Hi everbody! I hope you enjoy chapter seven!

ANGEL ISLAND

Vector, Charmy and Espio sat in front of the Master Emerald it was dark but the glow of the Master Emerald allowed them to see. Espio was meditating, Vector was listening to music and Charmy was sleeping.

Espio stood up and looked at Vector, "What in the hell is taking Knuckles so long!"

"I don't know… what could he be doing down there?" Vector said turning off his music. Espio and vector were a little worried for a second but they knew Knuckles could take care of himself.

Suddenly Charmy woke up with a big yawn. "Knux back yet?"

"No" Vector and Espio said at the same time.

"That must be some party down there!" Charmy said yawning

Espio nodded then walked over too the edge of Angel Island and looked down to see smoke rising from Station Square.

"Guys check this out!" Espio yelled.

Vector and Charmy ran over too him and they looked at the smoke.

"Is Station Square on fire or something?" Vector yelled.

Just then a large ship appeared from nowhere in the smoke, it slowly flew over to them. "Is that Doctor Eggmans ship?" Charmy asked.

The ship got closer and closer they could see that the ship had many cannons on it.

"Guys I got a bad feeling about this…" Vector started.

Suddenly a blue object shot out of the ship at lighting fast speeds. As it got closer they saw the blue object looked like Sonic but they soon saw it was none other than: Metal Sonic.

"IT'S METAL SONIC!" Charmy yelled buzzing away.

Vector and Espio ran back to the altar where the Master Emerald was.

"Quick back to the Emerald that must be what Metal Sonic's after!"

Vector yelled as he ran.

But Metal Sonic flew down in front of them. Vector and Espio stooped in there tracks.

"Greetings Chaotic detectives." Metal said menacingly.

"Why did you come here?" Espio yelled getting into a fighting stance.

"I think you know why! The Master emerald will soon be in the hands of Eggman!" Metal yelled stepping forward.

"Let's just see ya take it then!" Vector yelled. Vector went for a punch but Metal easily caught it, then he threw Vector at Espio. Espio ducked just it time to avoid being hit by the 250 pound crocodile.

Espio drew some shrunken stars at threw them all at Metal. The evil robot jumped away from the shrunken stars and while in mid-air he activated his booster rockets that were on his shoes and he went flying away in the blink off an eye.

At that moment Charmy flew over to Espio, "Is it gone?"

"I don't know." Espio said.

Suddenly Metal flew at Espio from behind and hit him with incredible force. Espio hurdled through the air and landed on the soft grass, but he was still knocked out from the hit.

Metal laughed but was punched by Charmy. Metal didn't even feel it.

"TAKE THIS YOU BAD MAN!" Charmy yelled delivering weaker punches.

Metal rasied his arm toward Charmy's and flicked the bee away with one finger. Charmy also was knocked out and landed next to Espio on the grass.

"BWA HA HA HA HA HA! These are but mere training dummies! Soon I will be ready to take on Sonic and I will be able to prove once and for all my greatness!" Metal laughed.

Metal grabbed the Master Emerald and flew back to the Egg Carrier, leaving the wounded detectives on the ground.

GUN HQ

The GUN military commander stood looking down on his troops. They where marching forward and lined up perfectly not a single troop out of place.

"Commander!" said the lieutenant running up to him, "the black creatures have hit six major cities around the globe all cities are reporting significant casualties. But Station Square has reported the most damage!"

The commander looked down at his shoes and closed his eyes.

"Also, people have reported seeing a black hedgehog in Station Square." The lieutenant added.

The commander looked up and faced the lieutenant.

"Shadow? Deploy the troops now and send a squad to capture him!" the commander yelled.

"But sir… isn't he on our side?" the lieutenant replied.

"I gave you an order! He's evil and he's the enemy!"

The lieutenant saluted then ran out of the room.

"You can't fool me Shadow…this time… your MINE…"

STATION SQUARE

Shadow stood on top of one of the few buildings that remained untouched during the war. Floating around him in a circle was two chaos emeralds, the green one and the golden-yellow one.

With every emerald he got he felt stronger and stronger.

There are seven chaos emeralds… with every one I get stronger… I wonder how powerful I'll be once I have all seven. Shadow thought smirking.

The sky was still blood-red and the black creatures were still falling from the space.

"Hmm… I got to find on what's going on out there." Shadow said too himself. With that, Shadow leapt of the building and landed perfectly. He was about too take of when he heard an all-too familiar voice.

"SHADOW, YOU DELIBERATELY DISOBEYED ME!"

Shadow turned expecting to see the eye but instead he saw the same dark figure from the hologram, only this time it was not a hologram. The dark one looked meaner and angrier in person it also looked a lot more menacing.

"No one tells me what too do! I have my own reasons for collecting the chaos emeralds." Shadow protested.

"You really don't understand the situation here do you!" the dark one yelled.

Shadow put the emeralds in his pocket and started to walk off ignoring his threats.

"Perhaps Professor Gerald has done more to your memory than I had imagined" the dark one said calmly.

