Jason and Blaze arrived at Jason's old house. It was completely burned down. Only a little of the foundation was left. The rest of the house either burned to ash or ended up in the basement.
"This is terrible." Blaze said.
"You're telling me." Jason said.
He walked over to the woods next to the house and knelt down.
"Find something?" Blaze asked.
"There's footprints here." Jason said. "Leading to and from the house." He stood up. "I was right. This wasn't an accident. This was on purpose."
"What are you gonna do now?" Blaze asked.
"I'm gonna find out who did it." Jason said. "Then I'm gonna kill 'em."
Shadow sat on a box and held out the Green Chaos Emerald. The reflection of the Emerald shown in his eyes.
"Here you are." Wave said, entering the empty warehouse.
"Did you find out yet?" Shadow asked, not taking his eyes of the Emerald.
"No." Wave said with an annoyed sigh. "Not yet."
"Do you plan on starting soon? Marek's waiting, you know?"
"I know." Wave said. "But I thought you didn't work for anyone. Why do you care if we're late or not?"
Shadow set the Emerald down on the box and got up.
"I do work alone." Shadow said. "But I've waiting for an opportunity like this and I'm not gonna pass it up."
"Right." Wave said. "Well, Jason and Blaze went to his house to investigate the fire."
"Ah, the one that claimed his mom's life, is it?"
Wave nodded.
"This is perfect."
"How so?" Wave asked.
"Go to their headquarters and beat the info out of the others." Shadow ordered. "Without Jason or Blaze around, they're sure to give in."
"I hear you." Wave said, and left.
"When's Jason and Blaze getting back?" Tails asked.
They were seated at the kitchen table.
"Not sure." Jet said. "Could be another hour."
Then they heard a familiar laugh. They turned to the front doors. It was Wave again.
"An hour?" she asked. "That's perfect." she said, approaching the table. Sonic and Knuckles quickly got up. "Whoa, whoa, whoa." Wave said. "Where ya goin'?" Sonic and Knuckles didn't move. "I just wanna talk." She sat down in the empty seat in between Silver and Tails, who was keeping a cautious eye on her.
Sonic and Knuckles both sat back down.
"What do you want to talk about?" Sonic asked.
"I think you know what I want." she said. "Your precious Emeralds."
"If Jason didn't trust you," Sonic said, crossing his arms. "why should we?"
"I was hoping you'd be smarter." Wave said. "Or else something bad might happen."
"If you try anything-" Sonic started.
"You'll what?" Wave said. Sonic said nothing. "I could kill you all right now if I wanted."
"Just try it!" Knuckles said, getting up.
"Ah, ah, ah." Wave said, pointing a finger at him, palm up. There was a small sphere of dark energy at the tip of her finger. "Down, boy." she said. Knuckles sat back down. "Here's how this is gonna work..." Wave said. "I'm gonna ask you a question. Answer it right and nothing happens. Answer it wrong or not at all... well... use your imagination."
"What makes you think we'll cooperate?" Silver asked.
Wave whipped around and grabbed him by the throat.
"Because if you don't, I'll crush you right here, right now."
"All right." Sonic said. "We'll do it."
"Don't tell her anything, Sonic." Silver said.
"Well, well, well." Wave said. "Looks like we've got ourselves a hero."
She stood up and threw him over the table. He hit the ground in front of the hallway that led to the pool. Wave jumped over the table and headed for him. Sonic got up and zipped in front of Wave, holding his sword.
"Not so fast, Wave." he said.
"You think you can take me on?" Wave asked.
Sonic held up his sword. "You bet I can."
Wave's sword formed in her hand. "I don't think so."
She swung at Sonic, but he blocked. He then tried to counter with an upper-cut but Wave grabbed his fist and slammed him into the floor. She pulled back her sword to try to impale him but he rolled out of the way. Her sword stabbed the floor. He kicked the sword out of her hands and swung his sword. She dodged the attack and shot him with a dark energy blast. He flew down the hallway and landed in front of the door marked, "Training Room". He looked at the sign and then entered the room. Wave retrieved her sword and went in after him. The others ran over to see if they could help. Sonic pressed his hand on the touch screen inside the room. "User ID: Sonic" the computer said. The training room started to shift. Ramps appeared as did loop-the-loops, springs, and robots. Sonic jumped onto one of the springs and landed on top of one of the loop-the-loops. Wave jumped up and landed in front of him.
"You have some kind of plan?" Wave asked.
"You mean a plan to defeat you?" he asked. "Yeah."
"Good luck." she said.
Sonic rushed at her but she jumped over him. He fell of the other side and landed on the floor. He looked up and saw Wave about to jump down after him. When she landed, Sonic went full speed, running around the room using the loop-the-loops and springs. He was practically a blur. Wave could hardly keep up with his movements.
"You can't beat me when you're fighting in my territory." Sonic said.
"You're forgetting one thing." Wave said.
"Oh, yeah?" Sonic asked. "What's that?"
"You're not the only one here."
Wave shot a powerful dark energy blast at the group that was gathered at the door. It collided with the floor, sending out a ripple that damaged those nearest to it and cause them all to fall over. She launched another dark energy sphere that hit Tails.
"No!" Sonic said.
He stopped running and went over to help.
"All too easy." Wave said.
She fired a shot at Sonic. He wasn't paying attention so he had no time to dodge it. The impact sent him slamming into the wall besides the exit. Wave walked up to Tails and held him against the wall.
"Tell me what I want to know or the fox gets it."
"You don't... have it in you." Silver said.
"Oh, don't I?" she said. Her sword appeared in her hands. She pulled back the sword, ready to strike. "Wanna see how far I can take this?" she asked. "I got no problem killing Tails. There's four more of you."
"Fine." Sonic said. "Just don't hurt Tails."
Wave smiled and her sword disappeared. "That's more like it. Now where's the Emeralds? And don't lie because if I go looking and don't find any Emeralds, I'm gonna hunt you down and kill you all."
"We split them up." Sonic answered. "We put each one in a different location. The general has one. Another's in the bank vaults There's one in the Mojave Desert. We put one in a temple in the Amazon and the last one we found is in the Bermuda Triangle."
"Thanks." Wave said. "You've been most helpful." She threw Tails at Sonic and left Freedom Fighters HQ.