Hi Everyone! I'm back with Chapter 6 which I must say is pretty long. A lot goes on in this chapter so Enjoy and PLZ R&R!

Chapter 6: Enter Chaotix!

In the Forest….

It had been a couple of days since Sonic and Tails split from Knuckles and now Sonic and Tails had set up camp a couple of miles outside of a city. The X-Tornado had been hidden in the forest not to far from them as to not draw attention to them. The sun rose as Tails awaken from sleeping. He and Sonic had set up camp just outside of a city where the two thought a chaos Emerald was. Tails yawned rubbing his eyes sleepily. He found Sonic awake placing some logs into the fire. Sonic took notice of the once sleep Tails now very much awake.

"Hey! G'morning Buddy!" Sonic greeted the sleepy Tails.

"'Morning Sonic!" Tails stands up stretching some more. Sonic grinned widely as he place more wood in the fire.

"Hey Buddy! You'll be happy to know this." He paused reaching into his back pack pulling out a purple gem. Tails gasped.

"You found a Chaos Emerald!"

"Yep. Now we need to head back to Angel Island. Knuckles is waiting on us!" he says.

"Let's go! The X-Tornado isn't too far from here!"

Above Station Square….

Rouge sighed boardly as she flew over the busy Station Square.

"What a day." She sighed. "It seems nothing ever changes in this city. It's the same thing over and over everyday." She thought she'd hang around the city since the ARK incident since she really had no where in particular to go. Jewel hunting had even begun to become a bore to her. Landing gently on the top of a building, the bat shifted her gaze out to sea toward Angel Island. With her arms crossed, she smirked lightly. "I think I'll go visit Knuckle-head today. It'll give me something to do." She chuckled lightly. "Won't he be surprised to see me." She leapt into the air flying into the sky toward the Angel Island….

Meanwhile….

Espio sighed in the fresh air as he leaned rested against a tree. It had been quiet lately. Charmy was off flying and Vector was no doubt off listening to some music and this of course gave Espio time to himself. –I wonder what Red Bone has been up to lately. We haven't heard from him in a while.- Espio smirked slightly. –Hmm… I guess we'll go see him today when the others come back.- Espio stands taking a deep breath as he walked back to the detective office where no doubt he would at least find Vector….

Vector sat at the main desk, a contented smile on his face as he listened to the rather loud music on his CD player. Espio entered there office and took notice of Vector. His head bobbed back and forth in beat with the hard punk music he listened to. The crocodile hadn't even noticed that Espio had returned until Espio shut the door purposely loud. Vector's eyes snapped open and was greeted with the sight of Espio who had his arms folded and held a slight grin on his face. –I don't think he'll ever change.-

"Hey Espy! Wus'sup!" Vector turned off his CD player and turned his attention to the Chameleon.

"Hey Vector. Have we had anything today?"

"Nah! No one's called today." He replied.

"Hmm…I'm surprised you were able to hear with that loud music." Vector was about to reply to Espio's satirical comment but Espio continued. "But since you said nothing's happened today then how about we head over and Knuckles once Charmy comes back. Vector grinned slight at the mention of the Guardian.

"Sure why not! Charmy should be back soon!" Vector says. Espio nods….

On Angel Island….

Shadow sat on a rock with his eyes closed in deep thought outside of the temple where the Master Emerald was. –So what now?- he thinks about the new situation he unwillingly stumbled into. –Who was that and what does he plan to do with the power of Chaos?- He opened his eyes looking back from where he had came…back at Knuckles' Den where he and Roxanne-Li were undoubtedly still sleeping. Shadow smirked to himself. –It seems I can't stay outta trouble long at all.- he says to himself.

Meanwhile…

Knuckles jumped at the sound of his alarm clock and quickly shut it off, rolling over to hit the back of his couch.

"What the—?!" he remembered the day before….the meeting with the fiery female Echidna Roxanne-Li and Shadow…who seemed to be gone at the moment. Knuckles looked over at his bed and sure enough, Roxanne-Li was still sleeping under the covers. –She just came here and took over my den.- Her position hadn't moved from the night before, but her head was now to the side, a hand resting on the pillow and her face peaceful and Serene. –She's not so bad…when she's not yelling.- he thought. Knuckles stands and stretches his sore body…..

