Shadow hesitated for a moment then pressed gently on the gas, Tails tensioned slightly but remained silent.
Just before they went out Tails, without warning opened the door and jumped out, he ran over to the desk and grabbed the chaos emerald and put the blueprints away.
Shadow stopped, he wasn't expecting Tails to do that, he waited for Tails to come back in, Tails first put the emerald in the ship, then got back in, "Sorry, but that is the power, I couldn't forget that." Tails explained.
Shadow shook his head slightly in dismay then slowly drove out of the driveway, Tails gripped the arm rests tightly.
Shadow went down the road, not faster than usual, but not slow either, Tails was a little relieved and relaxed slightly. As he was driving, Shadow began to have second thoughts, why am I doing this? What will I get out of this? He wondered.
He wasn't particularly paying attention to the road, which made Tails a little jumpy, because he nearly ran into 3 stop signs already.
Finally, Shadow stopped by the curb of the park and got out. Tails opened the door and walked to the back to where the ship was hooked up and unhooked it, he strained slightly to get it off the trailer, but finally succeeded.
He somehow got it to the edge of the lake and checked to make sure everything was the way it was supposed to be, Shadow just watched as Tails did that.
Tails motioned towards Shadow, "Ok, so all you have to do to make it go is push this button . . ." he pointed to a red button, color coded for Sonic, "and to make it go faster or slower, this . . ." he motioned to a lever that looked like it moved up and down.
Shadow watched Tails' directions, and when he was finished Shadow asked, "What do I get for doing this for you?" Tails was about to say something but Shadow cut him off, "I mean besides that warm fuzzy feeling inside that makes to feel tingly." He said mockingly, obviously not wanting to do anything much for Sonic.
Tails thought for a moment, "Well, I don't really think that I have anything that you would really want . . ." he thought for a while.
Shadow waited impatiently and looked around, that's when the red Chaos Emerald caught his eye, there was something different about it, but he paid no attention to it. He walked over to it and took it from the controls of the ship that Tails made then said, "This will do,"
The emerald glowed slightly as Shadow said, "Chaos Sphere." And arrows of chaos energy shot Tails into a tree.
Then he held it up and it glowed once more, "Chaos Control!" and he was gone in a flash, it took Tails a couple of seconds to come to his senses, he stood up and realized Shadow had just ran off with his emerald.
I guess a fake emerald was the right choice to power up Sonic's ship . . . Tails thought, holding his stomach, which still hurt from the Chaos Sphere.
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Shadow reappeared somewhere in the city, he was aiming for something a little higher, but then he realized why he hadn't gone where he wanted to, he watched as the red emerald disintegrated in his hand.
He looked up into the starry sky and thought he saw a blue streak, he shook his head, I'm just imagining things, he thought, but then he saw it again, but this time, it went right past him, instead of over, then a blue hedgehog stopped right in front of him, "Oh hey there Shadow! Whacha up to?" he asked.
Shadow ignored him and started to walk down the road, occasionally glancing back, and every time, Sonic was right behind him, he didn't care what happened to Tails, he was probably stuck there since he couldn't drive, and is trying to find some way to hide the ship from Sonic, who is running about.
As Shadow walked down the side walk, there was something troubling him, he didn't know what or why, and it was bugging him, no matter how fast he walked or ran, he could still hear Sonic right behind him, as if waiting for something.
Shadow wasn't really thinking too hard about where he was running, but more that he had ditched Sonic, but he didn't stop running, just in case.
He looked back, no Sonic, he looked around, no Sonic, he looked back to the front and stumbled around a stop sign and stopped running, he leaned on a tree and calmly caught his breath, his eyes closed and the cool night air occasionally blowing.
He heard something, he wasn't sure how to identify it, it sounded like clinking, he opened an eye only to see Tails, not to far ahead of him, working on Sonic's ship!
He clenched his fist but pretended to ignore Tails, as if he didn't know he was there. After a while, he heard something else, his assumption of it was the ship actually starting up, but the thought of Tails driving that, when it should obviously be to big for him was too amusing to miss.
Shadow opened his eyes to see Tails, in the cockpit and the ship in the water. He watched as the boat slid gracefully through the water.
After Tails' test drive, he got out and saw Shadow, but said nothing.
"Just thought I'd let you know, that fake was following me, he might have seen it." With that, Shadow walked away.
Tails looked around, he thought at first that Sonic did see it, but shrugged it off and slid the ship onto the trailer and hooked the trailer back onto the car, he got in the driver's seat and realized that he was just a little bit too short, he needed someone taller to drive the truck.
