Alarms filled The Death Egg as Sonic and Shadow ran through the corridors. They ran into a few of Robotnik's troops, but most of them were either shutdown or attacking each other. "Guess Metal messed with their programming too."

Shadow nodded as they turned a corner, "Fortunately Metal's desire to kill you has spared us the fate of this base. Remind yourself to thank him before you destroy him."

"Sounds fair! So any idea how we get off this thing?"

"As long as we are not cut off from it, we should be able to use the drill shuttle we took to get here." They ran down a long corridor and a large metal door started to lower from the ceiling. "Perfect!" Both hedgehogs slid under the door as it shut. "We won't make it at this rate. If we can at least get to the surface we can use Chaos Control."

"What about Tails and the others?"

"No time!" As the hedgehogs continued their escape, The Eclipse Cannon impacted the base. The base shook violently and they were thrown off their feet. Shadow closed his eyes and reached out with his mind, "The energy from the blast is coming from our right." He opened his eyes and helped Sonic up, "This way!"

"Shouldn't we be running away from the blast?" Shadow ignored him and took off down a large hallway. "Why me?" He followed Shadow down the hall and the pair reached a heavy blast door.

Shadow ripped open a small computer panel and tore out the wires, "I suggest you take a deep breath."

"Just a sec!" Sonic tried to stop Shadow, but the black hedgehog had already activated the door. It slid open and the two were sucked down another hall.

Shadow grabbed Sonic's hand as they fell into the vacuum of space. He had a split second to spot one of GUN's ships. The two vanished in a burst of green light. The two fell down inside one of the ship's cargo bays. Shadow ran to one of the portholes, "Not a bad shot." There was a huge crater almost two miles wide on the surface of The Death Egg.

"Brace for another shot." A loud voice sounded over the intercom as the ship shook. A large green beam of light shot past and hit the station in the same spot as the first.

When the light died away, Shadow could see inside the base. A large yellow orb of fire was shinning in the center of The Death Egg. "A miniature sun! I can't believe he managed to create something so powerful." The ship shook once again as a third beam shot past and impacted the sun. The sun flared up and exploded. The resulting shockwave slammed into The GUN Fleet and sent it flying in all directions. The two hedgehogs were thrown off their feet and slammed into the side of the room.

Sonic pushed himself up as the shaking stopped, "Shadow?"

"I'm alive." Shadow stood up and shook his head, "We're dam lucky to be alive."

"I hope the others are all right."

"Let's find out!" Both hedgehogs ran out of the cargo bay.

The GUN Commander sat down in his conference room. It had been only one hour since the explosion and it was only the quick thinking of Tails that saved his fleet. They had managed to withdraw their troops and get some distance away before The Death Egg exploded. Sonic, Shadow, Tails, and Knuckles sat with him in the room. "First I would like to extend my gratitude to Tails for saving our lives."

"Way to go, bro." Sonic gave the smiling fox a high-five.

Shadow gave Tails a nod of approval, "Even I didn't see what was so apparent. Good work."

The commander sighed, "But the blast did damage our ships. We will not be able to make it back to Earth in time to stop Robotnik's invasion. I am open to any suggestions." The room was quiet.

Knuckles rubbed his chin, "I have a plan! We have six of the seven Chaos Emeralds. I might be able to link them with The Master Emerald on the Ark."

"Then Shadow and me can use Chaos Control to get there."

"But what will we do when we get there. The Eclipse Cannon has probably overloaded from firing at a target so far outside its range."

Knuckles tapped his knuckles against the table, "I will allow you two to use The Master Emerald. Even split between to two of you, you will have more than enough power to destroy invasion ships."

"Thanks Knuckles!"

The echidna gave Sonic a warning glare, "Just bring it back in one piece."

Sonic and Shadow sat on the floor with the six Chaos Emeralds placed in a circle around them. Knuckles sat cross-legged in front of them. "As soon as I establish the link, you two will need to concentrate on The Ark." Both hedgehogs nodded. Knuckles took a deep breath and held his hands up, "The servers are the chaos. Chaos is power, power that is enriched by the heart. The controller unifies the chaos, please help us in this time of need." The six Chaos Emeralds glowed brightly and floated into the air. The spun around at high speeds. In a flash of light, Sonic, Shadow, and the emeralds vanished. Knuckles fell to the floor, "I'm going to rest now."

