Skaar:It be me burtday!

Fictional Skaar: Burtday?

Skaar: MY BIRTHDAY! Wheeeeeeeeeeee!

Shadow: Skaar does not own any characters/places in this chapter exept for Skaar, Mor'gul and The Valley of Chaos. Oh my GOD! Tails, Skaar going ino an epilleptic fit again!

Skaar: My BIRTHDAY!

Tails: I'll get the plunger...


Recap: "She was my mother. Skaar told me. Damn them…" Tikal walked up to the other body.

"They were probably innocent…" She was on the verge of tears. Suddenly Tikal's eyes widened as she touched the other one's face. "Shadow! This one's alive!"


"She was my mother. Skaar told me. Damn them…" Tikal walked up to the other body.

"They were probably innocent…" She was on the verge of tears. Suddenly Tikal's eyes widened as she touched the other one's face. "Shadow! This one's alive!"

Tails stood in the doorway to the portal room and yawned. "When are they gonna get back? I wish we could go…"

Amy shivered. "Not me. It's probably really creepy over there. But I hope my Sonniku is okay."

Cream just sighed, patting Cheese on the head. Cheese giggled happily. "They've been in there a long time. I hope they're okay…"

Suddenly, They all heard a bunch of clicks. "D-don't move!" They turned around to find a GUN patrol, complete with loaded assault weapons. One of them lifted a walkie-talkie. "Home base, this is 3rd patrol. We have captured the intruders, OVER." All they got was a crackle. "Home base, this is 3rd patrol! Repeat, we have captured the intruders, OVER."

Tails smirked. "I put out a jamming signal from my watch when I saw you guys. The whole base is under radio silence."

The apparent leader of the patrol pointed his gun at him. "Wha- well, turn it off!"

Tails laughed. "Why? What are you going to do to me if I don't? Shoot me?" Amy stepped up behind him.

"Yeah! We're friends of Sonic! If you try to take us in, we'll beat the crud out of you!"

The captain apparently had heard of Sonic and his friends, (well, DUH! Who hasn't!) Because he looked very intimidated.

"Eh-Er-Sh-shut up! Hands in the air, now!" The patrol pointed their guns. Tails smirked.

"Come on Amy, we can take them." There was suddenly a deep rumble, and then the ceiling fell in between the patrol and the Sonicteam members. As the dust cleared, another GUN soldier's form began to appear through the dust. The GUN soldier's body was crumpled on the ground and standing on it was…

"Y-you!" The GUN captain took a step back, horrified. Skaar emerged from the rubble, his cloak amazingly dust-less. "Wh-what are you idiots waiting for? Shoot him!" The soldiers opened fire, but the bullets never hit him. "What in the world…?" Skaar slowly turned around. He raised a fist.

"My eyes…are used to your attacks." He slowly opened his hand, and crushed bullets fell to the floor. He extended his hand, and black tendrils stretched forth from his fingertips and grasped the guards.

"GRAAAAAH!" The guards writhed in pain. The black tendrils crushed the guards against the walls. Eventually, only the captain was left. The black tendrils brought him in closer to Skaar, until their faces were only inches away from each other. Skaar's eyes glowed with fury, molten pools of fire and magma, just waiting to erupt.

"You will live. Go to your leaders and tell them this; I will not rest until every one of them is dead. Those not responsible can run at any time. Remember, or die." The guard gurgled, and went limp. He was carelessly thrown aside. "…He fainted. Humans are so fragile." He looked over at the dumbstruck Sonicteam members. "If you value your lives, you will let me enter the Valley. Or, I could just kill you and go anyway. Your choice." Tails hesitantly stepped backwards. "That's what I thought." Skaar walked slowly past him. "…Good. You know when to back down. You are a smart child." Skaar entered the portal room and put his hand on the archway. It began to glow. Tails, Amy and Cream could only watch."

"W-wait!" Skaar looked at Amy. "My Sonniku is in there! He hasn't come out for a really long time… Please, wait until he gets back. You always leave behind a massacre… If you go in there, I… I might never see him again…" Amy's eyes welled up. Skaar bowed his head. The portal sprung up in the archway behind him.

"I… understand." Tails gaped. What? Skaar looked up at the portal. Skaar looked back at her. "But I cannot stay. My business is vital to me." He began to fade into the portal.

Shadow flew across the gap between him and the archway, the unconscious young woman thrown over his shoulder, which was bleeding profusely. At the last minute, just as the group had had the portal in sight, Demons had sprouted out of the Gaia Hara like daisies. He could see the others waiting for him at the portal. Just a little bit further… Behind them, the portal was open. Good. Tikal opened the portal. Then he noticed Skaar's face next to Tikal's, halfway out of the portal. Damn it! Not now! He saw his allies backing into the portal, still watching him, unaware of the danger behind them. "RAAAAH!" With one last push, Shadow dove for the portal and tackled the half emerged Skaar in the process.

