John woke up when something flashed very brightly. “What the…?” He checked his cell phone, but it was too dark. John felt along the walls and floor to get to the light switch. He got to the general area of the switch. “Where is it?” John mumbled to himself as he fumbled for it. He found it, flipped it, and then closed his eyes since the light seemed too bright. Now that John’s eyes were adjusted, he put on his glasses and checked his cell phone. That was turned off. Then he checked his clock. It was 12:03. “Ok, now I’m officially creeped out.” John turned the light off, but the room was still illuminated! A light green color apparently. He looked around for the source of the light. “Scratch that, it just got worse.” The emerald thing he had found a couple of days ago was glowing. Not as dim as a glow-in-the-dark star, but not as bright as a flashlight. John slowly walked towards the desk where he placed it. He wasn’t sure of it was ok to touch it, but curiosity drove his hand closer and closer. When John’s finger touched it, he disappeared! As well as the emerald too!

Pressure. All he could fell was pressure. It was like the air around him was squeezing him. He couldn’t see and all he could hear was roar like the wind blowing really fast. One moment the feeling continued, and then the next moment it was gone. John was on his knees gasping for air. Then he laid down on the soft grass. Wait a second, grass?! John looked around and saw trees and a clear starry sky. John went to push up his glasses when he saw his arm. It had orange-yellowish fur on it! He had fur all over his body. Then he realized that he had tails, two of them. John went to a small pond and looked at his reflection. He saw what resembled a fox’s face wearing glasses, John almost yelled. All he had for clothing was a black jacket with green lines on it, socks and shoes, and white gloves. He searched the pockets and found the glowing emerald. John held it tightly in his hand and felt better, more relaxed. He went to the spot and laid down. A couple of minutes later, he fell asleep.

Dr. Eggman woke up in his bed eager to see if Sonic’s DNA was finished decoding. He walked down to the lab to check the computer. He tried turning it on, but the he realized that he turned off the mainframe. Eggman walked down the hall into a room filled with cables and switches. He walked to a huge lever that was on a wall in “off” position. He pushed it until it was up. The room was filled with noise as the computer booted. Then the klaxons went off. “What is going on?!” Eggman yelled. Trying to stop the alarm, Eggman went to a console that had these words on the screen: “ALERT! CHAOS EMERALD ENERGY TYPE Z DETECTED!” Dr. Eggman gasped. He shut off the alarm and checked when the event happened, just after midnight. “Type Z, that only happened twice and the results were disastrous the first time. But this is different. It’s chaos energy, but not like the one from chaos control or the master emerald. This is very intriguing; I must go and see what this is.” He walked down to the hanger and climbed into a walker.

John was fast asleep lying on his back. His mouth was open and he was snoring. boom. boom. boom. CRASH!!! John woke up with a stat. “What?! You annoying little pipsqueak! Give me that-wait. You’re not Tails, who are you?” John was dumbstruck. He never expected to see someone else, let alone a huge machine. “Well, I’m waiting. What is your name?” John barely spoke. “My n-n-n-name is John.” “Well John, it was a pleasure to meet you. My name is Dr. Eggman. But let’s get straight to business. Give me your Chaos Emerald or I’ll squash you like a bug.” John’s head was swirling as everything came together. From what Eggman was saying, John figured out where he was and what he should do. “If you want the emerald, then I’ll guess you’ll have to catch me!” John ran off into the forest. “Why you little!” Eggman started chasing him, knocking down trees as he went. “Let’s play tag! I’m it!” He launched missiles towards John. They all missed him, but John, not used to the sounds of battle, was left deaf with a ringing sound in his ears that faded away as he ran. “Take this you little pest!” He used the gun to fire at John. All of the shots missed him, but that stopped him in his tracks. John was crouched down with his hands on his ears. Dr. Eggman smiled, “Gotha!” A mechanical claw had John at his waist. “Let me go!” “Ha ha haa, oh just give me the chaos emerald and I’ll see what I can do.” John reluctantly brought up the emerald. Then a crazy idea popped up in his head. “So, a game of tag? Well then you are it.” John raised the chaos emerald higher. “CHAOS CONTROL!” There was a flash of green light, and John disappeared. He reappeared far away and ran off into the forest. “Grr, he got away. But I’ll get him.” Doctor Eggman noticed something in the air. “Ahh, there’s the little pest I know and hate!” The missile launcher changed into a laser while Eggman took aim. “Bye bye, my furry friend.”

Tails was in the plane flying towards the smoke. “Eggman must have a pretty good reason why he is making a racket.” He said. A small alarm went off in the cockpit. “What?! Something is locking on to me!” A yellow beam of light struck the Tornado’s power supply. “I can’t transform!” Tails tried ejecting, but the mechanism had jammed. “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!” BOOM!!! The plane crashed into the ground. Tails had blacked out from the crash.