One word: enjoy.

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"Okay, we've turned the hideout upside down and inside out, there's no sign of them anywhere!" One of the followers of Scar Blade said to another.

"It was probably a trick to try and fool us." The other said.

"Yeah, let's beet it." The other said.

As the two floated off somewhere, Garin peeked his head out of their hiding spot. They had been moving around a whole lot to try and avoid the pirate ghosts and so far, it was working out quite well.

"Want me to bring down a wall or two?" Topaz asked, pointing her keyboard's laser at the ghosts who had just passed them by.

"Not yet." Garin said.

"It's hard not to jam out when I'm holding this thing." Topaz groaned, walking back to Shelby.

"Trust me, Topaz, it's just as hard not to play my guitar." Shelby said, trying her hardest not strum her guitar and blasting something.

"Join the club." Sonia said, holding her keyboard.

"Oh, would that be the Spiny Annoying Princess club?" Manic teased.

"No. I mean the one who's urging to play their music but are fighting not to." Sonia said, dragging it along.

"She's right, Manic." Sonic said, holding his own guitar.

"Quiet!" Shelby snapped. "Topaz, you take Tails and get the fox eye view, you see anything heading our way, blast 'em!"

"You know it!" Topaz said. "C'mon Tails!" And she took to the air, keyboard still in hand.

"I'm coming!" He said and flew after her.

Ed was struggling not to jump out and greet every ghost that came before him. They had managed to get to him saying that if he blew their cover, they'd throw straight into the deepest darkest part of the ocean and leave him there to be cleaned by the water or eaten by the sharks.

"Easy big guy." Manic said, placing his hand in front of Ed.

"Must…not…touch…ghosts." Ed said, trying hard not totally flip out.

"Chill big guy, we'll be able to kick their butts!" Manic said.

"Yeah, besides, this is gonna be fun." Sonic said.

"Hey, did you guys hear that?" Shelby asked.

"Hear what?" Eddy asked.

"That."

There was muttering sound echoing through the cave. It sounded like 'Forgive me, Teru. Your dad is such a coward. That's why I've been beating you up until now…'

"Oh my gosh!" Shelby whispered.

"What is it?" Sonia asked.

"That voice, its Teru's dad's voice." Shelby said.

"Teru?" Sonic asked.

"A friend from Ohu, his father used to beat up on him all the time because he was a coward, another friend of ours saved him from killing his son but ended up tearing off his dreadlock in doing so."

"Dreadlock?" Sonia asked.

"He was an echidna." Shelby quickly explained. "Our friend Kyoushiro the one that saved him got into a fight with another of our friends Weed. Their fight was broken up when they heard someone scream. They found two friends from both sides injured. They said that they were attacked by wolfs with weird fangs. They went after them only to have Teru taken hostage by the very attackers, Vector and Thunder a couple of wolfs who trained specially with their fangs, so they were razor sharp, strong as steal. Kyoushiro and Weed fought for Teru but were losing. Jerome, Hiro, and GB managed to turn Teru's father, who was siding with Lector and Thunder, to help save his son. He fought for him and paid the ultimate price for it but in the end, all he wanted was for his son to forgive him."

"But you just said that was his voice, so he must be alive." Sonia said.

"No, he died, his wounds were so serious, too serious. I was there, I watched him die there was nothing any of us could do."

"Then how can it be him?" Double D asked.

"You're saying that in s cave full of pirate ghosts." She said in a matter of fact tone.

"She's got a point." Sonic said.

"Well I guess I can't argue with logic like that." Double D said.

"My point exactly, so it has to be his spirit." Shelby said.

ZAP!

The group jumped as a laser blast hit the ground. They had failed to notice a ghost coming so dangerously close to them the only thing that saved them was Topaz's laser.

"Too close." Sonic whispered.

"That's an under statement." Sonia said, readying her own gun.

"Move out." Garin whispered.

The group moved as quickly and as quietly as they possibly could. Those who had weapons were ready to use them at any second. But as they continued through out the caves, they could still hear the voice, crying out to Teru, it was heart breaking.

"Forgive me, Teru. Your dad has been such a coward. That's why I've been beating you up until now…" He repeated.

"This is terrible." Double D whispered. "That poor soul."

"You tell Kyoushiro that and you'll lose your head, if not an ear, if you're lucky." Shelby said.

"Is he really that violent?" Double D asked.

"No, usually he's worse. You should have seen what he did to Teru's dad. If you saw the scars on his body, you'd understand." Shelby said.

"Would you guys shut it before I sting you both." Eddy said.

"Eddy, I have my laser out, so I suggest that you keep quiet." Sonia said. "Sorry, the stress is getting to me."

"Alright, alright, I'm keeping quiet." Eddy said.

"All of you stop it before-"

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Garin and the group turned in the direction of the scream.

"Oh no! That was Sarah's voice!" Nazz said.

"Come on!" Garin said and took the lead.

