When Sonic opened his eyes, he saw a butterfly on the tip of his nose and smelled that there were plenty of flowers around. Sonic looked around where he was and then scratched his head in confusion; when he saw that he was in a floral field. He was sure that he and the others were about to be killed by Yami.

"I was sure we were fighting for our lives..."

"We were."

Sonic turned and saw Knuckles walking towards him with a tired look on his face. He carried Michiru on his back. She was still unconscious.

"Knuckles, do you know what happened?" Sonic asked, getting up.

Knuckles shrugged, "I've never seen the Chaos Emeralds react like that before."

"I think I came to the Earth this way," Sonic said.

"What!? Does that mean we're in some other world?!" Knuckles exclaimed.

"We can ask the Omni-Viewer," Sonic replied, "Michiru's got him stored on her phone."

Sonic went through Michiru's pockets and found her mobile phone where the Omni-Viewer was, and he wasn't looking good.

"Omni What's up? You look knackered," said Sonic.

"During your fight with that creature, I absorbed some of the negative Chaos Energy during the battle. Now I have glitches" The Omni-Viewer explained.

"Can't you get rid of it? " Sonic asked.

"It will take some time since it was a lot of energy. I can do small tasks for you. " The Omni-Viewer answered.

Sonic sighed, "Well, can you at least tell us where we are?"

"Not right now...everything is all fuzzy. I need to rest. " said the Omni-Viewer before the screen went black.

Sonic sighed and put the phone back in Michiru's pocket, he turned to Knuckles and said, "We're going to have to do things the old fashioned way."

Knuckles looked back at Michiru, "We're gonna need to find somewhere to rest first so that Michiru can rest without being disturbed."

Sonic nodded, "Good idea, this is the afterlife so maybe we'll run into an angel or something."

Knuckles lifted Michiru on to his back, "Give me a hand with her, " Sonic lifted Michiru's lower half onto his shoulder.

"Let's move out."

Sonic and Knuckles started their journey to find shelter. The two travelled across the field and into more wooded areas, so far they didn't meet any angels or anything like that, just the occasional squirrel. Sonic thought the place was more like the Earth than the Afterlife. He hoped that Mobius' afterlife would be more exciting than this.

"Hey Knuckles, do you think there's an Afterlife for us?"

Knuckles turned his head back slightly, "What brought that along?"

"I was just thinking. This place is more like Michiru's world than the afterlife. I hope if there is one, it's more exciting than this."

Knuckles paused when something came to mind, "Well since your asking, yeah, I think there's an afterlife."

"What makes you so sure?" Sonic asked.

"I met some ghosts on the floating island and they passed on," Knuckles answered, flatly, "So they must have gone somewhere."

"Into the sea?" Sonic said

" Before it sunk!" Knuckles snapped which got a laugh from Sonic.

From what I saw from Porker's photos, there's a lot of poverty in the human afterlife."

Sonic looked around, "Man, I wonder who's in charge?

"Good thing we haven't seen it yet," said Knuckles, "Aren't those...Shinigami in charge of the Afterlife, they're probably not doing their jobs properly."

"Who knows," Then Sonic stopped followed by Knuckles.

"What is it?"

Knuckles asked.

"Shh, I hear something..." Sonic whispered.

And suddenly just a stone's throw away from them, a gigantic Hollow with three heads crashed through onto the path they were on. The creature roared. Sonic knowing ahead of time what was going to happen called Knuckles and told him to start running. The Hollow saw them running and chased after them.

The duo came to the end of the forest. Knuckles who was in the front saw that they were coming towards a cliff and shouted,

"Sonic stop!" But the duo moved too fast. They flew off the edge of a cliff. Sonic quickly grabbed Knuckles' leg whilst holding onto Michiru with his other arm and Knuckles dug his knuckles into the cliff stopping their fall.

"Now I know why I brought you along!" Sonic shouted. Knuckles rolled his eyes.

"Hold on tight! I'm going to climb back up."

Sonic and Knuckles heard a loud crash and the Hollow that chased them earlier hurtling down the cliff towards them.

"Knuckles! Hold on to Michiru! " Sonic revved up his feet until they were a blur. He reached Knuckles and gave Michiru to Knuckles.

"What are you going to do?!" Knuckles

"Just watch me!" Sonic shouted.

