Wow, I got this chapter out in a week!

"Praise the Lord!" cried Sonic.

Yeah, about that, unfortunately for you readers, I'm think about making the chapters a little shorter. That way they'll come out faster.

(readers get pitchforks)

DON'T HURT ME! (hides under desk)

NekoFanGuy: For your reading pleasure, YOUR WISH OF LISA AND SHADOW TOGETHER SHALL BE GRANTED! (crosses arms and wiggles nose)

Narisha-Is-Here: Thank you that SOMEONE likes how I take a lot of TIME to write out everything in detail from memory. (cough)

Knuckles stops eating a sandwich "What?"

Anyway, a Metal Sonic lover? (looks at lake of drool) A little creepy, but you can have him.

"Nooo!"

Spirit Horse: YEY! NEW REVIEWER! I'm glad you like my stories! And yes, Shadow does rock. Nice horse…must resist……HORSEY! (runs and glomps horse)

Disclaimer: What do you think huh? Here, I'll say it in French for ya! Je ne Shadow the Hedgehog pas! (I didn't look it up so I'm not sure if it's right, Madam must be so ashamed!)

And now, I'm off to watch the network premiere of Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones!

(Darth Vader comes in and steal the remote) Lisa…(breathe) I am…(breathe) stealing your Shadow poster…

Nooo! (grabs light saber and chases him)

A figure stood on top of one of the tallest skyscrapers in Grand Metropolis, looking down at the city below her. She could faintly see little orange dots moving back and forth, along with some green dots, remaining in one place.

The woman brought her hand back and pulled some stray hair from her quills behind her ear, for the wind was making her quills blow all over the place.

A sudden scent wafted over to her and she jumped a little in surprise. That was a familiar smell and she jerked her head to where it was coming from. Her head turned to the west, where by the edge of the city, were faint sparkles of sudden explosions of robots. Over to the South, there were more mechanical parts being thrown into the air, along with in the North and East.

"So, the gang's all here." she whispered, watching the small battles taking place all around her.

Behind her, she heard a laughter ring out in the distance. Whipping around she saw Dr. Eggman flying around in his Egg Pod as he too, watched the teams fight against his robots.

Instantly, her teeth gritted and her fist clenched as she stared at the doctor, gazing down at the skirmishes below him in amusement. For a split second, the doctor glanced at her from the corner of his eye, and watched her glaring at him. The human chuckled and steered his Egg Pod away as he looked down one last time at one team that was right beside the building she was standing on.

As Dr. Eggman flew away laughing, she curiously glanced over the edge of the structure. Below her she saw three people, one was dressed in fancy and eye catching colors of white, purple and pink, which the other two beside her were more neutral or dark colors.

Raising a brow, the figure narrowed her eyes to try and focus on the three people, but when one of them pointed at her, fear took control of her body and she fled from sight.

Team Dark was racing through the city, destroying multiple guard robots in their path. Shadow was taking the lead and skating down the odd paths and roads. The paths were a bright blue and when Shadow stepped on them, his feet were dragged forward, almost making him trip. Soon, they were running on the trail with ease, about twice as fast as normal.

They reached downtown of the city and found it to be crawling with little orange robots. As well as a few of the newer models, giant green turtles with laser cannons attached to their backs.

Straight away, Omega started firing his machine guns connected to his arms at all of the robots, most of them blown to bits. Unfortunately, the giant tortoise wasn't phased by E-123's attack and started firing his own counter attack. The laser almost hit Rouge, before she jumped into the air and flew out of range, while Shadow Chaos Controlled. Omega wasn't as fortunate as the others and began to get dents in his metal body.

Shadow sneakily glided behind the turtle and jumped in the air, quickly doing a spin-dash around the robot. This made a black tornado and caused the machine to rise in to the sky crash back on the ground on its back.

At this point, Rouge waved to the others and Shadow grabbed onto her boots, Omega holding onto Shadow's ankles, and Rouge roundhouse kicked Shadow into the robot, destroying it.

Omega dropped to the ground and Rouge plops down onto his metallic shoulder while Shadow walked over to them. His red eyes gazed at all of the broken robots around them as he stopped and stood in front of Rouge.

The bat's ear twitched as she thought she heard something above her and jumped off of Omega's shoulder, she then walked out a ways and looked up, trying to see the top of the building they were standing under. Bringing her hand to her forehead, she squinted and tried to focus on something up there.

Shadow raised his eyebrow and walked out to where Rouge was standing and gazed up at the top of the large skyscraper. Up there he could see a figure, it looked kind of feminine and for a moment it looked down at them.

Rouge raised her other hand, pointing at the person, her mouth slightly open and her eyes wide, though she was squinting. It seemed like she was mouthing a name or something of the sort, when suddenly, the figure above ran away from the edge.

