>>>This is Master Tananh. Many of you older veterans will remember this story from a few years ago. Well, I'm re-writing it to make it better and I'm actually going to finish it. This is really more of a prologue and I assure you that later chapters will be a bit longer. I would also like to add that this takes place assuming the events in Sonic Heroes and any other installment after Sonic Adventure 2 never happened, since I wrote this before it came out. Read on.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters.

Chapter 1: Beginnings

Sonic

Super Sonic got ready for his pass against the Final Hazard. He aimed for the weak spot and nailed him! "Shadow, take over! I gotta get some more rings!" I cried. Shadow agreed. As I gathered my share of the rings, I watched Shadow. It was incredible how someone I just got done beating up was now fighting beside me to undo what he had done. He was really starting to grow on me.

"Yes!" I cried. Shadow had nailed the Biohazard and it had died.

Then I realized something. The ARK was still falling towards Earth! We weren't going to make it. There was only one way, Chaos Control. But Shadow didn't have time to gather more rings! I couldn't do this by myself! If we did it now, Shadow would surely perish. If we waited for him to get more rings, the Earth would be destroyed.

"Sonic! Get over here! We need to use Chaos Control!" He knew. He knew that he would die because of this decision. I just did as I was told. I didn't need to argue. He wouldn't change his mind.

Together, side-by-side, we used Chaos Control. As we were performing the move, I looked at Shadow. I would never see him again. It was strange that I cared so much for this guy. I guess I just have a heart of gold.

"Chaos Control!"

The feeling was ecstatic! A bright flash of light and we were OUT of there! That brief moment between dimensions. You feel a huge rush of power. It makes me really hyper when I do it. I wondered how Shadow stayed so calm after doing this. Maybe it wears off after doing it a while. I would ask Shadow about it later. Then I realized what I was thinking. That brought me crashing back down to reality.

"Shadow! Come on!" I screamed as soon as we were out. We raced for the open docking bay. I would make it. Shadow would not. But there was still hope. Almost there! Almost there!

"Sonic, take this to remember me by!" He threw me his fire bracelet. He sounded sad. Like he was afraid he would be forgotten. "You're going to make it!" I cried. But he didn't.

It happened suddenly. His silver and white turned back into the normal black and red. He stopped flying. He started falling. "Noooooooo!" I cried. If I dived down to save him, I wouldn't make it either. So I flew on. Not able to look at my falling friend.

I was no longer in my Super form. I walked slowly to the research facility where everyone was. I wasn't in any big hurry. They would ask where Shadow was, and I would have to tell them what had happened. How I had just left him to die. Finally, I opened the door, and there they were. "Sonic, where is Shadow?" Rouge asked. Suddenly, I found I couldn't relive that brief minute. I just shook my head and gave her the fire bracelet.

Soon afterward, we all left. I was the last one out. I looked back through the window at Earth. "Sayonara, Shadow the Hedgehog." I whispered silently.

Eggman

I was furious that my plan had backfired. Curse my grandfather! Curse him! It couldn't have turned out worse. Rouge had turned out to be a spy, Shadow turned on me and then he died before I could persuade him otherwise!

Wait a minute. "Shadow!" I exclaimed ecstatically.

"Hahahahaha!" I laughed as I entered my shuttle back to Earth. This would be the one. This was the plan that would finally defeat that blue fool! I couldn't believe my genius.

Instead of going directly to Earth like the others, I took a little detour. I started looking outside the ARK's mini atmosphere. I looked for hours when I finally found him. He wasn't dead as everyone had suspected. He was using his boots to fly back to the ARK.

Perhaps old Gerald did something right after all. When I saw that Final Hazard was surviving in space, I knew that Shadow would probably be able to survive also. Final Hazard was, after all, a prototype. Shadow was the real thing.

I opened the docking bay doors and scooped him in. I set the ship on autopilot as I ran down the ship to the docking bay. He was standing up in the usual way he did that made you feel like you were inferior to him. When he saw me, he opened his mouth. He was probably going to thank me, but right then I hit a button that made a hidden gun attached to the wall shoot a tranquilizer dart in him.

Back at the lab, I worked for weeks on him. Finally, I was finished. "It looks like Sonic has finally met his match!" I shouted triumphantly to myself.

>>>This is Master Tananh. I know that this didn't really have much that you didn't already know aside from the new Shadow survival story. This was really just a prologue. It's going to get a lot crazier next chapter. Please review and tell me how awesome it was.