It was breezy and sunny as Tails took his X-Tornado out for a test flight, just to see how it's doing.

"Well, everything seems to be okay," Tails said approvingly. "Guess I can just relax."

Tails made the X-Tornado fly for a while, and enjoyed the fresh breeze. He closed his blue eyes and set the X-Tornado in autopilot. Then, his hands found the way to the back of his head as he rested, taking a small nap.

Suddenly, a queer sound awoke him, sounding like a lightning strike, and he sat up with a start.

"What was that?" He wondered, looking around him. The sky was cloudless, so, what was going on?

At first, his eyes past it, but then, they wandered back to where he could see a little black dot falling. Tails squinted, hoping to see better. Soon, he realized it wasn't just an object, it was an actual Mobian!

"Uh-oh!" Tails said, and quickly set the plane back to manual controls.

The smart fox sped the X-Tornado up a bit, and maneuvered towards the falling creature.

"Hold on…I'm coming…" Tails thought, even though the creature couldn't hear him.

Time was running short, and in a few minutes, Tails knew, the creature would fall into the ocean and drown! It was up to Tails to save it…

Tails had to get lower to the ocean, and he did, carefully piloting with great skill.

"Come on…" Tails urged, "We're not going to make it…"

In a flash, when the creature was about five yards from the water, Tails caught the creature and held it tight as he ascended into the air again.

"Phew, that was a close one," Tails said, closing the top of the cockpit.

The fox turned the plane back to autopilot, and took the time to study the person who he saved. It seemed to be a hot-pink hedgehog with long quills that hanged down. Tails could already guess it was a female. She had bangs that were the same color as her fur that just hanged in front of her forehead. Strange as it may sound, the female wasn't fully hedgehog. She was half-robot!

At first, Tails thought she was a creation of Eggman's. No, he decided, she couldn't be. Eggman wouldn't leave a robot half animal and half robot—would he?

The two-tailed fox decided to ask the half-robot half-hedgehog creature later, when she woke-up…whenever that would be.

"But, first" Tails thought, "I've got to tell Sonic about this."

Meanwhile….

"I'm hungry, can we get some ice cream?" asked Shani as she, Jet and Maya Eva walked down the sidewalk. Sonic, Knuckles and Rouge had stayed at Rouge's apartment to talk about something privately, and the three girls from Earth weren't allowed to hear it. Muscles had decided to volunteer and guard the Master Emerald for Knuckles, so, everyone was doing something…Except for Shani, Jet and Maya Eva.

"That is like the thousandth time you've asked that, Shani!" Jet said, a little irritated.

The light blue hedgehog shrugged. "So?"

"My point is that you need to keep your mouth shut or else we get no ice cream!" Jet threatened.

Maya Eva stopped dead in her tracks.

Jet and Shani stopped a few footsteps ahead of her and turned to face the teal echidna, confused.

"What's wrong, Eva?" Shani asked.

"If I'm not mistaken…" Maya Eva started with her hot-pink eyes wide open, "I think that Jet said…." Her eyes now were sparkling with delight, "That we ARE going to get ice cream!"

Shani's mouth dropped open as she turned to Jet. "Really?" she asked, excited, almost jumping up and down and clapping.

Jet sighed, seeming to be the leader of the three-some so far, "Yes, you found my surprise."

"YAY!" Shani jumped for joy.

"But!" Jet said, raising a paw. "On one condition…"

"And that is?" Maya Eva asked, keeping her excitement inside, even though it showed in her hot pink eyes.

"That I'll race you guys to the ice cream parlor!" Jet challenged, and started running down the sidewalk, laughing.

"Hey! No fair!" Shani complained as she ran to keep up with Jet.

"What?" Maya Eva asked.

Then it struck her. "Oh, hey guys! Wait for me!" Maya Eva wailed.

Jet laughed. "Last one to the ice cream shop is a rotten egg!"

Just then, Jet noticed that Shani had just passed her with amazing speed!

"Hey!" Jet complained.

Shani smiled, "You should have created Jet to run faster!"

Jet smirked. "I did."

