Sorry it took me a while to update this story. I've been pretty busy helping Dinoman1234 write his first story. The upside to the Government shutdown is that I'll be able to update a little more often. That aside, I've decided to include a Sonic form that has only been in one game. Just so you know, it'll be revealed at the end of this chapter. Enjoy.

Regrouping

Pacster and his friends were at school right now, which meant that Sonic would be bored. With Blaze still passed out, he couldn't go very far and that usually gets on his nerves. He looked at the Chaos and Sol Emeralds he swiped from Eggman Nega, to find that they were lacking their usual luster. He remembered the last time that happened, Werehog form and all. He hoped that this wasn't the case because he didn't want to scare Blaze. 'If I don't restore the Chaos Emeralds, then we won't be able to return home.'

Right now, he was wandering around the city when he heard a scream. "AAAAAHHHHH!" Sonic rushed over to where he heard the scream coming from. Once he got there he saw what looked like 4 different colored Ghosts. Pacster had told him about them, even mentioning that 4 of them were their allies. He just never told them which ones though. He looked to see who they were scaring and saw that it was his longtime buddy Tails.

"Tails! Okay, you Ghosts, if you don't let my best bud go, then we're going to have a few problems!" He said, pounding his fist into his hand. The Ghosts just laughed at him. Sonic knew that a physical strike (such as a Homing Attack) wouldn't work. Luckily, he had just perfected a new move. Once the Ghosts charged at him, he charged back before dropping to the ground and spinning 5 times, creating a vortex that spun them around, making them bop heads before passing out. When Sonic was done, he counted three of them: a big orange one, a red one and a blue one. He didn't see the pink one, so he figured she went to her boss, Betrayus. He was actually wrong.

"Sonic, is that you?" Tails asked, getting a nod from the hedgehog. "I take it that was your new 'Sonic Cyclone' move?"

"You got that right, little buddy," Sonic said. He then saw Pacster and his friends arrive with the pink Ghost in tow.

"That's him, Paccums. That's the guy who beat Inky, Blinky, and Clyde," said the pink one, whom Sonic immediately figured out was Pinky. Sonic felt bad that he hurt some of Pac's friends. Pacster only chuckled at the situation.

"Look, Pinky, it's all a big misunderstanding. I don't think our new friend here would attack you without a reason," Pacster said.

"Yeah, and you and your Ghost buddies, Pinky, attacking my buddy Tails here was my reason," Sonic said with a lot of conviction.

"I'm sorry, Mr.….uh?"

"Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog."

"Again, I'm so sorry, Mr. Sonic. I didn't know you and Paccums were friends, nor did I know that this weird two-tailed thing was your friend."

"No harm done. I'm just glad that you didn't try to eat me," Tails said. Pacster decided to speak next.

"Actually, Pinky and her friends just like to come here to get away from the Netherworld. They don't usually mean any harm." Pac's friends nodded at this. Inky, Blinky, and Clyde woke up.

"Ugh, did anyone get the number on that bus?" asked Inky. The Ghosts' vision cleared and gave them a good look at everyone in their sight: Pacster, Cylindria, Spiral, Pinky, Tails, and—the one that scared them the most—Sonic. "AHH! Don't hurt us! We were just having a little fun! Please leave us alone!"

"Then maybe next time, you won't bother my friends," said the blue hedgehog.

"Guys, I would like you to meet Sonic the Hedgehog. It turns out he's friends with Paccums as well," said Pinky, making Cylindria mad. The other three decided to take a good look at Sonic. Blinky was still mad that he beat them; Clyde was happy to have another friend; and Inky was glad to know that he was cool with Pac-Man.

"You must think you're so tough just because you caught us off guard, huh? Well I got news for ya: I'm going to wipe that smirk off of your face!" said Blinky.

"I've already got enough problems without dealing with you. C'mon, Tails. We need to check on Blaze."

"Blaze is here, too? Man, I hope Cream is okay," said Tails. The others followed Sonic and Tails to Sir Cumference's lab, which is where Blaze is right now.

The gang got back to the lab just in time because Blaze was waking up. The first thing she did once her vision cleared was take in her surroundings. She heard the door open and readied a fireball. Once she saw that it was Sonic and Tails that came in, though, she lowered her guard a little bit. "Oh it's just you, Sonic. Thank goodness you're alright," she said.

"Yeah, you said it. I found Tails here just a few minutes ago. How are you feeling?" he asked. Blaze took a few steps, stumbling a little.

"I-I'm fine. I'm just a little dizzy, that's all."

"That's good." They took a look around and went through the introductions when Blaze's and Sonic's stomachs started to growl. They laughed nervously at each other. "It sounds like the both of us could use something to eat," Sonic said. Blaze nodded in response with a smile on her face.

"I know this restaurant with a menu of healthy items. You look like the kind of person who would eat that kind of thing, Ms. Blaze," said Cyli.

"Thank you, Cylindria. Sonic, would you like to accompany me?" Blaze asked, getting an enthusiastic 'sure thing' from the blue hedgehog. Blaze was very happy to know that her closest friend (next to Cream and Silver) and secret crush would be enthusiastic to come with her even to a restaurant that, chances are, didn't have his favorite food: chili dogs. "Thank you, Sonic," she said with a smile and an unnoticeable blush.

"Hey it's no problem, Blaze." The blush on her face became slightly more noticeable.

