Want will happen now? Read and review and find out! Note: if you don't like, DON'T READ! To my haters-that's nice. I just realized now that I was spelling Scourge's name wrong, I apologize and I will from now on write his name right.

June 30th, Noon

The Freedom Fighters were at the place where the vortex opened. They waited impatiently for the vortex to appear again so they could enter. Shadow was the most anxious, as soon as he found them he would strangle Scourge like a madman. Shadow paced back and forth, he couldn't stand around and wait he had to move. Suddenly everyone felt something, the place where the vortex was appeared but not like the way it was the night before. It grew and grew until it turned into a large area, the dimension that Scourge took Starr to. Everything felt weird, almost like floating but they were standing on solid ground still.

"Scourge!" Shadow yelled out in the open, not knowing where to yell. "Come out now! Face me like a man!"

Suddenly black fumes filled the air and started to swirl in one spot in front of the group. Eventually the smoke cleared and two hedgehogs emerged out. One was Scourge in his Super form, the other was an older female hedgehog, one the others didn't recognize. Everyone was in a defensive position, ready to attack the duo.

"Well," Scourge said. "Aren't you going to say hello to your old friend?"

Shadow, who was up front, looked more closely and saw something familiar to this new hedgehog. He widened his eyes, knowing the answer but asked anyway.

"Starr?" The others gasped when they realized that it was Starr.

"I use to be called that," she said, her voice was different. "Now soon I shall take my place and be Queen with King Scourge by my side."

Everyone was in shock, especially Shadow. Starr would never say anything like that.

"Starr what happened to you?" Shadow asked heart-broken.

"Simple," Scourge said. "She answered her calling. She knew that this would happen and she never told you, did she?" Shadow was speechless, Starr kept secrets but this was the biggest and she never told him.

"Starr why didn't you tell me?" Shadow yelled at the dark woman.

"Maybe she didn't want to hurt you? Can't say the same for myself though. And to prove it..." She looked at the group and saw Tails on his own. She raised her arm and a bright light came out, hitting Tails in his torso. It quickly went through him as he fell to the ground, something shiny was glowing above his body and it floated towards Lady Doom. She grabbed it and everyone saw that it was a Chaos Emerald, the Yellow Chaos Emerald. By now, Sonic had gone over to check on his small friend. He shook him but the fox didn't move.

"You killed him," Sonic said. "Why did you kill him?!"

"I needed his Chaos Emerald," Lady Doom replied. "Those who saw a bright, warm light had Chaos Emeralds put inside you. They needed energy so they went inside to gather it from you, all while feeding you your best traits. This is the only way to extract them and everyone here, with the exception of Shadow, has one inside them. So who's next?"

"You won't get away with this Scourge!" Knuckles yelled.

"I think it's time for these puppets to have their strings cut," Scrouge said to his companion. "What do you think?"

Lady Doom raised her hands to the Freedom Fighters and thick smoke surrounded them. Gasps were heard at the sudden blindness. Two bright lights were seen though the smoke and When it cleared, Knuckles and Rouge were on the ground dead. Lady Doom was giving Scrouge the Red and Green Chaos Emeralds. Starr and Blaze went over to their dead friends and tired to wake them up but they had to luck.

"You're too late," Lady Doom said. "Soon I'll have all the Emeralds and-"

Lady Doom was interrupted by her own pain. She bent over, straining from the tearing pain that was inside of her. She was inhaling sharply as something was happening inside her. The sound of her breathing was different now, less mature and girlish. She looked up and saw Shadow standing there, along with Sonic, Amy, Silver and Blaze staring at her.

"Shadow?" She said in a younger voice. Shadow recognized the voice instantly and ran over to her and hugged her.

"Starr! Oh Starr,I thought I'd never see you again!"

"Shadow you have to stop me! I already killed three of our friends!"

"It's not you! Fight it!"

Starr was wincing again as she felt something cold sweep through her chest, then her demeanour changed. She threw Shadow back towards the group, luckily they caught him. Starr had been taken over by Lady Doom again.

"Foolish hedgehog," the wicked lady said. "Thinking that ignorant girl would take over me!"

"Starr snap out of it!" Shadow yelled at the female, trying to speak to Starr.

"QUIET!" She threw another one of her Death Lances at Shadow, still a little stunned at how hard she threw him, he didn't move fast enough. Luckily Amy was fast enough with her recent air ability and pushed Shadow out of the way, unfortunately the Lance hit her and the Cyan Chaos Emerald came out of her and killed her.

"Amy!" Sonic yelled as he rang over to her. He picked her limp corpse up and held her tight, and wept, while the Emerald floated over to Lady Doom and Scourge.

"Four down," Scrouge said. "Three to go."

"That's it!" Blaze said firmly. "I don't care if she was our friend, we have to fight and we have to fight now!"

