A/N: This chapter focuses on No Zone, where the main protagonist Sierra Star has a Zone version. This is needed for some background story so hope my readers will not mind for being away from the prime characters for a while.

No Zone Disaster

Place: No Zone Dimension

At the middle of the night, the prison quarter was pretty silent since most of the prisoners were sleeping. At the headquarter beside, few lights were dimly on as some officers were working. Regular zone cops Zector and Zespio were working at their desks and rookie officers Zails and Znuckles were being instructed about their tasks by an elite cop Zlaze. But suddenly all their business stopped, except Zone chief Zamy who was having a meeting with the attorney general Zhadow and his subordinate Zally Zacorn inside her chamber. The only star member among the zone officers, Zonic the Zone Cop just entered with an angry look, much unlike his usual calm and solemn image. But what actually horrified his coworkers was, Zonic rushing straight to the chamber of a particular elite zone cop, Zierra Ztar. She was a mysterious creature among the No-Zoners because of her smooth fair skin like humans but short height and hedgehog features. She always used to show up everywhere wearing the red-yellow zone cop uniform. Her helmet with dark visor only left her long carmine ponytail and her nude pink lips uncovered. So, other than the recruiting department, no one ever knew how she looked like, or what she exactly was, despite her profile referred her as a hedgehog. Though most of her below ranked officers and rookies were highly curious about her, it did not matter much since she was one of the best cops in No-Zone. But Zierra mainly drew attention not because of her race or work, but for her rivalry with...the top zone officer there. Ever since she joined the police department, no one ever witnessed or heard about any case on which, Zonic and Zierra agreed on. Their verbal argument and constant disagreement on every single issue was like a usual show during officers meetings. So, Zlaze, Zails, Znuckles, Zespio and Zector could not help but tried eavesdropping through the door. When Zonic barged in Zierra's chamber, he found Zilver there, a zone cop from future, who he despised for unnecessary trespassing, as there was a rumor that Zilver developed crush on Zierra that's why he always made excuses for his random time travelling. Now seeing him with her, even more pissed off the serious personified counterpart of Sonic.

"Now what happened this time?" Znuckles sighed from outside, not being able to hear anything.

"Whatever it is, but definitely nothing good..." Zespio retorted.

"I think it's about officer Zilver." Zails assumed, "I heard officer Zonic didn't like him."

"Is there anyone in this universe who Zonic likes anyway?" Zlaze shrugged.

"Of course there is!" Zector enthusiastically said something that left his coworkers speechless, "Who else is it other than officer Zierra?!"

"You...are drunk, aren't you?!" Znuckles snorted.

"Why would I be? Can't you all see that already?! Zonic is angry because he's jealous."

Before anyone could say anything, they heard yelling. Zonic lost his temper for some reason because of which he could not control his usual strict personality.

"What's the meaning of this, officer Zierra?!"

"First of all," The female officer calmly replied while sipping coffee. "I don't think you get to talk to me with that voice. And secondly, did you forget to knock the door?"

"You should be the one to be accused for breaking rules!" Zonic shot back, "I don't think you have any right to interfere behind my back about the criminal in MY custody!"

Now Zierra got up from her seat, "I have the approval of Chief Zamy and Warden Zobotnik. Sorry but it's not my fault, if any of them didn't inform you."

"WHAT?!"

"Hey, what the hell is on now?!" The door opened as the chief of the police department showed up with two attorneys. "I was having an important meeting with Mr. Zhadow and Miss Zally, but you two had to choose this time to fight with each other!"

"Sorry mam, but may I ask why was Scourge released without my consent?" Zonic decided to be direct.

"About that..." Zamy replied, "I forgot to inform you. Officer Zierra informed me about an inter-species cultural exchange program going on the earth where people from Mobius Prime are attending. She proposed to send Scourge so that he could join there with Sonic and his companions in order to be a good citizen. She even talked to the organizers about his case. Besides, warden Zobotnik also informed that Scourge's behavior had been refined for a while in the prison so he should be considered for rehabilitation."