Sonic and Shadow appeared in the main power room of The Ark. The six emeralds dropped to the floor. Shadow ran to a computer and ran a systems check, "The cannon is out of commission. That idiot overloaded it."

Sonic patted The Master Emerald, "We still have this."

"Do you have any idea how to use that thing?"

Sonic looked at the emerald and scratched his head, "Ah! No!"

Shadow sighed, "You are hopeless!"

"Do you know?"

Before Shadow could answer, The Master Emerald began to pin on its own. "Guess it knows!" The emerald absorbed the two hedgehogs and vanished.

In a flash of light, Sonic and Shadow appeared above The Ark. Both were in their super forms. Sonic clenched his fists and his golden aura flared up, "I've never felt this much power before."

"We better hurry! We don't want to burn up all of our rings before we are done."

"Robotnik usually constructs his equipment with gold rings. We should be able to collect more as we smash his ships." The gold hedgehog shot forward and flew at the large fleet of ships.

Shadow's eyes narrowed, "I sense something." The silver hedgehog flew after Sonic, "The same energy source I sense when we fought Black Doom. It is very near."

Sonic stopped short of one of the pyramid shaped ships, "Energy shields!" A green sphere of energy surrounded each ship. Sonic curled into a ball and slammed into the field. It sparked and overloaded. Sonic smashed through the pyramid and it exploded. Several gold rings flew out of the wreckage and Sonic absorbed them, "This is pathetically easy." As he neared another one, a large metal fist slammed into his back. He spun around and spotted his attacker. It was a large red robot. "So this is what Robotnik did with Diablon."

Diablon's single robotic eye glowed with black light, "Priority one hedgehog confirmed." Diablon's arms shot up and twin beams of black light shot from each arm.

"Bring it!" Sonic flew at the beams. Before he impacted the beams, Shadow knocked him clear and dodged the attack. "What?"

"A black emerald powers this thing. Those beams will injure you even with your super power."

"Oh, thanks!" Sonic curled into a ball and shot at the robot. As he hit, a black energy field surrounded Diablon and he was blasted back. "Ok!" Diablon swung at him, but the hedgehog flew out of the way.

"We don't have time for this." Shadow's body glowed brightly, "Chaos Spear!" He threw out his hand and several spears of golden light shot from his hand. The spears impacted the field, but did little to them.

"Second target confirmed as Shadow." Several ports on Diablon's chest opened and several missiles shot from them.

"Chaos Field!" Shadow held out his hand and a sphere of light surrounded him. The missiles impacted and exploded. Shadow was knocked back and crashed into a pyramid ship. The ship exploded and Shadow was hit back further. He absorbed the rings around him, "I will not be beaten by a lame machine."

"Neither will I!" Sonic flew above the bot's head and shot straight at the top of it. He impacted the field, but this time he spun in place as he attempted to smash through it.

"Keep it up!" Shadow flew at the bot, "The field must be weakest at that point." He curled into a ball and slammed into the field in front of the Diablon. The field sparked around the bot as it reached for Shadow. The field collapsed and both hedgehogs got through. Sonic smashed into Diablon's head as Shadow hit the center of its chest.

Both hedgehogs flew clear as the bot sparked a little as the field appeared again, "Damage minimal."

"That thing is tough."

Shadow nodded, "Yes, but we know how to get past its field. Lets finish this bot and get back to work destroying Robotnik's ships." The bot's chest opened up and a large black emerald could be seen inside of it. "We should move!" A large beam of intense energy shot from the emerald at them. The hedgehogs managed to dodge the blunt of the attack, but the shockwave from the blast knocked them back. The beam ripped into several of Robotnik's ships and destroyed them. Both hedgehogs were quick to absorb all the rings they could.

"Got a new plan?"

As Diablon aimed its emerald at them, a large metal hedgehog shot out of space and landed on its head. The black energy field around the bot sparked at the entrance of the hedgehog and died. The hedgehog was made of blue metal with dark gray. It looked like a tanked up Metal Sonic. The hedgehog whipped his hands out and large blue metal blades shot out of his arms. They were attached to black chains and wrapped around the bot's head.

"No one is aloud to kill Sonic but me!" The metal hedgehog pulled and ripped the bot's head off. He flew away using thrusters under his quills as the bot's body exploded.

"Uh, thanks!"

Metal's eyes glowed a bright red as he pulled his blades back to him with their chains, "It is time to end this little war Sonic. Robotnik is no more. Now it is just you and me, like it should be."

Sonic smiled, "Sounds fun!"