Me: Here's the next chapter!

Dingo: I'm back.

Me: Lost again?

Dingo: Nope! Shinobi paid me ten candy canes to be here!

Silver: Now we have another idiot here?

Dingo: I'm a moron, not an idiot. There's a difference.

Silver: There is?

Shinobi: Yep! Morons are dumber than idiots.


"I'm not telling you," Megaman stated.

"Please?" Tails and Manic begged.

"Ask me one more time and I'll be forced to hit you both on the back of the head El Kabong style," Megaman stated.

"Please?" Manic asked.

Megaman's eye twitched. His medallion changed into his guitar.

"EL KABONG!!!" Megaman yelled.

KABONG!!!

Manic was stuck on the head by the base of the guitar. He was knocked out as the guitar changed back into a medallion. Lan, Knuckles, and Tails began to laugh at that. The two humanoid animals and the triplets were all in Lan's HP while Lan was on his bed in blue pajamas.

"Lan, Raika, Jasmine, and Dingo are all going to be here tomorrow, so get up early," Megaman advised.

"Do I really have to get up for Sergeant 39½ FT Pole shoved up his Rear?" Lan joked.

"Sadly, it went up to 50 feet," Megaman joked, "And yes you do."

Lan sighed.

"Alright then," Lan said, "Goodnight, guys."

"Goodnight, Otouto," Megaman said.

"Night, Lan," everyone else replied.


Shadow was purring as Maylu unconsciously rubbed his left ear as she slept. He had insisted on guarding her incase of some thief trying to get into here. (Shinobi Note: Though he really wanted to get his ear scratched by Maylu.) Roll and Sonia were talking in Maylu's HP.

"So what was Mega like as a kid?" Roll asked, "After his foster parents got captured by those, what did you call them, SWATBots?"

"I'm not really sure," Sonia replied, "We actually met for the first time since being separated when we were 13. Lady Windermere, the woman I stayed with as I grew up, was captured along with Sonic's Uncle Chuck and Manic's foster father, Ferrell, a day after I heard a song in my heart. We formed a band called the 'Sonic Underground' and traveled all over in search of mom."

"The queen?"

"The queen," Sonia confirmed, "We were also Freedom Fighters."

"What does that mean?" Roll pondered.

"We fought to free our world from Robotnik's tyranny," Sonia explained, "He was robotizing the Mobians of Mobius while the rich were sparred of that fate since they would pay Robotnik to make his army of robots."

"Robotizing? What's that?"

"It's where Robotnik would turn the people into half-Mobian half-machine," Sonia explained, "Each one would follow Robotnik's orders no matter what. The only way for them to regain control is for the energy from our, meaning my brothers and mine, medallions."


"LAN!!! WAKE UP!!!!" Megaman yelled.

No response from the snoozing boy.

"Let's try singing," Manic offered.

Megaman nodded and the two summoned their instruments.

Manic: 1! 2! 3!

Arabian music began to play.

Manic and Megaman: WE NEED TO BE FREE!

Megaman: Like the wind across the desert sand!

Both: WE NEED TO BE FREE!

Manic: Like a nomad in a mystic land!

Megaman: Oh freedom is a golden gift of life!

Manic: And if someone tries to take that away, we will stand and fight!

Both: WE NEED TO BE FREE!

Megaman: Like the wind across the desert sand!

Both: WE NEED TO BE FREEEEEE!!!!!!

Lan yelped as he fell out of bed as Megaman and Manic turned their instruments back into medallions. Tails and Knuckles applauded as Lan shot a dirty glare at the two siblings.

-I'm getting you later for this- Lan talked through the 'link.'

-Just try it- Manic and Megaman both said.

This surprised all three of them.

"You can go into our link?!" Lan gasped.

"That's creepy…" Megaman and Manic shuddered.

"Lan, shouldn't you be getting ready to meet these Raika, Dingo, and Jasmine people?" Tails asked.

"ACK!" Lan yelped, "I FORGOT!"

