A/N: Finally I thought I would never update this story.

Here's the next chapter! Crystal, Pyro, Mariah and Mark tries to gain Sadie's trust. Will they succeed?

BTW here's Mark's Profile for those who are curious about his background history

...Stand...By...

Human Name: Undecided

Animal Name: Mark

Species: Fox

Type: None

Main Fur/Body Color: Green

Eye Color: Brown

Age: Undecided

Human Appearance: Undecided

Fox Appearance: Like Tails, he has two tails instead of one. His fur color is green and only wears white gloves and socks and orange shoes.

Personality: He is very kind to others, however he can tell if you are taking advantage of him or not. He is somewhat sensitive to others, if you are sad he would feel sad.

Abilites:

None

Moves:

Tail Whip: The user uses his/her tails to attack the opponent.

History: Mark has lived in Aero Village for a long time. He has been marked as the village's carpenter prodigy.

...Stand...By

The next morning, Crystal, Pyro, Mariah and Mark were in the living room. They had just had their breakfast and were devising a plan to befriend Sadie.

"So any ideas?" Crystal asked. "We could try to ask nicely to be her friend." Mariah suggested. "I don't think that will go so well," Mark replied, "I mean Sadie is a real bashful chao, she somewhat 'dislikes' new people." "Well it couldn't hurt to try," Pyro replied back.

"So it's settled, we should find a present for Sadie to like us," Crystal said getting off from the couch. "Yeah, but what does she like?" Mariah asked. "I mean we don't know much about her and that she is rarely seen by anyone in the village." "How about a bouquet of lavender flowers?" Crystal suggested. Everyone looks at her.

"Well I did saw her taking a whiff of them yesterday," Crystal replied. "That's great," Mariah said, "after we go shopping for my clothes let's get Sadie her gift."

Knuckles sighes as he ventures deep into Jewel Forest. He was a red echidna with a white crescent stripe on his chest. He wore white gloves with two spikes on each one, green socks and red and yellow shoes.

His blue eyes scanned the map as he continues to walk down the dirt path (the same one Mariah walked on yesterday). He carried a brown backpack with a canteen full of water that was strapped to the left side.

He stops and saw a village in front him. It was pretty big for a village and it looked like that it was expanding. "Wow, this village is getting bigger by the moment," he commented. As he continues walks foward, he stopped as he steps on big rock. It felt sharp under his right foot. "Ow, this rock seems sharp," he said. He looks down and to his curosity it was a gem. He picks it up with his right hand and examines it. The gem was shaped like a triangle and looks like it was dropped there recently. It was very smooth yet sharp on the edges.

"What a strange gem." Knuckles said as he examines it further. "It doesn't look a Chaos Emerald? I wonder what it does?" He then shrugs it off and puts it in his brown backpack.

Crystal was caressing the small bouquet of lavender flowers as her friends were looking for the blue female chao.

"Man, this is taking forever," Pyro groaned, "where is Sadie anyway?"

"Hey there she is!" Mariah cried as she pointed upwards. Sadie was looking at a store display on one of the upper village tree houses section. The blue chao looks at the group with curosity. She then floats down to the group. "Here Sadie, we brought you some flowers," Crystal said. She hands the bouquet to Sadie and to her satisfaction the blue chao loved the gift. She sniffed the fresh patch and it smells sweet and refreshing.

"Your welcome!" Crystal said, "anyway this is my friends, Pyro, Mariah and Mark." Sadie smiles as she was glad that she made some friends in the village.

"Muwhaha!" cried a deep male voice. Everyone (including Crystal and her friends) looked up and say a fat man wearing red and black clothes, glasses and grey googles on his head. "Hello my future citizens, my name is Eggman! And surrounder peaceful to avoid a war!"

"Eggman?"

"Who's that?"

"Never heard of him?"

"Wow, tough crowd," Eggman noted, "well then if you don't submit to my demands then I'll invade your village until I do." "Eggbots dispatch!"

A group of bots that were designed similar to Eggman, himself, dropped from the sky and got out their weapons. The villagers panicked and ran away from the propelled missiles.

A few them targeted Crystal, Pyro and Mariah. "Oh no, guys!" Mark cried. Sadie cried as well, since she didn't want to lose her new best friends.

"STAY AWAY!" The three cried in unison.

They held their right arms to beg for them to cease their fire and used their left arms to brace for impact.

Suddenly their arms glowed. Crystal's glowed blue, Pyro's glowed red and Mariah's glowed yellow.

A water dragon and some creatures that were made entirely of fire comes out of nowhere and sheilds them.

"What happened?!" Crystal cried. "Guys!" Mark cried. "Are you alright!" "Mark, we're alright!" Mariah cried, "what just happened?!" "You guys summoned a dragon made out of water and some fire type creatures." Mark replied. "We did that?!" Crystal said.

They looked up and around and the creatures didn't mean harm, in fact, they were like soliders waiting for a command from their sergant. Mariah looks down and she was shocked that she was holding a gun with a container attached to it. "What the? How did I carry a gun in my hand?" she asked. "Maybe you summoned it?" Crystal thought.

