Chapter 4: Betrayal!
Sonic still stared at the beautiful Gem behind the glass shield. Did it just look like a Chaos Emerald now, could it be used like one?
Eggman could see the wonder in his face. "The Sol Emeralds and the Chaos Emeralds are one Sonic. This confirms what I suspected about Eggman Nega, his world is actually one possible version of the Future, when all the Emeralds happened to be Sol Emeralds. Completely releasing the Flame into the world reversed the fields in all the Emeralds and even took away Shadow's ability to use limited Chaos Control without an Emerald. If I can reverse the fields of more Emeralds and-"
Eggman was interrupted when Sonic shockingly spin-dashed into the machine. Sonic knew that this was useful info, but he didn't want Eggman to be the one to have the power of the Chaos Emeralds again. In the past, Sonic had accepted Eggman's help before when the monsters he had released went out-of-control. But this time, Sonic was just too angry. He knew he could get Rouge and Shadow to help reverse the other Emeralds now that he knew how it could be done. Before Eggman could do anything, Sonic had smashed the machine and grabbed the Chaos Emerald. Eggman was outraged.
"I was just trying to help, if we reverse all the Emeralds again and make it so they can't change back, we might be able to stop the Flames! I'm not even trying to catch it now, I just want to stop it! Give me back the Chaos Emerald now, or I'll hurt Amy!"
"Too late Eggman, the Emerald is mine! Chaos Control!"
With that, both Sonic and Amy disappeared from Eggman's base.
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Rouge and Shadow were in total shock. Shadow was holding the wound on his left arm and was backing away from Omega as small drops of blood fell to the floor. A swarm of GUN Agents soon appeared behind Omega, guns ready to fire. A memory of when those people were happily telling him jokes at an organization picnic flashed into his head.
Shadow had a complete look of shock on his face. "Omega, why did you let them reprogram you?"
"They did not reprogram me Shadow. I saw their point-of-view. You caused this catastrophe, you are too powerful. I can stop you Shadow. Eggman created me to keep you in line. Surrender now, or I will defeat you."
Shadow looked back at Rouge, then looked ahead at Omega. Shadow was thinking about taking off his bracelets, but the soldiers would start firing as soon as he made a gesture like that, plus if he couldn't use Chaos Control, what other powers of his might fail? "Just take me, leave Rouge alone."
"Shadow!" Rouge couldn't believe Shadow was going to give himself up to save her!
Shadow walked slowly up to the GUN agents, and allowed them to handcuff him.
But suddenly… a blinding green light filled the room. Shadow not even knowing what was going on, used the opportunity to kick Omega backwards, making sparks fly in all directions form the robot. Omega and the GUN agents recognized the light as Chaos Control. Knowing what Shadow could do with a Chaos Emerald, Omega and the agents made a hasty retreat back to their helicopter.