In the beginning, there was a time that the Chaos Dimension was once formally known as the Gaia Dimension, where the humans had lived there peacefully. Among the most powerful them was the Chosen for they have been given powerful psychic abilities to use as a force to fight against the threats against their world for generations. According to many legends, they have foretold that only three boys and one girl will only be able to become Chosen among the human population..however..one day when another attack was forced among the human population of the Gaia Dimension by mysterious invaders called the Xorda, the Chosen boy, Will, was in the middle of a fight with removing the Xorda threat from his home island of Crestpoint while everyone else fled and panicked.

"You creeps have gone far enough on attacking my home! My ancestors were known to take down armies of baddies before and that doesn't mean I can't take you down!" he said as tossed one Xorda attack ship to another with his psychokinesis.

' Will..they attacked most of the planet..people are dying..we're outnumbered,' said Harmony.

"I can't back down now Harmony. The people need me to help them," he replied.

'Will, please I beg you to save your strength. You have been fighting for so long..it's already too late..'

Will exclaimed,"Harmony, don't say that. There has to be a way to defeat them!"

It was soon enough that the miliarities from all over the world were coming out to attack the Xorda attack ships, aiding Will in defeating the army, but they were soon brought down despite their efforts.

'Will, please..' begged Harmony.

"Harmony, if you're the good side of the Dark Dragon, why can't you help me like before inside of trying to hold me back?" he said.

'Because if you were to die..the world would be destroyed by Malevolent..' she said.

"Harmony, both you and I know that there's not a chance that would-" he said before suddenly a Xorda attack ship attacked Will knocking him out of the skies.

He took mortal damage from the attack as he soon is knocked into a state of unconsciousness.

'Will!' exclaimed Harmony as Will was knocked out, falling towards the ground. 'I have no choice! He must live!'

Suddenly, Harmony flew out of Will and opened an inter-dimensional portal for Will to pass through and once he did, she immediately re-entered Will as soon enough he was floating within the time-space continuum. Over the millenias that Will has been out, Harmony realized the attack from the Xorda was changing him from his human self to become like a strange anthropomorphic creature, which one day would awaken...

After a long time of being inanimate for millenias, the portal opened up in the skies of the Chaos Dimension during one peaceful night above the Dragon Kingdom as the force of the portal hurled Will along with Harmony a far distance towards the Great Forest. Many have saw it to be a shooting star, but as for the Gossamer Clan in the Dragon Kingdom, they saw that this was a new prophecy unveiling..

As time passed, nobody was aware of this boy's exsistance as the years go by and both baddies along with the heroes fought time after time, he was nothing but a mere illusion..

[Night, Mobius, nearby Vanilla's House]
It was a quiet and clear starry night as a young girl was sitting on a tree stump as a gentle breeze blew her hair. When the girl looked up at the skies above, her eyes twinkled as if recently she has been crying. As far back she could remember, she had a flashback of that fateful day when she met him.

Back at home where she was from, it was a sad day at Karioka Village as there was a funeral going on. She was standing besides her foster father, Houston, and when Will walked by, he seemed very upset at the death of his father as he left where they buried him. Feeling sympathetic to his father's loss, she decided to follow Will along to where he was going, soon stopping at Rememberance Fields, where the flowers were. Seeing Will sitting on a bench with a frustrated look, she said in a soft voice,"Will.."

Will looked up to her and asked,"Kimmy? What are you doing here? Why did you followed me? Shouldn't you be with Houston and the others?"

Kimmy replied,"Will, I know how frustrated you feel about your dad, but that doesn't mean you have to push others away just because of what happened,"

Will clenched his fist as he asked,"Push others away? Look Kimmy. Austin has been asking for trouble since I was young. He had it coming to him,"

Kimmy replied,"But you didn't have to get violent to him, Will. Just think about it for once! If your dad was here, wouldn't he want you to be picking a fight with Austin?"

Will lowered his fist, looked down, and calmed down as he replied softly,"He wouldn't..would he?"

Kimmy nodded her head and Will sighed before he added,"I guess he wouldn't. I told him that I would try to be the mature one, setting up a good example for Louis and the others and make mom as well as the rest of the family proud,"

Kimmy sat down on the bench next to Will and added,"It's strange that you didn't run away like you did last time,"

Will looked to Kimmy and knitted his eyebrow at her as he said,"Run away? No. I wasn't running away. I was in a rush trying to help Louis and Carter the other day when the forestfire struck,"

Kimmy looked to Will as she blushed and concluded,"Well, I didn't get a kiss from you,"

Will sighed as he closed his eyes with a sweatdrop and added,"Atleast a thanks should be good enough,"

She then looked to Will and softly smiled as she thought,'Maybe..someday..'

After the talk, she watched as Will eventually got up from the bench and left Remembrance Fields before she followed him back.

Kimmy's flashback ended and she was already in tears, crying at where and she said,"Will..why..? Why did you have to do this? And now since you're gone, I don't know what to do anymore,"

Nearby the scenario was a young rabbit and her chao who were curious of the situation and approached Kimmy. "Why are you so sad?" asked the young rabbit.

When the rabbit asked a question to her, Kimmy perked up a bit and turn around, noticing the duo. "Oh, who are you?" she asked.

"I'm Cream and this is my Chao friend, Cheese," answered Cream. "Choo.." added Cheese as he was concerned.

"Wait..you can actually talk and understand what's going on?" asked Kimmy as she was slightly surprised.

"Of course," added Cream as she nodded before she became real concerned about Kimmy. "But..why are you so sad?"

Kimmy turned around and answered,"It's..about a friend I lost.."

"What happened to your friend?" asked Cream as she was curious.

Kimmy closed her eyes and answered,"H-he..died.."

Cream and Cheese felt real bad for Kimmy as soon as she mentioned it as Cream said,"Oh, I'm terribly sorry that happened to you,"

Kimmy turned to Cream and said,"Thank you for understanding Cream. I..really appreciate it.." She sat up from the stump and added,"I'm Kimmy by the way. Nice to meet you,"

Cream and Cheese bowed politely and she smiled as she said,"Don't be so upset and another thing, I hope things will do fine in the end for you,"

Kimmy smiled back at them and was about to leave until Cream spotted something. "Hey! A shooting star!" she exclaimed as she point in the skies. "Make a wish, Kimmy!" In the last minute excitement, Cheese added,"Choo!"

Kimmy turned around where the shooting star was at and remembered what to do. She raise up her arms and hands, held them together and closed her eyes as she's standing. 'Shooting star, I wish to have my friend, Will, back and hope to see him again..' she wished.

A twinkle from the shooting star and eventually, it disappeared just as Kimmy reopened her eyes, holding her hands together, and thought,'Will..please come back..I don't want to be alone anymore..'

Cream raised her hand, raising her first finger and suggested,"Maybe someday that wish will come true if you believe in it hard enough,"

Kimmy looked back to Cream as she smiled a bit and replied,"I'm sure of it, Cream,"

Cream suggested again,"Oh and by the way, do you need someplace to stay at Kimmy? I could take you to my house to stay at. Wait until you see my mother, she's really nice,"

Kimmy brought out a tissue from her pocket and wiped away any of her remaining tears with her tissue. She then put it back before she nodded her head and said,"Of course,"

Soon enough, Cream, as well as Cheese, lead Kimmy to her house; Kimmy followed and soon decided to stop to look at the skies as she thought,'Maybe someday..I'll see him again..' She then turned around and followed Cream until they left into the forest.

Silence ruled the peaceful Great Forest as its inhabitants were at ease. Flickies are flying around among the trees, happily tweeting the day away, as the other small animals were playing around happily. In its silence, a gentle breeze blew through the area, long before they hid as several Dark Legionnaire pods zoomed by to the nearby city of New Megaopolis. Unnoticed by them, nearby was the same boy, resting peacefully on the soft grass by himself. The gentle breeze blew his blondish hair, causing it to move about somewhat. The small animals saw him and approached cautiously, starting with the Flicky, who flew to him with such curiosity.

However, this didn't last any longer when he slowly opened his eyes to catch the first glimpse of seeing the day again. There, he saw the Flicky looking at him.

"Huh? Where am I?" he mumbled softly.

All the Flicky could do was tweet to him some before the boy decided to move one of his arms, bringing one of his hands over as he started to rub his tired eyes before yawning, which did startled the Flicky as it flew off of him. All the boy could do now is to sit up and stretched his arms and legs, getting rid of any tiredness remaining.

Looking around, the first question that entered his mind was: How did he end up here?

'Oh thank goodness, Will, that you are still alive. I was really worried about you,' said Harmony.

He closed his eyes for a moment.

'Harmony..w-where am I?' he asked. 'What happened?'

Harmony replied,'You have been out for such a long, long time and I'm afraid that I will have say that I'm not sure myself, but everything looks so peaceful,'

He looked around for a bit before he stood up completely and the small animals slightly backed off.

'Looks like we got the welcome party here,' he added.

'I believe so..they're not really hostile as it seems,' replied Harmony.

He looked around and mumbled,"This does look like how Tensurii Forest was back at home..,"

Realizing it, Will had a feeling that he had to check if his family was only, so he ran to where normally would be the place of Karioka Village would be at. Once he got there, he saw nothing but rubble. Everything all around for miles was burnt down and destroyed.

"No.." he said. He was in absolute disbelief as he fell to his knees. "Mother, Louis, Elizabeth..all gone..I failed to protect them! What kind of person am I if I failed to protect my family? Dad was counting on me!" He started crying in defeat.

'Will..' said Harmony.

"What is it, Harmony? What do you want me to hear about now?" he replied coldly.

'Will..the truth is.. I have a feeling that this isn't the village..this isn't what you think it is. Please..listen to me..' she begged.

"What? How could you say it's not the village? It clearly looks like it from where I am at!" he replied as he shouted back in anger.

'Will..I know how upset you are, but please bear with me on this,' said Harmony as she was trying to calm down the angry Will.

He raised his arms as he gripped his head with his hands and exclaimed,"It's too much! This has to be a nightmare! Please Harmony! Tell me it isn't real! Say it so!"

Nearby the situation was something invisible watching as if it wanted to know about something. Sensing the presence, Will stopped for a moment, reopened his eyes and looked up and around for a bit.

'Something the matter?' asked Harmony.

"Yes.." he replied before standing back up and speaking up out loud. "Who's there? Show yourself!"

By hearing the yell from Will, something from nearby ran off nervously. The sounds of something running in the grass was a sure-fire clue as soon Will decided to follow, wanting to forget about what was has happened.

As Will chased after something through out the Great Forest, it was soon enough he had to stop and rest, feeling a bit lightheaded at the moment due to the fact he haven't gotten any exercise within the time he was 'asleep'.

"I know you're here..somewhere..I can feel it.." he mumbled as he was panting before he straighten himself up and continued on looking.

'Will..who do you think it is?' asked Harmony.

"I don't know, but I like to find out who's been spying on me," he replied, fully aware of his surroundings and on guard. He walked around for a bit. "I sense them, but I can't hear what they are thinking. It's like my telepathy is halfway working," he added in a more calm voice.

As Will walked around, it wasn't soon that he heard something from afar.

"Hey, c-can someone help?!" exclaimed a young kid's voice from not too far ahead.

Will turned to the direction of the voice as Harmony said, 'Someone's in trouble, go for it, Will!'

Will followed the source of the cry of help with what stamina he has left, willingly to push himself to run faster by approaching a nearby lake.

Unsure of what the kid could be, he was unable to see who it was, but saw there were bubbles coming up from underwater.

Immediately, he continued running down a little pier and dived off of it as he went into the lake. Swimming into the waters, he soon spotted a young chameleon sinking as he was in the state of total unconsciousness. Will swam faster and he grabbed the kid by his arm as he then swam up to the surface where he nearly ran out of breath.

Coughing for a bit as he swam to the lakeside, he said,"Hold on, kid. Hold on. Don't pass on me,"

Afterwhile, Will worked on reviving the kid he rescued and it wasn't long that the kid coughed some before he awakened.

"Erm..what happened?" said the kid.

Will replied,"You drowned and I had to rescue you. What were you doing in there?"

The young chameleon opened his eyes immediately as he nervously sat up, panting. "Who said?" he asked.

Will raised his arms up nervously and said,"It's only me. No need to get jumpy there, little guy," He looked at the young chameleon for a moment. He was wearing what it seems as clothes and had hair.

Will thought,'What in the world is going on? This must be one crazy dream,' Will asked,"What are you?"

The young chameleon backed off a bit as Will replied, "Oh, come on, don't be like that. If you could give me a moment to know who or what you are exactly,"

As the young chameleon became nervous, Will stated,"I won't hurt you. I promise. Just give me a moment to know who or what you are. You won't feel a single thing..can you trust me enough to allow me?"

The young chameleon shook his head and Will reminded,"Remember that I saved you earlier?" The young chameleon nodded and Will added,"Well, since I saved you, can you do me the favor and let me do this? All you have to do is relax, lend me your hand and close your eyes. Sound simple enough?"

The young chameleon soon agreed to Will's terms and did as he stated. Will grabbed the young chameleon's hand as Harmony asked,'Will, are you sure this is a good idea?'

