AN: Eh, I honestly think I did poorly on this one ^^' but dispite that, I hope that you'll enjoy it!

Chapter 2 Continuing what was left

"Sonic…?" I whispered the blue hedgehog's name in surprise as I continually stared at his face. His eyes were full of enlightment, and his mouth formed into a big smile. Already telling, I could see that he missed me as much as I missed him.

"Hey Court, long time no see." He told me happily. He let me onto the floor, and I quickly bent down and grabbed hold of his form again and hugged him tight.

"I thought I was never going to see you again…" I whispered as slowly tears went down on my cheeks. He hugged back for a few moments and then released and wiped off the remaining tears on my face.

"Me too, Court…You don't know how happy I am to see you." He softly replied. I smiled and stood back up again. As we both turned to face the crowd, we saw all of the dressed-up teenagers staring back at us, watching us, with all surprised reactions.

"Sonic the Hedgehog!"

"Is this for real?"

"What's going on!"

Everyone started to mumble and ask confusingly and continuously around the group, some people started to come up to see the blue blur himself, but Eggman's growl behind us made them stop in their tracks and back away.

"You think that a simple broken hand means that I'm finished! How dare you just ignore me like that!" I suddenly felt cold metal embrace on to me again and I was lifted off the ground once more. I turned only to see Eggman's face reddened with anger, which lead to me turning my head quickly back.

"Sonic!" I screamed while looking down on him.

"Court!" Sonic jumped high into the air and then spun into a ball, ready to shred the middle of the robot, the power core of the Egg Giant. But Eggman thought quickly and kicked Sonic out like a soccer ball, by using one of the robot's feet. He crashed deep into the wall on the right side of the school building.

"Score!" Eggman laughed along with the teens below me panicking and screaming again. All knowing that the hero, Sonic the Hedgehog, was injured, there was nothing left to save them. Most of the teens started to head out and escape through the high school front doors, like scared mice heading towards the same hole.

The egg-shaped doctor laughed even louder by seeing this scene. But while he was busy doing that, I was trying my best to squirm out of the robotic hand. Unfortunately, Eggman saw and gripped me as hard as he can with his Egg Giant. It was so tight that I couldn't breathe, and my circulation of my blood was cutting short. It almost felt like I was about to faint.

"Hahahahoho! This is more fun to watch other than seeing you burst into flames! I wonder what will happen if I gripped you harder…?" Eggman laughed once more and pressed and held a button on his control panel, to make the hand grip tighter. If he continued doing this, I bet most of the bones in my body will snap.

It kept tightening.

"Aahhh!" I screamed out in complete pain. But before the hand gripped more tightly, a flash of fire flew directly at Eggman, and hit him directly in the face. Now Eggman was the one yelling in pain. The tightening loosened.

"Fire?" I said weakly as I looked down to see the one who threw the flame. In complete surprise, it was Dylan. He looked up at Eggman with his face furious, and his right hand up in the air, already lit with another flame.

Dylan! He had his power the whole time! Wait…if that means he's has his still, maybe I…

"You think you can just get away from destroying the dance, me winning Sweetheart King, hurting Sonic, and one of my bestest friends! I DON'T THINK SO!" Dylan screamed out in full anger as he threw out another flame at the Doctor. Another successful hit.

While Eggman was distracted by his burns, I now had time to concentrate on my power. Hopefully I had it still. I closed my eyes, thinking of the violet shield that I used plentiful of times during our adventure last summer.

As I opened my eyes once again, I saw that I was in the purplish sphere once again. By summoning it, I now was freed from the grip, and yet, destroyed of the hand of the Egg Giant. The only bad thing now is, was that I was falling.

"Court!" Dylan jumped and caught me airborne. We shortly fell to the hard ground and slid across the floor. Moments after we stopped, we then saw Chel's and Trevor hovering over us, two of the remainder that decided to stay here. They gave us a hand.

"Thanks for saving me." I smiled at my best friend while Chelsea helped me up. He scratched his head and made a smile as well, like it was no problem.

