Here it is! The zonadow meets sonadow!
It was requested by a (Guest) ^.^" so...here you are guest! Hope it was worth the long wait XD just kidding. sorry it took a bit my cool dude pal.
This is an obvious continuation of "Because that's what it takes" and serves as the two 'prequels' to something special...which is something I'm very excited to share about!
I left a hint at the end of the fic and where it'll lead~

It had been weeks since their incident involving the carnival; the two officers have been thoroughly scanning and rescanning the area with a fine tooth comb. Looking for clues, even going over the radio frequencies for something.

Yet, no matter how much they searched, it always came to a dead end.

It irritated the azure officer to no end. Longing for a connection, something to have their experience make sense.

Though, ebony seemed more...on edge if anything. His usual lazy and offhanded behavior seemed more tense since the incident. And more often than not did the cerulean hedgehog find his partner in more ways than one; awake in the dead of night looking out of their small apartment window sipping a cup of coffee with a silent and contemplative look.

True, ebony had shown his notes to his partner from the night more times than he could count; and it was confusing. The drawings; the blacked out text; a single phrase?

Zonic knew his partner didn't writing or draw any of it.

The handwriting was foreign. One could argue that it wasn't even handwriting with how rushed it was.

It was just...confusing.

Now, the two were forced to keep their private investigation on hold as they continued to do their work. They couldn't have the warden catch wind of it; if he did, he'd likely use it as an excuse to demote or even remove them from the force.

They were on their own for this. And they had to keep it under wraps to avoid a blow up; many were already to stressed from the war with Nega.

"Come on Zonic, it's a quick questioning session and then we can try the record hall," Zhadow nudged his partner with his elbow.

He appreciated his partner for trying but...he couldn't focus with this confusing case.

"...Zonic?"

"...I don't see why we need to question two mobians from the generations verse over speeding…," azure finally responded.

Zhadow quirked a small smile," There you are~" He chuckled, faintly tense rubies looking to the questioning box.

"...," ebony gave a half glance to his partner.

"...Well, they have been known to break sound barriers," he shrugged tiredly as he paused in front of the door.

"What-" Azure paused, emeralds locking on rubies.

"Hell, they might even have experience with boxes…," Zhadow coughed as he typed in a code for the door.

"Did you-"

"Had a favor from an old case. Said he'd might know something." Was all he said.

Zonic quirked a rare small smile, emeralds twinkling.

Clever, clever.

"Then let's get through in questioning. Such speed can be dangerous for the public," he stated, glancing behind him for a moment before walking in behind his partner.

From the room, seated on the 'wall' were two hedgehogs.

A cerulean teen with hyperactive emeralds and a red streaked ebony hedgehog. Rubies bored and slightly irritated from the tapping of his companion's feet.

Zonic felt his body go stiff at the sight. "...No."

"Zonic-"

"Absolutely not. No. NO."

"Hey! Shad, they're on the wall!" The blue hedgehog gasped, standing up and walking over as he looked up.

"No, you're on the wall," Zhadow grinned, snickering to himself.

"How are you doing that?!"
"Gravity. Same as you."

"This is not happening….," Zonic muttered, rubbing his temples beneath his helmet as he caught a sigh from the table.

"Faker, sit back down so we can finish this up." Ebony grumbled.

The azure officer turned to give a look to his partner.

He dealt with the primeverse version of him time and time again, hell, he helped take down their anti!

But this...this was too much.

The generations verse was...tricky. Time travel, earth shattering gods, alien wisps. Not to mention the odd time frame before the shattering of the world.

The….the generations verse had issues, it tried very hard and at times succeeded but...it always seemed like something was out to change it.

The azure hedgehog didn't think he'd ever see a lone universe go under so many changes in a short time span.

Given...the primeverse was altered three times in a short time, and the first time locked their zone out of contact before contact was removed altogether after the second change but….

The generations verse just seemed more….dangerous...with how much change was being rushed.

It concerned him, and couldn't be healthy for that zone one bit.

It caused a rift in in a time strain more than once! In the same time frame!

If the zone continued like that, he feared something horrible would happen.

There was nothing wrong with just..trying something but..not rushing it….

