A thought came to me: I think some of my readers are.. are psychic! Some of you guys can predict so well regarding the plot of the story! Woah!
Anyways long thank you review will be sent out shortly :3
Sonic held his breath to make sure the snow wouldn't choke him to death. The blue hedgehog had a hard time knowing where he was going since he seemed to be right in the middle of the snow storm. No only that but Sonic also had to be careful to make sure he was not walking over the thin ice just like how he did before. He didn't want to risk of drowning for the second time.
"I-I knew it! T-this i-i-isn't going to end..end well..!" Sonic yelled in rage and was completely pissed off at the situation he was in. His teeth kept chattering because of the coldness. The blizzard was getting stronger and stronger to the point where Sonic started to feel the ice shard digging through his arms and legs. The chilly sensation crept up from Sonic's spine to the top of large quills.
'This snow is too deep. I can't even run anymore,' Sonic felt like his legs would break any seconds. Sonic couldn't even see his shoes anymore since the snow was up to his knee. He felt some melted snow inside of his running shoes as well which made the situation more annoying. He was also sick of hearing the sound of snow bothering his ears. Not to mention Sonic's wet body from the pervious incident didn't help with his current event which made the poor hedgehog colder.
Few moments later, Sonic gave up walking and sat down on the snow while rubbing himself with his hands. The blue hedgeohg looked up and even the sun that was there when he first arrived to this world with Zhadow was no longer there anymore.
'I'm cold...' Sonic stated the obvious and stopped rubbing his hands. He then covered both of his two blue ears with his hands to make himself more comfortable. It felt nice having something warm because his ears were freezing to death. Sonic tried to stand up again but he swayed side to side before falling harshly to the floor with his face flat on to the snow.
'Hehheh, you know this feels pretty nice,' Sonic thought to himself as he gently closed his eyes. He knew that he was losing his mind. The blue hedgehog kept telling himself that his body was giving up on him but he just didn't care. He gathered some snow with his hands and stared at it with his hopes slowly fading as time passed by.
'It's not like I can run through this blizzard anyways,' Sonic reminded himself. He was just there with his face still flat on the snow while letting the blizzard consume him more and more. Sonic felt the heavy weight of the snow building on top of his back quills but he didn't even shiver at the contact. He shifted his head a little to the side so the snow wouldn't be bothering his mouth anymore but now his left ear was burried deep under the snow.
'I miss my friends...' thought Sonic with his eyes still closed. 'I wonder if Amy is still made at me. Would Cream and Cheese be worried about me? What about Tails?! I hope he's finally off from that hospital since he hates hospital food. I bet Knuckles is going to kill me if I ever make this situation alive. What hapened to Zonic and Zhadow...?' Then before Sonic fell unconscious, the last friend he thought about was the black hedgeog. 'I wonder if Shadow is going to be pissed because I caused more problems. I mean, I did promise that guy that he wouldn't regret his decision for letting me tag along with him. I can just imagine him getting all made at me...' Sonic smiled and decided to take a dangerous nap. A very long nap that he hopes to wake up later when the snow storm alleviates.
The the snow became a huge blanket and covered the blue hedgehog completely.
'How am I supposed to see through this storm?!' Shadow had to stop skating in order to conserve his energy as much as possible. The black hedgehog knew that he would not die in coldness since his body is capable of withstanding a harsh temperature in the environment, but that didn't exclude the possibility of his body to suddenly malfunction. Shadow wiped the snow out of his face and looked around to see the mess that he was in. The whole surrouding looked completely blue and the sky even looked darker than before. It was difficult to tell if it was day or the night time.
'At this rate, my legs might stop moving for a while,' Shadow rolled his eyes. 'This must be the storm that the zone cop told me about eariler.'
Shadow let out a louder sigh when he noticed that the snow was increased more every second.
'I never thought I would see myself shaking because of the wheather,' Shadow frowned when he noticed that it was hard to keep himself shaking. The hands shook violently and his legs grew weaker. Shadow could feel that it was nearly impossible to move his fingers because of the coldness and the same went for his ears. Then a realization hit the ultimate life form hard.
