You know what this is retarded! Why in the hell do we put up these disclaimers huh! I mean DAMN it's quite obvious that I don't own any Sega characters. Ya like one day the people who make the story lines to sonic games are really gonna' post a story here! Come on man (sigh) I don't own Sonic and Co its owned by SEGA! All characters that you don't recognize are mine. (Mumbles)

OK I have a couple of shout outs!

Thank you Emeraldlinx for: The inspiration (Read her untitled story! ITS UNTITLED! BUT ITS STILL GOOD [wink]

Shade14 for: Telling me about (Read his story too! its kinda' freaky, but its good too)

And all the people who even read this story! (Must be really hard for you guys!)

OK that's it! Next chapter..................... What? Go on! read it!

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18 years later

The computer came on in the old rusty laboratory showing Talis's face on it. As soon as this happened the same emergency lights came on when Amy closed the laboratory entrance door, but blinking a lot more dimmer than it was before almost like it was about to use the last of its energy. On the face of the computer there was flashing red and blue word that read " Awaking ". Suddenly the floor that concealed the two chambers that kept Sonic and Shadow started opening up. The sound that the doors were making was horrible. They squeaked and screeched as it fully opened. Now the two chambers started to ascend from the secret room making a soft engine sound as it came up. When they reached the upper level, the floor doors creaked to a close again. Then the two chambers slowly starting moving to a standing position. At this point Sonic and Shadow could be seen through the glass. Sonic was smiling and was sleeping peacefully, as well was Shadow. The chambers were still had that glowing look, (Shadow's was red. Sonic's was blue.) but were slowly dimming down. As soon as the chambers stopped glowing, the computer beeped a couple of times now reading "Unleashing Gas". Sonic's chamber filled with a misty white gas then immediately shot through his nostrils and mouth. Sonic started to twitch a little as he took deep breaths, sucking the gas in his lungs. When all the gas was breathed in, Sonic's eyes quickly flipped open.

Sonic looked around in the chamber with a worried expression on his face while he gasped loudly, as if he needed some air. He pressed on the chamber's door lightly. A sound was heard and he cocked his head back and closed his eyes thinking that he was going to be harmed some way, but that was not the case. Sonic opened his eyes again to realize that the door he was in slowly opening up, releasing him from his confinement. Sonic stepped out and stumbled a bit, but after a few seconds he was able to stand though he felt like he was using all his strength just to stand up. Eventually, he fell to his knees still gasping like he was just hit in his stomach.

"We- were am I........." Sonic said to himself. As he looked around getting a glimpse of the area he was in every so often when the red lights came on. He looked behind him to see that Shadow was in another chamber. Sonic eyes widened in surprise as he slowly got up from the floor again, but it was a failed attempt. He felt a shot of agonizing pain in his legs. He was again back on his knees. Sonic shook his head a little bit trying to convince himself that the pain wasn't there and is was all in his head. He got up again then fell back down on the floor hitting his hip in the process. Sonic screamed in rage mixed with the confusion and anger. Sonic gritted his teeth and started crawling like an innocent baby toward Shadow's chamber who was slowly waking up as he breathed in the gas. Even crawling hurt Sonic although it wasn't as bad as standing up.

When he reached were Shadow was he slowly picked himself up with the help of the chamber its self. He looked in the glass to see Shadow eyes slowly opening up. Shadow looked back and forth frantically then his eyes met with Sonic's who was just struggling to stand up. He yelled in surprise then pushed on the door with all his strength. He hit the rusted door to the side then it snapped off making a loud clang as it hit the steel floor. Sonic was hit back and landed hard on his back feeling even more pain than before. Shadow stumbled out the chamber then fell to the ground with a thud casing the floor to vibrate a little. He flipped himself over to his back breathing heavily. Then Shadow smelled a foul odor in the air. He looked to his left side to see that he was next to a skeleton. It had some skin on it but not a lot. It also had some ripped pink clothes on that were stained with blood. Shadow yelled in fear as he rolled of over a couple of times to get away from it. Not paying any attention, he bumped into Sonic. They both looked at each other in confusion.

"WOULD YOU HAPPEN TO KNOW WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!" They both said simultaneously.

