Sonic Duos

Disclaimer: *sigh* Once again, I DON'T OWN SONIC THE HEDGEHOG. SONIC TEAM DOES.

Claimer: If you wanna know what I claim, read chapter 2.

Author's mumbo-jumbo: Hey hey hey! I'm baaaaaaaaaaaack! Ok. Another thing I wanted to answer that was in a review: There will be no…how should I say this…"odd" couples. There may be small romance between some couples, but no "odd" romance. I promise, everything will be totally straight! I know some "duos" may be to guys or two girls, but there will be no romance between them. Just wanted to let ya know! ;) Another thing: I know I skipped Cream and Charmy, and Omega and Psi last chapter. Sorry. I had to have the other teams in a certain place first before I could go on with my idea for them. Don't worry though, EVERYONE will be in this chapter. (Except Big of course. He'll come in soon!) Just so ya know, Angel Island is the island Knuckles lives on if you didn't already know. That's also where the master emerald is located. And again, the S-0 and T-0 and R-0 and stuff is zero, not capital "o". *Random accent* ON WISS ZEE FEEC!

Sonic Duos

Chapter 3: Deserted

Cream and Charmy walked down the street, occasionally smiling at one another. Cream became worried when Charmy stared at her with a daze and smashed into a pole without looking.

"Are you okay?" Cream asked. Charmy got back up, answered her question, and they continued down the street keeping an eye open for the lost emerald. They came to a hole in the ground that was fenced off and said "DANGER! Construction".

"Do you think it's down there?" Charmy asked. Cream shrugged. "Well, maybe we should check. I mean, if we come across any danger, we can always fly back up!" He added. "Let's go!" and with that, Charmy grabbed Cream's hand and they flew down the hole, followed by Cheese and Chocola who just arrived. It was a long tunnel, and it felt like they were going upside-down and now were flying up even though they were flying down. This totally confused Charmy. The two flyer's wings (and ears) were getting tired.

"Okay, I think we should stop flying now. Let's take a chance and see what we land on." Charmy suggested. They both admitted they were tired, and on the count of 3, they stopped flying. They plunged down through the huge, long, vertical tunnel.

"Chaos Emerald sensed on island!" Omega said. He pointed to an island beyond the city beach, that only he and Psi could see thanks to their sensors, which could see up to 45% farther than the human eye. Psi saw it too. "Sensors indicate that it is located in old deserted mansion on the small island". Omega added. They were stumped on how to get there though. Imagine that, a robot getting stumped. Psi decided that they should travel by boat. Now, they just needed to find one, or think of a plan to get to the island.

Sonic's eyes still bulged, and Rouge was still in shock. The words on the screen read "Project Clone". It looked like a slideshow. Rouge went to the next slide. A drawing of Sonic appeared, as a robot, but far more accurate with looks than Metal Sonic. The bottom read "S-0". The next slide was Tails, and it said "T-0". Next was Knuckles, and it said "K-0." Shadow, "S-1". Rouge, "R-0", Omega was the same, for Eggman just made another copy of the robot. Amy was A-0, Cream was C-0, and there was a clone of Big the Cat, just incase. (B-0) There was Charmy who was "C-1", Espio who was "E-0", Vector was "V-0", and finally, E-122 Psi was just cloned. The last slide said something totally different though. Rouge read it aloud.

"Note: There is a Chaos emerald on the old mansion located on the island far from here." Rouge knew that this was just a reminder for Eggman.

"Well, our job here is done!" Rouge said. She shut down the computer, and walked toward the door. Sonic stood there. "Are you coming?" Rouge asked.

"There's no way out." Sonic answered.

"Of course there is." Rouge said. She uncovered a hidden switch from under a blanket, pressed it, and her and Sonic exited through the door that opened into the busy city.

Espio, who was still invisible, seized the chance and ran out just before the doors closed. He ran off to where he knew Vector was to tell him the news.

"So, where to now?" Sonic asked, ignoring the loud, speeding cars. Rouge told him that they had to find a boat to get to the island because her wings would get too tired to fly all the way there.

"Why don't we just ask my friend Tails if we can use his plane?" Sonic said. So, they went to Tails' cabin, and found nothing there except a chaos emerald.

"Oh no!" Sonic yelled. "Tails must've dropped this and flew his plane without it! He'll crash soon! We have to find him!" So they went back to the city, on the hunt for a boat that would get them to the small deserted island before Tails did, or at least a boat that would let them see where Tails was.

Knuckles dove down into the sewer. The water was just his height that he could swim in and still hold his head above the water to breathe. For Amy, it was a different story. Knuckles noticed that she was practically drowning trying to get the emerald.

"Wow. That Amy's somethin' else." Knuckles said to himself. He swam faster towards Amy and came in just enough distance to grab her. He wrapped one arm around her waist and used the free arm to swim. Amy flailed, and kicked, and struggled to break free.

