_Chaos Among Earth_

It was three weeks after the defeat of Cell, the bug who held the Cell Games, killed a large chunk of Earth's population and killed two of the strongest beings on Earth. Cell was killed by Gohan, the only Super Saiyan 2 on the planet, and the universe, at this time. During the Cell games, Goku sacrificed himself for the sake of Planet Earth's survival. Trunks (Vegeta's son) was also killed by the bug Cell. After the Cell Games event, Goku wished not to come back, but to stay in otherworld, in fear that he may attract more powerful enemies before he is ready for them. About two weeks after the Cell Games event, a space Pirate, Bojack, was released and came to Earth, only to be killed by Gohan. When Vegeta realizes that Goku has saved everyone from harm, even if it meant committing suicide to do so, he thinks that he is no true warrior, the one he had claimed to be, and as result, he fell into a great depression.

Sonic and company had been running to the core of the ARK. Amy was left behind and Shadow had stayed behind. Amy came to Shadow and reminded him of his true promise to Maria. He ran up to catch the others. Sonic and company had found the core and then the Biolizard appeared. Shadow came walking up and told Sonic to go get the chaos emeralds as he held off the Biolizard. Shadow defeated the beast by hitting his life support system. Shadow ran up to get the emeralds with Sonic and the ARK rumbled. The Boilizard roared and it used chaos control to teleport. It became a part of the ARK. The ARK rumbled as it hurled towards Mobius. Shadow and Sonic decided to go super and show that Biolizard who's boss. A battle occurred and Shadow and Sonic were victorious. They both used chaos control to put the ARK back into orbit. Shadow had seemed to fall to Mobius. He used his remaining energy to teleport down to Mobius. Everyone went back down to their planet and they met up with Shadow eventually.

Naldoa was once a normal hedgehog who once opposed Eggman. He confronted Dr. Eggman at age 33. Dr. Eggman had the seven chaos emeralds and trapped Naldoa the hedgehog. He put Naldoa in a chamber. The seven emeralds were in separate containers that had tubes leading to the main chamber. Eggman took the chaotic energy in its purest form and used it to transform him human so he stood no chance. Eggman didn't realize that the chaotic energy would react violently to the liquid in the chamber. It exploded and Naldoa was teleported to Earth. He had no memory of what happened in his past, so he started a new life. He learned new things about this world, like the Z Warriors. He had reached the top of the Lookout in search of new wonders, but had found a group of people, after they uttered "Arise, Mighty Shenron", a beam of light shot out of the orange orbs that seemed to be gathered. When the beam of light formed into a dragon. He heard the dragon say that he could grant any two wishes one could desire, this alone caught the attention of Naldoa. He had heard all he needed to know where a source of possible great powers could be, so he fled before he was caught. The remaining Z Warriors were using the Dragon Balls to have Shenron grant the lives of everyone who fell to Cell back. He heard how they wished with the dragon balls. After a year and a half, he had been robbing people. He eventually reached Capsule Corp., and realized it was the greatest hit he could find. Of all the loot he found in the building, the dragon radar stood out. He grabbed it and called it a day, not knowing the items purpose or value. After having got to his house, he activated the Dragon Radar. He found it quite useless since it was simply a green grid-screen. He about began to doubt the machine when he looked closer and noticed the arrows. He was interested in the arrows, so he followed them. When he reached the dot on the Radar, he wondered where it had led him. He looked around, and then saw an orange glare. As he approached, the glare revealed itself to be a Dragon Ball. He had a flashback of the Dragon Ball's use for the revival of most of Earth's inhabitants, and that was the drive he had to collect the other six. When he collected the last six Dragon Balls, he had an "Amazing Plan": Summon Shenron, Grant Eternal Life and Infinite Power. When he summoned Shenron, he wished for eternal life, and had that granted. He tried at his second wish: Infinite Power, but Shenron didn't have the power to grant the wish, so, he offered an alternative: Items that can raise your power to any level if you use them correctly, the chaos emeralds. Naldoa accepted this alternative, and before him appeared seven emeralds, each of different colors, all containing great power. The Shenron then asked Naldoa if he'd like an item of immense power, the Master emerald, it has power beyond that of all seven emeralds combined, in his grasp. Naldoa, of course, accepted his offer. Five seconds after the wish was granted, a meteor appeared and landed just a few miles away from Naldoa's position. The Shenron said Farewell, and the Dragon Balls spread once more.

One night on Mobius, before the day the chaos emeralds had been "stolen," Shadow had three of the chaos emeralds in his grasp. Sonic had one. The other three still out there. Shadow was nowhere to be seen. Sonic was running around. It was night. It was a month since the Biolizard had tried to destroy Mobius with the ARK. Sonic doesn't normally run around at night, but he had been hyper all day after eating the cake at his birthday party. Shadow was at the edge of a cliff at the coast. He looked at the ocean that reflected the moon. Amy had been looking for Sonic all day. She saw Shadow. She slowly walked up and hugged him from behind. He blushed and Amy said, "Got you Sonic." Shadow said, "Wrong again, Ames," as he blushed. Amy said, "I know... But I had hoped it could have been him..." She hadn't let him go. He said to her, "Another promise broken?" She nodded. He said, "Why do you chase that Faker anyway? He does not love you back. Why not try someone who would love you back?" She said, "Do you... Are you saying you... love me?" He blushed more and said, "N-no... I said you should try to go for someone who would love you back..." She said, "I know a certain hedgehog... He lets me hug him... and he is sweet even though he doesn't act like it..." He blushed more. He dropped a red chaos emerald at his feet. Amy said, "He has soft chest fur..." He turned in her arms and hugged her back. She blushed. Amy continued, "And... He has black fur with red streaks..." He blushed dark. He said, "H-how did you know?.. I never told you..." She said, "You act differently around me than anyone else. You blush when I am near you. You are sweet to me. It was obvious to me." Shadow said, "Amy... I have loved you ever since you reminded me of Maria... I felt something in you that made me feel warm... That gave me hope... That is why I only smile around you..." He smiled. Amy held him and put her head on his chest fur. Sonic was running by the edge of the cliff. He saw Amy and Shadow. He stopped. He thought in his mind, "Is Amy... hugging him?" A small flashback of Maria hugging him popped in Shadow's head. A tear fell as he held Amy. Sonic remained quiet. He thought, "Shadow doesn't hug anyone..." Shadow whispered, "I... I love you Amy..." She blushed and replied, "I... I think I love you too..." Sonic gasped and they both looked at Sonic. Amy said, "S-Sonic? How did you get here? Did you just hear that?" He said, "Shadow?! And Amy?! No way... I must be dreaming... No, no, no." Shadow said, "Amy... Will you stop chasing that Faker and be with me?" Amy started stuttering. She let him go and said, "Shadow... I think... I..." Shadow picked up the red emerald. She started crying and ran away. Shadow ran after along with Sonic. She said, "I can't take the stress of choosing!" Sonic said, "Amy! Shadow is just using you to get to me!" Shadow said, "Don't listen to that Faker! He is lying to you! He just wants you turned against me! He wants me to be alone again!" Sonic said, "He is evil! Don't you love me more?!" She stopped and they stopped behind her. She said, "Sonic... Shadow... I have loved Sonic longer... Sorry Shadow..." Shadow started to tear up. She continued, "I personally believe Sonic more than you... I can't turn my back on him... I love him..." Shadow fell to his knees. Tears fell. Sonic said, "Let's go Amy." They both walked away as Shadow sobbed on the ground. He heard Sonic make another promise about a date tonight. Shadow got up sobbing. He teleported and was stalking Sonic. Sonic branched off from Amy and she headed off. He saw him go up to a squirrel named Sally Acorn. He looked closely. Sonic kissed her and Shadow stopped sobbing. He was filled with rage. After an hour, Sonic and Amy met up at that cliff. Shadow hid in the trees. He saw later in the date that Sonic was about to kiss her. He teleported in front of Sonic shouting at the top of his lungs, "You little cheating shit!" as he socked him in the cheek holding the chaos emerald. Amy said, "Shadow, Don't!" Shadow's eyes glowed red. He said, "Faker has been lying to you! He doesn't love you! I saw him with Sally Acorn!" Sonic got up and said, "W-what are you talking about?" Shadow said, "I saw you kiss that girl! Don't lie!" Sonic looked away. Amy said, "Is this true?.." Sonic said, "Yes..." Amy fell to her knees and sobbed. Sonic said, "To be honest, I hardly like you as a friend Amy..." She sobbed more and more. Shadow walked towards Sonic filled with rage. A red aura surrounded Shadow and his inhibitor rings cracked. Amy got up. She looked at them. Sonic got into fighting position. Amy ran towards the cliff. She jumped. Shadow turned and said, "No! Amy!" He heard a splash and looked directly at Sonic. His inhibitor rings shattered and Shadow was so angered, he was shaking. Tears streamed down his cheeks and Sonic said, "I'm sorry Shadow, but I-" Shadow punched him in the cheek and Sonic flew back and hit a tree. Sonic saw a chaos emerald and picked it up. Sonic threw an energy blast at Shadow. Sonic held two emeralds. Sonic went semi-super form and they both clashed. After a while of fighting, Shadow knocked Sonic out. His inhibitor rings appeared on him and he reverted from chaos form to normal form. He ran to the cliff sobbing and saw Amy's body floating. He jumped down. He landed with a splash and he swam up. He swam to Amy and grabbed her hand. He teleported up to the top of the cliff holding her bridal style. She was only unconscious. The three chaos emeralds he had and the two chaos emeralds Sonic had spun around Amy. She glowed and then they disappeared for no reason. Amy was partially healed. Shadow looked around. He said, "No..." The emeralds were taken to Earth where Naldoa had wished for them. Knuckles noticed the master emerald left as well.

