heres Chapter 18. I think theres going to be five more chapters

SEA

"I told you we should have taken that left turn at that giant sea turtle!" Vector yelled at Espio.

"Then why didn't you say so at the time!" Espio yelled back.

Lost at sea with these idiots… Knuckles thought.

I can't possibly stay sane…

Charmy the bee flew back over to the boat. "Guys, guys! I can see it!" Charmy said.

"See what?" Knuckles asked.

"I can see the desert it's about a mile away!"

Knuckles looked back at Vector and Espio. "Quick! Turn on the motor! Full speed ahead!"

Vector pulled a string coming out of the motor and the boat sped off into the distance.

PRISION ISLAND

A guard walked down a long metal hallway it was night time and it was eerily quiet. No soldier on that island slept soundly that night. They may have beaten the Black Creatures that had invaded, but when the black creatures arrived they came quick, and it wouldn't be hard for them to come again.

The guard went over to Rouge the Bats cell, he opened the door but to his surprise Rouge wasn't there!

"What!?" he said he was about to sound the alarm but an unknown attacker kicked him in the face knocking him out cold. The attacker stepped into the light, it was Rouge the Bat.

Rouge ran down the hallway panting heavily.

Eventually she made it out of the base and she ran to the docking bay. A guard saw her and ran over to her, but she knocked him out as easily as she knocked out the last guard.

She made it to the docking bay and she climbed into a jet.

During her training years ago she had learned to pilot all sorts of planes, bomb-jets, helicopters, air planes and even space ships.

She pulled a lever back and it flew off.

Oh, man! I'm a Fugitive! This is terrible! But I must find Shadow! But were do I even start… Rouge thought for a long time about where to go.

Well, if I'm going to be a Fugitive I will need help I guess I should go see that Knuckle-Head.

Rouge decided not to go to Knuckles, he might assume she was going to steal the Master Emerald and attack her.

I've got it!

I'll go see Sonic! I bet he'll be glad to hear that Shadows still alive!

Little did Rouge know that Sonic didn't only know that Shadow was out there. But he was looking at him right now!

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AMY'S APARTMENT

Sonic the hedgehog couldn't believe it.

Sonic and his two-tailed sidekick spend 3 days looking for him, and Shadow just appears right in front of Amy!

Shadow started to stir.

"He's waking up!" Amy whispered.

Everyone ran into the room and it became extremely crowded. Sonic ran right over to his face.

Shadows eyes opened, the pain was not as bad now but it still hurt. Over him stood a blue hedgehog with gleaming green eyes and he was smiling.

Sonic didn't say anything he just looked down on him smiling.

"Hello, there…" Shadow said nervously.

"I knew you weren't dead!" Sonic said.

Shadow sat up a little. "Shadow, are you sure you shouldn't stay down?" Amy asked.

"I'm fine Amy…" Shadow said.

"Oh, Sonic I forgot to tell you this but Shadow has amnesia" Amy said.

"Amnesia?" Shadow exclaimed.

"How do you know me Sonic?" Shadow asked.

"If you have no memory then how do you know my name?" Sonic asked.

"I was captured by E-102 Gamma and brought to Eggman. Eggman showed me a picture of you and he told me to kill you. But I refused." Shadow explained.

"Gamma? I thought he blew up" Amy said.

"He said something about you" Shadow said looking at Amy.

"Well, Shadow would you like to know a piece of you past?" Sonic asked.

"What do you want me to do?" Shadow asked.

"What?" Sonic said confused.

"Every other person that has knowledge of my past wants something in return" Shadow said.

"Shadow, your our friend, I don't want anything in return" Sonic said.

Shadow looked at Sonic and smiled, "Thank you"

"That's the first time you've ever smiled" Sonic said.

"I-It wasn't a smile! It was a smirk!" Shadow protested.

"It was so a smile!" Tails laughed.

Shadow looked at Tails, "Who's this?"

"This is my little brother Tails" Sonic said.

"Maybe we should tell Shadow about his past already!" Amy said.

"Right!" Sonic said, "Okay so, Eggman released you from a carbon freezing pod on Prison Island. You told him to bring Chaos emeralds to the space colony ARK. Then you stole the green chaos emerald from the Station square bank and since I look like you everyone thought I stole it. So after I defeated some big GUN robot I saw you and chased after you."

Shadow closed his eyes. He was having another flashback.

Shadow stood on top of Big Foot and Sonic was staring at him furiously.

"My name is Shadow I'm the world's ultimate life form. There's no time for games, farewell!" Shadow said as he tossed the emerald up and down.

Then Shadow grabbed the emerald and Chaos Controlled away.

Shadow opened his eyes and stared at Sonic. "Sonic…"

All was silent for a moment.

