A/N: Hola! I'm baaaaaaackkkkkk! Sorry for the long wait man; I'm always busy with school and life, etc. Plus, work experience this week at a local college so, heheh!
Shadow: Excuse after excuse...
EXCUSE ME?
Shadow: You're always goofing off at one place or another! You don't give a !£$? about this story!
If I didn't, I wouldn't be writing it still would I!?
Shadow:...
Sonic: BUUUUUUUURN! You just got told Shadow! AHAHAHAH!
Silver: LOOOOOOL! Wait, he's not on fire- why are you saying 'buuuuuuurn'?
Knuckles: Why haven't I appeared in the story yet!? I'm the Guardian of the Master Emerald! I should have a major part!
All of you...SHUT THE HELL UP AND LET ME CONTINUE MAN!
Everyone:...
Good, just to avoid confusion:
SEGA Sonic= Nicky
Archie Sonic= Sonic
SEGA Amy= Emi
Archie Amy= Amy
Ages (Well SEGA characters ages)
Sonic: 15 years
Amy: 12 years
Tails: 8 years
Shadow: Older then I'll ever be...-_-
Silver: 14 years
Cream: 6 years
Blaze: 14 years
Rouge: 18 years
Knuckles: 16 years
Disclaimer: Does it look like I own Sonic and co? NO! NOT EVEN SANTA WILL GIMME SHADOW AS A PRESENT!
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CRASH! A sudden crash caused our heroes and heroines to get into their fighting stances and face the source of the damage. Shadow's eyes widened and muttered a very vile word under his breath (it's K rated, OK! No major swearing allowed!) In front of them was the very robot that was on a mission to kidnap both Amy and Emi. Despite the perfect circular hole bang in the middle of its chest, it seemed unfazed.
"Scanning carbon based life forms." EM-25 spoke in a monotone voice and scanned the hedgehogs in front of it with a red light.
"Identified as: Sonic, Sonic, Amy, Amy, Shadow and Silver the Hedgehog. Only Amy and Amy required." EM-25's arm uncoiled itself; revealing a claw like robotic hand. It resembled like the ones in an arcade game only bigger and bulkier.
"I don't think so you heap of junk!" Nicky grinned and jumped up curling himself into a spindash. Sonic did the same thing and they both targeted the robot.
EM-25, with its clawed hands, whacked the duo away like pesky mosquitoes. They both crashed into the wall causing it to crumble slightly and leave cracks.
"He's a tough cookie," Sonic spoke cheekily despite the fact his back was already hurting him.
"Robots don't have genders man." Nicky groaned as the both got back on their feet. While EM-25 tried to advance its claws at the bubblegum pink hedgehogs; a blue aura surrounded its claws.
"Not so fast you bot!" Silver raised a brow at EM-25. The robot squinted its red eyes at the albino teen and suddenly started to shoot lasers from it aiming it at him. Consequently, Silver lost his focus on freezing the claws to dodging the fatal lasers. "Stupid piece of metal! Why lasers out of all things? So freaking cliched!" Silver yelled. He jumped up and used his telekinesis to help him float in the air. "Shadow! Use chaos spears!"
"Gladly," Shadow whipped his hand as several chaos spears went straight towards EM-25. Just as Silver predicted, the robot dodged the spears by using it's jet pack to hover and move quicker. Using his psychokinesis, Silver got the chaos spears to turnaround and hit the back of the robot instead. The spears pierced through its armour but then deflected off the main bit.
"What..." Silver trailed off. The armour (A.K.A the strong layer of metal and paint coat) was scratched and dented but the robot only seemed to get angrier at the moment.
It shot the lasers at Silver once again. Luckily, Emi whipped her piko piko hammer and the lasers bounced off of the golden plates. She rushed towards the robot as Amy followed suite both with their hammer in their hands.
"Emi! Amy! Stop! It's what the robot wants!" Nicky yelled.
"Have a little faith will ya!" Emi winked and the head of the hammer collided in the face of EM-25 destroying its vision. Amy chuckled and did the finishing blow by whacking her hammer against the chest of the bot.
