(I do not own Sonic X, etc.)

(Quick note- I know the proper title is Metarex. I just changed to Metal X because it sounded better.)

S.O.N.I.C GO!

S.O.N.I.C GO!

Episode 14: The voyage of the Blue Typhoon

(Attention: This is a filler Ep, which has more romance than action in it. If romance isn't your thing then either wait for the new Ep to come out or skip ahead. If you want to read this bit anyway; then list how many couplings you can see. Some are blatantly obvious, and others are obscure. One I plan on pulling off may surprise you.
Going from Earth to Mars would have taken considerably less time to complete if the engines hadn't had a blow out from so much Chaos energy flowing through the conduits. Being the ultimate source of Chaos Energy, a back charge from the Master Emerald had dissolved a good deal of the panels as well; leaving Doctor Eggman with a great deal of work to get on with. As a consequence, the overall speed of the Blue Typhoon had slowed considerably. Where it might have only taken them a few hours to reach Mars at full power, now operating at only a fraction of the overall output; it would be another two days before they arrived.

With little else to do, the crew of twenty went about the various tasks that were needed to try and get the engines operating again. It would be more than likely that somewhere down the road they'd run into Metal X and they'd need all the energy they could muster.

Being confined on this ship with little places to run was beginning to play on Sonic's mind a little and he couldn't help but fidget. Most of the time, he could be found on the bridge walking around in circles tapping his foot when he stopped. Some of the others who'd come with them were showing symptoms of what Tails had dubbed 'space sickness'. Hare, who was only here under orders was extraordinary grouchy and temperamental. Most ignored him as he'd been like that on the ground, his grumpy nature amplified only by the situation he was in.

Okida however seemed fine. Generally he was down in the hangers, fine tuning the planes and Mechs that stood ready for use. The arsenal he'd brought with him was always kept ready for use. His engineering skills were also coming in handy with repairs to the system.

Tikal proved to be an effective navigator, even with the holographic maps and displays the ships onboard computer projected. But it was obvious it was of little interest to her. One of the most important things to the female Echidna was keeping an eye on the solitary Shadow. The black and red hedgehog was rarely seen by the others on the ship and even then it was only for a few moments. Each time he would make himself know, Tikal was always one of the few people who kept him company.

As for Knuckles, who was the most solitary member of their crew, he spent his entire time in the energy chamber overlooking the Master Emerald. He never once left it's side. Then, with Doctor Eggman onboard most aboard were doing their best to keep him away from anything that might help him betray them.

"I think it's an obsession." Topaz remarked as she watched the Major of Freelance Division rummage around through the cockpit of his Yahger Mech after the weapons system malfunctioned again. "I mean, a Mech seems to be your favourite toy." She added from a metal catwalk that passed through the cargo deck, which was just high enough to come level with the entrance hatch to the machine's controls. Okida's wings would be seen stretched out through that entrance, occasionally twitching as he worked.

"A Mech is standard military hardware." The Major replied, looking up briefly.

"So's a Tank." Okida just looked up in surprise.

"A Tank?" He almost exclaimed. "That things well outdated." He shook his head and got back to his work. "This baby's got more firepower than any tank." Topaz just smiled.

"See? You obsess over Mechs." Casually she leaned on the side of the large cannon protruding from the left side arm of the Yahger. "It's been proven that there's a direct link between testosterone and fighting robots." Okida nearly burst out laughing.

"That might be true." He chuckled, looking over the top of the machine down at her with a coy smile. "But something tells me G.U.N won't be scrapping the design based solely on that opinion." Apart from the Yahger Walker, standing nearby in service stations were a Raptor and the smaller Turtle. All three Mechs were suited for various battle situations. The Yahger was the firepower amongst the three and preformed the best in power struggle situations. The Raptor was more suited for stealth and recon missions, yet could also bring impressive firepower to bear if need be. The Turtle, being the slowest of the three was not meant for actual combat; instead it used it's extremely powerful cannons at a distance as a form of artillery. Okida preferred his blood red Yahger over the others. It was the same machine he had liberated from the Elite before Eggman began his campaign and had developed a little attachment to it.

Okida hesitated for a second, before looking up at Topaz again. "Hey...er, how you doing?" She knew what he meant by that question. Just before she had left to come with the Blue Typhoons crew, she and Tanaka had had a falling out. Such an argument that she had ended up handing him back his ring. The whole experience had left her feeling quite vulnerable, so the other members of Freelance Division were giving her some space when she needed it.

