Chapter 5: Call Thy Master Kalita and Sonic walked down the halls of the underground facility. "I'm amazed by all the adventures you've had. I'm glad that you can help us!" Kalita smiled. "Yea, it's cool. It's how I met all my friends," Sonic said. He winced and rubbed at his ear. "Ow!" "You okay?" Kalita asked. "Oh...yea, it's nothing," Sonic assured. Shadow and Shalita approached them moments later. "Sonic, have you seen Tails anywhere?" Shadow asked urgently. "Yea, we took him over to Sophia's place, why?" Kalita asked. "We'll explain later!" Shadow said quickly and he and Shalita took off past them. Sonic and Kalita looked at each other and followed them. Shaetore approached the city border, a horde of vampires surrounding her. The guards inside the shield watched them like a hawk, on high alert. Shaetore held out the orb in the air. "Do it....call your master to me..." They stood in Sophia's empty room. "Yea...ah, Kal? They ain't here," Shalita said pointlessly. "So they 'ain't' here, so WHAT?" Kalita asked, irked at being interupted being alone with Sonic. "Okay, everyone, COOL IT. Let's just split up and find them," Shadow suggested. "Fine, but YOU OWE ME a BIG time explaination for this one," Kalita said, agrivated. The four split up. Sonic paused for a moment and looked out a window near the ceiling, that was above ground. "Hmm..." Moments later, Shalita came running back to Shadow, waving her hand radio. "Shadow!" she called. "Listen to this!" They listened to the hand-radio as a guard rattled on. "-Shaetore is continuing to hold postion at the edge of the city. She's setting down the Master Orb...wait....she's retreating-!" Shadow looked at Shalita "She know. The minute we drew blood from Tails, she knew. She's trying to call him in." "We've GOT to find him..FAST!" Shalita said. "TAILS! TAILS!" Shalita yelled. Shadow was helping her to find him as well. In an underground garage, they yelled out for him until two greasy foxes, one orange, and one white, popped out. "Hey, what's with all the commotion?" Sophia yelled back. The couple ran to Tails. "Tails, are you okay?" Shalita asked. Tails shrugged. "Yea, I'm fine, why?" Shalita looked at Shadow and bacl to Tails. "You SURE you're okay? You're not...hearing things?" Tails paused for a moment. "Uh...no? Should I?" Shadow and Shalita looked at each other. "I REALLY don't like this, Shal," Shadow said and looked at Tails. "Tails, can you come to the lab We need to run some tests right away." "Sure, is there a problem?" Tails asked. "We don't know for sure. Come on," Shalita said, leading Tails away. They took Tails into the lab and sat him down. "Shadow, can you get me one of Tails's blood samples?" Shalita asked. "Right away," Shadow said and went over to the box of blood samples. He picked up a slide from Tails' section and looked at it puzzled. "Cream's sample?" He looked through the box again. "Uh, Shal?" "Yea Shad?" Shalita called. "These samples are mixed up. I got Cream and Sonic's samples mixed with Tails's slides. Shalita froze, a horrible feeling sinking into her stomach. "Run that by me again?" "It must of happened when we knocked over the box earlier," Shadow said, sorting through the samples. "Wait, of the samples got mixed.....then..." The radio interupted her. "WE NEED BACKUP! Some nutcase is trying to lower the shield! WE-" The message cut off. Shalita sat there, sick. "Shadow...if Tails is in here...then who's out there?" There was a knock on the door. "WHAT?!" Shalita and Shadow barked at the same time, agitated. Kalita poked her head in, along with Amy, Cream and Cheese. "Hey, have y'all seen Sonic lately? I can't find him anywhere." Shalita and Shadow looked at each other, horrified. The group ran outside. "The shield is down!" Shalita yelped, noting the lack of the yellow energy barrier around the city. Amy pointed to the hill beyond the city itself. "LOOK!!!!" They gasped as they saw a figure following a floating orb up the hill towards Shaetore's castle. Shadow stared in horror and fear. "No! SONIC!!!!!"