Hey. It's me again. This was a difficult chapter for me, because I didn't know how to start it. Tell me if I did well on it.

Chapter II: Journal in the ashes.

Deep in the Mystic runes, Tails was working on the Tornado After the adventure in the Space Colony Ark. Knuckles was once again guarding the Master Emerald on his Island. Rouge was assigned another mission for the government. Sonic lying on top of Tails lab chilling out. He was getting some rest from the battle from the Biolizzer.

It was nightfall Sonic was half asleep. "Things couldn't get any better." He said to himself. When he took a breath of air, he smelled something, smoke. Sonic open his eyes and look around. He saw a little cloud of smoke coming from the forest. "Wonder what's going on over there."

Tails ran out of his lab and look up where sonic was laying. "Sonic, come check this out! Something happen to a research lab down in the forest!" Tails yelled up to him.

"I kind of found that out on my own." Sonic said back to him. "So let's go find out what's going on." Sonic jump off of the lab and ran off into the forest. Tails went back into his lab and go out his Tornado II (sense the other one still need be repaired).

Sonic ran in the forest looking for the lab. But he couldn't fine it. Then he saw Tails plain over head. He followed him because he thought that tails found it because he had a bird's eye view.

Tails look down and saw Sonic running behind him. "Did you find it yet?" He asks Sonic.

"I thought you found it." He replied. "Do you see the smoke?"

Tails look around and the he saw it. "Yeah it's over there."

"Then go to it and we'll have our lab."

"Okay. Follow me." Tails flew strait towards the smoke. Sonic was right behind him. After a while, Tail caught sight of the lab.

The lab was in ruins, only a few walls were still standing. And everything else was in ashes. Tails landed the tornado II next to the lake. Sonic stop running and waited for Tails. Once Tails was ready, they walk in of what was left of the lab. Sonic and Tails was shock at the sight of it. Glass, paper, and chemicals, was what was left of it.

"What do you think they were doing in this lab?" Sonic ask. Picking up the paper and trying to read it.

"I don't know. My question is what happen to this place?" Tails said back.

Tails walk around a bit. Then his foot was caught on something and he trip. He made a bad thud noise. Sonic look back at Tails. "Hey are you okay?"

"Yeah," Tails replied. "I just trip over this…" Tails look back and saw a big book cover in ash. He grabs the book and wipes the ash away. "Book." Tails open the book, it wasn't a book, it was a journal. "April 24, 2002. We finally got all the materials to make a clone of the ultimate life form, Shadow. Our questions will be answered, And our life long dream will come true."

Sonic walk up to Tails. "What are you reading?" he asks.

"I think it's a journal." He gave the book to Sonic. He look in side of it. "I think it has something to do with Shadow."

Sonic flip the pages through the book. "I wonder what the last thing written in it." He turned to the back of the journal. "Here, it stop yesterday. June 25, 2006. Our task is complete. We have finally made a copy of the Ultimate life form. Though it dose not look like it but it has all the qualities only this one is stronger." Then a couple on lines were skip. Then the writing was a bunch of scribbles, like some one was writing this fast. Sonic could hardly read it. "Shade… She is out of control. She is destroying the lab. We can stop her. Please if someone finds this Diary. Please you must stop our mistake. It is too powerful to stay here on earth. We made it from Shadows DNA, so it is able to use the chaos control. I beg you; stop our mistake, before it destroys the world and all of human kind. And I am sorry for what we had created." Sonic stood there quietly.

Tails look around the lab. "So that what they were doing in the lab. But what did he mean by 'mistake'?"

"I think he was referring to Shade." Said a familiar voice. Sonic drop the book and turned around. There they saw there old friend Knuckles.

"Knuckles. What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be grading the Master Emerald?" Tails asks.

"I was on the island when I saw the smoke. I wanted to know what was going on. So I decided to bring the Master emerald with me." Knuckles grab the book from the ground. "It sounds like Shade is a dangerous creation, Samantha made."

"Samantha?" Sonic ask.

"Yeah it says right here in front of the dairy, Samantha Witeren." Knuckles pointed to the name on the Journal.

"Huh, why didn't I see that?"

"I guess you're not that bright." A strange voice said.

Everyone look around, but didn't see anyone. "Show yourself!" Sonic demanded.

"Look up." Everyone look up and there on top of a wall was a shadowy figure. "So you must be the famous heroes. I thought you guys look a lot stronger, silly me."

Sonic took a step forward, "Who are you?" He asks.

The figure moves its face towards the moon light, "I am Shade, the clone of the ultimate life form." Shade did look a lot like shadow did, only her hair (the little spicks behind there head) was more down like Sonics was, and she was wearing a black dress, made out of rags. And in her hand was the red chaos emerald. "What are you doing at my home?"

"Your home?" Knuckles said

"Yes I was created here. Didn't you read the Journal you stupid Echidna?"

"What did you call me!" Knuckles was about to attack her until Sonic put his arm in front of him. "Let me at her, Let me…" Knuckles look at Sonic; He had an intense look on his face.

"Looks like your friend has anger issues. But I know how to shut him up." Shade jump of behind the wall. Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles got ready, for anything. Then the wall started to crack, and it was falling towards them. They all jump out of the way and the wall slam on the ground. "I guess I got to work on my aim."

"That was close." Sonic said

"How did she do that?" Tails ask.

"Don't you remember? She is twice as strong as Shadow was." Knuckles said.

"That's right," Shade said as she was walking out of the cloud of dust. "Now I will finish you." She held the chaos emerald up. Until she could say anything, something shot her in the arm and she quickly diapered with the chaos emerald.

All of them just laid there. "What was that?" Knuckles ask.

Tails walk around and he saw a bullet, "Looks like someone shot her." He pick up it up and look at it. "But who?"

"Shadow." Sonic whispered.

"Shadow?" Tails and Knuckle both said at the same time.

Sonic saw Shadow standing there holding a gun. Shadows alive, that can't be. Sonic mouth drop. Shadow gave Sonic a smirk.

Tails and knuckles look where Sonic was looking. But saw nothing. "What are you talking about?" Tails said

"There, do you not see him!" He pointed to the stump. They didn't see him

"Sonic no ones there." Knuckles said looking at the stump confuses

"What are you talking about!" he looks at Knuckles. "Shadows right there holding…" He look back. Shadow was not there anymore. "Where did he go?"

"Sonic are you Okay?"

"I don't know Tails, I really don't know."

Well there you go, told you it would get better. Sorry it took awhile to write this out, one of my reviewers gave me an idea to draw out my new character. So I decided to draw Shade Before I described her. Well please Review!