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Chapter 3: One step closer

"But I wonder why you are so keen to find Miss Rose?" Shadow said looking at Sonic who was still stunned.

"Well….." Sonic started off "She's a good friend of mine" he said but the sound of his voice didn't made him sound too confident, Shadow realised the uncertainty in his voice so he gave one of his smirks.

"Are you sure that she is only a good friend? Or is there something more?" he replied while he continued to smirk, his smirk turned into a grin when he saw a blush crept on Sonic's face. Shadow turned his head back to his favourite position and he closed his eyes once more. "I knew it" he muttered under his breath but Sonic had heard this.

"Look, are you going to help me or not!" he said raising his voice; he wasn't going to be humiliated by Shadow any longer.

"Now, now faker, only I can use that tone" he said smirking again, enjoying the fact he was toying with Sonic a lot more then he usually does. "but now that you mention it, I do know a few things," he thought that he might as well tell faker what he know since he too was fond of Amy. "There is a gang that calls themselves 'Angels 4 Hell', no one knows where their base is since it always changes every so often but if you ask me, and they might be in Downtown Mobius." He said as Sonic was taking all the information in.

"Wow….. Thanks Shadow" he said putting his hand behind his head as he did a nervous laugh. "Too be honest, I didn't think you would tell me" Shadow growled when he said that.

"Don't think that I've grown soft on you faker, I'm still the Ultimate Life Form and can out match you any day." He said reminding Sonic where his place is.

"Yeh whatever you say Shadow," he gave Shadow one of his cocky smiles, and then he raced off to Downtown Mobius. Shadow watched his retreating figure and rolled his eyes. He'll get even with Sonic; soon enough, he took out his chaos emerald and said his two favourite words. "Chaos Control!!!!" and with that he disappeared.

Downtown Mobius

When Sonic finally reached his destination (which wasn't very long) he realised at what Shadow meant when he said that 'Angels 4 Hell'might be here. He looked around and saw everyone running around, shop windows smashed to which the shop seemed abandoned. He saw a couple of policeman trying to keep order but was doing a very poor job of it, he was about to help them but something caught his eye. Well… not really a 'something' but a 'someone', a guy walked past Sonic (he assume that he was a guy) he couldn't really tell if the person was a girl or a boy plainly because he/she had was wearing a hoodie. But what caught Sonic's eye was because that he/she was walking as if nothing was going on and that everything was normal, it was as if the person didn't want to draw attention to him/her. Out of curiosity Sonic followed, occasionally he had to hide behind dustbins and buildings to avoid being spotted but he was eventually at an alley. The person that he was following stopped when there was a dead end; he then rolled up his left sleeve which revealed a weird looking watch on his arm, he then pressed one of the buttons on the side of the watch.

"Starlight to base, I've come to report" she said, she was speaking in a whisper but Sonic was able to hear it. (Sonic could now tell that she was a she from the sound of her voice)

"What have you come to report Starlight?" replied the receiving end of the watch.

"I've got the jewels that the boss wanted" she said continuing to whisper as she opened a bag that had loads of sparkling, and shiny jewels in it. Sonic gasped at the sight, from of the distraction in Downtown Mobius no one realised that someone had stolen the jewels in the city; he couldn't let her get away especially since that he was now working with the police.

"Excellent Starlight, report back to base at once" replied the voice on the other end of the transmission

"Understood, is there any other missions I need to accomplish before I go back to base" she said as she putted the jewels back underneath her clothes where she had a secret pocket.

"None at all, your missions for today are complete, you may do what you wish for the rest of the evening." and with that the transmission stopped. Starlight was just about to press another button that would teleport her back to base when Sonic did one of his spinning attacks which send her flying to a nearby wall causing her hood to fell off. Sonic was in his fighting stance when he finally saw her face, she was an type of bird who had her hair in curls, she also had a scar on her left hand, her eyes were a shade of green but there was no sign of life in them.

"So, blue hedgehog wants to play huh?" she said while getting herself up and dusting herself down. Sonic didn't reply, he did a sweep kick as he didn't really feel comfortable about hitting a girl (wouldn't that make Sonic a gentleman? Just a thought….) but she jumped over and placed a kick in his ribs, but before she made impact Sonic manage to grab a hold onto her clothes making a hole in her left arm of her clothes when he was sent to the opposite wall. She growled at Sonic when she looked at her clothes and found a hole in it, she inspected the damage that Sonic did to her clothes and found a trickle of blood. Her frown turned to a grin as she grinned at Sonic.

"Until next time, blue hedgehog" she said as she pressed another button on her watch and teleported back to her base.

"Damn it…" he muttered under his breath when he saw Starlight disappear, he looked at his hand and saw the piece of material that he had ripped from Starlight's clothes, he looked closer and saw blood on the material. His face then lit up when he realise that he could ask his good friend Tails to see if he could do a DNA check and if he could probably get him one step closer to find Amy…. With no time to waste he started to head to his old friends apartment…..

Man that was an intense chapter…. But never mind that what do you think? Will Sonic be one step closer to find Amy? Find out next time….