Bloom and Maria were hanging out at the mansion. Maria was still grateful that Bloom had allowed her to live here since she didn't have any other place to go.

Maria was currently watching TV and saw the news channel and was shocked by the current news.

"In recent events, a jewel store's window got broken into and the store owner said that a chaos emerald that had on display had been stolen" Scarlet said

"Stolen? Could it be that Rouge girl that we met before?" Maria asked

"Security cameras caught this image" Scarlet said

The image showed a hedgehog and Maria gasped at this.

"This image is proof enough to believe that Sonic the hedgehog is responsible for this theft and a warrant is now being sent out for his arrest" Scarlet said

"This can't be true! Sonic wouldn't do such a thing" Maria said

Maria decided to get Bloom and get her opinion on this.

The redhead was swimming her pool and was floating on her back. She was wearing her two piece bikini that she wore when she went to the emerald beach with her friends.

Maria came out and called out to her friend.

"Bloom!" Maria said

Bloom now stood up at the shallow end and looked at Maria.

"What's wrong, Maria?" Bloom asked

"Sonic's being pursued by the government" Maria said

Bloom was shocked because Sonic was being portrayed as a hero.

Bloom got changed and looked at the image that was shown on the camera and the young redheaded girl now understood why they were chasing him.

"Well that explains why Sonic is being chased" Bloom said

"But there's no way Sonic would do something like that" Maria said

"Of course Sonic wouldn't do something like that. There's has to be a logical explanation for all of this" Bloom said

Bloom looked at the image of the hedgehog on the security camera that was being shown on the news and studied the image for a bit. She found the solution after a while.

"I've got it. The only solution is the hedgehog on the screen isn't Sonic" Bloom said

"But aside from Amy and my transformation, there aren't any other hedgehogs here" Maria said

"The only solution I can think of is that this is a completely different hedgehog. Someone entirely different. He was probably sent here by chaos control too. But if he stole the chaos emerald then we need to get to Sonic first before the government does" Bloom said

"But we don't even know where Sonic is" Maria said

"We'll find him, let's start with station square downtown" Bloom said

The two of them went towards the city at supersonic speed.

The two of them managed to make it and saw Sonic and witnessed him defeat a G.U.N. battle robot.

"Sonic!" Maria said

The blue hedgehog saw his two human friends there.

"What are you two doing here?" Sonic asked

"We wanted to find you" Bloom said

"You two need to get out of here. The government is after me because they think I stole chaos emerald" Sonic said

"We know and we came to a conclusion that someone else that looks like you had stolen the emerald" Bloom said

"Someone that looks like me?" Sonic asked

"Can you think of anyone that looks like you?" Maria asked

The blue hedgehog thought and shook his head.

"I can't think of anyone who looks like me" Sonic said

There was a green glow that came from the demolished robot and there was a figure standing on top of the robot looking down on them.

"What the?" Sonic asked

"Good evening, I must say it's a pleasure to finally meet you face to face Sonic, we do look alike its uncanny" The hedgehog said

"So its you that's been getting in all this hot water later, imposter!" Sonic said before dashing up towards the hedgehog but the black hedgehog disappeared instantly.

Maria looked at the new hedgehog and her eyes widened when she seemed to recognize who it was at least at first.

"Sayonara Shadow the hedgehog" A voice said

Maria clutched her head in pain and Bloom reached to rub her back.

"Maria are you ok?" Bloom asked

"I-I'm fine" Maria said

Maria watched the Sonic battle Shadow but Shadow got the upper hand and used Chaos control and got in several lucky hits on the blue hedgehog.

Maria ran off and stood in front of Sonic defending him.

"That's enough! Shadow! Stop!" Maria said

The black hedgehog was shocked to see that his friend that he thought was dead was actually alive.

"Maria is that you?" Shadow asked

"Yes, please stop" Maria said

"Maria, you know this guy?" Sonic asked as he got up

"He was my friend a long time ago" Maria said

"How are you alive, Maria?" Shadow asked

"It doesn't matter please Shadow, please stop this" Maria said

"But I promised you revenge" Shadow said

"I don't want revenge! I want peace!" Maria said

Meanwhile Eggman was watching this from afar and saw this interaction.

"Shadow has stopped attacking Sonic" Decoe said

"Perhaps it has something to do with that girl. Didn't she say that her name was Maria?" Bocoe asked

"Hold on, Maria? That was the password that opened Shadow's pod" Eggman said

Eggman looked at the diary of his grandfather and remembered who Maria was.

"Now I remember. Maria Robotnik, she's the granddaughter of my grandfather" Eggman said

"What does that make her?" Bokkun asked

"She's my cousin" Eggman said

"You mean your related?" Bokkun asked

"Yeah but that's strange. Maria was supposed to have perished aboard the ARK 50 years ago and even if she did survive she would've been in an old woman by now" Eggman said

"Perhaps something has happened that caused her to not age for all this time" Bocoe said

"Well no matter we'll deal with Maria later" Eggman said

Meanwhile Shadow was struggling on what to do.

