Welcome back new and old readers.

Please note that the projects done here are totally fictional and you should never use the techniques depicted to try and resuscitate someone's heart.

You could seriously explode someone.

But since Sonic characters are fictional, it is totally okay.

Also I would like to point out that things get kinda 'out of canon' towards the end. Don't worry about it though, I make it work.

Please enjoy.

Everything was a soft blur around the Ultimate Life Form as he struggled to stand up taller, pushing away the excruciating pain that throbbed and rippled from the center of his chest. He could feel his energy dispensing from his body as though he was engaging in a life or death situation battle with a worthy opponent. But the only opponent now was his own body as he fought to regain control over his dimming senses. He could see the beclouded visions of Tails waving his hand in front of his face and the distraught faces of Pinkie and Twilight desperately calling to him. They're crying… What type of hero lets a maiden cry, what type of man will I be- what Ultimate Life Form am I if I can't overcome this? Come on, fight this, fight it, you cannot lose! Fight it! FIGHT IT!

Just as he thought he had a grip on it Shadow then felt an immense surge of energy draining from him in a quick burst as though he ran through the sound barrier. And back to the ground Shadow fell. Shadow moaned with pain as he felt his body hex him to the extent of his wits. With his teeth clenched he hissed with pain and frustration as he tried desperately to stand back up. Around him he could hear the screams and the cries and the scared sounds of pleading for him to get back up, for an explanation, for a reason why Shadow was being hurt so badly.

It took literally the rest of the energy Shadow had to stand back up but then… in that very moment… he felt the connection to Sonic being cut drastically...

Sonic… what happened…?

To his friend's dismay Shadow eyes slowly rolled back as he fell backwards slowly, the world becoming a dark expanse of nothingness, fitting for a dying man.

"SHADOW!" cried his friends, Pinkie Pie fell to her knees as she desperately tried to shake him out of it, her tears falling onto the ground and his face occasionally. Pinkie Pie cries grew ever so louder as her hair instantly deflated from its usual perkiness, pooling around her and Shadow's quills as she pleaded for this all to just be a horrible prank. Tails rushed to the ground and put his left ear over Shadow's chest to check for the obvious. Everything became silent, even Pinkie Pie held her sobbing momentarily as Tails listened closely for a heartbeat.

To what seemed like an eternity in a cold, asphyxiating purgatory Tails bit his lip for he not dared for his lip to start trembling now as a show of weakness in this situation, he slowly lifted his head off Shadow's chest, his face being searched desperately by Twilight and Pinkie Pie for any trace of good news; for any faint slice of hope- there were none.

"No…no, no, no, no, NO, NO, NO! Shadow! NO! PLEASE! SHADOW! WAKE UP!" Pinkie Pie choked out as she descended onto Shadow once more. Pinkie completely lost it as she started shaking him harder now; she tried everything within her possible abilities to resuscitate her fallen friend. Pinkie sobbed a pitiful bout of screaming and crying and she refused to let go.

"SHADOW!" she repeatedly screamed out his name and Tails turned his head away from the sight of everyone else, knowing the worst had come. If Shadow was correct in saying that he felt connected to Sonic through the power of chaos, then if Shadow has fell… that could only mean Sonic had to too. Tails quietly cried in the crook of his arm for his beloved friend; his brother, his idol and his role model. Although he wanted to break down into sobs for his best friend he knew he had to stay strong. Tails wiped his eyes and clenched his fists as he stood tall trying not to scare his friends anymore than they were already.

With all the crying and screaming they had gained a pretty big audience around them. Multiple people with all types of colors gathered around the group of crying friends. Wondering what was all the commotion about. Some were recording on their camera phones and some that were in the middle of calls stared slack jawed as they saw Shadow laying on the ground motionless with the Party Pony sobbing over him and Princess Twilight sitting down across of Shadow sobbing to herself unable to bring herself to look at Shadow. Knuckles didn't know what to do as he started to fume; whoever did this will pay with their lives… Knuckles then grew absolutely angry as he looked around himself to find the audience getting closer.

