AND I'M BACK!! Hm…well I don't really have much to say for once…wow…I just had like ten cookies and nothing happened. AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! APPOCALYPSE!!!! RUUUUUUNNNNN!!!!

I shot up, hit my head, and cried out in pain, and lie back down. This time I got up MUCH slower and watched out for that low stalagmite, and tried to think out what had happened. All I could remember a searing pain that surged throughout my entire body and seeing a giant emerald the size of a croc! I looked around to find Meeca still sleeping and…slightly snoring at that matter (A/N: Sorry about that, pal…had to.). Then I heard a loud voice that I knew all too well, the same voice that belonged to the same person I've known since elementary school, the one the only…

"ARTEMIS!!! YOU'RE ALIVE!!!" Blackrose…she practically screamed and she started to hug me to death…LITERALLY!!

"Uh…Blackrose…" I choked…still hugging "Blackrose…" and hugging still…"BLACKIE!!!" She quickly let go and started to shake me by the collar.

"HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU TO NEVER CALL ME THAT!!!" She shouted in my face while threatening me with a pulled back fist.

After she cooled down I noticed that outside the cave there was a bunch of frozen plants. I asked her and she explained how she had managed to get ice powers and I realized to NEVER call her Blackie ever again…After her thorough story, I told her mine. You know…about how some giant gemstone THING managed to make me get knocked out and put me through some major migraine…There was still much to discuss, but we wanted to wait 'till Meeca woke up from dreamland. Blackrose introduced me to Knuckles, I happily shook his hand violently and he was a little surprised at my hyperness. I'd be too, since I had just woke up after getting knocked out from pain, but I try not to think about that part…But my arm was soon shot with pain like tiny little needles. Knuckles told me that I had broken my wrist back at the temple.

Soon after we chatted a bit and learned why Knuckles was here in the first place, we heard a long yawn and turned to see Meeca rubbing her eyes as if she had woken up from a pleasant dream…Lucky. But soon that was over for she clutched her head and I could've sworn I saw a tiny blue flame on her hand as she yelped. She started to rant on about how some blue stone burned her hand, and just when she was about say more her ears twitched and Blackrose and I knew that was bad. She walked around putting her ear to the wall and I started to sniff the air. Now I could smell burning oil and…an egg salad sandwich? I was about to say something when a robot came crashing into the cave causing a cave in. Without thinking I grabbed the wrists of Blackrose and Meeca and sped out of there with Knuckles close behind. We emerged from the cave with an explosion soon to follow. Blackrose caught Meeca by the shirt, but they were too late to catch me…I was too far away. I screamed as I was pulled to the ground by the evil force known as gravity. I shielded my eyes with my good arm, but there was no splat on my part. Instead I felt two strong arms pluck me out of the sly holding me bridal style and I looked up to see Knuckles looking straight ahead…. and gliding!

"You okay?" He shouted over the wind as we made our descent. I nodded with my eyes locked on him in surprise. I had absolutely NO idea that echidna's could glide!

Our feet made contact with the ground below and Knuckles set me down. I thanked him and Blackrose and Meeca ran up glad to see that I was okay. I was smiling nervously until a blue flash interrupted our little reunion.

" Hey, there Knuckles. Who are your friends?" A blue hedgehog with emerald green eyes asked as he skidded to a halt. I recognized him from the multiple newspapers from Mobius. Meeca was the first to react though…

"HEY!!! You're Sonic the Hedgehog!" She shouted while pointing at him. Blackrose and I shook our heads while sighing in annoyance.

"Yup, that's me! Who are you though?" Sonic repeated, this time Blackrose was the one who beat me to the answer…MAN I'm starting to feel like a mute here!

" Well, I'm Blackrose, this is Artemis, and the cat's Meeca." She said matter of factly.

Then, there was yet, ANOTHER boom and we saw the same robot as in the cave and hovering near by was an ugly, FAT, bad smelling, FAT, big-nosed, FAT man. Did I mention he was fat? I was wondering where that egg salad smell was coming from…

" Well, well, well…if it isn't Sonic, Knuckles and…who's this?" He questioned. I saw Blackrose tense up and clenched her fists. I'm guessing this was the guy who killed her family…Eggman…

" YO!! Eggfreak! Yoohoo!! Holy snot, I haven't seen ANYONE who looked like he was an oversized Egg who needed a tan! I mean, I'm surprised no one tried to hard-boil you! Not that you could fit in the pot, fatso!" I called up to Eggman just to get him ticked off, and it worked.

