CHAPTER 2

NEW CHALLENGE

That night in Future City, Shadow, Rouge, and Charmy were walking around the city.

Shadow and Charmy had their minds on Chaos Emeralds and for once Rouge didn't like it.

Charmy had a device that could allow him to find Chaos Emeralds by their energy, but the device was picking up no signal.

Rouge placed her hands on her hips, "Are you looking for Chaos Emeralds? Aren't you two forgetting the reason why we're here? We're suppose to be on vacation remember?"

"Did you get a signal yet?" Shadow asked Charmy.

Charmy shook his head, "Nope."

Rouge sighed, "You boys..."

Then they all heard glass breaking from a building close to them.

Shadow looked over to the building, "What the?" He then saw three dark figures riding on extreme gear breaking through the window.

Charmy pointed to them, "What's that?" All of sudden the device for tracking the Chaos Emeralds had a signal and it was pointing towards the three dark figures. Charmy turned to Shadow, "Shadow, the Chaos Emerald's over there!"

Shadow smiled, "All right! About time! Finally some action!" Shadow jumped off the platform they were standing on and jumped on the road to cut the thieves off. When he was ready to attack the first one, he quickly flew pass him. Shadow watched as the first thief got away. He got a quick glimpse of him. The first thief looked like a green bird. He thought he had seen him before.

Rouge stood in back of him ready for the next two. The first was a big grey bird riding on a yellow board. Rouge quickly kicked him three times to knock him off his board.

The grey bird went flying in the air, but successfully grabbed on to the purple bird's purple board.

The grey bird's board hit the ground.

Charmy flew up to it and examined a bronze medallion on the bottom of the board with some sort of symbol that he didn't understand at the moment.

Rouge watched as the two got away, "Shit!" She turned to Shadow, "They're getting away!"

Shadow stared at the board for a second then ran up to it. He grabbed it, threw it in the air and jumped on it. Once he was riding it, he had a difficult time maintaining his balance though he remembered riding on extreme gear before. He speeded up on the board and flew pass the purple and grey bird. He quickly caught up with the green bird in no time.

The bird looked back and saw him coming beside him, 'He just won't quit.'

Shadow was then beside him. He held his hand in the air and yellow spear came out of it, "Chaos Spear!" The yellow spear was headed for the green bird's board, but he jumped and the spear missed.

The bird began to laugh, "Is that all you got?" The bird jumped in the air and then a blue light hit Shadow and knocked him off the board. Shadow fell on the road with the yellow board dropping beside him.

The green bird looked back at the black hedgehog, "Humph, you're gonna have to do better than that to keep up with me!" The green bird and the rest of his gang were off with a Chaos Emerald in their possession.

Rouge helped Shadow off the ground, "You okay, Shad?"

Shadow sighed, "Fine."

Charmy picked up the yellow board that the grey bird was using, "Too bad they got away."

Shadow smirked, "I have a feeling this will be one hell of a vacation."