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Chapter 5,

The Imperial Thief; Enter Mei-Lin

The puppet curtains rise up, revealing a Nikki string puppet walking in on one side as a Sonic string puppet walks in from the other. The Nikki puppet is dressed with a long white dress while the Sonic puppet was dressed in a black tuxedo, holding a red rose in one hand. They turn to each other and thus, the lovely romance begins.

"Oh Sonikku….I am so happy we finally get to see each other."

"So am I.." replied the Sonic puppet.

Sonic sits there tied up on the living room rug, forced to watch Nikki's puppet show of horror. He twitches, staring at this puppet nightmare hoping that it will end soon.

"Now I know she's insane!" He said thoughtfully.

Nikki continues with her incredibly insane puppet show that Sonic wished he had died thru this entire show.

"Sonikku…is it true that you love mistress Bunny-chan?"

The Sonic puppet looks over at the Nikki puppet as he walks closer.

"Why of course n-"

Before Nikki had the chance to finish the sentence, Sonic interrupted and finished the sentence in his own way.

"Why of course I love Bunny!" he shouted.

Nikki rose up with a frown on her face.

"Sonikku! No interrupting!" she snapped.

The doorbell rings, Nikki looks over and puts the puppets aside. Sonic felt relieved, the bell saved him.

"I'll go get it!" Nikki replied as she runs to the door.

Sonic breaks free from the ropes and dusts himself. He gets up and sighs with relief.

"Thank you door bell." He said.

Sonic walks over to the puppet set. He looks at all the sonic, Amy, tails, and other puppets she has.

"Geez where does she get this stuff?" He said to himself.

He notices a Bunny puppet as he picks it up and stares at it. Without warning he knocked the Nikki puppet out of the way and sat down playing with both Bunny and Sonic puppets.

"Bun….I have found you at last…"

The bunny puppet looks over and walks over to the sonic puppet.

" Oh sonic, I am so glad we finally found each other…"

"Yeah I know….Bun…I have something to tell you…"

"Oh? And what is it?"

"Bun…I.."

Bunny just came in holding a bag of groceries while standing with Sami, Panda, and Amy. She was staring at him.

"Sonic, what are you doing?" Bunny asked.

Sonic sweat drops, he automatically jumped up, dropping the puppets in the process. He turns to Bunny with a nervous smile on his face. He was caught of course and he knew it.

"Uh! Nothing Bun!" he replied.

Nikki walks in and frowns, she saw sonic playing with her puppet set. She walks in, with her arms folded.

"Sonikku, if you wanted to play with my puppets you could have at least say so!"

Sonic falls backwards, he can't believe Nikki didn't realize what he has been doing for all this time. He sits back up and sighs.

"Oh yeah sorry I should have asked…" He said sarcastically.

Amy walks over to the puppet set, she picks up the Amy and Sonic puppets.

She looks over at sonic with a smile on her face.

"oh how cute!" she replied.

"We could do a puppet show together sonic!"

Sonic sweat drops nervously, he backs away from Amy.

"Ah no thanks…"

Amy looks at sonic confused. He was just playing with puppets a moment ago and now he isn't in the mood?

"Sonic just gets weirder everyday." Amy thought.

Later on during the evening, Sonic takes his daily run, he was thinking about Bunny. He didn't know whether he should tell her how he feels or not. He speeds down the city streets thinking about what he should do.

Meanwhile in a remote island, Dr. Eggman celebrates for obtaining his forth chaos emerald. He sits on his chair, laughing as usual and taking a bite out of a sandwich. Shadow and rouge stood there watching the rather large madman, wondering if they could leave to find more chaos emeralds.

"Ahh there's nothing better than celebrating on this fine evening!" Eggman shouted with glee.

Shadow had his arms folded; he said nothing to Eggman. Rouge stood there with boredom.

"How about we look for more chaos emeralds?" Rouge suggested.

" You've done enough for tonight!" Eggman replied as he goes back to indulging himself.

Rouge sighs, she was hoping her suggestion would work but unfortunately, it did not. Shadow started to pace around the room; he had nothing better to do but stare at others.

Suddenly, two of Eggman's robotic servants run in; they seem to be panicking over something that has occurred.

"Dr. Eggman sir!" said one of the robots.

Eggman looks over before taking a bite from his sandwhich.

"Oh what is it now? Can't you see I am celebrating here!" Eggman snapped.

