A Sonic the Hedgehog E-Mail story. Written together with Drager. None of us own Sonic, Knuckles, Shadow Tails, Rouge, Amy, Cream or Eggman. They are copyrighted Sega and The Sonic Team and belong to them.
Sonic World swap
Part 4
Everyone sat in the dinning room. It was not much of a dinning room just some tables push together. Light came from lanterns hanging from the unfinished carved wall. I did have enough places for every one to sit and enjoy Amy's cooking.
A Rouge look at the two Knuckles sitting on other side of a table. She looked at the cut and scrapes on their bodies. "What did you two do?" She asked.
"He was trying to steel something," A Knuckles said, "I stop him."
"It wouldn't matter much if he did," A Tails said, "Most of this stuff is from old Eggman bases. By the way, I thought you wanted to go with Shadow."
"I wanted to," A Knuckles said, "But he push me away saying he didn't want me to slow him down."
"Our normally sit back and watch from afar," B Rouge said, "Sonic Rouge what's with the collars."
"You could blame me for that," B Shadow said.
A Sonic growled a bit as he glared a B Shadow. "Okay, we did what you wanted, now remove our collars."
Smirking a bit, B Shadow sat down in a chair and looked right back at A Sonic. "Well, you did get Cream back, but she's still under Eggman's control, therefore, I don't consider you to have complete your job until she's back to normal."
"Cream normal, Ha." B Tails and B Amy muttered out as they heard what B Shadow said.
Ignoring them, B Shadow leaned back in his chair and sighed. "Whatever Eggman did to her, will take some time to fix, besides, with those collars, you can still fight him, or do you want to go back into the bed?."
Mumbling a few choice words under his breath, A Sonic returned to eating his food with a frown. "Just a annoying as the shadow I know."
Looking a bit interested at the words from the blue hedgehog. Shadow sat up in his chair again. "Where is this other version of me anyway?"
"He left to get the other chaos emeralds in this world," A Amy said.
"Should we go after him?" B Tails asked.
"I'm more worried about the Eggmans," A Sonic said, "Rouges you two will try to find out about the Eggmans. The rest of us will hunt down the chaos emeralds or prepare for the Eggman."
"Die Sonic," B Cream yelled as she reached over the table at A Sonic. Only the pain from the collar stopped her. She dropped the Axe and grabbed the collar.
"Are you happy about the collar now?" Shadow asked. "I'll talk her somewhere she won't cause as much trouble." He rose and grabbed B Cream and carried her away.
"So Shadow will watch her," A Sonic said, "A Tail you stay here and see what you can build to help. The rest of us will search for the chaos emeralds."
"So we'll split up in teams again." Knuckles spoke out as he leaned back in his chair, staring across the table into the eyes of A Sonic.
Smiling a bit, A Sonic nodded to Knuckles's question/Statement. "There's safety in numbers, our Eggman relies on Robots we can see, but the other Eggman uses those things called Mabots."
"Mabots can look like anyone he chooses." B Tails continued as she looked down at the ground with a sad expression. "And he used them to nearly drive us nuts once."
Smirking at her words, Sonic stood up. "Still, if we work fast, we can secure the emeralds before the Eggmans can get them."
Jumping up, B Amy smirked as she slammed her hands down on the table. "So what are we waiting for, let's get those emeralds."
Later the two Sonics ran down the plains. "So we'll just running around until we find something?" B Sonic asked.
"That's the plan," A Sonic said.
They came to a burning village. In the middle of the burning village they found a little mouse girl. "What happen?" A Sonic asked.
"Machines came and attack me village," the mouse girl said, "They killed everyone."
"We'll get you somewhere safe," B Sonic said as he picked up the little girl. As the two ran back to the base, the little girls face shifted a little and returned to normal.
"I'm bored." A Amy mumbled out as she looked up at the clock on the wall. Her eyes closing a bit as she wondered why she had agreed to remain behind and make snacks for all of them. "Because it was Sonic who asked me." She replied to her own question as she stood up.
The current base of the group was almost deserted as she walked through the rooms, the only other ones there being the Shadow and Cream from the other world, and they were locked up inside one of the rooms while Shadow tried to get her back to normal again.
Stepping out into the workshop, she stared at the runway Tails had added to the place when he and Sonic had decided to make it their home away from home, her eyes looking out into the sky outside of the cave opening. "I want to be helpful to, not just as a cook, but as a fighter."
Narrowing her eyes as she finished speaking, A Amy stared as a small blue dot in the sky grew larger, engine noise filling the air, as it got closer. A sign that someone was getting closer to the cave in an airplane, and from its color, it could only be. "Sonic!"
Stepping out of the way as the plane landed, she watched as the two Sonic's stepped out of it, the more serious of them holding a young mouse girl in his arms. "Sonic, who is that?"
