hey! Here's the next chapter! Soz it's a bit short buthey I think it's good lol

Moulin: Thanks for ure review! lol Glad u like the story!

DragonDancer91: hehe thanks. Yeh Knuckles is cool but he isnt my fave (ahemShadowfan!ahem lol) But hey he's in my story and he gets injured so I guess thts cool lol And yeh there r more exciting scenes on their way:D

On we go!


Chapter 25

Sonic felt as if he were trapped in darkness. He couldn't open his eyes, as they were too heavy, and his body felt limp.

Suddenly, he found himself in the field, almost like where he'd found the red chaos emerald. There was a feeling of emptiness in the atmosphere around him. The only sound he could hear was the softness of the wind, blowing through the grass.

Sonic began to feel less worried about his whereabouts. He lay on the grass and, closing his eyes, breathed slowly and through his nose, taking in the tranquillity.

But suddenly he heard it again. The terrible noise of the engine. He opened his eyes sharply and saw the DX 100 hovering over him maliciously. Sonic stood up, staring at it.

The atmosphere changed. The once beautifully blue sky turned red and the grass shrivelled and died. Sonic blinked, confused at what was going on and, once again, becoming afraid. The DX 100's engine became louder and louder until Sonic couldn't bear it anymore. It was like a shrilling shriek and it overpowered Sonic's soul and filled his body with fear. Sonic clutched his ears and fell to his knees. He screamed aloud in pain.

The noise built up and up and up until….

Sonic opened his eyes and sat up, like a shot, gasping for air. It took him several seconds to take in his surroundings. He was in a hospital bed and Tails was beside him.

"Sonic! Are you OK? You looked like you were having a nightmare, judging by all of the tossing and shouting you were doing just now.

Sonic looked at Tails, rather blankly, still breathing heavily. He put his hand on his head, realising his true surroundings.

"It was nasty Tails", he said "Not a nice dream at all."
"You've been unconscious for a long time. Maybe it was the bump that did it to you?"
"Yeah…the last thing I remember is…Shadow."

There was a short silence.
Tails felt a little awkward so decided he needed to break it.

"Well Knuckles is doing ok!" He said cheerfully "The bone in his leg isn't broken, luckily, but the laser broke some of the ligaments so he has to stay in overnight for observation."

Sonic nodded.
"That's good. What about Amy? And where's Shadow?"
"Amy's fine. She just had a little bit of shock from the attack that's all. No cuts or anything. She's getting some food. And Shadow went to go and find the last chaos emerald."

Sonic sighed sadly.
"We've failed Tails." He said quietly and almost to himself, "That DX 100 has six emeralds now and there's about a 1 in a million chance Shadow will find one without help." His ears drooped.

Tails frowned slightly, a little annoyed at Sonic's attitude toward it all.

"This isn't like you Sonic! Shadow can do it! He's had experience with using chaos control and stuff so he can probably sense chaos emeralds, a little like Knuckles can with the master emerald." He said.

Sonic looked up at his friend. He smiled a little.

"Yeah perhaps your right little bro. There's still hope."