(Here comes my next chappie! I don't own Sonic. All I own is the Nega-5, and Ambient.)

CHAPTER 4

"Don't ask questions!" Sorrow lunged at Sonic, her long claws extended from her fingers…

BAM

Tails knocked Sonic out of the line of fire and they hit the grass, letting Sorrow pass over them.

Sonic jumped back to his feet, and watched as Sorrow landed on the ground. He dashed forward at super speed. 'Let's see how she likes my Windmill Eagle combo.' Sonic threw a speeding spin kick at his adversary, sending her flying, before lunging after her with a flying axe kick, knocking her straight into the ground.

Sorrow spat out some dirt from her mouth before flying at Sonic. "You stupid, blue pin cushion!" She landed on her hands, and then bounced off, going into a spinning bird kick, spinning her legs like a tornado.

Sonic tried to guard against Sorrow, as her legs flew against his face. Producing a Ring in his hand he tossed it at Sorrow, throwing her off balance. As the ring charged into the air, he spin attacked after it, with the fumbling Sorrow in his line of fire. Catching the ring at the end he landed on the ground. "Man, this is almost too easy. Where the hell did-GUH!" Sonic was attacked from behind and sent face first into the ground. He felt a burning sensation on his back, and deduced that Sorrow must have hit him with an energy attack. He didn't have long to think as he suddenly felt himself lifted up off the ground, even though no one was touching him. He was raised straight into the air, where Sorrow appeared in front of him, and hammer slammed him back down to the ground.

Sorrow teleported below before Sonic hit the ground and threw a flying round house at the poor hedgehog. "Fool. Now you know who you're dealing with…"

Sonic stood from the ground. "I'm not going down yet!" He began to jump away from Sorrow, who immediately started after him. "Not smart!" He suddenly went into an aerial spin dash and performed his "Sonic Storm" sending a wave of energy straight at Sorrow, knocking her out of the air. He span down at her shooting down like a meteor, in half a second after the Sonic Storm.

Sorrow hit the ground so hard, she almost bounced. Leaping back to her feet, she fired chaos energy from her eyes, which Sonic nimbly dodged. "Damn you!" She charged up her hands with energy, before shooting out a battalion of fast shots at her opponent.

Sonic sped away as a wave of shots was chasing after his tail. "Damn, why do I always have the psycho's attacking me? Why can't I ever have a level headed bad guy to face?" He griped as he was outrunning the wave of shots chasing him.

Sorrow laughed. "You can't keep running forever! My shot's will continue to chase you!"

BAM!

Sorrow was knocked out of her reverie as a foreign energy shot hit her from behind, and she was brought to her hands and knees. Looking behind her, she saw Tails holding small energy cannon at her. "Grrr… Looks like I forgot about the brat."

"I got a name, you know! It's Tails!" Tails shot another energy shot, watching as Sorrow flipped away from it, and rushed him. Spinning his tails around he lifted from the ground, letting Sorrow go under him. He fired his Chu 2 Bomb after her as she went under him, sending her flying from the field. "Man, this lady's a joke."

Sorrow struggled to get up. "Shit… I didn't expect them to be this strong or fast…" Activating her chaos energy she began to heal herself at max speed. "Ah, that feels better. I guess I'll have to take it up a notch…"

Sonic watched as Tails landed right next to him. "What was that all about? Who was that bat?"

"No idea, but she doesn't like us…" Tails stopped. "What's that rushing sound?"

Both Sonic and Tails turned to the distance where they had sent Sorrow, only to see, for a split second a wall of energy come at them and hit them like a tank. "WOOOOOOUUUUH!" Sonic and Tails felt electrifying energy pump through their bodies and burn their skin for a brief second before they landed on their backs. They stumbled back up and looked to see Sorrow on the other side, her body smoking.

Sorrow turned back to the duo, sneering. "What do you think of my chaos crush? Now you're going to see how I can REALLY fight." She fired a quick eye blast, almost knocking Sonic and Tails of their feet.

Tails caught Sonic in his hands and took him up into the air. "Looks like she's tougher than we thought, and she can use chaos abilities like Shadow can…"

"Yeah, I know." Sonic told his buddy. "I'm starting to think that "Sorrow" might be one the creeps that attacked Shadow. Guess they already know that we're friends with him."

"Trying to escape are you? I won't let that happen!" Sorrow span around in place, charging up with chaos energy before firing herself like a rocket towards Sonic and Tails, knocking them straight out of the sky, before kicking them down to earth.

Tails hit the ground on his front, but Sonic managed to land on his feet, as Sorrow dropped right in front of him. Ducking down, he spin dashed in one place firing another shock wave towards the flying fiend.

Sorrow merely held out her hand and blocked the attack deflected. "Not this time pall." She flew like a torpedo at her enemy.