In the Desert….

Master Jericho stood before others who had gotten the news of the disappearance of Roxanne-Li.

"So what happens now Jericho. No one knows the whereabouts of Guardian Roxanne-Li." A dusty-tan Echidna named Saiga asked. The older Jericho sighs.

"I don't know. Something strange happened with the Chaos Ruby and I'm almost positive that it has something to do with her disappearance."

"Do….you think she's dead?" another asked.

"No!" Jericho answered somewhat quickly in resentment of the question. "The guardian is not dead. That I am sure of." Jericho's eye's closed. "But where she is, I cannot say." Jericho opened his eyes. –Where are you Rox.- he thinks…..

Meawhile…

"Hey Tails! How far are we from Angel Island?" Sonic called. He was riding on the wing of the X-Tornado as they raced back toward Angel Island. Thye had been in the air for a good hour and of course the impatient hedgehog was ready to reach the destination.

"Not much longer. I'd say in about ten more minutes we should be able to see the Island."

"Alright buddy." Sonic sighed and crossed his arms. No need not to enjoy the rest of the ride….

Back on Angel Island….

Roxanne-Li sighed as she woke up. Opening her eyes and looking around she realized she was no longer at home. She sat up looking around recalling what happened the day before. –There was Shadow…The gem he had….and that Echidna who attacked me….Wait a minute that gem…They said something about it being a Chaos Emerald!!-

"I didn't think you'd wake up." Roxanne-Li turned around facing the Echidna from yesterday. "You sleep like a rock." Knuckles murmurs the last comment. Roxanne's eyes narrowed as she let her legs hang off the side of the bed.

"No less of a rock than that bed of yours." Roxanne retorted in the same low voice and she literally smiled when he frowned at her. "But it wasn't that bad." She added popping her back as she stretched. She stands up. "Where's Shadow?" Roxanne asks. –Only he can get me home. I'm sure the others are raisin' hell since I just disappeared like that.-

"I don't know." Knuckles looked at the entrance to his den and then back to her. "Well, I'm fixin' to go do some scouting for a little bit. You stay here." Roxanne blinked in surprised and crossed her arms.

"I would feel insulted at the fact that you don't want me to come with you seeing as the way you said it seemed to me that you didn't think I could handle myself but, since I'm tire, I'll let it slide." She says. Knuckles looked at her confused. He didn't mean the comment that. He just thought she'd want to stay here since she was waiting for Shadow to return.

"Ok whatever." He murmured. –She's so difficult.- "I'm leaving." He says as he disappears out of his den.

"He's so…impossible." She sighed as she went to find her something to do……

Knuckles sighed boredly to himself. All was quiet on the island and he had seen no sign of Shadow. As much as he welcome the feeling of gliding and tried to focus, his mind kept straying back to his den, where a very enigmatic echidna rested. She still hadn't told him anything about herself; then again, he'd never asked her either. It seemed every conversation the two had, it ended in an argument. They've argued at least a hundred times in the 13 or 14 hours they've been around each other. –Maybe I'll have better luck later.- Knuckles was gliding back toward his den when a loud roar tore him from attention. Looking overhead, Knuckles spotted the all too familiar X-Tornado flying above him.

"It's Sonic and Tails! They must have found the other Chaos Emerald!" Knuckles spoke aloud. "Well, that's one less thing I have to worry about." Knuckles thinks…..

Near the Shrine…

Rouge sighed as she landed near the shrine of the Master Emerald. –I said I would give up treasure hunting and jewel thieving…but it won't hurt…to look at the Master Emerald before I go see Knuckle-head.- Rouge thinks before she could even finish her thought, Shadow revealed himself taking a fighting stance.

"You're not going to get your hands on the Mast—Rouge?!" Shadow was clearly taken by surprise.

"Shadow…You're alive?"

"What are you doing here?" Shadow relaxed.

"I came here to see Knuckles." Shadow smirked slightly.

"His den is that way." Shadow pointed to the left. "You know that."

"Well, I'm fixin' to go see him now." Rouge stated.

"Let's go. I think I'll head there to." Shadow says deciding that he had done enough thinking alone…

Back at the Den….

