Chapter 14: An Old Friend Returns

Who Rouge discovered was someone who was thought dead, someone who helped save the world, a dear friend to all those he knew, a villain turned hero... The ultimate life form. Rouge had found Shadow's body in a stasis pod. It appears the after Shadow crashed to earth he survived, Eggman found him unconscious and brought Shadow with him using a stasis pod and the emerald to help Shadow heal. Since Shadow was unconscious since the incident with Space Colony ARK that means he's been out for six months healing. Rouge had her doubts and thought maybe it wasn't the real Shadow, after all it wouldn't be a surprise if it was one of Eggman's machines made to look like Shadow. Eggman and Rouge returned to the bridge of the ship as they approached a planet that had readings of a chaos emerald on it.

Suddenly the ship was struck by lightning and the stasis chamber was hit. The alarm sounded and Eggman and Rouge hurried down to see what happened. When they got there they saw a flash and the room was empty no sign of Shadow.

Already on the surface, Sonic and friends were fighting a Metarex that had swallowed a chaos emerald. Sonic and Knuckles were unable to defeat it and were just about to be beaten when a beam of light strikes the Metarex and destroys it. Afterwards a figure with two chaos emeralds orbiting around him appeared on the roof of the nearby building. The lights from the emeralds attracted everyone's eyes and they all saw a familiar face. It was Shadow, everyone thought they were hallucinating. Then in a split second Shadow disappeared.

Eggman and Rouge immediately noticed another flash and ran to the room again and saw Shadow standing there with two chaos emeralds. Not for long though, Shadow almost immediately collapsed, it seemed that he had not yet fully recovered but by the next day Shadow was in prime condition. His recovery went a lot faster with two emeralds the only problem was that Shadow had absolutely no memory of anything before having destroyed the Metarex and taking the emeralds it had eaten.