Sonic's eyes opened wide he turned for the door only one more word coming from his mouth as his hand griped the door handle. "Where?"

Tails studdured some looking uneasy. "H...he's at the mystic ruins!" He blurted out wincing as the door slammed behind sonic who was running in the direction of the mystic ruins.

Sonic ran fasted and faster picking up speed on the slopes of the road usually he would be grinding the rails or boarding down the street but he was uncharacteristically all business as he felt the wind resistance build he lowered his head his arms going limp hung backwards, he lowered his head against the wind and pushed on he heard the boom of the sound barrier breaking he flew forward no longer having much resistance the landscape blurred the buildings became gray walls the noise of the city was silent as he ran down the middle of the street to avoid cars soon the road faded into suburban streets and then forestry he slowed down enough to dodge trees then Sonic began to jump from one to another in triangle jump fashion landing with a skid at the edge of the mystic ruins he walked forward looking up at the pyramid and the hedgehog sitting atop of it. "Shadow!"

Shadow slid down the pyramid the flare from his air shoes behind him he carried a light scowl on his face as he touched flat ground walking towards sonic. "So, I'm no longer a faker? Is that it sonic?

Sonic turned his head. "here…" he took of his glove pulling the golden bracelet off his hand holding the golden ring out to the black hedgehog whose scowl seemed to dissipate from his face. Sonic looked at the bracelet himself he had asked rouge for it just before his vacation as a good luck charm.

"Oh…thanks. I forgot all about it." Shadow said softly as he slid the bracelet back onto his wrist he looked at the ground sitting back against the pyramid. "I guess you want to know how I survived the fall." He was answered with a quick nod by sonic. "well after my hand slipped I thought I had fulfilled my promise to Maria...and Amy I thought that I was finished but as I fell further I somehow got turned around and I looked into the earth and it was beautiful I knew I couldn't let it end so I used the last bit of power in my super form to activate chaos control and teleport to the ground but for some reason the chaos energy teleported me at an amazingly slow pace it took years to get to the ground and when I did arrive I didn't know where I was so it took me a few months to find station square, but I found tails about three days ago and he told me about this place so I've been staying here. It's been accommodating."

As he finished sonic looked at him from the ground sometime during the story he had sat down his legs were finally feeling better; he looked up at the sky the sun had gone down marginally and he was feeling the fatigue of a long day when he heard a small plane land behind him he looked over his shoulder seeing tails jumping out of it. "What's up? Tails is everything okay?"

He nodded some "Yeah yeah everything's fine Ivo just got a call from the military we've been working on some government machines and they decided to pay with some unused land, it used to be a military testing site but it was abandoned after the ARK incident it seems that the scientists there were afraid that things would turn out the same.. The building was bombed but some old military machines were still left from the days when it needed protection and he wondered if you two could help us make the island safe for development?"

Sonic and shadow stood sonic stepped forward clenching his hand into a loose fist "no problem Tails it sounds like it could be fun" he looked back at shadow ho was standing there with his arms crossed.

Shadow chuckled some and nodded. "I guess I could use some exorcise, I've been sitting around here for too long I hope this provides some sort of challenge."

Tails smiled "Great, this will be so much fun. I can't wait!" they all waked to the plain taking their seats. "Alright prepare for liftoff!"

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