Sonic's curiosity sparked when he saw the appearance of the stranger. The white cat that fell from the sky looked at the weird hedgehog with puzzlement, but his expression quickly changed to one of boredom.
Bah, why should I be surprise? Now I'm a cat after all, I shouldn't be surprise meeting a blue rat, thought Gintoki.
"Yo! Who're you? That explosion in the sky was ugly. I think you should treat those wounds, would you like join me?", asked the blue rat.
Gintoki blinked and looked his body. He hadn't noticed the burns that the explosion had caused in his body. Gintoki looked at the blue rat and seeing no misconduct, he nodded.
The blue rat smiled.
"Great! I'm Sonic The Hedgehog, by the way. And you are...?"
Before answering, Gintoki made a mental note that the "rat" was actually a hedgehog.
"Sakata Gintoki.", replied the cat with a vague gesture.
Sonic raised an eyebrow.
"Sak...Gin...what?", he asked puzzled.
Gintoki sighed.
"Gintoki.", said simply.
Sonic looked him with curiosity.
"You've got a strange name, Gin. Do you mind me calling you that?", asked Sonic, as they walked towards the civilization.
Gintoki shrugged.
"I don't really care, my friends always call me like that as well. By the way, when're we going to get to this place you spoke about before?"
At that, for some reason Sonic smiled.
"Oh, so do you want to get faster?"
Gintoki looked him strange.
"I guess so..."
"Hold on on to me.", said Sonic.
Gintoki did as he said, but still distrusted Sonic's intentions.
"Wait, what're you doing...?"
Before he'd finish the sentence, Sonic took off like a rocket to the hideout of the Freedom Fighters.
When they arrived, Gintoki fell on the floor, exhausted by dizziness.
"Wow...you're even faster than Ben Johnson...", he managed to mutter between pants.
Sonic raised an eyebrow and, before he'd ask who was Ben Johnson, some voices interrupted him.
"SONIC!"
The latter turned and looked at his friends running towards him with a big smile.
"Hey, guys!", greeted.
"Who's this, Sonic?", asked a certain two-tailed fox, watching the strange cat lying on the ground, still struggling to rebuild his breath.
"He's Gintoki. Or Gin for short. I met him in the forest after the explosion that ocurred in the sky. Looks like a nice guy.", said Sonic.
The newly appointed stood up and looked at Sonic's friends with his usual bored expression.
"Yo, does anyone have something sweet? I don't know how many hours've passed since I ate something sweet and my blood sugar is very low..."
"Oii, Kintoki! What a pleasure to see you my friend!", exclaimed Gintoki's old fellow, entering the room.
Seeing him, Gintoki discovered he'd turned into a brown duck and, besides that, he was still with the same appearance as always, but had some cuts over his clothing because of the explosion and the afro was more uneven than usual. Gintoki walked towards him with slow and heavy footsteps, and the Freedom Fighters sweat at the sight of the evil aura wich Gintoki was irradiating as he headed for the duck.
Sakamoto, oblivious to Gintoki's grim expression, extended his arms and ran towards his old friend for a reunion hug.
"KINTOKII!"
PAF!
"YOU'RE AN IDIOT! WHY THE FUCK DID YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT PSYCHODELIC TUNNEL, EH?! ARE YOU THAT EAGER TO KILL US, DAMN MORON?! AND BEFORE BEING CHEERFUL, LOOK AROUND! WE'VE TRANSFORMED INTO THIS DAMN ANIMALS! AND IT'S GIN-TOKI! OTHERWISE GINTAMA WOULDN'T EXIST!", cried Gintoki after hitting him hard with his sword.
The Freedom Fighters looked astonished at the scene before them. What was supposed to be an emotive and joyful reunion scene, had a 180° turn to one of hatred and revulsion.
"Oii, Kintoki, It wasn't my fault!. I warned you that it wouldn't be a good idea to participate in this mission!", exclaimed Sakamoto, getting angry too.