'If I think this blizzare is this cold... how is he going to survive this?' Shadow's mind raced as he tried to reason with himself. Sure, Sonic is the hero with tons of dangerous experiences and he sure does have the speed but that did not meant he was immortal like Shadow himself. Sonic the hedgehog was amazing but he was also a normal living being. Now then Shadow thought about it more, it would be impossible for Sonic's body to tolerate this kind of blizzard.
'He would be smart enough to find shelter, right?' Shadow asked himself. The black hedgehog looked at his arms and noticed that there were cuts and bruises everywhere from the ice shards that the blizzard threw at him.
'But when if he didn't find a shelter? Is it even possible to find a place to avoid this storm?' Shadow's mind raced through endless possibilities that Sonic could have been at this exact moment.
'Maybe I should turn around and search for him on the other side where the blizzard isn't coming from,' Shadow looked back. 'But what if that idiot is trapped in there. What if he is in trouble?'
Shadow! Please...please help me!
The last sentence that Sonic yelled to Shadow echoed in his head over and over again. Shadow's eyes searched rapidly though the snowy environment as he thought about the logical probability of Sonic's survival. The sound of the noisy blizzard suddenly became silent only in black hedgehog's ears when he focused his mind more towards Sonic than himself. The place was also very huge and although Shadow had the speed and the power of the emerald, how likely was it for him to find a lost blue hedgehog? This was when Shadow started to panic for the first time. He thought he would never get this kind of feeling. His heart beat increased and red eyes were no longer focused because his mind was some place else thinking about Sonic's safety. All the horrible incidents that the blue hedgehog could be in crossed through Shadow's mind as the black hedgehog gritted his teeth in anger and started his rocket shoes to skate again through the snow storm.
"SONIC!" Shadow finally yelled the name of the hegehog that he didn't say ever since they started this journey. "Sonic! You better be alive or I'm going to kill you twice when I see your corpse!' Shadw growled, hoping that Sonic would hear his voice through this mad blizzard.
After few moments of skating untill the last bit of energy was used, it was hard for Shadow to move any faster. He had snows inside his ear and his body was literally covered with cuts and wounds. The holes under Shadow's rocket shoes were a little harder to activate since snows kept digging into them again and again. But the only thing that was on Shadow's mind was Sonic.
'He better be fine or I'm going to- hold on.. is that a chaos emerald I sense?' Shadow stopped skating and looked around. He felt his body responding to the chaos energy as the image of the yellow chaos emerald flash in front of him. Shadow didn't take any chances as he took out the purple emerald from his back quill. He hoped that Sonic might be near where the chaos emerald was located since it was possible for Sonic to sense the chaos energy just like him.
"Chaos Control!" Shadow lifted the emerald in to the air. Bright purple light started to glow and few seconds later, the black hedgehog was covered in bright purple light as he was warped into the location where he sense another chaos emerald. In a quick second, Shadow landed on another area but it was even worse. The blizzard was a lot stronger than before and the snow was almost up to his knee.
"It should be here somewhere," Shadow talked to himself. But even if the black hedgehog can sense the yellow emerald, that does not mean he can locate the exact spot where the emerald was hidden. It would take a while for the black hedgehog to discover the item since his eyes had trouble seeing. Shadow shivered and decided to cover his mouth with one of his hand to prevent any small pieces of ice shard coming into his mouth. Shadow wished he had the power to control his body temperature as well. That would have been a nice skill to be created with in the first place.
Just then, Shadow spotted something blue that stuck out from the white snow.
"A blue chaos emerald?" Shadow narrowed his eyes, "It should be a yellow emerald that I sensed how can..."
Then the black hedgehog's eyes opened widely.
"SONIC!?" Shadow shouted as he skated right next to the lifeless blue being. Shadow had a hard time moving his fingers as he dug up the snow in order to have a better look at what this was. In the back of his mind, the black hedgeog hoped that this was not Sonic and it was just something else. After brushing off all the snow, the blue object that Shadow managed to spot turned out to be a tail.
'This can't be him,' the ultimate lifeform observed the body that was in front of him.
Shadow was dead wrong.
