Brown eyes opened to the new world of Sonic. This creature was a white Seal and wore an orange shirt with blue jean shorts and white tennis shoes.
"Ow, my head…" she mumbled as she sat up. She then took the moment to scan her surroundings. She was in a forest and had been laid against a tree.
That's funny. She didn't remember last night ending by resting against a tree. In fact, she wasn't in a forest last night! As the Seal's brown eyes drifted to the forest floor, her mind had a flashback…
Flashback
The same white seal woke up with a start, and found herself in almost pitch-black darkness. There seemed to be a little glow in her surroundings, and from that glow she could tell she was in a cave.
"Wh-what happened?" she wondered as she stood up.
Her small paws started dusting off her shorts absent mindedly when she noticed something.
She stopped for a minute and brought her paws up to her face. All of a sudden, she started shaking.
"Wh-what happened?" she stuttered again.
The seal quickly checked herself over, and sure enough, she was her made-up character.
"I-I'm no longer Mika…" she realized. "I'm not even home!"
"Or anywhere NEAR that!" Mika added.
She started shaking uncontrollably with fear. Mika calmed herself down by saying, "This is all just a dream. There is nothing to be afraid of…At least…I don't THINK so…"
"Oh…." Mika started shaking again. "What am I going to do? I'm far away from home, in a new body, in some strange cave, and probably never going to come back!"
Tears started to form in Mika's eyes. "Oh…" Suddenly, tears started falling down her cheeks as she fell to her knees shaking and crying.
"Oh Jesus…Please help me!" she begged between sobs, and her voice started to sound sore.
Suddenly, a light illuminated where Mika was. "Huh?" she wondered, and looked up.
What she saw made her gasp. It was a familiar black hedgehog with red stripes down his quills, arms and legs.
He looked at her with stern, crimson eyes.
"Sh-shadow?" Mika asked.
Shadow's eyes looked as if they had seen a familiar face, and then went back to their solid selves.
The hedgehog remained silent.
What had illuminated the cave was the lantern he was holding.
"How did you find me?" Mika asked, her voice sounding less sore.
Shadow didn't answer. Truth be told, he didn't want to say that he had heard her tears and her prayer.
"I just did," he said.
Silence had followed for a few minutes before Shadow started walking towards the cave's entrance.
"Wait!" Mika cried.
Shadow stopped and turned around, not wanting to wait for long.
"What?" he asked.
"Uh…Can I go with you?" Mika replied shyly.
"No," he answered firmly, and was about to continue as a strange rumble shook the roof of the cave.
Mika gasped and looked up. The top was breaking!
A few rocks had already fallen, and Mika started running towards Shadow.
Shadow was at the entrance of the cave and was about to leave Mika behind when he looked back. His heart wouldn't allow him to go any further without helping the poor seal. Her foot was caught under a fallen rock and she had tripped, and was weeping silently, scared. She knew she was going to be killed with this cave-in.
The last thing Mika saw was Shadow running towards her to help.
Flashback ends
"Did my head get hit by a rock?" she wondered as her paw searched her head. As she came to a point that was on the top right hand area, she winced. Yep, she got her answer.
"So, I see you're awake," mumbled a familiar voice.
"Shadow!" Mika exclaimed, turning to see the black hedgehog standing there with his arms crossed.
"How did you know my name?" he asked.
"I-I….I just did," Mika replied.
"Don't play games, how did you know my name?" Shadow said.
"I can't tell you!" Mika replied.
"And why not?" Shadow asked.
"I don't know!" Mika yelled.
"Oh, so, why can't you tell me?" Shadow said.
Tears formed in Mika's eyes again. This time, it wasn't fear, it was complete confusion.
"I don't know why I can't tell you! But I just can't because I don't know what's going on!" She curled up in a little ball and hugged her knees and sobbed. "I'm so lost…" she quietly added.
"I don't have time for this," Shadow muttered and grabbed his brown backpack.
Mika stopped weeping and looked up with a tear-stained face. "Are you going to leave me, Shadow?"
Shadow froze. Those words…
"Shadow?" she asked again.
Shadow shook his head out of his thoughts. "No, not with that ankle of yours," he said, not even glancing at Mika while trying to pack up his supplies. There was something about that seal…
"Oh, well, thank you, Shadow," Mika replied, blushing a little.
