Author: ya know it's weird but I got the strangest sense of Déjà Vu when I was writing this, I don't know if I subliminally copied something or what but If I did Im sorry, I worked extra hard on this and tried to make it better than the other chapters so please review, and tell me if I did beter. also I am thinking about rewriting a few of the previous chapters. the story will remain the same, but im hopeing I will be able to word it better and fix any typos, oh, and I do not own Sonic or any of the Sonic heroes. Enjoy the story. :) Note: My story takes place in a world that is kind of a mix of the video games and the Archie comic only a little different

"Well, now is the moment of truth now the, search for Sonic begins." She mumbled to herself as she climbed down the slope.

Part of her was ready to begin, but another part of her cringed at the idea.

'What if he is gone? What if I was here earlier?" These thoughts and others swirled in her mind As she walked along the beach alert for just about anything. 'What is I was not fast enough? What If I meet the one who hurt sonic and shadow?' Strangely a small smirk stretched across her face at this thought. She was not the vengeful type, never has been, never will be. But Thinking of the beast who had caused her friends so much pain she could not help but feel like she had to stop it. She remembered that that thing was after the world rings, so that meant that they would meet sooner or later and when they did she would be ready. It's strange but she didn't know if she should look forward to the meeting or if she should fear it.

"Oh well, what will happen will happen." She mumbled to herself as she speed up.

She reached the sea no problem and began looking for any trace of Sonic on the shore. The beach was rather empty except for a few scattered rocks and boulders. Her ears twitched as she tried to find any sign, any sound, but all she heard was the roaring of the waves. She looked all along the beach, but still there was no sign of the blue hero. After an hour she sighed and sat down on a rock to think.

'If I want to find him I'll have to think this through.' She pondered about the best course of action For a minute hoping to come up with a bright idea. 'Maybe I should find a bloodhound or something ...naw, that wouldn't work. So just how do you find someone that gets lost at sea?' She closed her eyes listening to the waves for a moment.

With a jolt she realized that there was one other sound that she could hear. It was a sound that seemed 10 times louder than it really was on the quiet beach. It was a thump, no doubt muted by the soft white sand Followed by another thump and another, each one louder than the last. Realizing it sounded like the foot prints of something rather large and heavy, Streaky hid behind some nearby rocks. She had a decent idea of who it was and she wanted to surprise him. Peaking over the rocks (with her ears down of course) she saw that her hunch was right. A large robot stood on the beach. It was a black and white humanoid shaped solider bot. The left arm had a built in gatlin gun while the other arm was longer and ended with a large clawed hand. It was a little thin around the middle. Streaky made a note of that seeing as how it could be a potential weak spot. Streaky then checked it for a certain insignia that she knew all too well. Sure enough there it was on its left shoulder a picture of a round mustached face with an abnormally large grin.

'Yep it's one of Eggheads, boy he likes himself way to much.' She thought. She was just about to challenge the bot when another sound reached her ear, it was a humming sort of sound like a motor. She looked up and saw that the egghead, Eggman, had just come up alongside the robot in one of his hover vehicles.

"Hurry up H-63, those super saps fought and lost here which means the chaos emeralds can't be far behind." He said loud enough Streaky to hear.

'He's after the Chaos emeralds again. Boy is this guy obsessed or what.' Streaky Thought to herself as the mad scientist hovered by.

"Soon, very soon I will have all the emeralds in my grasp and when I do, hehe, the Eggman Empire will be unstoppable." Eggman chuckled, rubbing his grubby hands together.

'Oh, so he puts his robots through his boring monologs too' Streaky thought slightly amused.

She looked down the beach. 'Uh-oh'

She saw an Ocelot with a fishing pole strolling down the beach towards them only to freeze up at the sight of Eggman's metal menace.

'Run, just run.' Streaky hoped that the ocelot would leave before Eggman noticed her.

She didn't.

"Well, well, what have we here? H-63, greet our unexpected guest."

At Eggman's command the robot dashed forward. The Ocelot turned tail and ran as fast as she could, but could not get away in time. She was soon trapped in the robots vice like grip, screaming. The robot then brought the poor girl in front of Eggman.