And the two lightning-fast girls speed to the ice cream parlor, dodging this way and that, trying to not knock over anyone else. Soon, the whole sidewalk became clear as everyone knew that these girls were racing. As the two sped on, a song ran through the air:

Rolling around at the speed of sound,

Got places to go, gotta follow my rainbow!
Can't stick around, have to keep moving on,
Guess what lies ahead, only one way to find out!
Must keep on moving ahead,
No time for guessing, follow my plan instead.
Trusting in what you can't see,
Take my lead I'll set you free.

Follow me, set me free,
Trust me and we will escape from the city.
I'll make it through, follow me.
Follow me, set me free,

Trust me and we will escape from the city.
I'll make it through prove it to you.

Follow me!
Oh yeah!

Danger is lurking around every turn,
Trust your feelings, got to live and learn.
I know with some luck that I'll make it through,
Got no other options, only one thing to do!
I don't care what lies ahead,
No time for guessing, follow my plan instead.
Find the next stage, no matter what that may be.
Take my lead, I'll set you free.

Follow me, set me free,
Trust me and we will escape from the city.
I'll make it through, follow me.
Follow me, set me free,
Trust me and we will escape from the city.
I'll make it through prove it to you.

Follow me!
Follow me!

Jet and Shani skidded to a halt in front of the ice cream parlor, out of breath. Both of them had their hands on their knees, and were trying to catch their breath.

"You know," Shani said, "You're a great runner."

"Thanks," Jet said, turning to Shani, "You're not so bad yourself!"

As the two stood up, now having caught their breath, they heard panting behind them. They turned to see Maya Eva, still running towards them.

When she arrived, the teal echidna leaned on Shani's shoulder to catch your own breath.

"How…can you guys…run…so…fast?" she panted.

"Don't you remember? We created our characters with the ability of speed," Jet explained, hand on hip.

"And you didn't…" Shani guessed.

Maya Eva narrowed her eyes. "Don't rub it in."

The teal echidna stood up straight as Jet sighed and turned to the friendly-faced man in the window.

"Yes, and how may I help you?" He asked in a slight-Italian voice.

"Yeah, I want a Chocolate-Chip Cookie Dough ice cream cone, please," Jet requested.

The man nodded and turned to the echidna and hedgehog. "And what may I get you?" he asked.

"I wanna Double Chocolate Chip ice cream cone!" Shani exclaimed, happily.

The man smiled at her eagerness, and asked the shy echidna, "And what about you?"

"Uh, well, I'd like a Mint Chocolate Chip please," Maya Eva asked.

"Okay, we got chocolate-lovers here, that will be…" the man told Jet how much it was going to be and the brown-furred animal nodded approvingly.

Maya Eva and Shani found a bench to sit while Jet started to bring over the ice cream.

"Ah, nothing like ice cream on a hot summer day," Shani said, licking her chocolate-goodness ice cream.

Maya Eva paused and looked at Shani confused. "Shani, how do you know it's summer?" she asked.

Shani shrugged. "I don't," she replied, "I guessed."

"Lucky guess," Jet muttered.

The girls continued eating their ice cream until a strange sound was heard. It sounded like a semi truck's horn.

Maya Eva stopped eating and looked up and down the street. No sign of a semi at all!

"Uh, guys, didn't you hear that honk?" she asked, a little worried.

"Yeah, I did, but I bet it's normal," Jet said.

Maya Eva nodded, but wasn't convinced, she still kept a sharp eye open for anything suspicious. After all, one can't be too laid-back, can they? Well, guess when you are around Sonic, its okay…But Maya Eva had the feeling that something wasn't right.

"Guys, something's not right," Maya Eva said, turning to the other two animals.

They looked at her as another honk was sounded, this time, louder. Their emerald eyes quickly scanned what was beyond their teal echidna friend…And it was not a comforting sight.

Their eyes widened, and Maya Eva said, "What? Am I right, is something wrong?"

Jet was the only one with enough courage to speak, "You don't know how right you are!"

Maya Eva finally, with a confused look on her face, turned around and gasped.

A large semi-truck was coming toward them—full throttle!

Maya Eva froze with fear, and suddenly, something—or someone—pushed them out of the way and yelled, "GUYS! MOVE IT!"

"AH!" Maya Eva screamed as her wrist was grabbed by an unknown saver and pulled speedily to safety. Shani and Jet ran with the equal amount of speed, and ran on either side of the teal echidna being pulled by the stranger.

