Hey guys! Alright here's another chapter of Chaos Riders for you nice, fellow readers! As usual I hope you guys like it and enjoy it, as well as give your opinion on it. Everything counts after all.

Disclaimer: Dark-Illusion-Detective does not own any of the Sonic Characters nor does she own Sega. She does own her OCs: Aerial the Hawk, Beacon/Pride the Sparrow, Flame the Swallow, Jack the Crow/Sparrow Hybrid, Trill the Raven and Clarity the Dove. Dusk the Hedgehog belongs to Mariko-ai-chan (Mariko the Unemployed Ninja) and shall always belong to her.

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Chapter Fourteen: Diamond Mayhem Part One

"Alright, you were right Clarity. The Diamond really is gone. But that's fine, we've got the… HEY!" Trill's cold voice echoed throughout the empty room. The raven looked around to see no hanging albatross and echidna, or even a hawk that was suppose to be strapped onto the table.

Trill's eyes widened then narrowed as she clenched her hands into fists, "Why that no good TRAITOR!!!"

The power of the fist that slammed into the wall, made the place shake for a moment before it stopped. Trill smirked and laughed suddenly as she walked out of the room, "Cross me why don't you? But now you'll face my wrath," she laughed happily as the doors closed behind her, "No one shall live after escaping me."

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A smile spread across her beak as she twirled around while she walked next to Storm and Aerial; Clarity seemed like she was the happiest person on the face of Mobius. To Aerial and Storm, this wasn't much of a surprise considering the fact that while Clarity was with Trill, she would get hit and yelled at. What came as a surprise was that even after the hour from when they abandoned Knuckles in a nearby alley to now as they walked down the streets of Westopolis, no one really had spoken about what they would do. All that Storm's eyes were on was the Diamond that was in Clarity's pocket.

"Once again, thank you for letting me accompany you two to find your friends," Clarity said as she turned around and started walking backwards, talking to Storm and Aerial with happiness dripping from her every word.

"A-Anytime… I-I-It was n-no problem."

"What's with the stuttering Alba?"

"N-N-Nothing."

Aerial looked at the albatross with such an intense stare that any normal person would freeze up, of course Clarity and Storm weren't normal people as they kept walking.

"Th-The Diamond…"

Clarity took it out, "This? What about it?"

"Which one is it?"

"Huh?"

"There are three… One that's a medical gifted, one that's combat gifted and the last one is used for multi-purposes," Aerial explained.

The dove looked at the Diamond and shrugged as if it really wasn't a big deal.

"I'm not sure to be honest. Trill found it and she went a bit weird."

"What do y-you m-mean a b-b-bit weird?"

"She just became obsessed over where this Diamond came from and stuff," Clarity stated calmly as she tossed the Diamond in the air.

Storm easily caught it and sighed with relief. The dove tilted her head and smiled.

"You guys can have it. I have no use for something like that, besides I have no reason to hang with you guys anymore."

This made the duo stop, "So you're going to leave?" Aerial had the courage to ask.

A simple shrug was Clarity's response to the question. The hawk took a step toward Clarity.

"Do you care if I came with you?"

"Huh?"

"I'm not really useful… I can't fight and I can't do much of anything. I'm just a person who said, 'hey I want to make a difference some way' and wound up with a person like Trill."

"S-So? It's fine… we'll find s-something you're good a-at," Storm quickly said in a reassuring voice.

Clarity was about to say something until a piercing yell was heard in the streets. Storm grabbed Aerial and Clarity's arms and dragged them into an alley to hide. Their eyes watched as a small honey bee and a purple chameleon started carrying a silver hedgehog. They blinked and looked at each other.

"What's Charmy and Espio doing?" Aerial whispered quietly.

"I-I d-d-don't know… what do you th-think h-h-ha-"

Clarity made a "be quiet now" motion and looked at the hedgehog with careful eyes. She turned back toward the duo, "Go and help them. I have a feeling something's going to happen."

"What will you do then?"

"Me? Simple, I will find Trill and say I tried to stop you guys from escaping and failed. So that way you'll have an ally within enemy boundaries. Sound fair?"

"It sounds more cunning than fair. But… right now we don't have much of a choice if Trill is going to come after us," Aerial thought as she nodded.