"Alrigth then, let's put our powers to good use." Crystal said. "Right!" Pyro and Mariah replied.

"Go Water Dragon! Destroy those EggBots!" Crystal commanded. The Water Dragon roared with a swift of its tail and claws; it destoryed a massive horde of the Eggbots. "Go Fire Minions! Attack those Eggbots!" Pyro commanded. The creatures charges at the Eggman based bots and overpowered them in small groups. They short circuited due to imense heat. Mariah uses her new gun and to her surprise it took at least two bullets to destroy at least one EggBots. "No my precious army!" Eggman cried in sorrow. He then grits in anger, "No matter those were just the grunts here is their leader! Come on out, Egg Missile!" A new robot appears right next to Eggman.

It was twice as big as the EggBots, the main color was dark green not red and there were three missiles cannons attached, two were on its shoulder and last one was attached to the back.

The EggMissile uses it's left shoulder cannon to fire a missle at the Water Dragon. It roared in pain as it began to fall apart after the sheer amount of damage from the missle. The dark green robot then uses its right missle to destory all of the Fire Minions. They panicked and didn't have any time to runaway. They were all distinguished by the missiles power.

"Oh no! My dragon!" Crystal cried. "The minions!" Pyro cried. Mariah then fires a lot of bullets on the EggMissile, but to no avail. "Hahah!" Eggman laughed, "you think that weak gun of yours will destroy my Egg Missile! Ha! He's invisible! Your bullets will never dent his armor. It will be like throwing flower seeds at a brick wall. Now then, EggMissile destroy those pesky kids."

The EggMissile uses its back cannon to fire a missile. Crystal, Pyro and Mariah braced for impact.

However, nothing happened. The three opened their eyes to find that the back cannon was destroyed for no apparent reason. "NO! You pesky hedgehog!" Eggman cried. The three were confused, pesky hedgehog? It wasn't Pyro or Mariah, so who? "Well, well, Eggman some things never change." cried a male voice.

The three children gaped as they saw a blue hedehog with red shoes standing in front of them. "You! Sonic!" Eggman hissed in anger, "what are you doing here!" "To stop of you course!" Sonic said, "there's no way I'm going to let you get away with this." "Very well, Sonic, go my Eggmissile! Destroy that blue hedgehog!" Eggman commanded.

The dark green bot diverted its attention to Sonic, it then uses its two remaining cannons to fire the missiles. Sonic easily dodges them and spin dashes the two cannons into submission. He then uses Spin Dash again to destroy the EggMissile. It fell to the ground with a big thump. Electricity sizzled from the gaping hole in its chest. The robot then explodes leaving behind a fire and charred remains. "NO! Curse you Sonic! I'll get you and those children next time!" Eggman cried.

He then floats away back to his base. "Children?" Sonic said. He turns around and sees them. "Oh Eggsnot must have been talking about you," the blue hedgehog presumed. "Crystal, Pyro, Mariah!" Mark said. "Are you guys okay?!" "Yeah we're fine," Crystal said, "Sonic here saved us." "Nice to meet ya!" Sonic greeted.

"Hi, Sonic I'm Mark!" Mark introduced, "the blue rabbit is Crystal, the red orange hedgehog is Pyro, the blonde haired hedgehog is Mariah and the blue chao besides me is Sadie." "Nice to meet all of you!" Sonic replied. "Chao! Chao!" Sadie said. "Aw, what a cute Chao!" Sonic said as he pets the blue chao on the head, "you remind me of the time I had played with some chao hybrids in a Chao Garden during the Chaos and Chaos Ark incident. By the looks of it, you look like a hero and dark chao hybrid."(1) "Sonic!" Knuckles cried. "Hey, Knux, no time no see!" Sonic replied. "Who are they?" Knuckles asked. "Oh those are Mark the fox, Crystal the rabbit, Pyro and Mariah are hedgehogs like me and Sadie is chao." "Oh I see, you made new friends." Knuckles said. "Guys this is Knuckles, he's the last of his race and protector of a gem called the Master Emerald." Sonic introduced. "Hey," Knuckles said.

"Whoa, we made three new friends!" Mariah said clasping her hands in excitement. "What a day!"

Crystal agreed as she looked at the sunset. "Man, sunset already?" Sonic said as he looked up at the sky. "Man time does fly by."

A/N: And that is the end of Chapter 5. I know it has been a while since I updated this story.

(1) Sonic is implying the Chao Garden in the Sonic Adventure Games. So timeline wise, I would place this story is taken place after Sonic Generations, but before Sonic Lost World.

P.S. Sorry if this story has not been update so often, but I've been focusing on updating my other stories particular the RockmanEXE/Megaman Battle Nework ones. If you don't what Megaman Battle Network is, then it is sort of a RPG incarnation of the classic Rockman/Megaman games. Also since I'm now in college it will take even longer to update this story, so please be patient.

Here's a preview of Chapter 6:

Crystal and the gang uncovered the blue gem's true power and the guardian of the four worlds appear and reveals why she had chosen Crystal, Pyro and Mariah as the warrior to save Mobius.