Tails watched Skaar begin to fade into the void. Well, at least we're alive… Suddenly, Skaar was blasted back out by a black blur. (Heh… say that ten times fast!) The rest of the Sonicteam party emerged right after followed by a swarm of strange semi-human creatures. Skaar stood up quickly and blue lightning sprouted from his palm. The creatures that were not instantly decimated fell back into the portal with unearthly screeches. The portal abruptly closed and Skaar glared at Shadow.

"You fool! You almost unleashed hell into this world!" Skaar walked over to Shadow, who was still trying to stand up. "You're lucky that I was… What?" His face faded from contempt to horror. "Is that… It can't be…" Skaar crouched next to her and pushed the hair out of her face. Shadow could see now that if not for her gaunt expression and pale face, she might have been… attractive. Tikal came up behind him.

"She is alive." Skaar looked like he had got a slap in the face.

"…Alive?" Tikal crouched next to him.

"Who is she, that she could make you act this way?" Shadow cocked an eyebrow. Tikal and Skaar seemed to still act like friends when near each other. Skaar had forgotten about everyone else. Skaar's face hardened again.

"I have no time to explain." He looked at Shadow. "You and your friends will care for her. Tikal's primary skill is healing, so let Tikal work on her." Skaar stepped towards the portal. Less than a food away from the portal he stopped. His lips curved up into a smirk. "Time to kill a rat." He went to take a step into the portal, but stopped. "I almost forgot. Shadow, if she dies under the care of you and your allies…" Skaar looked back at him, eyes flashing with bloodlust. "I will kill you all." With that, his body faded into the portal.

Heh… he let his guard down. So he isn't an emotionless husk, and he has weaknesses. But what did he mean by "time to kill a rat"?

Knuckles rubbed at his bad eye. "Argh! Dammit! Tikal, I think it's bleeding again." Tikal walked over to him and lifted the gauze patch and bandage over his bad eye(His left, by the way. I forgot to tell you in Ch. 5). Tikal sighed.

"Knuckles, your eye wouldn't bleed if you didn't rub it."

Knuckles groaned. "But it itches…"

Tikal sighed again. "That means it's healing. But it will never heal if you don't leave it alone. Ah, there you are!" As Tikal pulled back her hand after the healing, Shadow got a glimpse of Knuckles' marled eye. It had no pupil, and a very raw scar was running vertically down from his eyebrow to his cheek.

Not as bad as I thought it would be. Shadow cleared his throat. "I hate to intrude, but we should probably return with this young woman to Sonicteam. She needs medical treatment soon to live."

Tails stepped up. "Right. And as for you, Knuckles, you're an idiot."

"What! Why you- Ow! My eye split open!" Knuckles staggered backwards, grabbing his eye as Tikal rushed back over.

Tails smirked. "I rest my case. Now then, we have to make some sort of gurney for her, since Shadow can't just carry her around everywhere. We- Hey, Shadow! What are you doing?!"

Shadow stood up after lifting her over his shoulder. "Let's go. It worked well enough in the Valley, didn't it?" Shadow just waltzed past the dumbstruck Tails.

"But what about your shoulder?"

"I'm fine."

"Fine? You must have lost at least five pints of blood by now!"

"I'm Fine"

Tails groaned. "You're just as bad as Knuckles!"

Shadow looked over at Tikal. "Well? Get us out of here!"

Tikal looked at the ground nervously. "I can't make the portal without an emerald."

Shadow groaned. "Of course. Well, now what?"

Tails looked around. "There should be a Fighter plane hanger somewhere... I think it's that way!"

After a long, tedious walk through Mission Island,(They had to kind of zigzag to avoid GUN patrols) the party arrived at the hangar. Tails inspected each plane, then chose one that he deemed, "Okay, but a little wobbly." "I wouldn't exactly call that a by-the-crow-flies trip… Y'know? I noticed we've been walking a lot recently." Sonic plopped on the wing.

Shadow carefully set the young woman in the back cockpit, before climbing on the other wing. She seems so familiar… I wonder who she is? TheFighter took off and began to rise in altitude. When Mission Island was almost a mile away, the main building exploded. "What the hell?" Shadow looked back, but could not make out any details. Was that Skaar? Tails sighed. "Too late to help them now. We have to keep moving."

Skaar coughed up some blood. An imposing form stood above him. It chuckled in a strong, masculine voice. "You really thought that with your mere slice of godly power you could take me down? Chaos is strong, but Mephalis is stronger."

Skaar glared up at the form through the smoke around him. Behind them, the portal's smashed and crippled form stood imposingly. "Damn your traitorous hide, Mor'gul. Mephalis is working with the King of Death. You will pay for this."

Mor'gul chuckled again. "Oh, but Skaar, you forget one thing. If you are dead, who will there be left to make me pay?" The last thing Skaar saw was a clawed hand shooting towards his skull.


Skaar: Kay, then. There it was. I think I spelled Mephalis wrong. Tell me how to spell it by REVIEWING!

Shadow: You idiot! stop yelling.

Cream: I didn't have any lines...

Skaar: I'm sorry, Cream. I voted you off the metaphorical island.

Cream: (sob)

Tails: You jackass! (Punches Skaar).

Skaar: Ow, my face!