A/N: Oh. My. God…I'm so sorry guys! Lets just say that life has been a really big pain in the ass.

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Now onto chapter four!!!!!!!!! (finally lol)

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"Come in Tails. This is Sonic speaking over."

Tails rolled his eyes. He was flying the X-Tornado over the ocean. Amy was sitting in the back and both Knuckles and Espio were stand on the wings.

"I hear you Sonic. What's up?" the young fox asked even though he knew what Sonic was going to say.

"Oh nothing, I'm just wondering where you slow pokes are. Shadow and I are already at the resort and we're waiting for you." Sonics voice said from the com link.

Shadow's com link buzzed to life. "Yeah and Sonic here is stuffing his face with chilly dogs…and frankly it's making me sick…"

"Yeah, yeah what ever Shad."

Tails sweat dropped as he listened to the conversation. Amy poked her head over the shoulder of his seat. "Are they there already?" Tails nodded and focused on the controls again.

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With Sonic and Shadow

Shadow's eye twitched as Sonic shoved more chilly dogs into his mouth. Sonic looked at him then grinned. "Want some?" He held a chilly dog in front of Shadow's face. Shadow grimaced and pushed the chilly dog away from him.

"Noooo thank you."

Sonic shrugged and went back to stuffing his face with chilly dogs. Shadow looked up at the sky and saw the X-Tornado and smirked evilly. "Come on Sonic, time to go." He grabbed the blue hedgehog and dragged him away from the chilly dog stand.

Somehow he managed to ignore Sonics moans and wails all the way to the meeting point, which was right at the start of the Sahara Desert.

Knuckles and Espio both jumped off of the wings and landed on the ground. Shadow dropped Sonic off with them. "Shut him up please!"

Espio grinned evilly "I have just the thing." He pulled out some duck tape and put it over Sonic's mouth. "There." Espio smiled and Knuckles rolled his eyes. Shadow did the same then walked off to talk with Tails. Amy got out of the plane and pulled out her hammer, fury burning in her eyes as she marched of to bang both Espio and Knuckles.

"So Shadow," Tails started, "do you know where the base IS under all of this?" He waved a hand at the vast extent of sand. Shadow knew that this question would come up sooner or later. He glanced around at everything, the site had another file that Espio had hacked into and that file was the map of where the entrances were but before they could print it little boy blue spilled jam all over the printer so that was out of the question.

Spotting what he was looking for, Shadow walked over to a pile of sand. "You all might want to stand back…" as he said that his body glowed with a red aura. Tails' eyes went wide and he ran over to the others telling them what was about to happen.

"Chaos Blast!!"

Everyone covered their eyes as there was a flash of red then sand being blown in every direction. Sonic began to wave the sand away from his head so he could see why Shadow did that.

None of them had to wait long because the sand cleared fast and showed Shadow standing at the top of a ladder with his arms crossed. "Well are you all coming or not?" he glanced at them then grabbed the latter and slid down it out of their eye sight.

Sonic puffed out his chest and walked over. He looked down, shrugged, and then did the same thing that Shadow did. "Yeeeeehaawww!" he shouted as he too went out of sight. Tails sighed and just flew down the hole. Amy, Knuckles, and Espio stared at each other.

"I guess you guys are the watch out gang…have fun." Espio waved with a grin and disappeared in a puff of smoke. Knuckles throttled the air.

"How did he do that?!"

Amy sweat dropped. "Uh…Knuckles…he's a ninja person remember?" Knuckles stopped throttling the air and glared at her.

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Shadow was leaning against the wall waiting for the others. Espio appeared in a puff of smoke, Sonic landed on his butt and Tails just landed.

Amy and Knuckles must have been the watch out people.

"Come on lets go." Shadow said as he began to walk down the bleak hallway. Sonic glanced at the others. They all had the same feeling that Shadow was really on edge for some reason. Sonic got up and caught up with Shadow, Tails and Espio shrugged then followed.

They walked in silence all the way through the hall but Sonic could feel tension rolling off Shadow's body. Espio leaned over to Sonic, "How do we know that Shadow knows where we're going?" Sonic had been thinking the same thing and bet that Tails was too.

Shadow heard them and opened what looked like a door to their left. "Déjà vu." Was all he said as he began to step through the door way and into another gray hall with more doors.

Sonic grabbed Shadow's arm making them both stop. Shadow just stared strait ahead but Sonic was looking at him with a serious expression.

They stood like that even as Tails and Espio passed them. "Shadow what's wrong. You've been on edge ever since this morning." His voice was worried and serious. Shadow glanced back at him and tried to pull his arm away but Sonic held fast. "Seriously Shadow…what's got you so worked up."

"Déjà vu…" He mumbled again. "From my dreams."

Sonic blinked. How could that be?

Shadow knew that Sonic wouldn't believe him so he tried to yank his arm away once again but found that Sonic had tightened his grip. "But you said that you were walking in darkness…not a hallway…" Shadow looked back at Sonic then down at the ground.

"The dream I had last night…I was walking in this hallway…" he tore off and looked ahead once again. Sonic also looked ahead and noticed that Espio had stopped and was now looking at them.

"You weirdos coming or are you just going to stand there like statues?"

Sonic released Shadow's arm and they both continued walking.

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Amy sat in the sand with a pout on her face. No way did she want to stay up here with Knuckles and guard the ship or what ever. She wanted to be with her Sonniku.

