Chapter 9: Master Emerald Caused Worry
Rouge didn't know what to say, they were almost at their destination anyway I don't know? Does he not love me? Or was it a feeling he never felt before, so he is confused about it? Rouge sat Shadow down at the entrance to the dark cave. Shadow looked at Rouge like he was going to explain what he just said, but then decided to say nothing. When Rouge and Shadow shown their light into the cave, they could immediately tell the cave had been ransacked. Nothing of value had remained, most importantly the Master Emerald.
Shadow stomped his foot. "Damn it!"
Rouge looked angry. "Oh great, now what are we going to tell Sonic, hmm?"
Shadow seemed to be calming down, some. "I bet twenty cans of food Dr. Eggman took it!"
"But Shadow, we don't know where Eggman's base is! Let's just go back and tell Sonic, he's more powerful than you are now anyways since he can use the Sol Emeralds!"
Shadow just sneered at Rouge with a look that perfectly said "Thanks for reminding me!"
Rouge felt sorry, so she went up to him and patted him on the back. "I'm sorry Shadow. But there is one thing I need to know, why don't you know how you felt about last night? I'll tell you I liked it, and I think that we should do it again sometime, hmm?"
"Damn it woman stop petting me! We have more important things to worry about now!"
The two headed back to Aquatic Base, not saying another word to each other.
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Eggman's grin turned into a frown at the info on his console. The Master Emerald's power proved to be a great tracker. He could clearly see the Creature had absorbed the power of four Sol Emeralds. Two were mysteriously under the City of Soleanna, Eggman assumed these where the ones Sonic was bragging about finding, he really liked having this info handy. And one was smack dab in the middle of the Oil Ocean Zone. The Flames had almost reached the end of this very flammable Zone, and he knew the creature's power would increase dramatically with the energy from that fifth Emerald.
Eggman immediately took out a communicator and pressed a button on it.
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A very defeated looking Rouge walked into the base with an angry looking Shadow.
"I'm sorry Sonic, the Master Emerald and your food was stolen by someone."
"Eggman! But I don't know where his base is, but I've been there so I think Chaos Control would be possible! Rouge and Shadow, do you think one of these machines in here could reverse the field of these Emeralds, even briefly?"
Rouge looked over at one machine, which she didn't know used to be part of the device that contained the Flame. "I think this one generates electromagnetic pulses, if I can set it just right…"
Rouge knew this was probably crude based upon what Eggman did, but she took a reading from the Sol Emeralds, and set the device exactly opposite to it in charge and at the same strength. Applying the field, the Emeralds briefly changed shape, but quickly reverted back to Sol Emerald.
"Hopefully we don't have to use their power too long. Maybe the effect would last longer if field was stronger and it is exposed to the energy longer, to allow more of the Emerald's molecules to line up with-"
Rouge looked at him "You don't have to explain it Shadow, just do it!"
The four heroes just stood there, staring at the Emeralds while Shadow charged them up for a good 15 minutes. After that period of time, the Emeralds seemed as Chaos as ever. Sonic grabbed both Emeralds, but then Shadow took the Green one from him. The Green one had always been Shadow's favorite, since it was Shadow's first Chaos Emerald and the one he used the most. He seemed to smile when he could feel his old power seep into his soul once again from the Emerald he often thought of as "his" .
"Let me do this Sonic! You should be able to still guide where we end up!"
Shadow yelled "Chaos Control!" at the top of his lungs, teleporting both him and Sonic to Eggman's base.
If only Shadow had figured out at that point in time how to properly use two Chaos Emeralds and two people who could use Chaos Control, then maybe they could have changed the past then and there, before it was too late.