After she was sure Knux had left, Roxanne-Li went to the kitchen to find her something to eat. After eating an apple and pondering her situation Roxanne sat on the couch. -I said I wouldn't leave, I never said I wouldn't look around, so..- She chuckled to herself, then turned her attention to a small bookshelf by the couch, full of all sort of books. She frowned slightly as she was unable to read the strange writings on some of the books. She picked up a larger book, only to find it full of photographs. One of the first on the page was one of two red echidnas, one child and an older more athletic-looking adult echidna. -This must be Knuckles and his father. Talk about inherited looks, he's the spitting image of his father. I shouldn't be looking at this. Still....- she brought the book to 'her' bed, and looked at the others on the pages. Many of them were of him and his father when he was training, and one was of Knuckles, a blue hedgehog who oddly enough looked exactly like Shadow, a pink hedgehog, a younger two-tailed fox, a rabbit, an chameleon, a crocodile and a bumble-bee…all of whom looked very happy. -Looks like they're having fun…- She thought about her friends back in the desert. –I hope they're not worried about me.- After looking at all of the pictures, Roxanne looks up hearing someone enter the den. Knuckles found Roxanne-Li looking through the photo album. Roxanne spotted Knuckles and even though he had a somewhat surprised look on his face, she made no attempt to hide the fact she was looking through his book. He didn't seem too upset over it.

"What are you—?" Knuckles started.

"I didn't think you'd mind." Roxanne cut him off. "I mean you did up and leave me here alone for a couple of hours." She added.

"It's ok." This completely shocked Roxanne. She was expecting another argument. –What would that have been! Argument 101?- "So what do you think?" Roxanne flipped back to the picture of Knuckles and his father.

"You were adorable back then?" she saw him blush slightly out of the corner of her eye and smirked slightly. "Care to tell me what happened?" she laughed. Knuckles fell over. –She sure does have a way of RUINING things.-

"Why do you have to be so—?" before Knuckles could finish his comment, three very familiar voices could be heard from outside.

"Knuckles!" the first voice called.

"Hey! Anybody home?" a second voice asked.

"Hey Knuckles! Open up." Knuckles seemed to forget about Roxanne as he went to his door to greet his long time friends. Curiously, Roxanne followed soon after him.

-These were the three in the photo album with the others.- Roxanne thinks to herself.

"Hey Knuckles!" Vector greeted the Echidna happily then he took notice of the echidna next to him and he and the others nearly fell over. –When did Knuckles get himself a girlfriend. It hasn't been that long since we've seen him.- the Chaotix seemed to think in unison.

"Who's this Knuckles?" the curious Charmy asked as he flew eye level with Roxanne. Knuckles had been the only echidna the three had seen before.

"She's um—."

"My name is Roxanne-Li, but you three can call me Roxanne." Roxanne-Li says lightly as she held out her hand. Espio took her and shook it.

"My name's Espio. That's Charmy and that's Vector." Espio introduced as Roxanne-Li said her 'hellos' to the others Espio winked at Knuckles who blushed.

"What's this? A party? And we weren't invited?" Rouge's voice tore the Chaotix out of their little reunion when they're eyes fell on Rouge and Shadow. Vector frowned at Rouge.

"This is private party bat-girl." Vector says. Rouge is about to retort when Espio cuts her off.

"Sonic!…No wait you're not Sonic. Who are you?" Espio says ignoring Rouge.

"I'm definitely not that Faker!" Shadow says in resentment at the Chameleon's comment.

"What are you doing here Rouge?" Knuckles asked. She smiled sweetly at him.

"I came to see you—." Rouge started when she took notice of Roxanne who was beside Knuckles. "Who are you?" she asked. Roxanne blinked curiously. –She seems upset.- Roxanne thinks. –She must be Knuckles girlfriend.-

"My name is Roxanne-Li." She says. Rouge frowns briefly at the golden echidna. –I see she's gonna give me some problems.- Rouge thinks.…

That's it for Chapter 6. The next chapter might hold a battle scene. Sonic and Tails show up and the mysterious dictator from the past reveals himself and tells his story. I'll try to update soon. PLZ R&R. Thanx for all the reviews!!

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