Here's the moment you've been waiting for! Shadow's reunion!

Chapter 9: Reunited!

" It's alive! Alive!" Techno cackled as he dashed out of the shelter. Shadow was sleeping near the pond and the other chao were playing on a GameCube. Scribbles was schooling Ghost and Boomer in Custom Robo.

" Hey! That's an illegal part! I demand a rematch!" Boomer yelled. Scribbles shrugged and wrote ' So? Your robo was all illegal.'

" The dragon gun owns you all! Wahahaha!" Ghost cackled as he blew Boomer away.

In the shelter, Maria exited the capsule.

" Huh? Where am I?" she asked herself as she opened the door to the shelter. Scribbles saw her and tried to wake Shadow. He finally gave up and shoved the black hedgehog into the pond. That woke him up in a hurry.

" What was that for?" Shadow asked.

' There's someone here to see you…' the mute chao wrote as he pointed. Shadow looked and saw Maria standing there. Scribbles almost got run over as Shadow skated to his childhood friend.

" Shadow? Where are we? Last thing I remember I was shot and I sent you to Earth." Maria asked.

" To tell you the truth, you died that day… My friends here put their lives at risk to get a DNA sample of you and we brought you back. Let's go get something to eat, we have a lot to catch up on." The Ultimate Life Form said as he waved to the rest of his gang.

" I hope he leaves out the part where he almost blew up the world" Techno sighed as he joined his pals in a game of Custom Robo.

" We need a vacation. I mean, think about all we've been through in the past three days. We fought an Omochao invasion, we whupped Egghead, and reunited Shadow and Maria." Ghost stated.

" Well, I kinda like the whole hero thing. We even made the front page of newspapers!" Boomer exclaimed as he whipped out a paper.

" We need more chao in here. We could use them as bait for the Pink Demon." Techno suggested.

' We should find more Chao Gardens to explore!' Scribbles scrawled out. The denizens of the Neutral Garden contemplated these ideas as they went back to their game.

Inspiration has struck! More ideas are on the way, but keep giving me reviews!