All copyright stuff is in Chapter 1. Diamond the Rabbit, GASH, and the deadly gems are new 3 Shadows features that are all copyright me.

The 3 Shadows, Episode 3 - Miles' Tail

Chapter 10 - The timer runs out

Gerald started to panic. He saw no way of getting out of this mess. He had to knock out Joz and Miles, which hopefully will allow him to draw out Shadow. Wait a minute, I could just take out Shadow. Gerald smashed the walls preventing him getting into the corridor where Shadow was hiding.

"I found you Shadow", said Gerald, "Get a load of this".

Gerald pressed a button and Mars fired loads of missiles at Shadow. They hit into Shadow and exploded.

"No! Shadow!" Shouted Miles running to inspect the damage.

"Miles wait…" said Joz. Miles reached the corridor to find nothing but Mars preparing an attack. It lifted its huge fist and smashed it straight down from above Miles. Joz, using the jet wing, picked up Miles and escaped in the nick of time.

"Have you fogotten Shadow's signature move?" asked Joz. Miles who had been crying suddenly smiled.

"Duh! How could I forget?" said Miles smacking his forehead. Joz brought them back to the centre of the main hall. They began laughing as Mars entered the main room again.

"Why are you laughing? I just killed Shadow. Your plan failed", said Gerald angrily.

"We're laughing at how pathetic your Mars is", said Joz, "Now bring it on!"

"With pleasure", said Gerald, "I'll teach you to laugh at my machines".

A couple of minutes passed with Joz and Miles avoiding all of Mars' attacks. 1 minutes remained and Gerald head almost burst with rage. He then remembered without Shadow in the way he could escape the palace.

"Well it's been fun, but you have only a minute to escape my palace", said Gerald, "So long". Mars headed for the ceiling again but just as it was about to reach it, it suddenly warped back to the ground again.

"But this, this is impossible. Shadow's dead. How did I end up back here?" asked Gerald in confusion. He tried again and found himself on the ground again. 30 second remained and he tried again but still he was brought to the ground.

15 seconds on the clock and Shadow appeared and stood in between Joz and Miles. Joz and Miles placed a hand each on his shoulders as Shadow grabbed his emerald.

"Ready guys?" asked Shadow.

"Ready!" both said at once.

"Well it's been fun Gerald but it's time to go", said Shadow.

3 seconds remained and Gerald looked in horror as the 3 Shadows warped out of his palace. He pressed buttons wildly to try and escape but he could just reach the roof as the timer reached zero.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Screamed Gerald as his beloved palace began to explode.

Meanwhile, at a safe distance the 3 Shadows appeared from Chaos control. The horizion blazed with the numerous large explosions of the Palace self-destruct. They watched it for a while then turned round to see Diamond waiting for them.

"Nice work, I'm somewhat impressed", said Diamond.

"Hey you weren't bad yourself. We could use someone like you", said Miles.

"What? Become a Shadow? Ha! This was really just a test, to see if you were indeed as strong as you reputation implies", said Diamond, "I'm a Deadly Gem and I always will be. Oh and Don't worry, you'll see the others and me pretty soon. For now just enjoy your victory"

Diamond flew off leaving the 3 Shadows a little confused. After a while they just turned to the fire lighting up the night sky.

"Do you think he survived?" asked Miles.

"We thought he died last time but he came back", said Joz.

"Just like in the Comics. No matter what happens the bad guy always comes back", said Miles. Joz groaned then laughed.

"I hope the world doesn't judge us to harshly on how we behaved", said Miles.

"Don't worry we'll tell them the truth soon enough. I reckon we should head back home though and get a well deserved rest", said Joz.

"Yeah especially you. If Diamond is right you have a great deal of fighting coming up", said Shadow, "I hope you can handle the Deadly gems"

"Don't worry, they don't call me Master hunter for nothing you know", said Joz. With that the 3 got up and headed back to Joz's mansion. A little worried of what lay ahead of them.

THE END.