CHAPTER 6

BREAK IN AT THE FACILITY

Later when Shadow arrived at the Chaotix, he immediately showed Vector the letter that Nails had given him.

Vector read the letter once and started to laugh afterwards, "Your lover? Ha, you're a bat magnet you know that."

Shadow pretended to laugh for a short time and looked over to Vector in annoyance, "Ha, ha very funny. Could you please focus on the Chaos Emerald she mentioned?"

"The Chaos Emerald in that heavily guarded facility? I don't know. It seems more of a trap to me."

"Yeah", Rouge agreed. "She probably wants to send us on a wild goose chase. When we get there, there will probably won't be a Chaos Emerald. We would've broken in for nothing."

"Or what if she wants us to steal it then she would steal it back from us and she would possess it." Charmy added.

Shadow crossed his arms and began to think about what everyone had said. "They all seem like possible solutions, but...somehow I think she's telling the truth."

"Shadow, how could you!" Rouge shouted with disbelief.

"Yeah she's the bad guy", Charmy said.

"I know, but what if there is a Chaos Emerald there? We need it and if there is a Chaos Emerald at the facility, we have to get it", Shadow said.

Vector sighed and started to agree with him, "Fine, you make a reasonable point. We'll go the military facility and get the emerald."

Kayla smiled and looked up at Shadow, "Can I go too?"

It took Shadow a really long time to decide to take her along or not. "I don't know. What if you get hurt or worse? I don't want nothing bad to happen to you."

She shook her head, "I won't get hurt because I have you and everyone else to protect me."

"Well, I guess you could come along as long as you don't leave our sight understand?"

She nodded.

Later they had arrived in the front of the facility studying the huge robots guarding the front entrance and in every other corner of the facility as well.

"Damn", Espio murmured. "How are we supposed to get past that?"

Tonya shrugged, "Yeah, they'll tear us apart if we just run up to them."

"That's why we got Shadow", Vector said as he looked ahead.

Charmy looked around, "Where is he anyway?"

"He's gonna clear the way for us", Vector answered.

Everyone looked ahead and saw the two robots that were guarding the entrance fall to the ground by a yellow light.

The black hedgehog faced the group and waved his hand in the air letting them know that it was okay.

Everyone ran up to the huge steel door of the facility.

Tonya examined a device by the door that required a password to get the door open. She faced Vector, "We need a password to get in."

Vector cracked his knuckles, "Who the hell uses technology anymore?" He held his fist back and then struck it into the steel door knocking it down completely.

The purple cat shrugged, "Okay...that could work too I suppose."

"Let's go", Vector led the rest of the group into the facility.

As they walked through the hallways more and more, they still couldn't find the Chaos Emerald.

Espio looked over to Shadow, "Picked anything up yet?"

He shook his head, "Not a damn thing."

"Maybe Nails lied", Rouge had a feeling she would, just to play games with them.

"This place is big", Kayla couldn't take her eyes off the shiny steel floors.

Charmy looked around the huge area they were in, "Strange, in Nails' letter, she said there were a lot of guard robots but when we came here we only saw two."

Then from in front of them, two huge robots stood in front of them with laser guns attached to their wrists. They pointed their weapons at them.

Charmy sighed, "Me and my big mouth."

Shadow quickly turned to Tonya, "Tonya, take Kayla and make sure she's safe."

She nodded and took Kayla's hand, "Come on, Kayla."

"But, but Detective Hedgehog", she said with worry as she tried to take Tonya's hand away from hers.

"Don't worry he'll be fine, just come with me."

When Tonya led Kayla away from the robots, the robots then began to fire their lasers at them.

Everyone quickly jumped out of the way to avoid the red lasers.

One of the robots had their attention on an extremely fast black blur. It didn't take long for its sensors to catch up to the blur. Once it caught up with it, it started to fire again but something from behind knocked it down on the floor. It slowly got back up and looked behind itself. It saw a green crocodile cracking his knuckles.

The crocodile smirked, "Pick on someone your own size you hunk of metal."

As the robot walked towards him, it was attacked from behind yet again. A black blur rammed through the center of its body and left a huge hole exposing its wires and circuits.

Shadow landed on the floor and watched the robot collapse to the floor.

Vector stuck out his thumb, "Nice backup, Shad."

He smiled back and quickly focused on the second robot that was attacking Charmy, Espio, and Rouge.

Espio threw two shurikens at the robot, but it didn't even scratch its powerful armor.

Rouge gave Espio a grimaced look, "Just let us know when those star thingys are useful."

Shadow smirked, "I got this piece of shit. Chaos-" Before he could do anything, something struck the robot from behind and destroyed it easily. He looked over to Vector suspecting he did it. "I was gonna take care of it, but thanks anyway."

"But Shadow, I didn't do anything."