"Well Miss, Here how it works you tell me what I want to know and I let you go home, however if you don't tell me what I want, well then I'm afraid things will get rather messy. Understand?" He said with a heartless chuckle.

"Y-Yes sir." The Ocelot was shaking with fear.

Meanwhile Streaky kept watching quietly fighting the urge to jump out of her hiding spot and charge the robot.

'This ain't good. I have to help her, but If I jump out now it will be a hostage situation. I have to wait for the right moment or someone is going to get hurt.' She tried to get closer while at the same time staying hidden.

"Tell me where the chaos emeralds are, Cat."

"I Don't know what those are, sir." She was shaking now you could hear the terror in her voice.

"Heh, So you say, Just know that if you are hiding anything you will suffer until I have the information I want." As he said this the robots grip began to tighten. "Those emeralds are the key to building my empire and nothing is going to stop me, not you, not anyone. Ill get the info on way or another, so why not make it easy on yourself." He said with one of his cheesy smiles.

The Ocelot squealed as she felt the robots fist tighten, "Please I don't know! Please let me go!"

"Sorry, but even if you really don't know anything I can't let you go now, I'm afraid you know too much, But you may survive if you suddenly remember something of use." Eggman said with an evil grin.

'Ok that doses it!' She leapt out from behind the rock and charged towards the robot. "Hey Egghead!" Streaky yelled

"What? Who's there?" She startled him.

She sprinted, full speed, to the robot and then with star caliber in her grasp took out the robots left leg. (just so you know Star caliber is a sword that is sort of like Amy's piko hammer and appears out of nowhere when she needs it, also it can slice through metal.) The robot crashed to the ground throwing sand into the air. She then sliced off the robots hand, grabbed the Ocelot and took her to a hiding spot among the rocks near the cliff, "Wait her ok." she said to the ocelot before dashing back to fight Eggman's machine. All of this took a little under a minute so when she got back the robot was picking himself up while Eggman was looking around frantically yelling" What! w-who did that?"

"Hey Eggy." She said as she came to a stop right in front of the robot.

Streaky grinned. Now that the ocelot was safe Streaky could loosen up and have some fun with the idiot scientist, besides she wanted to teach him a lesson for hurting an innocent mobian.

"W-What STREAKY!" Eggman yelped still in shock over the sudden attack.

Streaky smirked "You're getting sloppy Eggy, normally your robot is at least able to touch me before I knock it over." Streaky was standing just out of the robots reach, leaning on her sword . She pointed to her head.

"You need to start using you head Eggman remember I like a challenge, and if you don't this will become way to boring."

In her own way she was taunting him and it seemed to work. Eggman quickly snapped out of his daze and was turning red, it looked like something about what she said struck a chord.

"WHAT! BORING Ill show you boring H-63 attack, ATTACK!"

The crippled robot reared up on quit literally its last leg, and pointed its gun right at her head and fired. Too late, the bullets sunk harmlessly into the sand. Streaky had use her super speed to avoid the blast and was now on the front of Eggman's hover vehicle.

"Ya know Eggman, attacking an innocent civilian seems low even for you. Oh wait, no it isn't." She said looking him in the eye smiling.

Eggman then lurched forward in an attempt to grab Streaky only to miss her when she jumped into the air.

"You'd think he'd learn." She mumbled as she landed smack dab on top of his head smashing his face against the keyboard.

Streaky then jumped of the hover craft just in time for H-63 to attack once more. The results were the same however until Streaky ran in between the hovercraft and the robot. Eggman had just sat up again (with imprints of the buttons all over his face) to see his hover craft hit with over 15 bullets damaging the engine.

'Time to end this." Streaky thought with a grin.

She stopped her back to the ocean. "Hey, trashcan, my grandparents can shoot better than you." She yelled waving her arms and sticking her tongue out.

The machine, which must not have been very smart, turned towards Streaky and fired.

Once again too late. Streaky was now behind the robot with her hands on her sword and he back to the robot.

"No challenge at all." she said before spinning around and slicing the robot in half. Just as predicted the middle was a weak spot.

The robot crumpled into a worthless heap and began to self-destruct, but Streaky was long gone before it exploded. Eggman was not so lucky, Due to the damaged engine. He left the beach muttering to himself about revenge while his clothes, skin and mustache was black and smoking.