The red echidna scowled with and clenched his fist. "WHAT ARE YOU ALL LOOKING AT!? DAMN! CANT YOU SEE SOEMTHING TERRIBLE HAS-" his angry rant at the people around him got cut off as a deep explosion rumbled the ground and instantly his head snapped towards the sound.

Unbelievably a expansive corona of the light spectrum spread across the sky maybe 100 miles away from here due south. Tails and the rest of the girls looked up for a second save for Pinkie Pie as the magical colors spread across the sky like a ripple until they dissipated. Fluttershy wiped the tears from her eyes as she knew the only person that could do that so flawlessly- Rainbow Dash.

"Rainbow Dash…?" Applejack murmured to herself.

"What the-" Tails breathed out in awe as he watched the colors fade away, and not a second later were there a extremely bright flash of light followed by a even bigger explosion that rumbled the ground like a bomb. A massive warhead must have caused the unimaginably large mushroom cloud of color that plumed up towards the heavens; punching through the sky. A small shockwave shook the ground soon after the cloud was formed.

After the dust has cleared the crowd of spectators muttered to themselves in confusion and fear as many didn't know what was happening; first a mysterious apparent 'death' of the Ultimate Life Form, now this massive nuclear looking, multicolor mushroom clouds was lingering over Ponyville like an elephant over rats.

Tails couldn't make heads or tails of what was going on now but his mind then snapped back to more pressing matters; Shadow. Stop panicking, you are the smartest and calmest person here, you need to take charge and fix the issues at hand. Sonic will have to wait, no more interruptions. Now, first things first, we need to resuscitate Shadow- CPR. Tails took a deep breath and put on a determined expression. He stalked over to Shadow, "Do you know how to perform CPR?" he asked firmly to Pinkie Pie who seemingly ignored his question, Twilight looked up to Tails with a sad look.

"I do…" Twilight spoke up softly.

"Good, resuscitate Shadow please. Knuckles! Remove Pinkie Pie please." Twilight nodded to his request and Knuckles, snapping out of his frustration walked over and pried Pinkie Pie off of Shadow.

"Wha- No, Shadow- Let me go!" she screamed

Pinkie pie grunted in surprise as she realized that it was Knuckles holding her back from Shadow, "H-Hey get off of me! Put me down! I need to be with Shadow! PUT ME DOWN!" Pinkie Pie struggled in his strong grip as she tried to squirm to return to Shadow's side which was quickly taken by Twilight who leaned over Shadow and started to give him chest compressions. Pinkie stared with a blank face that slowly dissolved into utter self resentment that she hasn't thought about it earlier. Tails looked back to Pinkie Pie seeing the change in expression she had so he walked over to her.

"Don't blame yourself Pinkie Pie." Tails said gently putting a hand on her shoulder; Pinkie Pie could only stare at the ground lamentably as she hung limply in Knuckles grasp. Tails nodded a short nod to Knuckles and the echidna put her down gently. "You were in acute distress, I'm sure if it were someone else you would of thought about it sooner. We are going to save Shadow, what he needs right now is for you to be strong for him; we all need to be strong." For Sonic too… Oh Sonic…

Pinkie Pie then started to cry softly again, she put her big blue eyes on Tails which shocked him for a split second- he could see true emotions of love and dismay mingling within her blue depths. The type of eyes that glistened with the never ending amorous feelings and tears of someone's spouse passing; Pinkie Pie had those eyes, and it made Tails, oddly enough, smile at her. "Don't worry; I won't dare let him die on you, Pinkie Pie." Pinkie Pie tried to smile; her lips trembled with emotion as she tried to muster the strength to smile. Finally, there was that smile, that one smile that gave Tails the extra push to make sure he doesn't fail.

"Thank you." Pinkie Pie ushered out finally.

Tails then quickly rushed over to Fluttershy, "Give me your keys, please!" Fluttershy blinked a couple of times before giving it to him.

"What for-oh…" Fluttershy never got an answer as Tails rocketed back to where Knuckles was standing.

