Chapter 11

Escape from G.U.N, Tears of death

Sniff sniff sniff what a sad way to start the story poor cream how will she ever recover?

Well, let's find out!

Tragic losses.

In the neon streets of Night Babylon, Cream was lying on the corpse of her friend Rocky. They were both in love with each other, and both so nervous to tell the other of their feelings. Sadly, Rocky gave his life to save Cream who was in peril. In Rocky's dying words, he confessed his love for Cream, as did she. Now, Cream laid on his chest crying tears of sorrow, her first love was now dead. But, when the hooded man who killed him tried to finish the job, a mysterious figure showed up to defined the troubled Mobians. But who is this mysterious figure?

In Night Babylon, Amy and Blaze were looking at a huge body of metal standing in front of them.

"Amy isn't that…..?" Blaze asked squinting trying to comfort Cream.

"Yeah….. It's…. Omega, or at least I think so he looks kind of different"

Indeed, Omega has some changes done to him. His Red armor is now Black-Crimson, his waist was glowing a violet color, and he has two metal spikes growing down from his head. Omega looks at Prandor who was knocked down on the ground. He was grinning as he was looking at Omega.

"Blasted Robot! You should be dead!" he shouted

The black Fang is to be protected. Those who show harm will be silenced. Omega stated.

"Humph! I will slice you up into tiny pieces this time. Eee hee huh-?"

Before he could finish Omega appears right in front of him, and punches him to the ground.

"I would like to see you try. My error has been confirmed it will not happen again"

"We shall see!" Prandor got up and drew his swords and charged at Omega, and tried the same blow as before, but Omega dogged it and hit him from behind." Whoa!"

"How is Omega able to move so fast?" said Amy.

"Because he isn't like he was before" said Tails coming outside." E-123 Omega is no more, from now on he is now E-123 Mark II, CrimsonOmega! He is the first Robot hybrid. He has doesn't suck blood like we do but he still has the strength, speed, and senses a real vampire"

"How did you manage to do that?" asked Amy.

"Thanks to Mother for giving me a sample of her venom, I placed it in Omega's power cell, after I finished fixing him. That in turn, made him into a faster and stronger fighter. "Tails turned his attention to Cream who was still crying over Rocky. He saw rocky laying on the street with blood running down his mouth. His heart nearly sunk as he looks at him. He looked at Blaze who looks back. 'don't tell me…is this…" Blaze answers with a nod. "Oh, No….. Cream" Tails said softly. He walked over to her and tries to comfort her by patting her shoulder. Tails of course knew the pain of losing someone the loved. "I'm sorry Cream"

"He was my first love….and now he's…he's..." she could not say any more, all it did was make her cry even more. Darcy, Rouge, Big and Cosmo step outside, and saw the rabbit crying over her lost.

"Oh, My…. is terrible!" said Cosmo looking away starting to weep. Big looked at Cream, and then looks at Amy, who points at Prandor. Big nods knowing what to do, then he charges at Prandor.

"You're not gonna harm my friends anymore!" Big shouted.

"Oh you're going to try that again? I underestimated you before. But that won't happen again!" Prandor cackled while charging at Big. "But now I- URK!" he tripped over and saw his left leg was stopped by Omega, who used his grappling Hand.

You will not end another life!

The man tried to free himself bit to no avail.

"Wrenched Robot! He's absorbed the vampire's power! "Prandor screamed

Big used his fishing rod to grab his right leg. In the night sky there were to black figures who were flying in moonlight, it was Sonic and Silver flying to their aide.

"Sonic, Silver grabs his arms!" Darcy commanded.

"Yes Mother!" They both swoop in and latched on to Prandor's arms. There was no escape for him. Darcy walked to the man who was bonded. She looked at him with a very angry glare with her glowing violet-red eyes, and a crimson aura surrounding her.

"When evil seeps through the shadows of light, it cowers at the sight of crimson's gleam, and will be devoured by the radiant dark!She recited the oath of her clan. "You say you want to be the shroud that covers the Dark, but you harm my children, you destroyed my friend, and now you destroyed and innocent life, breaking the heart of someone who just found love? Why, you're nothing but a coward! A coward who hides in the darkest of shadows!"

Prandor did all he could to break free, but the grips of Sonic, Silver, Omega, and Big were too strong.