Just before the robot could use its clawed hands to grab the girls in its moment, Shadow zoomed towards it and kicked off the right claw as Nicky punched off the left claw. The robot shook and sizzled.
"What did you do to it?" Silver turned to the girls still wary of EM-25.
"The force of our hammer may have not dented the robot but it shattered the inside of it." Amy replied.
"Get everyone out of the building! It's gonna blow!" Sonic yelped. All of the Freedom Fighters ran out screaming- well most of them did runout.
"Blow!? I gotta save my X-Tornado! I gotta save my laptop! I gotta-" Tails was running in circles in his room panicking. Fortunately for him, Silver grabbed his two tails and flew out quickly joining the rest of the mobians outside. As soon as everyone was a 20-20 meters away...
KAAAAAABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
The Freedom Fighter HQ was no more. Along with Tails' planes. And inventions. And gadgets. And maybe his sanity?
"NOOOooooooOOOOOOoOOOOOOOo! WHY! Why! It's not faaaaaaaaairrrrrr!" Tails dramatically pounded the ground as his inventions were now burning scraps and some bits of metal were flying out of the building.
"Sayonara, X-Tornado," Silver's lips trembled as he bowed down his head. Emi, Nicky and Shadow did the same. "You will always be loved and we shall always cherish you in our memor-"
"Silver, no, just no. It's a plane for crying out loud. We were barely here for 3 hours." Nicky shook his head and walked towards Sonic. He put his hands on his hips as he impatiently waited for Sonic to console the kitsune.
"It was one of my very few planes I built in my life...waaaaaaa!" Tails blubbered soaking Sonic's chest with salty tears. Sonic; being the cool guy as he assumes, didn't know what on earth he had to do. He just patted his head!
"Eugh! Give him to me Sonic!" Amy rolled her eyes as Sonic awkwardly gave the crestfallen fox to Amy. Tails wasted no time in hugging Amy and sobbing on her dress instead. "There, there. You poor child!" Amy cooed as Sonic just blinked at the sight.
Tails was starting to cease his crying.
"It's okay! I think, no, I know you can build another plane! Like always, it will be better and stronger! We'll never forget the X-Tornado! Now man up and let's get started!" Tails immediately stopped crying.
"You're right Amy...I WILL BUILD ANOTHER PLANE!" Tails struck a pose gaining sweat drops from the others around him.
"But where are you going to build it?" Emi asked.
"This isn't our only HQ, we have more in this place," replied a familiar voice.
"Er...hiya Sal," Sonic waved innocently.
"Don't 'hiya' me blue! We may have more HQ but this one was our main one! The whole Freedom Fighters are gonna have to split up temporarily due to the fact some of them actually used to live in there!" she pointed at the burning building which now fire-fighters were trying to put out.
"Hey! It's not wholly my fault! They helped destroy that bot too!" Sonic crossed his arms and huffed.
"He's right Sally, it's our fault too." Amy scratched the back of her head.
"None of this would've happened if I never agreed to test out our Tails' invention in the first place," Emi kicked a small pebble near her foot back and forth. Sally put a hand on Emi's shoulder and shook her head.
"It's no one but Eggman's fault. Only he's capable of creating problems for us. I swear down, one day he'll try and 'take over' the place by making it snow in August." Sally shuddered.
"Actually, that maybe a possibility you know," Shadow commented "He's as insane as heck. If only he wasn't related to Maria and Gerald, I would've killed him ages ago." Everyone looked at him blankly. "What!? Don't tell me you weren't expecting this?"
"Never mind Shadow. Anyway...er...Sally right?" Nicky gestured his hands towards her.
"Yep,"
"How long does it usually take for Tails to build a plane cos I wanna get the emeralds as soon as possible. Who knows what the Egghead in our world is up to."
"In his workshop, Tails usually take a week or less but now, depending where he'll be building his plane, I say around a month."
"A MONTH!?" Silver's eyes widened as did the other hedgehogs from his world.
"Hey! It's not that easy building a plane! Why don't you try for once and see what I go through on a daily basis!" Tails yelled as he rummaged through the rubble of the building. Fortunately for him, the fire has been put down quickly. "I could use a couple of hands and if we're lucky, we'll be able to finish this plane in a week!"