Sonic quickly leapt into the air and shot himself down into that bat girl. Both collided into one another knocking each other into the grass. As Sonic rubbed his sore head, his left hand rested upon something hard and pointy. He turned to his left to see a small blue chaos emerald. His face lit up. "Aha… Looks like I've got a way out after all…"

"Ugh…" Tails was beginning to come to. "Damn, she hits hard…"

"Tails!" Sonic zipped over to his buddy. "We've got a way out of this fight. When I collided with that bat, she dropped a chaos emerald. It's a good thing I can use chaos control too. We're out of here!"

"Thank God."

Sorrow was beginning to recover as she sat up, only to realize she dropped her chaos emerald in the collision. "Where in blazes…" She looked up to see Sonic and Tails huddled together, and Sonic with the blue chaos emerald. "Hey! That's mine!"

"Sorry, I don't see your name on it!" Sonic taunted. "CHAOS CONTROL!" The Chaos emerald glowed with power, enveloping Sonic and Tails with energy, before they all vanished in a flash of light.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Sorrow moaned, burying her face in her hands.

"Sorrow, you idiot!"

Sorrow looked up to see a pissed off End looking down at her. "End… I…"

"Not only did you go and pick a fight with Sonic the Hedgehog, underestimating him and not taking the fight seriously, but you also let him take your emerald! You should know better than that!"

Sorrow hung her head.

End sighed angrily and pulled another blue chaos emerald out of her pocket, tossing it at Sorrow's feet. "Here. TRY not to lose this emerald. Loosing the first one was your own fault for being reckless. Next time you pick a fight with someone, make sure to take it seriously and fight your opponent with some sense."

Sorrow stood up, her face looking completely miserable. "Yes ma'am…"

Sonic and Tails materialized right into Sonic's house at Emerald Town. Once the chaos emerald energy died down, Sonic flopped right down into a chair. "Phew… I'm all sore from that fight. What we both need is a relaxing hot bath right about now."

Tails cast Sonic a mock weary look, trying not laugh. "Sonic… I know you're my buddy and all, but I don't exactly "swing" that way…" He was met with a cushion in his face.

"That's not what I meant, you pervert!" Sonic growled.

"Apparently my cute looks seem to attract some male attention as well." Tails broke into laughter as Sonic madly chased after him around the house.

"YOU HAVE A SICK MIND PROWER!" Sonic screamed as he chased the little kitsune around the house, while the latter just laughed hysterically, and burst out of the house.

Sonic took off in a burst of speed, and tackled Tails, causing the two to roll along the ground at a high speed in a ball of blue and orange. They zipped across a small road, almost cutting in front of a car that was just coming their way…

Ambient was hovering across the road in his hover car, nearing Emerald Town. "Emerald Town… This place looks nice and peaceful. I think I'll crash here until the heat dies down. I wouldn't want those Chaotix guys to find me anyway." Suddenly, a speeding ball of blue and orange cut in front, causing him to hit the brake and stop on a dime. "WOAH! The hell was that?" He exclaimed as he saw the mound come to a halt just 4 meters from his car. Pulling over, he turned off the engine, and stepped out to see what it was.

Sonic had wrestled Tails to the ground and was tickling him unmercifully. "This is what you get for questioning Sonic the Hedgehog's sexual preference, buddy!" He laughed.

"Sonic HAHAHAHA you know HEHEHEHE Come on, have HAHAHA Mercy!" Tails laughed uncontrollably.

When Ambient was close enough, he found that it was a blue hedgehog, and an orange kitsune engaged in a tickle war. He snickered to himself. "Looks like it was just some rough male bonding between… Hey… Is that who I think it is?" He cleared his throat to make himself known.

Sonic and Tails immediately stopped their tickle war, hearing a new presence behind them. They turned to see an orange echidna dressed in an olive green uniform looking at them. Sonic stood up, and dusted himself off. "Sorry about that. My little buddy just made a goofy comment and I had to "punish" him." He said with a smirk.

Ambient snickered at the blue hedgehog's choice of words. "You know, that could be taken quite perversely…"

Sonic groaned. "Great, now I've got to people throwing homoerotic humor at me…" Shaking the thought off, he resumed conversing. "I haven't seen you around here before, did you just move?"

"Uh… Of course. Just today, I moved here to Emerald Town. My name's Toya, but my friends call me Ambient."

"Nice to meet you Ambient, I'm Sonic."

Ambient's jaw dropped. "Sonic the Hedgehog! The one and only!" He looked over. "And is, that Miles "Tails" Prower?"

Tails nodded. "Yeah, that's me."

Ambient's eyes grew wide. "I can't believe it… I'm actually talking with the world famous Sonic and his partner Tails… This is SUCH an honor!"

Sonic waved his hand. "No need for formalities and worship, Ambient." He laughed. "I'm just one hedgehog who likes to do the right thing."

Tails got up off the ground, and walked over to Ambient. "Since you're new around here, How about Sonic and I show you around?"

"Thanks that would help me out." Ambient said. 'So, this is Sonic the Hedgehog… I should've known that was him by the speed. He's certainly MUCH better company than the Chaotix. Wonder what awaits this treasure hunter here…"

TO BE CONTINUED

(I leave off here for now. Sorry this chapter took so long to come out. I've been busy with things.)