Will replied,'I want to know who or what is this kid exactly. He looks like an animal, but he acts like a regular human would be. I need a moment to see what he is,' As Will closed his eyes, he saw into the memories and thoughts of the young chameleon, soon shocked about the truth of what he discovered about as he reopened his eyes. He thought,'He suffered what I had to go through, but much harsh. However, the mystery of what he is.. animals that adapted human personalities and traits.. known as a Mobian.. Will looked down to his hand. It was covered with yellow fur..

'And..I'm one also?' he thought as he released of the young chameleon's hand to go to the little lake and look into the reflection of the water. 'W-what?' thought Will in disbelief.

After Will released his hand, the young chameleon steadily reopened his eyes and looked around a bit, soon noticing Will looking down into the lake's reflection. Seeing Will, he asked in curiosity, "Um..are you okay? Is something wrong?"

Will looked back at the young chameleon after he asked and his eyes were dilated as it looked like he was going a bit insane before he answered,"I'm fine. This is all a dream and I'm sure this will all be over soon. I'm still asleep, right?"

The young chameleon was both confused and worried about Will and asked,"A dream?"

Will replied,"Yeah, a dream,"

The young chameleon replied,"You aren't sleeping.."

Will stopped to listen to the young chameleon before he asked,"Not sleeping? What are you talking about?"

The young chameleon pointed to Will as he answered,"You look awake..your eyes aren't shut.."

Will thought for a moment about the young chameleon's statement and then exclaimed,"You mean... I'M AWAKE?!"

The young chameleon became a bit nervous after Will yelled again and seeing him frightened, Will calmed down again and headed over to him and knelt down on one knee as the kid started tearing up.

"I'm sorry..I just got carried away.." he said. "I didn't mean to yell out like that,"

Frightened, the young chameleon backed away and Will said,"Hey, don't leave, Mar- um.. I meant little one,"

When the young chameleon hear part of his name mentioned from Will, he asked,"How'd you know my name?"

"Coincidence? I guess?" asked Will as he was becoming slightly anxious. "It just came to me sorta..I mean Marcus is a common name, right?"

Marcus looked down as he wondered and replied,"I-I guess so..but since you know my name, what's yours?"

"Will," replied Will.

"Will?" asked Marcus.

"Right. Will.." repeated Will as he was trying to cheer up Marcus. "Don't cry little guy..Everything will look up someday. Maybe that someday is today.."

"Uh?" asked Marcus.

"Want to be friends?" asked Will as he stood up.

Marcus sniffed as he wiped his tears from his eyes with the back of his hand and said,"Sure..but..where'll would we go?" asked Marcus.

"We can go wherever the wind takes us..and wherever we come across at, we'll explore," replied Will. "So..want to see what's out there in the world, little pal?"

Marcus nodded and joined up with Will. "Let's go," he said as they left the lakeshore together.

'He's not a bad kid, he's only been lost, scared and confused beyond belief, but I believe..he'll pull through..' thought Will.

' I agree..' replied Harmony.

As Will and Marcus traveled through the Great Forest, the two had a lengthy discussion about what happened recently, though both had their times of silence with not talking about their pasts.

"I can't believe that you actually can turn invisible, but you were visible when I saw you," said Will.

"Well, I turn visible when I'm really scared or startled," replied Marcus. "That is why you were able to save me because you saw me,"

"I bet you picked up alot about rumors by eavesdropping since no one can spot you from anywhere," said Will as he sighed. "Hey, heard of any rumors around this place?"

"Rumors?" asked Marcus as he wondered. "What are they?"

"Rumors..you know gossip.. word of mouth.." said Will.

Unsure, Marcus shook his head and Will explained,"Rumors are something that people like to talk about with each other in discussions about any topic simply put..and since you are..a.." Will paused and scratched his head a bit. "I know you are a Mobian..but what species are you?"

"Chameleon," replied Marcus.

"Oh, that's right..chameleon.." replied Will as he sweatdropped. "How could I forget so easily?" Will looked to Marcus and asked,"Now that you know, heard anything on rumors recently?"

Marcus looked up for a moment and thought before he was reminded of something. He said,"I heard rumors about a city and about some blue wind,"

Will asked,"A city and the blue wind?" He thought,'How does those two fit here? The wind is not blue and there's no sight of a city nearby!'

"Right.." replied Marcus. "But the part that the blue wind being mentioned got me thinking..like I heard of it,"

Will replied,"Well, we'll get to the bottom of these rumors somehow," He sighed as he put his hands in his pockets, soon feeling something similiar. It was hard and so he grabbed and brought it out. It was a harmonica box. He stopped walking as he had a flashback of his dad passing it over to him as a child, he thought, 'My dad's final memento..How did I still have it?'

Looking at the harmonica box, Marcus stopped as well and became curious. "What is it?" he asked.

"It's.." said Will before he reached his hand over to open up the harmonica box to see his harmonica, all new and not damaged. "..my harmonica from long ago..It was given to me by my dad when I was younger.." Will's eyes lowered a bit, remembering the memories of his dad before he passed away.

Concerned, Marcus asked,"Will..are you okay?"

Will closed the harmonica box with the harmonica inside and replied,"I-I'll be fine, Marcus. It's just well, this thing holds heavy memories of my father..as if it's a memento.."

Marcus asked,"What's that?"

Will explained,"It's something that was given by someone as something to keep. It's like a treasure of some sort that you hold close to you for years to come,"

Marcus thought over the meaning for a bit before he was reminded of what his father gave to him before he died: a medallion. However, he promised his dad he wouldn't let it fall into the wrong hands as the stake of his family's honor laid in the balance. "I was given something, but I can't tell anyone about it," replied Marcus. "I promised my dad.."

Will put his available hand on Marcus' shoulder as he was putting away his harmonica in his pocket and said,"It's understandable. You don't have to show me. I would want you to keep your promise, just like I have to keep mine,"

Marcus looked up to Will happily as Will smiled a bit. "We're friends, right? We have to try to understand each other, no manner what happens," added Will.

"R-Right," replied Marcus. Before long, the duo soon returned to travelling in the Great Forest together, soon breaching a divide between the forest and a ruined city as well.

"Wow, that rumor was true! There is a city over here, but no blue wind.." said Will as he was looking over the ruins of Old Megaopolis. "It looks familiar somehow. I can't exactly point out where though,"

Marcus remembered about something and said,"We can't get too close to the remains of Robotropolis. Ms. Rosie said so,"

"Ms. Rosie? Robotropolis?" asked Will. "Man, I'm beginning to catch onto new people and places already," He turned around to Marcus and added,"Anything else you want to share?"

Marcus thought a moment before he noticed an island floating in the sky. He pointed at it and asked Will,"Have you seen that before?"

Will looked over to the island and was surprised. He never seen such a huge landmass flying around before, however he wonders if somehow, something was causing it to float. He had an idea as he began to back up, causing Marcus to be curious and ask,"What are you gonna do?"

"I'm gonna try to get up there," replied Will.

"How?" asked Marcus.

"Watch and learn," said Will as he had a confident smile. As Will try to attempt to levitate himself, he dropped down to the ground, but he didn't give up. On his third attempt he went a bit higher, but fell flat on the ground.

"Ugh.. I can't believe this is happening! What gives? I find someplace cool to explore and I can't do squat! Great, I'm officially a land-bound Mobian," said Will as he is a bit frustrated.

"Maybe we could find something useful around here.." suggested Marcus.

"We need something that would teleport us there somehow as an alternate way because I'm grounded. Maybe.." He got up, dusted himself off and looked over to Marcus with a grin.

Creeped out, Marcus became nervous as he replied,"Why are you looking at me that way? It's scary,"

Will replied," Sorry, sorry, but I couldn't help to have this idea and well, since we are friends, we have to help each other out when the time calls for it. After all, this is a desperate time,"

"What are you going to have me do?" asked Marcus.

"I dunno. Probably let's just say borrow something from someone," answered Will.

Marcus replied,"I hope this isn't stealing..because Ms. Rosie says it's bad to steal,"

"Did I even say it was stealing? No, Marcus, it's borrowing. You know, ask for permission first ordeal," said Will.

Marcus replied,"Well as long as it's not stealing, I'm fine,"

Before long, a voice out of nowhere said,"Hold it right there!"

Both Will and Marcus turned around and saw a group of mysterious black cloak wearing Mobians holding up Laser Rifles as several were in Egg Pods.

Frightened, Marcus hid behind Will as Will thought,'You got to be kidding me! Not only I'm powerless, but these guys had to come around when you least expect it.'

[End of Part 1]

"Okay, I have to say that aiming your rifles at us is not a good way to introduce people with..not unless you are the villains or we did something to, I don't know, made you mad for some particular reasoning?" asked Will.

"You're trespassing. Leave or prepared to be captured," said one of them.

Will became annoyed as he rose his voice at them, "How the HECK are we trespassing? What? Is this part of your territory? That's just saying in another language that are you guys loony enough to wear those costumes? What are you going trick-or-treating? Sorry to say that it's not Halloween!"

"Err..Halloween?" asked another.

"What you never heard of it?" asked Will. "Man, how do you celebrate?"

"We celebrate by either Legionization or whenever we defeat those Freedom Fighting groups," explained another.

"Man, you guys are evil..but not as bossy as Judy Moody and not as mentally insane as Dr.Tubbyguy," said Will as he did a little motion with swirling his first finger close to the side of his head.

"You dare to insult Kommissior Lien-da and our great leader, Dr. Eggman?!" exclaimed one as he was ready to fire at Will.

"Stand down," said a female voice. "If this boy chooses to be ignorant, then we'll give him and his friend a lesson in pain,"

'Lien-da? Dr. Eggman?' thought Will before out of the crowd of the Legionnaires, which lined up separate sides to allow a female echidna to walk through to approach the duo.

Harmony warned Will and said,'Will, be cautious..'

Seeing the female echidna, Will thought,'Harmony.. she ain't scary, just another Mobian with attitude problems and a..bullwhip? Are you kidding me?'

Harmony replied,'Don't say I didn't warn you that she is a dangerous enemy,'

Will shrugged as the female echidna snapped,"What are you doing shrugging like that?!"

Will replied,"Oh I'm sorry, wasn't I paying attention?"

The female echidna replied,"You have a smug mouth on you for someone your age.. like a certain blue hedgehog.." She glared at Will as she asked," Are you sure aren't related to the Freedom Fighters?"

"Lady, I don't know what are you blabbling about a blue hedgehog and a Freedom Fighting group, but I haven't see or heard of it before. You are sadly mistaken," answered Will."Now if you step as-actually, on second thought, do you know of a way to get up to that island flying in the sky near here?"

Lien-da snapped as she brought out her hand, pointing his direction while holding out her bullwhip,"Why should I help you get what you just want?!"

"Sheesh..lady. It's not like it's going to kill you to explain..I'm wanting to know if there's another way up there," answered Will as he crossed his arms. "It's not like I'll automatically grow wings,"

Lien-da swung down her hand holding the bullwhip as she replied,"I had enough of this foolishness. Dark Legion, capture them!"

The Legionnaires went to the duo until suddenly a blue blur sped out of nowhere and stood between them and the Legionnaires.

"The blue wind.." mumbled Will. After that, Marcus peeked out from behind and saw the blue hedgehog. 'Is he..the blue wind..?' thought Marcus.

Seeing the blue hedgehog, Lien-da became instantly furious as she said, "YOU."

"Heya there, hothead," said the blue hedgehog. "Now if you don't mind, I'll be taking these guys somewhere else,"

"I forbid it!" she replied before she got ready to direct an order. "Dark Legion! Attack the hedgehog and his friends!"

Immediately, the group of Dark Legionnaires charged at the blue hedgehog, Will and Marcus.

"What do we do? Should we help him?" asked a nervous Marcus.

"If we could Marcus, but I have a feeling that the fight will be fast over," replied Will.

"What do you mean?" asked Marcus.

"You'll see," replied Will as he smiled confidentially as he had an idea.

"Leave these guys with me. I've handled them plenty of times," replied the blue hedgehog before he went on the offensive to face the Legionnaires. "You two watch yourselves,"

'Oh, I want to help, but I don't want to hurt them..' thought Marcus as he looked to the blue hedgehog fighting off the bad guys.

'Marcus, when you are confronted with those who try to hurt you, you have to fight back sometimes..' said a voice.

Marcus' eyes dilated as he was shocked. He began to wonder who spoke to him, it sounded exactly like Will somehow.

As two Legionnaires in Egg Mobiles flew down towards Will, Will turned around, grabbed Marcus, and leapt out of the way as the Legionnaires collided, resulting into an explosion.

"Do you really think that the charge technique would REALLY be the best idea into capturing us? Sorry, but that's not going to work," said Will."You still have a lot to learn about being a 'decent' villain,"

Marcus panted a bit as the sudden action made him feel nervous, however Will said, 'If you don't want to fight, turn invisible and keep hidden so that they won't find you. I'll call for you once they're gone,'

Nodding a bit to the voice he heard in his thoughts, Marcus turned invisible as he ran to hide someplace safe.