Shadow stepped forward, almost like he was going to chase after them, but quickly shook his head and regained his posture, crossing his arms in his chest, closing his eyes. Omega walked over next to Shadow and waited to continue.

"Lisa…" Rouge barely spoke, more like mouthing as she lowered her hands to her sides.

Shadow opened his eyes abruptly and fixed his gaze at Rouge from the corner of his eye. He opened his mouth like to say more, but closed it and pursed his lips.

Eventually, Rouge stopped her fixed stare at the last place the figure was seen and shook her head and walked ahead of the group.

"Sorry about that. Let's get going!"

Shadow nodded and followed behind her as Omega activated his boosters and hovered in the rear.

Lisa fell down the side of the skyscraper, occasionally kicking off of the walls to slow her descent, until she landed on the ground in a cat-like crouch. She was deep in an alleyway, where none of the robots noticed her falling from the top of the skyscraper. She rose and ran over to the alley wall and fell down to the ground, leaning against it.

She brought her hands to her eyes and rubbed them, trying to make sense of what she just saw. It looked like she saw Rouge, Shadow and a robot beneath that office building.

"Could it…" Lisa whispered.

To her right, at the outside of the alley, sounds of a battle drifted down the narrow lane, to her sensitive ears. Raising her head, she looked down at the entrance to the alley and tried to define what was going on in the battle.

Lisa stood up slowly and quietly, and tiptoed her way to the edge of the alley. She leaned against the wall of the alley and slipped her head out from the wall to get a good look.

A blue blur streaked past her face from the left and circled around a giant turtle robot. A yellow figure and a red shape were standing on opposite sides of the green robot, the golden one hovering in the air.

"Ready? Tails? Knuckles?" the blue one asked.

"Ready when you are Sonic!" Tails replied.

"Alright!" cried Knuckles.

Sonic zipped around the turtle and created a small updraft with powerful winds, making the tortoise try to clamp its feet in the ground with no success. The reptile was thrown high into the air, circling and spinning before it came down to the earth and crashed hard into the pavement.

Before it could recompose its posture, Knuckles ran right up to it and jammed a large spiked fist into its core. He pushed his fist in as far as it would go; causing sparks and metal bits to fly out at him. The echidna squinted one of his eyes to prevent any splinters of metal flying in.

Soon the turtle stopped wiggling and lay perfectly still on the cement, while the team gathered together to look at the remains. Soon, the blue leader turned about half way, facing the direction past the alleyway Lisa was standing it and waved his arm, motioning for them to continue on.

When Sonic turned his head to start walking, he saw a white dot sticking out of the alley in the corner of his eye, before he blinked and it disappeared. Curious, he raised his eyebrow and quickly ran ahead of the others, into the entrance to the alley.

Seeing nothing but darkness, the hedgehog cautiously placed one foot in front of the other, slowly making his way deeper into the alley, not seeing anything but the black and only smelling trash.

"Hey Sonic!"

He whipped his head around, looking at the echidna calling to him and the kitsune waving his arms. He looked back, deep into the dark and frowned, but turned and ran back to his friends, speeding off in the opposite direction they came.

A drop of sweat plopped onto the trashy alley below her as Lisa let out a sigh, she was hanging upside-down from the wall, high up on the building to try and hide from Sonic. She released her white-knuckled grip and fell to the ground in a rush, landing on her unsteady feet.

She steadied herself by placing her hand on the wall and standing up straight, closing her eyes tight. She had changed so much, fear growing great, that she couldn't even reveal herself to Sonic anymore.

Lisa shaking, walked to the entrance of the alley and looked out down the road where Team Sonic had went. She could still faintly see the explosions of robots far down the street. The young hedgehog shook her head and disappeared in a flash of blue light.

Rouge glided as the wind blew strongly beneath her wings, letting her fly far ahead of the rest of her team. She looked behind her to see Shadow easily skating side by side with Omega who was riding on his jet booster.

She flapped her wing and shifted her body a bit, slowing down to reposition herself next to the rest of her group. Shadow looked sideways at Rouge and started running a little faster, taking the lead, Omega gliding obediently after him.

Rouge sighed and looked to her right, calmly soaring after her two teammates. Suddenly, a gleam caught the bat's eye on top of one of the office buildings. She narrowed her eyes and turned a little closer, just making sure. The figure stood up straight and looked straight at Rouge, stray hairs flying in her face.

Rouge smirked and flapped up, rising and floating for a moment, before she dived and with the speed boost, beat her wings rapidly to catch up with Shadow.

There's no doubt about it then that was Lisa. She's been here the whole time, watching us. Then again, maybe it's not just us… Hmmm… Rouge thought flying after Shadow.

She jerked out of her daze in surprise when she saw that Shadow had stopped running and was calmly waiting for her. The treasure hunter smoothly raised herself so she was hovering standing up and folded her wings, making her fall onto Omega's shoulder, her new hangout.

