"So, you're name's Fiona Fox?" Raze asked.
"Yes. But you can just call me Fiona."
"Well, Fiona, I have to go."
"Where are you going?" asked Fiona.
"Home." answered Raze.
"Can I come with you?" Fiona quickly asked. "I have nowhere to go."
"Sure. Yeah, I… guess."
Raze got up off the park bench and headed home, with Fiona right beside her.

"Jason. How was your walk?" asked Blaze.
"Hey. You're awake." replied Jason. "Oh, uh, the walk. Right. Um… it was fun. Made a friend, so…"
"Well, that's nice. What's this friend's name?"
"Her name's Viper. She took me to a restaurant and then she gave me this." He showed Blaze the purple jewel Viper gave him.
"Hmm. It's beautiful. I think she likes you, Jason." Blaze teased.
"Oh, come on."
"I'm serious. That jewel seems pretty valuable to just give to a friend."
"Well… dead or alive, Wave's the only one for me."

Raze led Fiona into a cave. "Well, this is my home. I know it's not much."
"I don't really care where I am, as long as I'm with somebody."
"So, Fiona. What's your story?" Raze asked.
"Me? Um… my life's really complex.
"I have time."
"Well, it all started with Robotnik's rise to power. I was captured when I was very young along with several others. I was used as a test subject for creating robotic clones. There was a breakout that involved Sonic and a few others. They left me in the prison cell to die."
"Wait." Raze cut in. "Sonic left you to die in a prison cell?"
"Yes. And I hated him for that. I hated him a lot. Well, a few years later I broke out."
"How?" asked Raze.
"Over the years I dug my way out. Then I met Nic the Weasel. We hung out for a time but went our separate ways. But then I met someone." She paused and then said with a smile, "We fell in love."
"Well, that's nice." Raze said sweetly.
"What happened next wasn't. Our own teammates betrayed us and he was sent back to his home world which left me all lost and alone once again. And now here I am."
"Wow. You had a hard life, huh?"
"You bet. I'm just glad I'm not alone."

"So you gonna see her tomorrow?"
"Blaze, I told you. We're just friends." He paused. "Maybe. I don't know."
"What do you mean 'you don't know'?" Blaze asked.
"She said 'see you later' so I assume she'll find me. I mean, I don't even know where she lives."

It was dark out now, the perfect time of the day for a black hedgehog to move around unnoticed.
"Where are they?" Shadow asked himself. He used Chaos Control to teleport on top of a building.
"Well, who could this be?" a voice asked.
Shadow turned around and saw a grayish-black female hedgehog standing at the center of the roof. "Who are you?" Shadow asked.
"I'm Rogue. Rogue the Hedgehog. And you are?"
"None of your business." Shadow shot back.
"Well, that was mean."
"I don't have time for you." Shadow said as he walked past her. "I'm on a mission."
"To find the ones responsible for the train hijacking?" Rogue asked inquisitively.
"Yeah." Shadow said as he turned to face her. "What do you know about it?"
"I know they call themselves the Skulls."
"Yeah?" said Shadow. "What about the robbery? Did the Skulls have anything to do with that?"
Rogue just smiled.

Jason woke up. He had yet another dream about Wave. He looked around the room and saw that everyone else was asleep… except for Shadow. Jason stood up and walked out of the room. He walked down the hall to the cafeteria for a drink. When he got to the kitchen, he opened the fridge and got himself a glass of milk.

"Hey, Jason." said a voice.
Jason quickly shut the fridge and looked to see who it was. "Viper. What are you doing here?"
"Couldn't sleep. I was lonely. Here I am."
"Ah."
"Couldn't sleep either?" Viper quickly asked.
"No. I, uh… had a bad dream."
"About Wave?" Viper asked sympathetically.
"Yeah." Jason said with a sigh. "I've been having the same dream for the past 10 days. I can't take it anymore."
"I think I know somewhere we could go to take your mind off things." Viper said.
"Where now? Another restaurant?" Jason asked jokingly.
"Mmm. You'll see." Viper said with a smile.

"So, Raze. What do you do here?"
"I sleep and wait for something to happen. That's it."
"Sounds kinda boring. Just waiting."
"Well, a job like this requires no attachments. Wave was lucky, you know. She had someone. Too bad she died. I would've loved to meet her." Just then there was an explosion. "Whoa. Duty calls." She headed to the cave's entrance and turned around. "Wanna come with?" she asked Fiona.
"Sure. Why not. I could use some action."

Jason and Viper were walking through the park when they heard the explosion.
"Whoa. Gotta go." Jason said, taking off towards the explosion.
"Hey! Wait for me!" Viper yelled, running after him.

"You're such an idiot, Rave! You're supposed to blow it AFTER we leave." The red hedgehog yelled at the female weasel.
"Sorry, Dess." apologized Rave. "What do we do now?"
"Maverick!" Dess yelled at the other team member.
"How about we-" Dess began.
"Stay right where you are." a voice suggested.
"WHO'S THERE?" yelled Dess.
"Name's Jason. Who are you?"
"I'm your worst nightmare!" Dess said as he lifted up a staff he was holding. It was a metal rod with three sharp daggers at the end. Kind of like a triton. An energy blast shot out of it. Jason jumped out of the way just in time. If he had delayed, who knows what would have happened. Dess ran at Jason, swinging his staff. Jason leaped over him, grabbed him by the back of the neck, and flung him forwards. Dess slammed into a building across the street. Rave pulled out two oddly-shaped pistols and started firing. Just then Viper appeared. She also pulled out a weapon. Hers was a pistol with a long barrel. She fired off a couple shots. To Jason's surprise, the bullets from Viper's gun knocked the bullets from Rave's gun right out of the air. All the bullets fell to the ground.
"Bulls-eye." Viper said.
"Impossible." Rave gasped.
"Incredible." Jason said in amazement.
The third member of the opposing group, Maverick, stepped forward. He was a red hedgehog, too. At that moment Raze appeared. She didn't stay still for very long, which made it difficult for Jason to see her clear enough. She took off towards Rave. Dess climbed out of the hole he had made in the building and took off towards Jason. Viper lunged at the other red hedgehog and the fight was on. Jason versus Dess, Viper versus Maverick, and Raze versus Rave.