"Go and fetch me your jumper cables now- we don't have time to talk!" Knuckles nodded and ran to his truck to retrieve his jumper cables and rushed back to Tails just as he was parking Fluttershy's car next to Shadow.

Next to Shadow was Twilight and she was now starting to breathe into Shadow's lungs for the second time. Tails could tell that she was utterly distressed now and stressed to the point of breaking down again because even though she tried with all her heart and might Shadow wouldn't respond to the CPR. "T-Tails, I trying and I'm trying but nothing's working!" Twilight then started to cry again.

"Do not worry- Twilight its okay I'm going to try to resuscitatehim." Tails said as he popped the hood on Fluttershy's car and tinkering around with his screw driver.

"How?" She questioned him, sorrow heavy in her voice.

"By jump starting his heart…" he said deadpan. Fluttershy and the others slowly gravitated towards Tails to see what he was doing. His friends looked at him curiously as he tinkered. Fluttershy didn't say a word as Tails tinkered around unplugging a fuse, testing it quickly then plugging it back in then going deeper into the engine compartment before finding what he wanted. He then yanked out a small device out of the alternator and held it up for all to see.

"This is the voltage regulator, this regulates how much voltage the alternator puts out by limiting or escalating it due to the voltage needed." Tails then put the regulator in his pocket and started connecting the cables to the battery, "With the regulator in, I could never possibly reach the amount of voltage needed to resuscitate Shadow."

"You're gonna do it with a car?!" Rarity sounded completely shocked and doubtful while Applejack watched on worried that this might go wrongly.

"Yes, in fact I expect this will work well- we don't have time for an ambulance, Shadow has been knocked out for 4 minutes now! Any longer and he could suffer brain damages!" Tails replied to them, their attitudes about it; doubting him made him irritable. Tails then shook his head before searching around for a second before sprinting to Knuckles truck and seconds later he came back with two flat pieces of metal in his hand.

Tails then attached the two metal pieces to the cables and Knuckles was watching with confusion. "Wait- Tails… did you just take my gas and brake pedals off?"

"Yup"

"Aww I just got those too, you better put them back when you're done!" Knuckles whined

"Oh yeah sure-"

"Someone hop in there and start it up; Fluttershy?" he handed the keys to Fluttershy; she hopped into the car and put the key into the ignition, waiting for Tails' signal. Her heart raced, multiple questions rammed her mind. Is this really going to work? It seems too farfetched to even work… But, Tails is counting on me, he chose me to carry this part of the mission out, he needs me. I need to have faith in his intellect! I trust you Tails!

Tails held each cable wire by the rubber grips of the alligator clamps over his head, ready to zap Shadow back to life. He sweated, is this even going to work? Will this all be for nothing? The CPR didn't help, what makes this ludicrous science experiment work? STOP! I can't be thinking like this! If I gave up- if I lost hope in this then that mean I would be losing hope in Sonic! AND I WILL NEVER LOSE HOPE IN SONIC!

"Fluttershy! START IT UP!"

[Break]

Rainbow Dash made it half way to Ponyville before the excruciatingly painful cramps racked her wings forcing them to fold. Rainbow Dash then dropped out of the sky and hitting the soft ground below her. Exhaustion was starting to peck at her ever since she dropped the bomb on LW (quite literally). She spat with annoyance as her wings refused to give her anymore lift, even opening them were too painful to do.

Rainbow Dash punched the ground with anger and frustration, "Dammit!" she muttered angrily at herself, "Dammit, dammit, dammit, DAMMIT!" her tone of voice increasing by each utterance, "WHY AM I SO WEAK!" Rainbow Dash hung her head limply as she crouched on the ground, her eyes starting to tear up slowly, she could feel the heat in her face rise as she thought of the worse possible scenario; not being able to get Sonic to Ponyville in time for any possible help.

She can't fail, I've already failed. She can't give up, I already given up. This is not the end, Sonic…. Her thoughts contradicted themselves, she wanted to help Sonic, she wanted to help him- she will not leave his side for anything, NO MATTER WHAT.