"That's unfair..." The zone cop murmured before pointing the albino cop hedgehog. "And what is HE doing here now?!"

"Officer Zilver informed me something that might help officer Zonic to forget about Scourge." Zierra said monotonously.

"What's it about?"

"Dr. Eggman Nega..." Zilver answered, "...He has been murdered."

All the zone cops went silent to hear that. Dr. Eggman Nega was from future and known for battling the zone officers. But it was not expected that he might get killed.

"But maybe because he was attacking the city again." Zonic said, "So, someone had to stop that might have killed him accidentally."

"It wasn't like that. Dr. Eggman Nega was unarmed and without his robots because he was going somewhere for personal reason." Zierra informed. "Officer Zilver showed me the footage of the street camera where Dr. Nega had been showed talking to a white hedgehog before...a spear slashed his chest out of nowhere which was possibly controlled by telekinesis. So, we get two suspects here, Silver the Hedgehog and his Moebius rival Steel the Hedgehog who's already in cell no. 6690 in our prison quarters. Officer Zilver claims that it's Steel because Silver can't do something like that. I oppose the idea because Steel had been here and got arrested much before when Dr. Nega got killed. Besides, as far as I heard, Scourge was arrested for second time because of Steel's foolishness. So, this white hedgehog doesn't seem to be smart enough to kill someone. On top of that, it's Dr. Eggman Nega that we're talking about, whose archenemy is Silver, not Steel. So, I also think that this case needs a proper investigation to determine whether the killer is Silver or Steel. So...chief Zamy, to investigate on this case properly, I request a partner to work along with."

Zilver turned to her, "Officer Zierra, since I'm the one to work in this case, so I'm down for that."

"You're right about that, but our suspects are different. And I want to investigate this case strictly and professionally. Since, Steel the Hedgehog is already behind the bars, so it won't make any difference for me. But, if Silver the Hedgehog turns out to be murderer of Dr. Eggman Nega...I don't think, picking his arrest warrant would be a good experience for you, Officer Zilver."

"I think, it should be officer Zonic." Someone else now said that, surprising everyone. "It's clearly a critical case so I guess the two best cops should work on together."

"I don't suppose the attorney general has anything to do with this." Zonic retorted. He hated the black hedgehog from the beginning for number of reasons. Unlike his prime Shadow, Zhadow is cunning and could do anything to get what he wants. He always played as defensive attorney in support of the criminals Zonic filed cases against. He was the actual reason for the hostility between the two zone cops since he referred for Zierra's promotion as elite cop just after she joined, where Zonic had to serve as regular cop for a year or two before he was promoted. But the blue hedgehog was damn sure that was only to take advantage on the redhead hybrid. Because, the attorney's assistant Zally and the prison therapist Zouge the bat, were hired through his reference and later they had to pay the black hedgehog back. So, what Zhadow suggested about putting Zierra and Zonic together in same case, was only to inflame their already fiery relationship even more.

"But I think he does have, and his suggestion is excellent." Zamy irritably replied. "It's time you two act professional and cooperate with each other."

"But shouldn't we take the consent of officer Zierra?" The blue hedgehog found points to avoid, "I don't suppose she would-..."

"I have my consent." Zierra shocked everyone, mostly Zonic and Zhadow, "In fact, I was about to ask for the same."

"You can't be serious...!" Zonic murmured keeping the motionless expression, supressing the anger and frustration. Zhadow crossed his arms trying his best to cover his annoyance at the unexpected outcome.

"Wonderful!" Zamy exclaimed ignoring him, "So you two will-..." She was interrupted as suddenly a loud alarm was heard everywhere. Then Zouge flew in hurriedly.

"Chief! Something terrible happened!" She said panting, "Two outsiders from another zone broke in the jail and set fire. Major Znively is dead!"

"What?! Who're they?!"

