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Chapter 16

Tails and Knuckles ran behind the emeralds, just avoiding an explosion from a chaos spear. They became out of view of Eggman's camera.

"Well Knuckles? You're the emerald expect here! What do we do?" Tails asked rather frantically.

Knuckles crawled under the various energy sucking wires and made it to the Master Emerald. Tails stayed where he was, waiting for an answer.

"I can't believe that mad man would use the Master Emerald in this way!" Knuckles said, more to himself than to Tails.

"Knuckles!" Tails yelled over the noise of explosions.
"Sorry! Well, as you said before, it may be that each emerald controls one part of the building. We have to disconnect these wires somehow."

…

Meanwhile, Ray was still going for Shadow's throat. He threw a final chaos spear, which hit the wall just above Shadow's head. As the wall exploded, Ray landed and ran toward Shadow at top speed.

Shadow blinked ad he saw Ray lift his wrist, getting ready to deliver a punch. Luckily, Shadow reacted quickly and lifted up his arm to shield himself from the blow. Shadow winced as the force of the punch went through his arm.

Ray didn't react and instead jump and swung his leg toward Shadow's head. Shadow yelled out and Ray's foot hit the back of his head. He fell forward onto his front but quickly pushed himself up again, flipping so that he landed on his feet facing Ray.

Shadow put his hand to his head and felt a small wound. He looked at his hand and saw blood. Just then he looked up and saw that Ray was running toward him again. Shadow snarled and dodged as Ray began to throw an array of punches and kicks.

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"How do you think we'll know which emerald controls what?" Knuckles asked.
"To be honest, I don't now. I guess we'll have to pick at random." Tails answered.

Knuckles chose a large wire, which was attached to the Master Emerald.

"I have to free the Master Emerald first." Knuckles said.
…

Shadow continued to dodge as fast as he could but was beginning to get tired and Ray's kick on his head was making him dizzy. Without feeling it, the two hedgehogs were moving along the ground as the fought. The ended up near a wall, a few feet away from the emeralds.

"Ray…please… try and recognise me…" Shadow wheezed, continuing to dodge Ray's moves.

But it was no good.

Emotionless, Ray threw a fast punch to Shadow's eye. Shadow was thrown to the side and hit the wall. As he fell to the ground, Shadow's vision began to darken. His eyelids fluttered as he was beginning to loose consciousness.

…

"Go for it Knuckles! Shadow's in trouble!" Tails yelled, seeing Shadow hit the wall.

Knuckles punched down on the wire, which lay across the floor. Small sparks flew as the impact of Knuckles' fist crushed the wire and broke it.

The lights in the room began to flicker. Ray jumped and blinked, coming out of his trance. He looked around.

"What the…Where am I?" he said.

…

Around the base all power began to die. The human slaves came out of their trance too. They looked around, trying to remember what had happened to them.

The slaves who were monitoring the cameras, with Eggman, blinked and had the same reaction.

"What the!" Eggman yelled as he saw what was going on.

All lights in the base flickered out, the robots sparked and died and eventually all power in the base disappeared.

The humans simply ran. They yelled as the adrenaline rushed through their bodies and escaped from the base.

Eggman frantically tried to regain control but it was no use. He snarled.

"Damn those fools! I'll get them for this!" he yelled.

But then he grinned.

"Wait…I still have my emergency weapon…the Egg-Destroyer 3000! Yes, I'll use the back up power and, instead of using it for the base, I'll transfer it to my weapon!"

His eyes became bloodshot as his power crazed mind began to whir madly. He laughed aloud.

…

"Nice one Knuckles! It looks like the Master emerald was holding all the emeralds power in place." Tails said.

"Well that is what it's meant to do!" Knuckles answered.

In the dim light, Ray saw Shadow half unconscious on the floor, blood around his mouth. He gasped and ran to his father.

"Shadow!" he yelled.

Shadow slowly lifted his head, still rather dizzy and just managed to see Ray kneeling over him.

"Are you…you?" Shadow asked smiling a little.
"I think so…" Ray replied. "What happened here?"
"Eggman…he had you…under his control. Don't worry though…it's not your fault."

Ray put his arms around Shadow and pulled him up so that they faced each other.

"I'm sorry Dad…" he said and hugged his father.

Shadow hugged back. He put his weight on Ray's Shadow and could feel himself falling into unconsciousness. He let his eyes close and his body flop.

Ray blinked, realising that Shadow had blanked out.

"Dad don't! Wake up!" he yelled but it was no good.

Tails and Knuckles ran over and Knuckles lifted Shadow up, supporting his weight on his shoulders.

"I think we better get out of here, pronto." Tails said.