"You're going to pay for what you did! Mother should we drain him dry?" asked Sonic.

"No" Darcy continued to stare at the trembling man. "Biting him would be too merciful" She opened the palm of her hand, and formed a fireball that was glowing an ominous violet. "I want him to feel the pain he has caused for my children"

"Ehh hee hee hee…ehh Wait can't we talk about this?" Prandor asked nicely as he was still grinning "Please! No!"

"You… sick and twisted man! You were saying that my children are damned?" You don't even know the meaning of the word, but I assure you….you will get a dose of what it truly means, as you burn in the fiery depths of hell!"

Prandor's grin turned into a desperate frown. "Uhh wait! Uhh please! I'm sorry I give you anything you want. I'll give you gold, money! Anything! Let me live! I'll turn over a new leaf! I swear!"

"Did you give my children mercy? Did you give Omega mercy? Did you give that boy mercy?" Darcy asked in a menacing tone. "Let your screams of agony be heard to those who dare try to oppose the Cramoisi!" She shot the fire ball straight to his chest.

"Everyone let go!" said Sonic. Everyone let go of Prandor who was screaming in pain. He was no longer grinning as he was screaming in agony He rolled around on the ground, screaming trying to put out the flame, but the flames continue to consume his body. After a few seconds, all that was left were the purple flames. His entire body was incinerated.

Darcy let out a sigh, as the aura disappeared around her. "How distasteful, for me to show my bad side in front of all of you, I let my nostalgic urge for revenge get the better of me. Please forgive me" Darcy looks down.

"You did what you had to, no one messes with our friends" said Sonic walking up to Darcy.

"That bad man is gone, we won't have to worry about him anymore" Said Big.

"They will answer to me if they come back" said Omega.

Darcy looked at the four. Sonic patted Darcy on the shoulder.

"Don't worry; will make sure that we watch over our family" Sonic gave her thumbs up,

Darcy looked at Sonic and the others and smiled. "Thank you all"

Gun Fortress The underground GUN Base

Shadow and Knuckles were in a large metallic room with hovering robots. The two of them ran across the room looking at the robots look at them.

"These are just sentry droids right? They won't hurt us will they? asked Knuckles.

"No, they only watch for intruders." Shadow answered. As they reached the end of the room. They saw an army walking robots come at them. They all loaded their guns and aimed for both of them. "Huh…some welcome…" Shadow jumped in the air. The robots aim their guns at Shadow. Shadow does a homing attack on one bot, and throws a light chaos spear at a few more, blowing them up. Knuckles ran up to the bots and started taking them down with his punches. He slammed his fist on the ground sending some of them flying. Shadow then fired more another Chaos spear at the flying bots. "We don't have time for these jokers. Make a break for it!"

Both Shadow and Knuckles ran through the hall avoiding the bots flying over to them. They continued their way down, the base all the way down through the garage-like hallways avoiding all the GUN solders. They all fired at Shadow and Knuckles. Shadow put up a shield of chaos energy to avoid the bullets coming after them. "Why are they attacking you?" Knuckles asked

"I don't know!" Shadow said throwing another spear at one of the solders knocking him out. After getting though another hallway, bigger robots came out of nowhere.

"Just how many robots does this base have?" asked Knuckles.

"Hundreds. Now you know where all the tax money goes." Shadow answered. Shadow and Knuckles were fighting of robots coming from every corner. Beetle Sentry Droids with guns came and fired; Shadow jumped and used a homing attack on the three droids, but as he finished destroying then 6 more appeared out of nowhere." Humph!" He then charged his energy from his hands, and fired a beam of light. "Chaos Lance!" he shouted. The Lance destroyed 4 of the robots.

Knuckles jumped with his head facing forward, spread his arms and began to spin like a top. "Screw-diver!" he shouted. The last two were destroyed. But after they were destroyed, 12 more including a Big Foot Robot were blocking the way out. "Aww Come on!" said Knuckles. He then closed his eyes and began to float focusing his earth element ability. "Air Meteor Crush!"he shouted. A Giant rock fell from the ceiling and crushed all the robots (those who played sonic battle know this move) after they were crushed, Shadow turned to Knuckles

"I could have done that"

"So, why didn't you?' knuckles asked with a grin.