Sonic's whole body color was a lot darker than his original blue color. His tail was frozen like a popsicle and his face was covered flat on to the snow. Shadow tapped Sonic a little to see if he was just playing dead or kidding around. The ultimate life form almost wished to hear one of Sonic's banter right at this moment but of course, Sonic didn't even move a little muscle. It was amost as if he was dead.
"Hey... hey! Wake up!" Shadow shook Sonic. The black hedgehog turned Sonic's body over and gasped when he noticed that even Sonic's face, which was normally a brightly peach color, was also blue. Both of his eyes were folded back and his quills were all scratched up. Sonic's left ear had snow all over and his mouth was slightly opened as if he still made an effort to breath while half of his face was slightly in the snow. Sonic looked like a corpse and this scared Shadow. The site scared him a lot.
"Sonic the hedgehog! You better wake up right now!" Shadow gently slapped Sonic on his cheek which quickly made a small red spot, "Stop being lazy and sleeping around! We have to get out of here!"
Sonic didn't move.
"Faker! Stop joking around! This isn't funny!" Shadow gritted his teeth in worry. He never thought he would see Sonic in this poor state. How long was this hedgehog buried in snow? Shadow stopped shaking Sonic. He thought it would be best to take Sonic back to No Zone in order for Zonic to treat him more properly. The black hedgehog took out the dimensional gun from his waist and tried to activate it to make another portal. Shadow pulled the trigger with other hand tightly while he gripped on to the lifeless hedgehog but nothing happened.
'Damn... Don't tell me this blizzard is really interfering with this device,' Shadow cursed under his breath. He then took out the purple chaos emerald and tried to get away from the blizzard as far as possible. It wouldn't be possible for Shadow to chaos control both of them back to No Zone with just one emerald but he would be able to wrap both of them into another location within this dimension. After a quick glance at Sonic, Shadow chanted the word.
"Chaos Control!"
The chaos emerald that was on his right hand was glowing but this time someting was wrong. Shadow noticed that instead of the purple emerald releasing its chaos energy to perform chaos control, the purple gem was actually absorbing chaos energy directly from Shadow. The gem started to warm up in Shadow's hand and instantly, the burning sensation soaked on to his skin.
"What the...?!" Shadow suddenly felt listless and dizzy as he shook his head a little. The blizzard also affected the function of the chaos emerald as well. Shadow quickly stopped the effect and panted a little because of the sudden energy drain. He made sure the negative effect of the chaos emerald didn't harm Sonic in any way.
"This is all your fault, Faker," Shadow said it out loud but at the same time, his red eyes caught Sonic's ear twitching a little.
"I... I'm... I'm not a faker..." Sonic laughed quietly as his mouth turned into a little smile but the laughter was more like a cough if you asked Shadow.
"Sonic!" Shadow quickly paid attention to the blue hedgehog, "How are you feeling?"
"...A-are you... Zhadow...?" Sonic opened his eyes a little and an image of the black hedgehog right on top of him started to become more clear.
"Were you hoping for him to pick you up?" Shadow said with a hint of sarcasm. Shadow almost felt a small relief when he heard Sonic talking.
"No... I thought... w-well... you know... you hardly say.. say my name so I thought it wasn't y-you, Shadow. Sorry about that."
Shadow didn't know why but Sonic's explanation hurt him a little. But he couldn't blame the blue hedgehog because what Sonic said was in fact the truth.
"Well, you also know that Zhadow doesn't call you Faker so there," Shadow replied like a child and touched Sonic's cheek. "How long were you here?" his voice softened.
"Hey.. what's important is that you found me," Sonic said in a hoarse voice and snuggled into Shadow's body for warmth. Even a small warmth was a great happiness for Sonic at this time and he didn't want this joy to end soon.
"I tried to use chaos control but it's not working. I'm just going to hold you and skate away from this damn blizzard. Hold on tight," Shadow warned Sonic as he lifted him up gently. Just then, Sonic struggled a little to free himself away from Shadow and this surprised the black hedgehog. Where was that sudden burst energy coming from?
"What are you doing?!" Shadow was frustrated with Sonic's action. If this blue hedgehog stayed any loner in this mad storm, he would literally die.
"N-No! We..we have to stay here!" Sonic finally opened his eyes fully and move around even more.