"Still, bro. That's way too long. They've to travel to the other dimensions as well!" Sonic darted towards his little brother and helped him look for usable material.
Nicky scratched his head and started to think. Finally:
"Let's get help from our Tails!" he burst out. Emi nodded in glee and Shadow and Silver seemed to agree. "Have we all still got our wrist-device on?" The four of them pressed a button and out came a hologram of their Tails in their dimension.
"Hey Tails!" Nicky waved.
"Huh? Oh hey guys! I was about to call you just now!" Tails smiled. "I put a chaos emerald locator in the GPS of both mine and your devices! So not only will you be able to find where the emeralds are, I could guide you when you need me to!" Emi giggled as she switched on her wrist device to GPS mode (it didn't affect the hologram)
"Huh? It says there's one right here!" Emi exclaimed.
"Yep! It must be in that burnt building that my other seems to be rummaging in," Tails added and just to prove his explanation right, Sonic's brother pulled out an emerald in fledged between two slabs of metal.
"One down, six to go!" Silver smiled as Tails gave him the chaos emerald.
"Well that makes life easier for us then!" Hologram Tails spoke. "You should get some rest now; I see it's nearly sunset. Odd, both in that world and our world has the same time. Oh well, g'night!" Tails switched off the device and the pixels of the hologram went back inside the watches.
"I hope finding the next emerald will be a little more challenging," Nicky grinned.
"Don't be stupid! The easier they are to find, the quicker we get home!" Emi snapped.
"That's no fun! Emerald hunting is never easy anyway!"
"Don't jinx it..."
"How old are you anyway? Jinxing is what babies say," Nicky pinched both of Emi's cheeks as she let out a squeal.
"Are you two done flirting?" Shadow growled "We need to get some rest now! Not get your hormones in a twist." Both Nicky and Emi flushed in a deep red colour.
"Nicky...you look cute when you blush!" Emi giggled while Nicky blushed into a darker shade. He turned away from the crowd and headed to Sonic and Tails. 'Damn you Faker!' he thought to himself.
"If only Blaze did that to meeee~" Silver drooled receiving an amused stare from Emi.
"Oh, you have a thing for her after all, hmm?" she teased as Silver snapped out of his trance.
"What are you talking about!? Of course not! You're just imagining things...I mean words...I mean...don't tell her..." he stated meekly. Emi nodded and ruffled his front five quills.
"You're so adorable Silvy!" Shadow groaned.
"Hey hedgehog! I thought you had a thing for the cat; why are you blushing around Rose then?" Silver immediately looked at Shadow but wasn't embarrassed at all.
"What? Of course I'll blush! It's not every day you get someone cute to call you adorable!" Silver huffed however, Shadow just smirked.
"Cute? Adorable? I've just been gone for less than a minute and you're already flirting with each other?" Nicky's voice boomed and his figure loomed over poor Silver.
"You didn't have a problem flirting with her before!"
"I wasn't flirting!"
"Yes you were,"
"No I weren't,"
"Yes,"
"No,"
"Yes!"
"NO!"
"NOOO!"
"Silver, you ain't gonna trick me into saying 'yes'."
"Darn!"
"Nicky, you were flirting with me," Emi took Silver's side.
"Since when did pulling cheeks count as flirting? People these days,"
"Come on Nicky, admit that you love me!" Emi cooed.
"Sal? You have the popcorn?" Amy whispered to Sally as they watched the lovely couple and their drama.
"Flavoured with strawberry and cream, I know you to well Ames," they giggled and watched the four hedgehogs bicker.
"May I have some popp'dcorn?" Antoine asked as Amy passed the packet to him. "This is solid gold indeed," he murmured. Bunnie soon joined him and chuckled at their childish behaviour.
"Come on Nicky, you know you love me..." Emi put an elbow on his shoulder.
"You know you care..." Silver joined and added his elbow on Nicky's other shoulder. Nicky stared at them both and they all knew what that face meant.
"Gotta ru-" Nicky was dragged back by Sonic.
"Great news! Tails just called Knuckles and we managed to persuade him to let us stay on Angel Island for a while! Just as long as we don't touch the Master Emerald, everything will be just fine."
