Hi, we're S. Chensu and Luff and this is our Sonic fan fiction. We've been working on this for some time and so we decided to put it up and see what others make of it. We don't know much about the Sonic games, we're more Nintendo people but we do have Sonic Adventure 2: Battle and Sonic Adventure DX. So if there are any mistakes regarding characters then we apologise (Note from Luff: We also have Sonic Advance and Sonic Advance 2, but they don't really count).

Reviews are quite welcome and we should be able to update every week and a half to two. If it's longer it'll be because of school.

This fan fiction is based after the ending of Sonic Adventure 2: Battle. It starts with the journey of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Rouge as they search for Shadow… (In case you're wondering Eggman is looking for a house)

They're called 'STREKS' because of this:

Sonic

Tails

Rouge

Eggman

Knuckles

Shadow

Clever eh?

Disclaimer: We do not own the characters, they are owned by the Sonic team. The only thing we own is the story.

Now the introduction is done with it's onto the story!

Episode one: And this is just the beginning…

"Sayonara, Shadow the hedgehog." Sonic said sadly, staring at the bottomless space below them.

"He can't really be dead, can he?" Tails asked, wonder how someone as strong as Shadow could fall, when Sonic was still alive and unscarred…

"He can't have survived, he used up all of his energy using Chaos Control. No way he could have." Sonic sighed, not wanting to speak the truth.

"How could you speak so negatively?" Rouge demanded, shocked at the way Sonic was talking.

"Yeah, I mean, he only just got hurtled towards Earth, of course he could have survived." Sonic said sarcastically, the bitterness of what had happened obvious in his voice.

"Well he is the ultimate life form supposedly. People are always full of surprises." Knuckles argued, trying to keep the group calm and balanced. He hated imbalance, it messed with his senses.

Suddenly the room became so dark that no one could see anything and there were gasps and exclamations from all. In the middle an image appeared, a black and red blurry figure lying amongst brown, unmoving and silent.

"Oh my God, it's Shadow!" Everyone heard Eggman announce and now there was a name, they crept closer to the vision, waiting for something else to happen. They saw his eyes flicker open and cloud in agony as he tried to stand, falling onto his knees before sinking onto the ground once more. But then the image was gone, the lights bursting on and blinding everyone for a moment as they tried to get use to it.

"That was strange." Tails commented, his words causing everyone to stare at him in disbelief.

"Don't you realise what this means? Shadow must be alive! Quick, we have to find him!" Rouge started to trot towards the door but Knuckles grabbed her by the arm. They stared at each other for a few seconds before they both blushed and looked away.

"Rushing into this won't help, we need a plan." He mumbled. Tails understanding what was happening, rescued Knuckles from the situation.

"Yes, I agree. We should find somewhere to live and then look around until we find him. Once we find him, we'll bring him back and look after him until he recovers. After that, I'm not sure what we'll do but for the moment we don't have to worry about it." Tails suggested.

"Now that is a good idea, but there is just one small problem." Eggman piped up. "I'm a wanted criminal. After all I did threaten to blow up the world and take it over." He looked a little sheepish at admitting what was blindingly obvious to the others.

"We'll just have to get you a disguise then. I can sort that out easily." Rouge replied. She walked over to the computer and after a few moments, she was connected to the Internet. "Which colour do you prefer: blue or red?" She asked, still looking at the screen.

"Red of course." Eggman answered.

"Blue it is then." She smiled sweetly at him as /he/ went red himself. "Never trust a man's opinion when it comes to clothes is what I always say." She clicked the mouse button a few times before turning back to them. "Right, all we have to do now is go down, pick up the clothes and maybe give you a hair cut as well…" The others followed her as she walked towards the shuttle. They entered it but this time Tails took to the controls.

"I don't trust you two with machines, you try to destroy them."

"What do you mean? I was doing fine until that little accident with the meteor…" Sonic stumbled.

"And I wouldn't have tried to crash the thing if /he/ hadn't caused the pieces of Master Emerald to float into space…" Knuckles added. The two of them glared at each other before Eggman tried to distract them.

"Calm down, you two. Let's get this over and done with as quickly as possible." They sat down and Tails programmed the shuttle to head for England.

While the others stayed on the ship, Rouge flew down to London. She picked up the clothes and then bought some scissors. She dashed back to the shuttle and put the stuff down in its bags on the floor.

"Now then, you take these and put them on. I just hope that the size is right." She pointed to the bags and Eggman took them, looking suspiciously at the contents. "Naughty, don't look until you change into them." Eggman walked off and she smiled to herself.

