Chapter 3: A New Apprentice
"Wow! What is it?" asked Sonic. Shadow flipped it around for a minute, "It is a Chaos Emerald!" Knuckles thought for a minute, "I've heard of those…they give the carrier amazing power! There are seven total, and the more you carry, the stronger you become." "Which is how you will get your engine." said Shadow. "Right," said Sonic, "We'll take the emerald, get really powerful, and beat up Charmy for one."
"No, Stupid," Shadow said, "The big race is tomorrow, and with this I can run really fast! I enter, you bet on me for the engine against Charmy, I win, you guys get your engine." Sonic thought it over, "I'm confused…" Shadow said, "Just don't do anything, Knuckles will get it taken care of." "Right!" said Knuckles, who actually knew what was going on. Padamy had a question, "How fast do you run?" Shadow replied, "See that tree? Watch how fast I can get to it!" He held up the emerald, shouted "Chaos Control", and made it to the tree (that was a mile away) in about half a second.
When he got back he quickly pointed, "I was walking, too!" The others stood with their jaws drooping to the ground. He walked by triumphantly and closed everyone's mouth. "What do you think of that?" he asked, already knowing the answer. Knuckles came up and shook his hand crazily saying, "Young man…, you are racing tomorrow!" Shadow felt so proud of himself. He was going to race with the big boys. He was only worried about one little thing: dying!
The next day, on their way to the big race, the group stopped by Charmy's to make the bet. Charmy agreed, and if Shadow they got the engine, but if they lost, they had to become Charmy's slaves. The race about to begin, so everyone left for their seats. When the race began, everyone ran, except for Shadow who flipped his emerald around, shouted "Chaos Control", and was at the finish line three-quarters of a second later. He had one. The group took the engine and went back to Shadow's house to say goodbye.
"Goodbye!" said Knuckles. Then he stood there, thinking for a second. He pulled out his mediclorion checker, and took a look at Shadow. His mediclorions were jumping off the scale! "You need to come with us, Shadow! You might be the chosen one! We need you to be examined by Chao-da." Shadow said "okay", and they left. They reached the Jedi Council room where they examined Shadow and said that he wouldn't be trained because he was a scaredy-cat. Knuckles decided to train him anyway.
Meanwhile, back on the viceroy's ship, they released a cloaked figure to go find these people. He had to ask for directions a lot, but eventually found their ship as it was about to take off. He took off his hood revealing it was Black Doom. He took out his light saber and attacked Knuckles. He took out his light saber and began fighting back. The ship picked up Knuckles just in time.
They left and headed for the Gungen city because they figured something was up. They needed an alliance. On the way they all started singing 99 bottles of coke on the wall, even Knuckles sang along this time. They made it over to the Gungen city and went inside to talk to the king of the Gungen's. He agreed to help them so they left for Naboo to stop the viceroy and whatever he had up his sleeve (which was unusually long).
Before landing on Naboo, they were down to two bottles of coke, but didn't get to finish it. They ran through the city killing all androids in their way. Eventually they made it to the ship loading dock where they met up with Black Doom again. Shadow hid in the cockpit of a ship. Padamy and her bodyguards went to go find the viceroy. That left Knuckles and Sonic to fight Black Doom.
Shadow accidentally flew away in the fighter jet, and went where it was taking him (it was on auto-pilot). It took him to the viceroy's ship. He decided that he needed to blow it up. The Gungen's got ready to battle the oncoming army of androids. Padamy and her bodyguards made it to the castle. Knuckles and Sonic took off their cloaks to fight Black Doom. The battle was about to begin…