By Life Comes Sacrifice
Episode 6
Tail's Smartness
Sonic and Shadow did not speak of their chat to anyone. They acted like they just went to sleep. Sonic continued to hear Amy in his head, while Shadow heard Maria. Shadow suddenly got a flash back…
"Shadow, you are able to do this one ability, but in order for you to use it, you must have a Chaos Emerald…"
Shadow suddenly snapped back to reality. "Chaos Control!"
Sonic looked at him weird. "What was that Shadow?"
Shadow looked at Knuckles. "Give me a Chaos Emerald…"
Knuckles looked at him strangely, "Why?"
Shadow told them about his ability to warp time and space. "If you give me a Chaos Emerald, I can go back in time and stop the force field from ever happening!"
Sonic laughed when a thought struck him. "Or…" Shadow looked at Sonic. "You can warp Space and take us with you outside Angle Island!"
Knuckles laughed. "Both great ideas but there is one problem with each…"
Shadow and Sonic looked at Knuckles. "If you warp time, you can change the fact the there is no force field, yes, but you don't know when he put it on…"
Sonic laughed, "Looks like we're going with my idea…"
Knuckles shook his finger, "No, we cant go with yours either…"
Sonic looked at him, "Why not?"
Knuckles pointed at the Master Emerald. "How am I to get back in to guard the Master Emerald?"
Shadow looked around and tapped Sonic on the shoulder. "Have either of you seen Tails anywhere?"
Sonic, Knuckles and Shadow looked everywhere for Tails but they couldn't find him. "He can't have gone far…" Sonic said, looking under a rock.
"Tails!" Knuckles yelled, but there was no reply.
"Maybe, Robotnik took him!" Shadow said.
Sonic glared at Shadow. "You always think of the most irrational things to say…"
Shadow smiled and continued to look around. Suddenly Knuckles saw Tails coming out of the Forest with a bowl of strawberries. Sonic looked at him weird. "Where did you get those?"
Tails looked at him confused, "Headquarters…"
Sonic stood with his mouth open. "Headquarters? How did you get there?"
Tails pretended to be walking in place. "By walking…" He said sarcastically.
Sonic glared at him, "But there is a force field around the place!"
Tails smiled, "Last night I found a button while I went over to a tree to, ahem…" He ate a strawberry. "I pushed it and the barrier went out…"
Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Shadow went to the headquarters and they laughed at the stupid ness of their selves.
Epilogue:
Sonic invited Shadow to stay with them and find ways to make Robotnik go insane but he refused. "I must go and wander on my own. I will visit often though, but I have to continue my search…"
Sonic looked at him. "But you said yourself that Maria was dead."
Shadow nodded. "She is dead, but I have to search for my self this time… I have to find the true me…" With that, Shadow took off through the trees and disappeared.
