Wuz'up people! This is yo home girl, saphireKat hollerin' at cha!

Sonic: ...why are you talking like that...?

Me:Hm, I dunno. I just had the urge to, yo!

Sonic: You can stop any time now...

Me: Fun sucker. Okay, anyways people:

Disclaimer: I don't own Sonic and Co. I do own, Ruby and Leo, though.

Shadowed Photo Ch. 3- Stupid Theories

I gasped in shock. "Shadow!"

Leo stopped staring at Shadow and looked back at me. "Wha…? 'Shadow'? You mean that's not Sonic?" He asked pointing a finger at him.

I was about to answer Leo's obvious question until Shadow interrupted. "Correct," he stated. "Unfortunately, your friend, here, found out—"

"—that you're the one who is framing Sonic and tricking the government into going after the wrong hedgehog!" I finished his sentence for him, trying to sound as bold as possible, but I don't it worked too well… but he did look a tad surprised.

"WHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTT?" Leo gave me the 'what-the-heck-are-you-people-talking-about' face. "Why would he want to do that? Is he Sonic's evil twin or something?"

At first, I thought that he was being sarcastic, but then Leo's face light up as if he knew what was going on. Which he didn't.

"Wait… yeah…! That's it! He's Sonic's evil twin brother who has come back from the unknown to get his revenge on Sonic! Ha ha! I knew it!" He put on a triumphant smile like he was the big hero or something.

……………..awkward silence……………

Shadow didn't say anything, but raised a brow and crossed his arms like he was listening to a big dumb monkey. (Leo's going to kill me when he reads this...)

For once, I had the guts to break the silence.

"You... are... so... stupid," I said nice and slowly so that way he would be able to process that info into his brain. (He's going to kill me when he reads this, too... XD) "OF ALL THE STUPID THEORIES TO SHARE, YOU HAD TO CHOSE NOW OF ALL TIMES TO SHARE THEM? WHEN HE'S ABOUT TO KILL US BOTH!"

Out of no where, Shadow strated laughing darkly. At first it was just a soft, evil chuckle, then it turned into an evil laught that made my spine shiver.

His evil laugh deseast and said darkly, "Hmph. Like I would waste my energy to eliminate meer children like you."

" 'Meer children'?" I boasted. "Rude much!"

Leo grabbed my arm.

"Uh... Ruby? I think this is not the time to give this guy a lecture on manners. Right now, I think we should...RUN!"

Leo, still grasping my arm, took of in a full dash. My feet were practicaly flying through the air. "L-Leo...!" I stamered. "Wouldn't it be easier to ride our...?"

"No time!" He finished. "They got...(huff) trashed when we crashed into each other, remember?"

'Oh, that's right... I am so stupid! And now Leo is going to get involved because of me!'

"Leo," I said. "He's going to catch up with us, you have to get help while I--"

Leo, still running, turned back at me with a serious expression on his face. "I'll repeat myself: 'No time!' Besides, you're my best friend, there's no way in--"

Leo and I both halted to a stop. Shadow was right in front of us. "Enough games," he said in a dark, warning tone. "Looks like I'll have to take you by force, then..."

He lifted up the same Chaos Emerald from last night. I new what that ment.

"Chaos..."

"Nooooooo!" I shouted. I stepped in front of Leo with my camera.

"Ruby! What are you doing?" He shouted at me.

I turned to him with a reassured smile. "Don't worry. I know what I'm doing."

'I hope...'

I turned back to Shadow and held out my camera. "This is what you want, right? My camera?"

Shadow smirked. Strangely, enough, it wasn't quite as evil as his other evil ones. "Heh. You catch one pretty quickly, girl. I suppose I don't have to tell you to...?"

"No," I said coldly. "You don't."

I tossed my camera at him with full force, hoping it would catch him off guard. It did, but only for about 2 seconds... which was enough time to...

"Okay, now we... RUUUUUUUUUN!" This time, I grabbed Leo's arm and took off as fast as I could. I was running so fast, I didn't have any clue where I was going. All I remeber was ending up at the park, which was almost a half a mile away (I must have been that scared...), behind some bushes. Leo and I both collasped and gasped for air like we ran the mile at school.

"(Huff)...(puff)...boy..." Leo gasped. "I think... huff... you can actually... run faster than... me...!"

"I tend to... (huff)... do that when... (puff)...my life's in danger..." I responded wearingly. I picked my self up and helped Leo to his feet. "C'mon, Leo. We need to get those picturs developed!" I started walking, but he didn't move a muscle.

"Whoa, whoa, whao! Wait a minute, Ruby!" He called out to me. I turned back to him. "HELLOOOOOOOO! Didn't Shadow just take your camera? How do you think we're going to get those pictures deleloped if he has it?"

I giggled. "Hee, hee... true, he does have my camera, but..."

I put my hand in my pocket and pulled out a small film container.

"...he doesn't have the most important thing he needs..."

That did it. Leo's mouth droped open and pointed a shaky finger at me. "Wh-where... when did you...!" He lifted his head back and started laughing.

"Y-you sly fox! I can't believe you did that!" He wiped a tear from his eye.

I gave him a little smirk. "You may call me Miz Zorro." I said in a slightly bad Spanish accent. "ALL RIGHT, THEN!"

I clapped my hands together to get us both back to reality.

"Next stop, the White House (yes, I'm talking about the one in Washington D.C.)!"

Leo inturupted my heroic thoughts. "Uh...Ruby? Shouldn't we get these pictures developed first to see what we've got for proof?"

"...oh, yeah..."

Okay, people! There's chappy three for ya! Tell me what you think. No flamez and PLEASE R&R! I'll TRY to update next week. I can't make any promises, though, because I HAVE FINAL EXAMS NEXT WEEK! X( On the up side... I ONLY HAVE 1 WEEK OF SCHOOL LEFT! WOOT-WOOT!