Sonic Duos

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Claimer: However, I do own E-122 Psi, and this plot. Ask before you use please!!!

Author's Note: Ok, you guys had some questions in the reviews. Let me take some time to answer them: Firstly, ok. I know, I didn't explain how Eggman was gonna destroy the world that well. The main thing isn't just to destroy Mars and Venus. You'll see. It'll be explained in this chapter. Second, I know I promised Big the Cat In this fic. Well, he'll come in! I just gotta think of a part to fit him in…It'll most likely be near the end but I'll try to fit him in sooner. Ok, well now to chapter 2, and remember to review! [Hey I rhyme!] And Note: it's not S-O as in capital "O". It's S-zero. You'll understand later. Other note: In this story, Knuckles CAN fly. If any of you ever played any other Sonic games, you know he can glide.

Sonic Duos

Chapter 2: The Adventure Begins

Sonic sped through the city with Rouge flying by his side. It reminded him of the old days when Tails would do the same. Suddenly, Sonic came to a sharp halt and Rouge collided with him. They both fell over.

"Why did you do that? You know I can't stop that sharp!" Rouge complained, getting up.

"Well I had to stop to say something! You wouldn't have been able to hear me if I told you while I was running." Sonic answered, also getting up. "Okay. You still know the password to Eggman's computers?" He asked.

"Are you kidding? Of course I do!" Rouge said.

"Well, I think we should go to his old base and hack in his computers and see if we can find anything out before we just go up there and try to conquer him. I usually just wanna go up there and kick some Eggman butt, but he's got a pretty decent plan and if I fail, it's all over." Sonic said. Rouge gave him a look of disgust.

"Ok pal, if I'm gonna work with you, we need to get a few things straight. First of all, I don't take orders from people. I call the shots and we do it weather you like it or not. I don't do what you say like some slave. We go with my ideas, and that's final. You got me?" Rouge said, waiting for an answer. Apparently Sonic didn't like this; he gave her a few choice words of his own, and told her right out like she did to him.

"You know what? This isn't working AT ALL. We should just go our separate ways without the mayor knowing. I'd be a lot better on my own anyway!" Rouge shouted for the whole city to hear. People stared for about 5 seconds, then went back to what they were doing.

"FINE! WE'LL DO JUST THAT!" Sonic snapped in her face. They both ran off, one left, one right.

Tails sighed. "We've been looking for them all day!" He sat down on a random bench that was there. Shadow gave up and sat down too.

"Well if I know Rouge, she's probably trying to get in one of Eggman's bases right now." Shadow said. "Maybe we should look for one…"

"We don't know where any of his bases are!" Tails said, and groaned. They thought for a couple minutes, and Tails spoke up. "I got it! Chances are Sonic and Rouge are heading for one of the Ice caps, right? Well, what if we got in my plane and traveled to the North Pole and waited for them! They're bound to go up there. So, wadaya say?" Shadow thought for a minute, and then agreed. So, he and Tails traveled to his cabin and in no time were high in the sky with the plane. They were happily flying over Station square, and then the beach, and now directly above the crystal-clear ocean. One thing that neither of them realized, though, was that they forgot something crucial.

Knuckles and Amy landed on the sidewalk. "Alright. Where should we look first?" Amy asked.

"Well, let's split up and look around the city." Knuckles said. Amy agreed. Knuckles ran to the left and Amy to the right. Knuckles immediately climbed up the highest building in the city with ease. He went to each edge and scanned the streets for a sign of Sonic or Rouge. He saw something at the corner of his eye, and looked, but it was gone. Then he saw it again, looked, and gone. He finally followed it with his eyes. It was Sonic. He was sure of it. He jumped off of the building, and glided in the sky until he landed on the path to the beach. He lost Sonic, but followed the path to the beach anyway. He saw Sonic sitting in a folding chair. Knuckles ducked behind a table, which was about 4 feet away.

