Blood Emeralds

Strange Spark

At the penthouse, Silver was happy that Nebula healed the burn on his arm and he thanked her for that. Without her he would suffer the second-degree burn eating his skin alive all day and it would take days for the burn to heal up.

Right now, the boys are gonna have to practice their song to beat the Girl Power band without the girls helping. Even though they want to help but they agree to let them do this on their own; though they will be there for them if they ever need help.

"Don't worry, girls. If we're ever in trouble you'll be there to help us" Sonic said.

"Okay we watch you play" Amy said. Sonic smiled a bit and takes up his guitar. Shadow folded up his keyboard and Silver has brought his drums to the penthouse by flying with them there.

"Here we go guys! Let's rock!" Sonic said to Shadow and Silver. He began playing on his guitar and played first at a low tone.

But then he began playing faster and faster as if he was making energy in his guitar and it was glowing. Then the rest of the gang watched in shock as Sonic beat the guitar faster and glows more until the guitar changes color to purple and he rises in the air with a faster rhythm. The sound waves from the guitar made the girls almost trip over and Sonic lands on his feet extremely exhausted.

"Dude, how did you do that?" Silver gasped.

"I don't know it was like energy coursing through me, I feel like fire" Sonic said with a surprised look.

"Hmmm, is it because of an energy source or something?" Silver wondered.

"I have no idea. Let's see if it works on you two. Shadow, you go first" Sonic said.

"I'll try with the keytar" Shadow placed his keyboard aside and takes his keytar, a mix of both guitar and piano. He first played a little on it but goes faster and spins around in a circle.

"Whoa!" he then played rapidly up to the highest key and it glowed also golden and he lifts up in the air glowing bright yellow much to his shock but got excited and keeps playing.

"Wow!" the girls gasped and saw him land in front of them.

Silver then grins and jumps to his drums, beginning to play at all the drums and cymbals on it at a rapid speed. The girls, Sonic and Shadow watched how he just played faster and faster until he hovers in the air still playing. He glowed vanilla yellow and then sat down again, his quills were a little messy from playing the drums rapidly.

"How did I do?" Silver panted in exhaustion.

"That was amazing!" Blaze cheered out.

"You guys seem to have an energy source somehow? Is it from a jewel like Hex has?" Amy asked.

"No" the boys shook their heads.

"Maybe it's the power of music" Sonic shrugs.

"That's it! You can use it to cause the siren jewels to explode" Amy got an idea.

"Wait, it might be dangerous if they explode!" Sonic said.

"But that's our chance to save the whole people in our school from being brainwashed" Blaze said.

"Ah this is gonna be harder than I thought" Sonic sighs.

"Well we got to figure it out, man. If they win we are done for" Silver said a bit frustrated.

"Silver, don't be so negative" Blaze said and goes up to him.

"You're right. I shouldn't be negative or too naïve" Silver said, hugging her.

"Well let's go and do something in the city" Nebula said.

"Like what?" Amy asked.

"I've got it! I have a best friend that does virtual simulation stuff in his biggest laboratory. It's gonna make you feel wild!" Sonic said.

"All right! Let's go guys!" Silver cheered. They all head for the elevator to get to the location of Sonic's best friend in the city.

When they arrived, they saw a sign that was saying 'Prower's Awesome Games'.

"Yup, here it is" Sonic said as they got in, they saw many types of consoles and the virtual simulation screen with a helmet.

"Hi there. Oh hello old pal!" an orange fox with two tails said.

"Hi Tails, old buddy it's been a while!" Sonic goes up to give him a friendly hug.

"Yeah, how's the business today?" Tails asked.

"Just fine. And I got friends who wants to try the Virtual simulation game" Sonic showed him Silver, Shadow and the girls.

"Cool. Who wants to be the first one to play?" Tails asked them.

"Me! I've always wanna try the virtual reality thing for the first time!" Nebula got too excited.

She goes up to the device helmet and put it on.

"Now, this is a Star Wars lightsaber battle game" Tails said and game Nebula the lightsaber thing to use it in the game.

"Be ready, it starts now" Tails said and turns on the game. Nebula then saw the arena in the game and looked at her hand in the game that she got a blue lightsaber. Nebula sees the battle droids from the prequel trilogy. She lifts up her lightsaber and chops some of them and blocked blasts from them. Some of the blasts in the game made her lose health but she keeps swinging her lightsaber in the game.

"Wow, she's good" Shadow said.

"Yeah. She is" Tails said. Nebula then faces the boss in the game, Darth Maul with his double blade lightsaber but he ignites only one blade this time.

"Bring it on!" Nebula said.

She then blocks some of the attacks from Darth Maul in the game and manages to strike a few times. A few times Darth Maul manages to hit her and she loses health.

"WHOA!" Nebula yelps and almost lost balance. But she knew this isn't real and she keeps fighting until Maul is defeated.

"May the Force be with you" Nebula glared and keeps swinging her lightsaber.

Then after a few strikes she won against him, "YEAH!!! WHOOHOO!!!!"