Shadow Stalker: Yes I need to proofread more and (I have gone back a correctly proofread the chapters…Man your right the grammar was scary shivers) thanks for the warning. I from now on will make it my supreme responsibly to make sure there are NO errors, sorry for the your problems while reading the previous chapter.

A/N: Okay...chapter three! (Man this is going by quick…) Enjoy!

Area: (GBAB) Grand Black Army Base

Time: Thursday, 11:06 PM on Earth/ First night of the Four-Sun's cycle

State of Affairs: Rejuvenation Period for the Soldiers and Scientist

As Agmine walked with Haloo down to their sleeping quarters, Agmine suddenly had remembered that he had forgot an important study article back at the laboratory. He had implored Haloo to accompany him, but the lackadaisical alien had riposted that he was too tired to walk back down the hallway when he was so close to his cubical.

"Are you worried about that specimen?" Said Haloo with a haughty tone. "Don't be ludicrous, were are Jakidians, we fear nothing and I believe whatever task you want to do can be done by yourself."

With an aggravated sigh, Agmine began to walk down the hallway yet again…

The walk back was uncomfortable for him; let alone apprehensive, as he had never walked in pitch darkness by himself formerly. The illumination of the searchlights from outside weren't enough for him to see what was directly in front of him or in back of him. With only his instincts as his guide, he walked though disturbingly protruding darkness.

There was a looming feeling though, that something was following him as well. Agmine constantly looked behind himself to make sure nothing was proceeding to sneak up on him in anyway. When the feeling of anxiety finally overwhelmed him, he stopped walking and stared out of the enormous transom that stretched down the entire foyer. Worried, Agmine scouted the area himself for any interlopers. Then a sudden shadow zipped by right in facade of his very own eyes through the glass. The alien was taken back in shock, unbalanced, and fell.

"What was that?" He told himself as he breathed in and out coarsely as his repugnant slimy jaws unleashing from its incased state. "The security was always on keen lookout, there was nothing quick enough to get by them…right?"

Suddenly the words of Haloo's harsh words ringed in his head.

"Maybe he's right." Agmine admitted to himself as he got up and his jaw settled back to where they were supposed to be. "Maybe am not being the Jakidain that I should be."

Guessing the amount of time that he had walked, Agmine estimated that he was only a couple meters away from the laboratory entrance. The alien, yet again, stared down the illusive hallway and continued his disturbing saunter.

It felt as if he had been walking aimlessly in the dark for hours, but he had finally reached the entrance to the laboratory. Agmine reached out and let his eyes activate the door. The misty glow appeared and the door swung open to unveil a manual door that the aliens could just slide to the side.

Agmine slowly reached toward the door, but then suddenly, like a bolt of lightning had just streaked across his back, Agmine's instincts kicked in…he sensed danger.

Slowly, but not hesitantly, the alien slid the door open only half way and peeped from behind his cover. Immediately he rummaged around for anything out of the ordinary still staying in his covered position.

"Nothing…" He said to himself.

The Jakidian slid the door completely open and walked in. The specimen was on the table were he had they had left it, but there was something anomalously odd about it. Agmine could swear that he the specimen didn't have any of his accessories on that Haloo explained to him.

He slowly reached down under the table taking his eyes off the specimen and pulled out a metal container containing files of recent articles. The alien pulled out a file and rose up…

In complete and utter shook. Agmine dropped the file and the metal papers scattered across the purple steel floor. He couldn't believe what he was seeing…the specimen was gone…

The alien, in complete awe, ran toward a computer-like module shaking in horror and slammed its sliver-skinned palm on an orange colored button. A hologram appeared of the General's head.

"What are you not in your sleeping quarters scien-

Calwon cut his sentence short when he saw a black figure creeping up behind Agmine.

"Code yellow! The specimen has awakened! Hurry, he some where in this-

"Agmine! WATCH OUT!" The General shrieked at the top of his lungs.

Suddenly the alien was tackled by the black and red figure. The shadow picked Agmine back up hand slammed him against the module's typing frame. General Calwon watched the scene in complete shock as yellow liquid began to drain from the alien's head on to the module and then he collapsed on the cold hard steel. The alien's yellow eyes went gray.

The last thing the General saw was a pair of bloodcurdling red eyes glare back at him before the unit exploded, loosing contact with the laboratory.

