With summer here, I'll be able to have plenty of time to brainstorm! Now enjoy the second part of this story!

The Resistance: Chapter 2

The hunt for the emeralds

In an old, abandoned factory somewhere on Southern Island…

"Master, we have found a meddler in our emerald hunt."

A huge T.V. screen could be seen from where the master sat. As soon as it turned on, Ness and company were seen beating the robot lumberjack. After fast-forwarding the video, Pippi was seen picking up the green chaos emerald.

"The robot attempted to teleport both emeralds, but failed in the process. We only obtained the blue chaos emerald." A robot spoke.

The video then changed to a different location. It was a giant street filled with street lights and gambling machines. It seemed to be outside of a city. Two people dressed in blue and pink parkas were seen running out of the factory, holding the red chaos emerald.

"Also, it appears that two other humans are hunting the chaos emeralds for unknown reasons." The robot continued.

The video changed once more. This time, Sonic was seen carrying Tails and Knuckles, running from the robot lumberjack throughout Green Hill Zone.

"However it appears Sonic was unable to gain any chaos emeralds and was forced to flee." The robot saw the grin on his master's face widen.

"At least that hedgehog won't have the upper hand for a while." The master said in a low voice.

"But master, it's been the same thing for almost 8 years!" The robot exclaimed. "You try to take over the world, Sonic comes and stops you, Sonic saves the day, you go into hiding, and the process repeats!"

"What did I say about bringing the cycle up?" The master yelled, spinning around in his chair.

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(Just bear with me here)

"Sorry Dr. Robotnik…"

"No matter, I still have the light blue emerald from Casino Night Zone. Even if one of those groups, most likely those meddlesome pest, collects the other emeralds, they will have to come here with them to retrieve the last."

"You have a plan master?"

"It involves no concern of you Buzz Bomber. Just go to Green Hill and scout the area for any more emeralds."

"Understood, Dr. Robotnik." The Buzz Bomber then flew away.

Dr. Robotnik got up and turned around to face a capsule. The capsule was a dark black, so whatever inside could not be seen. However the capsule shook in anger.

"You seek revenge, don't you?" Robotnik said to the capsule.

The capsule only shook more violently in response.

"Your time will come soon. Once I complete the voice chip, your victory will be even sweeter."

Red glowing eyes could be seen inside the capsule now.

"Beep….." Went the capsule.

(No spoilers Sonic fans! We still have clueless fans out there!)

Dr. Robotnik gave a mighty laugh. "Soon Sonic, I shall be rid of you." He then walked over to his bookshelf. He stared at the shelf, looking for a book to read. He then found a book that caught his attention.

It was titled "The Legend of Perfect Chaos".

(Hint on what year this is)

Dr. Robotnik took the book off his shelf and sat back in his chair. He opened up the book and began reading. With each page he read, an idea grew bigger and bigger in his head.

(Time to switch views again)

(Pause the music)

Sonic awoke in a bright pink bed. He looked around at the pink room. It wasn't filled with much. There was a T.V., a big dresser, a shield monitor; there was a picture of him and Amy, a lamp, and a bathroom. He figured he must have fallen asleep in Amy's room. He slowly sat up in the bed, only to realize an arm was wrapped around his body. He turned his head to see Amy, asleep while holding onto Sonic. Sonic blushed a bright red when he realized this. He gently took Amy's hand and took it off his body. As soon as he was out of the bed, he heard a yawn. Sure enough, Amy was up, and when he turned around, she was looking at him with a sleepy expression.

"Good morning Sonic." She said, sitting up in her bed. "I guess you can't wait to find the emeralds huh?"

Sonic smiled at her and headed towards the door.

"Are you sure you don't have a little time?" She asked. There was a hint of worry in her voice.

This made Sonic stop in his tracks. He turned around to face Amy. She was wearing bright green pajamas with pink spots all around it. Sonic slowly walked over to Amy, until he was face to face with her. He picked up her hand and stared into her shocked eyes.

"If only I could Amy…" He thought to himself.

Sonic and Amy stared into each other's eyes for a long while. Eventually, Sonic began to lean in closer to Amy. Amy, not sure what to do, closed her eyes and began to lean forward as well.

Suddenly the door flung open, causing Sonic and Amy to jump away from each other. It was Knuckles, and he was staring at the two hedgehogs.

"Why are you two blushing?" He asked. Then he said "Never mind, Tails wants us all down there so we can discuss our plans for the day." And with that, he turned around and headed down the stairs.

