"They...they got away from me sir." Emma stated shamefully. A dark reddish male stood before her. "You haven't ever failed me before 0002. If you fail me again, you will be punished severly." A long red snake like energy beam hit her hard. "Don't forget... I'm the only thing standing between you, and being dead." "It's not my fault that I failed!" Emma shouted. "It was the traitor." The mirror next to them exploded.

"WHAT!" The male shouted. "She helped the targets escape." Emma looked intent on blaming everything on the traitor. "0003, you make sure that 0002 is telling the truth. You will probably find her somewhere high in the cliffs." A brown and green wolf nodded at the male and disappeared. "0002, go and destroy the targets, if you fail me again, don't bother to come back. I will kill you eventually." Emma swallowed hard and nodded.

CLIFFHANGER!

The emerald was almost darker than ever now. It wouldn't be long now til it's completely drained of power. The master emerald wasn't doing any better. "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THIS THING?" Knuckles was next to pounding on the huge jewel. "I don't think it's the jewel hun." Rouge said. They both stared at the now darker green emerald.

BUM BUM BUM!

Shadow held on to Amy as best as he could without squeezing her to death. Chaos controlling was easy for Shadow, but Amy started paling after the trip ended. She stood up and ran into some nearby bushes. Shadow looked at his emerald. Almost gray-ish green was it's color now. He heard a sickened muffled voice, then things pouring out and barfing noises. Great, she got dizzy on the way. When she came back out of the bushes, more color had returned to her beautiful face. Wait... beautiful? What am I thinking? "Sorry about that Shadow. I'm not really used to chaos control yet."

She pulled out a breath mint and popped in her mouth. "So... where to?" Shadow thought a while. He really hadn't thought past going to eggman's old base. They needed a place to stay, it was getting dark. They walked silently through the dense forest until they found an empty cave. "Let's use this tonight. We'll leave early in the morning." Shadow built a fire while Amy brought back sticks and hunks of wood she can find.

They huddled near the fire as the sun finally left the sky. It was freezing and the fire wasn't making much of a difference. Shadow noticed this as Amy shivered. Quietly, he put her in his lap and held onto her. The extra body warmth made them warmer before Amy could realize what he was doing. Her red heated face they could both feel. Feeling bold, she leaned back a bit on him and he settled his chin on her shoulder. They both had heat coming from their faces, but Amy wasn't able to see the slight pink on his tanned muzzle.

When she nodded off, Shadow swallowed and inspected the rose hedgehog in his lap. Her pink curls framed her pretty face. There was still a pink glint on her cheeks and she was still very warm. She's really pretty... when she's not lashing out that hammer or chasing after Sonic. He held onto her a bit tighter and fell asleep.

The next morning

Amy woke up to the rushing wind in her face as Shadow carried her bridal style through the forest. She snuggled into the white patch of fur on his chest to tell him she was awake. He smiled slightly and continued on to the city. Unknowingly, they were being followed by a dark shadow in the clouds above.