She slowly crawled over to Sonic's side, pulling his cooling body closer to her. The blood had long ago stopped flowing since his heart had stopped 4 minutes ago. She knew that running to Ponyville with Sonic in tow would prove futile for he weighs a lot more than she thought as deadweight. And now with flying out of the question she was limited to one more decision.

CPR

She gulped in fear and uneasiness; she knew how to perform CPR since it is required by all Wonderbolt Trainees, and she has seen it be performed in her school and in public in the past, she even took a class to learn it. But she was scared to do it.

It was the what-if's that made her sick to her stomach with ambiguity; what if she couldn't save Sonic even if she performs the CPR? What if she messes up? What if she accidently hurt him more? She looked down at Sonic, his resting face; she has to do it. For his sake as well as my own and his friends.

Rainbow Dash laid Sonic flat on the grass and lifted his chin up a little. "O-okay, first things first, check for breathing… right, not breathing." She sighed.

"N-next, chest compressions…" Rainbow Dash positioned her hands on the center of his chest, minding the gunshot wound, and started to compress firmly and quickly. As she did she kept her eyes closed, she couldn't bear watching Sonic like this anymore; lifeless, not laughing or smirking, not his usual self, and it really started to bum her out.

"N-now, mo-mouth to mouth…" Rainbow Dash shivered as she tilted his head back a bit more and slowly brought her lips to his. Her mind was drawing a blank; she didn't want her first lip to lip contact with Sonic to go down like this… Shaking off her fears she closed the gap between their mouths. Instantly a chill went up her spine as Sonic's cold lips touched hers, sadness washed over her again. She blew into his mouth, filling his lungs and listened, then repeated before going through the process again.

By the third time she did it she started to become restless, I'm GETTING NO WHERE! It's been approximately 6 minutes since he first got knocked out and now she was cutting it close! Rainbow Dash started to tear up again, "WAKE UP SONIC! PLEASE!" she cried out as she pressed on his chest some more but to no avail. Rainbow Dash got up and quickly paced around, tears streaming, her eyes on the sky-

The sky

Clouds

Storms

Lightening

Electricity!

Her eyes flashed with realization as her magenta pools of emotion and sorrow started to refuel with hope. I can create the necessary clouds. Rainbow Dash tried to flex her wings but they still pained her greatly, but however feeling better than they did 2 and half minutes ago. She lightly brought herself into the air and flew around gently for a bit to collect water moisture. If I had my cloud straw this could be better (the cloud straw is a little made up straw that Rainbow Dash owns that can create clouds by blowing through it. Featured in my other story, Epic Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog).

Rainbow Dash then landed back to the ground and formed a cloud by blowing through her hands like a straw. The cloud then grew larger due to her being a pegasus, she can control the weather, and soon it grew darker.

Rainbow Dash gulped, lightening is very dangerous, very powerful, and can kill. She knew all about lightening and its idiosyncrasies. Without wasting any more time she started pulling tuffs of the grass up with her hands as fast as she could to expose the soft dirt below. Digging as quickly as she could she finally stripped the ground of grass for one Sonic sized dirt bed. She just needs enough volts to jump start his heart, she doesn't need to explode it… so nervously, she slid on top of Sonic with her front on his front, her belly touching his belly, her cheek resting on his as she embraced him… his cold body. She looked up to the dark cloud above them and agitated it some more and seconds later she could see a small glow coming from it.

[Break]

"It's not working!" Twilight whined in distress, this is the second time Tails has tried to jump start his heart but to no fruition. Tails ignored Twilight's whining and continued to try, he has to try, and he cannot give up.

He looked back to Fluttershy in the car, she looked back at him with trusting eyes, she nodded to him once, and she started to rev the car engine up to 1800 rpm making the alternator put out more juice to the battery. Tails gritted his teeth to try a third time, "Come on… work!" He placed the high voltage pedals on Shadow's chest again and placed it on his chest then retracting the pedals. Shadow's body had jumped harder that time; Tails put his ear down to his chest to listen closely.

