Sorry I've been out for a while! I was helping a friend of mine write his first fanfiction story and afterwards I kind of dozed off. I'm back now and ready to continue this story! Here's the next chapter!

As Tails closed in on Mystic Ruins and his workshop, he saw Sonic, still in his new transformation, waiting at the front door. He was tapping his foot impatiently, waiting for his twin-tailed friend to catch up. Soon, Tails made it to the workshop and landed in front of Sonic.

"What took ya so long?" Sonic asked.

"Well excuse me! I didn't know that power boost enhanced your speed so much!" Tails said, a little annoyed.

"Yeah, I was a little surprised too." Sonic responded as he looked at his new appearance once more.

"Well lets head inside and see what happened to you."

Sonic nodded and followed his kitsune friend inside of his workshop. They walked past the living and headed downstairs to Tails' lab. The Laboratory was filled with robot parts, various types of high tech tools, scattered blueprints and a supercomputer at the back of the room. Even though Tails is usually hard at work, inventing and building, he always makes sure to keep everything clean and organized.

"All right. Let's get to the bottom if this," Tails declared.

"Heh. I'll leave it to you Tails!" Sonic smirked.

The brotherly duo proceeded to the back of the room and approached Tails' supercomputer. As Tails booted the machine up, he took another handheld mech, similar to his previous scanner mech, and scanned Sonic's body again. He then plugged it up to his supercomputer and transmitted the data. As he tinkered with the results, Sonic crossed his arms and tapped his foot again. He wasn't the one who likes to wait around, especially when Tails takes too long with his research.

"Is this gonna take any longer Tails?" Sonic groaned.

"Just a sec. I'm almost done." Tails reassured.

After a while longer of tinkering with the research findings, Tails was slightly surprised.

"Whoa... This is interesting!" Tails said.

"What did you find out?" Sonic questioned curiously.

"It seems that the emerald you absorbed gave off a special kind of energy that responded with your body and turned you into what you are now," Tails reported, "The intriguing thing is that the energy inside the emerald isn't exactly chaos energy, though it reacts when exert chaos control on it. It's more of a particular type of energy that I just can't put my finger on..."

Sonic took in everything his companion told him and thought about it a little.

"What do you think it could be?" Sonic asked.

"Hmm... I'm not sure. But I can say one thing. We discovered a new type of emerald. One that no one has ever seen before!"

Sonic nodded and smirked a little.

"Sounds pretty cool! It could be useful!" Sonic said.

Just then, Sonic's body gave off a light blue flash and Sonic's appearance returned to normal and the red and blue emerald was back in his hands.

"Hey! I'm back to normal!" Sonic announced.

Tails smiled and looked at the emerald in the hedgehog's hands.

"You think you could hold on to that a little longer?" Tails asked, "I think that emerald will be useful in the future. Plus, it seems the energy inside only responds to you."

"Sure! If this is a new kind of emerald, I'd love to see in action!" Sonic replied as he tossed the emerald in his hands a few times.

Sonic tucked the emerald into his hammerspace and started heading out of the lab.

"I'm heading out for a run. See ya Tails!" Sonic farewelled as he dashed out of the workshop.

I'm currently working on Ch.3 now. It'll be coming soon and I'll try not to doze this time. Sayonara for now!