"Please stop" Maria begged

Shadow remembered the time GUN infiltrated and killed a lot of the researchers on board the ARK and he remembered when they shot Maria and recalled hearing about the Professor being executed.

"Maria, don't you remember what they did to you, to us, to everyone?" Shadow asked

Maria looked confused because she couldn't remember the exact details.

"It doesn't matter what happened back then we focus on the present" Maria said

"Maria get away from him" Sonic said

"Its okay, Sonic, Shadow wouldn't hurt me" Maria said

"So you've forgotten about what you truly wanted. That's fine because I remember what you truly wanted" Shadow said

"Shadow I promise you that I don't want revenge I want this planet to be safe and remain safe from harm" Maria said

Shadow could see that she was telling the truth but his own hatred for the humans seems to outshine his love for Maria.

"Fine if you wish to turn on me then so be it. But I'll keep the promise to get revenge on this planet for harming those aboard the ARK" Shadow said

Shadow then police sirens and decided to leave.

"Well it seems that we must put our meeting to an end. Good bye Sonic, its been a great pleasure" Shadow said

Shadow then used Chaos control to leave the area and in the end Sonic decided to allow himself to be taken away.

Back at the mansion Maria was in the living on the couch hugging a pillow, releasing tears silently. She released some sniffles.

Cream saw how depressed Maria and felt very bad for her and had tried to cheer her up but everything she tried didn't work.

Bloom noticed Maria on her couch and approached her.

"Are you feeling any better?" Bloom asked

"Of course not" Maria said

"I understand that your upset because of your interaction with Shadow but" Bloom said before being interrupted

"NO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND!" Maria shouted

Bloom was taken aback by this because she had never heard Maria shout at her before.

"You don't understand! Because you've never had an friends until now! You don't understand how I'm feeling at all!" Maria said

Cream was right next Bloom and tried to speak but Bloom held her hand out to the young rabbit and shook her head.

"You're right, Maria, I don't understand how your feeling but I do understand that you're sad because of you interaction with Shadow" Bloom said

Maria remained silent.

"I thought I was going to lose Sonic once during a tough fight with a machine that Eggman built once. I didn't lose him but the fear of losing him still remained in my heart and I wanted to stop him from leaving all together but I didn't because I know that the one thing that Sonic treasures the most is freedom and living his life to the fullest" Bloom said

Maria looked over towards her friend with confusion.

"Maria are you going to give up on Shadow just like that?" Bloom asked

"Give up on Shadow?" Marias asked

"You want to simply give up on Shadow?" Bloom asked

"No! I don't!" Maria said

"Then what are you doing laying around here? You need to be persistent and chase after Shadow and make him listen to you" Bloom said

Maria thought for a moment and realized that Bloom was right. She had given up on Shadow quickly and she didn't even try hard enough.

"You're right, I've been lying around, feeling sorry for myself and didn't even try to chase him down" Maria said

"That's the spirit, Maria" Bloom said

"But where is Shadow at?" Maria asked

"I believe that he's been taken to prison island" Bloom said

"Prison island?" Maria asked

"It's a military base where they keep the worst criminals there" Bloom said

"But shouldn't we be going after Shadow?" Maria asked

"We'll having an easier time if we have Sonic on our side. If we save him then we'll have an easier time finding Shadow" Bloom said

"I…see your point" Maria said

"But first I would like to change into something more appropriate for this type of exploration" Bloom said

"Well in that case may do that too?" Maria asked

Bloom nodded and the two got ready to go to prison island.

Bloom was now wearing a blue layered ruffle crop Cami top and a blue skirt that fits around the waist. This made her midriff exposed so she would stay cool. She also wore light blue casual trainers. Her red hair was put up in pigtails. Underneath her skirt was white short shorts.

Maria was wearing the same thing except her outfit was pink and her blond hair was in a ponytail. The two of them then went to the garage and saw the tornado 2.

"We'll get to the island use this plane" Bloom said

"Is this safe?" Maria asked with concern

"Don't worry, I can pilot this thing just fine" Bloom said

Bloom made some preparations with the place and got into the plane.

The plane engine started up and it took off into the sky. It was a long journey to prison island but they eventually made it to the island.

The two of them decided to separate to cover more ground. Bloom went into the jungle to look for Sonic and she found him and wasn't in a cell which was strange but she could only guess that he somehow managed to find his way out.

"Oh Sonic there you are" Bloom said

"Bloom what are you doing here?" Sonic asked

"I came here to find you" Bloom said

"There's no time to waste we need to get off this island now" Sonic said

"Why what's wrong?" Bloom asked

"This island's going to blow up any minute now" Sonic said

"Blow up?!" Bloom asked in shock

"We need to get off the island now!" Sonic said

"But!" Bloom said

Sonic grabbed her and ran away before Bloom could finish her sentence. They got off the island in time but Bloom looked at the island as it blew it up. She felt sadness again, great sadness.