'Now that Marcus is safe, I could have a bit of fun..' thought Will as he charged into the fight aiding the blue hedgehog.

Afterwhile, the fight was over as the remains of the Dark Legionnaires retreated.

"This isn't over hedgehog!" exclaimed the female echidna as she left eventually. However, after they cleared out, Will noticed a golden ring and picked it up from the ground to look at it. "What is this?" he asked as he looked over to the blue hedgehog.

"That looks like a Warp Ring," said the blue hedgehog as he walked over to Will, who is holding the Warp Ring.

"A Warp Ring? What does it do?" asked Will.

"It comes in handy in case you want to warp someplace. Knuckles has one himself," explained the blue hedgehog.

"Perfect, just what I needed!" interrupted Will as he put the Warp Ring away in his empty pocket of his shorts.

"Hey, are you sure you know how to work it?" asked the blue hedgehog.

"How hard can it be?" asked Will as he shrugged before he looked around the forest. "Marcus, you can come on out now. It's safe!"

'Marcus?' thought the blue hedgehog as Will looked around.

Once Will approached where Marcus was at, he turned visible and joined up with Will. He looked to where the blue hedgehog was at and became curious as he walked over to him.

"Wow, you are real.." said Marcus as he looked up to the blue hedgehog. "What's your name?"

"I'm Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog!" said the blue hedgehog as he sounded proud.

"Thanks for helping us out, mister Hedgehog," replied Marcus. "I'm sorry about Will..he was looking for something..important," When Marcus called Sonic, Mister Hedgehog, he was slightly reminded of Cream when he first met her. However, he was still curious what the friends are up to..

"What for?" asked Sonic.

Marcus pointed up to the island in the sky and said,"We wanted to going exploring up there,"

Sonic looked to where Marcus is pointing to and asked,"You mean, Angel Island? Oh, that's Knuckles' turf. He doesn't seem to enjoy visitors to the island much," explained Sonic.

"Yeeesh..we're just wanting to explore, that's all," added Will.

"Yeah, but Knuckles has problems with allowing just anyone up there. As far as I know, only his family and friends are up there. However, you can come and stay at New Mobotropolis if you want," offered Sonic.

"New Mobotropolis?" asked Marcus.

"Yeah. I'm about to head back there right now," replied Sonic. "Want to come?"

Will sighed as he was growing impatient,"As long as we go someplace else, I don't mind. Just lead the way,"

Sonic grabbed both of their arms as he was about to run off real fast. "Hang on tight! We're going Sonicspeed!" he exclaimed as he ran off with Will and Marcus towards New Mobotropolis.

[End of Part 2]

[Outside New Mobotropolis]
Eventually, the trio soon arrived outside the walls of New Mobotropolis and Sonic came to a screeching halt, soon stopping on his tracks, letting go of Will and Marcus' hands.

"Well, here we are, New Mobotropolis," said Sonic.

The duo looked around and Will stated,"You mean, outside of New Mobotropolis. We're at the outside walls,"

Sonic chuckled as he answered,"It's for protection reasons, you know,"

Will, with a discern look across his face, replying," Uh huh..I see.." He thought,'Maybe we should've booked it to Angel Island instead..'

Harmony said,'Will, you really need to be grateful. He has helped you and Marcus out recently and this is how you thank him?'

Will telepathically replied,'I only wanted to go up to Angel Island for exploration reasons, Harmony. I know nothing of this weird planet,'

Afterwhile, a hologram of a female lynx appeared in front of them and said,"Welcome back, Sonic,"

"Heya Nicole," he answered. "Any news broke out while I was out?"

In the background of the discussion, Will decided to straighten his hair out along with Marcus. He thought, 'Nicole? Is this her? I can't hear her thoughts,' thought Will. 'It doesn't seem like she's real at all, but some sort of computer program someone made. Hmm, Lee would've like to see this for himself,'

Nicole nodded as she replied,"Yes, Sonic. Sally wants to see you for a moment at the Freedom Fighter Headquarters. It's something important,"

"Heh, the usual meeting, well, let's see what she's up to now," he replied.

Nicole replied, "Wait, before you go into the city, Sonic.." She paused for a moment before she asked, full of curiosity," Who are these kids that are with you?"

Sonic turned to Will and Marcus as he replied,"Oh, these two you mean? Well, their names are Will and Marcus. I found and recently rescued them from Eggman's cronies.. They seem to be harmless," he answered. "After all, I found them wandering in the forest by themselves, it doesn't look like that they have a place to stay,"

Nicoole looked at Will and Marcus and she replied,"If they want, I can allow them in the city, just as long as they don't try to cause any trouble,"

Will interrupted,"Hey, that's not a big problem at all. After all, this will probably help us get settled. It's been a long day for us,"

"We promise to be good," added Marcus, who seems to be really eager and excited over the idea.

Nicole smiled a bit as she opened the gates to New Mobotropolis. "Access granted," she replied. She then added, "And by the way, I'm the city's maintenance AI, Nicole. It's nice to see you, Will and Marcus, and I hope you do enjoy the stay. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. I'll be always around the city,"

Will nodded as he replied,"Thank you very much, ma'am. We'll be sure to do so,"

As the trio walked into New Mobotropolis, the gates shut behind them and Nicole reappeared inside with them as Will and Marcus took some time to look around the city. It had everything, a coliseum, the Castle of Acorn, Uncle Chuck's diner, houses, a hospital, park, and everything else. It was just perfect!

"This looks more than a city. It looks like a Paradise," replied Will as he was clearly impressed.

Nicole walked up to them and suggested,"I can give you the tour around so you can be familiar with the city more, if that's what you want,"

Will's stomach growled and he answered,"Maybe later would sound fine, I'm hungry for some food now,"

Afterwards so did Marcus' growled and Marcus added, "Now that you mentioned it, me too,"

Sonic suggested,"Hey, if you two want something to eat, wanna stop by my Uncle Chuck's place for lunch? He's got some great food,"

Will answered,"As long as it's someplace with something to eat, I'm all for it,"

Eventually, Sonic took the kids over to Uncle Chuck's diner to grab something to eat, meeting his uncle in for work today along with his father as usual.

"Heya Uncle Chuck," he said as he walked in the diner with Will and Marcus following behind him.

Uncle Chuck turned around and saw Sonic, along with Will and Marcus, as he replied,"Well, hello again Sonny Boy. Say, who are these two youngsters with you?"

Sonic replied,"This is Will and Marcus. I recently rescued them from Egghead's cronies, they're here to stay,"

Uncle Chuck replied,"Hmm..that's something. It makes me proud that I have a heroic nephew,"

Sonic replied,"Aww, Unc. We all know that's true, well, anyways, I thought to treat the kids to lunch. How about it? Meal's on me,"

Uncle Chuck chuckled lightly as he replied,"Sure thing," He then asked Will and Marcus,"What do you youngsters want to have?"

Will and Marcus debated over what they should get and afterwhile, they finally came to an conclusion on a meal, ordered it, and they went to take a seat someplace in the Diner.

It wasn't long before the some of the Chaotix came into the diner and saw Sonic as well as the kids.

"Huh, looks like you got your hands full, don'tcha Sonic?" said a familiar voice.

"Yo Knuckles, what's up?" asked Sonic as he looked back from his seat. "Hangin' out with the Chaotix as usual, huh?"

"Looks like it, by the way, who are the kids?" asked Knuckles before a certain bee came flying at him real fast, knocking Knuckles out of the way, extremely curious about Will and Marcus.

"Why hello there!" exclaimed Charmy happily as he was eager to meet the kids. This frightened Marcus, but to Will, he asked Charmy,"Um..hello there?"

"Charmy!" exclaimed Knuckles angrily. "Watch where you're going! You literally ran me down!"

Charmy turned around, looked down to Knuckles, and replied,"No I didn't! You were in the way first!"

Soon enough, a female bee went to intervene and said,"Charmy, please don't be causing another fight today. Please we already had one so far,"

During the situation, Will couldn't help to get a laugh off of Knuckles' anger.
He thought,'This is funny in the terms of a long time!'

Knuckles growled at Charmy annoyingly before a female echidna walked in and got in between the situation, separating Knuckles from Charmy. She said annoyingly,"All right, break it up, please!" She sighed for a moment as she thought,'No wonder why Espio didn't want to be in here sometimes,'

"Whoa, Julie-Su, calm down," said Sonic nervously. "No need to become another hothead, we already have one in here,"

Knuckles snapped as he went to Sonic, yelling at him,"What?! What do you mean hothead!?"

Sonic replied,"Yeesh, calm down knucklehead, I was kidding around with you,"

Knuckles became hostile as he looked to Will and exclaimed,"What's so funny!?!"

Will held his hand out, signaling Knuckles to go, and said,"Just..a joke came to me..It was funny!"

Julie-Su sighed as she replied,"Well, it's ridiculous on how these little situations become big annoyances sometimes,"

When Knuckles were over at their table, Marcus ducked under as he was scared as the female bee was concerned, Julie-Su was getting more annoyed by the minute, Espio felt like he shouldn't get involved and be someplace else, while Vector is in his own world, listening to his music playing within his headphone sets.

"That is quite enough," replied Julie-Su. "It's already bad enough you made a huge scenario in here,"

Eventually, Knuckles decided to storm off and head outside the Diner, with Julie-Su following behind him. "You guys go ahead, I'll be with Knuckles for awhile," she said before exiting out of the Diner.

After they left outside, Charmy stuck his tongue out like how an immature kid would, but it wasn't long before the female bee was about to say something to him. "Charmy.." she said. Charmy stopped and looked over before he soon decided to cut out his immature behavior.

"It isn't all his fault, Saffron," said Sonic.

Saffron replied,"Well, I guess you're right Sonic. Most of it was because of his anger outburst,"

"Well, now with that scenario has passed, what else is on the list?" interrupted Will as clearly he soon lost amusement to the entire thing when Knuckles has left the Diner.

"Oh? Newcomers in town today?" asked Saffron as she was clearly interested.

"Yeah," said Sonic. "These two I found around the forest and I rescued them from Egghead's cronies and they're staying around here,"

Saffron goes to Will for a moment, but however, she couldn't find Marcus. "Hmm..where the other one go?" she asked.

Will noticed something wrong and looked around for Marcus, but soon noticed he was under the table, still frightened. "Hey, get out from under there," said Will. "These guys won't hurt you, like those others try to do,"

"R-really?" asked Marcus.

"I truly mean it, now come on outta there. No need to be scared," said Will.

Eventually, Marcus did and sat up on his own seat as Will added,"He's somewhat timid, so don't be hard on him,"

Saffron answered Will,"Don't worry, I'll be nice to him," She turned to Marcus and noticed something, saying, "Oh, you're another chameleon?"

Marcus was surprised and asked,"How did you know?"

Saffron replied,"Well, Espio is one and he's over there with Vector. Oh and by the way, my name is Saffron Bee and this is my fiancee, Charmy Bee,"

Will asked,"What? Are you two about to have the wedding bells ringed on you? You know as in, getting married,"

Saffron looked down and lowered her head as she replied,"We were before.. but our home was destroyed before we got the chance to marry. All because of that evil Dr. Eggman ruined it all and poor Charmy here suffered memory loss because Eggman had him captured inside one of those Egg Grapes he built. We lost our families to them,"

Sonic replied,"Well, you still have your friends and your fiancee, right Saffron?"

Saffron replied as she happily looked to Charmy,"Yes, yes we do,"

Marcus said as he scratched his head in confusion,"Gee, I didn't know that actually happened.." He looked down as he added,"I feel bad for not knowing,"

Will laid his hand on Marcus' shoulder and replied,"Don't be upset. I didn't know this happened either,"

After hearing what was going on, Espio became curious and decided to join up with Sonic and the others at the table. He asked,"Neither of you know that actually happened at all?"

Will replied,"What do I have to repeat myself? We said we didn't know,"

Espio thought, 'This kid needs to make less time for talking back and actually spend more time on issuing respect to others. He's starting to sound somewhat like Sonic,' He then said,"So I see,"

Will heard Espio's thought,'Oh yeesh, did he had to bring on the lecture already? Wow, new world record,'

Harmony replied,'I have no problem with that at all, Will. You need to learn how to be considerate, even if it's a stranger you don't clearly know about,'

Marcus became curious of Espio as he looked over to him before he waved to Espio, smiling shyly, saying,"Hello there,"

Espio thought,'Hmm..this young one..does he work with the Clan? No..there could be a way he would be. Until then, I cannot assume that he's with the Clan, not unless he has proof,' He replied to Marcus,"Hello. How are you?"

Will became curious and thought,'Clan? What is he talking about? Could he be something else I do not know of? Hmm..'

"I'm fine. Thanks..um..I'm Marcus..what's your name?" asked Marcus as he was thinking of what to say next.

"I'm Espio," replied Espio as he was trying to aid Marcus out.

Marcus nervously chuckled as he replied,"Oh thanks, mister Espio," He stopped and thought,'He seems nice..but..there's someone he reminds me of..' At realization, Marcus eyes dilated as he had a sudden flashback of a voice that sounded like his deceased father, saying,"Make me proud..do it for the family,"

Marcus became teary as he looked down. This immediately brought up Saffron's, Will's, Sonic's, and Espio's attention.

