Chapter 33, Important information.

New metropolis, Robotnik towers.

Shadow had spent over a week undercover, during this time he had informed G,U,N of many of the Doctor's attacks before they had happened, thanks to this G,U,N had been ready for the attacks and they was able to save many lives.

Shadow was currently inside of the Doctor's personal tower, it had been very difficult for him to make it inside since the copies wasn't allowed in, but thanks to his stealth training by G,U,N Shadow was able to make it inside without being seen.

Shadow carefully made his way through the building towards the top floor, he was sure that Eggman would be there, as long as the Doctor didn't have any heavy protection Shadow could kill him and possibly end this war.

Finally after some time of searching Shadow found a room that appeared to be the Doctor's living quarters, Shadow hid himself in the room and waited for the Doctor to arrive.

The room was decorated with many expensive ornaments that the Doctor had stolen during the war, there was a fluffy carpet, soft looking sofas, a table made of the finest oak, and a huge tv hanging on the wall.

Shadow stayed where he was for almost an hour waiting for the Doctor, finally Eggman walked into the room with Orbot and Metal sonic following closely behind, Orbot had a tablet in his hands and he seemed to be making notes on everything that Eggman said.

"I want the prison at Green hill to increase the work hours for all prisoners" said Eggman as he poured himself a glass of champagne, "But Sir, the prisoners are already being pushed as far as they can go, anymore and I doubt that they'll survive" said Orbot.

Shadow watched Eggman carefully from his hiding place, he hadn't expected Metal sonic to be here, but he was confident that he could handle the metal hedgehog in a fight, Shadow began to charge a Chaos spear in his hand.

"So what, if they die, that just means that we won't have to feed they anymore, so it's a win either way" said Eggman as he took a sip of champagne, "Yes Dr Robotnik" said Orbot as he wrote down the command.

Eggman sat down of one of the sofas, Shadow had a clear shot at Eggman's head, he was just about to fire his Chaos spear when he was suddenly distracted by a voice coming from the balcony.

"Doctor, Route 99 has been completely destroyed" said Infinite as he walked in through the balcony doors, Eggman immediately stood up he seemed very nervus now that Infinite was here, Metal sonic moved closer to Eggman, Eggman had ordered Metal sonic to stay at his side ever since he had noticed Infinite's deteriorating mental state.

Shadow took a quick look at Infinite and he immediately notice that he looked a little different to when he had last seen him, he now had a crack in his mask and his eye was magenta.

"Damn it" thought Shadow, as much as he hated to admit it he knew that it was too risky to try and assassinate Eggman while Infinite and Metal sonic was in the room.

"Infinite, its nice to see you, did you have a nice trip" said Eggman terrified that he might anger the jackal, "Yes I did, I reduced that place to ruins, you should have heard the screams, they was, delicious" laughed Infinite.

"Yes, I'm sure they was" said a worried Eggman, the Doctor knew that he had to do something to satisfy Infinite's increasing bloodlust and get him away from New metropolis, "I know, perhaps now you could destroy Holoska" suggested Eggman.

"Are there many people there" asked a curious Infinite, "Yes there are a few, although they are a little spaced out, so you might had to do some looking" said Eggman hoping that Infinite would accept this mission.

"Spaced out you say, that sounds fun, just like a game of hide and seek" chuckled Infinite as he flew out the balcony doors and was gone.

Eggman released a deep breath of relief and fell back into his sofa, "Doctor are you ok" asked Orbot, "No, I am not ok" said Eggman it was clear that the Doctor was barely holding himself together.

Shadow was once again charging a Chaos spear, however what he heard next made him freeze, "Perhaps you could go and torture Sonic, that always cheers you up" suggested Orbot.

Eggman smiled at the thought, "Yes, good idea, glad I thought of it" said Eggman as he jumped to his feet, "Cubot ready the teleporter, I'm heading to the Death EGG" said Eggman into his communicator.

And then Eggman walked out of the room followed by Orbot and Metal sonic and then he was gone.

Shadow stayed in his hiding place for almost a minute as everything he had just heard set in, Shadow may not have killed Eggman but he had just learned some very interesting news "Sonic's alive, and on board the Death EGG" thought Shadow.

Shadow half smiled, "Why am I not surprised that your still alive" he thought, Shadow left the room and headed down towards the exit, he knew that he had to inform someone about this.

Resistance HQ, Tails's lab.

Tails and Gadget was in the lab doing some tests on the Spectral sapphire that Gadget had brought back from New metropolis.

The two of them had been working on this strange jewel for a few days now but they couldn't figure out what it was or what it did.

Tails remover his goggles after finishing another test that had revealed nothing that they didn't already know, "I just don't get it, this thing's constantly sending out some kind of energy but I've never seen anything like it before" he said.

"Do you think that this thing is dangers" asked Gadget with a hint of worry in his voice knowing that he had carried the sapphire for some time, "I don't think so, the energy that it's giving out seems to be harmless, in fact it doesn't seem to do anything at all" said Tails reassuring Gadget.

"But why would Eggman create a jewel that doesn't do anything" asked Gadget as he looked at the results of all of their tests, "I don't know, maybe it's some kind of failed experiment, maybe you found it before Eggman could finish it, or maybe we just don't understand what this thing really is" said Tails going over all of the possibilities.

"Well, whatever it is we should keep it in the lab for now, just to be safe" said Tails, Gadget agreed and he placed the Spectral sapphire in a containment box that only a few members of the Resistance had access to.

Resistance HQ, War room.

Knuckles was sitting in the War room by himself, he had decided to spend some time alone so that he could think about what the Resistance's next move should be.

While Knuckles was thinking a light began to flash on the computer and an alarm beeped signalling that they was getting a call from someone, Knuckles answered the call and was surprised to see Shadow's face on screen.

"Shadow, I'm surprised to hear from you" said Knuckles, usually Shadow would send all of his calls straight to G,U,N.

"I had a feeling that this info would be more useful to you than them" said Shadow, Knuckles almost fainted at what he heard next.