Vegeta was still in a state of depression due to his recent failures with both Bojack and Cell, he sat in his bed, wearing nothing but small shorts. As he sat in bed, he couldn't shake the thought of failure, no matter what he thought of, Goku, Trunks, Cell, not even Bulma could distract him long enough for joy to kick in. Eventually, he noticed his blinds were brighter than usual. He opened his blinds to see that it was one of the first nice days since Goku's death. Vegeta put on his armor, and then looked out his window one more time. He then saw a shooting star midday. He noticed this star had an AMAZING power to it. He near broke the door on the way out. Off he flew in the direction of the meteor, which had just hit the ground and stopped. When Vegeta arrived at its landing point, he saw the emerald was about as big as his torso, and it seemed to be bursting with energy. As he walked up to the emerald, he felt a slight feeling of joy, having been distracting from recent events for long enough. He touched the emerald and felt as if he had just absorbed the energy of a thousand suns. With his new "Power", he decided he'd reclaim place as the strongest being in the universe. When he took his hands off of the emerald, they seemed to burst with a green light. He grabbed the massive emerald and decided to take it home as a "Souvenir." When Bulma saw Vegeta carrying the emerald, she had no choice but to ask him, "What is that?' Vegeta looked her straight in the eye, and then said, "You know, if I knew, I would've already told you. Let's just say, it's a miracle-worker!" He finished his sentence, smiled, and then continued walking towards the gravity chamber. When he entered the gravity chamber, he set the emerald down, looked at it, and decided to test its durability. He decided, he'd put it in 1000X Earth's gravity and see if it could hold. The emerald shattered due to the gravity, but stayed together. Vegeta was impressed. He shut off the gravity in fear he broke the emerald. When normal gravity returned, he looked at the emerald and noticed there were no cracks whatsoever. Vegeta decided he'd try to keep this emerald under wraps for as long as he could, so he took it to the Lookout and gave it to Dende with instructions of putting it in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, where whatever goes in, cannot be sensed from outside. Dende followed the instructions and asked Vegeta what he planned to do with such power. Vegeta looked at Dende and said, "I... I do not know quite yet. I assure you, I'll find use of it soon enough. I am sure that you felt something of energy within the emerald, but your power did not increase. Why is that, Dende?" "Well, I chose not to take the power, I did not find it useful in any way." Vegeta considered what Dende had just said, he looked around then asked, "Where's Mr. Popo?" "Well, um... he went to Korin's level. I think he was getting a few Senzu Beans for a reason I don't know, just, he was in a bad mood when he left, so I highly recommend you leave him to it. Korin will pay, you don't have to." Vegeta looked once again at Dende, the turned around and started to walk away. At this moment, he suddenly felt a massive energy, not Saiyan, not even human, this was almost, energy unliving. Vegeta immediately took off and flew towards such power, unaware that he was burning up the emerald's energy. When he arrived, he noticed he was slightly weaker then when he was at the Lookout. He didn't know why this was, and he cared little. When he looked at where the immense power had come from, he saw a single human being, standing there. He walked up to the human and asked, "Are you the one I am sensing?" "I may be that, or you may be mistaken." "I am not interested in lies or games, tell me if you're that energy!" Vegeta quickly grew impatient. "And WHY would I tell someone I just met?" "You do not want to try me, for I am stronger than I have ever been!" "Are you accusing me of something, or are you recommending, for say... a fight?" "Well, if you want to go that far, I'll go with it!" Vegeta flew at the stranger and before he landed a hit, the stranger had already crippled Vegeta, having broken his arm, leg, and most of his ribs, then kicking Vegeta away. The stranger walked up to the crippled Vegeta and asked him, "Well, you were so eager to fight, but you didn't throw a punch? I thought I'd actually have a chance to test my power, instead, I got this, a ragdoll with more broken bones then someone in a car accident. I sense you have chaos power within you, permit me to ask: Where did you get it? If you fail to answer, I will not hesitate to end you." Vegeta looked at the stranger, he thought the stranger would kill him, answer or no. But all of his cards were either burnt or used. He had no choice, but to reveal to him the location of the master emerald. "I... I cannot say the... exact... position. I can say... it is in a place... where no power... can be sensed. Atop a holy tower, you... will find it." The stranger looked at Vegeta and tried to decide whether he should kill Vegeta for not giving an exact location, or let him live, due to the challenge of finding the master emerald. He looked at Vegeta and just before he left said, "For future reference, the name, is Naldoa. Forget it, and I will forget you lived." Naldoa took off in the direction of the Lookout. When Naldoa arrived at the Lookout, he grabbed Dende, put a chaos sphere up to Dende's head and asked him, "Atop a holy tower, lies a place where energy cannot be sensed. Do those words remind you of something, a place foresay?" "Ye-Yes! The Hyperbolic Time Chamber, it is the door in the front of that building behind me" "Very well, I shall have YOU open the door, if I see no emerald, I will kill you." "WHY?!" "For lying to me, obviously, someone of your potential would know better than to lie to a glowing god such as myself." Dende opened the door to the Chamber, revealing the Master Emerald.

