"Found them!" Shadow had been tracking down Rouge and her new clan for a while ever since the attack on Central Square. "And I promise it will end slowly and painfully!"
'Tails will be here in a while,' Shadow had sent Tails the report just in case he needed help "if I can't beat Rouge in the time given then I might as well have lost."
Shadow runs down the face of the building, gaining momentum, then leaps off onto a rooftop. He leaps from rooftop to rooftop approaching the clan and stopping to hide.
"So, everyone's ready?" Rouge was giving orders to her clan.
"Yes ma'am!"
"Ok, here's the plan…." Rouge informs her men of their parts in her brilliant new plan. She's apparently planning to ambush Knuckles for the Master Emerald… again.
'So that's her next move.' Shadow turns on his communication wrist watch, sets it's volume to low, and Tails pops up from the screen.
"Shadow? What is it that you want?"
"Commander Prower, Rouge and her clan are planning to ambush Knuckles for the Master Emerald."
"I see. Me and my team are moving in. Report if they move from that spot."
"Affirmative." With that and a salute the screen turned off.
Shadow was still getting used to Tails' high military position. He never really respected him in such a manner before but ever since Sonic died Tails or Commander Prower, which is what he'd rather be called nowadays, became as strong as he is and when Shadow had to take care of him when Tails took a major beating by Shadow's prototype, Shade, he became as close to him as if he were Sonic himself.
'We're almost there.' The Commander was fast approaching.
Once there, doing what most Commanders would do, Tails took out a megaphone and offered them to surrender. "Rouge, you and your clan have been accused of turning innocent civilians and slaughtering others. Surrender now and we might just go easy on you!"
"Crap, It's Tails. Everyone fan out in all directions and regroup at the hideout!"
"Mistress, an agen…" A fleeing vampire spotted Shadow in hiding is shot in between the eyes.
The darkly colored agent rushes toward Rouge with two pistols ready.
"Everyone, keep going! I'll take care of him." Rouge had already taken to skies and uses her screw kick on the rooftop.
Over the years Rouge had become more powerful, on her own and as a vampire. Now, her screw kick blows dusk everywhere when it isn't meant to hurt anyone.
"She's escaping sir!" One of Tails' men points out.
Tails grins at this and gives an order to his men "Alright boys, move out!"
Tails had brought a small army of bat-soldiers ready for this situation.
"I love it when they don't comply!" one of Tails' eager men says as they take off.
Tails activates his wrist communicator "Shadow, my men are heading after the small fry. You and I head after the big cheese."
"You got it." Shadow replies and the communication is cut off.
Tails activates his boosters on his feet and takes off after Rouge.
Shadow was about to head out himself when he spotted a pile of corpses in the path to the elevator. 'Damn that girl! So that's why they gathered here.'
Shadow and Tails catch up with Rouge and Tails charges his blasters.
A dark figure leaps into the air with a blade ready to strike and heads for Shadow.
Shadow flips his pistols in a backwards position under his arms and uses them to block in the middle of one of his leaps to another building.
The attacker slams into Shadow and they end up crashing into the windows of the building Shadow just leapt from.
Meanwhile Tails charges for Rouge and is stopped by a metallic extended fist uppercutting him causing him to fall back and loose balance.
A bunny heads out in front of Rouge. She appears to be a cyborg like Commander Prower. "You alright Rouge?"
"Who are you?"
"Don't you remember? It's me Bunnie Rabbot. I know we don't know each other that much but we're still on the same side right?"
"Sorry but I honestly have no idea who you are?"
"Rouge I…" Bunnie took a look around and notices something different about Rouge. "You're not Rouge you're a vampire!"
"Exactly why I assaulted her!" The commander had regained his balance a while ago.
Bunnie discovers that the little kid she once knew and loved hovered before her as a young adult "Sweet Aurora, is that you Tails!?"
"Don't you ever call me that! Tails is long gone and is never coming back!"
"Where the heck am I!?"
"In my way, that's what!" Commander Prower backhands Bunnie then bursts into Rogue.
Shadow got up from rolling on an office building floor.
Before him stood his attacker, his prototype, Shade.
"It seems that you haven't stopped with the whole ninja thing."
"And it seems you haven't stopped with the whole agent thing" Shade was getting up from his crash landing."Tell me Shadow, did my attack on that pitiful fox two years ago make you his friend?"
"No, it made me his best friend."
"I bet he didn't even survive the attack."
"Didn't survive? I guess you didn't see him out there."
"Guess I didn't. But I'll see him soon and this time he won't survive."
"Right now, I can't even beat him! What makes you think you can!"
"Simple, your weak and the fox is weaker!"
"Pfff. You remind me of Sonic sometimes. Your much too cocky"
"Oh the hedgehog you helped kill off!"
Shadow had remembered that his DNA was used to create more like him that killed Sonic.
"It wasn't my fault! It was yours!" Shade was the very person that got the DNA for Eggman from a private battle between him and Shadow.
"'Yeah, yeah, whatever."
The two then collided in a climactic battle.
Meanwhile. A princess named Sally Acorn was sword fighting with her friend Antonnie in an abandoned castle in the middle of a forest, not far from the city itself.
"We've been here for three years! How long do you think it'll take till Rotor finally finishes that dimensional portal of his?" asks the princess.
"Not so sure..gah! You have to give him credit though..aah! He's been working tirelessly to fix that thing..yikes!" Antonnie said in between dodges of Sally's blade.
"Guess you're right. But I'm missing Sonic all too much right now."
"I'm sure you do... gah! But lighten up...eep! You'll see him again."
"Guess you're right." Sally then finishes their duel by flipping off Antonnie's rapier and sets her own to his neck.
"Okay! Okay! You win! You win!"
"Don't be such a crybaby. I'm not gonna kill you."
"Oh, right. Sorry, flashbacks."
"Hey guys!" Bunnie Rabbot had entered the scene with shocked expression.
"What's wrong Bunnie?" The princess' concern got her out of her daydreams of her and Sonic's wedding.
"I just saw Tails and Rogue."
"What!? They're here too!?"
"Possibly. But they're... different."
"How much different? They couldn't have changed that much." Antonnie says.
"Well..." Bunnie goes through explaining her little walk around the city and explains the features of the friends she'd found.
"But how did they get here?" After Bunnie had finished Antonnie had a lot of questions lined up but decided, at least for now, to only ask one.
"They might belong here you know." before returning to them Bunnie had taken her time to think things over and came up with this as a solution.
"What, you mean like alternate forms? Impossible, if that were true, then where are our alternate forms."
"You have a point."
Sally walked up to a window and watched the night sky "Well, whoever they are, we'll find out exactly what's happening."
For those of you who can't understand the whole SatAm characters thing, they're here due to a dimensional portal Rotor made. The rest of them will be revealed shortly.
Now, before I move on I would like to request that you review on either my flaws or if this story is actually good. I would just like to know if you're there. Cause if I finish this story, it would only feel like a hollow victory if no one has actually read it.