Shadow the Hedgehog sighed. It was another normal day for the ultimate life-form, which means he had nothing to do but stand around and ponder about life. Currently, Shadow was standing by a cliff top, watching the sun set over a large canyon. Maria would have loved this…

"No!" the black hedgehog shouted to himself "don't think about her! Don't look into the past!"

But he couldn't help it. His mind reminded him about what happen to the girl, how she died trying to save him. Shadow missed Maria greatly, he couldn't deny it. If only she didn't die, if only he could turn back time.

Then it occurred to Shadow that he CAN turn back time! He took out two Chaos Emerald he found in his traveling and held one in each hand. They glowed with powerful energy, energy the ultimate life-form knows greatly about.

But should he do this? Should he change history when all is well? He knew it would be risky, but the thoughts of Maria clouded his concentration.

"CHAOS CONTROL!"

Soon enough, a time portal appeared before him. Not having second thoughts anymore, Shadow jumped into the portal.

The next thing he saw was a corridor of the space colony Ark. From what he guessed, this was the day when G.U.N. came and all hell broke lose. Footsteps were heard, and Shadow hid behind a box as a researcher walked by. This mission wouldn't be easy now that the black hedgehog would have to use stealth as people seeing another Shadow would cause trouble.

He whizzed through the space station when nobody was around and stopped to look out a window. Beyond the window was Earth, and heading to the space colony was seemed to a G.U.N. space shuttle.

"That is most definitely filled with soldiers out to get me" Shadow said "I have to save Maria before they arrive."

The ultimate life-form ran while trying to find his human friend. He remembered hanging out with Maria in her bedroom before the attack, so she and his past self must be there. Shadow blazed down a hallway and peeked around a corner. He saw himself and his female buddy walk out of the bedroom, laughing about some joke Shadow never really thought was funny. Time was running out, and he couldn't just go up to them and say Maria is going to die. Guess he'll have to do things the Shadow way.

He grabbed one of his emeralds and said "chaos control!"

With the power of only a single emerald, time stood still around Shadow. He grabbed the practically frozen bodies of the hedgehog and girl and went to the escape pods. Shadow carefully placed the two on the ground of a pod then closed the escape pod. As soon as he did that, time unfroze and he could heard confusion from inside the pod.

"Huh?" gasped the voice of Maria "how did we get here all of a sudden?"

"I don't know" replied Shadow from the past.

The Shadow of the future went to the control panel and pressed the 'launch' button. The escape pod blasted off into outer space and heading to Earth. And thankfully, the pod wasn't blown to pieces by the oncoming G.U.N. shuttle. Now that his work here was done, Shadow was ready to go home.

"Chaos control!" the ultimate life-form yelled, holding the Chaos emeralds in each hand.

Another portal opened up, and just in time. The sound of screaming and gun fire was heard close by and he had no reason to stick around. He went into the warp hole, awaiting to see what difference he made in the present.

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To be continued.