Chapter 11: The One Who Defeated and Sealed Shadow

Sonic and Shadow teleported right into a trap. Eggman had quickly told Omega they were about to Chaos Control back to the base, and he was now ready for them to appear. Before Shadow even had the chance to defend himself, shots rang out from the robots' arms.

Most of the rounds hit Shadow. The stricken dark hedgehog looked into Rouge eyes and said "Damn it! This will not defeat me!" before collapsing on the ground in a thick pool of dark blood. One round had lodged itself into Sonic's side, the blue hedgehog was now laying in another small pool of bright blood with no signs of movement.

Amy let out a blood curdling scream and immediately ran to Sonic, and Rouge just looked at Omega, with tears in her eyes. Rouge was about to throw every single bomb she had at Omega, but Omega was now pointing his arms at her, and she knew it was best to just back off. She and Amy didn't have enough power to stop him, and the Emeralds were useless since Shadow and Sonic were possibly dead.

"How dare you Omega, how dare you! You didn't even give Shadow a chance to fight back! How did you find us anyway?"

"Dr. Eggman saw the signals from the Emeralds and tracked down where you were. Then he told me they were using Chaos Control and would most likely return here."

"Now Dr. Eggman is on your side? Was he the one that reprogrammed you?"

"No one reprogrammed me. Hand over Shadow and the Emeralds, and I will spare the rest of you."

Sparks distracted Rouge and Amy for a second, as the two Chaos Emeralds seemed to be changing back to Sol state. But then the Master Emerald sent out an electric arc, they remained Chaos Emeralds. The Sky and Green Emeralds we now shielded from the transformation effects of Iblis, which is why they remained unchanged long into the future.

Rouge started to cry. "Omega's wrong! I don't care what stupid video he saw!"

"Even if you believed that Shadow was the enemy, you didn't even give him a chance to fight back! You choose to shoot him down in cold blood! He was willing to give himself up to save me earlier, it's what Shadow would have done. Go ahead, take him Omega. And feel guilty for what you have done, if robots can feel guilt that is."

"You can keep the Emeralds." said Omega in his normal mono-toned voice. Rouge cried as she watched Omega leave with a very bloody Shadow draped across one shoulder. She felt her heart was ripping in two. I will rescue you someday!

Omega was taking him to a secure GUN facility, to be sealed away forever in a special machine so he could never escape. They feared the Ultimate Life Form could recover from even fatal-looking wounds.

When the robot was gone, a small sound came from Sonic and Amy gasped. His emerald eyes opened and he clutched at the painful wound in his side. Amy patted the top of his head. "It's going to be okay Sonic. You'll get Shadow back when you get better, right?"

"Of course I will Amy."

A sickening rumbling could be heard somewhere in the distance. They hated that sound, it meant the Flames had claimed another Sol Emerald. More people would die and more devastation would come to their world. Amy just looked up, with the most determined face she ever wore.

"Some day, those Flames will be defeated, if not by us then by our descendents!"

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A few hours later, Eggman calmly walked up to GUN headquarters. Not many GUN soldiers where there, they were all off trying to evacuate more people from the fast spreading Flames. But the Commander in charge was there. Eggman found it hard not to stare into the Commanders' odd eyes. He didn't want to this time, there was something about this eyes Eggman didn't like, beyond the outward unusualness that they were two different colors.

"I have kept my end of the bargain, now for you to keep yours! The Emeralds, please."

"Heh, we didn't recover the Emeralds, and even if we did, do you think we would have really sided with you?"

"But, you don't know how to change the Emeralds back! I know how to stop the Flames, it's not fair!"

"But it is fair, since you were a tool all this time so I could have what I wanted, which I now have. I caused your battleship to malfunction. And I framed Shadow by editing the video tape of Sonic at the crash site and I spread the rumors he released the Flames."

"YOU released the Flames? Why?"

"I got what I wanted, GUN and the President against Shadow, and Shadow finally locked up for what he did to Maria and everyone I loved 50 Years Ago!"

"How dare you! I will tell the world what you did!"

"Guards, arrest him!"

As the guards cuffed Eggman, the Commander smiled while twirling the unbroken Scepter of Darkness around gleefully.

The End

But there will almost certainly be a sequel…

Note- I'm assuming that breaking the Scepter is what caused the Time Line changes in Sonic 06 and was a Time Paradox, in this story like in Kitty Cat Crisis, Shadow caught the Scepter instead of Rouge when it fell and handed it to GUN as ordered.