"What's wrong?" asked Saffron as she was worried. "Is something the matter?"

Marcus closed his eyes as he shook his head. "J-Just something in my eye," he answered as he wiped off the tear.

"You sound depressed. Do you need some time to recover or talk about what's been bothering you?" asked Espio.

"I-I'll be fine.." answered Marcus as he tries to brave up.

"Are you sure?" asked Sonic.

Marcus nodded as he replied,"I-I'll be okay..but thanks for trying to help me,"

Will thought,'Hmm..what was that voice that Marcus heard? Could it be someone close to him..like a deceased family member? Could it be he lost a dad like I did?'

Harmony replied,'It sounds very possible.. '

Will looked down as he thought,'So that would mean he would be fatherless like I am..'

Sonic said,"Hey Will, are you okay? You keeping quiet back there,"

Will perked up as he replied,"Oh! I'm sorry, I was just thinking over some things, Sonic,"

Sonic replied as he smirked,"It's fine, there's no need to worry, you know? You're with friends,"

Will chuckled nervously as he replied,"Heheh. I guess you're right on that,"

[Uncle Chuck's Diner, around afternoon]

Eventually, the food was soon delivered to the table where Sonic and his pals were at, by none only, Sonic's Dad, Jules.

"Thanks Dad," said Sonic as he appreciated it, only soon to be thanked by Will and Marcus themselves.

"It's proud to do service for my one and only son, Mau-erm I mean, Sonic, and his friends," replied Jules. "So I see you brought several newcomers to town today,"

Sonic replied,"They're here to stay about. Recently rescued them from Egghead's cronies trying to capture them,"

"But what are their names?" asked Jules.

"One's Will and the other's Marcus," explained Sonic as he was about to go at his first Chili Dog.

"Well, they look like a couple of good kids," said Jules as he was happy. "I'm sure they'll get along fine with the children around here well,"

"Yeah," replied Sonic after he took his first bite out of his Chili-dog.

Jules noticed Vector, Saffron, Espio, and Charmy also. "Well, if it isn't the Chaotix. How is everyone?"

Everyone, except Vector, answered, which annoyed Espio a bit, to come over where he is at, and removed one of his headsets, telling Vector what Sonic's Dad, Jules, asked.

"Oh! Oh! I'm fine also, but as for Knuckles and Julie-Su, they've been having some issues," replied Vector.

"Hmm.." said Jules as he was wondering. "I did heard an argument going on earlier..I wonder if that's the issue,"

"Yeah, let's just put it at that," said Vector as soon as he started walking over to the others, with Espio nearby.

"Having attention issue, already?" asked Will as he was teasingly messing with Vector.

"No! It's just..um.." Vector paused and had an idea. "I was thinking over some things,"

"You can't trick me! You were listening to your music, being in your own world the entire time!" exclaimed Will as he had a toothpick in his mouth. "Admit it!"

"Daaww..you're sharp kid," replied Vector.

"It's point obvious!" exclaimed Will as he stood up in his seat, pointing out to Vector, acting as he's trying to prove his point.

The rest, surrounding Will sweatdropped, except for Espio, who was slightly annoyed, as Will looked around and asked,"What?"

"Sit down before you hurt yourself, kid. You're starting to be more annoying as Charmy," said Vector as he had his eyes down at halfway.

"I'm not annoying!" exclaimed Charmy after Vector made that statement.

"I wasn't standing up," said Will, before he looked down and saw himself, standing in his seat. "Whoops, I guess I was," Will carefully sat back down in his seat and looked to the side, thinking,' That was humiliating..'

After they conversed (as for Will, Sonic, and Marcus eaten), soon enough that Julie-Su and Knuckles returned to the Diner, with both of them calm and fixated to the type of situation that was about to happen next.

"I've never felt this satisfied since who knows what. That was good," said Will as clearly he was full.

Marcus had some soda left over in his cup and said,"Yeah, thanks,"

"No problem," said Sonic as he stood up. "Well, I guess I have to get going now. Sally's expecting me to come over. See you guys later,"

"Bye, mister Sonic," said Marcus. "It was nice meeting you,"

Sonic gave a thumbs up to Marcus before he zoomed out of the Diner.

"I don't know how or why a hedgehog could run so fast," said Will as his and Marcus' hair got messed up again. "They were a lot more slower the last time I checked,"

"Some to most are technically slower than Sonic," replied Espio. "But the only exception is Sonic himself,"

Will understood as he and Marcus straightened out their hair for the time being and eventually, it was soon that a pink hedgehog in a red dress, carrying a huge hammer in her hands, busted open the doors and exclaimed,"Sonic!"

Will coughed as he mumbled,"Stalker alert. We have a stalker alert,"

A pink hedgehog looked around and asked,"Has anyone seen Sonic around here recently?"

"Ya just missed him. He left the Diner seconds ago," said Will as he has his thumb pointing back.

"Ohhh! I'll catch him!" said the pink hedgehog as she left in a giant hurry only to find Sonic. "Sonic! Where are you?"

After the pink hedgehog left, Will sighed in relief and mumbled,"I'd hate to be in his shoes right now," He then turned to Julie-Su and asked,"Who was that girl?"

Julie-Su replied,"That is Amy, Sonic's self-proclaimed girlfriend, I've trained her once before to become a stronger Freedom Fighter,"

"Self-proclaimed girlfriend?" asked Will as he stopped in fear, remembering a certain pink haired girl chasing him around. "Acck! Bad memories! Bad memories!" he exclaimed as he shook his head.

"Hey, Will, are you okay?" asked Vector, who was concerned about how Will felt recently.

"Maybe he has a crush on someone!" added Charmy teasily.

"Charmy, that's enough," replied Julie-Su as she crossed her arms looking at Charmy with an annoyed look. "We don't want another fight to break out today, thank you very much,"

"Okay," replied Charmy as he grinned back at Julie-Su.

"Well, since that over, what are we gonna do with the kids?" asked Knuckles. "We can't just leave them here,"

"Maybe we should show them around town," suggested Saffron as she pointed up her finger. "We could atleast help them get used to everything around here,"

"That would be something better to do right now," replied Espio. 'I can't bare with this situation with Charmy any longer,' he thought as he facepalmed.

'Welcome to the club, bub,' thought Will as he looked over to Espio for a moment, knowing how he felt being stuck in a situation he doesn't want to be in.

Afterwhile, the group soon exited the Diner and headed outside to New Mobotropolis.

[New Mobotropolis, sometime after Noon]

Outside the Diner, Will and Marcus were looking about New Mobotropolis a bit before another discussion was started by Julie-Su asking everyone else. "Well, with Sonic gone, who's going to watch these two? We can't leave them here to wonder about New Mobotropolis by themselves. It could get a bit risky since they are new here and the least thing we want is trouble, especially with Eggman,"

Will immediately answered Julie-Su and suggested,"Hey, slow down a bit. Trouble? Us? Pfft. That's not gonna happen at all! Don't speak of nonsense and besides, me and Marcus can take care of ourselves, right?" He lightly elbowed Marcus on the shoulder, not trying to hurt the young chameleon. Even after what Will said in an attempt to break away from the Chaotix, he was nervous to reply as he felt like his new friend would be mad at him. He had a worried look as he looked to Will for a bit and he then looked down to the ground, afraid to answer him.

With an annoyed look on her face, Julie-Su stared at Will and asked,"Who do you think you are trying to put pressure on your friend for? Already it looks like some of Sonic's arrogance rubbed off onto you! Look, you are going to stay with the group and that's final. If I hear any problems, you're going to have to deal with me later. Understand?"

Will looked to Julie-Su for a moment, grinned with a smug look across his face, and asked,"Well..I understand perfectly but there is another thing I wanted to point out. Who made you leader of everything, Ms. Bossy?" He had a feeling that she was at breaking point with his arrogance feeding her anger.

Julie-Su was ready to charge at Will, but in time, Knuckles and Espio took immediate action and interfered with stopping her by getting in her way. "Julie-Su, we don't need this going on. We have to return back to Angel Island to make sure everything is okay and in shape," explained Knuckles. "Let Vector and the others handle the kids for now,"

"Knuckles, are you sure you have to go back to Angel Island and leave us with them?" asked Vector as he was becoming slightly annoyed. "It's already bad enough we have Charmy!"

Saffron interrupted as she replied,"Oh Vector, I'm sure they won't be that bad, well, just as long as they behave well," When she flew over to where Marcus and Will are at, a stroke of jealously came over Charmy.

Out of jealously, Charmy asked Saffron,"Hey, what makes them better?! I thought you like me.."

Noticing Charmy getting upset, Saffron immediately flew back to Charmy, hugged him, and then replied honestly,"Oh Charmy, I do still love you and I always will. There isn't really anything you should be jealous with, remember that these kids need us,"

'What is going around here? This is crazy, everyone's going in a uproar about something today. Julie-Su arguing with a kid, Charmy getting jealous, Vector getting annoyed.. ugh.." thought Knuckles as he was having a slight headache. "Well guys, me and Julie have to go for now, see you backat Angel Island later," said Knuckles as he takes along Julie-Su and left the scenario.

Will shrugged and after he did, he felt a cold chill slip down his back, causing him to perk up and look around more often than usual. Also sensing something, Espio looked to Will and thought,'Hmm...'

'Malevolent..his Shadows are here also?' thought Will. 'I thought I defeated him long ago.. He should've been resealed into depths of that volcano, Mt. Tyo..' Harmony answered,'Will..don't you remember that last battle? You were hurt badly to the point that you nearly died..' Will's eyes dilated as he was in shock and debelief as he had imagined the horrors of what could've happened.'W-what? So that mean..Malevolent..won..?' Harmony replied,'No..Malevolent did not win..I have a feeling that somebody else resealed Malevolent..I'm not sure..but however, his Shadows are returning..' Will got determined as he thinks,'Malevolent..where ever you are in this world..I'll be ready for you..'

"Will? Will? Hey kid, are you okay?" asked Vector as he was a bit concerned, despite of what happened earlier. Once he heard Vector's voice, Will snapped out of it, turned to him, and said,"Oh sorry, I was lost in a daydream..again..what's up?"

"You seem to be acting strange for some reason. Is everything okay?" asked Espio. 'I have a strange feeling that he is somehow connected to this..' he thought.

Will became nervous and replied as he held up his hands,"What are you talking about? I'm fine, I'm fine, but hey, thanks for your concern," He thought,'Maybe we should've pick a better time to have a telepathic discussion, Harmony. They're onto us..'

Marcus looked up to Will and was concerned but his curiosity of Angel Island that Knuckles mentioned earlier got the best of him and so he asked the group,"What is Angel Island?"

Will replied,"Marcus, that's the floating Island we saw earlier,"

Marcus looked down and replied,"Oh.." He paused and then asked,"Then, how can it fly?"

After Marcus asked, Knuckles replied,"The Master Emerald is the reason why it could fly," He glared at Will and replied,"You better not have any ideas on taking it!"

Will replied,"My good sir! I do NOT steal nor I will never steal!"

Knuckles warned,"You better keep to your word or you're in for it, smugmouth. Already I had times where the Emerald been shattered or stolen and trust me, it's not fun whenever you're falling out of the sky,"

Charmy added as he gets excited,"I think whenever it falls, it's fun! It's like a rollercoaster ride! WEEE!"

Vector looked at Charmy slighty annoyed and replied,"It might be fun for you, but not for us! We're the ones that have to hang on for our lives if that happens,"

Saffron replied to Vector,"Oh Vector, you do have to remember that Charmy has suffered some memory loss recently and he acts like a kid sometimes because of it,"

Vector sighed as he answered,"That was awhile back, Saffron. Awhile back. Now I wished it didn't happen at all because now, he's more annoying than ever. I miss the old Charmy,"

Will interrupted and said,"Hey guys, we've been standing here in constant arguments for almost of an hour. Can we just forget the drama and move on with better things of our lives instead of regretting about something that happened in the past? Because not only it's getting annoying, but it's getting boring, and I'm growing impatient,"

Espio replied,"For once in this situation, Will does serve a point. We need something else to do instead of arguing with each other. Maybe we could show them around the city for awhile and meet back someplace,"

Saffron smiled a bit as she added,"That sounds good enough,"

Vector complained,"I had just enough of this. I thought it was bad enough with Charmy, but when this smug little brat and his friend came around, it made it worse," He sighed as he continued,"I need some music to help me forget about this fiasco,"

"Dude, do you even have some music going on in there?" asked Will as he pointed to Vector's headsets.

"I did earlier but I might as well blast it up again," replied Vector.

"You're going to become deaf if you're going to do that," warned Will.

Vector didn't listen to Will as the music in his headsets were full blown of Rock music, which annoyed Will even futher until he said,"Alright! That's it! I had enough! I can't even have one normal day here! Come on Marcus, we're going!" As he went to grab Marcus' hand, Saffron looked to Will disappointed and said,"I thought you wanted to go together with us. You lied.."

