Authors Note: This and the next chapter will be a breather for our heroes as our villains won't attack them, rather they are planning something. So Enjoy this Chapter. Oh and if your wondering why this chapter took so long to make. Ill explain at the authors note at the end of the chapter

Chapter 15. Camping on an Alien Planet

Space.

There are two words that can describe it, large, and silent.

Then electricity began to crackle for a few seconds despite having no source, then a ship appeared out of nowhere.

Inside our heroes were recovering form the sudden teleport. Daxter however didn't know they teleported away from the danger.

"Are we dead? Did the Missile hit us?" He asked hiding under seat.

Clank checked the window. "It appears we are fine, the MTM managed to teleport us away from Eggmans minions." He said.

"Well that was a relief." Hobbes said wiping the sweat off his head.

"So where do we go now?" Jak asked.

Ratchet checked on the MTM's map. "Well it looks like the emerald near one of the planets in this galaxy." he said "I suggest we go there"

"Wait a second, did you say Galaxy?" Calvin asked. "I thought you said you were from another planet."

"What i meant when i said that is that it was my home planet, and it doesn't look like the two remaining ones are on my home world" Ratchet explained. "So we might as well go to the planet with the chaos emerald."

Everyone thought about it, then Sonic spoke up.

"Lets get there." he said.

Ratchet then began to fly the ship to the planet that had the chaos emerald.

Meanwhile the villains were laminating over their failure.

"These heroes are smarter then we thought." Erol said.

"What did destroying the robots sent to kill them not tip you off?" Earl asked.

"No, until then I thought they were just our average heroes." Erol replied. "That they just stopped our plans whenever we started one. But I had no idea that they were capable of working together."

"ENOUGH OF THIS." Eggman shouted standing up. "We obviously underestimated out enemy, in order to take them out we're going to have to make a better plan."

"Oh and your the genies" Dr. Nefarious said sarcasticly before shouting. "SINCE WHEN HAVE YOUR PLANS ACTUALLY WORKED?"

"No no this is different" Eggman said casually. "We'll give them a break, just enough for us to plan our next move."

"What move?" Earl asked.

"Well taking them prisoner didn't work, and trying to exterminate them with our own minons didn't work." Eggman said. "But this time we're not hiding behind the curtain anymore."

Everyone looked at Eggman.

"What exactly do you have in mind?" Erol asked.

Eggman smiled evilly.

The ship landed on the planet, in a clearing in the middle of the forest.

Everyone on the ship got out once the door opened, Thankfully the air was breathable to everyone.

After taking in their surroundings, Calvin spoke.

"We should probably rest. Something tells me we're not going to have the energy to find that emerald right now."

"I agree." Sonic said. "Let's rest tonight and find that emerald tomorrow morning. After all it's going to take awhile before Eggman finds out where we are."

Calvin managed to find a tent, and some sleeping bags inside the hypercube. Then he used the mini duplicator to make copies of them. Meanwhile Ratchet managed to find some wood and used one of his his flamethrower weapons to ignite it.

As they sat around the fire they contemplated their adventure so far.

"You know Calvin, I thought you said you didn't like camping back on your planet." Tails said.

"Well this isn't like dad's infamous camping trips." Calvin explained. "Because Hobbes and I aren't on a rock in the middle of nowhere. Plus there was an adventure in the mix so i don't mind."

"Besides" Hobbes said remembering some of the times he and Calvin camped on their own. "We camped on the edge of Sneer Hill one time and we weren't bothered by it."

"Well I guess that's fair enough." Sonic said. "But I've been thinking this ever since this whole thing started.

"What's that?" Ratchet asked.

"Why us?" Sonic asked. "Why of all people did we meet each other."

"Maybe someone knew that Eggman was going to unite with our villains and placed us together." Daxter remarked.

"Probably not." The MTM said. "How would someone know that villains from other planets are teaming up, he can't be everywhere at once."

"Actually I think this isn't about Eggman, or the villains." Jak said.

"Whys that?" Clank asked.

"During the time me and Calvin were in the armory back in the prison, I found this while searching for my weapon." Jak said holding what looked like an audio recorder.

"Play it." Calvin said. "Maybe we can make some sense on what's going on."

Jak pressed the play button, and the sound of Eggman's voice played.

"During these first few hours, these people are very...Interesting, one is a robot mad scientist, and the other is a Cyborg. Someone mentioned that another was coming, but he was in the process of being picked up. When asked the two that were there how they got here, they all said that he sent them. I suspect it's the same man who recruited me, I've tried to find data about my recruiter, but i've found nothing. According to the files he gave me, he wants us to awaken this creature that could possibly allow me to take over Sonic's world, as well as those that man mentioned. Still I'm not so sure of killing a six year old child, but he said I had to do it, so an orders and order."

Then the recording ended, everyone paused for a moment to take in what they heard.

"From what I gathered, the villains were up against were recruited by someone to awaken a sort of creature." Jak said as he put the recorder away. "So that's probably why he's after the emeralds, and the reason he sent out those robots to kill us in the first place. He needs to use the emeralds to awaken it, and knows we're going to get in the way if we find out"

"But what could this creature be?" Amy asked. "Whatever it is, it must be powerful enough to take over our worlds."

