Sonic turned to the shadows where the voice came from, it was a deep voice, almost too deep. "Who are you?" Sonic asked as a chuckle came from the darkness. "It's common courtesy to give your name before asking for someone else's…" Sonic smirked and said while pointing to himself. "I'm Sonic, Sonic the hedgehog, and this is Tails… What are you doing here Tails? I thought I told you to find the chaos emeralds."

Tails showed Sonic his codec. A red dot was heading towards them. "Sonic, that's a chaos emerald, it is coming towards us." Tails said as the red dot vanished. "Huh? Where did it go?" Suddenly, a white flash shot out from a tree top. The figure landed next to Amy. "HEY! GET AWAY FROM HER!" The man in the shadow's yelled. He lunged into the moonlight. Sonic finally saw what was in the shadows.

He saw a silver underside of a dragon, he also saw some spikes protruding out of the back of his skull. He had a black body, except for a few red stripes on some of his head spikes, a long stripe down the front of his neck, his triceps have a red stripe too, and so does his quads. His wings are red along with his stripes. He also wore black gloves and black boots.

The dragon slammed into the white hedgehog. He flew back and hit a large tree, about 6 feet in diameter. The dragon drew his black gloved hand and was about to smash the white hedge's head in, but he grabbed the dragon's fist and slammed him into the tree. He fell and sat up. The hedgehog went for the kill and used some metallic claws that attached by the fingers to slit the dragon's throat.

There were 4 large claw marks in the tree, but not a drop of blood spilled from the dragon. The dragon drew a large breath, then let go a huge wall of flame on the hedgehog. Sonic, Tails, and Amy were in shock, they couldn't move. The wall of orange engulfed the hedgehog. The dragon stood up and quickly moved towards Amy. He hugged and wrapped his wings around her as his arms held her waist.

"Damn… you're her boyfriend aren't you?" The hedgehog asked as he emerged from the flames. The dragon turned and growled. "Hey, easy. I came here to give Sonic something." Sonic got a good look at the hedgehog. He wore a black leather jacket, which he took off and tossed it into the flames. He also wore dark red sunglasses. He had a long rectangular pouch strapped to his right leg. He had a blue backpack, and also had an eye patch over the left eye.

He walked up to the dragon and extended his gloved hand, the one that didn't have the metallic claws. "Sorry about that, you just attacked me, and that's great armor. My claws can pierce anything, but I couldn't do it with your armor. I'm Ace, Ace the hedgehog." The dragon looked at Ace, he was an excellent fighter, he could harm him, or worse… Amy. But he seemed sincere, so the dragon shook hands with Ace. "I'm Salamance." He said as Ace turned to Sonic.

"Sonic, this could come in handy." Ace said as he dug out something from his backpack. He pulled out a red emerald. "That's the chaos emerald my codec sensed!" Tails exclaimed as Ace held it high in the air. "Wow, where'd you find it?" Tails asked as Ace smirked. "Found it in a cave I was searching." Sonic smiled.

His smiled faded when he saw a nasty smirk on Ace's face. "Whoa, what's with the bad look?" Sonic asked as Ace looked confused. "Sorry, just my smile…" Ace said with his ears behind his head. Tails scolded Sonic. "Anyway, I'll hold on to this emerald, I've survived a fight with this guy after all." Ace said as Salamance frowned.

"It's Salamance… moron." Ace smirked. "Well Salamance Moron, I survived a fight with you." Salamance didn't like Ace's attitude. "Why don't you shut up?" Ace was enjoying this. "How about you make me lizard breath? At least that what people call you." "People call me lizard breath behind my back?" Salamance asked as Ace smiled and responded, "Well they're not going to say it to your face now are they?" Salamance was furious.

He took his fist and smashed it against Ace's face. He flew back into the fire. Amy gasped. "Salamance! He was only joking around!" Amy crossed her arms and leaned up on another large tree. Salamance about to apologize, but a knife spinning around at about 70 miles per hour stabbed the area next to Amy's head. She was about to scream, but Ace had moved faster than the naked eye could see.

He was standing next to Amy, the dark smile on his face returned. Salamance saw red, he charged Ace, but Ace grabbed the sunglasses he had on and threw them at Salamance. As Salamance swatted them away, Ace slid under him and punched his leg. Salamance lost his balance and fell, but Ace had anticipated this, he kicked his foot up and slammed into Salamance's face.

He groaned as he rolled on the ground. Ace rolled backwards and kicked up. Salamance was momentarily stunned. He soon stood up, anger in his eyes. He lunged at ace. Ace side stepped the dragons attack. Salamance spun around and threw a punch at Ace. Ace caught it and smirked. "I can't slash you… but I can cause you serious pain."

Ace grabbed the dragon by the throat and lifted him up. Salamance was shocked that Ace could lift him. Ace's hand started sparking. Soon Ace's whole hand was one huge lightning rod. Salamance's diamond hard scales were glowing and sparkling as Ace electrocuted him.

Ace let him go after a full minute. "Ah, that's what he gets." Salamance shook his head and stood up. "L-Lets go Amy" He said as he slowly walked off with Amy. "Sonic, I saw what happened between you and that machine, Metal Sonic was it? I think you should give me your emeralds, he won't be expecting that after all." Sonic looked at Tails.

"We should get to know you better." Sonic said as Ace frowned. "What's the matter? Don't trust the guy who was making you jealous?" Sonic blushed. "Heh, I could see it on your face…" Ace put the emerald in his back pack. "I guess he's right… I'll make you a codec so we can communicate and I can see where you are at all times." Tails said as Ace chuckled. "Alright." Sonic looked at Tails. "I'll search for the other emeralds, in the meantime, make our new friend a codec.

Sonic loaded the chaos emeralds location screen on his codec and headed for the closest one, the white one. Ace looked at the trail of dust Sonic left. "Well, we haven't been properly introduced. My name is Frank, but call me Ace." He extended his hand. "Miles Prower, but call me Tails." He said as he shook hands with his new friend… to bad Tails didn't know Ace's secret…

Salamance belongs to suicuneluvr, a personal friend of mine. Ace belongs to mwah. Frank is just a name I came up with… So deal with it… All other characters belong to SEGA, and… whoever had the idea to come up with Sonic. Hit the review button down there, it will make me happy. :P