Will replied,"I had no choice but to. Do you really think I want to hang around with a bunch of detectives watching us while exploring the city? Not really. I rather go with my friend.."

Espio answered,"Have you took the time to listen to what you have been saying to Julie-Su and Vector recently? You already sound like you would cause more harm than to help, especially when it comes to situations like this,"

Will let go of Marcus' hand as he snapped furiously at Espio,"Are you trying to make me look like the guility one here?! Look bud, I've been through alot of issues recently. I know what I am doing,"

Espio replied calmly,"You are only being arrogant by not only taking rage out against your friend,"

Will turned his back away from Espio and closed his eyes as he crossed his arms as he answered,"Arrogant? Are you kidding me? Atleast I show that I care for my friend. If you want arrogant, talk to crochead over there! He just completely ignored the situtation and besides, if I didn't save Marcus, he would've drowned in that lake in the forest where I met him,"

After what Will said, Espio stopped for a moment and asked Marcus,"He really did save you?"

Marcus was nervous as he nodded his head and said,"Yes..he did..and since then..we've became friends.."

Noticing Marcus' look on his face, Espio became concerned and looked back to Will as Saffron was surprised. "You actually saved the poor child?" she asked.

Will answered Saffron,"Yes, but why should it matter now..you guys won't listen anyways.. why should I be here?"

Espio then asked,"We didn't know..however, you need to learn to open up and trust others than of your friend instead of being overprotective. Remember Sonic? You trusted him to help you and your friend, right?"

Will looked down and answered,"Yeah, but that was a different story..we were surrounded by bad guys then.."

Espio asked again in an attempted effort to help Will out,"Then..what's wrong?"

Will looked up to the clear blue sky above New Mobotropolis and said,"I feel as there's an emptiness inside me as if you feel as you dearly miss someone and you just don't know what happened to them..that you will do anything to see them again.."

Saffron became sad and asked,"Did you lost your family too?"

Will replied,"Yeah.." After Will said that, Marcus looked down as well as he felt like they are in the same situation. He then added,"I'm sorry for what happened earlier..I remained skeptical because..I don't want to lose Marcus..He is the only one that is my friend here and I don't want to be alone.."

Espio closed his eyes and replied,"It's understandable and I forgive you," He paused for a moment and remembered something,"It reminds me of how Mighty left the group recently with Ray to find his sister,"

Will turned around and went to Marcus and said,"I'm sorry about being overprotective of you.." After Will apologized, Marcus smiled shyly as he looked up to Will and replied,"It's okay, Will. It really is..I'm just glad I have a friend that cares for me," When Will looked up to Vector to apologize, he got a bit annoyed again, thinking, 'Great, how would I apologize now?'

Saffron smiled gently back that everything is okay again before Charmy started to feel bored since everything became peaceful. "Can we go now?" he asked. "I'm bored.."

"If he would stop being eccentric right now, we would," added Will as he rolled his eyes, looking at Vector.

Espio walked up to Vector, reached out his arm, and immediately took Vector's headsets from his head. After that, Vector turned his head to Espio and glared at Espio as he asked,"Hey, what was that for? My favorite song's on!"

Holding Vector's headphones with the blasting music going, Espio replied,"First off, you need to pay attention and second, apologize to Will since he has already apologized to you,"

Before looking up to Will and back to Espio, Vector was clueless as he asked,"He did? When? I didn't hear anything,"

Annoyed at Vector, Espio added,"Recently Vector and you weren't paying attention because you were listening to your music..again,"

Vector replied,"Well, sorry. You know how I am with my music..man, how much I wanna-"

Will interrupted what Vector was about to say as he exclaimed,"Don't even DARE to do what I think you are going to be doing next. You might cause people to give you strange looks!"

Confused, Vector raised his eyebrow as he turned his head to ask Will,"What you do mean by knowing about what I'm going to be doing next? What are you? Involved with that strange mumbo jumbo that Mogul jerk is in?"

Will became nervous as he shrugged his shoulders and replied to Vector,"Um, not really. I mean..what's the chance at that, you know? Probably once in a blue moon!" Once Vector mentioned Mogul, he stopped and thought,'Who is this Mogul?'

Harmony replied,'I wonder if this Mogul is involved with Malevolent's return..'

Will replied,'Harmony, let's just talk about this later. I'm sensing skepticism with these detectives..'

Espio, who was skepticial about Will's response, not trusting he is telling the truth, was wondering about Will and thought,'I'm wondering if he is somehow connected to Mogul. Prehaps he could be an apprentice..I have to find the truth behind Will somehow,' Before anyone else spoke, Espio suggested,"Let's worry about it later Vector. Right now, we should try to keep the group together. With the exception of Marcus.."

Will had a bad feeling about the situation about Marcus being with Espio and telepathically said,'Whatever you do, be careful..'

After hearing a strange voice in his thoughts, Marcus looked around nervously before Espio asked,"Is something the manner?"

Marcus stopped and looked up to Espio. "I heard something.." he replied. "But I don't know who it is," He became scared and walked to Espio and stood by his side. "Don't let it get me!" he exclaimed as he held onto Espio's arm tightly.

Saffron replied,"Aww, you sweet dear. There's nothing to be afraid of. Why, as long as you are with Espio, he'll protect you from harm. Trust us on that," She smiled happily.

After hearing what Saffron said, Marcus relaxed a bit and said,"Okay,"

Soon enough, the group left the Diner to explore the city for a bit while Espio and Marcus went another direction.

As Espio and Marcus travelled around and about New Mobotropolis, Marcus kept to himself before Espio asked,"That friend of yours must be a dependable one, I assume?"

Marcus looked up to Espio and answered,"....he saved me, but I don't know why he has to act so strange. As far as I remember, he was okay before we came here with mister Sonic, but after that, he wanted to move on, wanting to take me along with him. I don't know why, but he was nice when I first met him in the forest and it worries me,"

After Marcus told him, Espio wondered for a bit before he answered,"A true friend wouldn't force his friend around, but noting from what he admitted earlier, it would be easier to help him if he would tell the truth instead of hiding it," He looked to Marcus and replied,"But as for you, when the truth needs to be told, you tell it..You, like me, have a strong sense of truth, even for someone your age,"

Marcus replied,"Well, my parents told me to behave..before.. they..were.." He stopped, closed his eyes, lowered his head, crossed his arms, and felt sad as he began to tear up. "I miss them..mister Espio, but I don't want to return back there,"

Seeing Marcus in such a bad shape, Espio felt bad and asked,"What happened, Marcus?"

Marcus halfway reopened his eyes and replied,"Well...there was...these bad guys.. and... they.." After realizing it, he paused for a bit and continued as he reclosed his eyes,"Killed..my dad..and...took..my mom away. I-I.. don't want to return..to..him.."

Espio asked again,"Him?"

Marcus shakely replied," My..step-uncle.. he was mean..and used to beat..yell.. and wanted to kill me..."

Noticing how Marcus feels, Espio replied,"Is that why you were crying in the Diner earlier?"

Marcus nodded and Espio answered,"It's a real shame these types of Mobians in this world exsist," He paused and asked,"Is that why you came to Will in the first place?"

Marcus nodded again and explained,"I had no friends..and I was all alone. I was bullied and laughed at..but when I saw Will, I thought it would all change.. and it did. I looked up to him and I wanted to be brave like him someday..I feel kinda bad at first when I was running away from him. When I wasn't looking, I fell off of a edge of a cliff and into the water. I was lucky not to get seriously injured, but I wasn't able to swim. I thought I was done for when I went under, however, he managed to save me,"

Espio thought for a bit before several figures can along, it was Cream, Chesse, Kimmy, and Vanilla. Noticing them, Cream was curious of Marcus and was the firstto walk over to them. "Good afternoon, mister Espio," said Cream as she did a curtsy.

Looking up to Cream, Espio replied,"Same goes for you, Cream. Say, what brings you here today?"

Cream answered,"To show Kimmy around, though it's kind of sad that some Mobians are giving her strange looks. She's not mean at all even though she is a human,"

"Kimmy?" asked Espio.

"She's nearby with mother," replied Cream.

As Espio looked over to where Vanilla and Kimmy are at before walking over to them, Cream was curious of Marcus and the same with Marcus as he was curious of Cream.

"Oh? Who are you?" she asked as she was curious as well as Cheese.

Marcus wiped off his tears and sniffed as he answered,"I'm..Marcus.." After he introduced himself, he then asked,"Umm...are you...Cream?"

Cream nodded and replied,"Why, yes I am. How did you know?"

Marcus replied,"I think mister Sonic mentioned about you,"

Cream was surprised and asked,"You know mister Sonic?"

Marcus nodded and explained,"Why yes.. Me and Will met him recently when he rescued us from those bad guys,"

Cheese came over to Marcus, curious of him, and Marcus asked,"Who is this?"

Cream smiled as she added,"This is my special chao friend, Cheese,"

Cheese excited replied,"Choo! Choo!"

Marcus smiled as seeing Cheese help him recover from the earlier sadness and said,"It's nice to meet you,"

Remembering after some time that Kimmy heard Will's name from afar, she was surprised as she thought,'Will.. is.. here? So... he is alive?! Oh my goodness, my wish did come true!' She rushed over to where Cream, Cheese, and Marcus are at and asked Marcus,"Do you know where Will is at? Do you?"

Startled by Kimmy's sudden appearence, Marcus hesistantly answered Kimmy,"He's with..with...the others,"

Cream turned to Kimmy and said,"You do remind me of miss Amy of how she is with mister Sonic, Kimmy,"

Kimmy looked off to the side as she daydreams as had her hands together with Will's and replied,"We're soulmates, Cream. I am meant to be with him and he is meant to be with me,"

Marcus was confused as Cream said,"I thought you are really good friends with each other, Kimmy.."

Kimmy perked up and replied nervously,"Yes, that also and we're going to find him,"

Before he left to catch up to Espio and Vanilla, Marcus said,"Um, I'm terribly sorry, but..I have to stay with mister Espio. I don't want to get into trouble.."

He hurried to catch up to meet up with Espio and Vanilla as Kimmy, Cream, and Cheese were left behind.

"I guess it's up to us to find Will, Cream," said Kimmy.

"Maybe we should ask my mother, Kimmy. She gets worried about our safety, but if we are lucky, mister Espio as well as Marcus should be able to help us find Will," suggested Cream.

"Oh, okay. But after this, we are going to find Will!" demanded a now determined Kimmy. "I really want to see him again before it's too late,"

[New Mobotropolis, in the Town Square]

Meanwhile, for Will and the rest of the Chaotix, Will was looking around the city and thought,'These strange animals..able to construct a society of their own. Last I checked, they couldn't do that..what made them so intelligent? I wonder..'

Harmony replied,'I foresaw this happening while you were asleep. That is why I changed you into their kind..'

Will replied,'You did? So that's why I'm one of them?'

Harmony answered,'I'm afraid so. You maybe physically a Mobian, but your mind and soul is Human,' She stopped as she then said,'Do you sense that Will?'

Will asked,'What?'

Harmony replied,'Malevolent's Shadows..I feel them lurking around this place..'

Will looked around the city and noticed some Mobians are giving him strange looks, staring at him. 'Something's up around here..and why do I feel like someone else is going to be finding me here very soon?' he thought.

"Will-Kun!" exclaimed a girl's voice. After hearing that voice, the rest of the Chaotix stopped as Will kept going. Seeing Will going, Vector asked,"What's wrong with you, Will?"

Will stopped as he nervously replied,"I..I just don't feel comfortable.."

A young girl glomped Will from the side and said,"Will-Kun! I'm glad that I finally found you! I thought I lost you forever!"

Will froze as the girl had him and said,"You come at the worse time, do you?"

"What do you mean?" she asked.

"Open your eyes and look, then you will know why this is a bad time," suggested Will.

Kimmy did as what Will requested and backed off in surprise. "Wha? What happened to you?" asked Kimmy as she noticed that he has fur, doglike ears and tail that he has.

Will turned around and said,"I know it's hard that the fact I'm not as exactly the way of how you remember me in the past, but you haven't changed a bit.."

Saffron flew to Will and asked,"You were like her before?"

Will lowered his head and had his eyes at halfway, looking at his hand as he responded,"I was, Saffron, but I'm still the same guy on the inside. I know I might be risking it and someone's going to cause trouble to get us kicked out,"

"What do you mean?" asked Saffron.

"Some people at our home village know that Will has extraordinary powers, but few know that he was born with them from the start, counting his family. It was recent that he lost his father because somebody killed him," explained Kimmy.

"I thought I would never forgive myself for not being with him when he was visiting my aunts," added Will as he crossed his arms in regret.

"Will, don't be so hard on yourself and blame yourself for what happened to him," said Kimmy as she put her hand on his shoulder. "He would want you to go on, even without him,"

It wasn't long before Espio, Vanilla, Cream and Cheese, and Marcus caught up with the others, however, nearby the situation, was a familiar skunk who happened to overheard the entire discussion and thought,'So, he was a human before and he has powers? Well, I know exactly what I'm going to explain to the king,'

As he snuck away carefully, Kimmy was introducing herself to the Chaotix as Will kept quiet. By seeing Will feeling upset, Cream and Marcus went to him to try to cheer him up from his recent dark moment of his life.

