Speed and Silver became fast friends over the next few days Speed and Silver had been travelling whereas Blaze and Flare had been living with Sonic.

"Morning." Blaze told Sonic when he finally got out of bed. "Speed's due back today." She said grabbing her toast from the toaster.

Sonic smiled. "I wonder where he went." He turned to Blaze who promptly shrugged.

A loud knock rang through the house. Blaze answered it and Speed stood at the door, he had taken to wearing his jet skates all the time now so he could hover.

He smiled as Silver arrived. "Hey there Blaze." Speed said. Silver looked behind himself and spotted a black robot flying overhead.

He pushed Speed inside the house. And the two explained what had happened. "Well, you see when we left we only had intentions of tracking down Metal Sonic. We never found him. But as it seems GUN have been running an experiment called project LIGHTSPINE, the goal was to combine the DNA of Sonic, Shadow and thier previous attempt at the second ultimate lifeform. Molly." Speed explained.

Blaze cringed at the thought of what could happen if GUN managed to meet thier goal. "Jesus, did they succeed?" She asked.

Silver exhaled. "Yeah, kind of? It's hard to explain but they recovered something when they sent Molly out just before she found you Sonic. The remnants of a being called Nightmare."

Blaze felt a sudden rage well up inside her as Flare finally dashed into the room. "Nightmare is, alive?" They both asked in unison.

Speed shook his head. "No, but whats left of him is inside-" The wall behind Sonic burst open injuring Sonic, Silver and Flare. a black floating robot with two clawed hands hovered inside the house. Blaze and Speed helped Silver and Flare to thier feet. Sonic was out cold so Blaze was forced to carry him.

Flare stopped to fight but Silver grabbed his shoulder and spun him around. "You don't have a chance." He said. Flare looked back as the robot fired a beam of plasma from a green blaster on its hand. He nodded.

Blaze threw back the Sol emeralds, Speed grabbed them and started to absorb their energy. His gold fur turned a dark blue as his eyes turned green, his hands glowed red as his flames surrounded them and he produced an aura of fire.

"Speed distract him!" Blaze ordered. Her brother nodded and created a huge barrier of fire to stop the robot Nightmare from getting close to the others.

A white hedgehog dropped down from a building and created a second barrier. "Molly, good to see you!" Speed exclaimed.

Molly clearly did'nt reckognise him in his Super form, understandably too. His normally neat quills were now ruffled up and turned in all directions similar to Shadow's. His fur was now blue with red highlights.

"Sorry, it's me Speed. Well Super Speed but still me just cooler." Speed smiled as he returned his attention to stopping the reborn Nightmare.

Molly grinned. "you look cute." She said. Speed blushed. Molly just laughed.

Suddenly the robot broke through both shields and Molly drew her Bladestaff. "No way." Speed stopped her. "We don't have a chance." He told her. Molly nodded in agreement.

Molly felt a sudden grab around her as Super Speed lifted her into the air and then warped. However the two didnt exit the warp matrix. "We should be safe here."
Speed said.

Molly felt sick as she floated around in the endless void between dimensions. She felt both scared and sick. Her stomach ached as well.

Speed felt a little ill and turned to Molly. "Sorry, I think I brought us here too fast. Be sick if necessary." He said.

A portal opened up and Shadow flew out of it. "Hmm, so it seems I was correct in assuming you two would come here." He said. "Nightmare tried to follow you with a deformed form of Chaos Control, he failed." Shadow continued.

Speed powered down. "Good to know." He said.

Shadow shook his head. "One problem, there's a girl no older than about eight called Cream. Metal Sonic kidnapped her mother Vanilla. We need to get her back."

Speed nodded. "I'll help." He said.

"No need, me, Sonic, Blaze, Silver and Flare are on it we need you to watch the child." Shadow smiled a little as they exited the warp matrix at Cream's house. A young rabbit watched the two nervously. Speed assumed it must be Cream, he was right.

"Uh, hi I'm Speed Blaze's brother and this is Molly we're supposed to be looking after you." Speed told Cream nervously. Cream smiled and hopped towards the two.

"I know Mr Sonic and the others willl get my Mom back soon right?" She asked.

Speed nodded. The three all sat down.