"Stupid Rouge." Sonic muttered. "Who does she think she is? She's not the boss of me!" Sonic sighed. "Or maybe I was too hard on her…I could've been less bossy…" Sonic decided to go and find Rouge and apologize. He was off. But Knuckles stood there and thought for a minute. Maybe Sonic isn't so mean, and was the right one for her? Maybe her and Knuckles just weren't meant to be? Maybe they are a good couple…? But what if Knuckles was wrong? Those thoughts entered Knuckles' mind, but left quickly. He got up from behind the table, and went off to find Amy again.

Amy gave up on finding Rouge or Sonic. She walked pleasantly down the street, and then she saw it: A chaos emerald. She knew it was important, and dashed for it. She paid no attention to where she was going, just followed the rolling emerald down the street. Meanwhile, Knuckles turned the corner and saw Amy. The emerald went down an open sewer, and he knew Amy would go down and dash for it.

"Amy!" He yelled. He ran as fast as he could toward her, but it was to late; she dove into the sewer, and Knuckles had no choice but to follow her.

An evil cackle was heard throughout the whole massive flying ship. "Do they stand a chance? Of course not!" Said the giant egg-like scientist. More evil laughs were heard. "S-0, bring me the blueprint!" The blue robot glided over to Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik with the blueprint in its metal hands. "Go and check on the others while I read this wonderful blueprint that I made!" Eggman ordered. The robot glided away on his wheels, and Eggman stared at the blueprint.
"Get the sacred ruby and become invisible. Done! Build an invisible space orbit. Done! Destroy all of the planets in-between the earth and the sun, just for a little fun. In progress!" He said. Now he looked at the white diagram on the paper. "Use the ruby to deflect the sun's rays on the polar icecaps and flood the world! Will be done soon! Will be done!" Eggman cackled again. "And, to spice things up a bit, I invented my own teleporter to transfer to and from all of my bases, even the deserted ones! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" He rose his hands up and in doing so, spilled his coffee all over his giant computer's keyboard. "Shoot!" he yelled. He called for his robots, but no answer. He was mad. He had to walk all the way to the other side of the unbelievably large floating ship just to get a paper towel, which probably would take about half an hour, and he would have to leave the cameras for the other bases un-monitored.

Espio and Vector walked slowly down the sidewalk, their heads in the clouds. It just wasn't the same without Charmy. It was like Chocolate chip cookies without the chocolate chips. Vector was the boss, Espio was a ninja, and helped out, and Charmy was…Charmy. It wasn't right without Charmy. Vector tried to make conversation.

"So uh, Espio, you kinda got a little crazy back there…what happened?" Vector said.

"How did you know? You fainted, remember?" Espio answered quickly.

"Well I could still hear your big mouth!" Vector said, smiling and showing his sharp teeth.

"I don't know, I guess I just snapped because of the money involved. No big deal, it happens."

"Yeah…" Vector said ending the conversation. Espio noticed Vector wasn't very happy today, and he knew exactly why: Charmy.

"It's alright, he'll turn up sooner or later. Charmy never misses a beat, as you always say." Vector agreed with him.

"We should go look for the blue dude now, and that bat…" Vector said. They ran off searching the city.

About 10 minutes later, Espio spotted an odd looking trashcan. He peeked inside, and noticed no garbage was in it. He looked at the one next to it, and it was filled.

"Hmmm…Espio said. "This trash can looks suspicious…Vector, I'm going in. Do you think you can fit?"

"Of course not! I'll just wait here on this bench and see if I can spot Charmy." Vector answered.

"Ok." Espio said. "Here I go!" Espio dove into the garbage can, fell for a few minutes, and landed in a pile of…garbage. Espio was wrong; it was a normal trashcan. He still was determined that it was something else though, and dug around for something. "Aha!" he said. He found a switch. He slammed it with his hand, and came up from the sea of garbage. A new tunnel was now visible. Espio immediately crawled through the tunnel, and when he least expected it, the tunnel all of a sudden went straight down. He was falling for quite some time (or at least it felt pretty long to him) when he finally saw light at the end. He got ready to plunge into the room headfirst and…BOOM! He landed on his feet. Since he was a ninja, he knew how to land properly from falling. He was in a spacious room, and walled in. It looked like there were no doors to get in or out. Espio didn't want to think he was trapped, and he didn't give up hope. He inspected the place for a while, and found a computer in the center of the room. It looked old, and probably didn't work. He also saw dusty, empty crates, but that was it. He figured this was probably one of Eggman's old mini-bases. Now he was hunting for a way out, but heard footsteps and immediately became invisible and went into a corner.

