I'm back! Bet you can't believe it huh? I can't either. It took me some hard work to have enough patience to try and get my computer to work to copy this onto a floppy disk. This chapter really sucks and since it's been so long, I'm not really sure where this story is going. But have no fear! I shall start typing again. Soon, maybe. Yeah…

NekoGuyFan: Yeah, Spirited Away rocks. But Shadow doesn't really remember what happened between him and Lisa. He's getting flashbacks and hints from his memory, but other than that, he's going on gut instinct. I think I answered that right. I don't really remember what happened.

Spirit Horse: Thanks! And if you like fluff, according to my original plan, there is going to be a lot. I think it's going to turn into a soap opera.

Sonica the hedge fox: Thanks! And here's your wish! My story is back in business!

Treasurehunter: Thanks! The hug was nice too! But, never have Red Bull again.

Disclaimer: Too lazy to write it. You know.

"I can't believe this!" cried Rouge.

Everyone was tired and cranky, for they had been walking in a desert for the whole day. The sun had been shining bright and hot, making tons of sweat form on everyone's forehead, except Omega.

"We're walking around in the desert, following a stupid rumor, and we're not even sure if it's true! I'm starting to think that there's not really an Eggman base around here!" she complained, waving her arms around franticly.

"Calm down, Rouge! Before you keel over from heat stroke." Lisa said dully, walking like a zombie.

"You calm down! We're lost in a desert for God's sakes! How can I calm down! My outfit is ruined!" she wailed.

"You know what? If you just stop talking nonsense, I'll buy you a new one." Lisa replied, starting to get angry.

Suddenly, Omega stopped walking and caused everyone to stop and look at him. His robotic red eyes were looking around the area like he was scanning for something, but that didn't stop Rouge from being a drama queen.

"Look! The heats even getting to Omega! He stopped moving! That's a bad thing! Wait…that means he's dead! No, Omega!" she wept and went to hug him.

"I wouldn't do that Rouge…" Lisa started.

The senseless bat ignored Lisa's warning and ran up and hugged E-123, only to howl and run away, clutching her arms. Shadow watched this display and shot a curious look at the other hedgehog.

"Think about it," she said, "Omega is a BLACK and METAL robot. We're in the desert. Black and metal attract heat. Much like your fur."

He looked down at his body and shrugged, making her looked at him strangely.

"Aren't you hot?"

Rouge jumped between the two and shouted, "Of course I'm hot! I'm the sexist treasure hunter alive!"

After that, she ran off, running in circles and talking about random things to Omega, who was still scanning.

Shadow puffed out his chest and crossed his arms, "Of course, we are in a desert, but I have enough strength so that it doesn't cause any status effects."

"Right…" Lisa trailed off.

"Scanning of the surrounding area complete!" Omega declared.

"Is that what you were doing?" asked Lisa walking over, "E-123, report."

"There is-" it started.

"Hey! Don't talk to Omega like that!" Rouge shouted, "He's a person, just…a robot. So treat him like one!"

"Ok…This heat is really making you fry," she said, and then turned to Omega, "I'm sorry, please tell me what you have found."

Omega didn't argue about the order, it was in his programming, so he just continued, "There is an active base about 3.8 kilometers away from here, chances of it being one of Eggman's hidden bases: 89."

"Told ya there was a base out here." Lisa said tersely, folding her arms.

"Good." Rouge said, in a sadistic voice, "Cause if there wasn't, I would have killed you!"

When Lisa didn't answer, Rouge's head almost did a 360, like in the Exorcist. The other three just slowly backed away from her as she was grinning evilly.

Lisa leaned over and whispered into Shadow's ear, "Quick, let's get out of this desert fast! Before she really loses it!"

Shadow nods and they all start walking again, this time Omega in the lead, showing them to the base he had found.

"This is great!" Sonic shouted, grinding down a giant metal pipe.

"Race ya to the bottom, Sonic!" cried Knuckles as he flew past the hedgehog.

"Hey!"

"Not now you guys!" intervened Tails, "These pipes should lead us to Eggman's base, we should be careful!"

"Careful, yes, having fun at the same time, definitely!" hollered Sonic.

Tails just sighed and took flight into the air, as the other two kept grinding down the pipe, doing tricks the whole time. Sonic laughed and grabbed the pipe with his hand and performed a front flip and landed on his feet again. On a curve, Knuckles jumped in the air and spun in a few circles before landing perfectly down again.

When a corner came up, Tails grabbed the pipe and circled around it, being thrown into the air and landing back down on it, grinding backwards as they reached a platform on a plateau. Everyone got off and started to walk around, before they reached the end of the dais.

"Great! Now what do we do?" cried Knuckles, raising his hands into the air.

"Jump to that platform, maybe?" Sonic asked dryly.

He pointed to another platform not too far away, close enough for them to jump. Knuckles laughed nervously and sighed. Sonic shook his head looked at the obstacle before him, there were two walls but no floor.

Sonic smirked and jumped straight at one wall and dug his fingers deep into it, letting him hang there in mid air. Knuckles nodded and followed the suit, jumping from one wall to the other while Tails just flew across.

Sonic flipped in the air and landed in a crouching position on the other platform, while Tails carried Knuckles over by flight. When the two landed, the fox pointed to a building not fair from them, it was a burgundy colored structure with a giant cannon in the top.

"Why there?" asked Knuckles.

"Just come on!" cried Sonic.

They raced down the pathway until the team reached a locked door. There was no key or lock in sight, only a narrow trail on their right side. Cautiously, they walked over to the trail and followed it with their eyes to another platform with a floating white ball.

"I take it…that's the key." Knuckles said pointing.

"No shit Sherlock." Sonic replied sarcastically.

