Chapter Eight
A portal opened up and a few seconds after three hedgehogs rushed out of it with it closing soon after.
"Right where are we this time?" Silver said as they looked around.
"Don't care so long as we don't have to make some kind of emergency portal making where every damn second counts." Shadow grumbled as he now wanted this little adventure to end.
"Yeah I know right, we go to like some future and a volcano erupted, we go to like the distant past and get chased by dinosaurs and cave people who want to eat us." Sonic said with a cheerful tone and grinning while looking around.
"Yeah and who's fault is that?" Shadow muttering as he too looked around.
"Now the best thing here is not to point fingers babe, it could have happened to anyone." Sonic innocently said to his boyfriends frustrated attitude.
"Ok judging by this beach alone I say we don't really have anything to worry about. It's calm with no destruction of any kind, the sun is out shining down warmth and no signs of anything wanting to eat or melt us." Silver happily said with relief in his expressions as so far this place has been the calmest in his opinion.
"Sonic!" A voice called out that sounded just like Amy but a little different.
The three zone hoppers turned in the direction the voice was and all raised their brows at watching a version of Amy, Tails and Knuckles running up to them, who was also accompanied by someone they have never seen before.
"O-k, we so need to tell Knuckles to lay off the steroids." Sonic whispered as he forced a smile at the four, who were now steps away from them.
"And what is Shadow doing here with you?" Tails asked with a small frown, the four of them now standing with the zone hoppers.
"And who is your new friend?" Sticks asked with a suspicious glare at Silver.
"Guys trouble, Shadow's...what the hell is going on here?" Boom Sonic called out then after stopping and seeing the three hedgehogs from a different dimension he raised a questionable brow at them.
"Whoa two Sonics?" Knuckles blurted out with an open mouthed expression, after looking from one to another.
"Sonic I had no idea you had a twin or Shadow for that matter." Knuckles said next as his shock quickly got lost in his stupidness.
"Yeah, clearly they are from a different dimension. Anyway Shadow is on his way right now and not for a friendly chat, we need to split like now and stop him. Why don't you three come join us and see how us heroes do business." Boom Sonic said with a cocky grin at Shadow, Sonic and Silver.
"Right let's go kick Shadows butt back to his little hiding place before he decides to hit the village instead...erm no offence there other world Shadow." Amy said with a slight nervous smile at Shadow.
"Oh how possible could I ever find that offensive?" Shadow sarcastically said with a roll of his eyes.
"That's the spirit." Knuckles cheerfully said making Shadow sigh with a shake of his head.
"Knuckles did someone drop you on your head when you were young or are steroids doing something to your brain?" Sonic grinned as he looked at Knuckles.
"Sonic, I am calling you out!" Boom Shadow called as he walked over with rage in his eyes.
"Wow Shads this version of you looks damn right pissed about something." Sonic said as he, and everyone else, looked at boom Shadow approach then stop a few meters away from them.
"Who is this impostor?" Boom Shadow aggressively said as he pointed an accusing finger at Shadow.
"I have to say this Shadow is a little taller, I don't like the messy quill look but I am liking his clothes design. Babe you so have to get some of those." Sonic said as he examined boom Shadow with a grin.
"I am not changing anything but I will not stand here and be accused of being a fake copy, regardless who is saying that accusation." Shadow growled with angered eyes at boom Shadow.
"Oh boy, Silver we need to take quite a few steps back." Sonic anxiously said as Shadow began to glow red.
"I say we run to the other side of this beach." Silver nervously said as he and Sonic were backing up.
"If you value your life run!" Sonic called out before he and Silver ran to a safe distance.
"I say we do the same, that Shadow looks like he is charging up some kind of bomb." Tails said then with agreements they ran over to Sonic and Silver.
"Chaos blast!" Shadow called out then released his attack, hitting boom Shadow and making him fly backwards.
When the blast was clear boom Shadow got back up onto his feet and teleported, appearing behind Shadow. Shadow of course was an expert in chaos control and turned around with a hand clenched into a fist. He thrust his fist towards boom Shadow and punched him in the stomach hard, making boom Shadow grunt and bend forward a little while holding his stomach after Shadow retracted his fist.
"If anyone's the impostor it is you fake hedgehog!" Shadow shouted out then punched boom Shadow again, making him fall backwards and sit on the floor.
"Impossible, how are you so strong, you are but a mere copy!?" Boom Shadow shouted out in frustration as he slowly got back up with slight shaky movements.
"I am not a damn fake!" Shadow shouted with anger and frustration.
"And that is my queue to go over there and stop my totally badass boyfriend from ripping your version of Shadow to pieces." Sonic announced with some amusement then dashed over.
"He won't actually do that, right?" Amy asked Silver with some concern.
"Probably, when Shadow is this pissed only Sonic seems to have success in calming him down." Silver casually answered with a shrug of indifference.
"Ok Shadow, time to cool off." Sonic semi serious said as he grabbed Shadows hand and began to pull him away from boom Shadow.
"No, he will perish by my hands for daring to call me a weak copy!" Shadow shouted with aggression while he was firmly pulled away.
"Shadow, babe, if you do not calm down and stop threatening a version of yourself then so help me I will not only ban sex but totally give you the silent treatment for three whole days and take your pie away for a month." Sonic semi firmly said as he stopped dragging Shadow when they were a good few meters away from boom Shadow.