Sonic sped up the cliff-face and ran onto the Hollows body. Then like a speeding wrecking ball, he broke the masks of all three heads with a spin attack. However, the Hollow was still fast approaching Knuckles and Michiru.

"Sonic!"

Knuckles closed his eyes.

"What?" Knuckles opened his and saw Sonic hanging off a cliff ledge next to him with a cheeky smile on his face.

"Huh? But what happened?" asked Knuckles.

"It disintegrated." Sonic pointed to small black particles in the air that also disintegrated.

The cliff around Sonic and Knuckles started to crumble.

"We're gonna fall," Knuckles yelled, struggling to keep his cool, "Any other ideas?!"

As Knuckles said that, the cliff crumbled causing Sonic and Knuckles to fall as well.

"Omni! I know your struggling but please try and teleport us somewhere safe!" Sonic yelled.

The Omni-Viewer emerged from Michiru's pocket and absorbed them all into him, "I'll do my best Sonic!" Then the Omni-Viewer disappeared.

...

The Omni-Viewer reappeared in old fashioned room with shelves stacked with boxes and sacks. Sonic, Knuckles and Michiru all fell out of the Omni-Viewer. Sonic rose from the ground dusting himself and looked up at the Omni-Viewer,"I owe you one." said Sonic and the Omni-Viewer returned into Michiru's phone, "Get some rest, you earnt it." He added.

Knuckles crawled out from underneath Michiru and appeared to be unharmed, "That was too close for comfort." He said.

"Tell me about it, but you saved us," Sonic replied which earned him a strange look from Knuckles, "Thank you, Knuckles," Sonic said.

"No problem," said Knuckles.

Sonic realized the symbols on the boxes and was reminded of Japan "We could be on Earth, that symbol looks like the Japanese language," Sonic answered.

"Earth? I'm getting sick of all this travel," Knuckles complained.

"Tell me about it," Sonic agreed, "Let's hope there are no Hollows here. By the way, how's the kid?" said Sonic changing the subject.

Confused, Sonic looked at Knuckles, "Asleep? I thought she was out."

"She's asleep."

Knuckles nodded, "She fell on top of me. I heard her breathing."

"That means she's alright then,"

Sonic said, relieved.

Next, Sonic walked towards the door and slid it open. He peeked outside at a dark empty hallway. He turned to Knuckles and said, "I'm going to take a look around. Stay here and protect Michiru."

"Got it."

Ten minutes later Sonic had returned after a while to confirm no one was in.

Sonic and Knuckles took the time to rest. They also discovered that the room had food supplies and decided to get their strength back.

"Are you sure we should be eating this?" asked Knuckles.

"Well we can't save the world on an empty stomach can we?" Sonic said before stuffing his face with bread, fruit and vegetables. Knuckles gave Sonic a bewildered look and said,

"Uh Let's try not to eat too much," Knuckles said, he put a smaller piece in his mouth.

All of sudden, Sonic shouted when he was suddenly being squeezed. He tried to wriggle free, " Sonic Your alive! I thought Yami killed you!"said a familiar voice.

"Let go of me, you moron! Do you want me to choke! " Sonic yelled.

Michiru face turned pink as she released Sonic, she apologized immediately. Then Michiru noticed Knuckles who was laughing which got him a glare from Sonic. Michiru leaned towards Sonic and whispered, "Hey, that's Knuckles' right?"

"Yeah, he carried you over here, " Sonic said, "I think he deserves a hug too."

"He did?! I should thank him too!"

Then there was the sound of the rapid sound of footsteps from above along with the sound of voices.

"Shoot! They must have heard us," Sonic said.

Michiru went pink for a second time and bowed her head, "I'm sorry."

"We need to-"

The door slid open and two muscular men stood at the door. They looked around at everyone confused. Finally, one of them said," What the hell is going on here? How did you guys get in here?"

"Uh, internet?" Michiru said.

"What?" Both of the men replied, even more confused.

"Wait! We don't mean any harm." Sonic said, trying to gain control of the situation.

"Yeah, please believe us!" Knuckles added.

But when the two men looked at Sonic, and then Knuckles.

"Talking animals? How can this be?"

The other one shrugged, "Maybe it's like Yourichi's shapeshifting form."

"Nevertheless, they managed to break in and by the looks of it they have been eating our Master's food supplies."