Shadow stared at Amy while she was unconscious in his arms. He was stunned by the fact of the emeralds disappearing. He held her tightly. Sonic was still knocked out on the ground. Shadow's tears fell onto Amy as forms of energy. The tears were his unburnt energy. Shadow closes his eyes. Amy slowly awoke and said, "Sh-Shadow?" He opened his eyes and said, "Amy!" He hugged her tight. She hugged back and said, "I'm sorry I did not believe you..." He said, "Don't be... It is over and needs to be forgotten..." She saw sonic bleeding on the ground. She didn't know whether or not to help him or leave him. Shadow said, "We have a problem... The chaos emeralds... They disappeared..." Amy said, "How? Did someone take them?" Shadow said, "I have no clue... I would have sensed them if they did..." Sonic slowly regained consciousness. Shadow noticed and said, "Let's leave Amy." She nodded and he walked with her in his arms. He walked quickly out of Sonic's sight. Sonic got up and held his left shoulder. His arm was broken. He slowly made his way to Tails' home. He loudly opened the door, alerting Tails. Tails ran to the living room and saw blood leading to the first aid kit. He saw Sonic digging through it. He was bloody and broken. Tails said, "Sonic! What happened?!" Before Sonic could say a word, he fainted. Tails frantically grabbed medical equipment, patched Sonic up, and stopped the bleeding. Tails thought, "I guess I am lucky my carpet is stain proof..." He set Sonic down on the couch and he sat in the chair. Tails fell back asleep. Back on Angel Island, Knuckles was freaking out. He searched frantically for his master emerald as Angel Island was plummeting to the ground. He searched the whole island. Nothing. It was nowhere to be found. By the time he realized the master emerald was long gone, Angel Island had already crashed down onto Mobius. Knuckles was knocked out on impact. Shadow had taken Amy to the ARK. She said, "It is nice and quiet up here." Shadow nodded and said, "Yes. It is. It wasn't always that way. When Maria was here, I would always listen to stories she told me. I miss her..." Amy said as she hugged him, "Please don't dwell on the past when you could look forward to the future. Our future." Shadow blushed. They both looked out a window and stared into the vast emptiness of space. Shadow's eyes gleamed and Amy's glittered. They both looked into each other's eyes. Amy leaned in and kissed Shadow softly on the lips. Shadow blushed more and closed his eyes as well as Amy. They stayed kissing for about a minute. Amy stopped and blushed darker. Shadow yawned. Amy asked, "Are you tired Shady?" Shadow said, "Yeah..." Amy said back, "Then let's go to sleep." He took her to his old bedroom and they fell asleep. The next day, Rouge had been on the ARK and noticed that the bedroom door was now locked. She thought, "That door wasn't locked yesterday..." she knocked on the door awaking Shadow. He looked through the one way window. He saw Rouge and went back to the bed and slept once more. Rouge walked away. Sonic awoke with a cast on his arm and bandages all over his body. He looked around and realized where he was. He stood up and smelt waffles. Sonic walked into the kitchen and saw waffles on the table. Tails walked in and said, "You're up. Do you feel ok?" Sonic said, "I do now thanks to you buddy." Tails said, "What happened anyway?" Sonic sat down and said, "I was attacked by Shadow." Tails said, "Did you anger him?" Sonic said, "I don't know. I forgot the details." Tails said, "Oh... Well, you are ok now." Sonic nodded as he ate his waffles. Later Shadow awoke again and he got out of bed. He thought about the chaos emeralds disappearing the way they did. Amy woke up and saw Shadow looking out the window into space. She got up and walked to him. She asked, "Are you thinking about something?" He nodded and said, "I am thinking about what could have happened to the Chaos emeralds..." Amy said, "I bet Tails can help us. Want me to give him a call?" Shadow said, "If you want..." Amy said, "Okay. I will have to go to him and get him. I promise I will be back." Shadow hugged her and said, "Don't take long Rose..." She hugged back and said, "I won't Shady." He let go and she walked out and away. Shadow sat on the bed. He sighed. Rouge saw the door open and she walked in. Shadow was looking at the floor and didn't notice. Rouge said, "Why so glum?" Shadow was startled. She said, "Woops. Didn't mean to scare you." Shadow said, "I am fine..." She said, "Ok. Whatever." Shadow said, "I am just thinking about how these chaos emeralds literally disappeared for no applicable reason..." Rouge said, "That peeks ones curiosity." Amy was down on Mobius and went to Tails' home. She knocked. Tails answered and said, "Hey. I guess you're looking for Soni-" She interrupted him, "I am over him. I need you on the ARK." He said, "Why?" She replied, "It is important. Just please come with me." He said, "OK. Come on Sonic!" Amy was silent and Sonic came out. Amy said, "Don't try anything liar. Hmph." She turned her head and walked. Tails was confused. They walked back to the ARK. They ran into Knuckles. He said, "The master emerald disappeared and I don't know where it went last night." Amy said, "That's odd... The same thing happened to the chaos emeralds..." Knuckles said, "Something must be up." Tails said, "Must be if that happened." Amy filled him in on what happened. They got to the ARK. Shadow and Rouge were in the main computer room. Everyone walked in. Tails said, "I am here to do what I can Shadow." Shadow said, "Great. Just track those emeralds." Tails sat at the computer and before Shadow could say something, Tails said, "Found them! They are on a planet called 'Earth.' It is very far away." Shadow said, "Earth... That is the planet humans originated from, right?" Tails nodded. Sonic said, "How do we get there?" Shadow said, "With a great power."

Naldoa sat there, just looking in amazement at the master emerald. "With this, my power can become infinite, and to believe, I thought Shenron was lying." Dende looked at Naldoa and wondered if he had just made a huge mistake by revealing what Vegeta had said not to. He looked at Naldoa and tried a quick-thought move, "Um... that isn't the emerald you're looking for." Naldoa turned around at Dende then asked, "What do you mean, this isn't the master emerald? Remember, I told you that if you lied to me, I would kill you! Do not tell me I must get my hands red." Dende looked around to see if he could stall Naldoa in any way. Eventually, he remembered his little crystal ball Mr. Popo gave him a few days prior. "The emerald you are looking for is in the building behind this one. This is my room, not the Hyperbolic Time Chamber." Dende would be surprised if Naldoa had actually believed him. Naldoa saw a small building behind the main building, when he entered the room, he felt not as great power coming from the crystal ball. "This is the MASTER emerald; it seems surprisingly weak for its title." Dende looked at the crystal ball. "Well, you had asked for it, and that is what you've received. Naldoa looked at the crystal ball once more. "This is not the master emerald, this is a stupid stone. I'm going to get the one in the empty room. If you want to stop me, feel free to try." They heard a familiar voice behind them. "Well, I guess I might just do that, then." Naldoa turned around to see Gohan. Gohan was Super Saiyan, but not full power. "Kid, you're going to wind up needing more power than you have in order to best me, just so you know." "Well, if it's more power you want, it's more power YOU'VE GOT!" Gohan concentrated all of his energy and transformed to the Super Saiyan 2. "Does this satisfy your taste?" "No, not really, I was hoping for a challenge, a play mate even." Having heard this, Gohan got a little irritated at the fact that his strongest power wasn't considered a play mate to Naldoa. "I'll assume you're a confident guy." "You assume correctly." Naldoa disappeared and reappeared behind Gohan then whispered in his ear, "You're in for more than you bargained for." In a blink of an eye, Gohan lost his Super Saiyan 2 and fell down, broken, bruised, and beaten. Dende looked in horror as Gohan fell, it hadn't seemed as though Naldoa lifted a finger! "Now, back to my original business." Naldoa walked up to the master emerald and placed his hand on it. "Yes, I feel the energy flowing into me, with this power, I will be indestructible!" Vegeta, regaining consciousness, got up and wondered, "How did he move so fast? I couldn't even see two of the blows! It's near unbelievable. Is it possible there is something more powerful than the emerald? Speaking of which, I should probably be getting that now. I only hope Dende didn't reveal it yet." Vegeta started to fly towards the Lookout, when he arrived, he noticed Naldoa absorbing the emeralds energy, "Damnit! This is the last thing I need." Vegeta knew he was far weaker than Naldoa at this point, so his situation turned into a covert operation. Vegeta knew he had to somehow get the master emerald from the Hyperbolic Time Chamber without being caught by Naldoa.

