Me: "Here's the last chapter. Start the fic."

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Shadow started to wake up to some type of shouting. He opened his eyes to see Rouge, who was still tied up by the way, being lectured by Knuckles.

"OOoooh…what hit me?" asked Shadow.

Knuckles turned around and smirked as Shadow started getting up.

"Back among the living I see. Eggman had this on your neck to try to take the Master Emerald me." Said Knuckles.

Knuckles dropped a beat up chip into Shadow's hand.

"He was using it to control you. I doubt if you even knew what you were doing. If it wasn't for me you'd probably still be Eggman's errand boy." Said Knuckles.

Shadow held the chip in a shaking hand. But it wasn't shaking because he was scared, quite the contrary, Shadow was mad!

"Eggman…He's going to pay for this insult! I'm going to make sure of it!" said Shadow.

Shadow gave out a sigh and turned to Knuckles.

"Knuckles…I suppose I am indebted to you. You saved me from Eggman's mind control chip and for this you have my thanks." Said Shadow.

"Well I know one way you can thank me." Said Knuckles.

"How's that?" asked Shadow.

"You see I need a vacation badly, maybe see the world a little…but the problem is I can't find anyone to watch the Master Emerald for me." Said Knuckles.

Knuckles sent a small glare to Rouge.

"Well no one I can trust anyways." Said Knuckles.

"So you would like for me to watch the Master Emerald…" said Shadow.

"Just until I'm done with my vacation." Said Knuckles.

Shadow remained silent for a moment or two.

"Very well…but when you return I shall find Eggman and kill him." Said Shadow.

"Hm…I know just the way we can let him know you mean business too." Said Knuckles.

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Eggman's base…

"What happened to Shadow? I lost contact with him three hours ago!" demanded Eggman.

Eggman's monitor screen seemed to turn on by itself. There he saw Shadow and Knuckles. Knuckles was smirking and Shadow had fire in his eyes.

"Eggman! Thanks to Knuckles here I am no longer under your control! I'm contacting you to tell you that no one makes a puppet out of me! Next time I see I WILL kill you!" said Shadow.

The screen turned off and Eggman started to pull on his mustache out of anger.

"Not only did Shadow fail to get the Master Emerald but he's no longer under my control anymore! And all because of that stupid Knuckles! I HATE THAT ECHINDA!" shouted Eggman.

Me: "There you go. I thought that would be an appropriate ending. I might do a sequel where Shadow has some adventures guarding the Master Emerald but that's only a thought. Hope you enjoyed it."