They both looked up to see the computer that said still read "Unleashing Gas". Then the computer beeped a couple of times. It then shut off and came back on with a white screen came on that read "Click Me". Sonic, still looking up moved his glance to the left to see the mouse dangling from the desk. Sonic scooted his body down a bit until he was able to reach the mouse. Shadow watched him at first with a confused look, but soon realized what he was doing and monitored the monitor to see if there were any changes.

Sonic clicked the mouse.

"Hey Shadow anything happen?" Sonic said putting head back to see Shadow's face.

"Yeah something is going on. Come back here." Shadow answered.

Sonic again scooted himself until he was back at the same spot he was in and looked at the computer screen. It now read "Loading". Sonic and Shadow stared at the computer to see that Tails had popped up. The screen was very fuzzy and it crackled a lot. "Tails!" Sonic said with a surprised look, seeing how badly his best friend was beaten up.

Tails then began to talk: "Hi Sonic...... by the time you read this I will be long dead."

Sonic eyes widened and a tear went down his cheek. Shadow closed his eyes and looked the other way.

"Yeah I know that you guys said No and all, but as a last minute resort we put you in the chambers anyway." Tails said with a weak smile.

Tails then looked down in sadness.

"Sonic............ Amy is dead also. She used the last bit of her life to get you here and helped put you and Shadow in the life chambers. She truly did love you Sonic. You should have seen her, she was like a different person for like five minutes.

More tears went down Sonic's face and as for Shadow; he was looking at the skeleton realizing now who it was. He clenched his fist and snapped his head to the computer with tears in his eyes.

Tails picked his head with a stern look.

"Listen to me Sonic! Don't feel bad because we made this choice not you. Soon the Metals will be here to take my life. It's all in a matter of time I know that. But you guys can't die! Not yet! There is too much at stake and the people of the future need you. You and Shadow are the only people who can stop Eggman and you guys know that.

My idea is that Knuckles and Rouge might be alive, so I suggest that you both go to Angel Island if it's still there and check it out. Sonic I love you like a brother. In fact You were my brother............ my idol. I'm making this sacrifice for both you and Shadow! Give Eggman hell. You take care of yourself and Shadow............... make sure Sonic doesn't do anything stupid O.K.

Sonic and Shadow smiled. Tails did a military salute and then the computer shut off completely.

Sonic took a deep breath and looked at the ceiling. Shadow had his right hand on his fore head with is eyes closed. Shadow sighed.

"Go ahead Sonic........... Let it all out." Shadow said smoothly feeling his brother's pain.

Rage started building in Sonic. The feeling of anger swept over his body. Then he closed his eyes and yelled throwing it all away. Letting it all out. Shadow felt a spark hit him, with a surprised look, he looked toward Sonic and saw him glowing with sparks surrounding him. The blue chaos emerald appeared out of nowhere. It had exactly the same glow that Sonic had and was spinning rapidly above him as he yelled. Shadow looked horrified as he scooted back from Sonic a little as he watched him going yellow then blue at a rapid pace.

"Is he......... doing what I think he is doing?" Shadow said to himself in amazement.

The chaos emerald stooped spinning and fell to the cold steal floor. The glow it was making went away and he stopped screaming. He stood up and the glow around him slowly fainted away. Shadow looked at him to realize that his marks and scars were gone. Sonic looked at Shadow and then smiled. Suddenly his head snapped over to the chambers. With his head tilted to the right, he slowly walked over to the chambers and looked in the one that Shadow was in. Shadow watched as Sonic looked around in his chamber lifting up an eyebrow. Sonic pulled out the red emerald and tossed it over to where Shadow was. It was about to slide passed him, but he reached out and snatched it. When he did, Shadow felt surges of energy go through his body. He also started glowing like Sonic did, but the glow was red instead of blue.

Sonic crossed his arms and just watched.

Shadow stood up and slowly opened his eyes when they were fully opened the glow fainted away. Shadows scars were also gone now and he felt as if had as much energy as he had when he went into Super Shadow at ARK, but he didn't change or anything like that though. Shadow looked at himself then smirked at Sonic.

"You ready?" Sonic asked with one eyebrow up Shadow.

"Like I never wasn't."

Sonic and Shadow walked over to the entrance door then stopped. Sonic looked behind him to see a skeleton on the floor. He looks at Shadow with a questionable look.

"Hey.......is that?" Sonic asked.

