The soul won't die

Disclaimer: I only own the Beta life form. I asked Sonic team for the other characters, but they shouted at me in Japanese and threw me out a window.

Amy looked around. Where was she? It looked like nothingness. A girl walked towards Amy. She looked older than Amy. She was a human with blond hair, blue top and a white skirt. She stopped a small distance away from Amy.

"Hello Amy, do you know who I am?" Amy looked closely at the girl.

"Barbie?" Amy replied.

"What? No, I am Maria. Shadow's first ever friend." Amy remembered the name, but where? Then it hit her, she was Gerald's niece who died on the A.R.K.

"You're dead!" Maria nodded.

"I live on in your soul." Amy raised an eyebrow.

"This is a dream then." Amy rolled her eyes. Great.

"It may just be a dream, but I have important things to tell you about Shadow." Amy folded her arms, she was sceptical. "Ha, Shadow use to do that. You are right for him." Amy felt her cheeks burn up slightly. Why did they do that? "Anyway, it may seem Shadow is gone forever thanks to the G.U.N experiments, but they could never fully erase his soul. You have to fight for Shadow." Amy didn't say anything for a while, but eventually said something.

"Shadow tried to kill me, he seems long gone to me. Besides, I don't know where he and the G.U.N base are." Amy felt a tear leave her eye. It may have only been two days since she found out Shadow loved her, but somehow she had grown very close to him.

"His soul is still there. For example, he told the Beta life form that you're dead." Suddenly Maria faded away. Amy looked around until suddenly her eyes opened. She was in a hospital. Amy got out of her bed and looked around. She then noticed that she wasn't alone. Cream ran up to her and gave her a hug. Cheese flew aimlessly near by. Amy pushed Cream off and moved to the door.

"Amy, where are you going?" Cream asked. Amy turned around to face Cream.

"I need to save my Shadow." Amy replied. Cream looked at her own feet worried.

"But Amy, we don't know where he is and he tried to kill you!" Amy smiled slightly.

"We can solve both those problems." Cream looked confused.

"How?" Amy walked towards a window and looked out of it. She looked out into the midday, the earth tanned in sunlight. Amy turned around to Cream.

"He'll be on T.V soon." Cream remained looking confused. "G.U.N may be a secret military organisation, but Shadow and the Beta life form are such show offs that they care not about keeping G.U.N secret." Cream agreed.

"So we are just going to check the news all the time?" Amy smiled again.

"You are." and with that, she ran out of the hospital. Cream looked as Amy ran off. She is becoming more like Shadow all the time.

Ultra Metal Sonic watched the pathetic struggling of his enemy. Hyper Sonic wiggled helplessly in mid air. Ultra Metal Sonic could feel it. The end of Sonic was so close...

"Someone else..." Ultra Metal Sonic muttered. He looked around. Suddenly Ultra Metal Sonic stretched a arm out. From the direction it pointed a purple weasel wearing a cowboy hat was dragged by an invisible force. The weasel dangled next to Hyper Sonic. Ultra Metal Sonic scanned him. "Nack the weasel, A.K.A Fang the sniper. I believe you want my emeralds to sell?" Nack nodded helplessly. Ultra Metal Sonic continued. "How did you find out about them?" Ultra Metal Sonic let Nack drop so he could talk. Nack breathed in deeply for a minute before replying

"Didn't you know metal boy, you have T.V coverage." Everyone looked up to see a helicopter which until then had been ignored. "I saw Super over there and figured emeralds were afoot." Ultra Metal Sonic ignored the helicopter for the time being and continued to talk to Nack.

"Sonic is currently Hyper, but that's beside the point."

"I'd say he's hyper most the time."

"Focus. I have no quarrel with you, so I'll allow you to go, just do one thing."

"What's that glowy?" Ultra Metal Sonic brought Nack close to his face.

"Tell the world that I want total control, or I'll blow it up." Nack was thrown to the floor.

"Those Physic powers hurt." Nack rubbed his head. Ultra Metal Sonic returned his attention to Hyper Sonic. He had stopped moving. Ultra Metal Sonic threw him to the floor.

"Son...mffm..." Ultra Metal Sonic turned to meet the sound. There was nothing around. He turned to Nack.

"Wasn't me, I don't know any Sonmffm." Stupid weasel. Ultra Metal Sonic scanned the area. Nothing. He saw the dirt move. Ultra Metal Sonic rose his arm. Many earthworms, a beetle, Knuckles and Rouge came flying out of the ground. Nack saw Rouge and smiled to himself. He pushed his cowboy hat back a tad and walked up to her. "Well hello, I think you'll find I'm allot better looking than anything you'll find down there." Nack distinctly glanced at Knuckles for a second while letting his line fly. Ultra Metal Sonic laughed.

