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"STOP! STOP! STOP!" Shelby cried.
The group skid to a halt.
"What cha stop for?" Sonic, Manic, Shadow, Eddy, Kevin, and Johnny asked.
"Something's not right here." She said.
"What's not right?" Sonia asked.
"The ground, something isn't right about it." She said, glaring hard at the ground.
"What's not right?" Tails asked.
"Well, there was a patch of grass here before, but now it's just sand and dirt." She said.
"Aw come on! Let's just go!" Sonic said walking forward.
"SONIC! STOP!" Shelby cried but it was too late.
The ground under neither them gave away! The next thing they knew, they were falling into a pit. They were all crying out as they tumbled until they finally hit bottom.
"You say 'I told you so' and I will personally beat the tar out of you." Sonic growled at Shelby.
"Okay. Topaz?"
"She told you so." Topaz said with a giggle and Sonic just pound his head on the ground.
"Look at what we caught, girls!" A voice said.
They looked up and saw three weasels looking down at them. One had extremely fluffy red fur that covered her eyes, another was yellow with buckteeth, and the last one was blue with her fur covering one of her eyes. Only the eds and other Peach Creek kids knew them. It wasn't just the looks that gave them away but also their voices but what really did it was the rhyme they were singing.
"Ed, Edd, and Eddy, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!"
"KANKERS!" They cried.
"IT'S OUR BOYFRIENDS!" The yellow one cried, which they guessed was May.
"Aint they dreamy?" The blue one, they guessed was Marie asked.
"I just want to hug the little yellow one." The red one they guessed was Lee said.
"HIDE US!" The Peach Creek kids cried.
"What's with you guys?" Sonia asked.
"Those are the girls we were telling you about!" Eddy cried, hiding behind her.
"Them?" Manic asked, looking at Ed who was cowering behind him.
"Yes them!" Double D cried, looking over Sonic's shoulder.
"Come on! You guys have plenty of muscles! You've got teeth, ninja skills, and a stinger! You can handle a couple of girls!" Manic said but that was when he realized what big of a mistake he had made.
"WHAT YOU SAY?!" Sonia, Nazz, Nova, Shelby, and Topaz yelled.
"I-I meant them! Not you guys! Them!" Manic said, pointing at the Kankers.
"Nice recovery." Shelby said.
"But seriously, what's so bad about them?" Sonic asked.
"They tied ME to a truck tire to play trivia with!" Kevin said.
"They tied me to a tree and May was swinging in and out to kiss me up side down!" Ed said.
"THEY ARE EVIL!" Rolf proclaimed.
"They once stole Plank and used him as a backscratcher!" Johnny snapped.
"CHOA!"
"They wrecked the town!" Nazz said.
"We already went into that." Double D told her.
"May poisoned Double D with love!" Eddy snapped.
"Which one's May?" Sonia asked.
"That would be me!" The yellow weasel said.
"I'm Lee!" The red one said.
"And I'm Marie!" The blue one said.
"Well we're the Sonic Underground and we can get out of a hole." Sonic smirked.
"Dr. Robotnik told us about you." Lee said. "We made an agreement, if we capture you, then we get our boyfriends!"
"WE'RE NOT YOUR BOYFRIENDS!" Eddy snapped.
"Oh, and don't even try to use your little medallions, we've got something for those!" Marie snickered.
They held what looked like a HUGE magnet with wires attached to it over the hole.
"Hit it." Lee told May who threw a switch.
"WHOA!" Manic cried.
A sort of forced entered the hole and it started pulling on the medallions!
"What are you doing?" Sonic demanded.
"We're taking your medallions, we know you're next to powerless without them." Lee said.
The siblings cried out when their precious medallions flew off of their necks and onto the magnet! That's when they saw that Shadow was holding tightly onto something that was being pulled out of the hole. None of them could make out any details but it was made of silver on a purple string. Shadow held on until he himself was being lifted into the air!
"Give it more power, May!" Lee said.