"Nobody cares about your opinion! Wasn't there any other way to come here, instead of that damn psychodelic tunnel!? Obviously it was thanks to the stupid way you took we've become this!"
"Don't blame me then, blame that damn psychodelic tunnel!"
Both stopped fighting, when they heard someone clearing it's throat. Turning around, they saw that they were all staring with calculating, curiosity and wonder looks.
"Apparently you have several things to explain. It'd be better if we start again.", said a female voice, which judging by her authoritative voice, Gintoki assumed was the leader.
"Name's Sally, by the way. This're Tails, Antoine D'Coolette, Bunnie, Rotor and Sonic.", said, pointing to each one of them as they were appointed.
Gintoki and Sakamoto exchanged glances. Gintoki sighed and stepped forward.
"Name's Gintoki. And this idiot's Sakamoto."
Sally nodded and stepped forward, like Gintoki.
"You landed here because of that explosion, am I right? Tell me, who are you, really?"
After a few seconds of silence, Gintoki replied.
"It's simple, actually. My friends and other idiots travelled to this galaxy for a jod a client entrusted us. It was originally a job for a certain three idiots, but we and two other that are probably lost, came because we're dragged to participate."
"And what is this job about?", asked Sally, hoping for a more detailed answer.
"It turns out that some idiot lost an important gem and it fell on this planet. Or at least I hope It's this planet.", added Gintoki, looking seriously at Sakamoto. "It's a black emerald called Chaotic Emerald. A very stupid name if you ask me, but it is."
The six fighters exchanged glances.
"That name sounds very familiar...", muttered Tails.
"I hate to says this, guys, but I've never seen a black emerald as you named it. Although it sounds very interesting, 'cause in this world we have some emeralds called Chaos Emeralds. But none of them is black.", said Sonic.
Gintoki looked Sakamoto gravely.
"Sakamoto...are you sure we landed in the right planet?", he asked with a trembling voice.
Sakamoto nodded insurance.
"I'm sure, Kintoki. This's supposed to be the right planet."
"By the way, guys, you know the name of this planet, don't you?", asked Rotor.
"Some scientists who gave us the location of this planet, called it GR-000000001.", said simply Gintoki.
Sonic laughed, while others looked at him stunned.
"That's the longest and stupidest name I've ever heard!", exclaimed Sonic, still laughing.
"Emm...we just call it Mobius.", said Bunnie with a sweatdrop on her temple.
Gintoki and Sakamoto nodded.
"I think that name sounds better.", both nodded, sweatdropping like Bunnie.
"It's time for lunch, by the way. Join us, I want to talk you abot some issues.", said Sally, looking at his friends and newcomers.
Gintoki and Sakamoto looked, feeling uncomfortable and out of place.
"Um...maybe we should...", began Gintoki.
"...you know...we don't want to disturb you, or get in your way, ha, ha.", followed Sakamoto.
"Don't worry, you don't interfere in anything. We also want to see if you two really are reliable. We are not at our best times, as you'll know later...", said Sally with some sadness in her voice.
Gintoki and Sakamoto could see she really meant it, glancing the grim expressions on her peers.
"Well, I don't see the problem, then.", said Gintoki.
The six Mobians smiled.
"Great! There're many things you need to know about this planet, by the way.", said Sonic.
"And judging by the weapons you guys carry, I gotta guess you're fighters, right? We could use a hand against Robotnik.", said Bunnie.
"Emm... I ztill don't truzt you, zo juzt don't get in my way, underztand?", said Antoine, trying to look severe, but failing miserably.
"Let's get going, then. We'll tell you of us and you'll tells us about you, sound fair, right?", said Sally winking an eye.
"I suppose so..." Gintoki and Sakamoto nodded.
Thus, Gintoki The Cat along Sakamoto The Duck, and the Freedom Fighters, went to lunch and learned the history of their respective worlds.