A/N: Do I really have to do this at the beginning? There's nothing to talk about!

The green eyed, blue hedgehog known as Sonic was sitting in the kitchen eating a chilli dog. He wore a black shirt and green pants. Knuckles, the violet eyed, red echidna, had the Master Emerald, a green gem that controls the chaos emeralds, shrunk to the size of a Chaos Emerald and had it on the table in front of him. Knuckles wore black pants, a yellow shirt, and a green scarf. Mighty, a black and red armadillo, was in the living room watching TV with Charmy, an orange bee. Mighty wore a red shirt and blue pants, and Charmy wore his signature orange jacket, goggles, and shoes, as well as black pants. Tails and Vector were analysing Blyxil's message to figure out where he was. Tails wore a purple shirt and orange pants, while Vector wore a yellow shirt and blue pants, along with his signature headphones. Charmy suddenly stood up and flew over to Vector.

"Hey boss, wouldn't it be easier to check the recorder to see where the dude bought it from?" Vector scoffed.

"Don't be silly Charmy. Anyone as good as him at what he does would be smart enough to remove evidence like that." Tails, on the other hand, was willing to see if Charmy was on to something. He took the recorder from Vector and turned it around. "Hey!"

"It was sold to him in the village of Enoma."

Vector scoffed. "Lucky guess Charmy."

Charmy was bursting. "You just don't wanna accept that I'm smarter than you!"

"What's 74 times 18?" Charmy stopped laughing and became nervous.

"Uhhhhhh…"

Vector began to chuckle. "For that, you're gonna bring our messaging system to him.

"Aww. That's not fair." Charmy began to complain, and even started crying.

"If you do this right… You'll get to play video games all night long."

Charmy instantly stopped. "OK!" took a small tv, and flew off. When he left… the purple eyed, turquoise plant woman, Galaxina, from before came downstairs. She had a large flower on her head… or, sprouted from her head.

"Do you really think you can get this man to give back my little sister?"

Vector thought for a second. "We're not sure, but we can try. Tails, check all info on any network for anything about Blyxil's Dark Ring."

"Roger!"

Sonic got up. "Well… I'm gonna go for a run. Mighty… wanna join?"

"You're not gonna leave me behind like last time, right?"

"Sorry about that. Won't happen this time." And they left for a run through the city. "Hey. Let's switch it up a bit."

Mighty gave him a look. "How?"

Sonic gave him a makeshift skateboard. "I broke these off of some of Eggman's machines. Now we get to use him. First one to the other side of Station Square wins."

Mighty had a feeling he'd get left behind again, but the idea of a race was thrilling. Besides, they were both on boards. They weren't using their own speed, so he might actually beat Sonic. "You're on!"

Downhill Roadway

And they began skating through the city, dodging cars and sometimes taking the side streets and park paths. Sonic was usually ahead of Mighty, like in a normal foot race, but not ahead by as much, so Mighty still had a shot.

Sonic and Mighty split up by taking two different shortcuts. Sonic jumped off a ramp and onto a building and skated across the rooftops, while Mighty went through backstreets and alleyways. They met up again on the main streets.

As they were reaching the end, a wall broke and a sort of drill car came crashing through. "Hey Sonic! I think it's time for a change of pace!" In the car was a fat bald man with a brown mustache and glasses. He was wearing a red jacket and black pants.

"Oh. Doctor Eggman. What are you doing here?" Sonic spoke nonchalantly.

"What does it look like Hedgehog! I'm here to take care of you and your friend. And my name is Ivo Robotnik! Get a load of this!" He pushed a button and shot the drill on the front of his car at the duo, who easily dodged it.

"Hey Robotnik! This machine is weak!" Mighty yelled.

Robotnik would normally scream at this, but he was surprisingly unfazed. "I have devised a new plan to end you and your friends. This is a warning, but if I actually beat you with this, that would be fine by me"

"So now you're purposely designing machines that won't beat me? Wow Eggman, it's almost like you want to lose!" With that, Sonic jumped off of his board and into Eggman's car, and Mighty did the same. The car broke and as Eggman flew away, they landed back on their boards.

"This isn't the end!"

"Nice job Mighty! But I'll still win this race!" and Sonic sped off.

"Huh, wait!"

Stage Clear

Tails was searching through books, news, tv, the internet, all over for anything like Blyxil's Dark Ring, but was coming up with nothing. "What is this Dark Ring anyway?"

Vector had an idea. "I'm not sure. Maybe GUN knows. Would you like to hack into their mainframe?"

"That's genius!" Tails put a special flash drive into his laptop and put his fingers to work.

Knuckles thought about going for a stroll, but figured he'd just get bored. So he looked into the Master Emerald to see what Sonic and Mighty were up to, and saw a broken Drill car. "Looks like Sonic and Mighty had some fun with Dr. Eggman."

"I still don't get that nickname you guys gave him. He looks more like a balloon than an egg. And while Sonic just calls him Eggman, you add the 'Doctor' part, and Tails actually calls him Doctor Robotnik. Can't you guys agree on a name?"

"Sonic tried to get us to, but then he thought the mix was funny."

"Hey guys, I found it! According to GUN, special rings has been located in various locations of the world. They've tried to get them, but the defences are super strong. So far, only one of these rings has been recovered, and it's in the safe hands of the 3 top agents, Rouge, Shadow, and Espio. The database even gives the location of their home. The area is shown on their map, but the surrounding area is shaded in purple, and their is no indication on what it means."

"Good work Tails, let's hope Charmy made it to his destination by now. How long has he been flying?"

"6 hours. If he flew nonstop, he'd be there for a while. But he probably took a few breaks, so he may be there in another hour or so." Tails said, and no sooner than he did did the messaging system begin beeping. "Or he's there now."

Vector put it on his desk and began his communications with Blyxil. He was wearing his cloak. "Hello. I'm Vector the Crocodile. I'm the leader of the Chaotix detective agency."

"I know who you are. And I doubt you found that ring already" Was Blyxil's response.

"We know where it is, but we haven't retrieved it. I'm here to negociate."

"I'll listen, but I probably won't accept the terms."

"How about this. Return the girl to her sister, and we'll give you the rings coordinates and you can get it yourself." Vector didn't think this would actually work, but it was worth a shot.

There was a pause. And then… "Do you know where I can find a green, tailed frog?"

Vector became annoyed. "What?"

"I said, could you help me find a green, tailed frog? As well as the dark ring?"

"What's the correlation?" Vector could see that Blyxil was ammused.

"There is none. It's just that… a friend of mine is looking for another friend of his. He was a normal frog until he swallowed some strange liquid. He's been AWOL ever since."

"You want us to help you find a frog as well as the dark ring inside that castle!?"

"What castle?" Vector realised what he said and shut his mouth. "How about this. Me and my friends infiltrate that castle with the help of some of your agents. The girl will be moved to a safe location where she'll be relatively close but still out of harms way. Once we find the ring, I'll give you the money." There was a short pause. "Then I'll hire you for the job of finding the frog. Deal?"

"What about the girl."

"Didn't I already say?"

"No."

"I didn't hear you either." Charmy was heard behind the monitor.

"Oh… um… I'll return the girl when I pay you for finding the ring."

"Deal."

The screen went blank. And Sonic and Mighty walked in. "Hey guys. What's up?"

Vector had a serious look on his face, so Sonic and Mighty knew something was gonna happen. "We just negotiated with Blyxil."

Disclaimer: Now in Bold. I only own Blyxil. All other characters are owned by Sega.