"Um Rouge…what size did you get, just out of interest?" Tails asked cautiously.

"That's my little secret, but I'm sure we will hear soon enough…" She cocked her head and true to her words they heard Eggman shout out,

"Size eighteen, why you cheeky little rat with wings, I'm not that big! How dare you insult me?" Rouge grinned and so did the others. Tails got into such hysterics that he was rolling around the floor in a fit of giggles. He stopped though as soon as he heard Eggman walking back. He stood up and hid behind Sonic in case he got an attack of the giggles again.

Eggman stood in front of them and even Sonic had to admit that Rouge had chosen well. He did not look too bad. The clothes, consisting of a loose blue shirt and comfortable black jeans, were a bit baggy but not overly. Although his clothes were relaxed, Eggman clearly wasn't.

"Oh come on Eggman, they don't look that bad. It makes a nice change." Sonic commented and at that Eggman relaxed a bit. Rouge stepped forward.

"Now all we have to do it give you a hair cut." She brandished the pair of scissors in front of her and Eggman backed away.

"Don't you dare, I've spent years trying to grow this." He stroked his moustache nervously while Rouge sighed.

"Come on, that moustache is one of your most recognisable features, you'll get spotted straight away if you don't get rid of it." Eggman looked resigned.

"Oh all right but be careful, I don't want my nose being hacked to pieces as well." He sat down and Rouge went to the task of cutting his huge, ginger moustache. When the others tried to look though, she shooed them away so they went and sat down together.

"He he he, he's going to look so stupid!" Tails giggled but was met with a glare from Knuckles.

"Come on, you have to feel a bit sorry for him, I mean he's a size eighteen! How embarrassing! And how would you like it if someone chopped off your hair?" Knuckles stared at him.

"Oh, I suppose you're right. I just want to get onto finding Shadow, I hope he's all right…" Tails looked out of the window to where Shadow had fallen. Wanting to cheer him up, Sonic put his arm around his shoulder.

"I'm sure he'll be fine, after all we wouldn't have seen that image if there was no hope of finding him again. But still…" Sonic paused for a moment. "Size eighteen, we'd probably be able to fit all three of us in his shirt!" He laughed and Tails grinned. Even Knuckles had to smile slightly but he quickly stopped when he realised what he was doing.

"Ok guys, you can come and see my masterpiece now!" The others jumped up and Rouge stood back. Eggman was patting his face with his hands but Rouge grabbed them and forced them to his side.

Now that his famous moustache had gone, Eggman looked like a completely different person. The three of them smiled encouragingly at him and yet again he relaxed. Suddenly he became businesslike.

"Right let's get to work. We will have to hurry if we're going to find Shadow, so you four start looking while I find us a place to live. Any particular areas?" The others thought about his question.

"I think we should live in London. It's got great shops and it's very classy." Rouge suggested.

"What about you three?" Eggman asked.

"I don't mind to be honest, I just want to find Shadow." Sonic said. The others shrugged their shoulders and Eggman clapped his hands.

"London it is. I'll go and find a nice apartment and get the place furnished while you go and look for Shadow." Rouge interrupted him.

"/You're/ going to get the place furnished? I think I'll do the furnishing." She took out a notepad and pencil and wrote something down. She ripped out the page and gave it to Eggman. "Go to this place and ask for Jade. Tell her I sent you, she knows what I like. She'll help you find some nice things." Eggman folded the piece of paper and put it into his shirt pocket before walking to his machine and jumping into it.

"I'll go now. Tails, I trust you to think of suitable places to look for Shadow. Knuckles, Rouge and Sonic I want you to listen to what he has to say, ok?" They nodded their heads and Eggman threw four communicators to them. "I'll contact you on these. See you later." And with that he flew away.

Tails sat down at a computer and brought up a map of the world, looking at it for a moment before turning back to the others.

"Can you sense anything, Knuckles?" He asked. Knuckles closed his eyes, trying to reach out for traces of Chaos Emerald activity.

"No, I'm not really sure what I'm meant to look for though."

"Well, I'm hoping that the last Chaos Control he used left a mark on him which you could tune into." Tails explained. Knuckles tried again.

"No, I still can't sense him. I need to be closer to Earth." Tails pointed to the map.

"I thought we could go to one country in each continent and then maybe you'll be able to sense him better." Sonic's face lit up at Tails' genius.

"That's a great idea! Now what do we do?" Tails tapped a few keys and the map was split into seven colours.

"Each colour represents a continent. There are seven continents in total so we need to look in seven countries. Can you think of any?" Tails asked.