"The one who lead, is some kind of human with hedgehog ears like officer Zierra, but she has blonde hair. She has killed Major Znively, seized the warden as hostage and sent me to get officer Zierra alone."

"Is that...Bliss Blackhole?!" Zierra thoughtfully murmured. "Shit...!"

Zlaze heard that before she wrinkled her face, "Bliss...seriously?!"

"Who's the second one?" Zonic asked.

"The other one is a white hedgehog that looks like and has power like officer Zilver." Zouge replied.

"Huh? Could that be Silver or Steel...?!" Zilver exclaimed, "But he wouldn't do this! Is that Steel then?!"

"Do you mean Steel the Hedgehog? But he was not-..." Zouge was cut off by Zierra.

"Let's split up to be sure about that. Steel might have planned for escaping before." The redhead zone cop suggested, "Officer Zonic and officer Zlaze, take all the officers and go to catch Steel because he might destroy the entire prison building. I'll go to rescue warden Zobotnik." She asked the cat zone cop.

"Wait! Why'll you go there alone?! To take that credit alone...?!" Zonic gasped shutting himself as he just said something wrong that he should not have.

Zierra did not react anything. "Looks like Miss Zouge and officer Zilver might need to repeat everything since officer Zonic wasn't paying attention properly." She coldly said, "The warden's life is on line, so I'm off." With that, she quickly left.

"Zierra is right." Zlaze said, "Whoever it is, probably knows her. But someone needs to cover her in case."

"I can-..." Zilver was about to speak up before, "I'll follow her." Zonic also ran out of the room, not giving any chance to the albino zone cop.

"Then you guys and officer Zilver, follow me." Zlaze commanded before the other cops left with her.

Meanwhile at the prison quarter:

The entire complex was on fire. Prisoners were running to survive. The securities were in a mess. So, no one had any scope to check out the warden room, where Zobotnik was all tied up, even his mouth was shut by a piece of cloth. In front him on his chair, a little human girl was sitting, her legs were hanging above the ground because of her small height. She was rolling the chair around and giggling like a cute little child.

Which she is actually not...despite of her small appearance and childish act, she is nowhere a human child. As she had her ears above her head, a tail behind, and massive breasts puffed up under the red-pink tight fitting sleeveless top she is wearing. She is...a human-hedgehog hybrid teen, just like a certain someone.

She has the same long hair with spiky layers allover. But unlike the redhead, her hair is blonde that shines like sunlight.

She has the same azure set of eyes with dark matted lashes, but hers are smokey by silver black eye-shadow.

She has exactly the same flawless face, furless smooth skin and peach pink lips like that someone. But the blonde's once fairness now turned slightly peach-tan pigment hue because of her gypsy lifestyle, which only enriched her sexiness. Her lips were glistening because of the light pink gloss she wore.

But the biggest difference is not physical, it is their characteristics. The redhead that resembles her, is openly rude, hostile to strangers and straightforward, which often covers her sweetness and caring personality. On the contrary, the blonde uses her beauty and charming attitude to hide the narcissistic, sinister, vile and wicked person she actually is, disgracing her own name. Very few ones that saw her true nature were...alive. For example, her sidekick albino hedgehog and now, No Zone prison warden Zobotnik. But the later was not sure about his survival. As he just witnessed his assistant Znively's throat getting slashed by the blonde hedgehog beauty's dagger.

"Wease...wognt weel wee!" The human tried to plead even having his mouth closed. (Please don't kill me)

"Hmm?" The hog girl responded innocently, "You sound like a little baby hehehe."

"Stop that, Bliss!"

The blonde turned and smiled, "It's been a long, isn't it, police twin?"

Zierra gritted her teeth to see the tied-up Zobotnik and the dead body of Znively. "You didn't have to do that to come here because I was always more than eager to arrest you!"

"As expected, you really have a bad humor. But it was his own fault for daring to make a move on me..." Now the blonde started to show her true color. Zierra sensed and attempted to pull the trigger, but could not. As she was hit by a golden spinning whirlpool. Heck, the zone cop once knew the special move too...but because of using laser weapons for long, she forgot to use that. She tried to punch her opponent but got grabbed by neck and pushed on the wall.

