Chapter 1

Friend or Foe?

Out at Sonic's ship the Blue Typhoon, they were in a peaceful part of space at last and were bored out of their minds. Again…

"Tails, you said that there were metarex all over the place, but if they were, then why am I running laps around the ship just to entertain myself and not fighting the enemy?" asked Sonic. Due to his superspeed, he's impatient.

"Sorry, Sonic. We came here because there seems to be some sort of planet here and I was right! I suggest that we go down there to investigate, or at least to map it," said Tails.

Beep! Beep! Beep!

"Huh? Tails, what's going on up there?! Are you okay?" asked Amy running out to the bridge to see what Tails was doing. She had a bewildered look on her face.

"The controls suddenly aren't working! Engines two and three entering red zone! Hang on to something solid because I think we are going to crash!" yelled Tails to everyone.

"What a bad time for a good skydiving trip!" yelled Knuckles.

Crash!

"Huh? Why is there a big spaceship in our yard? We are the only ones here, so why would anyone visit?" asked one person who lived there on the planet.

"Maybe they crashed! If they did, then we must help them! I know I would be devastated if I crashed my ship in an unknown world!" replied the other.

These two people were both girls. One was a purple hedgehog and the other was a bright pink fox with two tails. The purple hedgehog has the same hairstyle as Sonic and the same shoes as Sonic. The only difference from her and Sonic was her fur coloring and personality. The bright pink fox with two tails is exactly like Tails only again different fur coloring and different personality. They were the only ones who lived on the planet.

Sonic had decided to take a good look at the new world that they were brought to. He jumped out and zipped away leaving nothing but a cloud of dust behind him.

"Hey! Did you see that guy?! He's awesome and fast! Do you want to welcome him to our world while I go to take a little peek at the spacecraft?" asked the pink fox.

"Um… Sure! Why not? After all, we have nothing better to do. Just one question, do you think that they are friendly? If they aren't, then we are in deep trouble…" replied the purple hedgehog.

"Don't make a fuss over it! I'm sure that they aren't all that bad. The hedgehog didn't bring a weapon with him and start blowing things up when he left the ship. If he was a metarex, then he would have done just that!"

The purple hedgehog had to admit that she put up a pretty good argument for that one topic. She nodded her head and ran off to find the (who the pink fox thought was good) blue hedgehog.

Should I tell you what happened to the pink fox first, or what happened to the purple hedgehog first? Just because I can't really get an answer from the person reading this, I am going to choose the purple hedgehog. (Sorry if you wanted to read about the pink fox first).

After 15 minutes of walking in the direction Sonic went, she noticed that he was nowhere to be found. She decided to rest under a tree for a second or three. As the purple hedgehog rested, she thought about all of the details that Sonic had.

"He's a blue hedgehog with red and white shoes, he's really fast, has spiky hair, green eyes, black nose, and seemed to be very confident in himself when he left his ship… If only I knew his name!" the purple hedgehog said to herself with the thought of giving up, but something else happened to make her change her mind.

"Are you talking about me?"

"What? Who are you and where are you?! I do know how to fight!" the purple hedgehog yelled in alarm. When she sprang up to meet the person who had spoken to her, she saw that there was nobody there. She got confused.

"Whoa! Take a chill pill! I'm not going to hurt you unless if you work for the bad side! The name is Sonic the hedgehog, and in case if you were wondering, I'm up in the tree," replied Sonic jumping down from the tree. He was definitely the same hedgehog that left the ship. Sonic was blue, had red and white shoes, green eyes, spiky hair, black nose, and had that confident expression on his face.

"Oh! I'm sorry that I threatened to hurt you Sonic. It's just that I and my friend are the only ones who live here, so if someone comes then it's normally not at all very good. My name is Lily the hedgehog, and I welcome you to this planet," Lily said warmly.

"So, does anyone ever come to this planet? It must get kind of lonely without anyone but your friend," said Sonic as he looked around at the empty planet. There was short grass and the occasional tree, but not much.

"Well, the metarex do come every now and then, but-"

"Metarex! Are you two allies and are you trying to get rid of me and my friends?! If you are then you aren't going to get away with it that easily!" shouted Sonic and he started chasing Lily and wouldn't stop chasing her!

