He was growing exceedingly impatient. It had been almost a year and a half since he'd made an attempt to obliterate Sonic, and make his "Eggman Empire" a reality. Searching through file, after file, he had succesfully dug through almost every secret weapon of the military, and still found nothing that interested him.

"Come on you idiotic hunk of junk!" He shouted, smashing his fists against the keyboard. He had one of the most high-tech, accurate computer terminals in the world, so why the heck couldn't he find something helpful? After a few moments of fuming, he returned to his search. Suddenly, a file caught his eye.

"Project Shadow..." Eggman read aloud "was created to be the 'World's Ultimate Life Form.' Sadly the project was abandoned after an accident that claimed the lives of almost half of the science team...and the military..." Eggman adjusted his caller uncomfortably as read the article. "Claimed the lives of the scientists...and the military...?" Geez...this Project Shadow wasn't messing around was he...? Eggman mentally shook himself and found where he left off.

"Blah, blah, blah...took the lives of the scientists including the Maria Robotnik, the grandaughter of world-renowned genius Professor Gerald Robotnik... Now-" He almost jumped out of his chair. " Wait, what? My cousin Maria and...Professor Gerald Robotnik! ...Grandfather…..?" That was it; this was what he'd been searching for! Eggman did a search through every government terminal he could hack through, but all of them lead to the same thing: the project was abandoned.

"C'mon grandfather...you couldn't have given up that easily..." Eggman muttered; he was sure there was more to this than just a stupid piece of paper…. Suddenly a mini-file sprang out on his computer; it was in garbled letters that he couldn't make out, so he thought it might be corrupted. He gave it no regard, and closed it. But then it came up again, and again; each time closing it.

"Stupid pop-ups...!" Eggman grumbled. After the twelfth time, Eggman finally took a glance at it. But as he looked at it more closely,he realized that the small fractions weren't corrupted...they had an encryption puton them!

"Yes!" Eggman declared "I knew you had something up your sleeve grandpa!" He happy clacked his keyboard, breaking the inscription in a matter of seconds. "Hm...wasn't that a little too easy...?" He dropped the subject once the real documentation for Project Shadow came out. It was huge, almost twenty pages of info! But another thing that struck him as odd, was that there were no picture references of the "top secret weapon" anywhere. That didn't matter; he was sol. Eggman was going to release this ultimate weapon and unleash it on the world! …….Or at least the part that he felt like conquering.

"Mwuahahahahahah! World's Ultimate Life Form, here I come!" Eggman cackled triumphantly. He raised his arms high in the air, but let them slump back onto his lap. Giving out a groggy yawn, he looked down at the bottom of his computer that had a little digital clock. It was about midnight, but for some reason he was more tired than usual... Still, he had found the answer to destroying Sonic, so he thought he might gloat a little longer.

But in the middle of his gloating, a small CD came out of his hardrive. "Huh?" Eggman thought, instantly becoming wide awake. "I don't remember putting any discs in there..." He slowly took the disc out of the slot, but curiosity got the best of him, so he put it back into his hardrive.

He watched in amazement as page upon page of writing came on the screen; stating all the destructive force of "Shadow." It was his grandfather's diary, but for some odd reason all Gerald could talk about was what Shadow was capable of... That was it! Eggman could wait no longer; he pushed a switch on his computer that summoned his new "Egg Walker."

Eggman left the confines of his base, located in a (He wasn't sure whether it was really Egyptian…) pyramid. Strangely after the thing with Chaos, looking at all those ruins, and almost having to go back in time himself; Eggman had grown rather fond of ancient artifacts. Mainly the Mayans, Aztects, and sometimes the Egyptians; probably because they seemed to have the most past history with the Chaos Emeralds...

All he was really conserned about was getting his hands on...whatever it was this "Project Shadow" was. Of coarse...getting there was half the battle...

(Ok...why did I give Eggman his own stinking chapter...? I have no idea, I just hope you enjoyed it...)