"Are you crazy?!" Shadow also raised his voice equally to Sonic's, "I hope you didn't lose some brain cells in this snow. If you haven't notice, your body temperature is going down! You can't stay here any longer!"
"But I can sense the chaos emerald!" Sonic pleaded. "I don't want you to me pissed off because I got you into this mess!"
"...What..?"
"Just h-hear me out," Sonic coughed and Shadow realized that he had a sore throat. "I can sense the chaos emerald here. We can't leave untill we find it! If we don't then... it was just a waste of your time!" Sonic finally freed himself from Shadow's arms but he fell on to his knee instantly. Sonic still couldn't balance himself properly.
Shadow narrowed his eyes in front of Sonic and processed the information that was just given to him. The blue hedgehog just stood there shivering madly, waiting for Shadow to say something.
"..I didn't come here and wasted my time since I found you," Shadow reasoned with Sonic. "We have you get you out of here. Look at yourself! Your shaking too much and you don't even sound like yourself anymore. The cuts that you have on your skin could get infected if you don't get treated properly."
"S-sorry pal," Sonic shievered and looked around to find the emerald that he also sense just like Shadow, "I'm not leaving until I get you that chaos emerald."
"Stop behaving like a child, Faker!" Shadow reached out and grabbed Sonic by the wrist. Shadow was shocked at how cold Sonic was. It was like touching a raw dry ice! "You are coming with me and we are going to get away from this storm. We can come back when the blizzard aubsides."
Sonic bits his lips everytme when he heard the name, Faker. The blue hero knew that Shadow used that word when he was upset or just mad at Sonic.
"If w-we just leave this area now, Zhadow might find the chaos emerald before we do!" Sonic roughly released his hand from Shadow's touch and bent down on the floor and tried to dig it a little in order to see if the chaos emerald under. Shadow couldn't let Sonic hurt his hands because it was obvious that even touching the snow in a low temperature would do more harm than any good. The snow was no longer soft anymore; instead, they were like bundle of needles. The black hedgehog grabbed both of Sonic's hands in order to stop him from digging into the snow any further.
"Why were you separated with Zhadow?" Shadow started to rub Sonic's hands with his to create some heat friction. Sonic just gave a dazed look to Shadow's hands that kept Sonic's hands warm just a little.
"That's not important," Sonic coughed, "I know that creep is s-still here and he's looking for the emerald just..just like you and me."
"He can have the emerald!" snapped Shadow as he blew some of his warm breath on to Sonic's hands. "Aren't you worried about your condition? Your color is darker than before and your arms are completely blue as well!" Shadow started to lose his patience.
"Oh good! I always wanted my quills t-to have a little darker shades of blue, OW! W-what was that for?!" Sobic rubbed the top of his head.
"That is for acting absurd in this kind of situation," Shadow pinched the skin between his eyes and shook his head.
"Well unlike you S-Shadow, I don't want Zhadow to find that emerald first. I bet he's lurking around here too at this moment," Sonic said in a rather pissed under his breath. Shadow never thought he would see the day when this optimistic hedgehog would sound so angry. Too bad for Sonic, Zhadow didn't have the power to locate the emerald properly and on top of that, the ex-zone cop was not this zone anymore.
"Did something happen between you and Zha-"
"Nothing happend okay?!" Sonic raised both hands in the air, "Just... nothing special happend. Damn...help me to find that emerald!"
Shadow blinked few times and his mind went blank at the bizzare scene that was displayed. Did Sonic, the blue hero known to be kind and always doing the right thing, used an inappropriate language? That was a huge surprise even to Shadow. This made him more curious about what could have happened while he and Zonic were together.
'Guess he's not in the mood to discuss that,' Shadow noted.
"Fine you win. But we can't search the emeald in this condition," Shadow stopped Sonic from his search, "We will wait around here untill the storm stop in order continue. If Zhadow comes near our permater, then I'll take care of him."
Sonic bit his lips when he heard Zhadow's name but tried to keep his cool, "No way Shadow. I'm not going to let you all the fun with that guy! He's mine when I see him next time!" Sonic replied with a angry tone.