On the ARK, nobody knew what Shadow meant. Tails asked, "What do you mean by that Shadow?" Shadow said, "I mean that we can use chaos energy to teleport us to Earth with one big chaos control." Sonic said, "Wait. We don't have a single chaos emerald or even the master emerald..." Rouge said, "Yeah Shadow. How would we be able to use chaos control without an emerald?" Shadow smirked and said, "This entire planet consists of chaos energy that I know how to tap into." Knuckles said, "That isn't possible. If it was, I would know how." Shadow said, "I was made to basically run on chaos energy. I would be beyond weak if there was no chaotic energy. I consume surrounding chaotic energy to become stronger, and use that energy even to heal myself." Everyone stared at him like he was crazy. Shadow said, "I will teleport the entire ARK to Earth with all of us inside." Tails said, "That is crazy! It could kill you." Shadow said, "We must do anything to keep those out of the hands of evil. Very possibly a universe is at stake." Amy said, "But Shadow, I just fell in love with you. I don't want to lose you." Shadow said, "I promise I will be fine." Shadow crossed his heart. Amy hugged him tightly. He hugged back softly. Shadow said, "We have no time to waste. This is no game here." Everyone else simultaneously said, "Right." Shadow said, "Sonic, go tell Sally, Cream, and everyone else that we might be gone for a long time, or not even come back." Sonic said, "Got it." He ran off to the teleporter and everyone waited on the ARK. He came back ten minutes later and Shadow said, "It is about time." Sonic said, "Like you could have done it faster." Tails said, "We have no time to waste, remember?" Shadow said, "Everyone, do not interfere with me when I go to the core of the ARK. The mass amount of chaotic energy can possibly kill you." Everyone nodded. Shadow ran to the core of the ARK. He stepped onto the pedestal and he took his inhibitor rings off. Chaotic energy surged into his body. A green aura formed around him and he floated up. His chaotic energy spiked and rose extremely high, extremely fast. He reached a near fatal intake speed of chaotic energy. He screamed at the top of his lungs, "Chaos... CONTROL!" The entire ARK glowed green and flashed. It appeared in Earth's atmosphere. Shadow appeared in the room everyone was in. He seemed to be fine. Everyone looked at him. He smiled a bit than fainted. Sonic said, "His energy has run extremely low!" Amy hugged Shadow's limp body tightly. He weakly rubbed the back of her head slowly. He whispered, "G-go find the ch-chaos emeralds... I can feel them down there... On the continent... right below the ARK..."

Naldoa had finished absorbing energy from the Master Emerald. He looked at Dende, then said, "Thank you. I think I've run it dry, but with time, it should regenerate more chaos energy." Naldoa hopped off the Lookout, having a massive amount of chaos energy, and leaving Vegeta's sight. Vegeta had a slight sense of confidence for the situation, knowing that he was too busy to notice the master emerald moving, and too overpowered to notice Vegeta's flying. At this moment, Vegeta had just felt several faint, but there, powers just above him. He looked at the master emerald, and then realized, the energy from the sky and the energy from the master emerald were near the same wavelength. He thought through what the possibilities of this energy being good could be, and, against his better judgment, he grabbed the master emerald, and started flying towards the weak energy. As he looked up to see where he was going, he saw what looked like a moon. Whether or not it be good people on or in this "Moon," he had to make sure that no unnecessary casualties occurred. When he reached this "Moon," he saw the words "Space Colony ARK" written on the side. After five minutes of looking around, he found an entrance. When he entered the ARK, he started to follow the energy. He eventually got to a room full of inhuman creatures. "Who/what are you?" Everyone looked at him. Tails said, "We are people from the planet Mobius. Our chaos emeralds disappeared and we tracked them, to here." Amy said, "Yeah. And we need them badly for Shadow." Shadow was in Amy's arms. Vegeta felt the fight Shadow was going through just to live. "Well, in your case, I guess I have both bad and good news, which would you like to hear first?" Sonic said, "Good news of course." All the other creatures nodded. "Well, good news is that this "Master Emerald" is nearby, actually, it's in the ARK now. Bad news, a freak by the name of Naldoa somehow got overpowered with this chaos energy without touching the master emerald and just got done absorbing a crap-load of power from it." He smirked faintly. Sonic said frantically, "He must have the chaos emeralds!" Shadow grew closer and closer to death. Amy said, "Please take us to the master emerald! That is our only hope of returning home and reviving Shadow!" Tails said, "Sir, we need it badly." Vegeta looked at Amy, Tails, then Sonic, and motioned them to follow him. He led them to the entrance of the ARK, where the master emerald was left. Amy ran to it with Shadow. Shadow whispered in her ear, "Set m-me on top of it..." Amy put him on it. A green aura flowed from the emerald into Shadow and his power spiked up to its original state. Shadow jumped up and Amy hugged him tightly. Shadow hugged back and said, "I never break a promise..." Vegeta looked at Shadow, happy, but a little confused, "Well, that solves one of our problems, but what about the chaos powered monster?" Vegeta looked straight at Shadow, motioning him to answer. Shadow smirked and said, "It is simple. Leave it to me and I shall pound that chaotic freak until he is beyond dead." Amy said, "There's that strong hedgehog I love!" Vegeta became a little ticked at Shadow's confidence, "So, are you telling me you have that much power, or are you telling me I'm actually that weak?" Shadow said, "The only way to defeat a being hyped up on pure chaotic energy is with a stronger chaotic being, AKA, me, the Ultimate Lifeform." Sonic remained silent. Vegeta gave an evil look at Shadow, "Sorry, I must have heard wrong, did you just claim to be the 'Ultimate Lifeform?'" Shadow said, "I was created to be the Ultimate Lifeform. I was created on this very space station. All of the details are in the database. But we don't have time to play games and fight about this. We have people's lives to save damnit." Vegeta turned and started to walk away, "Well, call me when he's dead." Shadow said, "I'll go and do that." Shadow picked up the master emerald and handed it to Amy. He said to her, "Keep this safe and only use it if needed. And remember, I promise everything will be fine in the end." He crossed his heart. She nodded. Shadow teleported down to Earth with chaos control. Vegeta was walking away when he stopped, "How is he so confident that he can win?" Vegeta thought to himself. He continued to think about turning back and wondering if Shadow had any slight idea of how strong Naldoa actually was. Rouge was behind him. She said, "He has been through much worse situations. A chaotic being is not new to him." Vegeta turned around, giving into his rage, he shouted at Rouge, "What?! You can read minds now?! I swear, you people never seem to disappoint me. A bunch of subterra rodents coming to my planet and telling me you're the saviors?!" She said, "We did not say that. We are here just to get back those jewels that are rightfully ours." She looked at him and continued, "Is there something wrong with getting our stolen items back?" Vegeta looked at Rouge, "Just, do him a favor, keep him out of my sight. I swear if I see him again he will not walk again!" Vegeta exited the ARK.

