A quick update before we get into the chapter. As you may have noticed, Girl Power is on hiatus. It's by far my most popular story on this site, and I'm having some trouble coming up with new ideas. I don't know if I want to keep that story going, or should I reboot it? You can go vote on my poll whenever you can. I also want to come up with new story ideas, using my OCs. To give me some ideas on new stories, please PM me.

Now on to the story!


12:15 p.m.

Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles return to their hotel room, where Amy and Steve (Tails' dad) are sitting on the beds.

"We're back!" Sonic announces.

Amy looks up and smiles as she sees Sonic. "SONIC!" she screams as he gives him a tight hug.

Sonic tries to get out of the pink hedgehog's grasp, but the ladder wouldn't budge. As Knuckles sees this, he taps on Amy's shoulder and says to her, "I think Sonic's turning blue."

"What are you talking about?" Amy asks. "He is blue!"

Knuckles sighs. "No," he says. "I think he's losing his breath."

"Oh my goodness!" Amy cries as she lets go of Sonic.

The blue hedgehog catches his breath and starts walking to the bathroom. "I'm gonna go take a shower."

"No way!" Knuckles argues. "I should take a shower first!"

Then Tails gets in the conversation. "But I'm the youngest!" he yells out. "So therefore, I should go first!"

"No way, little boy!" Knuckles says to Tails. "Which one of us was the first to go through puberty?"

"Uh..."

Sonic butts in. "And whose adventure in Soleanna was the longest?" he asks the poor fox. "Hmm?"

"Guys, stop!" Tails whines. "Why don't we let Amy decide who showers first?"

Sonic and Knuckles turn to Amy, who is standing with her arms to the back. Sonic turns to Tails and says, "Good compromise, buddy."

Knuckles then asks the pink girl, "Alright Amy; which one of us should shower first?"

"Sonic of course," Amy answers, smiling.

"WHAT?!" Knuckles and Tails shriek.

"Why?!" screams Knuckles.

"Because I love him!" Amy screams, then calmly says, "And besides, Sonic did say he had the longest adventure in Soleanna. And I'll bet he smells bad, too."

Sonic takes a quick sniff at his armpit and covers his nose and mouth. "You're right, Ames," Sonic says, voice muffled through his hand. "I'd better get in the shower."

As the 12-year-old walks to the bathroom, Tails pulls Knuckles' arms and drags him out of the room. Knuckles looks down to the fox and asks, "Dude, what was that for?"

"Do you remember seeing Blaze and that white hedgehog in the future?" Tails asks the echidna. Knuckles nods. Tails then says, "Good. Those two got sent here by that Shadow look-alike."

"Yeah I know," says Knuckles. "I was there eavesdropping with you."

Tails nods. "I think we should find Blaze and-"

"Strangle her?" Knuckles interrupts, smiling.

"No," Tails sighs. "We need to talk to her."

"And then we strangle her?" Knuckles smiles.

Tails sighs and facepalms himself after hearing Knuckles' stupidity. This plan will take a while.


Meanwhile...

Mephiles (still in his normal form) is still in the fortune telling store. He is watching a scene with Elise and an ugly-looking male human from his psychic orb. Why, you may ask?

The dark hedgehog wants to see if the princess has cried, and so far, he hasn't seen her cry once! Mephiles had read an article online, saying that the princess hasn't cried in over ten years! Even right after she found out her father died, she still didn't cry! That's impossible; everyone cries! Has anyone stubbed their toe against a coffee table? That crap hurts!

Feeling bored, Mephiles wipes the scene off the orb, turning it off. He then says to himself, "I don't know why, but for some reason I have the urge to scare little babies and children. Once they see I don't have a mouth, they'll be scarred for life!"

Mephiles laughs maniacally as a portal opens up from the ceiling, and a crystalline hedgehog jumps out of it. Mephiles eyes the crystalline hedgehog and screams, "What the hell are you supposed to be?!"

The crystalline figure looks up and answers, "I'm Mephiles, and I live in this current timeline. I hear you're from the future?"

