A/N: I do not own Sonic the Hedgehog.

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG Z

The old base

The heroes are now racing thru the desert looking for the Chaos Emeralds. Blaze is getting desperate to get the other Sol Emeralds back, but she only had two of them and the others are inside Vortex.

"So Tails, any signal on the Chaos Emeralds?" Sonic asked to his flying friend.

"Hmm, let's see." Tails said as he looks carefully at the radar, when a red light appeared on the screen. "I've got one! And it's…that way! Just past those ruins!"

"You heard him right, huh guys? Let's go!" Sonic said as he races to where Tails had pointed, with him and the others behind.

They race thru the dunes and ruins along the way, until they all stopped at the top of a ruined temple. Once there, they could see a pyramid in the horizon, but not just any pyramid. It was Dr. Eggman's old base, from the time they met Shadow.

"Hey Shadow. You remember this place?" Sonic asked Shadow.

"Huff, yeah. The Doctor's old base from that time we met." Shadow said in a deep voice. "I sure am not proud of those days."

"Yeah, but what's in the past is done, right?" Sonic asked.

"Yeah." Shadow said.

"Uh, guys. I think the Emerald is INSIDE the pyramid!" Tails said.

"Well then what are we waiting for? Let's get going before Vortex shows up and takes it!" Silver said.

"Calm down Silver, we are all going there anyway." Amy said.

"And Blaze, if Vortex appears again, we will do whatever is possible to get the other Sol Emeralds back!" Cream told Blaze, who had nodded at her.

"CHAO!" Cheese said happily.

And with that, everyone jumped down the temple, land on the ruin beam and race it down throughout more ruins along the way.

While running…

"Tails, the Emerald IS inside the pyramid right?" Sonic asked.

"That's what the radar says." Tails said looking at the radar.

Suddenly, a missile flies down from the sky and almost caught them. They look up to see a huge ship flying toward them until it stops, hovering in front of them.

"DR: EGGMAN!!!" The heroes cried and yes, it was Dr. Eggman riding a ship that looked like an upgraded version of the Egg Hornet, it had four large engines, two on each side of the cockpit, with large cannons and an energy laser cannon on the bottom of the ship.

"Hello Sonic and co.!" Eggman greeted. "Did you came here to visit my old base?"

"Actually yes, now get out of our way!" Sonic ordered.

"Ha! Not after you hand over those Chaos Emeralds, like a good boy." Eggman said handing out his hand.

"You make me laugh, Eggman." Silver said.

"Ah, if it isn't Silver the Hedgehog. And of course, dear Blaze the Cat." Eggman said as he looked at the other dimensional heroes. "What brings you to this dimension?"

"We are here to stop a greater evil then you!" Silver said. "And the Chaos Emeralds are our only hope!"

"Yeah, now get out of our way so that we can get the Emerald that is inside that pyramid-OOPS!!!" Tails slaps his hands over his mouth.

"TAILS!!!" the others yelled at Tails, who was feeling very guilty.

"What? There's a Chaos Emerald inside my old home sweet home?" Eggman asked.

"Yes. But if you want it, you will have to get rid of us first!" Shadow said.

"Makes no difference, cause that's the reason why I came here in the first place." Eggman snickered.

"Then let's do it to it!" The heroes shout as they get ready to fight Eggman.

Eggman takes out machine guns from the cannons and shots at them, but they dodge it. Eggman just keeps shooting out to wherever one of the heroes appears. Some make funny faces, others just call him out.

"Hold still!" Eggman growls.

"Come on Eggman! I know you can do a lot better then that!" Sonic said.

"Grrrr, you want better? Try this!" Eggman pushes the button on his panel and puts the mashine guns away. Now rocket launchers come out from the cannons. He shots at them, but Sonic and Shadow kicks, Silver uses his psychokenetic powers to throw and Amy swings her hammer on the missiles back at him, causing great damage on him, but he can still fight.

"HA! This is nothing!" Eggman grinned. He then puts the rocket launchers away and takes out large drills.

"All systems: full power!" Eggman makes a back flip flight with the Egg Hornet 2 (the name of the ship) and flies over the road, almost over running them, but the heroes jumped out of the way. As he did that, Blaze gives a drill claw on the cockpit, causing it to shake.

"Way to go, Blaze!" Cream cheered.

"Chao, chao, chao!" Cheese cheered as well.

"Uh, it was nothing." Blaze said nervously to them, while rubbing her head.

Sweat drop on her head

"Better up guys, CAUSE HERE HE COMES AGAIN!!!" Amy cried as everyone gasps in horror to see Eggman coming back with his drills, this time taking out the bridge.

"Guys! The pyramid!" Sonic said as he races off. "Come on!"

"Wait up!" Everyone races after him (or fly in Tails, Cream and Cheese's case), but Shadow stayed put as Eggman approaches.

"CHAOS…" Shadow growls in anger and glows in red. "…BLAST!!!"

The red blast comes out from Shadow's surrounding. As the blast fades, Eggman had the ship half damaged, but he was still on his rampage.

"It's a shame you won't work for me Shadow, guess it's sayonara to you! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" Eggman was about to crumble the road down with Shadow on it, but he Chaos Controlled out of the way and reappears on top of a pillar.

"Your not getting with this Eggman!" Shadow said in anger as he watches the mad doctor crumbling the road down, he then Chaos Controls after him.

Eggman continues to break down the bridge, using his drills. Sonic and the rest of the group continue to run down the road.

"Come on guys, if we fall into the quicksand below, its game over!" Sonic said as he races off in the lead.

Amy throws her Hammer at the cockpit, but a shield appears on it and the hammer bounces off of it.

"He, he ,he! Your mine now!" Eggman laughs maniacally.