Chapter 2: Fate Driven Reunion

He didn't understand what was going on and why the ultimate life form was still alive, but he was going to find out even if it jeopardized his escape plan. Sonic concealed himself in the shadows making sure he wasn't seen by the aliens that stormed across the hallway in front of him.

Suddenly there was a bang on the entrance door that Sonic had locked from the inside and he frantically looked around for a place to take cover. He looked up to see a square hole at the top of the ceiling spewing out a warm air. He smirked, conjured all his energy to his legs, and disappeared into the GBAB's air vents.

Sonic peeped out of a corner to monitor what was going on…

The Jakidains bashed their door down and stormed in carrying small U shaped plasma guns compatible with the Earth's average pistol. Sonic realized that theses aliens were purple tipped, which were the top elite soldiers. The way Sonic could tell by the color that faded from silver to purple that began from their so-called wrist and ankles.

Suddenly a thought crossed his mind…

"They must have noticed the bodies laying from outside."Sonic thought as he peered amongst the aliens in worry, on tenterhooks that they wouldn't look up. "Hopefully they will think that it was Shadow not someone else who did it…if they're stupid enough."

The aliens shook their heads and shrieked in their native tongue and left. Sonic made a deep sigh of liberation and a smile of relief came across his face. In an act to remain unseen, the hedgehog hung upside down so that he could get a view to see that the aliens were gone. Being that it was all clear, Sonic let his grip of his feet go and landed on the ground in a handstand then tumbled forward into a kneeled position.

"Yep, they are stupid alright!"

Then Sonic saw a bolt of plasma pass by him and he looked behind himself to see eight more of the aliens staring right at him, pointing their guns at the hedgehog in point blank range. Sonic froze, but quickly began to contemplate a plan when he saw one of the Jakidians slowly reach to a hologram projector from its utility belt.

Sonic had no choice, but to make a pressing attack. Purple blob-like lasers went flying in all directions as the hedgehog used his unnatural agility to scramble the side of a wall. He dove at the closet monstrous beast he saw, warped his arm around its neck, and snapped it. In the process he used the alien's collapsing body to block plasma bolts that came immediately after Sonic's assail. If the alien were not dead by Sonic quick fatal assault, then he would be dead now from the countless of lasers that hit its back.

Using all his strength, Sonic trudged forward and heaved the alien at the Black Arms who fell down from the corpse's velocity. The hedgehog then hurled himself in a spinning acrobatic style landing outside on the purple colored dirt.

Sonic had forgotten that he still held the yellow crystal in his hand and began to squeeze it with his entire valor. His emerald green eyes turned to gleaming yellow as he felt the familiar fierce energy stream to at all points of his body.

"I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS!" He screamed at the recuperating extraterrestrials that were beginning to rise up.

Right before the alien's eyes Sonic had disappeared in a white light. They looked around wondering were he had gone, holding their plasma guns tightly in their three-fingered hands. Then, right above their heads, faded versions of the hedgehog appeared and were oddly attached to one another like connected blurs. Heads were smashed, bodies were sent flying, and large dents appeared all around their bodies. All seven of them did not survive the powerful high-speed flurry of attacks…

Sonic then reappeared back in the building and fell to his knees. He was a bit rattled and need just a couple of seconds to cool down. The anthro put his right hand on his beating heart and tried to control his breathing.

"Man! Now I understand why I haven't done that in a while, it hurts whenever I do it…" He thought hoping that he wouldn't have to do it again.

Sonic felt fatigued, but he had already wasted too much time. His strength would convalesce, but he didn't have time to sit down and rest. Getting off his knees, he gripped the crystal in his hands and took a deep breath…

Remembering about his plan, Sonic zipped through the darkness until he got near the flashing yellow lights at the end of the corridor. Using his animal hearing senses, Sonic could perceive sounds of faint footsteps that the Jakidains made from a distance.

He narrowed his eyes and dashed right and down another long hallway moving stealthily in the darkness until he got really close to one of the aliens. A little too close… He decided to yet again, wait until they were at a distance to follow them.

The hedgehog hated to admit it, but Jakidians were smart and quick despite their size and their sense to presume danger was very strong. Like all organisms though they had a flaw, their eyesight wasn't as good as earthling eyes and they trusted their wits more than there vision which can also be their downfall.

