Shocking I know, but yes! It's FINALLY time for an update to this story. I'll admit it's a small one, but at least it's something, right? The next one should be a bit beefier, but until then I hope this holds you over. Now one thing I do want to mention. Since this story was updated, E-vay has - for the most part at least - vanished from the likes of Tumblr, enjoying her life with her boyfriend and I'm happy that she's doing well in that regard.

I sincerely hope that she's still out there and that she'll see this story has not been abandoned or forgotten. Much like her, life has taken a hold on me and it's significantly slowed me down. But I still love Aurora and everything that she is, and I still intend to continue this story and pay honor to quite frankly, the best Sonamy fan child I have ever seen, for several reasons.

Enough of that, let's check the anonymous reviews!

John: It's FINALLY here! Sorry for the long wait!

Shadowthhedgiefa: Glad you enjoyed it, here's another one!

Nightshade: Amy is awesome isn't she? She'll have more chances to be awesome in the future!

Freaking out: You can come back to life now, it's update time. xD

Well that's that. If any of E-vay's fans are still out there, I hope you enjoy this update. Without further ado, let's get started! I own nothing except the story and Yukon "Houdini" the Sugar Glider. Aurora the Hedgehog belongs to E-vay.
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"Eh, boss?" Orbot hovered over to his creator with a bowl of nachos. "You know, you really should eat something, you've been watching that security footage for several hours. A fed brain is a healthy brain." Eggman grunted and took a handful of the cheese-covered tortilla chips and stuffed them into his mouth before glaring back at the constantly replaying footage of Ba'Gan's sudden rebelliousness back in Blue Ridge, much to the confusion of Orbot. "What exactly is it that you're looking for?" the red robot finally asked.

The doctor licked his fingers and turned his chair around as he began to pace around the room. "Ba'Gan's sudden concern for the safety of that pink nuisance is unsettling."

"Well, he was still merged with Sonic at the time, perhaps it was Sonic influencing his actions again?"

"I considered that. I dismissed it." the doctor continued to pace, finally coming to a halt as he stroked his mustache in thought. "His reaction to my threat didn't indicate it was Sonic trying to protect her, Ba'Gan wants her for something. Whatever it is, he's willing to challenge me to get it, and that is a new factor I have to take into account."

"Could it be that Ba'Gan simply finds Miss Rose attractive? After all, she has grown into quite a lovely young lady over these past few years."

Eggman froze. "Could it really be that simple?" the doctor went back to his chair and began watching the footage again, listening to the recording and watching as Ba'Gan threatened him simply for the sake of preserving the life of one of his mortal enemies. "Perhaps his connection to Sonic is stronger than I thought...or maybe..." Eggman stuffed some more nachos into his mouth and began typing with his clean hand before waving Orbot off. "Go make yourself useful elsewhere, I have work to do." Once he heard the door whoosh open and close again, Eggman hacked back into the A.R.K. database and pulled up the available information on Incursites. "I must have overlooked something in my original perusal...so let's see if I can't find out why Ba'Gan desires little Miss Amy so badly."

He was about to get started when suddenly the door opened again, and Eggman quickly aborted the search and turned around in his chair, finding himself face to face with a blue, distorted, and clearly angry version of his mortal enemy. "Doctor, I require an explanation for what happened. And I also require another favor from you."

"Somehow I get the feeling I know what that favor is." Eggman gave Ba'Gan a neutral stare as he steepled his fingers. "An explanation? Perhaps I'll give you one after you give me one. Why were you so eager to protect one of my longtime mortal enemies? Maybe you don't realize the consequences of what you've done. Your actions have jeopardized everything we've worked towards. Tails now has the Chaos Emeralds, which means he's holding your source of power. Without those emeralds, your super form will be impossible to attain."

Ba'Gan just stared at Eggman for a moment before finally deciding to speak. "That female is imperative to my mission, the nature of which I don't intend to disclose to you. Just know that unless I have that female, we'll accomplish nothing. Even those emeralds are not as important as this."

Eggman raised an eyebrow at this. "If having a female is so important, why not just find a different one?" he leaned forward slightly. "What makes Amy Rose so special?"

"You're testing my patience Doctor," Ba'Gan bared his jagged teeth. "If you want my help in taking over this world, you will grant this one simple request. Capture that female and bring her to me alive. Once that's done, we can move forward with whatever plan you want, but I need that girl."

The doctor regarded the slightly disfigured blue hedgehog carefully for a few moments. It was clear that Ba'Gan was not willing to divulge any more information than that, and he was no use to him as an enemy. Finally turning around in his chair to face the computer console again, Eggman began working on their next course of action. "Very well Ba'Gan, you shall have her. But first, we need to get our hands on the Chaos Emeralds again. Without them, we'll be fighting a losing battle, and I've spent enough time these past seven years doing that." his computer began beeping as several bright lights began flashing across a map of what appeared to be Mobius. "Fortunately, in my brilliance, I've already figured out a plan to get the emeralds back, and perhaps even take care of an unforeseen circumstance."

