OK this was kind of a mess but eh.

Disclaimer: I only own Kate. The rest is owned by Sonic Team SEGA

Anyway, enjoy :)


**The previous day, G.U.N Headquarters, 19:37pm**

Commander Abraham was sat at his desk, slowly making his way through the pile of papers in front of him. He rubbed his forehead in a tired way as he pulled yet another sheet from the pile.

A bright green flash surprised him out of his bored state. He put his papers aside as the familiar figure of his agent appeared in front of him.
"Good evening, Agent Shadow," he said curtly. Shadow nodded once at Abraham before crossing his arms.

"Evening, Commander,"

Abraham clasped his hands together and rested them in front of him on the desk.
"You rarely make office calls," he said "what can I do for you?"

Shadow tapped his foot on the ground as he spoke.
"Does the G.U.N database contain any data on half-Gods?"
Abraham looked confused.
"Demigods, you mean?"

Shadow shrugged and ran a hand through his quills.
"Not...necessarily," he said after a moment's pause "anyway, is there anything?"

The commander nodded. Knowing that the conversation was nearly over, he reluctantly pulled the pile of paperwork back towards him.
"We have to keep track of any demigods, considering Mammoth Mogul's given them such a bad image," he sighed "why do you need to know, anyway?"

Shadow, who had begun to walk out of the office, turned back to his commander.
"My sis-um...friend, ran into trouble with someone," he stuttered, as he had not told Abraham about the events in White Acropolis "I need to do some research on him,"

Abraham eyed Shadow suspiciously as the black hedgehog left, questioning his unusual behaviour. However, when he looked down and saw the pile of paperwork, his concerns moved away from Shadow and to the long night that awaited him.

*a few hours later, 23:48pm*

Shadow continued to stare warily at the computer screen in front of him. He had been searching non stop for any trace of Mephiles, Solaris, Iblis, anything that could help him and the others. All he had found, however, was the same information that Kate had worked out.

Right now, he was scrolling through a page on the consciousness of Solaris for the third time, as though thinking that reading it through again would decipher any new information. Annoyed, he went off the page, and went back through the database until he found the list of half-god entities that G.U.N had. He began to scroll up to find Iblis again, becoming more bored and impatient by the second. Rested his head in his hand and placed his elbow as he continued to tediously scroll through the list.

However, as he neared the top a certain name caught his eye, and he sat up properly, re-energized by curiousity. He clicked on the name to view the profile. He read the attributes of the profile closely, making sure he hadn't just read the name wrong.

He began to mutter to himself absent-mindedly, trying to make sense of what he was reading.
"Genetics not yet accessed..." he murmured "what does that mean?"

He continued to read through the profile. The more he read, the more things (kind of) made sense. The unusual power surge he had felt in White Acropolis, how she knew so much about Solaris...

"Well, hello. What's got you here so late?"

Shadow jerked from his daze as the voice of his bat friend became present in his office. He quickly clicked off the profile he was on and went back to the list, making Rouge smirk at him.
"What're you looking at?" she asked sneakily, peering round at the screen. She saw the list that Shadow was looking at and looked at him, intrigued.
"Half-gods?" she said "why are you-?"

Shadow sat back as he spoke to Rouge.
"I found her," he said simply.

Rouge widened her eyes. She had been the only one in G.U.N that knew the details of Shadow's capture. She sat down on the spare chair in the room and crossed her legs, staring at him inquistively.
"Was she in Emerald Hill?"

Shadow shook his head.
"She had left by the time I had got there. She got into a fight with a hedgehog called Mephiles who apparently as Faker, Silver and I on his hit list,"

He paused for a moment and Rouge raised her brow.
"Silver? The time-travelling kid?"

The black hedgehog nodded.
"Yes. He's back in Mobotropolis. Kate said that Mephiles was part of a god called Solaris, so I came here to research him,"

Rouge dipped her head in understanding. There was silence before the huntress cupped her chin in her hand and leant forward slightly, wanting to know something from her hedgehog friend.
"So, what's she like?" she asked "could she be the new Maria?"

Shadow clenched his fist and shut his eyes at her words. He looked away, and grumbled a little. He pressed a hand to his forehead.
"N-no," he stammered "she's OK...but I can't risk her..."

