A/N: I do not own Sonic the Hedgehog. I do own Dark Vortex and the hedgehog Rangers X.

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG Z

Dark Vortex's arrival

Somewhere in the sky, a flying bus hovers above the sea, carrying some kids inside.

"And over to our right, you can see the beautiful island of Flicky's Island!" The Tour guide explained the kids. "This is the island where the Flickys reside and it's a peaceful life style there! What do you say we-"

BAAAOOOOMMMMM!!!

"What was that???" One of the kids asked.

They all look at the Island and they can hear some loud explosions coming from it.

"Now what is going on in there???" The tour guide demanded angrily.

A blue vein sticks out from his head

In the island…

"Hurry up, Tails!" Sonic called Tails out.

"I'm doing the best I can!" Tails followed his best friend.

Sonic and Tails are running down the forest at high speed, as far away as possible from Fang and his men's special attack: "The Spinning Tower". While running, Sonic and Tails had to avoid all kinds of obstacles in the way, such as rocks, trees and even spiky iron balls. The heroes just had to jump over them or just run past them and the gang's spinning tower just crashes into them, destroying them.

As they continue, Red jumps in the scene and almost slashed Sonic with his axe, but he jumped out of the way and landed on top of the spinning tower. Red flies up to him, using the jet boosters under his boots and tries to slash him, but Sonic takes out his red hammer with blue hedgehog spines drawn on it and defends himself from Red's axe.

(A/N: Sonic's hammer is from "Sonic Advance 3")

While Sonic and Red are "sword fighting" (with Sonic using the hammer and Red using his axe), poor Tails has to avoid the spinning tower, until they all crash thru a rocky wall, literally. This is what caused the spinning tower to fade away.

While falling down with some rocks, Sonic kicks Red away and then lands on top of a falling rock with Fang. Fang gives Sonic some bicycle kicks, but he shielded himself. They notice that the rock that they are on is tilting and they both start running, making the rock spinning. Sonic stop and holds on to the rock while it's spinning and gives Fang a strong kick, making him crash into another falling rock.

Meanwhile, on the ground…

"Give your self up silver hedgehog! You can't win!" Bark shouted at Silver.

"There is no way your getting your filthy hands on our ruby of might!" Black shouted at Silver.

Silver was surrounded by, Bean, Bark, Black, Green and Yellow.

"Huff, I will continue fighting until the end!" Silver said bravely.

The villains charge at Silver and when they get to him, there's a huge fog of dust. Silver is the first one to jump out of it and runs at full speed.

Black and Green jump out of the fog and chase him down, while flying using the jet boosters under their sneakers. They hold on to each other and they start spinning like a buzz saw while they are holding their axes. Silver runs faster by using his powers, he jumps on a huge rock and jumps from it over Black and Green's buzz saw attack and they crash thru the big rock, slicing it in half.

Silver runs back and dodges Bean and Bark who have just charged at him while riding their boards. As he runs from them, Blaze appears and kicks them off their boards. Silver jumps on one of them and rides it, while Blaze rides the other.

"Silver, leave these guys to me!" Blaze told Silver.

"What? But-"

"I will be fine. Now GO!" Blaze cut Silver off.

Silver just nods and turns to the forest, while Blaze goes forward and still being chased by the buzz saw attack.

Silver rides thru the forest until he reaches the mountains and rides all the way up to the top. Once there, he looks to the view and thinks: "Good luck, Blaze!"

"Ko-koo!!!" Silver turns around and sees Yellow jumping out from the other side of the mountain. IN the middle of the air, Yellow takes out his axe and falls down to Silver at high speed. Silver watches this and runs out of the way.

When Yellow hit the ground, the hit was SO hard, that half of the mountain starts crumbling down, like an avalanche. Chief Flicky watches this in horror.

"Nooooo, our beautiful Island is being destroyed!" the chief panicked.

"Have faith in Sonic and his friends, I'm sure they will be able to save your island!" Charmy comforted him.

"Yeah! And let's not forget that Espio is helping them!" Vector said.

"It's not that I don't have faith, it's just, if this battle keeps up, there won't be anything left from this island to save!" Chief Flicky explained.