He got dressed in ten seconds flat. Megaman, Manic, Tails, and Knuckles went into the PET before Lan grabbed it and raced downstairs for breakfast.

"Bro, he's as fast as you," Manic stated.

Sonic chose that moment to come out.

"No one's faster than yours truly," Sonic gloated, "Not even the so-called Ultimate Lifeform named Shadow the Hedgehog."

Shadow then warped in via Chaos Control and slammed Sonic into the ground before warping out.

"Burn!" Manic taunted.

Shadow warped back, kicked Manic between the legs, then warped out. Manic fell over into fetal position.

"The pain…" Manic groaned.


"Shouldn't they be here by now, Tomahawkman?" a boy with tanned skin, a blue hooded long-sleeved shirt with feathers adorning the sleeves, red and white paint on his face, large eyebrows, and yellow jean shorts pondered.

"I think so, Dingo," a 14-year-old in sky-blue and yellow armor with an Indian leader's feathers on his helmet and a left arm that was a tomahawk inside the sky-blue PET on Dingo's shoulder.

A 16-year-old in a green military uniform with green hair and a red barrette was about to say something when a blast of wind rushed by.

"Raika, you're missing your hat," Dingo said.

The boy checked his head and the barrette was gone.

"Missing something?" a voice asked.

A girl with purple hair and a white traveling dress turned around and gasped at the sight; A blue humanoid hedgehog with brilliant emerald eyes, red sunning shoes with a gold buckle and white stripe on each one, white cartoonish gloves, and a medallion shaped like his head was holding Raika's hat while sitting on Raika's head.

"You really should try gluing this to your head so no one swipes it, Riki-chan," the hedgehog teased.

"Why did I have a feeling you'd do that, Megaman?" Lan asked as he, Maylu, Chaud, and Shadow walked up.

"That's Megaman?!" Dingo gasped, pointing at the blue hedgehog now playing Keep away from Raika by running around at high speeds, "But he's outside of the PET and he's a…"

"He's called 'Sonic' when he's like this, dude," Manic's voice came from Lan's PET, "And yes, he's a blue hedgehog."

Lan and Maylu took out their PETs to show the newcomers.

"I'm Miles Prower, but everyone calls me 'Tails' for short," Tails introduced himself, "Sonic calls me his little buddy and his little brother."

"Aw, so cute!" Jasmine squealed.

"Sup? I'm Manic, Sonic's triplet brother. How's it rappin' for you guys?" Manic pondered as he twirled a pair of drum sticks.

"Since when did…" the girl began.

"I've always had a brother and a sister," Sonic replied, on Raika's head, "You guys just never asked."

He then jumped off Raika's head when he tried to get his beret back and sped off. Raika chased after him.

"GET BACK HERE WITH MY BERET, YOU BLUE ABOMINATION!" Raika ordered.

"I won't stop for Eggman or Amy, and I won't stop for you," Sonic retorted, revving behind Lan, as he placed the beret on, "Not too shabby, huh? I gotta say…"

He pulled out a mirror from who-knows-where.

"…I look good," Sonic finished with a wink.

"How come he's acting so… different?" Dingo pondered.

"He's gotten a bad case of Split Personality Disorder," Lan replied, "So his other personality is a wisecracking, cool-acting, smartaleck."

"I resent that smart-alecky comment, Lan," Sonic glared at his NetOp, "Perhaps I should tell him where those photos and the green ha…"

Lan covered Sonic's mouth.

"I'll buy you as many Chili-Dogs as you can eat if you be polite and/or not threaten me or Shadow with those blackmail items for five hours," Lan whispered.

Sonic nodded as best as he could and raised a thumbs-up. Lan released the hedgehog.

"But I'll let you do what you were doing with Raika for as long as you want," Lan added.

Sonic's grin went to one ear to the other. He then ran all around Raika, knocking him over. Sonic now had Raika's jacket and beret. The shirt underneath the jacket was red.

"Green and red… Do you wear these colors because Santa Claus lives in Sharo?" Sonic joked.