"We found her in a burning village," A Sonic said, "Look like Eggman did a number on her home. I brought her to so we can watch her." He turns to his counterpart. "Find her a place to rest."
"Why me?" B Sonic asked.
"I want to talk to Amy alone," A Sonic said.
"Fine," B Sonic said grabbing the mouse girl and walks from the room.
"So what do you want to talk about?" Amy asked.
"So what's been happening here?" Sonic asked.
"That all," Amy said almost shouting.
Sonic cover her mouth then whisper in her ear. "Everything I say here is just between me and you know else. Understand?" Amy nodded. "I need you here to watch other the place. Shadow is busy with Cream and you know how Tails get when he doing a project."
"SonicI," Amy stood there not knowing what to say. She quickly thought of something else to say. "So what did you do with the other from the little girls village."
"There were nobodies," Sonic stop talking as his eyes widen.
Elsewhere in the base the mouse girl sat up. She turned into gel and started to reshape into a blue hedgehog. It looked at the gold band it wore as it walk from the room.
"Master Eggman, I have located and infiltrated Sonic the Hedgehog's hideout." Watching the corridor for anyone as it spoke, The Mabot stared down at the communicator. "I will send the location of the base soon, Mabot 127 out."
Far away, In Eggman's base, a twin set of dark laughter erupted as the heavyset humans sitting in two chairs, turned off the radio.
Standing up, A Eggman walked over to look down at his latest creation, a new version of the metallic copy type robots, based on the Phi system. "I must admit, your plan worked perfectly, but I'm a bit worried about your Mabot's, they seem to lack any kind of weapon systems."
Nodding as he stood up as well, B Eggman walked over to look at A Eggman's work. "Yes, but they are the perfect way to get a spy into those rodents hideout." Watching as several lasers were built into the robots arms, B Eggman smirked a bit. "I guess some of Gerald's inventions could be used after all."
A Eggman smiled as he closed the robots chest plate. "Yes, our great grandfather was a great a genius as us, too bad he went insane near the end, but the Gizoid and Ultimate life form projects gave me a chance to improve my robots." Turning away from the worktable, A Eggman walked over to look at a computer screen. "The only drawback is that he only worked with machines that needs chaos emeralds to work."
Listing to what the other version of his said, B Eggman stared down at the new robot. He had never thought of working on true battle machines like this version of him. He had his standard grunt robots to control a area he took over, but all major tasks was put into the hands of a mabot, and they had never really been great when it came to fighting.
"You metal-Sonic was sent to recover an emerald hours ago, why hasn't he had returned?" Talking as he walked over to stare at some of his look a like's other work, B Eggman nodded in appreciation of what he saw. But he was still worried, what if this Eggman decided to go back on the deal.
A Eggman stopped working on the computer as he thought about it. "The last report mention something about heat signatures being picked up in the area he scanned, but if it make you feel better, I'll check and see how he's doing."
"Sonic what are you doing?" A Amy asked as A Sonic drag her around.
"That girl I thinks she a mabot," A Sonic said. He stopped when he saw B Sonic. "Where the girl?"
"She resting like you told me," B Sonic said.
"How did you like you world Amy cooking just now?" A Sonic asked.
"It was alright," B Sonic said.
"She didn't cook," A Sonic said, "But you were not here to taste the food anyway. Mabot." The Fake B Sonic jump and A Sonic but Amy stop it with her hammer. With rage it scream and jump at Amy. As the two roll around the mabot change to Amy's shape. "Stop," Sonic yelled. He watched as two Amys stood up. 'Great,' Sonic though, 'one fake and the other has a hammer and a short temper.'
"What's with all the noise?" Tails yelled out as he ran down the corridor, B Sonic right behind him.
At the same time, a black and red outline showed that B Shadow had decided to leave the room and find out the reason for the noise as well, his eyes staring at the two fighting hedgehog girls with confusion. "What's up with those two, didn't they get along just a minute ago?"
"Who cares." B Sonic yelled out as he pulled a lawn chair and a cup of popcorn out of thin air. "It's the chick fight of my dreams." Dropping down onto the chair, he stuffed some popcorn into his face rather loudly.
Shooting a disquieted look at his counterpart, A Sonic looked over at B Shadow and Tails. "The mouse girl was a Mabot, we busted it as it tried to pass off as him." The last was added as A Sonic pointed a finger at the cheering B Sonic. "Amy jumped it and it turned into a copy of her."
Tails shook his head as both Amy's were suddenly holding a hammer and trying to hit the other one with it. "How do we stop them Sonic?" Tails looked a bit concerned after that sentence as everyone looked at him with an odd expression. "Without getting hurt I mean?"
"There only one thing," A Sonic said. "I do not want to but" He walked closer to the fighting girls. "Alright," He said, "If someone can win this fight in less than five minutes then I'll go on a date with her."