The officer hoped the zone would be stable but...the recent readings said otherwise…

Why...would Zhadow bring them here? Their zone couldn't handle much zone travel...so why..

"Have a seat please," he sighed, irritation growing slightly from the dorky smile his partner flashed the odd blue hedgehog.

"How are you guys gonna-" the blue hero gasped when they leapt off the 'wall' and clicked a button on their belts.

The ebony officer grunting as he landed," Oh no...Zonic, don't do the superhero landing...it's really bad on the knees-"

"Would you cut that out!," he huffed, a faint red on his cheeks as he pulled his partner up.

"Dude, I'm getting a weird vibe…," the dimensional traveler looked to his companion.

"You mean you feel odd seeing yourself be responsible?" his partner asked, rubies flicking over to the hedgehog when he let out a hurt gasp.

"I'm totally responsible!"

"..."

"I am!"

"..."

"...Other your is more fun," he huffed, pouting as he took a seat.

"...Other you is more tolerable."

"Ouchie. Shad! Rude!"

The azure officer resisted the urge to drag his hands down his face. "Aw, Zonic, they argue just like us~"
"Stop. Shush-" The officer covered his partner's mouth with a sigh.

"Let's just...get this over with," he force a grimace as he sat down in the odd gravity.

Why were other zone's magnetic forces so weird!?

"It's really weird sitting on the wall…," Zhadow grinned.

"Dude, what about walking on it?!," Sonic flashed his own grin.

"I mean, weird to see other people doing it!"

The two serious hedgehogs frowned at the shared giggling.

"...ANYWAY," Zonic slammed down the tablet he had to write notes upon. "Let's discuss your speeding issues."

The blue speedster paused, giving his double a 'look'. "...Do...do you not run?"

"I- that's none of your business," the officer took out his stylus.

"He does, he's just shy about it," Zhadow grinned, not flinching from the hit to his arm from his partner.

"Let's TALK about your SPEED." Zonic repeated, his muzzle a faint red.

"It's rather confusing…," Ebony spoke up beside his hedgehog, his hand reaching out to stop the irritating tapping of his leg.

"We break the sound barrier daily, it causes no damage, if any it's to robots. What is the issue?"

"Given the instability of your zone it could cause a collapse…"

"WAIT WHAT-"

"Relax, this is just protocol. We're scanning at this moment to see if there is a potential threat…" Zonic sighed, scribbling a note down.

Zhadow smiled as he tapped his fingers on the table, flashing a smile to his counterpart.

Slowly, he reached beneath the table, finding a remote he hidden there during inspection. With a click, the video feed split and continued as if they were still questioning.

He was thankful the warden was too cheap to put sound through the monitors. Saying 'visual was enough'.

"Thank you for coming," He said, smiling as his ebony counterpart leaned back. "Well, you claimed it was an emergency."

"Yeah, Shad said it was something really bad," Sonic crossed his arms over the table, making his counterpart raise a brow at that.

"Well, we aren't sure yet." Zhadow reached down and pulled out his notepad.

"I-I'm sorry-," Zonic set his stylus down, frowning. "Just...how do you two know each other?," Azure asked.

"Well, during their "Gaia" incident, Shadow here fell through a super charged wormhole and landed in a zone I was solo investigating for traces of the Robot overlord.," Zhadow smiled, his counterpart humming.

"We ended up taking down the main source and stopped the robotization of the multiverse." Shadow stated.

"Heh, that was a fun weekend," Zhadow sighed," I got him home after that, and we've been sharing stories since."

"You stopped a multiverse threat without me?," Sonic asked, his features deflated in sadness.

"You were saving the world," ebony huffed, crossing his arms," And shoved it back together...Besides, maybe I wanted a 'neat story' to tell you…"

"...Oh my chaos you're precious."

"Shut it."

Zonic turned to his partner slowly, his emeralds unwavering. "...What? He knows how to throw a good spear! And I rarely get to go solo!," he pouted," I just wanted a cool mission to tell you!"

"...You-"

"It's hard to impress you sometimes." he mumbled.

The officer sighed, not wanting this conversation to go any way further.

"...Tell me later," he dared to pat his partner's hand, grunting and blushing a bright red when his hand turned quickly to squeeze his own.

