I'm really glad you're all enjoying the story! Like I said, I've been having writers block. So sorry if the updates aren't coming as fast as you'd like it. D: but don't worry I've got chapters 9 – 12 or at least the basic plot of them… all planned out! Get ready for some action that the last chapter was severely lacking… This chapter is the start of one of the main villians besides XANA, let's see who can figure it out before chapter 11, when our horrible villain arrives, and just so you don't guess, no it's not eggman, but he IS a familiar enemy. I've been contemplating whether or not to put him in, if you've got any ideas, PM me the ideas and I'll see what I can do… ENJOY! :D

The group had been very awkward for the past few days, mixed feelings between sonic and amy, Ulrich and Yumi, Odd and Jeremy have been keeping up the charade with Jennifer for quite a while. Jeremy was annoyed with odd still, but let it slide as he seems to have found someone to keep him happy.

"Amy please!" Sonic followed her into the forest, "Tell me what I did wrong! I want to fix it!" Things had gotten worse between sonic and amy, so bad to the point she wasn't speaking to him. "Please amy, I'm begging you!" 'She must be really mad! She won't even speak to me… oh what did I do?'

She spun around, an angry look on her face, sonic jumped back. "You should know hedgehog!" She shouted. "I'm not telling you anything! You should know by now! It's been two weeks!" She shouted again, her anger rising. She turned around again, lifted up the man hole and climbed down.

Sonic sighed, following her. Jeremy had called everyone to be there, it being lunch, it was the perfect time for them all to meet and discuss things.

The group entered the computer room and waited. Jeremy spun around in his chair. "Hello to you all." He smiled, "I know it's Odd I called you all here, but I've a valid reason for doing so." He looked around, seeing all the mixed emotions. For starters, Amy and sonic were on opposite sides, sonic looking depressed and amy as mad as ever. He noticed Ulrich and Yumi awkwardly standing beside each other, not even looking and in their general directions.

"I've noticed a lot of problems in this group, and you four are the main cause…" They all looked at Jeremy.

"US?" they shouted.

"Yes. You four." Jeremy had a serious expression on his face, while knuckles and the rest stepped away from the four. "you four need to get your priorities straight…" He turned around to the computer and started typing away. "Hmm?" He leaned in, "Oh why now?" he shouted, standing up. "Well this is just great; you four get off easy, Xana's launched an attack!"

"Sonic, Amy, Ulrich and Odd get down to the chambers, the attacks in the forest sector." He typed away and waited.

Sonic looked at Amy, who walked into the elevator. He sighed and followed her, as did Ulrich an Odd.

"Scanner, Odd. Scanner, Sonic. Scanner, Ulrich. Scanner, Amy." He typed away, "Ready guys? Virtualization!" He hit the Key.

"Waaaggh!" Sonic fell on his face. "Uggh… today's not a good day for me…" He stood up, but was soon crushed when amy fell on top of him.

She hopped off, not even helping him up.

"I must've really made her mad…" He stood once more, but was again crushed by Odd and Ulrich.

"Sorry sonic…" They said awkwardly.

"Sorry sonic! I was in a hurry…" Jeremy apologized.

Odd and Ulrich helped him up, "Let's start looking around for the tower, Jeremy, how's aelita coming along?"

"She'll be there momentarily Ulrich. Virtualization!" He shouted as Aelita Virtualized in the world.

"Hi guys!" She ran over to them and smiled. "Let's start looking for the tower!" She followed Odd and Ulrich, sonic was left moving like a snail, slugging along with his head low.

Jeremy turned around, "you four get to school and see what kind of attack Xana's planning."

They nodded, leaving Jeremy and the rest to do what they do best. They exited the sewers and ran back to school and looked around. Everything seemed… NORMAL?

Shadow looked at the students, appliances, nothing seemed to be off. "hmm…"

Suddenly, an engine was heard. The group turned around to see Jim on mower. The group laughed.

"Is this the best you can do?" Yumi laughed.

"Hmph… this shouldn't take long… a bit of chaos energy should shut you down." His finger sparked with a mini chaos spear, just enough to wreck the motor. "Chaoss…" But before shadow could finish his attack, something metal struck his head. "Gack!" He clenched the back of his head. "Wh…what?" Metallic parts from all over the school flew towards Jim, Consuming him.

"U-Um…" Yumi took a step back. "Maybe I…. was wrong…"

The Metal monster grew larger and larger! It screeched a terrible screech, as the group clutched their ears. Taking a step forward.

Tails stood up, "I think I speak for everyone when I say…. RUN FOR YOUR FRIGGEN LIVES!" Tails shouted as the group scattered. As soon as they had scattered a metallic foot smashed the ground where they once stood.

The monster roared and the school watched as it pierced through the jungle and neared the school.

"Everybody evacuate!" Knuckles shouted, ripping his clothes off, shadow and tails did the same. "I always feel cooped up in those clothes…" Knuckles shivered. "Now let's see what this tin can can DO!" He ran up to it, his fists ready to punch the monstrosity, but stopped in his tracks when the beast jumped.

"What?" Shadow watched as it seemed to fly over them and land close behind. Next to Yumi.

It roared once more and sent a fist flying to Yumi, hoping to crush her. Knuckles quickly reacted and jumped in front of her, using all his strength to stop the fist. The fist collided with knuckles' hand as he was pushed back and into the ground. "Huurrrg!"

"Kn-Knuckles!" She took a step back.

"K-Kinda in pain here! S-Step back!" He shouted. She nodded and ran back. "Urrghh… aaghh…." He dropped to one knee. "Y-You call that a punch…" He mocked.

The beast seemed to laugh as it drew its fist back, the weakened knuckles sighed. It threw its fist yet again, and the weakened knuckles could do nothing but prepare for impact. Too weak to move and too weak to stop the fist once more he crossed his arms across his face and was punched by the metal monster.

