The light slowly faded as the hedgehogs, the fox and the crazed man dropped onto the hard stone ground in an isolated back-route of a town.. The man slowly staggered to his feet and snarled. He lunged at the anthros picking themselves up off the ground. Sonic and Shadow quickly dashed around him and pulled at his un-tucked shirt to distract him from Amy and Tails.

"Tails I know you said not to damage this guy but we have to do something to get him off of us!" Sonic shouted.

"I know!"

The man brought up his hand and slashed at them with sharpened nails. The slash hit Shadow's cheek and left red gashes.

"Grrr… GRAH!"

Shadow tightened his grip and threw the man into the side of a building. The impact left an indention in the stone wall; bricks crumbling on top of their attacker's body that slumped on the ground for a moment. Amy exhaled in relief and relaxed her grip on her newly produced hammer. Sonic and Shadow clenched their teeth; getting ready if he decided to rise again.

Sure enough the man rose to full height and attacked again. Sonic and Shadow split and took him from the sides locking his arms with theirs with rapid speed; making him loose balance. The man bared his teeth; revealing his fangs and broke out of the hold; flinging Sonic and Shadow to the ground. They both saw stars for a moment as their heads collided with the stone; bringing them out of the fight for a minute.

"Sonic!" Amy and Tails yelled and they both got up to join the fight.

Amy flung out her Piko Piko hammer and Tails flew towards the man.

A series of gunshots was heard as a purple symbol flew into the man's head and torso. He screamed with his last breath as he exploded into dust.

Sonic and Shadow regained consciousness and slowly sat up from where they lay sprawled across the ground.

"What happened?" Sonic asked while rubbing his head. "Did we win?"

Shadow picked himself up from off the ground and looked around.

"Where did he go?"

Two figures appeared under a stone arch. Shadow tensed up again and bared his fangs.

"Shadow I don't think you should be doing that, whatever shot him might shoot you too if it saw you like that." Sonic warned.

Shadow stopped and relaxed but was still somewhat tense. The two figures moved closer; revealing more of what they looked like. A tall teenage-looking boy with silver hair and lavender eyes walked beside a shorter teenage girl with short brown hair and red-brown eyes. The boy carried a silver framed handgun with wooden grips and a silver slide; the barrel etched with the words "Crossing" and "Bloody Rose" and the top "Crossing Danger". They both wore black clothing with white stripes that looked like school uniforms. The boy wore a suit-like outfit with a partially undone red tie while the girl wore a more feminine outfit with skirt and a red bow that lay across her chest. The two figures walked through the pile of remaining dust that was the long haired man. They stepped back when they saw the (mostly) colorful characters.

"What in the world?" The girl asked in confusion.

Sonic stepped forward slowly.

"Who are you guys? Are you the ones who shot the guy who was attacking us?"

The boy remained silent but finally answered.

"Yes, that was me." He looked at the blue hedgehog; trying to figure out if he was just seeing things.

Amy walked up beside Sonic and smiled. They seemed friendly.

"Hi, I'm Amy Rose." Amy introduced. "What are your names?"

Shadow shook his head at her swift introduction.

The girl was the first one to answer.

"My name is Yuki Cross and this is Zero Kiryu." She motioned to the silver haired boy who was now looking to his side and putting his gun back into its holster on his side inside of his jacket.

Zero shook his head just like Shadow.

"I must be hallucinating right now; this can't be real."

"We're very real." Tails said walking into the conversation.

Zero splashed his face with water from a nearby fountain. Shadow walked up to the fountain and tried to clean off the gashes and stop or at least slow down the bleeding.

"We're real; don't you wonder how that guy was already beaten up? That was us…Mostly me." Shadow said while washing.

Zero glanced at Shadow and stood upright.

"Where did you come from?" He asked.

"I've been wondering that too." Yuki chimed in. "We've never seen anything like you guys before."

"Well, we kind of appeared here on accident." Sonic began. "That guy that turned to dust was chasing me and my buddy Tails here used a stun gun taser-like thing powered a thing called a Chaos Emerald to power it. Chaos emeralds are magic gems that are like…The almighty source of power when all 7 are together. Shadow got angry because I kind of took his green emerald so he got in the way. Once the guy attacking us was down Shadow went to teleport away but the dust guy grabbed his neck and the chaos emerald teleported us here."

Zero splashed his face with water again.

"O…Kay." Yuki started. She didn't really understand what Sonic was telling her.

"I expected you to not to get it." Sonic admitted.

"So are you stranded here?" Yuki asked.

"I hope not!" Shadow yelled from the water fountain.

"Maybe, it looks like." Amy said sadly. "We don't even fully know how we got here."

Yuki thought for a moment.

"Do you want to see if the Headmaster can help you? You can come with us if you want." She offered.

"That would be nice." Amy said looking up at the girl.

"Well, I don't really know where we are so I guess." Sonic answered.

Shadow growled.

"Shadow do you want to get back home or not?" Amy asked sternly.

Shadow turned away.

"I'll take that as a yes."

Sonic and the others dragged Shadow in the direction Zero and Yuki were leading them in. They soon found themselves heading out of the town they were in and heading up to a place that looked like a boarding school.