Rouge was snoozing peacefully upside down on the ceiling when suddenly the entire mansion shook, causing Rouge to scream as she fell off, landing on her head.

"Augh... what gives?" Rouge groaned as she rubbed the back of her head with her right hand, squinting her eyes as she shook her head. "What was that, anyway? I was having a good slumber, too..."

As Rouge began exchanging her purple pajamas in favor of her regular clothes, she turned around to see that Shadow wasn't in the bedroom again, sighing in disappointment as she turned her head to see the clock, which read 8:00 AM.

"Eight in the morning..." Rouge remarked as she rubbed her chin with her right hand, placing her left hand on her hip. "Hmmm... I wonder what was responsible for that quake... maybe Amy busting the door down..."

Shrugging, Rouge opened her door, hearing a loud thud as she widened her eyes, hearing a loud groan. Rouge moved from the door, looking to see that Amy was on the floor, both of her hands on her face as she groaned in pain.

"Yargh! That stung so much!" Amy exclaimed as she sobbed, "Why did you have to slam so hard!?"

Rouge rolled her eyes as she helped Amy up. "Oh hush up. I didn't know that you were going to be there." She then looked around as she folded her arms. "By the way, where's Shadow?"

"He's with Silver." Amy remarked as the entire mansion shook violently again, with both girls screaming as Amy fell onto Rouge, both girls blushing as they eyed each other, both girls pulling away from each other.

"All right, let's pretend that didn't happen," Rouge remarked as she was still blushing, with Amy nodding her head in agreement.

Meanwhile in the mansion's basement, Shadow and Silver were blasting various wooden crates using a machine cannon Shadow found in the Metropolis Zone, with Silver taking the cannon as he aimed at a couple of giant red mechanical boxes full of explosives.

"Be one with the cannon, Silver. Use it like you use your psychic power," Shadow instructed as he moved his hands around.

Silver sighed as he glanced back at Shadow. "Don't you think the girls might get suspicious that we're destroying explosives in the mansion?"

Shadow chuckled as he snapped his fingers. "Relax, man. Neither of the girls know the secret way down here." He remarked, with the 'basement' they were in actually being below the real basement, continuing to move his hands around. "Anyway, go ahead and fire. We should get as much use out of this cannon as possible."

Silver sighed as he closed his eyes. "Oh well, if you insist..." Taking aim, the silver colored psychic hedgehog used the cannon and blasted a powerful yellow energy beam at the explosive boxes, causing an explosion so big it caused both Silver and Shadow to be completely covered in ashes, with both of them glancing at each other as they were also knocked back from the explosive reaction.

Outside the mansion, E-123 Omega was patrolling the area as he looked towards the western direction, seeing the mansion as he could feel the vibrations of the explosions shaking the mansion.

"Something interesting is going on over there..." Omega remarked as he decided to pay the mansion a visit, unaware that his two best friends were currently present there...