The GUN Commander sat in his command chair as he watched video from Earth, "I just can't except that our fates are in the hands of those two hedgehogs. All this military power and I am helpless."

"Is Sonic all right?" Amy stepped up behind the command chair.

"I don't know! But I hope he is. If we lose Sonic, we lose."

Shadow had to fly high to avoid the pillars of water that Demise shot at him, "Master Spear!" Shadow's body glowed with light and hundreds of spears shot at Demise. The creature didn't bother to avoid the attack and the spears exploded against him.

"Is that the best you can do?" Demise spat out several orbs of dark energy.

"For the moment." Shadow flew away, but the orbs followed him. The hedgehog maneuvered the best he could, but the orbs hit him and exploded. Shadow fell towards the water.

Demise caught him in one of his hands, "Your fate is sealed." Shadow's super form died off.

Shadow opened his eyes and started to laugh, "Maybe, but so is yours." He rolled off the hand and into the water.

"What?" The clouds above him parted and he was covered in golden light. Demise looked up and saw a gold fireball falling towards him. He was instantly blinded.

Sonic briefly appeared in the fireball, "Hyper Sun Spin!" Sonic disappeared in the fireball. Demise tried to move, but the light prevented him. The fireball hit him and exploded in a flash of blinding light. Shadow was knocked out.

Shadow coughed up some water as he was helped to his feet, "You!"

Sperk smiled, "I saw you as I was passing through."

"Don't think I owe anything." Shadow stepped away and gasped. He was on what was left of a building. The entire bay was gone. Nothing but a large crater was left. Several of the buildings along the side had been incinerated. The sky was its normal blue color with white clouds. Shadow jumped off the building and ran to the center of the crater, "Sonic!"

A blue hedgehog pushed himself out of a small hole and laid on the ground, "Over here."

"You're alive!" Shadow ran to him, "Not bad!"

Sonic chuckled and glanced passed Shadow, "Could you stop him please."

Shadow turned and saw a dirty Robotnik trying to crawl out of the crater. Shadow smiled and knocked him out with a spin dash, "Nice try doctor." He rolled the fat man over to his back. The squid like Doom Eye was wrapped around his chest. The eye opened and flew at Shadow. It wrapped around his head, "Get off!"

"Your body shall make a fine replacement for the one he destroyed." Black Doom tightened his grip around the hedgehog's head.

Shadow fell to the ground, having trouble breathing. He just didn't have the strength left to fight. As he started to drift off, Sonic managed an well-aimed spin attack that sliced the eye in half. It fell off the hedgehog, "Thanks!" Both hedgehogs passed out.

Sonic woke up in a hospital bed. Both he and Shadow had been sleeping for almost a week. Amy Rose was sleeping in a chair across the large room, "I fail to see what that girl sees in you."

Sonic looked over to Shadow who was lying on a bed just three feet away, "My natural charisma." Both hedgehogs laughed. "So what now?"

"I return to The Ark." He looked over to the side table in-between the beds, "That pain in the neck." There were two Chaos Emeralds on the table.

Sonic smiled, "Why not hang out with me? Traveling the world."

"Why?"

"It is time you came out of that small space station and see the bigger world." Sonic sat up, "What do you have to lose?"

"What little self-dignity I have left." Shadow sat up and got out of the bed on shaky legs, "But you are an interesting hedgehog."

Sonic stood up and held his hand out, "And you're the only one who can keep up with me faker." They shook hands and fell back on their beds.

Knuckles and the rest of the gang greeted the two hedgehogs as they left the hospital. They had been laid up for three weeks. The echidna gave Sonic a high-five, "Great work you two. My emerald came out of that scrape without a scratch."

"Thanks for the concern for our lives."

Knuckles gave Shadow a bear hug, "Oh I'm glad you guys lived."

"Please let go of me." Knuckles released the hedgehog and Shadow stepped back.

Tails handed Sonic an envelope, "The president wants to give you and Shadow a medal."

Sonic patted the small fox on the head, "Later. I've been staying still way too long."

Amy lunged at Sonic from behind, "Don't go now! You're finally well enough to take me out."

The blue hedgehog broke free from the girl's grasp, "Ah, bye!" He took off at full speed.

"Sonic!" Amy took off after him.

Shadow sighed, "I'm giving up a peaceful life on The Ark for this." He thought for a moment and shrugged, "But I won't be board." He followed Sonic.

Robotnik sat in his cell as the prepared the next phase of his trial, "Everything was so perfect. Back up plans on top of back up plans. I had the forces, the technology, and the brains. How does that hedgehog keep beating me?"

"Because you're a fat lonely guy who needs robots to feel loved." Sonic was waving at Robotnik through the bars to his cell.

"You rodent!" He jumped to his feet and ran at the hedgehog. The chains attached to his legs tripped him and he fell to the cell floor.

"Bye!" Sonic ran down the corridor.

Robotnik pounded his fists into the ground, "I hate that hedgehog. I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG!"

END