"And the female?"

"If all goes according to plan, Amy will be all yours." Eggman stood up and began walking out of the room. "Come Ba'Gan, there's no time like the present to set wheels in motion!"

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"Sonic, you really should be resting."

The speedy blue hedgehog ignored Tails' counsel as he went through a speedy stretching routine to loosen up the tightness in his muscles. He was always known as a pretty fast healer, which was fitting for the fastest thing alive. So as soon as he'd felt strong enough to stand after nothing short of coming back from the dead, he quickly jumped right back in as if he'd never been hurt. "Well ya know what they say, no rest for the weary, am I right pal?" he said with a snicker.

Tails didn't fall for the typical cheesy grin and just shot his big brother a disapproving stare. "We're not in any rush to jump back into battle Sonic, we have the Chaos Emeralds, and Eggman doesn't. He's going to be spending at least a little time trying to come up with a new plan, which gives you a little time to rest and recover. This wasn't like all of those other times where you 'almost died,' you were actually dead for a while there."

Sonic scoffed at that, but after seeing that Tails wasn't about to back down, he rolled his eyes and hopped up onto a table with a begrudging smirk. "There, happy? I'm resting."

"Very." the fox boy gave a smirk and a curt not as he turned to leave, but he brushed by Amy first to give her some instructions. "Make sure Sonic stays put if you can, he doesn't need to push himself yet."

Amy raised an eyebrow. "You think I'll be able to keep him still?"

"Not really, but I'm saying you have the best chance. Just give it a try." He continued walking and left Amy to handle Sonic, and eventually the young inventor made his way back into the main room of his workshop, where Blaze and her friends had just entered from outside. "Where've you guys been?"

"Oh, just making sure our fangirling friend here woke up okay!" Silver slapped a hand onto Aurora's shoulder with a grin, but that grin faded when his teammates - Aurora in particular - shot him a vicious glare that told him in no small way that just because that was the excuse they'd used for Aurora's condition, didn't mean they appreciated him emphasizing that point. "And I'll shut up now."

Tails shrugged and walked up to Blaze, "Now that Sonic's in the clear, we can try to get you back to your dimension so you can rescue the Sol Emeralds from whatever threat is attacking your world." he motioned for her to follow him. "Come on, we can have Shadow open up a Chaos Control portal for you to get back to your dimension."

"That's...wonderful!" Blaze pasted on a smile and started following the young fox, but not before shooting her teammates a meaningful look.

"Just our luck, Uncle Tails is being too helpful." Aurora sighed and smacked her palm against her forehead. "Now we've gotta come up with an excuse for why we need to stay here, there's very little we can accomplish in Blaze's dimension."

"All these lies, I don't like it." Sticks said with an edge to her voice. "Lies unravel, and the truth eventually reveals itself, and we've stacked up a lotta lies!"

"We can't stop now." Silver spoke up, trying his best to ignore the annoyed glares he was receiving thanks to his previous gaffe. "Telling everyone we're from the future would be an awful plan. The longer the truth is hidden, the better chance we have of doing this right. There's just too many factors for us to come clean now."

"You know something Silver? I'm getting really-"

"TAILS!"

Sticks was cut off by the sudden panicked and enraged shout of the Master Emerald guardian, who was frantically pointing at and showing Tails his portable monitor which was showing the image of the Master Emerald. "The Master Emerald is flashing, it's not supposed to do that, something's wrong!"

"You sure about that? The Master Emerald tends to flash a lot, maybe it's because Shadow-"

Knuckles growled and got up in Tails' face. "Don't you think I know my job?! The Master Emerald doesn't flash like that unless it's in danger, something's coming for it! It might be Eggman!"

"Did someone say Eggman?" Everyone stopped as Sonic suddenly walked over with an excited grin on his face, and Amy at his left flank with a disapproving frown. "About time I got some action, sitting around is boring!"

"The concept of rest is really foreign to you, isn't it?" Tails deadpanned before shaking his head and getting to his computer console. "Alright, activating sensors to scan near Angel Island." After a moment, the fox boy's eyes widened in shock. "Knuckles, you're right, someone is headed for Angel Island!" Tails zoomed in on the signal, and what the sensors revealed caused Knuckles to reel back in horror. "Knuckles," Tails looked at the guardian with remorse. "It's Metal Sonic, and he'll be there in only a few minutes. Eggman must be going for the Master Emerald to try and counter the Chaos Emeralds."

"I have to get there, now!"

"Whoa there knucklehead!" Sonic grabbed the guardian's wrist and stopped him, but Knuckles quickly pulled away and snarled at the blue hedgehog for getting in his way. "What makes you think you'll beat him there from all the way out here? By the time you get back to Angel Island, Metal Sonic will be long gone and the emerald will be in Eggman's hands."

