Ehehe I'm sooorrry! I know its been forever since I updated…ya well I had left for vacation a while back and when I got back it was school time so really I haven't had much of a chance to work on it, but it's here now so here you go! Oh ya, ty for all the kind reviews and yesh this is an AU ficlet. ^^''

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            The train hummed as it streaked across a section of some ocean that Shadow knew nothing of. He was the only one in his car so at least he didn't have to worry about any of Eggman's dirty tricks, even if the old mad doctor hadn't seen him, one could never be to careful. In a way he was glad that Eggman had shown up and started up his normal antics, it gave him something else to do and think about other then a certain cerulean blue hedgehog.

Try as he might, Shadow just couldn't figure out why he thought Sonic was cute. Hell he still couldn't even figure out why in the world Sonic was even being friendly. A small tiny voice inside him answered it from him. He and Sonic both had been given a second chance to start over. That still didn't mean that Sonic felt the same way that Shadow felt for him though. It was ironic maybe but Shadow believed in fate, even if it dealt him a bad card sometimes. He would trust things to fate on the matter of things between him and Sonic.

"Now arriving at the Ancient Ruins! All out!" The car doors opened and the conductor's voice brought Shadow back to reality.

Getting up Shadow stretched and allowed a small smirk to cross his features as he got off the train and took his first good look of the area.

"Well I suppose it's time to do some work."

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Sonic was running at top speed where he and Shadow had last seen Tail's plane. He didn't know if Tails was hurt or not so every second could count. He wondered what in the world had caused Tails to crash in the first place; he was one of the best pilots that Sonic knew of. He jumped and neatly landed on a wooden peer. He ran, never slowing down, even when he heard wood splinter behind him.

"What in the hell??!!" A quick glance behind him and Sonic was surprised.

Behind him was a blue back whale, a big one at that. It didn't really look like he was in much of a really good mood either. The giant beast was throwing all of its weight in front of it to gain speed as it chased after him. Sonic sweat dropped; today just wasn't his day! It looked like this whale thought he was tuna or something.

"So you wanna race do you? Alright then, catch me if you can!" Sonic yelled without looking back.

Just as he treated most situations in his life, Sonic looked at this as a race that he couldn't afford to lose. When he looked at things like that it made him work harder and put so much more into reaching the goal. This time though Sonic really couldn't afford to lose, Tails was still out there somewhere on the island and there was the possibility that he was hurt. Sonic noticed that the peer ended up ahead. With a devil may care grin on his face Sonic threw himself into the air and landed on another peer.

The whale must have decided that he was well worth the effort because it was still fast behind him and every now and then the creature would get closer then Sonic would have preferred. Yet at the last moment the blue hedgehog would move himself out of harms way. This went on for a few minutes until finally Sonic had reached the end of the peer. For a final time Sonic leapt into the air and ended up face first in pearly white sand. Knowing that it had lost its meal for today the whale blew up some water angrily and then swam away.

"What in the hell was that thing's problem anyways?!" Sonic grumbled as he spat out sand and shook it off his quills and such.

Without wasting anymore time he went all the way down the beach. He knew that he was getting closer to Tails due to all the smoke in the air and the thick smell of oil burning. Falling into an easy sprint Sonic quickly reached the small mound where he caught sight of his furry friend. At first glance it looked like Tails' was unconscious but after a moment Sonic saw his blue eyes flutter open. It looked like the worst injury that he had suffered was perhaps a headache. Sonic managed to suppress the chuckle that was welling up inside of him but he allowed a smirk to slip and appear on his face. He walked over to Tails' and offered his hand. For a moment Tails looked confused but when he looked up recognition lit his eyes.

"Sonic!" Tails happily cried as he allowed Sonic to help pull him up.

"Hey there little Buddy, you alright? Nothin broken?" Sonic asked worriedly.

"Nah, I'm fine really. But what are you doing here?" Tails shook his head and dusted off any remaining sand that was on him.

"Why don't we just go back to the hotel I'm staying at? No sense in frying after all." Sonic didn't know how he was going to explain Shadow being here with him; he only hoped that Tails would understand and trust his feelings on the matter.

"Sounds like a plan to me, lets go!" Tails broke into his thoughts.

With a nod from Sonic the two set out heading back for the city. Sonic hoped that Shadow hadn't gotten worried about him and decided to go look for him on his own. It wouldn't do much good seeing how Shadow didn't know the layout of the city or the surrounding areas. For some reason though, he felt something stir at the bottom of his stomach at the thought of Shadow worrying over him. It would do no good to encourage these feelings he had for Shadow, after all the black hedgehog didn't have any feelings for him. Right?