Author's note: Finally! Chapter 7! Sorry it took so long, but I've been busy writing other stories and some techno songs, and doing some other stuff.

Back at Robotnik's hideout, the Brotherhood was acting un-brotherly as usual.

"Hey! I say we Bomb them there-"

"No, I'llgettheemeralds! I'mfastenough-"

"Oh, yeah," laughed Fred, "Faster then that warthog?"

"That's hedgehog, fatso!" Toad snapped.

With his usual gutteral roar, Fred grabbed toad and was ready to send him to the lilly-pad in the sky, when he was stopped by Lance.

"Ok, Blob, save your strength for when we attack them. You wait there with toad," he pointed to a spot on the map, "And Pietro and I will wait there," he pointed to another spot.

"Ok, fairenough," Pietro shrugged.

Toad exhaled in relief, feeling a little sore where he was grabbed. He glared at Blob, who showed him his fist as a warning. Toad wisely backed off.

Then, Mystique came in, looking ill.

"Hey, what's wrong, Mystique?" Lance asked

"I was going to take a shower," the sickened mutant said.

"And?"

Mystique grimaced.

"It was occupied"

Then, Scratch and Grounder, and a monkey-like robot came running into the room, obviously hiding from someone.

"IDIOTS!!!!!!! FOOLS!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Uh, whatever we did, we're sorry!" Scratch said as Robotnik came running in.

He was a comical sight: naked, except for a towel wrapped around his waist, his face red with anger, not to mention his moustash half-shaven off.

"Yuchhh," Toad mumbled.

"Alright, what's going on?" Lance asked, almost afraid to know.

"Those dim-bots made me ruin my handsome moustash! Do you have any idea how ridiculous I look?????"

Mystique rolled her eyes.

"Words fail me"

"Well, if you ask me, he didn't need any help in the first place!" Toad commented.

Robotnik glared at him.

"What did you say???"

"Uh, what I was saying was-"

"He meant to say those robots shouldn't have ruined your moustash," Lance said.

Robotnik, who was incredibly dense in spite of all his scientific achivements, cooled down.

Then, a screen in the room came on, showing a very worried Knuckles.

"What is it?" Robotnik demanded.

"They got six of the chaos emeralds! And that metal kid can detect them!"

Robotnik fumed again, as he had a habit of doing. Smoke came out of his ears, making him look even more ridiculous.

Knuckles noticed this, and raised an eyebrow at the little spectacle.

"Knuckles, where are they now?" Mystique asked.

"They're at Angel Island zone, but they're gonna be on the move again real soon!"

"Well? Don't just stand there! GET THE EMERALDS!!!!!!" Robotnik yelled.

The three badniks pushed the Brotherhood towards a transport, not wanting to further provoke the half-naked mad scientist.

Meanwhile, back at Angel Island Zone, Knuckles switched off the comm. and two of the 'mutants' and a fox coming his way.

The girl with the white bangs and the fox were singing a strange song:

"Back in the day when man he paved the way,
fell in temptation, sin spread through the nation
lead me salvation, and pierce the palms of holy hands
who is the son of man? take me to the promised land
where I and I free, Jah set my mind at ease
I stay cool in the shade even at 96 degrees?
you must believe an plant the seed of wisdom
stick to the track and don't be trapped by Babylon

set your eyes on Zion, Jah Jah people ride on
set your eyes on Zion, Jah Jah people ride on" [from 'Set Your Eyes On Zion', by P.O.D.]

"That was a fun song!" the fox said, giggling.

"Yeah, Ah lahk it too," the girl who looked like she had some weird dye-job said.

Knuckles was confused. They knew about Jah??? If they were singing about Jah, The Most-High, then how could they be bad? And that woman with the streak in her hair sounded sincere.

Kurt's Team was in Sandopolis Zone, dealing with a rock-monster.

"Hey, over here!" Kurt taunted, teleporting behind the monster.

Then he teleported to another random spot.

"Uh, uh, over here!"

This was making the slow-witted monster mad. He wanted to crush the loud-mouth, but he couldn't even touch him.

"You're so slow!" Kurt yelled from a quicksand pool.

Angered, and very stupid, the monster stomped over to the quicksand, where it sank and blew up.

"Ptooie!" Sonic said as he spat out a mouthfull of sand, "Well, that was one of Robotnik's better inventions-NOT!!!"

After scrubbing the sand off themselves, Kurt, Spyke and Sonic went into the pyramid that the monster had come out of.

"Hooo, boy, I don't like this level," Spyke said.

The place was dark, except for some glowing ghosts. They didn't look too friendly, and started diving at the three intruders.

"Yaaa!" Spyke screamed, as a ghost nearly touched him.

Sonic was dodging another like nobody's business.

Kurt, of course, was not frightened, since he was almost invisible. He went over to a light and pulled the switch on. The ghosts disappeared, but the two mutants knew that that they wouldn't stay on forever.

"Come on, let's go!" Kurt said, as he transported himself and the rest of the team to a lift, and through a door.

Sure enough, the room darkened, and the ghosts reappeared, and there were no light-switches in sight.

"C'mon! 'Port out'!" Sonic yelled, jumping out of a ghost's way.

"I don't wanna be ghost-food!" Spyke whimpered.

Then, something started taking shape. It was dark, and humanoid, but with no facial-features. It made it's way toward the ghosts and attacked, hurting them. Several others like it sprang up. It was like they were physically there, yet they weren't.

"Ach! I can control shadows!" Kurt realized, "Cool!"

"That's good and all," Spyke said, still frightened out of his mind, "But can we get outaa here?"

"Not yet. I have a faint reading on that part Forge gave me. The ring is close"

Sonic got into the start-position like he was going to run a race.

"Well, in that case, I'm feelin' the need for speed!"

And he zoomed off.

Jean's team was in Mushroom-Hill Zone, and all the pollon and spores were making Jean sick. She errected a shield around herself, but couldn't hold it because she kept sneezing.

The three mutants wandered around, then came to a ledge. They looked down to see Knuckles peeking out of a hole at the bottom of the ledge, then coming out and pushing a large button. The rumbling sound suggested that he had closed something off, and after he was out of sight, the mutants decided to investigate.

"Yep. Just as I thought," Forge said.

He and the rest of the team jumped into the ring, and were again transported to the secret stage.

Back in Angel Island Zone, Rogue's team found another ring behind a waterfall, but before they could jump in, it disappeared.

"Like, what happened?" Kitty wondered.

"Ah don't know," Rogue said, "Maybe someone else found the laist emerald"

"Then, like, let's find out who did!"

They flew back to the meeting place, where Kurt's team was already waiting. After a few minutes, Jean's team arrived. Forge now had an emerald, the grey one, on his forehead, and metal parts protruding from various places.

"Whoa, cool!" Spyke said, "Just like the borg on Star Trek!"

Forge gave him a funny look, since he had never seen Star Trek: The Next Generation before.

Then, the metal-mutant felt an overwhelming sensation.

"Was is wrong?" a concerned Kurt asked.

"I don't know, but it's the same feeling I had when I got near the chaos emeralds. We'd better check this out!"

"Well then, let's get movin'!" Sonic said.

While this was going on, Magneto found something that piqued his interest. It was a large emerald, and he could feel the power it was emitting. He touched it, and felt the power coursing through him. His body glowed gold, and shot off sparks. He was now Super Magneto. Nothing could stop him now.

Magneto did not know about the chaose emeralds, since he had never played videogames or read Sonic-comics. He was too old for that.

This time, though, he had pretty much forgotten that this was a videogame.