AGH! I apologise for the lack of this chapter yesterday, but unfortunately, my dad took my laptop for the day D:

At least I upload once a day so you don't miss much x3

Twilight Sparkle was still in Canterlot after her visit to the Princess. She had decided to stay around a shop for a little, and go to the coffee shop afterwards.

She walked down the paved street with a mixed expression on her face. How would Celestia react to meeting the new arrivals? She had seen Tails before, but only on chocolate, which made it worse, because now Celestia thinks at least one of them is a psychopath.

"Oh well, maybe I can prove that they're innocent-IN COURT! Oh wait, this isn't Phoenix Wright…" Twilight mentally face-palmed herself and walked into a jewellery store. Unless you were Rarity, you wouldn't see that many customers in here that often, so the store was reasonably empty.

She browsed through countless amounts of jewellery until she found a gold one with a purple gem embodied in it. She thought it would look pretty fashionable on her. She wasn't Rarity, but everypony has their own standards! She didn't care how many bits it cost; she just wanted Tails to notice something other than her intellect.

Talking of the yellow fox, at the moment he was at the Carousel Boutique. Now, he normally never went near suits: He thought they clashed with his bright fur a lot; but he was visiting Sonic, who was back from his mini adventure with Rainbow Dash. Rarity was properly introduced to Tails, and at the moment they and Amy were sitting around the table making idle chat.

Sonic and Tails both noticed a difference in Amy: She wasn't even making an attempt to clasp onto Sonic, or even hug him. The males knew this was weird: wasn't Amy mad for Sonic?

Tails was about to ask this question when there was a light knocking on the door. In walked Spike, in a dapper suit and bow tie with a bouquet of roses.

"Well hello there, m'lady! I brought you some fresh roses, they are almost as beautiful as yo-youuuuu…" Spike started to cheerily say, until he noticed Rarity had the company of two hedgehogs and a fox.

It took all of Sonic's strength not to roll out of the door with laughter that day. Tails couldn't even manage to hold it.

So where were Applejack and Knuckles? At the hospital of course, the second time in 2 days for Knuckles. Both were feeling a lot better after the doctors ran some tests, and so the echidna and pony left the hospital at the same time.

They were walking along a dirt road, back to the barnyard, when Applejack suddenly noticed Knuckles' strange silence. He seemed to be thinking very hard about something.

Very, very hard about something…hard enough to make him walk into a tree…and still try to keep on walking.

"Uh…Knuckles? Somethin' up pardner?" Applejack said quizzically.

"Well…I just realised something. You do know my job, right?" Applejack shook her head. "There's a giant chaos emerald, you know, the thing Tails and Twilight told you about? Well yeah, there's a larger version of one of them. It's called the Master Emerald, and it's said to hold unlimited power." Applejack cooed at this.

"So my job is to protect the emerald from evil, or any disasters. I guard it day and night, unless Eggman's up and at it. So I just realised, that the emerald is still there, lying there…unprotected…"

Applejack gasped. "It could be stolen!" Knuckles nodded sullenly.

-MEANWHILE, ON ANGEL ISLAND-

"I still don't see why we had to come here!" a robotic voice said.

"Shut it, Omega." Said a female voice. "You know well-there's a huge emerald right infront of us and you don't see why we're here?"

"Hmph." Said Shadow in his stereotypical way.

You guessed it-Team Dark were on Angel Island. And guess who the ringleader of the operation was?

Well, she happened to be hugging the emerald right now.

"Mmmm aren't you just the best emerald in the whole wide worllllldddd?"

"Maria…"

"BORDEOM DETECTED, SHUTDOWN INITIATING." Omega gave a small beep as his lights flickered off and hi body stood frozen in his shutdown sequence.

"Great Rouge, you've bored Omega to death. Grab the damn emerald and let's get back to base."

"You said it, hedgie!" Rouge grabbed the emerald, showing immense strength built from hard work on missions and raids, and put it on Omega's back, strapping it on with…Velcro.

You see, they had been running low on funds recently, so the only thing they could afford without the bank suing them was a large strip of Velcro. Rouge saw it as an opportunity to steal the largest thing possible with Velcro: The Master Emerald.

She pushed the start button on Omega's back panel and he booted back to life. Normally it would have taking a while, but boredom for Omega is merely like the standby feature for computers. He booted back to life and was met by the other two.

Shadow used his chaos power to teleport the trio back to their secret base. Unbeknownst to them, the tear in time and space would come to visit them next…and very soon.

-BACK IN CANTERLOT-

Twilight had a good days shopping done: Some jewellery for use in front of Tails, new books for her and Tails to read up on (he had almost finished the entire library, to Twilight's surprise…not.) and she had also gotten a present for Sonic, a flashy new pair of sunglasses.

Sunglasses weren't the sort of thing that stood out to Twilight, but the glasses were tinted cyan and the frames were an aqua blue, so the first thing she thought of was…you guessed it…Sondash.

She didn't really know Amy and Knuckles all that well, so she made a mental note to visit Pinkie and get something for them.

She was just finishing her dinner in a small but friendly atmosphere restaurant when suddenly there was a commotion from the outside.

Twilight looked to her right and saw, to her immense surprise, Pinkie Pie jumping around the Canterlot bakery. Twilight Sparkle didn't know how she got here, or even why she was here, but she learned a long time ago to never question Pinkie Pie's logic…unless you want to cause a paradox like Sonic did.

It looked like Pinkie was having a fit until Twilight realised her face was caked in icing. Typical Pinkie…she thought, until she realised there was a cake on her table.

She gasped and saw that the cake was her favourite type, a chocolate one, but only on one side…the other side seemed creamy and luscious, with what looked like mint candy on the borders.

Then she saw it.

There was two symbols on the cake-Twilights cutie mark and what seemed to be two stationary tails.

Twilight got the message immediately. She looked back to Pinkie to see her grinning wildly at Twilight.

Twilight made a mental note to thank Pinkie Pie every day until she died.

Phew, 100 more words then expected. It's what I deserve I guess xD Oh well :P

-Aaron

Edit: I a sorry to say I am putting the story on hold for a good while. I had a few chapters typed out but they got deleted...2 weeks on hold at MOST, but some personal issues have come up :(