"I was letting you have a moment"

Knuckles looked angry "You do know I can crush you, right?"

"Well you can, but I wouldn't want to be you when you go explain it to Rouge. Need I remind you she is now a vampire and can kill you if she wanted to?

Knuckles had a sweat drop go down his face. "Uhhh, right….lets be on our way"

The two of them finally reached the computer room. Shadow got out his card ran it though the scanner and opened the door. Shadow walked into the room where there were multiple computers and machines. Shadow walked over to the main Computer and typed on the keyboard.

"Okay….this shouldn't take long. Stand guard" Shadow ordered

"Aye, Aye captain." Knuckles said saluting he was looking around at all the computers, and machines. He let out a yawn and got down on all fours and started to do pushups. Shadow looked up the council of the cobalt shroud. Shadow's eyes looked through every file that had data about the council. "The council has the key to dimming light of the shining darkness? What does that mean?"

"Sounds like a bad Joke" Knuckles said still working out.

"Well whatever. Looks like I found what I'm looking for" Shadow dug out a Flash Drive and plugged it the mainframe. He then copied all the data, after that he took it out. "Alright let's get out of here." All of a sudden an alarm started wailing. "What?!"

In less than a minute, GUN robots appeared in front of them. "Aw man! I still had 50 more to go!" Knuckles said getting up.

"Quit your whining. Let's just get this over with and go back home" Shadow said as his hands were emitting a yellow light.

"Well I didn't think I'd expect this from my top agent" said a voice. Shadow sees a man standing in front of him he had on a military suit. (The same commander from the shadow the hedgehog game)

Back at Night Babylon, Darcy turned her attention to Cream looking over rocky. Darcy walked up to Cream, and knelt down to Rocky. She placed her hand on Rocky's cold dead face. "Such a waste. I take full responsibly for what happened to him" Cream then looked up at Darcy. "If I had foreseen this sooner, I would have stopped this before it happened. This was not supposed to happen" Darcy put her hand on Cream's face. "Child, you loved him more than you could possibly imagine" Darcy pulled out a vial similar to the one she gave to Silver earlier. Like the old one this one had a purple liquid emitting from it. Silver gasped at the sight of it.

"Is that..?"

"Yes, child it is the very same venom that you put in to Cosmo's plant that brought Cosmo back"

"So…that's what you did to the plant Sliver?" Tails asked

Silver looked at Tails and chuckled nervously "Yeah…Sonic told me why that flower was important to you. I had no idea….Sorry about….. What I said and did earlier"

"Yeah I'm sorry too….. for what I said" Tails said

Darcy then opened the vial. "Cream, he is not completely gone, we can bring him back. However, like Cosmo he will also become a vampire. I Know Amy asked you this already, but do you want to become part of the clan?"

Back at the base

"Commander, what a surprise" said Shadow.

"So he the boss of GUN? Ohhh… you're in trouble" Knuckles said in a taunting tone.

"Shut up!"

"Indeed you are in trouble. What do you think you're doing destroying robots, and sneaking in the central computer?" asked the commander

"If I would have told you, you wouldn't have let me done it" said Shadow.

"You mean help bring back the fangs of Radiant Darkness, as well as their clan?" Shadow gave a surprised look,

"How did you-"

"Allow me to explain" A mobian walked into the room. His attire was similar to the man in the hood he ran into before.

"Who are you?"

"They call me Klaus, I am leader of the council of the Cobalt Shroud" said the mobian.

"So what are you doing here?" asked Shadow.

"We are here to cover the radiant dark and to cleanse this world from the evil Cramoisi" he said

"Shadow, this mobian here says if the Fangs of Dark Radiance is to be fully awakened then it will lead to the destruction of the world" said the commander.

"I've heard of you. You're Shadow the hedgehog, Commander Tower's most top operative. I must say I am a fan of your work."

"heh! Flattered. But why are you calling the vampires evil?"

"Do not believe the lies of the vampire queen, Shadow. She will lead this world into everlasting darkness" said Klaus. "The commander was so generous to loan us their base and everything. He has agreed to help me eliminate this threat. But like a working clock, I feel as if it can't function without all the cogs"

"You….you knew about this? Why didn't you tell me?"

