Tu all the haterz out thar, her nam iz nut Marie Sue, OK? Jus liek my caraeter isn't tu…I make light-hearted fun of most things, it's what I do.


Chapter 3 – Further Investigation

A while after the angel girl had disappeared; Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy were still flying across the city in the Tornado II. After a short period of silence, Tails turned to Sonic and said, "So why were you talking to yourself earlier?"

"No particular reason, it's nothing to worry about."

"If you say so…"

"I wonder what Shadow is busy doing right now…"

In the middle of a wasteland, Shadow was crouching down behind a large rock, looking ahead at two robots standing right outside a large factory. He took out a walkie-talkie device and spoke into it. "Rouge, are you inside the factory yet?"

Rouge came out of an elevator moments later wearing a spy cat suit, there were robot parts all over the floor inside the elevator. "Yeah, I'm in. You should make your way to the nearest entrance and meet me at floor 3B."

"Understood." Shadow replied with a nod. He then leapt over the rock and charged at the robots as they turned to him.

"Hey, isn't that Shadow the Hedgehog?" One of them said.

"Who?" The other asked.

"You know, the ultimate lifeform?"

"Nah, it can't be him."

Shadow ran straight through the robots, smashing them to pieces as he ran in.

"See, I told you it was him!" The first one said.

"Well, I guess I lay corrected." The second replied.

"Don't you mean stand co-oh wait, I just got that."

Shadow ran down one narrow corridor and jumped up and clung to the ceiling as one guard robot walked down. Shadow continued down the tall narrow hallways and kicked one robot's head off as it turned a corner. He soon entered a dark room with several platforms higher up in the air and a space next to the area. He wall jumped up to the platforms, hopped across them and then somersaulted under a small space by a wall.

He ran down another corridor and fly kicked a few robots before reaching an elevator and taking it to floor 3B. On the way up, at floor 2C, the elevator doors opened and two robots appeared. They took one look at Shadow, then stepped back and waited for the door to close. After Shadow reached floor 3B and left the elevator, he saw Rouge waving at him from a banister further away.

He walked up to her and said, "Alright, let's do this."

Suddenly, the alarms went off and the room began flashing red. Rouge turned to Shadow and said, "You let them see you, right?"

"It just makes my job more amusing." Shadow leapt off the banister to the ground below and ran down a corridor towards a door which was guarded by two armed robots. They began firing as they saw Shadow, who jumped into the air then teleported using chaos control. He reappeared beside the left robot and kicked its head off, then teleported in front of the right one and threw it at the wall. He then spin dashed through the door and into a big room where there was several robots on a path to the left firing at him.

Rouge spiral kicked the robots as Shadow ran by then quickly followed him. As they entered a large room, the door closed behind them and a big robot samurai wielding a katana dropped down and charged at them. As the samurai attempted to slice them in half with his blade, they jumped out the way. Shadow countered with a roundhouse kick which the samurai blocked with his sword meanwhile Rouge kicked him with both feet from behind, knocking the samurai to the ground.

The robot quickly flipped up and fired wide orange energy waves from his katana which sent them flying back moments before the samurai charged at them again. As the samurai was seconds away from them, Rouge touched Shadow's shoulder as he pulled out a chaos emerald and used chaos control to slow down the samurai. Shadow then grabbed the sword and ripped it out of his hands, and then Rouge stuck her foot right through the samurai's stomach just before Shadow chopped its head off with his own blade.

Rouge then removed her foot before the samurai's lifeless body fell to pieces. Suddenly, the door ahead opened up and Shadow and Rouge walked on ahead to the next room where a green chaos emerald was held in a glass container. Shadow punched through the glass and grabbed the emerald before saying, "Well, I got what I came for, so we should get going."

"You only came for the chaos emerald? Don't you already have one?"

"Yeah but these guys stole my standard emerald I carry with me, the green one, when it's not being used to achieve super form status. So I came to take it back and beat up a bunch of robots while doing so. I've been using that grey emerald as a replacement for a few days. So, did you happen to find any leads on that Metallix thing?"

"Nothing so far."

"So, are you gonna make your own way out, or would you like my assistance?"

"I guess a little chaos control would be nice."

"It's just transportation the easy way." Shadow said before him and Rouge teleported out of the base.

Meanwhile, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy had recently arrived at Station Square diner and were sitting round a rectangular table. Sonic and Knuckles sat opposite each other, Tails sat on Knuckles side and Amy insisted on sitting next to Sonic and invading his personal space.

Knuckles randomly started sniffing moments before he said, "I smell self insertion…" as he looked around suspiciously.

"You're just being paranoid, Knuckles." Amy replied moments before SA2 walked up to a table nearby with some fries.

"So what does everyone want?" Tails asked as he picked up the menu. "My treat."

"The usual." Sonic replied.

"What's that?"

"A chilli dog and a nice cold drink of orange soda."

"Okay."

"I'll have a knuckle sandwich." Knuckles said.

"Is that new?"

"Yeah, by about a few weeks."

"I need a sandwich named after myself...so Amy, what do you want?"

"Just radical fries and a salad, please."