"That's great but what about the other Freedom Fighters?" Amy asked.
"Most of them have shelters elsewhere by family and friends or by the nearby HQs."
"Before we go there, I want something to be clarified. Who exactly is going to go on the emerald hunt?" Sally interrupted.
"Obviously them four..." Sonic gestured to the Nicky and his friends "...obviously me and..."
"And me," Amy finished his sentence.
"What!? No Amy! You..." Amy put a finger on his lips making his heart flutter ever so slightly.
"You can't stop me, you never could, you never can, and you never will." she poked his nose at the end of her sentence.
"Grr, fine!"
"Hurray! Hold on a sec, how are we gonna get to Angel Island?" Sonic smirked at the confused mobians around him.
(At Angel Island)
"Come on Hedgehogs! I haven't got all day!" a red Echidna groaned as he was holding onto some rope at the edge of his island. The rope went all the way down to the tip of the sea where a small boat floated next to it. On the end of the rope was Sonic, Amy, Nicky and Emi. Shadow was already on the island; thanks to the chaos emerald they just found, allowing him to chaos control once more. Silver was on the island too (he can fly...duuh!)
"Shadow! You could've chaos controlled us all together you know!" Nicky whined and didn't dare to look down at the deep blue sea below him.
"Oops, it must've slipped out of my mind," Shadow grabbed a piece of fruit that was growing on one of the trees and munched on it enjoying the sweet, juicy flavour.
"Silver! You could've flown us all there!" Sonic complained however Silver pretended to not hear him and rested on one of the rocks. He sniffed in the atmosphere and began to daydream about his kitty back home.
"Hold on tight! If ya can't climb, I'm gonna have to pull ya all up! Five...four..." Knuckled began but just as soon as the hedgehogs tightened their grip "ONE!" Knuckles yanked the rope so hard that the hedgehogs were pulled right up in the air releasing their grip in shock. They got closer and closer to the ground then...
THUMP!
Sonic and Nicky landed on their faces while Amy and Emi landed perfectly on their feet like a pair of professional gymnasts. Amy walked up to both Sonic and Nicky and nudged one of them with her hammer.
"Still breathing, now; Shadow, Silver..." she turned to the two hedgehogs who were already on the island before them. Her hammer increased in size and her eyes lit on fire "Run,"
Shadow didn't hesitate on chaos controlling away somewhere however, Silver just froze. Amy charged at Silver who finally woke up and levitated himself in the air with his powers.
"Hey! Ey! Calm down women!" he yelled but Amy tried to knock him over with her hammer using it like a boomerang.
"Idiot! Because of you, MY Sonic is hurt!" she roared back but due to her blinded rage, she kept on missing.
"Amy! Ames!" Amy turned around to see Sonic and Nicky on their feet. "Actually, carry on. Serves them right for leaving us hanging there." Sonic chuckled. Amy shook her head and stomped towards him.
"You have a scrape on your cheek, Knuckles! Do you have any anti-septic and some cotton wool?" Amy tenderly touched Sonic's face observing the wound.
"That first aid kid? It's in the house, I'll go get it," he grumbled and ran off.
"Aw come on Ames, it's just a scratch! I'll live," Sonic tried to avoid her touch.
"I'm not gonna let it get infected. Come on guys, lets follow Knuckles!" Amy ordered and walked off dragging Sonic along with her.
"I have legs you know," Sonic commented not bothering to struggle in her iron grip.
"Really? I never noticed! Men..."
"Women..."
"I totally know how she's feeling," Emi started to follow as Nicky caught up with her.
"What do you mean by that?" he countered back 'And she hasn't asked if i was okay either!' he thought to himself.
"You know what I mean Nicky."
"Nope!" Emi turned to face him 'Now she better notice my face now.' Sonic hoped.
"Bakka," she flicked his nose and walked off towards the house.
"What he!? Hey...Hey!" Nicky groaned and the two started to bicker.
"Nicky seems to be conversing with her a lot more than usual," Silver whispered to Shadow. They were both walking behind the Sonics and Amys. Shadow huffed as he eyed his rival.
"He actually speaks with her like that back home too; just not in front of us lot."
"Oh, I see. Heh heh..."
