Sunday, November 12; 7:30 a.m.

After defeating the Egg Cerberus and having a long night's sleep, the two teenage agents arrive in Soleanna. Shadow and Rouge walk up to a Soleanna guard with Shadow asking, "Hey, is there any place we can get some information?"

The guard then asks them back, "Names, state, and business? I need to know what you kids are up to."

"Shadow Perez-Rodriguez, California, USA, and Guardian Unit of Nations," answers the black hedgehog.

Then Rouge answers, "Rouge Bayle, same state, and same business. We work for GUN Juniors."

"What's that?" the guard asks.

"It's GUN for kids and teenagers," answers Shadow.

"Okay," the guard believes them, "What kind of information do you need?"

"We're need to learn more about the Scepter of Darkness," Rouge answers, holding her scepter.

The guard looks at the scepter for a while and finally says, "Okay... You can find information on it in the Soleanna control room. Please don't do anything stupid."

Shadow and Rouge thank the guard as they walk to a small building.


In the control room...

The two agents enter the control room, where we see a giant computer screen with the Soleanna map and a framed picture of Princess Elise.

"Wow," Rouge says, looking at the map, "Soleanna is huge."

"I know," Shadow agrees, "How did we end up in a place like this?"

"Because this city is the closest to White Acropolis," answers Rouge, then adds, "Duh."

"Whatever," says Shadow, then turns to the picture of Elise, "Man, that chick is pretty."

Rouge turns to the hedgehog and says to him, "That chick is Soleanna's current sovereign Princess Elise the Third."

"Man, how did I not know about this earlier?" Shadow wonders, smiling.

Rouge facepalms herself. "Did you not learn about this in school?" she asks him, "Commander Tower even gave us some information on this city before the mission!"

"Must have been absent those days..." Shadow says to himself, as he keeps staring at the picture.

Rouge looks up some information on the Scepter of Darkness on the computer. While this is going on, Shadow grabs his phone from his pocket and takes a selfie of him and the Elise picture.

The white bat turns around and asks him, "Are you taking a selfie with that frame?!"

"No," Shadow quickly answers as he puts his phone back in his pocket, "Did you find anything?"

"Yes actually," answers Rouge, "There's actually more info on the scepter in Kingdom Valley: the GUN rendezvous point."

"Okay," Shadow listens, "How do we get there?"

"I don't know," says Rouge, "I guess we could ask one of the guards or call one of the GUN agents for a helicopter."


9:00 a.m.

Meanwhile, Sonic, Tails, and Steve walk around Soleanna for help.

"Man, everyone is quiet today," Sonic says while looking around the city.

"To be fair, it's morning," says Tails.

"It's not just that," says Sonic, "Does anyone care that their princess is missing? She rules this city for crying out loud!"

"And the guards are lazy at their jobs," Steve complains, joining the conversation, "I saw a few of them playing guessing games with a bunch of kids!"

They keep talking until they end up bumping into about five guards.

"And where are you three going?" one guard asks them.

"We're looking for your princess," answers Steve.

"Yeah," says Sonic, "She was kidnapped by Dr. Eggman last night."

"Did any of you see a big air craft in the sky last night?" Tails asks the guards.

Then Steve asks them, "Better question: Why aren't you idiots doing your job?"

"Slow business," answers the first guard.

"And we hate our jobs," says another guard.

"And in fact, we did see an air craft last night," answers the third guard, "I think it was heading to the desert. I don't know why."

"Thanks," says the smiling Sonic, "Can one of you lead us there?"

Guard One then says to the animals, "If you three want to go to the desert, you have to guess who the captain is."

"WHAT?!" the animals ask in unison.

"Forget who the captain is!" Steve yells, "Your princess has been captured! You can't do this to us!"

"Oh yes we can," says the fourth guard.

"And without Princess Elise, we're basically the rulers of this kingdom!" says the fifth one.

"You people make me sick!" Steve yells some more, "Sonic and Tails, you're on your own!"

Just then, a young human boy walks over the group and asks them, "Hey, my dog went missing. His name is Pele; can you help me look for him?"

Steve turns around and says, "Sure kid. I'd be happy to help." Then the two walk away from the group.

Guard One then asks Sonic and Tails, "Alright kids; who's the captain?"

Sonic scratches his chin, wondering who the captain could be, while Tails immediately answers, "It's you, isn't it?"

"Why yes it is, young boy," says Guard One, "You two are allowed to go to the desert."

"Nice job, Tails!" Sonic compliment the seven-year-old fox, "How did you know that one was the captain?"

Tails just answers casually, "Lucky guess."


And that was Chapter 4! Shadow and Rouge had a small role switch, and I just had to put the captain thing out there. Next chapter will mostly take place in Dusty Desert and maybe have some Sonelise (Sonic and Elise) time. Remember to review this story and I'll see you in Chapter 5!