(I apologise for not updating this story for over a year but it is still active and will be finished. I have had an autistic burnout and have been struggling to get back into story writing. Again I am sorry and I will do my best to keep writing and finish all stories that I have posted and any new ones I do.)

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Chapter nineteen.

They ran out of the portal and took a moment to catch their breath from the emergency exit from their previous destination.

"Oh man that was a close one." Sonic said as his breathing was calming down.

"You weren't hurt were you Angel?" Shadow said with worry as he held up his dark chao and examined her.

"Yeah we're all fine, thanks for asking love." Sonic muttered with a small frown while glancing at his boyfriend, a little upset that Shadow was more worried about Angel then him.

"Speak for your self, I was inches away from having a bullet go into my arm." Silver complained and wasn't sounding happy about that.

"You didn't and that is what counts, where are we this time?" Knuckles causally said while glancing around.

They had appeared inside a damp cave and a little away from the entrance. It was clear someone was living in the cave for there was a campfire all ready to be lit and close to it was a bed of leaves. What was a little disturbing was the fact there was an animals skin with its fur still on and bones in a pile discarded further inside the cave to where they were standing.

"I'm getting a bad vibe coming from this cave so maybe it would be best to leave. I do not want to be here when whoever is living here comes back and tries to make us their dinner." Silver said as he just couldn't remove his eyes off the bones.

"Or skin us for decoration." Knuckles added with a slight shudder.

They all agreed on that then made their way towards the entrance only when they reached there a being appeared holding a dead boar in one hand and blocked their path.

"Shadow, how dare you show your face here. Why are you here anyway, to gloat at my defeat and mock at how far I have fallen?" The being spat out with anger as he glared daggers at Shadow.

"I haven't the slightest idea who the hell you are, I am not from this world. Whatever this worlds Shadow did to you has nothing to do to me." Shadow seriously said as he glared back while protectively holding Angle close to himself.

"My name is Eclipse the Darkling, I am your youngest brother and because of you I have been left on this forsaken island with no way off it by you. Alls I wanted was for our species to survive and for us to be together as a family. But no you just had to come along, ruin that plan, kill the last remaining Black Arms then force me to flee only to have you catch up with me here." Eclipse seriously said with a small frown and still only looking at Shadow.

"Again wasn't me so don't bother starting on me, I am not in the mood." Shadow grumbled as he deeply frowned at Eclipse.

"Shadow when are you ever in the mood for pleasantries?" Knuckles teased with a sly grin in Shadows direction.

"Last Thursday, Shadow was in a very good mood but that might have been because we…" Sonic began to say with a grin then found Shadows hand over his mouth so he couldn't finish.

"Yes Faker, that will be all for now. No one needs to know our business, when I am in a good mood and why that is." Shadow said with a warning tone to not go there then removed his hand from Sonic's mouth.

"Aw they totally did it that day." Zhadow said with a teasing tone then smirked playfully at Shadow when Shadow shot his head in his direction.

"Shut it." Shadow growled with a little anger in his voice.

"Did what?" Eclipse asked with a raised brow and was looking a little puzzled.

"So you found exotic bacon, that is nice." Silver said as he changed the conversation along just to avoid a heated argument getting more heated.

"Erm yeah, I think. I do not know what it is but it does taste very nice." Eclipse said with an unsure expression as he looked at Silver.

"Exotic bacon, that's a good one Silver. And by the way that is a boar which is a wild pig and bacon comes from pigs." Sonic complimented Silvers use of words then explained to Eclipse what a boar was.

"Actually that was a rather befitting description." Shadow calmly said with a faint smile and had to admit Silver did come up with a good title for the boars meat.

"We are getting off track here." Zonic announced in a slightly loud voice making all turn heads and look at him.

"Yeah like what are we doing, moving on or going out there to explore?" Zhadow casually asked and wasn't bothered which one they did for he just wanted to do anything other than standing around doing nothing.

"There's nothing out there but trees, meat and water surrounding the island." Eclipse said with a shrug then finally walked into his makeshift home and passed the zone hoppers, stopping by his campfire and placing his kill onto the floor.

