This is one of the most important chapters in the story, that's all I'll say.

Chapter 4

Shadow's POV

I've been walking around Angel island for two hours and I can't find Eggman anywhere. I only saw Knuckles and his friends, but I ignored them and went the other way, maybe not the best idea, they looked like they knew where they were going.

I jumped up onto a tree to get a better view. Where are you Eggman, and what are you using the master emerald for. There is no point in staying here any longer though I have chaos emeralds to find, "Chaos... CONTROL!"

Normal POV

"Calm down knuckles", Knuckles froze, he slowly turned around to face Amy. "Calm down", Calm... DOWN", Tails put his hands over his ears "here we go... "THE MASTER EMERALD IS GONE AND YOUR TELLING ME TO CALM DOWN!"

"yes" replied Amy with a cheeky smile. Knuckles head turned into a balloon and he flew away (not literally of course). "there goes knuckles", Tails looked at knuckles leave, "well that happened. Wait a minute, why hasn't the island fallen into the water! Amy and Cream froze, Knuckles stopped yelling and looked at them. No one said anything for a good minute. "The emerald is still here!" Knuckles ran off towards the shrine. "Knuckles wait!" yelled Amy. "Lets follow him", Amy and Cream nodded their heads in agreement and they took off

Your all probably wondering, were the hell is SONIC! He's there somewhere, okay

"HO HO HO" laughed Eggman, "those fools think the Emerald is back, but I really have the new Egg battle ship underneath the island stopping it from falling into the ocean". "I hate to bother you boss but our ship holding the whole island up is a little impossible". Eggman grabbed orbot,"impossible is my middle name orbot, I destroyed half of the moon, I always seem to pop up when Sonic and his friends find a Choas emerald and steal it and I an have unnaturally amazing moustache, need I go on". "nope, you made it clear boss, your like any bad guy". Eggman took out a button from his pocket, "you see this orbot, this is my new ultimate weapon, with the power from the master emerald and the two chaos I already had i could make this", "but make what boss", orbot said with confusion. "you'll see... and so will Shadow". Orbot gave Eggman a blank expression (like he had any to begin with). "what" said Eggman. "Well its just that all of your inventions are always targeted at Sonic, why the change in enemy". "You fool! Of course I still hate Sonic, in fact that's why this mind control weapon is for Shadow not Sonic, and also because Shadow is more powerful than Sonic" replied Eggman. "that last point is debatable boss, but it is a good plan even for your genius" said orbot with an impressed voice. Eggman looked in the distance and saw Shadow talking to Tails, "its him! The time has come, lets go". Eggman flew off towards the shrine.

"So your saying we need to find Eggman's base today?" said Shadow. "Yes, Eggman is fast at doing stuff, in about two to three days he could strike based on previous attacks" replied Tails. Shadow pondered on this for a minute or two not aware of Eggman sneaking around the bushes.

Tails ears shot up, he looked into the forest and saw a figure moving slowly "guys look", said Tails. Everyone looked in the direction Tails was. The figure slowly came in to view through the rain (yes it's still raining, I just wasn't mentioning it). Sonic slowly walked, drenched by the cold rain (Amy and Cream had umbrellas covering must of the rain from the group). He had scars and bruises on his legs and arms, a lot of blood stained on the right side of his stomach and a big cut coming form the left side of his forehead with blood flowing slowly down his face.

"Jesus, what the hell happened to you?" said Knuckles. "Don't ask" grunted Sonic while looking at his left glove that was now covered in blood, from putting it against his stomach. "we need to get you to a doctor now Sonic! oh and you to knuckles" said Amy with concern. "It's good to have you back Sonic" said Knuckles just before he lightly punched Sonic in the arm. "OW!" yelled Sonic stumbling backwards bumping into Shadow. A huge blast was heard and an electric beam hit Sonic in the back. The beam instantly pushed everyone except Sonic away and pulled Sonic towards the shrine were a lot of energy beams hit Sonic from every direction. "AHHHHHH!" screamed Sonic in intense pain. "NO! turn off the machine orbot!" Shouted Eggman. "I can't boss, it won't shut off, but this could still work... right boss". Eggman looked ahead at Sonic, then at his friends all desperately trying to free him, "this contraption was designed for Shadow's body only, so I hope so..."

Knuckles, Amy and Tails tried to get near it, but were blasted by the electric energy field around it. Shadow tried spindashing through it, but it pushed him back as well. He tried several chaos spears, but nothing could break through the energy field. Shadow panted and stood back with the others and sighed in defeat. "we can't just watch this, we have to save him!" shouted Tails. "no" said Shadow, everyone looked at him in shock. "There's nothing we can do, but hope"Shadow said sadly and closed his eyes. Amy and Cream started to cry, while Tails and Knuckles looked in horror at the pain Sonic was experiencing. (the best visual I can give for this is what happened in the opening of Sonic unleashed)

Sonic continued to scream in pain, while gritting his teeth together in agony, nothing could describe the pain the blue hero of Mobious felt at that time, and for the next five minutes. His current condition prior to this made it seem impossible to even think that he would survive this pain.

Then all of a sudden there was no sound of screaming in pain, no electricity, no crying, just rain, rain pouring down heavily from the clouds on the back of the burnt hero, cooling him down and releasing smoke off his body.

Then there was no rain, just silence...

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