The plane landed on a small carrier ship docked off the side of the island Sonic Shadow and Tails all unloaded out of the plane "what's this thing?" sonic slid his foot over the metal below him.

"It's just a small carrier that we're using as a base of operations while we explore the island" tails said walking forward "C'mon everyone's waiting for us"

Shadow looked around not used to being on the sea "alright lets go he said following tails and sonic who were walking towards a set of stairs going down into a lower area of the ship. Into a room where Eggman, Knuckles, Rouge and Amy sat at a long table with a holographic image of the island floating over it certain areas marked with a red orb and a few others marked with blue orbs.

Tails sat down along with Sonic and Shadow. Tails spoke first looking interested. "What do the markers indicate? He placed his hand on the side of the image turning it with his hand to gain a better prospective."

Eggman looked at him slightly blushing "Well I um was doing some recognizance over the island in my hover egg and I didn't know that I still had the seven fake emeralds that you had given me and I hit an air pocket dropping them these red markers are the estimated landing points of the emeralds and the blue are the five power switches that we need to activate to be able to run anything on this island." He turned to sonic and shadow "so do you think that you guys can do it or is it too much?"

Shadow smirked. "No problem but I think I should just leave sonic behind he'll only be in my way...chaos…!..Hey wait I don't have a chaos emerald"

"That's why I brought the fake chaos emeralds but…" Tails pulled out a silver briefcase. "These should do." He opened up the case up; inside there were two silver bracelets. "These are chaos amplifiers they use chaos drive technology to amplify the energy signature given off by the chaos emeralds so they also work as very efficient radar as well."

Sonic took the first one and put it on "wow they look awesome. Now lets see…chaos control!" sonic felt the familiar tug on his body but he wasn't moving. "Hey Tails I think these things are defective.

Shadow looked at an empty chair her flung his arm out at it "Disappear!" orange spears shot from around his hand at the chair impaling it ripping it apart. "Humph mine seems to be working just fine. Maybe it's just the user hmm?"

Tails shook his head "No the amplifiers just can't gather enough energy for chaos control but it will allow you to use chaos spear and sonic wind. Now sonic and shadow I want you two to go after the emeralds and switches" he turned to look at knuckles and rouge "you two should go and check out the destroyed lab Rouge should be able to navigate the ruins and you can help her with any of the debris Knuckles."

They all walked out to the deck of the ship sonic and shadow led the way when all of a sudden the heard a high pitched voice call out. "Waaait!" Amy came running up to song stopping in front of him as he turned to face her. "For luck." She whispered before grabbing sonic by the sides of his head pulling him closer as his lips touched hers she held him like that kissing him as the others watched.

After she let him go sonic chuckled some he bit his lip and waved turning to run off towards the side of the boat hitting a spring landing on the island. He hit the ground running shadow behind him.

Shadow smirked "too embarrassed to say goodbye to your girlfriend? Hmm I wonder...in a dark room...do you think she could tell the two of us apart?" he started laughing as the blue hedgehog in front of him reached a hand back only the middle finger extended.

After they had left everyone on the boat started laughing Rouge put her arm around Amy "great move girl you had a real impact. I think I saw his quills stand on end."

Amy blushed some "I can't believe I just did that" she ran down to the lower level of the ship.

This caused another spout of laughter around the deck before rouge started to take off knuckles jumped into the air grabbing onto her feet "hi-ho bat-girl away!"

Rouge looked down as she flew over the island. "idiot." She sighed her wings flapping slowly. "So…how have you been?" it had been hard for her to talk to him ever since they broke up but the silence was even more awkward.

"I've been fine." He looked down at the forest below him. "It's been a bit of a struggle adjusting to normal life but I'm fine." He let go of her feet as his own touched land. Wow this place looks horrible." He looked up at the large crumbling building. "Hmm this is going to be interesting."