Shadow Mephiles gives Crystal Mephiles a weird look. "Yes..." he awkwardly answers. He then takes a long look at Crystal Mephiles. "Man, I look hideous in this era."

"What are you talking about?" Crystal Mephiles questions. "I look awesome!"

"But I'm missing a nose..." says Shadow Mephiles. "How will I be able to smell?"

"You don't need to smell," says the crystalline hedgehog. "All you need is power!"

"Power..." Shadow Mephiles mutters to himself. What does present Mephiles mean by that?


1:00 p.m.

After explaining the plan to Knuckles, he and Tails walk down the hallway of the hotel to find Blaze. They're walking to her room to see if she's there. And what a coincidence, as right now, Blaze is walking towards them unintentionally.

Tails sees the lavender feline and shouts to her, "Hi Blaze!"

Blaze looks up and sees Tails and Knuckles in the middle of the hallway. "Hey, you guys," Blaze greets back.

"We need to talk," Knuckles says, only for Tails to pull him down to his level by the former's dreadlocks.

"Remember: be calm, yet firm," Tails whispers to the echidna. He lets go of Knuckles and asks Blaze, "Have you hanging out with a white hedgehog?"

Blaze then answers, "Yeah, kinda, sorta... Why?"

"Because we and Sonic went to the future earlier today," Knuckles explains. "and saw you guys go on a mission to kill Sonic!"

"You guys were in the future?" Blaze asks. The boys nod their heads as Blaze says, "Well no wonder we couldn't find Sonic!"

"Yeah..." Tails says awkwardly.

"We want to know why you two are trying to kill Sonic!" Knuckles yells to her, starting to become impatient.

Blaze sighs. "We're not trying to kill Sonic," she answers.

Tails and Knuckles exchange weird looks to each other. "What?" they ask in unison.

"Silver, the white hedgehog I'm with?" Blaze explains. "He believed some creepy weirdo, who for some reason doesn't have a mouth, and who also said that Sonic made the future an apocalypse!"

"But we all know Sonic would never cause the destruction of the future," Tails says with worry.

"And why bother teaming up with that Silver guy in the first place?" Knuckles wonders, still mad.

"Because one: I want to watch that idiot fail the mission," answers Blaze. "and two: the Sol Emeralds sent me to the future by mistake."

Knuckles and Tails exchange confused looks again.

"It's a long story," says Blaze.

Then Tails asks, "Long story or not, where is Silver anyways?"

"He's in our hotel room taking a shower," answers Blaze. "You two might want to be careful. He sings very off-key."

Knuckles cracks his knuckles and shouts, "Well I'm gonna teach this boy a lesson for not only attempting to kill Sonic, but also for listening to a dude with no mouth!"

As the red 13-year-old walks forward, Tails and Blaze try to stop him.

"Knuckles, stop!" Tails screams.

"Tails is right!" Blaze screams along. "You don't know Silver; he has psychic abilities!"

However, Knuckles ignores them as he passes by a door with a loud screeching singing voice. The echidna stops in his tracks and leans his head against the door to hear the voice better.

"Oh I'm on my way, on my way to kill the Iblis Trigger!" the voice sings.

The voice sounds pretty annoying, male, definitely boyish, and sounds like something from a poorly dubbed anime. After Knuckles finishes listening to the voice, he punches the door open. In the room, is a white hedgehog, who is stripped down to his underpants, grabbing a pair of jeans.

The hedgehog screams like a girl, covering his heart designed boxers. "Get out!" he screams to Knuckles. "I'm not decent!"

Knuckles asks the hedgehog, "You're Silver, right?"

"Yeah," the hedgehog answers. "So?"

The red echidna walks up to Silver and grabs him by the neck. "WHY THE HELL ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL SONIC?!" he shouts to the 12-year-old.

That's the same thing Amy asked yesterday, Silver comments in his head. He then confesses to Knuckles, "Sonic is the main reason my world sucks! 200 years in the future, the world is taken over by Iblis, all because of Sonic!"

"Have you ever wondered what Sonic did to ruin your precious world?" Knuckles questions the hedgehog.

