Shadow and Espio
By Streak The Chameleon
Chapter 5: Emeralds
I do not own any of the Sonic characters. Sega does.
Ring! Ring! Streak's cell phone rang.
"Crap." He was in the middle of a conversation with the girl. Apparently the girl's name was Tikal, and she-was dead. No wonder she had such a transparent look to her. It gave her special powers, such as warping, seeing things invisible, and intercepting warps.
Streak held the phone to his ear. "What's up Espio?" He turned himself away so Tikal couldn't hear him.
"Streak, you have got to get over to Shadow's apartment now! There's no time to explain."
"Have it your way, bro." Espio hung up.
He turned to Tikal. "Listen-I gotta go, okay?"
Tikal looked at him. "Sure," she said, with an evil smile on her face. "Come back soon, okay?"
"Uh… yeah."
Streak started rubbing the gems on his bracelet.
"Why are you doing that?"
He looked up. "You'll see."
He muttered strange words and disappeared.
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10 minutes ago…
CHAOS CONTROL! Shadow vanished.
Amy stared for a moment. "Darn it!"
She walked back down to her apartment. "I'll get them. I'll get them all. There's only one place to go: The ARK."
She opened the door and went inside.
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Streak sat in the room with Shadow and Espio.
"So, you're saying that we are targeted by GUN? And now you're saying we have to go to the ARK? How do you know it's safe there?"
Shadow looked at Streak. "I don't."
Silence filled the room.
"Well? What are you waiting for? Let's go!" Streak finally said.
"Alright then." Shadow stood up. "Put your hands on the emerald."
They did. "CHAOS CONTROL!" they all said at the same time.
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20 minutes ago…
"Hey! Get back here! Sonic chased after Shadow. Suddenly the black hedgehog went out of his sight.
"What the heck? Where did he go?" Sonic said, skidding to a stop.
He looked around for a couple minutes when he heard a scream from Amy.
"Oh no!" Sonic sprinted to the apartment. As he ran up the stairs, he heard Amy.
"Hey! Let go! Get off me!"
Sonic threw open the door. "What the-" he stopped short. Amy was huddling against the wall. A needle was next to her.
"Amy… what happened?"
She screamed.
"What's wrong?"
Then he felt a needle push into his arm and someone punch him in the head. He blacked out.
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Shadow, Streak, and Espio arrived at the ARK. "It's been a long time since I last saw this place." Shadow said.
They walked down the corridors until they reached a circular room with a screen in the middle.
"Okay." Shadow sat down in one of the chairs. "First things first. We need the chaos emeralds. Sonic can use the chaos emeralds to warp here."
"That's fine, Shadow, but don't we need to know where they are?" Streak said.
"That's already been taken care of." Shadow turned on the screen. Up on the screen, a world map showing the location of the emeralds appeared.
"Okay. Who's going to get what?" Espio asked. "There're seven emeralds."
"Right. I have one." Shadow nodded. He turned to Streak. "You can get the ones in Talis' plane and in Sky Rail."
"Got it."
"Espio, you can get the ones in Iron Gate and in Pumpkin Hill."
"What are you going to get?"
"I'm getting the ones in Aquatic Mine and in Pyramid Base."
Streak stood up. "Let's go!"
They all ran down to the transporter. "I'll go first." Shadow said. He powered up the transporter and disappeared.
"I'll go next." Espio walked in. Soon he was gone.
Streak set the coordinates to Mystic Ruins. He looked out the window.
"I hope Sonic doesn't have a emerald. Then he could warp here."
"Do you really think I need one now?" a voice said behind him.