Ultimate Life Forms

A/N: Wow.This is kinda sudden.Seems like I'm dealing with a sudden bout of insomnia.That's good for my readers though! As that means that I suddenly have time to write this chapter and update my poor neglected fic.. ~sniff~ Poor fic!

Shadow was a little taken aback by Tail's sudden reversal in mood. He'd went to sleep a shivering sodden ball of fur and woken up bright and chipper immediately heading towards his work station to futz around with Knuckles Emerald Radar. He'd muttered an explanation as to how Sonic was alive. Shadow merely sat down in a chair at the corner of the workshop and thought about his previous encounters with the blue blur.

Knuckles tucked the covers more securely around Sonic's body. It seemed to be shivering now and then which considering Knuckles had considered it an inert and cold body mere hours ago was a strange sight indeed.

Knuckles was about to sit back in a chair that he'd brought into the room that Sonic was resting in. The room was part of a small out of the way cave that Knuckles had dug to live in before he knew of his duty as Guardian of the Master Emerald. He now used it as a place to stay when Angel Island floated through rough weather.

Anywho..

Knuckles was about to sit down in the chair when he heard the noise of the global satellite phone ringing in the next room. He got up and answered it.

"Hello?" He answered the word sounding rougher than he'd meant it too. But it had been a trying day.

"Knuckles! You've got to help me! Amy is in some kind of shock and there was this green hedgehog and crystals! Oh Knuckles help!"

Knuckles almost dropped the phone as his ears rang due to the high pitched tone of the hysterical white bat.

"Alright! I'll get there as fast as I can!" He said. He listened to the thank you that Rouge blubbered out with half an ear as he formulated a plan for getting to.

"Rouge! Where are you?" Knuckles almost slapped himself on the head for not asking that particular question first.

"I'm at South Port Mall! Hurry Knuckles I don't know what to do about any of this!"

Knuckles again said he'd be there as soon as possible and hung up the phone placing it back on its cradle.

Shadow was surprised when Knuckles burst into the room and asked him if he knew where South Port Mall was.

"Yeah.I think I remember seeing it when I was last here." Shadow answered. "Why do you want to know that for?"

Knuckles shook his head and grabbed Shadow by the arm hurrying him out of the room where Tails was still bent over his meager work space fiddling with his Radar.

"Amy's been injured and I need you to Chaos Warp us there!" Shadow nodded and grabbed one of the Chaos emeralds from its resting place along the top of the shrine pillars. He smirked as he used his superior control of Chaos Energy to levitate it and drop it in his hand. This close to the emeralds he didn't need to actually touch them to be able to do some small things.

"Alright grab onto my arm! South Port Mall here we come! CHAOS CONTROL!" Shadow screamed as he felt the familiar power surge ripple through time and space.

Knuckles blinked and there they were at South Port Mall where a desperate Rouge was cradling Amy against a blood red sky. Sunset.

Photon walked back to his room grumbling about crazy doctors and their lack of common sense when he felt a surge in the Chaos Energy Field. Ah! So someone else is using Chaos Control! He whispered said command and disappeared in a flash of green Chaos Energy.

Deep in his lab Dr. Robotnic smiled as he watched the readouts on his many moniters. So many pawns were falling into their correct places!

Big the Cat picked up the shiny rock and walked back into his leaf and bamboo hut. "Now no eating this one Froggy!" He admonished his fishing partner before falling down on his bed and quickly falling asleep.

Amy drifted in and out of consciousness she saw still frames of Rouge's crying face then the stern features of Knuckles and the strangely kind features of Shadow. She definitely felt the power of the Chaos Emeralds when they warped back to Angel Islands.

Tikal glanced at Sonic who was happily messing around with one of the spirit chao. She sighed and whispered, "I'm sorry little one you should never have had to activate on of those emeralds!"

A/N: w00t! I'm so proud of myself! I think I might be a week behind but I managed to pound this one out! Well seems like Tikal knows something that everyone else doesn't but what does she know? What's Photon up too and why is Eggman cackling about his so called "pawns"?

I don't know either! I guess we'll find out together next time on

ULTIMATE LIFE FORMS!