Hi everyone. Sorry for the long wait. I have been busy. Sorry for grammar mistakes. I made the last chapter while playing a gameboy game, watching a movie and reading Chapter Twenty of Mystery 001's third story for the tenth time. (I love his stories. You should read them as well.) Anyways, I will try harder this time

Chapter six

"Shadow, you should go down to Earth with Rouge to get Tails' emerald." Eggman said as Rouge was about to depart.

"Why?" Shadow asked.

"Because, Rouge will following Tails in a car and she will not be able to follow him if he escapes to a place without roads. That is when you should try to get Tails." Eggman explained.

"Ok, I will help." Shadow said.

"You can station yourself in rail canyon." Eggman said. He turned to Rouge. "Where does the radar say the emerald is?"

"He is south of us. He is also moving really fast." Rouge said.

"He is probably using Route 280 to get wherever he is going. He is probably using his stupid blue plane again. Keep an eye out for it, Rouge." Eggman said.

"Yes sir." Rouge said sarcastically.

"Well get going. Stop wasting time." Eggman snapped at Shadow and Rouge.

Rouge got in her car and Shadow started to spin dash away. He then stopped.

"Eggman?" He said.

"What?" Eggman asked.

"Which direction is it again?" Shadow asked feeling stupid.

Eggman did a faceplant. "I told you it is that way." Eggman said pointing to the south.

"Right, sorry." Shadow said and he spin dashed away.

Two minutes later.

"I am guessing this is rail canyon." Shadow said to himself as he looked at all of the rails that connected the pumpkin mountains to each other. "I guess I will just wait for Rouge or Eggman to give me a signal. Shadow then sat down on one of the pumpkin mountains and looked around.

"What a dreary place." Shadow said.

Shadow's radio turned on and Rouge's voice came through. "Shadow, they are in that blue plane, spotted at eleven o'clock."

Shadow then said. "Copy that. I am in pursuit."

Shadow jumped off of the mountain he was on and jumped onto the nearby rail. He started to gain speed and was about to jump for the blue plane when he was shot in the back.

Shadow stumbled and fell off of the rail and grabbed a different one nearby. He looked up to see a GUN hawk nearby.

Shadow used a homing attack to destroy it and a GUN rhino nearby. Shadow looked up and saw that Tails' plane was getting further away every second. Shadow climbed onto a nearby rail and started to grind down it. He started to pick up more and more speed and started to get close to Tails.

The rail that he was grinding on suddenly exploded as a GUN Bomb wing blew it up with a bomb.

"If thats what you are going to do to stop me GUN is running out of ideas." Shadow said as he homing attacked the robot and then the next one, and the next one, and the next one, and the next one, and the final one.

Shadow landed on top of another pumpkin mountain. On top of it was a pedestal and an inscription on a rock nearby. The inscription read...

To the one who has made it to this place, and who seeks mass destruction of those who oppose thee. Take the power of the ancient light. The power of pure speed will awaken its own power.

Another mass destruction technique would be nice to have. Shadow thought and he stepped on the pedestal. The pedestal turned green as a ball of light rose from inside the mountain. It hit Shadow in the chest and was absorbed into his skin. Shadow glowed white for a moment and then went back to being ebony.

A/N I know I had Shadow use the Light Attack before. Please act like he had used a chaos blast back then instead of the light attack so this makes sense.

Shadow then looked up and saw that Tails had gotten really near. Shadow was about to jump on the plane when the pumpkin mountain shattered and Shadow fell crashing to the ground.

"What happened?" Shadow said.

The fragments of the mountains started to shake. Some of the fragments started to float in the air and started to spin around ball of darkness. The fragments finally combined together to form a giant humanoid-like rock monster. It shrieked at Shadow and threw a huge boulder at Shadow. Shadow barely managed to avoid it.

"Hah. This will be easy." Shadow said and attempted a homing attack at the monster.

No damage.

"Grr. Chaos Blast!" Shadow shouted and used the red explosion.

No damage.

Shadow used all of his attacks while avoiding the very fast attacks of the monster. What can I use to destroy him? He thought.

Shadow then remembered the new attack he had just received. You awaken it with the power of speed? Well lets give it a try.

Shadow started to spin dash at super speeds. His whole body glowed white like before. He stood up and he said the words that pooped into his head. "Light attack." AN explosion of white energy came out of Shadow and annihilated the monster.

"This will be a good secondary attack for when I have no chaos emeralds around. Without chaos emeralds its power exceeds that of the chaos blast." He looked up and saw the blue plane no where in sight.

"Damn it." Shadow said and started to grind on a rail in the direction the plane had been going. He saw it as he jumped onto the last pumpkin mountain. It was to far away to get close to. "Thats weird." He said as he took out his radio.

"Doctor. They are heading straight towards your base. What should we do?" Shadow said into the radio.

"Just return to the base. I saw them on my radar. There is not way that they will escape. I do not know what they are going to do but I will give them a warm welcome.

Shadow returned to the pyramid base. "It will be a few minutes before Eggman is finished with whatever he is doing. I might as well try something out." Shadow said as he positioned himself in the back of an extremely long corridor.

"Here we go. Chaos control!" Shadow said. He immediately disappeared and reappeared about halfway down the hallway.

Shadow turned around and looked at how far he had gone. "Hmm. I see, without the chaos emeralds I can still manage to use my chaos powers but they are only about a quarter as strong.

Shadow did a few more tests of his abilities until Eggman called him into the transporter room of the pyramid.

"What could Rouge be up to?" Eggman said to himself. "She should have gotten the emerald from them by now."