Raika tried to beat him up, but Sonic kept dodging until Raika fell over, completely exhausted. He then went out like a light.

"I'm not carrying him," Sonic stated.

He walked over to Shadow and nodded. Shadow turned to Jasmine and Dingo.

"My name is Shadow, Shadow the Hedgehog," Shadow stated, "I am the Ultimate Lifeform."

He chopped a computer near Lan and the two jumped into the portal. Megaman appeared in Lan's PET, still in Raika's clothes, as Shadow appeared in Maylu's PET so Roll or Sonia could give his ear a scratch.

"Hi, I'm Sonia, Sonic's triplet sister. Don't mess up my hair or insult my looks, or I'll kill you," Sonia advised.

"She's serious," Megaman and Manic stated at the same time.

"She's shredded more SWATBots than ever the last time one of them called her fashion sense into question and then messed her hair up," Megaman gulped.

A tall NetNavi in green camouflage armor, orange hair under a helmet with a scope on one eye, and his left arm a sniper rifle with a scope on top appeared in Lan's PET.

"Oh, hi Searchman," Megaman smiled, "You here to shoot me, aren't you?"

Searchman nodded as he aimed his rifle at Megaman's symbol. He didn't expect two things. One, he didn't expect for Megaman to summon a guitar. Two, he didn't expect that the top of the guitar could fire blue lasers. He was logged out and went into Raika's camouflage PET.

"He didn't expect you to pull that out, did he?" Manic asked.

"Not at all, Manic," Megaman replied as his guitar turned back into a medallion, "I'm getting use to this."

"I'm Knuckles the Echidna, and that's all I'm saying," Knuckles stated.

"Yeah, considering he doesn't want to talk about his crush of Rouge," Sonic joked.

"MEGAMAN!" Knuckles roared.

"I'm in trouble," Megaman gulped before running away from the enraged Echidna named Knuckles.

"Since we're doing introductions," the girl said as she took out her violet PET, "This is Medi."

Manic looked at the NetNavi and quickly looked away, his face completely burning red. Medi was a violet-haired nurse-like NetNavi with her mark were two capsules crossed in the middle.

"Seems someone's got a crush on a certain nurse Navi," Sonic snickered, appearing beside Manic, "Manic and Medi, sittin' in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G!"

"SHUT UP!" Manic growled as he began to chase Sonic.

"CURSE YOU, OTHER ME!" Megaman cried as he was now being chased by his brother and his Echidna friend.

Medi was currently looking away from Lan's PET and was blushing heavily.

"You saw Megaman?" the girl asked.

"No, I saw a cuter, green him, Jasmine," Medi replied in Chinese.

"This is my Navi, Tomahawkman," Dingo grinned as he showed his NetNavi.

Tomahawkman released a holler before going into Lan's PET.

"Man, I love watching these kinds of chases!" Tomahawkman grinned in a movable recliner and eating a big bucket of popcorn as he watched Megaman being chased by Manic and Knuckles.

"HELP ME!" Megaman demanded.

His eyes swapped and Sonic did a quick sonic boom to Sci-Lab's network. Knuckles and Manic each gave a nod to each other.

"We'll get him later," both stated.

Knuckles quickly went into Maylu's PET.

"Shadow, I need to go out into the Real World to carry Raika," Knuckles said with his eyes closed.

Shadow didn't reply with nothing but a purr since Roll was scratching his left ear. Knuckles looked at him and facefaulted.


"Do I even want to know how Raika ended up like this?" Dr. Hikari asked when he saw the group walk in with Knuckles carrying Raika.

"No you don't," Knuckles replied as he placed Raika on the couch.

Shadow then poured a bucket of cold water and ice on Raika, waking him up.


Dingo: The song Megaman and Manic sang was uh… (looks at a piece of paper) …We Need to be Free. Did I say it right?

Kyuubi: Yosh! (gives Dingo a bog bone.)

Dingo: BONE! (grabs it and runs to a corner to eat it)

Me: Now that is funny.