Sorry its been a while, if you've forgotten here's a quick summary: Ezi and Chris were captured by Shadow and are on the ARK, and now they are trying to figure away out when Rouge comes in to bother them...

Chapter 11!

"Why are you so bummed?" Rouge teased before she left the room. "Smile a little, you're in outer space!" Chris frowned purposefully at the smirking bat.

"You're not really helping." I told her. She shrugged her shoulders.

"It was worth a shot," She mumbled, "Well, toodles!" I sat up and looked out the window to star at the blue planet.

"I wanna go home." I carped.

"Don't worry, Ezi," Chris tried to relax me, "I'm sure Sonic will-"

"No, I wanna go home, my real home. I wanna get on the ground again, and find out how I got here anyway! All I can remember, is a flash of light…" There was a quick silence, "I'm not saying I wanna ditch you guys, at all!" I said quickly. "I'm just feeling homesick, especially hanging around with these freaks." Chris laughed.

"No, I understand. I wondered about if you missed your family or not."

"Well, there's not much to miss, as you know." He smiled.

"I gotta go to the bathroom now, I'll be back." He strolled out and there was silence. What would I miss at home? There was my Aunt, my foster mother, my father in prison, my grandparents…My grandpa. I was always curious about him, because I only knew him when I was a baby…

"Psst, Ezi!" Chris poked his head from the doorway. I turned my head to look at him. "C'mere!" He whispered. I stood up and followed Chris into the hallway. He led me to a room a ways away from ours. "Check this out." He pointed at the huge computer screen centered in the small, dark room.

"Hey, maybe we can use it to communicate for help!" I started typing at the space bar on the bottom of the keys when a message popped up. "Huh. That's typical."

"What's wrong, Ezi?"

"It says we need a password. It could be anything!"

"Hey, what are you two doing in here?" The robotic voice behind us demanded. Busted, we turned around to see Decoe and Bocoe with their hands on their oily hips staring at us.

"H-hi guys…We were, uh, just gonna play a game on this PC!" I assured them.

"A game? Oh, I like games! Said Decoe."

"Yeah, well we were just gonna do that," then I stretched my arms out and yawned obnoxiously loud, "but we're tired now, so we're just gonna go!"

"Aw, okay then."

"Yeah, sorry guys! Humans got to get sleep though, y'know? But I would LOVE to play a game with you two handsome robots later!"

"Oh, well that would be nice!" Decoe said.

"My only problem is this password; it won't let me get on the computer to have fun!"

"Oh that's easy: It's Ma-ri-a!" Bocoe exclaimed. I smiled.

"Thanks guys! We should get going Chris, wanna catch up on our sleep!"

"Right! I could use some shut eye." Chris played along.

"Well, g'night kids!" Decoe waved at us.

"Yeah, bye-bye!" Bocoe called out and they left down the hallway. I smirked.

"What idiots." Chris chuckled.

"C'mon, now time to get some help!" After we typed in the password, though, a lot of words and files popped up.

"What's all this?" We scrutinized the information: Space Colony Ark, Eclipse Canon, Project Shadow?! "Click on that one." Chris pointed at Project Shadow.

"Hmph. What are you two doing in here?" We turned to see our third visitor, the black hedgehog standing behind us.

"S-Shadow!"

"Well?"

"W-w-we were just looking for a game to play! That room you kept us in is rather boring." I attempted. He pushed his way between us, and focused on the screen.

"I don't believe Project Shadow is an appropriate game for you."

"Oh, that? It was already on when we got onto the computer." He grabbed my hand and slid it off the mouse, then he turned off the whole thing.

"Hey!"

"Hey nothing. Dr. Eggman doesn't want you snooping around, and it's my job to keep both out of his way." He smirked. "So scram. Get back to your room." Like little disciplined children, we did as we were told. We figured later on we could sneak back in and use it. Unfortunately, though, Shadow stayed with us the remaining hours of the day, or at least what we thought was day (I couldn't tell with the stars always out, and there were no clocks). Chris talked to Shadow most of the time, asking him questions that he wouldn't answer. I was at a distance, just watching the two. Chris seemed more comfortable with him than I did.

One time, suddenly, Shadow's attention averted from Chris and he started looking over at me. I avoided contact with his sharp red eyes for a while.

"What?" I finally asked him. He frowned at my short temper.

"Hey, look," Chris was pointing at an object outside the window, "what is that?" As the thing grew closer we realized what it was.

"A ship?" I guessed.

"Sonic must be on there!" Chris exclaimed.

