Sorry for the cheesy and not at all relevant chapter names, but... next chapter I guess? A lot of stuff happens this time, so hold on to your chairs. Also, Scourge and Rouge are the main villians in this story. Deal with it. (Future Honest: Except it's really only for this chapter)
That night Honest and Shadow retired to their beds in a small room off to the side of the kitchen area that connected with the control room. Shadow had top bunk where he lie and stare at the ceiling.
Honest was below him, trying to get some sleep. Shadow yawned and stretched. He then laid a hand on his chest.
"Shadow?"
"Yes?" He asked, opening one eye.
Honest snickered. "I wonder what Eggman does when he's alone in his room. What do you think he does?"
Shadow closed his eyes again. "Heck if I know. Plot how he's to betray us, maybe?"
Honest moved her head so that she could better see him. "Aren't you worried about that?"
Shadow's eyes were closed firmly now and he grimaced as he spoke. "No. He knows I'm his most valuable resource."
"But what if he did?"
"Then I-" Shadow thought. "I don't know."
Honest moved back into place and stared up at the bottom of Shadow's bunk. "Well if you stay, I stay, too. After all, I'm stuck with you."
Shadow sighed. "Good to know."
The next morning Shadow made pancakes for the three of them. Honest grabbed a chair and sat beside the tired-looking chef. She poured syrup onto her pancake stack.
"So, did you sleep well?" Honest asked him.
Shadow smoothed down the sleep-ruffled fur on his spines and replied, "Sure did. But Eggman's beds were hard as nails."
Honest gave him a stern look seeing as though the Doctor who owned the beds was sitting at the bar next to them. Shadow huffed. "I'm not lying."
Eggman broke the hostility. "GUN are using a green Chaos Emerald to power some weapon of sorts. I don't know for what they'll use it for, but if it is aimed at us we'll be killing two birds with one stone."
Honest yawned at the thought of sneaking into a government compound. "This early in the morning?"
"If you'd much rather have me disintegrated by a high-powered lazerbeam I'm sure I could arrange your roboticization right away," he said simply, yawning as well soon after.
Honest gulped. "N-Never mind. I just realized Emerald snatching is my favourite morning activity! Don't you agree, Shadow?"
Shadow's eyes were closed as he swallowed his food. He didn't look up. "It's cool."
Eggman just smiled triumphantly. "I got Shadow's communicator ready and set it on the counter. Please try not to be so clumsy this time and drop it in the toilet."
Honest giggled. He actually believed Shadow's story.
"What's so funny?"
"Oh nothing, sir." Honest grinned. Shadow gave her the evil eye. Why did everything always have to be a game to her? One of these days her innocent smile may not work on him and she might actually end up in the roboticizer after all.
"Can I hold the Emerald?" Honest asked, pulling on her boots.
Honest and Shadow were standing on the surface of the moon, readying themselves for the task of stealing the Emerald.
Shadow was looking at the Earth below them. "What did I tell you? I get to hold it so that I can use Chaos control."
"It'll only be for a second," Honest pleaded.
Shadow sighed and passed it to her.
Honest focused and the gem floated into the air. Then, in an explosion similar to a splash of red color, the Emerald was drained of Chaos energy and it dropped into the moon dust. Honest too was drained of color. In fact she was-
"Invisible?!" Shadow whispered, alarm only showing in his voice and not his actions. You know, because he's so- Okay, I'll stop breaking the fourth wall...
"How come you didn't tell me sooner?"
"Oh, sorry. Must've forgotten. It happened the day I moved in. Discovering it I mean."
Shadow resumed his calm state of looking down at the Earth. "That will come in handy I suppose."
"I can also become temporarily invincible much like a spin dash or ring," Honest bragged.
(Actually, none of the power stuff is part of the canon. XD Honest does have powers so to speak, but not anything like that.)
"Great. Now please don't tell him you can take advantage of the Emerald's power, too. That's the only reason the Doctor keeps me around."