Neither hedgehog said anything for a few moments, each thinking of what could have happened if Knuckles didn't abruptly come in.

Amy broke the silence. "We better go downstairs if we want to get a head start on hunting the chaos emeralds." She said. She then jumped out of bed and walked past Sonic, sashaying her way out the room.

"Dammit Knuckles! You always got to be around and ruin everything!" Sonic thought to himself as he ran down the stairs.

(Seriously, every damn time in Sonic 3 and in Sonic and Knuckles, the guy was always there, pissing me off!)

When Sonic came downstairs, he noticed everyone except Tails had a sleepy expression on their face. He stood on the stairs next to Amy, while Knuckles stood by the window. Nana and Popo both were on the couch in their parkas, fighting off sleep, with their mallets on the floor. Tails stood in the middle of the room with a handheld device in his hands.

"Ok now that everyone is here, we can get going!" Tails exclaimed.

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"Now since we have no emeralds, we have no leads." Tails began. "However, we still have the treasure map, which has eight different clues on it. The first clue led us to the chaos emerald in Green Hill, so the other clues should lead us to chaos emeralds in other zones!"

"Let's make this quick, the sun isn't even up yet." Knuckles yawned. "So what does the next clue say?"

Tails held up the map and began to read it. "It says 'In the street filled with street lights and machines, both good and bad, the clue is a prize in a very popular machine'. That's got to be Casino Night Zone! It's the only zone with street lights."

"It's also the only place where you can gamble on the southern islands." Knuckles added.

"So all we have to do is go there and win a chaos emerald?" Popo asked, wiping his eyes.

"That sounds too easy." Nana said, trying to keep her head up.

"Casino Night Zone is pretty easy, if you take away the bouncing around like pinballs part." Knuckles said. "If you end up on the wrong path, you may need a doctor."

"But even so, we're going in there blind without any clues on what machine to play to win the emerald!" Amy said, struggling to stand up on the stairs. Sonic gently placed a hand around her waist, allowing her to keep her balance.

"And just so we have the upper hand on Robotnik, I stayed up half the night building a chaos emerald locater!" Tails exclaimed, holding up his handheld device. "Or C.E.L. for short."

Everyone gathered around C.E.L. C.E.L. was a black device that had two screens. On the bottom screen was the count of emeralds they had, which was a big, yellow 1. On the top screen was the location of emeralds, along with the number left, which was a white glowing 7. Also on the top screen was a miniature face of Tails, displaying his location.

"Wait, it says that there is one on the beach of Green Hill." Knuckles pointed out. Not too far from their location, the white chaos emerald was glowing.

"But look at the red emerald, it's moving!" Amy pointed out. The red emerald was travelling at a moderate pace, coming closer to the small Tails head.

"The red emerald is coming here?" Nana asked.

"It seems like it, but why?" Tails answered. "If it was Robotnik, he wouldn't be heading this way."

"Wait; take a look at the screen!" Popo said.

The group noticed that their emerald count said 1. They each looked at each other.

"Tails, I think you need to fix this." Knuckles said.

"But it's working just fine!" Tails insisted.

Sonic then jumped by his best friend and wagged his finger at Knuckles.

"Sonic, you know what happened yesterday! We didn't get that emerald!"

Sonic then held up the yellow chaos emerald. Everyone jumped back in amazement.

"Sonic where in Robotnik's name did you get that?" Tails exclaimed.

Sonic just gave Tails a thumbs up and smiled widely.

"Did you go out on a nighttime run again?" Knuckles asked.

Sonic nodded.

"Was it Marble Zone?"

Sonic nodded again.

"There was a chaos emerald in Marble Zone?"

Once again, Sonic nodded.

"Well I'll be dam-"

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At that moment, before Knuckles could finish his sentence, Amy's door was knocked down. Two people dressed exactly like the Ice climbers were standing in the doorway. The red chaos emerald was floating around them.

"So, you've followed us to this dimension…" The blue one said. "My you two have guts. Sadly, you both lack brains." The red chaos emerald started to float around Sonic.

Popo and Nana stood up, picking up their mallets off the floor. "It's YOU!" Popo exclaimed.

"These are the imposters you told me about?" Amy asked.

"Yeah, they're the ones who stole our identities!" Nana cried.

"Oh my, they remember us too!" The one in pink cried.

"Charming, they must want-"

(Pause the music)

A giant yellow hammer with a red stripe down the middle hit the blue doppelganger in the face, knocking him out of the doorway.

"How DARE you knock down my door! Do you have any manners at all? You mother fucker! I'm going to fuck you up!"