The echidna's hand slapped over Sonic's mouth, "Not while Tails is around!"

"Please I hear worse in your sleep!"

"Wha?" the two gasped.

"Yeah, it's all Rouge… Rouge! Bleep Rouge! And Amy! Oh Amy!" Tails snickered.

"YOU LITTLE-"

The echidna and hedgehog chased the kitsune as he jolted down the tapered path, laughing his head off. The other two, however, almost blew their jugular veins in their heads.

Before the crazed murderers knew it, they had chased Tails to the complete other side of the tiny trail, leading to the key. Sonic took one quick look over the bottomless pit beneath the trail and hugged Knuckles for dear life.

"Hey… Hey Knux! We're alive!" Sonic cried.

"Yeah, and now a certain young fox is going to be dead!" Knuckles yelled, standing and walking towards Tails.

"Hey… c'mon guys… it was just a joke, none of it was true!" Tails croaked.

Sonic and Knuckles cornered Tails to the wall and stood towering over him, cracking their knuckles. The young boy gulped and tried to push himself further back into the wall he was trapped in.

When the two stepped back, wiping the dust off their hands, Tails was left in a bloody pulp…JUST KIDDING! Although Tails did have a giant lump on his head the size of a basketball, he was overall in perfect health.

"You guys are so mean!"

"Just push the switch!" Knuckles growled.

Tails got up sniffling and walked over to the floating ball, gently nudging it to open the lock. A tumbleweed breezed by and still nothing happened. The fox scratched his head in confusion and kneeled down to get a closer look.

"It seems this isn't the only switch."

"Then what do we do?" asked Sonic.

"We have to step on all of the switches at one time." Tails told them.

"Really? And how many are there?" questioned Knuckles.

"I pray no more than 3, we have to press them at the same time. It's kinda hard do to that if you can't be in two places at once." Tails explained.

Sonic gave him and look and tapped his foot, making Tails shake his head.

"Not even you can be at two places at once, Sonic."

The hedgehog pouted and stuck out his lip. Knuckles gave him a giant whack to the back of the head.

"Ow!"

"So," Tails looked around and found the two other switches behind a chain link fence, safely guarded.

"Right," Sonic jumped and grabbed onto the fence and slowly climbed up it, placing his toes and fingers in the holes in the metal. Knuckles followed him and started to climb as well, until Sonic lost his balance, causing both of them to fall to the ground in a heap.

Tails sighed, "Sonic, you stay here, Knuckles, I'll fly you over."

"Ok." The hedgehog stood on the switch on the one side of the fence, while Knuckles grabbed a hold onto the kistune's tennis shoes as Tails rotated his tails and began to hover. He flew higher enough where Knuckles could make it over the fence and dropped to the ground. The echidna went to one lock while Tails went to the other and as soon as all three were on a lock, the giant metal door opened with a vibrating motion.

"Finally!" Sonic cried and raced inside of the doorway.

The others quickly followed and stared at the new room they were in, there was machinery all around it with four giant pillars in the middle and several orange guard robots. Tails nodded to his companions and they went to take out the robots while he figured out what the machine did.

The fox started to meddle with the machinery and every now and then, ducked or moved out of the way of a robot's arm or torso. The boy dodged so casually that Sonic and Knuckles no longer needed to worry about parts flying and hitting him.

"There!" he cried as the giant pillar in the center started to rotate.

"Great Tails! But… What is it?" Sonic wondered.

"From what is says on the computer, it's a giant gun!" he beamed.

"A gun?"

"Yep!"

"So… what are we going to do?" asked Knuckles.

"Uhhh…" Tails leaned back onto the keyboard and by accident, pressed an infamous red button.

"Uh oh!" all three gasped.

A giant wind suddenly picked up and made them all bring their hands in front of their faces to shield their eyes from the little bits of sand and robot parts flying around. Soon, the suction increased and pulled Team Sonic into the pillar.

Automatically, the pillar turned and chugged it's motor, sucking Team Sonic further in until…

BANG!

They were shot out of the gun at a speed about Mach 2. If one could get a look at their faces, they would look something like astronauts, with their cheeks open wide.

After traveling a few tens of miles, their speed slowed, and the group was glided and slowly falling back down to the ground. As they continued soared through the air a sudden mountain appeared, on it was the infamous Dr. Eggman insignia.

Unfortunately for our heroes, they didn't slow down in time, so they went SPLAT into the mountain.

Sonic raised his arm in determination and spoke into the rock, "E oing oo ay f ss!" (He's going to pay for this!)

Amy looked down at the broken robot before her; it disturbingly resembled Eggman, even to his laugh. She growled and kicked the stupid thing, after beating that horrible Egg Albatross and not only didn't they find Froggy and Chocola, but it wasn't even Eggman!

"It's just a stupid copy!" she cried.

A ways away from her Big was looking around and calling, "Froggy? Where are you? Let's go home…"

Cream looked at her little chao, he wasn't happy like he usually was, his head was hanging down and Cheese just wasn't his bouncy self.

"Cheese, what's wrong?"

"Chocola-chao." it said sadly.

"Yes…" replied Cream.

"A chaonapping!" declared Amy.

"But…why?" asked Cream.

"I'm not really sure, but betcha doctor Eggman has something to do with it! C'mon, let's get out of here!" Amy concluded.

"Ok!" agreed Cream.

Big said, "Okie Dokie!"

Short? Yes, I agree with you, but after the longest time, I'm back! I was able to copy this off of my broken computer and post it just for you loyal reviewers! I know it's short and has some… naughty parts but I'm trying to do my best at humor. And Team Chaotix? I don't know what I'm doing with them yet, so stay tuned. Please review!