Shadow froze again. Thank you! No one has ever said thank you to him! Except…except Maria…
Shadow shook his head once again and mumbled quietly (not forgetting his manners), "You're welcome."
Mika didn't hear, and Shadow was glad.
As he finished, he stood up and threw the bag's straps over his arms and over his shoulders.
He turned to Mika and asked, "What's your name?"
"My name is…MJ," she hesitated.
"MJ?" Shadow shrugged it off. Weird name, but hey! You got to expect that!
"What's in the bag?" MJ asked.
"None of your business," Shadow replied.
This was going to be difficult. MJ was a female, and yet, something inside Shadow urged him to take the seal along, but the seal couldn't walk! So that meant….
No way! Shadow shook his head. He ain't doing that!
"Shadow, what's wrong?" MJ asked.
Those words again!
"Nothing, but…." Well, there wasn't any other way to do it.
Shadow sighed as he leaned over and picked up MJ in his arms to carry to Eggman's base.
"Shadow!" MJ gaped, surprised that such a hedgehog would do this!
"Just be quiet and sit still; we have a long way to go," Shadow mumbled.
MJ wondered where they were going, but kept quiet. 'Man,' she though, 'This is one crazy night! Or day!'
Meanwhile….
Amy Rose sighed as she walked down the sidewalk. There was nothing to do. No sales, no Eggman (yet), no Sonic…The pink hedgehog sighed again as she thought of her blue hero.
"Oh Sonic," she said into the air while tossing her head back, "Where are you?"
Unfortunately, Amy couldn't see a small, white hedgehog with a Sky Blue sleeveless dress with white neck cuffs, white gloves like her own except with black rings, shoes like Cream's except they were Sky Blue and black, Sky Blue eyes and black bangs that seemed to cover her left eye walking straight her way!
Before Amy knew it, she was on her bum in the middle of the sidewalk. How embarrassing, she thought, I got too caught up in daydreaming that I didn't look to see a banana peel on the sidewalk.
Then, she heard a kind voice say, "I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to hurt you!"
Okay, maybe it wasn't a banana peel, but that doesn't explain why I can't see anything! Amy thought.
Oh wait….she was closing her eyes. Her bad.
Amy opened her green eyes to see the same white hedgehog looking at her with her Sky Blue eyes.
"Can I help you?" Amy wondered, standing up.
"I-I just wanted to say that I am sorry for bumping into you, I was busy looking for my friends," Raquel (the white hedgehog) replied.
"Oh, so you're lost?" Amy asked again. Well, helping someone find their friends is better than just walking down the sidewalk doing nothing, she figured.
The white hedgehog nodded her head.
"Well, first, let me introduce myself, I'm Amy Rose," Amy said, and held out her gloved hand.
Raquel was so excited, and tried to keep it in, but it didn't work. She was almost jumping for joy.
"Um, my name is Ra—" Raquel stopped herself, remembering to say her made-up character's name. "—Krystal." She continued.
Amy seemed a little confused, then seemed to understand her name was 'Krystal', not 'Ra-Krystal'.
The two shook hands as a greeting, but Krystal's grip seemed to be a little too firm.
"Um, Krystal," Amy informed, "You're hurting my hand."
"Oh, sorry!" the white hedgehog quickly blushed. This was SO cool!
"You can let go now," Amy added.
Krystal immediately broke the handshake and blushed harder.
"Why are you acting so excited?" Amy wondered.
Krystal replied, "Because, I never met a star in person before!"
"A star! I'm not a star!" Amy protested.
"Well, it's kind of a long story," Krystal replied with her head hanging and the front of her shoe tracing a circle on the ground.
"Okay, you can tell me later, because I'm searching for someone else, also!" Amy informed.
"Who?" Krystal asked as her head snapped back up.
"My darling Sonic!" Amy exclaimed, giving a little jump.
Krystal's smile got bigger, "Maybe we can help each other!"
"Good idea!" Amy agreed, "With two people with good eyes, we should be able to find them in no time!"
One hour later….
"You were saying?" Krystal asked as they walked down another sidewalk.
"Well…That's just how Sonic is. He never stays in one spot, and when I find him, I take my chance," Amy said, disappointed.