Shadow appeared on Earth and sensed for the chaotic power. He felt the ginormous power and thought, "This will be too easy. He is too out of control to even block an attack with the amount of energy I feel." He walked towards the energy. Vegeta was following Shadow, he used a bit of Ki to keep up with him, but not enough to be noticed. He wanted to see this "almighty savior" do his job. Shadow raced towards the energy excited by the thought of increasing his chaotic power level by so much all at one time. He saw Naldoa. He thought, "A human controlling the power of the emeralds? Impossible!" Vegeta sat down and started to smile, "If he lasts even a minute, I'll applaud him." Shadow stopped and looked at Naldoa. He teleported above him unnoticed and kicked him downwards full force. Vegeta shook his head in disappointment, "So, if he's going to fight like that I really don't see reason to give him credit for a minute." He felt the slight urge to go and help Shadow, but restrained himself, "I'll only be his last resort to evading death, if need be." The kick may have caught Naldoa off guard, but it did absolutely no damage. Shadow lost the confident smile immediately. That look turned to a grim expression. Naldoa turned around and said, "Could you please do that again, you about took a crick from my neck out." Shadow got a perturbed and irritated look on his face. Shadow said, "I didn't even scratch you! You are nothing but a human hyped up on chaotic energy! HOW?!" Shadow went for a kick to the side of Naldoa's head. The kick successfully landed, but Naldoa didn't move, "Silly, truly silly. I thought you'd be a little stronger. Oh, by the way, absorbing the chaos emeralds, don't judge a book by its cover." He disappeared and kicked Shadow three times, one in the head, one in the arm, the final, to the gut. Shadow flew back and smashed straight through a boulder. Shadow was in a dust cloud. He could hardly move. He stood up weakly and took his inhibitor rings off before the dust cleared. He used Naldoa's chaotic energy aura and powered up, both healing himself and giving him enough power to continue. Shadow appeared in front of Naldoa and punched him in the gut at above the speed of sound and let all the extra chaotic energy he had out in a huge energy blast through his hand. The blast made contact and a huge smoke cloud was formed. Shadow looked around and his inhibitor rings reappeared on him. Out of the smoke, he heard, "Well done, you got me dirty." Naldoa grabbed Shadow and started to choke him, "Whether or not you need to breathe, I'm sure you'll feel this." Naldoa charged a blast in his left hand, while choking Shadow with his right. Shadow smirked weakly and chuckled a bit. Naldoa looked disappointed, "I despise you, I really do." Shadow said, "You are about to despise me even more..." His inhibitor rings disappeared and he consumed the chaotic energy that Naldoa was charging, increasing his energy just enough to use chaos control. Shadow disappeared and his inhibitor rings appeared on Naldoa's wrists, lowering his chaotic power drastically. Naldoa looked at them, "There is a way to remove these things, I know there is. I just need to break them." He started to power up with his dormant chaos energy until the inhibitor rings took effect, then, he simply tried unleashing more, thinking they'd eventually give in and break. Shadow appeared in front of him and forced all the excess chaotic energy into his right arm, and he punched him in the gut with all of his might. His inhibitor rings shattered right after the extreme blow. Naldoa went flying across the wasteland, hit the ground, and then scraped along for a half a mile. When he got up he uttered, "Well, put restraints on me to unleash your hidden powers, that is truly a new one." Naldoa started to fly away, in the direction of the Lookout. Shadow was severely weakened by the struggle even though he did not show it.

Shadow saw Vegeta. He looked at him and said, "We have to get back to the ARK before he finds where that emerald really is!" Vegeta smirked and said, "Please, let's take our time. He still thinks the master emerald is in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. When he gets there, we can lock him in it for a day." Vegeta started to clap. Shadow said, "I don't know what and where that is, but we must go and do that to give us as much time as possible!" Vegeta and Shadow took off towards the Lookout. They saw Naldoa up in the sky and they slowed down a bit to keep hidden. When they got close enough to the Lookout, Vegeta grabbed Shadow's hand and started flying. When they landed, he ordered Shadow to follow his instruction for a moment. Naldoa had just opened the door to the Time Chamber. Vegeta did a tiny Big Bang Attack to knock Naldoa in, and then Shadow shut the doors, locking Naldoa up. Shadow said, "Now we have to go back up to the ARK. I need that master emerald to heal once more." Vegeta had taken hold of Shadow once more and flew up to the ARK, he tossed Shadow in and then started to descend to the Lookout. When Shadow hit the hard titanium floor, that last blow broke his leg. Shadow limped, badly, to the room he sensed the master emerald to be. Vegeta made contact with the Lookout's floor, then prepared a Final Flash and aimed it straight for the Hyperbolic Time Chamber's entrance. He didn't like the thought, but he somehow knew Naldoa would take the door down if need be to escape. Shadow fell into the room. It was his old bedroom. Amy was lying on the bed. She saw him, jumped out of the bed, and picked him up. She said, "What did that guy do?! Is he dead?!" Shadow said, "I guess that what happened to me was a 'team effort.' And, no, he is not. But that person and I bought us more time to plan." And brought him to the master emerald and Shadow healed. Vegeta felt Naldoa's presence, he wasn't going to be in there much longer. He started the attack, but didn't shoot it until he saw the doors come down. He shot the Final Flash and it hit Naldoa off guard, as he just got done breaking an indestructible door. He looked up just in time to react by moving slightly and avoiding certain death. When the blast finally stopped, Vegeta had fled, not caring if he killed Naldoa or not, not even caring if he hit Naldoa. Vegeta flew up to the ARK and came into the room with Shadow, "We don't have much time. He has already escaped!" Shadow said, "Then let's do something about it!" Meanwhile down at the Lookout, Naldoa sensed the master emerald in the sky. He looked up and saw the ARK. He flew up. Shadow jumped out of the bed. Amy said, "Wait Shadow. What if he kills you th-" They heard a loud boom noise. Shadow and Vegeta felt that it was Naldoa. Shadow grabbed Amy and then Vegeta and teleported to Sonic. Shadow said, "Sonic! Distract that chaos freak while I get everyone to a safe place!" sonic jumped up and said, "No prob!" Shadow used chaos control to get everyone including the master emerald down to Earth. Sonic was up there dodging all of Naldoa's attacks.

