A/N: Hey, here's the sixth chapter!

I've been working really hard on it and I hope the plot thickens a bit.

Also, good news! I'm now on DeviantART with the same username!

Shadow: Um…yay?

Me: Anyways, let's get on with the story!

Silver: Wait! We haven't done the disclaimer yet!

Me: Fine, Marine will do it.

Marine: Alrighty, mate. He don't own none of us Sonic characters, we all belong to Sega!

Me: Great job, and onwards!

Hope you like it!

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*Ryan's POV*

I slowly blinked my eyes as I woke up. I leaned up and glanced at the clock. It read 8:30. (That should give me plenty of time to eat brunch before I leave.)

I noticed that Shadow was still asleep. Instead of staring at him and having an awkward moment like yesterday, I slowly snuck out of the room, trying not to lean on my injured ankle.

When I got to the kitchen, to my surprise, Tails wasn't there. I walked in and looked around.

"Well I guess I'll make brunch myself." I said inwardly. "I'll help you!" a sudden voice behind me said.

I really need to get Tails a bell or something.

I spun around. "Quit doing that!" "Sorry…" he replied almost sarcastically. "We should make grilled cheese sandwiches!" I proposed. He nodded in return and we got to work.

Once we made brunch, we ate quickly and finished up. "I don't know about you, but I'll be busy for most of the day. You can go check out what Shadow's doing, but most days around here aren't exactly busy 24/7." Tails lectured.

"Well, I do have plans of my own. So I'll see you later." I replied. "Alright, I'm in my room if you need me." he replied as he left the kitchen.

(Hmm, he didn't ask anything about my plans. Is he just minding his own business, or does he not even care? Or is something else entirely going on? Eh, who cares? I have my own issues. Like fixing this stupid habit I have of asking myself questions I can't answer!) I thought as I bonked myself on the head and went back to my room.

There was Shadow, still asleep at 9:45. Should I wake him up? Probably not a good idea. I opened the front door and started to slip out when,

"Where do you think you're going?" Shadow asked, somehow seeming wide awake already.

"Out." I replied, trying to keep my destination a secret for some reason even I didn't know. "Fine." he replied. (WHAT? He doesn't care? It's like he doesn't care about anything!)

"I do care about things, just not you at the moment." he stated.

Damn it! He could read my mind! I'm such an idiot. But he seems to be back to his old, bitter self again… Just great.

"Whatever. Just don't piss off Tails while I'm gone." I said as I left. But I stopped myself.

"And by the way, you get to do the dishes, sleepyhead." I added, smirking like I hadn't in a long time. Just as I closed the door, the last thing I saw was his face, and he was pissed. But a funny kind of pissed.

When I turned to go find Blaze, I remembered something. I have NO CLUE where her room is. That could be a problem.

There were quite a few doors in the hallway, and no name tags or anything like that to help the new kid on the block. After pondering for a bit, I decided on a door. I knocked on said door three times. It opened, and…

"CRIKEY! What are you doin' here?" a particular raccoon screamed. This was certainly the wrong door, considering Marine was standing in front of me. It's Marine, yay, let's celebrate.

"Oops, wrong door. Heheh, silly me. Well, I gotta go!" I rambled nervously. As I ran away, I realized I…wasn't moving? Sure enough, Marine had already grabbed my wrist to keep in her "wrath".

"Where ya headed, mate?" she asked. "Um…" I started. Damn. I really need to learn how to lie. Why not just say the bathroom. Yeah, good idea. "Blaze's room!" Wow. Good job me.

"Oy, I'll come to!" she exclaimed. Now Marine's going to follow me. Yay, let's celebrate some more.

She stepped out and closed the door behind her. "So where's Blaze's room?" I asked impatiently. "Well, aren't you antsy!" she exclaimed. "It's right down here, mate."

We got to Blaze's supposed room, and I knocked five times. I guess I am antsy. Blaze opened it and greeted with, "You're late, Ryan. It's 10:03."

(Wow, what a warm welcome!) Blaze frowned a bit. Oh crap! Could she read minds too? I sure hope not…

"I'm fashionably late!" I stated, trying to "lighten" the mood. "Never mind that, why is Marine here?" Blaze asked. "Because!" Marine answered, when Blaze was asking ME! How irritating. Well, so much for "lightening" the mood. Whatever. I shrugged my shoulders and went to walk inside, but instead Rouge walked out. She made no eye contact whatsoever. (Why was Rouge here? *Light bulb turns on* Oh! Blaze shares a room with Knuckles, and he and Rouge are "dating" as Tails puts it. I guess it's pretty self-explanatory now.)

Now, we finally entered Blaze's room to discuss this thing. "So, Ryan…" Blaze started with a smile on her face. "Do you know why I asked you to come here?"

"No." Marine replied. WAIT! Why did SHE reply? Argh, she is SO getting on my nerves!

"What Marine said." I said calmly.

"Well, I have some news." Blaze said, as she walked over to a desk and picked up a couple papers. "When Shadow knocked you out a few days ago, and Rouge was cleaning your cut, I took a blood sample of yours from her to the lab. We did some experiments and it turns out that…" Blaze put down the papers, and stared at me with a huge grin.

"YOU'RE MY COUSIN!" she shrieked. "WHAT?" Marine and I asked simultaneously.

"Yes, our DNA is almost perfectly identical, and after some research, Master Cream, Knuckles and I found out!" Blaze explained. "That is so cool!" I said happily. "And that's not all…" Blaze said.