Manwhile in the sky…

"Now what is going on?" the tour guide demanded.

Then he sees half of the mountain crumbling down.

"EK! Uh, shall we carry on?" the tour guide asked the kids nervously.

Sweat drop on his head

"Hey! What's that?"

They all look down to the Island…

Back the island…

Tails runs over a hill and almost missed an item box. Tails destroys it with a Tails swipe and he gets a fire shield. Tails appreciates it until Pink comes out of nowhere and slashes him away, but fortunately, Tails didn't get hurt, he just rolls down inside the shield. Pink just keeps slashing it with her axe until it's putted out. She was about to slice him in half, but Invisible Espio pushed her away just in time.

Bark and Bean show up riding their spare boards. Bark charges at them, but Tails blows him away with his "Magic Hand". Bean charges at Espio, but he got beaten up by him while invisible and then he blows him away with another push.

Tails and Espio see Blaze riding her board while being chased by the buzz saw attack. Tails and spio notice that they are coming in their direction and they prepare their defensive poses. But right before they got to close, Blaze stops and gives the buzz saw attack a taste of her fire tornado attack, which stopped the attack. Blaze punches and kicks Black and Green away. With that, Tails and Espio ran after them.

Meanwhile, Sonic, Fang and Red are all running down another hill. First he jumps on Fang, making him mis-guide himself with his ship, then he tries to attack Red with a homing attack, but Red defended himself with his axe. Sonic takes out his hammer and gives him Spin Hammer Attack, while it collided by Red's Spin Axe Attack. Then Red throws his axe at Sonic like a boomerang and Sonic gets hit by it. Then Fang appears and kicks Sonic away.

Sonic skids, somewhere in the "Rusty Ruins Zone". He gets up with an annoyed look on his face.

"Alright then, no more mister nice guy!" Sonic takes out a ring and starts feeling it's power building up inside him. And with that, Sonic races down the ruins with a Sonic Boom. After he leaves the ruins, he enters the Green Grove Zone where he finds Fang. When Fang notices Sonic coming toward him, it was too late to stop him. The Sonic Boom destroys his ship and Sonic gives Fang a punch in the stomach. Sonic gives him more punches at supersonic speed, then blows him up with an upper kick and jumps giving Fang a Homing attack. Red tries to slice him in half, but Sonic jumped out of the way and pushes Red down to the ground, leaving a huge fog of dust when crashing on the ground. Sonic and Red roll down the forest while punching and kicking each other, but their moves always collided with each other. Until finally Sonic punches him down the forest and runs behind him, kicking him up to the air. Then Red falls back down and crashes on the flying bus, making the children to scream.

"Everybody stay calm please!" the tour guide comforted them, but no avail.

On the roof top of the bus, Red gets up and could barely stand on his feet and holding his arm.

"Argh, how can that puny little hedgehog be so strong?" Red growled.

Pink, Green and Black fly up to him.

"Are you OK Red? You don't look so good!" Pink said worriedly.

"I'm fine! But these losers won't be when I'm done with them!" Red said. "Time to kick this fight, up a notch! I'm heading back to "Flying Hog", the rest of you, take care of things down here! These fools will soon know the true power of our unstoppable "Destrocto Beam"!"

Black, Pick and Green jumped down the bus to the island, while red make a high jump and lands on the highest platform of the Flying Hog. A huge torrent comes out from the floor and Red jumps in it.

"Now, time to see what power lies inside this little ruby!" Red places the Emerald in place and begins charging up power.

In the mean time, Silver is riding his board down the mountain, while being chased by Yellow, who is fling with jet boosters under his feet. Silver picks up a rock with his powers and drops it on Yellow, making him crash on the ground and starting rolling down the mountain until he got trapped inside a snowball. Silver jumps behind the snowball while still riding his board, then the snowball fell down the cliff while Silver stopped in front of it, watching the snowball rolling down the mountain.

FLASH!

"What the heck was that???" Silver wonders and notices something shining in the battleship.

Red had just finished charging up power for the beam.

