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Er... Shadow meets rouge... what more can I say?

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The Approach From Behind method was also a good way to Make an Entrance, Shadow thought, as he composed his expression and ran up to Rouge.

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"Rouge." He called from a few metres behind her. His voice was hardly that used for a greeting, more like that of a calm statment.

"Shadow?" She called, pivouting around on one foot. Her face was shocked, but she had hardly reacted as violently as Eggman.

"Indeed." He said, jogging the rest of the distance to her, and smiled aimiably, as they both starting walking again. "We hardly parted on friendly terms did we? Well, not to worry, that's behind us now, isn't it." He paused, although this was barely a question.

"Er - yes. But Shadow, what are you doing here, how did you survive?"

"I'd rather not discuss that now, there are currently much more important matters on my mind."

"Oh?"

"Yes." He paused. "Rouge, I'm setting out on a quite... profitable, let's say, venture, and I had hoped that you'd like to... involve yourself."

Rouge stopped walking, and looked around.

"What sort of 'venture'?"

"Well," he shot her a sly grin "I've just been to visit Eggman, and he now thinks of me as his partner, meaning that I can take huge advantage of the power he has, and of course his robotic army which is rather pathetic right now, but I've put myself in charge of 'developing his security', which means that soon I'm going to have alot of power at my hands, and I'm sure that between us we can think of some creative ways to put it to use, after I've overthrown eggman."

"But, why do you want me?" she said, now clearly intruiged

"Well, if we want any real power at our hands, we'll need the chaos emeralds, and you, being the expert treasure hunter you are, would be the best person to look for them, I belive."

Rouge paused for a moment, and then grined hugely. "Okay Shadow," she said "You're on!"

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