Seemingly enough, the voice sounded familiar.

Her hot pink eyes opened wide with remembrance. "KOGOME!" she yelled in delight. Maya Eva looked up and saw that Kogome looked almost exactly like the character Shadow! Except, she had a dress like Amy's, and it was red with a black lining and had boots like Amy's, except with a hover-device on the bottom, like Shadow.

The-now-look-alike-of-Shadow took a quick glance at Maya Eva and winked before speeding up again. Jet and Shani ran by the side of their friend, already knowing that it had been her. Since Maya Eva couldn't run as fast as the other three, she was pulled by Kogome.

The truck still chased them through town, and soon, the three runners were getting weary.

That allowed the truck to get closer on them—and closer to Maya Eva who was "hanging" behind.

"Guys," she said as she saw the black truck inch closer.

They couldn't hear her. "Uh, GUYS!" Maya Eva yelled as the truck was REALLY close now.

Kogome, Jet and Shani looked behind them and gasped.

"We've got to lose them somehow!" Shani insisted.

They looked at Jet, who seemed to be their leader. The brown animal smiled. "No we don't, we have to fight them."

"What do you mean?" Kogome asked.

"Look ahead," Jet gestured.

The two looked ahead and saw a bridge that the large semi couldn't go under without crashing into it.

"Jet, you're a genius!" Shani exclaimed, forgetting about the 'fight them' part.

As they passed under it, the semi crashed into the bridge, and luckily, it didn't fall down.

Maya Eva laughed as they skidded to a halt, while the others smiled at the truck triumphantly.

"What's so funny?" Kogome asked.

"That was fun!" Maya Eva said.

Soon, Shani joined in.

Kogome noticed something odd, going on at the truck.

"Uh, guys?" she said.

"What?" they said in union, and looked ahead to see a big, robot of some sort fly out of the back of the truck.

"What is that thing!" Maya asked, terrified.

"I don't know, but it doesn't look good," Jet informed, taking a fighting stance.

"What was your first clue?" Shani asked as she too decided to take a stance.

"I think it was the three white letters on the truck," Kogome replied honestly, pointing to the trashed vehicle.

The girls looked at it, and screamed in union, "G.U.N.!"

The big robot they saw earlier landed in front of them with a loud Thud.

Maya Eva fell on her bum in fright.

"Well, Jet, what's the plan?" Kogome asked.

"Remember in the game, when Sonic had to battle this robot in the beginning?" Jet replied.

Kogome nodded.

"Well, I think he had a pretty good idea, so let's follow that one, kay?" Jet said.

"Gotcha," Kogome winked, and was ready to battle it.

"We have targets spotted, will proceed," the machine buzzed.

"I never knew we'd be in THIS position!" Shani said.

"Girl, NONE of us knew we'd be in this position!" Kogome informed.

Maya Eva was still sitting down, frozen with fear. This thing had to be eight times her size!

All of a sudden, the robot fired missiles as them, and Kogome, Shani and Jet jumped out of the way, while Maya Eva rolled out of the way.

"Okay, here I go!" Kogome shouted, and did a homing-attack.

Once Kogome landed, after bouncing off and doing a great deal of damage, since she hit the head, she landed perfectly on her feet.

"Whoa," was all the Maya Eva said.

"THAT WAS TOTALLY WICKED! MY TURN!" Shani announced, and did her own homing-attack, also causing damage.

Shani landed perfectly, and as soon as she did, she yelled, "THAT WAS SO MUCH FUN!"

Jet decided it was her turn to have fun, and picked up a nearby crate, and threw it at the head.

"Nice one, Jet!" Kogome congratulated, giving a thumbs-up.

"Thanks," Jet winked.

The robot struggled, but was soon ready to continue fighting.

Maya Eva was still scared, but as the others continued fighting, she had this longing to join in. But what can I do? She thought. Suddenly, she remembered something.

"The Rainbow Crystal!" she exclaimed to herself, and pulled out of a small bag in her pocket a crystal that was about the size of her fist, and she gripped it tightly. There were different colors swirling in it, making it have a rainbow-look.

It seemed to have warmed-up in her palm, and shined brighter. But, there was still fear in Maya Eva that made her stay in her seated position.