Espio looked to Will and asked,"Are you okay?" As soon as Espio asked him the question, Will walked off to someplace else in the city. Concerned about Will, Kimmy and Marcus decided to follow him. After they left, Saffron went to Espio and explained everything to him recently.

"I understand.." replied Espio.

"I hope he will be okay," added Cream, who felt bad for Will.

"Give him time," replied Espio before suddenly, a possessed Mobian came charging at him from afar and trying to whack Espio with a frying pan. However, Espio managed to dodged the first attack and said,"I had a feeling something was off,"

After a brief fight, the possessed Mobian fell on the ground, releasing a darkness with a small light held within, and immediately, it fled the scene.

"W-what is that?" asked a nervous Cream as the Shadow with the light passed by her.

"Malevolent spirits. We have no time to waste. We have to find Will and the others before they find them," said Espio.

Soon, more possessed Mobians were coming their way and they started to gathering around them, weapons and all.

Vanilla had a worried look as she looked around at the possessed Mobians. "Oh dear, this is not good," she said.

Cream replied as she looked to her with confidence,"Don't worry mother, me and Cheese will defend you!"

Looking to the possessed Mobians, Cheese had a serious look to him and exclaimed,"Choo!"

Suddenly, the possessed citizens were teleported away as NICOLE phased in. She said,"I'll try to help you out also, but there is a limit in the detention cells, so you must hurry,"

Vanilla became relieved,"Why thank you for helping us there, dear,"

NICOLE smiled a bit and replied,"You are welcome, but right now, you must hurry. According to what I analyzed about Will earlier, he is the only one that can get rid of these Shadows that are possessing the citizens with the power of the Light Guardian, Harmony,"

Eventually, NICOLE phased out as the Chaotix hurried to Will and the others.

As the situation was getting worse in New Mobotropolis as dark storm clouds suddenly appeared and gathered in the skies above the city, causing most of the unpossessed Mobian citizens to panic and bring in their kids back to safety in their homes.

Soon after that, a cold breeze blew through causing the leaves on the trees to rustle as the Chaotix rushed on and fought against the possessed citizens who came in their way. However, Espio separated from the others in efforts to find Will and the others faster as the possessed citizens caused delay for the rest of the Chaotix.

During that time, red lightning flashed in the skies above and NICOLE immediately put up a shield to protect the city from anymore harm before soon the Freedom Fighters came out of Freedom HQ.

Sonic and the other Freedom Fighters came outside to see most of the city abandoned and Sonic said as he looked around,"Yeesh, I am getting a serious dejavu of this,"

Sally replied,"Only this time, it is not Naugus, Sonic. NICOLE says the most of the citizens turned possessed by these strange Shadows and the other citizens went into hiding. Remember another thing that she says the Chaotix may need back up until they find Will,"

Bunnie asked,"Will? Who's Will?"

Sonic answered,"He's that kid I rescued from Egghead's cronies,"

Sally asked as she was wondering,"But I'm wondering about something if this connected to him somehow?"

Sonic shrugged and replied,"I dunno. He seemed like a normal kid when I met him after all,"

Sally answered,"Just because something looks normal doesn't mean it's normal. Take for example, the Chaos Emeralds, Sonic,"

Sonic replied as he spotted incoming possessed Mobians on the horizon,"I know, chill Sal, and another thing, attacking citizens on the loose!"

Sally ordered,"Alright Freedom Fighters, let's go!"

The Freedom Fighters charged at the possessed Mobians, ready to fight through to reach the Chaotix, who needed some extra aid.

Meanwhile, in the Garden near the Coliseum, Will was standing up looking at the swirling dark clouds in the sky, thinking,'Malevolent..'

"Will-Kun!" exclaimed Kimmy from afar.

Will looked away from the sky and saw Kimmy on the horizon carrying a scared Marcus in her arms, soon stopping in front of him.

"Kimmy? What are you doing here with Marcus?" he asked.

"We were worried about you and so are the others. Why did you run away?" asked Kimmy.

"I didn't run away. I came here because I felt like it.." He lowered his head and added,"Besides, now that these weird animals know that I'm actually a human with these powers..what's the point of being here any longer? They'll only reject me,"

"Will, don't say that!" exclaimed Kimmy. "You're just like everyone else! Please Will, you can't let Malevolent destroy their home! Just think of what will happen!"

After what Kimmy said, three loud claps came out of nowhere as a familiar skunk walked into the scenario. "Lovely story there, love. Lovely story," he said.

"Huh? Who are you?" she asked the skunk.

"Geoffrey St. John, a mere serviceman to the King," he said as he bowed to her.

Will looked to Geoffrey and thought,'There's something about him I don't like,'

"Isn't it past your curfew? Should you be at home with your parents hiding in safety of your homes? Oh, that's right. You're Overlander children, are you? You shouldn't be here," said Geoffrey.

"Overlanders?" asked Kimmy.

"Aye, Overlanders, like how Dr. Eggman is," he answered her.

"Dr. Eggman? I've never heard of him," asked Kimmy.

"Why, once you know the bloke, you may want to wish you never knew him," replied Geoffrey. "He's that evil and once you get older, you may turn out as evil as him someday,"

"Oh no, that's not true. You see, we are good children. We know what is right and what is wrong because our parents taught us better. We even know that Mobians are our best friends," replied Kimmy.

"There's no bloody way you were taught that!" exclaimed Geoffrey as he swinged out his arm. "They are trying to brainwash you into thinking that!"

"Not as much as you are trying to confuse them into falling for your tricks, Geoffrey," said Espio as he walked in. "Since before what happened to my mentor, I've never trusted you of the lies you have told to Sonic and the others,"

Geoffrey smirked and replied,"Well, what do you expect? The King's not any better and it won't be long before he exiles these Overlander children for good,"

Espio replied,"They are not Overlanders, they are Humans, and you lied to the King to have them exiled. You are a disgrace to everyone,"

Geoffrey raised his fists and asked,"What are you going to do about it? There's nothing you can do to reverse it. Not unless, you want to fight over and see who wins,"

Espio replied,"I have known my duty and I have the right to have honor. You abuse your service to the King and take pride in it. There is a difference,"

Geoffrey exclaimed,"I just had enough of this babble!" He charged over to Espio and aimed a punch at him. When Espio quickly blocked it, he said,"Letting out your anger will not help your case any further,"

Worried, Kimmy begged Will and said,"Will, I know you're still upset, but you have to look past that no matter what happens to you. Even though your dad has died, even though the people of the city may down down on us, even though you are in a different world, there's still some chance you have friends somewhere! There is still a chance to prevent this. You have to believe in yourself and others and don't let go!"

As much as Kimmy begged Will, it was soon that a dark tornado with fire and lightning broke through the shield and at the last minute, the Freedom Fighters and Chaotix arrived just as it came down.

As Vanilla gasped at the scene, Cream was nervous as she hid behind Amy, Bunnie held onto her hat and said,"That is one giant twister,"

Sally replied,"The Darkness that NICOLE described.."

After the tornado cleared up, a giant black and red dragon with giants horns stood in front of the groups and it was soon that Espio and Geoffrey stopped fighting.

"Malevolent.." said Will as clenched his fist as the others looked onto the giant Dragon.

[New Mobotropolis, in the Park]

The giant Dragon looked to Chaotix and Freedom Fighters before he looked down to Will.

'You haven't changed a bit, Chosen Boy. You may have became a Mobian on the outside, but you are still the Human I despise on the inside,' he said.

'What do you want Malevolent?' replied Will.

Malevolent grinned a bit as he said,'Oh, it's a shame you can't remember, Chosen Boy, or should I say Fallen. You failed to defend your home from those aliens and I was able to take the world and shape it as I see fit until the cursed Ancient Walkers sealed me into the volcano my realm was in for millenias. However, since their downfall, I was able to break open from the seal they placed on me and now, I'm back for revenge to take out not on just you this time, but on these Mobians as well,'

'Not as long I'm with him, brother!' exclaimed Harmony.

'That voice!' thought Malevolent as he was startled a bit before a white and blue light exited out of Will, showing her to be a beautiful white and blue feathered Dragon with golden braces on her four legs as she had four wings.

"The two Dragons.." said Sally as she looked up to Harmony and Malevolent. "So the white one was been protecting Will this entire time?"

"You know, this Dragon stuff is giving me another case of dejavu," added Sonic.

"Sonic, this could be of great importance one day and you are saying it's giving you nothing but the case of dejavu," said Sally as she sounded annoyed. "What if this could be a legend or something?"

"It is.." said another voice.

A fox in a dark blue cloak with a white beard with a necklace came along and said to Sally,"This has been foretold to happen,"

"Merlin, what brings you here?" asked Sally.

He looked to Sally and answered,"I was told by the Neo Ancient Walkers about what has been happening,"

"So Will, is a part of this as well?" asked Sally.

"I assume so, but his duty is not much different than of Tails, Sonic, and Knuckles. However, there is a chance that he will be forced to spend his time on the planet forever, unless he gives up his responsibilities as Chosen to his next descendant. However, if he is greedy and refuses when the time has come, he will not only loose touch of Harmony and her Blessing but become possessed by Malevolent and his Curse as he goes on forever like Mogul, I'm afraid," he explained. "If that's the case, then we will have another problem on our hands,"

"And the other Neo Walkers told you this?" asked Sally.

"Part yes and part no, Princess," he replied. "But I believe now isn't a good time to explain further just yet,"

Malevolent roared and exclaimed,'I had enough of this useless chat!' He was about to attack as he had fire in his mouth and launched it at Will, but Harmony came in the way and countered with her ice attack.

'Will, remember about what Lee's grandmother said as a way to weaken Malevolent!' exclaimed Harmony.

As the Dragons were forced to fight each other, Will took a moment as he tries to remember about what Lee's grandmother told him. "If you have people that believe in you, no matter how big and small, how young or old, or friend or foe.." she said.

'Not this time!' exclaimed Malevolent as he brings in the Shadows containing the Cores of the possessed Mobians, absorbing their power.

"Harmony!" exclaimed Will. 'These people..' he thought. Harmony rushed to Will and returned as a Light inside of him. 'are depending on me..' he thought. He positioned himself as a white and golden aura formed around him. 'to free them..' he thought.

"Malevolent!" exclaimed Will as he charges at him as Malevolent is about to release an attack. "I will make up for my failure and make sure you leave these people alone!" As he launches a intense psychic attack at Malevolent, Malevolent did so at the same time and a blinding light came from it.

As everyone covered their eyes from the intense light, Malevolent was blinded by the light and roared as he was angry, allowing the opportunity for Will to launch several more attacks, knocking the Cores out of Malevolent, weakening him, and when the light cleared off, Malevolent was barely standing as he has taken a beating from losing the Cores of Mobians as Will was panting as he was growing exhausted.

"Everyone else..move in. Attack Malevolent while he's still weak.." said Will as he looked back to the others.

"Freedom Fighters! Chaotix! Let's take Malevolent out!" exclaimed Sally as her and the others charged in to take a whacking to Malevolent before he was defeated.

After the fight, Malevolent was too weak and as dissolved into small particulars and disappeared, saying in the wind,'I will..re..turn..'

The stormy clouds disappeared as everything turned back to normal. "I owe one more thing to you guys," said Will despite of felling winded. With the last of his power, he concentrated and released a refreshing aura in the air, causing the Cores of Mobians to return as well as heal those who have been injured before Harmony's aura faded out from him as he fainted on the ground.

Vanilla was the first one to hurry to Will as Kimmy said,"See, he did what he could to restore order with Harmony's help. Now that Malevolent's gone, everything is back to normal again,"

"But I fear this is not the last of Malevolent," warned Merlin. "He is, like Harmony, a powerful entity, but I do have to give him credit for saving New Mobotropolis from this threat,"

Espio was looking around for Geoffrey and said,"I should've known Geoffrey would slip off somewhere,"

Sonic turned around and asked Espio,"Geoffrey was here?"

Espio nodded and said,"Yes and he has a plan to get Kimmy and Will unfairly exiled by the King,"

"I should've know he was up to no good again," said Sally. "I'll talk things over with my father about this as soon as possible,"

Bunnie asked,"But what about Will here?"

Sally replied,"Take him to back to Freedom HQ to rest up for awhile,"

"Princess, I believe I owe a debt to the young one.." said Merlin.

"What do you mean, Merlin?" she asked.

Merlin walked over to the fainted Will and used his powers to revive him. Soon after, Will reawaken from his early faint and felt completely refreshed. He looked to Merlin as Merlin said,"You have a long road ahead and many things to learn about this world, young psychic,"

Will was surprised as he leapt off of Vanilla's arms and landed on the ground as he asked,"How'd- D-did you help me back there?"

Merlin replied,"Yes, I did, and this is only one of the ways I could repay you for your bravery,"

Will answered as he had his arm behind his head,"Um..thanks I guess?"