"I'm fine." She replied with a faint smile. Okida, who had had little to no experience in relationships decided it was probably for the best that he didn't try to interfere with something he did not understand. Any advice he could possibly give would not be helpful.

"If you ever need to talk about it…" He added as the only thing he could. Topaz sighed and brushed a few tray hairs out of the way of her face.

"Thanks, I really appreciate that." She told him with a smile that for some strange reason Okida could not understand made him feel slightly week at the knees.

By now, everyone onboard able to explore the ship and get used to the design. Tails had tried to design the interior for luxury, but since it's co-designer had been Eggman the odd piece of pipe work stuck out here and there making it look ugly. Still, since everything here was necessary to keep the airless vacuum of space away from them they supposed they could tolerate it. They were already a day into their trip after they passed by the Eggmoon, pausing only long enough for the Doctor to check in with his own surveillance to gather information; under tight supervision before they carried on.

"Two pair." Bean replied revealing his cards as he, Hare and Bark sat down to a card game in the kitchen area of the ship. This was a long room with several rows of tables all placed in rows occupying most of the space. The kitchen itself was the far end, all the ovens sitting empty still waiting for the supplies they brought with them. Most of which were still down in storage.

"Sorry to do this to you, but I've got a Full house." Hare added smugly, laying his cards down on the table.

"Dammit!" Bean cursed, looking annoyed as he pushed his chips towards the rabbits side of the table.

"When I get back to Earth, I'm going to get myself an expensive Italian suit." The rabbit remarked with a smirk. "Ok Bark, fork over your share of the doe."

"Oh I think not." The polar bear replied, turning over his cards. "Royal Flush…" Hare's jaw dropped to the table.

Cosmo sat alone with her thoughts nearby. Almost miserably she stared down at the table in front of her, trying to figure out some of the questions dogging her mind. Like what were her visions trying to tell her? What did it all mean and ultimately; had she made a mistake in coming here? This dimension was new to her and everything appeared so strange and foreign it disturbed her. On top of that she was still unsure exactly how useful she could be to everyone here. She knew nothing of their enemy, only the name Metal Sonic kept popping up in conversation.

She heard the doors at the far end of the room opened and she looked up. Walking in came Shadow, the black and red hedgehog that Sonic had pointed out to her. She was certain he was the other one she had seen in her visions. The Shade, the second half of the whole being.

At first glance, Shadow appeared rude, self opinionated and almost snobbish. He kept himself away from the others because, Cosmo suspected, he believed himself superior. Yet there was something more to him she wasn't seeing. That female Echidna, the one the others called Tikal was nearly always at his side.

It was just one of the many groups that she could see here. Everyone seemed to keep to their own faction, at least that was what she saw. Tikal would follow Shadow around like some lost puppy Bean, Bark and Hare were always together playing cards it seemed to pass the time. Knuckles kept to himself in the Energy Chamber with the Master Emerald.

As for the three members of the Thorndyke family onboard, they were nearly always working. Sam Speed could be found nearly all the time down in the gangers with the Major, helping to repair and maintain of the equipment and systems. As for Chris and Chuck, they were still busy either keeping an eye on Eggman or helping him with system maintenance up on the navigation decks.

The others, like Sonic, Amy and Rouge wandered about the ship freely. Sonic never seemed to be in one place long enough to talk to.

What was she doing here? Even if her visions where true what possible aid could see offer? If these images were warnings of the future, she could never understand them to be useful. Perhaps she had made a mistake in coming here herself. Maybe she should have tried harder to persuade the others that what she saw was important. In any case, it was too late to do anything about it now. She had used up a great deal of energy opening the dimension rift to come here. Travelling back would be intently harder.

Cosmo ended up wandering amongst the metal corridors of the ship alone, still trying to put some of the pieces together in her mind. When she wandered onto the bridge, only Amy and Tails were there. Tails was half asleep in the main pilots seat tapping his fingers on the side of his chair as he listened to some tunes through a pair of headphones and Amy was watching the Earth out through the windows getting smaller and smaller.

Presently, the blue Typhoon was only going at a quarter of it's maximum speed. Once repairs to the system their speed should increase dramatically. Cosmo would be lying if she said she understood it all.

