Shadow gazed up at the night sky. It was a dep blue, littered with silver stars. Typical. Fake. Hallow. Sonic was sleeping, as was Tails and Blaze. Sonic was just laying on the stone, Tails was curled up in a ball. He couldn't get a good view of Blaze. He never could. Although he didn't tell her, he had been watching her for some time before he helped ehr defeat Eggman Nega. She was different than the other girls he knew. She wasn't flirtatious, giddy or just plain naive. She was smart and power, and she knew it.

"So, Shadow..." A voice was heard from behind Shadow. Shadow jumped.

"Don't do that!" He bellowed. He hated being caught off guard.

"Sorry." Blaze aplogized, although she clearly didn't mean it.

"It's okay..." Shadow assured her.

"So what's up with you anyway?" She asked.

"What do you mean?" Shadow asked.

"You show up here, and you obviously know something about the emeralds, and you seem to know Sonic pretty well, and yet you've said almost nothing the whole time you've been here." She was very forward.

"I have nothing to say about Sonic or the emeralds." Shadow said simply. He didn't make eye contact.

"So, do you know Cream?" She asked, totally changing the subject.

"I thought we were talking about Sonic or whatever." Shadow reminded Blaze.

"Well, you obviosuly don't want to talk about him, So I found a new topic. Look, I'm trying to be friendly here, so you can either retunr the favor or get lost." She was angry and wasn't afraid to show it.

"Yes, I know Cream." Shadow replied.

"Okay, good. No elaborate." She instructed.

"I don't realy know her personally, I just rescued her once. She was trapped in a castle." He explained.

"Who trapped her?" Blaze become defenseive. Cream was her first friend, after all.

"Nobody, as far as I know. She probably just got lost. I was on a mission, and along the way, Amy asked me to help her find Cream and her little chao...I forget it's name."

"Cheese?"

"Probably." Nothing was said for the next few minutes. Shadow had a hard time opening up, and everybody knew it. Blaze, however, was interested in Shadow.

"So, tell me about yourself." Blaze instructed. "Why do you consider yourself to be the Ultimate Lifeform?"

"Became I am." He said, still not looking at her.

"How so? What makes you more ultimate than Me, or Sonic or Tails?" She asked.

"Becasue I was created, not conceived." He explained. "I was created in a very advanced labrotory on a Space Colony a long time ago."

"Out of what?"

"Blood." Shadow closed his eyes tightly and tilted his head to the ground.

"Blood? Whoes?"

"The blood of a demon. From space. He was evil, which would make he so as well. But my creator gave me an another project he was working on a soul or sorts, to regulate the evil blood that runs inside of me."

"Wow...That's deep." Blaze admitted.

"How about you?" Shadow asked.

"There isn't much to say. I protect these emeralds. I watch them, day and night. I can't leave." Blaze said. Shadow finally looked her in the eye.

"That's very unfortunant." Shadow was sympathetic. She couldn't leave. At least he could wander around.

"But I do have special powers." She explained as he summoned a ball of fire into her palm.

"I'm impressed." Shadow admitted. Blaze was happy. They were talking. She realized Shadow would never be a man of many words, but sometimes words were not needed.

"Thank you...Shadow." Blaze thanked the hedgehog for his kind comment.

"Why did this happen?" Shadow asked.

"What? Why did what happen?" Blazed was confused once again.

"Our words, our dimensions fusing together. This shouldn't happen."

"I don't know. The emeralds are unbalanced. But they should've never been close enough for you to warp here."

"Then why is it so?" Shadow was sick of his life alwasy being a whirlwind of questions.

"I'm not sure. If we return all chaos emeralds to your world, and the sol emeralds saty here, they should be balanced again and return to normal." Blaze suggested.

"But they were that way before, and they were still overlapping. We're missing a piece of the puzzle." Shadow came to a conclusion. And once again, conversation ceased. A loud noise echoed in the distance.

"Do you hear that?" Blazed asked Shadow as she turend to the direction of the noise.

"I do." Shadow also turned. Tails uncurled from his balled sleeping position, also noticing the noise.

"Sonic. Sonic!" Tails tried to wake his sleeping hero. "C'mon, Sonic! Wake up!" The hedgehog slwoly opened his eyes, an stood up.

"What's that noise?" Sonic asked turning to Blaze and Shadow.

"I'm not sure, but I think it has something to do with Eggman Nega!" Blaze asured him. And she was right. A large robot rose up form the nearby forest and eclipsed the moonlight.

"That thing is huge!" Sonic exclaimed.

"What'll we do, Sonic?" Tails asked, although he honestly wasn't expecting an answer.

"We must protect the Sol Emeralds!" Blaze shouted as she began to collect the sol emeralds off of their stone pillars.

"Stupid!" Eggman Nega's voice echoed before dissapating. His intercom was loud.

"Stupid, stupid cat! You can not hide from me! We've done this dance a thousand times."

"And I've always won!" Blaze reminded him.

"But this time will be different, my dear. For this time, I have the power of the Chaos Emeralds! And I shall now collect the Sol Emeralds as well. Save us soem time, Blaze, and hand them over!"

"Sonic! Shadow!" Blaze shouted. I know you two can use the energy of the chaos emeralds to use your super powers. But the sol emeralds contain equal power. Maybe if you guys can..." Blaze trailed off, knowng that they knew the rest.

"I think I can..." Shadow informed the cat.

"Let's give it a shot!" Sonic agreed. Blaze threw the emeralds into the air, and a rainbow ligth light up the area. When the lighting had returned to it's former state, Sonic stood with Shadow and Blaze behind him. Sonic's quills rose upward resembling Shadow's and he shined a bright gold, and his eyes were red. Shadow looked similar, but his black fur now was a light gold, and Blaze's fur was now pink, and her outfit was red. The three held hands and flew off to Eggman Nega's chaos-powered weapon.

"Let's do it!"

"It's time!"

"I am the Ultimate Lifeform!"

Tails watched helplessly from the one shnng alter.

"Good luck, Sonic..."

Note: Yeah, this chapter is kind of short. Sorry. I'm pressed for time.