"That was close" Tails said

"But Maria came with me" Bloom said

"What?!" Sonic asked

Bloom released some tears because she felt guilty because she convinced Maria to come with her.

"This is my fault, I shouldn't have convinced her to come with me" Bloom said

Tails decided to pipe in.

"Don't blame yourself, from what you told me she seemed to have been friends with Maria and you wanted her to reconcile with her friend" Tails said

"We'll make Eggman pay for sure" Sonic said

Bloom just looked down.

Meanwhile around the time before prison island.

Maria ran deep into the jungle. She spotted Shadow entering a building and followed him inside.

"There you are Rouge" Shadow said

"Wow you came to rescue me?" Rouge asked

"Don't get the wrong idea, I came here for the emeralds" Shadow said

Rouge just pouted

"My hero" Rouge said

Maria charged in the building and confronted Shadow.

"SHADOW!" Maria yelled

The black hedgehog looked back to see that Maria was there.

"What are you doing here?" Shadow asked

The island shook and the explosions went off and Maria was enveloped in a light. When the young girl opened her eyes again she saw that she was in space and saw the blue earth.

"This is the ARK" Maria said

A door opened and the blond girl looked back and saw Eggman.

"Its nice to be back home isn't it?" Eggman asked

"Eggman!" Maria said

"It's been quite awhile, Maria" Eggman said

"What are you up to this time?" Maria asked

"Don't worry about that my sweet little cousin" Eggman said

Maria was caught off guard when she heard the mad scientist call her that.

"Cousin? What are you talking about?" Maria asked

"You do know what your last name is don't you?" Eggman asked

Maria shook her head. She only knew her first name.

"Perhaps I should reveal something to you. I am Doctor Ivo Robotnik or you can continue to call me Doctor Eggman and you my dear are Maria Robotnik" Eggman said

Maria's eyes went wide in shock at this revelation.

"W-what?! That can't be true! You're lying!" Maria said

"Your grandfather was also my grandfather. His name was Gerald Robotnik, a scientific genius and the one who create Shadow the hedgehog" Eggman said

Maria stepped back in shock.

"That can't be true!" Maria said

"There was a password that I needed to open Shadow's pod and the password happened to be your name my dear" Eggman said

Shadow was watching the whole thing and was actually surprised that Maria was shocked by this news. The black hedgehog figured that Maria must've gotten amnesia.

Meanwhile at the mansion Bloom was down because she was still feeling very guilty because she believed that Maria was dead and it was her fault.

Sonic knew she needed someone to help her cheer up and dashed off towards the only person he could think of that could cheer her up.

Helen was in her house helping her mother prepare for dinner when she heard a knock on her door.

"Would you mind getting that for me dear?" Rebecca asked

Helen nodded and walked over towards the door and opened the door. She was shocked to see that Sonic the hedgehog was at her door.

"Sonic hi" Helen said

"Hey Helen, can you come with me?" Sonic asked

Helen was confused by this request from the blue hedgehog. She heard her mother tell her that she can go with Sonic. The blue hedgehog picked her up and dashed off towards Bloom's mansion. During the journey there the two of them had a conversation.

"What's this about Sonic?" Helen asked

"Well Bloom's feeling down and the only one who I could think of that could cheer her up was you Helen" Sonic said

Helen was quite surprised to hear this. Bloom was feeling down. That was quite a shock for her to hear. Sonic went on to tell her that Bloom had taken Maria to prison island to rescue him but Eggman blew up the island and Bloom was blaming herself because of Maria's death. Helen was sad to hear that Maria had died but to hear that her best friend was blaming herself gave her a motivation to cheer her up.

The two of them made it back to the mansion and Helen saw that her best friend was on her couch hugging a pillow.

"Bloom" Helen said

Bloom looked over to see her best friend there and looked away. She didn't want her to see her like this.

Helen sat next to her friend and tried to cheer her up.

"Sonic told me what happened. I'm so sorry." Helen said

"Why does this hurt so much? I learned about death a long time ago but it hurts so much" Bloom said

Helen knew that her friend was not only sad but also confused.

"Knowing about death and experiencing what its like to lose someone is different. It can hurt even more when you lose someone who's close to you" Helen said

Bloom looked over to the blonde.

"I understand that you're in pain from losing Maria, but you can move on from this. It won't be easy, but I promise you that you'll be able to move past this. It's not your fault because you were trying to help Maria" Helen said

Bloom listened to her friend and knew that Helen was right, but it was still difficult to comprehend. The redhead was suddenly filled with new determination to stop Eggman. Helen decided to join in on this adventure because she wanted to stop Eggman too.

They were downtown in Station Square. Everyone soon saw that Eggman was on every screen in the city.

"Attention all citizens of Earth, my name is Dr. Robotnik, the greatest scientific genius in the world and the future ruler of this planet. I'm making a demand to all your leaders to surrender your planet to the Eggman Empire. I have a powerful weapon that can destroy you all in the blink of an eye. To anyone who wishes to defy me look up in the sky" Eggman said

Everyone looked up and Bloom could sense some chaos energy coming from the sky. Soon a green laser was fired, and it was headed straight towards the moon. Half the moon was destroyed in an instant.