Merlin nodded and went to Sally. "I must depart once more,"

Tails rushed to Merlin and asked,"Are you going to return again?"

Merlin smiled as he knelt to him and answered,"Someday Tails, someday," He stood back up and began to walk off before mysteriously disappearing.

Will looked over to Kimmy holding Marcus and said,"About earlier..I'm glad you were trying to cheer me up Kimmy. I really do owe it to you,"

Kimmy giggled as she replied,"Will, maybe you need to look at life with a more positive outlook instead of looking to your past,"

Will looked around to the other Freedom Fighters and even to the Chaotix, saying,"Actually, I owe it all to you on this time, despite of what happened earlier, everyone did a part in their power against Malevolent to return everyone and everything to normal. I'm sorry for everything I did in the past and I promise to look up for a brighter future for the sake of everyone, even for my new and old friends,"

Everyone cheered and as Knuckles and Julie-Su came back via Warp Ring nearby, Knuckles thought,'Okay, did something happened while me and Julie-Su were out?'

[Freedom HQ]

Later on that same day at Freedom HQ, Will and the others returned to regular routine, well with the exception of Bunnie and Saffron with watching Charmy, Marcus, Kimmy, and Will in the meanwhile.

Kimmy was teaching Marcus how to play pattycake, a game she used to play with the village kids back at home, though Marcus at times, tends to mess up, she still encourages him to keep trying without being harsh to the young chameleon, while Will was sitting on the couch as he wondered about that fight earlier with Malevolent as well as Merlin, who revived him from his fainting. He sighed as he thought,'Alot of changes took place while I was gone, hasn't it Harmony?'

Harmony replied,'Indeed Will and to believe, Malevolent is still alive all this time. I though he was finished for good,'

Will answered,'Yeah, but it does give us a reason and purpose to why we are here in this world: To defeat him once more,'

Harmony replied,'Will, has it occurred to you that I have a feeling that this will last longer than the last Chosen's duty? Me and Malevolent have been around for thousands and thousands of years and all your descendants will be fighting against Malevolent forever unless there is a way to completely stop him?'

Will sighed,'I've never thought of that, Harmony, but it does make sense somehow and in a way, to imagine that, well, Kimmy and all of them will go on with their lives and die in front of me someday if I'm forced to do this forever. It makes me feel sad,'

Harmony replied,'Well, that fox does serve a point about your fate as a Chosen. When your time is right to pass down your duty, you have to pass it down to your next descendant, so that way, you wouldn't live on with the worry about being without your friends,'

Will thought,'I still have to relearn my abilities with my powers, though I happen to know telepathy at best. I wonder who could help me out?'

Harmony replied,'I'm sure there's someone out there, Will. You need to learn how to be patient,'

After they had a talk, Kimmy walked over to Will with Marcus and asked,"Hey Will, do you want to play a game with us? We're going to play hide and seek,"

Will was suddenly nervous as he replied to her,"Um..well, are you sure it would be okay Kimmy?"

Kimmy smiled as she answered Will,"Aww, now you're being shy, Will. Come on, it'll be fun!"

Charmy flew in and with an excited voice, added,"Yeah! It'll be fun!" He flew over to Will and grabbed his arm, eagerly,"Come on? Please? Please? Please?"

At first, Will didn't want to play, but he had an idea as he was ignoring Charmy bugging him. He asked,"Kimmy, don't you want to play it inside?"

Kimmy looked around the Freedom Fighters HQ and said,"Well, I'm not sure, Will. We could accidently end up knocking something over and I'm sure they wouldn't want us running inside. Outside sounds more safe to me,"

As they were overhearing the discussion, Bunnie warned,"That's right. No roughplayin''round here is allowed, but also remember, ta not get too far and look out for Espio. He don't like it if he gets interrupted with sumthin' involvin' his trainin',"

Saffron added,"Especially when he's meditating and Charmy, don't be bothering him either. I know how you are,"

Charmy lowered his antennas as he replied,"Aww..okay.."

Bunnie then suggested," Hey Will, since ya the oldest, ya can be in charge of watching everyone in the group while Saffron and I have to go out soon. We have some things ta do,"

Will answered,"Yes, ma'am. I'll be glad to,"

Bunnie replied,"Thanks, sugah. Now remember ya'll, no trouble," After she said that, she and Saffron left the Freedom HQ to go into town.

Charmy got excited as he flew around Will and exclaimed,"YAY! Will's in charge! Will's in charge!"

Kimmy tapped her foot and said,"Will, you better not try to pull any funny stuff on Espio. I know how you LOVE to prank people,"

Will sat up from the couch and had his hand behind his back as he had his fingers crossed. He replied,"No worries, Kimmy. I can handle it,"

Kimmy knitted an eyebrow as she smirked with her hands on her hips and said,"We'll see about that,"

As the group soon headed out of Freedom HQ, they met outside as Kimmy asked,"Okay, hide and seek. Since I suggested the game, I say that Will and Charmy are it and me and Marcus are hiding,"

Will shrugged as he said,"Hey, sounds fine to me,"

Kimmy suggested,"Okay, you two count to 20 and no peeping until we are ready!"

Will and Charmy covered their eyes with their hands and then started counting. Kimmy and Marcus rushed out to hide and when they are gone, Will asked Charmy,"Do you know where Espio usually goes when he meditates?"

Charmy answered,"Someplace real quiet, so nobody can disturb him,"

Will replied,"Well then, lead the way, and once we get to him, the payment of candy's coming from me if you can get it right,"

Charmy got excited as he flew ahead, leading Will to where Espio is at.

Afterwhile, Kimmy and Marcus waited for awhile for Will and Charmy to find them. Suspecting something could be going on, she then decided to come out and look for Marcus.

"Marcus? Marcus?" she asked. "Where are you?"

"Right here, Kimmy," said a voice out of nowhere.

Kimmy got a bit nervous as she looked around and still saw nothing. "Where?" she asked.

In a tree in front of Kimmy, Marcus turned visible and said,"I'm here,"

This caused Kimmy to jump a bit as she was surprised to see him. "Oh! You startled me there, Marcus!" she said. "But I didn't know you could do that,"

Marcus climbed down the tree and landed onto the ground before he said,"Well, I'm a chameleon. I can easily blend into my surroundings that so nobody could find me easily,"

Kimmy giggled as she replied,"Wow, I'm learning something new every minute about this world. In fact, Marcus, next to Will, you are a great friend that I ever met, but I don't understand why everyone else have to be so weird about me,"

Marcus shrugged as he said,"I guess they aren't used to seeing people like you. I'm not sure,"

Kimmy said,"I hope that changes someday. You guys are so nice and I like to know you better as friends,"

Marcus smiled happily as he replied,"I-I like you too, Kimmy,"

Kimmy looked around and said,"Say, it's been awhile since we saw Will and Charmy. Should we go and find them?"

Marcus answered,"Maybe we should. They are taking an awfully long time to find us,"

Kimmy nodded before she rushed ahead with Marcus following her from behind to find Will and Charmy.

Back at the Sand Blasters HQ, Will awoke alarmed at realizing the location of one of his closest friends.

'Marcus..' thought Will as he got up nervously from his rather uncomfortable bed. He looked around for a bit, sighing, and it wasn't long before Tex came into the room along with the grey rabbit. "Alright sleepin' beauty, time to get up," he said to Will.

"Really? Is that suppose to insult me?" replied Will.

"You're lucky we're not turnin' ya in to the D.E.L., so they can Legionize ya," he added. "Now git up and be ready ta join us. Be slow and you'll miss out on the important details,"

Will replied as he got up and walked towards them,"Yeesh. Cut it with the attitude, will ya? I'm helpin' ya out right?"

"I'd recommend ya drop that smug act of yours," he answered as he held out his gun at Will. "It's startin' to really dislike it,"

"Hey, hey. We're allies now, right," replied Will. "Besides, we're supposed to help, not harm each other,"

The grey rabbit realized what Will said as he put his gun away and answered,"Ya right on that one, but you will treat me and my friends with some respect, understood ya dog?"

Will stood up nervously as he replied,"Crystal clear,"

"Good, now we're at an understandin'" replied the grey rabbit as he lead the way out, with Will and Tex behind him.

Eventually, the trio arrived at where Jolt, Shifty, and Avery are at before the grey rabbit asked,"So ya'll three came up with somethin' as of yet?"

Avery replied,"We sure did, Jack, and it's concerning bout' that Oil Refinery," Jack smirked as he replied,"Oh yes, the Oil Ocean Refinery..somethin' we need to take over from the D.E.L."

Will asked,"Pardon me, but what's so important 'bout takin' over some refinery?"

Jack replied,"Kid, you don't understand. The refinery is the place where most of the oil comes from and whenever there's a resource, you would bet someone's gonna get their greedy lil' paws all over it. As our duty as Freedom Fighters, we have to be riddin' the place of D.E.L. varmits,"

Will asked,"D.E.L.?"

Jack answered,''They're the Dark Egg Legion, they're Dr. Eggman's varmits that I told you about earlier,"

Will had a flashback of when he first saw Dr.Eggman when he was younger,"You mean that orange mustached guy that looks like an egg?"

Jack replied,"Yep, that's him alright. He's the Ringmaster of it all,"

Will replied,"As in a circus?"

Jack looked at Will about to snap and exclaimed,"Are ya actin' dumb already like Jolt, kid? This is serious business,"

Will replied,"I was kiddin' on that logic. Yeesh, there's no offense,"

Jolt chuckled at the joke as Jack was getting more annoyed, before Tex knock him on the head. Jolt rubbed his head and said,"Hey!" Tex grinned.

"This isn't going to get us anywhere if we spent time fooling around with this nonsense," said Shifty. "Since we got the plan in order, we should find out the next thing: the kid's powers,"

Will replied,"Whoa, hold up. Ya sayin' I have powers?"

Shift replied,"Jolt claimed he heard your voice and Tex claimed that he was thrown aside like a toy by some strange force,"

Will chuckled slightly nervously and replied,"I don't remember that, clearly I don't"

Shifty replied,"Nice try, but I believe there is something you're not telling me about. Please explain,"

Before Will could reply, suddenly, there was a duck, bear, and a weasel that came up to the scene, busting in.

"WE'RE HERE!!" exclaimed the duck.

Will looked to the weasel and chuckled,"Well, howdy bigtooth. Ya need to see the dentist?"

"Well, well, well. Several more of Eggman's cronies come along," said Jack. "Sand Blasters, let's rid of them,"

"Hold on," said the weasel. "We're only here for the kid, not you guys,"

"If ya'll want the kid, then ya gonna have to deal with us in combat," said Jack as the Sand Blasters were readying to attack.

'<i>Will, this can be the perfect opportunity to escape and find Marcus,</i>' said Harmony.

'<i>Yeah, that is if these guys can keep them distracted enough to give time to escape,</i>' thought Will.

"All right, but don't say we haven't warned you," said Nack as he brought out his gun.

It was then that both sides began fighting each other and in the confusion of the battle, Will was able to escape both sides as he ran back out into the city, trying to get as faraway as possible.

He eventually stopped to rest again and said,"They shouldn't be able to catch up now. I really don't want to be involved in their planned mission at all. I want to find Marcus as soon as possible so I can locate my family,"

As the day pressed on, it was getting close to sunset, as Will is travelling across the Great Desert once more, in determination, to find Marcus, but he was so exhausted that he ended up fainting on the sandy ground, close to a Casino nearby..

' Well, this is it..I'm done for..' thought Will as he was down with eyes closed.

During the time that Will was out cold, he had a dream that he was at Remembrance Field with his mother and father when he was a child. "Will, do you see all those flowers?" asked his father. "Yes, what do they mean?" asked young Will as he looked up to his parents. "Every one of those flowers resemble a person who has lost their life in the disaster several years ago," replied his mother. "Really?" asked young Will as he looked down to the flowers. "That's alot of people," His father replied,"I know, but you know what? Even though they're gone, they're always watching," Young Will hugged his parents and said as he was getting teary,"It's sad," His mother and father hugged back to young Will to comfort him. Eventually, the dream faded away as Harmony said, 'Will..please wake up..we're okay,'

Eventually, Will steadily woke up, opening his eyes a bit, thinking about the dream he had, before he yawned a bit. Looking around, Will noticed one thing: he wasn't in the desert anymore, instead, he was in a room somewhere. At first, it didn't seem to bother him as he got up and stretched his arms and legs.

'How long I was out?' asked Will.

'Quite awhile, but not as long as the last several times,' replied Harmony.

He looked about the room, it looked all fancy and nice, before he exited out, unexpectedly not knowing he would come out to a casino-like area.

'No wonder why the bed felt so comfortable, this is one fancy place around here,' thought Will as he looked about, soon noticing several robots where playing some casino games. 'That's odd, robots playing games? I don't get it,'

Eventually, Will eventually felt hungry and looked to the nearby Bar & Grill, deciding to go over and taking a seat. "Excuse me, anyone around?" asked Will. Eventually, a tall robot came around that looked like somewhat of a chicken and came up to Will from behind the counter.

"Do you need anything, sir?" he asked.

"Got any water or perhaps some soda?" asked Will.