Shadow just grumbled under his breath and turned his head to look out at the sea. Sonic grinned in triumph and let go of Shadows hand, feeling confident Shadow wasn't going to make a mad killer dash at boom Shadow. The others soon returned from their safe distance and stood near boom Shadow, who was still looking a little shocked by his encounter with Shadow.
"Your counterpart from a different dimension Shadow. Anyway why so grouchy?" Boom Sonic casually said as he stood beside boom Shadow and looking at him.
"Right, that explains his power for no fake copy could ever have such strength and power on that level. I'm pissed because you think it is so funny pranking me by spray painting my front door." Boom Shadow growled at boom Sonic and was now facing him with anger in his red eyes.
"Which is why you shouldn't have a front door Shadow but I never did that, Knuckles did." Boom Sonic grinned as he did have a part to play in that prank.
"Ok Shads is all calm now!" Sonic called out just in time to distract boom Shadow from attacking Knuckles.
Sonic once again dragged Shadow with him to the group and both stopped in front of them holding hands.
"You dare call me a weak copy again then not even Sonic will be able to hold me back from ripping you apart." Shadow growled with some aggression while narrowing his eyes at boom Shadow.
"Babe what did I just tell you, no threatening your dimension version of ya." Sonic sighed with a shake of his head.
"You do not like copies of yourself either, seems we have something in common and I apologies for my accusation against you." Boom Shadow said with a small frown to Shadow.
"Oh good everything is once again all calm." Silver said with a smile, glad things were no longer all heated and dangerous.
"I say those three are government spies here to confuse us and take us out." Sticks said with more suspicion at the zone hoppers.
"Don't mind Sticks, she says this kind of thing all the time to anyone she thinks is suspicious." Amy said with a smile.
"Which is pretty much anyone who looks at her funny." Boom Sonic said with a casual shrug.
"Uh-huh sure but we are not government spies, just to clear that up." Sonic grinned as he looked at his counterpart.
Meanwhile...
"Ok and why is there like sparking smoke covering the skies and a burning smell in the air?" Zhadow questioned as he and Zonic walked out of their portal and looked up.
"I would say that maybe a...run!" Zonic began to say as he looked back to in front of them then widened his eyes in horror as a river of lava was coming straight at them at a semi fast pace.
"Why do we...damn lava looks so cool." Zhadow began to ask as he stopped looking up then saw why they needed to run.
"Time to leave!" Zonic said while he grabbed Zhadows hand then dragged Zhadow back into the portal to go to the next zone the illegal hoppers went to.
The portal vanished seconds after they entered and the lava flowed passed where the portal once was. Zonic and Zhadow left the portal once more and this time they were in the middle of some jungle. The portal closed after a minute and the two decided to take a wonder around.
Meanwhile...
"What I would like to know is why isn't there a catastrophic danger of our world falling apart like before." Tails said with a puzzling frown.
"Because we are not from this universe's dimension line and from a different one. There are many different universes that come with their own dimensional line travel. We somehow ended up in your universe and in this universe's dimensional version of it." Shadow explained as he and Tails looked at one another.
"How is it that you know all of this?" Sonic asked with a look of confusion as he got lost in what Shadow was saying.
"This is not my first dimensional travel my love and I figured it out back then. I travelled to three different versions of this universe, never here though." Shadow smirked back at Sonic with amusement in his eyes.
"And when did this all happened?" Silver asked as he looked at Shadow.
"Remember when I was gone for a month, then. I got the time wrong coming back to Mobius and ended up returning a month later. And before you ask how did you dimension hop with only yourself, I'm an expert when it comes to chaos control and don't need a second person to do portals to other worlds." Shadow smugly said with his smirk in place.
"Yeah such an expert you got the time wrong when coming home and made me worried sick that something bad happened to you." Sonic said with unhappy features, he still annoyed about that month four months ago.
"I told you I was sorry, what more do you want, besides that was four months ago." Shadow sighed as he could tell Sonic was still pissed about that.
Meanwhile...
"Run faster, they are going to catch us and eat us!" Zonic called out as he and Zhadow tried to navigate through the jungle as fast as it would allow them as a hungry pack of dinosaurs were chasing them.
"A little hard to do in this jungle Zonic, that portal ended up in the middle of this chaos forsaken jungle and not in a clear path to run down!" Zhadow called out and just about avoided tripping over a tree root.
Back with the zone hoppers...
"So this version of Egghead is more of a joke then ours." Sonic grinned with high amusement and now wanted to see this for himself.
"He is a pathetic time waster and not worth the battle." Boom Shadow said with a small frown.
"So his robots are rubbish and break easily?" Silver asked with a raised brow.
"They break in seconds." Boom Sonic casually said with a shrug.
"We should get going before the zone cops show up. It was awesome meeting you all." Sonic said with a grin at the group then got his chaos emerald out.
"Yeah wonderful meeting you." Shadow said with a slight glare at boom Shadow then too got his emerald out.
"Maybe we'll come by again and maybe next time no one will be accused of being a fake copy." Silver cheerfully said with a smile.
The two chaos emerald holders crossed the emeralds and called out the magic word. A portal appeared and after more good byes the three hedgehogs walked through and the portal shut after them.