The people from around the globe saw the horror of Eggman's new weapon and knew that he was serious about destroying this planet.

"All of you have 23 hours to surrender the planet to me or else I will blow your planet up" Eggman said before signing off

"The moon was so pretty why did Dr. Eggman destroy it?" Cream asked

"It takes a huge amount of energy to make a blast that powerful" Amy said

"He must be using the chaos emeralds" Tails said

"What do we do now? Eggman has six chaos emeralds, and we only have one" Sonic said

"Not exactly Sonic, we have two" Tails said

Tails revealed that he had another yellow emerald.

"You made a copy emerald?" Sonic asked

"Yes, and it may not have the exact power of a real emerald but its pretty close" Tails said

"So what's your plan?" Tails asked

"I'm going to give Eggman the fake emerald and if he tries to fire it then it should overload since its not the real emerald" Tails said

"That's all fine and dandy Tails but we still need to figure out how to get up there. Eggman is in space" Amy said

"That's true we and the X tornado doesn't have the power it needs to fly into space" Tails said

Knuckles soon appears before them and told them a pyramid appeared out of the ground and he suspects that it was Eggman's base.

Bloom then got an idea.

"I have an idea. Perhaps there's a machine there that can help us travel into space" Bloom said

"But I can modify the tornado to fly into space" Tails said

"No offense Tails, but we don't have enough time to wait for you to finish that" Helen said

"Wait Tails go ahead make those modifications. We'll go on ahead and meet you at the base or aboard the ARK" Bloom said

"Sounds like a plan to me, lets go!" Sonic said

The group sped off towards the base.

Meanwhile aboard the ARK.

Rouge was looking into the data of the ARK.

"So that's the truth huh? Good to know" Rouge said

Rouge proceeded to download the content into her wristwatch and once she was done, she was about to head back when she saw that Shadow was there, glaring at her.

"Oh Shadow! It's not polite to sneak up on a lady" Rouge said

"What are you doing here?" Shadow asked

Maria had snuck in there and listened to their conversation.

"I just wanted to know the details about the ARK, that's all" Rouge said

"Is that really the story you're going to go with Agent Rouge?" Shadow asked

Maria gasped when she heard this. Agent Rouge? Was Rouge some sort of spy?

Rouge just shrugged like it was no big deal that she got found out.

"Well looks like you caught me" Rouge said

"You've been a spy for the government this entire time and only joined us to find out what the doctor was up to" Shadow said

"Well, aren't you smart. Well, if you don't mind, I'll be taking this data with me" Rouge said

The black hedgehog glared at her.

"I do mind you phony" Shadow said

"That's awfully funny coming from you of all people" Rouge said

"And just what do you mean by that?" Shadow asked

"There were totally three space pods that fell from the ARK. Two of them were lost 50 years ago" Rouge said

Shadow remained silent and glared at the white bat.

"What I'm saying is that there's a possibility that you're not the real Shadow" Rouge said

The black hedgehog closed his eyes before opening them again.

"Even if my memories are false, they're still all I have. In the end I'm still Shadow the hedgehog, the ultimate lifeform" Shadow said

Shadow was about to charge at Rouge but Maria decided to intervene and grabbed Shadow from behind.

"What the-? Maria?! What are you doing?!" Shadow asked

Rouge just smirked and fled the room.

"Let me go Maria! She's getting away!" Shadow said

"Please listen to me Shadow! Stop this madness right now!" Maria said

Shadow just growled and performed a spin attack and that made Maria spin with him and she was forced to let go and flew towards the wall and her back ended up slamming against the wall. The blond girl groaned.

The blond girl looked up to see that her friend was glaring at her.

"Thanks to you she's getting away" Shadow said

"It doesn't matter if she gets away or not. Shadow we need to stop Eggman before he fires the Eclipse cannon. Please help me stop him" Maria said

Shadow glared at Maria and the blond girl could see that the friend she had known for a long time was filled with hatred.

"The humans will pay for what they did to us" Shadow said

Shadow soon dashed out of the room and Maria followed him.

Maria just sighed and with heavy heart she had made up her mind. She needed to stop Shadow no matter what.

Maria then used some chaos wind power and boosted her speed even more and shoulder tackled Shadow, knocking him off balance. The black hedgehog recovered and landed on his feet.

"What are you doing Maria?" Shadow asked

"Shadow, I don't want to do this but you're not giving me a choice" Maria said

Shadow was shocked when he saw Maria get into a fighting stance.

"I don't want to fight you Maria" Shadow said

"Then help me stop Eggman" Maria said

"I can't" Shadow said

"I'm giving you a choice Shadow. You can either help me stop Eggman from conquering the planet or you can stand next to Eggman and get stopped" Maria said

Shadow glared at Maria. The best friend that he once knew would never do this to him.

"If you're really going to go against the promise, you made me keep then I have choice but to take you down" Shadow said

Maria was sad that Shadow decided to stick with his revenge path instead of choosing her.