Shadow did not know where to put the master emerald, but then Vegeta offered a place, "We can put the master emerald at the Capsule Corporation, there, Bulma will have a place for the emerald and it will not be sensed." Shadow said, "Alright. By the way, I don't think we got your name..?" Vegeta gave him an agitated look, "Vegeta, Prince of Saiyans!" Shadow said, "Nice to know. I am Shadow the Hedgehog, the Ultimate Lifeform." Amy said, "I am Amy Rose, a strong, yet delicate, young woman." Knuckles said, "I am Knuckles the Echidna, the protector of the master emerald." Rouge said, "I am Rouge the Bat, the best thief you will ever find anywhere." Tails said, "I am Miles Prower, but everyone calls me Tails. I am a super smart mechanic and inventor. And the blue one holding off the chaotic destructor up there is named Sonic. He can run at supersonic speeds." Vegeta looked around, "There it is, Capsule Corporations is right over there." Vegeta and the others ran into Capsule Corp. and Vegeta told Bulma, "I'll be using your energy barrier, I have guests over, I love you, bye!" He showed them the energy barrier, "Miles, you should be able to find out how this runs..." Tails said, "I bet I already know." He went up to the machine and turned it on. Shadow was gone. Amy said, "Shadow is gone! It isn't like him to just disappear..." Shadow had forgotten about Sonic and went to go get him. He teleported to the ARK and saw Sonic being beaten. Shadow used chaos control and they both disappeared back down to Capsule Corp. Shadow appeared by Amy and Sonic appeared next to Tails. Sonic stood up dazed and said, "I almost got beaten so bad that I nearly blacked out. I am surprised I can still walk!" Vegeta looked at Shadow and Amy, "May I absorb some more chaos energy, kinda ran out." Shadow said, "Yes, but be careful. Too much will impair your ability to think straight." Vegeta walked up to the master emerald then looked at Shadow, "Well, it's not like I do that, anyway." He placed his hand on the emerald and started absorbing energy. After having quadrupled his original Maximum power, he took his hand off the emerald, and put 7/8ths of the chaotic energy to dormancy. Knuckles picked up the master emerald and he did what he always has and "guarded" it. Bulma Came into the room to check on Vegeta and the first thing she saw was the Mobians. She squealed, dropped her coffee, and fainted. Everyone looked at her. Vegeta said, "That's not like her, she's seen far worse. Shadow, if you think you have enough power, shall we go find and end Naldoa?" Shadow said, "Think? I know I do. We have the master emerald. I can raise my power as high as I want it to be with it." Amy said, "Shadow, please be careful this time. I don't want to lose you." Sonic said, "Don't slow down either. He is quick." Knuckles said, "Fight your guys' hearts out." Tails said, "Don't forget to use your skills." Rouge said, "Show that son of a bitch Hell!" Shadow said, "I plan to take him on a tour." Vegeta looked down, "I... I don't know what it is..." he whispered to himself, "Shadow, be on your guard, I fear... something..." Shadow stored as much power as he could from the master emerald and said, "I am ready Vegeta." Vegeta looked at Amy, "Watch Bulma... this feeling may not be my warning. Shadow, let's go." Shadow said, "Wait, if things get critical, I have a plan, but you will have to lower your guard. It might just save everyone."

Vegeta and Shadow had taken off, Vegeta following Shadow because Shadow could sense Naldoa's chaos energy. They got 2 miles out of town then they heard a loud voice, "I WILL FIND THE EMERALD IF I MUST DESTROY THE PLANET IN THE PROCESS!" Vegeta and Shadow turned around towards the city and saw a giant yellow beam going towards Capsule Corp. When the beam hit, it was followed by millions of chaos spears, all hitting buildings, people, and animals alike. Naldoa wasn't trying to get the master emerald anymore, he was trying to level the city, sea level! Shadow screamed, "No! AMY!" Vegeta yelled, "BULMA!" They both ran to the ruined city. They saw the corpses of their dead friends. Shadow and Vegeta stared at the bodies of their loved ones in disbelief, hoping this was all a nightmare. They looked at Naldoa and accepted what the reality was. Just staring at Naldoa started to fill them with rage. Shadow started shaking and tears streamed down his cheek. Shadow picked up Amy. He took of his right glove and felt her cold, dead hand. Vegeta looked at Bulma, unwanting of this to be real. He walked up to her, he finally shed a tear, he looked at Naldoa, "You, you are truly a monster. I... will not let you get away with this. You just dealt your last card, and that card will be your demise..." Shadow dropped Amy's body and a dark red aura formed around him with purple electricity swirling around that aura. He said, "You... You... You... I shall... not let this stand... I can't go through this... not again..." Shadow's fur turned pitch black. He screamed, "YOU JUST MADE YOUR BIGGEST MISTAKE! PREPARE TO SEE THE TRUE ULTIMATE POWER OF CHAOS!" They both turned around. Shadow's dark and chaotic energy just spiked and he turned to dark form, spiking his power past his limit. At the same time, Vegeta's power spiked and he turned to chaotic super Saiyan two. He had big flaring light green hair. He had an extremely fatal amount of chaotic and Ki energy that only a true warrior could handle. Shadow's and Vegeta's power kept rising, seeming to never stop. Shadow roared and Vegeta screamed. Everything flashed white and there was a crater where they were standing. Shadow's eyes were glowing blood red and that purple, smoke-like aura surrounded him. Vegeta had a light green aura surrounding him. Their power was so strong it warped the color and shape of everything around them.

Naldoa looked at the two, "Is this possible, they're rodents! I, I can't win against these... things! They seem to be gods of rage!" Naldoa tried to leave, his brain had actually entered the original fear reactions; Fight or Flight instincts. Naldoa went as fast as he could in an attempt to flee from the two enraged superhuman beings. Shadow and Vegeta both had easily enough speed to beat him wherever he went. Eventually, Naldoa realized he had no choice but to fight the two. He threw the first punch, but was blocked by Vegeta and counter-attacked by Shadow. Naldoa flew into the ground, Vegeta ensured his impact by kicking his stomach through his spine and connecting it to the rocks below. Shadow and Vegeta had then started to simply smack Naldoa around every time he got up. Eventually, Naldoa had more bones than every person on Earth combined. After five minutes of being treated like a ragdoll by the two enraged gods, Vegeta regained his sanity. Shadow was just getting madder and madder. It got to a point to where Shadow could only roar. He roared before every blow. When Naldoa hit the ground, Shadow fully healed him and then kicked him up into the air. He roared louder and louder. Shadow was smacking him around. He was teleporting and hitting him all at once, making Naldoa go through extreme pain. Shadow reappeared and caught Naldoa by his legs. He span and threw Naldoa down and he hit the ground. Naldoa seemed dead. Shadow went on a rampage. His dark energy consumed him to such a point to where he is now a destruction-craving monster. His power spiking at random points as he destroyed everything in his sight. Vegeta was sitting there, watching Shadow's rampage. He'd never seen such a power in his life. Shadow looked straight at Vegeta, making Vegeta know, he was in trouble. He had to react quickly to avoid death. Shadow charged at Vegeta, who didn't hesitate to flee. Vegeta flew past Amy's body, reminding him of the promise. An idea sprung in Vegeta's mind. He remembered how dear Amy was to Shadow. Shadow came closer and closer. When he was right behind Vegeta, he boosted forward. Vegeta jumped above him and flew full speed in the other direction. Shadow tried to stop and slid several hundred miles away. Vegeta got to Amy's body and flew once more. Shadow caught up to him and was about to blast him with energy, than Vegeta held Amy's body in front of him. Shadow stopped dead in his tracks. Vegeta said, "Remember this hedgehog?! Remember how dear to you she is?! How she was number one on your list?!" Shadow seemed to start hurting. Vegeta continued, "She was your world, and Naldoa was the one who destroyed your world, just as Freiza destroyed mine! Remember what you promised this girl?! You are the Ultimate Lifeform! I know you can remember!" Shadow started having flashbacks. He grabbed his head in pain and roared so loud that it distorted the surrounding environment. He had flashbacks of him and Maria. His power started to drop. Vegeta said, "You made a promise that everything was gonna be okay in the end to this girl! You crossed your heart!" Shadow started having flashbacks of her and his power dropped at an immensely drastic rate. Vegeta said, "You said you never break promises! Do not start now!" Shadow roared and then that roar turned into a shriek. Shadow's aura faded and he turned back to normal. Vegeta walked up to Shadow, "Your promise will be fulfilled, it is certain. The road will be bumpy, though." Shadow was on the ground sobbing. He seemed to be like a dead body; motionless, but breathing. Vegeta looked at Shadow, "I hate to bring up a sore subject, but Naldoa escaped. We cannot allow this pattern to continue. I am afraid though, that all is lost, we are in over our heads, and Naldoa's either got power or strategy. If we want to beat him, we need to almost catch him off guard, with something big. I am all out of ideas. This Naldoa character, he seems to have stocked up on the chaos energy, seeming he always has some to spare. As I said before, if we plan on killing him, we have to do it fast, if he knows/even thinks he knows what we're doing, he will evade it somehow." Shadow got up and wiped his tears. He had his back facing Vegeta. He said, "I have a plan... We have to get the master emerald first. I am going to keep my promise and we're gonna..." Vegeta smiled a bit hopefully and said, "We're gonna what?" Shadow turned his head with a determined look, "We are gonna show that son of a bitch Hell!" Vegeta grew a smile, "Well, if you need the master emerald, it should still be in Capsule Corp. getting that I think will be the easiest part." Shadow sensed for a surrounding power. The chaotic energy that was in the air interfered with their sensing abilities.