The dove gave a casual wave and ran out from the alley and down toward Trill's hideout in an urgency that could've made anyone think she was running late to meet a friend. The duo avians watched as Charmy and Espio walked toward the direction of a hospital and they nodded as they walked out from their hiding spot and slowly started to follow.

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The Westopolis General Hospital stood right in the middle of the city and people tried their best to avoid walking near it as if they would catch a disease from the ill just by walking too close. Of course Espio and Charmy could care less if they got sick, they had to make sure Silver was okay and would live from his wounds.

As they approached the front doors, Charmy asked, "What do you think happened to him Espio?"

"I don't know it looks like he was attacked by a thief or something."

Charmy seemed to accept that but his questions kept rolling into Espio without any sign of letting up. But his voice was muted as Silver groaned.

"Silver are you okay?"

Silver's gold eyes weakly opened and he seemed to glance around until he realized he was being carried and pushed the duo away from him slightly with his powers. He didn't stand up straight or appear strong; instead he looked like he was going to pass out again.

"What happened to you?" Charmy asked as his honey colored eyes widened in shock.

"Ugh… what did happen?" Silver replied as he held his head with one hand and looked around.

"Wait you don't remember anything?"

Silver spent a few minutes of thinking until his eyes widened and he shouted, "Where are the Babylon Rogues and the Chaos Riders?!"

Espio tilted his head, "I'm not sure…"

"We have to find them before… ow."

The ninja caught Silver before he hit the pavement and Espio and Charmy sweat dropped as they looked at the unconscious hedgehog.

"Let's hurry."

"Right!"

The doors opened and the smell of antibiotics and disease slammed into the duo as they carried their wounded friend into the massive building. The walls were pure white, the furniture was a cream color that only barely stood out from the white walls, the tables were light brown and the floor was a white marble color; it was as if the color was drained from the rooms and replaced with white bricks and white floorings. Charmy pulled his attention away from the whiteness of the place and flew up to the receptionist.

"Welcome to the Westopolis General Hospital, how can I help you?" the receptionist asked politely as her silver eyes looked at Charmy.

"Our friend is hurt. He might've been attacked by thieves!"

"By thieves! Oh my chaos! Here's what we're going to do, take your friend into the waiting room there and I'll be right with you to escort you to a doctor. Does that sound alright?"

Charmy nodded as he flew back over to Espio and Silver and told them of what the receptionist told him. Espio nodded and the trio walked into the waiting room; all the while the receptionist watched them with her silver eyes.

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About thirty minutes passed as the receptionist sat in her seat wondering when they would arrive. A large smirk spread across her face when she saw the front doors finally opening to reveal Aerial and Storm. The duo walked over to her and seemed concerned.

"Excuse me… have you… um seen our friends come through her by chance? One's a purple chameleon and the other one is a honey bee."

Storm and Aerial's eyes were wide as they recognized the silver eyes. The receptionist stood up and smiled.

"Of course, they're in the waiting room. They brought in a silver hedgehog that was wounded."

"Thanks," Aerial quickly said as she grabbed Storm's hand and literally dragged him into the waiting room where they suddenly stopped.

Hanging from the ceiling was a bound and gagged Clarity but her eyes told them everything. Trill was behind this. Storm and Aerial ran toward Clarity but her muffled shrieks made them freeze.

"What's up?"

Clarity muffled speech nearly drove Aerial and Storm crazy trying to figure out what she was saying. Aerial held up a finger and realized that besides Clarity hanging from the ceiling there wasn't anyone else in the room.

"Where'd Espio and Charmy go?"

The dove gave Aerial a look that seemed to say, "Do I look like I can tell you where they went at the moment?" Storm sighed with annoyance by this and looked around.

"Fine let us look for them then," the hawk replied as she started walking around the room, earning some muffled cries from Clarity. Aerial stopped and looked up at Clarity, "Okay why are you freaking out? Was it something I said or did?"

Clarity looked at Storm then at Aerial and swung around from the rope that held her upside down. Aerial blinked and glanced toward Storm to see that the albatross was looking at a kunai that sat on the chair neatly, as if Espio just put it down for a second and went somewhere.

"I don't get it. Where did they go?"

"I-I don't know."

Storm sighed, "Let's just get her down from th-there before-"

"Before I realize that Clarity betrayed me, let you all escape then expected to be taken back in to serve as your little spy within enemy lines or some sort of bs like that?"

