Hey everyone, sorry I didn't update for a few days.. I've been pretty busy this week. And seeing it's the end of the school year, I will most likely be busy, so don't except daily updates like usual. At least not for a while.

"Sonic,"

"Sonic..."

"SONIC!"

Matt awoke to the sound of his 'code name' being called. He opened his eyes, and realized that he was in a cell. He looked around and saw all of his friends were in cells, Nick being in a cage hanging from the high ceiling.

"What happened?" He asked his four friends while rubbing his head.

"They knocked us out, and locked us up!" Nick yelled.

"And the worse is yet to come!" Josh said to him.

"What is it?" Matt asked.

"It's almost 6:00 a.m!" Ashley yelled. "Were supposed to be getting ready for school soon! Our parents might realize were gone!"

"Damn, how are we gonna get out of here!" Matt asked.

"Well, I was gonna just break these bars, and break you guys out," Josh started. "but, these bars have sensors on them. If we escape, then they will set alarms off."

"Hehe, then were just gonna have to go underground," Matt smirked.

"What are you talking about?" Emily asked.

"Well, these alarms will sound if we break the bars, correct" Matt asked them.

"Right..." They all answered.

"Well, if Knuckles can burrow his way underground, then he can escape without setting the alarms off, then he can push the button on that wall over there that opens the cell doors up," Matt explained to them.

"Well, how am I supposed to just dig under ground? What makes you think I can do that?" Josh asked him.

"Just try, trust me," Matt told him.

"(Sigh) Alright, here goes nothing," Josh said. He put his massive hands to the floor, and started shoveling his way through. "You guys, I'm doing it!"

"Good now keep it up, and try to go a little bit faster," Ashley told him. Within minutes, Josh had managed to dig his way out from under the cell, and into the middle of the floor.

"Good work, now go and push that button!" Emily told him.

"Alright," Josh said, walking over to the button. He pushed it, and all the cell bars opened up, and The cage that Nick was in fell from the ceiling, causing a huge bang.

"Oh crap!" Nick yelled as he hit the ground. Just then alarms sounded. About 7 soldiers entered the room, following the commander.

"So, I see you little pests have escaped. No matter, we shall give you 5 seconds to get back into those cells, before we start shooting," the commander told them, smirking. The soldiers lifted their guns. Getting ready to shoot.

"Hehe, you think we are afraid of you! Don't make me laugh," Matt said, also smirking.

"We'll see whose scared. Alright men, FIRE!" The commander screamed. Gunshots flew everywhere around the room. The five friends started running around, trying to dodge the bullets, then all of a sudden, there was a bright flash that filled the room, the five friends were lifted into the air, then were gone within a second.

"What was...that?" A soldier asked.

"I'm...not sure," the commander said. "You may have gotten away this time, but next time you won't be so lucky, Freedom fighters." And with that he stormed out of the room, leaving the soldiers there, puzzled.

"Wha... where are we?" Matt asked, looking up and rubbing his head.

"Were, in the spot we were in earlier, look, there's the police station," Ashley said, pointing across the street.

"But, how did we get here? They started shooting at us, then we somehow just magically appeared here," Josh said confused.

"We can't spend to much time thinking about it, it's already 6:15! We gotta get back to our houses before our parents see were not there!" Emily exclaimed. The five started running off in different directions. Matt turned back to look at the spot the appeared in. He could have sworn he saw something jump down from the tree, but the morning sun was hurting his eyes, so he just continued running.

"Why did we save them? I thought they were the enemy," A robotic voice asked.

"Yeah me to, why did you save them?" A females voice asked. The figure they were talking to just stood there, searching the ground around him.

"My emerald! I must have dropped it after saving them. It could be anywhere!" The person finally spoke.

"Forget about that, why did we save them? We went there to see what would happen to them, not rescue them!" The female spoke again, her voice rasing.

"Clam down, think about it. If we had just let them die, then who would lead us to the information about these rings?" The creature spoke again.

"Good point," the robot answered.

"But, how do we know when they are gonna be going to the lab to find the info out?" The female asked.

"We'll just have to follow our old bud Matt after school today," the male answered, the three started laughing together, and started walking towards the direction of the school.

There's chapter 10! Sorry for such a shortage of updates, like I said, I have been really busy. I will try to update as soon as I can, but it might not be for a few days because of all the end of the year chaos. You guys know how it is. Anyway...REVIEW!