"I'm with you Blaze," Silver said as he walked by her side. Sonic pulled himself together and lifted himself off of the floor and joined the cat and hedgehog. Shadow was still convinced that Starr was in Lady Doom and that she could be saved. Sonic distracted Lady Doom by using simple attacks, allowing the others to attack Scourge.

Blaze opened fire, literally, at the evil hedgehogs, she ran fast with her entire body ablaze ready to attack. Only feet away, she was knocked to the side and she fell hard on the floor. She thought she was attacked but she looked and saw Shadow on top of her, wincing at the slight burns he got from her body.

"Shadow why did you do that?!" Blaze yelled at him.

"I won't let you hurt Starr!"

"She's not Starr anymore! She's gone."

Shadow could only shake his head in doubt while Blaze picked herself up off the floor. Angry like the fire inside her, she stared at the enemies. Lady Doom smirked at the small group.

"Why thank you Shadow," she said. "You just helped us get one step closer to power."

"This is a tough group," Scourge said to his lady. "I'll butter them up for you, darling."

Scourge flew fast to the group and threw himself right into Sonic, throwing them both in the ground. Sonic grunted with the sudden pain that was thrown against his body. Scourge was throwing fists into Sonic enjoying the fact that he was stronger than his victim. Scourge was laughing a satisfied laugh with every blow that he was giving. Silver jumped on Scourge and tried to stop the beating Sonic was getting by throwing his attacker off of him. But Scourge was too powerful and he threw his arm against Silver which made Silver fly across the air. Silver hit his head which knocked him unconscious.

After Scourge was done beating up Sonic, who was bruised everywhere and bleeding from his mouth, nose and other parts where the skin was broken, he left him there to wilt. Scourge flew over to Blaze and pinned her against the floor. Silver was still knocked out so he couldn't help her, even with her cries to wake Silver. Scourge nuzzled her neck as she sighed in disgust.

"Not like Silver," he said. "Better aren't I?"

"What are you talking about?" Blaze said having a feeling on what he was talking about.

"You know, that day in the boiler room? I heard that it was quite the make out session," Blaze had a look of shock on her face. "How did I know about that? For so long Doom Mist has been inside of her and he knew everything she went through this year. Even when that emo hedgehog was kissing her, but she knows that I was better."

Scourge turned his head to give Shadow a lecherous look. Shadow was being overwhelmed by one emotion after another: shock, betrayal, hatred, heartbroken. With everything he had inside him, he threw himself on the powerful hedgehog, knocking him off Blaze, and landed on top of him. Not even having a right grip, Shadow grabbed Scourge and started punching him senseless. One blow after another, Shadow released every ounce of emotion on the villainous hedgehog.

With his fist in the air, Shadow swung his arm at Scourge. But the punch never reached Scourge, instead Shadow let go of his fist and used his hands to grab whatever was squeezing his throat. He was turned around in the restraint and saw that Lady Doom was using her hand to grab his throat to take him off of Scourge. She squeezed tighter and tighter and Shadow tried to fight her to let him go.

"No one hurts my King," she said holding securely to Shadow's throat. Sonic was trying to pick himself up after she had thrown him to get to Shadow.

"No one hurts my friends!" Cried a voice; it was Silver. He had woken up from his unconsciousness and used his telekinesis to knock Lady Doom back, letting go of her victim. Shadow gasped for air and he saw Blaze join Silver in the fight against Lady Doom. Blaze turned herself into a pillar of fire while Silver used melee attacks to distract the dark mistress while Sonic and Shadow used their efforts to attack Scourge.

Sonic and Shadow used their homing and spin attacks on Scourge but, because he was a hedgehog too, he was their match. Using the powers of darkness that were in his blood now, Scourge sent two sharp, black clouds at the heroes. It surrounded them and started to absorb their life energy. They screamed at the pain, growing weaker with every passing second. Shadow, who seemed to have more will power, was able to destroy his black cloud and managed to get Sonic out of his. Sonic was leaning on Shadow to get his strength back when they saw a bright light. They turned their heads and saw Silver and Blaze dead; Lady Doom was holding the Emeralds that they had in them: the Purple and White ones. Six of the seven Chaos Emeralds were floating around Scourge. He joined his accomplice's side and laughed at the remaining two hedgehogs.

"One more," Scourge callously. "Finish him off now."

Lady Doom raised her hand and blasted her Death Lance but Sonic was too quick and managed to dodge sudden death. He could feel himself getting weaker, his speed wasn't top notch, not with Super Scourge having the upper hand. After several misses, Lady Doom was using both her arms to try and hit the blue blur. She knew Sonic was getting tired so she kept her attacks up. Out of breath and ready to collapse, Sonic got an idea; if the last Emerald was inside him and his heart was a true here's heart...

He stood still, using his knees to hold himself up. He took one final deep breath and stood up tall and proud. He took a step forward towards the corrupt hedgehogs and said, "go ahead. Take your best shot."

Shadow, who was behind Sonic, grabbed his arm shocked to see his blue friend surrender so easily.

