My new chapter...AWWW YEAH... 'Ahem' sorry about that, anyway back to the story.

Oh boy, looks like Chris has got himself into a jam in this chapter. I know it's a bit early for Chris to get kidnapped but hey, this is how I picture my story anyway. I know some characters are a bit OOC and I apologise for that.

Disclaimer: I don't own sonic or the other characters. I only own team fire- volt along with this story.

enjoy...

It was the next morning and everyone was getting ready for a fun night: the karaoke night. Since everyone was tired from all the battles, they decided to just relax and have a little fun.

Chris, however, wasn't in the mood for fun, but sonic insists, stating that he is too worried over one letter and a dream that he should learn to relax a little. The boy agreed. Everyone was setting up the equipment and was decorating the ship, just like they did when Cosmo was around. Tails still misses her, but it didn't pain him as bad as before, because he knew she is somewhere safe.

While everyone was relaxing and getting ready, Chris was looking at the window, lost in thought.

'I can't rest while I had that dream. And the letter I got too. What could it all mean? And If I tell sonic and the others I'm leaving, then they would try to stop me from doing what I must do.'

The boy looked down and sighed. What can he do that sonic and the others can't? He doesn't have powers or special abilities like tails or even cream has. Heck, he can't even fight, not in the small body he is in now. Chris then looked up, determined.

'Just because I don't have powers doesn't mean I can't try. There must be some way I can help. And I'm gonna find out what.'

Chris then got up and left the ship. No one noticed but shadow. The hedgehog looked suspicious. Why would Chris leave without telling? Well, he is gonna find out. He leapt out and hopped onto a tree without being seen.

"What are you doing out here shadow?"

shadow turned around at the voice And saw it was rouge. The hedgehog looked back at where Chris is going. "I'm finding out where the kid is going. He didn't tell anyone he was leaving. I'm wondering if it has to do with the dream he had told us about." Shadow explained.

"Could be. Maybe he's hiding a secret." Rouge guessed.

Shadow shook his head. "I doubt he would do that. If Chris won't tell us or even sonic about the problem then something must be up." Rouge looked at shadow, with a somewhat worried expression on her face.

"Should we?" She asked.

The hedgehog nodded. "We should."

They hopped off the tree, or shadow did as rouge flew off it. They followed the trail of Chris' footsteps in the mud. They stopped as they heard talking.

"What do you mean he isn't here?" A males voice can be heard.

Shadow and rouge looked at each other as they continued to listen.

"Sir, with all due respect, the boy could be anywhere." A females voice stated.

The man growled. "Well then keep searching. The boy must be close."

He then whispered. "The boss will have you...Thorndyke."

Shadow and rouge gasped and looked at each other in shock. "Thorndyke?" Rouge asked.

"If I know any better...he must mean..." Shadow started.

Rogue shook her head in dismay. "It can't be him. There's heaps of kids with the last name Thorndyke."

"Yeah, but somehow, with the dream the kid told us, it must be them." Shadow replied. He finally understood the kid's dream.

"Well, whoever it is, we must find the kid and warn him before they capture him." Rouge suggested, earning a nod of agreement from Shadow.

They headed out in search of Chris and hoped they weren't to late...

...

Chris was walking in the forest, admiring its beauty. Sonic was right...maybe he should relax a little. 'Who knew that walking can clear your thoughts.' Chris thought, smiling.

Then suddenly...

(Thump)

He turned around and saw nothing. Chris shrugged and continued to walk. It must be one of the squirrels finding their acorns. The noise came back and Chris heard rustling from the bushes and heard footsteps.

Feeling a little scared, Chris started to pace up his walking. Walked faster from the noise until he saw 3 men and a woman came out from hiding...

Chris gasped...

he knew he saw those faces somewhere..but he can't place his finger on it.

The woman smirked. "Not so fast...Thorndyke." Chris then began to run as the woman looked at her team mates. "Don't just stand there. After him." She shouted. They all began to run after the boy.

Chris continued to run from them then began to slow down to capture his breathe. He didn't notice the people behind him and he heard laughter. He looked and saw the people he ran from. He tried to run but unfortunately they succeeded: They caught Chris in their grip.

"Heh, thought we couldn't capture you, eh?" The woman laughed. The men laughed as well.

Chris struggled from their grip. "Agh. Who are you? Why are you after me?" The woman smirked and got her communicator out. "Sir, we finally caught him. Objective complete."

"Well done. We're on our way." the voice from the machine spoke back. The woman placed her communicator back in her pocket as she looked at the boy.

"And to answer your question kid, we are team fire- volt." Chris gasped. Team fire-volt.. Could it be that his dream...is real? He then heard a helicopter in the sky and saw it landing in front of them.

The door opened as a man and his too henchmen came out. The man then came close to the boys face. "Hmm. Blue eyes, brown hair. Good work." Chris looked up and could've sworn he saw that face before.

"Who are you? And most importantly, Why did you capture me?" Chris asked. The man laughed.

"You don't know me? I'm terribly hurt. I thought you knew my name by now, but as this is your first time seeing me, my name is ghatsos, professor ghatsos."

Chris couldn't believe it...,he knew that the name sounded familiar...

"You must be the one sending me that letter. Where is my family?" Chris growled.

Ghatsos smirked. "Oh, how gullible can you get? I lied on that part, just to get you alone."

Chris gasped. But deep inside, he was relieved that his family is alright and that the professor didn't get captured them.

"Oh and yes...I was the one who sent you that letter." Ghatsos continued. Chris growled again and tried to escape from the woman's grip. Ghatsos looked at the woman.