"How are we going to loose that guy now?" Blaze asked.

Shadow then Chaos Controls in, "skating" along with the others.

"Oh Shadow, glad you could join us!" Sonic said.

"Whatever Sonic." Shadow said.

"I have an idea!" Silver said. "Sonic, Shadow, are you up for it?"

"Oh yeah!" Sonic says taking out a ring.

"Sure thing." Shadow said.

Silver grabs Sonic and Shadow using his telekinetic powers and throws them at the drills. The two hedgehogs try to push him away using their spin attacks on the drills. Amy, Cream, Cheese and Tails watch this in hope that they can make it.

"Come on, your just wasting my time!" Eggman said. "He, he, he. This is my chance!"

Eggman pushes a button on the panel of his ship and he puts the drills away and to their horror, energy blasts are shot from the cannons, blowing the two hedgehogs away.

"SONIC! SHADOW!" The others cried, when suddenly, the all got covered with sticky glue that was shot from the cannons.

"HAHAHAHAHA!!! This time, nothing shall get in my way of finally putting those annoyances out of their misery for good!" Eggman said as he hovers toward the injured and glue covered hedgehogs.

"I will get you for this, Eggman!" Sonic said in a raspy voice as he and Shadow tried to break free from the glue. The doctor now activates the energy laser cannon from below.

"SONIC!!!" Tails, Amy and Cream cried.

"Good night hedgehogs!" Eggman laughs maniacally, suddenly a figure jumps out from the ground and destroys the laser with a single punch. The punch also caused the ship to tilt back.

"WHOA!!!" Eggman cried as the ship stopped tilting.

"KNUCKLES!!!" Almost everyone cried with joy to see that the figure was none other then Knuckles the Echidna, who was also wearing an exotic hat.

"Hey guys! You look like you need a hand." Knuckles said as he removes the glue off the heroes.

"Thanks Knuckles, we own you one!" Sonic said getting ready to get pay back on Eggman.

"You will pay for that!" Eggman growled. He takes out the machine guns and shoots at them, but they still dodged it. Knuckles jumps and punches on the cockpit, causing it to shake.

"THUDER ARROW!!!" Knuckles points his fist at Eggman and an arrow shaped thunder falls on Eggman, causing great damage on it.

"CHAOS SPEAR!!!" Shadow throws yellow spear shaped lasers at Eggman, causing more damage on it.

Amy throws her hammer at the cockpit causing it to shake even more. Cream throws Cheese in his spin attack form at Eggman's cockpit, causing it to shake even more. Eggman furious takes out the rocket launcher and shots missiles at them, but Silver grabbed them all with his psychokinetic powers and throws them all back at Eggman. Blaze takes her cape off and turns into a fiery inferno, she throws big fire balls at Eggman, causing bigger damage on it.

"SONIC WIND!!!" Sonic throws a blue ball of energy at Eggman, which starts fling around the ship and turns into a blue gust of energy, causing more damage on it.

"Your finished Eggman!" Sonic told Eggman in his ship completely damaged.

"That's what you get for getting in our way!" Amy said.

"You didn't actually think that piece of junk was going to stop us did you?" Silver asked.

"I could have worked, if it wasn't for that irritating echidna! But you will never catch me! NEVER!!!" Eggman flies off to the pyramid.

"Tails! Knuckles!" Sonic called.

"Right!" They said.

Knuckles grabs Tails by his ankles and he grabbed Sonic by his. Knuckles starts spinning them around faster and faster until he let go of the fox, who did a back flip and kicked Sonic in the as he did and sent Sonic flying into Eggman.

"BLAST AWAY!!!" Sonic makes a Light Speed Attack on the Egg Hornet 2. Then he jumps back to the group to see the ship shaking violently, until it finally exploded and Eggman is sent out flying into the sky.

"YOU WILL REGRET THIS!!!" Eggman shouted as he disappears in the sky with a flash.

Later…

"Thanks for helping us out there Knuckles!" Sonic said as he was being hugged by Amy.

"Yeah, don't mention it. I knew you guys were going to get into trouble, that's why I asked the Chaotix to look after the Master Emerald for me." Knuckles explained.

"Did the Chaotix told you about Dark Vortex?" Silver asked.

"Yeah! They even told me that he destroyed Flicky's Island, but that ain't putting me out of the way!" Knuckles said.

"So are you going to help us find the Chaos Emeralds?" Tails asked.

"Of course, we are not going to let some metal junk get away with them right?" Knuckles asked.

"Yeah, now let's get going before he finds out where we are!" Shadow said as he "skates" off to the pyramid.

"Come on!" Sonic said as he races after Shadow, followed by Tails, Knuckles, Silver, Amy, Blaze, Cream and Cheese.

"Sonic, sorry for telling Eggman that the Chaos Emerald was in there." Tails told his "big brother".

"Apology accepted." Sonic told Tails, making him more comfortable.

Later, they are now in front of the gate to the pyramid, that had a big hole on it.

"So, this is the entrance to Eggman's old base, huh?" Blaze asked.

"Who would have thought that the old doctor would hide in such a place." Silver said.

"Careful, the base might be abandoned, but I bet there are still some robots in function inside." Shadow said.

"Yeah, and ghosts as well." Knuckles said, making Tails whimper.

"Don't worry Tails, we have fought them before remember?" Sonic asked.

"Your right, ghosts or no ghosts we are going to find that Chaos Emerald!" Tails said.

"So what are we waiting for? Let's Go!" Sonic and the Gang race thru the busted gate into the pyramid.

A/N: No the Sonic gang are inside the old base. What new challenges will they find in there? Will they find the Chaos Emerald? Or are they going to get lost in there forever? Find out in the next chapter of SONIC THE HEDGEHOG Z!!! R&R please!