Eggman looked at a computer screen that had a diagram of the ARK. Two dots were beeping on the screen.

"That is strange. There are energy signals from two different chaos emeralds. Did they really think they could trick me with a fake emerald?" Eggman said. "I need to stop them."

Shadow started to walk towards the transporter when Eggman stopped him. "I should be the one to stop them Shadow. Now is the time to end this long drawn-out battle, and mark myself a place in history as the ultimate genius! If something happens to me, I'm counting on you to finish the job! The moment for attack has come! It's now, or never!" Eggman said.

Shadow watched as Eggman got into the transporter and disappeared. Shadow waited a few moments and then went into the transporter as well.

Shadow started to walk through the halls of the ARK. When he reached the observation deck he stared at the Earth. Suddenly a searing pain went through his head. He collapsed as visions of planets, himself, battles, and black creatures started to spin around in his head. After about ten minutes of the agony he managed to stand up and walk around as the pain disappeared along with the images/memories.

Shadow looked out the window again and saw Eggman and Sonic in another room with Tails and Amy watching. He saw Sonic get trapped in a capsule. Shadow watched as the capsule Sonic was in flew out of the ARK and exploded.

"Guess he was a regular hedgehog after all." Shadow said. "I better make sure the emeralds are safe with Sonic's friends hanging around.

Shadow entered the control room and saw that the emeralds were safe. He thought for a moment then started to type some information into the computer. As he looked at the search results on the computer about Rouge the bat his suspicions were proven true. He got off of the computer and jumped into the shadows as he heard Rouge coming near.

"Legend has it, whenever the seven chaos emeralds are collected the power creates a miracle. I have six of them and they are all mine." Rouge said as she was going to take the emeralds out.

"I don't think so." Shadow said as he stepped out of the shadows.

"Shadow?"

"So that was your plan from the beginning? Or was it an order from the president? I know who you are now. You are that government spy, Rouge the bat.

"So you looked me up did you? I would say that is an invasion of privacy." Rouge said.

"I could say the same thing about you." Shadow said. "You were sent here for information on me weren't you?"

"Well, things are not going as planned. Since my job was done I decided to take what's mine and get back to Earth."

"You are one pathetic creature." Shadow said.

"What about you?" Rouge asked taking out a piece of paper. "Here are the results of the research project called the "Ultimate Life Form."

Shadow looked at the paper which showed a huge lizard like creature.

"If this picture is of the real Ultimate Life Form named Shadow." Rouge said making Shadow look up at her again. "Then who, or what, is standing in front of me." Rouge asked.

Eggman's voice then came out of Shadow's radio. "This is Eggman. I got the last emerald from the fox. The only problem is someone is trying to get to the Eclipse Cannon. There is very little time before the cannon fires again! You have to stop him."

"Fine doctor." Shadow said. He then turned to Rouge. "If you wish to live then leave the emeralds where they are."

"What if I do take them?" Rouge asked.

"This chamber is set so that there is an electric charge moving through the machine around the emeralds that will fry you if you try to take them out. Try it if you do not believe me." Shadow said.

"Do you believe that you are the real Shadow?" Rouge asked.

"No doubt."

"Even your memories may not be real." Rouge said. Shadow stopped walking as he remembered the strange images he had seen earlier.

Shadow then started to walk again. "Even if my memories are not real, it's still me, Shadow. And I will fulfill my promise to Maria. That is the only thing that matters right now."

Shadow then jumped out of a doorway nearby onto one of the platforms around the ARK. He saw a green cylinder nearby and jumped on it. As he started to run he ran around the cylinder. How many times did I have to train on these when I was young. Shadow thought.

He had to duck as an artificial chaos shot two beams at him. "Usually they were not there though. Shadow said as he avoided the beams. He jumped up and kicked a hole through the creature's stomach destroying the creature.

Shadow started to jump from platform to platform destroying everything in his path. He arrived at the eclipse cannon to find the person he was least expecting.

"Hello." Sonic said.

"You never cease to surprise me Sonic. I thought you died when that capsule exploded." Shadow looked at Sonic's emerald that he was holding. "You used the fake chaos emerald to warp with the chaos control?"

"What can I say. I die hard." Sonic said as he started to run down the ramp of the eclipse cannon.

"So there is more to you than just looking like me. You know that I cannot let you win. It is time for your final battle." Shadow said as he started running forward.

Sonic jumped at Shadow attempting to do a homing attack right as Shadow tried to do the same. Both hedgehogs started crashing into each other in mid air as the ground underneath them started to collapse.

"This is it for you." Sonic said. "Sonic wind!" Sonic sent a blue explosion of power at Shadow who jumped it.

"Here I go! Chaos spear." Shadow shouted as the golden ball of energy flew at Sonic. Sonic chaos controlled at the last second.

Shadow caught up with Sonic and they started to punch and kick as platforms kept collapsing.

Shadow flew back a little from Sonic after being punched. "Chaos spear!" Shadow shouted. He knew he had won. It was to close to be dodged.

Or so he thought.

Sonic somersaulted under the blast and grabbed Shadow's foot. He then used all of his strength to smash Shadow into the ground. With a loud crack Shadow hit the ground and coughed up some blood before falling unconcious. Sonic took one last look at Shadow and then sped off to the end of the cannon. The platform Shadow was on shook once and then started to fall into space.

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Phew, That was long. Next chapter will be finale of SA2B. I will not have Sonic Heroes but I will have a chapter with Shadow thinking about the events of Sonic Heroes. After that it will go to Shadow the Hedgehog. Please review how you thought I did with this. Thank you.