"What's so hilarious you idiot?"
"It's just that, I never thought that he would be the jealous type and the shy type! Hahaha! If he wants to keep his love for her as a secret then he shouldn't make it obvious right?"
"You can talk," Shadow skated off towards the group ahead of them securing the chaos emerald in his quills.
"Whut? Hey! Blaze is not here so how could I make my love for her obvious!?" Silver instantly regretted what he said and clamped his hands over his mouth. "Oh oh," he looked around and breathed out "Nobody heard that, nobody heard that,"
"Hi there sweety!" a seductive voice from the treetops startled the albino teen. The figure dropped onto the floor and walked towards Silver.
"R...Rouge!?" he gasped 'No! Not her! What if she blackmails me? What if she tells Blaze? What if she...' his thoughts were cut off by Rouge interrupting them.
"Honey, don't sweat it. I won't tell a soul about your little crush. Besides, I'm not even from your world." she pinched one of his cheeks slightly painfully.
"Ow! How do you know that I'm not from your world Miss," he rubbed his cheek.
"I'm a spy and a jewel thief, what do you expect?"
"You're never kept in the dark..."
"Aren't you going to follow the rest of your group?"
"Eh? I didn't realise they're gone already!" he started to run off "Wait for me guys! GUYS!" Rouge rolled her eyes and flew off of Angel Island. She got out her communicator and spoke in a low voice. "Agent Rouge here; don't worry guys, they're harmless. They're comrades of Sonic and friends." she was replied with a muffled voice that only her sensitive ears could hear. "No, I haven't stolen anything yet. Have a little trust in me will you!" she was responded with a radio sound so she put the communicator back in her suit. "I just wanted a little fun with Knuckie. Why did I ever join G.U.N, again?"
(In Knuckles' house)
"There, that wasn't so bad was it?" Sonic grimaced from the sting of the alcohol and frowned compared to Amy's go happy personality. She put the first aid kit away and looked around her surroundings. " I never knew you had a house Knuckles!" She clasped her hands behind her back and smiled at the red mobian who was leaning against the kitchen table. He simply shrugged and replied:
"I usually sleep outdoors in front of the shrine. I only come here when there's a huge storm or heavy raining." Amy dragged a finger against sink and looked at it in disgust.
"That would explain the lack of hygiene in here then, huh?" Knuckles rolled her eyes as Sonic snickered.
"That's just a teeny tiny speck of dust on your finger Amy."
"With her, everything has to be spotless." Sonic pointed a thumb at her.
"Our Knucklehead doesn't even have a house back home. If there's a storm or bad weather, he'd stay at Tails' workshop with us." Nicky munched on some grapes which Knuckles generously given out.
"And you're just slightly different to Sonic here, Nicky," Knuckles smirked.
"What d'ya mean by slightly?"
"That's the thing. I don't know. It's hard to put a finger on it but there's something that helps me tell the difference between the two of of yous, excluding your scratch that is Sonic."
"You don't have any fingers..." Knuckles looked at his mitts for a second then back at Nicky.
"Anyway, it's almost 10:00 pm! We should get some sleep!" Suddenly, a roar was heard and lightning flashed through the clouds followed by the harsh heavy rain. It was literally pouring outside. "We're all stuck in here for the night." he spoke in a monotone.
"Aw, I was looking forwards to camping outside as well!" Emi moaned.
"This house is pretty small." Shadow spoke for the first time since he got in the house. He got out of his usual slouch and tossed the emerald in the air and continued:
"One kitchen, one living room, two small bedrooms and one bathroom. Who's sleeping where?"
Knuckles thought for a moment then nodded.
"Since you guys are guests, you get the rooms." Knuckles sighed. "I'll take the couch."
"There's two couches right? I wanna sleep on a couch too." Silver piped up.
"Suit yourself," Knuckles yawned and went upstairs to brush his teeth. "Oh, there's some spare toothbrushes in the cabinet in the bathroom so you guys can wash up and do whatever you do." he added.
"You and me will share the same room!" Emi clung onto Amy's arm and they both giggled.
"Do I have to share with Shadow?" Nicky had his eyes half lidded. "He snores,"
"And you sound like a chainsaw in your sleep." Shadow cocked a brow.
