Authors note: I've just realised a few things. These being that DNA isn't in blood. Oh well. That and 'Ultra form' is something used in the Archie comics, which I didn't copy because I only get the Fleetway comics, well they stopped, so I don't get them but... you know what I mean.
Fistika tossed his knife from hand to hand as the Chaotix and Chaos circled him. Tikal watched with worry cemented on her face. Fistika turned towards her.
"Just out of interest, what help do you think Chaos will be?" While Fistika was distracted, Espio ran at him. Fistika dodged Espio's horn. Vector came from Fistika's side, and knocked him onto the ground. Fistika tried to get to his feet, but Charmy flew around his head, stinging him on every opportunity. Fistika swatted him away and got up on his feet. Vector took a swipe at him. Fistika grabbed Vector's fist, tried to stop it, but couldn't overpower Vector. He let go of the fist, dodged it, and let Vector topple forward slightly. Charmy and Espio charged at Fistika. Espio made contact with Fistika's back. Fistika was back on the ground, this time with his face in the dirt. Fistika got up. "That's it." Fistika muttered. Fistika turned to Espio and punched him in the head, while stabbing him in the stomach with the knife. Espio fell to the floor, clutching his knife wound. Fistika then got out a syringe and took Espio's blood sample.
"What did he just do to Espio!" Charmy shouted.
"That little..." Vector turned to Chaos. "Do something big blue!" Vector yelled. Fistika walked towards Vector, knife poised.
"I think you better do something Vector..." Charmy exclaimed, pointing at Fistika. Vector rose his fists to the oncoming echidna. Fistika smiled slightly. Vector threw a punch at Fistika. Fistika held up his knife, making Vector push his fist into it. He instantly retracted it. Vector kicked Fistika's leg, causing Fistika to stumble onto the floor again. While down there, Fistika stabbed Vector in the foot.
"Son of a..." Vector shouted in pain. Fistika jumped to his feet, took out a syringe and was about to shove it into Vector, until Charmy stung him in the forehead. Fistika grabbed the bee by the antenna and shoved the syringe into him.
"Ah! Vector help!" Charmy screamed. Fistika got his blood sample and tossed the bee to the ground. Vector threw a punch at Fistika, knocking him backwards. Fistika shook his head.
"One left.. hay, let go!" Chaos grabbed Fistika from behind. Fistika felt himself being pulled within Chaos. "What the?" Fistika struggled, only to find himself still getting pulled in. "What is this? TIKAL!" Fistika turned to Tikal, as did Vector.
"As the master emerald held me and Chaos, Chaos shall hold your evil." Fistika angry stared at Tikal and continued to fight the sinking into Chaos. He then stopped and laughed.
"Chaos, a creature made up of chaos energy." Fistika grinned and allowed Chaos to engulf him. Vector walked towards Chaos and looked at him.
"Okay... Tikal is it? Yeah, what the heck"
"Chaos is holding Fistika's spirit, using his chaos energy as a prison." Vector nodded, not entirely sure what Tikal was on about, but knowing it sound good.
"So... who was that madman"
"I believe that was me." Tikal and Vector turned to Chaos in horror. Chaos' shape began to change. His chaos energy took the shape of an echidna. A trench coat, collar and belt, which held syringes and a knife, came out of him and placed themselves upon him. "The simple minded Chaos can easily be overpowered by a strong minded individual such as me." Fistika admired his new chaos energy skin. "Well It's no ultra form, but a Chaos Fistika can't be all that bad." Chaos Fistika turned to Tikal. "Thank you for the new look. This will teach you to believe the power of the master emerald can be match by such a truly pathetic creature." Fistika then turned to Vector. "Then of course there's you." Chaos Fistika liquefied and moved himself underneath Vector. A hand holding a syringe came out of the pool of chaos energy and stabbed Vector in the leg. Vector bit his lower lip in pain (Which is hard for a crocodile) and was knocked down onto the ground as Chaos Fistika de-liquefied (it's a word, honest). Chaos Fistika looked at the Crocodile on the ground.
