Chapter Nine
The portal opened up and the zone hoppers walked out casually, the portal closing seconds after. They stood together side by side and gave dry looks at where they ended up this time.
"Well here's your stop Silver, happy surviving." Sonic joked as he nudged Silver playfully.
"Hey it's not my fault the future was all screwed up and this is not my zone. We fixed that remember and Iblis never came so my home was never destroyed." Silver said in defence as he turned his head and semi glared at Sonic.
"Yeah Iblis trigger, quit taking cheap shots at Silver." Shadow casually said with a grin slowly appearing.
"Thank you Shadow." Silver happily said with a smile over at Shadow.
"Besides it really isn't his fault he couldn't fix things without our help." Shadow added in a teasing tone and was now grinning widely with amusement.
"I take that thanks back." Silver dryly said as his smile very quickly dropped.
"Yeah if it wasn't for us his world wouldn't even exist." Sonic teased some more while also grinned widely with amusement.
"Hey let's look around and find our other dimensional selves." Silver slightly loudly said his suggestion, hoping the couple will agree and stop the teasing.
Meanwhile...
"I swear we are never, and I mean never, going to that past zone again." Zonic seriously said with some anger in his voice as he and Zhadow walked out of a portal.
"Oh chill Zonic, it wasn't all that bad. Sure we almost became dinosaur food three times and ended up being chased by some primitive folk but all in all it wasn't that bad." Zhadow calmly said as he turned his head to look at his partner.
"Yo!" Boom Sonic called out as he and his friends came walking over towards the zone cops.
"Hey Zonic you look very athletic with all that sports tape on but why over the shoes?" Zhadow said in a whispered tone as he lent slight over towards his colleague.
Zonic sighed with a slow shake of his head then watched the friends approach.
"You both look government like." Sticks said with suspicion after she and the others stopped in front of the two zone cops.
"Here we go again." Zonic thought as he rolled his eyes then got his identification card out to show the group who he is.
Meanwhile...
"Hey Silver is that your apartment?" Sonic teased as he pointed up to a burning and destroyed apartment building to their left in this city.
"Oh shut up already Sonic." Silver grumbled unhappily as he narrowed his eyes at the broken up road they were walking on.
"Yeah jokes over Faker and it is no longer amusing but very annoying." Shadow groaned as he was getting really annoyed with Sonics constant teasing by now.
"Fine, fine, you both win but I do believe we are about to have some trouble." Sonic semi serious said as he slightly narrowed his eyes at the slowly forming figure a little ahead of them.
The three stopped and watched as the dark liquid formed into a shape of a hedgehog that resembled Shadow.
"Oh great not him again." Sonic groaned as he was still pretty pissed with this guy shooting him dead making some human girl kiss his dead course, or more like did but didn't happen sort of thing.
"And why might I ask are you doing with those traitors?" Mephiles asked as he walked towards the three and keeping his eyes solely on Shadow.
"Who are you calling traitors because there is like three of us so who are the traitors?" Sonic asked with a grin as Mephiles stopped in front of Shadow and glance his way.
"You and Silver." Mephiles replied with a puzzled raised brow then grabbed Shadows wrist and dragged Shadow away to his side.
"They are far too gone and cannot ever return to who they once were my love. I know it is upsetting you but they just cannot be helped now." Mephiles softly said as he looked at Shadow with warmth in his eyes.
"O-k. Look Mephiles I am not your boyfriend ok." Shadow calmly said as he was beginning to get a little freaked out and it did not help with both Sonic and Silver sniggering in the background.
"No you are not, you are my husband Shadow." Mephiles grinned at Shadow a little teasingly but there still was some confusion in his eyes.
"Oh my chaos!" Sonic burst out laughing and Silver happened to have done the same two seconds after.
"Y-yeah." Silver said as he kept laughing.
"You both wait until we are back in our own dimension, I'm going to make both your lives hell until I see fit!" Shadow shouted with anger while glaring dangerously at his boyfriend and friend.
"Your dimension?" Mephiles questioned as he let go of Shadows wrist and took a step away.
"Yes we are not from here but from a different alternate dimension where it is all rainbows and sunshine." Shadow said and got rather sarcastic towards the end.
"Y-yeah which makes me and Silver not traitors and Shadow not y-your husband." Sonic said with a snigger here and there.
"Just you keep laughing Faker and see what happens to you." Shadow seriously said with a look of promise that what he was going to dish out was not going to be fun for Sonic.
"Damn babe you really need to stop turning me on with that badass aggressive attitude of yours." Sonic said with a slightly seductive wink at Shadow.
"So you and he are together in your dimension, how the hell did that happen? No offence but it's just a little odd." Mephiles asked with shock in his eyes as he looked at Shadow for an answer.
Meanwhile...
"So zone cops huh, do any government work on the sly?" Sticks asked with narrowed eyes.
"No but we did take down a couple of government officials for corruption and swindling funds and pocketing the money." Zhadow said with a casual shrug.
"Alright but I'm keeping my eyes on that one." Sticks seriously said then pointed at Zonic.
"I was actually his partner in that take over and was lead cop." Zonic seriously said with a deep frown.