Amy dashed out the door, knocking the pink doppelganger down. Everyone merely stared at her in awe.

". . ."

"Should we start fighting?" Tails asked.

"Yeah we probably should." The pink doppelganger said.

(View change)

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The green gem was up in a container. Jeff and Loid had built it out of the spare robot parts. They were currently examining the strange jewel.

"This must have given the robot its steel exterior." Jeff said.

"This stone is giving off huge amounts of energy." Loid said.

"What is it?" Pippi asked.

"We don't know that yet, but it is something valuable. It's best we hold on to this thing."

"NO!" Yelled Pippi. "I found it, so I should be the one to hold onto it!"

"…Well if you insist, it's only fair." Jeff said. He then took the gem out of the case and gave it to Pippi. As soon as it was in Pippi's hands, it started floating around her.

"Aww… it likes me!" She smiled as she watched the gem fly.

Jeff thought for a moment. "Loid, do you still have that egg we found on Mt. Itoi?"

Loid pulled out the blue egg from his backpack. "Right here, why?"

Jeff took the egg from Loid and gave it to Pippi. "Here Pippi, why don't you take care of the egg too? You might be able to figure out how to hatch it."

"So we still have no clue what this thing is?" Paula asked as she and Ness walked up to the three.

"Not even the slightest clue." Jeff sadly sighed. "The only thing we know is that it seems to like Pippi."

"I know this thing from somewhere before…" Ness mumbled.

"Well whatever it is, let's ignore it for now." Loid said. "You guys go have some fun while we try to figure out how to get back to the nowhere islands."

"You sure you don't need any help?" Paula asked.

"Don't worry Paula, we can figure this out on our own." Jeff smiled at her.

"Are you sure, because-"

"Now Paula, if they say they can handle it then let them handle it." Ness said, pulling her away. "Let's just enjoy our time on the beach."

On the beach, everyone was having a good time, each enjoying his or herself. Ness lead Paula to the end of the beach. He then gently held her hands and smiled at her. "Look out at the beach." He whispered.

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Paula did as Ness asked. The sun was gently rising over the island out in the sea. Birds of different colors were flying around over the sea, making the scenery look beautiful to Paula.

"Oh Ness, it looks beautiful." Paula said under her breath.

Ness said nothing as he placed his arm around her waist. The two then sat down at the end of the beach and watched the sun rise up. Neither of them spoke as they watched.

From the distance Lucas watched them. "They look so happy together." He said as he and Claus were making pictures in the sand.

"Well one day you and Kumatora can do that." Claus winked.

Lucas blushed. "I don't think she'd want to do that…" He stammered.

"You never know until you try."

"I guess you're right." Lucas then drew a circle in the sand. "Perhaps one day we'll get married, have kids…"

"That's going a little far in the future bro." Claus playfully punched him.

"You'll understand in time Claus." Lucas smirked, playfully punching him back. "When you love someone, you'll do whatever that person asks you."

Claus drew a triangle inside of the circle Lucas drew. "This is the first time you understand something I don't." He chuckled.

"Nonsense, you boys are both equally smart." Hinawa said, walking up to the two boys with Flint and Boney behind them.

"However they do beat each other in certain areas." Flint told her. "Claus has Lucas beat in mechanics and Lucas has Claus beat in video games."

"True, but still, everyone has that certain area where they know more than the average person." She retorted.

"Which brings us to our important topic." Flint said, turning to the two boys. "Lucas, Claus, it's time we had a little talk."

"Woof. (I want to see how this turns out.)" Boney barked.

From the distance, Kumatora watched Flint and Hinawa take turns talking to the two twins. She smiled to herself, secretly thanking god that they decided to have this talk with Lucas.

"I'm getting pretty lucky lately." She said to herself. "I can't wait until this is all over. Then Lucas and I can just spend some time alone. Training the whole day away…that would be so cool."

"I guess all you do is train day and night." Laughed Duster as he walked up to her.

"Boy, you know me. I have to keep my game up. You can use a little more training too." She punched him in the arm.

"I have enough training with Dad already." He joked, punching her back in the arm. "Besides, I don't have psi like you and Lucas, so there's no reason for me to join you two on your private training."

"Ha, show up and face the consequences." She punched him in the back.

"Oh I won't. I'm sure you two would want some alone time." He smirked.

"Shut up, Duster!" She playfully pushed him away.

"He does like you, you know." He said.

Kumatora pretended to sound shocked in her response. "He does?"

