Shadow hit Jet in the side of his stomach and flipped behind Storm and Wave. Jet had accidentally dropped his emerald. But Wave and Storm were standing in front of it. Storm charged and threw punches at Shadow, but he blocked and threw counter attacks, knocking him on the floor. Wave gasped in shock and looked at her two allies that were on the floor. She backed up slowly.

"Get away from the emerald!" Ordered Shadow. Wave didn't have much of a choice. So she tried something risky. She quickly scooped up the emerald and hopped on her board. Then, started doing circles which threw wind in Shadow's eyes. "Agh!"

Wave flew out of the house. "No! Get back here!" Shadow grabbed Jet's board and followed Wave into the distance. "We end this now!"

"Fine by me!" Wave said ramming Shadow. He almost fell off the board. They both started trying to make the other fall off their board. Before they knew it, they led each other to the forest.

"Hm..." Sonic had almost searched the whole forest. "Where is he?" Sonic looked up and saw two whirring blurs trying to hit each other. "Hey, that's Shadow! Shadow! The thieves are trying to steal everybody's emerald!"

"No kidding?" Shadow said sarcastically. He leapt from his board and rammed into Wave. She dropped the emerald to the ground.

"Pick it up!" Shadow shouted. Sonic didn't hesitate to snatch the emerald from the ground. Shadow had flipped off of Wave and landed smoothly on his feet. "Let's get out of here!"

"Go to my house!" Said Sonic. "Tails and Knuckles are waiting there!"

Sonic's House

Knuckles tapped his foot impatiently on the sidewalk in front of Sonic's house. "Where is he"
"Chill, Knuckles." Said Tails. "He'll be here... hopefully."

"He better get here soon-" Dust flew into Knuckles' face as the blue blur followed by Shadow stopped in front of them. "What's up everybody? Oh, sorry Knuckles."

"So why did you bring me over here?" Asked Shadow impatiently. "We needed to warn you about the three thieves, is all." Said Sonic. "Jet, Storm, and Wave. They're all after the Chaos Emeralds and I don't know what they're planning to do with them. Just keep an eye out for them."

"I don't need to. I've already encountered all three of them, and I wasn't impressed with their skills"
"But they only had one emerald, Shadow." Said Tails. "If they get more and you don't know it, they'll have the power to do some crazy things."

Shadow scoffed. "Yeah, sure. So are we gonna go get these emeralds or what?"

"Nope," said a voice hovering above them. It was Jet on his board. Wave and Storm were next to him.
"You're gonna give us your emeralds!"

"They can't take all four of us on." Said Knuckles. "Let's fight them."

"But there's no point," said Sonic. "They don't have any emeralds, what good will it do to fight them?" "To teach these losers a lesson! That's what!" Said Shadow.

"Shadow, don't!" Tails beckoned to him. But he already jumped into the air at Jet.

"Not so fast!" Shouted Wave. She side stepped on her board, revealing a blue like creature. It extended its arms and wrapped them around Shadow. He couldn't move. "What is this thing?" Shadow struggled and tried to break his sticky grip.

"Chaos?" Sonic was confused. "The Chao guardian. What's he working for them for?"