A/n: I'm back. I would like to apologize for not updating for so long. I had been working on this story for months and to see not many people reading it or favoriting or reviewing, it was a little disheartening. However I wrote the story, it took me six months to do, I might as well upload the chapters.

IcyPinkFlower- No, however he may or may not in the sequel...if I ever get on that...

"Amy? Amy!" Knuckles yelled into his cell phone.

"Whats wrong?" Cream asked in a drowsy voice. Apparently Knuckles yelling had woken her, Charmy and Vector up and also garnered the attention from Rouge and Espio who had been playing poker while the other group members slept.

"Nothings wrong. I'm going to go get some fresh air," Knuckles said before he quickly left the inn. The whole group was tired and he didn't have it in them to worry them, especially Cream and Charmy, they were only kids after all.

Knuckles started to look around for the park Amy mentioned before he lost contact with her. As he was walking, in the distance he started to notice a large figure, practically being dragged by a shorter figure.

Knuckles squinted his eyes trying to make out the two. Because of his work on the night shift at the jewelry store on the weekends he was able to vaguely make out what resembled Amy and Sonic.

"Amy?" Knuckles asked unsurely.

There was no response at first until he hurt a strained feminine voice say, "Knuckles, help me."

Knuckles ran over and slung the figure's (who up close he could definitely tell was Sonic) other arm of his shoulder.

"What happened to Sonic?" Knuckles asked.

"I don't know." Amy responded

"Let's get him to the van."

After lugging their friends body to said van Amy ran inside to get the others while Knuckles assessed the damage. He carefully took Sonics shirt off and winced.

"Sonic….what happened to ya buddy?" Knuckles mumbled when he got a look at the bruises that littered Sonics torso

Amy ran out of the inn followed by the others.

"You found Sonic?" Rouge asked.

"Amy did but he's not in good shape," Knuckles responded.

"Mr. Sonic," Cream whimpered.

"Is he gonna be okay?" Vector asked.

Knuckles shook his head, "I guess we'll find out when he wakes up. Right now we need to get him to a doctor-"

"N-no. No doctor," A now conscious Sonic croaked.

"Mr. Sonic! You're awake!" Cream exclaimed happily.

"No doctor? Dude are you outta your mind?! Look at you!" Knuckles yelled.

"I'm fine. I need to find Tails!"

Amy gasped, "Oh my gosh! I completely forgot about him! Where is he?"

"He's gone. He was taken!"

Everyone's face contorted in horror. Cream started to cry while Charmy tried to hold tears back. Espio looked down while Vector was in shock. Knuckles got over his horror quickly and it mutated into rage.

"That fat bastard!" Knuckles growled out clenching his fists.

"No it wasn't Eggman. It was someone who works for Eggman. It was Shadow," Sonic replied.

"Don't worry Sonic. We'll find this Shadow guy and make him pay!" Amy exclaimed.

"Now hold up. I know Shadow isn't friendly but he wouldn't do something like this without a good reason," Rouge interjected.

"Ha! Why should we listen to you? Eggman used to be your employer, how do we know you aren't still working with him!" Knuckles spat.

"Don't you think if she wanted to betray us she would have done it already?" Espio asked.

"Espio has a point, plus if it wasn't we wouldn't be here with Sonic right now," Amy said.

"Speaking of that, I was meaning to ask you guys….how did you find me?" Sonic asked.

"We'll explain later, right now just tell us everything that happened," Rouge ordered.

"So those two other people you were fighting, they were named Blaze and Silver and they were only fighting to protect Blaze's sisters?" Amy asked to make sure she heard right.

Sonic nodded before continuing, "If they didn't fight me Blazes sisters would get hurt, but if I beat them they would be fine, so I beat both Blaze and Silver."

"Good job," Rouge complimented with a smirk.

"What about that Shadow guy? Didn't you say he didn't seem to care about Blaze or her sisters? So why is he helping Eggman?" Knuckles asked.

"I'm not sure. Like Rouge said though, it has to be for a good reason," Sonic responded.

"Well what are we waiting for? Let's head to that donut shop and rescue Tails!" Vector exclaimed.

"He won't be there. I heard on the news the lab was destroyed in a explosion," Sonic said, remembering the newscast that mentioned the lab was destroyed

"Oh yeah I can't believe I forgot about that place. After all we did do a number on that place."

Sonic's eye-widened and he suddenly remembered how it had to have been someone who knew about the lab. His head whipped towards Amy, "You didn't…"

Amy laughed nervously. That was all the answer he needed. Sonic pinches the bridge of his nose, "We'll discuss this later," His head turned towards the rest of the group, "Right now we need to figure out we're gonna find Tails," Sonic looked at Rouge, "Rouge, you worker longer for
Eggman than i did. Did he ever mention or hint a secret or back up lab of some sort?"

Rouge thought for second, "He did mention he had another lab that used before moving to a smaller one but it's far away."

"Nothing too far away, I'll drive anywhere!" Vector stated.

"And by 'I'll' he means me," Espio sighed.

"Yeah, and no matter where it is I'll track it!" Charmy chirped.

"It's in space."

"...WHAT?!" Vector yelled.

"I don't even think my tracking skills can extend beyond the stratosphere!" Charmy exclaimed.

"We still have to try," Cream stated.

"But how! There no way we can get to the space!" Charmy yelled.

"Charmy! If you were the one in Tails position he's go to space for you!" Cream exclaimed.

"Creams got a point. We can't give up yet," Sonic stated.

"But how are we supposed to get there? Unless you have a rocket ship that can fly to the moon, although I hate to say it, then it ain't happenin," Knuckles said.

Rouge let out a small chuckles and everyone looked her way.

"Why are you laughing?" Knuckles asked slowly.

Rouge smirked, "Charmy, look up the coordinates (insert coordinates here).

"Uh...okay," Charmy plugged said coordinates into his laptop, "Its says here they lead to nowhere. And that it's 30 minutes away."

"Vector, drive us there," rouge ordered.

"Oka- wait a minute! You can't tell me what to do!" Vector yelled.

Espio let out a sigh out of annoyance, "Fine. I guess I'll drive."

"What? No! I'll drive!" Vector yelled victoriously.

Espio rolled his eyes, "Whatever you say."

"Charmy, pull up directions," Vector ordered as everyone started to get into the van.

"Whatever you say boss," charmy responded.

'Hold on Tails. We're coming,' Sonic thought.

"Let me outta here!" Tails yelled. His throat was sore from excessive use and his hand and fingers hurt from trying to rip the hinges of the dog kennel Eggman was using as a cage off but he didn't care.

Eggman entered the room looked annoyed, "Keep it down! I'm trying to study the blood sample I got from you!"

"No!" Tails yelled, shaking the cage door for good measure.

"You brat. Just you wait, I'll put you in your place soon you two tailed freak!"

"Your the freak! Who merges human DNA with animal DNA!"

Eggman rattled the cage, "Quiet you!"

"Bite me fatass!" Tails yelled.

"That can be arranged," Eggman muttered. If he knew this kid would have been this much trouble he would have made him falls asleep or something.

Eggman left the room leaving Tails alone in the darkness. He tried to get comfortable but couldn't. The dog kennel he was forced into was barely big enough for him as it was.

"I want my big brother. I miss Sonic."

A/n: I know it was short but they can't all be long. *shrug*. Bye!