"Really," One Amy yelled. A Sonic nodded. With more effort the Amy, that just yelled, started to literally bet the other into a puddle. "Sonic," A Amy yelled grab him in a hug, "I've been wanting for a date."
"What about me?" B Sonic asked.
"Never mind that," Tails said, "It getting away." Everyone turn to watch the ooze seep into a crack in the wall. "Now what. It's going to tell where we are to the Eggmans."
"We need to stop it," A Sonic said, "Shadow you move Cream in Tails workshop. Tails try to find a way to stop it. The rest will keep it from getting out."
B Sonic yawned as he jumped out of his chair, tossing his popcorn off to the side in the process. "Okay, now that we have gotten the lovely fight out of the way, I suggest we split up in teams." Ignoring the looks he got, B Sonic marched over to stand next to Amy. "We'll go this way, and the rest of you can go that way."
Shaking his head, Shadow looked up at the ceiling. "How did that hedgehog stop me from destroying the earth? He's a freaking idiot!!" The last was yelled out as Shadow glared at B Sonic. "I say we stick together, that way the damn thing can't surprise us."
"He's got a point." Amy pointed out as she stepped a bit away form B Sonic, the way he was smiling at her was making her rather nervous. "Besides, I saw this movie once, and most of the group died because they split up."
"I saw that movie too." Tails cried out as he looked at her. "Wasn't it Invasion of the liquid slugs from Venus?" Tails asked as he rubbed his head. "I thought they almost lost because they stuck together as team in the end. Made them easier to find and attack for the slugs."
"Really?" Amy mumbled out as she closed her eyes. "It might have been Gong, invader from the moon I was thinking off."
Sharing a quick look with Shadow, A Sonic shook his head. "I can't believe Amy's a B movie freak."
"Lets just find it," Shadow said.
They walk open a door. Inside the room was a rain of tears. The turn on the light and show the tangles of pipes. "Tails, why can't you make this a little better?" Amy asked.
"I don't know anything about pluming," Tails said.
A shadow fell at the group. The group screams as they fell into the water cover floor. Behind them, the mouse girl closed the door. Sonic slammed into the door. "It's no good," Sonic said, "She's calling the Eggmans."
The two Rouge's watch several crafts rise from Eggman's base. "I wonder what they are up to?" B Rouge asked.
"Only one way to find out," A Rouge said as she ran to the craft, right next to her, B Rouge moved just as fast, both of them barely jumping high up enough into the air to catch onto the side of the closest ship.
Pulling themselves up, both Rouges watched as the ground became more distant as the crafts rose up into the air. "Geez, can't Eggman ever build something small?" A Rouge yelled out as she looked closer at the craft they were on, the shape of it very much like that of a fish.
"Duck." B Rouge hissed out as she pulled her other version into a small alcove in the ship. Up ahead of them, an Egg pawn marched around slowly, its head busy looking around for any threats to the ship or itself. "Whatever this place is, Eggman's sure not taking any chances." She whispered out as she spotted several other robots patrolling the place.
A Rouge nodded as they began to walk along the top of the ship, slowly headed towards what looked like a door leading into the inside of the airship. "Come on, this way." Opening the door, as it turned out to be one, A Rouge looked around the inside of it carefully. "It's clear, come on."
Following her counterpart in through the door, B Rouge stopped as her eyes spotted something through the metallic walkway they had stepped onto inside. "Rouge, look."
A Rouge stared down through the walkway and gasped as saw the large number of robots gathered in several long lines below them, some of them the more advanced E1000 model machines, then the simple Egg pawn type they had seen so far. "It's an army of robots." A Rouge spoke out with a bit of shock in her voice.
B Rouge nodded darkly as she turned away from at them herself. "The Eggmans must be up to something, but what?"
"All we can do is wait," A Rouge said.
Meanwhile, Amy rubs her arms. She paced the room. Her feet push around the ankle deep water. She sneezed. She look at the others slamming into the door. B Sonic walked up to her. "That dress is soaked you should talk it off," he said.
"No way," Amy yelled. She sneezed once more. "I'm soaked but I don't want to be that way. I don't fell comfortable."
"We all wet," A Sonic said. "we need to get out of here or else we all will get sick." He look at Amy and smiled. "Amy I got an ideal," a Sonic said, "I need your help."
"Sure," Amy said, "What do you want me to do?"
"Get ready to swing your hammer," Sonic said before he scooped Amy into his arms. Soon the room was filled with a blue and pink blur. Soon Sonic Scream "now" Amy hammer hit the door with great force. Everyone was surprised to see the not only was the door gone but so was the wall. Amy looks down at her hammer. There was a large crack down the head. "Sorry," Sonic said, "I'll repay you."
"Thanks," Amy said, "But now lets get out of here and find someplace safe and warm." Two robots walk down the hall.