"We need a better way to find them rather than just walking around Station Square," Krystal figured.
Amy stopped walking and stood, thinking. Krystal kept walking, not realizing that Amy had paused for a moment.
Thankfully, Krystal wasn't too far that she couldn't hear Amy snap her fingers.
"AH!" she screamed and jumped a few inches off the ground, startled.
"I have an idea!" Amy announced.
"What is it?" Krystal asked, excited, and ran over to the pink hedgehog.
"See that stage over there?" Amy inquired.
Krystal looked at the area where Amy was pointing.
"It looks old," she commented, noticing that the stage was of medium size and was a little dusty.
"It hasn't been used in a while, and it used to hold the ceremonies when Sonic would save the world!" Amy informed.
"Oh cool!" Krystal exclaimed, then realized something. "How is that going to help us find Sonic and my friends?"
Amy smiled. "We get to sing a song that will attract Sonic and your friends here, then we will have found them!"
Krystal gave Amy a scared look. "No way! I am NOT getting up on stage and singing!"
Amy informed, "But they, meaning your friends, know your voice and how you sing, they will be able to find you faster!"
Krystal was still scared.
"Hey, I'll do the main singing, kay?" Amy asked, hoping to make her new friend feel better.
The white hedgehog seemed relieved. "Sounds good to me," she finally said.
"Alright, then let's do it!" Amy exclaimed, and grabbed Krystal's wrist, almost dragging her onstage.
"Wow," was all Krystal said as she surveyed the back stage area. Her heart was thumping wildly because of her fear to be in front of a big crowd, but if she was going to find her friends, then, this might as well be the way to do it!
"Okay, that seems set," Amy informed, walking up to Krystal from tinkering with something.
"What seems set?" Krystal asked.
"The speakers. They are ready to begin when I say so," Amy explained, giving a thumbs-up.
"Uh, what song are we singing?" Krystal wondered as Amy walked passed her.
"We are singing my favorite song in the world. In fact, it was written by and for me," Amy said, digging into a closet.
"What's it called?" the white hedgehog inquired.
"It's called, My Sweet Passion," Amy replied, pulling out two brooms.
"But before we sing, we need to make this place sparkling-clean!" she added, and handed Krystal a broom.
"You think we can do this?" Amy wondered.
Krystal smiled, "I know we can!"
Meanwhile…
"I GIVE UP!" KT sighed miserably. His friends were nowhere to be found, and here he was, stuck in his made-up character's body and in a totally different world.
"This has got to be the WORST day of my life!" he mumbled, looking down at himself once more. He was a yellow fox with two tails, like Tails. He had blue eyes, like Tails, and almost everything like Tails!
KT sighed again. "Well," he said, "Might was well start the name Lee running through my head…"
Lee was the name of his made-up character, and he wanted to be sure he was ready in case anything happened.
"Excuse me?" asked a kind voice asked.
KT opened his blue eyes to see a hedgehog that amazingly looked like Shadow. Except, it was a female and had light blue jeans and a red halter top!
"What do you want?" KT asked, not necessarily snappy, but a mixture of surprise and just-the-way-he-is.
"Well, you don't have to say that. But I heard you complaining about giving-up," the female hedgehog said.
"Yeah, so?" KT shrugged.
"Giving-up is not allowed in my book!" the look-a-like-of-Shadow replied, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Who ever said I had to follow your book?" KT inquired.
"No one, but I just thought that if you want to survive against Egg-head, you might want to learn to never give up!" the hedgehog said, before getting ready to run away.
"Wait! What's your name?" KT wondered.
"Sarah," was all she said before running off.
KT seemed puzzled as Sarah ran off. Sarah? There wasn't a Sonic Adventure 2: Battle character named Sarah. He shrugged. Probably just another inhabitant of Station Square, he figured.
As the now-fox started walking again, he heard someone call his name.
"KT!"
Wait, KT wasn't his name anymore, remember? The fox walked on, trying to ignore the familiar calls.
Finally, the same someone called his fancharacter's name.
"Lee!"
This time, he turned around and saw Darkness running towards him.
"Kogome!" Lee exclaimed, glad to see someone who he actually remembered, finally.
