Sonic, Shadow and Knuckles stood facing Conis and Whips as the float turned a corner to be faced with a crowd of hundreds. The commentator began to speak:
Welcome to the Station Parade to celebrate one year since the defeat of Eggman on day X! We would like to draw your attention to the main float where our musician, Cream, will be playin... What's going on? It seems that Sonic and Knuckles have joined us with.... Shadow?! Looks like there is some people about to fight them. Looks like we have a battle on our hands here!
"They seem to be amazed to see me," said Shadow.
"You are dead" replied Sonic
"Point taken"
"Are we fighting or what?" shouted Conis.
Conis leapt forward and threw his fist at Sonic who blocked and followed with a kick. Shadow threw a punch towards Conis as well. Conis back flipped and dodged both attacks. Knuckles was dodging Whips barrage from his tails. Knuckles ducked at the wrong moment and caught a tail to the face and was thrown up into the air. Whips jumped up, following Knuckles, only to be greeted with a fist.
Tails and Amy meanwhile lead away Cream through the hustle of the parade. Cheese was finding it hard to keep up and dropped to the floor.
"Cheese!" shouted Cream
"I've got him!" yelled Tails who swooped down and picked him up.
Tails glanced to the float where Sonic was fighting. Tails landed next to Cream and gave her Cheese.
"Amy, look after Cream. I'm off to help Sonic!" said Tails.
Amy nodded and grabbed Creams hand and led her through the crowd while Tails flew back to the float.
Knuckles was winning easily as each punch he threw landed at its target. Whips was beginning to fell fatigued and glanced left and saw Cream with Amy. He lashed out at Knuckles and knocked him off balance.
"I'm going to get the rabbit!" shouted Whips.
"Ok" said Conis while Sonic was charging a spin dash.
Whips flew off while Conis grabbed Sonic in spin dash and threw him into Knuckles. Shadow saw Whips flying away and shouted to Sonic.
"I'll go after Whips"
Sonic, who was now standing, nodded and began to fight Conis again. Knuckles joined in. Shadow jumped off the float and chased after Whips who was not far ahead.
Conis took a break from the fight and rested while Sonic and Knuckles regained their stances.
"You are weak. When I rule the world.."
"You rule the world! I thought you worked for Cheq!" said Sonic
"Simple minds and simple thoughts" said Conis
"Your master won't like that Conis, after all, he can control you" followed Knuckles.
"To a certain extent"
Conis formed a globe in his hand.
"Shame you lose now not later" said Conis.
"Stop it Conis"
Tails kicked Conis square in the chin from the air and then followed with a flurry of punches, which dealt heavy damage. Tails landed next to Sonic and helped him up. Knuckles was already standing.
"Thanks Tails! That was brilliant," said Sonic who then slapped Tails on the back.
Conis was not finished and stood up.
"Time to use some chaos then"
Meanwhile...
Amy led Cream through the alleys and turned round the next corner to face a brick wall. She turned to go another way to see Whips in her way. Whips outstretched his hand.
"Emerald please, and I'll let you live"
Cream grasped her violin and Amy raised her hammer.
"You'll have to get it then" she yelled and charged forward.
Whips dodge the strike of the hammer and punched her in the face. Amy, not phased, brought the hammer down again only to miss and receive another punch. For a final time she raised her hammer and threw it down again missing. This time, however, there was no punch as Whips had turned and faced the new fighter.
"You should never hit a lady Whips," said Shadow stepping forward.
Whips stood fast and faced the enemy and talked.
"I can sense your chaos energy," said Whips, "Wanna use it?"
Shadow produced his emerald and Whips looked at it.
"Two for one" said Whips.
Shadow attacked first with a kick which Whips ducked and jumped into the air.
"Chaos Gravity" said Whips.
Shadow, who new many chaos moves, dodged the wave of energy and followed with another attack.
"Chaos Whirlwind"
Shadows attack hit Whips who flew backwards and landed on his back. Whips fired another Chaos gravity, which missed Shadow who again used Whirlwind, which missed and Whips jumped into the air.
"Chaos Charge"
Whips glowed and ran towards Shadow and unloaded lots of punches followed by a kick to the gut. This took Shadow by surprise and each hit landed and Shadow was flung away. Whip, with his new speed, ran over to cream and ripped the emerald from her violin and headed back to Conis.
Sonic, Knuckles and Tails were being held by Chaos Gravity and being hit by continual chaos strikes. Whips appeared and Conis nodded.
"See you later" said Conis
Together, they disappeared and the gravity broke. They all stood up and Shadow also arrived with Amy and Cream.
"They got the emerald," said Shadow.
"That's three," said Tails.
"We have to find the next one," said Knuckles.
Everyone nodded, including Cream who had no idea what they were on about. Everyone joined hands. Shadow held the emerald and yelled the commands and they all vanished in a light leaving the crowd in silence.
Place: Past, temple
Time: 1:00pm
Conis and Whips entered and Whips presented the emerald to his master. Conis, however, leant against a post and chewed some gum he found.
"Here master" said Whips.
Cheq grabbed the emerald and absorbed the power. He than began to create another minion.
The purple light formed a rose which glowed red before dying and burning away to show a female hedgehog with orange fur and a blue dress and headband. Her sneakers were a bright white and her eyes glowed purple with a purple emerald on her forehead.
"Hello Thorn" said Cheq.
End of Chapter 6