All of a sudden, a cry of pain rang out, and Maya Eva's head snapped up to see Shani blown back by a blast from the robot.

She gasped, and so did Kogome and Jet.

"Shani!" Jet called.

No answer. Shani was unconscious.

That angered Maya Eva, even though that brought fear to Kogome and Jet. The teal echidna stood up bravely, having a warm and firm feeling rush through her.

"You are going down!" she shouted, and held the crystal up as it floated a few inches above her hand.

Suddenly, it glowed a bright light, and the robot was pushed back by an invisible force.

The crystal fell back in Maya Eva's palm, and the teal echidna stood in shock at what she just did.

The robot got back up though, and Shani remained down.

"Well done, Eva!" Kogome complimented.

Maya Eva was still in shock and just stared.

The robot, suddenly, started walking towards her!

"Move, Eva!" Jet yelled.

Maya Eva stood, frozen.

"Yo! Why don't you pick on someone you remember? Like me!" shouted a familiar voice.

The robot stopped, and everyone turned to see Sonic, Knuckles, Rouge, Tails and that new girl.

"You!" the man gasped, pointing at Sonic, who blew off his fingernails (even though they were hid by gloves) and acted casual.

"Glad you remember me," Sonic said.

"This is Big-foot to headquarters! The REAL target is spotted, what shall I do?" the man said into an intercom.

"Fight like a man, not a chicken," not Sonic suggested.

"This is headquarters, capture real hedgehog, if not, get a hold of one of them," the headquarters said, and the others couldn't hear what it said, only the man.

"Roger that," the man ended.

"So, what you gonna do?" Sonic asked, casually.

"That's for me to know and for you to find out!" the man grinned evilly.

"Scatter!" Sonic commanded his team.

Rouge, Knuckles and Tails nodded and jumped for safety.

The new girl ran away, to the only friend that she could distinguish, the unconscious Shani.

"Bridget?" called Tia (the new girl) as she held Shani in her arms.

Shani didn't answer, only breathed quietly, which Tia was thankful for.

The battle raged on, and it seemed that the whole crew was winning.

After a while, it seemed as though the robot could only take one more hit.

"I think I can do this, guys," Sonic said, and did a homing attack, which finished the robot.

It fell to the ground defeated, and everyone jumped for joy. But none was heard louder than Kogome, Jet and Maya Eva. They couldn't believe they actually had their first battle-and won!

"Bridget?" Tia called again.

Everyone stopped rejoicing, and turned to see Shani held in Tia's arms.

"Tia, is that you?" Kogome asked.

The pink hedgehog nodded, and looked again at the wounded light blue hedgehog.

"Hey, is everything okay?" asked a kind voice.

They turned and saw a neon green echidna with an outfit like Tikal's, without the necklace and crown, purple headband, hair tied up in ponytail, gloves like Amy's, silver sandals, and had a green messenger bag to finish it, walk towards them.

"I don't know," Tia replied, honestly.

"Let me see," the echidna offered.

"First tell us who you are," Jet suggested.

"My name is Jade, now let me see her," Jade said.

Kogome gripped Shani's wrist, and suddenly gasped.

"What?" Rouge asked.

"Her heartbeat stopped!" Kogome exclaimed.

"NO! Shani!" Maya Eva yelled, and hugged the light blue hedgehog.

"Let me see her, I may be able to help," Jade offered again.

"How can we trust you?" Maya Eva asked through tears.

"…You can't. You just have to, or else, do you want your friend to die?" Jade asked.

Maya Eva finally let go, and let Jade hold her. The echidna let the hedgehog lay on the ground and put a hand on Shani's forehead.

Jade closed her eyes and concentrated.

Everyone gathered around and watched.

Suddenly, Shani moaned and her eyes slowly opened and blinked before everything came into focus.

"What hit me?" she asked.

"SHANI! YOU'RE BACK!" Maya Eva exclaimed, and hugged Shani with all her might. Even though they were completely different, remember, opposites attract! So, in other words, Maya Eva and Shani were best buds, and couldn't picture one without the other—almost like sisters!

Shani was a bit confused, and then laughed.

"What's so funny?" Kogome asked.