"Suddenly this adventure got a bit more urgent." Hobbes said. "We're going to have to find those emeralds to stop him from releasing that creature."

"I also have another thought." The MTM suddenly chimed in. "With that galaxy thing you mentioned back on the ship, it got me rethinking a few things."

"What were you thinking about?" Hobbes asked.

"Maybe we're not from different planets but from different galaxy's." The MTM explained. "These are far apart, so it's probably the reason those locations back there exceeded my teleportation range."

"I think your right" Sonic said. "but the biggest mystery to me, is, Who brought us together?"

Calvin sighed. "There are just so many mysteries we have yet to solve." he said. "But I guess in due time we'll find out the answers to some of those mysteries."

Everyone nodded.

A few minutes latter they went into their tents and rested for the next morning, where they would continue their adventure.

Inside Calvin's tent, he and Hobbes talked about things.

"Do you really think it's true?" Calvin asked.

"About what?" Hobbes replied.

"About us meeting the others." Calvin asked.

"I don't know." Hobbes said. "It could be that or by gigantic coincidence."

"We'll I have a feeling we'll find out some of the truth soon." Calvin said.

"Yeah and I think that of there is more adventures like this more will be revealed." Hobbes said before both of them went to sleep.

The next morning, they packed up the camping gear, and Calvin deleted the copies, and put the originals inside the hypercube. Once that was done they set off.

Though the jungle was fascinating as it was Dangerous. On their path they encountered dangerous plants such as Venus fly traps as tall as them, trees that seam so old that one of them actually fell while they were walking, and Clank had to dive to get Daxter out of the way because he was paralyzed in fear.

Finally they got to a dead end, which was a cliff. They Observed their surrounding's as they tried to figure out what to do.

"Well even though we have had various obstacles in the way. You can't deny the view." Ratchet said.

"I agree." Hobbes said. "This view is far more amazing then what me and Calvin has seen on Sneer Hill."

"Sorry to break the moment, but how are we supposed to get across this." Daxter asked.

Ratchet looked around the the edge looking for a way across when he noticed something.

It was an old rustic platform, that appeared to have a tram car stationed near it, also in pretty bad shape.

"Guys, I think I have someway to get across." he said pointing to the station.

Everyone looked at where he was pointing.

"Hmm pretty clever, Ratchet." Sonic said.

"Hold up, before we get on that tram we may need to consider a few things." Tails said. "For one it looks like it hasn't been touched in a long time, and it may collapse from all the rust, also there isn't any electricity to..."

"Ok, Tails we get it." Hobbes said before turning to Calvin. "Calvin would you?"

"Sure" he said as he aimed the MTM at the tram station and activated the time vortex feature.

Instantly the Rustic Platform seamed to become new again, and the cable became stable, and the tram car became a shade of red again.

Once the electricity came back on Calvin stopped the time vortex. Everyone stared in silence at the newly functional Tram Station.

"I'll never get used to the fact that your CD player can somehow manipulate time." Tails said finally.

"Look all I did was restore those objects to their pre ruined state." Calvin said looking at the MTM's map. "Now lets get across, across there a chaos emerald where we get off."

Surprisingly The Tram was large enough for them to fit in, and once they were all in, Sonic pulled the lever that activated the tram.

After a few coughs and sputters the tram began moving, and as it made it's way to its destination, Ratchet spotted a worn out sign that read

Voltramine Co. Mining Energy for You and Your Family

"Huh I remember who that is." Ratchet said.

"Why do you say that." Sonic asked.

"From what I've heard they mine rare energy making crystals to power peoples homes." Ratchet explained.

"Huh, Wind, solar power, I've heard of weirder ways of making power." The MTM said.

"Speaking of which." Calvin asked. "What exactly do the chaos emeralds do?"

"Wait." Hobbes said holding his hand up. "Now of all times you ask what the chaos emeralds do, when we almost have all of them."

"Look we were being chased by robots, aliens and other dangers, I didn't have a chance to ask him?" Calvin replied. "Anyway sonic what do the chaos emeralds do?"

"Well if you have all seven of them you can go super, travel in time, slow time, and other things." Sonic said listing things he knows about the chaos emeralds.

"Ok so is this the reason Eggman is after us?" Daxter asked. "Because it would make us some sense."

"Probably, but just as that recording mentioned, he wants to use it for different purposes." Sonic said.

Just then the Tram stopped.

"Looks like we've arrived at our stop." Calvin said as he steped off the tram.

Then he froze.

"Calvin?" Hobbes asked. "Calvin are you alright?"

No response.

"Calvin what are you..." Hobbes asked and then he saw it. "Oh."

Everyone ran off the tram to see what they were seeing. And they also froze when they saw it.

They were not alone.

Authors Note: Here is the apology for the gigantic delay

I sort of had something called school, which prevented me from writing this chapter at times, also I had sort of a hard drive crisis in which I was worried it was getting full. Then I didn't write a whole lot at a time, I was downright lazy. I apologize for the inconvenience.

Hopefully the next chapter doesn't take 2 months to write.