(Well, the couples have gotten together…what could possible go wrong? Oh…a little something could… And it has nothing to do with affecting love or relationships… I still don't own Sonic and the gang. I can't stress that enough. I just own the Nega-5, and Toya AKA Ambient.)

CHAPTER 9

Shadow sat up, looking around frantically for any sign of the Nega-5. Without his chaos emerald, he couldn't use his chaos control. But he could feel the energy signature coming from somewhere in the city. Since he couldn't chaos control, he decided to go by foot as he sped through Night Babylon. "I can sense them… Where are they heading? They're in the city…in Night Babylon… SHIT! That's where Sonic and Amy went, and Rouge and Knuckles too! I hope they left that place in time, but if not, I hope I can get there in time!" Shadow raced down the street, his rocket shoes blazing with fire as he jetted towards Club Rouge. As the said club appeared over the horizon, he could sense two dark chaos signatures. "Damn it! They're here already! But why are there only two?" As Club Rouge came into view, he could see the shapes of a fox and a hedgehog, and they definitely weren't Sonic and Tails. He grinded to a halt, and stopped only a few feet away from them.

Fury and Pain heard and sensed Shadow's arrival and looked at him with disdain.

"Well, if it isn't the reject…" Pain said with malice in her voice.

Shadow's eye twitched angrily. 'Reject!' "Where are my friends?"

Fury snorted. "Fortunately for you, they weren't here when we arrived, but I can assure you that the "love birds" will be found. Fear, End and Sorrow will make sure of that."

Shadow got into a fighting stance. "Not if I have anything to say about it!"

Fury shook her head. "You're in no position to make threats. End destroyed your Chaos Emerald, so you can't use chaos control. Since you don't have an emerald now…you're outmatched…"

Shadow didn't flinch. "I don't need a chaos emerald to fight! I'll take you on!"

Fury glared. "You really want to die, don't you? Don't you get it? You were never meant to be the Ultimate Life Form! You are a failed experiment! WE are the ultimate life forms, and we could kill you in 2 seconds!"

'And they called me arrogant…' Shadow thought snidely. "If you CAN kill me in two seconds, then what's stopping you? Unless… You're afraid to fight your predecessor." He added with a smirk, as he saw anger flash in Fury's eyes.

Fury bared her teeth. "YOU'RE DEAD!" She lunged at Shadow.

Meanwhile…

Tails and Cream were still busy kissing and hugging on the beach, lost in emotion, until they heard some new voices.

"How cute!"

"The little guy has some studly charm."

"Way to go, little buddy."

"What a cute scene."

Tails and Cream both pulled away blushing, and turned to see Sonic, Amy, Knuckles, and Rouge watching them.

"How long have you guys been there?" Tails said his face red.

"Long enough to see the kiss fest." Sonic joked.

"It was nothing compared to ours though." Amy whispered sexily in Sonic's ear, causing his face to heat up.

Rouge overheard and smirked. "Ours could compete too, right Knuxie?" She hugged Knuckles, her breasts bushing up against his side, making him redder than he already was.

Tails snickered. "Looks like Cream and I aren't the only ones who getting some sweet love…" He winked at Sonic and Knuckles who just cast him a mock ruddy look.

"So much love and joy… Makes me wanna puke!"

The 3 couples turned towards the source of the rude voice.

Sonic and Tails knew all too well who the speaker was. "SORROW!"

Sorrow the Bat stood in front of the couples with a disgusted look. "Enough with the kissing already, it's gross!"

"Who the hell is this bitch?" Rouge demanded.

Sonic was already in a fighting stance. "Someone you don't wanna know about, and someone who Tails and I hoped we wouldn't deal with again. She's from GUN, and she's got chaos control powers like Shadow!"

Tails had already joined Sonic. "This witch jumped Sonic and me a few days ago for no reason and tried to kill us! But thankfully Sonic nailed her, stole her chaos emerald and we got away."

Sorrow growled at the memory. "I wasn't ready that time, and this time, I'm hauling your speedy asses in!"

Amy and Cream's eyes flashed angrily as they stood protectively beside their boyfriends.

