Shadow's Odyssey 2: The Chaos Continues

Lando scowled at Han in the pilot's seat. "Why does he get to fly my ship?"

"Because I'm the only one who knows where we're going. And when we do get there, you're going to need my expert piloting skills."

Lando rolled his eyes and took a seat.

"So where are we going?" L3 asked from the copilot's seat.

"Set course for Mon Cala."

"And how are supposed to get to Iego from Mon Cala?" Lando grumped from behind them.

"You'll see when we get there."

Meanwhile, further back in the ship, Rouge was talking to Petro. "You know, maybe I should have stayed behind."

"I doubt that would have helped anything."

"We went through all this trouble to get him back and now he hates us for it." Rouge vented.

"He doesn't hate us. He blames himself more than anything." Petro corrected. "All the time he spent trapped within his own mind, while Sidious used his body to slaughter innocents. He was infuriated because he couldn't do anything to stop it. And now that he believes that we have no chance at killing Sidious, he's infuriated even more. The best thing that we can do now is show him that there is a chance."

"Do you think he'll be the same afterwards?"

"I can't say for sure. But I do know that he'll never stop caring."

They soon arrived at Mon Cala.

"Alright, we're here. Now what?" L3 asked tersely.

"Now, we need to go this way."

"Wait, hold on! You're heading straight for that asteroid field!" Lando cried.

"Yep, that's where we're going."

"You're taking us through an asteroid field!?"

"You want to get to Iego, this is how we get there." Han shrugged.

"Do you know what the odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field are?"

"No, and I don't care. Now hang on because we're going in!"

The ship accelerated into the field.

"Are you out of you mind?"

"Relax, I can get through this no problem."

An asteroid hit the side of the ship.

"We're gonna die." L3 said flatly.

"It's just a scratch." Han assured them.

"Is this why your ship looks like a mangled piece of garbage?" Lando demanded.

"She may not be pretty, but she has it where it counts!" Han snapped.

Another asteroid struck the ship.

"We lost the main sensor." L3 reported.

Han waved dismissively. "We don't that anyway."

"You're paying for a new one!"

After sustaining a few more hits, they finally made to the other side of the asteroid field.

"See? We made it."

"Barely!" Lando snarled.

"Now, we just make one hyperspace jump, and we're off to Iego!"

Tails brought food to all the patients currently laid up at the temple. As he handed out sandwiches, Gungi suddenly spoke up.

"Translation, please?" Tails asked, looking to the others.

"He says he feels a disturbance in the Force." Katooni supplied.

"That's not much of a surprise with everything going wrong."

"No, this is a new disturbance."

"Well, what is it?"

Gungi spoke again.

"He doesn't know, but he thinks you should go check on the others."

Tails went straight to the room where Knuckles had taken Sonic, only to find an empty bed and a coil of rope on the floor. He went to the room where they were keeping the Emeralds. Most of them were still there, but one of the Chaos Emeralds was missing and Knuckles was nowhere to be seen.

Panic began to set in. Shadow's room was next, and it was just as empty as Sonic's. He went to find Eggman, but the fat scientist was missing too. Tails tore through the temple, getting more and more frantic with each empty room he found.

When he ran out of rooms to check, he went outside. Tails looked around and still saw no one. He was about to head back inside when he heard the sound of a metallic clang. He turned toward where the remaining ships were and heard the clang again. Tails followed the sounds inside one of the bigger ships and discover Shadow trying to rip the hyperdrive out of place.

Tails's first reaction was relief. "Oh, Shadow, there you are! Where are the others?"

Shadow whipped around in surprise. "What are you doing here?"

"Gungi said something bad was going to happen so I'm trying to find everyone. Do you know where the others are?"

"Don't worry about that. Just go back to the temple and let me take care of it." Shadow turned his back and continued struggling with the hyperdrive.

"Do you know what's going on?" Tails asked, ignoring his cue to leave.

"Don't worry about it."

"Why do you need the hyperdrive?"

"I'll explain it to you later, now go away."

"And why isn't Sonic in bed? He can't be walking around. And why isn't Knuckles guarding the Emeralds? Does he know that one of them is missing?"

Shadow lost his patience. "Will you stop asking questions?"

"Why won't you answer them?" Tails shot back.

Shadow tried to think of something to say, but he took too long.

"…You're behind the disturbance, aren't you?"

Tails tried to run, but Shadow grabbed him a pinned him against the wall.

"Damnit, why did you have to make this more difficult?"

"What did you do to Sonic and Knuckles?"

"I didn't-" Shadow paused. "You don't have to worry about them, provided you cooperate."

"What do you want?" Tails whimpered.

"You're gonna help me and Eggman with our little project."

The Falcon arrived at Iego, with no blockade in sight. They touched down out of sight of the harvesting operation.

Petro had come up a plan. "Me, Rouge, and Luke are going to sneak inside and steal as much Riska Root as we can carry while the rest of you create a distraction for us."

"You guys have fun with that." Han put up his feet and relaxed in his chair.

Everyone shot a look at him.

"What? My job was to get us here and I did. I've done my part."

"Fine you stay here with the ship." Petro conceded. "We're going to need to make a quick exit anyway. Alright, let's move out!"