"My father is here," B Cream said.
"Just great." A Sonic mumbled out as he spin dashed the two robots before they could alarm Eggman's. Standing behind the two trashed robots, he looked further down the small corridor. "Seems they are searching the place for us."
Amy rubbed her arms as she walked up to look around the corner of the corridor, her eyes narrowed as she watched the large number of robots walking around in the hangar. "We can't fight all of them."
Watching the same thing, both A and B Sonic shook their heads, even for someone as fast as them, that many Robot's would prove to be a problem. "There's a another exit from here." A Sonic whispered as he led the small group towards the back of the place. "But we have to move fast if we want to escape undetected."
"Father!! They're down here!!"
Turning around, the group watched B Cream as she smirked at them, B Shadow looking a bit surprised as she glared at them with a dark look in her eyes. "The water broke the collar, so I'm no longer forced to obey blackie here." As she spoke, she pulled out a large mallet from nowhere and began to swing it in the air. "Okay, who wants to be the first?"
"Sonic!" Amy yelled out as the army of Robots came around the corner, all of them rushing forward with their weapons ready.
Out of nowhere the two Rouges jump onto the smaller group of robots. Sonic and the others trample the robots as they ran for it. "Where did you come from?" Amy asked as the group ran away.
"We saw Eggmans large an attack so we follow them," A Rouge said. "How do we get out of here?"
"There's an old air vent near," Sonic said. They ran to a small room with a grate on the wall. Sonic removed the grate and one by one each jump into the vent. They all slide down the vent into the shadow of trees.
"I'm going to tell the other about what happen," B Sonic said, "I'm not going to let my Amy get capture."
"Now what," Tails asked, "We have no a plane or anything. My poor Tornado."
"There a village near by," A Rouge said, "We could plan our next move."
"Oh yeah." Sonic replied as he looked in the direction A Rouge had pointed out to him. "I've been through a few times, nothing but Hedgehog's living there."
A Rouge coughed a bit at the blue hedgehog's words, then she turned to look at the rest of the group. "Okay, if we hurry, we might get there before nightfall."
Sniffing a bit, Amy rubbed her arms as she looked around the place. "Whatever, as long as we get out of here, my dress is soaked and I'm not planning on spending more time in it then I have too."
Staring at her, Sonic shrugged his shoulder. "Why don't you just take it off."
Glaring at Sonic, Amy huffed a bit. "I may be covered in fur like everyone else, but that doesn't mean I'm going to run around without my clothes on." The last was added with a dark glare in her eyes, one hand holding her damaged hammer over her shoulder.
"Um, right." Sonic replied as he back off, knowing full well how painful that hammer could be when she was really mad. "So, let's just get going okay."
Following after them, Amy sniffed a bit again as a wind blew by. "There's no way I'm taking off this dress. And not around any of you guys." The last nearly yelled out at Sonic, Shadow and Tails as the pink hedgehog stomped up the trail towards the village.
It was dust and the group look at the village slowly getting bigger and bigger. It was a good size village with a large square in the center. The house were made of trees, cut from a near by forest and clay. Although they were made of basic materials, they had a modern look to them. The roads were my thousands of brinks blanking the ground. As they walk into the village, Tails, breathing heavily, asked, "Where are we going to stay everything seam to be lock up?"
"I know a place," A Rouge said. She led the group to one of the largest house in the village and knock on the door.
A female hedgehog opened the door. With a smile she grabs Rouge. "My little girl, "The hedgehog said, "It been so long."
"Mom," A Rouge said, "There others here."
The hedgehog stops hugging A Rouge and look at the others. "And they are."
With out missing a moment, Amy said, "We're friends of Rouge."
"Come in," the hedgehog said, "It so nice to know you have friends. Any males you have you eyes on?"
"Mom," Rouge said with part of her face turning red.
"I'm just asking," the hedgehog said, "Your father would be so happy to see you." She led the group into the house. In it they found rare vases and many hand painted. They walk under a chandelles made from many valuable jewels.
Staring around with a puzzled expression, Sonic narrowed his eyes a bit as he moved up to whisper something to Rouge. "Hey, you never said your parents are rich."
Shooting him an annoyed look back, Rouge turned to her mother with a smile. "So, do you mind if me and Amy borrow some of your clothes? Our own got a bit wet in an accident."
Looking from Rouge to the pink hedgehog girl, the elder hedgehog woman smiled as she began to push them over towards the finely cut wooden staircase leading up. "Of course you can, but I think you should take a bath first, I'll have our maid place some clothes for you, and in the meanwhile, I'll tell the staff to prepare some rooms for a group of guests."
Behind them, Sonic sighed as the three females vanished up the stairs. "And what about us, are we just going to stand here and wait." The last was spoken as Sonic tapped his foot on the ground, eyes narrowed in annoyance.