He shot a look around him to see everyone looking down at him and Shadow with worry and looks of hopelessness, looks that made Tails grit his teeth in irritation. He looked back to Fluttershy, her look of determination and hope mirrored his. She then revved the engine higher, racing the engine as hard as she could, pushing way past 2500 rpm. Large sparks of electricity jumped from each of the pedals even though they were a good 3 feet apart. Tails then stood over Shadow, "I'm gonna wake you up, even it kills me!" Tails then threw down the intensely electrified pedals down on Shadow's chest.

/-/ these events are happening parallel of each other /-/

The cloud glowed brighter and Rainbow Dash clutched Sonic tighter, please, wake up Sonic…

The angry, dark cloud then shot a high intensity bolt of lightning at the two. Rainbow Dash screeched with agony as the lightening strike passed through her body like the hottest fire engulfing her whole body. Her body shook and convulsed as the lightening bolt's power was shared between Sonic and herself, and then passing down through the dirt below. Rainbow Dash's eyes began to blur, as the sheer, raw power knocked her out.

As she fell within the depths of blackness her body slowly lost sense to the world around her, the feeling of the burning sensations around her body slowly ebbed away as did the feeling of the warm air between her wings. The ground beneath her disappeared, and so did the feeling of Sonic…

But not before the beating of his heart did.

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The powerful electric shock knocked Tails back up into the air and on top of Fluttershy's car. Smoke began to rise from the battery and the alternator from the extraneous stress placed on it to revive Shadow. Twilight and Pinkie Pie leaned in close to Shadow to see if the shock worked.

Pinkie Pie slowly slid her hand on top of Shadow's chest and to check for pulse.

In silence, her heart lifted, her soul rebalanced, her eyes closed, she could of cried some more, but she was all cried-out. She then smiled and opened her eyes to look at Shadow with those same loving eyes. "Welcome back Shadow."

[Break]

Reader, have you ever been in a dark place? A place so devoid of light, like a closet, or maybe you hid under your bed during the night? Have you ever been alone in a house that had its power cut off? If so you would had felt an eerie quietness around you, there would be no humming of electronics, no sounds at all. Now picture yourself in a dark, dark place that had absolutely no sound. Your ears would strain for the slightest vibration in the air; your eyes would dilate to its fullest extent in attempt to perceive the slightest wave of light.

Let's take this a step further; have you ever felt weightless? Like that split second of weightlessness you feel after jumping into on a trampoline at your apex. If not then picture yourself in a dark, silent expanse where no gravity is acting upon you.

Crazy right?

Well this is the exact feeling Sonic and Shadow are feeling right now.

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Sonic awoken with a jolt with darkness flooding every sense, he couldn't feel anything, see anything, hear anything. Sonic's eyes tried it's best to locate some form of light but to no avail and it started to scare him. His mind then replayed the moment the bullet had hit the center of his chest. Sonic started to frantically feel over his body but to his deepest fears he felt nothing. He snapped his head to the left then the right straining to see SOMETHING!

Realization finally set in, Sonic lowered his head in sorrow, so I did die… I didn't get to say goodbye to any of my friends, and the last thing I saw was Rainbow Dash taking on that monster by herself. How could I leave her to fend for herself like that…? Just what type of friend am I?

Suddenly he felt something brush against his body, or spirit- the main thing is he finally felt something! Sonic instantly grabbed hold of the something beside him and clutched tightly. He then heard a gruff grunt and the something pulled its arm away from Sonic harshly.

"Hey keep off will yah." Said the voice, Sonic then rolled his eyes.

"Oh great, I'm in purgatory with the killjoy of the year."

"Shut up Faker. I don't wanna be here with you either!"

Looking around Sonic smirked, "Hey can I get a replacement spirit to chill with?"

"Pfft, there isn't anyone else here, idiot." Shadow folded his arms, or whatever.

