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SURVIVE
-Chapter 6: Star Fragment-
The sunset was now gone and the night stars started to shine. It was a beautiful time to just sit there and forget about the world for a while. But for our main characters, it was a great opportunity to seek for the remaining emeralds. They decided to go on separate ways to earn time. Shadow told Sonic where to find them. Shadow went to Westopolis and Central City while Sonic investigated Spagonia and Mazuri.
-O-O-O-
"Let them live on their dreams."
Shadow skated through Westopolis. He was going so fast, that people would need to cover their heads from the passing wind.
"Where´s that damn FOURTH Chaos Emerald?"
Shadow recalled how Station Square looked like Westopolis. The doctor could destroy the entire world if he had to. It sounded so dark and edgy, but that´s the way the world was working in that era of pure darkness.
After five loops around the city without success, Shadow found the yellow emerald. But it was not the REAL Chaos Emerald. The real one was just two blocks ahead of him. He grabbed it and returned with the fake one.
"This is new… and strange."
Shadow doubted. He didn´t know if he could grab it or not. Maybe it was a trap. Good thing he sensed it, but what about Sonic? Was he going to notice if there was a fake? Another thing was, why did the Chaos Emerald was just behind the fake one?
Shadow also noticed that people were starting to whisper among them looking at him. Shadow closed his eyes and tried to listen…
"Mommy, look! It´s Sonic!
"No, he´s not."
"What is he doing´here?"
"He can´t take the Chaos Emerald!"
"What are you talking about?! He is a hero!"
"What are you saying, woman?"
"She´s right! I also believed he is good! He saved the planet when the ARK was about to crash."
"I still believe he is no good!"
"Somebody call the police!"
"Yes, get him out of here!"
"Mommy, is that… Shadow?"
"Yes, son. Don´t get too close to him."
"You are thinking wrong. He is GOOD!"
Shadow clinched his fist.
"Shadow, I beg of you!"
He grabbed both emeralds without thinking of it and rushed through the people, escaping the city.
-O-O-O-
Sonic didn´t waste time looking for a chili dog stand and focused in his main goal. He was also having a bad time with those horrifying memories of his. Returning to Spagonia at night made him get scared. Going back to that terrifying werehog form was no good. He didn´t like it one bit. But he tried to stay clear and just continued. Exactly as Shadow, he found a Chaos Emerald. The dark blue emerald, but there was also another emerald that looked exactly as the original. Sonic grabbed it and stared at it in great confusion. He remembered…
-FLASHBACK-
"What´s up with that knucklehead anyway! Trying to take over the shuttle. I thought we were toast for sure!" Sonic said kind of angry. Sonic, Tails and Amy turned around to Knuckles. "Huh? Where did he go now?"
"Looks like he bailed!" Tails said.
"This place looks deserted! Dusty, too!" the pink hedgehog exclaimed.
"This place was shut down about fifty years ago because of a terrible accident. The first Bernoulli spherical space colony, called ARK. When it was operational, it was the most advanced research center of its kind… But looking at it now…" Tails explained to the group.
"Now it´s an abandoned ARK, wouldn´t you say?" Amy felt sad.
"There´s not much time left before Eggman fires that weapon again… We´ve got to hurry! Let´s find the cannon and destroy it!" Sonic exclaimed.
Tails nodded. "Yeah!" He typed on his machine and explained how the cannon worked and how they could shut it down. He opened a small suitcase and Amy exclaimed, interrupting Tails 'speech:
"Isn´t that a Chaos Emerald?"
"It looks like it, doesn´t it? But in fact it´s a fake one I created after researching the real Emerald! It has same wavelength and properties…" Tails handed the emerald to Sonic. "…but it is less powerful than the real one."
-END-OF-FLASHBACK-
Someone was trying to get on their way making them get confused about the real Chaos Emeralds. Sonic decided to go fast to Mazuri, before anything else happened.
-O-O-O-
Shadow didn´t have trouble finding the gray Chaos Emerald. There was no fake this time, so he figured that there was nothing to be concerned about this time.
Same with Sonic. The purple Chaos Emerald also appeared right in front of him when he got to Mazuri.
"Piece of cake!"
Both hedgehogs got to the rendezvous point. It was about midnight already.
"That was…. COOL!"
"Don´t get excited, blue hedgehog. You got them?"
Sonic got out all the emeralds he had on him.
"Yeah, and you?"
"Of course." Shadow pulled out his emeralds. "But I think we´ve got a problem. Didn´t you see fake emeralds around the real ones?"
"Now that you mention it…" Sonic handed Shadow the dark blue fake. "Why?"
"Because I also found one." Shadow said getting out the yellow fake.
"What the…"
"Someone is messing with us, Sonic."
"But who?"
"I don´t know. I don´t think the doctor´s behind all this."
"Me neither."
"We got to be more careful now."
"I agree, totally."
They sat down once again to admire the big night-sky full of dazzling stars above the fresh water of Emerald Coast. Both threw the fake emeralds to the ocean and kept the real ones.
"Sonic…"
"Yeah, what´s wrong?"
"Don´t you think the emeralds were trying to help us?"
"Mm… yeah. I think I know what you mean. Yes, they are trying to help us…"
-FLASHBACK-
"Well, I got to thinking... Doesn´t it seem like the emeralds are trying to help us?" Tails said.
"The Chaos Emeralds…?" Sonic wondered if it could be possible...
"… and the Sol Emeralds?" Blaze continued.
"Yeah. If they weren´t , I don´t think they´d be nearly as stable as they are. It´s almost as if they WANT to be used for this." Tails finished explaining about the Chaos and Sol Emeralds interaction.
"Trying to help us… Huh…" Sonic was still a bit confused.
"Hmph." Blaze didn´t know if this was true, but it was a possibility.
-END-OF-FLASHBACK-
Sonic smiled. Not all of the memories that were returning were bad. The only bad thing was that Tails was gone. Who knew if Blaze and Marine were fine? He couldn´t contact Silver, either. But besides that, that adventure Sonic experienced in Blaze´s world was wonderful to him. Now all what Shadow and Sonic needed to do, was to end this nightmare. He tried to sleep and dream of his friends. It would be nice to see them once again, together. Shadow just stayed awake, staring at the dark sky filled with the bright stars, when suddenly, a shooting star crossed the sky, making it seem like a magical moment. Shadow also smiled and lied down, still looking at the sky.
"Shadow, I know you can do it… That´s the reason why you were brought into this world…"
-O-O-O-
At the same time, someone was spying on them. He had a radio, and a voice came out of it:
"Soldier, report your status, OVER!"
The man smirked.
"We´ve got it…"