They headed in the direction of the scream. They kept their ears open for any other screams or the ghosts. As they got closer, they could hear other voices, mostly grunts.

"What's going on in there?" Sonic, Manic, Eddy, Kevin, Johnny, and Tune asked.

Suddenly, a bunch of ghosts came in their direction! They just braced themselves, ready for the hit.

"Out of my way!"

"Move it!"

"Get out of the way!"

That was when they realized that the ghosts were running AWAY from something. They looked and saw a flash of red cloak. Wait, red cloak?

"Mom!" Sonic called.

"Queen Aleena!" Shelby cried.

The figure disappeared deeper into the cave.

"Mother." Sonia said.

"Why'd she run?" Manic asked.

"Hey, are you Sonic, Sonia and Manic?"

They looked to see two small foxes and one choa.

"Sarah? Jimmy?" Double D asked.

"Double D?" The one that looked like Sarah asked.

"BABY SISTER!" Ed cried.

He ran from the group and picked up Sarah.

"Ed is here now." Ed said, however Sarah didn't feel the same.

"BACK OFF SUITCASE FACE!" She screamed.

"Sarah's fine." He said.

"Thank goodness that you're alright." Double D said.

"Yes, if it wasn't for Queen Aleena we wouldn't be." Jimmy said, holding the choa.

"Mother rescued you?" Sonia asked in surprise.

"Yeah, you should have seen her! She swung from the hole in the ceiling and onto the chain connected to the ceiling and broke us out of this huge birdcage and carried us up to the ceiling and used these ropes on the ceiling to get back to the hole and pulled us out and, and, and, and-"

"Sarah, chill, breath, one thing at a time." Nazz said.

"Where is she?" Manic asked.

"We were jumped by these freaks and she beat them so fast I couldn't even see her!" Sarah said. "Then you guys showed up and she made a break for it, I don't know why though."

"It's because of the prophecy." Shelby said.

"Prophecy?" Jimmy asked.

"We'll explain later, but for now, we've gotta get out of here." Sonic said.

"Who's this?" Double D asked, rubbing the choa's head.

"It's Mr. Yumyum." Jimmy whispered. "But he'd rather be called Canvas."

"This is great!" Nazz said. "We're all back together again."

"Save the sappy stuff for later." Garin said. "We have to keep going before the ghosts figure out that we're here."

"GUYS!"

Topaz and Tails came flying down as fast as they possibly could.

"It's Scar Blade! He's headed this way!" Topaz explained.

"You sure?" Garin asked.

"Are we sure?" Topaz nearly yelled. "Benny threw one of his swords and it nearly hit us!"

"Can't argue with that." Jacques said.

"How do we get away from Scar Blade?" Tune asked.

"We fight." Garin said.

"I think we'd have a better chance of getting the jump on him if we had the black chaos emerald." Topaz said.

"Whatever we do we better choose it quick, he's coming!" Nova said.

As they quietly bickered on what to do, Ed began to start feeling a tickle in his nose.

"AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-"

Topaz noticed that Ed was going to sneeze but she REALLY took notice of was smoke coming from his mouth. She grabbed him and pointed him in the direction of Scar Blade.

"ACHOO!"

When Ed sneezed a fireball was shot from his mouth! The Peach Creek kids were stunned.

"Cool." Manic said.

"Let's go before he realizes what hit him!" Topaz said.

"Right behind you!" Tune said.

"Wait for the rest of us!" Manic called as he ran after them.

"Man, how can anything on run so fast on such sort legs?" Kevin asked.

"Hotshot Kevin would be surprised how fast the youth can get around on their two legs." Rolf said, running after them too.

"GET THEM!" They heard an extremely angry voice yelled.

"I think he knows we're here." Topaz said. "What you think he's more mad about: us sneaking in here or us trying to escape?"

"I'd rather go with getting hit by that fireball." Talaka said.

"Yeah, you're right." Topaz agreed.

"How do we lose these guys?" Sonic asked, looking over his shoulder.

"Like this." Sonia said and shot her laser.

"Topaz, start shooting!" Shelby said, blasting her, own laser gun.

"Manic, give us a downbeat!" Topaz said.

"On it!" The young prince said.

He touched his medallion and his drums appeared, he grabbed his drumsticks and began beating. The whole cave shook violently.

"Manic, take it easy, you're gonna bring this whole place down!" Sonic yelled.

"No, that's the point!" Shelby said.

"What?"

"Look up!"

They saw several stalactites hanging from the ceiling.

"You're not going to-"

"Don't worry, Double D. It'll just keep them busy long enough for us to get out of here!" Topaz said.

Just like she had said, the stalactites began falling right in front of the ghosts.

"Let's move!" Manic said as his drums turned back into his medallion.

"I've got a better idea." Shelby said, reaching for something on her wrist. She pressed a button on it and another surprise came from her: several holograms of them and the crew appeared. "RUN!" She screamed.

The crew followed the fast hedgehog out through a tunnel.

