(We're getting closer to the finale of this story… When Shadow will finally stick it to his former creators… I don't own Shadow. I don't own Sonic. I don't own ANY of them. SEGA, Sonic Team, and the great Yuji Naka own them.)

CHAPTER 11

The Chaotix Hover Car made its way up the mountains of Holy Summit, and Shadow looked like he was ready to jump out of the car any minute. 'Ugh! How much farther does this mountain go up? We're not even near the middle yet, and still no sign of the Nega-5!' Shadow searched the entire mountain side as the car drove on, keeping an eye for anything out of place…such as 5 deranged females in GUN uniforms, or 6 captured animals which would include 2 hedgehogs, an echidna, a bat, a rabbit and a kitsune. 'They're here somewhere… The Prism Emerald told me so… I wish it would…' He didn't get to finish his thought, as his prism emerald seemed to magnetically draw his hand to the right. Taking this as a sign, he turned to Vector. "Turn here!" He said pointing to the right side of the fork in the road.

Vector was met with a chaos emerald in his face, and Shadow's demand at a right turn. Figuring that now was not the best time for questions, he simply turned the car to the right.

Shadow noticed the Prism Emerald glow brighter and brighter. "Yes… This is it. This is the sign I need. We're getting close!" He turned to the Chaotix, and Ambient. "Be on your guard… They might have se- BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!" There was an explosion, and the car was knocked up into the air, spinning around, and throwing everyone to the ground with a loud thud, as the flaming remains of the car fell to the ground below.

Shadow, his chaos powers shielding him from impact, leapt to his feet. "Damn it, they know I'm here!"

"No duh." Fury appeared in front of Shadow. "Shadow you're so stupid, always meddling in others affairs…"

Shadow snorted. "Screw you. I'm here to take my friends back."

"I'm afraid we can't allow that…" Sorrow appeared next to Fury. "Sonic and his friends are property of GUN now."

"The hell they are! You can't just take away this planet's protectors, rob them of their lives and use them for your own selfish gains."

"We can and will, now shut up!" Fury yelled firing a chaos spear at Shadow.

Prism Emerald in hand, and channeling its power, Shadow knocked the chaos spear away.

Fury's jaw dropped. "What?"

Shadow shook his head. "Fortunately for me, I've brought a new toy to this fight." He showed them the prism emerald. "This…is all I need to beat you, and save Sonic and the others."

Fury narrowed her eyes. "Give me that emerald right now! It's of no use to you."

Shadow smiled. "This is no ordinary emerald…" He suddenly vanished from sight, and 3 seconds later an explosion of energy engulfed Sorrow.

"GOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUHHHH!" The bat screamed, as her entire body burnt into nothingness, all in a matter of 5 seconds.

Fury was flabbergasted. "S-Sorrow was vaporized?"

Shadow rematerialized in the same spot that he vanished from. "One down, four to go."

"DAMN YOU!" Fury broke into a hyper dash.

"Come back here! I'm not finished with you yet!" Shadow followed at a similar speed, his rocket shoes blazing with sparks and flames as his feet skated across the earth. He ran as fats as possible, keeping his eyes on Fury the whole time. "You're not getting away from me that easily. I WILL get my friends back."

Meanwhile, back at the crash, Ambient and the Chaotix were just recovering.

Ambient sat up, and surveyed the area, finding signs of a fight, but none of Shadow. "Shadow… He must've gone ahead!"

"How are we gonna catch up to him? He must've had a hell of a head start." Vector said. "Plus, our car's completely totaled."

"We got no choice." Espio told them. "We're gonna have to go by foot." With his ninja speed Espio took off in the direction that Shadow had gone.

"Wait up! Don't leave me behind!" Charmy flew at Espio's heals, trying to keep up.

Vector sighed. "Espio's always so headstrong…" He ran off after his two team mates.

Ambient shook his head. "And I almost got caught by these guys?" He ran off after them.

Shadow, meanwhile, was closing in on Fury. "It's no use! I'm getting closer! You might as well call out the other three, and tell me where my friends are!"

"The hell I will!" Fury shot back. "I'd rather your idiot friends, die. In fact, I'd rather YOU die!" She turned right around, sending out a chaos charged punch at Shadow, who barely managed to duck.

