Chapter 5

Sonic and Zero came dashing out of the portal and arrived in what looked to be an island of some sort. Sonic came to a sudden stop and collapsed on the ground.

"Sonic," Zero exclaimed to the unconscious hedgehog. "Are you okay?"

Sonic couldn't respond. He was too exhausted. Zero let out a sigh of relief. He was happy to know that his new comrade was still breathing. Zero lifted Sonic off the ground and looked at his surroundings. It looked like he was on some kind of island. Not to far away be what looked like a beach of the island. He could see the water. Zero carried Sonic to the water and came to a sudden stop.

"What the?" to Zero's amazement he was standing on a floating island. It had to be at least four hundred feet of the ground. "Oh Sonic you are not gonna believe this."

"Tails slow down," came a female's voice. Zero turned around to see there was a forest. "Tails."

"My machine is picking up his energy signature Amy," came a young boy's voice. "We must find him before he runs off somewhere." Zero set Sonic's body back on the ground and drew his Z-saber. He didn't want to be caught off guard from whatever was out there. Suddenly, a light brown animal like creature came emerging from the trees. He was holding a what looked like a computer. Right behind was another creature. This creature looked like Sonic so she must have been of the same species. The pink one let out a gasp and pointed at Zero.

"Tails look!" she screamed. "It's him the thief."

The pink creature pulled out an enormous and positioned it in front of her. She angled her eyes as if prepared for a fight. Zero lifted his saber in front of his face. He didn't want to fight for no reason but if he had to. The pink creature dashed at an incredible speed toward Zero. She leaped into the air slammed her weapon down upon Zero. Without even trying, Zero quickly positioned his weapon above his head and blocked against the hammer. She was fast but not as fast as Sonic and her moves were moves easy to read. Zero could see tears in the girl's eyes. It was like she was mad at him for some reason.

Tails slowly crept around Amy and Zero towards Sonic. He had never scene his best friend in such a terrible condition. Could this stranger have had something to do with this? He put two fingers over Sonic's neck. His pulse was normal. "Sonic," Tails whispered. "You've got to wake up." Sonic's body twitched a little and his eyes slightly opened. "Sonic?"

"Uggggggghhhhhh. Tails?" the blue hedgehog replied. "Is that you?"

Tails cracked a little smirk and gave a slight nod. "Yeah it's me buddy." Tails looked over to Amy. She looked exhausted but she kept on fighting. Zero on the other hand didn't look tired at all and the only thing he was doing was blocking. Tails ran over to Amy's side ready to assist her.

"Why are you two fighting me?" Zero asked in confusion.

"We saw what did to Sonic," Amy furiously replied with tears pouring down her face.

"Ohh. Sonic? I can explain about that."

"Save it!" Tails interrupted as he flew into the air. "We saw you take the emerald and we expect to get it back. No matter what the cost."

Zero couldn't take it anymore things just got serious. He quickly switched his Z-saber with his recoil rods and aimed them both at the ground, charging energy into them. "Recoil Ram!" he yelled as a dust shot from out of the ground. Tails stopped in mid air to cover his face. He couldn't take all the dust anymore so he quickly lifted himself above dust. He couldn't see a thing.

"Amy!" Tails called. "Where are you."

Amy let out a scream as if she was being attacked. Tails didn't know what to do. Should he go in after her?

"Recoil Ram!" Zero yelled as he shot into the air out of the dust cloud. He had Amy tucked over his shoulder. Tails attempted to fly out of the way but it was too late. Before he could turn around Zero had grabbed his foot and threw him into the ground. Tails went down like a shooting star.

Zero set Amy's body down next to Tails and Sonic's. "Great," he thought. "Just what I need."

"Ughhhh," came a weary voice. "Zero?"

Zero looked over his shoulder to see Sonic was standing, but barely. He had his left cupped over his right shoulder as if were it about to break.

"Sonic," Zero said as he ran to Sonic's side. "You have to rest. You're injured from the fight with M.S. 5."

Sonic looked over to his friend's unconscious bodies. Then he looked at Zero.

"What did you do?"

"Sorry about that. I just knocked them out. They kind of attacked me."

Sonic nodded as signal that he understood. He slowly removed his arm from his shoulder and sat on the ground. He looked over his shoulder to see there was an ocean behind him, bit no beach. He knew he was on Angel Island.

"There should be a small not to far from here," he choked out. "Do you see that large hill behind you?"

Zero looked over his shoulder. In the short he could see a small hill that had small house and what looked like a small purple plane. He looked back over to Sonic and gave him a quick nod.

"Yeah I see it," Zero responded. "The thing is I can only carry two of your friends on my shoulder. Think you can wa…."

"That won't be a problem," came a familiar young man's voice. It was Tails, he had already woken up. "I can carry Sonic."

Things are really staring to turn around for our heroes. Tune in next time for the next episode Reploids and Hedgehogs.