He trailed off, and Rouge stood up, knowing she'd get nothing else from him. She stretched her wings and yawned.
"Well, have fun. I'll see you tomorrow,"

And with that, she left. Shadow moved his hand away from his head and placed it on the mouse. Swivelling back round in his chair, he faced the computer screen and clicked on Iblis' profile, ready to look through it for the fourth time.

**The next morning, 10:14am**

Sunlight poured in through the window in Shadow's office. The computer was still on, and the black hedgehog was asleep with his head on the desk.

Suddenly, there was a loud beeping in the room, and Shadow grumbled in his sleep. He settled again as the beeping stopped, but then jolted awake as an even louder voice came through the communicator on his wrist.

"Shadow, come in. Are you there, sleepyhead?"

Shadow sat up and rubbed the back of his neck, cursing the awkward sleep position that he had ended up in. He lifted up the the wrist communicator.
"R-Rouge?" he mumbled sleepily "w-what's going on?"

"There's a situation down in Mobotropolis," Rouge replied calmly "Abraham recieved a distress call from Sally, and he wants you to go immediately,"
Shadow let out a quiet groan and rubbed his head.
"Right..." he said "I'm on my way,"

He deactivated the communicator and stood up, stretching slightly. He switched off the computer and disappeared in a flash of green light.


**New Mobotropolis, Detention Centre**

"Two days! Tails said two days!"

The four of them stood staring for a moment, trying to find Mephiles in the chaos. Then, Antoine rushed forward, bearing his sabre in front of him.
"Allons! We cannot let ze prisoners escape!"

He waved to Bunnie and the two of them rushed forward. Silver and Kate were about to follow suit, when a flash of green light stopped them in their tracks.

Shadow stared at them for a moment, before turning towards the Detention Centre. "Hmph. So much for two days,"

Silver continued to follow after Bunnie and Antoine. Kate looked surprised at Shadow as they followed the white hedgehog through the gate.
"You got here quick," she remarked. Shadow used Chaos Spear to take out one of the creatures as he spoke.
"Sally sent a distress call," he replied, looking around "c'mon. He must be here somewhere,"

They split up, Silver and Kate went to the right and Shadow to the left. Kate immediately took out two of the creatures and Silver managed to throw three of them at the wall, making them disintegrate the same way they did back in Onyx City. However, as soon as they were destroyed, more arrived to replace them. They were easy enough to destroy, but if they kept getting replaced like this, it was quite possible that they would soon be overwhelmed.

As Kate fired a bolt of electricity at another one of the monsters, she noticed a weasel, a polar bear and a small green duck making their way towards the gate. They were obviously trying to avoid getting tangled with any of the creatures, but were also trying to avoid the attention of the guards. Kate frowned, and tapped Silver on the shoulder.

Silver threw the creature he held within his power at the wall and followed Kate's gaze.
"What is it?"

Kate lowered her voice.
"Look around," she said, Silver did so "everyone here is helping in someway, so, why aren't they?"

Silver grinned as he caught on.
"I'll handle the polar bear," he whispered.

They began to sneak up on the trio as they got closer to the gate. The purple weasel leading them turned to the other two.
"Nearly home free, boys!"

The duck, that was skipping behind the polar bear, giggled as he noticed Kate about to tackle him.
"Hold up, boss! I don't think Little Miss Puppy likes your idea!"

The weasel turned, confused, at duck's statement, only to see the small duck get grabbed by Kate and the polar bear get tripped up by Silver. The weasel swore loudly.
"Blasted Freedom Fighters..." he snapped "Bark! Bean! I don't have my sniper! Let 'em 'ave it!"

Bean, who was currently wrestling with Kate, gave an over exaggerated salute.
"Yes sir, Nack sir!"

Kate yelled in surprise as a large round bomb somehow found its way into Bean's hand. She rolled away from him as Bean dropped the bomb and it detonated. The explosion managed to throw several creatures away from them, and frightened a few of them away. Bean cackled as another bomb randomly appeared in his hand.

