Blaze and Rouge were still waiting on the outskirts of Westopolis for Shadow and Chaotix to arrive. While so, they were fighting their own battle against the Heartless from their own location.

"There's too many!" said Blaze, shooting fireballs in various directions.

"Where are they?" Rouge wondered, fighting off a Darkball in midair.

"Hey girrllss!"

Rouge and Blaze and the Heartless directed their attention to the cheery voice, and coming down with her infamous hammer was none other than Amy Rose. The side of the hammer smashed down onto a Blue Rhapsody Heartless (an alternate of the Red Nocturne, but with powers of ice), then she spun around to swing her hammer with increasing speed. Spinning faster and faster, Amy was eventually able to spin a tornado around herself, and with the final swing of her weapon, the tornado swerved away from her and spun into the Heartless, in which they all got caught in its turbulence.

"I didn't know she could do that..." Rouge mumbled.

"Me neither!" Blaze replied.

Some Heartless were spun out of the cyclone, but before they recovered, Amy sped to their direction and whacked them from existence with a concussive force. Blaze channeled fire into the tornado and the remaining Heartless burned into oblivion. The twister eventually diminished along with the Heartless.

"Amy, are you OK?" asked Blaze.

"Mmhm! Two days of doing nothing at all really ticks me off though! I was supposed to clean my living room today!" Amy pouted.

"Did G.U.N. let you go?" Rouge now.

"Um...you could say that!"

"You broke out, didn't you?"

"Well, not really, they had just gave the announcement to deploy all units by the time security caught me at the door."

Rouge's large bat ears flicked back, as she heard a familiar sound of a thruster from far- along with various footsteps. She looked back to see Team Chaotix and Shadow had finally made it to them.

"Hello boys!" Amy greeted.

Espio ran up to Amy and they both locked arms.

"Are you OK, Amy? I'm sorry I couldn't visit, I-"

"It's OK Espio, I wouldn't expect you to break into G.U.N. Headquarters." Amy cutting off Espio.

"I should've at least been with you."

"But, you were with me." Shadow reminded.

Espio shot him a glare, but Amy turned his face back to her, "Shadow's right, priorities needed to be reorganized."

"...I suppose you're right."

"Hey!"

The group turned to the other guest running towards them.

"Hey Sal'!" the longtime friends of Chaotix welcomed.

"Hey Chaotix!...AMY! You're OK!" she cheered, the two hugging it out.

"Alright, enough of this garbage. We need to go find the Chaos Emeralds." Shadow retorted.

"What's wrong, Shadow? Do you need a hug too?" Rouge jeered, arms wide.

"Don't even think about it."

"NO! The Chaos Emeralds! Grr," Sally stomped her foot, "Sonic and I forgot to grab them after we fought Mephiles! But...he didn't drop them?...Ugh, then that was a clear sign he was alive!"

"Wait, how many does he have?" Shadow asked.

"Two." Sally confirmed.

"Could be more, he might be utilizing these creatures to find them for him." Espio suggested.

"Wait, so that was you and Sonic fighting Mephiles? That's what those flashes of light were." Blaze tuned in.

"Yes, but it wasn't his Super State..." she stopped, realizing that she was looking at the real Shadow and Blaze, not Lancelot and Percival.

"...It's complicated how we even got there from the start, don't worry about it. We should go." Sally dismissed.

"You all go help with the fight. Without Tails and his tracker, I'm the only one who can naturally sense the Chaos Emeralds."

"Then I'll go too, for that reason." Blaze offered.

Blaze may not be from their dimension, but the Sol Emeralds of her dimension held similar powers to the Chaos Emeralds. Everyone nodded in agreement, and the other two split from the group in opposite directions to find the remaining Chaos Emeralds.

"Hey, waitaminute, where is Sonic?" Charmy wondered.

"Well, that's why I'm here. Sonic told me to flee from the battle, but I thought he won, so I came back to find him, but he wasn't there, and then I found you guys." Sally responded.

"Alright, then we'll have to find them on the way! He couldn't have gone too far." Vector upheld.

Without further ado, the rest of the six went to fight the battle against the Heartless and search for their blue hero.

When they were gone, Shadow and Blaze were running back to where they separated.

When they met up again, both questioned the other simultaneously, "You felt that too, right?"

Both of their heads shot up above them, sensing something, and spotted three green trails of light tracing the sky. From way above were three riders creating those lines.

"Well, look who it is." Shadow murmured.

"Do you think Silver will be mad at us?" Storm concerned.

"Nah, he peacefully teleported out of our ship and thanked us for our hospitality. See, Jet? Was it so hard to be honest?" Wave teased.

"Quiet, Wave! Let's just find Sonic and give him this Chaos Emerald, so I can go home and wash my tongue of all the truths I've been telling today." Jet shot back.

"Uh, boss. We've got company." Storm pointed below them as they just passed over the "company."

Wave and Jet glimpsed down.

"It's Blaze and Shadow!" said Wave.

"We can't trust anyone near the Emerald, especially that greedy Shadow! Let's fly!" Jet ordered.

The three descended to ground-level and boosted away to find Sonic.

However, Shadow and Blaze weren't aware of the Rogues' true intentions.

"They're taking the Chaos Emerald!" Blaze exclaimed.

"And look." Shadow pointing above the sky. There was a red and white biplane gliding back to the city.

From far, they could tell the blue figure on top was Sonic standing on the wing of Tails' Tornado like he usually does.

"It's Sonic!" Blaze radiant.

"Yeah, and Tails too. I gave Tails a Chaos Emerald a while ago, and considering Sonic is with him, that means he's bringing it to battle with us." Shadow stated.

"Ah...So that means those Rogues are probably going to ambush them for it!"

"Exactly, and we won't let them!"

Shadow dashed forward on his rocket-skates, with Blaze close behind, chasing down the Babylon Rogues. 

*Well, this should be interesting!

Sorry, this was a filler chapter, but it sets up the next events....

Actually. It sets up our finale of the story pretty well! We're almost there. ☺🙂😣😭

And yes, this chapter confirmed: Silver is alive! 😉
My favorite character wasn't gonna stay dead forever! It was enough that I even killed him!
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