"Her!" Shani pointed at Maya Eva, "She's acting like I died! Or went away forever! I was only out for a few mintues!"

"You! No, you weren't! You were out for what seemed like an eternity!" Maya Eva argued.

"No I wasn't!" Shani said.

"Were too!"

"Were not!"

"Were too!"

"Were not!"

"Were too!'

As the argument roared on, the others laughed, also glad that their energetic friend was back.

Jade snuck away, figuring it was time to move on, but someone wasn't finished.

"Hey, you know it's rude to just say hi and leave without saying bye," someone said behind Jade.

The green echidna turned to see Jet, leaning on a building with her arms crossed.

"What do you expect me to say?" Jade asked.

"I expect you to listen while I say thank you for saving my friend's life," Jet retorted.

Jade smiled, "Your welcome."

As Jade was about to continue her never-ending journey, Jet said, "Oh, and let's just keep it between you and me that I said thank you, kay?"

Jade let out a short laugh, "Sure, see you."

"Bye."

Jet watched as Jade walked out of sight, then walked back to the group, who was laughing their heads off—even Knuckles.

"I never said that I was excited about being here!" Shani said.

"Ah, but you wanted ice cream!" Maya Eva informed.

"Speaking of ice cream…What happened to ours?" Shani asked.

Knuckles turned around, and laughed. "I think I found your answer!" he exclaimed, and pointed to the truck. There, on the windshield were three ice cream cones. Each one had a different flavor. One had chocolate chip cookie dough, another had mint chocolate chip and the last one had double chocolate chip.

Everyone laughed even harder, and as Jet laughed, she looked up at the sky and saw stars brightly shining. This truly was a night not to forget, but their adventure wasn't over yet. But, there was one thing that Jet knew: They still had to find KT, Raquel, and Mika, but, they were ready no matter what the challenge may be.

"So, I think I better say that my name is Mira," Tia said and winked to her friends from Earth.

"Nice to meet you, Mira," the others said one at a time.

"Oh, and I'm wondering, who are you?" Sonic asked, pointing to Kogome.

"Oh, my name is…" she was going to say 'Kogome', but since everyone else was going by their fancharacter's name, then she might as well, too.

"I'm Darkness," she offered.

"Hi," all of them said one at a time.

"Okay, so, Jet," Tails said, turning to the brown animal who was still staring at the night sky.

Jet was snapped out of her thoughts, and she turned to the little, two-tailed fox. "What?"

"What are we going to do about the other three?" he asked.

"Well, we better find them, who knows where they are," Jet said.

"But it's night time," Shani yawned, "And I'm sleepy."

"But the others could not have a place to stay for the night!" Maya Eva informed.

Darkness shook her head. "Knowing those guys, they probably already found a place to sleep, trust me—trust them."

"Darkness has a point," Jet informed, "We have to trust them, and find them tomorrow."

They nodded, but the girls realized that Sonic, Knuckles, Rouge and Tails weren't with them!

"Where did they go?" Mira asked.

Maya Eva shrugged.

"Wait! I think I see them!" Darkness informed, pointing at the ice cream parlor.

"HEY! NO FAIR! I WANT ICE CREAM!" Shani yelled, and raced to the ice cream shop.

"But you already had yours!" Maya Eva exclaimed.

"So!" Shani shouted back.

"Well then that means I get another Chocolate Chip Mint!" Maya Eva said, and ran to the shop.

"Ice cream sounds good!" Mira said, and ran to the ice cream parlor.

Darkness looked at Jet, "Can she eat ice cream?"

"Who? Mira?" Jet wondered.

The ebony hedgehog nodded.

"Sure, what kind of question is that?" Jet laughed.

"Well, she did create Mira to be half-robotic, so, are you sure?" Darkness checked.

"Almost positive, but we better be there—to get some for ourselves before they buy out the whole shop!" Jet informed, and ran off with amazing speed to the shop.

Darkness sighed, and ran after Jet, also wanting some.

That ended our heroes' first day at the new world, but, the question is: How are our other three heroes doing? Well, the five girls have yet to find out—which is another sub-adventure of this huge one.

That night, everyone slept at Sonic's house, like a slumber party. Some were glad that Amy wasn't invited, but they knew that she would pop-up. Oh well, right now, let's let them enjoy their ice cream.