Sighing, she crossed her arms over her chest and watched as Knuckles just stood there. Like a big stupid red statue…

This gave Amy an idea. If Knuckles never bothered to look to see what she was doing...? Amy grinned wickedly and slowly began to sneak over to the ladder that everyone else had disappeared down not to long ago.

As Amy climbed down the latter she soon heard an outraged cry from above. "Oops…looks like Knuckles did notice after all…oh well!" A smile spread over her face and she continued down wards.

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Sonic kept a close eye on Shadow as they continued on. Everything that had happened was just too strange…even for him.

Silver eyes followed the group as they made there way farther down the seemingly endless grey hallway. The eyes narrowed until they were nothing more than silver slits in the darkness.

As they walked on, Sonic was getting the familiar feeling of being watched and followed. Sure enough his feelings proved true as Espio was knocked off of his feet by something that was coming right his way. Sonic got ready to dodge it but was tackled by a blur of pink.

So there he lay on the ground with swirly eyes while Amy kissed him over and over again. "Sonniku!!"

Espio cracked up while Tails scratched his head. "But…I thought you were standing guard with Knuckles…?"

Amy swiftly stood up and brushed some invisible dust off of her dress with a wink in Tail's direction. "Who me? Naw. Knuckles was nice enough to let me come along with you guys."

Tails didn't believe that for one second, and neither did Sonic, who also stood up and brushed real dust off of himself.

Shadow looked at the scene behind him with a glare. "Hurry up already." This earned him a glare from everyone else but he paid not mind to it. Instead, Shadow just turned back around and continued onward.

The pink hedgehog stuck her tongue out at the Shadows retreating back then grabbed Sonic's arm. After smiling at him again she followed after the moody black hedgehog with a blue moody hedgehog in tow.

Espio just shrugged his shoulders and walked swiftly after them with Tails following shortly after.

Amy got bored with the grey walls quiet swiftly and she separated from the group to open one of the doors. "Hey why don't we just look around in the rooms instead of wandering around like idiots?"

That statement, everyone knew, was aimed at the fact that Shadow was seemingly leading them no where.

Sonic huffed. "Anything to stop from staring at this dumb grey walls…"

The pink hedgehog grinned and pulled the door open just a Shadow swiveled around and shouted, "Don't open--!!"

The entire underground base seemed to shake with Amy's scream and even Knuckles could here it from where he was.

Amy fell backwards and tried to scuttle away from the sight ahead of her. Sonic face twisted into fury and he stepped past the pink hedgehog and into the room.

It was a circular room and clear glass tanks lined it from one end to the other. Green fluid bubbled underneath the glass, almost as if it were searching for any crack in the surface containing it. If that wasn't enough, there also were dead bodies floating inside. Some were normal, others were disfigure but most of them were missing body parts and looked like as though they had been put through numerous amputations. They all had wires coming off of them though.

Sonic trailed one of the wires with his eyes and found that they were all attached to a huge computer of some kind on the very back of the wall. Why he hadn't seen it before he had no idea.

As he walked farther into the room he was followed by Espio. The chameleon frowned deeply as he too looked around. "What mad man did this?"

The blue hedgehog didn't answer for obvious reasons as he reached one of the tubes and read a small plaque out loud. "Number 0067, Setar the jaguar, date of expiration…" Sonic had to stop there. It didn't even say just date of DEATH…it had used expiration instead…like as though these people were nothing more then canned food.

Back out in the hallway Tails had helped Amy up while Shadow glared at her with his arms crossed tightly over his chest. "I tried to warn you, now if there ARE any guards here, they will know of our presence."

Amy shook off her shock and glared back at the ebony hedgehog. Her mouth opened to say something but Tails put a hand on her shoulder to stop her. She looked at the young fox who just shook his head and he turned to walk into the room.

Amy looked at Shadow then closed her eyes with a 'hmph' and jutted her chin into the air as she followed Tails into the room.

Shadow was left alone in the hallway.

Espio was now looking at the piles of data paper that lay loosely on the main computer. His eyes traveled over some of the pages sharply, hinting at building anger. As Sonic came over, the chameleon shoved the papers into his hands. "Read these…"

Green eyes scanned the pages with growing anger and disgust. Sonic suddenly and viciously crumpled the paper into a ball and threw it on the floor. "That's just NOT right!"

Espio nodded in agreement then looked around again. "Well at least we can reveal a part of the reason why Dark Chaos wants the thing that helped make this project possible…they were doing something big here…taking all of these genetics and trying to combined them…"

Amy was looking at the tubes with horror and she tried to keep herself from shivering. This place was just creepy…maybe it wasn't such a good idea to open the door…she was actually preferring the boring grey walls of the hallway at this moment.

Shadow had seen something move and he knew it. He marched into the room and grabbed Sonic's arm. The blue hedgehog jumped in start then turned to glare at his opposite. "What's the big ide-?"

Shadow cut him off with a glare of his own. "It's time to go…NOW."

Tails tilted his head to the side, his face written with worry. "Why what's the big rush?"

The ebony hedgehog opened his mouth to respond but a sharp deep voice beat him to it. "You should listen to your black friend there…and leave this very instant without what you came for."

Five heads turned sharply to the door where a newcomer stood.

Silver eyes surrounded by purple feathers stared harshly at them. His feathers jutted out from his head in almost all directions. His body was slim and seemed to scream lethal to everyone. A black gloved hand was resting lightly on the hilt of a sword that was strapped to his waist. There were also two interesting looking scars that cut across his left eye.

Amy was the first to find her voice again. "Why should we do that …?" She was waiting for his name.

Those silver eyes narrowed into dangerous slits. "Daemon the Hawk."