"Show some respect." Shadow spat out as he smacked Sonic on the back of his head, making the blue hedgehog glare at him.
Before a fight could break out between the two hedgehog's, the sound of someone clearing his throat drew their attention towards a gray colored hedgehog standing in the doorway, a white tie around his neck with a white napkin hanging on one wrist. "Greetings, I am Jarvis, I have been asked to escort you to the living room, so if you would please follow me."
"Okay." Came the reply from Sonic as the group slowly moved to follow after him, into a more relaxing room with a large marble table and several plush chairs around it.
Turning around to face them, Jarvis moved an arm to show that they should come further into the room. "Please, take a seat, the Master and the Mistress will be here shortly." Not waiting for a reply from them, Jarvis left the room, closing the door behind him.
"At least most of our fur is dry," Sonic said.
"We're back," Amy said. She wore a white ball gown. Sonic looked at her for a moment. "Well, It's a little formal but I'm wearing until my clothes are dry."
"It's fine," Sonic said with his mouth open.
"Why don't you introduce yourself," An elder male hedgehog said.
"Well," A Rouge said, "the one that look like me is me from another world, long story. The black one is Shadow. The fox is Tails. The pink hedgehog is Amy and the blue is Sonic."
"The Sonic?" The female hedgehog asks.
"That right," A Rouge said.
"I hope Rouge didn't get in the way," the female hedgehog said.
"She help us many time," Sonic said, "Sorry about coming here but we need a place to stay for a while."
"We don't mind," the female hedgehog said, "It good to know that our little Alicia have friends. You see she her come home crying about how everyone making fun of he."
"Mom," A Rouge yelled.
"I'm just tell them some stories," the female hedgehog said, "I remember this one time"
"Not the sticky ice cream one," Rouge said.
Smiling, the female hedgehog giggled a bit as she noted the faint blush under her daughters fur. "Okay, but how about the one with you and young Manic?"
Blushing even harder, Rouge spluttered out a few barely heard words as she waved her hands in front of her to stop her mother from telling anyone about that. "Mom!" Finally getting a word out, she sighed as she saw her mother laughing a bit more then she had a second before.
"There, there." The elder hedgehog replied as he pattered her on the arm gently. "I'm sure they'd rather hear about the time when you tried to steal from the cookie jar and." The rest was blocked as Rouge smacked both her hands onto his mouth.
Smirking a bit, Sonic leaned in over the table. "So, just how much trouble did she get into?"
Glaring at him, Rouge gave a snort as she settled down in the chair, making sure her wine red ball dress was wrinkled by her outburst. "Keep it up hedgehog, and I'll tell everyone about some of your most embarrassing secrets."
Closing his mouth, Sonic settled back down into the chair with a pout on his face. "Fine, guess I just lost my chance for something to blackmail Knuckles with."
"Keep it up Sonic, and Amy here learns how to unlock your door without a key." Smirking back at Sonic, Rouge settled down in her chair with a look of triumph on her face. "So, mom, dad. What's been happening here while I was, gone?"
The female hedgehog shrugged a bit. "Nothing much really, Manic married Rise last year, beside that, nothing much. "
"What have you been up to?" the male hedgehog asked.
"Well," Rouge said. After a little thinking, she started to tell some of her stories just with out the thieving parts.
Later that night Amy was sitting next to Sonic who was looking at the stars. "Beautiful," Amy said look at the twinkling lights in the black sky. "I'm going in," Amy said.
"I'll go take a bath," Sonic said, "It's getting late."
As Amy walk to her room, A Rouge walk next to the pink hedgehog and smiled. "I think someone is getting a crush on you."
Amy stops and looks at the bat. "Who?" She asked.
"You were just with him," Rouge said.
"But, Sonic runs from me," Amy said.
"That's not because of you," Rouge said, "but the scenes you made. We all know the Blue boy is shy. You stop making them and he comes to you. Sonic can have any female but I think you're the only one that is everything he wants."
"Thanks," Amy said before walking off. She found Sonic walking down the hale still drying his fur. "Hey Sonic." Amy said. She think herself from yelling and hugging him.
"Hey Amy," he said, "I don't know how long we'll be here so be ready to leave at anytime."
"I'll follow you any where."
"Maybe you should stop following me"
"But?" was all Amy could say before Sonic placed a finger over Amy's mouth.
"I was not done," Sonic said, "Maybe you should stop following me and start walking next to me."
Simply staring after Sonic as he turned and walked away, Amy felt a big smile form on her face, her body feeling like it was floating as she walked to the room she shared with Rouge. Then she spotted Shadow standing nearby, his eyes closed as he faced a window.
Walking carefully towards him, She stopped and coughed lightly to show that she was near. The only sign that he had heard came in the form of a small move of his stance. "Shadow, are you okay, you've been distant all night."
