Hi there, I just want to thank all of you who have read this story so far and for your reviews and I'll answer some of the reviews now.

Silhouette the Hedgehog: Thank you for your kind reviews and for the tip about spacing the dialogue.

Rei the Hedgehog: A big thank you for all of your reviews and for making me laugh with your great stories as well (and for patiently waiting for this update).

Shade-the-Hedgehog: Yes, I'll admit that the Metals were beaten a bit too easy but I never said that was the last of them, so read on and see the Metals getting ready for a bit of pay back.

Sonic Heroes: Switching Role

"Boy, Cream sure doesn't give up that easy" Shadow said as he and the rest of Team Shadow walked through Casino Park, "What is this place? It sure is bright" Rouge said as she looked around.

"We got some time, feeling lucky?"

"Shadow, we've only got 24 hours left" Big said nervously as he looked at his watch, Gregory then added, "Ok, let's go". As the four heroes ran off, Shadow asked, "Is it just me or have any of you guys ever noticed that in all of our adventures, sooner or later we end up in a casino or some a place that's like it?"

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"Hey, let me go, I want to play!" Charmy said as he tried to struggle out of Vector's grip. As soon as they entered the pinball like city, Vector picked Charmy up by his wings, knowing that the kid would have ran off to go and have fun, "Charmy," Vector said in a calm voice, "We have a mission to do, remember?"

"Man this is some fancy place" Mighty said as he looked around. Suddenly, the walkie-talkie came to life, the voice saying, "You need to win 500 rings in the casino, this will be a mission of luck".

"No problem," Vector said as he pocketed the walkie-talkie, "Luck is my middle name", Espio then started to chuckle as he said, "Funny. I always thought your middle name was "The".

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"Wait up guys" Knuckles yelled as he and Nack ran after Sonic and Metal. After the two blue hedgehogs paused in their tracks to let them catch up, Knuckles then heard his cell phone ringing.

"Knuckles here, who is this?" he asked as he answered his phone, "Knuckles, it's Tikal," the voice on the other side of the phone replayed, "Listen, if your in Casino Park get to Club Emerald now, the President has set up a meeting about the Foxboy situation"

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Meanwhile back in Grand Metropolis. The Metals slowly stood up as their repair systems fixed the last of their damage.

"That was humiliating!" Metal Knuckles yelled as he straightened his head, "How can we let those fools beat us and then walk away, thinking they seen the last of us?"

Metallix simply turned to face the Metals and then said, "Well, this time we won't hold our punches", looking over his shoulder, he then added, "Come, they can't have gone far". And with that the Metals headed towards Casino Park.

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"I can't believe Shadow just ran off like that," Cream said, moping as she walked through Casino Park, with the rest of Team Cream walking beside her, "He must have really wanted to catch up with Foxboy" Amy said, trying to think of something to cheer Cream up.

"That's it!" Cream suddenly said as a smile spread across her face, "If we find Foxboy then we'll find my Shadow".

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"Is this the place?" Sonic asked as he looked up at the two large clubs standing at opposite sides of the street.

"I'd say so, mate" Nack answered as they walked towards the building to the left, when the heard Knuckles clearing his throat to get their attention.

"Guys, that's not Club Emerald," he said pointing at the building Nack and the others were about to enter, "That a Strip Club". After a moment of embarrassment, in which even Sonic blushed slightly, Nack asked, "Can we still go in?"

Rolling his eyes, Knuckles turned round and entered the other club and the rest of Team Dark followed him in. Inside the club Knuckles told Sonic, Nack and Metal to wait for him at the bar as he entered the back room where Tikal was waiting for him.

"Hey there, Tikal, how are things?" he said as he walked up to the light orange echidna.

"It's about time you got here Knuckles, the President has been waiting for you" Tikal said as she turned to face Knuckles, then lead him to a table in the corner where President Chaos was sitting.

"Agent Knuckles, I have a assignment for you", Chaos said as he saw Knuckles approached the desk, "As you may know, Foxboy is created an ultimate weapon and will use it within a day, your mission is to find Foxboy's base of operations and destroy the weapon, we're willing to pay you one thousand dollars worth of gems, for completing the mission".

"No problem, me and my team-mates can handle it" Knuckles said and then left the backroom to find the rest of Team Dark in the middle of a fight with the Club's security staff over the fact that Nack claimed that the poker game he was playing in was fixed.

