A blue blur rushed along the ground, feet moving so fast that not a foot print would make an appearance in the grass. The blur was being closely followed by a similar blur, although it itself was pink, and slightly larger, being accompanied by a yellow blur being extended above the pink blur. "Wait! Please stop yourself!" An orange blur yelled, following in the air behind them, accompanied by a struggling red blur, which was at the end.
The chase had been going on for nearly an hour by now, and the pink blur was starting to close in on the blue blur. The small group of blurs were all finally getting closer to each other when they hit a wall. The blue blur was the only one who didn't stop immediately, running up the wall that they had hit, stopping only after the wall shook violently, causing him fall the distance back to the ground. Now that they had stopped, the blue blur lay on the ground as a large blue hedgehog, the pink blur revealing itself as a little shorter pink hedgehog in a red dress. The orange and red blurs had stopped to reveal a preteen two-tailed orange fox, and a red echidna with spiked gloves. All of the human-like mammals wore plain gloves, except the echidna, and a variety of shoes were outfitted on them as well. The Pink Hedgehog was standing over the blue with her hammer raised high above her head.
"Wait, Amy! It wasn't sonic who did it!" The fox exclaimed, pouncing the pink hedgehog with great agility, giving the red echidna the time to help the blue hedgehog up to his feet. The fox and hedgehog fought a comedic manner before it was broken up by the echidna pulling Amy away from the fox.
"Sonic! You're going to pay!" Amy screeched with anger.
"Whoa! I don't even know what I did or didn't do!" The blue hedgehog replied. "What's she talking about Tails?"
The fox gave a deep sigh. "Someone attacked her earlier. They were moving at incredible speed, speeds that matched yours sonic. We were around too, and we saw the whole thing. We almost believed it was you too." Tails explained.
Knuckles, the red echidna, grunted. "We tried to follow him, but when we had him almost cornered at the beach, he took off running across the water." He said.
"Feh. He's probably just another poser, like Shadow acted when I first met him." Sonic boasted, smiling at Amy. The pink hedgehog almost immediately lost her violent nature, a blush overtaking her, and making her forget about her anger.
"I'm sorry Sonikku." She apologized as she posed as innocent as she could with the echidna holding her.
"It's alright Amy. But we gotta find out who that guy is. I don't want another Shadow incident to happen. You said he escaped over the ocean? Let's get the tornado and go looking for him." Sonic reasoned with a calm attitude.
"What makes you so sure we can find him?" Knuckles asked, releasing Amy to cross his arms.
"He's gotta rest eventually. Even I can't run across the ocean without feeling the slightest bit tired. The Faker was chased by you guys, and then tried escaping using the ocean, he'd have to stop and rest sooner or later." Sonic reasoned.
"True... Alright! Let's hurry down to the shop! We shouldn't waste any time." Tails called, leading the group in the direction of his workshop.
An hours run later, the group was growing closer to the Workshop, running all at the same speed to keep up behind Tails. As they ran up the hill that separated them from the shop, they immediately recognized the smoke billowing above the horizon, and Tails was the quickest to speed up, making it to the top of the hill to observe the destroyed ruins of his workshop. As the others joined him, they all shared distraught looks that could never match the look Tails adorned. Suddenly Tails broke from the group, running to the burning workshop, leaving the others to watch his attempts to put out the flames, watching until the flames burned out.
"Maybe we should go get him..." Amy said after a prolonged silence. She began to walk down the hill, when suddenly Tails stepped on something, and was caught in an explosion. He was no longer standing there when the smoke cleared, and the group ran into the mess without thought, all except for Sonic, who had seen the silhouette of a chao that was almost out of sight, sitting on the remains of the roof, watching where Tails had been standing.
"Hey, little guy! How'd you get over there?" he called out, walking in it's direction. Suddenly, two more loud explosions were heard, and he looked where they had come from, and saw knuckles shoes and gloves on the ground, Amy's clothes closer to where Tail's gloves and shoes lay. It didn't take him long to turn his attention tot he chao, before he saw it escaping from the scene, moving quickly to a hole in the ground nearby. Sonic raced to the hole, but the chao was too quick, and popped itself into the ground. It had gotten away, and Sonic was all alone, three of his friends dead.
"You're too slow!" Came a taunting call behind Sonic. He turned, only to hear a popping sound, and feel an incredible pain in his leg, causing him to fall the the ground. Two more pops came, and more pain in his other leg, and his right arm. Then he heard the sound of buttons on a phone being dialed, followed by a short silence.
"Hello? Nine-One-One? I-I found a hedgehog on the ground out here by Miles Prower's workshop, which has been burnt down. I thing you need to get here now! He's been shot, and looks bad. Thanks, I'll see you soon." came the voice that had insulted his speed.
"Wh-who are you?" Sonic asked in a weak voice.
""Oh? My name? It's Gannon Dallus Ma'am. Alright, I'll wait here by his side. Thank you." The voice said. Sonic was about to speak, but a blunt object hit him suddenly on the head and the little strength keeping him awake left him,a dn he finally passed out.