"We need to get the emerald!" Amy yelled.

"We'll be lucky if we get out here alive, let alone get some stupid emerald!" Knuckles said. He was trying to swim against the current to he could climb up the wall and make it out of the sewer. While he was focusing on that, Amy saw the silver emerald. She lunged for it, breaking Kunckles' hold and concentration.

"Awww…Amy!" Knuckles groaned. He swam for her again.

Amy ignored it. She let the murky green water carry her to the emerald. The emerald was caught and stopped by a rock; this was the perfect chance. She grabbed it.

"Yes! Gotcha!" Amy said, raising the emerald in the air. Just as she did this, she plunged over a giant waterfall.

Espio found the bench where Vector sat at last. Espio sat down next to him, trying to catch his breath.

"So…?" Vector questioned. Espio told him everything. From Sonic and Rouge being traitors, to the cloning project, and the emerald in the mansion. "Do you think we should still follow them then?" Vector said.

"Sure." Espio said. "We could score the emerald, and beat Eggman again. And, if that really was the mayor, we can get our reward. After all, we did follow them."

"I like the way you think!" Vector said. So now they too were off to find a boat. And they knew right where to find one…

Cream and Charmy landed gently on the floor; they hovered down as soon as they saw the end of the vertical tunnel. Cream and Charmy looked around. They were in the base Sonic and Rouge (and Espio) were just in, but they of course didn't know that. Charmy observed the little crates covered in the dusty blankets, while Cream studied the shutdown computer. They hovered around looking for a while. Charmy took the blankets off of all of the empty crates except for one, which looked particularly big. He was about to open it, and then heard glass shatter from somewhere. Sharp pieces of it dropped from somewhere in the wall, moderately high up. Charmy didn't get hit by any, and Cream was fine too. Two familiar faces jumped down from the opening: Knuckles landed on his feet carrying Amy.

"Jeez, I didn't know that waterfall led to a dry tunnel, and then that tunnel led to here!" Knuckles exclaimed, brushing himself off. That must've explained why there was no water that fell from the glass opening.

"Well we still got the chaos emerald." Amy said, grinning. "And by the way, could ya put me down please?"

"Oh yeah, sorry." Knuckles said, and put her down.

"Chaos emerald?" Charmy questioned. "Hey! I bet you guys stole it from Cream! Oh, I'll get you guys for that!" Charmy flew toward Knuckles, but Knuckles just put his hand out and kept Charmy just hovering there, punching the air.

"And what are you gonna do about it you little runt?" Knuckles smirked.

"Please stop!" Cream butted in. "It's okay Charmy, the pink one is my friend. And the other one…"

"He's okay too Cream." Amy reassured. Cream and Charmy understood. "So Cream, how's things? I haven't seen you in months!" Amy said. Her and Cream began a friendly chat. Knuckles rolled his eyes, and inspected the place.

"This is one of Eggman's old bases." Knuckles knew that from the start. He searched around more, and found a camera in the corner. He rewound the tape, and saw Sonic and Rouge hacking in to the computer. The others rushed over. "What are they looking at on that computer?" Knuckles asked aloud. He pressed the 'zoom in' button and they all saw everything: The clones, the master plan, the emerald on the mansion, everything. They were shocked. Charmy still wondered what the last crate was. He uncovered the blanket, and found a big red switch.

"Hey guys! I found a switch!" He said excitedly.

"We'll be there in a sec, we're concentrating on this tape right now." Amy said. Cream decided to go over. She thought that Eggman's plans and Amy and Knuckles' problems were none of her business. She smiled at Charmy and they both stepped on the switch.

A huge siren went off and the whole room began flashing red. A big jail cell square fell from nowhere, imprisoning Charmy and Cream. (And Cream's two chaos Cheese and Chocola) Amy and Knuckles turned and ran towards the cell/block thing.

"Oh my gosh! Guys, are you okay?" Amy asked, putting her hands on the jail cellblock.

"As long as we can get out of here!" Cream yelled over the buzzing sirens. Charmy covered his ears. Knuckles told them not to worry and to stand back. He began punching the bars on the cell, and he was actually getting somewhere.

But unfortunately for all of them, Eggman had just returned from his paper towel errand. He saw what was going on while sipping his coffee, and he spit it out all over the computer screen. He dropped it on the ground and it made a 'clank' and he immediately stepped into his teleporter and appeared in the base.

"Oh great, as if there wasn't enough confusion!" Knuckles yelled. Eggman chuckled, and snapped his fingers. A small, floating cockpit (The one he would always ride in and transform it into monstrous things) floated down and he got in it. He pressed a button, and a huge, grappling arm shot out at the cell cubicle and lifted Cream and Charmy up. Eggman laughed again, and flew up towards the ceiling.

"You won't get away with this!" Amy yelled.