"Hey Cosmo." Amy called over, seeing the green haired girl enter as the two doors slide to each side. "Suffering from space sickness?" She asked seeing the melancholy look on her face. Out of all the people she'd met thus face, Cosmo had attached mostly to Amy. Although she had been cultivating a friendship with Tails as well.

"Perhaps I made a mistake by coming here. I'll just get in the way." Cosmo wondered out load. "I mean what good am I to people who can run at the speed of sound or use golden energy bolts?" Amy cast her a glance over her shoulder.

"That's the exact same question I asked myself when I first started adventuring with Sonic." Cosmo looked up, her question warranting an explanation. "I mean, I'd seen him tear through entire robots. All I had to fight with was this." She gestured with her head to the hammer which was leaning on her shoulder. "Didn't take me long to figure out I could fight just as well as he could."

Tails was humming a tune to some song with his eyes closed. Cosmo looked up at him. The young fox had found the time to show her around most of the ship, as well as explain to her about Chaos Emeralds. Even in Maginaryworld she had never seen such things, they were probably the most unique thing she had seen thus far in this dimension.

"Oh, hey Cosmo." He began, finally opening his eyes and seeing her, pulling his headphones down. "How's everything on the ship?"

"A little tense." The green haired girl admit with a small smile as the young fox descended from the pilot's seat, the giant space ship set on auto pilot. "I wonder, can you tell me more about this enemy of yours? This Metal Sonic?" Amy's expression suddenly became apprehensive. "Who is he?"

"Metal Sonic was a robot created to destroy Sonic by Doctor Eggman about a year or two ago." Tails began, launching into the long story. First the began with the tale of Metal Sonic's creation, his rise to power within the Eggman Empire and then how Sonic and Shadow had merged into Nazo to defeat him.

"Merged?" Cosmo repeated, looking slightly confused.

"We don't know how they do it, and neither do they; but somehow they managed to join their two bodies into one." Amy began, looking unsure of her story telling powers. "Nazo had tremendous power, and Metal Sonic had stolen the energy of the Master Emerald. The two of them were evenly matched. The fight could have gone either way."

"Who's telling the story?" Tails asked with levelled eyes.

"Oh sorry." Tails resumed the tale, recapping the events after Chuck repaired the robotic hedgehog and for a brief time he became a good friend. Then, about half a year ago he sacrificed himself to save Sonic and Shadow from a blast from the revived Biolizard. In the process he was blown into horribly disfigured bits. Tails description was a little graphic for Cosmo's taste. Then he wrapped it all up with the story by telling her own Metal Sonic had attacked the Icarus on their way back from the ARK with his new Machine Federation.

"I thought you said he'd been destroyed?" Cosmo butted in, looking more confused than ever.

"Someone had gotten to his remains." Tails explained. "Rebuilt his body and then reprogrammed his brain. He doesn't remember breaking free of his destructive programming. All he knows now is hate for Sonic." Cosmo looked thoughtful for a second.

"That must be hard on Sonic, having to fight a friend." She began. Amy sighed, leaning back on one of the consoles.

"It is. He really doesn't want to do it, and there's still a part of him that thinks he can reason with Metal." Without warning, the com system to the bridge turned itself on as someone activated a communication device.

"Hey Tails, can you get down to the cargo decks?" It was Sonic's voice.

"Sure, be right there." The young fox replied, before leaving out through one of the automatic doors.

"I try to be there for him, but Sonic's a head strong guy. He doesn't like to shift the burden of his own problems off onto other people." Amy continued once Tails had gone. Cosmo saw something in her eyes however had hinted at something other than what she was saying.

"You're in love with him." She said after a single moment of revelation. Amy looked at her a little surprised.

"And I thought everyone on the ship knew that, even Sonic." The pink hedgehog forged a smirk. "I fell in love with him from the moment we first met. Sonic just passes most of it off as heroes worship." Her smirk faded a little. "But it's more than that. I love Sonic for who he his. A wild and carefree spirit. I know deep down he feels the same way, but I doubt he'll ever come out and admit it." She suddenly looked embarrassed. "Oh that sounded so corny!"

"No No, I thought it sounded beautiful." Cosmo added in. "I'm just surprised Sonic isn't interested." Amy chuckled lightly to herself.

"You and me both."

