Chapter Three: A Lost Fight and a Psycho Demon

Sonic, Metal Shadow, and I get into our fighting positions. Sonic is wearing his usual cocky smirk, thinking that taking us down will be easy. I have always hated that smirk; he always wears it when fighting Metal Shadow or I. He almost always wins easily and to some extent, I wish that I too could be able to be that way. Shadow seems to have abandoned us, and gone off in search of that other hedgehog that had been running earlier.

After several minutes of us staring each other down, Sonic decides to make the first move by Spin Attacking me. I manage to get out of the way; at the same time, Metal Shadow counterattacks with his own version of Shadow's Chaos Spear. Unlike Shadow, however, he doesn't need Chaos Emeralds to use his powers - Eggman programmed him to be able to use them automatically without the Emeralds. Sonic dodges with his speed, jumping back. I activate my jet-rocket and fly, kicking Sonic across the face. Sonic shoves me away and into a wall, but is immediately tackled down by Metal Shadow.

"You think you can just shove my friends around?" he asks, and scratches Sonic with his claws.

Sonic yelps in slight pain, but shoves Metal Shadow off. I am still a bit dazed from the shove, but I get up and attempt to tackle Sonic back down, but he manages to grab hold of me and fling me across the alleyway. This time, I slam into a building pretty hard. My vision fizzles out for a bit, and I go "unconscious" for a while.

Metal Shadow makes a robotic growl, and rushes at Sonic, only to get his arm grabbed and flung across the alleyway, slamming into me, and also getting knocked out. Well...That's what happens when not fighting on full power like we were doing. That and we were against Sonic...

(Third Person Point of View)

Sonic turns to walk off when he sees Shadow appear around the corner.

"Sorry, I had to take care of those two pieces of scrap metal." Sonic says, pointing to Metal Shadow and Metal Sonic. Shadow sighs and simply crosses his arms.

"So...did you find him?" Sonic asks after a few minutes.

"Now does it look like I did?" Shadow snaps. "He's gone! I almost had him and then he rounded the corner and totally vanished. Which is kind of...odd, considering he has the collar on that should be preventing him from using his powers. But then again, he is Mephiles The Dark...Unpredictable, psychotic demon."

"Isn't that why he got jailed in the first place?" Sonic questions. "Because he was acting like a psycho in town, and G.U.N. deemed him not stable or safe enough to be in town anymore?"

Shadow sighs, not looking at Sonic. Sonic, he knows, no longer knows of the events of six years ago with Elise, Iblis and Mephiles. In fact, nobody on Mobius does, except for himself, and Mephiles who somehow didn't forget them (Although Mephiles is forgetting now because he got severe anesthesia which he still needs to recover from) . As far as Sonic knows, Mephiles is just some psychotic, crazy demon/hedgehog who belongs in the crazy house.

"That and a few other things." Shadow replies, deciding to simply leave it at that. "Regardless, he needs to be found as soon as possible before he starts up trouble in the city"

"Well, what should we do with those two?" Sonic questions, pointing to Metal Sonic and Metal Shadow, who are still in "unconscious" mode on the ground. "I say take them to jail until Eggbutt comes and gets them. That way they can't carry out any plans that he may have, and we also might get some answers from them if they are imprisoned.".

"Hmph." Shadow huffs. "Sounds fine to me. They can stay there forever for all I care. But you are going to have to carry them there. I need to go get Mephiles as soon as possible."

"Whatever." Sonic says, shrugging. He picks up the fallen Metal Sonic and Metal Shadow and takes off running with them. Unfortunately, because Shadow is the one who has the card to get in and he has no card of his own, he is stuck waiting on Shadow to return, standing at the door of the G.U.N. HQ.

Meanwhile, Shadow is trying to find Mephiles, who is still nowhere to be found. He peeks around the corner of and into an alleyway.

"Mephiles...I swear, if you teleported, I am going to find you and I am going to tell that commander to increase the security in that cage and to get you a stronger collar, because obviously, this one isn't working on you."

There is no response, but the glow of two green eyes can be seen in the distance. Cyan streaks can also be seen glowing a bit. Shadow notices them and walks to them.

"I don't wanna go back to that jail!" the scared hedgehog says. The cut on his muzzle had gotten worse and his entire muzzle looked red. "Those soldiers-"

"Look, you are not allowed back in the world." Shadow snaps. "Why you are even alive is beyond me. Even though you forgot your actions due to your anesthesia you got in that explosion, you still have to be in jail, Mephiles, because we're not about to repeat the things you did. It's for your own good and for the world's own good, so just cooperate and there won't be any report on this to the commander."

"I never did anything bad!" Mephiles shouts. "Why can't I be out? I'm not hurting anybody."

"Yet." Shadow says. "Plus you can't be trusted on your own. Remember where free time at the jail went?"

"That was not my fault!" Mephiles shouts. "Nazo was the one who started it! I was just the one you caught hitting the other!"

"Not according to Rouge." Shadow says, crossing his arms. "I don't trust her either, but if you can't behave at free time in prison, who can trust you to behave in the real world? Now, lets go, or I am going to have to inject you with the sedative!"

"I'm not going!" yells Mephiles. He starts to run away, but Shadow tackles him and immediately injects sedative into him. Luckily, it's fast acting, so the hedgehog-demon is asleep within minutes. Shadow shakes his head and picks him up.

"I am going to be telling the commander about this." he mumbles, walking towards the G.U.N. HQ. "And have him increase the security on that cage so he can't get back out."

Upon arrival to the G.U.N. HQ, Shadow is greeted by a rather angry Sonic.

"What took you?" the impatient blue hedgehog asks, still carrying Metal Sonic and Metal Shadow.

"You really need to be more patient." Shadow huffs, putting his card in and opening up the door. Sonic goes in first and gets Metal Sonic and Metal Shadow put in a cage until Eggman is notified. Meanwhile, Shadow takes Mephiles directly to the commander's office...