Streaky laughed, the sight was priceless, and she certainly needed a good laugh. Even if it was just for a moment the mediocre battle had taken her mind off of her task giving her a chance to lighten up, after she had calmed down, she quickly went to check on the ocelot that she had saved. She found the young mobian kneeling next to her Fishing rod which she had dropped during the incident.

"Aw man its busted." The Ocelot frowned at the fishing rod which had been smashed when the robot came after her.

"You sure recovered from that quick." Streaky said as she walked over.

"Well when your friend's a commando who claims to have been in the great war you get used to things like this." The Ocelot said, smiling like the attack had never occurred.

"A...O-k," Streaky said rather confused but she did not ask about it.

"Altough I wonder why he was so certan that knew about those chaos emerald things." The Ocelot continued ignoring her confusion.

"I think he just likes to scare people."Streaky said with a shrug. "Any way what's your name?"

Streaky looked the kid over. She was not much younger than herself, probably around 14 or 15 years old. She was wearing a Green short sleeve shirt and a pair of khaki shorts (no shoes or gloves). Her fur was a pale orange with black ring shaped spots all over her. Her hair was the same color as her fur and was a little longer than shoulder length. Her eyes had an intelegent yet playful look to them and were a color stuck some where between hazel and forest green.

"Oh, its Ginger, Ginger the Ocelot, and yeah I guess I should thank you for saving me." She said as she rubbed the back of her head, she seemed a little nervous around new Ocelot chuckeled nervously as she tried think of what else to say.

Streaky smiled, she remembered that she used to act the same way around new people too.

"It it was no problem, anyway, nice to meet you my name is Streaky."

"Streaky... Really?" She said with an odd look on her face.

The tone of her voice slightly irritated Streaky though she did not show it unless you count her ear twiching. 'Sheesh, I know my name is unusual but come on don't act like its weird.'

""Cough" Any way I need to go. See ya, and don't worry about that crazed scientist He shouldn't bother you for a while and if he does just call the freedom fighters and I'll come deal with him personally."

"Oh wait, Im sorry if I offended you its just that its an unusual name, yet it seems familure." Ginger said, she was acting like she wanted to stop Streaky from leaving.

"Oh no, its not that." Streaky didn't want to hurt her feelings."I'm not offended, its just that a freind of mine is in trouble and I need to find him."

"Oh well maybe I could help." she seemed to perk up a little. "Whats he look like?"

'I guess a little help woldn't hurt' Streaky thought " He's a headgehog, about yey high, whith cobalt fur, and emerald geen eyes, and bright red shoes."

"His name isn't, Sonic the headgehog is it?" Ginger said looking a little awestruck.

Streaky was shocked "Youve seen him?"

"Nope." Ginger responded

"Oh" 'Well, there goes the possibility that she knows where he is.' Streaky thought sadly though she kind of exspected her not to know.

"But I've heard about him he is famous where I come from. What happened anyway? Is he missing?" Ginger asked curiously

"Yeah," Streaky said sadly "He was lost at sea somewhere near here."

"Oh! But he can't swim!" Ginger said, looking genuinly upset.

"I know." Streaky said also upset. Her ears drooped and sorrow shown in her eyes and crept into her voice. "But im hopeing he made it to shore."she said trying to sound hopeful.

"Well, If I know this beach like I think I do, then I might know where he would be." Ginger said with a grin that looked like she was trying to mimic Sonic.

"Where's that?" Streaky asked

"The currents around this beach are a little strange, and everything that can float in the water ends up in a white stone cove on the north end of the beach.' She exsplained, pointing north.

"Thanks." Steaky said already starting to run in that direction.

"Wait, I want to come too." Ginger said trying to keep up.

'That would be bad, I don't know what Ill find when I get there.' Streaky thought even though she did enjoy the young ocelots company. "Ill move faster If I go alone, Beside I need someone to keep an eye out for Eggman."

"Ok, I get Stealth and Tank to help to, Eggman wont know what hit him." Ginger said excited

"Just do me a favor and call the freedom fighters if he shows up. Bye." She said, smileing and waveing as she ran north.

"You and Sonic come visit after this, ok, bye." Ginger said waving back, watching Streaky dissapear in the disstance.