"Put him in the copter, and make sure he doesn't escape." The woman nodded and tightened Her grip and began to walk in the copter with Chris.

The professor laughed evilly. "Finally, after all my years of getting revenge...and now i finally have it." They all got back in the copter and flew off, unaware that they've been watched by a bat and a red and black hedgehog.

They looked down. They failed to protect Chris. "We're too late shadow." Rouge sadly told him.

Shadow sighed as he looked up. "We didn't fail Yet. We have to get back and tell sonic and the others." Rouge nodded and they went back to the ship where sonic and the others currently are.

...

Back on the ship, everyone was finished decorating the ship. They were all relaxing. In Amy's room, cream and Amy are talking about the karaoke. "So Amy, what are you gonna sing tonight?" Cream asked.

Amy smirked. "Isn't it obvious cream. A song to win sonic's heart. Oh I can't wait to show him how sweet and soothing my voice is." She sighed dreamily at the thought of sonic holding Amy as she sings her song.

cream giggled. "Yeah, he will love it." "Chao. Chao." Cheese said happily. The girls began to laugh.

Knuckles saw this and shook his head in disbelief. There comes a time where Amy has to realise that sonic may not like her like she loves him. Unfortunately, she is too stubborn to realise that.

He then walked up to sonic, who was talking to vector. "Hey sonic, what are you gonna sing?" Vector asked.

"Something awesome, to really capture my personality." Sonic closed his eyes as he laid back against the wall. Sonic then noticed knuckles.

"Oh, hey knuckles. Say, where's Chris?" Sonic asked.

Knuckles shrugged. "I thought he was with YOU sonic."

Sonic was now deep in thought. He didn't see him since this morning. He had a strange feeling that he is no longer on the ship. Something must've happened. And that thought made the hedgehog worry. Tails then came in the room, looking shocked.

Everyone noticed this. "Hey tails, what's wrong?" Amy asked as she and cream and cheese came back into the main room.

"Chris is missing." He replied.

Knuckles rolled his eyes, "uh, we figure that out already." He grumbled.

Tails glared. "I'm serious knuckles, we haven't seen him since this morning."

"Maybe he's gone for a nice long walk." Cream suggested.

"OR, he's getting ice cream." Charmy exclaimed. Espio rolled his eyes.

"Well, wherever he is, I hope he returns soon." Sonic sighed. The others did too.

"I don't think that will happen anytime soon." They heard a males voice and looked up to see shadow and rouge.

"What do you mean?" Knuckles asked.

The ebony hedgehog sighed. "The kid has been captured." He said. The others gasped.

"Captured?" Amy asked, placing her hand on her mouth in shock.

"Oh, this is awful." Cream exclaimed, almost in tears. "Chao." cheese said sadly.

Sonic growled. "Captured by whom?"

Shadow looked down. "I didn't hear much, but from what i gathered, They call themselves team fire-volt. They placed him in the helicopter going to who- knows where."

Knuckles sighed, aggravated. "We'll never have peace in our world, are we?" He meant that as a rhetorical question.

Sonic gripped his fists and growled lowly. The others looked at him. "What should we do?" Espio asked as everyone was thinking of a plan.

"We should go." He said, too quietly.

"What?" Amy asked.

Sonic looked up in determination. "we must rescue him." Everyone looked up, feeling determined to rescue their friend.

"But how? We don't know where they've taken him. They could be anywhere." Vector stated, causing everyone to lose their hopes.

"Yeah, your right." Tails said, downhearted.

"but we can't give up. Not when Chris helped us so many times." Knuckles yelled.

"Knuckles is right. After the things he done for us, it's only natural for us to return the favour." Cream told them.

"Wow, cream, sometimes I can tell you'll grow up to be just like tails. You and knuckles are both right." Sonic smiled at cream then knuckles. Cream blushed at sonic's compliment.

Knuckles chuckled. "Heh, i didn't say much." He boasted.

"I'll get the X tornado ready." Tails exclaimed happily as he left to get the machine up and ready.

"Okay, mission objective: rescue Chris." Espio suddenly yelled, causing everyone to look at him weirdly. "What? Only charmy and vector can do that?" He asked in disbelief.

"Of course not, it's just...we didn't think you would yell like that." Knuckles said, about to laugh. Espio scoffed and walked up sat down in one of the seats.

Everyone did the same as tails had done the count down.

"5,4,3,2,1.."

"Blast off." Charmy shouted happily. As they were flying into space, sonic had only one thing in mind.

"Don't worry buddy...we'll rescue you. That's a promise."

...

Meanwhile, at the hideout, Chris was tied up into the chair. It was tied up really tight...

"What do you want from me?" Chris asked, desperately.

The professor smirked. "That's easy. But you must wait until the time comes. Since I heard so much about how you can find things easily, you just help us with one thing... You must help us steal the meteorites."

Chris gasped in complete shock. "I can't do that. That's...that's wrong." Chris then cried in pain as the electricity shocked him from the chair.

Ghatsos went up, close to his face with a hard glare. "You do as I say, or you will never see your friends again." He threatened.

Chris was about to reply until one of the henchmen came in. "Sir, they done it. They found the location of the meteorites."

Ghatsos smiled, but Chris doesn't like the way he smiled. "Excellent. Tell them that we're on our way." The man nodded and walked away.

Ghatsos chuckled evilly. "Too bad your friends aren't here to help you." The man walked away, leaving Chris alone to think...

So many things are happening. First the letter then the dream and now this.

...

'Something tells me, that this battle has just begun'

...

...Oh how right you are Chris...

Will Chris find a way out of this problem? Will sonic and the others rescue Chris in time? Find out in the next chapter...