"You lied to me, Zone bitch!" The blonde hog girl growled, "I checked out every corner of both Mobius prime and Moebius. There's no sign of any other hedgehog liminal! So tell me nicely where the fuck she is...!"

"If she's not there, then I don't know." Zierra replied, trying to get herself free.

"Seriously, you're making me want to crush your neck right now!"

"Then why don't you do it?!" Now the zone cop smirked with a sudden confidence, knowing that the blonde would not do that...for her own sake.

"Fucking bitch!" With that she threw the redhead by all force to the wall, causing it break. Zierra's helmet broke by the force and her entire body started to bleed by the impact. But she could hear a voice calling her name from afar.

"...Zierra...where're you?!"

"...Zonic..."

The blue hedgehog cop discovered the broken wall in front of the warden's room while searching for his redhead rival and...the girl he loved. When he heard groans, his gun dropped from his hands in utter horror as he noticed a flash of red hair and red-yellow fabric into the pile of wall pieces, before finding a bleeding female body underneath. Deep green eyes got filled with tears after a very long time,

"Zierra...NO!"

She was lying on her stomach. He quickly turned her around before pulling her in his arms. He reached her chest, her pulse was still beating, but very faintly...signaling to stop anytime.

"Wake up, Zierra! Talk to me!" He violently started to shake her, "I said wake the fuck up!" Zonic yelled before finally sobbing when there was no response, "You're the only one I have now in my life. Please, don't leave me alone...!" He pressed his forehead on hers before finally saying, "Because...I love you, Zierra!"

Then he felt something, he moved back to see her stir. He sighed in relief, she was really something tough. Within a minute, she slowly opened her eyes. It was then Zonic realized, he was watching Zierra's face for the first time.

His emerald orbs met her sapphire. And just as the rumor, she was half human half hedgehog, a hog girl. Her pale skin had no fur except the dark eyebrows above her deep blue eyes. She was fully covered by dust and dirt. Yet, Zonic did not expect that his beloved would be this angelic.

"Officer Zonic..." She finally managed to speak before raising a hand to wipe the blue hedgehog's tears and to caress affectionately. "You shouldn't have followed me here... You'll get hurt because of me."

"That's not your choice, Zierra! I'm okay to get hurt if it's for you!" Zonic frowned pressing her hand on his cheek firmly, "Because...I'm tired of fighting with you!"

"Fighting with me or...? Fighting your feelings for me?"

That caught him off guard. Did she always know? Zonic realized suddenly. Is that why she always used to put fights with him purposely? To keep away from him?

"Awww...that's sooo touchy." Zonic turned his head around to see something which he was not ready for. A blonde version of Zierra but a bit softer looking. "You shouldn't drop the offer, Zierra. He can be a very good pet for you."

"Shut up...don't you refer him like that!" The redhead groaned.

"Oh please...don't tell me you're gonna have a relationship with this furry. Did you forget already that liminal creatures like us are only suitable for either our own kind or humans? Or, are you into bestiality?"

Zierra did not reply, which tensed Zonic. The blonde then said, "Anyway, back to the business. If you don't tell me where our alpha is...then I'll change my trick!" With that, she suddenly teleported in front of the two cops before grabbing Zonic. The blue hedgehog started to fight but he was no match for her. It seemed like the blonde possessed some super strength. At one point, Zonic was unable to fight back and he had a golden spinning sharp bladed fan in front of him, ready to rip him off. Zierra was in horror to see that,

"No...! Don't do that please!"

"Then fucking tell me!"

"But why're you after her? You know that can risk your own life!"

"As if you're concerned for me...!" Now the blonde went angry. "You know what, I should just slaughter him now!" She almost attempted to move towards the blue furred zone cop but stopped when her wrist communicator rang.

"What's it, fluffy boy?"