Shadow used a spin attack, but Maria dodged it in time. The black hedgehog did a homing attack, but Maria managed to grab Shadow in time, but his power was pushing her back slowly. The young girl grunted because she was struggling to stop Shadow's attack. With all of her strength she managed to throw Shadow back against the wall and the wall now had a hole in it.

Maria was panting because she had never been under this much pressure before.

Shadow stepped out of the hole and was shocked to see that Maria was actually able to fight back against him.

"You're different from last time. You have chaos energy in your body. How do you have chaos powers?" Shadow asked

"A friend of mine gave me these powers and I won't let her down by letting them go to waste" Maria said

"You could easily take revenge on the planet yourself with those powers" Shadow said

"I don't want revenge Shadow. I may not understand why the government did what they did 50 years ago but it doesn't matter. Shadow, GUN was the one that infiltrated the ARK. All those innocent people down there have nothing to do with what happened to us. Please open your eyes" Maria said

"You're still as gullible as ever. The humans that knew about us could've tried to talk the government out of that operation 50 years ago. But did they do it? NO! Did they care about what happened to everyone here on the ARK? NO! They need to pay Maria and I will make them pay for their crimes against us and if I have to destroy the earth to do that then so be it!" Shadow said

Maria gave Shadow a sad look. It appeared that Shadow was beyond saving now but that didn't stop her from trying but right now she needed to stop him.

"Forgive me Shadow" Maria said

Shadow then unleashed his chaos spear against his former friend but Maria also knew how to use chaos spear and used it too. Both attacks canceled each other out. Maria yelped before dodging some lightning attacks.

Shadow ran at her and Maria changed into her hedgehog form and performed a spin attack on her friend. This caught Shadow by surprise and he got hit by Maria's spin attack.

Shadow looked at Maria and saw that his human friend was now a blonde hedgehog.

"Shadow, I'm putting a stop to this" Maria said

Shadow decided to quit holding back and sped towards her and hit her with full force. The now blonde hedgehog recovered and tried to use some wind attacks but the black hedgehog teleported out of the way and Maria got hit in the back and was sent high in the air and Shadow met her up in the air and hit again, sending the blonde hedgehog back towards the ground but before hitting the ground Shadow appeared from her left and did a roundhouse kick and she was sent towards the wall.

Maria struggled to get up but she still managed to get up.

"Give up Maria, you can beat me" Shadow said

"Even if I can't beat you I'm still going to fight because I'd rather go down fighting then give up" Maria said

Before both of them could attack each other again, a floating disc device appeared and formed a barrier around Maria, trapping her in cage of energy.

They looked over to see that it was Eggman.

"That's enough out of both of you. I can't have you destroying the ARK before I can put my plan into action" Eggman said

Shadow just backed off and left the room. Eggman looked at his cousin.

"Although I'm quite surprised that you have an ability like that Maria" Eggman said

"Eggman, please stop this plan, its not too late" Maria said

"You simply don't understand, Maria" Eggman said

"Then help me understand!" Maria said

Eggman remained silent.

"Eggman!" Maria said

"My reasoning is something you'll never understand even if I told you, you still wouldn't understand" Eggman said

Maria's hedgehog form wore off and she was now back in her human form. She was on her knees and started to cry because she had failed to save the planet she loved.

"There's no need to cry, Maria. After all I'm going to let you live since you're the only family I have left" Eggman said

"What use am I to you?" Maria asked sadly

"I don't need to have use for you. You're just going to be by my side, that's all" Eggman said

Meanwhile back on Earth, the planet only had twelve hours left until the eclipse cannon would be fired upon the earth. The group of heroes made it to Eggman's base in the desert.

"That must be his base, let's go" Sonic said

The group made it inside of the base and they were being blocked by a door and saw that there was keyhole there.

"Looks like we need to find some keys to unlock this door" Sonic said

"But where are we supposed to find the keys?" Helen asked

Sonic had an idea and turned to the red guardian.

"Knuckles!" Sonic said

Everyone then turned towards the red echidna.

"Huh? Why me?" Knuckles asked

"Come on you're a treasure hunter, right? Finding those keys shouldn't be a problem for you" Sonic said

"I'm not wasting my time looking for some keys" Knuckles said

"Could it be that your not a great treasure hunter after all?" Cream asked

"What was that?" Knuckles asked

"I mean the only reason why you would refuse to look for those keys is if you weren't a great treasure hunter to begin with" Helen said

Knuckles just growled at them and finally agreed.

"Fine! All of you just wait here and I'll find those keys" Knuckles said

"Good luck buddy!" Knuckles said

Knuckles yelled back at the blue hedgehog.

"Don't call me your buddy!" Knuckles said

Five minutes went by and there was an earthquake, and the red echidna was running back towards them and they saw he was being chased by a giant golem.

Everyone jumped out of the way when it tried to punch them, and it knocked the door down.