"Right just a boring jungle and water all around. We are so moving on from this place to the next world." Sonic said with a small frown for he didn't do boring.

"Next world, you can leave just like that?" Eclipse asked as he walked back and stood with them.

"Yes we are hopping from a different world to the next, visiting alternate dimensions, different parallel worlds, the past and future too." Silver explained with a happy smile at Eclipse.

"And you are leaving now?" Eclipse asked and was looking a little unhappy about that.

"There is no point staying here if there is no excitement." Sonic casually answered with a shrug.

"Would it be alright if you get me off this island?" Eclipse asked with hope in his eyes.

"What, so you can start and cause trouble for those of this world? I do not see why not." Shadow said with a devious grin at Eclipse.

"Are you sure that is a good idea?" Knuckles asked and wasn't really liking that plan.

"It doesn't effect me so I do not care what he does to the people of this world." Shadow said with an uncaring expression at Knuckles.

"I'm surprised you aren't getting him to tag along then bring him back to your world." Zonic mumbled under his breath but Sonic heard him.

"Hey yeah that's a great idea Zonic. Say Eclipse how about tagging along then coming back home to our world. Wanna zone hop with us and have a proper relationship with Shadow?" Sonic asked with a grin at Eclipse.

"I would be allowed to do that?" Eclipse asked with a smile as he would absolutely like to come and leave this dreaded place.

"Of course you can." Zhadow said with a grin as he covered Zonics mouth to stop him from protesting upon this plan.

"What do ya say love, want a brother?" Sonic asked as he looked beside him at Shadow.

"I don't know." Shadow replied with a look on his features that showed he was thinking hard upon this.

"I swear I will not kill anyone or start a war." Eclipse said with a begging expression at Shadow not wanting to stay on this island forever.

"Come on babe. I remember you said once, it would be nice to have a brother that didn't want to kill you on the spot and can speak English. Now is your chance to have that and he wont do anything to destroy his chances in having a big brother to look up to and be around." Sonic softly said as he tried to convince his boyfriend to say yes.

"You cannot take someone from their world to yours, what if there is already a version of Eclipse in your world? That would be asking for trouble and cause an upset to the space time continuum." Zonic seriously said after finally getting Zhadows hand away from his mouth.

"But there isn't a version of Eclipse in our universe so no issues there. Ok you can come with us but on one condition, no going off and upsetting everyone when we get back to Mobius. I will not bail you out of trouble if you were the one who caused it." Shadow semi seriously said while giving Eclipse a firm look.

"Chao-chao." Angel said with the same expression as Shadow.

"Well Angel totally agrees with Shadow." Sonic grinned as he glanced at the serious looking chao in Shadows arm.

"I promise I will not upset anyone." Eclipse excitedly said and was feeling so happy to finally be getting off this island after spending almost a whole month there.

"Good, now that is all said and done, lets move on shall we." Shadow smirked as he spoke, feeling a little happy with the idea of having a brother around.

"You don't know that for sure Shadow, for all you know there is and you have yet to make contact with him." Zonic seriously said as he was still very unhappy with Eclipse tagging alone then moving to Mobius.

"You worry far too much, we can do a quick scan to make sure." Zhadow casually said as he lifted up his wrist then pressed a few buttons to scan the hoppers universe.

"I was hoping you would forget we can do that and back me up with this." Zonic grumbled as he glared at his partner.

"So what's the verdict?" Sonic asked with a grin as all saw Zhadow smirk while looking down at the devise on his wrist.

"There is no version of Eclipse in your universe so he is safe to go back home with you." Zhadow chuckled as he dropped his wrist and glanced at Zonic, who had started to mumble complaints.

"Cool. Well congratulations Shadow, you have yourself a little brother." Knuckles said with some amusements.

"So shall we get moving to the next zone?" Silver asked with a smile and was happy Eclipse wont be left on some deserted island in the middle of an ocean.

With agreements in moving on Shadow and Sonic got their emeralds out then crossed them while calling out chaos control. A portal appeared then one by one they entered, with it slamming shut after the last one.