Chapter 4: An Alliance is Formed

Shadow, along with Skunk, Rabbit and Fox continued to climb the mountain toward where Dragon's lair was located. Yet Shadow was quite well unaware that Grounder had already arrived at the main camp of the ninja monkeys. The robot had already brought back Scratch and Coconuts whom were curious enough to greet these ninja monkeys for which Grounder had encountered.

"Imagine that" said Scratch, "you were jumped by these ninja monkeys, who damaged the hi-tech laser cannon on the hovercraft, yet the hovercraft still works perfectly!"

"I know" said Grounder as he landed back in the ninja monkey camp.

"Ah, I see you brought your compatriots back" said Baboon as he entered the scene, "tell me everything I need to know about the black hedgehog."

"With pleasure" replied Scratch as he gave Baboon an evil happy grin.

Meanwhile, the four climbers were still trying their best to head up the mountain. Shadow was always rushing Fox and Skunk who were in the back of the group.

"Come on, come on already" said Shadow as he was far ahead with Rabbit in second.

"Slow down!" cried Skunk as he was next to Fox.

"Yeah, we should be in no rush" added Fox.

"Rush, rush?!" shouted Shadow, "I want my Chaos Emerald back from those ninja monkeys."

Shadow, and the rest of the climbers eventually made it to a surface of the mountain. As the black hedgehog was at the lead, he climbed up to the surface and headed toward a rock to rest before climbing up again.

"Hey, nice work ordering those two around back there" said Rabbit as he managed to get himself up on the surface.

"All I'm interested is getting my Chaos Emerald back from those pathetic ninja monkeys, no more and no less" replied Shadow.

"Could you have been a bit more polite about this?" asked Fox as she climbed up to the surface and then helped Skunk get up, "Skunk's exhausted, and I'm just about close to that as well."

"Ha, that doesn't matter" said Shadow as he was ready to climb up even further, "you three can rest here, I'm heading up."

"He can't face all of those ninja monkeys alone!" cried Skunk who was resting to catch his breath.

"Of course he can, he's got a tough attitude for it" replied Rabbit as he was going to follow the black hedgehog.

"We better go and help them if they are in any sort of trouble" said Skunk.

"You're right" said Fox as the two were heading to follow Rabbit.

Back in the camp, Scratch was happily giving hi-tech laser guns to the ninja monkeys as a gift.

"So what the heck are these things?" asked Baboon.

"Well, these weapons are from Dr. Eggman" replied Grounder.

"Yeah, he's responsible for creating us" added Scratch.

"Just what do these things do anyway?" asked Baboon about the laser guns to the three robots.

"Let us give you a demonstration on it" replied Scratch.

Scratch then took one of the laser guns from one of the ninja monkeys and targeted a piece of wood that was in the ground. The robotic bird then fired the laser, to which the laser then managed to cut through the wood, sending a large piece of it falling right down to the ground.

"Monkeys, do you know what this means?" asked Baboon as he was quite happy with the demonstration, "We can finally use this new technology to take back the Valley, along with also the combine might of Dragon using the Chaos Emerald!"

The ninja monkeys then began to cheer onward with Baboon's comments, at the very moment, Shadow was climbing managed to climb onto the main grounds of the camp.

"It's the black hedgehog!" cried Coconuts who spotted Shadow.

"Ninja monkeys, fire at will!" ordered Baboon.

"Now to get that Chaos Emerald of mine back!" said Shadow.

The black hedgehog managed to easily dodge the oncoming lasers, knocking each one of the ninja monkeys out cold.

"Quickly, get onto the hovercraft, we'll use some of the other lasers attached to it to fight off the black hedgehog" ordered Scratch to Grounder and Coconuts.

The three robots then got onto the hovercraft, to which Coconuts, and Grounder began to ready the other built in lasers in the hovercraft since the hi-tech laser cannon was broken. The other laser guns installed on the hovercraft then began to aim at Shadow, as Scratch steered the hovercraft toward the black hedgehog.

"Fire at will!" laughed Scratch.

The lasers on the hovercraft began to target the black hedgehog, yet Shadow was quite fast. While Shadow was trying to dodge the attacks, Rabbit managed to get up to where the camp was. Along with eventually, Fox and Skunk. Skunk was quite astonished with the moves by Shadow of how fast the black hedgehog managed to move. The black hedgehog, spun himself into a ball and bashed himself against the hovercraft sending the hovercraft off course.

"That black hedgehog has sent the hovercraft out of control!" cried Scratch who was trying to steer it, "I can't control it!"

Poor Scratch couldn't control the hovercraft anymore, and the three robots leaped out from the vehicle. The vehicle then drove itself, toward where the tents of the ninja monkeys were located on the camp.

"It's heading straight for the ninja monkey training ground!" cried Baboon who was about to pull his own hair from himself.

The hovercraft went straight out of control, and headed straight toward the ground of the training camp for the ninja monkeys. It crashed, exploding in quite a explosive scene and in Baboon's own horror. The primate then turned toward the black hedgehog who caused the crash of the strange vehicle.

"YOU!" shrieked Baboon to Shadow as he began to approach the black hedgehog, "I'm going to ensure that you'll have a more painful punishment than your new Valley dweller compatriots you have brought along!"

"Ha, what are you going to do about it Baboon, we can still take you all on" replied Rabbit in quite a confident mood.

"That's where you're wrong" replied Baboon as he grabbed a large laser gun and readied the weapon, "because this time, we have the upper hand here. You four shall watch Dragon eat the Chaos Emerald, so that he'll be free and destroy the Valley for good."

Back on the ninja monkey training grounds, poor Scratch, Grounder and Coconuts were using their parachutes were heading toward the ground.

"I don't believe that black hedgehog did a number on us again!" cried Scratch.

"Well, we should at least thank our new monkey friends" said Grounder as he noticed the ninja monkeys were surrounding Shadow, Rabbit, Fox and Skunk, "they're going to hold him captive."

"Do you think we should stick around to see what happens?" asked Coconuts.

"Why not, bawahaha!" laughed Scratch.