"What!" Rouge yelped. "Shadow! But how? He's supposed to be…"
"Dead?" a voice behind her asked. "No bat girl, Shadow is very much alive. He's unconscious for now, but growing stronger each and everyday."
Rouge turned around to face him, "But Dr. Eggman how is he alive? That fall from ARK was fatal! And how did you find him?"
Dr. Eggman laughed, "That doesn't matter you silly girl. What matters now is keeping him alive and when Shadow's strong enough he is going to give Sonic a run for his money!" He laughed again in that evil, crazy sort of way. He then left the room, still laughing.
Rouge looked back at Shadow's capsule. She saw a little hole in it, just big enough for her hand to fit into. She hesitantly slid her hand in and touched his ebony fur. It was soft; Rouge never would have guessed that, based on his attitude. Rouge glided her hand to his chest fur.
And she thought that she was in love with it. It was soft, warm, silky. Rouge thought that the fur was as soft as a baby's fur.
Just then Rouge was woken up from her thoughts as Dr. Eggman's voice came on to the speaker. "Rouge, Blue Typhoon approaching. I need you at the bridge now!"
Rouge looked back at the sleeping Shadow and whispered, "I know you probably don't remember anything, but please know Dr. Eggman is not your friend. He's using us and we're using him. But we have to act like we are on his side. When I find the right time, I'm taking you and myself far from him. Knuckles will help us. We just have to wait." Shadow was still unconscious but Rouge could have sworn she saw him smile.
"Rouge!" Eggman's voice boomed on the speakers, "To the bridge now!"
She sighed and turned to leave. As she left the room Rouge whispered, "I won't leave you behind, my brother."
When Rouge finally got to the bridge Dr. Eggman muttered, "Took you long enough."
Rouge sent him a death glare telling him to shut up or die. Dr. Eggman rolled his eyes and climbed into his Egg Dingy. Rouge got into her bat space ship thing. And so they flew into space saying nothing to each other, minds heavy with thoughts.
After about seven minutes of flying, a pink spaceship came from behind them. It was Amy's ship. Amy began firing like crazy at them, and Rouge swore that she heard Amy saying, "I'll prove to Sonic that I can keep up with him."
'Where is Sonic anyway?' Rouge thought. As if on cue a light blue ship came flying right by Rouge.
"Hey Rouge! You losing your touch?" Sonic yelled to her. Just then Rouge noticed that a bunch of other ships had entered the fight. A yellow one, a green one, a purple one, a red one, and the Blue Typhoon itself. Eggman had brought ten other ships with him too. It looked like a mini war. Robots were operating Eggman's of course. Rouge could guess who was in which ship on Team Sonic.
Charmy in the yellow one, Vector in the green one, Espio in the purple one, and Knuckles in the red one. Everyone else was probably on the Blue Typhoon, driven by Tails.
"Hello? Mobius to Rouge. Hey you alive?" Sonic asked.
"Huh? Oh yeah I'm fine."
Sonic laughed and said, "Wake up Rouge and join the party."
Rouge growled at her stupidity and shot off a couple lasers to try to scare the blue hedgehog off. It didn't work. Bored, Rouge began to chase his ship.
Eggman all of a sudden shot his laser at Rouge. It hit the cannon on her bat ship. "Rouge stop messing around, we have to steal the chaos emeralds now!"
"Fine, you ruin all my fun you know that right?"
Sonic suddenly laughed and said, "Hey Eggman you have a couple of visitors."
Eggman and Rouge both turned around and saw a Meterx Ship approaching the Egg Fort Two. Sonic and everyone were laughing. Sonic then noticed that Rouge looked horrified.
Eggman took off toward the ship at full speed. He was yelling orders at Rouge and his robots, but Rouge wasn't really listening. All that Rouge was paying attention to was the lasers being fired at the Egg Fort Two.
They were getting very close to the part of the ship that had Shadow in it. Rouge all of a sudden felt sick to her stomach. Everything was happening in slow motion. Only one thought was going through her head, I'm not losing him again!
Eggman turned around and saw that Rouge was frozen. He shot off another cannon blast at her. It missed, but it woke Rouge up from her thoughts.
"What?" she mumbled, "oh…oh… Shad… Shadow!" She kicked it into gear and sped off after Eggman.
Sonic tilted his head, What did she say?
Author's Notes: I know it's short, but I hope it will get longer. If not, you can all flame! (Not really!) Read and Review! Sega owns Sonic and all other characters.