" It gets better. I'm not even being controlled by G.U.N anymore!" Fistika grabbed his collar, pulled it through his neck, and tossed it away. After flying a few feet the collar exploded. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some business of my own to do." Chaos Fistika waved at Vector and Tikal, before liquefying again and making an escape.
"Wow... That was cool!" Charmy flew slightly above Vector's shoulder.
"Shut it Charmy"
"We have lost Fistika. I told you he could not be..." A soldier was in the pure white room, shouting at Prisal. Suddenly the room filled with electricity, killing the soldier instantly.
"No one shall question my methods." Prisal said to himself. Prisal pressed a button to activate the speaker. "I have a body to remove from my room." He turned the speaker off. In minutes two soldiers came and carried the dead soldier away. As they exited the room, one of the soldiers muttered to the other.
"Our 'leader' has gone completely mental." The other soldier nodded to agree. "Using convicts to find parts for our weapons, using fake names, killing is own men"
"Wait, what's this about fake names?" The other soldier sounded curious.
"Well he's called R.E. Prisal, right"
"I don't think that's his full name, but yeah"
"Well, 'reprisal' is a word! It means revenge!" The soldier announced. The other solder still looked sceptical.
"It could be a coincidence. Or maybe he had very sad parents." The soldier laughed.
"Yeah, that's likely, isn't it?" The two soldiers entered a room, filled with draws. They opened up on, placed the dead soldier in it, and closed it. "Look, I think those conspiracy nuts may actually be on to something for once"
"What conspiracy theory is this? That Prisal is bigfoot?" The soldier laughed at the others bad joke.
"No, have you ever noticed that Sonic and that Shadow character we're always after don't really look that similar, also, when that A.R.K incident happened, there were no eye witnesses to the stealing of the chaos emerald"
"So"
"Well, apparently we went on record to say these non-existent eyewitness had seen Sonic the hedgehog steal the emerald, this was accompanied with amazingly fuzzy footage of the Shadow bloke"
"So you're saying that Prisal wants Sonic dead"
"Not quiet. The rumour is that Prisal wanted Shadow to attack the world and activate the cannon for years. He, however, needed a fall guy as to not start a nuclear war. That fall guy was Sonic." The other soldier wasn't buying it.
"This falls apart when he put in that Eggman released Shadow"
"According to official records..." The soldier tried to imply the records lied.
"That, and the Hot shot pilot battled Shadow"
"Oh." The soldier scratched his head. "Well, in any case, there is more to what's going on than we can see." The other soldier left, chucking at his friends stupidity.
"Would soldier ID: 18242 report to me." The speaker asked. The soldier walked back into the pure white room.
"Yes sir." He stood and waited. A door began to open to his side.
"I will not tolerate my men spread such things." The soldier gulped. Prisal had somehow heard him.
"Ju...st repo..rting rumours, sir!" The soldier tried to bluff his way out.
"A nuclear war would have washed you feeble creatures away. I would have been contempt. I needed the 'fall guy' for other reasons." The soldier's mouth dropped open.
"What?" Prisal pressed a button, the room filled with electricity.
"Nack? Why are you still here?" Tails asked the weasel as he walked into the Tornado's hanger.
"It's my way to hang around with whoever I thinks going to end up with the most emeralds. Besides, you can't fit everyone in to that plane. You're going to need my little baby." Tails turned to the Tornado and continued to fix a few problems he had with the test flight. Nack went over and leaned on the plane.
"Evil looking Sonic and the pink gal are being all 'coupley' in the other room and Sonic won't stop giving me cold stares, so you're the only one around to talk to." Tails nodded, not paying much attention the thief. "Mentioning Sonic, what's all this about him having some big secret from pink gal? I mean, I think it's obvious that"
"Sonic doesn't love Amy." Tails corrected Nack. Nack stared suspiciously at Tails.