"She's gone again." Shadow replied as he continued to face the window, his eyes closed. But still giving off the feeling of anger and hurt. "I failed her, like I failed Maria."
Feeling her good mood fade, Amy looked at Shadow as she remembered that Cream was no longer with them, but back with the Eggman's again, and most likely working on something to stop them. "Shadow, I'm sorry." Speaking the words as gently and sincere as she could, Amy placed her hand on his shoulder. "You did your best, I'm sure of it."
Shrugging off her hand, Shadow turned to face her. "And what makes you so sure of that, you don't know my past." His words carrying a lot of bitterness as he spoke. "Cream the only I ever really cared about."
"Because she's like you?" Amy asked, having heard about the other worlds Cream from the other version of her. "You care about her because she pushes everyone away, just like you do."
Giving a loud snort, Shadow turned and walked down the hallway. Giving Amy a cold stare as he passed her. "She and Maria, they were the only ones who cared about my pain, none of you know her like I do, none of you."
"You scare me," Amy said before she quickly ran away.
Meanwhile B Sonic found the B Amy's group. "Eggman found base" the fainted into Amy's arms.
"What do we do know?" B Tails asked.
"Find a place for the moron," A Knuckles said. The group nodded and search for a place to stay.
Later B Shadow stop look out the window. "I'm not letting Eggman use my Cream to do his evil," he said. After a note, Shadow walk into the darkness.
Morning came and B Amy still looks down at the Sonic from her world. B Tails rub Amy's back like sisters comforting each other. "Why did he push himself so hard?" Amy asked. "He may get on my nerves but that doesn't mean I don't like him."
"I never seen you this worried about him," Tails said.
"Maybe seeing this world Sonic and me made me think. Funny how see yourself if thing were difference. Seeing other makes us look at ourselves and see how we can be improved."
"Don't forget reminds us what we have," Tails said, "And how cute I look as a boy."
Giving B Tails a funny look, B Amy shook her head. "You do know that he you, just as a male right?" Seeing the confused look in B Tails eyes, she froze. "He's like your brother."
Ignoring the ranting B Amy, B Tails stood up and looked around the place they were in. "So, anyone got an idea where we can this Chaos Emerald." Her question making A Knuckles look up from his brooding.
Uncrossing his arms, A Knuckles walked over to look at them. "We tracked it to be somewhere on this mountain, most likely in one of the caves."
"All the way up there." B Amy asked as she looked up at the rather tall looking mountain, her eyes locked onto the snow-covered parts of it. "Wouldn't we need something to help us climb it?"
"Told you we should have taken the Tornado." B Tails added in as she smirked at B Amy, her eyes narrowed as she grinned on the inside at the thought of flying that plane.
Giving B Tails a sarcastic look, B Amy shook her head. "And where would you land the plane?" Seeing B Tails blink her eyes in confusion, she growled a bit. "Don't say it, you were going to crash my plane into the side of a mountain!" The last part yelled out as she jumped up.
"Enough!" A Knuckles yelled out as he pushed them apart, his purple eyes turning to regard the mountain. "I'll get the Chaos emerald from the mountain." Stepping away from them, he looked down at B Sonic. "You two stay here and make sure the moron don't get in the way."
B Amy and B Tails watch A Knuckles move away. "Amy there's one other thing." B Tails said, "I asked Tails what his last name was and his is powers."
"You don't have the same last name," Amy said, "I guess that's alright."
Meanwhile A Amy walks into the dinning room. The large table was covered by a buffet. "So what are you planning for today?" the female hedgehog said.
"We have some of our friends out there some where," Sonic said. "We need to search for them."
"I could send some of my people to search for them," the male hedgehog said.
"We wouldn't want to intrude on you," Sonic said,
"No problem," the male hedgehog said.
Sitting down at the table, Amy began to eat her breakfast, her eyes locking onto the brooding red and black hedgehog standing in the corner for a second, before turning to see Sonic gulp down a glass of juice. "So, what are we doing today?"
Tails, hearing her question pulled out a small map from somewhere and looked at it. "Well, we're rather far away from the larger cities, and without our planes, we're stuck with walking." Looking over at Sonic, Tails grinned. "Or running in some case"
"Hey." Sonic grinned out as he gave Tails a mock glare. "I can't help it if I'm faster then the rest of you."
Giving Sonic a glare at his arrogant comment, Rouge shook her head. "There must be some other kind of transportation here."
"Try the new train station." The female hedgehog replied as she looked over at her daughter. "They completed the railway about a year ago."
"Okay." Sonic declared as he jumped up. "What are we waiting for."
Giving him the look, Rouge and Amy looked down at their breakfast. "For us to finish eating." The reply making Sonic blush a bit as he saw their dark look.