Sonic and Rouge stepped into the old mini-base. Sonic was glad he apologized to Rouge when they met up again; they were now getting along great.

"What an old, dusty place!" Sonic said with disgust. Espio was still invisible and watched Sonic and Rouge carefully.

'I have to be back up for them.' He thought. He now had a good picture in his mind of what they looked like. Sonic walked around looking at everything, and came about an inch from Espio, but he still didn't notice. Sonic took the blanket off of on of the empty crates. He saw about a lot of different robots, all from the E-100 series. The only ones he didn't see was E-122 Psi, and E-123 Omega.

"Rouge, Omega didn't get shut down! He's still here! He's not in this crate of shut down robots, so he's still alive!"

"Oh, good!" Rouge answered, not paying much attention. She was trying to re-boot the broken computer. Espio became very suspicious.

'They're friends with one of Eggman's robots?' Espio thought silently. 'Wait a minute…that Rouge girl used to work with Shadow, and Shadow worked with Eggman!' Espio thought. Of course, he had no clue that Shadow lost his memory and now considers Eggman an enemy. He also didn't know that Rouge was a spy, and she wasn't working for Eggman.

Rouge finally got the computer to work, and typed in the password to gain access. Eggman never changed his password, so she could happily hack in anytime she wanted to. But that was the final straw for Espio.

'She knows Eggman's password?!' Espio thought, clenching a fist. 'They must be working with Eggman!' Espio knew exactly what was going on here: a setup. It wasn't the government calling! It was Eggman! He wants to lure Team Chaotix so he can defeat them! There was no way that was going to happen, and Espio was sure of it. However, he did want to keep spying on them and see what they're up to…

Rouge clicked on the computer file that said "TOP SECRET". The file opened, and it asked for the password again. She typed it in, but access was still denied. It was because she wasn't Eggman, and the computer knew it.

"How smart of him." Rouge said. Sonic questioned this, and she explained it to him.

"So we have no hope of hacking in?" Sonic asked.

"Of course we do! I know alternate ways to get into his files. I don't give up that easily." Rouge answered. She typed a bunch of computer codes that Sonic didn't understand, and she typed it fast. She was hacked into the files in only about 30 seconds of typing. Sonic watched over her shoulder as she opened a file that said "Scheme". She and Sonic read it, and about halfway through realized it was just about Eggman's bogus plan to "flood the world". There were 2 remaining files: "Blueprint" and a file with no name. Rouge clicked blueprint, and it was just the blueprint of his flooding the world scheme. They knew that already. So, she clicked on the last file with no name. When it opened, Rouge gasped loudly and Sonic's eyes bulged out of his head. On a scale of one to ten, ten being the highest, their shock level was at a million and one.

Oooooh, cliffhanger! Don't ya just love those? Don't worry, I will post chapter 3 as soon as my lil fingers can! What did Sonic and Rouge discover? Will Espio find out that they're not working for Eggman? What will happen to Knuckles and Amy? Why is Eggman so klutzy? Why did he spill coffee on his keyboard? Why does he have to walk all the way to the other end of the ship to get a paper towel? Why is the sky blue? Will radioactive Canadian Jell-O take over the world? [Just kidding] Find out most of the answers to these questions…[drum roll] NEXT CHAPTER! If you guessed that you'll find these out in chapter 3, THEN YOU ARE PSYCHIC! AND ITS SCARING ME! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! ::runs away:: ::comes back:: Remember to review! ::runs away::