"Blaze, you stupid girl! With my latest invention, there is no way you can defeat me!" Eggman Nega laughed as he continued blasting a laser at the guardian of the Sol Emeralds.

"You can't escape me!" Blaze shouted back. She knew the odds were against her. Eggman Nega was always trying to steal the Sol Emeralds to help him take over the world. She had always won before, but this new machine was way too strong, and fast.

"Oh, I don't want to escape you, my dear child. I wish to destroy you!" Eggman Nega chuckled. He stopped firing his laser and began to charge a rainbow colored ray.

"Why won't you give up?" Blaze asked. She really wanted to know. Eggman Nega was very persistant.

"Because this is the beginning of the end for you, Blaze the Cat!" He replied as he fired the beam. Direct hit.

"I...I can't move!" Blaze was paralyzed.

"Goodbye, Blaze!" Eggman Nega shot a beam aimed right for her head.

"This is it...He's got me...I'm sorry..." Blaze whispered, although nobody could hear her.

"Chaoooooooos Blaaaaaaaaaast!"

Blaze looked up and saw Eggman and his large robot being blasted away by a force unlike anything she had ever seen.

"Are you okay?" Blaze looked up to see a hand offering to help her up. Blaze took the hand and stood up.

"I-I'm fine, thank you." Blaze said to the helpful person. He was a hedgehog, with dark black fur with a smaller patch of white fur on his chest. Red highlights ran down his legs, arms and head.

"I am Shadow." Shadow introduced himself.

"I'm Blaze. Blaze the Cat." Blaze shook his hand. "Thank you for saving me."

"I was protecting the Chaos Emeralds." Shadow insisted. Blaze frowned.

"Chaos Emeralds?" She asked.

"Yes." He responded.

"Do you, by any chance know Sonic? He's blue, looks a little like you?" Blaze asked. She hated asking that question. When she had first met Sonic, she hated how everybody she met asked her if she knew Sonic. But she wanted to find out if the Chaos Emeralds that Shadow spoke of were one and the same.

"I do." He said. "How do you know him?"

"It's a long story." She replied as she walked back to the Sol Emeralds. They were each on a stone pillar, arranged in a circle with a small stone area in the center. Sevel stairs led up to the center. Blaze sat on the stairs and motioned for Shadow to sit, and he did.

"So, you're not from around here then?" Blaze asked, even though she knew the answer.

"I am not. I don't even know how I got here." Shadow admitted. "But if Eggman is here, then it's good that I am around. I can't let him collect the Chaos Emeralds."

"That's not the Eggan that you and Sonic know. His name is Eggman Nega. He is my world's local insane genius, you could say." Blaze informed him.

"You know a lot about these things don't you?" Shadow asked, pointing up to one of the Sol Emeralds.

"Yes. I am their guardian." She said in a calm, low voice.

"Huh." Shadow didn't seem impressed.

"So, you have no idea how you got here?" Blaze asked once again.

"I am able to control the energy from the Chaos Emeralds. A friend asked me to investigate a Chaos Emerald. When I held it, I felt another power tugging on it, and later pushing it away. This power seemed similare to that of a Chaos Emerald, so I tried to control the power. Unfortunantly, I beleive I was actually tapping into the power of one of these...er..." Shadow stalled.

"Sol emeralds." Blaze told him.,

"Yes. I used a Sol Emerald to teleport here. I feel as if the Chaos Emeralds and Sol Emeralds..." Shadow was cut off.

"Work like magnets!" Blaze finished in an excited voice.

'Yes!" Shadow smiled, happy to meet somebody besides Sonic who understood the unimaginable power that the emeralds held. "I tried to warp back, but there was no Chaos Emerald nearby in my world for me to do so with."

"I understand, but this should not have been possible at all! Our world should never meet!" Blaze was stressed.

"Then why are our worlds' emeralds able to interact like this?" Shadow asked.

"I'm not sure." Blaze told him.

In front of the alter of the Sol Emeralds, Sonic and Tails materialized in front of Shadow and Blaze.

"Hey, Blaze! Hey, Faker!" Sonic said.

"Faker?" Blazed asked.

"I figured you'd show up soon." Shadow said in a low, disgusted voice.

"Sonic! I thought I'd never see you again!" Blaze was happy to see the boy who helped her learn to trust again. "And, Tails, was it? It's nice to see you too."

"Hi, Blaze!" Tails waved. He then walked to the stop of the alter so everybody could hear what he had to say.

"I hate to inform you of the bad news, but we have to get everything striaghtened out, and we need to do it fast!" Tails was frantic.

"He's right." Sonic added. "This world already has the equivalent of nine chaos emeralds, and the worlds are overlapping fast. Soon, it will be the same as if there were fourteen emeralds, and both worlds will be destroyed!"

"Stupid Faker! Why didn't you leave a chaos emerald in the area you warped here from?" Shadow screamed at Sonic.

"I didn't have one on me, and I wanted to get over here. But Rouge is collecting the other five as we speak." Sonic assured him.

"We need a plan." Blaze reminded the group. "Eggman Nega already has one of the chaos emeralds, and Shadow has one. We need to get that emerald back from him."

"He'll probably come back here to try and steal the Sol Emeralds again. Maybe we should just stay here." Shadow suggested.

"But at the rate the words ar fusing, he could be out right now and taking Chaos Emeralds!" Tails realised.

"Then we need to hope Rouge collect the emeralds before Eggman Nega can." Sonic pointed out.

"But what if Eggman Nega just kidnaps Rouge after she has them all?" Shadow said, trying to make Sonic sound stupid in front of Blaze.

"We need to contact this Rouge person and warn her about Eggman Nega. I have no doubt he'll use her to collect the Chaos Emeralds." Blaze was getting worried. She knew more about the emeralds than anybody she knew. Shadow was the only one capable of using their power, but Blaze had knowledge.

"And how do you suggest we do that?" Asked Sonic. Blaze turned to Shadow.

"Shadow, you can use the Chaos Emeralds, right?" Blaze asked. Shadow nodded. "Do you think you can use the Sol Emeralds to send a telepathic message to Rouge?"

"I don't think so. Chaos is just that. Chaos. Energy. I can't communicate using it." Shadow hung his head. He felt useless in front of Sonic and he hated it.

"How will we know when Rouge has found the Chaos Emeralds?" Tails asked.

"I will be able to feel them." Shadow told the young fox.

"Then in that case, we wait." Blaze sat down and folded her hands in her lap.