Chapter 5: Alliance

Kaitan made himself comfortable in the throne room of the palace. The Master Emerald placed behind the throne with the Chaos Emeralds on top of it. Kaitan's head perked up, as he saw a figure entering the room.

"I see you've finally arrived, Volvo." said Kaitan, as he stood up and stepped closer to the figure.

He was a towering creature, almost seven feet tall and reminiscent of a dragon. He had two large swirling horns on his head, and his skin was a scaley red. His legs were built like the hind legs of a dog or horse, he had a metal plates covering his chest, forearms and the lower half of his legs and a plate of metal over most of his head, with a glowing blue light shining from his eyes. Perhaps the most odd feature was that he had no mouth. He did have nostrils at the end of what would be called a snout, but had no lower jaw. He was artificially enhanced (or partially roboticised, for a more familiar term) and spoke from a small mechanical speaker on his chest plate. It was a deep, low pitched sound.

"Lord Kaitan," he said, "Our plan is in progress."

"Excellent," Kaitan turned and began to walk up to the Master Emerald, "If all goes well, we shall have our own army with which to conquer this whole wold."

"What about these foolish theives?" said Volvo, "The ones who stole the Sol Emeralds?"

"They are a pain in my backside," said Kaitan, "and nothing more. I still hold the Master Emerald and theChaos Emeralds. They will fall before me, just like everyone who has ever opposed me."

In the alternate dimension, another new face was travelling towards a large base with the insignia of Dr. Robotnik pasted on it. He was another dragon-like creature, but with much smaller horns that did not curve, a black mask covered most of his face. He was almost six feet tall, and had some type of large gun slung across his back. There was a chain of bullets wrapped around his torso, and he had large metal gloves over his hands. He walked closer to the base, when a voice could be heard from a speaker. It was Robotnik's voice.

"You there! Stay where you are, and state your business in these parts. You have entered the territory of Dr. Ivo Robotnik."

The mysterious creature put his arms up into the air, to show that he meant no harm and spoke, "My name is Rasideon, and I've come to offer you the power of Chaos."

Silence filled the air for a moment, until the large metal doors of the base slid open, and out came Robotnik, flying in his trademark pod with two drones following him on the ground (most likely serving as bodyguards). He stopped in front of Rasideon, who then lowered his arms, and hovered. "The power of Chaos, you say?" His large mustache, hiding a deep smile on his face.

"I have been sent here by my leader, who wishes to make an alliance with you. you, create for us an army of robotic soldiers, and you can rule the world with us."

Robotnik wasn't sure what to make of this. He had tried to take over the world before and failed every time. What could this newcomer possibly have that could change things?

"What about this power of Chaos you mentioned?" Robotnik said, folding his arms across his chest, and leaning back in his seat.

"We have obtained both the Master Emerald and the Chaos Emeralds. We understand you have a little... rodent problem. We can deal with the hedgehog and his friends, while your robots take over the cities."

Robotnik began to think about the proposal and decided that he liked the idea. "Very well... I accept, but how will I be able to contact you once I've made a sufficient number of robots?"

Rasideon turned and began to walk away as he said, "We are the ones who will contact you. Make sure you build powerful robots. They may be the last ones you ever need." and with that, he disappeared from site.

Robotnik pushed a button on his console, then landed his pod and got out. A working droid flew up to his master and stopped. He placed his goggles over his eyes, smiled and turned towards the droid. "We have work to do."

It was late night, Shadow looked into the moon as he sat down with the warm summer night breeze in his face. Shadow turned to see Espio standing behind him, also looking into the moon. Espio looked down at Shadow.

"You should get some rest with the others. Tomorrow we strike."

Shadow resumed looking at the moon and was silent for a moment. "I have a bad feeling, Espio. I dont think it's going to be that easy."

Espio turned away and closed his eyes, "Nothing worth doing is ever easy." he walked away towards a tree, leaned on it and fell asleep.

Shadow thought about these wise words. Wise words from a friend. He leaned back and stared into the starry night before drifting off into sleep.