All hope gone

Disclaimer: Sega own everyone except 'the Beta life form'. Ditto for Sonic team, but you already knew that.

Amy couldn't stop the tears flowing. Cream was next to her for comfort, but she was of no help. Amy didn't know what to do. Shadow had been kidnapped by a military organisation and the strongest creature alive and been taken to an unknown location. The only person to ever love her, gone. Cream stroked Amy's head sympathetically. Poor Amy. Cream didn't know what to do or say, so she just sat there. Amy whipped away some tears. Crying wasn't helping, she needed to do something, but what? Amy started crying again. Her heart ached so much she couldn't think for more than half a minute without falling into tears. Cream decided to make Amy some hot chocolate. Cheese followed behind her. Amy couldn't get Shadow back and she knew it. A knock came at her door. Cream went to answer it. She opened the door to see...

"Shadow!" Cream cried. Amy instantly stopped crying and ran to the door. It was Shadow! Amy hugged Shadow.

"I can't believe it, how did you escape?" Amy realised something, Shadow felt different, colder? emptier? Amy noticed something in the corner of her eye. Leaning on a wall was the Beta life form. Amy gasped. "Why is here?" The Beta life form didn't look all that happy.

"Shadow is now our experiment. He has lost his soul and has become a efficient killing machine and we thought we'd check the process worked by sending him hear." The Beta life form muttered. He defiantly was annoyed. "Why they had to do this when they have me is beyond my knowledge." Amy looked up at Shadow. His eyes showed no love. They pierced into her soul. Amy stepped backwards. The Beta life form smiled slightly. "Shadow, kill the pink one." Shadow punched Amy. She went flying into a wall. Amy couldn't believe what just happened. Shadow went running at Amy. Amy didn't know what to do, she dodged him, he kicked her over. Amy lay on the floor as Shadow towered over her. Shadow rose his fist. Shadow was hit hard by a flying ball of blue. Cream had fired Cheese at him. The Beta life form knocked Cream to the floor. "No audience participation." The Beta life form showed no disgust at the fact he had just knocked a six year old girl down. A weapon cares not who it hurt. Amy dodged Shadows attacks as best she could.

"Shadow, please, remember me! What I mean to you, what you mean to me." The Beta life form found amusement in that statement.

"He hasn't forgot you, we've just removed his feelings for you. The strongest thing he feels is a loyalty to G.U.N." Shadow knocked Amy over again. He rose his fist again, this time Cream and Cheese were down. Shadow smiled.

"Goodbye Rose." Amy breathed heavily. She needed a idea fast! Maybe if she could remind Shadow of his soul... Amy grabbed Shadow's head and kissed his lips. Shadow pushed her off. "It doesn't work like that." He snarled. The fist came down. The Beta life form grabbed Shadow's arm.

"G.U.N doesn't want us killing her, just testing you." Amy sighed in relief. "On the other hand, I don't really care, so just so you know, you're taking the blame for her death. The Beta life form took his hand away. Shadow looked at him.

"That was an unnecessary distraction." The Beta life form smiled.

"I know, I just like to annoy you." Shadow turned his attention back to Amy. He threw his fist at her again. Shadow hit Amy in the fore-head hard, so hard a dent was made. Shadow checked her pulse.

"I think... she's... dead." Shadow stopped checking around the pulse and stood up. "What shall we do with Cream and the Chao?" The Beta life form looked down at them.

"Your call." Shadow made for the exit.

"G.U.N won't be happy if we killed two people." Shadow and the Beta life form left. Cream managed to pick herself up. She walked over to Amy's body. She listened to Amy's heart. There was still a beating.

Eggman gave Sonic the Egg nova bomb. Metal Sonic may have already used the fake emeralds power, but if they destroyed the emeralds his power would run out. Sonic looked at the map of Metal Sonic's base Eggman had made, when he realised something.

"So, Egg head, how do we get to Metal's base?" Eggman looked at Sonic confused for a minute, then realised he had left something out.

"Oh, didn't I tell you? This is a flying base. We are already above Metal's base." Tails looked at Eggman suspiciously.

"How come Metal Sonic hasn't noticed the base?"

"I have a clocking device active." Eggman replied. Sonic stopped playing with the bomb and looked at Eggman.

"You mean the one which only lasts a few minutes?"

"Oh yeah." Suddenly the base shock. A huge crack crept from between Eggman and Sonic, up the wall, then the ceiling. The base broke open as Ultra Metal Sonic watched. He flew in front of Sonic, knocking him flying without even making contact. Ultra Metal Sonic's pure white, glowing body span around once, as he analysed the environment. Three life forms: Sonic, Tails and Eggman, countless Eggman based machinery. No match for him now, as if anything is. Ultra Metal Sonic lifted both his hands upwards. All the robots in the ship suddenly went flying into the ceiling, where they exploded. Everyone watched as Ultra Metal Sonic showed off his power. Sonic ran at him, he jumped at him. Sonic landed next to Eggman. What the? He had gone straight through him! Ultra Metal Sonic laughed.