"Since when did either of you guys snore?" Emi raised both her hands in confusion.
"He sleeps on your roof and you never hear him snore?" Shadow's eyes flickered in shock.
"Are you sure it's not an actual chainsaw you heard and just bluntly accused it on me? Oh Shadow, I thought you knew me!" Nicky sighed dramatically.
"Totally shipping them two," Emi whispered to Amy.
"Hey!" Nicky had an anime sweat drop going down his head. "Cut it out!"
"I'll decide who sleeps where! Both Amys in one room, Silver and Shadow in the other room, both Sonics will be in the living room along with me. Clear?" Knuckles intruded.
"I'm fine with that," Silver shrugged. Shadow looked outside the window and sighed. 'If only if it wasn't raining, I wouldn't be dealing with them lot at the moment.' he thought to himself. He looked around and saw the group chatting, bickering, laughing. He cracked the smallest smile he could ever muster. 'Maybe it won't be so bad here after all...' his thoughts ended as he got the chaos emerald out of his quills and looked deep into it. It was a light shade of blue. It sparkled and shined as he twirled it in his hands.
"They look so much like Maria's eyes," he sighed to himself and tightened his grip on the emeralds. Suddenly, it started to pulse. "What the!?"
"Shadow, what's going on?" Amy had confusion plastered all over her face. The emerald only pulsed stronger and stronger.
"That only happens if another chaos emerald is near by!" Knuckles panicked.
"Why didn't it pulse before then!?" Shadow exclaimed. A beam of light flashed from the emerald, tearing through the ceiling and into the sky therefore the rain started to come in.
"Put it back in your quills! Shadow!" Nicky yelled however, luck didn't seem to be on their side as a familiar Santa Clause like laugh followed by a cough was heard.
"EGGMAN!" Knuckles roared.
"What time do you call this, Baldy?" Emi hissed.
"Ho! Ho! Ho! It's time to get my emerald back thank you very much!" Eggman crashed through the walls in his hovercraft with a different chaos emerald in his hand. It had a beam coming from it as well. "Just as I suspected, the chaos emerald from EM-25 was with you guys all along! Ho! Ho! Ho! Well," he put the emerald he had currently in his possession back in a box. Consequently, the beams died down and the emeralds stopped pulsing.
A robotic hand came out from under Eggman's hovercraft and whacked Shadow trying to loosen his grip on the cyan emerald. Shadow growled and and threw a menacing look at the Dr.
"You are starting to tick me off!" Shadow muttered, tucked the emrald in his quills and with his speed; kicked the side of the hovercraft causing it to topple upside down. Eggman rolled out of it quickly before his hovercraft flattened him (doubt that could be possible eWe) Fortunately for the hedeghogs and echidna, the box that had the chaos emerald that was in Eggman's possession.
Knuckles made a grab for it but so did Eggman. They both grabbed it at the same time and tried to snatch it out of each others hand.
"Knuckles, be a good Echidna and give me back what's rightfully mine!" Eggman jeered.
"The Chaos Emeralds never belonged to you in the first place so lay OFF!" Knuckled replied as his temper rose higher and higher. Eggman smirked and his indigo glasses shine with evilness.
"As you wish!" Eggman gave one final pull then immediately let go of the box causing Knuckles to trip backwards and into Shadow. They both fell on the floor and the emerald that was tucked in Shadow's quills, slipped out right next to the doctor's feet. Eggman wasted no time in grabbing it with glee.
"Like they say Knucklehead! And eye for and eye! A tooth for a tooth! A..." he was immediately cut off by a hammer being thrown narrowly missing him and crashing through the walls. The walls started to crack. Not horizontally, but vertically (sideways) meaning that:
"You stupid rat! The house is gonna cave in itself! I'm outta here!" Before Eggman could take a step to his so called strong hovercraft that has been putting up with his obesity for years, Sonic lunged at his foot tripping the Egghead over. Eggman tripped and fell through the hole that was made by one of the pink hedgehog's hammer; Sonic was pulled along with him.
