I lead Sonic ad Rouge down the streets headed to Eggmans old rusted base. Every now and then I would look back and see the red haired boy folowing us. He stayed a good 2-3 hundred fett behind us the whole time. Good the less. . . . .people with me the better. We walked down the street, every time we passed a new person they shot a glance at us, a black and red haird teen in a black and red jacket, a white haired teenager in an almost skin tight leather suit, and the most anoying blue haired spunky THING that ever lived. With every glance I shot a glare at them and they soon looked away. 'Pathetic humans. . . .' I thought 'Can't even stand on of their own glaring at them. . .'

We were soon at the base, the hole trip was silent, everytime Sonic opened his big mouth to talk I told him to 'Shut up if you know whats good for you.' We stood outside the old rusted building, I walked in and Rouge followed me but Sonic just stayed still and looked at it.

"So THIS is Eggheads base?" he asked.

"Yes." I said anoyed, "Now hury up."

"It seems. . . diffrent." he said walking in behind Rouge.

I stopped and looked back at him. "Your stupitidy conserns me." I told him.

Sonic just shrugged and walked past me. "So what are we doing here anyways?" he asked in the most anoying tone ever.

"We are here because. . . . ." I started to say but I didn't know why we where there. . . what was the purpose of being back at the lab? "We are here because we have no where else to go." I finally finished.

"So what we just stay here, hiddig in the lab?" Rouge asked, she stopped and ran her finger ageinst the wall, when she took it off her gloved finger was brown insted of white from all the dust. Her face went blank, she didnt need to say anything her face expresion said it all.

"We stay here until I say we leave." I said pointing to myself. "You are welcome to leave at any time, I dont care but I will find a way out of here and if you arnt here when I figure it out I am going back without you." I hissed at her.

"Well well Shadow I didn't think you would be so cruel." she said her voice seemed. . . smoother now. "Leaving me here all by myself." she said she gave me a puppy dog eyes look.

I looked at her ignoring the sad attemt, "Well think again because I can and I will." I said coldly, I stopped and looked at her her puppy dog eyes disapered and became more angry, "And you wont be alone you will have. . . that." I continued. I pointed to Sonic as I was saying 'that', he was standing by a wall and appered to be in deep thought, for once. . . he poked it slightly and a giant matal box came crashing down on him, he dogded it and looked at the wall, smiled, and started poking it again. . . more boxes fell on him every time he touched the wall. 'Ideot. . .' I thought.

"Hm... Lucky me." she said flatly. She clearly hated the idea of being stuck with Sonic as much as I did.

I just glarred at her, I walked towards the stairs of the rusted lab, she just looked at me, "So what do we do?" she asked. I stopped but didnt look at her, "Like I said do whatever you want but if you arnt here when I find a selution I am leaving without you." I said continuing to walk on. I walked and almost got to the stairs when Sonic cut me off.

"Haya Shadow where are you goin?" he asked. I stood there and pushed him out of the way. "Wherever I want." I said.

Rouge had her arms crossed, "Well I am leaving now. If you need me then I will be in the park or something." she said cross with what I told her, she turned and started walking outside. If she was smart enough to keep her eyes open when she walked she wouldnt have run into the person standing there watching us talk, witch was more like a fight by now.

She looked up at the boy in frount of her. She dropped her arms when she saw who it was. He stood about half a foot taller then her, and his soft amethis eyes looked down at her. He had familer red dredlock typre hair that came to about his sholders and it was pulled back in a verry loose ponytail, the rest of him couldnt be seen Rouge was in the way. She looked at him for a few seconds, "Knuckles?" she asked, her voice sounded softer now then it ever was when she was talking to me or Sonic. He nodded, "Rouge?" he asked he seemed as suprised as she was, he looked diffrent but his voice was the same, she then quckly backed away when she realized how close she was to him.

"Well..." she said shaking her head a little, "What are you doing here?" she asked.

Knuckles shrugged a little, "I thought you could tell me that." Now I could see the rest of him, he had gloves like normal that still had two spiky knuckles on both of them. He had a red shirt almost the same color as his hair, in the middle was that white cresent shape that was always there but now it was on a shirt not his fur. He had blue jeans just as I did but his shoes were the same huge lego like shoes as always.

She crossed her arms again, she was disapointed with his anser clearly, "Well I would." she said pointing over to me, "But Shadow over there wont tell me anything." she explained.

He looked over at me, "Shadow?" he asked when he saw Sonic he schratched his head with his gloved hand, "Sonic?" he seemed to have more quetions now, "What the heck is going on here?"