"We got both and plenty of others," he replied.

"I'll go for the soda," said Will.

Just then, the tall robot left to get Will something to drink and delivered it to him eventually.

"Anything else, sir?" asked the robot.

Will explained what he wanted to eat and afterwhile, he got his food. Eventually soon finishing his meal and drink, thanking them before he then left to look around.

The tall robot looked to the kid as soon as the robotic monkey came around, "Lucky kid,"

The robotic monkey replied,"Well, our boss said so,"

The robotic chicken replied,"Yeah, I know the meme already. By the way, aren't you suppose to help the kid get to our boss? He's expecting to be seeing him,"

The robotic monkey dashed off after the kid as the robotic chicken was about to take the dishes into the kitchen to get washed.

Eventually, Will felt intensive power coming from around somewhere.

'That power..I remember the feeling somehow,' thought Will as he was looking around. Eventually, the robotic monkey found Will and said as he caught up," Ah, there you are,"

Will replied,"What's the rush for?"

The robotic monkey replied,"I was supposed to lead you to the master. Come with me,"

Will replied,"Okay, I'll go with you,"

As the robotic monkey led Will to his master, the stronger the strange energy felt as it there was something powerful nearby, soon eventually, arriving at the office where there was a Mobian elephant, suited in a white suit.

"You..." said Will.

"Well, it's nice to finally meet each other in person after all these years," he chuckled as he replied.

"What happened?" asked Will. "And what do you want with me?"

"Is that how you thank someone for saving your life? I could've left you out there in the desert to die, but I chose not to because it wouldn't be fair to leave did a fellow immortal alone by himself, now would we?"

Will replied,"I still don't trust you, especially with what you did to me, you monster,"

'Will, stop. Don't do it,' said Harmony. 'It's not worth it,'

Afterwhile, Will calmed down and Mogul replied,"Hm, always doing things for the good of people and Mobians of the world, but in the end, disaster and misfortune follows you wherever you go. You were nothing but a pawn from the start,"

Will thought,'How the heck he knows about this?'

"I can see your suffering. Your past haunts you through the days and nights, only to leave you wishing to forget the emotional scars it has left you with. You seem to struggle on with the will of continuing on, desperately looking despite the fact of knowing you are at your darkest times of your life," said Mogul. "And to think, half of this took place when you were a human, in which degree, you still are. A human with an immortal soul trapped within a physical form of a mere Mobian dog,"

Will was speechless as Mogul continued,"You still bear the memories of the past world as well as the other Overlanders and humans. Don't think I don't know you well, William, because I do since the day you have arrived in this world,"

Will replied,"Just because I'm human with an immortal soul trapped with a body of a Mobian dog..just because I have a painful past.. just because people and Mobian talked crap about me..just because I've been beaten down to the ground.. I'll never give up for those I care about the most and you have no say so to control my life,"

"Brave words for such a young lad like yourself to speak of," replied Mogul. "Maybe I am wrong about you. You aren't as weak as you claim yourself to be,"

After Mogul spoke, Will thought to himself for a moment before he said anything else,'Is that supposed to be a compliment?'

'Be careful,' warned Harmony.

When Mogul sat from his seat with his cane in hand, he walked over to Will and said,"But remember one thing. You have potential, but whenever or not you want to apply it, is a matter of your own. You chose to let others take you for granted, instead of improving yourself, which made you weak to fight against those who oppose you. I, however, helped you in your time of need when you were captured by Dr. Eggman himself. Remember the time you were held captive?"

"I do, but that was 3 years ago," replied Will. "I didn't remember to use my powers right, and from that experience, I've regain one of my powers,"

Mogul replied,"I can still be an assistance, but you have to willingly submit yourself to my demands,"

"Sorry, but not after what you did to turn me against my friends," said Will. "It's off, Mogul. However, I do have to owe you many thanks for saving my life twice,"

Eventually, Will walked out of the room, leaving Mogul behind by himself. Mogul then smirked as he thought, 'Though he has refused my future assistance, he still has the mark I left on him. I could use him to convince Sonic to his surrender,'

Will went back to his room and said to Harmony,'You know what? We should leave tomorrow morning before we go on to continuing the search for the others,'

Harmony replied,'Yes, indeed. We should get all the rest we can,'

Will said,'You know..I wonder..whatever happened years ago when we were fighting against those strange alien-like spaceships..I wonder if anyone else survived,'

Harmony replied,'We will see..eventually,'

Will said,'If those aliens show their faces around me again, I'll make them regret killing all those people and invading my home,'

He closed his eyes as he rested on the bed and before long, a old, somewhat crinkled, and semi-burnt photograph of Will's family and friends teleported out of nowhere and landed on Will.

During the night at the G.U.N. base when everyone else was asleep, everything was silent as it seems like nothing was going on. Rouge was in her room, as she was adoring looking at her jewelry for the moment, however, she paused when she was hearing small steps in the hallway. Immediately, she put down her jewels and went out of her room to check.

Despite of not being able to see who it was, she thought,'Hmm..I bet that little chameleon is behind this. Hmm.. he thinks he could sneak out of the base without getting caught. The kid's got nerve, especially when he works out at the gym all the time. I better follow him in case and while at that, maybe I should go out for some jewel shopping. Maybe that fabulous Black Emerald I hear so much about would do,'

She exited her room and carefully closed the door before going on.

As Marcus remained invisible, carefully bypassing security, who happened to be the only ones out at the time, he remained quiet and keeping calm, despite the fact that Rouge is following him carefully.

After he got out of the base into the jungle, Marcus looked back as he thought, 'I'm sorry, master Espio and Commander, but this is a manner of finding Will,'

He soon left into the jungle before Rouge caught up. Rouge stopped at where Marcus was at and thought,'Oh darn, I've lost him. Oh well, I might as well make my way to find that precious Black Emerald,' She flew off into the night.

The next morning, Will awakened from his sleep and noticed something dropped on the ground. 'Hmm..? Hey, is that?' he thought before he picked it up and looked at it. 'It is..our family photo..' he thought before he had a flashback of that day that the photo was taken before he put it away in his vest pocket. He sighed before he got up and stretched his arms and legs.

'Harmony..?' thought Will.

'I'm here, Will,' she replied.

'Oh, that's good, I was just checking. Well, we should get going out of here. We have a long day ahead of us,' replied Will.

'Yes, we do indeed,' replied Harmony.

Will's stomach growled and he said,'Well, before we leave, I better get something to eat or I'm gonna be worned out,'

Eventually, Will got up and left the room to get something to eat and after he ate breakfast, he left the Casino, back out in the hot desert again.

' I'm not taking a chance of walking, I'm flying this time,' said Will.

'Be careful Will. The heat is dangerous enough to exhaust you,' replied Harmony.

' Only I could teleport..' thought Will as he looked around, but stopped when he saw a familiar blue blur coming around nearby. ' Hey, I know him,'

Will yelled at the blue blur as he waved his arm,"Hey! Sonic! Over here!"

Sonic heard Will's yell and sped over to him, stopping in place. "Hey, is that you Will?"

Will nodded as he replied,"Yea, it's me Sonic. Remember? You're the guy that saved me and Marcus three years back,"

Sonic replied,"Now I remember. So, what's up?"

Will replied,"Well, I'm in a bit of a jam currently with searching for Marcus and I need to cross the desert as soon as possible. Something tells me that I need to head towards a rainforest south of here,"

Sonic replied,"You mean to Soumerca? Hmm. I guess I can take you there, but I gotta get back to New Mobotropolis after this to join up with the others,"

Will grabbed onto Sonic's hand and said,"Let's git goin'!"

Sonic revved up some before he sped off crossing the desert and it was soon enough they arrived at Soumerca. "Here we are," said Sonic.

"Thanks Sonic. I owe ya big time for this," said Will.

"No problem. Just watch yourselves with the Felidae and by the way, if you see Lupe or any members of the Wolf Pack around here, tell them that you're a friend of mine's. I'm sure they would understand," replied Sonic before he sped off.

"I have to admit his speed was defiantly helpful to cross that long desert," said Will.

'I would have to agree with you. He is quite fast, but Will, remember what you have to do,' said Harmony.

"Yeah and that is to find Marcus," replied Will before he walked further in the jungle.

As Will walked around, he stopped for a moment and closed his eyes to use his full concentration with his powers to locate Marcus. "He should be this way, I feel movement nearby," he concluded before he reopened his eyes and walked on to the direction that Marcus is at.

Meanwhile at the other side of jungle, Marcus was looking around the place, avoiding Felidae and Wolf Pack warriors alike, wandering around, but when he saw strange Mobians robed in black cloaks, he began to suspect trouble, but he had to continue on with finding Will, despite of the situation. Soon tired out from travel, he rested for a bit, knowing he has been looking all night for his friend, nearby he spotted a large cat with a frog nearby, fishing.

"I wonder if today would be our lucky day, don't you agree Froggy?" asked the cat.

"Ribbit, ribbit!" jumped the frog next to him, who was happy as well.

"I hope it'll be a giant fishy," replied the cat. 'That'll be great,"

'He doesn't seem hostile..maybe I can ask him..' thought Marcus as he approached the duo. "Excuse me, sir," he asked.

By hearing Marcus' voice, the cat reacted as he looked around for a bit. "Who me?" asked the cat.

"Yes, that's what I mean," replied Marcus.

"I don't see you," replied the cat.

"Whoops, I'm sorry," replied Marcus as he turned visible. The cat looked to Marcus and became curious. "Sorry, I had to remain invisible do to certain dangers around here. I really didn't want to bring any trouble, so I keep low key around here. But now since I got your attention, I wanted to ask if you have saw anyone who is like.." He brings out a photo of Will. "This.."

The cat thought for a moment and then answered,"Nope. Sorry buddy."

Marcus replied as he put the photo away,"It's okay. But hey, if you see him or even encounter him, tell him that his friend Marcus is looking for him, okay?" Marcus became curious and asked,"Before I go, who are you two?"

The cat replied,"I'm Big and this is my frog, Froggy,"

Froggy leapt up twice as he ribbits.

"Well, my name is Marcus as I stated before. I'm one of Will's friends and it's nice to meet you and your frog, sir. Well, I must take my departure now, have a good day, be safe, and good luck with catching that fish you were talking about earlier," replied Marcus as he left.

Big blinked twice before he asked Froggy,"How does he know I wanted that fishy?"

Froggy replied with just a confused sounding ribbit.

Meanwhile in the G.U.N. HQ, a certain black hedgehog is travelling down the hallway, along with a giant robot by his side, talking about Marcus.

"I still don't trust him even though he is a new recruit," said the hedgehog.

"HE IS STILL LEARNING. GIVE HIM TIME," replied the robot.

"I'll give him time alright.." replied the hedgehog.

"SHADOW, ANOTHER THING TO REMEMBER IS THAT HE HAS AN INFERIOR RANKING," replied the robot.

Shadow smirked slightly as he replied,"That's true, but I have a feeling that it'll be soon enough that he'll be sent on a mission, and one of us has to accompany him to make sure he doesn't mess up,"

Eventually, they arrived at Marcus' room and Shadow knocked on the door. "Marcus, are you in there?" said Shadow.

He waited for awhile, before he decided to come into the room with the large robot.

"HE IS NOT HERE," replied the robot. "COULD HE ALREADY LEFT?"

"Hmm..something is not right," mumbled Shadow before he said,"Let's go and check up with Rouge,"

Eventually, the two exited Marcus' room and went to Rouge's room, only to find the same scenerio.

"NEITHER IS ROUGE" said the robot. "DO YOU THINK THEY WERE SENT ON A MISSION?"

"Our best bet is we need to check with the Commander to check what has happened," suggested Shadow as he led ahead to the main G.U.N. room where they eventually met up with the Commander.

"Commander, if we may ask something, have you seen either Rouge or Marcus this morning for a mission?" asked Shadow.

"No I haven't, Shadow, Could you explain?" asked the Commander.

"I'm unsure myself, but if you could allow us to search the perimeter on their location," suggested Shadow.

"Before you do that, let me try to contact them," said the Commander brought out his transceiver. "Agent Rouge, come in. This is the Commander, where is your location, over,"

There was no response.

"Agent Rouge, come in. This is the Commander, where is your location, over," asked the Commander.

There was still no response.

"Hmm..that's odd. She's not picking up," replied the Commander. "Alright Shadow. I'll follow through with your plan by allowing you and Omega search the perimeter, but just as soon as you find them, return to the base,"

"Yes, Commander," said Shadow as he exited out with Omega, following him.

After they left, the Commander sighed, just as a young girl entered the room. "Good morning, Commander," she said.

"Oh, good morning there, Hope," the Commander replied as he looked onto her.

"Are you okay? What happened?" asked Hope.

"Rouge and Marcus seem to have gotten themselves into some trouble, but don't worry, we'll get them back safely as usual," the Commander replied.

Hope smiled and replied,"Yeah, next to Shadow, I really like Marcus. He's very friendly and caring,"

"I have to admit. For a new recruit, it makes me proud to see such a dedicated hard worker, such as him, to help bring in enthusiasm to the men," replied the Commander.