"Uh, so anyway…" Sonic started.

"You out ran me with Chaos Control and I got taken to prison island. Then, you came with Eggman and Rouge to Prison Island, and you were going to blow it up, after Rouge stole the Chaos emeralds. I escaped from my cell and I fought you. The fight was a tie, because the island was going to blow up. I had to go save Tails and Amy; you had to save Rouge because she was trapped in a cell with three of the Chaos Emeralds."

Wow… I sure was evil… Shadow thought.

You ARE evil… a voice in Shadows head said.

Shadow twitched at the sound of the voice in his head. It was hellish and dark… sort of like Black Dooms voice.

"Long story short, you saved Rouge and Tails, Amy and I. Then, you used the six Chaos Emeralds to use the Eclipse Canon to blow up half the moon. Then, Tails, Amy, Knuckles and I stole one of Eggmans spaceships to fly up to the Space Colony ARK. Our plan was to put Tails fake emerald into the Eclipse Canon and it would shut it down. But Eggman captured Amy so me and Tails had to come to her rescue. But Eggman launched me into space! I used Chaos Control with Tails fake emerald and I headed for the Eclipse Canon, but you and I fought to the death before I made it in." Sonic said.

Shadow closed his eyes visions quickly swarmed through his head.

"Then, Professor Gerald stared a program that sent the ARK on a collision course toward the earth because he wanted the world to pay for Maria's death" Sonic said.

"Maria…"

"So we all worked together to get to the canons core, but the bio-lizard stopped us at the last second. Amy convinced you to help us, so you ran to the canons core and you fought the bio-lizard. But the bio-lizard used Chaos Control to teleport to the front of the colony, then it attached it self to the colony to keep it on its collision course. You and I transformed into are super-forms to combat the bio-lizard. But you used up all your chaos energy and you fell down to earth. We all thought you were dead…" Sonic said.

Amy walked back into the room carrying a bowl with steam coming out of it. "Shadow would you like some chicken noodle soup?"

"What for?" Shadow asked confused.

"What do you mean: 'what for'?" Amy asked.

"I mean what do you want me to do with it?" Shadow asked.

"It's is soup! You know to eat…" Amy said.

"Oh, no" Shadow said looking away from away.

"Why not?" Amy asked.

"I do not feel hunger" Shadow said.

"Oh…" Amy said a little confusion in her voice.

"Well it's late" Tails said stretching his arms.

"Right, Tails you can sleep on the couch with Hope" Amy said.

Amy looked at Sonic, "You can sleep in my bed with me" Amy said winking. Tails pulled out the bed from the couch than hesitantly lie next to Hope. "Good night Tails" Hope said smiling at him. Tails blushed,

"G-good night…"

Sonic decided to sleep in the wooden chair in the guest room while Shadow slept on the bed.

Over the next three days, Sonic told Shadow about his near-death adventures battling Doctor Eggman. As he bragged on and on, Shadow grew tried of his bragging, but he got a respect for the blue hedgehog. By the third day Shadow could walk again. "Well, I should go" Shadow said on the third night.

"But you can't go!" Sonic said.

"What do you mean?" Shadow asked.

"Shadow, we missed you over those two years. You can't leave!" Sonic said.

"At least stay for another two days so you can come to Twinkle Park with us tomorrow!" Hope said.

Shadow looked her right in the eye. He was about to tell her no, but suddenly he saw Maria in Hopes face. Shadow couldn't say no to her. "Okay Hope" Shadow said almost smiling.

DESERT

The boat pulled up on the shore of the desert.

"Alright guys! Here's the plan!" Knuckles said.

"Step one, we find Eggman! Step two; we kick the shit out of Eggman! Step three, we find the Master Emerald!" Knuckles said.

"Yeah, it's party time!" Charmy said, he was obviously excited that he was going to get to fight Eggman.

"Lets just get this over with; this hot sun can't be good for my skin!" Vector said.

"Let's go!" Espio exclaimed running of into the desert, Knuckles following close behind him, behind him buzzed Charmy and behind him ran Vector.

Eventually they came to a Pyramid.

They were about to enter it when Eggman emerged out of it in the Eggpod. "What are YOU doing here Knuckle-Head!" Eggman yelled.

"I've come for the Master Emerald!" Knuckles yelled back.

"Ah, I thought you might!" Eggman said.

"Surrender or suffer a humiliating defeat!" Espio yelled. "So you want a fight eh?" Eggman said. "Well then you can be the first to try out my new invention!" Suddenly a dark figure emerged out of the Pyramid. It stepped into the light, to reveal that it was a large robot with hands like razor blades. "Behold, E-123… Omega!" Eggman yelled.