Silver's head goes blank. Honestly, he never thought about that. He was so caught up in finding Sonic that he didn't think straight. Silver then hides his true emotions and screams to the teen, "I don't need a reason! I'm on a mission to kill the Iblis Trigger, and I'm not letting some rare animal species get in my way!"

Tails and Blaze enter the room, both shocked at seeing Knuckles choking Silver.

"Knuckles, let go of him!" Blaze yells to the echidna.

BLAZE KNOWS THIS GUY?! Silver shouts in his head. HOW?!

"NO!" Knuckles yells back. "I want answers from this idiot!"

Silver then growls, "I don't have time for this!" He uses his psychokinesis to levitate Knuckles, throwing him out of the window.

Knuckles screams while falling out of the building. Tails then shouts out, "I'm coming for you, Knuckles!"

The yellow fox runs up to Silver and stomps on his foot, the ladder screaming in pain while grabbing onto his bruised foot. Tails then hops out the window, hoping Knuckles will be okay.

Silver massages his sore neck as Blaze walks up to him saying, "I'll bet you're wondering how I know those two guys."


Meanwhile...

Team Dark have just gotten out of the Soleanna Beauty Salon, in search for Mephiles. As the three look for the demonic hedgehog, a few of Eggman's robots are hovering around the city.

Rouge notices this and says to Shadow, "It seems Eggman's robots are in search of something too. What do you they're looking for?"

"Probably Mephiles," Shadow answers, then refers to Eggman, "After all, the scepter broke because of that fat bull."

"What...is Eggman...up to?" Omega wants to know. "Who is...Mephiles?"

"Exactly," Rouge responds to the robot.

"I agree," says Shadow. "I should ask Eggman about this."

The black hedgehog attempts to walk away, but then Rouge asks him, "Shadow, don't you want me and Omega to come with you?"

"How old do you think I am; five?" Shadow nastily responds to his female companion. "No, I'm 15! I can handle this by myself. You two keep looking for Mephiles."

As Shadow walks away, Rouge turns to Omega and complains, "I can't believe Shadow left us behind! We're the ones who got him out of that sucky future in the first place!"

Omega then interrupts, "Actually...I'm the one...who got him out...of the future."

"He could've left us a 'thank you', but noooo!" Rouge keeps talking, "He just leaves to go talk to the doctor!"

"Let's just...find Mephiles...and get this...over with," says Omega, not wanting to listen to Rouge's rant.


Back to Sonic and friends...

Tails enters his hotel room panicking, where Sonic, Amy, and Steve are watching TV. If you're wondering where Knuckles is, he's in the hospital. Yeah... Silver threw him so hard, Knuckles hit his head hard (enough to get some brain damage) and broke his wrist!

Steve turns around, worried about what happened to his son. "Tails, are you okay?" he asks. "What happened?"

Tails catches his breath. "Knuckles...was thrown out of a...window," he explains. "He hit his head...and broke his...wrist!"

"Poor Knuckles!" Amy cries after what she just heard.

"We hope he's okay," says Sonic. "What did Knuckles do to get thrown out of a window?"

Tails looks down to the floor, wondering if he should tell Sonic this. He doesn't want his friend to know Blaze teamed up with Silver, even if her reason sounds stupid.

After a little bit of thinking, Tails looks up and tells Sonic, "We found that Silver guy who tried to kill you earlier."

"What?!" Sonic shrieks. "What did you guys do to him?"

"I didn't do anything!" Tails cries. "Knuckles grabbed Silver by the neck and asked him why he tried to kill you! Then Silver got mad and threw him out the window."

"That Silver boy sounds like a big bully," comments Steve.

"He is," adds Amy. "Just yesterday, he attacked Sonic because he thinks Sonic destroyed the future."

"And not only is Silver a bully," says Sonic. "but he's also an idiot."

"He sure sounds like it," says Steve.

The TV then cuts to breaking news, showing a blond woman talking. "We interrupt your regularly scheduled program with some breaking news," the woman begins to explain. "Just about two hours ago, our Princess Elise has been kidnapped by Dr. Eggman for the third time in the past 48 hours. She was just inches away from entering her home when Eggman's robots showed up. That's when he took her away, and rumors are that he is taking her in a train."