"Okay, now to order." Tails waved at one waitress from further away. As she approached the table, Sonic noticed it was the angel girl from before wearing a white blouse and a long black skirt. "May I take your order?" She asked as she reached the table.

"Yes." Tails replied before handing her a note. "It saves me having to say it all out again."

"Okay, I'll be on that right after I take in those menus." As she started collecting them, Sonic leaned next to her ear and whispered, "You're going to keep following me until I agree to let you keep following me, right?"

"Pretty much."

"Regardless of the little difference it makes, I guess haven't got much of a choice in the matter."

"Damn right you haven't." And with that, she finished collecting the menus and left. Their food soon arrived and they began eating. When Tails was full from eating a plate full of chicken (well, it seemed like a good idea at the time), Sonic and Knuckles noticed there was one left. They quickly glanced at each other then made a grab for the last piece. Sonic whacked Knuckles hand away just before Knuckles used his second hand to shove Sonic's out the way.

This carried on for a few moments before Sonic finally managed to grab the chicken drumstick and as he raised it to his mouth, Knuckles punched it out of his hand and onto Amy's plate, who then proceeded to quickly eat it as Sonic and Knuckles sighed.

Shortly afterwards, the angel girl in her original white robe hovered down next to Sonic and said, "I just heard your friend, Cream is being held hostage by some villain in the downtown area."

"And where did you hear this?" Sonic asked quietly.

"Television."

"Well thanks for the information." He then spoke up. "Guys, I just received word that there's some villain in the downtown area holding Cream hostage…speaking of which, it's been quite a while since we saw a certain mad scientist around…"

"Who is that?" Tails asked.

"You know, the guy I've beaten countless times before…"

"The guy in the black trench coat we beat up last week?"

"No! I'm talking about Eggman! Remember Eggman?"

"Oh yeah…what's he doing these days?"

"Probably building another Eggmanland to torment me. But enough of that, let's hurry and get down there."

"Don't forget to leave the money, guys." Knuckles reminded them.

"Waiter!" Tails yelled. As one walked over, he handed him a bag of rings. The waiter looked up and said, "Sorry Sir, we don't take rings."

Tails sighed. "Do you take Visa?"

While this was going on, Sonic turned to Amy and said, "Its best if you don't get involved, since we don't know what we're dealing with here."

"But if Cream is in trouble then I wanna help too!"

"I'll make sure Cream isn't harmed…if it's possible anyway."

After Tails finished paying, the three of them quickly left the diner, hopped into the tornado and flew off to the downtown area. A few moments after they were far above the ground, the angel girl appeared next to Sonic. "So you have more enemies than just Eggman?"

"Only recently really, they just sort of come out of nowhere to be honest. And when are you going to show yourself so my friends don't think I'm crazy, talking to myself?"

"Maybe soon, but I prefer it this way."

"Why?"

"Because then no-one can focus most of their attention on me, with me being the subject of almost every conversation, being liked by most characters and Amy won't have to accuse me of trying to steal you away from her. I also won't be accused of being over powered and overshadowing the main cast."

"Um…okay." Sonic replied while scratching his forehead. "So you said you're one of the five legendary heroes, right?"

"That's right." She said with a nod.

"So where are the other four?"

"Oh, you'll probably see them around sometime soon I'm guessing."

"Well that's fine, maybe one of your friends will turn up in the downtown area to confront this villain."

"So what's this villain's name?" She asked, leaning in slightly closer which made Sonic back away slightly.

"I don't know yet, I'll find out when we get there, so until then, nothing is certain."

"I'll shut up then."

"Just do what you wanna do."

While facing forward, Knuckles said, "Sonic, how much longer are you gonna keep talking to yourself?"

"I'm not entirely certain yet."

Back at Tails' house, Amy walked in carrying a bag and placed it on a table. "Here P.A.L, Tails said to give you this."

"Oh, wonderful!" P.A.L said as he looked into the bag.

Amy walked into the living room, sat down on the sofa in front of the television and switched it on. She then turned it to the news which showed the action taking place downtown.

Meanwhile, Shadow was walking through a park when G.U.N HQ contacted him. Shadow pushed a button on the communicator. "What is it, Commander?"

"We've received a bit more information on the Metallix project from a group of anthropomorphic animals, when you have the time, you should take a look yourself."

"Thanks for the info, now if you would excuse me, I have to wish one of my fangirls a happy birthday." He said before disconnecting and carried on walking.


Tails was putting up a sign which read, "Sonic Says." And nodded in approval at his work. Sonic ran up to Tails and painted over it so it said, "Sonic Sez." Then nodded while Tails rolled his eyes at it.

Sonic quickly spun around and began talking. "Kids, there's nothing cooler than sharing your cookies with people you like, but when someone tries to put their filthy hands in your cookie jar, that's NO good! They're your cookies; no-one has the right to take one if you don't want them to. So what do you do? First, you slap the fool, then you say, "Keep your hands to yourself, cheapskate!"

"That's not very helpful advice." Tails responded.

"Well it worked on Knuckles."

"Yeah…just before he punched you in the gut and took the cookies anyway."

"Don't you worry, I'll find him soon, and then he'll pay." Sonic nodded in a serious manner.