Meanwhile, Bark had recovered, and was now swinging punches at Silver, who managed to dodge them by using his psychokinesis to levitate above Bark. He looked over the polar bear and saw Nack trying to make a run for it.
"Kate! The weasel!"

Kate growled as she leapt out of the way of another bomb.
"Little. Preoccupied. Silver!" Kate snarled through gritted teeth. As Bean raised his his hand again, Kate managed to hit him with an energy sphere squarely in the chest, and Bean swayed on the spot as his feathers stood on end slightly. Kate caught him as he fell, and then gestured to Silver to keep an eye on him. When the white hedgehog gave her a thumbs up, Kate ran after Nack, and tackled him from behind. Nack swore at her again.
"Hey! Get your mits off me, lady!"

He tried to push her off of him, but Kate laid her arm across his abdomen and used her other hand to signal to one of the guards. Nack began to struggle more.
"No! I ain't goin' back in prison! I've 'ad enough of you stupid Freedom Fighters shutting me down! Get off me!"

Kate held him steady until the guard arrived, and knocked him out by firing an electrical sphere at his head. She sat back, panting slightly as the guard hoisted Nack up and began to drag him away. She looked back at Silver, who had succeeded in bringing Bark down, and then her gaze travelled to a nearby portal, and something glittering caught her eye.

She slowly got to her feet, and made her way towards it. On the ground, was a small crystal.
"What is..." she murmured, picking it up. The crystal flickered in her hand and, when she noticed the portal flickered too, her eyes widened as she clocked on.
"The crystals...they control the portals..."

She looked down at the crystal, and clenched her fist shut. The crystal was small, and very brittle, and it crumbled within her grip. With its destruction, the portal collasped in on itself, and was gone.

"He was never here..." she muttered to herself before viewing the rest of the portals behind her. Just like the one that she had destroyed, each portal had a crystal underneath it.

Silver, meanwhile, had rushed over to her, looking concerned.
"Kate?"

Kate looked up.
"He's not here. He's still locked in the dimension," she told him vaguely "there are crystals under each portal. That's what's controlling them..."

Silver turned around to look at the other portals, and found that she was right. He nodded a few times.
"Right...right. I'll go and tell the others,"

He ran off, but Kate wasn't paying attention. She stared at the Detention Centre thoughtfully.
"But why would he..." she murmured "...what does he get from attacking this place?"


***An hour later, Freedom HQ***

"Wait, so he hasn't got out?"

Tails sat back on the sofa at Sonic's question and scratched his head.
"The crystals were controlling the portals, not Mephiles. He's still stuck in the other dimension,"

Sonic gave a loud sigh, and turned round on the table chair to face the others.
"Then how did he get the crystals there?"

Sally, who was sat on the opposite side of the table, rested her elbow on the wood, with her head nestled in her hand.
"He didn't. He must've been able to communicate with his soldiers," she pressed her other hand to her head and rubbed it, feeling a slight headache coming on "but why would he attack the Detention Centre? A distraction? To get the Chaos Emeralds, maybe?"

Silver shook his head.
"Can't be. Sonic and I checked as soon as the portals were gone,"

Shadow opened his eyes as he got an idea.
"Perhaps it was a warning. A scare tactic, perhaps," he paused "did anyone escape?"

Tails nodded grimly.
"Naugus did, yeah,"

"Maybe he wants to team up with Naugus?" Sonic suggested. Sally laughed.

"Hah! As if! Naugus is insane. He'd be no use to Mephiles whatsoever,"

Silver stood up and began to pace.
"Well...whatever his reason was, we still need to find out how to destroy him when he gets out,"

Kate, who had been silent throughout the whole conversation, spoke up for the first time.
"We don't need to destroy him..." she said, staring at the floor. Silver turned to her, his brow slighty furrowed.

"Yeah, we do. Tiny bit. Try to keep up," he said slowly. Kate met his eye, grinning almost manically.

"No we don't! We don't!" she walked briskly over to the main console, where Tails' dimension cannon was propped up against it. She picked it up, and her grin grew wider.

"There is another way!"


*Chuckles*

I'm in danger.

The battle was quick, I know, but it was really just to get all the characters back together again if I'm perfectly honest. Sorry it was such a huge mess .

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed :)

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