All Shadow did was nod his head. Another tear went down Sonic's cheek as he looked at the skeleton on the floor. He turned his head forward slowly as the tear fell on the floor. Shadow sighed and touched the button that opened the doors up. They opened revealing that it was raining quite hard and lighting slithered through the darkness slightly illuminating were they were. Sonic and Shadow looked back to see the two chaos emeralds on the floor. Shadow snapped his fingers from his left hand as well did Sonic. They both opened up their hands and the chaos emeralds disappeared then reappeared in their right hand (Sonic has the blue one Shadow has the red one) They stepped out in the lighting storm. Getting soaked in the rain, but they didn't care. They were on a mission to bring Eggman down at all cost. This was their promise to their friends...............This was a promise to the world.

Sonic looked to his right to see that there was a city, but it wasn't Station Square. Sonic was able to see Eggman symbols when lighting struck above the city. Sonic made a guess that that was the Eggman's Empire.

"EGGMAN!" Sonic yelled hatefully.

Sonic was about to take off, but he felt a strong hand on his shoulder holding him back.

Sonic turned around grabbed Shadow by his fur and picked him up in the air. Shadow just looked at him with a blank look and started into his eyes. Sonic pupils went back and forth a bit. The he realized what he was doing and put Shadow down. Sonic crossed his arms and looked at the city.

"Sonic that is for another day............ we can't just go barging in WITH OUT KNOWING ANYTHING!" Shadow yelled spitting rain in the process. "We aren't doing this for revenge we are HERE FOR A REASON! NOT JUST TO THROW OUR LIVES AWAY! NOT WHEN THE WORLD NEEDS US!"

Sonic sighed then looked toward Shadow. "I'm sorry........ You're right Shadow."

Shadow stern face went away and he looked forward to see a dessert of old and moldy logs.

"Let's go to Angel Island now! Hopefully, Knuckles and Rouge are still alive................" Shadow exclaimed.

Sonic looked forward.

"Can you feel that Shadow............ The Master Emerald is here, but it's not at that city."

"Yeah I felt it already. That's very good news!" Shadow answered.

"Plus Eggman doesn't have all the emeralds and that's a VERY good thing." Shadow added showing is emerald to Sonic.

There was a little moment of silence.

"Lets go!" Sonic said holding the blue emerald tightly as sparks crackled in the air where he was holding it.

Sonic took off in the opposite direction of the city. A blue streak followed behind him and that was followed by kicked water that flung in the air. Shadow turned his head so he could se the city from his backside. An angry expression came across his face.

"You will pay! I promise you that Dr. Robotnik..................."

With those words, Shadow skated off in the darkness followed by a streak of yellow light.

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One hour earlier, before Shadow and Sonic's Awaking

A young black echidna jumped to tree to tree dodging missiles and lasers that came toward it. On the forest bed were robots that looked a lot like E- 102 just that were all completely black. The echidna had a long jump a head of it, but it thought it could make it all the way to the far tree. The echidna jumped high in the night sky and it seemed to be making the jump however, he looked down to see a giant red laser that was coming directly at it. He back flipped in the air and the laser went past him, slightly hitting his shoes. Though it was able to dodge the laser, the echidna lost his forward momentum and started to decline to the ground below. God news was that he landed on his feat, the bad news was that a gang of robots surrounded him.

"Ok, so you guys wana' play huh." The black echidna said making and X across his chest.

Slowly a spike emerged from his fingerless gloves. When it stopped growing, lighting shot through the sky and it started raining. The echidna quickly moved to the closest robot and stabbed it in the middle with its left hand. Then sliced up with the other hand cutting the robot down the middle. Some oil was on his gray gloves, but the rain washed it away. The echidna looked behind him to see a combination of missiles, bullets, and lasers coming at it.

"OOOOO Shit......"

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Whew! Lots of drama here! Sorry for the delay I will probably post the next chapter in 3-4 days. And ya I know that I have a whole lot of explaining to do. Why is Sonic and Shadow related? What is with the new powers? Well you are going to have ta wait a bit before all that is explained. When I'm done with this story, I'm going to right another one telling about how Shadow got back and how Sonic and Shadow are related. It will be your regular Shadow return fic, but with twist that I think are quite interesting and original. Hey if Star Wars can do the backwards thing then so can I............. R&R