Me: Yay! Another chapter! With Tails! Tails: Uh… hi. Me: So… ya. I do not own anyone in this story, except Stephanie. Ya, I own her.
The three of them walked into the small workshop. Stephanie looked around and then spotted the X-tornado.
Wow. It looks way better than on TV. Stephanie smiled. No duh.
"Here, Tails." Knuckles handed him the jewel. Tails walk over to a desk and attached some wired suction cups to it and turned on a monitor. He sat down on a chair and waited for the monitor to boot up.When it finally did Stephanie walked up behind him and looked at the screen.
"What are we looking at here?" Stephanie said scanning the screen.
"If it shows high energy readings then it is very likely that it is a chaos emerald." Tails said looking at Stephanie.
The door to the workshop opened.
"Hey Tails!" Sonic said then stopped in his tracks when he saw Stephanie. Stephanie continued to look at the screen. It was indeed showing high signature readings. She may not be an expert in technology but she knew that the jagged line going up meant high.
"This is Stephanie." Tails said. It was quite annoying to Stephanie to hear that over and over again. Stephanie turned around and saw Sonic.
"Hi." Sonic said.
"Hi." Stephanie replied.
"I'm-" Sonic said. Stephanie let out a short exhale through her mouth.
"Sonic." Stephanie said. Sonic gave Stephanie a confused look. She smiled and turned back to the monitor.
"I'll explain later." Stephanie said.
"Ok… What ya guys doing?" Sonic asked Knuckles.
"Tails is testing Stephanie's jewel to see if it's a chaos emerald." Knuckles said crossing his arms. Sonic walked over to the desk.
"It's black." Sonic said surprised.
"Ya." Stephanie looked at Sonic. "Is that bad?"
"No. It's just usually they are bright colors." Sonic shrugged.
"Ya, that is weird." Tails said as he unwired the emerald and handed it to Stephanie. "There's one more thing to do to make sure it is a chaos emerald, use chaos control." Tails said. "We'll test it outside. They all walked out on to the runway.
"So who's gonna test it?" Rouge asked.
"Well, seeing it belongs to Stephanie then she should." Tails answered. They all looked at the nervous Stephanie.
"Don't worry. All you have to do is concentrate on a place you want to go and say 'Chaos Control'." Sonic said then his expression turned sad, followed by the others. The phrase Chaos Control reminded them of their friend Shadow the hedgehog, who had died saving the lives of the people on earth. Stephanie became sad herself. Shadow was one of her favorite characters and it was even sadder now that she was on Mobius.
"So are we gonna test it or what?" Knuckles asked. Rouge elbowed him in the ribs.
"Ow. What?" Knuckles began to rub his sore ribs.
"You are so sensitive." Rouge said, rolling her eyes.
"It's ok. Knuckles is right. We should test it now." Tails said trying to cheer up.
Stephanie held out her hand, closed her eyes and pictured the space behind Sonic.
"Chaos Control." Stephanie nervously said. She opened one eye and saw everyone looking at her. She hadn't moved an inch. She tried it once more.
"Chaos Control." she said a little louder. This time there was a flash of light and Stephanie was gone. Everyone gasped and looked around.
"Where did she go?" Sonic said.
"I'm right here." Stephanie was right behind Sonic. Sonic shivered and quickly turned around.
"Hehe." Sonic said rubbing the back of his head. Stephanie smiled then looked at Tails.
"It is a chaos emerald!" Tails said excitedly.
"What is even more exciting is that Stephanie can use chaos control." Rouge smiled mischievously.
"Don't get any ideas." Knuckles looked at Rouge and her smile was gone.
"Oh please Knuckles. I don't steal any more." Rouge said putting her hands on her hips.
Knuckles rolled his eyes and looked at Stephanie.
"Yes it is quite strange that you can also use chaos control." Knuckles said.
"Jealous Knux?" Sonic asked.
"No. Why would I be I have the Master Emerald." Knuckles said.