"GUYS! NEED A LITTLE HELP HERE!" Sonic yelped. Knuckles grabbed onto Sonic's leg but was pulled too. Emi latched onto Knuckles leg however Eggman's weight seemed to overpower the three mobian's weight combined. Silver tried to pull them with his telekinesis and surrounded a blue aura around them.
SNAP!
The ceiling broke and like a cricket bat, the ceiling whacked everyone out of the the kitchen, through the hole into the ground out in the freezing cold rain. The house crumbled and within a few moments, caved in itself. As the heroes looked at the destruction in awe, Eggman used this opportunity as a chance to escape with one of the chaos emeralds.
"He's escaping!" Knuckled ran after him in haste ignoring the pain of the rain stinging his eyes but was stopped as a huge Eggship plane rose just right at the top of his nose.
"Ho! Ho! Ho! At least I've one emerald! See you suckers!" Eggman flew away in the Eggship cackling in his snobby way.
"Man! We almost had it! We almost had two chaos emeralds!" Nicky cried.
"And we almost lost both the emeralds! Now shut up!" Shadow yelled back picking up the chaos emerald that was left with them. It was a darker blue colour. He looked at it in disgust and threw it to Silver. "You keep it, I don't want it." Silver tossed the emerald in his hand and placed it in his quills.
"Now where are we gonna sleep?" Sonic glared at the rubble of what used to be Knuckles' shelter from the rain. Knuckles beckoned them all to follow him and walked on.
(In a cave by the Master Emerald)
"This was my old shelter from the rain and storm. I like it here better than that house. It feels more homely." Knuckles spoke as he kept the fire going.
"At least this counts as camping, right Emi?" Amy chirped. Emi nodded and giggled.
"I'll keep watch of the the fire and danger," Knuckles clapped his mitts. "You guys have some rest."
"Good night!" Nicky bellowed and laid on his back at the corner. Emi followed him and laid her head on his stomach. Nicky opened one of his eyes and sighed. "Do you mind?"
"I'm sleeping." Emi replied bluntly and snuggled herself more into his chest letting out a small purr. Nicky groaned and kept his hand on her head to keep her from falling off and the other one on her waist. He inhaled in her scent from her quills and sighed.
"Somethings never gets old," he muttered.
"Never gets old?" Sonic sat down next to Nicky and leaned against a big rock that was able to support his weight.
"Sonic?"
"Mmm-hmm,"
"Heh, Emi did this ever since we met. It was just me, Tails, Knuckles and Emi back home to begin with. The 'Classic Crew' heh. We all stayed in Tails' workshop to stay together. Every night, before we went to sleep, Emi would come and lie down on my stomach and sleep. I don't mind much to be honest."
"Obviously. It looks like you're hugging her." Sonic chuckled. Nicky blushed and closed his eyes.
"Let me sleep,"
"Fine!" Sonic closed his eyes and laid on his side. Silver looked around and shrugged. He crept in the space between Sonic and Nicky and lied down there; slightly like a cat would do so. Amy curled up between Silver and Sonic and slipped off into dream world while Shadow sat down next to Emi, leaned on the wall and closed his eyes.
All six hedgehogs were swept away in their own dreams after a hard day of fighting. Knuckles smiled warmly and squinted his eyes at Emi and Nicky. Nicky unintentionally tightened his grip on Emi burrowing his muzzle into her soft bangs contently. The rain started to cease and the missing moonlight was found.
"What a beautiful sight..." a voice whispered. Knuckles turned to come face to face with no other than Rouge the bat. "The sky, I mean." she cleared up his confusion.
"Are you okay?" Knuckles cocked an eyebrow.
"Yeah, why?"
"You haven't tried to steal the Master Emerald for nearly 5 whole days; not that I want you to."
"I set my eyes on something else." Knuckles shrugged and looked at the moon.
'Gullible echidna, didn't even realise what I was talking about!' Rouge rolled her eyes but then looked at the focused Knuckles again. He was so brave, so hot-headed yet caring. Not to mention handsome. She grinned to herself...
A/N: My fingers...MY FINGERS! They are killing meeeehhhhh!
Anyway, was this chapter worth the wait!? Sorry for not putting enough action in there! Hopefully the characters weren't OOC...
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