Agh! No! Its gone! My play list is gone! I've got this play list of music from the 80's, 90's, and even now. I've been listening to it every time I've written a chapter in this story, I've been on a role and I call it my lucky play list… but now I can't find it in any of my files! IT'S GONE! I'M RUINED! Wait until you see how bad I am without that list! Go ahead flame me…

CHAPTER FIVE:

Burning passion

Tails couldn't believe that the clue he had found wasn't real. It was too descript. All the other clues were letters and pictures. Cream's was a riddle. After a lot of thinking, he came up with the thought that maybe one clue told the truth. Cream's clue. Shadow was next. Tails had to stop Blaze.

"But blaze is one of my best friends!" Cream cried, a sad expression on her face. "She wouldn't kill a thing!

"Alright! I'll give her a chance. I need more information. Lets go look for more clues." Tails told Cream.

Sonic left his group to search in the basement. The hardest part was finding the basement. After lots of searching, he finally found it. Nothing special. A boiler, water heater. The usual stuff for a basement. There was a large wardrobe against the far eastern wall. A small file cabinet was beside it. On the far southern wall, there was nothing but a red mark, made by paint. The first thing sonic did was open the wardrobe. In it was a sledgehammer and a toolbox. The only surprising thing in the basement was what he found in the file cabinet. Hundreds of files were stored in it. Mostly Team Chaotix mystery files, but one intrigued Sonic. The tab read: PROJECT SHADOW: CLASSIFIED. The file was the largest. After looking through the rest of the files he found two more. Two of them were about an inch thick. The last one was only about a centimeter.

"Now why would Mighty have Shadow's records?" He thought aloud. Sonic looked through the files. The first record was the biolizard, so he through that one aside. The second was Shadow, it was an old file that told the original idea of Shadow.

NAME: SHADOW AGE: 14 CODENAME: ULTIMATE LIFEFORM

POWERS: Has plasma cells running through his body allowing him to shoot fire. Can manipulate the forces of nature, including the elements. Has extreme strength. Super speed.

COMPLICATIONS: There is a strange reaction to the Nano Cells we have injected into the ultimate life form. They seem to be controlling his emotions. When in a happier state, he seems weaker. When he gets angry, he has the power to destroy a whole city. This leads to complications that could lead to the scrapping of Project Shadow

PROJECT SHADOW SCRAPPED

"So shadow was once way more powerful than me!" He didn't care to look at the third folder about the Shadow today. He rushed out of the basement to show Tails the file.

"Cream! Sonic found a clue! According to this old file, Shadow's old powers used to consist of fire! The riddle said burning passion…I get it! It really should say: Shadow will kill Bean and Blaze! Wow, Shadow a killer." Tails said excitedly. "We solved it!"

"So lets split the million 50-25-25. I get 50. And you guys get 25!" Sonic said, thinking that his swindling skills were good.

"Sonic, I'm a genius, you can't fool me. We split it evenly." Tails replied a little annoyed.

"We have to find Blaze before she's killed!" Cream said frightened.

"They went to the lounge right?" Sonic asked. The group rushed to the lounge to find that it was too late. Blaze had been severely beaten. If she didn't get medical assistance soon, she would die. "Tails where's your medical kit!"

"It's in the trunk of the car!" Tails replied a little nauseated.

"Shit! No one's ever gonna get out there!" Sonic said, all hope lost.

"What about Bark?" Cream asked getting anxious. The two looked at her as if she was crazy. "Bark lives in the Arctic! He could live in these conditions."

"Cream you're a genius!" Sonic and Tails exclaimed.

"No way! I'm not a tool!" Bark argued. "I won't do it. This is my vacation. I wanna get outta cold weather!"

"But she's going to die!" Tails warned Barked.

"That's her problem!"

"Move over tails. Okay Bark. You help us and I'll…give you the seven chaos emeralds! Each one worth millions, I might add." Sonic took over the situation.

"And if I don't?"

"I'll tell everyone the story of how I kicked your ass. Remember this: 'Here! Take the emerald! Just leave me alone! Please don't hurt me again!'"

"That never happened!" Bark defended himself.

"Yeah, but they don't know that."

"All seven then?"

"All seven."

"Deal!" Bark said reluctantly. Sonic! You're such a bastard! Now that I do him a favor, everyone else will wasn't me to do them favors!

Bark climbed the steps to the second floor, where he found a window he could get out of. He jumped through it, and fell two feet before landing on a hard, icy snow. The snow had already engulfed the first floor with a hard wall of snow. The good thing was, this was nothing for Bark. He'd seen worse. The winds were going at about 167 mph, but thanks to Bark's weight, he was able to stand his ground. The only clear problem was that the snow was coming down so fast he could hardly see. With him Bark had: an ax(for digging), and the blueprints for the parking lot, so he could find tails' car. The last thing was a bomb he'd found in Bean's pack.

Sonic had asked him to do two things. Bark cut at the snow until he hit something hard. It was the Stretch Hummer. Bark Dug at a different spot until he broke glass. He tossed the bomb into the Hummer and ran like hell. BOOM! It was one of Bean's more powerful bombs. So powerful, all that was left was a bunch of pieces of twisted, burning, metal. Bark carried on with the second task, he dug at the spot where Tails' Civic should have been. Since the Civic was so small, Bark decided to use his full power to dig faster. Maybe his power was too much…He swung so hard it took off the top of the small car.

"Well, I found it!" Bark grabbed the medical kit and the crime solving kit. They were both in huge book bags and relatively heavy. But no problem for Bark. He came back in the mansion victorious.

"So you destroyed the Hummer?" Sonic asked.

"Of coarse I did! I've been hoping to do that all night!"

"Good boy! You're not to bad, y' know."

I'd like to mention that I got the idea for Tails' Civic being destroyed from a story my dad told me. He said that the day after the snow fell of the 1978 Ohio blizzard, my uncles went out to find their cars (my dad was seventeen then.) they were using a sledgehammer and axes. My Uncle George was using the wooden end, but my dad and My uncle Eric (the idiots of the family). Used the cutting side of the axes to find Eric's car (My dad didn't have a license yet, thus, he didn't have a car.) George warned them that they'd damage the car, but they shrugged it off. Since the roof of Eric's car was made of leather, it took them until they had hacked the steering wheel off to realize they had found his car. That's where I got the idea for Bark destroying the Civic. Just a little fact for you. 

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