Shadow: DAMMIT!

Rouge: What?

Shadow: Some bastard at SONICTEAM decided we should get the Hard Difficulty!

Rouge: So?

Shadow: We'll NEVER collect all the Chaos Emeralds!

Omega: Priority Alert! Scanners detect: All teams are not required to collect all seven emeralds to achieve true ending.

Shadow: Omega, face it, WE ARE SCREWED.

Rouge: But Shadow-

Shadow: WE'RE SCREWED! -runs off-

Abandoned Armed Base The Government Never Discovered

A giant boulder mimicked SA2's truck scene, a bat dashed down hallway after hallway and corridor after corridor, struggling to fight the drag her wings were certainly bound to create should they have flapped open. Sliding through a noticeably wide crack in the wall, conviently big enough for an anthromorphic bat to pinch through, the boulder collided with the wall and, ironically, rolled through it. Rouge, exiting the wall, lunged for whatever passage was available. A sense of falling overcame her, and she realized she had lunged into an oddly-placed shaft.
Leaping down the huge shaft, or gliding with assets bouncing should I say, Rouge the Bat leaned against the nearest wall, wary of possible security cameras Eggman never built. Keying in a short series of codes she was given by the government who never knew Eggman had but deducing otherwise, the door beeped with a "no" response. Frustrated, she thrusted her purple hell into it's base. Like a rock, the door flew forward, crushing the only active robot in the entire base. It squeaked as it's systems went offline, Rouge didn't notice him and casually walked inside. Row after rows of pods lined the interior of the room, all empty.

"After dodging trap after trap, tricking President after President, and the perverted saps that make up the world reknown military government GUN, I'm FINALLY going to obtain Eggman's secret treasure."

How do you know he even has a treasure, an ominous voice commented.

"The Gerald Report from the ending of Sonic Battle said so."

No it didn't. I played that game!

"Just who are you?" Rouge changed the subject.

Heh heh...it's me Rouge!

It was the one and only ultimate nemesis of the Sonic series, the incarnation of evil itself, a villain greater than Enerjak, Mammoth Mogul, and A.D.A.M combined, a menace so cunningly deceitful he was more duplicitous than Nack the Weasel, a symbol of pure horror that struck fear in the hearts of fans and love in the hearts of fangirls and young boys, a despicable being who possessed an infinite power so maniacal it brainwashed children worldwide...

"Chris Thorndyke..." Rouge said bitterly, "Just what the hell are you doing here out of the Sonic X continuity?"

A boy with red hair, a red-white t-shirt, and blue jeans appeared from out of the background shadow.

"Well...naturally, with me being immortal through the awesome number of Sonic X viewers, I've taken over as recurring character and, as an added bonus, get to follow you guys around! That and I'm the main villain in all of this author's fics!"

"Wait...what author?" asked Rouge.

'Shit! That's right! Their memories of him are erased with every fic...!' "Er...I mean..."

"You know what? I don't care-" Rouge whipped out a Beretta 9mm handgun, "Just go back to Sonic X where you belong!"

3 bullets spiraled into Chris's chest. The child fell backwards, bleeding, but soon stood up laughing at this minor pain. The treasure hunter's victory was short-lived...it had lasted less than 3.6 seconds.

"That's not right...You're not supposed to get up that fast!" Rouge dropped the Beretta in shock.

Chris wiped the blood from his chin and mouth, grinning and pacing towards Rouge. He raised his arms, slowly trudging towards the bat who backed away in fright.

"Wh...wha..t are you staring at?"

Chris kept moving, his expression went from annoying boy to lecherous zombie. His pupils vanished and the centers of his eyes rolled back, the blood began to soak back through his clothing and into his body. Rouge's entire face went rosy red as she began to realize what the adolescent's attention was trapped on.

"You pervert! Stay away from me!" Rouge yelled, delivering a sharp jumpkick to the boy's forehead. Chris crooked his head around, the sound of bones ricketing around as he pulled his head the right way round' made Rouge shriek.

"You can't resist a God forever..." Chris drooled.

The treasure hunter was now paralyzed, covering her chest vainly. Seconds as Chris's hand connected with her breastplate, a powerful shell knocked him to the ground. Rouge regained control of her body, spotting the huge red hole now opening on Chris's forehead.

"Rouge!"

A black hedgehog, with a white furry mane and red stripes lining his quill appeared from out of the Shadows. Shadow, wielding a custom Colt Python, jumped out.

"Shadow..how..you died!" Rouge cried.

"What are you talking about? And where is the Doctor?"

"Shadow..." Rouge embraced him, holding back tears. Shadow was flabbergasted.

Chris raised an arm in question, "Did I forget to mention that S-"

Shadow pointed his revolver at Chris and fired off a second shot. Rouge released him, picking up her discarded Beretta and holstering it.
"But how...I shot him three times POINT-BLANK."

Shadow raised his revolver, "That's because handguns suck, baby. Everyone knows that. That's why I upgraded."

A hailmary of bullets showered over the two, Shadow pushed Rouge out of the way and into cover. A robot with dual arm machinegun/ grenade launcher/ flak cannons emerged from the rows of pods in the, it's menacingly red pink eyes scanned the area for the two intruders.

"Stay here." ordered Shadow, loading more rounds into his revolver and jumping upwards. Bullets spat around him meaninglessly, he mumbled under his breath, "Pathetic..."

Shadow, badass he was, leaped from surface to surface as the rampaging robot fired at him. Hitting the robot with a swift Homing Attack, he bounced off it's super-reinforced chassis, and took off a few potshots at the robot. The magnum rounds bounced off meaninglessly, Shadow and the robot dashed at eachother. A figure appeared between them...

"Stop i-AAAAGHHHH!!!!" Rouge screamed as the robot's mass crushed her and Shadow's spiky hair stabbed her.

The bat fell on the ground, blood peeled off her skin like onion skin. Her wings were tattered and her fur was ruffled and torn from Shadow's quills. The hedgehog and the robot stared gravely for a few seconds, the thought of helping her never came to Shadow's mind as he stared blnkly at her.

Shadow and Omega stared at her crumpled form for a few seconds, Shadow gulped and faced the screen.

"The nearest hospital is only-"

"We COULD do that, but then they would have records of us."

"Then let's go some pizza?" Omega offered.

"LET'S GO!" Shadow vanished in a blur of speed. Omega shook in dissapointment, picking up the wounded bat and heading towards the medical wing.