"It's gotta be close!" Rouge said aloud as she climbed up a mountain near Sky Rail. She had already obtained three of the five remaining chaos emeralds. And she did it in record time, too! She had never searched for the chaos emeralds this quickly before. In fact, unless she could get one easily, she avoided them. Unless Eggman was planning to use them to take over the world, they were more trouble than they were worth. Rouge dug into the side of the mountain and pulled out the fourth chaos emerald.

'I've done it!" She was so happy this search was almost over. It was tiring, even for an agent. But she wasn't able to tell where the last one was. This was never a problem for her. Never. But time was running short, so she figured it would be best to return to Gimme Shelter and have Sonic and Shadow do what they will with the ones she had managed to collect.

"I can't shake the feeling that Eggman Nega is stealing the Chaos Emeralds as we speak. Maybe I'm just paranoid..." Tails though out loud.

"Your thinking is correct, fox!" Eggman Nega lowered to the ground in front of the alter in a small hovercraft.

"Eggman Nega! Haven't you learned your lesson the last time?" Sonic asked.

"Sonic the Hedgehog! I must say, I did not expect to see you again!" Eggman Nega smiled.

"Give back the emerald you have!" Shadow demanded.

"Correction. You mean emeralds." Eggman Nega corrected Shadow. "I was able to use the one I found here and use it to pull another one out of your world! I only need four more chaos emeralds, and I am about to get them."

"How?" Tails asked.

"I'm glad you asked. I have been fallowing energy readings. The final four are travelling this way now. Once they are here, I'll simply take them."

"This is no good!" Sonic shouted. "Shadow, is there a way we can open a portal to our world now without any emeralds?"

"All of the emeralds are close enough. It doesn't matter which world they are in, as long as they are near. Since both the Sol and Chaos Emeralds are here, I can create a door of sorts, but only for a limited time. But what good would it do?"

"I can take some of the Sol Emeralds to our world. Then each world would have seven of whatever type of emerald, and it would buy us some more time." Sonic explained.

"I can not allow the Sol Emeralds to leave here." Blaze told Sonic in a strict voice.

"But we need to! Otherwise, we're doomed!" Sonic tried to make her understand. Sonic turned to Eggman Nega.

"Why do you want all fourteen emeralds anyway? You'll destroy everything! You can rule a non-existant world!" Sonic reminded him.

"You stupid hedgehog, you're even dumber than the cat! Don't you think I thought of that? I have created a storage unit capable of storing the emeralds with no reprocussions. I'll have total control!" Eggman Nega boasted. "And the emeralds are coming ever closer.

"We can't let Eggman Nega have control of such power!" Blaze shouted.

"All seven chaos emeralds or sol emeralds give the maximum amount of power. With two sets I'll have double the maximum, I'll be a god!" Eggman Nega laughed.

"Okay, Sonic. You can take some sol emeralds into your world. But just temporarily. I'm trusting you..." Blaze gave in. It was their only hope. Sonic turned to Shadow.

"Can you do it Shadow?" Sonic asked.

"I am the ultimate life form! Of course I can do it!" Shadow began to glow red and rose above the ground.

"AAAAAAAAAAARGH!" Shadow screamed as a black vortex appeared, and the sky turned pitch black. The vortex opened to reveal Gimme Shelter and Rouge with the final four emeralds.

"Rouge! Run!" Sonic screamed as he ran into the vortex with three Sol Emeralds.

"You moron, it isn't that simple!" Eggman Nega yelled.

"Ugh...Sonic! I can't hold it much longer!" Shadow screamed. Eggman fired a series of missles and shot Shadow to the ground, square in the chest. Blaze and Tails ran to his side. The Sol emeralds shined and pulled Sonic back before he could reach Rouge.

"I almost had it..." Sonic panted. Eggman aimed his laser at Shadow and fired again, sendign Shadow back a few feet. Out of nowhere, the four emeralds Rouge had appeared in Eggman's hand.

"It's that easy! I had two emeralds, the others fallow!" Eggman Nega cackled. He held one emerald out and took the diamond one Shadow had from Club Rouge as he flew away once again.

"Shadow? Are you okay?" Tails asked as he looked at Shadow. Shadow punched Tails away and sat up.

"Do I look okay?" He shouted. He wiped the sweat from his brow and examined the blood that stained his white fur.

"Shadow, I'm sorry!" Sonic shouted.

"Will you live?" Blaze asked.

"I'll be fine." Shadow insisted.

"Eggman Nega has all of the Chaos Emeralds now. No doubt he'll be back soon for the Sol Emeralds