Shadow was standing how he normally was, leaning against a building with his arms crossed and arms folded, he opened his mouth to say something when Rouge's ears twitched. He opened his eyes and stared at her, knowing she had better hearing than him, slightly better hearing than him.

"What is it?" he asked, standing straight.

She closed her eyes as Omega shifted uncomfortably and started to scan the area. Rouge turned her head slightly to the left and right, trying to find the sound again, after a bit she opened her eyes and pointed to the top of a building.

Shadow nodded in response and raced to the nearest building, which happened to be taller than the one, the mysterious noise was from. Team Dark rode the elevator to the roof of the skyscraper and walked to the edge, where they could see three people on the other roof, they were talking to each other and praising each other very loudly.

"Didja see me? Didja see me, Vector? Didja see how I handled that robot!" the smallest one, a bee shrieked with glee, buzzing around.

"Yes, Charmy! I saw you blew that turtle apart!" cried the largest, a green crocodile.

"Yeah, then you ran away screaming from the other one!" teased the last member, a lavender lizard.

"DID NOT!"

Shadow snorted and crossed his arms, staring down at them while Rouge brought her hand to above her eyes, blocking out the bright sun.

"Man, Just look at those creeps over there!" she cried.

The lizard spun his head unexpectedly, glaring straight at Rouge and the rest of Team Dark, on a building not far from his own.

Rouge clenched her fist at the way the lizard was staring at her, so she jumped in the air and swiftly glided over to the other team's skyscraper, Omega and Shadow close behind her.

The purple chameleon turned and faced the newcomers and glared at them threateningly. The rest of Team Chaotix swiveled around as well to finally see what Espio was upset about.

"And you are?" Espio asked.

"Just whadyya think you're doing here?" Rouge demanded.

"Who is this broad?" Vector turned to Espio.

"Our client's adversary, perhaps?" he replied.

"You mean the bad guys?" Charmy asked, butting into the conversation.

Now Rouge was mad, her fists were clenched at her side and were shaking violently. Behind her Shadow was ready to fight and Omega was paying close attention.

"You guys don't fool me! I know what you're after! Better stay out of my way!" she screamed, pointing accusingly at the curious team.

"Rouge," Shadow whispered, "What do you think they're after?"

"They," Rouge snarled, "Are after Eggman's treasure! But they're not gonna have it. It's mine, ya hear? Mine!"

The others, including her own team, looked at her strangely. Charmy flew behind Vector when Rouge let go of her outburst and whispered in Vector's ear.

"What do you think she's talking about?"

"I have no idea," the croc answered honestly.

"That's strange…that robot they have, isn't that an E series?" Espio questioned, pointing at Omega.

"Weird, do you think it has anything to do with what Miss Lisa wanted?" The bee asked.

"Nah, that's stupid Charmy." Vector said.

From the opposite them, Rouge started to pace towards them, hoping to pick a fight. They're not getting my jewels!

After a moment of silence Vector shouted, "I know, he might have a clue for Lis-"

A hand slapped itself over Vector's mouth as Espio have a very cross look on his face. He gave a look at Charmy to not say anything more and he spoke to Vector.

"Do you want to tell them anything else while you're at it?" Espio hissed.

"Yeah Vector, you sure have a slow brain sometimes." Charmy started laughing.

The bat's ear twitched when she listened to the one called Vector's outbreak, and gasped to herself. Shadow noticed but took no heed, his mind was on battle mode and nothing was going to distract him.

Do these creeps really know Lisa some how? Guh! They're confusing me more and more by the second!

"The time for talk is over!" Shadow commanded as he skated forward, ready to attack.

Rouge sighed and flapped her wings hard, taking flight and flying into battle, while Omega activated his rocket boosters and hovered into the skirmish, also triggering his machine guns.

Before Chaotix could react, Shadow landed a homing attack directly on Espio and Rouge was able to hit Vector with a drop kick square in his chest.

Charmy shrieked and started to fly away, but Vector grabbed a hold of his ankles and was lifted up into the air. Espio quickly recovered from Shadow's attack and raised his feet into the air and as fast as lightning brought them underneath the rest of his body. He then jumped up and grasped onto Vector's shoes.

While in the air, Charmy kicked between Vector and Espio off of his shoes and they crashed into the enemy, making them scatter in all directions.

"Heh! Some team! They're not even organized like we are! They could never defeat us!" proclaimed Vector.

Rouge heard that comment and screeched to a halt in mid run and Shadow and Omega almost ran into her.

"Did you hear that? Did you hear that!" She demanded, "They think they're better than us! We'll we've gotta show them!"

"Are you sure this is wise?" Shadow questioned.

"Wise? Wise? Since when did we do anything wise?" She half joked as she took flight.