Meanwhile, Naldoa crawled from the crater he made when he hit the ground. He saw the master emerald and stood up slowly. He limped his way to the master emerald. He fell and crawled. He grabbed it. Shadow said, "Damnit. My rampage destroyed my ability to sense oth-" An explosion of chaotic energy scared them and they both saw the ginormous blast of energy. Shadow said, "We're too late! He has found out how to consume that emerald just like the chaos emeralds!" Vegeta looked at Shadow, "Damnit! I used up all the chaos energy I had in my fit of rage. I can't stand a chance against Naldoa now. If only there was some way for me to absorb energy from him." Vegeta looked down, concentrating deeply. Shadow said, "I have an idea... we have to let him use as much chaotic energy in a single blast as possible. You must trust me. Let him throw it at you and do not move! I will do something so absolutely psychotic that it would save the entire universe from him! Do you trust me?" Vegeta looked at Shadow, "Well, I don't see any other options than to trust you. So, shall we put your plan in action?" Shadow nodded and said, "Fly to him and make him charge his energy as much as possible. I will be getting ready."

Vegeta and Shadow flew off towards Naldoa, when they found him, Shadow stayed behind and Vegeta continued to Naldoa, stopping right in front of him. "Hey, I thought you were dead." Naldoa looked at Vegeta, "And you've come back in another attempt to kill me?" Vegeta smirked a little, "Well, I'm pretty sure that if you wanted to kill me, you'd have done it by now, I'm growing rather impatient with you." Naldoa gave Vegeta a slightly irritated look, "You are growing impatient, waiting for death?" "Well, I did expect you'd give me 100% of your power, but since you didn't, neither did I." Naldoa got a little more irritated, "You're telling me you've been toying with me?!" "Well, why give you the power you refuse to give me?" Naldoa started powering up, "You seem to want to die, by my full power?" "Yes, 100% is what I want, I will accept no less." "Very well." Naldoa gathered all of his energy into one hand, forming a chaos orb, "Are you sure you want to die?" "I would probably survive 100% of your power." Naldoa gave Vegeta a rather blank look, "I am going to enjoy this more than I should." He put 100% of his power into the chaos orb, "You know you're dying soon, correct?" Vegeta said, "Shoot, I welcome such a weak blast." Naldoa became enraged at the comment, "WEAK BLAST?! NOW YOU'RE GETTING THE FRUITS OF MY ESSENCE!" The chaos orb grew to 10 times its original size. Naldoa almost fired it. "Wait, fire it from a distance and make me fear your power." Naldoa backed up a mile, "This suit you?" "Yes." Naldoa fired the chaos orb at Vegeta. Shadow flew in right before the chaotic blast hit Vegeta in his chaos form. He absorbed the energy through his chest and it reacted violently creating a chaos zone that turned Vegeta and shadow into pure energy. Their energies combined into one and the chaos zone exploded and a dust cloud was impairing Naldoa's vision. A single shadow showed through the dust. Naldoa said, "Who could that possibly be?" The dust cleared and the mysterious figure was the fusion of Shadow and Vegeta, Veadow. Naldoa looked at the mysterious being, "Well, where are the other two?" Veadow looked at Naldoa, "You don't seem to get it, you're looking at them, Vegeta and Shadow, Veadow for you." Naldoa gave Veadow a confused look, "How did you-" Veadow interrupted, "You don't understand yet, you were outsmarted. Having you give in to anger then use 100% of your energy gave me enough to perform a rare technique. See, they say nothing good can come of rage, obviously, you proved them right, by giving into rage, not only did you drain yourself, but you birthed the Ultimate Lifeform. Now that you are drained and I have more power than ever, it doesn't matter where the master emerald is, you drained the seven chaos emeralds, now you will pay." Veadow disappeared and suddenly Naldoa couldn't move. Veadow reappeared in front of Naldoa, "Give me one reason I shouldn't kill you." Naldoa looked at Veadow, and remained silent. "Very well." Veadow got a total of 1,437,336 hits into Naldoa before Naldoa could react. Naldoa started to react to every hit, flopping around like a fish. Veadow decided to use Afterimage Unfusion. Vegeta got on one side of Naldoa and Shadow the other. "Final... FLASH!" "Chaos... BEAM!" The two beams met at Naldoa, but he had just enough power to stop the blasts and hold them, but not redirection them. Veadow was reborn and walked up to Naldoa, "I am still waiting for an answer, or, if you can't provide one, an alternative can be death, if you really prefer that." Naldoa was still silent. "Very well, death is your choice." Veadow rushed at Naldoa, then teleported behind him, kicking him and breaking his spine. He teleported in front of him, snapped his neck, then broke the baby-maker, before the blasts could make contact with Veadow or themselves, Veadow redirected them at Naldoa, having them both hit at the exact same time. Naldoa's body was completely obliterated, revealing the seven chaos emeralds and the master emerald.

