Chapter Seven

They quickly ran out of the portal and it closed after they left it.

"That was a close one." Sonic said as he stopped running and faced his partner and friend.

"No, you think?" Shadow sarcastically said with a roll of his eyes and was not happy with his boyfriend.

"Say guys where are we?" Silver asked as he looked around with a small puzzled frown.

This made both Sonic and Shadow look around.

"I have no idea Silver but where ever we ended up looks nice." Sonic said as he slowly spun around on the spot to check out all around.

"A prehistoric jungle." Shadow said as he looked down at the ground.

"What makes you say that?" Sonic asked as now he and Silver were looking at Shadow.

"I would say that would be very strong evidence." Shadow very calmly said as he pointed to what the three of them were standing in.

"Oh hell no, is that a giant foot print!" Sonic cried out in horror.

"That's right Faker, give our position away to all those maneating reptiles." Shadow groaned with a roll of his eyes.

"But we are hedgehogs so they wont want to eat us so all is good, right?" Sonic said with a little fear while looking at Shadow.

"Meat is meat Sonic and to them we are meat." Shadow dryly said with a deep frown back at Sonic.

"So the land of the dinosaur that grow so big they leave a four meter long footprint." Silver said with some fear as he stared at the large footprint on the ground.

"Maybe we should..." Sonic began to say but stopped as a loud roar was heard.

"That sounded very close by." Silver said with more fear.

"I don't wanna be dinosaur food." Sonic whined as he moved a little closer to Shadow, Silver doing the same.

"Chaos control us out of here." Silver said as now the ground began to shake with every footstep from whatever roared out a moment ago.

"One problem with that, I don't know this damn area so how can..." Shadow said with frustration but soon stopped as trees to the side of them began to move.

"Screw this!" Sonic shouted out, grabbed both Shadows and Silvers wrist then ran like hell.

"Here we go again." Silver said as he struggled to even run along, having to skip quite a few steps resulting in him flying in the air for four seconds each time.

"Sonic do you even know where you are going!?" Shadow called out as he did his best to run while being dragged.

"Yeah as far away from whatever that thing is as possible!" Sonic called back as he kept his eyes forward and making sure not to crash into anything.

Meanwhile...

"So let me get this straight, you both are hopping zones to catch up with Sonic, Shadow and Silver who are zone hopping illegally?" Knuckles asked with a disbelieving raised brow at the two tied up zone cops.

"Yes now let us go before we end up further behind." Zonic groaned as he and Zhadow were tied to a chair each by the resistance.

"I don't know they look a lot like spies to me." Charmy said as he flew right up in Zonics face with a suspicious gaze.

"Will you get out of my face and we are not spies, we are zone cops!" Zonic shouted out in frustration.

"My hot tempered colleague is correct we are cops from No Zone and trying to catch up with our counterparts and their friend. We can show you our badges but you will have to untie us first." Zhadow calmly said as he looked at all standing, or in Charmy's case hovering, in front of him and Zonic.

"And why do we have to untie you both first?" Knuckles asked with suspicious narrowed eyes at Zhadow.

"Because there is rope around where our badges are kept." Zhadow simply said with a smirk.

"I see...ok but no funny business or I'll have Vector shoot you both." Knuckles seriously said with a warning look.

After both Zonic and Zhadow were untied the two zone cops slowly got their badges out and passed them to Knuckles.

"They seem legit, can't see anything wrong with them." Knuckles said as he looked at the two identification badges, holding one in each hand.

"You have no idea what you are looking for do you?" Zhadow smirked as he crossed his arms and looked at Knuckles.

"They are electronic and if you press our picture then it will tell you who we are and our rank." Zonic said with amusement in his voice.

"It's a new feature they introduced." Zhadow casually said with a shrug.

Knuckles frowned then used a finger tip to press Zonics picture first.

"Zone cop number 00517 Zonic, level five rank." A female voice said then went silent.

Knuckles pressed Zhadows picture next.

"Zone cop number 00518 Zhadow, level five rank." The same female voice was heard then went silent.

"Wait when did you get clearance level five?" Zonic asked with some surprise.

"A week ago after that big take down of illegal trafficking. I led a team of five and we took the entire organisation down within an hour of being sent out." Zhadow casually said with a slight shrug like it was no big deal.

"Yeah I heard about that, well I guess this now makes us equal rank." Zonic said back with a grin.

"Ok you both check out and free to leave." Knuckles said as he gave back the badges.

Meanwhile...

"Oh man that was a total close one." Sonic said with relief as they stood inside a cave he led them in, well dragged Shadow and Silver in with him.

"Yeah, how about we leave now." Silver said as he looked at Sonic and Shadow, only just managing to see them in the dimly lit cave.

"I agree with..." Shadow began to say but Sonic spoke semi loudly over him.

"Let's explore this cave, see you both went you catch up!" Sonic then dashed off further into the cave.

"I swear went we finally get home he is on time out." Shadow lowly growled as he glared in the direction Sonic ran off in.

"We better go after him before he causes more trouble. Also we need him to get out of the past." Silver sighed with a shake of his head, deeply hoping there wasn't going to be any more dangerous happenings.

"I thought you could chaos control through different dimensions too?" Shadow asked as he striked up a conversation.

"I can sort of but I lack the experience and it doesnt always work." Silver nervously said with a smile.

They didn't get all that far in their walkings before Sonic came running back.

"Get out of here fast!" Sonic shouted out in a panic as he approached, ran passed and heading towards the caves entrance.

"Oh what has he done this...Silver run!" Shadow groaned then when he saw light from torches and angry looking primitive beings rushing towards them he turned and began to run after telling Silver to run.

Both quickly ran out of the cave and stopped in front of Sonic.

"Time to go." Sonic said with some nervousness to his voice, holding a chaos emerald in one hand and something behind his back.

"What did you do?" Shadow seriously asked as he got his emerald out fast.

"And what are you hiding behind your back?" Silver questioned with a suspicious look at Sonic.

"A erm, a little keep sake from here." Sonic chuckled nervously as he spoke and revealed a small red rock like gem.

"Quick they are coming, just throw it back to them before we end up as their dinner." Silver said in a panic as now they can hear the beings getting very close to exiting the cave.

"Awe but it looks so cool." Sonic whined with a sad look.

"Give it back to them now Faker!" Shadow shouted with some anger and a lot of frustration in his voice, giving Sonic a very firm and dangerous look.

"You are so damn sexy when you get like this. Ok fine." Sonic grinned with a suggestive wink and threw the stone gem towards the entrance of the cave then held out the emerald.

Shadow did the same and both called out chaos control after crossing the emeralds. A portal appeared just in time and all three rushed inside as the people came rushing out with angry cries. The portal closed and made the people gasped out in fear and backed up. One found the stone gem, made grunted communication noises then all returned inside the cave.