Title: Connection- Chp. 2

Author: Blu Evermind

Summary: When Sonic and Shadow went Super, The combined power of the Chaos Emeralds connects Sonic and Shadow to each other. A year after Shadow's disappearance, Sonic still can't let go. What could it mean?

A/N: I want to thank whoever rewviewed. Yaay!

Chapter Two

Sonic found himself at the very wild beach, the waves crashing into the shore, pulling up sand from inches deep. The gem had fallen a few feet away, creating a crater a couple of meters in diameter. Sonic walked over and examined it. It was the fake Chaos Emerald alright, glowing brightly from its trip through the atsmosphere...or was it something else that made it glow so brightly?

Reacting before thinking, Sonic picked up the emerald, and brought it up to his face. It was very hot, too hot and Sonic's hand was burning, he tried to drop it, but found he couldn't, as if his hand were glued to the gem and he heard a familar voice cry out those famous words: Chaos Control!

Sonic's breath caught in his chest, he knew that voice, so very well, but he didn't get a chance to think on it, a golden light surrounded him and he disappeared. Sonic hit the ground and the gem was nowhere to be found. And even if it were there, he couldn't find it in this absurd brightness. He stood up and his eyes met black and red, reasurring in the least. But when his emerald eyes met the ruby-colored ones of the figure in front of him, he gasped.

"S-Shadow?" Sonic stuttered, hands automatically reaching out to touch the other hedgehog's chest, perferably the tuft of white fur there. The figure was warm, it was alive alright, but was it Shadow?

The other hedgehog's composure crumbled slightly, but he did not remove the hand. It had been so long since he had seen anyone here...trapped in the emerald. He smiled. "Yes, its me."

Sonic withdrew his hand, knowing it was kind of stupid to do such a thing. He blushed lightly, "Your not dead?"

"No, I don't think I can die, Sonic." Shadow responded, "You see, I'm trapped here in the chaos emerald...I don't know how long its been since the battle with the prototype..."

"A year." Sonic said hastily, "The anniversary is in two days."

It was Shadow's turn to blush. Sonic had been keeping time since he'd been trapped? He didn't think he was dead at all! Sonic was simply waiting for Shadow to return...to him? Probably not. But that wouldn't have bothered Shadow in the least. Sonic was the main topic on his mind at times when he was trapped up here.

Sonic walked around in the light, "So, how do we get out of this chaos emerald?"

"I've had many ideas, just guesses mostly...but do you have that emerald, the fake one?"

"I had it, but I lost it around here. It was glowing but it is so bright in here, it will be hard to find it..." Sonic trailed off as Shadow pulled the green emerald-the emerald Shadow had with him the first time Sonic had seen him-from behind his back. Sonic sweatdropped, "Where do you keep that?"

Shadow laughed with that deep voice of his, "Its for me to know and for you to find out."

What was that? Some type of welcome? Sonic arched his eyebrows and glanced back at Shadow who was now pointing his emerald somewhere in the space. Among the space, something glowed brighter than the light. Sonic walked over to it. It was the emerald! Somehow the green one was attracting it to the other. Kind of like how Sonic got here...attracted to Shadow. Sonic walked back over to Shadow who seemed happier than he had ever seen him.

This brought up something Sonic wanted to ask, "So all those foregin feelings--they were yours?"

Shadow nodded, "And I was feeling yours. You never gave up, I never gave up. I didn't know what you were so dedicated to, until now." There was a silence, then Shadow started talking again. "Now, I guess we do Chaos Control and our combined powers of going super should be powerfuller than the Emerald's hold over us."

"Then what?"

"We see what happens."

Both hedgehogs got a tight hold on their emeralds, yelled "Chaos Control" and waited a second, bringing all their strength up, through their bodies, being turned super. A dark crack appeared far off as the familar feeling of being connected washed over Shadow and Sonic.

"Its working!" Shadow said, relieved.

Sonic nodded and went back to concentrating on breaking the emerald. It was like using all your power to shake up a can of pop and forcing the metal container itself to open, the aluminum bending in a way nothing should bend. Their power was increasing by the minute. Shadow's need to get the hell out of there and Sonic's need to see Shadow free overwhelmed the power of the chaos emeralds. The cracks in the light became more frequent and multiplied in number until the light escaped, let the darkness of night in and the sounds of the ocean wash over both beings.

Finally, when the force was gone for good, both hedgehogs were forced apart, Sonic landing in a shrub bush on the sandy beach and Shadow onto the shore, where tiny waves hit his unmoving body. The shatters of both chaos emeralds suddenly dimmed and turned black and cold, looking like dark, smokey, unliving coals.

Sonic sat there for a second, staring up at the sky as the gold swept off his body by the wind, sending the golden particles up into the air, looking like millions of stars that suddenly died.

End of Chapter Two

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Well, that was...woah. If I don't get a review for this then I'm a Chao.