"Wait how was I able to touch you, I tried touching myself earlier but I didn't feel anything."

"Gross and you touched me too!"

"Not THAT type of touching me." Sonic sweat dropped.

"Sureeeee… But check now, you can hear me right, then that mean our senses are coming back." Shadow unfolded his arms to feel around himself again.

"But why am I here with you?"

"Because, Sonic, we are connected."

"Connected how?"

"By the chaos powers."

"So?"

"God, you're naïve." Shadow shook his head.

A punch was thrown at Shadow's arm. A retorting punch flew back towards Sonic. There was a pause then Sonic threw another punch at Shadow who then quickly replied with another punch to the head.

"What are you doing?" Shadow growled.

"I'm bored man; we gotta past the time somehow."

"By fighting an apparition…" Shadow frowned.

"Yeah since we're both apparitions and whatnot… we can have a ghost fight. The spooooookiest fight ever." Sonic rubbed his nose.

Ignoring Sonic's idiocy Shadow instead answered his previous question. "We are here together because of the chaos powers we posses. See when we left earth; the chaos emeralds were left behind. Since then our power have been diminishing until the only way we could have power is if we shared it. And this morning our power grew very weak, barely enough for the both of us."

Sonic started to nod, rubbing his chin as he did so. "I see what you saying, so all this time we were connected, even on Earth, but we didn't feel the connection because we were always full of the chaotic power. Then coming here started to drain our connection to the emeralds…"

"Bingo, think of our power as a cup of juice-" Shadow started.

"Why juice?" Sonic interrupted, snickering softly.

Shadow punched his arm again. "Think of our power as a cup of juice, when we are within the vicinity of the emeralds, or within the same dimension of the emeralds our power constantly refills overtime. But being in this world our cant refill so once we started to use it all up I guess our chaotic powers started to fuse together, so we shared it the little power we had."

Sonic nodded in understanding.

(Reader, I hope this explanation isn't too complicated. No? Good, it's about to be.)

Shadow continued. "I could feel that you were in trouble today Sonic."

"What? Really?"

"Yes, by chaos." Shadow pointed out, "The foreboding threat of something bad happening to you started to affect me too. And before I knew it I felt a terribly hexing pain in my chest- I assumed you were shot, am I right?"

"Yes, it surprised me because I never seen a single firearm in this world before." Sonic was thinking now.

"Indeed, that is interesting, especially since while I was reading in Twilight's library I came across a book about warfare- nothing depicts firearms or cannons in anyway. So I was guessing gunpowder wasn't invented here. All fireworks are magic based, all cannons are magic based- remember Pinkie Pie's party cannon?"

"Yes, and I don't like it." Sonic shivered as he remembered a time when Pinkie Pie shot off the party cannon beside him during a party. Sonic was so scared that he had clung to the ceiling like a cat. Ever since then Sonic was a bit wary of the Party Pony.

Shadow remembered that, he still had a recording on his phone of it. "Yes, that is a type of magic."

"Oh really?" Sonic said.

"Mmhm. So if gunpowder have never been invented then how did they have a gun- you sure it wasn't a magic gun?" Shadow turned towards Sonic.

Sonic nodded, "Yes it was a conventional gun, Rainbow Dash saw it too, she said that she never seen anything like that- something bout weird magic."

"I would think so, since none of the citizens know about it since it most likely hasn't been documented… or… What if someone had purposely erased any depiction of guns from history? Like purposely so no one would remember them!" Shadow realized.

Sonic looked at Shadow curiously, "What are you getting at?"

"Sonic, isn't it peculiar that guns haven't been documented? Not a single book, even books documenting warfare depicts it! And suddenly a gangster shows up and happens to shoot you with one?" Shadow started to piece the evidence together, he started to get more and more excited about it. "Someone didn't want guns to be around anymore, but someone had found out about it! And if that guy was some gang member then I would think that whole gang has guns. Sonic, no one here can possibly defend themselves against guns. All they have are spears, and armor plating is only gonna defend against so much."