The black and red hedgehog stopped to catch her breath before continuing, "You won't believe all who I saw!"
"Try me," Lee mumbled.
"I met Sonic, Knuckles, Rouge and Tails!" she exclaimed happily.
"At least you were lucky, I met someone by the name of Sarah…" Lee informed. Not sounding 'oh-wow' about it.
"Hey, at least you met SOMEONE. It could have been worse," Darkness said.
"Like who?" Lee asked.
"Eggman," the hedgehog replied simply.
"And besides," she added, "Sarah couldn't have been that bad."
"I guess you're right…actually, I think she helped me," Lee informed.
"How?" Darkness asked, already knowing the answer. Darkness always had the skill to make people see the good in others.
A smile started to spread on her face as Lee continued, "She helped me realize to not give-up."
The fox looked at the smiling hedgehog, "What?"
"Nothing," Darkness said, dismissing her thought.
"Did you find any others?" Lee inquired.
"In fact, yes. They are all asleep at Sonic's house…But, by now they should be awake," Darkness replied.
"You found Rachael, Bridget, Raquel, Mika, Destiny, and Tia!" Lee exclaimed.
"Well, we haven't found Raquel and Mika yet…But the others we found. Oh, and to give you a heads-up, I realize that you didn't respond to 'KT' and only 'Lee'. So, since we are going by our fancharacter's names I better tell you theirs'. Bridget is Shani. Rachael is Maya Eva. Tia is Mira. Destiny is Jet. And I am Darkness," she explained.
"Okay," Lee said, then added, "But what about Mika and Raquel's names?"
"I remember theirs' are MJ and Krystal," Darkness recalled.
Lee nodded. "Well then, let's find them!"
Darkness nodded, but before they could go any further, a sound erupted from behind them, yelling, "Darkness, Lee, come here!"
The two turned to see Jet waving them over. Soon, they found themselves having been introduced to everyone else, and been shown a stage.
"Something is fishy…" Sonic said.
"What do you mean?" Maya Eva asked.
"I don't think he is meaning Eggman," Knuckles muttered.
"Definitely not Eggman, that mad-man wouldn't make a dusty stage look clean!" Sonic informed.
Everybody looked. The stage was clean.
"So?" Lee asked.
"This thing was dirty earlier today," Rouge informed.
"And why would that bother anyone? It seems like a nice thing to do!" Shani exclaimed.
"That's just it!" Tails said, "No one we know would clean a stage like this!"
"At least…" he added. "No one else except…"
"DON'T SAY HER NAME!" Sonic pleaded.
Jet realized who it was. "AMY!" she exclaimed without thinking.
"I told you not to say her name!" Sonic informed.
Suddenly, the curtain opened and two figures stood. One pink, the other white.
The kids from Earth recognized instantly who the white hedgehog was…."RAQUEL!"
"Ah!" Shani screamed. "It's the season of the unordinary!"
"What was your first clue?" Maya Eva asked as a familiar song began to stir from the stage…
Amy: I got out my map and chose a place I wanted to go to…
Krystal:(whispering) …Packed up my stuff, set out for adventure…
Amy: I know that your lucky color is that cool shade of blue…
Krystal:(whispering) …Won't mind painting myself blue for you...
Amy: I guess I'm so easy to understand;
Both: I just do, what ever comes to me naturally…
Amy: I do understand the feelings of a Persian Cat…
Krystal: (whispering) …But the Sphinx looked so cute I had to shave it...
Amy: He reminds me of parsley when he's standing there all alone…
Krystal: (whispering) ...Makes me wanna be his speciality...
Amy: I guess I'm just a self-centered girl
Both: But there are nights that I have trouble going to sleep!
Krystal: Sweet sweet you're so sweet
Amy: So many things I want!
Krystal: Sweet sweet you're so sweet
Amy: I wanna be a wonderful girl!
Krystal: Sweet sweet you're so sweet
Amy: I'm not simple-minded!
Krystal: Sweet sweet you're so sweet
Amy: And I won't be a pearl!
Both: You probably need me just as much as I need you!
Krystal and Amy did some cool moves as the music did its solo, shaking their shoulders and criss-crossing this way and that.
"I didn't know Amy could sing!" Sonic complained.
"NOBODY did!" Rouge informed.
