Chapter Five

The three walked out of the portal and suddenly had guns pointing at them as the portal closed.

"Don't move!" A Mobian cat asked as he pointed his fire wisp gun at the three.

"No wait...Sonic is that you?" A Mobian bunny asked as she lowered her wisp weapon.

"Er yeah I'm Sonic, this is Shadow and Silver. We like come in peace and all that jazz." Sonic nervously said as he held up his arms.

"All that jazz, seriously?" Shadow whispered as he lent his head slightly towards Sonic.

"Oh my chaos...guys, hey guys Sonic is alive, Shadow is back and Silver is free!" The bunny called out as she turned around.

"This is some kind of military base and I'm betting there is a war going on." Shadow muttered with a frown as all weapons were lowered.

"Yeah no wait, I'm dead in this dimension?" Sonic said with shock in his features as they were motioned to follow this bunny.

"So I was imprisoned." Silver muttered as he walked down hallways with Sonic and Shadow, following this brown bunny.

"I would love to know where I disappeared to and what I am currently doing." Shadow muttered with a deep frown.

They were soon led into a command centre of some kind then the bunny cleared her throat. All in there stopped what they were doing and looked at who entered.

"Sonic!" Amy cried out then ran over to him and hugged him tightly.

"We all thought you were dead, I am so happy to see you are ok my love." Amy cried out as she tightened her one sided embrace.

Shadow narrowed his eyes and emitted a low growl as he was forced to witness his boyfriend being bear hugged by a version of Amy.

"You escaped Infinites illusion prison Silver or did Shadow come to your rescue?" Knuckles teased as he walked over with a grin then grabbed Silver into a hug.

Amy eventually loosened her grip on Sonic then kissed him on the lips. Sonic tensed up with horror and pushed her away. Shadow was now growling aggressively and walked right over to Amy with fire in his eyes.

"Don't babe, other dimensional world remember!" Sonic quickly said then grabbed Shadow and held him back from ripping Amy apart.

"I do not care, no one kisses you but me!" Shadow shouted out with rage.

Knuckles let go of Silver and looked at Sonic struggling to hold back Shadow and a very scared looking Amy.

"Well since those two are occupied that leaves me to explain everything." Silver said as he placed a hand on Knuckles' shoulder.

Ten minutes later Shadow was now somewhat calm and Silver explained all. Of course Sonic was on guard in case Shadow charged at Amy again and positioned himself slightly in front of Shadow for quick actions.

"Right so our Sonic is still presumed dead, our Shadow is still out there somewhere and our Silver is still trapped within an illusion." Knuckles recapped with a deep frown and crossed arms while looking at the three zone hoppers.

"Commander Knuckles we...what, they are all back and unharmed?" Vector said with shock as he, Espio and Charmy entered the command centre.

"No they are from a differen dimension from ours." Knuckles said with an irritated tone.

"Right." Vector said slowly and looking a little confused.

"Knuckles I'm back and...Shadow, you are ok." Rouge announced as she entered then went wide eyed as her eyes locked onto Shadow.

Things were once again explained and now all were caught up.

"I am not going through all that again so I hope this is everyone." Silver seriously said as he didn't want to explain again.

"So Shadow is glaring at Amy in hate because she kissed Sonic." Rouge grinned with amusement.

"She will die a painful death if she comes close to my boyfriend again." Shadow growled aggressively while narrowing his eyes dangerously at Amy who was keeping a good distance away.

"Love I really do not think she is that stupid so relax ok." Sonic said as he looked at Shadow with a calm expression and feeling very flattered his boyfriend was being all protective of him, even if it was over something that wasn't dangerous or life threatening.

"So what's the low down here then?" Sonic asked with a grin at Knuckles.

"Some guy called Infinite and Dr Eggman have taken over the world and captured our version of you Sonic. You have been missing for months now with no trace you are even alive. Silver went out to search but he is now at the mercy of Infinite, trapped within an illusion. We only know that because it was announced to us by Infinite himself then Shadow left not long after. That was two weeks ago and we haven't heard anything from Shadow since." Knuckles explain the important parts of what was going on.

"Where's Tails?" Sonic asked as the fox wasn't here like he assumed he would be.

The room went deadly silent and all looked sad now.

"Tails was killed a week after our version of you was taken. He went off to find out answers, bumped into Chaos and never made it out of the encounter alive. It was our Silver that found his mangled corpse." Knuckles sadly said with a look of sorrow.

"In a strange twisted way we hope you are gone for if you are alive and you find out this then the would will be gone. It won't be at the mercy of Eggman and Infinite but at your mercy instead." Rouge sadly said with small tears in the corner of her eyes.

"I-I don't want to be here anymore." Sonic whispered with tears in his eyes that were seconds away from falling.

"It will be alright my love, our Tails is safe and back home." Shadow softly said with a sincere smile then brought Sonic into a much needed hug.

Sonic latched on tightly and buried his face into Shadows neck and sobbed. Shadow repeatedly stroked through Sonics quills in a comforting manner.

"So I take it your Sonic and Tails are just as close." Knuckles asked as he looked at Silver.

"Yeah they class themselves as brothers." Silver answered with a sad look at hearing Tails was dead.

"Can we just leave please." Sonic whispered as he looked up at Shadow with tear stained cheeks and glossy eyes.

"Sure." Shadow faintly smiled then the hug was broken.

The two got their chaos emeralds out and Silver came closer.

"Chaos control!" Both Sonic and Shadow called after crossing the emeralds then a portal appeared.

"Bye all and good luck." Silver said then entered the portal.

"Bye and sorry for your losses." Sonic sadly said with more tears falling down.

"Yes goodbye and kick the Drs ass to hell." Shadow seriously said then took Sonics hand and led the way inside the portal.

The portal closed shut and leaving a bunch of stunned resistance behind.

Meanwhile...

"I still cannot get over you are a girl in that dimensional zone." Zhadow said with amusement as he and Zonic walked down a metal corridor together.

"Oh shut up Zhadow, I bet there is an alternate dimension where you are a girl." Zonic muttered as he was sick and tired of the teasing.

They suddenly stopped as a cry of a young infant hit their ears then after exchanging looks they followed the noise. They stopped walking when they reached a room and were both in shock at what their eyes were showing them.

"Is that me being cradled in that alien leaders arms from that other dimension?" Zhadow said with shock.

"Aw Zhadow you're a cute little baby." Zonic teased as he turned his head to look at an open mouthed Zhadow.