I still do these at the end of my day, just before I go to bed. My brother stayed on way too long last night and I couldn't do anything more to my fics, without staying up way too late.

Two tribes isn't being ignored, it's just I can write a chapter of The 3 Shadows far faster, hence why it's designed that way.

This fic is ending in a completely different way than planned to keep with the at least ten chapter structure.

All copyright stuff is in Chapter 1

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The 3 Shadows, Episode 7 - Eclipsed

Chapter 9 - Where is Shadow?

A small flash of light could be seen back on Earth and the whole world went deafly silent. Families huddled together as they thought these were their last minutes on Earth. The 2 Shadows prayed that their leading 3rd was still alive. They knew he was pushing it but were unaware of just how vulnerable he actually was right now.

Miles and Joz looked at each other after the flash. It had been much larger than the cannon fire flash and so told them that the cannon had probably been destroyed.

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" asked Joz.

"That the cannon's been destroyed?" replied Miles.

"No, I'm thinking Shadow's in serious trouble if he's not dead already", said Joz

"Oh that. Don't worry, it's Shadow. He's made us feel like this before (A/N Episode 1)", said Miles.

"I hope your right Miles", said Joz.

More time passed and now they were really starting to panic. It had been hours and no sign of Shadow at all. By now they were back in Joz's Mansion.

"Right that's it", said Joz suddenly standing up.

"What?" asked Miles.

"I can't just wait for Shadow to appear. If he's not coming to us, we're going to him", said Joz.

"But how will we find him?" asked Miles, "He could be anywhere"

"If he's on ARK he's screwed and If he's anywhere else but Earth we may as well consider him dead", said Joz.

"I hope this is going somewhere", said Miles.

"It's time to ask a favour from GUN", said Joz.

Miles nodded and the two Shadows headed towards GUN HQ.

Meanwhile on ARK, Gerald has a gun aimed directly at Shadow's head. Shadow lay on the floor exhausted. Too weak to get back up he awaited death. Gerald tried to pull the trigger but he couldn't. Something inside of him stopped him from finishing off his greatest Rival.

"I can't do it", said Gerald throwing the gun away and falling to his knees.

"Then let me", said Sapphire limping inside the control room.

"No. I cannot kill my own creation. He's like a Son to me. A disobedient one sure, but a son nether the less", said Gerald.

"I understand, but what are we going to do with him?" asked Sapphire.

"Good point, we should really put him in the cells before he can wake up again", said Gerald.

Sapphire picked up the exhausted Hedgehog and took him to the cells. Before she could take a step though Gerald stopped her.

"When you've done that I would like a word with you", said Gerald.

"Save your breath, I know I let my personal feelings get in the way of my duty. I will not allow that to happen again", said Sapphire.

"It better not, but then again I should've known better. You are still an important asset, I just have to change the way I use you", said Gerald, "Ok go"

Sapphire continued to the cells.

Meanwhile at GUN HQ Joz and Miles confronted the GUN general. Joz and Miles demanded the General use all his resources to find Shadow, but he refused.

"You owe Shadow! He just saved everyone from Annihilation", said Joz angrily.

"I'm sorry but we really can't help at all", said the General

"Why not? Surely you have plenty of resources to do the job", continued Joz.

"Listen when Shadow first agreed to help us we could not trust him completely. So we tagged him with a tracking device just in case. To be honest both of you have one two", said the General.

"Huh? No way", said Miles, "I'm sure at least one of us would've noticed"

"So if you did have Shadow tagged why on Earth can't you find him now?" asked Joz.

"For some reason the tracking device isn't sending us a signal. It's as if he's not on Earth at all", said the General.

"What about ARK though? Could he be there?" asked Miles.

"It's possible and highly likely. We can tell you that the device is still within range of our spy satellite, though it's not giving us Earth co-ordinates", said The General.

"Then we need a spaceship. Shadow must be on ARK and we're going to rescue him", said Miles.

"I cannot give you one", said the General.

"Why not?" asked Joz.

"It would be too expensive to send you into space", said the General.

"But it's not too expensive to send an attack force. Look Money's no object, if case you've forgotten by treasure hunting skills have given me a vast fortune", said Joz.

The General paused for a moment.

"I'll see what I can do", said the General.