This is is another shortish chapter but a pretty long one is coming up, so stay tuned people and thank you to my reviewers, Razorwind, thanks for the great review and keep that Mist magic coming, It's a really good story. To my other reviewers, you're great guys, keep 'em coming.

Ultimate

"Sonic?" Shadow exclaimed as he looked up at his friend, "What happened? The last thing I remember was, I was falling."
"Shadow, we don't have time." Sonic said helping the black hedgehog to his feet, "I'll explain later."
"If you two are finished," Kai sneered, "We have to get out of here."
"Right, come on Shadow, let's see if you can still keep up." The trio shot down the corridor, literally, Shadow was as fast as Sonic remembered him being, maybe faster. In single file once again, suddenly Kai was knocked back and all three ended up strewn about the small corridor. Shadow was first up and first to see what blocked their path. It was not unlike himself, grey in colour, but it had the same red streaks in its quills, his quills themselves were a mix between Sonic's style and Shadow's, some up some down. It's eyes were deep grey, a most unnatural colour. The creature spoke, he had a voice like granite, "Kai The Tiger, you are out of GUN control, you will be returned to the collective."
"I don't know what the hell you're talking about," Kai started, "But I've never met you bef….." Kai was cut off as the grey hedgehog slammed into him, sending him flying down the hallway.
"You will not advance beyond this point." Shadow then noticed that this grey hedgehog was wearing the same 'uniform' as Kai. However he was busy trying to close in on the groups attacker. But every time Shadow got close enough to attack, his opponent would dodge and counter. Every attack that Shadow had in his arsenal was rendered useless against this creature. Wait. Could it be? Shadow quickly looked down at the creatures hand, a Chaos Emerald! So this new creature was Chaos sensitive as well.
"Sonic, he's Chaos sensitive!" Shadow yelled, "That's why we can't hit him!"
"Got you, Shadow, just go for him one more time!" Sonic yelled back.
Shadow went in for one more attack and as usual was thrown back, but from behind him, Sonic appeared and wrestled the Emerald from the grey hedgehog.
"Got it!" Sonic cried in triumph as he rolled back down the corridor.
Kai ran back up the corridor and crashed into the grey hedgehog, "Alright." He began, "Without that Emerald you're pretty much useless, so you might want to tell us just what's going on here." He then dangled his razor sharp claws in the hedgehog's face.
"No need for threats." The grey hedgehog sighed, "My name is Dodge, Doge by name, dodge by nature. I am part of the GUN collective, the seven, that you escaped from, you will be restored."
"No thanks."
"Jeer as you like, you cannot change the inevitable."
"I suppose not." Kai then head butted Dodge, knocking him out.
Sonic looked down at the Emerald in his palm, the grey Emerald, weird coincidence, yeah that's it, just a coincidence.

Meanwhile, down in the street, Knuckles was feeling some strange Chaos vibrations coming from the GUN battleship, almost as if Chaos himself was up there, but that was impossible.

Sonic and his two companions stepped into a large brightly lit room, around the room were seven tubes, each filled with a different coloured liquid, one for each Chaos Emerald, two tubes were empty and broken, Cyan and Grey, So this was it, this was where Kai was from. The Seven Emeralds, including the Cyan one were inserted in the separate consoles in front of the tubes, Kai snatched up the Cyan Emerald and it glowed in his palm, almost as if it was 'home'.
"We keep running in to each other." Kai sighed.
"If you're finished," Sonic began, "We have to decide what to do with the other five." "Leave them, they haven't done anything yet, maybe they will, but not just yet."
"Well, they are like, you're family, don't you want to wake them up?"
"Not just yet." The trio backtracked to the fork in the corridor that Sonic and Kai had come down and took the other hallway, which opened up straight away so they weren't walking in single file. They stepped into an empty hanger, Kai flicked a switch on the wall and the door opened up, "Jump." He said to Sonic and Shadow.
"Perhaps this is a bad time to tell you," Shadow began, "But I've quite recently become uncomfortable with heights."
"Don't worry about it, I've got a plan. Jump!" The two hedgehog's, seeing no other way out, reluctantly, jumped out the door, closely followed by Kai.
"What were you doing?" Sonic questioned as they hurtled toward the ground.
"Fixing a problem." Kai said, "Turned the auto defence guns off, but the manual guns are still online, be careful." "So what's your plan?" "Wait for the right moment." The trio fell toward the ground, bullets whizzing past them, barely missing, almost to the ground, "Chaos Shield!" Kai yelled and a Cyan bubble of Chaos Energy appeared around the three figures.
"Wow!" Sonic exclaimed, "You want to teach me that sometime?"
"Maybe, If I still don't want to kill you." A puzzled look ran across Sonic's face, Kai was smiling. The Chaos Shield cushioned the impact on the concrete, they struck ground just a few metres away from Tails, Knuckles and Amy.
"Sonic!" All three yelled in unison as the shield disappeared. But all went silent as Ka and Shadow stepped out.
"It's alright guys." Sonic said, trying to break the silence, "They're with me."
"But, he stripes, he tried to kill you." Amy said confusion evident in her voice.
"My name is Kai." The tiger snarled at Amy, "Don't you forget it." Feeling threatened Amy brought her taser from her pocket and pointed it in Kai's face.
"Why do I have this effect on people?" Kai sighed stepping back.
The GUN battleship began to turn and fly away, reporters crowded round Sonic and Kai, confused by what had just taken place, "Sonic, why did you attack Station Square?" One was brave enough to ask.
"I can answer that." Kai began, "What has taken place over the last few days was a cleverly orchestrated plan to kill Sonic, which I was fooled into participating in."

A few weeks later, Kai was staying at Tails' workshop, having no place of his own to go to, he spent his days alone, running, jumping, honing his skills. For what reason Tails did not know and really didn't care that much. Until, one morning, Kai roused Tails from his sleep, around three o'clock.
"Kai?" Tails murmured, "What's going on?"
"I'll explain in the workshop, come on." Kai whispered, almost as if he was afraid someone would hear.
They walked into the workshop and Kai spoke again, "My Emerald is acting strange, something is very, very wrong." He took the said Emerald from his pocket and sure enough it seemed to have lost some of its glow.
"That's weird, what do you think it is?"
"That's why I woke you up, compare it to yours." Tails ran a couple of tests and it seemed that the Cyan Emerald had become a little less powerful than Tails' Yellow Emerald, that Sonic had recovered from the GUN ship.
"It seems to have lost a fragment of its power, although there's no physical damage, it appears something or someone is draining it."
"Drain Chaos? How can anyone do that?"

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