"I didn't know Krystal had the courage to get ONSTAGE!" Jet exclaimed.
Soon, they continued their song…
Amy: Are you okay you seem to be a little bit tense…
Krystal: (whispering) ...You don't have to worry 'bout a single thing...
Amy: We are free to get whatever that we want to have…
Krystal: (whispering) ...We're also free to do whatever we want...
Amy: That's what we'll do, yeah, that's what we'll do!
Both: We should live our lives the way we think it ought to be!
Krystal: Sweet sweet you're so sweet!
Amy: There's no where to hide!
Krystal: Sweet sweet you're so sweet!
Amy: Come on settle our lives!
Krystal: Sweet sweet you're so sweet!
Amy: I'll always be there for you!
Krystal: Sweet sweet you're so sweet!
Amy: In the best and worst times!
Both: You can be my sweetest honey for eternity!
Krystal: Sweet sweet you're so sweet
Amy: So many things I want!
Krystal: Sweet sweet you're so sweet
Amy: I wanna be a wonderful girl!
Krystal: Sweet sweet you're so sweet
Amy: I'm not simple-minded!
Krystal: Sweet sweet you're so sweet
Amy: And I won't be a pearl!
Both: I honestly need you just as much as you need me!
As the song ended, Krystal and Amy were leaning on each other's back. Back-to-back.
Silence had followed, but not for very long!
Suddenly, a loud roar of clapping and whistling and yelling erupted from behind the Sonic Crew. They turned, and there was a HUGE crowd! (When I say huge, I mean HUGE!)
Amy and Krystal broke their pose and smiled. The pink hedgehog turned to the white hedgehog.
"We really make a good team," she commented.
"Yes we do!" Krystal agreed, and her eyes were sparkling so much that it was as if they were their own humongous stars!
Amy smiled, her own emerald eyes sparkling the same way.
Finally, after some time, the crowd dissipated.
When it was just the Sonic Crew and the kids from Earth, Amy and Krystal hopped down from the stage.
"Man, am I glad to see you guys!" Krystal exclaimed, running over to her friends.
"Krystal, you were awesome!" Maya Eva yelled.
Krystal blushed and said nothing.
Once the others were done saying their comments, Jet made her own: "Didn't know you had it in ya."
Krystal smiled and looked up at the chocolate-brown animal. "Thanks," she quietly said.
Jet winked. "Don't mention it."
"Well, now that we found each other…now what?" Shani inquired.
All of a sudden, as if in answer to her question, a scream was heard. It was Amy.
The seven kids turned to see a bunch of G.U.N. robots surrounding the Sonic Crew!
"Wait a minute!" Mira exclaimed, recognizing the robots immediately.
"Isn't this in…" Lee was about to say Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, when Darkness interrupted.
"It is…" the hedgehog nodded.
"Put you hands in the air!" the robots commanded, except, their lights weren't on the other Sonic Crew members…they were focused on the hedgehog in front. Sonic.
"We can't let them take him away!" Krystal yelled.
"We have to!" Jet informed.
"Why?" Mira inquired.
"That's the way the story goes…" was the reply.
Even though they longed to go and stop the G.U.N. members, they knew they couldn't.
They watched as the lights blinded Sonic and they, being the G.U.N. members, grabbed his wrists, firmly placing them in handcuffs. As they pulled the Sonic Crew members away from the blue hedgehog, they started leading him towards a small jet.
Sonic blinked his eyes to regain his view as Amy started crying. Tails only looked with fear in his eyes. Knuckles sighed and acted like this was no big deal. Sonic would get out, he just had to wait. Rouge did the same.
Sonic looked behind him at the others, and then, looked at the kids from Earth one last time before being shoved into the plane.
Even though the kids from Earth couldn't hear what the G.U.N. members had said to Sonic Crew, they got a pretty good idea.
Jet, Krystal, Lee, Darkness, Shani, and Maya Eva just saw Sonic looking at them before being pushed inside. But, Mira saw something else. She saw, in the emerald-green eyes of the blue hedgehog, strength.
Even though Mira was afraid for him, that never-ending flame in Sonic's eyes gave her the courage to just be patient, and wait to take action.
Although, as the plane took off, Mira wondered how long that would be…