The train arrived in Central city at 9 o' clock, after making stops at Station Square and Radical City. Sonic, Rouge and Tails stepped off of the train, and watched as it traveled on to it's next destination in Westopolis.
"Come on, boys. Night Babylon is right down this road." Rouge pointed to a dark road next to a pink building.
"Damn! That's Amy's house! And the lights are on!" Sonic didn't want to risk Amy seeing him. He didn't want her tagging along. She'd widn up getting kidnapped by whomever and he'd have to go save her. She was safer just sitting at home.
"Isn't there another way in?" Sonic asked Rouge.
"Well, if you take Battle Highway over to Mission Street and head down Radical Highway and take a left after you pass Iron Ruin Zone, then yes." Rouge smiled. Although truthfully, she didn't care much for Amy and didn't want her along either.
"Maybe she won't see us." Tails sugegsted.
"She will." Sonic and Rouge said in unison. Rouge sighed.
"Fine. I suppose we can cut though the government library." Rouge walked over to a large building across the street from Amy's apartment. Tails rushed ahead and held the door open for Rouge.
"Thanks, cutie." Rouge walked through.
"Now you're getting the hang of it." Sonic complimented as he and Tails entered. The building was full of men and women in buisness attire talking in very serious voices.
"I feel so out of place." Tails whispered to Sonic.
"Me too." Sonic agreed.
"Where do you two think you're going?" A fat security guard grabbed Sonic and Tails' wrists. Rouge turned to face them.
"They're with me, Charlie." Rouge told the man. The man smiled.
"Anything for you, Rouge." He replied.
"Hey, Rouge."
"Are we still on for coffee tomorrow?"
"How's the club doing?"
"Let me know how it's going with Knuckles later." Everbody in the building seemed to like Rouge a lot.
"You seem pretty popular around here." Sonic commented. Rouge smiled, she loved the attention. Sonic and Tails continued walking behind the ever talkative Rouge until they reached a door that outside to Night Babylon, And luckily they were right in front of Gimme Shelter.
"Here we are." Rouge said.
"Typical Eggman..." Tails commented.
"Yeah. Why does Robuttnick feel the need to make all of his things resemble his ugly mug?" Sonic asked. Rouge and Tails laughed.
"How do we get inside anyway?" Sonic asked. Tails took out a small handheld computer.
"I can hack..." he was cut off my the loud sound of Rouge kicking the keypad near the door, causing the door to open.
"After you." Rouge waited for Sonic to walk inside.
"Aren't you going too?" Rouge asked Tails.
"Oh...Umm...Yeah, I guess..." Tails entered, Rouge fallowed.
"Yo! Robitchnick!" Sonic yelled. No responce. The lab smelled of metal and wood, and had no windows. The only ligth was provided by a few dim lights that hung from the ceiling. It wasn't very big, but room enough to fight in.
"I don't think he's here." Tails pointed out the obvious.
"Looks like he hasn't been here in awhile. I am certain this isn't his main base." Rouge walked further into the dim room.
"We need more light." Sonic said to nobody in particular.
"An agent is always prepared." Rouge whipped out a small flashlight that had the G.U.N. logo on it. It was a small light, but it really illuminated the place. The group walked further and approached the large computer at the end of the room.
"I don't get it." Tails was confused. "There were supposed to be some chaos energy generators of some sort right here. Arranged in a circle."
"Well I don't see anything." Sonic pointed out.
"Thank you, Captain Obvious." Rouge teased. "Oh!"
"What is it, Rouge?' Sonic asked. Rouge's emerald she had found in Windy Valley was going balistic.
"What's happening?" Tails asked. The emerald swelled a bit, and then dissappeared.
"Where did it go?" Rouge asked.
"I don't know, but this is getting way out of hand!" Sonic was obvously pissed. "Tails can you use Eggman's computer here to get another emerald reading?"