The commander looked directly at Shadow. "Shadow…ever since you saved the world from Black Doom, I have been all but grateful. I even turned a blind eye to the incident on the A.R.K, and accepted you as a full-time agent of G.U.N. But this…I cannot approve of what you've done here."

"I told you….I wasn't asking for your approval"

"Are you really going to choose between Rouge and the fate of the world?"

"And as for you guardian," Klaus turns to Knuckles "How can you trust this queen? She turns all your friends in to monsters, and you still want to help her? How do you know that she just your Master Emerald?" Knuckles looked down to think for a moment then looked at Klaus

"One of your lackeys killed one of my friends. Omega didn't harm anyone and he killed him"

"Wait, one of your people destroyed Omega?" The commander asked

"Desperate times call for desperate measures Commander. He was being deceived by the Queen. Even a machine can easily be manipulated by her evil power. Trust me when I say this commander; his death was for the best, but we can make up for it. All we have to do is kill the queen, and your...Omega will be avenged." The commander looked down for a minute; he looked at Klaus and back at Shadow.

"I understand" the commander simply said "Shadow, I'll forget about this whole thing if you do one thing for me."

"Which is?"

Klaus walked up to Shadow "Join us Shadow. If you join us…we will rid this world of the Cramoisi vampires once and for all"

Shadow looked down and pondered for a moment. "What about Rouge?"

"She is damned, boy, along with the rest of your friends. But with the power of the blade, I can save them. All you have to do is join me"

"Saving them by killing them you mean?" Knuckles stated "I've seen those kinds of movies."

"Humph. You make it sound like I'm the bad guy" Klaus answered

Shadow was looking down with his eyes closed. He was thinking if what Klaus said was true. Was the girl she liked doomed forever? Should he run away and still save her, or will he chose to have this man kill her. All these thoughts were running through his head. He then looked up to Knuckles.

"Shadow….what do you want to do?" the said echidna asked

"I refuse to believe Rouge is dammed" Shadow said

Klaus' eyebrows quirk. "What do you mean?"

"If Rouge chose this path, then I have to follow her. She said that she will always be by my side. How can she be by my side if we are different? That's why I want to be with her no matter what, Even…Even…..even if I had to go to the depths of hell" Shadow looked dead at Klaus and the commander "I will be by her! That's all there is to it!"

Klaus sighed "So you chose damnation over the fate of the world. What about you guardian? Do you still choose his path?"

"That goes without saying" Knuckles shrugged "How can I prove to be the best if Sonic is dead. Anywhere Sonic goes, so do I. Even if it means being a monster"

"So you both choose Damnation? Fine then I will grant your wish. Blue agents! Attack!"

A large group of men in blue shrouds swooped in with swords and charged at Shadow and Knuckles.

"Let's get out of here Knuckles! There's too many!"

"Are you joking? Knuckles never runs from a fight!" Knuckles said punching his fist together

"If you die, that faker will never let me hear the end of it!"

"Good Point, *sigh* fine!"

Knuckles came close to Shadow. Shadow brought out the Chaos Emerald. "Chaos Control!" They were both gone in a flash.

The commander looked at where shadow stood and sighed "He's gone. My best agent"

"Do you see commander? This is why we need to work together to destroy the vampires. Shadow has given in to the dark, and now he is gone. We need to spread the word of these ghastly beast being a threat. If we do this there will be nowhere for left for them to hide."

The Commander looked down and sighed. "Private, send the message to the president. We got have a new threat; Shadow the Hedgehog and his friends."

"Aye sir!" said one of the privates running to the door.

Chance of an un-life time

Cream looked at everyone before making her decision, and then she looked at Rocky's lifeless body. Then she bowed her head in front of Darcy. Her tears were splashing on Rocky's face. "Rocky….. didn't do anything wrong, he's funny, smart, knows more about Chao than I do and he is a real good person" Cream started to cry again. "Please! Bring him back! Please! I'll do anything to have my Rocky Road back!" Darcy then lifted Cream's face so she could look at her.

