It was a cold night in the forest; the wind was strong and the weather was less then ten degrees. It was a full moon, the stars and moon illuminating in the night light. The forest itself was almost empty, a pink chameleon was pushing his way through the forest in hope or finding someone or something to help him get back to the gang had been on a mission to retrieve some data on a monster which had been roaming the streets and causing murders. Unluckily for them, one of the creators of this monster happened to spot them hacking the system, and tried to self destruct the whole area.

Espio was the last to escape, and had no idea where Vector or Charmy had gone. He didn't know how to get back to the agency by foot, and they'd driven off with the last car in the area. The chameleon had been walking around for over an hour, and his legs were getting tired after having to immediately flee Area 99. He slumped down against a tree placing his hands on his knees. Glancing at his wrist communicator, he realised he'd lost connection. He groaned; Knowing he was stuck in a forest which stretched out for miles in all directions made him figure he wasn't getting out for a while. He leant his head against the tree behind him and closed his eyes. A cold gust of wind hit against him and he wrapped his arms around himself shivering. Out of nowhere, a piercing scream was heard, Espio fell back and landed on the mucky floor. His eyes shot open looking around; Just where did that scream come from? The trees had begun rustling violently and gusts of wind could be heard. He got back up on his feet and stood in his ninja stance. "Who's there?!" He shouted to the wind, only to notice the whole scenario had gotten darker, and a cloud of mist had formed in front of him.

From that cloud, a figure could be seen: It was walking closer to Espio with it's eyes like snow. "Espio." It echoed, making Espio panic. He got out a kunai and placed it in front of his face.

"How do you know my name?!" But the figure refused to reply, and only held up a single hand. Within a matter of seconds black vines had been wrapped all around Espio, forcing him to drop his kunai. "W-Who are you?!"

The figure took another step closer, and revealed his huge, white, sharp teeth. The ninja's eyes shrank a bit in fear. "You know who I am now, don't you?" The figure brought his face close to Espio's and let out a soft moan before stepping back and smirking so Espio could see his face.

Before Espio got the chance to reply, he felt one of the blurs dark claws swipe against his belly. He resisted the urge to yelp through gritting his teeth together. "You…You're the monster. The experiment that went purposely wrong…And you're here to kill me." The figures shape became more visible and was now an anthropomorphic demon. Their sharp claws dragged along the floor along with their dagger like tail. The demon laughed at the chameleon and propped his head on the chameleons shoulder. "Oh you must think you're so tough, don't you, Espio? But the truth is…You're not. You are just some weak fragile ninja who can't even tell his friends his sexuality because he's scared of his friends reactions…To me all you are is weak, weak, weak." Espio felt the vines tighten around him and he began to cough violently.

"How…How did you know that?!" Espio yelled, only to feel the demon slam his head into the back of the tree. His coughs got louder and he felt the tip of one of the vines stroke his backside.

"Heh…I know more then you think, Espio." Espio did his best to shut his legs together but it wouldn't work, the vine still continued to stroke him. He shivered.

The demon smirked when he made the vine push its way inside Espio, and tears formed in his eyes. "S-Stop…That you bastard!"

"No."

Tears flowed down Espio's face as he felt another vine shove itself up and down his anal area. His yelping got weaker as the vines thrusted faster and deeper into him, his vision going a blur. "That's a good boy…" He heard the demon whisper "Now let me make my grand finale…" Espio heard the demon make a loud hissing noise before biting the side of his neck. The Chameleon tried to scream, but his body was too weak; It was useless. He felt the vines loosen up a bit and slide out of him. Warm blood trickled down his body from his neck and the tears felt like they were never ending. The demon spat out part of Espio's skin before cleaning away the drewling blood. Espio winced at his tongue pressing against his neck and causing his body to sting. "A-Ah!" Espio yelped as a warm fluid from the demons mouth was spat onto his body. "Ah…" His eyes got heavy and he fell to the floor passing out.

"Heh, That's what you get for trying to mess with me."

Somewhere else in the forest, a jet black hedgehog with red streaks was walking along with . "Hm that chaos emerald must be somewhere…" Eggman murmured, stepping into the mud and looking down at his detector "The signal is strong around here." Shadow glanced over at Eggman's detector and continued walking. He stopped his tracks when he noticed some fresh prints in the mud, a pair of footprints and a pair of handprints which were twice the size of the feet.

"Doctor take a look at this." Shadow murmured, raising an eyebrow at the print "what do you think…That was?" Eggman looked over at the print and crossed his arms in thought.

"Hm…It may be the monster from Area 99, trying to flee before the place blew up." Eggman suggested, shrugging "but it could be anywhere by now." Shadow nodded and the two continued to walk along.

Rain began to patter onto them and the mud began to get more slippery. Shadow did his best to keep balance, going ahead of Eggman. "The signals gotten stronger." Eggman said, putting his hand on Shadow's shoulder "we must be near." The hedgehog stopped and snatched the detector off of Eggman.

"Good." Shadow replied. He continued walking along, following the directions the detector was giving him. In the distance something caught the corner of his eye. He looked up from the detector and noticed an object lying by a tree that looked all to familiar.

"Well would you look at that…" Shadow began, walking to the sharp metal object and picking it up "isn't this one of the chameleons kunai's doctor?" Eggman nodded standing behind him, and wiped his moustache as the rain continued to hit against them.

"Espio isn't the kind to misplace his equipment…" Eggman muttered looking around. "Maybe he's nearby." Shadow examined the object, placed the kunai on his newly attached belt and continued voyaging onwards.

10 Minuets passed, the detector had began beeping madly as they walked on. "Yes…Yes the emerald must be near!" Eggman cheered with joy "then we can get out of this dump." Shadow mumbled some words which were unable to translate and turned back to .

"It should be just past those trees, I'll go on ahead to make sure nothing dangerous is there." Eggman went to a halt, not liking Shadow's idea as he feared Shadow would leave him behind, but nodded anyway to avoid any arguments. He leant by a tree and watched Shadow make his way through the trees and was soon out of site.

Shadow looked at the detector. "Right ahead…" He said, lowering the detector. His eyes widened in shock and his hand let go of the detector, but he caught it again before it hit the ground. A chameleon was passed out on the floor, his neck was bulging and bleeding, a purple aura around the bite mark which laid there. His chest had many marks on it, and one large swipe which went across his whole chest which still was seeping blood through. Shadow walked slowly towards Espio, unsure of whether he was dead or alive. He noticed the detector get louder and placed it close to Espio, kneeling down next to him. "This…" Shadow started, putting the detector near Espio's neck "this monster…has chaos energy. There is no chaos emerald." Shadow sighed in disappointment and put his detector away. "I wonder what happened…" He placed his arms around Espio and picked him up so his head was resting against Shadow's back. "Doctor."

Eggman turned to Shadow and jumped when he saw the unconscious chameleon. "The monster must have got at him…" Shadow looked down at Espio's scars and pulled out the detector.

"It seems the bitemark the monster gave him caused our detector to go off, it contains a huge mass of chaos energy. I suppose the monster must be alive through the chaos emeralds…"

"I see…" Eggman raised an eyebrow and noticed striped of purple along his body. "Let's take him back."

"Ok, Doctor."

So the two hurried back to their base with Espio in their hands.