'Something definately hapened between those two,' Shadow decided to keep this comment to himself while he scanned the blue hedgehog. He thought it was weird to see Sonic so pissed off with another person. Shadow had to admit, he did some pretty horrible stuff when they first met like giving some insults to Sonic, beating him up physically every time when he had the chance during their battles and even ignoring him when Shadow didn't felt like dealing with the blue's nonsense. But Sonic never expressed his anger to Shadow like how he was doing to Zhadow right now. Sure, the blue hedgehog had some nasty counter with his wordings that caused Shadow to curse Sonic but Sonic's comments always came with any combination of a laughter or a smile. Shadow thought Sonic would always joke with his enemies but never truly get made at them. But Shadow thought he was wrong all this time.
"I never thought I would see the day when you're so frustrated about someone," Shadow said quietly but of course, Sonic didn't catch that sentence.
"Come again?" asked Sonic.
"Never mind," Shadow shook his head, "Look, if we want to stay here until the blizzard alleviates and at the same time guard this location so Zhadow wouldn't find our chaos emerald first, we need to stay underground. It would make a good hiding spot and a shelter," Shadow turned around to see that Sonic was about to lose his counsciouness.
"Don't you dare-" Shadow pulled one of Sonic's ear which felt like an ice shard, "fall asleep on me."
"Owowowowow! Okay okay!" Sonic slapped Shadow's hand away from his poor ear, "I'm awake! Was that really necessary?!"
"Okay then, tell me what I just said to you," Shadow crossed his arms.
Sonic opened his mouth to say anything smart back to Shadow but his mind drew a huge blank; the blue hedgehog shut his mouth again and rubbed his arms. Either Sonic was cold or he felt ashamed that he didn't listen to his rival.
Shadow face palmed himself before repeating himself, "I said we need to stay underground if we want to avoid getting more damanged in this snow. We can also watch out for Zhadow because if we are below, we should be able to hear his footsteps right above us."
"Sounds like a plan," Sonic jumped, "Leave that to me!"
The blue hedgehog cured himself into a ball and placed himself into a position to start his spin dash. When Sonic was ready, he tried to roll as fast as possible and turn himself into a blue spiky ball but instead, something different happened. Instead of spining like a mad race car's wheel, Sonic only rolled once and landed flat on his bottom on the icy snow.
Sonic sat there, blinking several times while processing the event that just happened.
"What was that?" Shadow asked unamused.
"Uh...I guess my muscles are a lot stiffer than I thought," Sonic smiled weakly and tried to perform his spin dash one more time. But Shadow pushed Sonic away. Deep inside, Shadow knew that he should be thankful that Sonic was still this active even after his long exposure to this blizzard.
"Move aside," said Shadow as he also turned himself into a spinning ball. In a second, Shadow started to attack the snow and went deeper and deeper to make a tunnel. The black hedgehog wanted to dig until he was satisfied with the space that can hold two hedgehogs underneath.
"Nice going,Shadow," Sonic whistled and sneezed a little later. Sonic couldn't lie to himself, he was really weary and felt like his body was going to give up any second. The hero no longer felt any type of sensation in his feet anymore and his fingers were so numb, it was extremely difficult to move them for few centimeters. Not to mention, Sonic could swear that there were snow inside his ears as well.
'This should be enough,' Shadow decided to stop spin-digging and jumped out from the hole that he created.
"This should be good," Shadow said to Sonic. "Let's go inside."
The ultimat life form jumped into the tunnel on the ground and Sonic, after looking around the blizzard to see if he can spot any sign of Zhadow, Sonic also followed Shadow right after. Once the two hedgehogs were inside, Shadow took some snow from the floor and decided to plug the entrance hole on the top in order to prevent any more cold wind coming in to their little shelter.
"This is great but..." Sonic yawned, "Don't you think it's a little dark in here?"
"Afraid of the dark?" Shadow smirked and teased a little. He expected Sonic to banter back but Sonic was too tired for that.
"No just... it would be nice to see some lights, you know?"
Wanting to accomodate Sonic in his tired body as much as possible, Shadow then took out the purple chaos emerald from his quills.
'If I use too much chaos energy, then this emerald is going to backfire because of this cryptic snowstorm,' Shadow analyzed the purple gem. He then carefully added a little energy to the emerald and slowly, a small spark of purple light emitted. When Shadow placed just a little more chaos energy into the emerald, soon enough the chaos emerald acted like a small nigt lamp.