"I'm not going to bring him back. You are child" She answered "To bring him back, you both must partake in the crimson venom. Pour the venom in your mouth, then kiss him while pouring the venom from your mouth to his. But not all of it, for you must save some for you to ingest as well. Once this happens you will also change as well. Are you sure you want to do this?" "Cream was deep in thought. She didn't know if Rocky will feel the same way for her as she does for him. She still had doubt in her mind, but she looked at Darcy and nodded her head and took the vial. She did as Darcy told her. She opened the vial and poured the venom in her mouth and put her lips to Rocky's one more time. She let a sample of the venom pour into Rocky's mouth and tilted his head so it would go down then she swallowed the last bit of venom in her mouth. Cream then coughed while sticking out her tongue.

"What's wrong?" Amy asked in panic.

She looked up with narrow eyes. "That tasted terrible!" Rocky's eyes shot open.

"Rocky?" Cream looked at Rocky's open eyes. All of a sudden Rocky's body started to shake. He then grunted and shouted in pain as he slowly began to transform. "Rocky! Are you….you…"Suddenly, Cream was feeling dizzy. She was spinning her head a little.

"Do not worry…this is all part of the ritual" Darcy Said "Do not be afraid, both are now among your kind"

Cream's vision started to get fuzzy, then she gave one last look at Rocky, then at Darcy who was smiling, she smiled back. "Thank….you" were the last words she said before passing out.

Darcy stood up and looked at Cream as her body began to shake. "Omega, can you take them both inside?"

Omega took a look at the two, and then looked at Darcy, and then he took a small bow (which is his way of nodding) picked them both up and walked inside. Then Amy smelled something, she saw a gang of guys robbing a defenseless man, in an alley.

"Oh look, I found a birthday gift for our new siblings. Silver can you help me with this?"

"Heh- heh, sure!" he said with his hands glowing green.

"I want some too" said Cosmo. I'll help you"

"Yeah I haven't had anything to eat since this morning, count me in!" said Tails.

"You kids have fun I'm going to check on our new siblings" said Sonic.

"Yeah me too I want to see Cream when she wakes up" said Blaze. The four going after the thugs went into the alley they were in. Sonic, Blaze, and Big went into the house.

Mighty and Espio were talking with Vector and Charmy who were standing on a building. Mighty still was holding on to Cheese, who was feeling a bit better after Mighty gave him some nuts, a chao's favorite food . "So did you guys find anything?" asked Mighty.

"No nothing new has come yet. All we know is that the teenagers who come back to their homes they don't come out in the daytime and when they do they were hoodies all day, most of them live alone but the ones with parents are starting to worry" Vector explained .

"Well what are we going to do?" if we tell everyone about the vampires they might kill our friends" said Charmy.

"And if we don't tell them then our reputation will be shot" said Espio

"Well then…let's just tell everyone"

"Nooo! There's also a chance that Amy will turn us into her mindless slaves. I have had so much to live for…" Mighty said whimpering.

"Yikes! She can do that?" asked Vector "I know she's a hothead but that's just plan scary!"

"Yeah and she was glowing an ominous glow like a demon" Espio described

Charmy looked at Vector. "Are they Demons?" Charmy asked

"No they aren't" said a voice. Then a flash reveled a figure that showed up in front of everyone, it was Shadow and Knuckles.

"Hey guys what's up?" said Knuckles.

"Hey Knuckles!" said everyone

Shadow looked at everyone, expecting a hi"

"What?" asked Vector

"Humph! Never mind. Anyway I found some information that will become useful to us, We got to head back the house. Everyone has to hear this.

"Right" they all jumped down the building and headed to Club Rouge.

Rocky was lying on the couch and Cream was lying on the other couch. Standing over them was Sonic, Blaze, Darcy Julie, and Rouge . Big was sleeping in a corner, and Omega was charging in another corner. Rocky and Cream were slowly transforming. Julie was looking first hand at the transformation.

"So this is what will happen…" said Julie while petting Heavy.

"It's pretty painful, but it doesn't last very long. The most painful part is when you grow the wings. After that the rest doesn't feel as bad, but after the change the new wings feel wierd," said Blaze.

Julie laughed a bit, but still looked a little down." I wonder if Knuckles would like to be with me forever."Amy, Cosmo, Tails, and Silver came in through the front door with canteens of blood with them.

"Hey everybody! So has our sister woken up yet?" Amy asked.

"No, not yet" said Sonic

"But I think Rocky is about done"

"Onii-chan….." Everyone heard a voice. "I'm…sorry…..don't…leave..me….please" They saw where the voice was coming from. They saw that it was Rocky speaking while he was lying down. "Onii-chan…why are you….leaving me?...Don't go….Please!" Sonic then saw a tear run down Rocky's face.