"I thought he did it because he knows you're more loyal than his stupid robot companions," she said.
Shadow "humphed". Honest took it as a "whatever you want to think".
Honest yawned before walking over to stand beside him. "Why do you think he keeps me around?"
Shadow thought. "For entertainment."
Instead of getting angry like Shadow wanted her to, she laughed.
"So are you ready?"
The Chaos energy came back into the Emerald and Honest faded into view. "Yup."
Shadow picked up the Emerald and held Honest's hand. "Chaos control!"
Honest jumped up and down with excitement as Shadow planned out how it would go.
"So, are we going to go for the classic 'vent' approach, or are we gonna enter through the roof? Oh! Oh! Or are we going to disguise ourselves as scientists studying the Emerald?"
Shadow huffed, "Vents are more noisy than you think. The roof would be too risky... Disguising might actually work!"
Within no time, Shadow and Honest were at the door, disguised as human scientists. Scientists with, um, hoods so that no one could see their faces. So yeah, they were very strangely dressed scientists, but Honest blamed everything on Shadow, so it was fine. XD
They walked into the building and instantly found out about one of many flaws to their plan-
everybody else was a lot taller.
Shadow stiffened up beside her. "Oh yeah. Maybe no one will notice...?"
He stiffly walked into the crowd. Honest clenched his arm in fear of being caught.
Shadow was too busy with Honest to notice the man he had just walked into. Paper flew everywhere.
"Oh, uh, sorry, sir. Uh, let me help you-"
"No worries, I got it covered!" The man picked up the paper in his arms. He stood up and straightened his glasses. He turned to leave. "Oh, and um," he sprayed through his braces. "Rockin' those hoods."
Shadow turned to Honest and light illuminated his face as he fought back laughter. Honest gave a week smile in return, still holding fast to Shadow's arm.
They shimmied into the elevator, having difficulty getting around in those hideously baggy human clothes.
When they finally got to the door, they realized yet another mistake they had made.
"What?! We need a key card to get in?!"
Honest took one more look at the card scanner on the wall beside the door. "Yup. Unless you can think of any other way of getting in."
Shadow only needed to tap his chin once to know what he had to do.
BLAM!
Shadow blew at the tip of the gun he had seemingly pulled out of nowhere.
"What? Amy can pull her hammer out of nowhere. How come I can't pull my SMG out of nowhere, too?"
The lock on the door fell away and Shadow pushed the door away to see...
The Emerald was missing.
Shadow searched the room for an answer. A hole had opened up in the ceiling and a particular bat lady flew through with the green Emerald in tow.
"Sorry, Shadow, but you're gonna have to be super Sonic fast to catch up with me!" She left in the matter of seconds.
"Well, so much for that." Shadow turned to leave.
"I knew we should've went through the roof..."
This time the duo returned empty-handed.
"Where's the Emerald?" Eggman demanded as soon as they came skulking up to him. Shadow's version of skulking was crossing his arms and giving the floor a dirty look, but Honest was full on knuckle-dragging.
"We didn't get it. Rouge took it before we had a chance to-"
"Then get it back!"
Shadow crossed his arms, closed his eyes, and turned away. Honest bowed her head and played with her hands.
How could Honest and Shadow show their faces around her and Scourge again?
Doctor Eggman was alarmed by their sudden change in expression. "Is there something wrong with that order...?"
Shadow opened his eyes. "No, sir. We'll go right away." Honest looked up just as Shadow took her hand and led her away. But instead of warping to their destination, Shadow pulled her into their room and shut the door.
"I knew it would come to this!" He spat crossly.
Honest put on a sad puppy face and let her arms hang uselessly. "I can't see Scourge again! And you can't see Rouge again! Don't you remember what she did to you?"
"I do, but that's besides the point." Shadow held her hands and managed to turn the sides of his mouth up if only a bit.