"Here's your bed lamp," said Shadow as he placed the glowing chaos emerald in the middle of the where he and Sonic was. But when the black hedgehog turned around, he noticed that Sonic's eyes were closed and he was laying side ways.
"You can't sleep here, your body is going to shut down," Shadow gently shook Sonic. Shadow could see Sonic's ear twitching but he still didn't respond to his voice. Shadow wondered if it was illegal to punish someone with his chaos spear in his sleep for failing to cooperate. He planned to wake up Sonic so he can take the oral medication that Zonic gave to him. But Sonic just looked too peaceful. His face muscle completely relaxed and Shadow smiled a little when he saw Sonic's stomach rising and falling. These images helped Shadow to get rid of his previous thought about Sonic dying in the snow.
'Maybe I can let him sleep for few minutes,' thought Shadow as he moved a little closer to the sleeping hedgehog next to him. He was glad that Sonic's muzzle and arms started to return to their original peach color. Just to make sure Sonic wouldn't get too cold while he slept, Shadow made a small body contact with his rival, hoping that Sonic would appreciate some small body heat.
"I'll wake you up in a few minutes," Shadow murmured, "You look too peaceful right now, Sonic," the ultimate life form rolled his eyes as he rubbed Sonic's hands to keep them warm in his sleep.
"Were you able to find another chaos emerald?" the voice came out from the small device that was clipped on to the black hedgehog's ear.
"The blizzard was approaching so I had to retreat. I plan to go back there once things clear out, though," Zhadow answered as he searched for the cell that Scourge was in.
"I expected you to just search through the snow, how pathetic..."
"Look, I am trying to accomodate you as much as possible," Zhadow hissed. "Just for your record, I'm not a complete ultimate life form. I could die in that mess too."
"Like I said, pathetic."
"I could say that to you as well," Zhadow finally found the cell that the green hedgehog was in. Scourge was currently sleeping in the corner who was tired from the previous event with Shadow and Zonic. "You were only able to find one emerald which is very-...!' Zhadow noticed an approaching shadow behind him as he quickly jumped away in the opposite direction.
"I'll contact you later, Mephiles," Zhadow whispered in an angry tone and turned off the device. "Sneak attack was always your favorite method, right Zonic?" Zhadow smirked and stood up from the floor.
Zonic tried to launch another low kick to Zhadow but the black hedgehog quickly evaded the attack too easily.
"I'm not going to let you go this time, Zhadow," said Zonic as he walked closer to Zhadow.
"I'm always looking forward to what you'll do to me," Zhadow gave a dark grin, "Chaos Spear!"
Zonic focused his eyes onto Zhadow's incoming attack. He was not going to let Zhadow get away with him this time.
'Zhadow is not your lover anymore, Zonic,' the zone cop took out the chaos collar control, 'He's just an ordinary criminal waiting to be caught.'
Meanwhile, in another dimensional, Mephiles cursed under his breath when Zhadow disconnected with him in the middle of his sentence. Mephiles thought he needs to punish the ex-zone cop for ruthlessly talking back to him but what can he expect? After all, Zhadow was now part of the enemy circle now and Mephiles didn't want any cheerful villain in his team. Mephiles also thought about the time when he had to work with Blaze and Silver few years back and even though he didn't show or express any type of emotion on the outside of his face, Mephiles hated every second of spending his precious time with them. Now only did Blaze and Silver never completed their task like they were supposed to, they betrayed him towards the end and teamed up with Sonic and Shadow.
Shadow...
The dark aura was instantly created as Mephiles thought about the ultimate life form. Few seconds later, he started to laugh loudly as the voice echoed out into nowhere.
'Oh Shadow... I can't wait until I meet you again. You will pay for destroying my plan and for trying to kill in the last incident. Not to mention I still didn't return the favor when you locked me away in the Scepter of Darkness when we first met.' Mephiles took out the white emerald where he was able to see his own reflection. He hated it because he looked just like Shadow. 'Perhaps I should give Zhadow a little hand. It's not like I expected him to complete his task without any flaws.'