"Poor kid" Rouge said "He must have went through a lot when he was younger"

Rocky grunted and slowly opened his eyes; they were of course Ruby violet.

"Mmm-mmm "he moaned as he stretched his arms and wings. "Am I in heaven?" He looked around. And saw the wings of everyone. "Oh, no! This must be the bad place!" But-But I was a good boy.!"

Everyone laughed. Rocky then got a good look at Sonic. "Oh Mr. Sonic it's you!" Rocky sighed in relief. "i….I thought I was a goner. I could have sworn that sword…wait! Is Ms. Cream OK? Is she save?

"Whoa whoa! Slow down" Sonic said "Wait. Did I just say "slow down?"

'Cream is Fine…better then fine actually" Blaze said pointing to Cream lying down. "Thanks to you"

"Oh...thank God. I thought I was gone for good. I was stabbed in the chest, but my chest doesn't hurt." Rocky placed his hand on his chest. He didn't feel a pulse. His eyes widened having no idea what was going on. "Wh…why don't I feel my heartbeat? "Why does my body feel cold?"

Amy walked up to Rocky and gave him a canteen. "Here drink this. You must be thirsty"

"Ok" Rocky took a sip of the canteen. "Oh! That's so good!" He then drank the whole thing like it was a world class soda. "Ohh this is great! What is it?"

"Blood" said Amy like it was nothing.

"A negative I think" Cosmo added

Rocky then gasped and drops the canteen. "W-W-Wha, NO! You're playing a trick! That didn't taste like blood!" Rocky got up and took a few steps back. He had some idea of what was going on but he didn't want to believe it. "This is crazy there's no way I could be-!"

"Dude Feel your back, and the inside of your mouth. said Sonic

"Rocky used his tongue to feel his mouth and the felt two fangs. Then he felt his back and felt wings coming out of his back. He turned around and saw the wings. He looked back with wide eyes and trembling hands. "I-I-I-I"

"Oh for the love of-!" Blaze shouted losing her patience. "You're a vampire Now! OK?" said Blaze.

"But-But"

"No Buts!"

Sonic walked over to Rocky and put his hand over his shoulder. "Look Rocky, I know this is hard to take in, but Cream wanted you back so she turned you into a vampire...so welcome to the family."

"But….how did she do that?" Rocky asked

"Giving you a sample of our venom, by giving you the kiss of life. She put some of the venom in your mouth and through hers and drank some herself. Like you, she also became one of us." Amy explained.

Rocky looked down and blushed "Ms. Cream put her lips on mine? She…kissed me?"

"Yup!" Congratulations" said Rouge.

Cream woke up from her sleep. She looked around and saw everyone smiling. "Good morning everyone did I miss something?" Cream then remembered what happened to Rocky and what she did wondering if it worked.

"Cream, look who woke up" Amy said pointing at Rocky

Cream looked and saw Rocky, not lying on the street dead, but now looking at her back. "

"Rocky? You're Alive?"

"Well technically he is dead, but undead so-" Amy hit Sonic in the gut with her elbow. "Ow!

"Don't spoil the moment!" Amy shouted.

Cream walked up to Rocky slowly and put her hand on his face then saw is changes. She didn't know what to say or do. She has an idea that he knew what she had to do in order for him to come back.

"Rocky I-"

Rocky put his finger over Ceram's mouth, and grabbed her hand.

"Ms. Cream, I want to spend the rest of my life with you, well my undead life"

Cream's eyes started to well up. "Rocky…." She felt a strong feeling in her chest. Though no longer beating her heart felt like a fire inside her chest. "Me too, and just call me Cream."

"Ok m- I mean Cream" Then they both kissed.

"Awww… " sighed everyone

"Welcome to the family little sister." said Amy as she hugged Cream.

"Yeah..little sis!" Blaze said hugging her too

"Thank you!" Cream said happy

Rocky closed his eyes and looks to the side. "It looks like….I'll be on this earth a little longer onii-chan…"

"Did you say something Rocky?" Sonic asked

"Huh? Oh nothing!"

"Surprise, Surprise!" said the Chaotix, Knuckles, and Shadow came into the door.