"Oh yeah? Watch me!" Eggman cackled. He went to the ceiling, and pushed a small button that said "Self Destruct". The roof opened and he flew out, still holding on to Cream and Charmy in their jail cell square. Then a countdown began. "Good luck getting out!" Eggman yelled from the sky. He laughed, and flew peacefully away.

"5…4…3…" A voice said. Knuckles and Amy quickly ran out of the base through the same door Rouge and Sonic exited from, and ran as far away from the base as possible, but not far enough. Knuckles spotted Eggman fly near the ocean, where the old mansion was.

"He's flying toward-" Knuckles' voice was drowned by the voice inside the base.

"2…1." The whole base exploded, inside and outside, and Amy and Knuckles found themselves in the middle of it all.

Omega and Psi had a plan. According to Omega, if they inserted a car engine into Psi, and took off at a 110-degree angle with a hang-glider, they would have enough speed to glide and get to the island. So, they did just that. Omega put the car engine that he got from a car repair place in Psi and they rented a hang-glider from a store in town. They went on top of a roof on a house by the beach, which was a perfect 110-degree angle. Psi revved up his motor, and Omega sat atop of him holding the hang-glider. Psi took off and flew in the air on the curved part of the roof. Omega was safely holding on to Psi's back. They were free falling for a while over the ocean, and at the exact right time, Omega lifted the hang-glider up and the glided over the ocean. About five minutes later, they were hovering over the deserted island. Omega let go of the Hang-glider, and they fell onto the island, safely landing on the sandy coastline. The hang-glider crashed into the sand, but they weren't worried about that. Psi and Omega examined their surroundings. The island wasn't much to see; a couple palm trees here and there, some fallen coconuts, and of course, the huge mansion that took up the whole island. That was it; it was a pretty small island. And to the human eye, it looked as if you were in the middle of nowhere, just on an island.

The hunt was over for Sonic and Rouge; they had found a small motorboat that was made of logs. It was conveniently located on a bridge on the beach. The sign said "Motorboat ride-FREE!". So, Sonic and Rouge left the 10 other boats and sailed off to the island.

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Sonic and Rouge arrived at the island within about 20 minutes. They explored the small island before entering in one of the many entrances to the mansion. There were about 20 different red double doors to choose from, so each couple that headed for the mansion was likely to go in a different door, therefore not seeing anybody else.

Vector and Espio took the same route as Sonic and Rouge: boats. They spied on them from a distance, waited until they were far enough away, and took off on the boats. They arrived at the island, and discovered that Sonic and Rouge entered in the mansion through one of the many entrances. So, they chose one, and waltzed right in.

Knuckles woke up on Angel Island. Everything hurt. His head, hands, legs, feet, ribs, muscles he didn't even knew he had hurt. Struggling to get up, he immediately shot a glance at the master emerald. It floated there, peacefully. He just wanted to make sure. The second priority was Amy. He saw her lying on the opposite side of him, unconscious. He went over and woke her up.

"We-we have to find Cream and Charmy!" Amy immediately said. Knuckles looked over.

"That island with the mansion is right over there you know." He said, and pointed north of Angel Island. The deserted island with the huge purple walled mansion was a couple feet ahead. "I saw Eggman head over there, he's bound to be somewhere near there."

"Then let's go!" Amy said. She ran towards the island, and stupidly jumped off, forgetting the blue ocean was below her. Luckily Knuckles caught her while gliding and he glided the few feet to the island. After they landed, Knuckles was the first to speak:

"Hmm…I don't remember this island being here before…and I've been living on Angel Island for as long as I remember…" Knuckles said. Amy shrugged, and they too entered the Purple walled, Orange roofed mansion through one of its many red doors.

In the middle of their plane ride in the Tornado 2, Tails realized the crucial thing he forgot: The Chaos Emerald.

"Um...I think we forgot something…" Tails said uncertainly.

"What?" Shadow said calmly, enjoying the cool breeze and sitting back in the passenger seat. Tails told him their dilemma.

"No big, we'll just land on an island or something." Was Shadow's answer. But it wasn't that easy.

"Uh, no, because we're losing altitude by the second!" Tails exclaimed. "Prepare for a crash landing!!!" The plane went downward, and Shadow and Tails couldn't fight the feeling in the pit of their stomachs. They went down, down, down, until finally it crashed and everything went black.

Ooh! More cliffhangers! Well, it's the weekend so I'll be able to get the next chapter up fast…hopefully. And Just so everyone knows, next chapter will focus A LOT on Shadow and Tails, a little and Charmy and Cream, and probably none on the others. Sorry! But the Shadow and Tails one is worth biting your nails over….hehehehehehehehe. Ok, see ya soon! Oh, and thank you everyone SO MUCH for reviewing. I LOVE YOU ALL! Heh, sorry. Got crazy. Well, bye!