Disclaimer: Idon't own anything... except Mephiles' industry.

Megaolopoly. This city was destroyed many times but doesn't matter, it's always rebuilded. Now in it's most recent reconstruction, even in a calm Day, you can feel chaos in the air.

Shadow the hedgehog, the ultimate life form, jumps down to the ledge of a near building. He looks up to an extremely tall building, feeling the chaos energy coming from the top. It's a chaos emerald, and shadow wants to recover it.

When He is about to go for it, shadow hears a noise and sees a bright light behind him. Coming from it, he sees a familiar silhouette. Blaze the cat.

"Blaze? What are you doing here?" Shadow asks .

"Good to see you too, shadow. Well, i'm here because i was traking a sol emerald, that is probably in that building. And you?"

"The same as you. But it's a chaos emerald of course. It's in the same place."

"So, someone there has them both. It's probably the CEO, since it's an industrial building. I don't think he is going to just give them for us. We'll need to work together, Shadow."

"Agreed. With the two of us it Will be Just as easy. Anyways, it could be just a business man. The only thing he can do is call the guards.

"Then lets go."

Suddenly, jumping from the rooftops Sonic the hedgehog appears.

"You too?" Shadow asks .

"Shadow, Blaze, Nice to see you. What are you two doing here?"

"We detected a sol and a chaos emerald, in that building over there. Do you know something about it?" Blaze said.

"Yep. I've been doing a little diging about it and from what i know, believe it or not, it's from a new industry that sells powers, chaos powers."

"Chaos power... how?"

"We'll know when we get there." Blaze answers.

The group decided to enter by the front door and see what happens. Inside they find nothing suspicious, Just normal people working... or not.

"This place is weird." Sonic said.

"very. Blaze adds."

They approach the reception desk.

"The CEO was expecting you." Says the receptionist.

She was a fox with light brown fur. But her eyes were empty. Empty like the other workers.

"Expecting us? I don't remember having an appointment here, but if you say so. Shadow, Blaze, let's go, i bet there's a fat guy with a mustache expecting us... again.

"Don't be stupid sonic. Eggman wouldn't be able to control chaos Power, even less give it to people." Shadow said.

"Heh. From what i remember his grandfather created you and you can control chaos Power can't you?

"hmph. He's not his grandfather."

"Boys, please concentrate." Blaze said.

"You may take the elevator, right over there. Have a good day."

"Elevator? Heh,no thanks. I prefer taking the stairs, they're much faster."

"I know you like running mister sonic, but unfortunately, the stairs don't have an entry to the CEO's room. only the elevator has.

"Seriusly? And if the elevator doesn't work? Does the "boss" get stuck in his room? Is he that idiot?" Sonic says.

"I'm sorry, but i have many work to do right now. I already provided you with all the imformation i could and my superior hates to wait, so now if you excuse me.

"Okay, don't need to be rude."

"Stop wasting time Sonic, let's go already. Says shadow, standing by the elevator with Blaze inside.

Sonic quickly ran to the elevator and then they go. Many, many floors pass. They just hear the boring elevator music. Minutes pass but it feels like an eternity.

"How did she knew me anyway?

"You're the hero of Mobius. Everybody knows you, dammit." Shadow answers.

"Oh, yeah." Sonic said.

They finally get to the top... and the door opens. They see a big room with a few lights, similar to an office. Sitting in a work table, they see a familiar figure, emanating great power.

"You?!"

"Impossible!"

"But you were..."

"Dead? ... no, Mephiles the dark, is eternal!"

"How are you still alive?!" Shadow yells.

"Hahahaha... it's funny because, i don't know for certain. Looks like when you defeated me and Iblis in Solaris form, only Iblis was killed in the process. When i woke up i was at near death in the middle of nowhere, but as you can see, i'm pretty good now and also doing something i never thought would do: Running a company.

"And what is this company for? Where are the emeralds? Explain everything or i'll cut your head off... sooner. Says Blaze, with fire in her hands.

"Before this, i'll cut his arms. Shadow replies.

"And i will cut... wait, i think i'm getting out of character here.

"Ok, i'll fulfill your curiosity. It began when i found these emeralds on my travels. I was still too weak, but over time i felt my powers returning. Thanks to my association with chaos power, the emeralds healed me completely. But i wanted more, much more. I didn't found anymore emeralds, but it didn't mattered... because i descovered a way to copy and mutiply the Power on then, in which i won't tell you how, of course. But i needed equipment to keep it that way. Very expensive material. So, to gain the money, i "recruited" some people to assist me and i began to sell the Power. Total success. Now i have the equipment, the industry and the Power."

"Copy and Multiply the Power? That's impossible!" Says shadow in rage.

"And even if could,how would you control it?!" Blaze said.

"That was everything i had to say. Now leave or i'll destroy you."

"Then that's it. Shadow, Blaze, let's go!"

Sonic begins the fight with a spin dash. But then, Mephiles creates a Magic shield that easily deflects and throws Sonic away. Blaze attacks the Magic shield spining like a fire tornado. After a few seconds Blaze manages to destroy it, but the impact makes the two to bounce back. Shadow takes the oportunity and throws a chaos spear, but Mephiles disappears moments before it can hit. He reappears behind Shadow. Feeling his presence, Shadow instinctively tries to punch him, but before it could hit, Mephiles grabs his arm and begins to throw Shadow in the ground. Blaze charges a fire ball, but seeing the danger, Mephiles uses Shadow as a shield. Blaze hesitates and contains the fire Ball on the last second.

"I guess you don't have much of a choice now."

"Maybe i don't, but sonic..."

Mephiles feels a strange Wind and before he could turn around to see what it is, he gets hit by a powerful spin dash, powerful enough, to let Shadow grab Mephiles and throw him into the air. Blaze charges the fire ball again and Shadow creates an energy beam. Mephiles is hited by the two with full Power. He yells in pain, then falls to the ground.

"Enough!" Says Mephiles in rage.

A powerful shockwave hits the room, throwing Sonic, Shadow and Blaze away. Seconds later, Sonic gets up first and prepares another spin dash, but before he could finish, he gets hit by Mephiles energy beam. The potency of the beam makes Sonic burst through wall and fall down the building.

"Sonic!" Blaze screamed.

"Dammit! No!"

"Now it's your turn!" Says Mephiles while making another beam.

The Beam is two times bigger than the last one, targeting both Shadow and Blaze. The beam is launched, then without thinking two times, Blaze pushes Shadow out the way, making her take all the damage. She is launched into the elevator. The force of the impact, then breaks the cables making the elevator to fall.

"No." Shadow said.

Shadow feels a huge sense of urgency, then without looking back, he jumps down in order to save Blaze.

"Looks like everything is going according to plan. Except Sonic falling out of the building. But since the Shadow and Blaze didn't tried to help him, it seems he sill alive. Well, Just a minor problem."