"Hey guys! Did you find anything?" said Julie

"We found out enough" said Knuckles as he was holding Julie's hand. "Are you Ok?"

"uhhh I-I'm fine."

Cosmo looked at the two and smiled. "Oh...are you two…going out?"

"Going out?" Knuckles asked "Well…ummm…"

"Oh yeah!" Charmy exclaimed "They've been going out for as long as I can remember!"

"Charmy!" Julie shouted

"Well it's true…"

"Oh how nice! At the rate you two are going…. we might be getting two more siblings"

"Siblings? What's she…." Knuckles looks at Julie who was blushing. and Julie looked at Cosmo then looked at each other and blushed.

"Hey Cream" Mighty walks to cream. He had something behind his back.

"I have something for you.." He them pulled his hand from behind his back and it was a Chao.

"(Gasp) Cheese!"

"Chao!, Chao!" Cheese flew at cream like a speeding bullet, and then they both hugged each other tightly.

"He followed me after we left Amy's house. He probably wanted to come with you."

"He's looking so much better" said Rocky

"I know a thing or two about Chao".said Mighty

"Yup….Cheese came to me and was sick as dog but I nursed him back to health. No…Need…to thank…me?" Mighty looked around and saw the vampire traits almost everyone had. "There, There, there everywhere! AHHHH! Mighty then curled up in to a ball. "I don't wanna be a mindless zombie!"

"Mindless….. Zombie?" asked Darcy.

Darcy, Sonic, Blaze, and Silver looked at Amy. "I don't have the slightest idea of what he's talking about" she said smiling with a little sweat drop.

Shadow got everyone's attention. "Everyone, I have to say, it has something to do with the cobalt shroud and there true intentions, and some more information on the" Fangs of Dark Radiance" ,and the possible whereabouts of your husband, Darcy .

(((TBC)))

OHHHHHHH now we are getting somewhere! Shadow has the truth abbot everything will it be good news or will everything about the Crimson Claw be all a lie?

Is shadow, knuckles and Julie going to turn over?

Find out next time!

Off panel:

Richter and the constable

Richter was flying through the sky look around with his butt facing upward. "I should have never agitated that bull. Oh well…I wonder where I will end up this time…." He started to fall in the city. "Ahhhhhhhhh! This is going to hurt!" He plowed into the concrete ground making a large crater "OH! I was right!" All the people around were looking at Richter with his head in the ground. He pulled his head out of the ground and looked at everyone look at him. He then ran to a nearby car and jumped on the roof" "So long folks" He laid down on the roof and kicks back. "Who needs a bus when doing this is free?" suddenly the car sped up. Richter held on tightly. "OH! This is Why! WHaaaaaaaaa-haaaaaaaaa!" the car suddenly stopped, Richter went flying directly at the nearby police car, and crashes through the car. Richter moaned and tried to break free.

"Well…well…well…" Look who it is…" Richter turned around and saw a man wearing a tan uniform and white hair. "Richter the Echidna…it's been to long"

"Constable Cad….heh heh…how goes it?" Cad brought out a pair of hand cuffs and clicked them on Richter's wrist. "Awww do we have to do this?" Cad walked Richter to the hood of the car, and slammed his head on the hood. "OW! Do you really have to do that?"

"You have the right to remain silent" Cad said

"I also have the right to unlimited sweets but you don't see me telling you that."

"Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law"

"You don't say. Well how about saying "candy and cake go great with ice cream? Could that be used against me? Because it's true! Oh oh! And also coffee would be nice now can we stop for some?"

"NO! You have the right to an attorney. If you can't afford one, one will be provided for you. "

"Thanks, but I don't like layers. They lie too much, and they're untrusting"

"Do you understand the rights that have been read to you?"

Richter turned around and face's Cad. "Yes…and I fully understand that they mean nothing to me whatsoever"

"Huh?" Richter pulled his wrist free from the cuffs. "What?"

"For the record…I've could have done this at any time. I just love hearing your voice…" Richter said in a loving and compassionate voice. "Anyway….sayonara! High gee gee! " Richter went Running off

"Damn you Richter!" I'll get you if it's the last thing I do!" Cad said breaking out his guns and running after him.

"Looks like we haven't seen the last of him, fellow readers! " Richter broke fourth wall again. (Getting tired of that)