"You amuse me Nack. Tell you what. I will like to hire your services." Nack's ear pricked. He turned around.

"How's that?"

"I can make you unlimited replicas of the Chaos emeralds. I want you to steal these for me." Ultra Metal Sonic threw a piece of paper at Nack. Nack looked at it. Nack nodded.

"Yeah, I saw these two when robbing one of Eggman's old bases." From above in the broken flying base came Eggman's voice.

"What? You ransack my deserted bases?" How'd he hear thought Nack.

"Well, you leave valuables all over the place." Eggman grumbled something. Nack turned back to Ultra Metal Sonic. "Right metal boy, I'll be back with these two soon. I suspect my payment on return." Ultra Metal Sonic nodded. Nack walked off, briefly turning to Rouge. "Still be here when I come back." He winked and ran. Ultra Metal Sonic returned his attention to the matter at hand.

"Rouge and Knuckles. Here to save Sonic, or were you attracted by the emeralds like Nack?" Knuckles tried to move, but to no prevail. "Not that it matters anymore. Your choice to oppose me shall lead you the path Sonic took. None shall appose the power that is ultra."

Shadow sat alone in his room in the G.U.N base. four white walls, nothing more. He held his head in his hands. Why didn't he kill her? Why did he lie to save her life. Shadow lied down on the floor. Nothing made sense anymore. The Beta life form opened the door. He walked in. He looked at Shadow with a sufficient amount of hate.

"Come Shadow, we have a mission." Shadow got to his feet.

"We? Do I have to always work with you?"

"We've got to make sure you don't go emotional on us." The Beta life form sneered. Why couldn't they just let him finish Shadow off. Stupid humans. The Beta life form lead Shadow to a T.V monitor. On it was a fairly blurry picture of some sort of light with a red guy and something else.

"Tele broken?" The Beta life form glanced at Shadow angrily.

"No. The news doesn't seem to give a good picture. We have been asked to give this fight a happy ending." Shadow looked at the T.V for a minute.

"Who's fighting?" Shadow couldn't make anyone out.

"Some yellow hedgehog like characters. All I know is G.U.N would like them, probably to perform the same experiment on them as they did you." The Beta life form walked towards the docking bay. "I'm driving the fighter jet, by the way." Shadow followed behind. He didn't really care. He wanted to know why he couldn't kill Amy Rose more than pilot a jet. Maybe the test wasn't entirely successful. No, he felt nothing for her, he thought he didn't anyway. "Shadow! stop dawdling." Shadow caught up with the Beta life form. The Beta life form sighed. Why didn't they just kill Shadow and delete any possibility of him betraying G.U.N? If those were his orders the Beta life form who'd be recognised as the ultimate weapon he is. Sometimes he felt all decisions made around here were just to annoy him. The Beta life form and Shadow entered the jet's cockpit. The Beta life form took the pilots seat and engaged lift off. The jet flied off almost instantly. It left the docking bay and turned left. The scenery around it was a blur. The Beta life form flied with the skill of Tails. He moved a lever and the Jet went to maximum speed. Shadow sat in the back, wondering over the mystery of his mercy, caring not what was happening. Shadow was confused, it just didn't make sense. Shadow made a promise to himself. Next time they met, he would not show any mercy.

Sonic lay still, no longer Hyper. He just lay, not moving, not breathing, not living. It seemed over for Sonic. Therefore it was over for everyone else, how could anyone hope to destroy a beast which whipped the floor with Hyper Sonic as if he was a dish cloth. Knuckles and Rouge levitated in front of Ultra Metal Sonic, suffering the same fate as Sonic. On Eggman's flying base Eggman and Tails watched on, no plan of action. Tails was in tears.

"Son...Soni..." Eggman walked over to a near by door.

"Tails, remember when I took Sonic to see something." Tails nodded. Eggman smiled slightly.

"Well I went to show him the machine I made Shadow clones with." Eggman's smile widened.

"So, why should I care." Eggman opened the door.

"Well we both thought it stupid to send the one and only Sonic in a place containing a machine now more powerful than Hyper Sonic himself." Tails looked at the door. He also smiled. The element of surprise was back on there side. Tails looked back down onto the land to the dead Sonic, the dead hedgehog, the dead clone.