Team Chaos - Chapter 10: Team Sonic
Shadow yawned and stretched as he and his team mates walked down the forest path. It was dawn, the sun was not over the horizon yet, and the air was fresh and crisp. They decided to get an early start on finding the chaos emerald, so that they could snatch it before anyone else. Everyone was well rested and ready for anything, except Shadow, who didn't sleep because he couldn't stop thinking about Amy. He stared at the ground, still thinking of her, as they continued to walk through the lush, green forest
Daxter looked at their surroundings. "I've seen some strange places, but this one is down right bizarre! The plant's look deformed and the frogs are huge! And there is mushrooms everywhere!"
Sly tapped Daxter's head with his cane. "Calm down Dax. I know this place is different, but we are in a different world, after all."
"That is true." Fox said as he loaded his blaster with ammo. "But this place is so huge and who knows what wild creatures are here. Hey Shadow, do sense the chaos emerald yet?...Shadow?"
Everyone looked at Shadow, who was still watching the ground as they walked.
"Uh...hello? Shadow? Earth to the absent minded hedgehog!" Ratchet yelled in Shadow's ear.
"Huh? What? What is it?" Shadow said in a shocked tone.
"Do you sense the emerald?" Fox asked again.
"Uhhhh...yeah...a little. It feels like it's...to the north."
Sora gave a worried look. "You sound tired. Are you alright?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. I was just deep in thought."
"What were you thinking about?" Sly asked.
"Nothing. Let's just concentrate on finding the emerald." He said as he looked away from the others.
They all looked at each other, shrugged and continued walking north.
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After walking for a few minutes, Shadow stopped as if though he had been shot.
He looked up. "It's up there!" He pointed to a platform that was directly above them.
"How the hell do we get up there?" Daxter asked.
"Like this." Shadow said as he pulled out his chaos emerald. "Everyone, stand close."
They all stood close to Shadow as he held his emerald in the air. "Chaos Control!" In a flash, the seven of them were on the platform, which held the chaos emerald. Everyone, except Shadow, felt sick.
"Okay...damn...let's...let's never do that again." Daxter said holding his stomach.
"Hmph, Y'all aren't use to chaos control is why you feel sick." Shadow said as he walked over to the emerald.
Just as he was about to pick it up, he heard a slightly familiar voice. "What's up buddy! Guess Amy was telling the truth."
Shadow looked up with a confused face. In front of him was Sonic, Tails and Knuckles, who looked a bit confused as well.
"What's the matter? Don't remember us, Shad?"
"What! Who are you! I demand to know!"
"It's me, Sonic. We saved the earth a little while back."
"Sonic..."
Tails tapped Sonic on the shoulder. "Remember, he fell from too earth, maybe he has amnesia."
"Hm. You could be right."
As Sonic and Tails talked, Shadow grabbed the emerald and started to walk over to his team mates. Sonic ran up to him and grabbed his arm. "Hold up! We need that emerald, Shadow!"
Shadow turned around and gave a hard punch to Sonic's face. "Get the hell away from me!"
Sonic was sent flying back a couple of feet, and hit the ground. "Ow! What was that for!"
"Don't ever touch me again!"
"So you have forgotten, or do you have some rivalry left in ya?"
"This emerald is mine! And I am not going to let you have it!"
"Hehehehehe."
"What are you chuckling at?"
"Amy said you were sweet when you met her at the Power Plant."
"You know Amy?"
"Yeah. But now back to what we were doing. I'm going to get that emerald whether you like it or not! Tails, Knuckles, let's get that chaos emerald!"
"Hmph. Fine, let's make this a fair battle. Sly, Ratchet, do y'all have your strength back?"
"Yeah!" They both yelled in unison.
"Alright, let's battle! Last team standing gets the emerald!"
Sonic gave a cocky smile. "Heh. Fine."
"Okay...fight!"
Shadow lunged at Sonic and punched him in the face again. Sonic shook his head to recover from the hard blow. He touched his lip, wiping away the blood. "Nice hit, buddy! But it wasn't enough!" Sonic dropped to the ground and did a 360 spin kick. He kicked Shadow in the legs, forcing him to lose balance and fall backwards.
"Grrrr. So you want fight in style, huh? Fine." He pushed himself up and pulled out his staff "Let's see how well you do now, Sonic." Shadow ran at Sonic and attacked him with brute strength.
Ratchet and Knuckles were going at each others throats. Wrench marks were all over Knuckles' body and fist marks were on Ratchet's. Ratchet threw his wrench at Knuckles with great force, Knuckles was sent through the air and into a tree.
Sly and Tails, however, were staring at each other. "I can't attack a kid." Sly said, looking at Tails with pity.
"You're not going to fight me?"
"Not unless you force me to."
"Well, I don't want to fight, but we need that emerald."
"Hm. Why do tag along with your buddies if you don't want fight?"
"Well, I don't mind fighting Dr. Eggman. But you seem like a nice person, I don't have a reason to fight you."
"True. So...how do you and your pals know Shadow?"
"Well, it's along story. He helped us save the earth from a weapon called the Eclipse Cannon. And...in the process of helping Sonic stop it, he fell to earth."
"From space!"
"Yeah."
"Well that explains his memory loss. So how did you know the emerald was here? Can Sonic sense the emeralds?"
"Kind of. But we knew it was here because the chaos emerald tracking device that I built picked up its signal."
"You built it!"
"Yeah. I build lots of things."
"By any chance could you build a device to restore Shadow's memory?"
"It's possible. Though it will take a while, I could try."
"Okay. I'd like to know what he was like before he fell to earth."
"I could build it in my spare time, when we're not out searching for emeralds!"
"Nice."
Their conversation was interrupted by the sound of Shadow's voice. "How dare you challenge us! You're nothing but a foolish hedgehog." Sonic and Knuckles were laying on the ground, exhausted from the fight.
"Well, looks like I need to go. See you later Tails." Sly said as he ran over to Shadow and the others, waving bye to Tails.
"So, you won the fight?"
Ratchet smiled. "Yeah, no thanks to you ChatterBox."
"Sorry, I got carried away. Well we got what we came for, let's head back."
As they started to walked off, everyone noticed that Shadow wasn't following. They looked back.
He was staring at the ground.
Sly tilted his head. "What's wrong?"
Shadow looked at them. "Nothing. Y'all go back without me...I need some time to gather my thoughts."
"Are you sure you'll be fine."
"Yes. I'll find my way back, don't worry."Shadow said as he walked deeper into the forest. Everybody else continued back to the hideout.