"What was that?" Double D asked.

"Holograms, our friend, Shurie, made the com-links that made those holograms." Shelby explained.

"They're made of special protons to make them life like, they're probably fighting the ghosts right now." Topaz finished.

"But what about Queen Aleena?" Jimmy asked.

"Don't worry about her, she can take care of herself.' Shelby said.

"How do you know?" Sarah asked.

"Trust me, I know." She said.

"We both know." Topaz corrected.

"This way!" A voice called.

"Whoa! Slow down!" Shelby cried.

"What now?" Eddy yelled.

"This way, quickly!" The voice said again.

"I know that voice." Shelby said, smiling.

"I do too." Topaz said.

"You thinking what I'm thinking?"

"Smith!"

"You read my mind!"

"What are you two talking about?" Shadow demanded.

"Smith, he was a commanding officer at Ohu, until…" Topaz couldn't finish.

"He was killed when a bunch of rocks from Gajou fell on top of him while trying to kill Kaibutstu." Shelby said sadly. "He was one of the best of the Ohu warriors."

"Hurry up!" Another voice said.

"JOHN!" Shelby and Topaz cried.

"John?" Double D asked.

"One of the three highest ranking in Ohu, that includes Gin!" Topaz said.

"Gin?" Ed asked.

"Get over here now!" Another voice yelled.

"Red Tiger?" Shelby asked.

"Red Tiger!" Topaz said.

"Red Tiger?" Sonic asked.

"His real name is Akatora but it means red tiger. He was a tiger striped fox A.K.A. a Kia-ken." Topaz explained.

"He died blinding the demon bear, Akakabuto." Shelby explained.

"Akakabuto, from that legend?" Garin asked.

"Oh, it's no legend." Shelby said. "We've met those who survived, including the leader, Gin and his son Weed."

Garin smiled, knowing that she wouldn't lie about something like this.

"So what do they want?" Jacques asked.

"My guess would be to lead us to safety." Topaz said. "And I'm wiling to follow them, with that thing on our tails." And she pointed to Scar Blade who was climbing over the fallen rocks.

"I'm with you." Shelby said.

"I know I'm gonna regret this later." Eddy said.

"Let's just go already!" Knuckles yelled.

"You guys better hurry!" The one called Smith called.

"We're coming, keep your fur on!" Sonic called.

"Watch your mouth." Sonia said. "I once heard that these guys were tough in their time."

"We're still tough! Now get in here!" Akatora yelled.

"We're comin' we're, comin'!" Shelby said and followed the voice.

"Wait, what if it's a trap?" Sonic called.

"Trust me, this is no trap." She smiled.

"Wait for me!" Topaz called and flew after her.

"Should we risk it?" Sonia asked.

"I say we go for it." Manic said. "We'll never know until we check it out."

"He's right." Kevin said.

"Let's go." Nazz agreed.

They followed the two girls into the tunnel. As they went through the crying seemed to be getting worse louder and louder.

"It's scary." Tails whimpered.

"Don't worry little buddy." Sonic said, holding the young fox's shoulder. "It'll be okay."

"I'm scared." Tune whimpered.

"It's okay, we can trust Shelby and Topaz." Nova said, picking the tiny hedgehog up.

As they continued, they could hear Shelby and Topaz's voice.

"Brian!" Topaz cried. They could hear something fall and hit the ground.

When they rounded a corner, they saw Topaz, seemingly hugging what appeared to be a sixteen-year-old male fox but they then saw that he was transparent, a ghost.

"Brian, I've missed you so much." Topaz nearly cried.

"It's okay sis." He said, stroking her head.

"He's your brother?" Double D asked.

"Yeah." She said, rubbing her face into his chest.

"Where's Shelby?" Shadow asked.

"Over here."

They saw the blue hedgehog standing next to another ghost, a red tiger striped fox with a mean look on his face.

"Where's Smith?" Topaz asked.

"Making sure everything's alright." The red fox said.

"Who are these guys?" Eddy asked.

"This is Brian, my big brother." Topaz said, holding his arm.

"And this Akatora." Shelby said.

"Alright, I've had just about enough with these ghosts." Eddy said.

"For you're information Brian was my best friend before he died!" Topaz snapped.

"Yeah, and I know if Icy was here, her father would be here too!" Shelby said. "Wait a minute, where are mom and dad?"

"They're elsewhere." Akatora said.

"What's going on here?" Sonic asked.

"We've created a secret group within Scar Blade's forces so we could bring him down." Akatora explained, slamming his fist into his hand.

"Why?" Ed asked.

"So that the living wouldn't fall to the curse on this place." Brian said. "And you guys better get out of here before you fall to it too."

"What's the curse?" Manic asked.

"If you don't get out of this cave and soon you'll become ghosts yourselves too and fall under Scar Blades rule." Brian explained.

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Now things are getting bad, if they don't get out of that cave and soon, they'll turn into ghosts! R&R if you want to find out what happens next.