"Maybe I could help." The pink hedgehog looked up startled at Cosmos' suggestion. "Maybe I can help get you and him together." The green haired girl added.

"And how do you plan to go about doing that?" Amy would be extremely surprised if Cosmo could succeed where she herself had failed for years.

"I'll think of something." Cosmo added thoughtfully.

-

"Oh this is too much." Sonic muttered to himself, slapping his face as he stood before Big the Cat after finding the feline and his Frog trapped inside one of the cargo decks. Apparently, Froggy had hoped away from Big again and down into Tails' workshop. When Big finally caught up with him, they were both inside the Blue Typhoon as it was taking off.

Big stood there holding a frozen fish he'd gotten from a cooler with both hands, slowly chewing on it's tail. His frog sat nestled in the fur on his shoulder, croaking now and then.

"We can't turn back now." Tails remarked, scratching the back of his head. The Blue Typhoon was now well beyond Earth's atmosphere. Their mission was far too important for them to turn back because of one stowaway.

Big just looked completely complacent with his fish, as if he had no grasp of the situation he and his Frog was in. Being trapped inside a single chamber with no windows, he had no idea where he was and he had no clue that presently he was souring away from Planet Earth bound for a confrontation with Mars and possibly most of the Metal X army. "We've plenty of room here, we can put him up in a spare room. As long as he keeps out of the way we probably won't notice him." Sonic shot his old friend a side glance. Big was probably the largest person onboard, how could any member of the crew not notice him?

"We won't be staying any longer." Big announced after taking a large bite out of his meal. "Come on Froggy, let's go home." Sonic chuckled, putting his hands on his hips.

"I'd like to see you try." Big just gave the blue hedgehog his common confused look, without a single clue as to what Sonic was going on about.

"We're currently flying above the planets atmosphere and heading off world." Tails explained. Big remained exactly as he was, staring in that flat near emotionless state.

"You know; outer space?" Sonic added, but still Big didn't move a muscle. Sonic waited for an answer, any answer but Big simply stood there with unblinking eyes. Eventually, Sonic lost his patience. "I don't have time for this, Tails you deal with him." He said with a loud irritated sigh, leaving the cargo deck through a large door. Right now, the blue hedgehog had more important things to worry about then their large stowaway. Presently, he was still trying to solve one mystery dogging his mind.

If Doctor Eggman had not been the one to reprogram Metal Sonic back into a bad guy, then who had? The only other one who knew Metal Sonic's electronic mind was Chuck, and he couldn't have done it either.

Another question he couldn't answer was the why. Why had whoever this mysterious player was, even bothered to go to this much trouble in the first place? It didn't make any sense. What could anyone hope to gain by turning Metal Sonic into a villain?

All these aside, Sonic knew what was really bothering him. Metal Sonic had been one of his closest friends, and now he was right back to square one with him. This robotic version of himself had to be stopped by any means possible. But still, he couldn't help but feel reluctant.

"You can stop this mopping right now." A voice said. Looking up, Sonic saw Shadow standing in his way fixing the blue hedgehog with one of his icy glares. "Just where do your loyalties lead you Sonic?" He asked sharply. "Before too long, you'll have to fight him against and in this kind of battle, there's no room for doubt. If you're not one hundred percent sure of what you're doing, he'll tear you to pieces." Sonic felt every word like a bee sting and he set his face in a frown.

"I'd still be fighting and destroying a friend." Was his defence as he sighed out through his nose. Shadow managed a sneer.

"The same friend that'll kill you, your friends and that planet you care so much about if given half the chance." Metal Sonic intentions were more than clear. Once he had the power of all seven Chaos Emeralds, he would reactivate a set of ancient machines and with that technology he and his armies would be unstoppable. Their only hope of preventing this disaster was to steal the Emeralds Metal X had already collected and escape with them. At least, that was the plan, but Sonic knew deep down that the only way of truly putting a stop to the Machine Federation was to destroy their leader; Metal Sonic himself. Nothing less would end this madness. "Keep that in mind before you start having second thoughts about this mission." Shadow added as if reading his thoughts, walking past him and soon disappearing through a door.

Sonic remained perfectly still for a moment. The black and red hedgehog was right, as usual. There could be no room for indecision in this fight. If Metal Sonic could be reasoned with, then that was fine. But if he couldn't, then Sonic had to be prepared to do what had to be done.

