Chapter Twenty-Two.
As usual they walked out and stood together, looking around with curiosity to this new place. They arrived in a desert with the hot blazing sun beating down and at its highest point in the sky. It was humid and so hot it was hard the breath as the air was suffocating.
"Oh man where the hell are we?" Sonic said as he fanned his face with his hand.
"A desert." Knuckles said with a grin and looking a little amused with the dry look he was given by Sonic.
"Very funny." Sonic said with an unimpressed tone.
"It's so hot." Zhadow complained in a whiny tone, it didn't help that he had his uniform on in this heat.
"Oh quit complaining, I'm hot too. Actually we are all hot although Shadow doesn't look all that bothered." Zonic groaned then became curious as Shadow was the only one that didn't seem bothered or effected by the head.
"I am but unlike you lot I do not see the point in moaning about it, its not going to stop the heat and it only wastes energy." Shadow calmly said as he took Angel from his head and held her.
"Ch-ao." Angel moaned out with a look of distress from the heat.
"There, there Angel. We are not staying long and hopefully the next zone will be more cooler." Shadow softly said as he lifted a hand up and did his best to block the sun from Angel.
"Yeah but not like the complete opposite and freezing." Silver sighed as he was now fanning his face with his hands.
"Can we just ditch this place, I feel like I am melting." Eclipse complained with a begging look at Shadow to just move on.
"Yeah come on Shads lets just make a portal to somewhere else." Sonic said as he and Shadow locked eyes when he began to talk.
"And miss all this unbearable heat…hell yes." Shadow replied with a grin then he and Sonic walked up to each other, chaos emeralds being grabbed from quills at the same time.
They crossed them and was about to call out chaos control when an explosion happened very close by, making all pause and look in the direction where smoke was rising.
"Not our problem." Shadow seriously said as he looked back at his boyfriend with a very firm tone, knowing what Sonic would do next.
"But babe, someone might be hurt and as heroes it is our duty to help." Sonic whined as he looked back at Shadow.
"Not our home world remember so no interfering." Shadow growled as all he wanted to do now is get out of this heat not run in it to wherever that explosion was.
"That's it." Zonic said then stormed over to Sonic and got right up in Sonics face.
"Now listen here copy, we are leaving and that is that. So suck it up and make the damn portal or I will arrest you all!" Zonic seriously said in a loud voice then backed away, glaring at Sonic through the visor of his helmet.
"Wow, erm was not expecting you to get all short tempered like Shads does." Sonic said as he was taken back by the behaviour of his No Zone counterpart.
Then another explosion happened but this was a little more closer and right on the other side of some sandy hill next to them.
"Just get us out of here guys, I don't want to be blown into pieces." Silver said with some panic in his voice as he looked at the couple still crossing chaos emeralds.
"Ok, ok, chill Silver." Sonic rolled his eyes and was not looking happy then he and Shadow called out chaos control.
The portal opened and all walked in fast, just to get out of the heat and possible bombs. The portal closed soon after. They walked out and very quickly realised heat wasn't all that bad as now they were in the middle of a freezing cold place and it was snowing. The portal closed quickly so they couldn't escape the cold back to the warm.
"G-great, just w-where I wanted t-to be." Sonic said as he wrapped his arms around himself to try and keep warm.
"Ch-chao." Angel said while shivering in Shadows arms.
"I-I think th-that other place w-was better." Eclipse said as he was getting too cold far too quickly.
"M-my feet are g-going numb." Eclipse added as he looked down at his bare feet while shivering.
"It's not that bad and if you lot wore clothing on your bodies like us then you wouldn't be that cold." Zhadow said with a grin at the shivering Mobians.
"Y-yeah well we d-don't get temp-temperatures this cold b-back home." Knuckles argued as he half glare at the zone cops.
"Then it is a good job this isn't your home." Zonic teased as he was a little amused.
"I-I'm to, to cold to g-get us out o-of here." Sonic said as he shivered a little more.
"S-Suck it up F-Faker and b-bite through th-the cold." Shadow growled as he glared at Sonic while holding his emerald tightly in one hand.
"H-hey don't s-soldier m-me." Sonic said back with a small frown.
"I-I'll do what I-I want n-now hurry u-up before we a-all freeze." Shadow said back with frustration in his voice.
"Well not all of us will freeze just you lot." Zonic casually said with a shrug.
"Wont we get into trouble if we just watch them freeze and not do something to help?" Zhadow asked as he turned his head and looked back at his partner.
"W-wow Z-Zhadow is actually b-being re-responsible for once." Sonic said with some shock while looking at the zone cops.
"Nah, I just don't want to be demoted." Zhadow causally said with a grin at the freezing Mobians.
"Pl-please g-get us out o-of here." Eclipse asked the zone cops as he was looking faintish.
"I don't know, shall we?" Zonic said as he looked at Zhadow with a fake unsure tone.
"I suppose we should and I actually have the perfect place we can go." Zhadow replied and was starting to sound a little devious.
"Yeah?" Zonic asked with interest.
Zhadow nodded then motioned his partner close then whispered quietly. Zonic slowly began to smirk which unnerved the others as they could see it.
"Ok sure we will get you all out." Zonic happily said then turned around and got a small devise out then put in the location coordinates before pressing a button.
A portal soon began to open up and then the cops looked back at the others, both smirking at them.
"I-I am not g-going in there." Sonic said as he did not trust those smirks.
"I-I don't care w-where that portal goes, I-I'm out o-of here." Knuckles said then slowly walked towards the portal with Silver and Eclipse following him.
"I-It's either here o-or there S-Sonic." Shadow mumbled as he placed his emerald into his quills then too began to walk towards the portal.
"F-fine." Sonic grumbled then walked over.
After the Mobians, and Eclipse, walked through the zone cops exchanged amused looks then entered themselves. The portal closed when they walked through and both were sure they will be getting some entertainment from their next destination.