Shadow stops in his tracks. The professor…Shadow thought.

Suddenly a vision popped into his head. The vision was of an elderly bald man with a long gray moustache standing in front of him smiling. In the vision Shadow was trapped in a pod.

Shadow stood there in a daze.

"Strange that you do not remember… your creator…" the dark one said calmly.

Shadow faced the dark figure, "Just who are you?"

The dark one waited a few seconds before answering.

"I am…Black Doom leader of the Black Arms!"

Shadow shivered at the thought of its name, but that passed extremely quickly.

Suddenly, Shadow heard a loud roar. He looked to see a giant winged creature. It was big and squishy with one glowing green eye and its wings were very small and had no difficulty lifting the body.

"This is my pet Black Bull…" Black Doom said.

Shadow saw a blue blur hit Black Bull in the center eye. The monster shirked in pain. The blur bounced away from it and when it stopped, Shadow could see it was that blue hedgehog Eggman was talking about.

"Shadow, that pest is destroying Black Bull! Get rid off it!" Black Doom yelled.

Shadow ignored what Black Doom had said and continued to watch the fight.

The blue hedgehog spin-dashed its way over to it then homing attacked its eye three times. The monster shirked again then attempted to ram into the blue hedgehog. The hedgehog leapt away from it to avoid being smashed then attacked its eye again.

"Looks like your pet can't take much more." Shadow smirked.

"THAT'S WHY I WANT YOU TOO DESTROY THAT BLUE THING!" Black Doom yelled again.

Suddenly, Black Bull shot a steady stream of flames out of its mouth, at the blue hedgehog. The Hedgehog leapt to his left avoiding the fire but it tripped falling flat on its face.

Black Bull slowly flew over to it. When it was close enough it opened it mouth to unleash another blast of fire.

Black Doom chuckled, "I guess I didn't need your help after all"

Shadow saw fire starting to appear in Black Bulls mouth.

Shadow felt a strange feeling overcome him.

"NO!" Shadow lunged at the hedgehog at incredible speed. Shadow got to the hedgehog and scooped it up and carried it away from the fire just in time.

"SHADOW!" Black Doom yelled in anger.

Shadow again ignored him and homing attacked Black Bull.

Black Bull screamed and fell to the ground. Everything shook as the monster collapsed.

Shadow lowered the blue hedgehog gently and kneeled over too look at him. The blue hedgehog had cuts on its arms and had blood on its lips, other than that he looked fine. The blue hedgehog opened its eyes a little.

"S-shadow…" it said weakly.

Shadow heard sirens. Is GUN coming for me? Shadow thought looking away from the hedgehog. The sirens got louder and Shadow decided he best be off. Shadow looked and the hedgehog was still staring at him. Shadow took out one of his emeralds and yelled:

"CHAOS CONTROL"

Shadow disappeared in a blinding light. Sonic, still lying there closed his eyes and passed out again.

When Shadow reappeared he was on the outskirts of town. There was not a soul anywhere. He didn't expect to see civilians but he thought there would be at least one GUN soldier patrolling the area.

Shadow looked to see if Black Doom sent his pain in the ass eye to follow him, but it was nowhere to be seen.

Suddenly, Shadow had a flashback of himself and the blond girl talking.

"Shadow, what do you think its like on earth?" the girl said.

"The professor said his life's work was dedicated to all those who live down there. He once told me his reason for existence was making people happy through the power of science." Shadow replied.

"Shadow," the girl said softly.

"I just don't know anything anymore! I often wonder why I was created, and what my purpose is for being here. Maybe if I go down there, I will find the answers…maybe…" Shadow said.

"Maria…"

Shadow popped back into reality.

"Maria! Here name… it was Maria!" Shadow exclaimed.

Before Shadow could focus on that memory again, he heard a gun cock.

He turned to see a swarm of soldiers pointing there rifles at him. Shadow's eyes widened and he turned to run the other way when he saw there was another swarm of soldiers behind him.

He was completely surrounded.

"Ummm, LOOK AN ATOM BOMB!" Shadow said pointing up at a building wasn't destroyed.

The soldiers all looked at the building and Shadow took off. One of the soldiers noticed he took of and turned on his walkie-talkie.

"Send in the GUN BEETLES!" he said.

Suddenly flying robots flew down in front of Shadow. They had a strange looking canon attached under them.

Shadow stopped in his tracks. He was about to turn the other way but the Beetles fired there Canons. The canons fired a net that covered Shadows whole body. Shadow tripped over the large net and fell flat on his face.

The soldiers walked up to him. "Cuff him boys" one said.

One of the soldiers pulled Shadows arms behind his back and put hand cuffs on him.

"Next stop: Prison Island!" another soldiers said.

The soldiers threw Shadow in an armored truck and drove off.

Hope you enjoyed this! But Im going away so I wont be able too post Chapter eight for at least eight days... but don't worry... I WILL NOT ABANDON THIS STORY! and... while Im gone... REVIEW!