Later the group was walking to the train station. They walk to a large crowd of female hedgehops. Sonic stop and look at the group. Each wore a shirt with large "I", then a heart, and lastly a picture of Sonic. "Sonic," they yelled. Sonic scream and ran away.
"Shy Sonic on the run," B Rouge said, "I'm going to get our tickets."
"How dear they try to get my Sonic," Amy yelled and ran at them.
"Come Tails lets see what going to happen," A Rouge said.
Sonic stop at his last hope to get out, He found more girls. "Just great," Sonic said as he ran off.
Amy was having a hard time finding Sonic. "Hey" Amy turned around.
Standing outside a small shop, a black and red armadillo were looking at her in a friendly way, a duffle bag slung over one of his shoulders and a pair of goggles on his head, just above his eyes. "Excuse me miss, I was hoping that you could tell me where I can find the train station."
Staring at the Armadillo, Amy shook her head a bit. "It's down that way somewhere." Waving her hand behind her, she looked around place not really paying attention to him after that. "Have you seen a fast blue hedgehog around here, I have to save him form those rapid fan girls."
Nearly dropping the duffle bag at what she said, the Armadillo grinned a bit. "Blue hedgehog, he wouldn't be called Sonic The Hedgehog by any chance?" Getting a curios tone in his voice, as he looked back at her with a glint in his eye.
Narrowing her eyes a bit, Amy stared at the Armadillo, her hand moving to grab her hammer if it became necessary. "How do you know Sonic, are you one of those rapid fans as well?"
Giving a laugh at her words, the armadillo did lose hold of his duffle bag, one hand wiping away a tear from his eye. "Good one miss." Smiling, he gave a small bow to her. "I'm Might the Armadillo, and I know Sonic from when he helped bust out of Eggman's prison base years ago."
"Mighty the Armadillo, You're that Mighty?" Amy nearly yelled out as she looked at him. "You don't look like I pictured you from Sonic's stories."
Shrugging a bit as her words, mighty reached down a hand and pulled up his duffle bag again. "Yeah, looks can be really deceiving." Rubbing a finger under his nose, he looked closer at Amy. "So how do a pretty thing like you know Sonic? You his girl friend?"
Blushing at his comment, Amy slowly shook her head a bit. "Not yet, but I don't care, cause me and Sonic are meant for one another." Nearly striking a pose as she finished talking, Amy giggled a bit as he looked around the place. "You sure you haven't seen him?"
"Sorry, but as I said, I haven't." Looking at Amy, he smiled a bit as he briefly touched her hand. "Would you like me to help you look for him?"
Smiling a bit at the way he had asked her, Amy gave a short nod at him. "IF you want to, it would be easier to find him that way." As Mighty smiled at her and began to follow her, she sighed a bit, wondering where Sonic had run off to, before a more curious question popped up in her mind. "By the way, what are you doing all the way out here? "
Mighty shrugged again, his eyes moving over the crowd around them as he tried to spot the blue hedgehog he had befriended years ago. "I'm passing through actually." Seeing her frown, he continued, giving her a more detailed explanation. "Left my friends, the Choatix about a year and half ago, to find out if what I was doing with my life was the right thing."
"Sometime I feel that way," Amy said, "But then Sonic touch me and I know I'm where I should be."
"My answer is not that easy," Mighty said, "What do you feel when you touch Sonic to know it your place."
"I feel a power or something that is shared only between us," Amy said. She could not help but smiled
Meanwhile Sonic turn to the street there he found Amy walking near Mighty. He felt something it not jealously. He saw Amy smiled as she talks with her overly happy smile. This smile was something only he could bring out. This brought fear in him that Amy live leaves him. He walks to the two. Mighty was one of his friends and normally he would share things with his friends but Amy not a thing Amy is a person, A person that Sonic likes around her.
Amy felt a hand wrap around her hand. Amy gave a small yap as she was pulled into a body. She looks at Sonic and found he was holding her. "Mighty, it's been a long time," Sonic said, "What bring you here?"
"Soul searching," Mighty said, "So you two are a couple?"
"Hay, Rouge," Sonic said as the three walk up to them the others, "Got the tickets?"
"Yes," A Rouge said, "but considering how small this town is we still have a few hours." Rouge look at Mighty. "And you?"
"I'm Might," he said, "Friends with Sonic and former member of team Choatix."
"I Rouge." A Rouge her hand to Mighty. "Current member of Team Sonic."
"He'll be traveling with us for a while," Amy said.
"Great," A Rouge said.
Soon they were waiting for the train when two females walk by talking. "So it was a huge gem," One said.
"Did you take it?" the other asked.
"No, It was like glowing and junk," the first on said.
"That could be a Chaos emerald," A Tails said.
"Lets split up and search for it," Sonic said, "We'll meet back here an hour before the train."
"Hay, Pinky," Mighty said, "How about we go together." No one notice Sonic eyes stare at Mighty.