"...Now then, I believe you had a question for us?," Shadow asked, raising his brow.

The red streaked officer jumped slightly before nodding, flipping through his notes before he settled on the phrase. "Here," he pushed it over, ebony taking it with his finger tips to examine. Uncaring that his cerulean partner leaned over his shoulder.

"Do you have any idea what the phrase means? The origin?" Zhadow asked.

"Not the phrase to my knowledge."

"I mean, sounds familiar to me, just not sure where," Zonic hummed, sticking his tongue out as his eyes narrowed.

Gently he reached out to flip the page, cringing at all the cubes drawn. "Oh- that doesn't look good…"

"We've run scans around the area where we encountered the anomaly yet no luck so far in finding the origin." Zonic sighed.

"Well...I can tell ya this," Sonic looked up," I've seen these shapes around egghead's base recently. Kind of like a light show….I can take a peak around to see what's up? Maybe it's what was in your call."

"Obviously, it's nothing good..But we'll keep an eye out and alert you of anything in our world," Shadow quietly pushed the pad back.

"Thanks. I appreciate it." Zhadow smiled," Just...if you find a lead, contact us immediately. It have a bad feeling about this."

"Doubting we can handle it?" Shadow gave a faint smirk.

"Nah. I know you can handle big explodey things...I just...have a feeling is all," Zhadow hummed, looked down to his pad thoughtfully.

"Point taken."

Zonic sighed, nodding in a bitter realization.

Though they had a new lead; connecting this to the generations verse, it still held little information.

If their Eggman was involved, nothing good can come from it.

With a push, the officer reactivated the remote beneath the table. "Well, just be mindful of your speed. As long as you're careful, I'm sure things will be fine." He stated for the record.

"Thank you for your cooperation, we'll be in contact for anything further."

"Oh yeah, totally. Oh! We should totally do a double da-"

"Faker please," Shadow's cheeks burned a light red," Your...fox friend is getting worried."

"Shad come on!," he pouted.

"We'll totally give you a rain check on that," Zhadow whispered to the blue blur, the two grinning much to the dismay of their partners.

With a small fizz, the two officers reattached to their proper gravity placement. Zonic tugging his partner along while he waved to the two hedgehogs going through the opposite door to return back to their zone.

"...So, what do you think?," Zhadow asked his partner lowly as they walked through the familiar boring office scape.

"Well...at least we have an idea of the origin...and a potential creator of the anomaly…," Zonic sighed, reaching out to give his partner's a hand a small squeeze. "...Thank you…"

"Don't mention it, I know how much unsolved cases bug you," he smiled.

The officer smiled faintly at that.

Unaware of hidden pairs of eyes down the walkway, crammed into a closet out of panic.

"Well...maybe for once we can stop a major threat before it becomes out of hand…," he chuckled a bit sadly.

"You know Nega wasn't-"

"I know...I know...I just can't help but feel like we're responsible is all…."

"Hey, it's almost over...And just you wait, that zone will be as beautiful as ever." Ebony smiled.

"Heh….maybe."

NoA: But, since the next two drabbles will have no connection, I'll spill the jelly beans now! XD

I got permission from the amazing 5courgesbestbuddy to use their anti-shadow, Sanctum, in an upcoming drabble special! A SanctumxScourge story! These two previous fics set the ground work and this special will be ten chapters long!
For those who don't know, 5courgesbestbuddy, or back in the day Scourgesbestbuddy, is the creator of the fancomic Enternal Blackout! Staring Scourge and her amazing OCS! It started out as an animation on flipnote waaaay back when and it's how I orginally found out about this cool bean way back in middle school! Over the years, the animation became its own fancomic and is currently in the works! Though it's on hiatus at this moment.
I've loved the world and story made years ago and loved it when it came back as a fancomic and became even more stoked when a tumblr happened where you can actually learn more about the characters!
I've loved this story since my middle school days, which is, well, a long time ago! XD And I'm immensely honored to get an opportunity to write an original fan work for this world and characters. I hope I do them justice! But trust me, I promise it'll be a fun ride!
Please, go support the creator on their DA 5courgesbestbuddy
And if you wanna go on an awesome adventure with lore and fun times! Check out the offical tumblr Ask Triple Threat!
Stay tuned guys!