Chapter 25

On My Way Home

It was about two days after the adventure. The group (minus Rouge who had to report back) was staying at Angel Island to take a rest. Mona was searching for a way to get back to her home for at least a whole day and so far her searching was to no avail.

The other mobians had gone to do other things after she and Shadow had explained what they knew. Sonic and Shadow were still competing over who was the fastest and they almost trampled most of the island until the little incident with a boulder…and the bouncing mushrooms…and then the migration of flickies (use your imagination). Amy still chases after Sonic who can't get good nights sleep with her around. Tails is working on upgrading the tornado while Knuckles guards the Master Emerald.

"Great…" Mona grumbled when she realized her little search around the island lead her around a circle. She wasn't too thrilled about this although she partially didn't want to go back to her own universe. "I wonder if my parents even know if I'm gone…" She still carried around the sword to make sure she didn't run into anything vicious or robot-based.

Mona continued her search dozens of times before issuing a groan.

"This is taking forever…"

"Need any help?" A familiar voice caught her attention before a power ring fell on the ground next to her. Mona picked it up and spotted Shadow standing on a tree branch before he jumped down.

"Wait…you can make these things?" Mona asked with her eyebrow raised.

"How else could I have brought you here in the first place?" Shadow asked. "You would've thanked me anyway."

"So you were the guy in the Game Cube Network?" Mona smirked. "I should've figured it out earlier."

"Since you know about Sonic's world, you must've known my friend had a second request right?"

"No…it wasn't in the game version I played." Mona responded.

"I guess you don't know everything WE know, am I right?" Both Mona and Shadow looked around before spotting Sonic sitting on a tree branch.

"How long have you been sitting there?" Shadow asked suspiciously.

"Ever since you talked about the Game Cube thingamajig. But I didn't mean to eavesdrop."

"Sure you didn't…" Shadow grumbled mentally as Sonic jumped down before seeing the Power Ring in Mona's hand.

"So that's your ticket back to your planet?" Sonic asked.

"I guess so." Mona said.

"Well, even if it is different, it's probably rougher than what we're going through. And there are not many people like us." Sonic smiled.

"Yeah, I hope you guys finally beat Eggman," she started, "and just make sure you don't wear yourselves out. I have a feeling you guys will have to work together sooner or later."

"Okay I don't want to relive the bolder-bouncy mushroom-flickie incident." Sonic assured her before elbowing Shadow. "Right Shad?"

"Sonic…don't call me Shad…" Shadow muttered. Sonic backed off and Mona concealed her laughter before the Power Ring flashed and Mona was enveloped in a white light.

"Goodbye Sonic! Sayonara Shad!"

"Take care!" Sonic waved.

"Until next time…our friend." Shadow smiled before Mona vanished still pondering what he meant by: next time.

Sonic turned to Shadow with a puzzled look.

"Hey! How come she gets to call you Shad and I can't?!" Sonic asked bitterly.

"Because…" Shadow started before pausing and walking away.

"Because why?" Sonic asked as he followed.

"Because-because-because…err…" Shadow scratched behind his own ear trying to figure what he was going to say next.

"Ooh! Shadow's…" Sonic started as Shadow's eyes narrowed and his ears lay back in an ominous manner before…

(((WANG!)))

"OUCH! Hey what did I do? What did I do?"

"Sonic, don't even talk about that…thing you were about to say." Shadow remarked with a dark tone.

"What was I going to say?" Sonic asked as he held his throbbing head since the punch to his forehead seemed to have made him forget his last statement.

"OH FORGET IT!" Shadow shouted before he continued walking back to the house. "Stupid idiot faker!" He thought bitterly although he was relieved Sonic had temporary memory loss of what they were talking about.

"Forget what? I don't get it!" Sonic kept asking before the two left the small clearing.

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Mona had arrived back in her room. Oddly, she still had the power ups she gained while in Sonic's world. She stared at herself in the mirror before pulling off the power ups and stuffing them under her bed just as she heard footsteps coming upstairs. She sat down on her chair as the door opened.

"Mona?"

"Yes dad?"

"I'll give you another chance." Her father finished before closing the door. Mona looked at the Sonic comics and the Gamecube before opening her art notebook to a drawing of herself posing with Sonic and Shadow.

"I miss you guys already…"

Almost done!

Sonic: (Throwing confetti) YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHH!

Shadow: OO; What are you doing?!

Sonic: (Still throwing confetti) An early celebration of the DVD type Fanfiction!

Shadow: Uh…you mean because of the extras coming after the story?

Sonic: YEP! (Singing voice) CELEBRATE GOOD TIME!!!!!! C'MON!!!!!!!!!!!

Shadow: (backing away) uh…Read & Review! (Flees)

(Pulls off headphones to show she was listening to Powerman5000 the whole time) What? What's going on? (Sees Sonic singing and dancing) 00; (Replaces headphones and turns back to computer)