The duo avians froze as their eyes met with Trill in a doctor's outfit. Trill giggled as she took out a remote and smirked, "Welcome to my domain. Where no one escapes from me and your game of collect the Disaster Diamonds is over!"

Trill pressed the button and the duo braced themselves for whatever came at them. Seconds turned into minutes and the duo looked around with confused expressions on their faces; obviously Trill was in the same predicament as she turned around, searching for the method of attacking she chose. Again the button was pressed and the raven shrieked in anger and irritation.

"Why isn't it working damn it!!?"

Aerial wasn't sure whether she should be scared or just sit down in one of the cream colored chairs and laugh at Trill's attempt at scaring the crap out of them. However the hawk didn't move from her spot next to Storm.

Storm suddenly pulled out the Diamond and it started to glow.

"Alba, what are you doing?"

"I-I'm not d-doing it I s-swear!" Storm replied nervously as the Diamond levitated slightly out of his huge hands and glowed even brighter until a loud series of explosions were heard heading right for them.

The flashes of orange and red flames came into view as Storm grabbed Aerial and dragged her farther into the room. Trill let out a loud, ear piercing scream as she dashed away from the explosions that followed her like a homing attack as she kept running around the room. Storm and Aerial watched as the explosions suddenly just stopped and the Diamond fell onto the ground, no longer glowing. Trill stopped running; Storm and Aerial looked at each other then at Trill before the three pairs of eyes locked onto the Diamond.

What came next could only be described as shout filled race to get the Disaster Diamond first. Storm lunged for it but failed when Trill picked it up and crashed onto the ground. Trill turned around, but let out a shriek as she hit the floor and Aerial was on top of her, grabbing onto the Diamond.

"GET OFF!"

"Give me the Diamond first!"

Storm blinked in shock as he watched the duo females fighting for the Diamond that suddenly began to glow yet again.

"GUYS!"

"WHAT IS IT?!" both Aerial and Trill yelled at the same time.

Their question was answered though when the Diamond's glow engulfed them both and Storm reached to grab onto Aerial; when he did, everything was blinded by the light.

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"And that's how you guys got here?" Espio asked as he looked at Jet, Wave, Beacon, Jack, and Silver.

"Oddly enough yeah."

"What about Silver though? Shouldn't we get him medical treatment?"

Wave sighed as she pulled out a vial and poured the liquid onto the fallen hedgehog. Seconds later, Silver sat up with wide eyes.

"What happened?!"

"Where do we begin? Oh right. For starters, we're inside a freaking Disaster Diamond, and Wave just healed you with some weird stuff."

The swallow suddenly whacked Beacon over the head with her wrench, "It's a heal all liquid I've been working on for the past year and a half and just be glad it worked!"

"Whatever you say."

Silver just blinked, "Run that first part by me again."

Beacon sat down in front of Silver and slowly stated, "We. Are. Inside. A. Freaking Disaster Diamond!"

The hedgehog shot up to his feet and looked around, only to see it was dark violet inside and there were bean bag chairs around and a small little tv in the middle of the small room. Silver blinked.

"This is inside of a Disaster Diamond? How did we get here?"

Everyone looked at Silver with dull expressions, "We're here thanks to a crazy raven named Trill who had another Disaster Diamond and got us in here."

"Has anyone tried to contact anyone outside the Diamond?"

"How can we?!"

Silver sighed, "I read in a book that these Diamonds are able to connect with the minds of those outside if we yell loud enough."

"A book?"

"Forget it, I'll explain it later. For now let's see if we can contact… um… your friends there… um… Aerial and Storm right?"

Jet got up along with Beacon and was about to yell until three screams were heard, and then three figures landed on top of Jet. Storm was on top of Jet, unconscious, Trill was on top of Storm with a fearful expression, and on top of the pile was Aerial who landed on her back instead of her stomach like everyone else did.

"Huh? Where are we?"

Jet glared at Silver and the hedgehog sighed.

"Well… there goes that option down the drain."

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Alright there's the first part of the three part chapter of Chaos Riders! Yes I decided to split this chapter up, due to the fact it would've been much longer if I hadn't cut it off here. Anyways I hope you guys like it and please tell me what you think.