Frowning a bit at the nickname, Amy still gave him a smile as she walked over to him. "Why not." Then she looked back at the group. "So, who else is joining up for this?"
Still glaring a bit, Sonic looked at the remaining members of the group. "Me and Tails." Rather him then a grumpy Shadow from another universe. And Rouge, while pleasant, would most likely want to know why he was acting so upset and shooting glares at Mighty.
Rouge, giving Sonic and odd look, before moving onto Mighty and giving the same, finally turned to face Shadow with a cherry smile on her face, she would just have to ask Sonic what was wrong later. "Guess it's just you and me Shadow."
Simply raising an eyebrow a bit, Shadow snorted a bit as he unfolded his arms and fully turned to face her. "Better not slow me down treasure hunter."
"Well, now that, that is out of the way, we should meet here again in an hour and half." Sonic commanded as he stared at the group around him. "Remember, ask someone if they have seen a glowing gem, it might help us find it faster." Seeing them nod, Sonic grinned a bit. "Me and Tails will take the northern part, Shadow and Rouge, taken the west side, Mighty and Amy get the south side, when you finish looking through one side, go the eastern part and we'll all look through that area."
Rouge walk next to Shadow. "I was hoping to go with Sonic," She said, "No affiance but I want to know why Sonic is acting strange to Mighty."
"I don't care," Shadow said. "I'm going to be gone as soon as Eggman back in his world."
"You don't care about others as much," Rouge said.
"Lets just find it," Shadow said as he walked away.
Meanwhile, Mighty walk next to Amy. "Well, Pinky," Might said, "Find anything?"
"No," Amy said.
"How about we go to dinner, my treat." Mighty said.
"Sorry," Amy said, "Sonic own me a date and he need to get me a new hammer."
"I know many places that get you a great hammer," Mighty said.
"No thanks," Amy said, "I want one from Sonic."
Elsewhere, Sonic stop and look at the ground. He smiled and pick up the glowing blue stone. "I found it," Sonic said.
"Lets go back and wait for the others," Tails said.
Returning to the train station, Sonic slowed down his run as he noticed Rouge and Shadow had already returned as well, both of them just looking right at them.
Stopping completely in front of them, Sonic held out the emerald. "Okay, we got it. So now we just have to wait for the others and we can start to hunt for Eggman and the remaining Chaos Emeralds."
"Sonic." Hearing his name, Sonic turned his head to face Rouge who had a slightly unsure off expression on her face as she looked at him. "Can I, talk with you for a second."
Feeling a lot of dread at the way she talked, Sonic slowly looked at the others, and blinked as Shadow had already moved over to stand in a shadow, leaning against the wall with a small frown on his face, along with Tails, who had a more relaxed expression as he was sitting in the sunshine.
Returning his focus to Rouge, Sonic sighed and crossed his arms. "So, what is it Rouge?"
Opening her mouth, and then closing it again, the female bat shook her head and then looked at him again with a more determined expression. "I'm just wondering, what's the deal between you and Mighty, you were down right rude to him before."
Eye narrowing a bit, Sonic looked of to the side, focusing all his attention on a small tree. "I don't have any problems with Mighty, okay."
"Really." Rouge replied as she moved into his field of view again. "So, you don't have any problems about him flirting with Amy."
Eyes narrowing even more, Sonic glared at Rouge as soon as she finished talking. "Should I have a problem with it?"
Shrugging, Rouge looked at him with a small grin. "I don't know, maybe it is because he might win over the heart of your little crush."
"She's not my crush okay!" Sonic yelled back as he pointed a finger right at Rouge face. "I'd be more then happy if that annoying, ditzy, hammer wilding, lunatic of hedgehog stayed away from me forever." Stopping his ranting, he noticed that Rouge had stopped staring at him and was instead focusing on something behind him.
Turning around, he stepped back as he noticed the angry glare in Amy's eyes, and that tears were running down her cheeks as she held onto her damaged hammer. "Amy?"
"You jerk!" The words were followed a split second later by a rather nasty blow to his head from Amy's hammer, the force of it sending him face down into the dirt. "I hate you!"
Spitting out some of the dirt, Sonic looked up into time to see Amy run off, knocking both Mighty and Tails out of her way as a few tears glinted in the air behind her.
"Nice going Sonic." Might comment as he looked after the angry pink hedgehog.
Glaring at the armadillo, Sonic jumped up and snarled a bit as he stepped closer to him. "Shut up Mighty."
The only thing stopping a fight from starting between them was Rouge pulling them a part. "Both of you shut up, Sonic, Mighty, go look for her. In fact, we'll all go look for her, got it."
Still glaring at one another, the blue hedgehog and black and red armadillo separated and stalked off, looking for the pink hedgehog girl before she ran to far away.
