. "Hey, anyone up for a match?" "Nah," Amy sighed. "Aw, well. Then me and Omega will go practice, okay?" The two did so. Duke jumped on Omega's head, only for the robot to use its new air jets to flip over, knocking Duke off. Duke grabbed the robot's leg and swung upwards, grabbing his arm. He slid himself over and grabbed the other arm as well. Getting leverage from the arms, he kicked at the robot's chest, knocking him over. "That's enough, Omega." Duke sighed. The two returned to Amy's house.

As Duke and Omega walked in, Arianna noticed blood on the floor. "Conner? Are you...bleeding?" she asked. "Huh?" Duke said, raising his arm. "I dun see anythin'." He changed back to human form. His arm was almost covered in blood. Arianna was scared, and tears started to form in her eyes. She began getting angry at Omega. "YOU! YOU DID THIS!" She changed to her bat form, and got ready to attack. Conner jumped in the way. "Arianna! It was an accident! We were just practicing! He didn't mean it!" Conner screamed. Amy brought a bandage for his arm while Alexis hugged him.

The two went up to the roof. "Alexis," Duke sighed, "Y'know the couples like Brangelina, TomKat, and Jacksannah?" "Yeah...wait, who's Jacksannah?" Alexis asked. "Never mind, anyway, guess what." Duke said, somewhat excited. "What is it?" Alexis was starting to get excited as well. "One word... DUKELEXIS!" Duke screamed. Alexis screamed as well. The two stared at each other for a few seconds, then they kissed.

The two friends-turned-lovers returned to human form and got off the roof. Holding hands, they walked back into Amy's house. Conner let go of his new girlfriend's hand and gave her a hug. Blushing, the girl said, "Conner, not in front of everyone!" Then Conner let go of her.

Conner and his friends had been preparing to find Zenith Alpha. They knew that if they didn't take action, sooner or later, the robot would attack.

Conner went to scout out some good places to watch for Zenith, and to find Shadow. Suddenly, he heard a sound, coming from behind. Quickly transforming into Duke, he announced, "'Ey, who's there?!" "HEY! ARE YOU THE MCDONALDS GUY?!" the voice replied. "Uhh...no...Who are you?" Duke asked. "THEN WHERES MCDONALDS?!" "Uhh...in town, I guess..." Duke replied. Then, out of the bushes, a red fox came. "Hi! I'm Micaela, who are you?" she asked. "Uhh...Duke...so...how'd ya get so lost?" "Well, uhh...first, I was with my buds, and they all had to go to the bathroom...and gave me the map...we were taking the long way to McDonalds..." Micaela explained, showing Duke her map. "What the hell?" Duke said, as he snatched the map, "This is a Travel guide to Canada!" "I-it is?" Micaela sighed, "Well, I was wondering where my wrong turn at Albuquerque was!"