Chapter 3

Sonic opened the door slowly, hoping Eggman left.

"You honestly think I'd let you get away that easily?"

VV obviously wasn't very intimidated by Eggman's mech anymore." Wanna make a bet-"

"Doctor. Doctor Eggman, Child."

"Whatever, Scrambled Egg..." VV was obviously ticking Eggman off. "I betcha my Empoleon, Pepi, can get rid of all your buckets of bolts in one shot!"

"Whatever an Empoleon is, Little Girl, it can't possibly destroy all my robots in one shot."

VV squinted in fury. "First of all, I am thirteen years old. Secondly, Pepi is gonna kick your butt!"

Eggman laughed as he scoffed her. "Sure it will... And soda will fall from the sky at the flick of my-" Eggman looked at heaps of metal that were formerly his robots, and VV's smug grin. "...wrist..."

"Don't call Pepi it, you numskull!" Pepi slammed against the side of Eggman's mech with his Waterfall attack, knocking it down. VV dusted her hands. "Doo-doo head!"

"Let's go,VV! Before he attacks again!" Sonic grabbed VV's wrist, running as fast as he could.

"I think I'm gonna be sick..."

"Well, don't throw up on me!"

"If I don't throw up on you, I'll throw up on your Charmander."

"Really?"

"If I actually throw up, then yes."

Sonic quickly bolted to a stop, afraid VV would vomit on his partner...or worse,him.

"Thank you. You can have this. Better you than that Eggman fellow." VV tossed Sonic the Chaos Emerald she had.

"You had this all along ,didn't you?"

"Yup. You just didn't ask for it."

"I didn't know you had it! Why didn't you tell me that?"

"See my previous answer." Charmander swatted at the gem with his claws before he looked up frightened.

Sonic gave VV the emerald so he could look Charmander eye-to-eye. "Something wrong, little buddy?"

"Char,Char!" It pointed at the air around it.

"What?"

"My glasses!" VV's glasses fell to the ground from a strong gust of wind." Dangit! I'm half-blind without my glasses! Sonic! What's going on?"

"I wish I knew."

"Perfect...Just perfect..." The Chaos emerald tapped againist plastic. " Found th-" VV let out a deafing scream, loud enough for Sonic to clutch his ears. Another hand had grabbed the Chaos Emerald, seemingly from nowhere.

"Give me that emerald,kid!" The dark figure tried to pull the red jewel away.

VV pushed him away with her foot. "No! It's ours! Go find your own!"

"I just did." He pulled harder.

VV became desperate to keep the ruby gem,and bit the figure's wrist. He quickly pulled his wrist away in pain. "Blah! You taste horrible! When was the last time you took a shower, you goon?"

The figure grumbled as he rubbed his wrist, giving VV a well desverved look at him. VV had bitten him just above his edge of his glove, which was black and red ,like the rest of him was. He was definitetly a hedgehog,like Sonic,but he was different down to the way stood. The way he didn't smile bothered her even more when he moved the ring from his glove up to cover his bruise.

"Little brat..." He muttered muttered before he was slapped.

"How rude! Trying to steal something that doesn't belong to you ,then, calling me a brat for defending myself."

"You bit me."

"In self-defense!" VV insisted.

"Sure it was..." the figure rolled his eyes.

"Hey, hey!" Sonic interrupted their bickering. "Stop arguing, you two!"

"He started it!" VV pointed at the figure before she squinted at Sonic. "Wait... You know him ,don't you?"

Sonic smiled nervously. "VV, this is Shadow. Shadow, this is VV."

"I'm not shaking his hand, if that's what you're thinking, Sonic."

"Why would I even want to shake your hand?" Shadow crossed his arms.

"Is that a Poochyena?" VV pointed at the dog-like creature on Shadow's shoulder. She was obviously too busy holding a grudge againist him to notice it.

"What's it to you?"

"Nothing. You normally don't find them here in Sinnoh."

"It was in an egg."

"Did you plan to eat said egg?"

Shadow didn't answer.

"Is it good?"

" I trained it. What? Do you think you could beat me?"

"Yeah. I'll make a bet with you. If I win, Sonic and I keep the Chaos Emerald and... you have to travel with us. If you win, you can keep this emerald and go on your merry way."

"It's a deal."

"I'm not shaking your hand. Sonic will be our referee."

"But VV-"

"I know what I'm doing, Sonic!"

"You honestly think you'll win?" Shadow scoffed.

"Depends..."

"Hmph! Be ready for this!" Shadow's Poochyena jumped off his shoulder.

"Patch... Let's finish this quickly..." VV tossed out her Dusk Ball.

"This battle between VV and Shadow will now begin! Go!"

"Patch! Cut!"

"Dodge it!"

"Use Cut again!" VV pointed a Poochyena.

"This is pathetic! Dodge it again and use Crunch!"

"Woah! Patch! Jump in the air and into that tree!" VV shot a nasty glance at Shadow. "You have a weird Poochyena! They don't learn that move until they're ultra powerful,and decided not to evolve!"

"My Poochyena is tough. What did you expect?"

"Can't honestly say... Patch! I'm sick of Poochyena dodging! Take care of it with Shock Wave!"

Shadow was about to command his pokemon to dodge,but Patch was too quick because of his high level ,and Shock Wave is an attack never misses. Poochyena was knocked backward, hurtling into Shadow. When it tried to get up, its legs buckled and swirls appeared in its eyes.

"Poochyena is unable to continue!" Sonic grinned. "VV's the winner!"

VV walked up to Shadow, Patch snuggling her in her arms.

"You lose."