Shadow dodged the punch, feeling the chaos energy sing his quills before firing out a roundhouse kick, knocking Fury over, causing her to roll across the ground, before landing on her front. "Dirt and grass taste good, Fury?"

Fury spat out the grass and dirt in her mouth, before snarling at Shadow. "End! Get your ass out here!"

End the Mongoose materialized behind Fury, helping her up. "What's going on Fury?"

"Shadow's got some new power source to use. He just eradicated Sorrow."

End glared at Shadow. "Well he's not going to do that to me…"

"Wanna bet?" Shadow asked, waving his prism emerald around.

"I don't know what power you have with that emerald…" End told Shadow. "But it doesn't belong in your incompetent hands! Give it to me!" She rushed at Shadow, firing chaos shots at him.

Shadow held up the emerald, generating a shield around him, which absorbed the chaos shots like sunlight.

End cried out in shock as she witnessed the energy absorption. "W-What just happened?"

"Something you never expected." Shadow said simply. "And you won't expect this either… Then again, you won't even comprehend it."

"Why not?" End was suspicious.

Suddenly, Shadow's shield flashed once…twice…then three times, before a sudden shot of light burst out like a bullet, going right through End's chest, causing a shower of blood to erupt from her body, while a gaping, bloody hole was right where her heart once was… "Oh…no reason." Shadow said simply as he watched End fall to the ground, dead.

'First Sorrow…then End?' Fury couldn't believe what was happening. All she knew, was that they were gone because of Shadow's new emerald. And she did not intend for Shadow to keep it for long.

Shadow kept his eye on Fury who had…well…fury. "I've already taken out two of your palls. Now, let Sonic and the others go!"

"Never!" Fury snarled at him.

Shadow sighed angrily. "They always pick the hard way…" He said simply. 'She's taken two defeats and she still isn't backing down… She's even more stubborn than Eggman.' He thought. 'But I WILL get Sonic and co. back, even if it means taking down GUN, soldier by soldier.'

Espio and the others, meanwhile, were making the scene, just in time to see Shadow staring down Fury, over the corpse of a mongoose Nega-5 member, whom Shadow had said was named End. "Looks like two of the Nega-5 are down for the count now…"

Shadow raised the emerald into the air, channeling its power. "I tire of this, Fury. Since you won't tell me where my friends are, I'll use the prism emerald to find them myself…" He once more pictured Amy, and Sonic, and felt the power within him… "CHAOS CONTROL!" He disappeared in a flash of blinding, multi-colored light, just as Vector, Charmy, and Ambient were arriving.

"What's going on?" Vector asked his partner.

"Shadow just Chaos Controlled out of here… Something tells me he might have found Sonic and the others…" Espio explained.

"Um… Gentlemen…." Ambient butt in. "I believe since Shadow's gone, we should deal with her…" He pointed to the form of Fury, before them.

Charmy did a few karate kicks in mid air and then made a scary face at Fury. "Let's take this broad down!"

Vector took out a mike stand. "It's time for our Team Blast attack!" He announced as his partners took out their instruments, preparing for their Team Blast. Espio started strumming on his Koto, while Charmy beat way on his dream, both slightly out of tune. Then, Vector burst in with REALLY bad singing, creating a blast of loud, horrible "music" directly at Fury.

Fury covered her ears, and gritted her teeth as she heard and felt the racket around here. "URGH! They're Team Blast is a tone deaf excuse for a song?" She felt the pressure of the blast drive her to her knees. "Agh… It feels like it's eating away at my power…. Why am I getting weak? Does this mean…I'm not an ultimate life form?"

Ambient came up, just in time to see the Chaotix subduing Fury, and saw the remains of another Nega-5 member on the ground. 'Shadow's nowhere in sight though…' He thought to himself. 'I just hope, wherever he went, he's found Sonic, Amy and the others…' He loaded up his chaos guns and pointed them towards Fury, just in case something unexpected happened. Something didn't feel right to Ambient, and he feared this was merely the opening act…and that the main event had yet to happen, but would arrive very soon, maybe sooner than expected.

TO BE CONTINUED

(Is the Nega-5 about to go down? Will Shadow finally find Sonic and the others? That's for me to know…and you to read and find out… (laughs))