"Anytime." He chuckled. "To tell you the truth…I didn't know that I still had my power. It was the first time in awhile that I've been this angry…my anger must have triggered it…"

Again, I looked at him in surprise. Then I looked at myself. "I still have mine as well. By seeing you with yours, it given me the chance to try it out and then breaking out of the robot's grip." I chucked too as I looked at him again. "Double thanks!"

"What's going on?" Chelsea asked confusingly before Dylan had the chance to reply back. Trevor walked closely to me.

"I apologize Court…you are right." He told me. "And all this time I thought you were a lunatic!"

I was offended of what Trevor had said, wanting me to say something offensive back, but instead I answered Chelsea's question.

"Remember the time when Dylan and I were gone for a long period of time during the summer…and the story I told you when I gotten back?"

"Yeah! But I didn't think that Sonic—and this would be real! I honestly thought you were making it all up!" Chelsea outburst. Just like Trevor, she didn't believe either. Maybe showing her Sonic's ring will make her understand.

I went and touched the ring on my left wrist, only to feel naked skin. I quickly looked and saw that the gold ring was gone. Like in most cases like these, I would panic. But twice on the same night, it didn't occur to me. Maybe it came off my wrist whenever Dylan caught me in the air.

But before I gotten the chance to say or started looking for it, Dylan quickly grabbed a hold of my right arm.

"Sonic's hurt remember! We need to help him!" He reminded me.

While the four of us ran to the rescue on the right wall of the commons, a foot of the Egg Giant stomped and blocked our way. On the top, I saw Eggman, now with burn marks. He looked madder then ever.

"You…you two will pay for THIS!" Eggman screamed out and raised the same foot high into the air and was ready to squish us. I huddled everyone close to me and gotten my power prepared. But a flash of light green light blinded all four of us and then teleported to another location in the commons. As I looked around after that sudden occurrence, I saw Shadow standing close to the group with a smug on his face.

"Shadow!" Both Dylan and I shrieked. As if with instinct; I glomped right at him and given him a tight hug.

"Shadow! I missed you!" I told him, happy that he was here as well with Sonic. He hugged tightly in return.

"I heard from Sonic that Eggman was continuing his plans on ruling both of our worlds." Shadow said as he released me. "When he asked me to come along to stop him, I knew it was going to lead me here, to your world." He continued to smug.

Before Shadow or the rest of us said anything else, Eggman was coming right back at us with his robot. It was making loud metallic steps while it ran across the hard floor.

Shadow ran in front of our group, protecting us, but while the Egg Giant still ran and gotten more closer, a blue ball went right through the middle of the monstrous machine and stopped it. It then collapsed and started to twitch in malfunction, then set off a small explosion. I saw Eggman jump right out before it had happened.

As the blue ball reached to the ground, it unrevealed itself and showed an injured Sonic, now started walking to us with a weak, but, confident smile.

"Oh my God!" Trevor squealed at the sight.

"Hey! You're okay!" Dylan said joyfully as Sonic reached us. He then bent down and gave him a hello hug as well. "Welcome back, Sonic!"

"It's nice to see again, buddy!" Sonic patted his back and then released from the embrace. Dark laughter was faintly heard close by.

"Ignoring me again I see…Heh, you won't be ignoring me once I use this!" Eggman spoke while he stood back up, looking like a mess, and revealed a small remote-like invention with a jewel strapped on to the middle of it. It looked similar to the one that was on my necklace. It was glowing a multitude of colors, an iridescent.

"After a little research, I figured out that your world and ours are not so different at all. Your world also contains mysterious gems that have grand power, like our Chaos Emeralds. But this here is a Harmonic Iridescent. Opposite from Chaos Emeralds, it causes peace and harmony to everything that touches it." Eggman started to explain. Sonic raised an eyebrow in confusion.

"Peace? Harmony? That doesn't sound like your cup of tea, Eggman! Unless you really did turn over a new leaf?" Sonic pointed at Eggman with his right index finger.

"Haha! That would be too good to be true, you pesky hedgehog! These Harmonic Iridescents may bring peace, but in each one of these beauties has the power of seven Chaos Emeralds combined!"

"All that power…" Shadow said with shocked eyes.

