Chapter 15
Confrontation

Amy stood in the research facility with a grim look.

"Darn, why do they always leave a sweet innocent girl like me alone?" She sighed.

"Well, well young lady. Is there something I can help you with?" Amy turned to see Eggman aiming a laser gun at her.

"Doctor Eggman!" Amy whimpered.

"If you value your life, you will tell me where Mona, Sonic, and Tails are!" Eggman sneered. Amy looked down. She didn't have much of a choice.

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Tails continued firing his way through the robots that were in his way. He eventually made it to the tower where the generator powered the Eclipse Cannon. Tails landed the Cyclone after avoiding airborne enemies and sent many shots from the Vulcan cannon on the small mech until the power generator shut off.

"I did it!!" He cheered.

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Mona and Sonic reached the control room. Sonic was focused on stopping the cannon from firing whileMona was seeing the prevention of the awakening of the Bio-Lizard. But she overlooked one little thing...

"Tails, we found the control section!"

"Okay Sonic! Now put that emerald…" The transmission was suddenly redirected.

"Tails, tell Sonic to meet you back at the research facility, NOW!" Eggman smirked.

"Shitake Mushrooms…" Mona gasped in horror.

"Sonic! Amy is…" Tails started.

"I-I didn't get that Tails! What happened to Amy? Tails?!" Sonic tried to get an answer before the transmission shut off causing Mona to groan bitterly.

"You'd better help Amy." She said.

"Okay, just where is the research facility?" Sonic asked only to have Mona hand over the Search Glasses.

"Just put them on and ask for the directions for the research facility." She explained as Sonic put them on.

"Okay, directions for the research facility." There was a brief pause before Sonic jumped. "Way past cool!!!" (He never says that anymore! AARGH!)

"Yes, yes, they're awesome but shouldn't you go and find Tails and Amy?" She asked sarcastically with an eyebrow raise.

"Shoot, I almost forgot!" Sonic pulled off the glasses and handed them back to Mona who stuffed them in her pocket. "What about the…?"

"Don't worry about the Emeralds. I'll get them out before Eggman can say…"

"I don't think so!" A dark voice interjected. Mona and Sonic turned around to see Shadow standing on the path leading to the space colony control. Sonic tensed and the girl could tell that the two hedgehogs were getting ready to attack each other. Immediately, she put her arm in front of Sonic, blocking him.

"Wha…?" Sonic gave her a confused look.

"Sonic, I'll handle this…" She whispered, keeping her look fixed on Shadow.

"Are you sure about this Mona?" He asked.

"Just move, Amy might have been shot already." She hissed through her teeth. Sonic nodded and sped past Shadow. During his stride, both hedgehogs gave each other fierce looks before Sonic got out of the room. Shadow and Mona were in a state of pause before Shadow took a step forwards.

"So what were you and Rouge planning? I could tell you two had a secret motive when I saw that sword." Shadow remarked. "Now I know who she is. She's the government spy Rouge the Bat. Isn't she?"

"Did your homework Ultimate Life Form?" Mona asked with a trace of cockiness in her sentence. "You know there is such thing as privacy. But I just came since I was dragged along at first. Well, now that I and Rouge are done it's time for us to get out of here along what belongs to her. I see you had a secret motive too."

"What are you talking about?" Shadow asked in a confused way. "Does she know?"

"You'd think I was a loony. How else would you explain how I found out three of the Chaos Emeralds were on Prison Island?" She asked. "You thought I was a psychic. Hah!" "God Mona…what are you doing?! He's probably going to attack you at a moments notice!"

"Were you hired by the president?" Shadow asked, trying to get a clear answer.

"Were you working for Eggman? Or were you driven by revenge?" This struck Shadow hard. She did know…about her…Mona's conscience mentally clonked her in the head as she desperately tried to forget her statement.

"Why would I do it out of revenge? Explain that!" Shadow announced and got tensed before clenching a fist.

"I know everything about you, Eggman, Rouge, Amy, Sonic, Knuckles, Tails…" Mona drifted off. Her look was that of regret realizing she reminded him of Maria by that second statement. Shadow's tenseness faded.

"You know about her too?" Shadow asked. "Oh god… Was I right about making a mistake?"

"Maria, yes…" Mona sighed and cast her look downwards; her teeth were somewhat clenched to fight back tears. "Believe it; she would've wanted something else besides you doing this." Her fist clenched.

"What would she want?" Shadow thought. "What would she want me to do? If you really know her, you must tell me!" She looked back up with an unhappy look which Shadow immediately recognized when he first saw her.

"You'll find out Shadow. I have to go and settle something with mister hard-boiled egg. Just…just stop this terror while you have the chance." She snarled before walking off the control, not making eye contact. Mona stopped once she was at least three feet behind Shadow. "Not many people are like the ones who killed Maria and put you in cold sleep. If you don't stop this plan of vengeance you'll never fulfill your promise to make the people on Earth happy." She immediately walked out and the door closed.

Shadow looked at the Eclipse Cannon control. "You're right. Do you recognize me now?"

Not yet.

Shadow shook his head.

"I suppose I brought her here to help me remember." He sighed. "Great, I guess now I need a miracle to reverse things!" Shadow muttered before walking up to the space colony control before stopping and seeing the radar screen.

"What are you doing kid?" He muttered as he watched the blip that represented Mona head towards the research facility where four other characters were. "You had better not be doing what I think you're doing."

"Shadow!" The ebony hedgehog turned to see Knuckles and Rouge behind him. "Where's Mona?" Rouge asked.

"She went to help your friends." Shadow replied. "You two had better get moving before she does something stupid."

Rouge and Knuckles left the room and Shadow paused before chaos controlling some place.

"Or before anyone does anything stupid."

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Sonic: (grinning at Shadow)

Shadow: What?

Sonic: SOFTIE!!!

Shadow: OF ALL THE LITTLE!!!!!!! COME BACK HERE SO I CAN…DO SOMETHING NASTY!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Chases Sonic)

0o; I'll just work on the next chapter…