"I can try." Tails booted up Eggman's computer. It was a very lareg mainframe computer with a screen that took up an entire wall. He typed in a few things, and a very large map came up.
"According to this map, I am standing right in the middle of the ring of chaos energy generators, whatever they are, and the emerald that just dissappeared in right where Rouge is standing." Tails explained.
"Argh! This makes no scense!" Rouge screamed.
"Can you zoom in, Tails? Get a better view of these things so we can try to figure out exactly what they are?" Sonic asked. Tails sighed and did as he was told.
"Sonic! Look at the shape of them!" Tails shouted. Sonic stepped forward.
"Those look like the...Sol Emeralds!" Sonic shouted.
"The what?" Rouge was confused.
"The Sol Emeralds." Tails explained. He turned to Rouge. "The Sol Emeralds are another world, in another dimension's equivalent of our Chaos Emeralds. Eggman explained this once...He said tehy have the power to attract or repel each other."
"Like a magnet!" Sonic said.
"Yes! Exactly like a magnet!" Tails replied. "But when they get to close, they can destory their respective worlds."
"More emeralds for me to seek!" Rouge was excited. "The master emerald can wait, I want a set!" Tails ignored her and continued his explaination. He began talking fast, proud of the fact that he figured out what was going on.
"This explains why Shadow dissapeared! Shadow felt the energy coming from a Sol emerald and tapped into it, and unknowingly used Chaos Control with a Sol Emerald's power! It teleported him to another demension!"
"Good job, Tails!" Sonic high fived his friend.
"Hold up!" Rouge shouted. "This makes no scense. Shadow warped when he was at my place, and the Sol Emeralds are supposedly here. Are you saying Shadow is powerful enough to use power in a different demension and down the block?" Rouge asked. Tails cleared his throught.
"It moved." He said.
"What?" Rouge and Sonic asked at the same time.
"It moved. It's really hard to explain. These different dimensions exist o different planes of reality, and they normally never touch. The emeralds, both Chaos and Sol should be in perfect harmony, keeping the two world near, but never close enough to interact. There is always a space between, a void in existance, if you will. For some reason, this void is gone, and the two words are close enough to interact. In fact, they are so close, that they are overlapping. That means, that if Rouge were in this other world, she would be standing right on top of the Chaos Emerald."
"This is no good." Sonic pointed out. "That means this other world has nine emeralds total as of now. The seven sol emeralds, and two of our chaos emeralds!"
"Exaclty! We need to get our emeralds back!" Tails shouted.
"Wait! That means Shadow must be with Blaze!" Sonic shouted!
"Who the hell is Blaze?" Rouge asked.
"She is the guardian of the Sol Emeralds." Sonic explained.
"I wonder how they're getting along." Tails mused.
"How do you know that Shadow and this Blaze person even met up?" Rouge asked.
"Becasue Blaze stays near the Emeralds, and Shadow used the Emeralds to warp." Tails told her.
"All right. Tails, hold my hand. I'm going to try to use the Sol Emeralds to Chaos Control...er, Sol Control into Blaze's world. We'll grab the Emeralds, find Shadow, and warp back here, and everything should be back to normal, right?" Sonic said.
"Right!" Tails confirmed.
"Wait!" Rouge shouted. "What about me?"
"We need you to stay here." Sonic told her.
"We need you to collect the remaing five chaos emeralds, so that whenwe bring back the other two, Shadow can push use the Chaos Emeralds' power from our world, and Blaze can push using the Sol Emeralds' power from her world to push the two worlds apart, so the worlds don't become too unbalanced and get destroyed." Tails told her.
"And nobody is better at finding jewels than you Rouge." Sonic added. Rouge smiled.
"I never fail my mission." She agreed. Tails grabbed Sonic's hand.
"Let's go, Tails!" Sonic yelled. "CHAOS CONTROOOOOOOOOOL!". In a flash of color, They were gone, leaving Rouge alone in Gimme Shelter.
"Good luck, boys...Bring Shadow back..."