Hey everyone! As always thanks to all those who have reviewed, and those who just read and didn't review. I don't always review either. I hope you all enjoy chapter three.

Chapter 3

Sonic was laying on a table with a blue light being shined on him. Tails was in a separate room behind a glass window, pushing buttons on his computer as he monitored the scanning procedure. Knuckles stood in the same room as Sonic, staring at him with his arms crossed, "Sorry about this 'Sonic', but we have to make sure you're who you say you are."

Sonic laid there with his legs crossed and his hands behind his head, "Don't worry about it, Knuckles. This is better than a tanning bed."

Knuckles then saw Tails motion for him to come into the next room. Knuckles knew that this meant that the scan was complete, and Tails wanted to show him the results.

"POSITIVE!" Knuckles still couldn't believe what he heard.

"That's what I said." Tails said with a grin on his face, "It's a perfect match! That's the real Sonic alright."

"How is that even possible?"

"I think I found the answer. During his scan I found some energy traces on his body. Traces that seem to suggest inter-dimensional travel. It's possible that this is an alternate version of Sonic from another dimension. Perhaps a world similar to our own, in which Sonic didn't die falling from ARK."

Knuckles walked into the next room and confronted Sonic. Knuckles held out his hand, "Nice to have you back, Sonic."

Sonic shook his hand, "Thanks, Knuckles." Tails entered the room and relayed his theory to Sonic, who wasn't too surprised, "I figured it was something like that. The Eggman from my world probably sent me here by shooting me with that weird ray gun."

The three of them exited Tails' lab and confronted Rouge, who had been waiting outside, and filled her in on what they had found out.

Sonic had a question, "How come your not on Angel Island Knuckles?"

Knuckles looked at the ground, "Angel Island is gone. Eggman destroyed the Master Emerald, which caused the Island to fall into the ocean. Now it's at the bottom of the sea."

Rouge spoke up, "It's all my fault! After Eggman destroyed Capital City, I flew over to Angel Island to warn Knuckles, but Eggman's robots followed me there."

"Stop blaming yourself, Rouge. Eggman would have gone after the Master Emerald eventually, anyway."

Sonic was confused, "Why did Eggman destroy the emerald? Why didn't he try to steal it and use it's power?"

Knuckles turned to Sonic, "He wanted the emerald destroyed so that I couldn't use it's power to cancel the energy of the Chaos Emeralds."

"Eggman has the Chaos Emeralds?"

Tails answered, "Actually, he only has six of them."

"Well, where's the last emerald?"

"Right here!" Rouge said, as she pulled the red Chaos Emerald out of her pocket, "They don't call me the greatest treasure hunter for nothing."

Sonic grinned, "Nice! But Eggman still has you guys beat, six to one. By the way, why were you and Knuckles fighting before?"

Knuckles looked at Tails, "He went to try and rescue Cream by himself."

"What happened to Cream?"

Tails spoke up, "She was captured by Eggman and taken to his prison, and since she's one of the people who are still fighting against him, he's probably gonna....." Tails couldn't bring himself to finish that sentence.

Sonic noticed this and put a hand on Tails' shoulder, "No need to say anymore, Tails. Just tell me where she is."

Knuckles was shocked, "Don't tell me your going to go running off now too. I want to rescue Cream as well, but we need to figure out a plan before we do anything."

Sonic smirked, "Come on, Knuckles. Do you really think that I'd run off without making a plan?"

"Frankly, YES!"

"I guess your right." Sonic turned to Tails, "I don't suppose you've still got the Tornado, have you?"

Tails grinned, "I've got something even better."

Knuckles grunted, "If you two insist on doing this, then I'm coming with you." He turned to Rouge, "You stay here and guard the hideout."

Rouge frowned, "Your not leaving me here, while you have all the fun."

"This isn't going to be fun!"

Sonic walked up next to Knuckles, "Actually, I think she should come along."

Knuckles growled, "Fine."

Suddenly, Sonic thought of something. Actually, he thought of someone, but with all the casualties he had heard about from Tails, he was afraid to hear the answer. "Where's Amy?"

Knuckles smiled, "I was wondering when you were going to ask that. Follow me." He then turned to Tails, "We'll meet you guys there."

Sonic followed Knuckles until they came to a large room. The room was filled with gravestones. Knuckles turned to Sonic, "I'm sure I don't need to tell you who's grave she's at. She comes here everyday." Knuckles pointed over at two large statues. One of them was of Sonic, and the other one was Shadow. Sonic figured that these were the statues that Tails told him about. Then he noticed a pink hedgehog sitting in front of his statue.

Knuckles turned towards the door and started to walk out. "I'll wait for you outside."

Sonic looked back at Amy, who was sitting on her knees with her head down. She wasn't wearing a hair band anymore, but was wearing a blue bandana around her head. She still had the same dress and boots, but they were blue instead of red. Sonic began to walk towards her, thinking about how she would react. He walked up to her until he was about a few feet away. Amy still had her head down, so he figured that she hadn't noticed him yet.

Finally, Sonic said, "Hey, Amy. What's going on?"

Amy looked up and saw Sonic standing there. Sonic braced himself, figuring that Amy would run over and hug him tightly, like she always did. To his surprise, she didn't move an inch. In fact, it looked like she was frowning.

"I won't let my mind play tricks on me anymore." Amy said, as she looked back at the ground, "It's just going to go away like before."

Sonic figured that Amy must have had dreams of him coming back to life before. He felt really sorry for her, as he saw tears were beginning to form in her eyes. He walked over and kneeled beside her, "It's really me, Amy."

"No!" Amy said, "It can't be you! You just another dream!"

Sonic placed his hand on hers, causing Amy to look up at him. Sonic smiled, "Do I feel like a dream now?" Amy was shocked as she felt his hand on hers. She knew that a dream could never feel this real.

Amy stared into his eyes, "It's ...... it's really.... you, isn't it?"

Sonic winked, "The one and only."

Suddenly, Amy found herself throwing her arms around her blue hero, as tears came streaming down her face. Sonic, who usually would struggle for air, returned the gesture by putting his arms around her waist.

"Oh Sonic!" Amy cried, "I've missed you so much! I can't believe it's really you!"

Sonic smiled, "Yeah, it's me alright." Sonic knew that he would have to tell her that he wasn't the Sonic she knew, but he figured that could wait until she had calmed down.

After several minutes, Sonic and Amy walked back to the door to meet up with Knuckles. "Isn't this amazing, Knuckles? Sonic's back!" Amy cheered.

Knuckles smiled, he knew that it wasn't the time to bring up the fact that Sonic was from a different dimension, "It's amazing alright, but in case you forgot, we have to meet Tails in the hangar."

Sonic nodded, "Lead the way, Knuckles."

A/N: That ends another chapter. That was the first time I've tried to write something emotional. What did you think? What do you think of Amy's outfit being blue? At first I was going to make it black, but I thought that would be too much. Send me a review as always, to motivate me to continue.

Next Time: Jail break!! Sonic style!