"If you mess with my Sonic, you mess with me you wench!"

"Nobody's taking Miles anywhere!"

Sorrow just shook her head laughing. "Pathetic… Your women are protecting you? Simply pathetic."

Sonic glared at Sorrow angrily. "It's not pathetic! It shows that they care about us! And you know what? We care about them too, so they protect us, we protect them."

"Oh really?" Sorrow said rudely and sarcastically. "Well then all four of you are gonna get hauled in together, and I'm not going to do it gently!" Sorrow spread her wings and stretched out her claws.

Sonic, Tails, Amy, and Cream got into their fighting stances ready to meet the creep head on.

"But you won't fight Sorrow alone!" A new voice bellowed out, as now, a blue furred, violet haired echidna and a white furred, red haired mongoose, both dressed in the same attire as Sorrow chaos controlled on both sides of their companion.

"I am End." The Mongoose stated.

"I am Fear." The Echidna announced.

"Great…" Sonic growled. "Sorrow's bought some friends…and it looks like they want to drag us over to GUN. So this is what Shadow was warning us about…" He turned to the gang. "Ok guys, Amy and I are gonna take on Sorrow."

Tails nodded. "Cream and I will go after End."

"Then that leaves Rouge and me with Fear." Knuckles said turning to their foe, as the 3 couples turned to their opponents.

Sorrow, End and Fear just scoffed, as their hands charged with chaos energies.

"You want to fight us!" Sorrow said with mock surprise.

"Sorry, but that would only waste our precious time." Fear told them.

End started making some kung fu style motions with her hands. "You guys are coming with us…NOW!"

Everyone, sensing that End was about to do something nasty, all jumped away just in time to see a huge column of purple flame erupt from the ground.

Sonic went first, and tossed a ring at Sorrow who merely shifted to one side, avoiding it, but was unprepared as Sonic launched himself at her with a spin attack, performing his "Sonic Drive" attack, knocking her, and her comrades over.

Amy followed suit, swinging her hammer, creating her "Girl Tornado" attack and sweeping up Sorrow in a pink tornado, while Sonic leapt into the air and span downwards with his, Sonic Meteor, slamming Sorrow into the ground, before using his "Blue Tornado" to increase the wind speed and send Sorrow into the sky.

Snarling, End tried to attack Sonic and Amy but Cream used "Chao Cannon," and sent Cheese flying in a torpedo at End, followed by Tails using his "Energy Ball," smacking her across the face, and sending her across the pavement.

Knuckles and Rouge were dodging countless chaos bolts from Fear, who was hovering towards them in a shooting frenzy. Rouge unleashed an "Air Bat Cracker" at Fear, before she got to close, and it blew up right in the GUN soldier's face, knocking her backwards, while Knuckles followed suit with his "Rock Free Fall" attack and launched a massive rock at the blue echidna, which shattered as it struck Fear on the head.

All three of the "Ultimate Life Form" foes were taken aback by the team work, but they recovered instantly getting back on their feet, miraculously unharmed

Fear shook her head at them. "This has gone on long enough! You're coming with us NOW!"

Before the three couples could act, End, Fear, and Sorrow's attacked. "CHAOS KNOCKOUT!" There was a blinding flash of gold light…and Team Sonic, along with their girlfriends fell unconscious onto the pavement.

Back at Night Babylon…

Shadow leapt about the grounds as he dodged "chaos spears" from Fury and Pain. He had to rely on his own physical abilities, as he did not have a chaos emerald with him any more, which meant he could no longer chaos control or use any of his chaos powers. He dashed away from chaos rain that was tailing him, courtesy of Fury, before dodging a chaos punch from Pain who had chaos controlled in front of him, attempting to strike him down. Shadow rolled across the ground before he was able to get up. "Damn it… How can I beat them without Chaos Control?"

"You can't!"