Everyone is shocked at this: Elise got kidnapped again?!

"Oh no!" Amy cries. She was the one who walked Elise home! She should've been more careful.

"Elise gets kidnapped more than Princess Peach in a whole day!" Sonic complains. "This is ridiculous!"

The blue hedgehog jumps off the bed and says to his friends, "I'm gonna go save Elise. You three check on Knuckles."

After Sonic leaves the room, Steve turns to Tails and Amy and says, "We should get out too."


Back to Silver and Blaze...

"You knew Sonic all along?!" Silver screams to the 11-year-old cat.

Yep, Blaze told Silver a lot of things. Things such as how Sonic isn't really the Iblis Trigger, and that she only teamed up with the white hedgehog because she wanted to watch him fail the mission.

"Of course I did," answers Blaze. "He used to go to my school, remember?!"

"I should have seen this coming earlier," yells Silver. "After all, you've been such a jerk to me! Calling me names, pushing me down White Acropolis; I don't know enough about this timeline!"

"That's because you trusted a creep who's missing a mouth!" Blaze argues. "How do you go so low by believing a guy who doesn't even try to be normal?!"

"I need to get my information somewhere!" Silver says as he walks towards the door. "To me, Sonic is still the Iblis Trigger, and I'm gonna kill him no matter what!"

"Whatever!" screams Blaze. "Don't even try coming back to me once you find out Sonic isn't the Iblis Trigger for real!"

"Fine!" Silver leaves. "I'm gonna go find Mephiles! He's more trustworthy than you'll ever be!"

Blaze sighs as she plops onto her bed. Being around that ignorant hedgehog has made her lose several brain cells. She doesn't need him. She can just watch TV, or go shopping, or go to that one salad restaurant down the street. Anything can get her mind off of Silver.


1:30 p.m.

Silver is now outside, searching for Mephiles. He really regrets having Blaze by his side, but could her words be right? Who's the real Iblis Trigger? What does Sonic have to do with any of this? And what's Mephiles' deal?

Speaking of Mephiles, Silver sees the dark hedgehog staring at a baby in his carriage. The baby starts crying, and his mother cradles him while screaming to Mephiles, "You creep! Stay away from my baby!"

She walks away, while Mephiles turns around and sees Silver. He then says to the 12-year-old, "I'm trying to scare some babies. Unfortunately, it's not working."

"Whatever," says Silver, then asks Mephiles, "Can I ask you something?"

Mephiles sighs, "Sure."

"Who's the Iblis Trigger?" Silver demands to know. "You told me it was Sonic, but everyone I've met so far says otherwise. Including Blaze!"

"Who's Blaze?" Mephiles asks the white hedgehog.

What?! "She's the purple cat that was with us in the future!" Silver growls at him.

Mephiles scratches his chin and answers, "Doesn't ring a bell."

He doesn't even acknowledge Blaze's existence?! Now Silver's starting to think he can't trust this guy. Scratching that thought out of his head, he asks Mephiles, "Do you at least know where Sonic is?"

"I hear he's going to the train station," says Mephiles. "Something about rescuing the princess? It's now or never if you want the future to change."

"Thanks," Silver says awkwardly as he runs off.

Now that Silver's gone, Mephiles walks back into the fortune telling store and laughs maniacally. "Finally, that annoying twit is gone!" he boasts as he picks up his orb. "He can't know that the princess of Soleanna is the real Iblis Trigger! When he kills Sonic, the princess will finally cry, and Iblis will be released!"

He stares into his orb and keeps laughing in his villainous tone.


And that was Chapter 13! Whew; this chapter was longer than Chapter 11 (about 3,000 words). But besides that, there was so much going on here! Knuckles ends up in the hospital, Shadow begins a journey to ask Eggman, Sonic goes to save Elise (again...), and Silver attempts to finish the mission on his own. (Not to mention the two Mephiles' encounter each other.)

Next chapter should be much shorter, as Sonic, Shadow, and Silver arrive in radical train during their respective missions. Remember to review this story, and I'll see you in Chapter 14!