"There I got the door open are you happy now?" Knuckles asked

"I guess" Sonic replied

Everyone managed to avoid the golem's attacks. Bloom and Knuckles tried to charge at the midsection of the golem's body, but the Egg golem spun around with its arms out wide and knocked them both down.

Sonic charged at the rock monster, but the golem clapped and trapped Sonic in its hands before headbutting the blue hedgehog. Helen tried to attack the Golem's back, but the golem unleashed some pillars from its back and knocked her down.

The heroes managed to make comeback on the giant golem. Knuckles charged in and punched the golem's right foot, making it stagger. Bloom then performed her famous technique.

"Whirlwind fire kick"

Bloom spun around and made a mini tornado made out of fire around herself and attacked the golem's body and this was enough to knock it over.

Bokkun was the one controlling the robot and fell over, losing his grip on the control. Cream was flying in the air caught the remote.

"Hey that's mine give it back!" Cream said

The young rabbit giggled in response.

"As you wish" Cream said

The little rabbit was now in control of the robot and it started to chase after the child robot.

"Now that the robot's out of the way lets hurry up get to the ARK" Sonic said

The gang eventually found a space shuttle.

"A space shuttle" Sonic said

"Does anyone know how to fly this thing?" Knuckles asked

"I don't think anyone other then Tails is qualified to fly this thing" Sonic said

Bloom put her hand up.

"I could fly it" Bloom said

"WHAT?!" Everyone asked in shock

"Bloom no offense but how would you know how to fly this thing?" Helen asked

"I've done simulations on how to fly them" Bloom said

"Bloom, this isn't a simulation this is a real space shuttle. Mess up once and we're toast" Sonic said

"Can't we just, I don't know, call your sister for help?" Helen asked

"I don't think we have the time to look for her" Bloom said

"I rather not see that woman again either" Knuckles said

The others kept thinking but they were coming up short and just sighed.

"Fine, we'll let you fly this thing" Sonic said

Bloom smiled and promised them that everything would be fine.

All systems were working properly, and they managed to fly off smoothly.

They were now in space.

"This is so exciting, I've never been in space before" Cream said

"Neither have I" Helen said

"This is my first time in space as well" Bloom said

Knuckles then sensed the master emerald on the ARK.

"I sense the master emerald and its on that space station.

"Knuckles stay in your seat please" Bloom said

"Can't this thing go any faster?! Make it go faster!" Knuckles said

Knuckles got reckless and took over the controls and reckless piloted into the ARK.

The space shuttle crashed into the ARK and Knuckles got out of the shuttle ran off towards the Master emerald.

"Ugh…that Knucklehead" Sonic said

Tails soon arrived and saw the shuttle and impressed that his friends actually managed to find something that could get them to space.

"Nice to see you Tails" Sonic said

"Well I did do some modifications and downloaded a map of the ARK. The control panel for the emeralds are at the center of the eclipse cannon. Sonic you need to go to the core and place the fake emerald in there so it can overload the eclipse cannon" Tails said

"You got it buddy; just give me the directions and I'll be there in a snap" Sonic said

Tails decided to go find Eggman to distract him so he wouldn't notice that Sonic was headed towards the center core.

Bloom made it to the center room of the ARK and was shocked to see that Maria was alive and well.

"Maria!" Bloom said

The blonde girl looked up to see her friend there and happy to see her.

"Bloom!" Maria said

The blond girl saw the redhead cover her mouth with both of her hands and was releasing tears from her eyes.

"I-I thought you were dead" Bloom said

Maria now understood why her friend was so emotional.

"Everything's okay now" Maria said

Bloom noticed that she was being held by a disc and kicked the disk, destroying it.

"I'm so glad your safe Maria" Bloom said

"Did you come by yourself?" Maria asked

"No, Sonic and the others are here too" Bloom said

"That's good" Maria said

"We're currently trying to shut down the eclipse cannon" Bloom said

"But its under Eggman's control" Maria said

Bloom told Maria about the plan that Tails came up with. Maria was impressed that Tails could come up with an amazing plan and believed that the two tailed fox was just as smart as her grandfather was.

They soon met up with Helen, who had also gotten quite emotional upon seeing that Maria was alive and well.

After a while though the entire ARK started to shake uncontrollably.

"Maria, what's going on?" Helen asked

"I don't know, but I feel that something is wrong here" Maria said

Screens soon appeared and Maria saw that it was a picture of her grandfather tied up to a chair.

"Grandfather!" Maria said

"Who is that?" Helen asked

"My guess is he was a top researcher here" Bloom said

The old professor then started to speak.

"The countdown marking my final revenge has been put into motion. Once the seven chaos emeralds have been placed in the control panel, Space Colony ARK will crash into the planet with devastating force. All of you will be destroyed and will have absolutely no chance of survival. No you will know that pain that I felt when I lost Maria. You'll see, you'll all see" Gerald said

Maria was shocked to see that this same man was her grandfather.

"Grandfather, why?" Maria asked

Everyone was now in the center room and they saw everyone there, including Eggman and Sonic soon arrived.