"Already done!" The yellow weasel said, turning something.
Shadow was being lifted off the ground.
"Oh no you don't!" Shelby said, grabbed onto Shadow's legs, and started pulling him back down.
"Oh no you don't!" Lee said. "May!"
Even more power started pulling Shadow up. By now, Shelby was barely touching the ground.
"Shelby!" Topaz cried and grabbed her around the waste. "Guys! HELP ME!"
Soon everyone was grabbing onto them trying to pull Shadow back to the ground.
"MAY! MARIE! PUT IT TO FULL POWER!" Lee snapped.
"You've got it!" Marie said.
"On it!" May said.
In the hole, Knuckles was holding onto Sonia with one hand with his other fist in the dirt. Everyone was holding on and Shadow refused to let go of whatever it was that he was holding onto. The force was just so powerful and whatever it was it slipped from his grip.
"NO!" He cried as he watched it go. He and the others fell to the ground. "Give that back to me right now!"
"I don't think so." Lee taunted, causing Shadow to grit his teeth.
"I've had enough." Shelby said. "I'll get those medallions back on my own."
"How can you?" Marie taunted. "Without one of these, you're just a regular hedgehog."
"She's right." Sonia said. "Our powers are connected to them, without them, we can't use our powers."
"Well, I don't have a medallion!" Shelby said.
To prove her point, she charged straight up the hole, launched herself into the air, and landed right in front of the three sisters.
"And I thought Gemstone could be as nasty as a dragon but you three REALLY take the cake." Shelby said, striking a martial arts pose.
"Bring it on!" Lee snapped.
"Done-"
Before she continued, Shelby jumped into the air, did a flip, landed behind Lee, gave her a kick to the back, sending her into the hole, the whole time with her back turned. Marie tried to charge her, only to have herself grabbed by one wrist, and thrown into the hole. Shelby simply looked at May, who was pretty freaked by this. Figuring it would cause her less pain, May jumped into the hole.
"-and done." Shelby finished.
Now if you're wondering why the Kankers aren't kissing the eds like heck, there's a simple answer: Tails and Topaz were carrying everyone out of the hole! Knuckles scaled the wall with Kevin and Johnny hanging onto him, Plank flew after Johnny. Nova used her flames like jets to slowly lift her out of the hole, holding Tune in her arms. Eddy flew out with Sonia in his arms, trying EXTREMELY hard not to blush however, Knuckles was just getting madder by it.
"You know, it's getting pretty useful to have you guys around." Sonic and Manic said.
Once they were all out of the hole, they looked back down at the sisters, who were fighting over who's fault it was that they got stuck down there.
"Let's beat it before they climb out." Topaz said.
"Good idea." Tails agreed.
"Let's get out of here!" Tune said.
"Yeah, we've still got to tell Garin what Shelby found out." Nova said.
"But first, the medallions." Shelby said, pulling them from the magnet.
She handed them back to the three siblings but then she noticed the last one, it looked just like Sonic's only the spines were turned upwards, in fact it looked a lot like Shadow.
"Shadow? Is this yours?" Shelby asked.
He didn't give an answer he just snatched it from her hand. He stuffed it into his glove and mumbled something.
"Maria gave it to me."
The others didn't say anything else. They just walked back to camp. All the while, they were being watched. The pure force smiled sadly. She knew her son was in great pain but things were starting to look up for him. She then looked at another in the group and smiled. That single one would be what would bring Shadow out of the dark cave he had crawled into and into the sun. But there were still many dangers they had to go through before that happened. But she knew that some very special things would happen to them and when the time was right, everything would be made clear.
"May the time for us to be reunited be soon…"
She then looked at the royal triplets.
"For all of us…"
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Well now, this is getting better. Now, let's see, someone's mother is on the island, the Kankers are working for Robotnik to get their "boyfriends", Shadow has a medallion that looks just like the one Sonic has, WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?! With spring break finally here, I think can answer at least ONE of those questions. I'll try to update more. Until then R&R please.