"It's just that I'm not with them! I'm not with them! Do you hear me!?" cried Lily as she ran.

"Liar!"

Meanwhile, with the pink fox…

"Whoa! This ship is pretty big! They must have a lot of money or have the best space ship builder in the world!" exclaimed the pink fox as she made her way into the Blue Typhoon.

Inside of the ship, Tails the fox was fixing the security system.

"Okay. I just have to put that there and this here and I'm done!" cheered Tails. Once he did that, the system started beeping like crazy!

"What is it now Tails?! Is there a fire?! Is there a bomb?! Is there a bunch of Mexican tacos about to raid the ship?!" asked Knuckles in alarm.

"No Knuckles. There are no fires, no bombs, and I'm positive that our ship isn't being raided by Mexican tacos. Why would you think of something like that anyway?" asked Tails to Knuckles.

"I don't know. I suppose that it just came to me, but it does sound really ridiculous now that I think of it. I feel really stupid now," Knuckles replied.

"Yeah, I agree that you sound totally stupid and I would recommend that you don't bring it up anymore," Tails said.

"The two-tailed fox is right. It does sound really ridiculous. I also don't think that tacos can raid at all red echidna!"

"Hey! What on, whatever planet this is, was that Tails?!" asked Knuckles in surprise. He looked around trying to find the person who had said it.

"Hey, I'm standing right here you know! The pink fox is the one who is talking to you! The name is Rabby. Nice to meet you! Don't worry, I'm not an alien. Actually, I must ponder your reason for being here!" said Rabby cheerfully. It was easy to tell that Rabby was well prepared for a fight and was also not in the mood to fight, so Tails didn't tell anyone to attack her.

"What are you doing here anyway? Are you spying on us for the metarex? If you are, then you will be stopped! We do know how to fight!" warned Tails challengingly.

"Oh, don't be silly two-tailed fox! I'm the good guy here! How can I get you to trust me if you won't stop being so hostile? I'll tell you everything I know if I have to!" yelled Rabby. Her voice was truthful and Tails could see that she was unarmed.

"Alright, we trust you. By the way, my name is Tails. Not two-tailed fox. You got that? I'm the captain of this ship known as the Blue Typhoon! Made it myself," bragged Tails. He was very proud when Rabby jumped up to him and started asking him questions about how he could have done it with no help.

"You didn't do it all yourself Tails. Remember when Sonic and Knuckles fought just so you could get this ship in the air, how we loaded all this stuff onto this ship, how Knuckles let you use the master emerald as a power source, and how we all brought you supplies just so that you could finish it?" grumbled Amy walking into the room. She had heard everything that they had said.

"Oh yeah… Sorry… Well, Rabby this is Amy Rose. Don't get her mad, or else she will hit you with her giant piko piko hammer. She has anger issues… She's also madly in love with Sonic, so now that you know more about her, you should know what to expect," said Tails.

"What did you say about my anger issues?!"

"Er…, Nothing!" Tails replied to Amy.

"There are other people here, so don't you dare think that the introductions are done yet!" added Amy.

"Nice to meet you and-"

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

"What was that?! Is our ship being raided again?! This could be a trap Tails. This fox is distracting us to get us to let our guard down, so she can attack us with her little friends!" growled Knuckles in anger.

"Lily! She must be in deep trouble! I have to help her!" screamed Rabby as she ran off to find her friend.

"Wait who is Lily?" asked Amy.

"A soldier in your army is it not?! We don't trust you or your friends! They will pay if you are betraying us!" yelled Knuckles.

"Let's give her a chance Knuckles! She may not be a part of a large dangerous army or the metarex. Look outside Knuckles. See? It's just Sonic casing that poor girl around outside. Wait a second! Sonic is chasing that poor girl outside! That must be Lily! We might be surrounded by an evil gang after all if Sonic is chasing someone! Be back in a moment Knuckles!" called Tails as he ran outside to speak with Sonic.

"This is worse than an army because if Sonic doesn't stop then he might get trapped by them! Then he will be their hostage! I've got to stop him!" yelled Knuckles running outside.