She then motioned to Shadow and he jumped and placed his hold on her boots as E-123 clamped his metal hands around the hedgehog's ankles.

"Two can play at this game!" Rouge shouted and sent Shadow straight into their tower of team members, causing the crocodile to lose his grip and fall to the ground.

Vector took Espio in his mouth and puffed out his chest full of air, then launched the lizard into the white bat, making her fall to the ground with the rest of her team.

Both sides were staring each other down, panting heavily and waiting for the other to make the move. Shadow's eyes moved from one person to another, watching their every more carefully as Rouge balled her fist, waiting to attack.

After a seemingly long moment, the crocodile stretched out his arms to the sky and leaned backward, stretching and cracking his back.

"C'mon boys! No use standing here."

The ninja lowered his arms and gave one last glare at the opposing team and walked off, having very straight posture and carefully planned placement of his feet. The bee flew warily flew and landed on Vector's shoulder, making himself comfortable for a much needed rest.

"What was that all about? After a big fight they just up and leave!" Rouge cried, throwing her hands in the air.

"Be lucky that you have no major injuries, Rouge." Shadow calmly stated, brushing dust off of his fur.

The woman didn't answer, she only looked out in the direction that Team Chaotix was last scene. On a grand building before them, a white figure stood tall and caught Rouge's attention. Just as the bat took a step forward, the person jumped off the building and began to flee.

Immediately, Rouge started after her leaving behind Omega and Shadow in her dust. Omega followed instinctively, but Shadow was more curious and followed reluctantly.

"Rouge, wait!" he called, throwing his hand out in from of him.

If the bat indeed heard him, she ignored him completely and flew after the escaping figure. Omega was following Rouge but chose not to say anything, for nothing would break Rouge's concentration.

Groaning, the hedgehog followed their pursuit as Rouge landed on the ground and started running at top speed, her boots almost looking like a purple and pink blur. The bat herself, could feel her heart beating strongly against her chest, pushing her to the limit in trying to keep up with the faster hedgehog.

There is no way I'm letting her get away again!

The figure swiftly darted into an alleyway in attempts to lose her pursuers but to no avail. Rouge made a sharp right turn and followed after Omega right behind.

"Lisa!"

The figure jerked and screeched to a halt, standing a few yards in front of Rouge. She held her arms loosely at her sides, panting hard from the chase. Rouge's ears were drooped with exhaustion as she breathed heavily, watching with pleading eyes.

"Lisa! Wait, please listen to me-"

"I don't wanna hear it!" The hedgehog snapped back.

"Lisa, please!"

"No, Rouge! I'm not going to stand by and take this! I know what you're gonna say, just like the others have said before!" Lisa retorted, cutting Rouge off.

"It's not like that! I never thought…He…You… Look! I have something to show you, all right! If you would do any one thing for me, your old friend, please just hear me out this one last time!" Rouge begged, walking towards Lisa.

"Rouge…" She said, anger showing clear as glass in her voice, and the hedgehog didn't want to hide it.

"No! You have to listen to me! The others were just worried! But I have something to show you! I'm sure that if you don't listen to me, you'll regret it all of your life!"

The female hedgehog froze, he breath rattled her lungs and she stared wide-eyed at the ground. Her fists kept clenching and releasing themselves as she lowered her ears in shame.

"Rouge…I just…I don't wanna be hurt anymore…I want these wounds to finally heal…" Lisa said softly, tears streaming down her face, "I want to know…I want to know the answers to my questions…I want…"

Shadow finally reached the alleyway and skated past Omega and stopped right next to Rouge. He was shaking with fury and confusion at why the treasure hunter would just run off like that.

When Rouge saw Shadow come into the alley, she took flight and landed on Omega's shoulder. The black hedgehog shot a curious glare at her, but she just smiled with tears in her eyes, and gave a fake cough.

Curious, Lisa slowly turned around, gasping. Blue eyes met crimson, longing met confusion as her lips barely formed and squeaked out his name.

"Shadow…"

Hehehe… As the Simpsons, or Gabbo would put it, "I'm a baaaaad widdle girl!"

"YES YOU ARE!" cried Shadow.

Yeah, Did anyone out there who played the game ever notice, when Rouge is talking to Team Chaotix before their fight that when she says "You guys don't fool me!" Shadow shakes his head and when she says "I know what you're after!" Shadow nods his head! It's so funny!

"Shut your trap woman!" said Shadow.

NEVER! (puts a pair of boxers on my head and prances around hitting a pan with a wooden spoon) IT'S A FREE COUNTRY! I CAN DO WHATEVER THE HELL I WANT! Like this, I OWN SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG!

(FBI agents come up) What was that?

RUN AWAY! (runs away)

(Go Monty Python and the Holy Grail!)

"Sigh, Please review." said Shadow.