"Finally!" Amy kicked the metal panel off the computer core and crawled out. She gulped at the sight she saw. Slash marks covered the room and Sonic and Shadow stood in between a red chaos and Sperk.

Robotnik moved his bot back, "Kill them! Kill them now!"

Shadow glanced over his shoulder at Amy and the sleeping echidna, "Sperk!" The crimson eyes glared at him. "Leda is free! I see no reason for you to serve Robotnik anymore."

"Shut up rodent!" Robotnik slammed his fist onto his consol, "Obey me hedgehog. I am the one who gave you your powers. If it wasn't for me, you would still be a pathetic street rodent."

"I have no reason to help either of them." Sperk eyes turned towards Robotnik, "But I have every reason to kill you."

"You ungrateful ingrate. Chaos! Kill him first." The red chaos shot past Sonic and Shadow and flew at Sperk. Before the chaos reached him, Metal suddenly snapped to life and threw his blades. The blades impaled the chaos and energy shot from Metal. The energy flew across the chains and electrocuted the chaos. The red chaos cried out. "What?"

Metal slowly stood up, "Unfortuity for you master. I hate you just a little more than I hate Sonic." Metal activated his thrusters and flew at Chaos. His chains wrapped around the chaos and a energy bubble formed. He picked up the bubble and crashed into into Robotnik's robot, "Sonic! We will meet again. I promise you that!"

"Chaos Surge!" Sperk exploded into his super form. Crimson energy formed around his fist, "Chaos Shot!" He fired out a focused beam of crimson energy that impacted Metal and the bot. The force of the blast pushed the bot into the far wall. Metal activated his self destruct and exploded. The explosion tore a hole into the wall and exposed the room to space. The vacuum started to suck everything out.

"Are you two idiots?" Shadow managed to grab the cylinder in the center of the room.

Sonic revved up his speed and ran at Amy who was being pulled out. Sperk ran forward and grabbed Leda's arm and used his sharp knuckles to latch himself to the floor. Sonic ran up to the emerald as Shadow climbed up. Amy grabbed onto the emerald, "Hold on!" Sonic pulled off one of the power nodes that connected The Master Emerald to the cylinder, "You call!"

"Once we get these things off, we can teleport to The Ark. It is the only place near enough to get to that I know." Shadow pulled off the last power node, "Ready!"

"What about them?"

Shadow sighed, "It would be the right thing?"

"Yeah!"

"I hate doing the right thing!"

Sonic smiled and jumped clear of the emerald. He ran over to Sperk, "I can still run fast enough while carrying her." Sperk slowly nodded and let Sonic pick her up. Both hedgehogs ran at full speed and reach the emerald.

Shadow placed his hands on the emerald, "Chaos Control!" They vanished in a burst of green light.

The group found themselves in the control room for The Ark. Sonic stretched his arms, "That was fun. You want to do it again."

Shadow shook his head, "And I teamed up with you why?"

"My dashing good looks."

"Morons!" Sperk stood up and cracked his neck, "Now that Robotnik is gone I can..." Both Sonic and Shadow rammed their fists into Sperk's face. The green hedgehog fell to the floor.

"I enjoyed that!" Shadow walked over to one of the computers.

Sonic chuckled and turned around, "Hey!"

"My hero!" Amy tackled him to the ground.

"And here I thought you guys were in trouble." Rouge stepped into the room.

"Why are you here?" Shadow turned towards her.

The bat smiled and pointed to the downed hedgehog, "He stole my emerald."

"You mean the emerald you were going to steal." Shadow crossed his arms.

Rouge put on her bet innocent look, "Would I steal? And I even called for help." Tails and Knuckles walked in.

"My emerald!" The red echidna jumped over Sonic and Amy and hugged the emerald.

"Ok?" Shadow tapped Knuckles on the shoulder, "If your not to busy, please take our friend to the brig." Knuckles nodded and picked up the out cold Sperk. "And you take her to the med lab." Rouge pouted and picked Leda up. As both left, he signaled to Tails, "I need your help. I am detecting some weird energy readings."

Sonic looked around as everyone went about their business, "What about me?" Amy had pinned him to the floor.

Shadow looked over, "Your on your own!"

The GUN Commander sat in his command chair that over looked the control room of GUN Base. The repairs were nearly complete, but the lose of life would take months to recover from. Sixty-three dead and nearly a hundred injured. He had just received a report from Shadow stating that Robotnik's moon base was destroyed and the doctor had vanished. Chances were high that he was dead, but they knew luck was never on their side when it came to that. He leaned back in his chair, "How can one man do so much damage? And what was he real motive? I cannot believe that attack on the base was just a test." He slowly stood up, "And where is Diablon?"

"Commander!" A lieutenant ran up with a small photo.

"Yes?"

"This was taken by our Mars starlight."

The commander grabbed it and looked at it, "Send this image to The Ark!"

"LET ME OUT OF HERE!" Sperk slammed his fists against the force field. He had woken up only a few minutes ago.

Shadow stepped in front of the field, "Not so powerful without your Chaos Emerald." He held up one of the gold gems that Sperk used on his wrists, "Fifty gold rings compressed into a small gem. I must give the good doctor credit for this one."

"What do you want?"

"What was Robotnik's full plan? The troops, the chaos, his base, none of it makes sense."

Sperk leaned on the frame of his cell, "You'll just have to find out."

Shadow turned around, "GUN will be here in a few hours to take you into custody."

"Coward!" Shadow turned back towards the cell. Sperk got as close to the force field as possible, "Your afraid of me. Afraid that I can beat you. Afraid that I can kill you."

Shadow smiled, "You want to die in a fight. But I won't let you. You will die in a GUN holding cell. Trapped like the pathetic rat for the rest of your life."

"Damn You!"

Shadow left the brig, "I almost feel sorry for him." He chuckled, "Almost." He walked to the control room. Sonic had managed to free himself and was playing hide and seek with Amy. Tails was sitting in front of one of the computers.

"Hey Shadow!" Tails brought up an image on the large screen, "GUN sent us this image."

Shadow walked over and looked at it, "What is that?"

Tails gulped, "I think I know, but there is only one person here who can confirm it."

"You called?" Sonic ran into the room and shut the metal doors, "I think I lost her in the generator room."

"Take a look at this!" Sonic walked over and he lost some of his color. Shadow stepped back, "What is it?"

Sonic gulped, "I can't believe he rebuilt it." The image was a giant gray metal sphere. It had Robotnik's face on the front of it. "It is The Death Egg! His ultimate weapon."

Authors Note: I miss reviews. Did I do something wrong?