The dark hedgehog waved his hand in order to open another portal what will lead him to No Zone. Mephiles never needed to use chaos control in the first place because he was able to open portals and allow himself to travel. But the chaos emerald were pretty important to him when he wanted his army of clones to be perfect or just to drain chaos energy from the emerald itself. When the dark hedgehog entered the portal, he was right in the middle of the battle between Zhadow and Zonic. Of course, both of the hedgehogs stopped their motion right away when they saw who came into their battle field.
"Mephiles?" Zhadow narrowed his eyes, "What in the world are you doing here?"
Zonic stood up from his feet and quickly got himself in the battle position. 'So, that's Mephiles? The one Sonic prime and Shadow told me about?'
"It seems that I interrupted a little game between you too," Mephiles gently bowed his head, "However, it would be nice if we can just get on with the main business here."
"What are you talking about?" Zonic frowned but deep inside, he was a little scared as well. Two enemies, not to mention the ones that both look like Shadow the hedgehog, were standing right in front of him with their cold looks on their eyes. Zonic bit his lips, realizing how dangerous his situation was. Would it be a good idea to call the backups right now? But he didn't want any of the other zone cops getting harmed as well since this was mainly his business and his alone.
"Either you give us the chaos emerald-" Zhadow started but was interrupted by Mephiles.
"Or you can tell me where Shadow is. You can do one or the other, Zonic."
Zonic slowly lowered his guard when he saw Mephiles and Shadow acting as if they were working together for such a long period of time. Zonic's emerald eyes searched though any hints of doubts or confusion in Zhadow's eyes but there was nothing. The only eyes that Zonic saw were callous.
"Zhadow, I don't understand," Zonic broke down a little as he continued, "Fine, you can leave your duty as zone cop or even me but how can you partner up with Mephiles?! Don't you know who are working for right now?"
"..." There was just blank look on Zhadow's face but he also didn't respond as well.
"Zhadow! How low can you get?!' Zonic raised his voice to the point where he was nearly yelling.
"Zonic... I-"
"Enough with the talk," Mephiles had enough waiting. He then quickly released his dark energy spear on to the jail cell that Scourge was in. The green hedgehog work up as soon as the heavy bar metals broke into little pieces. Scourge just grinned as he slowly walked out from his messy cell.
"So this is who you were working for, Zhadow," Scourge smirked and observed Mephiles over and over again. "I'm meeting a lot of hedgehogs that look like you today! I like it," Scourge winked at Zhadow and the ex-zone cop just looked away with disgust.
Zonic started to back away, feeling weakness in both his arms and legs while Zhadow and Scourge slowly approached him.
"I'm sure someone as smart as yourself wouldn't put yourself into a pity danger," Mephiles' eyes narrowed, "Just tell me where Shadow is and we can simply walk away as if nothing happened."
The elite zone cop realized that he was the only one that knew where Shadow was at this moment. Zhadow probably didn't get the idea that Shadow went after Sonic so as long as Scourge kept his mouth shut all the way then Shadow would be safe. The zone cop could feel the blood rushing through his head as his quills stood up because of the sign of impending danger. He could feel his hands stuttering and even his own breathing became slightly noticeable.
'I can't let them know where Shadow is...' Zonic trailed off when the image of the ultimate life form crossed his mind. "There is no way I would tell where Shadow is!" Zonic stated firmly and in a split second, he was attacked by Zhadow who easily pinned him to the floor.
"Then I guess we would have to do this in a little forceful manner," Mephiles laughed as he prepared himself to release some damage on to Zonic.
"By the way, I didn't leave you, Zonic," Zhadow leaned down and whispered into Zonic's ear, "You are the one that betrayed me!"
"...?!" Zonic blinked couple of times feeling more perplexed than before. What in the world was Zhadow talking about? He was the one that suddenly decided to leave No Zone out of the blue! "Is something wrong with you?" Zonic growled underneath Zhadow, "What are you talking about?! I would never betray anyone especially someone that I had a relationshi-"
Just then, Zonic was punched in the face with Scourge and Mephiles' dark laughter ringing through his ear.
'I hope Shadow and Sonic prime are having a better experience than this...' Zonic thought as he thought about the last sentence that escaped Zhadow's lips.