"Eggman" Sonic said

"If you're here for a rematch then you can forget it because soon we'll all be destroyed" Eggman said

"Don't give up so easily Egghead, I'm sure we can find a way out of this mess if we work together" Sonic said

Everyone saw the recording of Gerald Robotnik and it was on an endless loop.

"Who is that guy and what is he talking about?" Amy asked

"That is Professor Gerald Robotnik, he was hailed as scientific genius and my grandfather. He's Maria's grandfather too" Eggman said

Maria started to remember more and more about the ARK but it still wasn't completely clear to her just yet.

"But why is the ARK heading towards the Earth?" Helen asked

Eggman brought his grandfather's diary after he hacked into GUN's security system.

"When I hacked into the government's database I came across my grandfather's diary" Eggman said

The diary was brought up and Bloom began to read it out loud to everyone in the room.

"Revenge, that is all that matters to me now. When I began my research I only wanted to do good. The president came forward to me and asked me to research immortality. I refused at first but soon accepted the proposal because if I could find a way to discover how someone can become immortal then I could use that to cure my granddaughter, Maria of her fatal illness" Bloom read

Maria started to get emotional. She didn't know the extent of her grandfather's research but hearing out loud was making her emotional.

"I only wanted to do good and that's why I worked to make the ultimate creature. The government then infiltrated the ARK and got rid of everyone involved in Project Shadow. They were afraid that I was going to use this project to take over the world. So they ceased my lab and then they took Maria from me. My life took on a new purpose. Instead of helping people I would get revenge on them. Night and day I planned. So long after I'm gone my revenge will be complete" Bloom read

Maria couldn't believe that her grandfather had planned all of this after her supposed "death"

"I've done it my greatest design is complete. The ultimate creature, Shadow. My enemies think they've defeated me but Shadow will carry out my plans without question. For now it sleeps but one day in the future it will be reawakened. Shadow will bring ultimate destruction" Bloom read

Maria started to cry after listening to her grandfather's diary being read out loud.

"Oh grandfather" Maria said

"Grandfather, destroying the world is one thing but destroying your grandchildren is another thing entirely" Eggman said

Eggman explained to the others about what was now going on.

"The energy from the chaos emeralds has transformed the eclipse cannon into a mega bomb. If it detonates then the blast will be more massive than a supernova. If the ARK hits the planet then the earth will be completely destroyed" Eggman said

"The energy from the chaos emeralds are also pulling us towards the planet. We need to get to the emeralds and deactivate them somehow" Tails said

Sonic knew that there was one person who could stop the emeralds from pulling them towards the planet.

"Knuckles, you can do it" Sonic said

Everyone looked at the red echidna and Knuckles sweat dropped.

"Huh? Why me?" Knuckles asked in confusion

"Because you can control all of the chaos emeralds using that" Rouge said as she pointed towards the master emerald

"The master emerald of course! I can use it to shut off the power" Knuckles said

"Alright but we need to hurry because we don't have a lot of time" Tails said

"I'll go on ahead, make sure you can keep up" Sonic said

"Let's get to those chaos emeralds. Remember if we fail an entire planets perish and so will we" Eggman said

All the humans except for Eggman, stayed behind and Amy had also stayed behind as well.

"Why can't we go and help them?" Maria asked

"We would just get in the way. We can keep watch out here just in case" Bloom said

"They'll get to those chaos emeralds in time" Helen said

Maria smiled but it went away just as quickly when she heard a familiar voice.

"Don't bet on it" The voice said

Everyone turned around to see that it was Shadow.

"Shadow" Maria said

Shadow was smirking at them, but it later went back to a frown.

Maria, found her courage and stepped forward.

"Please Shadow help us save the earth" Maria said

Shadow was surprised to hear that his friend was asking him to save the earth.

"Everything's going according to plan. There's point in helping them stop the plan now" Shadow said

"Please Shadow try to understand. There are some bad people on that planet, but the truth is that most people are good. You just need to give them a chance. Please Shadow, help them, help us" Maria said

Maria was crying again. Shadow looked at her and suddenly memories from the past started to play in his head. The memories of Maria wanting revenge seemed to be false and now he remembered the real Maria and what she really wanted.

"I…I remember now. I was created to help humanity and to cure Maria of her illness. I must keep my promise to you, Maria" Shadow said

Maria smiled and was happy that she finally had her friend back. Shadow dashed off towards the center of the ARK.

Maria then felt a hand on shoulder and looked back to see that her redheaded friend was the one that was touching her.

"See Maria? I told you that you could get through him if you were persistent" Bloom said

"Yes, thank you" Maria said

The Ark started to shake even more now.

"The space colony is shaking even more now" Amy said

Lasers started to appear all over the room that they were in. They started to shoot at the heroes and they were forced to dodge them.

"What's going on?" Maria asked

"The security system is going out of control" Helen said

"We need to head to the security room and shut it down" Bloom said

Everyone agreed and ran towards the security room.

They ran and soon came across a blue creature with a white head and it was floating in the air.

