Hello guys! If you guessed that this was the Sonic Advance 2 adaptation, you were wrong! But if you thought it was Sonic Adventure 2, you are correct! This takes place one week after the events of last chapter, and if you're wondering what's up with this, you probably didn't read that! I'm only going to be sticking very loosely to the plot to keep things moving.

I got a question! To Shadowisepicz: Because it's FUN!

A week had passed, and it had been awesome for the two hospitalized pegasi. Nothing to do but sit around and talk? Yes. No responsibilities? Correct.

Until today, when they'd been arrested. There wasn't any explanation whatsoever until they were already given harnesses that restrained their wings and were in the government helicopter on the way to Prison Island.

"You're awful quiet." One of the guards, armed with a loaded rifle and proudly wearing the G.U.N standard, commented. "Yesterday you two robbed a bank and today we can't get two words outta ya."

Cobalt Spikes gave a cocky grin. "Guess we're not feeling too chatty."

The soldiers immediately responded by drawing their weapons and training them on the two prisoners. "You'd better watch your sass, horses!"

Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes. "See, this is why we didn't talk. Now we're gonna have to kick your flanks so you don't shoot your own helicopter."

The pilot heard several messages go over the intercom: "They're taking over the entire ship!" and, "Nearly all of our guards are down!" which was immediately followed by, "WAAH!" and the unmistakable sound of flesh hitting metal.

Another, higher pitched voice that sounded prone to cracking came over the intercom. "This flight was terrible. No movies or food? Really? We're going to leave now. Bye!"

The pilot looked out the right window and saw the two tearing flaps from the wings of the plane.

OUTISDE

"Think of it like snowboarding!" Cobalt shouted over the roar of the wind.

"Sounds fun! It'd be more fun if I wasn't wearing this stupid harness though!" Rainbow complained. "It's heavy!"

"Get over it!" Cobalt said with a grin, and jumped off the wing of the plane with the flap like a snowboard.

"Wait for me!" Rainbow followed his lead. The two spiraled downward in a suicidal path to the sloping streets below, hoping that they would land on a steep enough slope not to break every bone in their body and pancake on the concrete.

Cue City Escape Act 1 music from SA2

Their wish was granted, and they fell on a sloping city street where they could have performed a simple, easy snowboard-like run to the bottom. Key words: could have. That was because of the police robots moving out all over Station Square and the daily traffic running up and down the street. So instead of just turning when necessary, the two were performing sharp banks and acrobatic maneuvers simply to stay alive. At one point, they had to use a police blockade like a ramp and vault over it. Handrails and sidewalks gave a few moments of relative peace while grinding the rail or simply evading people.

Eventually they did get to the bottom of the slope and dismounted the makeshift boards. They quickly got each other free of the harnesses and tossed them in a nearby trash can. Cobalt looked around, squinting. "Where are we?"

Rainbow read a nearby sign. "Station Square Park."

"It's not safe here." Cobalt stated. As if to prove his point, two G.U.N beetle sentries popped up out of nowhere, only to be smashed five seconds later.

"Why can't we escape into the air?" Rainbow asked.

He pointed into the air, at hundreds of G.U.N beetles swarming in the air. "We'd never make it through, no matter how fast we go."

Rainbow glanced down the path, spotting something that alarmed her greatly. "TRUCK!"

End music

Cue Mad Convoy music (G.U.N Truck Chase)

The two started to hightail it out of the way of the truck that was tearing up the entire park in its efforts to run them over. They started down several sloping streets, keeping close to the ground as to not be in range of the air blockade. The truck's chase was relentless, pursuing them through several streets.

"I really hate this thing!" Cobalt complained, putting on an extra burst of speed to evade the crazy sixteen-wheeler.

The truck finally crashed into a solid metal wall and was unable to keep going, having its front smashed in. Rainbow pointed at a sewer lid and they disappeared without a word into the waste systems below.

End music

WITH THE OTHERS

Fluttershy sat on the floor, nervously watching the news reports that were all about the grand theft of one of the chaos emeralds from a nearby bank, supposedly committed by Cobalt and Rainbow Dash. The security footage was played once more, and she got the uneasy feeling that something there wasn't right. It took her a few more replays, but she eventually put a hoof on it.

She ran into the next room over, where her friends were playing poker to pass the time. "Guys! Guys!" everypony glanced up, causing her to blush in shame and shrink back a little. "Um, sorry. I didn't mean to yell."

"What is it, Fluttershy?" Twilight asked.

"I know it wasn't Cobalt and Rainbow!" Fluttershy announced excitedly.

"We all do, dear, but we don't have any evidence." Rarity agreed. A second later she tapped her ear like something was in it.

"I do!" Fluttershy smiled. "One of the ponies who stole the emerald had horn a horn and wings, and the other had a beak!"

"But that would mean a team-up of an alicorn and a griffon, and that doesn't make any sense…" Twilight trailed off.

"What color was the emerald?" Applejack asked, her interest rising.

"They said it was a deep scarlet colored one, so pretty much red." Fluttershy summed up everything she'd heard.

"We haven't seen a red one before!" Pinkie Pie bounced by in the background.

"Which means that somepony else has found one and warped here." Twilight connected the dots in her head. "This is groundbreaking!"

Pinkie stuck her head in from the living room. "Speaking of breaking, there's breaking news on the TELEVISION!" she must've turned up the volume, because the announcer's voice resonated through the walls so it could plainly be heard.