"So you expect me to just sit back and watch?!"

"No," Sonic grinned and held up a Chaos Emerald. "I expect you to stop and listen for a change, we'll be there in a second, literally."

"Fine, but you better not slow me down once we get there."

"You do remember who you're talkin' to right?" the smirk never left his face. "Chaos-"

The sound of an alarm blaring cut Sonic off. "What the?!" Tails responded to the alert, and what his sensors told him caused him to growl. "Eggman's attacking Station Square!"

"What for?!" Amy asked incredulously. "Is he just throwing a temper tantrum after he lost the Chaos Emeralds?!"

"Think for a minute Pinkie," Rouge scoffed. "Eggman's got Metal Sonic going after Knuckie's precious rock," Knuckles' indignant growl was ignored. "And Eggman's just randomly attacking the city for no apparent reason. Does that sound like something he would do?"

Amy didn't get to answer as Shadow spoke up instead. "The doctor is trying to draw us out, keep us from stopping Metal Sonic before he can get his hands on the Master Emerald," the black hedgehog crossed his arms. "I wouldn't be surprised if he's hoping we'll take the Chaos Emeralds with us so he can get his hands on those too."

"There's something else to consider!" Aurora raised her voice and garnered everyone's attention. "Eggman might be thinking that since Blaze is here, the Sol Emeralds are around too!"

"Makes sense." Tails nodded. "As much as I hate to do this, we'll need to split up, we can't let Eggman get to the Master Emerald, and we can't let him wreck Station Square." the fox boy turned around in his chair and got up to face everyone. "We've got the numbers, so we'll use them. Knuckles, you and Shadow get to Angel Island and cut off Metal Sonic. I'll go with Sonic and Amy to take on Eggman. Who's with us?"

"I'll gladly go to Angel Island and help defend the Master Emerald." Rouge said with a smirk, much to Knuckles' chagrin. "Maybe you'll be so grateful that you'll let me have it?"

"You're delusional and insane."

"Love you too Knuckie."

Aurora stepped up with a determined expression. "I'll go too."

"If Rory's going, then so am I!" Sticks exclaimed.

"Alright, that makes five, that should be enough to take on Metal Sonic." Tails turned to Blaze and Silver, "We could use a little more muscle in case Eggman has something up his sleeve, and maybe with you there Blaze," he allowed himself a smug smirk. "We might be able to trick Eggman into going on a wild goose chase looking for the Sol Emeralds. That might keep him distracted later down the line and give us some time to come up with a more solid plan to stop Ba'Gan."

"Sounds good to me!" Silver gave a thumbs up. "So...what about everyone else?"

Tails regarded the rest of their party, smiling when he saw Cream among them. "Everyone else will stay here and guard the lab, I wouldn't put it past Eggman to try and sabotage us while we're out playing defense." he glanced at Cream specifically. "Cream, think you can handle it?"

"You betcha!" Cream beamed at the young fox boy and looked back and forth at her teammates. "I'm sure with me, Gemerl, Mr. Yukon and Mr. Omega here together, we'll be able to keep everything here safe and sound!"

"Then it's settled. Let's go team!"

With that declaration, both teams - armed with one Chaos Emerald each - activated Chaos Control and vanished without a trace, leaving the others alone in the lab. "Well, they're gone." Yukon said awkwardly. "So...now what?"

"Well, now we wait." Cream replied. "If they need our help, they'll let us know. In the meantime, would anyone like some tea? Mr. Omega?"

"I do not require sustenance." Omega said with his monotone voice. Then after a few moments, the large robot turned to Cream and looked down at the small rabbit. "However, if there is high-grade oil available, it would be...appreciated."

"So you do have a soft spot." Gemerl gave a synthetic laugh.

Cream regained Omega's attention before Gemerl's taunting could spark a firefight in the lab. "I'll be glad to get you some oil Mr. Omega, I'm sure Tails has nothing but the best that he uses for his planes."

"Your hospitality is appreciated."

Cream nodded with a smile and went to find Omega some oil, leaving Yukon alone with the two robots who seemed to be shooting sparks at each other, almost literally. "Cream, make it fast okay? I really don't wanna watch a robot rumble!" Yukon gulped nervously. "Next time, I'm going out into the field. It's probably less dangerous."
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A/N: Yeah, it's a split up into teams chapter, but those are necessary sometimes. Too many cooks spoil the soup, or something like that. But what's Ba'Gan after Amy for? And why is Metal Sonic after the Master Emerald? Will Gemerl and Omega have that rumble and cause Yukon to freak out? Will Aurora ever earn Shadow's affection back?

All these answers will be answered in due time! In the meantime, read and review, share with your friends, and I hope to be able to update again soon. Hope you enjoyed!