"All kneel before me!" Ultra Metal Sonic shouted. Sonic, Tails and Eggman were knocked backwards by a unknown cause. "How does it feel, Sonic, to know you have lost all hope?" Sonic jumped to his feet. Ultra Metal Sonic laughed. "Nowhere to run." Ultra Metal Sonic flied at Sonic and punched him. On contact Sonic flied backward. (That's happening allot!) Eggman was staring at Sonic in disbelief. Sonic looked at himself, he was yellow? How did he become Super? "Hmm... It seems I'm so overflowing with power it is sipping out of me, so on actual contact with me a person's Super form is activated. Doesn't matter." Super Sonic flied at Ultra Metal Sonic. He punched him in the face. The fist went through Ultra Metal Sonic's face. Ultra Metal Sonic tossed Super Sonic out of the area between the two parts of Eggman's base. Super Sonic stopped himself above the sea. Ultra Metal Sonic punched Super Sonic's chest. Super Sonic grabbed his chest in pain. Ultra Metal Sonic then punched Super Sonic in the face. Super Sonic, knocked off balance, flipped backwards. Blood came out of his nose. What? Sonic had never bled in Super form. Super Sonic whipped the blood away. Ultra Metal Sonic tossed him onto the ground now below them. Super Sonic hit the ground, making a hole similar to that a comet would make. Super Sonic saw Ultra Metal Sonic looking down on him like a second sun. Ultra Metal Sonic flied down at Super Sonic. Super Sonic got an idea. He dodged Ultra Metal Sonic's charge. Super Sonic punched him, once again his hand went through. Super Sonic then put his entire body inside Ultra Metal Sonic. Ultra Metal Sonic pushed Super Sonic out. Super Sonic had took more of his power and was now Hyper Sonic. Ultra Metal Sonic punched him backwards. Despite Hyper Sonic stealing his energy, he was gaining new energy from the emeralds, therefore he was not getting any less powerful. Hyper Sonic Looked at Ultra Metal Sonic. He still couldn't defeat it. Hyper Sonic charged at Metal Sonic's base. He could at least blow up the emeralds. A unknown force suddenly grabbed Hyper Sonic by the neck. Ultra Metal Sonic was using some sort of physic power. Ultra Metal Sonic pulled Hyper Sonic near. "Your pathetic attempt is over." Sonic felt air escaping his body. "Eggman was a fool to think you could defeat me with a single bomb." Tails and Eggman looked down at the battle. Hyper Sonic and Ultra Metal Sonic were only blobs to them, but they could still tell who was winning. Ultra Metal Sonic pulled Hyper Sonic closer, so there noses were almost touching. "I am the real Sonic."

It was black. Very black. Knuckles couldn't see anything. He stumbled through the cave he had ended up in. Maybe he should have asked for more percise directions from Chaos than the ones given. He heard water above his head. He was under the sea bed. Knuckles heard a noise behind him. Knuckles grabbed someone, it was to dark to tell who.

"Calm down sugar" the person said. Knuckles groaned.

"Rouge, why are you here?" Knuckles released her.

"I saw what Chaos was showing you, all those emeralds..." Rouge drifted off into a day dream or something. Knuckles continued forwards.

"Why am I not surprised?" The pair continued to walk on in silence. Knuckles then broke the silence. "You're not going to start with the love stuff again, are you?"

"No. You'll admit your feelings in time." Knuckles stopped.

"LIES! I AM A LONER! I CRAVE NO LOVE!" Knuckles' voice echoed through the cave. Rouge began to laugh. Knuckle's blood boiled. "What is so funny!"

"You're just like a little boy, you know, the 'girls are icky' stage of things." Rouge laughed a little more. Knuckles resisted the urge to punch her. Unfortunately there was more. "I mean, I have admitted to liking you, but you still deny your feelings. It is like..." Knuckles lost his temper.

"Fine! I love you! Now shut up!" Rouge stood shocked for a minute. Knuckles continued walking. Rouge snapped out of it and tried to catch up with Knuckles. It was so dark she bumped into him. Knuckles paid no attention. Rouge followed in silence for a while.

"Knuckles..." Rouge didn't know what to say. To be honest she didn't really believe Knuckles loved her and was just trying to annoy him. Rouge grabbed Knuckles shoulder. He stopped moving.

"We have a fake emerald crisis on our hands, can we discuss this later?" He turned around to look at Rouge. Rouge's eyes seemed bigger than normal. Rouge let go of him. Knuckles looked at Rouge for a while, then continued on his path. Rouge followed close behind.

"So once this is over, maybe we could..." Knuckles interrupted Rouge.

"Stay focused." Rouge sighed in despair. Why did Knuckles have to try and drown out his feelings? Knuckles stopped. Rouge couldn't see anything. "I feel some strange energy." Knuckles claimed. Rouge gave him a confused look. Suddenly Knuckles started digging upwards. A gradually growing amount of light came out of the place he was digging. Knuckles popped his head out the gap. He instantly put it back in. He looked at Rouge. "Hyper Sonic is being strangled by a figure made of light."