My eyes opened to see I was in an alley of sorts, I felt groggy and stiff "Huh were am I?" I asked myself. Next to me was my brown cloak and a mirror, well really it was just a large shard of mirror. I looked into. There was a face of a purple hedgehog, blood red eyes, surrounded by just what could be described as an ocean of darkness. I gasped and saw I had fangs, I saw what looked like a third eye, I opened it and it was red like my other ones but it was surrounded by yellow. I grinned and chuckled to myself almost like a whisper. "Ok, so I am back in this universe". I quickly closed my third eye as not to attract attention to myself, to my surprise when I closed it I got no vision as when I closed my other eyes I still saw the inside of my eye lids. I took one last glance in the mirror to see my spines which were just like Sonic's in shape had three jet black streaks on the top of them. I placed on the cloak. "So I am really back eh, well this should be fun." I said to my self. I flicked my fringe and growled. "If it was that bastard father of mine that brought me back here, he is going to die!!" I thought. A red and black hedgehog rushed by. I was in shock. "Shadow……" I noticed a bank in the distance. "So I'm in this event, I've got to beat him there." I closed both of my eyes and spoke the words "Chaos Control". I landed on top of he glass roof, and then jumped in. I grabbed the emerald just as he ran in.
"Hey you give me the Chaos emerald!" Shadow yelled at me. I just stood there smirking at him throwing the emerald up and down in my hand. "Apparently you didn't hear me the first time, GIVE me the emerald, boy!!" Shadow almost shouted. I caught it in my hand and stared at him and my smirk disappeared, and was replaced by a cold stare.
"Ok, ill give you the emerald but only on one condition." I said to the black hedgehog that was walking towards me.
"Well talk." He simply stated his gaze never left me but I could easily notice his ears twitching from side to side as if responding to noises.
"Oh Shadow, as always direct to the point!" I thought. "The condition is, you let me join your team with you and Eggman, well do we have a deal?"
"Done." Shadow said in his usual uncaring tone whilst thrusting his arm out to the side.
I threw the emerald in his direction, he caught it then only moments later at least 2 dozen squads of G.U.N soldiers came rushing in the room. "What Sonic the hedgehog stealing a emerald." A solider said.
"Sonic why are you stealing the emerald." A solider who I suspected to be the commanding officer said.
"Umm, can you get us out of here Shadow?" Shadow looked at me surprised most likely by the fact I knew his name, and then he nodded.
"Chaos control." Shadow said whilst thrusting the emerald into the air and then we were engulfed by the light. Only seconds later we were standing on a G.U.N robot and I saw Sonic panting.
"What?" Sonic said as he saw us. Then Shadow said some of my all time favourite lines in the series.
"It all starts with this, a jewel containing the ultimate power." Shadow said whilst lifting up the emerald.
"Now I know what's going on, the military's mistaken me for the likes of you, so were do you think your going with that emerald?" Sonic asked whilst he walked over to us. "Say something you fake hedgehog!" Sonic shouted whilst he ran over to us.
"Chaos control" Shadow said as he warped us passed Sonic and on to the top of a nearby building.
"Whoa he's fast; hey it's not his speed he must be using the chaos emerald to warp." Sonic realised as he turned around to face us.
"My name is Shadow, I'm the world's ultimate life form, there is no time for games, farewell." Then Shadow used chaos control to warp us again, when the light dissipated I noticed we were on the "Space colony ARK". We started walking to as I knew the cannons power source; it was a few good minuets before Shadow broke the silence. "So who are you, and how do you know me?" Shadow asked.
"The names Ruin and how I know you, ill answer that when Eggman gets here". I said simply. "Shadow, I thought Chaos control only took us to different places not take us through time?" (And please note: I know that you can time travel with chaos control but you need two people to do it and two emeralds).
"When you have enough power you can make short jumps in time." Shadow simply replied. After a few minutes Eggman finally arrived, but he didn't see me, as I was leaning against the wall. "I've been waiting for you doctor". Shadow said as Eggman jumped out of the walker. "Now I will show the glorious achievement of what the worlds leading scientist, Professor Gerald has created." Shadow said from the raised platform. "The ARK was the first space colony made by mankind. Not many people know that the ARK contained a top secret research facility were weapons of mass destruction were being created." Shadow continued. "This is one of them." "A weapon capable of destroying an entire planet, code named: The Eclipse Cannon." As Shadow spoke the platform raised. At that moment I noticed Rouge watching from the ceiling but she didn't see me look at her but she was aware of my presence.
"Destroying an entire planet…" Eggman began. Was this my grandfather's legacy?"
"But it's been deactivated for some time now." Shadow began. "To reactivate it…. Large amounts of energy are necessary." The cannon's console made an activating noise as he threw the emerald in to one of the slots, the other six more remained empty.
"Oh…so that's why we needed the Chaos Emerald!" Eggman said.
"Exactly! To reactivate the machine we NEED the seven chaos emeralds." Shadow explained. "Once you have that, then you have the ultimate power of destruction to use as you please. And then….the world could be yours!
"Hahahahahahaha! Sounds like a plan, I like the way you think Shadow!" Eggman said. "I will get the Chaos Emeralds, use the machine to dominate the world and build a legacy of my own!
I recognised this part so I thought I might scare them, just for the fun of it.
"No Rouge we do not think it will be that easy." I said whilst walking out of my dark place near the door, the moment I stopped and looked up right at Rouge. Shadow and Eggman did the same.
Rouge dropped down right in front of me; she had quite a shocked look on her face as I had answered her question before she asked it. "Sharp eye kid." She said to me I growled at her as I hate being called kid. She directed her attention to all of us now. "I've got a great idea." Rouge said to us all. "How about making a deal?" Rouge asked.
"A deal?" Eggman responded.
"When you grabbed that huge Emerald, you said something about a reaction." Rouge began. "A reaction that it may have something to do with the Master Emerald. " "Now if you could just let me borrow that radar. I may be able to help you." "What do you think?" Rouge asked.
"If I do, what's in it for me?" Eggman asked bluntly.
"I have a idea where the other Chaos Emeralds may be, I may not look like it, but do you know that I am a treasure hunter that specializes in all kinds of jewels." Rouge said, she then took a Chaos Emerald out of the gap between her wings.
Eggman then looked at Shadow who nodded, then looked at me and I nodded. "Very well." Eggman responded
"Ok, then it's a deal?" Rouge asked. "I don't think we've been introduced, I'm Rouge the bat." "But you can call me Rouge."
I just snickered then. Which caused all eyes in the room to turn on me. "I already know." I said bluntly.
"Ah that reminds me, Ruin you said you would tell us how you knew all our names when the Doctor got here, so talk." Shadow said.
"*Sigh*, Ok, you see I come from *Gulp* another dimension." I said quickly.
Silence across the room and the entire ARK came once again, the only sound was the humming of the Cannon.
"A-Are you kidding me kid, you expect us to believe that." Rouge stuttered
"Don't, call me kid Rouge!!" I yelled at her.
"Hold it Bat-girl, ok Ruin if you are from another dimension, how did you get here?" Eggman asked.
"I don't know, I went to bed as usual, and woke up in an alley in Central city." I told Eggman
"Oh well this is interesting, you could be a great help." Eggman said.
"Yes I could besides, I know what is going to happen later but I'm only going to give you hints at the right time, to keep reality in check, I am sure you understand." I said.
"Ok lets going, the my intelligence records say they are on Prison island." Rouge said.
"We will have to think up a plan on the way there, and ill give you hints when you need them, ok." I said then Eggman got into his walker and we all ran to the teleport pad, to get to Eggman's Pyramid base.
