Rouge landed on a building top over looking a jewelry story. The story had recently displayed a beautiful Chaos Emerald in its ad. And she was just the bat to take the emerald into her protective custody. She floated down and was surprised to see the front window smashed, "Someone has beaten me here." She slowly stepped through the broken window and looked around. The entire story had been ripped to pieces. She spotted a brown haired woman lying on the floor. Rouge ran over to her, "Can you move?"

The woman slowly nodded, "Be careful! The monster is still here."

"What monster?" Rouge had to duck as a large display case was thrown at her. A green hedgehog with crimson glowing eyes walked forward. He clutched the red emerald in his left hand, "So your the thief!" Rouge reached under her glove and activated a small transmitter, "Any chance you can just hand over that emerald?" The hedgehog responded by lunging at her. Rouge flapped her wings and flew up as the hedgehog flew past and out of the store. The bat quickly flew out and aimed a dropkick to the back of his head. The hedgehog spun around and grabbed her leg. He spun her around and tossed her into the pavement. Rouge rolled away and slowly got to her knees, "Don't you know it is impolite to hit a lady?"

"You are in my way!" The hedgehog drew a blaster pistol from his belt, "Tell me where Shadow is!"

"I don't know where he is!"

"How unfortunate for you." He started to pull the trigger, but his eyes dimmed and he shook his head, "Something isn't right!" He holstered his pistol, "I'll let you go this time." He ran off.

Rouge stood up and brushed herself off, "Not with my emerald." She flew after him.

"I still can't get out!"

"Shut up Amy!" Both Sonic and Shadow slowly circled Metal as the android stood still.

Metal chuckled, "Your move!" Sonic rushed forward and swung his blades at high speed. Metal's blades glowed with red light and he blocked each attack. Shadow fired several burst shots at the android. Metal pushed Sonic back and jumped over the shots. He threw one of his blades at Shadow. Shadow dodged and switched his guns to rapid fire. Sonic jumped clear as green energy shots flew at the android. Metal reclaimed his blade with the chain and blocked the shots with a whirl from his weapons, "Need to work on your aim!" His gatling guns activated from his shoulders and he fired. Sonic jumped in front of Shadow and blocked the attack. Shadow aimed over his shoulder and blasted a burst shot. It impacted Metal's left shoulder. The gun sparked and shut down. "Not bad!"

Sonic charged, "Your done!" He thrusted, but Metal paired. Metal's blades cut into the energy blades and cut their emitters. Both of Sonic's energy blades died. Sonic shrugged and tossed them away, "Never liked them anyway!" He curled into a ball and rammed into Metal. The android hit the ground, but quickly rolled to his feet.

Shadow looked at his guns and tossed them away, "It is time I was true to myself. I don't need a puny gun to defeat the likes of you."

Metal laughed, "You fools are either very brave or extremely stupid." He clanged his blades together, "I have no reason not to use my weapons." Metal tossed his blades with the chains attached. Both hedgehogs jumped clear and curled into balls. Sonic rolled across the room as Shadow started to spin in place. Metal pulled his weapon back to him, "What is this?" Sonic blasted forward and slammed into Shadow. The black hedgehog shot forward at high speed. Metal tried to dodge, but Shadow rammed into his left leg. The android fell to the metal floor and tried to stand, but his leg sparked, "WHAT! How could I be damaged by one attack."

Sonic summoned his emerald, "You were going up against the ultimate team."

Shadow nodded and summoned his emerald, "He is the most annoying person I have ever seen, but I must admit, together we are unstoppable." Their emeralds started to glow as Sonic curled into a ball and started to spin at high speeds. He hovered in the air and floated in front of Shadow, "Get out of our sight! Hedgehog Cannon!" The two emeralds exploded with light and Sonic was blasted forward. He glowed with blue light and crashed into Metal. Light exploded on impact and Metal was blasted back and impacted the far wall. The metal panels gave away and as the android fell to the floor, part of the wall fell on him. Sonic uncurled and sat down, "I love that feeling."

Shadow shrugged, "To each their own." He looked up at Leda, "I think we should let her out."

"Sure!"

"Are you guys taking about me?" Amy kicked the walls of the computer core.

Both hedgehogs climbed up the cylinder and stood on top of The Master Emerald. Shadow fiddled with the door controls and it slid open. Sonic caught the echidna, she was out cold. "Now what?"

Shadow looked over the emerald, "If we disconnect those power nodes at the base, we can use this thing to use chaos control."

Before they could do anything, in a flash of green light, Robotnik dropped from the ceiling in his robot, "You two are making my plans very hard to complete." Both hedgehogs jumped off the emerald. Sonic laid Leda next to the computer core.

"You saved us the trouble of searching for you." Shadow cracked his knuckles.

Sonic chuckled and walked up next to Shadow, "We took out Metal and Sperk. You've got nothing left."

Robotnik laughed, "Oh I have plenty left. Metal was just a decoy and Sperk was the base of my experiments." He snapped his fingers and red liquid poured out of the cylinder the emerald was on. It formed a large puddle in front of the doctor. He snapped his fingers again and it formed a humanoid shape with glowing green orbs for eyes.

"Chaos?"

"My Chaos! I extracted the life force of Chaos from the girl and created my own god from it. He may still be an infant, but he will destroy the both of you." The Red Chaos turned into a stream of water and flew up to The Master Emerald. Green energy shot from the emerald and the chaos absorbed it. It doubled in size and shot at the hedgehogs. They jumped clear as the water impacted. It dented the metal floor and formed a pillar of water. Hundreds of tentacles shot from the pillar and lashed out. The tentacles whipped out with enough force to slice into the metal walls and floor. Sonic curled into a ball and shot at the chaos. The pillar fell to the floor and Sonic flew over it.

Shadow summoned his chaos emerald, "Chaos Spear!" Several beams of light shot from the emerald. The chaos absorbed the attack and transformed into a large humanlike creature. Red energy sparked around his eyes and shot out at Shadow. The hedgehog dodged the attack as Sonic attacked from behind with a spin attack. The Red Chaos spun around and slammed the hedgehog back.

"Any ideas?"

Shadow shook his head, "He absorbs anything chaos powered. Even if I had my guns they'd be useless."

"The real Chaos's weakness was electricity."

Shadow looked around, "There are plenty of power cables in this room. You distract it and I'll take care of the power."

"Right!" Sonic started to move, "Hey!"

Shadow ran at Robotnik, "That bot runs on a regular power generator. I can use that." The Red Chaos turned to attack, but Sonic charged at it and got the chaos's attention.

"You dare attack me!" The bot slammed its fist down. Shadow jumped on top of it and curled into a ball. He slammed into the bot's chest and it fell to the ground. He uncurled and jumped at Robotnik. The fat man pressed a button and a electric force field activated. Shadow as shocked and blasted away, "Nice try rodent!"

"Thanks!" Sonic ran past the bot as The Red Chaos's arm shot at him. The arm hit the force field and the energy shot from the field and into the chaos. It roared and fell back. Both hedgehogs curled into a ball and crashed through the creature. Both hedgehogs uncurled and landed on their feet. The chaos started to lose it form. "A few more attacks like that and that thing is done." As they started to move to attack again, the doors to the room exploded. A green hedgehog with crimson eyes stepped into the room.

Robotnik laughed hard as his robot got to its feet, "The tables have turned, rodents. Sperk! Chaos! Kill them!"