"Your friend is coming to meet his doom." Shadow warned. Chris and I both opened our mouths to argue, but Shadow turned around and said, "I'll be right back." When he strolled out, Chris and I didn't hesitate to go back to that room with the computer. He figured out how to turn it back on and we searched through the Project Shadow file again. Our jaws dropped at what we found.

"This is…Shadow?" We saw a photo of a giant Lizard monster that filled an entire room.

"That can't be Shadow." I doubted.

"DO you think, maybe, this is what Shadow really is..?"

"Hmmm, I don't know." As I stared at the files that were popping up, I noticed on that thanked the inventors of this creation. Charles Wittenberg, Milard Tanner, Gerald Robotnik, Roosevelt Rodriguiz…

"Hey, Robotnik! Isn't that Eggman's name?"

"Uh, I don't know." Chris scrutinized the name.

"Yes it is! Sonic started calling him Eggman, but his real name is Robotnik."

"But Ezi, look at the date. This was done over fifty years ago."

"Fifty? They had this kind of technology back then?"

"Well, yeah, I guess so…Hey! Look at this." He pointed at a name and chuckled a little. "It's Jones Leon! Weird that he has your last name." My eyes widened. "But he's not related to you…There are plenty of people with the last name Leon. I just thought that was funny."

"Yeah…but how many with the name Jones Leon?"

"What do yah mean?"

"I mean that's my grandpa's name."

"Whoa! Talk about weird."

"Well, it can't be my Grandpa Jones. I'm from a whole different world, so there's no way…" There was a quick pause. "But I'm gonna keep looking, just in case!"

"You two are getting on my last nerve." We turned to see Shadow, grimacing.

"Uh oh." Was all Chris could say.

"Follow me, I have something to show you both that you might like." He escorted us back to the room, only this time there was a screen in front of the window. When he turned it on, it showed a different room on the ARK. In the room was Tails, Mr. Tanaka, Eggman and Amy; he had a gun pointed to her head!

"Oh my gosh!" We watched the screen like it was a movie, then seconds later Sonic waltzed into the room, holding a chaos emerald.

"Sonic did come for us!" Chris cried beatifically.

"Yeah, but Eggman's causing problems for them."

"If Sonic doesn't give him the emerald," Shadow elucidated, "I'm afraid you might lose from friends today."

"Oh no," Chris started yelling at the screen, "Sonic! You can do it!"

"You're fake hedgehog friend cannot hear you."

"Fake?" Chris repeated.

"You're the one who's fake! What are you anyway? Some kind of monster?" Shadow didn't respond, and distracted by the screen, we didn't mind that he didn't answer. We couldn't hear their voices, but we could see Sonic walking towards Eggman to exchange the emerald for Amy. Suddenly, when Sonic was right in the middle of the room, a capsule encircled him! As Sonic banged on the glass, the Capsule went flying into space. We both gasped, as we realized we could see the capsule floating outside from the window. Chris pressed his face into the glass.

"Sonic!" he screamed. Then, without warning, the capsule exploded. I watched the flames burst into a circular star, then vanish from the dark contents of space. I couldn't believe it. I saw the capsule, I watched it explode, but I couldn't believe that Sonic was in there; his death was too quick.

"No, Sonic." I whimpered. Was he really gone? NO, it couldn't be!

"I guess he was just a regular hedgehog after all." Shadow mumbled.

"It…can't be…" Chris was shaking. "Sonic can't be dead!" He stood up and dashed out the door.

"Chris, wait!" I sped after him, but he wouldn't stop running.

"That video was fake! Sonic couldn't have been in there!" We continued running for what seemed like minutes, until finally up ahead I could see the Master Emerald, and Knuckles holding it!

"That black hedgehog?" I heard him say, "He must be going after Sonic!"

"Then Sonic is okay?" Chris cheered out of breath. "Thank goodness. I knew he wasn't in that capsule."

"Hey guys!" Knuckles replied."Well, actually he was in there, but he just used Chaos Control to get out off that thing before it exploded."

"Phew! What a relief." I said, out of breath as well.

"Master Chris, Ezi, you're both alright!" We saw Amy, Tails, and Mr. Tanaka race toward us. Mr. Tanaka embraced Chris and began to weep tears of joy. I was too happy to see them all safe and sound. But where was Sonic? Dealing with Shadow perhaps? Moments later, we could here loud crashing noises outside, so we all observed out the nearest window. We could see the Eclipse Cannon was being destroyed!

"That must be Sonic." Knuckles said proudly.

"Yeah, he took out the cannon!" Chris exalted.