Sonic continued this same maneuver and went up a couple of ramps that headed to higher levels of the building until the marching row of aliens stopped and began shooting. There was too many of them for Sonic to get a clear view from his position, but he could see alien after alien get flung into the air. He could also hear the familiar deeper version of his voice screaming at the top of his lungs.

"There is no way that Shadow could still be alive, but in that same thought," He smiled to himself. "I have staid young and alive as well. To think that I haven't learned yet to believe even the most unreal of things by now…"

Sonic didn't know much about Shadow, but he knew one thing about the hedgehog: That he could definitely hold his own. Plus, he found it hilarious how the aliens sailed through the air as if they were weightless feathers. The cerulean hedgehog staid in his position in the darkness and waited for the right opportunity to jump in…

Shadow didn't understand why they were attacking him, but they were attacking him and that's all the reason he needed to fight back. He didn't care were he was, how long he was unconscious, or why he was on a strange planet full of odd silvery looking beast, but what he did care about is how many of them he could destroy.

Using flurry after flurry of quick attacks and dodging odd purple bolts of scorching heat that came out between U shaped guns, Shadow was able to keep the aliens in a comfortable distance.

A frustrated alien screamed and opened his hideous jaws planning to injure Shadow with an onslaught of punches. The angered hedgehog slouched over slightly and blocked a punch that was delivered to him by the unarmed alien. Shadow, with a roar, contoured and delivered a fatal blow to its head with his fist.

He then saw that one of the strange weapons that the aliens used were dropped and accidentally kicked toward him. After kicking another alien in the gut then upper cutting it to its demise, the agitated hedgehog lunged for it, squeezed the trigger, and began shooing the lighting fast bolts as he slid across the steel floor. Using side rolling tactics and mind boggling perfect aiming, he shot the rest of the horrid slivery things down got up to make sure that they were all dead.

At least two hundred Jakidian corpses lied on the floor toppled on to each other like cars in a junkyard. The smell of burned flesh lingered in the air as he cautiously continued to walk by the heaps after heaps, holding the pistol in ready position. At that time, out of nowhere, a violet laser passed right by the side of his face and he heard the pain-struck yelling of an alien in back of him that tried to sneak up from behind. Shadow turned around and began to plunge the alien with bursts of the plasma until it overheated and exploded in his own hands.

Shadow quickly turned around wanting to know whom his savior was and saw a pair of proverbial green eyes stare back at him.

"You ought to be more careful…you weren't this anxious when you fought me long time ago…" A voice echoed from the darkness.

A puzzled look came across Shadows face, but slowly turned into a smirk of relief when he saw Sonic appear from the shadows.

"Hey, long time no see!" Said Sonic as he tossed the plasma gun on the floor.

Suddenly, both Sonic and Shadow, heard beeping noises. Simultaneously they turned around to see aliens kneeled down holding a five-foot bazooka-like plasma canons charging to fire on both side.

Sonic, with a smile on his face, thought of a plan. He kneeled down and put his hands behind his back, facing back-to-back to the other hedgehog. He slowly turned his head and signaled to Shadow to do the same thing. Surrendering was not his thing, however, with an angry look on his face, Shadow followed.

The canons were charged, but they didn't fire. Thinking that the two hedgehogs had given up.

"Psst…Shadow!" Sonic whispered trying hard not to move his lips too much.

"What!"

"We…are…going…to… jump…out…the window!" Sonic whispered slightly nodding toward his left without drawing attention.

Shadow smiled.

"One!" They both said at the same time.

"Two!"

"THREE!"

Sonic and Shadow lunged themselves forward and the canons fired missing them both by inches as the fugitive hedgehogs penetrated through the glass and spread there legs and arms out. They dove as if they were expert skydivers, flipped a couple of times, and pounded on the ground, forcefully landing on their feet. After getting over the shock, before anyone knew what happened, Sonic and Shadow sprung over a twelve-foot gate, disappearing in blue and yellow streaks on the horizon. Sonic took the lead as Shadow fallowed him, both headed for one of Ja-Ki-Da's major cities.

