Just so you know.... my real life is not like anything portrayed in the last chapter! The bunk bed.... well that's like my real life but not all the yelling. :) That was all humorous ideating on my part. XD Though it was amusing... I plan to use that to bring around another funny moment in the future......

"My god, my tourniquet, return to me salvaaaaation...." Sang Cyn quietly as she wandered through the forest, she couldn't identify most of them, she could only tell the pine trees apart from the rest. "I should have figured out how to identify trees." She muttered. Then she heard a booming noise in the distance, two of them. "What was that?" She wondered. Deciding she had nowhere else to go in this strange dream, she went towards were the sounds came from. Her progress was halted by a lake. She glared at it suspiciously. "Never again will I trust water." She said, rubbing her arms.

"The signal came from around here!" She heard one voice say.

"Hmph."

"Come on... lighten up!" She couldn't see anyone, and yet the voices seemed to be coming from somewhere around the lake.

"Hello?" She called, wondering if calling out was a good idea or not... remembering the book she had read recently, May Bird and the Ever After, was this place a dream... or someplace like the Ever After? It was only when she noticed the two figures speeding towards her that those thoughts flew out of her head and she fainted.

***

"WHEN IS SHE GOING TO WAKE UP!?" Yelled a voice. Cyn shot out of bed and was standing to attention mumbling something about library books... and calling the speaker "Dad", because that was who she assumed it was. She'd fainted in a dream and was waking up.

"Aww that's sweet she thinks you're her Dad Knuckles... or are you? Did you actually marry?" Asked the cheerful voice she'd heard before. Cyn stared. "What? You look like you've never seen a hedgehog before."

"Not an anthropomorphic one." She said before she could stop herself, she clamped her hands over her mouth.

"A what one?" Asked Sonic, confused.

"Anthropomorphic." Said Shadow.

"And that would mean?" The blue hedgehog looked to the black and red one, who sighed.

"Humanoid animals." He said flatly.

"OH!" Said Sonic, then he grinned. "Where do you come from then? For a start, you had a chaos emerald with you, the one we couldn't find for months..."

"Since you went super to impress some kids." Said Knuckles, glaring at the blue hero. Sonic acted like he hadn't even heard the echidna.

".... and you've got some weird looking music device."

"It's called an iPod mini." She said, frowning at him.

"An iPod mini?" Asked Sonic, confused. A kitsune walked in, Tails.

"An iPod mini? So that's what it is!" He looked fascinated. "What does it do though? It's got a lot of names on it I don't recognize."

"The names are for bands, audio books, or podcasts I have on there." Said Cyndathine. Before she realized what was going on, she was explaining iPods and everything related to them. When she finished, Tails was grinning.

"You're from another world aren't you?"

"I'm hoping this is just a dream." Said Cyn.

"Why? You don't want my autograph or something?" Asked Sonic, grinning. Shadow frowned.

"Well no it's not that, it's just that... things like this just don't happen."

"Listen girl, when you're talking chaos emeralds and Master Emerald, nothing that is supposed to happen in the normal course of events does." Cyn looked alarmed.

"But... then this would mean this is real...."

"Don't go fainting on us again." Said Sonic. She looked at him, she was taller than him by six inches... great. Just great.

"I'm not going to. How will I get home?" She asked Tails.

"I'm not exactly sure, I'll work on a machine to help you out." Said the kitsune, smiling at her. "While I'm doing that, Sonic and Knuckles could take you to out to see the sights, I'm assuming Shadow will be busy."

"Well I'd like to go with Shadow." She said, they looked surprised. And quite frankly, Cyn was surprised she hadn't just agreed to go with the red and blue videogame heroes. What made her not want to go with them? Was it just the simple fact Shadow was her favorite videogame character or what? She stood there, waiting for them to say something.

"Why do you want to go with Shadow?" Asked Sonic.

"Well..... um...... he's my favorite videogame character." She said, looking apologetically at Shadow.

"Videogame? You've got to be kidding, there are no videogames about any of us..." Said Knuckles, indicating himself and his fellow..... errr... critters.

"I'm not kidding."

"Lemme guess, you've got videogames with us and our world in yours. Correct?" Asked Tails. Cyn nodded, relieved that he got it.

"Well then I don't get why Shadow is your favorite character." Interrupted Sonic. Cyn smiled slightly.

"I'm not exactly sure why he is either, I just know I like his character." Shadow raised an eyebrow at this. "Which is probably why I got his videogame and completed almost all of it, I still haven't finished the expert mode, so I've got his videogame, I play him in the other Sonic games my bro or I have, and I have a keychain of him, well... what he looked like in the Sonic X series."

"Sonic X?" Questioned the blue hedgehog.

"A TV show, there were... four about you I think. Sonic X, Sonic Underground (you had two siblings in that one), Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, and Sonic SatAM. The SatAM one had Princess Sally Acorn in it. And there are comics. Sonic the Comic, Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie comics does that one), and a few mini series. Sonic Universe is the newest comic set... it's about what happens in the background mostly, Knuckles was supposed to be the main character in the Sonic Universe one, but Shadow, Rouge, and Omega got it instead." Cyn realized how strange she must be sounding, but she continued anyway. "There are tons of fansites dedicated to any, or a bunch, of characters from the videogames. Knuckles, Sonic, Shadow, Tails, Rouge, Cream... etc. Shadow is the most popular character other than Sonic I think... I know that all of you have tons of fans... except Big. And some people call Shadow angsty, emo, or a bunch of other things... some are Shadow fans but usually, Shadow fans get really mad when anyone calls Shadow that, I know I do. And Sonic, no offense intended, can be really annoying in some of the fanfictions people write! I write fanfiction too, though my main characters for my stories, so far, have been Shadow, Espio, or, as I'm planning for one, Knuckles." She took a breath. "And that's about all I can tell you about the fan stuff without actually going into explaining the franchises and the histories written up for your characters." The four characters in question either had their mouths open or where staring at her.

***

Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong.... Cyn looked around at the chocolate cosmos planted in the garden and wondered if this house belonged to Amy or Cream. She asked. "Cream." Said Tails, blushing.

"Aww you like her don't you?" Asked Cyn.

"Cut it out Cyn! What if she hears you?" Asked Tails. They'd had the introductions just before leaving Tails' workshop.

"What if who hears her?" Asked a voice. Tails froze, Cyn grabbed him and turned him to face Cream.

"You, don't worry, it's nothing that serious... at least, as far as most people are concerned." Said the girl, steering Tails inside, forcing him to walk.

"H... hi Cream." Said Tails, waving and smiling weakly at the rabbit.

"Hello Tails." Said the rabbit girl, holding Cheese in her arms and smiling sweetly.

"I will get you and Cream together if it's the last thing I do before I go back to my world." Cyn muttered into Tails' ear.

I wonder how she'll do that? XD Oh well, I hope that whoever reads this enjoys it. :) Remember, it's my first fic like this.... I have an InuYasha and Sonic crossover story you might be interested in, it's called Chaos Shikon. :) R&R please! ^_^