Sonic was now looking towards Shadow much seriously now. "I did get put on an odd case today; Celestia told me it was of great importance. The briefing did note that a gang member has been eluding guards for over a month now stealing from important documents. Instead of putting any of the senior officers on the case she picked me, stating that it needed to catch a criminal of great speed so I guess she thought with my speed I could catch him easily. Thing was I didn't know was that this guy was in a gang." I guess he eluded capture by being speedy like me, why else would Celestia put me on a mission like that. The name Lightening Wing came to mind. Lightening huh? Hmm…

They both paused for a couple of seconds as they thought about it some more.

"We need to explore this further." Shadow spoke up.

"But how can we… we're dead." Sonic spoke sadly.

"Fool we aren't dead! Just healing, cant you tell?" Shadow yelled at him angrily.

"So we're alive!?" Sonic sounded joyous, "Yes! I must have been stronger than I thought!"

"Pfft" Shadow didn't get to retort his full retort before a powerful presence became apparent in front of them. Sonic must have felt it too for he faced forward along with Shadow.

"Who's there?" Shadow called out. To his call a soft green glow slowly became visible within 10 feet in front of them both. The glow was warm and it seemed to fill Sonic and Shadow up with energy. Within a few more seconds a hazy view of a large, green, glowing artifact became apparent.

"The master emerald…" Sonic and Shadow said in unison. At their words a young, beautiful orange echidna with multiple tribal ornaments decorating her stepped out of the darkness and stood patiently in front of the massive emerald.

"Tikal?" Sonic called out, the pretty echidna smiled at them both.

"You gentlemen sure do talk a lot. It sounds as though you both are eager to return to your bodies." She said smiling.

"Yes, we have a mission to accomplish." Shadow clenched his fists.

"Yeah, can we please go back?" Sonic asked, but to his dismay she shook her head.

"I'm sorry, you two haven't healed completely yet it will be some time before you do." The emerald behind her was pulsating like a calm heartbeat. She quickly looked at it then turned back to the two. "It seems as though the master emerald isn't too happy with you both." She frowned.

"Wait, what?" Shadow was confused for a moment. The emerald could perceive feeling as though it has a conscious.

"Yes, it seems as though you have forgotten about the Master Emerald." Tikal fists were now on her hips.

"What, I- I'm sorry?" Sonic said with a goofy grin on his face. I'm apologizing to a rock…

She looked to the emerald again this time nodding. "You should be thankful for the Master Emerald, be thankful that you were bestowed this power. You should never forget the master Emerald for it is now always a part of you- so are the chaos emeralds. You can always call upon the Master emerald if you are ever in trouble."

Sonic and Shadow looked to each other then back at Tikal. Sonic then spoke, "I'm sorry Master Emerald, but please, we need to return to our bodies."

"We have a mission to carry out; this is for the greater good. If I am correct, then that gang has bigger plans in their minds regarding the firearms. We need to stop them at all costs." Shadow finished.

Tikal looked absolutely pleased now. "Good, remember my chant, use it to return."

Shadow looked to Sonic and nodded; they both closed their eyes and spoke as a single voice.

"The servers are the seven Chaos. Chaos is power; power is enriched by the heart. The controller is the one that unifies the Chaos!" the both said in perfect harmony. "Send us back to our bodies so we may fight for Justice!"

A warm, heavenly glow enveloped them both in its celestial power. They slowly levitated into the air with the power of chaos fully flowing within them both. They looked at each other with determination deeply written in their eyes. They both have a new mission to set upon; they must take down the gang before any innocent lives are lost to their upcoming deeds. Shadow knew he had to dig deeper to get the evidence needed about the gang and Sonic has a little heart to heart meeting with Princess Celestia for some confirmation.

Below them Tikal was waving to them happily. "Good Luck Sonic and Shadow! May the power of chaos be with you!"

With her final words they dematerialized from the air with a flash of light.

[End of chapter]

Oh my, this was a doozy! Don't worry reader; action will be coming back to the story as you can tell I surely did set it up. ;3 lol

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