"DESTROCTO BEAM!!! FIRE!!!" Red shoots the beam down the island and hits the mountain where Silver is on and creates a HUGE dome shaped explosion, blowing up the mountain. Silver is also seen being blown away by the explosion, but Espio shows up and saves him, but the bus is blown away with the kids screaming and disapears in the sky with a flash

When the explosion faded, the mountains disappeared, there was now a huge smoking crater. But only the volcano remained there.

"HOLY GACAMOLY!!! This ruby packs quiet a punch!!! Master Zadow could easily conquer the world with this kind of power!" Red exclaimed with his eyes wide open. "Pity I missed the target thought, but I won't miss the next time."

On top of a hill, the other Hedgehog Rangers looked at the creator with dumbfold looks on their faces and with their jaws down.

Sweat drop on their heads

"Whoa…heh…did the Destrocto Beam just do THAT???" Green asked.

"It's a good job I got trapped in that snowball, otherwise I would be fried right now!" Yellow said.

"And it's a good thing he also didn't blow up the volcano! Or we would REALY be toast too!" Pink said.

"Yo Red! Watch where your firing that thing! You nearly hit us you crazy fool!" Black called out while angrily shaking his fist up.

A red vein sticks out from his head

With the heroes…

"Oh man, what just happened?" Silver asked.

"The Hedgehog Idiots just blew up the mountains with the Chaos Emerald!" Blaze explained.

"What!? Those idiots! Do they have any idea what they are messing with?" Silver asked angrily.

A blue vein sticks out from his head

"Apparently not. Considering they are charging up for another attack!" Espio said.

"Damn, we better stop them before they blow up the whole Island!" Sonic said.

"Oh no, this is terrible! TERRIBLE!!!"

The heroes look behind and see Chief Flicky agitated, Vector and Charmy we're right behind him.

"Look at what those monsters have done! Our poor Island will never be the same again!" he cried in an agitated voice.

"We're terribly sorry chief! There was nothing we could do to prevent it!" Silver apologised.

"Quit your bumbling chief! We are doing the best we can!" Blaze told the chief. "Just be happy that you and your tribe are still alive, right now!"

"Blaze!" Silver scolded. "Don't you think that was a little harsh?"

"No, she is right! I must be responsible for the safety of my tribe!" Chief Flicky said. "I guess the only thing I can do now is round up the hole tribe and get ready to evacuate. At least until the hole incident blows over."

"Just leave this to us!" the heroes said.

"WHOA! That is some fire power they got there!" Fang told his men. "Time to get serious! It's Emerald Power Time!"

Fang and his men get ready to charge up for their attack, "The Spinning Tower".

"Watch out guys! Fang and his goons are charging up their special attack again!" Sonic and his friends prepare to fight, until Blaze senses something.

"What's wrong Blaze?" Silver asked.

"It's him! He's here!" Blaze said agitated.

"Who's he-OH NO! YOU MEAN…?!"

And a few miles away from the island, Vortex speeds toward the Island. He turns into a ball of energy and speeds into the island.

"Let's get'em guys!!!" Fang and his men charge at the heroes, but an energy ball crashed into the with brute force, stopping their attack. Fang crashes into a rock, breaking all of his bones.

"Oooooohhhhhh…bumer…" Fang falls unconscious.

The energy ball stops and floats in the air. He looks around thru it's visor and detects the Chaos Emerald on board the ship. Then he flies up to it at full speed.

"SAY YOUR PRAYERS SONIC!!!" Red shots his Destrocto Beam at the energy ball, but no effect. And the energy ball crashes thru the battleship, causing it to shake like an earthquake.

"What the??? Noooooooooooo!!!" Red cried as the ship starts loosing altitude.

KABAAAAAOOOOOOOMM!!!!!!

The Battleship exploded and red fell back on the Island with his head stuck on the ground.

"Red? Are you OK?" The other Rangers gathered around him.

"Do I look OK, you mindless idiot?" Red growled with his head still stuck on the ground.

The energy ball lands some miles away in front of the heroes and reviles to be-

"DARK VORTEX!!!" Silver and Blaze cried.

A/N: And so, Vortex has just arrived on the Island. Will the heroes beat him? Find out in the next chapter of SONIC THE HEDGEHOG Z!!! R&R please.