I shook my head "I will let Rouge tell you that." I said and walked upstairs, leaving these lovebirds, and Sonic. . . alone, but not for long because Sonic was right behind me. I groand a little and walked upstairs, I could hear Rouge start to explain the story and our curent position to Knuckels as we went up.

I looked for the macine that sent us here and when I found it I started to go threw the files looking for pages that showed how the macine worked ignoring Sonic talking about nothing important. When I found all the files I could I stached them up and started to read them. The papers were yellow and half of it couldnt be read but I tried and learnd more then anyone there could tell me.

The ones with most use came from a jurnal:

The macine I build is for . . . travel. I plan on using this . . . . discovery to . . . . Sonic and. . . . . to another time zone so they wi. . . . out of my hair. . . . It runs off of a . . . . emerald. I sent Shad. . . get it for me. . . . . .

The next few sentances were unlegible and no words other then the short ones could be read, I paused for a moment and looked up at Sonic who was looking at the machine, I shook my head and continued to read.

It can use . . . . from the chaos . . . erald and turn it into per energy. . . . . thus creating. . . ultamite wepon.

The next few pages were just fragment that said only one of the emeralds would work. . . . the yellow one that I first givin to him. But where was it now? I fliped to the last page witch was the best condition of all the others:

Shadow. . . that fool is giving me. . . . key to his demise. . . . . The Eggman empire will soon be real. . . . .

that was the last of it. I knew how it got its energy. But now. . . how did it work, and could it send us to our normal time? I put the book down and started threw the other files throwing half away because they were unable to be read from aging. I now only had but a few files. I hoped that these held the key to us getting back.

I looked threw the files now only a few of them were any good. The files had original schetes of the machine. And one was all about the yellow chaos emerald. I skipped that one I knew enough about the emeralds. I stopped when I got the the one that I needed, it showed how to work the machine. I stood up and looked at the machin, Sonic looked at me, "Shadow whata doin?" he asked.

"Getting out of this human world." I said. The papers I found showed what every button did and what every nob set. I looked at the machin, it was dirty and grimmy but all the nobs that were needed were there. All that wasd missing was the chaos emerald to power it.

Sonic looked at what I had, before he could see the blueprints I shut it and turned. "Shadow what are you doing?" he asked again.

I walked past him and headed down stair, I could hear Rouge talking again and Knuckles occationally asking a question witch Rouge didnt have the anser. I opened the door to the room they were in and the two were sitting next to each other talking away like nothing was rong. Rouge looked over at me as soon as I entered, "Oh hay there Shadow, I was just telling him how we were kicked out of that ladies house REMEMBER?" she asked.

"We have more important things to do." I said I threw the blueprint on a rusted brown table near them. She picked it up and started to read it, "So what about it its an old matine so what?" I sighed and flipped to the page about the yellow chaos emerald. "Thats what." I said, she just looked at it as she read she seemed to understand more. She shook her head, "Shadow I dont think that this emerald is still on this planet." she said.

I crossed my arms and glared at her, "We are getting that emerald." I said "Wether we have to go around the world or into space we are getting that emerald.

Knuckles just crossed his arms and looked at me, "Why should we go threw all that to get one emerald?" He asked.

"The machine that will send us to our own time only works on ONE emerald..."

"And let me guess its this yellow one?" Rouge said cutting me off. I nodded.

"Well I'm game." Sonic said from behind us.

Knuckles looked at him, "Fine I will go..." he said grumbeling a little.

Rouge sighed, "Ok I will go but Im telling you Shadow this emerald might not be here anymore."

"We leave in the morning." I said ignoring her, the sun was now setting and stars were now coming up, t was to late to go now. "Get suplies but only bring what you can carry, Rouge." I said, the last thing we needed was 10 sutcases of her stupid cloughs.

Knuckles stood up and headed outside "Fine." he said simply. Rouge stood up and followed him, "Wait for me handsom." she said teasing him a little.

Sonic looked over at me, "Good luck with those emeralds." he said. I just looked at him and said nothing, he shrugged and ran off. Rouge and Knuckles went there way and Sonic went another way compleatly, maybe he would get lost and never come back. . . no that wish is to good for it to come true.

I walkedtowards the stairs agian and headed towards the roof. When I got the the hiest point I climed outside and lied on the roof, I put he hands behind me head and looked up at the sky. The stars could all be seen and the half a moon that Eggman TRIED to fix glowed n the darkness of the sky. I looked up into the sky and soon found myself falling asleep. . .