"We only did it because we were starving, we didn't intend to break in a steal anything."You gotta believe us!" Sonic pleaded.

"Unlikely story, rat! You and your friends are coming with us!" The one in yellow said.

"Where are we going?" Sonic asked.

"To see our Master and see what she says about this."

For now, Sonic decided to cooperate. If things start to get worse then they'll just make a run for it, but hopefully not. Maybe they can find out more about the Shinigami.

Sonic and the others followed the two men upstairs and into several other rooms until they got to what looked like the front of the room. There in the front room sat a young woman with messy black hair and a loose red robe. She sat lazily on a cushion smoking a pipe.

"Master Kukkaku, we've found the intruders." The two muscular men bowed their heads.

The young woman put down her pipe and sat up and eyed the trio and said, "I wasn't expecting this," The woman looked up at Michiru and said to her, "Where did you find these pets, girl?"

"Oi! Watch who you're calling pet, lady!" Sonic snapped.

Kukkaku's looked at Sonic and glared, "Someone has an attitude problem." Kukkaku walked over Sonic glaring at him, "Who the hell do you think you are talking to me like that you oversized rat?"

Sonic trying to keep a lid on his temper ignored her and said, "My name is Sonic The Hedgehog and my friend and myself are here on a mission to save the Earth."

"You mean the World Of The Living. What does the World Of The Living need saving from?" Kukkaku asked.

"By a creature made entirely out of energy, its name is Yami and it wants to destroy this world and remake it." Knuckles explained.

"A creature made from energy? Doesn't sound so tough." Kukkaku shrugged.

"She is!" Michiru shouted getting the attention of everyone in the room," and if she gets her way she'll destroy my home town! and after that, she'll destroy everything else."

"So is that why you snuck into my house and ate my food while I was out?" Kukkaku asked.

"We didn't mean that! " Michiru shouted," We arrived here by accident, we were just trying to find shelter."

Kukkaku burst into laughter, "How the hell do you break into someone's house by accident? Give me one reason why I shouldn't kill you right now?"

"Because we have proof," Sonic said calmly.

Both Michiru and Knuckles gave Sonic quizzical looks, and Sonic went to Michiru got her mobile phone, "Yo Omni, we need you again, don't worry we just need you to replay some events."

Nothing happened.

"Omni now's not the time!" Sonic yelled, but The Omni-Viewer didn't respond.

Kukkaku smiled, "That's what I thought. Men take them away!"

...

Yami flew through the air feeling very confused. The last thing she knew she was about to kill those pests and retrieve her Chaos Emeralds. But the Chaos Emeralds reacted strangely, like on Mobius before she had a body, and now she was in a meadow. The hedgehog and his companions are nowhere to be found.

She first thought they were dead, but that doesn't explain the meadow not having the crater that her weak doppelganger made and it also doesn't explain why she can still feel her doppelgangers energy like she was right with her.

"Oh well, it just means I can kill them later if they're alive and get my Chaos Emeralds," Yami concluded. Just then felt a strange feeling.

Yami's eyes shot open, "I feel it, a Chaos Emerald!" She descended, following her senses she made sure she arrived in the right place. She landed on the outskirts of a village to make sure no one noticed her. She walked into the village following her senses which led her to a small hut with kimonos were hanging on the back. An old man was standing wearing a black kimono standing behind a table. Yami felt the energy coming from the old-man.

"Hello, young lady, can I help you?" asked the old man

Yami gave him her sweetest smile, "Do you have a set of new clothes for me, as you can see my clothes are pretty bad." She pointed at the rips in her school uniform.

"Of course, a young lady like you shouldn't be walking around like that," And the man rushed away to the back of the store and a minute later he came back with a purple kimono and sandals them she was pointed to another room where she could change. Yami came back into the main room wearing a purple kimono and sandals.

"You look lovely." The old man said.

Yami smiled and covered her face, "Oh you flatter me, sir."

"Is there anything else you would like?"

"Do you also sell jewellery."

The old man smiled, "Oh sorry I don't."

"Well, that is a shame."

Yami fired a ball of energy at the man, blowing off his head. She jumped over the desk and searched the man's dead body and found a Chaos Emerald hidden in his shirt.

Yami smiled wickedly, "Finally, the first emerald is mine."