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As Team Chaotix landed on the giant pinball table, they curled up and rolled down the slope. As Vector slammed into the flipper, he was sent up and then rolled in to one of the slot machines set into the table. As the three symbols of Shadow's face matched up, Vector the received 70 rings and then rolled out of the machine, thinking, "We're half way there".

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As Shadow bounced from spring to spring, he began to think what the heck has Foxboy built this time. His thoughts then began to drift to some of the other "weapons of mass destruction" the young mad scientist had built in the past. The first of Foxboy's weapons had been The Death Fox, A space station that, most likely because of his big ego, was built to look like Foxboy's head. Then there was the Fox carrier, a large air ship of immense power that was destroyed by Emerl. And finally, there was Omega, a robot that Foxboy kept rebuilding and upgrading for the sole purpose of beating him.

"One thing's for sure," Shadow thought to himself, "Whatever Foxboy is planning it won't be good".

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As they climb the tall tower, Cream stopped as she noticed another team. Though she couldn't tell who they were but two them looked like "Shadow?"

She then rubbed her eyes and stared out at where she saw the second team.

"Could that have been Shadow?" Cream thought as she slowly continued up the tower, "I mean, the only person who looks like Shadow was Sonic". Cream then began to think about the blue Hedgehog, remembering how he helped Shadow save the world from being destroyed, how she had helped Sonic remember what he had really promised Maria, how he died and even that embarrassing moment when she hugged Sonic, thinking he was Shadow. But still… if that wasn't Shadow, she had seen then who was it?

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"WHY! WON'T! THEY! JUST! GIVE! UP!" Foxboy yelled furiously as he watched sixteen heroes slowly reached the centre of his casino base, in Bingo Highway. As the fox paused to catch his breath, he heard a mocking laugh reached his ears.

"You really can't get good help these days, can you?" the voice said as it continued to mock the villain, spinning on his heels, Foxboy faced the door to his private lab, where the voice was coming from.

"Silence you," he snapped, "Or I'll make your life a living agony"

"It's already is. I'm starting to run out of things to do in here. You wouldn't happen to have some extra batteries on you?"

Foxboy scowled, he could just see the cocky smile on the little pain in the ass' face.

"Maybe you should try some more of those Metals you built," the voice continued, "Or maybe use some of that special talent you got, Om…" the comment was cut off, as Foxboy slammed his fist into the wall, leaving a large dent in the wall.

"Forget it," Foxboy said as he stormed out, "I've got a certain black past to take care of". After a brief moment, when it was certain that Foxboy was gone, the voice said, "Jeeze, someone got out of the wrong side of bed this morning"

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Later. Foxboy landed his Fox Flyer and then quickly converted it into its Walker mode. Walking over to the ledge, Foxboy looked down at Team Dark just as they looked up and saw him.

"So you made it this far, I see" Foxboy said as he pulled out a bag of popcorn and a soda. Stepping forward, Sonic said, "Tell me, Doctor, why was I in that base and what about my memories"

"Memories? What memories?" Foxboy replied and then added, "You don't have any past to remember"

"What do you mean? Answer me" Sonic then growled as Foxboy's robot began to attack.

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"Your Mother's butt is so hairy, it looks like Don King is about to pop out and say "Only in America"" Vector said as he and the fake Foxboy started insulting each other.

"Oh yeah?" the fake replied, "Well, your momma's so fat, when she sits around the house, she sits AROUND the house"

"Why you little son of a…" Vector snarled, as the rest of Team Chaotix tried to hold him back. The Foxboy robot grinned as it said; "I have special type of robot for you and the others to fight with. My Evil Robots of Doom!"

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Meanwhile, near the entrance for Casino Park. A number of Foxbots where slowly standing up after getting trashed by the Metals for blocking the way.

"Right, that its" one of the robots said, as it picked up its broken limbs, "I'm quitting!"

"What?" one of the other robots said as it stood up.

"I am sick of getting trashed in these fics all the time," the first one replied, "I say we go on strike till we get better parts in these stories"

"Yah!" the others cheered as they walked off, with the Author ran after them, yelling, "Hey, come back here. You can't leave; we still got a story to do. Come back!"

To be continued

Next in Chapter 8. Foxboy's base. Is Sonic who he thinks he is? But fist the battle of the Evil Robots of Doom

Well… um… please review and I'll update as soon as I can get the robots to work again.