"Yep, he never wants to let you go. I know you're not the type of girl that goes for romance, but let him down gently, ok?" He then walked off to a different part of the beach.

"If only you knew the whole story of the situation." She smiled to herself, remembering that faithful day.

Ninten and Ana were not too far from the Jeff and Loid. Ana was holding up pictures, showing them to Ninten.

"Ok what's this one?" She asked. She held up a picture of an angry car.

"It's a mad car." He answered.

"Ok. And this?" She held up a picture of Giegue.

"It's Giegue"

"And this?" She held up a picture of a lamp.

"OH CRAP A LAMP!" Ninten wanted to run, but stayed put and quickly covered his head with his hands.

"At least you didn't run." She sighed.

Teddy merely stared off at the sunrise. He stood next to EVE, wondering what will happen next.

"That Porky dude…kid seems messed up. Ness said he's beyond help. But at one point, so was I. Maybe there is some hope in this kid. If people could give me a second chance, then they surely can give him a second chance…"

"…right?"

Picky stood at the other edge of the beach, the part that led into the green hill. He stood watching over everyone. He then noticed Pippi running over to him holding an egg. The strange gem she found was floating around her.

"Picky, look at the jewel!" She cried. "It loves me! It keeps flying around me." She then showed him the egg. "I also got this egg! Who knows what will hatch out of this!"

Picky smiled at her. "That's cool." He didn't sound very happy.

"What's wrong?"

"I'm just thinking about my brother…"

"Why?"

"I don't think I can help take him down. I know it's for the good of the world, but he's still a part of my family. I can't kill my family."

"Would family ditch you when the going gets tough?"

"…"

"When the going gets tough, the tough gets going! That's one of my many mottos. If he really was family, he'd taken you along. Then we'd be fighting both of you. And I would have missed out on an awesome friend."

"I guess that's true."

"Hey Picky…"

"Yeah?"

"When we all go home…you'll come visit me, right?"

"Of course I will. We'll all see each other again. I doubt any of us will forget each other. Why do you ask?"

"Oh, no real reason, just wondering."

(Stop the music)

A loud crash was heard from the distance. Two figures could be seen flying off towards the ocean. They dropped a shiny object as they flew across the sky. As the two figures landed in the vast sea, the shiny object landed in the sand. Everyone gathered around the sight of the crash.

"Boney, dig!" Lucas commanded.

As he was told, Boney started digging through the sand. After a while, Boney stopped digging. A red gem, much like the white one Pippi found, was lying in the sand.

"It's another gem!" Ana pointed out.

Ness picked up the gem. "I swear I've seen this somewhere before."

"So there's more of these gems…" Jeff stroked his chin.

"These gems give off large amounts of power…" Loid said. "If we find more, we may be able to go back home!"

"Then what are we waiting for?" Kumatora yelled. "Let's find these gems while the day's still young!"

"I don't think so…" came a voice.

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The group turned to see a red echidna staring at them with a cold expression. He wore red and yellow shoes with green buckles, along with big, white gloves on his hands.

"You'd hand over that chaos emerald if you know what's good for you." He said in a deep tone.

"Chaos emerald…" Ness muttered. "That rings a bell…"

"That emerald belongs to us." Came another voice.

A yellow fox with two tails was flying beside the echidna. He had orange fur and big, black eyes and wore red and white shoes with blue buckles and white gloves.

"I'm really sorry, but if you know what's best for you, you would give us that emerald and walk away." The fox stammered.

"I don't know who you think you are, but we're not giving you anything!" Pippi yelled. "I found these things fair and square, so I should get to keep them!"

"Sorry, but it doesn't work that way." Came another voice.

This time, a pink hedgehog ran up to the echidna and the fox. This was a pink hedgehog who wore a green shirt and orange shirt. She had on light blue shoes with white laces.

"We need those stones for a very important purpose, so be a doll and hand them over." She said, holding a yellow hammer with a red stripe in the middle.

"If you want a fight, bring it on!" Pippi roared.

"Ah, but this isn't fair." The echidna pointed out. "There's only four of us and like…fifteen of you."

"We'll make it fair!" Pippi was screaming now.

"Wait; there are only three of you." Paula pointed out.

At that moment, a blue hedgehog ran up to the three. He also had big, black eyes and wore white gloves, like his fox friend. However he wore red shoes with a small white strap. He had six long, spikey spikes out of the back of his head, unlike the pink hedgehog, who had five sticking out of her head.

"Now we do." Said the pink hedgehog.

The two groups stared each other down.

Next time: Team Sonic vs. Team Mother!