"You know something about this, don't you twin tails?" Tails stopped working on the Tornado and turned to Nack.
"If I did, why would I tell you?" Nack stopped leaning on the plane.
"What's the worry fox boy? I can keep a secret. Why would I use it on Sonic anyway? Shadow's the one with the emerald"
"Well sorry, but I don't know enough to tell you his secret"
"But you know something." All eyes looked at Shadow, would had just entered the hanger.
"Ah, moody Sonic"
"The names Shadow, weasel. Remember it." Shadow turned to Tails. "Now little boy, tell me what you know." Shadow sounded angry.
"Little boy? Who goes around saying stuff like that?" Nack asked no one in particular. Tails scratched the back of his neck.
"I don't think Sonic would want me to." Shadow stared darkly at Tails.
"I don't care. To be frank, I'm not sure I trust Sonic, especially if it has something to do with Amy." Tails felt a chill go down his spine from talking to Shadow.
"Okay then. It was some time after we had obtained the time stones. I was running a few tests, and Sonic was the one actually using the stones. Anyway, one day, he used the time stones to travel through time. This time however, when he came back he was as white as a sheet and blood was covered on him"
"He'd killed someone?" Nack asked. Tails shook his head.
"No, it looked like he was near someone getting shot. After that he didn't use the time stones again, and told me not to tell anyone about it, especially Amy"
"Well, I'm better with secrets than you then." Nack observed.
"Is there anything else you can tell us." Tails was silent for a moment. "Anything"
"Well... I can't be very accurate, but I sure he travelled to a time very close to our current date. Possibly a day, maybe a week." Shadow went into thought for a minute before his eyes suddenly widened.
"But... this could mean that... Amy will..." Shadow didn't finish his sentence and went very quiet. "Amy..." he whispered.
"Yeah Shadow?" Amy asked as she entered the hanger. Shadow didn't reply. "O.K... Anyway, Sonic will be here shortly and we can go get the chaos emeralds!" Shadow exited the hanger. Amy gave Shadow an odd look, before turning to Nack. "Why are you still here"
Shadow walked through a few rooms in Tails' workshop in search for Sonic. He had to find out what happened. He had to know if he saw Amy... Shadow couldn't even bring himself to think about it. He had to find Sonic. Sonic walked out of the kitchen in front of Shadow.
"Come on Shad... What are you doing?" Shadow grabbed Sonic by the neck and pinned him against a wall.
"What happened?" Shadow asked. Sonic looked confused.
"I got a sandwich." Shadow pushed Sonic against the wall harder.
"What did you see last time you travelled through time?" Sonic's eyes widened, and he tried no to look at Shadow.
"That isn't very importa..." Shadow pressed harder.
"What happened?" Sonic was struggling for air. Shadow loosened his grip on Sonic slightly. "You saw her..." Shadow couldn't bring himself to say it. "You saw Amy." Shadow simply put it. Sonic nodded. "And she wasn't the one with a gun, was she?" Sonic remained silent. "Was she?" tears were filling in Shadow's eyes. Sonic looked down and shook his head. Shadow threw Sonic to the floor. "So. Amy..." Sonic got back on his feet.
"Come on Shad, for all I know I could have gone years into the future." Apparently Tails hadn't told Sonic how far forward he had gone. Sonic couldn't look Shadow in his tear filled eyes. "We can't do anything about it. It's already going to happen." (This is an odd thing for a hedgehog who has changed the future to say, but whatever.) Sonic sadly left Shadow to be by himself. Shadow leaned back against a wall, and let his body slopped onto the floor. He held his head in his hands. It couldn't be, it just couldn't. In a few weeks, at the most, Amy would be gone. Shot. It will be a mirror of what happened to Maria. There was no way he could see to avoiding the fate, it was already planned. Shadow tried to pick himself up, but couldn't. The pain he felt was to great. Shadow tried to focus on the task in front of him, but there was no way with this new revelation. Amy was going to die. Why would this happen? Why will Amy die?