The thought that perhaps he had been a little to hard on Sonic passed briefly through Shadow's mind, but he quickly banished the idea. Sonic was far too soft and forgiving for his own good. Metal Sonic was ruthless and relentless; nothing short of blood would satisfy him. If the blue hedgehog even expected to survive then he would have to hit Metal Sonic with everything he had and not hold back.

Waiting for him at the end of the corridor, as he'd expected was Tikal. No matter where he went on the ship, she would never be too far away. He supposed he should find her constant presence as annoying, but for some reason her company seemed strangely more inviting than that of most of the entire crew.

"Are you spying on me?" He asked briefly as he passed her. The female Echidna joined his side as he carried on.

"Spying? On you? Hardly a worth while activity." She stated with a grin. Shadow decided not to humiliate himself by replying to that. "I just thought you might use a little company."

"I've done all right on my own so far." The black hedgehog replied, reaching a curved set of doors that lead to one of the many lifts that lanced up and down throughout the vessel. The Blue Typhoon being as large as it was, elevators were needed to get to most of the upper levels. "Besides, I'm beginning to think it's not me that needs your company." He added as they both stepped inside and the lift began moving upwards. "Rather the other way around." Tikal fixed him with a side ways glance. "Your one of the last Echidna's." Shadow continued. "The one other survivor isn't talkative, so you need someone else to latch onto."

"Are you trying to be funny?" She asked flatly. Shadow just maintained a smirk. He didn't need her to admit it. Being one of the last of a long dead race would make anyone lonely. All the other Echidna's were dead now, most of them devoured by the raging flood waters of Perfect Chaos as it ripped through their city. He had seen it first hand, after he and Sonic had discovered an ancient device on Angel Island that transported them into Mobius' past to witness the event.

The lift came to a stop and the doors opened out a new level were Eggman was still working on a large section of pipe.

The Doctor was always being watched. The others took it in turns to keep an eye on him and his two robots while they worked. The Major Okida had stated that if Eggman tried anything funny, then he would personally throw him out the nearest air lock. Right now, Omega; the last of the failed E100 series was standing nearby. The assault units large red eyes kept fixed on him. If the Doctor so much as sneezed without permission, the heavily armoured fighting machine would have words with him.

Still, that did not leave Eggman with absolutely no tricks up his sleeves. Most of his technology had been taken off him, apart from a single colony of Nano bots he had managed to conceal inside one of his Hence bots. They were invisible to scanner's so Omega's own system sensors could not pick them up. They were his trump card in case the worst should happen, or if opportunity knocked for him. Either way, they were his life line.

Pausing from his work over a panel, he gestured to the carrier of his colony; Becoe, to approach the service pipes that ran horizontally through the engine room heading through another series of pipes before being relayed into the Emerald chamber where Knuckles stood watch over the Master Emerald. Omega, who was paying his attention completely to Eggman didn't noticed the smaller robot approach a small port hatch the Doctor had been working on a minute ago. Inside which were a mess of wires and cables, all snaking along inside the pipe humming as Chaos energy flowed through. Lowering his hang onto it, Becoe paused long enough for the swarms of microscopic robots inside his body to culminate along his limb and then make the jump from him to the ship itself.

Eggman managed a large sadistic grin as Becoe retracted his hand and gave his creator a thumbs up. Now, he had a system of his own onboard this vessel; one he could deploy at any given moment. But not now. There was no point in pulling off his plan yet. It was far too soon, it was best to let his enemies beat each other up first.

"Shift change Omega." Shadow stated, leaping down from a catwalk above leaving Tikal up there. "I'll watch him now." The large attack unit's head turned a full ninety degrees to see the black and red Hedgehog. A second later, the hour elapsed on the robots internal clock and his watch over Eggman was officially over.

Acknowledging with only a nod of his head, Omega picked himself up on his small legs and marched out of the room.

"I'm warning you Eggman." Shadow began, glaring down at the fat scientist with his red eyes burning. "Don't try anything."

"Me?" Eggman asked in the most innocent voice he could manage. "Wouldn't dream of it." Behind his back however, he cast a thumbs up to his robot lackey for a job well done.