"In addition to that, you know how some of us here can summon the sacred elements?" "Yeah." I answered. "Well it's a special trait in each of our DNA that allows us to do that, and yours actually has the same trait!"

"So does this mean that I can do that too?" I asked. "Yes!" "WAHOO!" I jumped up and down. (What a great day!) "Calm down, calm down. I will have to do some more experiments to figure out which element you can control." Blaze said. "Which ones are there?" I asked.

"I control Fire, Marine controls Water, Shadow controls Ice, Tails controls Nature, Sonic controls Electricity, Rouge controls Air, and Knuckles controls Earth." Blaze replied. "Wow…" I mumbled back, stuck daydreaming of how powerful I could be…until Marine punched me in the arm.

"Oy, mate! Wake up! We gotta go tell everyone the good news!" she exclaimed as she dragged me along and out the door.

"Bye you two!" Blaze shouted out to us. "Bye!" we replied as my head hit the doorknob.

"Hey! I'm still injured, ya know!" I yelled, pissed off with Marine's antics today. That got her attention for once. "I'm so sorry, mate!" she apologized. "And my name's Ryan, not 'mate'!" I snarled as I stood up, rubbing the back of my head. "I'm so sorry, mate! Er, I mean Ryan! I'm so sorry, Ryan!" "Apology sorta accepted." I gritted through my teeth.

After I sent Marine back home, -and after a good-bye-hug that was at least three mississippis too long in my opinion- I opened the door to my room and went inside. As soon as I got in, Tails ran up to me.

"Congratulations, Ryan!" he exclaimed. "Wait, how do you know already?" "Marine told me!" "How?" "Through a message on our spy glasses. It's pretty handy actually." "Oh yeah, I need another pair 'cause of Shadow." "Ok, I'll get them later."

"Thanks anyways though." I said as I walked past him. "What have you been doing so far today?"

"You remember how I never showed you my room 'cause it was too messy? Well now it's clean, and I can show it to ya!" Tails said. "Ok, let's see it!" I replied, and Tails led me there.

He slowly opened the door and…if I had to describe this room in word it would be "nerdy", but that doesn't seem appropriate, so I'll go with "technological".

"Pretty cool, huh?" Tails asked me. "Sure is." "I'll give ya the tour!" Tails led me to the main area.

"This is the TV!" he said enthusiastically. "Thanks, tips…" It was a huge TV on the opposite wall from the entrance with a white sofa and chair in front of it. Next, he took me to the left end.

He showed me his yellow bed and chest of drawers that he kept some of his gadgets in. And on the right side, oh boy…

25 screens displayed various footages of places around. "This here is the IPIA security system. If someone tries to get on our land, these cameras catch them and automatically sound the alarm." Tails explained. I nodded in understanding as I observed the last pieces of the room. The rest of Tails' gadgets displayed on the shelves on the walls, which were painted a cream colour. The floor was yellow, and the ceiling gray.

"So, let's talk…" Tails said as he sat in his "office" chair. I sat on the sofa and started off.

"Thanks for those stitches a couple days ago." "No problem, I'm glad you're getting better. You're practically ready for battling!" Tails said with a chuckle.

"Maybe, but Rouge and Shadow seem a bit sketchy with me right now." I stated. "Well Rouge is just jealous, but Shadow was being nice, right?" "Sort of. I guess he's not 100%." "Yeah, but I'm sure he's doing his best."

"I still wanna cheer him up though. Is there anything that makes him happy?" I asked. "The one thing he can't stand is being tickled." Tails replied. "So the 'Ultimate Lifeform's' biggest flaw is being ticklish?" "Yep." I couldn't stop myself form bursting into laughter at that.

I collapsed on the floor, tears starting to fill my eyes. Shadow being ticklish, was the most ridiculous, funniest thing I had ever heard.

"What's so funny?"

And then the laughter stopped. That somewhat cold yet "comforting" voice wasn't the best one for me to hear right now.

I looked up at Shadow, who was staring at me of course, waiting for me to spill the beans. He knew I couldn't lie.

"We were talking about Sonic's ballerina costume yesterday, and Ryan just broke out laughing." Tails said, thinking quickly. He also knew I couldn't lie, but he had my back.

"Oh really…" Shadow said, still glaring at me. I nodded my head frantically, agreeing with Tails.

"Very well. What shall we talk about?" Shadow asked casually. Is he having mood swings or something? If he was a girl, I'd swear he was pregnant!

"Why did you hug me?" I blurted out. I glanced at Tails and he looked like he had just choked on his own spit. He stared wide-eyed at Shadow. "You did what?" he asked. "Nothing important. I think you hit your head again. Go back to sleep." Shadow said coldly.

'Nothing important.' Why am I hurt by that? Whatever, I better change the subject.

"So what are we doing today?" I asked. Shadow and Tails shrugged. "How about something together?" I asked further. Shadow frowned a bit, but Tails replied, "Sure."

But then an alarm went off. It wasn't that loud, but loud enough to make you want to squish your brains out to end the suffering. But still not that loud.

"What is that?" I shouted over the blaring alarm. Tails looked at the screens. "Uh-oh." he said. "What?" Shadow yelled. "It looks like we'll have to do those plans some other time." Tails replied. "Why?" I asked. "Remember those surveillance cameras I told you about before?"

"Yeah!"

"Well it looks like we've got visitors…"

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A/N: Well, well. A cliffie!

A bit of humour, suspense, and other stuff mixed into that chapter I guess!

Alright, I hope you enjoyed that chapter!

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