Dalee could not believe what had just happened and he felt very guilty for it. Why? Why had he distrusted his instincts when they were never wrong? All this time he was right… He was right, about the slave who faked the entire thing. The creature could have taken them out easily, but it was all just a perfect escape plan. He knew that that hedgehog wasn't right from the start when they had brought it to the planet six month ago. He should have killed it then…

He didn't blame it on his former dead friends, though; this slaughter was his entire fault. For the reason that he had listened to others instead of himself, he had made fatal mistake that could jeopardize his entire race. So now, for his idiotic act, he was dying among he others.

As yellow liquid pored from the side of his abdomen caused by plasma fire, he reached his utility belt, took out a cylinder looking communicator, and breathed his last breath.

"They- escaped…" Dalee mumbeled.

Finally his will to live was lost and he fell to the steel floor. His yellow eyes slowly faded to a lifeless gray color.

"THIS IS ALL YOU FAULT!" General Calwon screamed at the top of his lungs. " Father should have killed the thing when he had the chance, but no, you idiots told my father not to. You idiots told him that they could use it for study! You idiots went to the Sovereign to allow your studies to commence after the last few scientist failed!"

"I'm sorry sir-

"But, hey if at least two hundred Jakidains died," said the Calwon in a fake soft voice cutting of Haloo's apology. "why not…"

General Calwon quickly pulled out his plasma pistol and shot Haloo in the head.

"Two hundred and one…" He said as he put the gun back into its attachment area on his utility belt.

Everyone in the room gasped as they witnessed Haloo collapse on the floor lifeless.

"Its time that I take things completely in my own hands!" He began. "I want every single pinch of area searched day and night until the two earthlings are found. No rest! No food! Until I see them dead with my own eyes!"

"Report this to the other immediately!"

"Yes, Calwon!" The soldiers screamed at once as they all stormed out of the laboratory.

"Scientist!"

They all tuned their heads in horror.

"Clean this mess up and get that other one too that's near the exploded module." He said as he himself began to walk out of the laboratory.

Calwon sighed deeply as he began to ponder on the correct words to tell the Sovereign trying not to step on any dead bodies down the long dark hallway.

Shadow didn't get a good look at him back when they were at GBAB, but as they raced across vast desert, Shadow could tell that there were some differences that he had.

Sonic had a scar that covered his right eye and ran down to the ended of his muzzle. He also had a small spike-hair that trailed down the middle of his face. Sonic didn't have any gloves on and his shoes seemed like they were at the brink on falling apart.

But the most mysterious thing that Shadow had realized was the hedgehog's green colored eyes. They seemed paler and taken over by anger and sadness. Shadow wondered if his person had change as well or had it remained the same carefree type of creature that he came to hate at one time …

After at least an hour, Sonic and Shadow had finally found a place of refuge on the outskirts of a city unknown to them. It was a small cave that was only lit by the slowly rising sun to the east of them. The area was cold, but it was better than nothing.

After settling down in their temporary home, Sonic answered all of Shadow's questions. That he was captured six months ago sleeping somewhere in the forest and sent to Ja-Ki-Da. He the explained he hardships that he had gone through, but the answer Shadow really wanted to know…

"How have you staid alive this past fifty years you could have least aged a bit…" Shadow asked with a puzzled look.

Sonic held out the yellow crystal in his hands.

"A Chaos Emerald?"

"Not just any emerald," Sonic responded. "but the fake one…"

"How?" Shadow asked as he sat down on the purple colored dirt at the opposite right side of the cave.

"I don't know exactly," He began. "but I do know that the more I kept this with me, the more I used it to heal myself, the more I drained its energy, I began o feel more powerful. Despite my age, I didn't grow old and staid young. I know how you feel now Shadow, knowing how it is not to ever be able to die. I now know too that it not only a blessing, but a curse."

"What, did the others die of age?" Shadow asked.

"No Shadow… They died long time ago, when I first saw those ugly looking freaks! When I thought that there would be no trouble in the world at all after what happened at ARK. We never saw it coming Shadow…never thought that this war would ever happen."

The red and black hedgehog got into a comfortable position as he got ready for a long story.

"At first we didn't think they were any threat, but when they pulled out their strange guns and began shooting at us I knew that they were trying to take over…"

Whew! Chapter 2 is done… you can guess what the next chapter will be about! Oh, and if you wanted to know the shadow that passed down Agmine's face was Sonic. Just saying just incase you didn't catch that.

R&R

RC OUT!