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The 3 Shadows, Episode 2 - Obsession

Chapter 5 - Gerald holds all the aces

Shadow and Miles woke up inside a prison cell. Shadow felt miserable as he stared at the damp dark walls. Seeing his friend with him and not having a chaos emerald therefore no way out. Miles' Wrist shooters were gone also, so blasting their way out was ruled out too. They had two chances; either Gerald lets them go or Joz saves them. Neither looked likely. Gerald walked to the cells.

"Well well well. My Greatest creation has returned me. I say this of course seeing as how I haven't put G-002 Venus into action yet I find you sneaking about in my base", said Gerald, "Usually the heroes wait for the villian to make their move"

"It's just a coincidence. We came here following the Chaos emerald signals. You have the Grey Emerald do you not?" said Miles.

"Indeed I do. How did you know it was grey? Oh wait you came here with the other 6 didn't you", said Gerald, "So you knew from process of elimination. But back to the matter at hand. You came here to take the emerald, not to stop me. May I ask why?"

"For our third Shadow, Joz. We think he's going through some sort of mental illness created by you no less. The experiment that turned him in the master hunter also made him completely obsessed by Jewels", said Miles.

"It's getting out of hand, we need all 7 gems to cure him of this illness. Well at least that's what we think will happen, we are still unsure", said Shadow, "Please master, we may have had our differences, but for old times sake couldn't you help us?"

"I could, but I wont. I still remember what happened with Mercury. You and I are enemies now. You fight for freedom, I fight for vengance for Maria and the others on Ark", said Gerald.

"Maria never wanted revenge, she wanted happiness", said Shadow.

"Lies! Must be Lies! Maria was brutefully murdered", said Gerald Angrily, "not to mention the lives of my collegues and my lifes work".

Suddenly their debate was cut short as Joz stumbled into the room. He was weaker than usual.

"Gerald! I'm warning you release me friends or else", Joz cried weakly.

"Or else what? Look at you batbrain, you can barely stand", said Gerald.

"I will not let you harm my friends", said Joz, "You did this to me. You gave me my Gemcrazes".

Indeed I did. Not intentionally as you were an experiment. Your gemcrazes are simply a non-important side effect. But enough talk, you are a liability. Both Angel Island and Mercury have shown me that you will do anything to kill me, whereas the other two will not kill needlessly. The truth is I hold all the aces here. You can either decide to let me go with the emeralds, or you could let your friends die. Judging by your appearance this Gemcraze you're having is killing you. If you don't get the emeralds soon you will die. Either your life or theirs will end soon. If I press this button the floor of their cell will retract into the wall to reveal a spike pit. In fact I think I shall. Think fast hunter.

Gerald pressed the button and indeed the floor did retract. Gerald ran off with the emeralds. Joz looked over to Shadow and Miles.

"I'm sorry, but my soul wont let me allow Gerald to escape", said Joz. Everyone looked shocked as Joz ran into Gerald. Fortunately he dropped one of the emeralds as Joz barged into him.

"You stubborn bat! VENUS!" shouted Gerald. And with that a massive machine, still unpainted, blasted through the wall, "Take care of him".

Venus lifted his massive arms and smashed its fist into Joz. The weakened Joz was knocked into a wall near the cell. He struggled to get up as his sunglasses fell to the ground. Miles watched all this as Shadow grabbed the emerald.

"Shadow look at Joz's eyes!" shouted Miles. Shadow grabbed the emerald and turned to see Joz's eyes. His Irises were flashing all the colours of the emeralds (Like Hyper Sonic's fur). But that was the least of his problems, Venus had managed to almost knock out Joz. Although conscious he couldn't get up. Venus raised his arm up high as if to smash Joz in one final attack.

NO! Joz can't move and he'll die if that thing drops onto him. I have to do something.