Storm rode his board in the empty streets as he looked ahead to the shinning buildings that kept getting closer. He smiled at himself, his adventure will soon end, hopefully. After some few more blocks of riding, there it all stood in front of him. Night Babylon: a place of bars, stores, casinos, and the famous club that took over most of the area. Club Rouge was the brightest thing that Storm has ever seen. Club lighted up the neon sign and the Rouge with pink and white lights. A security guard was outside, checking people out. Music blasting whenever someone opened the door and then muffled when someone closes it.

Storm nervously walked towards the front of the line, he didn't want to be rude but he needed to find his friends.

"Hey! Get back in the line!"

"Cutter!"

"Dude, whatta hell!"

"You ain't even cool enough to get in!"

"Rouge wouldn't want you in her club!"

Storm ignored the comments people screamed out. He was the only concerned in one thing and one thing only.

"Are you on the list?" a giant silver back gorilla, with a black shirt that had security on it, stood in front of him. He wore an ear piece, black shades, and a clipboard.

"Umm… I don't think so. I think she knows me." Storm answered, not knowing what to say.

"You think or do you know?" He asked Storm. He didn't know what to say so all he did was say some few 'ummm's here and there.

"You know what? Leave or I'll send my buddies to throw you out int-"

"It's alright, George. I unfortunately know him." Storm looked over to the door where music and light flowed out of. There stood the owner of the club; a white bat with perfect make-up, a pink leopard slim fit dress that went down to her mid-thigh with another shorter wave skirt on top of it, her feet had some pink stiletto shoes. Storm grinned at her, relieved that he didn't have to fight his way in.

"Come on, Storm." Rouge said as she went back inside the club. Storm followed her, holding onto the flower and his board closely. When he went inside, the bass of the music vibrated through his body, the lights made him look everywhere for adjustment. He thought he heard a whistle and saw Rouge motioning to follow him. It took them a while to walk through all the dancers. When they reached to the other side of the club, they reached some stairs. They went up the stairs and reached a door that had to security guards protecting it. Once they saw Rouge, they separated and let her in, giving menacing stares to Storm. He gulped and followed Rouge, she sure knows her guards. When he walked in, the room looked like an office but everything was either purple, white, or pink. She had a desk that was purple with gems on the sides, chairs that were white and the back were shaped like pink hearts, a black couch on the side, a pink disco ball on the ceiling, a normal white lamp, and for some odd reason she had a photo of Knuckles on her desk. Storm jumped a bit when one the security guys closed the door behind him.

"Sit." She ordered him, and he respectfully did.

"From what the Chaotix told me, you are looking for that hawk friend of yours, right?" Storm nodded at her question. He didn't know what else to do, so he just nodded.

"Hm… you look like you've been through a lot. Why don't you take a rest." She pointed at the couch.

"No, I must find my friends first." Storm responded. This made Rouge smile.

"Okay then. Suit yourself. I've actually seen them at my club recently. I don't think they are here for dancing though. I suspect they are after one of my jewels or something. I'll be out there, making sure they don't and when I see them I'll tell you." She winked at him. Is this really going to end? Is he finally going to be back with Jet and Wave?

Bang! A loud noise was heard outside, making Rouge and Storm go stiff. Many screams and yells were heard. Storm saw Rouge run toward the door but then pushed back.

"Hey! What's the big idea?" Rouge called out, lifting herself from the ground.

"Sorry Ms. Rouge but it isn't safe for you. It's those birds again." Birds? Were they talking about Wave and Jet?

"I don't care if it's G.U.N! Let me out!" Rouge told him. Now a bit scared, the security guard opened the door. Storm was the first one out, Rouge amazed by his speed. When he looked down from the balcony, he saw chaos. There were people running and screaming everywhere. In all of that the music was still playing, but the lights were all turned off.

"Turn on the damn lights!" Rouge was heard demanding everyone to do what they were told. Suddenly, normal lights were turned on and there in the middle of the dance floor stood Jet and Wave on their boards.

"B-boss." Storm said, not audible enough for the two aviators.

"Rouge! Where the hell do you keep that chaos emerald?" Jet was heard as he pointed at Rouge.

"Dammit." She muttered low enough so that the people in the balcony can only hear.

"What are you talking about bird brain?" Rouge crossed her arms and looked away.

"Don't act dumb, lady. You know what I'm talking about?" Rouge just shrugged and shook her head. This angered Jet as he started to ride towards her.

"Lock my door!" She commanded.

"Boss!" Storm yelled out trying to get Jet's attention but he seemed so fix at the door. Storm now noticed that he was carrying a bag, now Jet's hand was in.

"Take this you broad!" Jet took out what looks like a bomb and threw it towards the door. Everyone jumped away, except for Storm, who was confused at the situation. A huge explosion brought many things crashing down, taking Storm as well. There was rubble everywhere. (A/N: THIS IS WHERE IT CHANGES!) Rouge and her men were picking themselves up from under the rubble and so was Jet and Wave.

"You dumbass! I don't bring it here!" Rouge yelled at Jet.

"Then why were you protecting the door?" Wave asked. As in cue, the picture of Knuckle's landed in between the two groups, making most of them laugh.

"Shut up!" Rouge ordered her goons, who did stay quiet, leaving Wave ad Jet in their laughter. This got Rouge mad but then remembered something.

"Oh My God! Storm! He didn't move during the explosion!" Rouge exclaimed, now looking through all the rubble.

"Storm? He was here?" Jet asked.

"Yeah you numbskulls! He came here looking for you!" Rouge yelled. Wave and Jet looked at each other and started to look as well.

"Storm!"

"Hey Storm!"

"Where are you buddy?"

"B-boss-s" Jet looked over to about 5 feet away from him. He ran to there and started to throw the fallen debris, finding the albatross.

"Storm…" Jet looked like he was going to cry.

"Hi, b-oss. I-I brought you this." Storm picked his hand from under the rubble and brought the tiny flower towards Jet.

"Help him." Rouge ordered her guards who ran up to him and picked up Storm. Jet was staring at the flower, wondering why Storm gave it to him.

After a walk to the outskirts of the city, the guards, Rouge and the Babylon Rouges arrived to the ship. They left Storm to recover from his injuries in his room as Jet and Wave set sail to somewhere else.

"Why didn't you put them in jail?" A guard asked as they waved goodbye to the ship.

"I think Storm has gone through too much to wind up in jail." Rouge simply replied.

x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-Back in the shipx-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x

"Man, I feel sorry that I did that…"Jet muttered as he sat on his seat in his room.

"And it was all your fault that you left him. I told you to make sure that he was in his room when we left." Storm added as she crossed her arms.

"I thought he was in there okay!" Jet looked outside to the clouds that were now appearing. Wave did so as well, sighing in relief.

"Seems that we just left the storm behind."

"No, not this time. This time he's here."

"Hmm… what did you say?" Wave leaned in forward to him on his desk. Jet blushed but looked away.

"Nothin. So what's with that flower?"

"I found out it's called the signo d'oro. And there is this great legend to it."

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever. Anything else?"

"other than it's rare and will make us super rich, no." Wave blurted out with no emotion to see if he caught on.

"Oh…Oh!" Jet smiled at Wave who started to laugh.

"I told you Storm was going to catch on sooner or later." Jet said as they laughed nostalgicly through the sky.

x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x- with Storm –x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-

Storm peacefully smiled at himself. He might not be able to move but he was happy. He met new friend and got back to his best friends.

{Crappy ending is crappy. So yeah! Here's the second version of the ending since my teacher put me down a little. Hope you like this series because I did….if only more people reviewed and read it…either way I like it! lol then see ya in some other story!}