"What are you doing?" He asked concerned and scared.

"Saving Starr," Sonic said turned his head to Shadow. He leaned in to Shadow's ear to whisper. "If her energy level gets overpowered by my Emerald, that's when you make your move and save her."

"But I don't know how to save her!"

"Tell her what she needs to hear."

Shadow was confused as Sonic slipped out of Shadow's grip and took another step away from his black friend and towards his fate. With a single tear rolling down his cheek, Sonic the Hedgehog raised his arms to his side, as if he was ready to hug someone, and sighed. He took a deep breath and said, "I'm ready."

Holding his breath, he saw Lady Doom raise he arm at him and produce the Death Lance. It came towards him and it hit his body hard and painfully. He gasped at the pain, seeing his life flash before his eyes, and he collapsed on the floor dead.

"Sonic!" Shadow yelled, which was the last thing Sonic heard before he died. Shadow ran to the blue hedgehog but he was already gone. Shadow could feel himself shake, he looked up and saw the Blue Chaos Emerald floating over the corpse. Shadow took the Emerald and held it close to his chest, it was warm and loving. He heard Amy's laughing and her having a conversation with Sonic. He closed his eyes so he could hear better.

"Amy," Sonic said to his girlfriend. "I need to tell you something, something important."

"What is it?"

"I love you. I loved you so much."

Shadow opened his eyes and realized what he had to do to save Starr. He didn't even realize that Lady Doom was hovering over him, waiting for him to give the Emerald to her.

"Are you going to give me that Emerald willingly?" She asked. He was on his knees looking at her with sincere eyes.

"Here," he simply said.

He gently held out the Emerald to Lady Doom and she touched it ready to rip it out of his hands. As soon as she touched the Emerald, the precious gem produced a bright, blue light blinding both the hedgehogs touching it. A strange, pure energy went through Lady Doom; she was trying to fight the goodness but she screamed at the force flowing through her.

"Shadow?" Starr was back. "What's happening?"

"I'm here Starr, but I need to tell you something," he took her face in his hands and made her look straight in his eyes. "Starr the Hedgehog, I love you! I love you so much. I was a coward to not tell you before. I'm sorry, I'm so sorry!"

Starr was fighting Lady Doom who was trying to regain control again. She groaned in pain, feeling the negative energy still flowing through her veins stronger than ever. She started a self-battle for control over her own body.

"This is MY body now! You listen to ME now!"

"No I won't! I won't let evil take me over! Not anymore!"

"You don't have a choice! YOU accepted ME remember? Now comply or obliterate yourself!"

"No!" Starr felt like she was losing when she looked up and saw what she needed the most. "I have people I care about and they love me, something you'll never know!"

Lady Doom screamed as she felt the light of goodness enter her. The female hedgehog turned into a pillar of light, blinding both the good and bad males. Shadow had hoped that he had done right and freed his love. When the light cleared, they saw the figure of Lady Doom laying still on the floor. Shadow went over to her and moved her to where she was on her back. He brushed her long bangs out of her face to see her eyes fluttering open. He looked right in them and started to cry with joy; her eyes were the innocent ones that he had met that first time when Scourge was on her.

"Starr?" He tenderly asked her. She groaned softly as her eyes completely opened up.

"Shadow?" She whispered.

"It is you. Oh Starr!" He wrapped his arms around her and held her tighter than he had ever done before. She squeezed him back with love as she whispered in his ear, "you do love."

Scourge was in the background growling to see that he was out one partner and one Emerald. The tow ebony hedgehogs sweetly together again made him sick to his stomach.

"Lady Doom," he yelled at the pair. "Give me that Emerald."

"Lady Doom is dead!" Starr yelled at him.

"She's not the only one!" Scourge threw his arm at them and made a Death Lance; it was aimed right at Shadow! Quick thinking and still having the powers of darkness in her, Starr pushed Shadow out of the way, causing him to fall on his back, and she shielded him on he knees. The Death Lance hit Starr right in her back, her eyes were full of heartache as she stared at her love, Shadow could only stare in agony as Starr was dying in front of him. Once Scourge stopped the Lance, Starr froze for a long second then she fell into Shadow's arms. He had gotten up when she was ready to fall face down. He cradled her dying body saying, "no, no Starr. Stay with me! Stay with me!"

Starr put her hand on Shadow's cheek, trying to comfort him; he held it as gently as he could without breaking down in front her. She pulled her head to his face so he pulled his ear to her mouth.

"It's okay Shadow. You can let me go now. Thank you for saying it to me."

She let her life go as her hand slipped out of Shadow's and it fell on the ground. The life in her eyes had left as dead eyes stared at Shadow; he cradled her, crying like a baby saying, "I love you," over and over again. Then her body was disappearing from foot to head, she disappeared into tiny particles that floated into the air. Shadow was trying to grab the last of the dust that blew away from him. He was left there cradling himself in pain and agony of being alone again.

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