3-1 Junior Year premier: The Unknown Enemy Part I

The sun works its way up as Sonic gets out of bed. He look over an notices Shadow's bed was empty. "Where is Shadow?" he asks himself before looking at the clock. "Huh, he must have headed out early." He thinks throwing the covers off and getting out of bed.

Meanwhile, Rage was finishing getting dressed and looks at a picture he had on his nightstand. The picture was of a younger him and Chaotix. Rage was on Chaotix's shoulders with a huge smile on his face. Chaotix was looking up at him with a smile and an eye half closed from Rage's right hand pushing on his head. Rage smiled as he finishes tying his shoes.

"If only I could have been there." He sighs walking down the stairs. He turns the corner and he sees a man in a hoodie who was taking something from a table. When the man notices Rage he pulls a gun out and Rage puts his hands up. "Woah!" he exclaims.

"Where are they?" the man asks.

"I don't know what you're talking about!" Rage says.

"The gems…don't play dumb! Now you are going to show me where they are. Any funny business and I'll shoot you." The man says.

"A low-life criminal pointing a gun at me." Rage says. "Not the worst situation I have been in…."

"Shut up!" the man screams "Tell me or I'll shoot!"

"Alright look buddy I am going to warn you let's both avoid a situation that we both don't want and why don't you put the gun down?" Rage suggests.

"Why? What are you going to-" The man starts before Rage grabs the arm the man had extended with the gun and twisting it before using his other arm to smash right into the elbow snapping the man's arm and making him drop the gun. Rage picks it up and ejects the magazine and cycling the round in the chamber out.

"Now get the hell out of my house." Rage says before the man runs off. Rage sighs and walks out throwing the gun in the trash. "I swear even this place has low lives who stoop to real stupid actions for money."

Rage walks into the music room where the rest of the gang was… minus two. "Where is Shadow?" Rage asks.

"He's in the hospital." Applejack says. "He was attacked last night."

"What?" Rage asks "Why?"

"We don't know but they took XL too." Sonic says "Dunno what they'd want with him."

"Jeez here I am hoping that I would have a normal day after this morning." Rage sighs putting his hands in his pockets and leaning against a wall.

"Did something happen this morning?" Sunset asks putting a hand on Rage's shoulder.

"Yeah, some low life tried robbing me of the Chaos Emeralds." Rage says. "How he knew about them I have no idea."

"You don't think that it was related to Shadow's attack or XL's abduction do you?" Twilight asks.

"If they are then whoever is behind all of this isn't from this world." Rage concludes.

"Yeah, no one from this world except for all of us even know about the Chaos Emeralds." Sonic adds "But why do they want them and why would the take XL and beat Shadow to a pulp?"

"Maybe Dex or Nix?" Sunset suggests but Rage shakes his head. "No?"

"Not possible, after Dex's little visit I made sure that the ties to Mobius were cut. Now the only way to get there is from here with Chaos Control and given that only Shadow, Sonic and myself are capable of using Chaos Control it is highly unlikely since I have not detected the flux in energy that is give off with Chaos Control."

"What about someone from Equestria?" Sunset asks.

"Well I guess it is possible but then how would they know about the Chaos Emeralds?" Sonic asks.

"Unless…" Rage says rubbing his chin.

"Unless what?" Applejack asks

"No that couldn't be it…" Rage says in an unsure tone.

"You sure don't sound too sure of yourself Rage." Rainbow Dash comments.

"Well I mean it could be possible that this pony came from another version of Equestria that was impacted by another version of Mobius." Rage says.

"Say what?" Applejack asks.

"Uh Rage what are you talking about?" Sonic asks "Another version of both worlds?"

"How would I put it simply…" Rage says. "Alright so when I went back to the Chaos Realm to bury Chaotix I caught wind of events transpiring in another version of Equestria. So apparently another Mobius with another version of me and that Equestria had something happen. I have known about this Equestria for a while since it is linked to this world but if this other me happened to get into conflict there then it would be possible for them to know about the Chaos Emeralds." Rage explains.

"But who would want to use their power?" Sonic asks "Who hasn't be sealed away or defeated that we have heard of."

"I can think of one." Sunset says looking grimly "Queen Chrysalis…"

"Queen Chrysalis?" Rarity asks.

"She is the ruler of a race of beings known as Changelings." Sunset says. "They have the power to take whatever form they so desire in order to feed off of the love from one person to another."

"Well why take XL?" Sonic asks.

"Well if I remember my magic classes it would be possible for them to use his memories to take on the forms of people he has been with." Sunset says "Maybe they have been wathing for a while and we didn't know?" Sunset suggests.

"Well that could be possible." Rage nods.

"What a mess…" Applejack sighs "I dunno bout' ya'll but I think we need to do somthin' about this."

"Like what?" Rage asks "We can't go around asking questions. If we do talk to a changeling it will only make it suspicious. Plus, we can't do much for investigating until school ends."

"Alright then we will meet here at the end of the day to begin looking for clues." Rarity decides.

"Oh no… I am not going…" Fluttershy says

"What? Why not?" Rainbow Dash asks.

"I don't want to get hurt… it sounds real fun and all but…also so dangerous…" Fluttershy squeaks softly.

"Well that is her choice." Rage says

"Hey Rage before we head to class…are you sure the Chaos Emeralds are safe? I noticed you don't have them on you today." Sonic asks.

"Don't worry. They are secure. Even Rouge couldn't find them." Rage answers.

"Oh wow." Sonic says with a sly smile "That is hidden."

"Uh who is Rouge?" Sunset asks.

"Just someone Rage and I know." Sonic says as the bell rings.

"Well we don't want to be late." Twilight says. The group says their farewells and they all head for their first day as Juniors at CHS.

To be continued…

Next Time on The Transfer Students: the gang begins to search for clues about what happened to XL and if Chrysalis and the changelings are really behind this. However they are not expecting where this trip will take them… Can the group handle the curve ball that is awaiting them? Find out in the next chapter, "The Unknown Enemy Part II"