Meanwhile outside the ship, Sonic was still chasing Lily. When Rabby saw this, she was furious. Her fur color started changing to red as her anger continued to well up inside of her! By the time her fur became the brightest and most vivid red ever seen, she was blasting after Sonic with amazing speed! She caught up with Sonic in ten seconds flat. Once Sonic saw her, he instantly forgot about Lily and directed his attention to getting away from Rabby in her mad form, but at that moment that seemed impossible.

"What do I do to stop this?! This isn't good! Sonic! Rabby! STOP!" screamed Tails.

"What?"

"I said stop!" Tails repeated.

"Oh!" replied Rabby.

Rabby returned to her normal color and quit chasing Sonic. Sonic also stopped running. They looked around confused. When Sonic saw Tails's tapping foot, he felt clearly embarrassed. Rabby finally figured out what all the fuss was about.

"Hey! You are that hedgehog from before! I didn't know it was you until I calmed down. Sorry about that, but why were you chasing Lily like she had done something wrong? She'd never do anything to offend anyone! Well, except for the metarex," replied Rabby with a nicer tone of voice than before. Her anger had vanished.

"Hold on! You two don't work for the metarex?" Sonic wondered out loud and was utterly confused at this point.

"Nope. We are not allies with them."

"In that case, I'm sorry for what I have done. Please forgive me," replied Sonic who finally understood.

"What's your name anyway? Should I just continue calling you blue hedgehog?" asked Rabby.

"Don't call me blue hedgehog, please. My real name is Sonic. Sonic the hedgehog. What about you?" asked Sonic to Rabby.

"The name's Rabby. Do you want us to become friends? I understand if you say no," Rabby said to Sonic.

"Why do you think that I wouldn't? Of course! We need all the friends we can get to stop the metarex. Do you want to- What's that in the sky?" asked Sonic.

"It's a metarex! Don't worry because I've got a plan! It's to fight this thing off! Okay Lily! Let's show them what we've got!" Rabby yelled before running into battle with Lily at her side.

Lily spun into the metarex to knock it over and Rabby noticed a crack in the back of it. She reached into the crack and pulled a wire out. The wire snapped and she with Lily ran away as fast as they could. The metarex blew up and the rest of it was nothing more than a pile of debris on the ground. Rabby and Lily gave each other high fives and returned to Sonic and the others. They were wonderstruck.

"How'd on Earth did you do that Rabby and Lily?! When we find one of those monsters we don't exactly beat it in two shots!" exclaimed Tails.

"No kidding!" Sonic said in agreement.

"Skill's the key. They're actually pushovers when they're alone. We've fought millions of metarex on this planet and none have beaten us yet," exclaimed Lily cheerfully.

"Would you guys like to join us? We could really use more people like you two along with us!" Tails said to them.

They looked at each other for a moment and discussed the offer between themselves. Lily wanted to stay because she had a bad feeling about going and didn't know of anyone who could protect the planet. Rabby on the other hand wanted to go because she knew that this would be an adventure that nobody would want to miss out on. The two of them turned back to Sonic and Tails.

"I think that we should-"

"Totally go with you! Who could refuse such an offer! " Rabby said to stop Lily from saying no. It worked at least.

"Fine then my dear friend Rabby! Just don't blame me if something goes horribly wrong!" replied Lily. Lily was mad at Rabby, but was also secretly agreeing with her that the adventure would be worth having. This was the only reason why she didn't argue.

"Well, the ship is now fixed, so let's go! Feel free to explore the ship while you're here!" Tails said as they all entered the Blue Typhoon.

"Hold on a second! Didn't Knuckles come out here with us?" asked Tails.

Right at that moment, Knuckles came running up and grabbed Sonic. Tails already knew what Knuckles was going to say just by looking at him.

"Sonic! You must get back onto the ship now! If you don't then you will become her hostage. We shouldn't trust her! She just randomly sneaks onto ships without warning!" screamed Knuckles as he pushed Sonic back into the ship.

"What are you talking about?! They're not going to keep me hostage! They saved us from that metarex that tried to steal their planet egg! These two are traveling with us now!" Sonic replied.

"Oh… Well, I feel sheepish. Rabby, Lily, please forgive me for all of those accusations…," Knuckles said.

"We forgive you!" Rabby and Lily said together.

"Thanks."

"I guess that we are leaving then!" replied Tails.

The rest of the gang hopped into the Blue Typhoon and were soon drifting through space unaware of what was going to happen next…