"Bliss...we got a problem. Scourge isn't here. But found his two roomies who were his crime partners."

The blonde gritted her teeth. "What the fuck do you mean by he's not there?! We looked out for him while searching my alpha, didn't we?! If Scourge is not either at Moebius or Mobius, then where the hell is he?!""

"It seems that Scourge was released for rehabilitation few days ago...to the planet earth."

"The earth...?!" The blonde's mind triggered, that was one planet she had not checked yet, that was the planet where...she was born.

"But, one of his two friends is Steel, you remember him, don't you? I got the other hedgehog, who I think we could use. So, forget about that idiot green hedgy."

"And who it might be?"

"He looks like Shad-...ugh, the cops are in this floor! Can you please come up?! I can't hide this guy alone for long."

"Hang on there."

The call was hung up before the blonde girl slightly smiled, "I guess, I just found a clue! See you later, furry-loving bitch!" The blonde disappeared to somewhere else. Zierra started to get up but Zonic quickly held her. Once again their eyes met, both were feeling awkward now,

"Are you okay?" She asked to get over the awkwardness. "Did she hurt you much?"

"That's my line..." A flat reply came from him.

"Ung...ugngh..." Zobotnik finally demanded their attention. The blue hedgehog untied him.

"Officer Zonic...we need to stop Bliss from going to the earth." Zierra worriedly said.

"I'll contact with Zlaze to get her. Right now, you need to get well soon." With that, he picked her up in bridal style. Then they left for the zone medical unit with Zobotnik. While walking, the warden asked,

"That girl and you look same, officer Zierra. Who's she?"

"It's...myself."

Both Zonic and Zobotnik were shocked. "You mean...!"

"Yes, just like yours, I have also counterparts in other dimensions. She is one of them. My case is different than yours though."

"Don't tell me that girl is the prime here..." Zonic irritably said.

"Bliss Blackhole is the evil counterpart, and the girl she is after...is our prime who has been living on the earth."

Sierra Star's No Zone counterpart

Name: Zierra Ztar

Race: Hog girl/ Liminal Hedgehog/ Human-hedgehog hybrid

Age: 15

Appearance: Fair skin same as Sierra Prime, with sharper looks, curvier physique, carmine (darker crimson red) hair, nude pink lips and sapphire blue eyes. (Sierra's description: Chapter 2 & 3)

Position: Elite Zone Cop

Personality: Tsundere, Stubborn

Alignment: Good

Love Interest: Zonic the Zone Cop

No Zone Characters:

Zonic the Zone Cop (No Zone's Sonic)

Age: 17

Race: Hedgehog

Appearance: Fawn muzzle, chest and hands. Taller and slimmer built, darker cobalt blue fur and edgier emerald green eyes comparing to Sonic Prime.

Position: Star Zone Cop

Personality: Reserved, Quiet

Alignment: Good

Love Interest: Zierra Ztar

Others: (Except for a few one, mostly based on the fan comic 'No Zone Archives' by Chauvels)

Zilver the Zone Cop (Silver), Zhadow the Attorney General (Shadow), Zamy the Zone Chief (Amy), Eggman Zobotnik the Warden (Robotnik), Zouge the Prison Therapist (Rouge), Zlaze the Elite Cop (Blaze), Zails the Rookie Cop (Tails), Znuckles the Rookie Cop (Knuckles), Znively the Assistant Warden (Snively), Zally Zacorn the Assistant Attorney (Sally Acorn), Zream the junior Attorney (Cream), Zespio the Zone Cop and Zonic's subordinate (Espio), Zector the Zone Cop and Zonic's subordinate (Vector), Sir Zharles/Zhuck the Judge (Charles/Chuck)

***Steel the Hedgehog is a fan character who is portrayed as anti-Silver or Silver's counterpart in Moebius. He is just a minor here though.

N/B: If you remember about the 3rd chapter, Sierra's mother Lilith mentioned that a zone cop contacted with them to release Scourge. Now I guess you know that zone cop is Zierra.