Veadow unfused once more, Shadow took the seven chaos emeralds, Vegeta took the master emerald. They took off towards the Capsule Corp. in attempt to revive the lost with the master emerald. Shadow placed the chaos emeralds around the demolished city and Vegeta placed the master emerald in the center. All the emeralds started to glow. Everything flashed white and it blinded Vegeta and Shadow. When they could see, everyone in the city had been revived. Shadow grabbed the chaos emeralds and searched for Amy. Vegeta searched for Bulma. Shadow picked up the master emerald as he ran by it. He ran to where he last saw Amy's body. He saw she was still on the ground. He landed and picked her up. He said, "Amy? Are you okay?" He had a worried tone. She opened her eyes a bit. She saw him. She hugged him tightly and Shadow hugged back even tighter. She said, "I thought I was dead! I was even in Heaven..." Shadow said, "That is because you were. Vegeta and I used the master emerald to revive everyone in the city." Amy said, "I thought I would never see you again..." Shadow looked into her eyes and she looked into his. He said, "Since when do I break a promise Ames?" She smiled and remained silent. Meanwhile, Vegeta searched for Bulma. He saw her and he immediately hugged her. Vegeta said, "Are you alright Bulma?" she said, "Yes. Just a little shaken up. Nothing too bad." He said, "Now that everything is over, we can begin to restore Earth to its formal... beauty..." Bulma said, "I think you should just let the people figure that out." Vegeta said, "I am sure those animals have that covered." Shadow said to Amy, "Amy, I got to go find Sonic so we can restore Earth." Amy said, "Hurry back." He replied, "I will." He ran off in search for Sonic. Shadow saw Sonic. He was confused. Shadow said, "Sonic, we need to use the chaos emeralds to repair Earth." Sonic nodded. Then he said, "How are we going to do that anyway?" Vegeta overheard and walked to them, "You two could use the chaos emeralds to charge the dragon balls enough for us to make a wish." Shadow said, "Alright. But we need to find those though." Bulma said, "I have the dragon radar. You guys can use that." Vegeta said, "Alright. It is settled. Let's go get those dragon balls." Bulma said, "When I woke up, I saw the dragon radar right next to me." Sonic said, "That is one less item we need to find." Vegeta said, "Time to go get the dragon balls." They all spanned the globe in search for the dragon balls. Eventually, they found them all. They went back to the remains of Capsule Corp. and Sonic and Shadow put the chaos emeralds around them. They swirled around and the dragon balls glowed. Then Shenron appeared out of the dragon balls. Shenron said, "It is quite early to be summoning me." Everyone was gathered there. Shadow and Vegeta explained the situation. Shenron said, "Ah... I see my previous wish is in this room, the chaos emeralds and their master emerald. Yes, a wish to the one that goes by "Naldoa." You may wonder how he was able to use them, truth is, he was an experimental hedgehog turned human by Dr. Eggman. I am indeed surprised he no longer lives, as I took his ability to die away from him. But, I will assume that you want people revived, like always." Vegeta looked at Shenron, "You guessed it, revive everyone killed by me, Shadow, or Naldoa (excluding Naldoa) within the past 24 hours and... fix the planet. One more thing, return the chaos emeralds to their place of origin, Mobius." Shenron's eyes glowed and with that, the emeralds disappeared. Shenron looked at everyone, "I have a little power left, any other requests?" Shadow said, "I have one." Shenron said, "Speak." Shadow continued, "I want a way to get from Mobius to Earth without having to use any chaotic energy." Shenron's eyes glowed and he said, "Your wish is granted." One teleporter appeared in Shadow's hands, and another in Vegeta's. Shenron disappeared and the dragon balls scattered.

Shadow said, "Now it is time for us to return home. It was nice fighting by your side Vegeta." Vegeta said, "I have to agree. We made a great team out there." Shadow said, "It won't be the last time we meet." Vegeta said, "That is something that I do not doubt. See you guys the next time you come back. If our paths do cross once more, I hope they'd be on better terms." Shadow and Vegeta shook hands. Shadow said, "Farewell." Everyone teleported up to the ARK. Vegeta and Bulma looked at the ARK. It flashed green and disappeared. Vegeta looked at Bulma and said, "God, just when I thought I'd seen everything…" Bulma looked at him, "Well, I do hope that is the last… 'Infraction' we have to deal with for a while. He may not have been as deadly as Cell or Bojack, but-" Vegeta cut her off, "Bulma, you must realize Cell had nearly a month on Earth. Naldoa had the course of a day, in my opinion; he was our toughest opponent yet, well, if you don't count that freak-of-nature Kondo, that is." Bulma looked at Vegeta and Vegeta continued, "Naldoa didn't have enough time to deal proper damage. If he did, Earth wouldn't be here." Vegeta looked around and said to Bulma, "It's a wonderful day today, would you like to take a walk?" Bulma smiled and nodded the two started to walk around a nearby wasteland. After 5 minutes of walking, Vegeta thought, "Wait, I sensed Gohan's power earlier today, on the Lookout, I wonder what became of him?"
Dende had fled into his room on the Lookout, fearing Hell was arriving very soon. He eventually came out to see if the Lookout had been damaged any and he saw the Hyperbolic Time Chamber's doors were busted down. He looked behind him, towards the edge of the Lookout and saw a near-death Gohan, lying there motionless. He walked up to Gohan and performed his healing ability. Gohan regained consciousness and instantly went into battle mode, "Where's the overpowered freak?" Dende looked at Gohan, obviously, he'd been knocked to the point of stupidity, "He's dead, felled by a being made of pure chaotic energy. It was amazing indeed, I was able to see the battle in my mind, but was not there in person." Gohan looked at Dende, somewhat confused, "What do you mean, 'chaotic energy'? Like the stuff the strong guy was full of?" Dende returned the glance, "Yes, a being made almost entirely of it, I'm not sure how he was able to control himself." Gohan looked at Dende, "Well, if that guy is truly dead, then I have nothing to complain about. Well, see you later, Dende-wait, where's Piccolo?" Dende looked at Gohan and said, "He said he needed to go to Namek for something or other, he didn't mention details, he should be back tomorrow." Gohan nodded at Dende and waved Goodbye. "I wonder what this Chaos energy is… Is it similar to Ki in any fashion? I guess I'll have to wait till next time to find out. Well, better return to mom, she'll probably kill me for being gone for so long." Dende looked up into the sky, "Thank you, Shadow!" He said to the Heavens.

Everyone got off the ARK and back down on their home planet, except Shadow and Amy. The two looked out the window. They looked deep into space. Shadow said, "Look at that red star, Amy." She looked at it and asked, "What is so important about it?" Shadow smiled and said, "That is sun that Earth orbits." She smiled and said, "How do you know?" He replied, "I used chaos control in that direction yesterday, remember?" She said, "That is really neat. I would have never known that." Shadow said, "Want me to teach you chaos control?" Amy nodded. Shadow got behind her and grabbed her hands. He whispered in her ear as he hugged her holding her hands, "Charge as much chaotic energy you feel needed…" She started charging energy. Shadow continued, "When you think you have enough, let it all out without burning it off." Amy did that and she used chaos control. They disappeared in a red flash. To them, time nearly stood still. Shadow said, "Very good Ames! I am surprised you got it on your first try without injuring yourself." She said, "I guess I just have it in me." She smiled and giggled. Shadow said, "Now let's go." She said, "I have a place... If you want to rest… After all, you did use so much energy on that Naldoa freak." Shadow nodded. They teleported to her home. Sonic ran to Sally and hugged her tightly. She said, "Whoa. Did you lose somebody?" Sonic said, "I guess I did, but I just missed you." She smiled and asked, "What exactly happened?" Sonic told the story to her. She said, "Wow. What was dying like?" He said, "It was… odd. I felt totally weird. I also felt so free for some reason." She said, "That is odd…" Tails had ran back home. He got inside and fell asleep. Knuckles ran to Angel Island and restored the master emerald to its rightful place. Rouge straight up disappeared with no trace. Shadow lay awake in bed. He heard a voice he didn't know. It had happened to be Dende. He said, "Thank you, Shadow!" Shadow sat up and looked around. He said, "Um… You're welcome?" Amy said, "Just go back to sleep," she yawned, "We all deserve a good night's sleep…" Shadow laid back down. He slept silently.