Me: "Glad everyone isn't as opposed to the idea as I thought. And before any of you say anything, yes I did get a little of this fight from the Sonic Comic Triple Touble. Start the fic."

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Shadow glared at Knuckles. Why wouldn't he just lie down? Didn't he know that he, Shadow, was the Ultimate Life form; this red amateur wouldn't stand a chance against him.

"Maybe this will change your mind." Said Shadow.

He took something out from his quills on his back to reveal an emerald.

"A chaos emerald." Said Knuckles.

Unbeknownst to Shadow that Knuckles had started chanting under his breath making the Master Emerald glow brighter and spin faster.

Shadow couldn't help but wonder what Knuckles was doing but when the Master Emerald stopped Shadow started to get irritated. He thought Knuckles was going to try some sort of attack but all he did was a light show.

"Fine then! I'll just take the emerald!" said Shadow.

He threw the chaos emerald into the air and caught it with one hand. "CHAOS CONTROL!"

But nothing happened.

"I…I don't understand." Said Shadow.

"Sigh. You're really stupid sometimes you know that? This is the Master Emerald, as in it controls the chaos emerald's power. And with me being it's guardian…well I'll just let you do the math." Said Knuckles.

"If that's the way you want to play it then so be it!" said Shadow.

He just tossed the chaos emerald aside seeing as how it was powerless and completely useless to him.

Shadow used his super speed to hit Knuckles across the face sending him flying across to the other side of the Master Emerald.

"Heh. Too easy." Said Shadow.

"Don't count me out just yet." Said Knuckles.

Shadow could hear Knuckles but he couldn't see him. He looked through the M. E. and saw that he wasn't on the other side.

"Where are you?" demanded Shadow.

Shadow got his answer as Knuckles erupted out of the ground and delivered Shadow an upper cut to the chin.

"If you want to beat me you're going to have to punch harder than that! You hit like a sissy!" said Knuckles.

Shadow growled at Knuckles for this. He was determined to teach the red foe a lesson.

"Then let's see you brush this off!" said Shadow.

He raced towards Knuckles and started running around him in a circle creating a vortex. Said vortex was sucking out all the air and Knuckles was suffocating from the lack of it.

"Can't… breathe." Gasped out Knuckles.

Knuckles had to think quickly or else it was going to be lights out…quite possibly for good.

Knuckles hit the ground and Shadow got hit by the blast caused by his fist. (A/N: Think of that thing he does in Sonic Heroes.)

As Shadow was knocked away he started to growl, this guy was really starting to push his buttons.

"You're going to pay for that!" said Shadow.

"Bring it on!" said Knuckles.

Shadow leapt into the air and delivered a hard right cross to Knuckle's face. But as he started to come down to Earth something grabbed the back of his quills. It was Knuckles, he had grabbed him right out of mid air. Knuckles flipped Shadow over his back and slammed him on the ground with a growl.

But on the ground Shadow had managed to hit a very 'tender' area to Knuckles. Knuckles groaned and got on his knees.

"That was a cheap shot!" said Knuckles in a high pitched voice.

"Well I'm not Sonic now am I? I'm not afraid to play dirty." Said Shadow.

Unfortunately for Shadow, Knuckles had managed to recuperate faster than he expected and was back on his feet.

"That tears it! I'm going Hyper Knuckles on you!" said Knuckles.

His spikes now looked like mini buzz saws but Shadow just yawned.

"Am I supposed to be intimidated?" asked Shadow.

"No…" said Knuckle.

Knuckles hit Shadow with an incredibly hard right sending him flying.

"You're supposed to be put into the Hospital Wing!" shouted Knuckles.

As Shadow got up he wiped away some blood from his mouth…wait, blood? The fool had somehow actually gotten to draw blood from himself. Him, The Ultimate Life Form! Bleeding!

"You're dead red meat!" said Shadow.

He got into a triple spin move and shot towards Knuckles.

"Yeah, well you're about to go from black and red to black and blue!" said Knuckles.

Knuckles could only go Hyper Knuckles for like one attack without something like a chaos emerald to help him or something. But that didn't mean his punches still couldn't hurt like hell. He knew this as he charged forward to punch the living buzz saw coming at him.

Me: "Believe it or not that's all you get for now. Hm…I usually make my chapters longer than that…weird. Oh well, next chapter is round two. So I'll see you the next time I update."