Okay so im upadting earlier than i said i would. the nest chapter will be up sunday or monday!


DESERT

Knuckles lunged at Omega, but the powerful robot blocked his punch and threw the Echidna at Espio. Espio moved out of the way at the last second to avoid being hit by him. Vector hit Omega with a body-slam, but it merely knocked him off-balance and he immediately started to attack again.

Espio threw shrunken stars at Omega and they stuck in him and a few drops of oil spilt out. Omega's razor hands transformed into machine guns and he began firing madly at his attackers.

Eggman was sitting in the Egg-pod laughing like a maniac the entire time.

Meanwhile inside the pyramid E-102 Gamma watched the battle. Eggman had told Gamma to go in there and get any old technology that still worked. So far gamma had found nothing. A few days ago Eggman had declared Gamma the second-in-command of his army. But ever since Omega had been built Eggman had paid no attention to Gamma.

He abandoned me so quickly, does his robots mean that little to him! Gamma thought.

Gamma suddenly remembered Amy Rose showing him that he had free-will.

Gamma looked at his 'brother' Omega. "When he builds a more powerful robot, Omega will be put in the dark as well. Eventually Master Eggman will destroy me for spare parts. That is the fate of all the robots in his army. He will never build the perfect robot, he will continue to make them more powerful and we will all be abandoned by him eventually." Gamma said.

"I cannot let that happen"

STATION SQUARE

Shadow could hardly believe his eyes when Rouge the Bat stepped out of the jet. Shadow leapt of the balcony… until he remembered he was on the eight floor so he warped while in mid-air and he landed safely on the ground. Shadow ran to Rouge and she ran to him with her arms open as if she was going to hug him. And when they were close enough she did hug him and he hugged her back (Although not nearly as hard as she hugged him).

"Shadow, I'm so glad I found you!" Rouge cried with tears in her eyes.

"Rouge I thought you were dead!" Shadow said.

"No, the bullet didn't kill me, it just knocked me out" Rouge said still hugging Shadow.

Rouge pushed herself away from Shadow.

"Shadow, the GUN commander showed me a holo-gram of you doing terrible things. It showed you working with the black creatures and you activated a bomb that destroyed central city!" Rouge said with tears flowing down her face.

"Rouge, please don't cry. I was working with the Black Arms for a little while. But Sonic and his friends have shown me the light. I am no longer an agent of evil!" Shadow said.

Rouge smiled and hugged him again.

"Oh, Shadow… I thought I'd lost you to them…" Rouge said as she continued to cry.

By that time, Everyone had made there way out of the apartment building and they heard what Shadow had said.

"Is it true Shadow?" Sonic said.

"Were you really working with those monsters?" Amy asked.

"Yes… I'm deeply sorry that I didn't tell you…" Shadow said pushing himself away from Rouge, who had stopped crying.

"Well it's good to know that you're on our side now" Hope said smiling.

"Oh how touching…" A deep echo-y voice said.

Shadow immediately recognized the voice.

Shadow turned around, "Black Doom!"

DESERT

Omega was powerful, but Knuckles and the Chaotix detectives had begun to over power him.

"I can't believe this! Omega fight harder!" Eggman yelled.

"C'mon guys, lets finish this!" Knuckles shouted.

Knuckles punched Omega hard and the robot was knocked back were he was body-slammed by Vector and then hit by a torrent of shrunken stars by Espio. The robot fell over and did not move. Although it's eyes still glowed red.

"Alright we did it!" Charmy shouted.

"What do you mean WE!?" Vector yelled.

"For the entire time you were hiding!" Espio said.

"Guys, we can make fun of Charmy later!" Knuckles said.

The four heroes approached Eggman.

"Hand over the master emerald Eggman!" Knuckles yelled holding out his hand.

Eggman two large laser canons popped out of the Egg-Pod, "NEVER!" he yelled.

Suddenly a missile hit the Egg-pod and it shook violently. Eggman looked to face the attack and he saw it was none other than Gamma.

"E-102!? What's the meaning of this?" Eggman shouted.

Gamma didn't answer, instead it walked over to the defeated Omega.

"ANSWER ME!"

Gamma took out a chip and pulled it into Omegas chest. Omega started to beep wildly. Then Gamma took out the chip and threw it in the sand. Omega stood up and faced Eggman.

"Eggman you are no longer suitable for command I no longer take orders from you!" Omega yelled.

Knuckles and the Chaotix were surprised to hear Omega talk. Sometimes during the fight it would shout 'terminate!' or 'eradicate!' but they never knew it could actually speak intelligently.

"What did you do to him?" Eggman yelled.

"I have shown my brother the light" Gamma replied.

"What are you talking about!?" Eggman yelled.

"Omega and I are the Eggman rebellion. The two of us will over-throw you and then kill you!" Gamma yelled.

"You… ungrateful little bastard!" Eggman yelled. His face was bright red with fury.

Gamma and Omega began firing at the Egg-pod and Eggman was forced to retreat. "You two haven't seen the last of me!"

Gamma turned to face Knuckles. "The Master Emerald is inside the Pyramid. I must go, Eggman will not escape us!" Gamma said. Then he ran off with Omega.

Knuckles ran into the Pyramid with out saying a word. The Chaotix followed.

STATION SQUARE

"So Shadow, you think you can betray me!?" Black Doom yelled.

"Who's this guy?" Sonic asked.

"That's Black Doom, leader of the Black Arms" Shadow said without taking his eyes off the alien leader.

"Shadow doesn't work for you anymore!" Rouge yelled showing no fear on her face.

"SILENCE!!!" Black Doom shouted.

"Shadow, you cannot betray me!" Doom said.

"He can, and he will!" Sonic said taking a few steps forward.

"Shadow if you turn against me, you and all your little rodent friends will regret it!" Black Doom yelled.

"I do not fear you Black Doom, and I do not want to take part in your insane quest for world domination!" Shadow said.

Black Doom yelled in anger. The ground seemed to shake.

"YOU LITTLE TRATIOR! YOUR ACTIONS WILL RESULT IN THIS GIRLS DEATH!" Black Doom shouted.

Suddenly Hope started to float up in the air and she hurdled towards Black Doom. Doom caught her in his hand and he laughed manically.

"Hope!" Shadow yelled.

"That bastard!" Sonic shouted.

"Oh my god!" yelled Amy.

Rouge gasped.

Cream began to cry.

Tails stared at the ground sadly; I never got to tell her how I felt about her…

Shadow lunged at Black Doom but he disappeared.

Shadow heard a loud voice in his head, "If you want to save her than come to the Black Comet!"

Shadow turned to face the others.

"We have got to save her! Tails, do you have something that will get us to the Black Comet?"

Tails nodded yes.

"Alright, then let's go…"