>>>This is Master Tananh. This chapter you will find out what Eggman did with Shadow. I have also added a short little boss battle for Tails before the main bad guy shows up. Read on.

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Chapter 2: Home Invasion

I flew through the sky. The leader of the pack. My name is… Well, I don't have a name. Names are not important. Just purposes. My purpose was to serve my master. My master had mutated many animals into machines to do his will. We were all flying through the sky. Heading toward our location.

My master has ordered me to take command of an attack against this house. We were to destroy it and anyone who would get in our way. I will not fail him. No one can stop me.

We landed surrounding the house. It was a common two story house. I waved my hand signaling the first group. They were to enter the house and take out anyone and anything inside. The second wave was to destroy the house after the interior was taken out.

Sonic

I sat in my room upstairs laughing at Tails' joke. It was kind of lame, but I laughed anyway just to make him feel good. It had been nearly two months since Shadow's fall. I thought about it often nowadays, reliving that moment when he fell and I didn't bother to save him. It haunted me to this day and I knew it always would.. Suddenly, Tails' ears perked up. "Did you hear that?" he asked. I shook my head and listened hard.

I heard some crashing noises downstairs. Like someone was ransacking the house.

"Let's check it out!" I said. We ran downstairs and saw it. All kinds of robot freaks tearing up my living room! This was unusual since I'm usually the one going to Eggman's crib to tear his place up. Talk about a role reversal.

"What do you guys think you're doing?" I screamed, "Let's get em Tails!" It didn't take long to take them out. A couple of kicks here, a few homing attacks there and presto! A bunch of innocent little animals standing in the middle of a bunch of metal and gizmos.

Something was wrong. It was taking to long! I flew into the house.

There was a blue hedgehog and a deformed fox standing among my master's now freed slaves. It was time for Plan B. Personally destroy them.

Sonic

I looked at this new threat. He had silver plating all over his body. His fingers ended in holes. He also had glowing red eyes. It reminded me of someone.

Shadow! It could be no one else! Eggman must have mutated him into one of his slaves! Then he must be alive under there! Of course I had a feeling this wasn't going to be easy.

"Metal Shadow" looked pretty peeved. "Shadow? Is it you?" Tails asked. Metal Shadow looked at him. He pointed a finger at Tails. A rocket emerged from one of the holes. "Tails watch out!" I cried.

SHOOM! KABOOM!

Tails had jumped out of the way just in time. I looked through the hole in my wall. My eyes widened. There were about twenty robots out there, two of which looked pretty nasty. I looked at Metal Shadow. He waved his hand and the army sprang to life.

We were suddenly under fire! My house was being ripped to pieces. "Tails! Take out that army before there's nothing left!" Tails flew out of the hole without question. I hated asking him to do stuff by himself. I hoped he'd be all right. Unfortunately, the army was attacking above the hole so I couldn't see how he was doing. I looked over to Metal Shadow. "All right," I said, "let's do this!"

He leaped toward me. I jumped. He turned around and shot a few rockets. I dodged them pretty easily. I tried a homing attack on him, but right before impact I found myself flying the opposite direction. I landed on my back. "What the-" I said as I got back up. I looked up.

Metal Shadow was standing there with some kind of energy shield surrounding him. This is going to be harder than I thought. I hit him with everything in my arsenal. It just bounced off.

Finally, he moved. Up until now he had just stood there letting me attack. He kicked me right in the jaw. I hadn't expected it and I landed on my back. He knocked me all over the place. Every time I tried to get up or counterattack he would just knock me down again. I knew I had to get out of here. I started to get up again for an escape, or at least so we could fight outside where I had room to maneuver when suddenly everything went dark.

Metal Shadow

The hedgehog was no longer a threat. I had knocked him out cold. I was to destroy anyone who got in the way. He was no longer in the way. I focused now on the deformed fox. He was apparently using his tails to fly. He is destroying my master's fleet. He is endangering the mission. He must be destroyed.

Tails

I tore another robot to pieces. I was confused. Why was Eggman attacking Sonic's house? How did Shadow survive? And how did Eggman get a hold of him? I didn't want to ask questions right then, though. I just did what Sonic asked me. Kick some robot butt!

I looked at the two robots who seemed to be the leaders. They were humanoid shaped and had long plasma swords protruding out of one hand and a machine gun for the other. This was going to be tough.

I raced up toward them, swerving left to right to avoid the incoming bullets. I got to the first one but stopped short and looped under him, dodging a horizontal swipe from his sword. I performed a Homing Attack on his head and backed away a little to dodge its next sword swipe. Suddenly it charged at me slashing madly, forcing me to back away to keep from getting sliced into tiny pieces.

I heard jets behind me and I cursed myself for allowing it to maneuver me into such a vulnerable position. I turned around completely to face the other humanoid robot who had sneaked up behind me. I put on a burst of speed which surprised it as it was apparently going to use its machine guns and didn't have its sword in a defensive position.

I hit it hard and did a tricky little judo move that threw him into it's still-slashing companion. I smirked as they both impaled each other on their swords. Oldest trick in the book.

I looked at the house. Metal Shadow flew out of the hole using built-in jets in his shoes. He was heading straight for me! Where was Sonic? Was he… No! He's fine! But how am I supposed to beat this guy?

He called off what was left of the army, which was only about four little minions. He apparently wanted to deal with me himself. I saw he had a shield surrounding him. This was a problem. But I had an advantage Sonic didn't. Sonic probably got beat because of that shield and because he didn't have room to maneuver. I did.

I tried all my attacks on him, but everything just bounced off. I thought of escaping, but Sonic is still in that house! I couldn't just leave him! All I can do now is dodge whatever he threw at me and look for a weakness.

"All right! Come and get me!" I taunted. Though I didn't really feel as brave as I sounded.

Metal Shadow

The fox taunted me. He was trying to be brave. Though he looked confident, my sensors indicated his heart was racing. He wanted me to attack him? He would regret it.

I quickly rolled up into a ball and shot at him. He obviously wasn't expecting this because I plowed right into him. I stayed in a ball and came around for another pass, but he dodged it. I tried a few more times but he now knew what was coming. I uncurled.

What to do next? Rockets wouldn't do much. They seem to be able to dodge those. I have many moves that could probably get the job done, but I want this done fast. I prepared for my most advanced move. My master said this was a dangerous move for me to do and he said there might be a few side effects.

All of my power was being converted into my hands. My shield lowered and everything was shut off for a brief second.

Where am I? Why am I surrounded by metal? Who has done this to me, the ultimate life form, Shadow? I will find out.

Suddenly I was back. My master said there would be side effects, but I didn't expect what had happened. Oh well. It had worked. In my hands was a little ball of energy. This would take care of him.

Tails

What happened? One second he was just hovering there, cupping his hands. The next he seemed to totally shut down. His eyes had stopped glowing, his shield went down and his jets turned off for just a second. Now he was hovering as before. What was he planning? I saw the energy ball in his hands. I prepared to dodge as he moved to launch it.

"Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhh!" I screamed. The pain was intolerable. Had he already launched the energy ball? All I could do was wonder what had happened as I passed out ten stories above the ground.

>>>This is Master Tananh. How will Sonic defeat Metal Shadow? Will Tails survive the five story drop to the ground? Find out next time. Knuckles will join the plot next chapter. And Rouge will be thrown into the fray eventually. Please review and tell me how awesome it was.