"Then he did it, Sonic stopped Eggman from hurting the planet!" We were all jumping around and cheering; unfortunately, we were celebrating too early. Abruptly, the lights gave out on us.

"W-what's going on?" Amy cried. When the lights turned on again, we could see a timer on the screen in front of us; it was counting down from twenty four minutes, and there was uneasy vibration around the ARK.

"We should get to the Control Room." Tails told us. Chris and I led the group there, seeing as how we knew where it was. We saw Eggman at the control table where the seven emeralds were, smashing his fists into the buttons.

"I can't believe my own grandfather tricked me!" We heard him curse. Then we watched helplessly as the emeralds were enclosed by a steel door.

"The Chaos Emeralds!" Knuckles yelled. The screen above us turned on, and on it was a familiar man, large, with a grey mustache, and sitting in a chair in chains.

The old man began to speak: "The countdown marking my final revenge plan has begun. In a few moments, all of you will be destroyed. The Space Colony ARK is hurtling towards the planet at an incredible rate, and it will cause a fatal impact that will wipe out everything. Your chances for survival are slim, and there is simply not time to avoid this destruction. You took my granddaughter Maria away from me, so now you pay the price, dearly! ALL OF YOU UNGRATFUL HUMANS, WHO TOOK EVERYTHING AWAY FROM ME, WILL FEEL MY LOSS, AND DISPAIR!" Another man's voice came on the screen: "Is there anything else you'd like to say?"

"NO."

"Okay then; Ready, AIM…"

"What's going on here! Who's is that guy?" Amy shrieked. The old man's message started over, and repeated itself.

"That is Professor Gerald Robotnik," Eggman explained, "One of the greatest scientific geniuses in the world, and my grandfather."

"You see? I told you he was related to Eggman!" The ARK shook more violently. "Okay, this isn't good at all!"

"The vibrations are getting worse!" Knuckles cried. I noticed Rouge saunter in, with a horrible look on her face.

"There's no way we can stop the ARK's course, I've checked every way possible." It seemed our fates had been sealed.

"Hey, what's going on here?" Sonic walked in as well.

"If you came here for a showdown Sonic forget it. We'll all be vaporized in soon." Sonic just smirked.

"Aw, c'mon Eggman, think positively; I'm sure if we work together we can get out of this mess."

"I was looking up a few things and I found my grandfather's diary." Eggman handed his laptop to Sonic.

Chris quickly examined it and began to read the words aloud: "I don't know what quite happened or what went wrong. Was it a mistake to create the Ultimate Life Form? I was only trying to create it for the benefit of mankind- but then the military landed on the colony that fateful day. They were sent to destroy the project that I had been working on. They took my research, and shut down the facility, under the premises that there had been an accident. I found Maria's name among those who had died when the ARK was shut down…I couldn't bare the thought that she had been taken away from me because of my research. I had lost everything, I WENT INSANE! I had to avenge her, somehow, someway…I got scared, as I was no longer able to control my thoughts. All I could think about was that I wanted it all to end.

Based on my original project, I was able to finish the Ultimate project, Shadow. I designed its mind to be perfect; pure. I will leave everything to him. If you wish to fill the world with destruction, release and awaken it."

"SO that's why you released Shadow from the base!" Rouge pointed the blame at Eggman.

"It's only a matter of time before this ARK hits the planet, and the explosion will be bigger than a super nova."

"The Chaos Emeralds are powering the system," Tails began, "We have to go in there and find them, and stop their power before it's too late. But how will we deactivate their power?" To my surprise, everyone turned to look at Knuckles.

"What are you all staring at me for?"

"Your Master Emerald will stop the emeralds, that's why." Rouge said.

"Okay than, if we work together, we can stop this from happening!" This tension was becoming exciting; were these animals really gonna save the whole planet? Sonic, Knuckles, Rouge, Eggman, Tails, Decoe and Bocoe raced to the core, while Amy, Chris, Tanaka and I waited in one of the rooms. We would only get in the way, but nobody mentioned that out loud.

"I can't believe Shadow's whole purpose was to destroy us all." I mentioned.

"Well, I don't believe it. Anyway, I wish there was some way we could help Sonic." Tanaka rested his hand on Chris's shoulder.

"Do not worry, Master Chris; Sonic will get there on time."

"Don't bet on it…" We all looked behind us to see Sonic's negative counterpart, standing there with his arms folded, smirking.

"SHADOW!"

To be continued….I kind of did this part mixed with the Sonic Adventure 2 game. Review Please!