"Can you bring up each continent with the countries labelled?" In response to the question Tails tapped a few more keys. Europe came up and there were the countries on the screen. Rouge leaned closer at the image to look at it better.

"How about Italy? I've always wanted to go there, it's so romantic." Her eyes flickered to Knuckles, which only Tails noticed, and he understood what she was trying to do.

"I like the sound of that. I've always wanted to eat some proper Italian pizza and ice cream. Is that all right with you two?" He turned to Sonic and Knuckles.

"Yeah that sounds all right. Now then, what about Africa?" Knuckles questioned. Africa came up and Knuckles pointed to Egypt. "Can we go to Egypt? I've wanted to see the pyramids for some time."

"That's funny because I'm fed up of them! I've had enough of sand and pyramids." Sonic commented but seeing Knuckles' crestfallen face he added. "But I think we should go, after all, maybe it would be nice." Knuckles smiled at Sonic and thanked him. "I want to go to Brazil! After going through the Green Forest, I think that jungles are great!" Tails put Brazil up on the screen.

"Great, that's in South America! Only four more continents left to go." He put the four continents on the screen.

"Why don't you choose somewhere Tails? After all, we've all chosen one." Rouge suggested.

"Ok." Tails thought for a moment before his eyes lit up. "Let's go to Japan! They have the best technology there and /so/ many robots!" Asia disappeared and now only Antarctica, Australasia and North America were left on the screen. "Well there is only one country in Antarctica and that's-"

"Antarctica, by an chance?" Sonic interrupted, causing Tails to smile sheepishly.

"Yeah. The biggest country in Australasia is Australia so now it's just North America."

"I think we should go to Canada. It's bigger than all of those states so it's the obvious one to pick." Sonic suggested. The others nodded and Rouge wrote down the countries in her notepad.

"Where shall we go first?" She asked.

"I think Antarctica. We may as well get it over and done with. Is that all right with you three?" Sonic asked and they nodded their heads.

Tails shut the computer down and turned his communicator on.

"Eggman, are you there? Just to let you know we're going to Antarctica." A crackled reply came.

"Thank you Tails. I'm not doing too badly here; I've managed to find a couple of places. Anyway got to go, I'm just about to talk to an estate agent. Oh and by the way, if you're going to Antarctica look in the captain's cabin, there are some warm clothes there that you could use. Over and out." Tails put the communicator away.

"Does anyone know where the captain's cabin is?" He asked. Rouge walked to the door at the end of the room.

"Follow me, I know where it is." They set off after her and a few minutes later, they came to a room with a desk, bed and cupboard. Rouge opened the doors. True to Eggman's word, there were several suits of various shapes and sizes. Rouge picked out a pink one and put it on over the clothes she was already wearing (Note from S. Chensu: Which was not much). She also found a pair of earmuffs, and put them on. She turned to the others. "Hurry up you three, I'm boiling in this thing." They came to their senses and looked in the cupboard. Sonic found a blue suit and a pair of snowshoes, Knuckles had a red suit with goggles and Tails had an orange suit with furry gloves. They put them on and it wasn't long before they went red including Knuckles, if that was possible.

"Let's go…I'm…sweating…like a…pig!" Knuckles gasped. They set off as fast as they could in their snowsuits and they soon stood around the Tornado. Tails jumped into the machine and pressed a button. It changed some parts until a plane appeared. Unlike the plane before though, it had two parts which could hold four people (including the pilot). Sonic and Tails sat in the front part so Knuckles and Rouge had to sit in the other seat. While Rouge looked relaxed, Knuckles looked like he was going to have a heart attack.

"Come on Knuckles, don't be scared. There's more than enough room for the both of us." She patted the seat and winked at him. He swallowed hard and sat next to her, blushing a wonderful shade of molten red. Sonic was too busy putting his seatbelt on to notice this but Tails, who already had his on, saw the whole thing. A plan formed in his head, which although he could not put into effect now, would be perfect for later on…

"Everyone ready?" He shouted. They nodded and he started the engine. He reached the button to open the door and it slid away to reveal the Earth below them.

They flew down to Earth, heading for Antarctica and a couple of hours later, in which no one really said anything as they were too buried within their own thoughts, they landed in Antarctica.

S. Chensu: Well that's episode one done. Sorry it's a bit short but the next few are longer compared to this. And no, some things here don't make sense but you have to ignore those bits. Anyway, read and review but no flames until you've read a bit more please. Then you may print this off and burn it as much as you like.