Chapter 3
Sonic and his friends suddenly appeared in a room with a huge glass, which showed earth. "I remember this place!" Amy said. "You should," Shadow replied. "We were all here about 2 years ago." "It's the space colony ARK!" Sonic finally said, "This is the only place Military can't go without a Space Shuttle. Discovery was just launched. There isn't enough fuel in it to transport astronauts to here. Suddenly everyone was quiet. They all knew what had happened two years ago, when Sonic was 13 years old. Everyone was amazingly close to dying, and that included everyone on earth.
Sonic walked to the small plasma TV, just as he was turning it on, he noticed something that read "First of its Kind." Wow, people in space are pretty rich, he thought. He turned on the T.V. and flipped it to the same news channel he and Shadow was watching before their friends arrived. "It looks like we have a pretty good satellite up here," Sonic said. "I think we can get every channel."
"We have breaking news tonight on the 'Chaos Emerald Crisis,'" the news anchor began. "Military and militia generals have reported seeing Sonic, Shadow and his friends disappear at their house. Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on how you look at it, Sonic or someone from his group has accidentally left the Chaos Emerald. The military and the…" The news anchor went on. Everyone pretty much went white. "Without the Chaos Emerald how are we going to get back!" Amy screamed. "Sonic, you forgot that one Chaos Emerald cannot transport 5 people." Tails spoke, "Its own energy will send it out of the Chaos Control sphere." Everyone again went quiet.
"Some more breaking news tonight!" The news anchor shouted as if she was excited. This brought some 'your weird' looks from her co-anchor. "Residence reported seeing Sonic after the time he supposedly left. This can only mean one thing; there are two 'Sonics' inside Station Square. Unfortunately, this 'Sonic' broke into the top-secret military base, under Station Square, and stole its 2 Chaos Emeralds. Then another report came in and said he tracked down the militia and military, which was at Sonic's house, and stole the sole remaining Chaos Emerald that was owned by military. Obviously, he is going for all seven Chaos Emeralds. Luckily, the other four is not in a secretive place, but in a few lucky pedestrian's hands. Needless to say, the other Chaos Emeralds would be very hard to find."
"Shoot!" Sonic shouted, "How will we ever beat him." "I think the first thing we got to worry about," Tails said. "Is how will we ever get to earth to beat him." "Two years ago," Sonic began. "I used Chaos Control with a fake emerald. If we find that fake emerald, Shadow and I can go down and look for the remaining Chaos Emeralds. So lets get to work!" Everyone ran off looking for the lonely, fake Chaos Emerald, which is, unfortunately, shattered on the floor of earth. Shadow threw the emerald off the ark to prevent Sonic from teleporting all over the ark while they were fighting.
Down on earth, M-Sonic was zooming around while holding 3 precious Chaos Emeralds. He was searching in downtown Station Square for any other Chaos Emeralds. The Chaos Emeralds starts to light up bright when they are near another Chaos Emerald, M-Sonic thought, I just need to hurry up and go around town till they light up.
M-Sonic ran once more around a block and then jumped onto a nearby roof to come to a complete stop. You know what, I'll just bring these to Dr. Robotnick and rest for the night. Let me see if I can use another way to get there! Chaos Control! M-Sonic suddenly disappeared and reappeared in Eggman's hidden base. (As you can see, M-Sonic said 'Chaos Control' in his mind. Sonic or Shadow doesn't know about this.)
M-Sonic walked towards Eggman. "I found 3 Chaos Emeralds!" He shouted. "Good, but there is still one thing," Eggman replied. "We still need the other four so you can turn into your super form and be able to utterly destroy Sonic! Once this is done, I'll would be able to rule Station Square and possibly the world." He chuckled. "Well I will just leave the beautiful gems right here," M-Sonic said. "So I can continue on my quest." "No don't do that!" Eggman shouted. "You can use the Chaos Emerald's energy for your own energy. Then you can easily find where the other Chaos Emeralds are! Or you can beat up Sonic as much as you like. But trust me, you can only beat him in super form. Your older brother (Metal Sonic 1) had a whole lot more power than you have right now, and Sonic still was able to beat him. But only with the Chaos Emerald's power."
Tails walked through the long hallway down to the research lab. I wonder what happened to that fake emerald! Tails thought, I gave it to Sonic, and he ended up using it to save his own life. Tails continued to walk across the bridge towards the research lab. Looking through the window, he saw some sort of space ship, or space taxi, or something. Oh my gosh! What is that? We can probably use that to get back down to earth. Quickly, he pressed a button on his watch that he found in the research lab. It was designed to communicate with other people. Seeing no harm, he gave one to everyone. "Tails to Sonic and others." He spoke to the microphone. "I found something that might carry us back to Earth. Meet me in the research lab!" "O.K!" Everyone said.
Soon, everyone was at the research lab. Before they came, he studied the spacecraft. "Through that air-lock door," Tails said while pointing to the nearly invisible door. "Are pods that might still be working." Tails walked to the screen that they were watching earlier. Below the screen was a keyboard. Tails pressed a few buttons and keys. On the screen showed transport entitled Mid-Space Cab. "This 'Cab' can carry us to the ISS. Space Shuttle Discovery is docked at the ISS right now. The crew is doing an add-on job on the ISS. They are trying to fit a new radar onto it. Therefore, the old radar is disengaged. ISS is about half the world behind us. It would take us about 20 minutes to get around the world to it. If the ISS wasn't orbiting earth, it would have taken 10 minutes, but unfortunately, we will have to chase the ISS down." "Good plan Tails!" Shadow spoke. "Lets do it!" Amy shouted. "Be very careful. Humans make spacecrafts with dozens of buttons on the walls. Be careful not to touch any." Tails quickly walked towards the door and pressed a few buttons. The door, opened, and everyone go onto the cab. Soon, they undocked and were in front of the ARK. "Ill be back ARK." Shadow whispered in a melancholy tone.