"What is that thing?" Amy asked

Maria gasped and remembered what it was.

"That's artificial chaos that Grandfather created" Maria said

The chaos creature extended its arms to pierce their bodies, but they dodged it. It swung its arms, but Amy managed to stop it with her hammer.

"Get that thing Cheese" Cream said as she threw him towards the creature

Cheese made contact and its body broke apart. Maria remembered what to do and launched a chaos spear and the robotic parts and that proved to be successful because the creature was now smaller, and Amy finished it off by bashing it on the head with her hammer.

They were almost there and they made a center room and the security room was just across the room.

"Let's hurry and shut off the security and that should also make it easier for the others as well" Bloom said

The room was shaking again.

A giant Biolizard machine. It was a pink machine shaped like a machine.

"That's a big robot" Cream said

The group then heard the voice of Gerald Robotnik.

"You shall go no further" Gerald said

"Grandfather?" Maria asked in shock

Eggman soon showed up in his egg mobile.

"That must be the robotic version of the ultimate life form prototype" Eggman said

"Eggman?! What are you doing here?" Amy asked

"I came here to shut down the security system. Looks like all of you had the same idea" Eggman said

"You will not go any further! Space Colony Ark will crash into the earth with devastating force" Gerald said

"What's going here? Its been 50 years and this old man is still alive" Amy said

"Not quite. It seems grandpa had created an A.I. program of himself and uploaded it to the base computer" Eggman said

"An AI?" Helen asked

"Artificial intelligence" Bloom said

"Oh, now I see" Helen said

The giant mech unleashed several energy orbs and they were forced to dodge his attacks.

"We need to distract this thing" Eggman said

"The five of us will distract this thing Eggman, you work on shutting down the security system" Bloom said

"Very well, but be careful" Eggman said

The giant machine unleashed several lasers at them they dodged them. Cream lifted Amy and started to spin her around and let her go. Amy then hit the robot's head. Maria released a super kick and it was so fast that it unleashed wind pressure. Helen unleashed a power lightning bolt attack on the lizard's tails causing it to roar. Bloom unleashed her whirlwind fire kick attack and that managed to knock it over.

Maria unleashed her chaos spear upon the monster's back causing it to roar.

Maria changed into a hedgehog and used a homing attack on the monster's back. Helen changed into a bolt of lightning and attacked the robot's neck. Cream kicked the monster's eyes and Amy attacked the head again.

Bloom used her screw kick attack and managed to destroy the monster's legs and that made it fall over and was defeated.

"We did it!" Cream said

"That was a close call" Amy said

Gerald's face soon appeared from the machine.

"It's too late to stop the Ark from falling towards the planet" Gerald said

Maria changed back into her original human form.

"Grandfather, what happened to you?" Maria asked

The AI saw Maria and was shocked to see that she was alive.

"Maria? Is that you?" Gerald asked

Maria just nodded.

"You've been alive this whole time?" Gerald asked

"Yes but my memories are hazy" Maria said

"I'm so relieved that you're ok" Gerald said

"The security system has now been deactivated" Eggman said

"Way to go Eggman! Wow that feels weird to say" Amy said

Gerald looked back and saw that there was someone there that looked like him when he was younger.

"Who are you?" Gerald asked

"It's been a long time but its me. Ivo Robotnik" Eggman said

Gerald was shocked to see that this was his grandson.

"You've really grown" Gerald said

Gerald now knew that this was the person who was now trying to take over the world because he managed to look in his data. It seems that his grandson has inherited a desire for power.

"Grandfather the Ark can be stopped" Maria said

"If you can stop the chaos emeralds then the Ark should stop falling towards the Earth" Gerald said

Eggman was looking over the battle that Shadow was having against the biolizard. He saw that it disappeared and realized that it had used chaos control. The Ark was still headed towards the planet even though they stopped the chaos emeralds.

"Come in Sonic, do you read me? That monster is still alive. Its attached itself on the outside of the space colony its pulling us towards the planet" Eggman said

This time it was time Super Sonic and Super Shadow to take care of things from here on out. After a tough battle they manage to defeat the giant lizard and managed to pull off a massive chaos control. Gerald bid his grandchildren since his AI was fading.

Sonic soon reappeared before his friend and smiled.

Maria noticed that Shadow wasn't with him.

"Sonic, where's Shadow?" Maria asked

Sonic just shook his head and gave Maria one of his inhibitor rings. The blond girl just looked the ring before shaking her head.

"No…Shadow no" Maria said

Maria silently wept. Several of her tears landed on the ring that she held in her hands.

"You know maybe Gerald Robotnik wanted Shadow to stop his crazy plan all along" Rouge said

"We'll never know but in the end Shadow sacrificed everything to save us all" Sonic said

"He sure did" Rouge said

"Shadow" Maria wept

Bloom approached her friend and hugged her from behind.

"It may hurt at first but you can move on from this. I know for certain that you'll never forget about Shadow" Bloom said

Maria just nodded in response and couldn't respond right now. Everyone soon left the Ark and went back down to Earth.