Chapter 3

Leon and Elle looked at Sonic, surprised that a chaos emerald was already nearby."Are you sure about that Sonic? How can you tell?" Leon asked a little doubtfully.

"I've been using the chaos emeralds for a long time now. I can't use chaos energy like my friend Shadow but I can still tell when I sense chaos energy" Sonic looked around, trying to find the source of the energy. He set his gaze to an abandoned looking building not too far from them.

"It's over there. I'll be back in no time kids, later!" Sonic was about to run off but Leon grabbed his arm and pulled him back.

"Something on your mind Leo?" Sonic asked with his usual demeanor which annoyed Leon slightly.

"I'm going with you to make sure you don't do anything stupid. Elle you go and talk to Misty and have your battle with her. We'll come along when we find this emerald" Leon stood next to Sonic; Elle was okay with it but she was slightly worried about the both of them.

"Okay, you two be careful!" Elle ran towards the café and Leon and Sonic ran towards the ruined building. When they got there it was completely boarded up and on the brink of coming down.

"You sure it's in here Sonic?" Leon asked with a little worry.

"I'm 100% sure it's in here. What's the matter Leo, you scared that there might be ghosts?" Sonic had a teasing smirk and lightly jabbed his elbow into Leon's side.

"Of course not! I just don't want to be in there when it comes down on us" Sonic kicked down the wooden boards that blocked the front door and walked in.

"Wait up!"Leon ran in after him. They were both inside the building and it appeared to be an old hotel."So where is this emerald?"

"It should be up on the 3rd floor. We just need to find it go before this building collapses."

They walked to the third floor and saw that some of the rooms had caved in on itself while others were still in one piece.

"I'll check the rooms on the right and you check the left." Leon only went to check his assigned rooms in response to Sonic's request.

"Looks like he's going to give me a hard time until I can convince that I'm not a bad guy, oh well it's not like this is the first time I've dealt with someone like him." Sonic checked all of his rooms without using his speed, in fear of destroying the building.

The rooms they checked were filled with dirty and ruined beds along with destroyed furniture. When they were both about to check their 5th room they heard voices coming from a room at the end of the hallway.

"Leo do you hear that?" He nodded his head silently and the two of them went to check it out.

When they peeked into the room they saw a man and woman with a meowth. The man had blue hair that went down to his shoulders and the woman had long red hair. They both wore white outfits with black gloves and boots. On their outfits chest there was a red R.

"Those two are Team Rocket!" Leon whispered to Sonic. They listened to them talking to figure out what they wanted.

"What exactly is this gem? It won't stop with the glowing for some reason. Should we sell it?" The man asked his two accomplices

"Of course not! Don't you remember what this thing did for our last machine when it came into contact with it? Whatever this thing is, it's got incredible power" The meowth said, surprising Leon.

"That pokemon can talk!?" Leon whispered to himself.

"You mean not all pokemon can talk?" Sonic asked curiously.

"No! There have been rumors of some talking but I never saw one before" The three criminals turned their around when they heard them talking.

"Who's there!?" The woman shouted to Leon and Sonic who were hiding behind the doorway.

"We may as well show ourselves. They have the emerald anyway so we might as well" Sonic jumped out of his hiding spot and revealed himself to them.

Leon only face palmed at Sonic's recklessness. He could have at least thought of a plan first. Leon followed and showed himself too.

"So I hear you three are with a group called Team Rocket and I also hear that you guys found a chaos emerald too. Feel like handing it over for me?" Sonic asked the question half serious and half jokingly. Team Rocket looked at Sonic with wide eyes and had only one idea.

"Get that pokemon!" The woman threw a pokeball and what stood before them now was a seviper. "Seviper, use poison sting!" The snake like pokemon fired small poisoned stingers at them. Sonic rolled under it while Leon jumped behind a couch. Sonic spin dashed into the seviper and sent it back.

"No way am I letting him handle this! Treecko let's go!" Leon threw his pokeball and out came treecko. "Use bullet seed!" Treecko performed his attack and blew the seviper out of the building. The seviper landed on the roof of another building and Team Rocket grabbed the emerald and followed. Sonic and treecko followed and jumped to the roof. Sonic turned around and turned to Leon who was just standing in the hole.

"Come on Leo, jump!" Leon sighed and knew he'd have to.

"You're crazy you know that!" Leon stepped back a few feet and ran towards the opening. He managed to reach the other side with some space between him and the ledge. He staggered to his feet as Sonic patted him on the back.

"See, was that so bad?" Leon glared at him but quickly threw his glare back at Team Rocket.

"Shut up, we have an emerald to get. Treecko use quick attack!"

"Seviper use poison tail on the ground!"

Treecko dashed forward as seviper hit the ground and made it crumble towards treecko. He was falling through the hole but treecko managed to use the other falling debris to get back up.

"Now use bite and throw it into the air!" Seviper shot forward and bit treecko and as seviper was about to throw treecko Sonic intervened.

"I don't think so!" Sonic hit seviper with a homing attack and freed treecko. They both landed next to each other with treecko giving Sonic a thank you in his language."Don't mention it. This is just what I do."

"You understand him!?" Leon shouted to Sonic.

"No, I was just guessing he was thanking me." Leon rolled his eyes and proceeded to give treecko his next attack.

"Use iron tail on seviper!" Treecko readied his tail and nailed seviper across its body, sending it into Team Rocket, causing them to lose their grip on the emerald. The yellow emerald flew into the air and Sonic grabbed it; landing on his feet.

"Nice work you two. Now I suggest you three get going with your unconscious friend before I show you how to properly use this thing" Team Rocket got scared and ran down the fire escape with the unconscious seviper."Well then, shall we get going?"

"Yeah, we got what we came for. Treecko return!" Leon put treecko back in his pokeball and the two of them used the fire escape as well and began to walk to the Gym to see how Elle was doing.