"Suspects Cobalt Spikes and Rainbow Dash have escaped government custody, and are hiding in downtown Station Square. There is a three hundred thousand dollar reward for the capture of these wanted fugitives, dead or alive."

LATER THAT DAY IN THE SEWERS OF DOWNTOWN

Rainbow Dash attempted to get some of the mud out of her mane. Her efforts were fruitless, instead causing the mud to spread, covering more of the colored strands. "What I would give for a shower right now." She muttered, smiling slightly.

Cobalt, however, was deep in thought. "What did we do?" he pondered. All of a sudden, he pointed at Rainbow. "Unless it was those extra packs of hot sauce you took at the cafeteria, then we were set up."

"Me?" Rainbow exclaimed in mock anger, yet she couldn't hide the faint grin on her face. "You know I have no tolerance for spicy stuff!" at this point she was up in his face.

He delicately pushed her away, now out of his brooding mood and into his normal one. He shot her a confident smirk. "You're cute when you're angry. It's both threatening and endearing at the same time."

Before she could respond, they heard a shout from the distance, echoing through the pipe. "There they are! Kill 'em so we can get the money!"

A pitchfork made of sharp kitchen utensils, rope, and a broomstick impaled itself in the concrete next to them. Very slowly, they glanced at each other.

"Run?"

"Yep."

They took off in the opposite direction of the voices and pitchforks and up through the sewer lid and into the city night, sighing in relief.

They allowed themselves a few seconds to catch their breath. Or rather, two shadowy silhouettes did, before teleporting in a flash of red light down to the street level.

"Glad to finally meet you, blue and rainbow pegasi." The black colored one said, his red eyes flashing.

WITH THE OTHERS AGAIN

"Breaking news! The wanted fugitives Cobalt Spikes and Rainbow Dash have appeared downtown, and appear to be confronting another group of winged creatures. Police forces are moving out to bring these outlaws to justice." The news announcer… announced.

"Downtown?" Fluttershy asked herself. She'd self-assigned herself to be the monitor of all news concerning their friends. "I've got to tell everypony!"

A FEW MINUTES LATER

Chuck's old car rumbled down the road to downtown at its top speed.

WITH OUR FAVORITE FUGITIVES

"Who are you?" Cobalt growled. The second figure stepped out of the shadows, and it was one everypony recognized.

"GILDA?" the outlaws exclaimed in unison.

"That's right." The griffon gave a smile. "I see you're not stupid as well as lame. After you humiliated me in Ponyville, this guy and I collected the red chaos emerald as well as the cyan one, and used it to travel here. Nopony will ever find the cyan one, though. When we got here, we thought: what better way to get revenge than to frame you?"

"I get it now." Rainbow snarled. "The police have been confusing us for the likes of you!"

"Speaking of, who are you?" Cobalt asked the black alicorn stallion.

"I'm Shadow, the Ultimate Lifeform." The stallion's voice was gruff, making him sound much older than he looked.

"Aw man, dude you're that guy Twilight likes!" (get the description from that chapter) Cobalt groaned. "You're from my memory!"

"Am I?" Shadow raised an eyebrow. "Strange, I thought your mind would be wiped for good after what happened. And who is this Twilight?"

"None of your business!" Rainbow snapped. "You two have two choices: surrender and let the police get you, or get your flanks kicked and let the police get you. Your choice."

"We don't want an all out fight." Gilda raised a claw in her defense. "We're here only to challenge you to a speed fight."

"A speed fight? I'm more interested in what you know about my past." Cobalt addressed Shadow.

Shadow smirked. "If you can beat me fair and square, I'll tell you all I know about your memory and be arrested willingly and you'll get the chaos emerald."

"Deal." Cobalt agreed. "I'll give you a head start."

Shadow took this cue and started flying down the road, followed closely by Cobalt.

"You ready to finish our fight once and for all?" Rainbow asked Gilda, taking an offensive stance.

"I've been ready." Gilda snarled, mirroring Rainbow's attacking form. "Let's go, Lamebow Crash."

Meanwhile down the road, Cobalt was trying to catch Shadow but finding that no matter how hard he pushed himself, Shadow always seemed to be ahead. "He really is faster than me!"

Cobalt heard a rumbling in the distance, and whipped around to see Chuck's car. "It's not speed, dear!" he heard Rarity call. "He's using teleportation!"

A vision of a black splotch of color standing over a blue splotch on a black background took over his vision. "Well meet again, blue –." the black splotch's last word was blurred, but the voice sounded much like Shadow's, and it vanished into nothing.

"I've seen this before." Cobalt remarked before he was sucked back into the real world.

Cobalt woke up to a punch in the face from Shadow, and back down the road Rainbow had just received three nasty claw marks across her face and muzzle.

"I'd love to stay, but it seems you have a date with the authorities." Shadow gloated, teleporting over to Gilda and out of there.

"Hey! Wait!" Cobalt called after them before he noticed the police forces surrounding him and Rainbow. "You're under arrest! There's no place to run!"

"Aw man, not again…"

To Be Continued In Part 2…

Hi, sorry this was kind of short, but I realized that if I wanted to stick with my usual pattern of cliffhangers in two part things (thank you Shadowisepicz), I'd have to leave it at this.

Why are Gilda and Shadow here? Where's Eggman? Will Rainbow and Cobalt escape? Why do I ask these questions when I know the answers?