"There's no way he can still be alive... there's just no way..." Shiaza muttered to herself as she walked down the wooden walkway of the Mystic Ruins. "That... explosion thing... how could he have survived it...? But, wait a second! When I shot that stupid girl... the bullet bounced harmlessly off the capsule! If he had stayed inside it while the Earth had exploded, he could've survived! He could very well be alive after all..."

Shiaza continued walking until she reached the end of the path, and jumped down in front of the waterfall. She sat down near the waterfall and pulled a laptop out of nowhere. It was black with purple markings all over it. She opened it up and logged onto the Internet, clicked on a search, and typed in the following information:

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name: shadow the hedgehog

age: 50 something

birthdate: how the hell should I know?

birthplace: ark

other pointless facts for more hope in finding this stupid creature: very sexy. very sexy indeed.

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Shiaza clicked enter, and the results showed up on the window.

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shadow the hedgehog

50 something

birthdate unknown, birthplace ark

according to Shiaza, an obsessed freak, he's very sexy

notorious thief and terrorist

oh yeah. and he's sexy.

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"Hmm... I wonder if this could be him. Oh well, this guy's the only shot I have at finding Shadow! Now... off to find him..."


In other places, namely the area just beyond the Master Emerald, the echidna girl was walking around nervously, on the lookout for any type of movement. She thought she had heard footsteps, but wasn't sure. She looked behind her and almost screamed as a figure jumped from out of the sky.

"Who are you, and what are you doing here?"

"I... I... I'm Hyacinth (A/P: Hi-uh-sinth)... Hya (A/P: Hi-uh), for short. And I..." she started, then went on to explain the whole story of what had happened, and that she was here to look around the new Earth.

"Well, I don't know whether I can believe your story or not, but as long as you stay away from the Master Emerald, then wander around as much as you want."

"W-who are you...?" Hyacinth asked.

"Knuckles. Guardian of the Master Emerald, and your worst enemy if you mess with it or me. Got it?"

"Uh... right!" she quickly replied, then paused for a second. "Umm... what's a Master Emerald...?"

Knuckles fell over. "It's that big green thing up there!" he yelled, pointing towards the massive emerald.

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Okay!"

Hyacinth started heading back towards the tunnel, but along the way she noticed an opening in the side of the rock. Out of curiosity, she walked into it. When she walked out on the other side, she realized that she was in a volcano. Pieces of rock and dead, burnt trees were scattered everywhere. Suddenly a group of helicopter-looking creatures appeared and started heading towards her.

"EEP!" she yelled, running out of the volcano and all the way back to the train station. "This isn't good... I just got here, and I'm already being threatened by a fellow echidna and almost becoming decapitated..."


"Great, just great. I'm a lost hedgehog. Damnit, where am I?"

"You're in front of City Hall."

"Huh? Who said I'm in front of wha?"

An infamous bat flew down and landed beside the confused hedgehog. "I'm Rouge. And you're in front of City Hall."

"No, I'm Leilani (A/P: Lee-lahn-ee)," the hedgehog replied. Rouge fell over.

"I meant the place you're at is in front of City Hall."

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Alright then! Thanks!"

"Anytime, Le... Lei..."

"Leilani."

"Right. Lieluni. Gotcha," Rouge said as Leilani fell over.

"Hey, can you help me?" another person called out from behind them.

"Uh... sure," Rouge replied as she walked up to the robotic dog.

"Hey Veira (A/P: Veer-uh)," Leilani said.

"Hey... uh... hedgehog person!" the robot replied, then turned to face Rouge. "Uh... why aren't there any others like me? I mean, there aren't any other... robots here..."

"Oh, well most of them are created and controlled by Eggman. You're not one of his?"

"Well, I don't know..."

"Oh. Okay, well, Eggman's ship is still grounded. You can get there from the boat landing near the hotel that was conveniently set up to travel there," Rouge explained.

"Okay then. Thanks, bat lady!"

"It's bat girl! I mean Rouge!"


Veira walked onboard Eggman's ship. She had found the boat landing and took it to the huge wreck. She took the monorail to the inside and looked around. Everywhere were robots. A strange, orange robot walked across in front of her, singing and dancing.

"I'M A LITTLE MUFFIN, SHORT AND SWEET! HERE IS MY GUN, AND HERE ARE MY FEET! WHEN YOU UPSET EGGMAN, YOU HEAR ME OUT! I'LLSHOOTYOUWITHMYLASERANDYOU'LLBEDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAD!"

Veira sweatdropped. "Uhhh... okaaaaaaaay..."

"Doesn't Eggman think about anything but food?!"

"WAH!" Veira shouted as she turned around to see Sonic standing behind her. "Who're you?"

"I'm Sonic! Sonic the-"

Stupid-ass fake rodent who needs to get a life.

"HEY! NOBODY ASKED YOU!"

I did. So shut up.

"Hmph."

"Ah! I see I have visitors!"

Sonic and Veira looked up to see a fat-ass man coming down in the spinny elevator thingy.

"I SWEAR, IF ONE MORE AUTHOR CALLS ME FAT, I'LL... I'LL... uh... I'll... I'LL TURN YOU INTO A MUFFIN!"

The same orange robot as before suddenly entered the room, dancing across the floor. "I'M A LITTLE MUFFIN, SHORT AND SWE-"

"ENOUGH WITH THE MUFFIN CRAP ALREADY!" Sonic yelled as he knocked the robot out with a homing attack. "EGGMAN!"

"Yes?"

"Huh? Oh, nothing. It's just that usually when we meet, I yell out your name for no apparent reason."

"Oh, okay then."

Crickets began chirping in the background. Sonic was sitting on the floor, polishing his non-existent fingernails, while Eggman was looking in a mirror and fixing his mustache. One of the crickets pulled a suitcase out of nowhere, put a hat on, and walked out.

"HEY!" Veira yelled.

"WHAT?!" the fat guy and the stupid rodent yelled. "Stupid author..."

"SHOULDN'T YOU BE FIGHTING OR INSULTING OR SOMETHING?!"

"Yeah... you're right..." Sonic said, as he looked at Eggman, both grinning slyly.

"GET THE AUTHOR!"

O.O!

Eggman and Sonic run towards the computer screen and smash into it

MWAHAHAHAHAAAAA! YOU CANNOT DEFEAT ME!

"We have an evil, freaky bitch for an author, Eggass," Sonic said.

"Yes, we sure do, stupid hedgehog. She keeps on insulting us."

"I know, you fat egghead! When will she stop?"

"Who knows? Of course, you ARE a stupid rodent," Eggman said.

"And you ARE fat, after all," Sonic pointed out. The two stared at each other for a few seconds, then ran up and started beating the crap out of each other.

"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME, FATASS?!" Sonic yelled, attacking Eggman's head.

"YOU'RE SUCH A LOUSY STINKIN' VARMINT!" Eggman replied as he sat on top of Sonic, squishing him flat. "I win!"

The two stupid guys continued to beat the crap out of each other as Veira sweatdropped and stepped back away from them.

"...Maybe I'll just wait over here..."