"Look," he said, peering into her eyes. "Before you came along, Rouge and I were pro's at handling the Doctor's crazy behavior. Rouge had her tricks, and I- I kept silent. I think you should try the same tactics. Just- I know that you're not one to be stolid all the time, so how about this. Do what he says, and control yourself."
Honest just nodded and grabbed him in a hug. "O-Okay. I'll go with you to get the Emerald back easily and with no distractions."
Shadow pulled the Emerald out of his spines and shouted "Chaos-"
In a flash of light they were now standing on Scourge's front porch. "Control!"
Scourge must've heard him shout and went to open the door. He looked surprised to see them.
He laughed, "Nice to see you again, Shadow. You two getting along?"
Shadow lurched forward and grabbed his neck. "We're not here to play around. Where's the Chaos Emerald?"
Honest stood behind him with her arms crossed, sending him a look that told him they meant business.
"Wh-What-? I, but, I-?" Rouge walked up behind him in the doorway. "Okay, okay, let him go and you can have it."
Shadow huffed and let him go. He fell to the ground with a thump, and both Shadow and Honest looked on with interest as Rouge slowly pulled out the Emerald.
"That is, if you can catch me first." She flew up into the air and disappeared over the roof.
"Hmph." Shadow leaped onto the railing, then the roof. Honest took one last look at Scourge lying on the ground before running off to follow Shadow.
She looked up at the building beside her to see Shadow running after Rouge.
"Hey!" Shadow saw her and gave her a Sonic-like grin before tossing her the Chaos Emerald. As soon as it hit her hand, she disappeared.
Rouge ducked into the alleys ahead of him, seeking to lose him in the maze of buildings. Shadow accepted the challenge and ran into the alley. Being shaded from the sun made him hard to distinguish amid the dark lighting.
Eventually Rouge thought she had lost him and hovered in the air, resting. What she didn't know was that Shadow was still behind her, waiting for a chance to spring. He smirked and pulled his SMG out of thin air.
Suddenly Rouge screamed out and fell, plummeting into the alley and scaring Shadow half to death.
Honest faded into view and dropped down from the clothesline she had been suspended from.
"Hey! I had her in my grasp!" Shadow exclaimed, coming out of hiding and putting away his gun.
"You were going to shoot her!" Honest argued.
Unbeknownst to them, Rouge wasn't really unconscious. And since she still had the Emerald, she tried to make off with it.
Honest and Shadow heard her wing flaps and turned to look up at her.
"Haha. I do admit, Honest. You'd make a great spy, but I guess some people would rather work for an eggheaded doctor than a power-yielding official." She started to make her escape when someone on the roof snatched the gem she was carrying. "Wha-?"
Scourge leaped down from the roof, pulling Rouge by the wing down with him. "Hm, so you are good for something."
He smiled smugly at Honest and Shadow and juggled the green Chaos Emerald in one hand, while firmly holding Rouge's wing in the other. "Why, must I ask, do you want the Chaos Emerald?"
"That's none of your business!" Shadow spat.
"Oh, really?" Scourge asked. "You barged into my home, accused my guest of stealing a Chaos
Emerald, and ended up right. I think I deserve to know why."
Shadow gritted his teeth as he spoke, "The Doctor sent us to retrieve the Emerald from GUN, but Rouge, ignoring the president's orders to keep the Emerald safe, stole the Emerald to keep it for herself. Thus, us having the Emerald would be the most sensible use of its power."
Scourge thought before saying "alright" and tossing the Emerald to Shadow. "Now leave and don't come back."
Shadow went to join hands with Honest and warp to Eggman's base with two emeralds in tow, but before they could touch, Rouge stopped him, appearing to be starting to cry. "Shadow?"
Shadow looked at her, curious as to what she wanted.
"I'm so sorry if I hurt you in any way. Please forgive me," she said.
Shadow grunted and took Honest's hand. He didn't bother to say the usual and simply teleported away to Eggman's base. Rouge teared up, wishing she knew what he meant by that.
That's the end of chapter two! Tell me what you thought about it.