Chapter Seven: Sonic boom

"Yeah, yeah, keep talking Silver."

"But seriously! There was something wrong with that mat!" Silver protested to Sonic who had his usual grin slapped on his face, Marine was giggling away as they walked through the forest, on their way back to Tails'. Sonic suddenly went silent, and held the other two back.

"Do you hear that?"

"No." The two said in unison.

"Shh." Sonic kept the two in silence for a few seconds, then pushed them back, "Stay there!" he yelled after almost being blown back by a white streak that tore up the path as it flew past, he recognised it immediately, "It's Cloak Man."

"Who?" Marine and Silver spoke in unison again.

"I'll explain late- Whoa!" A black streak flew past them, presumabley after the white one, tearing up the path further. Sonic was soon after them.

"Shadow!" Sonic soon caught up to the black streak, recognising him immediatley, "What's up?"

"That thing took my Chaos Emerald!" Sonic heard Shadow's shoes fire up as he skated even faster.

The thing wasn't running, it looked like it was gliding, it didn't take long for the duo to be on it's tail. It took them both by suprise as it did a U-turn immediately, looking like it was about to hit them, but it jumped over them and took off the other way, Sonic and Shadow still running in the wrong direction. Shadow turned to Sonic, he was grinning slightly, "Sonic boom?"

Sonic gave a wide grin back, "I got the Sonic if you've got the boom."

Shadow then grabbed Sonic's hand, his airshoes doing overtime to come to a stop and swing him around, blowing up tons of earth as he grinded to a halt, "Chaos..." Shadow let out a roar as he threw Sonic with all of the strength he could summon, "...Spear!" along with a jolt of electricity which gave the spinning, blue hedgehog even more momentum and an electric barrier infront of him. A loud crack rattled the trees as he broke the sound barrier. Cloak Man could only turn around before he was knocked out of the sky.

"Heh, I can't believe that worked!" Sonic grinned as he landed safely in a tall tree, reminiscing the last time they had tried that move, it wasn't pretty, 'nuff said. He went to join Shadow on the ground.

Shadow, meanwhile, was looking around despirately, trying to estimate where Cloak Man would land, it would only be a few seconds.

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"Tails? You in here?"

"In here!" Tails voice came from his workshop. Blaze followed the noise.

"The others back yet?"

"Evidently not." The fox was crouched at the bottom of the machine, it was beginning to look like a phone booth.

"What's with the design on this thing?" Blaze patted the machine, then crouched to watch Tails with his new wrench.

"What's up with it?"

Blaze stood back, to get a full view of the machine, "Nothing, it just looks... very Doctor Who-esque." Tails shrugged.

They both then yelped as they heard a crash from outside. Blaze ran outside to check what it was, and found a fifteen foot crater with Cloak Man in the centre, he was getting up. Sonic and Shadow were running towards it at light speed. She rolled her eyes and spoke to herself, "Why did they have to bring it here?"

"I did not wish for it to come to this," Cloak Man's emotionless face seemed to grow angry, "but you leave me no choice." he clenched his fists for a few moments, then forced his palm against the floor, leaving Sonic and Shadow looking confused. After a few seconds the floor around him began to crumble, as did the floor around Blaze's feet, she watched Sonic lunge for Cloak Man, taking him off his feet, as Shadow noticed her.

"Hey!" He yelled, catching her attention, but it seemed too late as the ground fell beneath her, she began to fall but then felt a hand wrap around hers. She looked up to see Shadow, who seemed to be floating in mid-air.

"How?"

"Air shoes." the ebony hedgehog carried her out of fighting range and put her down, "Stay here." She nodded as he turned around and went back to the fight.

Cloak Man and Sonic were pretty much evenly matched, blocking and dodging each others punches, neither could land a hit, until Shadow threw a punch towards cloak man, who ducked, leaving Sonic to be punched square in the face.

"Erm. Sorry...?"

"What the hell!?" Sonic rubbed his jaw, "Ow..."

"Yeah, sorry." Shadow helped him up and looked around, Cloak Man seeemed to have somehow escaped, but he spotted Blaze in the distance, "That a friend of yours?"

"My girlfriend." Sonic grinned proudly as the two ran over to her, "Shadow, Blaze. Blaze, Shadow."

"Shadow the hedgehog." Shadow continued, nodding politely.

"Er, heheh," Blaze couldn't help blushing, he certainly seemed... charming, and that voice... "thanks for... saving me, I guess." She scratched the back of her neck.

"It was nothing." The two stared at each other for a couple of seconds, with Sonic glaring at Shadow.

"So, Blaze. Lets go back to Tails'. Soon."

She managed to break her stare ith Shadow, " What? Yes. Ok. Goodbye, Shadow."

"Bye." The hedgehog nodded and skated off in the distance. Sonic and Blaze made their way to the workshop, but Sonic stopped her at the door.

"Blaze why were you staring at him?" His voice was almost whiny.

"Staring? I wasn't staring, he saved my life."

"But I've saved your life too."

Blaze folded her arms and made her way inside. "Don't be so immature, Sonic."

Sonic sighed and followed her in. A thought then crossed his mind and he put his palm to his face. "I forgot Silver and Marine!" He could have punched himself, if Shadow hadn't already done that for him. He turned back to see Blaze, but she had already gone out of the room. Sonic sighed once again, "See you later then..."

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