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Chapter 13

3 hours had passed since Shadow and Sonic left the base. After a tiring trek, they'd finally made it to the hideout.

The two hedgehogs had become very tired, especially Shadow. He'd been on his feet for a good long while and after learning about Ray's whereabouts a sudden weight of guilt fell onto his shoulders.

Sonic was still a bit confused. He didn't know how Shadow had made it here and why it had taken him so long in the first place. He was also overjoyed to be free but didn't show it much as his wounds were beginning to ache once more, due to the hours of walking. Sonic hadn't been able to run in so long that he'd almost forgotten how. But he was beginning to remember, as he watched his feet whilst walking in the long grass.

They soon reached the secret entrance to the hideout.

Shadow led Sonic through the earth and down the long tunnel.

At the other side of the tunnel, Tails (holding his daughter Sandy) Knuckles and Amy, along with the other few residents, waited anxiously. They blinked as they heard movement and smiled as they saw Shadow climb through the hole. They clapped and cheered.

Shadow smiled and then turned and held out his hand. Sonic's hand emerged and took hold of it and Shadow pulled Sonic through and into the hideout.

Everyone gasped but then cheered for joy to see their hero again. Emotions flew and everyone found a tear to their eyes. Amy gave Sonic a huge hug.

"Sonic! I'm so glad to see you're safe!"

Sonic winced a little as he wounds became crushed by Amy's hug but hugged her back all the same.

"Shadow's to thank for that." He said.

"Amy…" Shadow said.

Amy looked around and then noticed that Ray wasn't with him.

"Where's Ray?" she asked.

Shadow sighed.

"…he's been captured." Shadow replied uneasily. "We split up, you see, I went to get Sonic and he went to find - "

Amy couldn't quite take this in.

"That maniac has my Ray!" she yelped. "Shadow, how…"
"I'm so sorry Amy. I should have stuck with him. But please don't worry."
"Don't worry? Our son's being held captive by an insane evil genius and you're saying not to worry!"

"Hear him out Amy. We can still find Ray. I can track down where his last message came from." Tails said.
"Please Amy, let's go inside and I'll tell you more of what happened." Shadow said to Amy.

"Plus…" Knuckles added "We need to sort out your wounds, Sonic."

Tails' little daughter, Sandy, followed her father and his friends into Amy's house. They all sat down and Amy hurried into the kitchen, in somewhat of a state, to get some hot water and a first aid kit.

Sandy sat on the floor by Sonic's feet.

"My name's Sandy!" said the cute little fox girl. "What's yours?"

Sonic smiled.

"I'm your daddy's friend, Sonic." He said.
"Do you know where Way Way is?" Sandy asked.

Sonic frowned a little in confusion and looked up at Tails.

"Ray" said Tails.
"Ah I see! I'm sorry Sandy but I don't but hey! I do know that he's coming back really soon so don't be sad OK?"

Sandy nodded and Amy came back into the room and began to bathe Sonic's wounds.

Tails Shadow and Knuckles went along to Tails' house. The two tailed fox took his friends to his computer, from which he'd been able to access the information needed to help Shadow and Ray on their rescue mission.

"Shadow do you still have your wrist communicator?" Tails asked, sitting down at the computer.

Shadow nodded and unfastened the strap of his watch. Tails took it and plugged it into a wire, connected to the computer's CPU. (A/N That's Central Processing Unit! )

The computer bleeped and buzzed. It then showed up an image of the watch on screen.

"This is a model of your watch Shadow. I'm gonna use it to trace any call you made to Ray or vice versa. We can then access his watch and maybe get some new information."

Shadow and Knuckles blinked. Tails span his chair around to face them.

"You see, I installed a special scanning device into Ray's watch. He can use it to scan in his environment…"

"Ah yes. He showed it off just before we went into Eggman's base." Shadow said.

Tails span back to face the screen and typed various buttons.

"If Ray's scanned in any new information we'll be able to see it from here. We can then pinpoint the location of the watch and that will lead us to Ray." He continued.

The computer bleeped. The screen flashed up a message "COMMUNICATOR 0#2 LOCATED".

"All right! We've found Ray's watch!" Tails said and continued typing.
"Now, let's see if he has found any new information…"

The computer loaded up the scan files from Ray's watch. The three friends gasped as the image of chaos emeralds and the master emerald appeared on the screen.

"He found the emeralds!" Shadow exclaimed.
"I don't believe it!" Knuckles gasped.
"They appear to be attached to some kind of machine…" Tails said. "It must be sucking up the emerald's energy and powering up the base."

"That idiot!" Knuckles yelled. "The emerald's powers aren't to be used in such a selfish way."

"We have to control the emerald's power somehow…maybe we can use it against him." Shadow suggested.

"Yes but that would call for the Guardian." Tails said.

Both Shadow and Tails looked at Knuckles.

"Don't you worry. I'm in. That maniac will pay for his disregard for the Master Emerald's true power!" The echidna said through clenched teeth.

"And for what he's done to my son!" Shadow said. "What he's done to us all, in fact!" "Alright, I have the location saved and I'm putting it into your wrist watch, Shadow." Tails said.
"For now, you had better go rest up. You've been through a lot tonight and have more plans ahead. That goes for you too Knuckles. We all appreciate what you've done, you know." Tails said.

"No problem. I just want an Eggman free world." Shadow replied.
"Don't we all…" said Knuckles quietly.