"Huh?"

"Well, well, well, you guys actually came", a feminine voice said near the destroyed robot.

Everyone looked and saw a black bat with a yellow staff approach them.

Rouge gritted her teeth and cracked her knuckles, "Nails", she growled loudly as she walked up to her.

Nails made a small smile at her attempt to fight her. "Hold it, sis. I didn't come to fight you guys. I just wanted to help you." She walked past a furious Rouge and walked towards Shadow in a seductive manner. "Having a little trouble locating the emerald my dark prince?"

Espio crossed his arms in jealousy, 'Lucky son of a bitch', he thought.

Tonya walked towards the group with Kayla beside her, "Are you gonna flirt or help us find that emerald? Or else this whole thing is one of your dirty tricks?"

Nails never took her eyes off Shadow no matter what. He was her first crush and she intended to make him hers even if he didn't like her. She always dreamt that one day he would be hers. "No trick cat girl. I just want to help you find the Chaos Emeralds."

"Then where the heck is the one you mentioned?" Shadow asked in an angry tone.

"Relax sweetheart, I'll lead you to the emerald just follow me."

With hesitation, Shadow and the rest of them started to follow her.

While Nails was leading them down the hall, she heard Kayla ask Shadow who she was.

"Who's that pretty woman, Detective Hedgehog?" She asked.

"Her name is stupid slut" He replied. He snickered a bit by telling Kayla her false name.

Nails snarled, but then smiled as she heard Rouge yelling at Shadow.

"Quit using language like that in front of Kayla! She's only three you know."

"But that's what she is."

Finally Nails and the group had entered a dark room with nothing but a white light shining down on a gleaming red emerald in a glass case.

Nails smiled and faced the group, "Well there it is."

Kayla embraced Shadow as the strange room frightened her, "Detective Hedgehog, I'm scared."

Nails kneeled down to her and gave her a wide smile, "Don't worry sweetheart, nothing bad will happen to you I promise."

After her comment, it made Kayla feel a lot more safer about the room. Her grip around Shadow had eased until she had finally let go of him.

Nails got off her knees and faced the group once again. "Okay before you go and grab the emerald, there are lasers all over the room. Once you touch the emerald, they'll immediately go off, but don't worry I'll take care of the lasers. You'll all be safe."

Everyone gave her a cold stare meaning they really didn't trust her that well.

A sweat drop appeared from the back of her head, "Come on guys, believe me for once."

Shadow sighed, "Okay, I'll get the emerald." He glared at Nails, "You'd better have my back, witch."

As he slowly walked up to the red emerald, Nails couldn't help but to stare at his butt. She blushed deeply, 'I'll have you alright.'

Shadow approached the emerald and carefully removed the glass case away from it. Once he reached in and touch the cool emerald, the lasers that were hanging from the walls had went off and shot in the direction where he was.

Nails' red eyes glowed and the lasers that were aiming for him had just disappeared.

"Cool!" Charmy shouted. "That was like a telekinetic Chaos Control thing!"

Rouge crossed her arms and glared at the kid bee.

Charmy made a slight smile, "I mean...not cool."

Shadow grabbed the emerald and ran back to the group. "Even I had to admit that was amazing, Nails."

She blushed and looked deep into his red eyes happily, "You...you thought that was amazing?"

He nodded, "But that doesn't mean I like you. I still think you're an evil slut witch."

Her huge ears flopped down, 'Oh so close to admitting his feelings for me.' She then looked at the Chaos Emerald in his hand. She made a sly look on her face, "You know Shad, that emerald doesn't belong to you." Her eyes glowed and the emerald that was in Shadow's hand had then appeared in hers.

Shadow's eyes widened, 'I knew it! It's a trick! That whore!"

Nails smirked, "No, I'm not saying it belongs to me. It belongs to sweet and innocent Kayla." She threw the emerald over to Kayla and unfortunately she caught it.

Espio gritted his teeth, "What's going on?"

Kayla stared at the red emerald filled with unlimited power. "Oh it's so pretty." Then the emerald had glowed in her hands and for some reason it seemed that it was hurting her. Kayla screamed in pain as she held the emerald tighter in her grip.

"Kayla!" Shadow shouted.

Nails made an evil smile, "I'd better get going." She then held her staff in the air with a black aura coming from it. Soon she disappeared. Though everyone was too shocked about what was going on with Kayla to notice her disappearing.

Shadow ran up to her and tried to take the emerald from her, but he was knocked back to the floor from the power of the Chaos Emerald. While he was on the floor, he looked up at Kayla with her looking back at him with an evil smile. "Kayla?" He called in a weak voice.

The child looked away from him and back at the emerald in her hand, "Finally, I have awoken from darkness."

N/A: Uh oh. Kayla's finally gone psycho. Review please.