They got to the restaurant and Cyli and Sonic immediately knew the lunch was ruined. They spotted Skeebo and his goons waiting for the latter because he wanted revenge. "That's him, boys. Apparently, he has even more weird friends," the bully said, making Sonic and Blaze a little mad. "Who's your friend, you blue freak?"

"Back off, Skeebo. She didn't do anything to you and you know Mr. Sonic can still kick your ass," said Cyli. Skeebo didn't listen because he and his friends were constantly pestering the two Mobians to no end. Sonic looked to Blaze and they acted like the bullies were crazy to mess with them. Since Blaze was still recovering from the Chaos Control trip thanks to Eggman Nega, Sonic did all the work. He tripped up the two cronies and got in Skeebo's face. The bully tried to punch at him, but he was too quick. He got behind Skeebo and kicked him in the back of the head, knocking him out.

"Don't you think that was a bit harsh, Sonic?" Blaze asked.

"Not for me. He was pestering you, Blaze. Plus I already ran into him earlier," explained Sonic. "Now how about we try this place out, okay?" Blaze smiled again, seeing as how Sonic was defending her.

"That sounds good to me." They went into the restaurant and were seated at a booth. They were looking at the menu trying to decide what they wanted. They already ordered their drinks but now the waitress was coming back to take their food orders.

"What would you like, Cyli?" asked the waitress.

"Well, miss, I would like to have the Catfish with French Fries," she said.

"And you miss?"

"Hmm, the Lobster sounds good, thank you," said Blaze. The waitress turned her attention to Sonic.

"And what about you, sir? It will be on the house, seeing as how you—excuse my language—whooped Skeebo. The proprietor and I are not too fond of him, so consider it our thanks."

"Thanks. I think I'll just have the BLT with French Fries, though," he said. They gave her back the menus and talked and joked around until another familiar face (at least to Sonic and Blaze) peered through the window. Sonic looked and saw who it was: Antoine D'Coolete. He smirked at the Coyote, who was looking wide-eyed at the food. Antoine then saw him and Blaze and took Sonic's signal to come in.

"Sacre bleu! Sonic and Blaze, is that you?" he asked.

"You got it, Antoine. I take it if you and Tails got caught in the Chaos Control wave, Sally and the other Freedom Fighters got here too?" Sonic asked in return.

"Oui, but unfortunately, Bunnie is passed out at ze moment. Princess Sally dared me and Rotor to switch jobs for ze day because Rotor…said he…could do my job better than I could." That piece of information Sonic didn't need to hear. "I do not believe I'm saying this, you two, but I am glad you are here. I need you to come with me to our camp so we can assess ze situation."

"Very well, Antoine, but can we wait? Our food's here," said Blaze.

"Oh o-of course, Princess Blaze. I can wait." Antoine also ordered his food, which turned out to be a ribeye steak. Once they finished, Sonic had the chefs cook up a to-go meal for the Freedom Fighters and Tails.

Sonic, Blaze, and Antoine picked up Tails and headed towards the Freedom Fighters' camp outside of the city. Sally saw the group and was immediately overjoyed to reunite with Sonic, but put on her 'neutral' face once she saw Blaze with them. "I'm so glad you're okay, you guys. You don't know how long I've been waiting for Antoine to come back with any food or information," she said.

"Way ahead of you, Sal. You guys dig in. Blaze, Ant, and I ate back at the restaurant," said Sonic, prompting Sally to eat her food like she truly appreciated it. The same situation happened with Rotor and Tails. Sonic and Antoine looked at the sleeping Bunnie and immediately got the same idea.

Antoine got her food out, which turned out to be vegetable soup in a to-go bowl. Bunnie got a whiff of it and opened her eyes to see two of her three favorite guys in front of her. She looked to her right to see Tails, her other favorite, eating his food along with Sally and Rotor. She looked at her soup that Antoine was holding, snatched it, and immediately went to town on it. "Mmm, there is no such thing as a bad veggie soup. Thanks, Antoine, Sugar-hog," she said.

"It is no problem, Bunnie. I'm glad we were able to help," said Antoine. Once everyone finished their food, Sally decided it was time to get serious.

"Okay, Sonic, what's the situation?" she asked. Sonic crossed his arms and went into his usual thinking position.

"Here's our predicament, you guys, and I already told Tails and Blaze about this: that Chaos Control wave that Eggman Nega caused landed us on a planet called PacWorld. The Emeralds, both Chaos and Sol, are completely drained and our friends Amy, Knuckles, and Silver, along with Eggman and his robots, are somewhere on this planet."

"Then I guess our first priority is finding them," Sally said. "Let's save Amy for last. She always gets on my nerves."

"You and me both, Sally," said Blaze. After the sun went down, Sonic started to feel weird. Black mist surrounded him and he gained a bit of extra mass and lost his gloves. His shoes were all spiked on the bottom and the white part was covered in spiked metal. This was a form of Sonic's that only Tails had seen: Sonic the Werehog! Needless to say, everyone except Tails and Blaze was scared of this form.

Sonic looked at himself and punch his fist into the ground. "Dammit! I thought I was done with my Werehog form!"

CHAPTER 2 END

Well, there you have it. After a long time, I finally updated this story. It took me a bit to decide if I should include Sonic the Werehog or not. I've played Sonic Unleashed and out of all the Sonic forms I've seen (Super Sonic, Hyper Sonic, and the Werehog), this is so far my least favorite, but we all have to make sacrifices, don't we.