-

Once Tails had managed to get it into Big's head that he was on a space ship, the large feline had nearly gone mad with worry. He'd never been in outer space before and anything out of the ordinary filled him with intense worry. So to end this tedious and annoying task, the young fox simply had him in a room without any windows to see the emptiness around him and left it at that. As long as Big got a meal three times a day, he probably won't bother them.

So far as duties on the ship went, there was very little for him to do until Doctor Eggman got the engines back up to full power. Until then, he could leave the vessel on Auto-pilot. Still, there had to be something he could do to alleviate boredom. Heading back down to the cargo decks, he decided to see if there was anything that needed fixing there.

The only things that needed any work where the three Mech's onboard and Major Okida already had that covered. By now, most of his clothes were covered in oil as well as a good deal of his fur. The only other people down there besides him was Topaz surprising him with the maintenance of the Mech's and Sam Speed, who was busy going over the engine of his jet car, a revolutionary vehicle that could morph from land to air at any given time.

"Alright, that's it, you're taking a bath." Topaz remarked, holding her nose as Okida popped his head up as Tails said hello. The major just levelled his eyes and ducked back under to finish his work. "I'm not kidding here, you smell like you've spent three days inside a combustion engine." She added leaning over the side of the Mech.

"I probably have. I'm too busy right here." The vampire bat remarked with a short chuckle, passing up to Tails a wrench. The young fox could instantly see what Topaz meant by the smell, the thick overpowering fragrance of oil and smoke coming from the inside of the machine and from the Major himself was making his fur curl.

"You're going to have a clean if I have to wash you myself!" Topaz warned him with a steadfast glare. Faced with that prospect, Okida quickly stood up and sniffed himself. He shrank away from his own smell having apparently been vaguely unaware of how much he smelt.

"Well, maybe a short shower." He began with a grin. Topaz grabbed him by the red drape he always had hung around his neck and pulled him out of the machine with one yank.

"You're not going to get back to work until you smell less like the inside of a Mech." She told him sternly, sending him hurrying off towards the showers on this level of the ship.

"Who's in command of Freelance again?" Tails asked, putting Okida's wrench back in the tool box at his feet. Topaz managed a short giggle. As for Chris and Chuck, they'd been travelling up and down the ship all day, fixing this maintaining that; in the last several hours Chuck must have run dozens of system checks on nearly every piece of hardware on board. By now, he was very tried and by the time he reached a bunk he fell asleep even before he'd climbed into bed. Chris had been busy as well, but managed to maintain more energy than his grandfather; so instead of nearly collapsing once his own work had been done, he went to get some food from the kitchens.

By now, someone had brought the food up from the cargo decks and it was all stacked in boxes just outside the kitchen door. Reaching into one, Chris withdrew an apple and sank his teeth into it.

"Chris." A voice called. Looking up, Chris saw the recent edition to their group; the Seer Cosmo, approach him.

"Oh hey." He began. "Something wrong?" He asked again, suddenly noting the look on her face.

"How long have you known Sonic and Amy?" She asked looking up at him. Chris blinked in confusion for a second. He took the opportunity to describe how he first met Sonic, after rescuing him from drowning in his swimming pool. He encountered Amy a little later, when Sonic confronted Doctor Eggman for the first time in this world. That had been over a few years ago now.

"Why you ask?" He added after finishing his story. By now, they were sitting at a table in the empty dining hall. Bean, Bark and Hare had finished their game and gone off elsewhere so the two of them had the place to themselves.

"I'm trying to find a way to get them both together." Cosmo admitted, looking thoughtful as she stared down at the second apple Chris had fetched her. The human looked stunned for a second.

"Well I know Amy would leap at the chance." He began. "But as for Sonic, I doubt he'd like the idea of committing to anything. He likes to run anywhere he feels like, and he doesn't think he can do that if something tying him down to one person or place." Cosmo looked up at him with wide eyes.

"That must be lonely." Chris hesitated. He hadn't actually thought about it that way before. He supposed that it might be, running from place to place with no one beside you at all. Chris had always admired Sonic's freedom, but in some warped way he supposed Sonic was more trapped then the rest of them.

"'Suppose so." He began, taking another bite out of his apple. "Well, I guess I can help if you want me to."

"Thanks." Cosmo said with a short smile.

-

Flip card 1:

Name: Shadow

Age; 68

Species: Hedgehog

Description: Created over five decades ago by Prof. Gerald Robotnik, Shadow is revered as the Ultimate life form.