"Aaggh!" He flew into the building and plopped onto the ground.

"Knuckles!" Yumi shouted, feeling bad he took the hit to save her.

The monsters step caused the earth to rumble, its large size overwhelmed even knuckles!

"That's it, I'm through playing around!" Shadow shouted, "Chaos…" his hand glowed yellow. "SPEAR!" The energy struck the beast, making it take a step back, but other than that, no damage was present. "N-Nothing…" He growled.

The group was pre-occupied themselves as they were fending off wave after wave of monsters. Although they were very sloppy, considering their emotions were all mixed and garbled. Amy had 80 points, Ulrich had sixty, Sonic had fifty, and Odd had the least amount of damage, 90 points still.

Sonic was doing his best to dodge the hornets, but his thinking of amy had him off his A game.

Sonic was suddenly hit in the back by a megatank, "Agh!" He rolled on the ground and tried to sit up "Urrg…" He jumped up and got into a spindash, as the tank began to charge up its attack. "Let's see just how powerful that attack is! Supersonic spin!" He glowed blue as the tank fired and he propelled himself in a powerful spindash! Their attacks collided and sonic was pushing with all he had. Their attacks were at bay, pushing sonic slowly away, but sonic gaining as well. "You're pretty tough! But I've pushed back stronger attacks… BEFORE!" He shouted as he was barely able to burst through the beam, shattering the attack and piercing the eye in the middle. "Hah! No robot has ever taken me down, and you're not gonna start it!" He smiled.

"Nice job!" Ulrich smiled, Odd smiled.

Amy was silent though, "c'mon, we have to find that tower…" She walked away.

Just as fast as he stood up, sonic was beat down. "man…" He followed her sulking again, but was stopped short. "Wh-What the." He tripped, "Hey, what's the big idea- AGGH LAND SQUID!" He shouted trying to get free. "lemme go!" he shouted as the tentacles wrapped around him.

Amy turned around to see sonic being grappled by the Scyphozoa. "S-Sonic!" Her friendly instincts kicked in, forgetting about all the anger she had towards him. Ran forwards, her hammer expanding. "Let go… OF MY SONIC!"

It began to sync itself with sonic. His memories were being read by the Scyphozoa.

"Let him go NOW!" She shouted, running up to it and smashing her hammer against it, knocking it senseless into the trees of the sector. It screeched and floated away, as sonic dropped onto the ground.

"Ugh…" He rubbed his head and sat up, the one holding him was the pink hedgehog herself. She smiled. "A-amy?" He looked at her.

"I'm glad you're safe!" She put him in a death grip hug. But her eyes opened up and she tossed him to the ground. "I'm still mad at you."

He gasped for air as he was thrown. "I… I know…" He said catching his breath.

"Sonic, Ten life points. Be careful." Jeremy said typing away, "And hurry up! Not time to mess around!"

"Sorry Jeremy!" Amy said, grabbing sonic and dragging him across the ground.

"Aggh- OW! Amy, I can run you know!" He caught his footing and jumped over her, scooping her up and grabbing aelita in the process. "Let's get this show on the road!" He sped off, "Ulrich! Get the lead out, it's time for sonic speed!" He rushed passed them, his speed was still drastically cut from the real world, but he was still faster than anything Xana could make!

Shadow was smacked into a wall. "I'm starting to lose my patience…" He stood up, Looking over at tails and Yumi. "That's it… I'm ending this!" His hands started to glow once more, "Chaos…" He smushed them together and slowly pulled them apart, a yellow orb appeared between them. "SPEAR!" His voice echoed as he threw the ball at the monster, it struck once more, and its armor was penetrated, but did not create a large hole. Shadow smirked, "Perfect…" He jumped up, and got into a spindash and launched himself at the monster, and easily going through it, now that the amor was broken. On the opposite side he pulled out the unconscious jim, without someone inside the machine, it seemed to be less in control, He floated there in his shoes and dropped jim. He flew in the middle of the monster. "Heh… Chaos…" He floated in a crouched position, "BLAST!" A red light filled the sky and the monster exploded, shadow left floating there, slowly floating to the ground. "Hmph…" He smiled at tails and Yumi.

"Aw right shadow!" Tails shouted, pumping his fist into the air.

Much to their dismay, they heard guns clicking. "aww crap…" Tails looked around.

"Almost there!" Sonic said stopping, "Head on in Aelita, we'll cover you."

She smiled and ran into the tower. She floated to the top and placed her hand on the screen.

Aelita… code… L.Y.O.K.O It read as the numbers and screens behind her fell.

"Return to the past… NOW!" Jeremy hit the enter key as the white light consumed everything…

They were all back in the room, Jeremy was walking around the room. "it… it doesn't make sense…" He pondered.

"What doesn't?" Odd asked.

"The fact that the Scyphozoa would go after sonic!" He pointed at him, "What link does XANA have with him?"

Sonic looked around the room. "Maybe… I have valuable information?" He smiled nervously. Jeremy stopped and thought about that.

(Flashback)

"Hah! No robot has ever taken me down, and you're not gonna start it!"

(End flashback)

"Hmm… I can't think of anything…" He lied, "you all get to class, and I'll figure this out later." He sighed and walked out of the factory.

Sonic walked up beside Amy. "H…Hey amy?" He looked at her, "Um… thanks for saving me." He smiled to her.

She was mad, but smiled back, "You're welcome sonic." She smiled, she wanted to hug him, but resisted, afterall she was still mad at him.

Well here ya go! Next chapter is finished! Now I know it's a little early… I mean my other ones were like, months! Anyway, I'm glad to do this, consider it my early Christmas present to you all! Enjoy! And PLEASE review! I love reading comments from new readers!