"Well sorry to ruin your celebration sir…but the chaos emeralds are all gone!" the other robot exclaimed.

Eggman got up in complete rage; he dropped what's left of his sandwhich in the process.

"How can that be? They were under tight security! No one can enter a tightly secured room without being caught!"

Shadow and Rouge look over with deep interest, they wanted to know who was the thief that stole the emeralds. However, it also gives them a chance to leave Eggman's base.

"Shadow! Rouge! Find the thief and bring back the chaos emeralds!" Eggman shouted.

Shadow steps out of Eggman's room with rouge following him from behind. Shadow speeds outside of Eggman's base, searching for the mysterious thief. A shadowy figure runs towards the ocean carrying a small bag where the emeralds are possibly stored in.

Shadow rushes towards the unknown character, he uses a speed dash to knock down the enemy but the thief leaps up. Shadow looks up at the shadowy figure that is about to land on him. Shadow moves to the side as the shadowy figure stomps on to the ground fiercely, dark electric waves emerge from the enemy's foot.

Rouge flies in and uses one of her famous kick moves, the thief ducks and uses a flip kick on to rouge who was now sent flying. Shadow jumps in and tackles the thief while Rouge maintains her balance and watches Shadow fight with the unknown figure. She sits on a rock and watches the battle.

"Ahh I'll let Shadow take care of this one. He seems to be in control." Rouge said with a small smile.

Shadow continues to fight with the unknown figure that constantly dodges shadow's moves using back flips or just leaping away like a ninja. It frustrates shadow as he uses chaos control, warping behind the unknown figure, grabbing the person. He glares down at the figure staring at the person's glowing yellow eyes, he can tell the person is female. He paused for a moment but before he had the chance to remove the black hood from the unknown figure, he got elbowed in the stomach.

"Ugh…." Shadow said as he slowly lets go of the yellow-eyed figure.

The shadowy figure jumped away into the darkness, there was no sign of the person.

"Uh! Shadow! You let the thief get away with our emeralds!" Rouge exclaimed.

Shadow got up and looked over at rouge with a slight glare, he said nothing.

Back at Bunny's house, some of her friends came over for the night. Sora, who is now bunny's new friend, came over as well. Sora types in her laptop, she begins to do mathematical steps as the others watch.

"What is she doing?" Niji said with curiosity.

"She's using math to solve our current problem." Tails replied.

"Mathematics?" Nikki said.

"That's right Nikki, and two plus two equals four.." said Sami.

Nikki looks over at him, she gives him a dirty look as she goes back to watching Sora type fiercely on the keyboards.

Panda yawns while stretching his arms and goes to sleep on the couch. Sonic is busy trying to avoid Amy who is trying to force him to go out with her while bunny and Yume wash the dishes.

"Amy I do not want to go out with you!" Sonic shouted.

Amy pouts she continues to chase the blue hedgehog. "Awww! Why not?"

"Ehh..because i'm busy…" Sonic replied.

"With what?" Amy asked.

"With….stuff…" Sonic quietly replies, looking over at Bunny who is in the kitchen.

"That's not a good answer sonic!" Amy exclaimed.

"It is to me!" Sonic rushed outside before Amy had a chance to react.

"Sonic! Oooh….he just gets me so mad sometimes!" Amy said to herself as she walks off.

Somewhere in the mountains is a giant temple. It is surrounded with many trees and flowers along with a small waterfall that pours the purest of all water, Glistening under the moonlight. Inside the temple was a Chinese humanoid girl. Her long hair was darker than the night and her eyes were as bright and mysterious as a cat. She had black hedgehog ears on her head and wore a red Chinese dress with a slit on the side. Her long red and white boots matched perfectly with the outfit. She sat there on the many cushions that were scattered on the floor, opening her small bag to look at her prize; the chaos emeralds.

"Ha that was easy…" said the girl with a smirk.

"Thou that black hedgehog really did a number with my arms…"

She tends her bruised arms and then lays down on to the pile of cushions. She stares at the ceiling, holding on to one of the chaos emeralds that she had stolen.

"What a tough little pest he was…." The girl said quietly.

"Humph oh well, maybe he would like to have Another fight with me.."

She Picks up the red chaos emerald, and looks at her own reflection from it. "Watch out bad boy, Mei-lin is coming to get ya!"

I know I took an eternity to post a new chapter " Sorry…I had writter's block for a long time O.O but I'm back! " hopefully I can continue to write…chapter 6 will be up soon I hope "