"Yes Shadow, with that power, I could teleport to anywhere in our two worlds! Saving me the trouble of collecting the Chaos Emeralds every time they separate after use! With these, I'm going to combine our worlds together! HAHAHA!"

We were now all in shock. "WHAT!"

Sonic was serious. "Eggman! Think what you're doing! You gonna create a lot of problems if you do this!" He argued with the egg-shaped doctor, but like always, he made a repeated laugh.

"Yeah for you! Once I'm in power, you all are going to pay for what you did to me months ago, and now! Well, except for you Sonic. I have different plans for you; after all, you caused destruction for me for almost half my life." Eggman growled at Sonic, but the blue hedgehog made a giggle and rubbed his nose with his right index finger.

"Glad to be a part of it." He replied proudly with a smile on his face.

"Whatever. Now! I shall be going!" Eggman pressed a button on his remote and pointed the invention at some random space in the commons. After three seconds, a portal appeared where the space once was. the Doctor turned to us and made one last laugh, as if he was daring us to follow, and then went on into the portal to who knows where. Sonic then grabbed both my and Dylan's arms, and dashed towards the light-filled abyss, but we both managed to stop him in his tracks.

"Sonic! We can't go just yet!" Dylan yelled out while his shoes were screeching across the floor. The blue hedgehog stopped, and let go to face the two of us, wondering why we did say such a thing.

"But if we can't catch up, then he'll be ahead of his plans! We need to stop him at all costs if he wants to merge the worlds together!" Sonic explained to Dylan and me.

I then looked at Sonic with a sad yet serious expression. "I understand Sonic…but we can't just leave unprepared. And our family, well, they need to know about this too. I don't want them having heart attacks again." I explained.

"Oh! Oh! And I want to be a part of this too!" Chelsea said in her bubbly attitude while she ran at the three of us. Trevor tagged along-side.

"I'm in too!" He said cheery. "What could be more epic then going on an adventure with Sonic the Hedgehog!"

Sonic stood there in front of all of us while he closed both of his eyes, thinking of the best strategy. After a few minutes, his eyes opened, and announced his decision.

"A few days wouldn't hurt, after all, we do need to prepare…and we do need all the help we can get." Sonic winked at both Chelsea and Trevor. By that action, they both squealed in excitement. Shadow slowly came from where we were once standing, and walked by Sonic.

"Wise choice, Faker." He said while making a smirk at him. Sonic just made a small laugh.

"Yeah well, a couple of days here would be nice. Besides, we might be able to find one of those Harmonic Iridescent gems that Egghead has, here. If we get them before he does, then our worlds would be safe."

While Dylan and the rest of my friends started to have a conversation of their own, I silently listened to Sonic and Shadow's session. I gripped and looked at the jewel that I wore on my necklace. It didn't glow like Eggman's did; it only reflected the lights in room and glittered, like normal.

Shadow grunted. "Shouldn't we be worrying about the Chaos Emeralds as well? After all, the Doctor wants to grab all the power he can get."

Sonic rubbed his chin. "Heh heh, so it's going to be like a jewel hunt! Maybe you should ask your girlfriend, Rouge, to help us?" Sonic then pointed at Shadow and snickered. The back hedgehog growled deep in his throat.

"She's not my girlfriend...she's a friend that's a girl, no more."

Before both conversations continued, we heard sirens and horns outside the front of the school building. Looking through the glass of the windows, I saw the police, ambulance, and fire trucks all grouping around in the parking lots. Dylan, Chelsea, Trevor and I started to panic.

"Um we should leave like now." Dylan said while he saw people exiting out of the vehicles, now heading for the doors.

Sonic looked at Shadow again, still snickering. "Shadow? Would you do the honors?"

Shadow made another growl at him and told all six of us to group together. Reaching for something behind him, he grabbed the green Chaos Emerald he'd used earlier. It glowed a brilliant light.

"Chaos Control!" He yelled and soon we we're engulfed in light. But before we teleported, I took one last glimpse of the portal that Eggman made to escape. There, I saw three human silhouettes about to enter right through it.

The one in the middle had my gold ring.