In the dark of the night deep in a forest a giant golden ring shines out of nowhere, in the middle of said ring seems to be a liquid like center which has a lot of ripples on it.

And just then two figures appear from the giant ring and the rine vanishes in a golden light. The figure are seen wearing hoods which also acts like a cape so it obscures what they actually look like except you can tell one is male the other is a female.

"So this is it huh?" Says the male figure crossing his arms and looks at the female figure.

"Apprently we are a bit off I am afraid. It is very similar to the zone were looking for however." Says the female figure as she holds up a little device which has a monitor on it.

"Damn it! ...Actually this could be good. As long there's a version if him here then it's will be just as good as the original." He says first with frustration as he tightens his grip around his arms but he eases up and has a smirk on his face.

"How could you tell if there will be version if him here?" The woman says as she approaches the man slowly.

"My dear, even you must know there's always gonna be a version in every zone" The man says with a cocky smirk as he holds to the woman's chin softly.

"I guess I believe you. What is our first step?"

Asked the woman with a slight smirk on her face

"It should be simple. We simply hide in the shadows and find him. Shouldn't be too difficult knowing him."

The woman walks ahead out the forest as the man follows behind her.

"We'll find you soon enough...Sonic the Hedgehog!" The man says as he evily laughs as eyes glow up showing his eye colour is bright blue.

~The Next day~

In a village there is a big gathering of people in a resort like area with a pool, sunbeds, umbrellas and so on. In the pool has a yellow fox kid with two tails, a pink hedgehog girl, a young rabbit girl and wolf girl playing vollyball. A Red Echinda is also present sitting near the edge of the pool in a very relaxed mood. A silver hedgehog is on a sunbed taking a nap with a umbrella covering his whole body as he drolls in his sleep. On another sunbed lays a blue hedgehog kicking back and relaxing like no tomorrow. A white ring tailed lemur approachs the Blue Hedgehog with a ice cream cone which she holds with her long tail.

"Hey Sonic!" Shouts the girl with a up beat and bubbly additude.

The Blue Hedgehog moves the shades he was wearing up to look at the girl as he gives her a smile.

"What's up Tangle?" Sonic says with a laid back tone

"Wanna go and have fun in the pool?" Tangle excitedly says as she points at the pool with most of everyone else is.

Sonic looks towards at everyone having fun at the pool and then the water. Sonic puts his shades back in front of his eyes and nonchalantly says "Pass"

"Ehhhhh?!" Explains Tangle as her jaw drops with a shocked and disappointed look on her face. "Why not!?" She further asked with as she leans closer to the Blue blur.

"It's simple Tangle, I just wanna relax like heck. Chilling like a villain as they say" Sonic says a calm and laidback attitude.

"He's only saying that, cause he doesn't want to admit that he can't swim. All to save his pride and ego." The Red Echidna intercepts the conversion with a smug and cool ton in his voice

Sonic takes off his shades and throws them aside with a cartoonish angry expression in his face.

"You had to toss those fighting words Knuckles didn't you?"

"Sorry Sonic, I am only stating the facts as I see them" Knuckles states with a calm and smug tone in his voice.

Sonic remains angry at Knuckles for a moment then he took a breath and finally calms down.

"Not gonna fall for it. I really just wanna relax dude." He says sitting back down on the sunbed.

Tangle looks over at Sonic feeling a little concerned for the Blue Hedgehog.

"Ya know it was only an offer. It's cool dude."

"Thanks Tangle." Sonic softly says with just a soft of a smile on his face cause of the appreciation she's given him.

"Sonic you sure feel a little on edge. It's been weeks since the Zombot stuff. Surely you must've moved pass that by now" Knuckles heads next to Sonic with concern over him.

"I wish it was that simple man. It was easy for you as you only were aware near the end of the whole mess. I was there when Eggman started it. Just nasty stuff dude. That's why I just wanna relax and hang out with the ga. Get my mind off it and move on ya know?" Sonic says finishing with a sigh.

"Yeah I get ya." Just as Knuckles relaxes a nearby radio broadcast comes in.

"This is breaking in Doctor Eggman is back to his evil deeds. He's blown a building open with explosives. And has taken something from inside and took off. And there's a woman hanging on for dear life as we speak to a pole. She's beginning to slip!" The radioman explains as load as he can

"Go get them Blue boy!" Knuckles tells Sonic offering a fist bump.

"I'll be back about 5 minutes Knuckle head!" Sonic gives Knuckles the fist bump and he dashes as a blue blur leaving a small shockwave from breaking the sound barrier.

Sonic arrives at the city at blinding speeds he arrives at the building. He sees the woman just lost her gripping and beguns to fall down. Sonic immediately responds by running up the building at super speeds and when he's next to the woman he jumps and catchs her. He lands on the ground skidding trying to stop the momentum and finally stops to a complete halt.

"Phew. Glad I for once listen to public radio. You okay ma'am?" Sonic asked the lady who is a panther with a female business uniform.

"Y-Yes! Thank you so much Sonic!" She shoats as she gives Sonic a big hug.

"What was Eggman doing there? What did he even take?" Sonic asked as he breaks the hug

"He seemed to have taken a drive that contained a lot of data we have gathered" She explains as she calmed down as her tail sways.

"On what exactly would that be?" Sonic questions with a confused but serious look upon his face.

"Well Sonic we are a bit of a scientific crowd. We are researching any power sources to see what we can possibly could explore about our universe. Not say time or time travel. I have heard your stories about that. No we wish to explore the other half. Space. We wish to use the Warp Topaz and the Chaos Emeralds to see if dimensional travel is possible." The woman explains getting lost to her own words.

Sonic comedicly gets a sweatdrop but notices some keywords from her.

"The Warp Topaz and the Emeralds? That can't be good. Dimension travel would be dangerous. Thanks for the help." Sonic shakes her hand which breaks her out if her daze and he runs off.

"O-Oh Anytime Sonic!" She starts to geek out as she was big fan of Sonic.

Deep in the crowd a the man in the hood is blending within as he watched the situation unfold his blue eyes glint as he gets a sinister grin.

"There he is. Mr Hero to save the day. Soon I will make my grand entrance. But first I must pay someone a visit."

The man chuckles as he vanishes away to the crowd. And unknown to Sonic the hooded woman is following from the rooftops she struggles to keep up but never loses sight of her target. The hooded man eventually makes his way to his destination. To where? He walks his way to Doctor Eggman's current base of operations.