Shadow was surprised, but the moment soon passed when he noticed Gardial had an emerald on him. The bull explained that on his way back to Runega, the gem got caught in Snowball's talon, slowing the ride home down a little. Then shadow went to the machine and put the emerald in it. The castle once more became a little more extravagant, and Shade became a little more solid, but this time however, a door appeared on the eastern wall, curious, Shadow went over to it and opened it.

Inside was a green marble statue of a hedgehog with some gold on it. On the plaque in front of it were the words: Ronin, Archer, friend and village nutjob Solarin, King of Castle Runega.

"How was this guy a nutjob?" asked Shadow.

"Because, His ideas were a little farfetched for the time." Said a voice behind him. He turned and saw Shade, how she got in without clanking was beyond him, but he just left the room and went to Snow, who was talking to a certain white bat.

"Hi Rouge." Said Shadow, greeting his old friend then he saw her kids, all four of them.

"Hello Shadow. I see you met my kids. They're Quadruplets by the way. Knuckles is very… special in that department. But I'm straying from the reason to why I'm here. You see, I happened to find a chaos emerald, or rather, Blush did." She said, indicating the red bat winged echidna girl at her side. The other three were boys and were a different color one was blue, one was green and the third was yellow.

Shadow quickly took the Emerald and added it to the rest. Now only two questions remained: How to get the other three from Eggman and what went into the middle, then he heard a crash from outside the gates. He quickly ran over there and saw a maroon lizard in a navy blue cape holding an unconscious Snow in his arms. The lizard had for red horns on his head but seemed familiar to Shadow. Then the kidnapper teleported away and rouge told him that Eggman sent him to capture Snow to use as bait for Shadow. He was ticked now. He wouldn't lose another girl in his life like Maria, So shadow decided to hold a meeting.

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"Okay, who's the Lizard?" asked Bob

"It's what I think happened to a former fianal boss from the games." Said the boss.

"Which one? There were several unless…. oh that boss."

"May I continue now?"

"Sure!"

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Hours later, the meeting began, the people there were Shadow, Gardial, Mighty, Knuckles, Cream, Espio, Rouge, Celeste, and Shade. Shadow started the meeting and quickly informed the others what happened, and told his plan to get Snow back. It was quite simple, Break in, get Snow and the Emeralds, 

and get out of there. The people there were broken into teams: Shadow, Mighty, Cream and Espio would get Snow while the others grabbed the emeralds. They immediately set out and broke into the base. However, when Shadow's team neared the prison block, Snow was there in the back cell with a small yellow hedgehog wearing goggles, but they were being guarded by something Shadow didn't expect: a metallic hedgehog , but instead of red eyes like Metal Sonic had, This one had green eyes. But for some reason Snow was crying, And she then yelled something that shocked Shadow, Something that rarely happened.

"Dad! Please don't kill them! Don't do to them what you did to mom!"

The robot was her father, and he wasn't listening as he turned his left hand into a sword.

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Ooh! I wonder what will happen next? Will Shadow win? Will snow be rescued? Who is the Hedgehog she's with? I'll tell ya later.