"Right." Sonic said. "Well, we might as well invite Amy, Cream and Cheese over so they can meet you too." Stephanie nodded as Tails went inside and called Amy Rose then Cream.
After 5 minutes of waiting Cream and Cheese came and the Amy.
"Hi guys!" Amy waved. "Hi Sonic!"
"Hello everyone." Creamed curtseyed sweetly.
"Chao chao!" Cheese greeted
"Hi Amy. Hi Cream and cheese. This is Stephanie." Tails said. They both waved and Stephanie waved back.
"Let's go inside." Sonic suggested. They all walked inside and into the "non-workshop" part. Sonic relaxed on a couch, Amy sat beside him, Cream and Cheese sat in some bean bags, Knuckles remained standing, Rouge sat in a chair and Stephanie sat in another chair in front of the room.
"I should probably tell you guys about me." Stephanie said nervously. She had never had this much attention before. She found a comfortable position and began to tell them how she came here and how she came to be a hedgehog.
After she was done a lot of questions rose in the air, like "what was it like to be a human?" and "how come they are famous?"
Every question was answered and Stephanie felt quite exhausted. Then Sonic asked one more question.
"How fast are you?" He said with a smirk.
"Actually I don't know." Stephanie frowned.
"Well, let's find out." He said getting up and walking out the door. Everyone followed Sonic.
"I'll race you." Sonic said.
"But-" Stephanie started.
"Come on it'll be fun." Sonic winked. Stephanie sighed.
"Ya, for you." Stephanie mumbled and stood beside Sonic. They both got into racing position.
"Ready… Set… Go!" Tails, Amy, Cream and Cheese yelled. The two raced off. Stephanie looked around in surprise. She saw things shoot past her and a blue hedgehog four feet in front of her.
Sonic looked back and was shocked to see Stephanie close behind him. Wow. That has never happened before. He looked forward and saw their friends. He smiled. I'm still gonna win. Sonic sped up and immediately stopped where his friends were standing. He turned to face Stephanie who stopped right beside him five seconds after he stopped.
"We went around the whole island already?" Stephanie raised her eyebrows. Sonic nodded.
"I'm still the champ." Sonic said. Stephanie rolled your eyes.
"You were pretty good. I thought you would be as slow as Amy." Sonic smirked and looked back at Amy.
"Hey!" Amy said. "I may be slow but I am powerful."
"Right." Sonic said sarcastically. "Your last name should be Speed."
Stephanie's eyes went wide with joy and she smiled.
"Ya, Stephanie Speed." She said, wanting to jump up and down.
"Really? I was just kidding but, ok." Sonic said. "At least it sounds good."
"It looks like you have a new play mate, Sonic." Rouge laughed. Stephanie blushed. She hadn't been complimented this much in a long time.
"Ya, now I have someone to race with." Sonic chuckled. Stephanie looked at the sky.
"It's getting dark. It been a pretty long day." Stephanie said looking at all her new friends.
"Cheese and I should probably get home." Cream said to Amy.
"Ok, I'll take you home." Amy said. "Bye guys!"
"Bye." Cream waved.
"Chao chao." Cheese waved too. Then they headed towards the train that went to Station Square.
"I should go to. The Master Emerald needs guarding." Knuckles smiled.
"Ok. Where do I go?" Stephanie giggled.
"You could come to my place." Rouge offered.
"Ok. Thanks." Stephanie said gratefully.
"Bye." Rouge said to her friends and blew a kiss to Knuckles, turning him red.
"Bye." Stephanie said and turned to Rouge. "Where is your house?"
"It's also in Station Square." Rouge said, heading to the train.
"Really? Cool." Stephanie said.
Once the two girls disappeared down the big staircase leading up the hill to Tails' workshop, Sonic looked at Knuckles with a grin.
"What was that?" Sonic said mischievously.
"What was what?" Knuckles said. Still staring at the beginning of the stairs.
"That blown kiss." Sonic said putting his fists on his hips.
"That… was nothing." Knuckles blushed even more.
"I'll see you guys later." He said and glided away.