I was the QUEEN of names, if you needed to insult someone; I was the wolf for the job!

" WHAT?!?! YOU LITTLE BRAT! YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT!!" Eggman hollered in anger.

I taunted him by jumping up and down with my hands on my hips making that nya nya sound. He fired a missile in my direction and in a purple flash I was on top of the missile that was shot at me and jumped as it hit the ground, remanding safe. As I was making a fool out of Eggman, I saw Blackrose and Meeca hovering above the preoccupied scientist with a bucket full of water (I have no idea where they got it from). I let a sly grin creep onto my face and Eggman let out a loud yell as the ice-cold water was dumped onto his neck less head. We all clutched our stomachs while laughing our heads off.

" AHAHA!! Man, that was a good one, girls!" Sonic complimented while rolling on the ground laughing like a mad man. Knuckles was laughing too hard to speak, but I could tell he was trying not to.

Eggman was steaming now, and plucked the bucket off his head. "You three…are going to regret that…" He said in a low voice as he pressed a little button on his Egg Carrier. Soon a robotic hand came out and grabbed Meeca, Blackrose, and I and lifted us high into the air. I soon felt a rush of cold air as the hand started to freeze into solid ice, along with the rest of his Egg Carrier. I looked around to see Blackrose's eyes glowing an ice blue as the floating chair thing shattered. She returned to normal as we fell and caught us both this time.

Eggman charged a cannon and was about ready to fire, but a jet intercepted and we caught a lift. Inside was a small orange fox who looked no older than eight and behind him was a pink hedgehog wearing a red headband and red dress. In the compartment behind them was a human boy with ginger hair and blue eyes and behind him was a little rabbit with a chao beside her. I winced at the sound of something very sharp scratching on metal as I saw Meeca start to slide off the wing. I dove to catch her, but her claws were already off and she was falling through the clouds. They soon cleared up and I saw a blue fire down below and realized that was Meeca and she had melted a hole straight through the giant robot thing.

We landed and Blackrose and I ran to the ruins that used to be Eggman's robot. I saw Meeca poke her head through the gaping hole and she looked around.

" AW COOL!!" Blackrose shouted as she punched the air.

"I think you mean hot considering that blue fire is some of the hottest stuff on Earth." The small fox said while climbing out of the jet. "I'm Tails by the way." He said with a smile.

"The name's Meeca, and these are my friends Blackrose and Artemis." Meeca responded gesturing to us. I waved as the pink hedgehog rushed up to Blackrose.

"You'd better not be here to steal MY Sonic! My name is Amy, his girlfriend!" She shouted. We all exchanged looks as Blackrose started to laugh her head off.

" Nah! I'm not here to steal anyone! I didn't know he had a girlfriend! AHAHAH!!" She choked before resuming to her laughter. Amy turned red as we all joined in.

" Well, that's Amy for ya. I'm Chris, it's nice to meet you three." The human said cheerfully.

" Same here" We said in unison.

Eggman had gotten away and we had to keep Blackrose from going berserk, but after that fiasco we decided to head to Chris's place to meet the others. Knuckles had declined saying he had to keep protecting the Master Emerald…what a party pooper! We flew on the X Tornado with Sonic on the left wing with me, Meeca and Blackrose on the other, and Tails, Chris, and Amy were in the plane. I kept quiet the whole trip as Meeca and Blackrose chatted about their newfound powers. Why hadn't I been able to do anything special? I was the only one who had direct contact with the Master Emerald in the first place, wasn't I? Maybe all it did was feed off of me and give nothing in return… I sighed and Sonic noticed.

"Hey, Artemis…" He paused, as I looked up from the metal wing "I know you probably feel a little left out about not getting any powers. But you're still pretty good with strategy, that's good enough for me. I mean, you DID out smart Eggman, he may be an idiot, but he has a high IQ and it takes a lot to do that." Sonic reassured.

" I guess so…thanks." I said with a smile. Amy on the other hand looked TICKED OFF! She was glaring at me the whole rest of the way back, and that REALLY creeped me out…I just hope she doesn't hold a grudge for long…

DONE!! Sorry if I made Meeca and Blackrose sound a little cold…hopefully they'll fix that in their POV's…Oh, and I admit there will be romance in my POV, what I can't help it! But, there shall be NONE with Sonic, okay? I'm a SonAmy fan, always will be…unless I find some reason to be a ShadAmy fan…Anywho.

PEACE OUT DUDES!!!