Shadow looked to see Pain flying down upon him. He jumped into the air and performed "Black Tornado" creating a whirlwind that took Pain by surprise, throwing her off balance and sending her back into the air, before she fell off course and landed smack on her back on the pavement, unconscious. "Well that puts one out of commission. Now, for Fury… Where the…HAA!" He was smacked violently from the side and skidded across the concrete. When he turned to where he was smacked from, he saw Fury standing there glaring at him with a dark look. Putting a hand to where he was struck, he could feel something warm and moist on the side of his head. When he pulled his hand away to look at it, he saw what he had been touching… It was blood. "Oh my god… Damn, she hits hard…" Before he knew it, Fury was standing right over him, her hand glowing with chaos energy.

"Now your life ends…" Fury said raising her fist.

Shadow closed his eyes, awaiting the blow…

BAM!

The sound of a loud gun rang through the air, hurting Shadow's ears in the process, causing him to wince, but he also noticed Fury stumble backwards, a burn mark on her shoulder, and what looked like deteriorating skin and flesh, as he saw grey metallic cells breaking off from that one spot. 'The hell? What could have caused that?' He looked to where Fury was now glaring at. Sanding there was an orange-furred echidna in an olive green military uniform with a magenta beret, brandishing what looked like a revolver. But the smoke that came from it was a dark green. Had HE fired that shot?

"My name's Toya, but you can call me Ambient. How did you like my "chaos bullet?" Ambient grinned cockily at Fury. "These revolvers of mine don't just hold ordinary bullets. They also hold my own special "chaos bullets;" bullets made of chaos emerald shards, which give them quite the power boost. You've just witnessed what one did to your shoulder. Care to see what else they can damage?"

Fury growled. "A lucky shot! I was probably damaged there from the very start of this fight!"

"Oh I think not…" Ambient waggled his gun at her, before turning to Shadow. "You're Shadow right? I'm a new friend of Sonic's. I think you might need something like this." He reached into his pocket and took out a medium sized prism emerald.

"Shadow will not receive anything but death!" Fury began to advance, but Ambient shot at her shoulder again, breaking off more pieces, exposing blood, oil, circuitry and flesh. Fury hiss in pain as she clutched her shoulder, and knelt down.

Ambient then tossed the prism emerald to Shadow, who had gotten up just in time to catch it. "This is a very special chaos emerald. A prism emerald. It has many secret powers within it, but right now all you need is some basic chaos control abilities right?"

Shadow, not feeling like questioning clutched the emerald in his hand, and could feel it's power surging through him, healing his wounds…

Pain, who had recovered, was helping Fury up, when they caught Shadow with his new emerald. "I thought his emerald was supposed to have been destroyed."

"Idiot!" Fury scolded. "Some new upstart's giving him a helping hand! We must strike them now!"

Shadow, however, had other ideas, as he turned to his two foes. "Not today, bitches! CHAOS CONTROL!" Shadow flew at the two "life forms" in a spinning torpedo formation, surrounded by an intense field of chaos energy that seemed stronger and more brilliant than that of the normal chaos emeralds. Fury and Pain never knew what was coming when they felt a tidal wave of energy envelop them and sweep them over, sending them across the pavement.

Fury got up to her feet, not in the best of mood, when she got a signal in her mind that read, "We have them." Smiling to herself she sneered at Shadow. "I'll have to cut this battle off for now. My three cohorts have done their duty, and now Team Sonic and their lady friends are in our possession."

Shadow's eyes widened. 'NO! This was all a distraction… They were after Sonic and the others the whole time…' "You leave them alone! I'm the one you want! Leave them out of this!"

Fury shook her head. "Sorry. We need Team Sonic and those girls. They'll make perfect GUN experiments…or maybe even new Ultimate Life Forms. We have no more use for you anyway… Come on Pain, we're leaving, we've got what we came for." She watched Pain get back on her feet. The two held out their chaos emeralds and shouted. "CHAOS CONTROL!" They vanished into thin air…leaving a horrified Shadow in their wake.

Shadow stared at the empty space before him. "No…" He dropped to his knees… "No…No…No…" He clutched his head and screamed out to the dark sky above. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

TO BE CONTINUED

(Uh oh… THIS was unexpected, and it's bad… Sonic and co have been captured. What the hell is Shadow gonna do?)