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Chapter 1: One for the Knuckle-head

Most stories start out as being a normal day, mine, on the other hand, does not. My day was anything but normal! Sonic had convinced me to try to easy, normal life. I found someone to crash with for a while. Big mistake.

At four this morning, they were robbed. Since I obviously was the only one in the house that could catch this criminal, they woke me up and sent me to find him. I got very annoyed indeed. After tracking and chasing, a high speed car chase, may I add, for over an hour, I caught up. The guy ran out of gas, so he made it easy.

After he finally stopped, he started shooting at me! I had him pinned down in no time. It took the cops two hours to get there to haul the guy off to jail. During that time, I was punched, kicked, scratched, but he didn't dare bite me, and cursed at.

Then, I went for a run. I actually was kind of enjoying myself, but I also wasn't paying any attention to where I was going. I ran right off the hotel near Emerald Coast. I landed right in the ocean. After nearly half an hour of struggling, I made it back to the beach, where I just stood.

"SHADOW!" I turned around to see Tails running towards me. It was about eight in the morning by then.

"What!" I snapped at Tails.

"I need you to get me to Angel Island," He panted. "What are you doing at the Beach? I never thought you to be the one to watch sunrises, and besides, you need to be facing the other way. I was looking all over for you!"

"Ok, one, why are you looking for me? You have a plane," I said. "And second, what about Sonic?"

"In this order," Tails said. "One, I crashed the Tornado yesterday during a test flight. Two, Sonic told me to leave Knuckles alone. He says he is still suffering."

"Well sure." I had, of course, heard about Ceaira and the Beast. The story was very interesting, but I can understand why Knux doesn't want to be bothered. "No! Go fix your plane and go yourself."

"Please, Shadow!"

"NO!"

"PLEASE! Knuckles needs to get off his sorry behind! It's been a full year!"

I rolled my eyes. "Knuckles will heal on his own time, Tails! Leave him alone."

Tails shook his head. "Come on! I want to tell him that Backdrop is doing okay, and besides, he didn't come down for Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, or any of those holidays! I miss him."

I sighed. "No, you just want to go up there and yell at him."

"That too. . ."

"TAILS!"

"What?"

"NO! I will not take you up there! Now leave me alone!" I yelled. Some early morning beach goers turned their heads.

"Well aren't we mister Grumpy this morning," Tails taunted.

"You go away before I show you just how much Chaos Spear hurts!"

Tails took a step back at that, but kept at it. "Please! I know you want to see your old pal."

"Okay, one; Knuckles is not my pal and two;. . . NO!"

Tails bowed his head. I thought he had given. "PLEASE!" Wrong again. This just wasn't my day.

"Tails, no! And that is final! No, no! And a thousands times, NO!"

"Ah, come on, Shadow!"

I finally caved. I was annoyed, and I didn't want to sit here and argue with a twelve year old until he killed me with his annoyed, high pitched voice. "Fine! I'll take you, but we leave when I say so!"

Tails nodded vigorously. "Thank you!" He ran up and hugged me.

I pushed him to the sand. "Do that again, I will kill you!" Tails nodded again, but he was less excited. "Here we go. CHAOS CONTROL!"

I opened my eyes. It had worked. We had successfully made it to Angel Island! I was surprised because my warping ability had been on the fritz lately. Tails took off towards the Shrine. I followed more slowly. If indeed I had ever been on the Floating Island, it had been a good, long while. I looked around at what Knuckles saw everyday. Man, he had it good. No pesky memories to deal with. All he had to do was sit and watch a giant green rock.

Ok, yes, I have all of my memory back. Full recovery. This is not a story about me trying to get my memory back, that's worn out.

By the time I reached the Shrine, Tails and Knuckles were about to be in a blood brawl.

"Knuckles, you NEED to get over it! It's been a full year! One whole YEAR! Get off your pity train and come visit us sometime!" Tails yelled.

Knuckles glared. "Shut up! Why did you even come up here, Tails?"

"I'm worried about you, Knux! It's scary that you won't even come down here anymore!"

"Well, you aren't making it any better by coming up here and yelling at me!" Knuckles screamed.

"Well obviously you need to be screamed at to get ANYTHING through that thick skull of yours!" Tails retorted.

"You wanna take that back, buddy-boy?"

"No, I don't, 'buddy-boy'!" Tails yelled back. "It's true and you know it! Here's a tip Knuckles; Get on with your life!"

"I will get on with my life in my own time!"

"Well, the time is now, Knickle -Brain!"

"Don't call me that!" Knuckles yelled.

"I'll call you what ever I want to call you, Knix!"

"Stop that!"

"Why? You going to punch me:

"I just might!"

Ok, time to interfere! "Guys! Calm down, will ya?" I called. Knuckle spun around.

"What in the world is he doing here?" He yelled.

Tails shrugged. "I asked him to bring me up here," he explained.

"So you brought this child up here!"

"Yes," I said calmly, "I brought Tails up here. He wanted to speak with you."

"Thanks, Shadow! Take him home now!"

I sighed. "Okay."

"NO!" Tails yelled. "I'm not finished with the Knuckle-headed wonder yet!"

"Tails! The deal was we left when I say so," I said, trying to keep calm. It wasn't working. "We are leaving, NOW!"

"NO!" Here we go again!

"Yes! NOW!" I screamed.

"NO! Not now!"

"CHAOS CONTROL!" I screamed out of pure anger. There was blinding white light, that turned to a deep blue. I looked around. This had never happened before. Tails and Knuckles were both there. They looked as confused as I felt. We should have exited the warp by now.Something was wrong! Horribly wrong. I was too close to the Master Emerald. I put a lot of power into that Chaos Control, and then with the power of the Master Emerald, it must have boosted the warp. I had no earthly idea where we would end up. I closed my eyes and had the feeling of falling.

When I opened them, I looked around. Tails and Knuckles were just waking up as well. We weren't on Angel Island anymore, or at least, I didn't think we were. "Wha-, what happened?" Tails asked, rubbing his head.

"Where are we?" Knuckles asked, looking at our surroundings. The Ruins! That was where we were. But, they weren't ruins anymore. They looked like they were just built. The Temple wasn't even fully built yet!

My eyes darted. No one was around. This was all a dream. I did not send us back in time! I didn't! I couldn't have. Chaos Control doesn't work like that! There was no way! I looked at the Chaos Emerald in my hand. "Well," I muttered, "That didn't work."

Well, thats the first chapter! Hope ya'll liked it! If you haven't read The Last of my Kind you might get confused, since this is the second in the Knuckles Adventure saga! Please R&R!