Nicole arrived a few hundred feet from the castle and we all got out. Sally, Nicole and Amy followed behind me around the castle and the others followed Knuckles into the castle. We worked our way around the castle and ran into a massive group of SWATbots.

"Attack!" I shouted as we ran towards them.

But the robots did not move. We got closer to them to discover that they are turned off.

"But, why would Eggman just turn off his robots?" asked Sally.

It was confusing, but we continued to press on. We came across hundreds of SWATbots that were just turned off. As we made our way towards the back, I could hear gunshots, moaning and screaming.

When we got there, I could see five figures, three were on the ground. I ran up to the figures and one of the two still standing turned and fired at me.

Sally recognized the other one. "Elias!" she screamed as she ran to a bloody, broken king.

The three were Mogul, Naugus, and Eggman, they were all dead with gunshot wounds to the head. Elias and Shadow were the only ones still alive.

Shadow sprinted to me and tackled me to the ground. He and I rolled around throwing punches and kicks while Sally helped Elias. Shadow wound up on top of me and wrapped his hands around my neck, cutting off my oxygen. Amy and Nicole ran to me and Shadow only to be pinned against the wall behind them by several chaos spears.

I kicked Shadow off me and held him against the wall. He smiled as I looked into those blood red eyes.

"So this was your plan?" I asked him, "To kill the people that have befriended you? I can understand Eggman, but Naugus and Mogul haven't done anything to you."

"Wrong!" He snarled. "They had more power than me! I am the only one who deserves power! I AM THE ULTIMATE LIFEFORM!"

"I think you need to shut up."

"And I think...CHAOS BLAST!"

Shadow erupted in an explosion and sent me flying backwards. Everyone was hit by the blast and was sent flying into the air. I looked up and saw Sally cradling a motionless Elias in her hands, no doubt in my mind that he was dead. Nicole staggered to her feet, then went to help Amy up.

I also heard a dark laughter coming from above me. When I looked up, I saw Shadow, but he wasn't the same Shadow I fought a moment ago. His red stripes were gone, his chest puff was slate black and his eyes resembled Metal Sonic, red pupils on a black background. A blood red aura engulfed him from head to toe.

He was dark Shadow.

He looked to me, and smiled evilly, bearing his long fangs. His red eyes fixated on my location just a few feet below me.

"Hmph!" he said in his sinister new voice. "Well, faker...I think it's time that we ended this."

He flew towards me and tackled me through the wall and into the castle. We landed in the Council room. I saw Knuckles and the others with the escaped prisoners run towards me.

"Run!" I shouted at them. "Go now!"

Dark Shadow grabbed me and threw me to the ceiling sending up to the next floor. He jumped up there and picked me up by my neck and squeezed, chocking me. He smiled as I began to lose consciousness, he laughed as he watched the light left my eyes.

"You know," I heard him say to me, "Maybe when I'm done, I pay your girlfriend a visit."

He shouldn't have said that.

Sally's POV:

I ran to Elias as Shadow tackled Sonic into the ground. I wanted to help him, but my brother needed me more. His fur was covered in blood, his and the other three victims that Shadow had killed. He had a bullet wound in his stomach and one in his arm too. I held him close to me as I felt him leave.

"S...Sally..." he gasped to me.

"Yes...w..what is it?" I ask between sobs.

"I...I d..don't th...think I..'m gonna make..i..t."

"Don't say that! We're gonna get you help."

I tried to shout for Nicole, but she was pinned to a wall by several of Shadow's chaos spears. Elias began to softly stroke my hair as his eyes began to close.

His eyes closed and I squeezed him tighter to me as I sobbed. Suddenly his eyes opened and he looked at me and smiled, then he looked a little confused.

"I thought that was it for me." He said chuckling a little bit, "I guess that mea..."

"CHAOS BLAST!"

A giant explosion sent me and my brother crashing into a wall. We both landed in a courtyard within the castle. Although dazed, I got up and frantically searched for my brother.

"Elias!" I shouted. "ELIAS!"

I found him on the ground, motionless. I picked him up and almost puked at my discovery. Both his arms and legs were blown off and rocks and pieces of debris from the wall we crashed through were imbedded in his chest. I checked his neck for a pulse, but there was none. He was dead, irrefutably dead.

Shadow had turned into to some sort of demonic super form and was beating the life out of Sonic. They both flew into the castle, but my attention was to my now deceased brother. So many thoughts ran through my mind. Who would rule Mobius now? How are we going to recover from this? How...

"Sally girl!" screamed a familiar half roboticized friend as she ran towards me.

She was followed by Cream, Antoine, Knuckles and all the others who went in to rescue them. Bunny gasped when she saw me holding my brothers mutilated corpse. She pulled me away from him and pulled me into a hug.

"Um...Ms. Sally?" asked a worried Cream, "Where's Tails?"

Oh, crap. I completely forgot about Cream being Tails' girlfriend. I broke away from Bunny and dried my eyes. I got down on one knee to get down to her eye level. How am I supposed to tell her that her boyfriend was shot to death?

"Uh...Cream," I say, trying to choose my words carefully. "Sweetie...Tails' is..."

Suddenly Shadow was thrown through a wall and landed a few feet behind me. He was almost as shocked as I was.

"W...what t...the..." He said in a demonic voice.

Then, someone stepped through the hole where Shadow was thrown. It was Sonic! But, he was a different color than usual. He was white, no yellow, no pink, no... He kept changing colors, staring at him long enough would give you a seizure in no time. He was in a super form that I have never seen before. He moved as if he was on a sugar rush. He was...Hyper Sonic.

"Ready for round two?"

A/N

Uh oh, Shadow is in trouble! What will happen next? How will this end? How will Cream react to Tails' death? Why am I asking you these questions?

Anyway, read and review...and no flaming!