Disclamer: All the characters used in this story are not my own. So don't sue me for it. That'd be bad.

Chapter 5

Startled by a sudden noise, Sonic woke up. Darting his head around as usual, He took in his surroundings, A large building resembling the Chaos Temple on Moebius. He got up and walked inside. (For most people this would be considered a sprint) As he entered the first room, Sonic knew it was the great hall. But, for some reason, it wasn't lined with pictures of any special person, but rather of different people. One picture was of some guy in a red hat. Another was of someone in green clothes. A robot looking thing. Someone in a red suit. A fox. He looked at the last picture on the wall. His mouth dropped open. It was of him! Taken aback by a large shock, Sonic absentmindedly walked on. He snapped out of his trance in time to notice he was stumbling up a staircase. Anyone looking at him at the time would have thought he was either very drunk or on heavy drugs. But, shortly he regained his composition and walked up the steps into the next room. It was considerably smaller, with what looked like a conference table and four people sitting at it. Two of them he recognized from the photos, the other two he didn't know.

"Hello Sonic." Said one of the men he didn't recognize. He was a tall man, blue hair flowing down to his shoulders, a blue cape slung over his back and right shoulder, a golden pin was holding the cape in place. A silver scabbard was hung at the waist and a golden handle emerged from it.

"What the hell am I doing here?" Sonic asked, now looking around the table at the others. One was a kid, with a blue cape and red hair, also with a sword. Another looked like the Guy in the suit from the picture, except in a darker red color. The last looked like a plumber, but he wasn't sure. The man in blue responded with slight amusement at his confusion, "My name is Marth. This is Roy." He motioned to the one with the red hair. "That's Samus Aran." He looked at the one in the suit. "And this is Mario." Marth said as he pointed at the plumber.

"Okay you still haven't told me why I'm here." Sonic responded firmly.

"I'll tell you why when the others arrive. Until then, I have rooms set up for everyone. Please, make yourselves comfortable."

"Whatever. You haven't tried to kill me so I guess I'll spend the night."

"A wise choice Sonic. For you are an integral part of the coming situation."

"Yeah sure, fine. Look, just show me a bed." Sonic said, very tired.

"Very well." Marth responded. Sonic was lead down a long hallway to what was apparently his room. He opened the door slowly. His mouth once again fell open. It was his room on Moebius! Sonic turned quickly around. "Surprised?" Marth asked, following him into the room, "You can still visit your home. Should you decide to join the cause."

"What cause." Sonic replied, getting slightly more interested.

"I thought you were very tired." Marth replied with a hint of sarcasm. But Sonic simply repeated himself.

"What cause."

"Are you sure you want to kn-" But he was cut off

"I'm done with the cryptic, tell me everything." Marth paused a moment.

"Very well. This way."

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Megaman was heading towards the mayor's office. He was to be congratulated on another battle won. Something was still bugging him from his conversation with Protoman.

"Megaman, I need you to go to a distant world. There's something there you need to see, to join." He said with a hint of pleading in his voice.

"What's there?" Megaman had asked in return.

"You'll see, just go."

"I can't, I have this meeting with the mayor."

"Megaman, decide which is more important, your recognition, or the safety of the world as we know it." He said as he walked out of the room.

From then until now, he'd been contemplating the conversation. If he left unannounced from a publicized conference, Wily would certainly hear, and send robots after the city. But the world? He was almost turning onto Main Street New York when he made up his mind.

"Dr. Light." He said on his communicator, "Send the mayor my regards. I have to go somewhere. I'll be back in awhile." And with that said he teleported to the coordinates given to him by Protoman.

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"So wait a minute, you're from another world?"

"That's right."

"And your name is what again?" He asked in disbelief.

"My name is Fox Mcloud." Fox responded.

"I'm sorry, my perception goes to other kingdoms, but you're from up there." Link pointed at the night sky. "We always thought that those stars were meant to light our fields at night. I never even imagined other worlds."

"I could show you Link." Fox replied with slight humor in his voice. 'Lighting their sky?'

"You could?"

"Of course I could. Come with me." Fox walked back to the Arwing. They got in the craft. "Fasten your seat-belts."

"My what?" Link asked in wonderment.

At this Fox burst out laughing.

"The two straps by your shoulders." Link obeyed and they were off into space. He was silently laughing though. This act of not knowing anything about space was hard to keep up. But, he wanted to be humorous to Fox.

The fact was, Link knew exactly what the stars were, how to fasten a seat belt, what a space station was, and even what the thing in Fox's holster was.

When Link was on his way back from Termina to Hyrule, He came upon a strange portal, being fourteen and curious, he stepped in. It was a time portal. He's slipped into a place called Corneria which, incidentally, Fox was from. He's learned everything about space travel and the strange weapons there. But nothing he'd learned could have prepared him for what was to come.

When they arrived on the station, Link's eyes widened as he took in the rooms. Command and Control, Security, Mess Hall, and several droids moving about making sure the station was operating smoothly.

"Impressed by what you see?" Fox asked.

"I must say, out of all the technology on your world that I've seen, this surpasses it greatly." Now it was Fox who was dumbfounded.

"Do you mean to tell me that whole thing was an act?" He nearly shouted.

"Um…. Yeah." Link replied.

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It was several hours later, after Link had been given a tour of the entire station, they were enjoying a nice meal in the mess hall. An entire Hyrulian feast sat in front of Link. Amazed at how fast the replicators worked, Link ate heartily for the first time in days. But his joy wouldn't last long. A signal was coming through the monitors.

"Put it through." Fox said. A Man was on the screen. He had long blue hair and a slightly tanned face. "Who are you?" Link asked.

"My name is Marth and I request that you listen to my request Link." Marth said as Link wondered how he knew his name. But, he continued, "Fox," he added a second confused face to his collection. "I'm transferring coordinates to your location, I hope that both you and Link will come here. Should you decide to, all will be explained."

"Very well." Responded Fox, "We'll see you in a little while."

"Thank you Fox." Replied Marth. The view-screen turned off.

"Ready to go?" Fox asked. Link still had a somewhat wondering face on. He couldn't help feel he recognized the person. "Link?" Fox asked.

"What? Oh yeah, yeah, I'm set. Let's go." Link replied as he woke from his daydream.

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