"Anyway the three you are looking for like left an hour ago. They could be anywhere by now and probably travelled to a few different zones too." Boom Sonic casually said with little interest.
"Yeah and probably found awesome versions of me too." Knuckles added with a grin.
"Right, come on Zhadow we need to catch up with them." Zonic sighed and was seriously hoping the hoppers were not three zones away now.
Meanwhile...
"You and blue boy over there got into this huge fight and after almost killing each other he managed to pin you down and confessed he loves you. I get that but why fight in the first place?" Mephiles asked as he was not understanding the whole why not just saying something to the other straight off thing.
"Because I didn't want to admit I cared about him and thought at the time he wouldn't be with someone like me so I took my frustration out on him." Shadow casually said with a shrug.
"Yeah he totally did and made me love him more for it. I know what you are thinking, why would you love someone who regularly fights physically with you? I'm attracted to bad boys and you don't get any more bad then Shadow. Besides we don't get into fights like we used to anymore unless I take his pie or track mud into the house or throw parties or..." Sonic said with a cheerful tone then was stopped from finishing that list by Shadows annoyed tone.
"Ok Sonic we get it, you are very good with pissing me off." Shadow rolled his eyes as he spoke out.
"So what's the story with you and your Shadow?" Silver asked with an innocent smile at Mephiles.
"After Sonic and Silver released me and tried to force me to obey them in destroying the world and taking over I ditched them and went into hiding. Shadow was actually scouting around the area I was keeping a low profile in and he just caught my eye, so much so I took his appearance. I secretly followed him back to resistance headquarters and he caught me." Mephiles began with a smile and took a moment's pause.
"I dragged him in, tied him up and questioned him for three hours straight before releasing him to go free. He refused to leave and wanted to join so I let him. We worked closely together and began to form a strong bond with one another. Hello and I take it you three are not from this dimension." This worlds Shadow finished off the story as he walked over and stood with his husband and the zone hoppers.
"Yeah how did you know that?" Silver asked with a curious look at this worlds Shadow.
"Well you and Sonic are not fighting Mephiles and those two walking towards us look a lot like zone cops." This worlds Shadow smirked then pointed behind Sonic and Silver, making the three illegal zone hoppers look at them.
"Oh shit it's Zonic and Zhadow!" Sonic called out with wide eyes.
"Time to go before they arrest us." Silver anxiously said as now the two zone cops were running towards them.
"Chaos control!" This worlds Shadow called out and stopped time around them.
"I suggest you three better run and hide then get out of here fast." Mephiles suggested with a grin.
"Agreed and thanks a bunch!" Sonic said then quickly grabbed Silvers wrist and dragged him along at super speeds with Shadow running beside him.
Sonic and Shadow didn't stop running until they found a safe place to hide. Poor Silver was looking a little sick from the very sudden speeds and forced turnings by Sonic.
"Ok we stay in here for like...babe why you getting your emerald out?" Sonic began to say but had to question his boyfriends actions.
"I say we leave before they find us. They won't know we zone hopped and will stay here looking for us. It should give us plenty of time to get away and them far behind us." Shadow explained with a serious look.
"And that right there is why you are Team Dark leader." Sonic grinned then got his emerald out.
"I do believe Rouge will argue that fact." Shadow smirked then moved his emerald holding hand, with Sonic copying his movements, and both crossed the emeralds.
"Guys, you might want to not do that just yet." Silver whispered as he looked out of a small hole in a wall where they were standing.
"Oh and why not?" Sonic asked with a raised brow at Silver.
"Shh, Zonic and Zhadow are walking passed." Silver whispered and was getting anxious.
Outside the broken old looking building our favourite zone hoppers were hiding in Zonic and Zhadow were slowly walking passed like Silver had said.
"Are you sure they went this way? It's pretty quiet here and we both know Sonic is not one to keep quiet." Zhadow asked with a bored tone.
"I think so, the tracker says they are around here but it keeps glitching. Oh great now it's saying they are on the far side of the city...where we arrived at." Zonic said as he looked down at his tracker then deeply frowned when the location dot suddenly disappeared and moved.
"I think it's broken." Zhadow said with some amusement in his tone.
"Yeah and you are far too chilled for a zone cops yet you managed to get to the same level as me. Come on let's at least go check out that area." Zonic seriously said with a grumpy tone then both turned around and walked fast away from this area.
"Ok they are gone and with their tracker screwed up they will be here for hours trying to find us." Sonic whispered and was a little offended by Zhadows comment about him but knew now was not the time to get annoyed.
Shadow and Sonic once again crossed the emeralds then called out chaos controlled to make their ticket out of here.
"Quickly now before they feel this portal and realise we made it." Shadow said as he ushered Silver and Sonic through.
The three rushed into it then it closed shut. As for the zone cops, they didn't feel the zone portal and their tracker was taking them all over the place. This was of course making Zonic think that maybe Shadow was chaos controlling them from one place to the other. Zhadow on the other hand was pretty sure it was the tracker that was broken not Shadow chaos controlling but Zonic was going with his own theory.
