MTF: Hey peoples! For those of you who read this story, I'm sorry! Due to the fact this story is based off 'Blood Fire' Angelic Puppy's Shadow the Hedgehog story, I had to wait for her chapters to come out first.

Sonic: You still could've worked faster, like I do!

MTF: Yes Sonic, because this story isn't long and slow. You run fast not work fast.

Sonic: -_-*

MTF: I do not own any hedgehogs, nor do I own any dragon-like aliens. I do own Sonic's side of the plot for the story.

"We shall meet again Shadow. Next time it will be on the battlefield. A star will die when we meet and the fate of a planet lies in the hands of the winner. What are you willing to sacrifice? Are you ready to give your life? We shall see how deep your mercy and your courage run star creature."

With those words, Lirias leapt out the window, wings spread wide.

I felt a sudden, massive wave of chaos energy, and the room spun wildly. Knuckles had tried using Lirias as a distraction to turn the Chaos Emeralds into the Super emeralds, but his timing was off. I sat down rather clumsily, Amy rushing to my side, and closed my eyes.

I tried to focus on absorbing the fresh, overbearing energy that pulsated throughout the room. Karo was asking Shadow a question so he didn't notice the burst of energy. My head started clearing as Knuckles stood up, a wide grin spreading across his face.

"Anybody for some bowling?" Knuckles asked.

"Hmmph, are we gonna need bumpers?" Shadow asked watching the creatures outside retreat.

"I think that depends on the kind of bowling balls we're going to use." I said, going with the joke.

"You boys and your metaphors, why can't you three just talk like normal people?" Mari said.

Shadow's ears twitched in irritation, but he kept his comments to himself. Karo chirped, nudging the ebony hedgehog for his attention, which he received.

"Daddy say it Clarostra right?" Karo asked.

"Yes, he did. Why do you ask?" Shadow responded, his ears sweeping back in suspicion.

"I hear. He coming for you."

A loud ear-splitting roar rang out across the plain that was the city. It was such a sharp noise, we all groaned in pain due to our enhanced hearing.

My first thought was 'WTF', my second thought came after another peal of agony rang out in the hall. All these injured people were sitting ducks and that f****ing bastard of a giant gecko was coming straight for us. But I couldn't really believe it, how could that thing know we were here? A heavy vibration rang through the floor, and I saw the big hulking dragon coming for the hospital.

"That thing is coming here?!" I said franticly jumping up to stand by Shadow at the window.

For a brief minute Shadow and I watched the hulking figure as it lumbered towards the hospital.

"Well I hope you guys are ready for a fight because he is." Shadow said quietly.

I felt the others watching us, and turned to face them. Knuckles gathered the newly created Super emeralds together to the center of the floor.

"Who's ready to go Hyper?" he asked holding up one of them.

The power coursing from the emerald was practically visible to me, and to say the least it was distracting. I hadn't even really noticed that Shadow had grabbed one, until Amy touched my shoulder.

Shadow was examining the emerald closely, noticing how each glowed a darker color than in their normal states, and the level of power they were putting out. Amy shook me again, snapping me out of my stupor.

"They're different." Shadow said stupidly

"Hmmph, I'm no slowpoke. You are holding a Super Emerald. You and Sonic are so easily distracted I could've gone Hyper by now and you would just be noticing. I'm a guardian, a pro." Knuckles said smugly.

I grinned sheepishly since I had just proven his statement true. Amy sighed and pushed me closer to the emeralds. I looked over the stones, the energy pulsing through me in waves. I started to panic a little. How was I supposed to control this? Knuckles voice burst through my thoughts, his voice loud and urging.

"Sonic, why don't you try going Hyper? Now's a better time than ever, what with Godzilla coming for us." Knuckles said.

I nodded stiffly, still slightly panicked. How would Shadow react to the change? Would he even give up the emerald he had in his hand? I eyed my dark twin seriously and walked over to him, holding my hand out for the emerald.

A loud roar caused me to stop briefly, before reaching for the emerald. It pulsed between us, the power resonating between our two forms. To my relief he handed me the emerald, and I stepped away closing my eyes.

I took a deep breath; all these people were counting on this to work. I concentrated on the energy in the room, feeling the chaos energy course through my body. My muscles tensed, my skin tingled, and I could feel my spines turning upward.

The emeralds glowed and swirled around me like usual, each flash becoming brighter. My quills were twitching, not quite upturned and my skin felt like it was on fire. I started floating along with the emeralds, and I felt like I was being shocked.

I curled up some, trying to ease the electric sensation. The emeralds flashed almost blindingly now and I felt a surge of power building up. This was a normal reaction, but the power was so much heavier, thicker than if I was super. My fur was gold, but that wasn't right, it was supposed to match the emeralds. I took in more power, my body getting heavier with it. My quills still weren't quite upturned, but that would be fixed.

The emeralds flashed again releasing more energy, the light they emitted getting brighter and more blinding. I uncurled, practically forcing the extra energy back into the room, my quills shot perfectly upward, and my fur started changing colors rapidly to match the chaos emeralds. Knuckles shoved Shadow over towards me, looking serious.

"We've no time to waste. Start glowing, I'll join ya it seems like fun." Knuckles said sarcasm evident despite his serious expression.

Shadow nodded stiffly, and began powering up, the emeralds glowing in unison again. Shadow appeared a silvery-white, his stripes actually changing color instead of his whole self like I was. Knuckles quickly powered up, turning orange, of all colors, which changed the emeralds into their weakened gray colored states.

A back draft pounded the wall as Shadow shot out the busted window at top speed, Knuckles and I looked at each other and followed Shadow. The three of us flew past Clarostra, who roared and blundered after us. The giant lizard was very speedy, and Shadow watched as he followed us away from the hospital.

"Shadow, what are we gonna do about Godzilla back there?" I yelled over the roaring wind.

His ears twitched, not quite hearing what I said. I rolled my eyes and flew closer to him so that he could hear me.

"What was that Sonic?" Shadow asked me.

"I said we need a plan to kill that Godzilla monster!"

"I've got an idea! Let's knock the only remaining skyscraper on him." Knuckles said, pointing to a forty-story building.

The building was one of the few still standing among the wreckage of the city. How the hell had that thing survived? Shadow and I spun around to face the oncoming group of flying aliens, while Knuckles went around the back of the building, fending off some ground forces at the same time. I nearly got clipped by one of the fliers, whose partner was heading to jump Shadow from behind.

"Look Out!" I yelled, nailing another creature with my Axe Kick.

They were trying to overwhelm us with sheer numbers, and it was mostly working. Clarostra's powerful roar distracted all of us for a brief moment. The giant dragon was in the perfect place to be hit by a conveniently falling building, so I charged him, hit him in the face with my Homing Attack. I dodged Shadow's Chaos Lance, but got baseballed by Clarostra's wing into a group of his flying cronies.

A sharp metallic crunching and ripping sound rang through the air, and I looked down to see Knuckles getting the building to lift. I burst past a few of the lizards and charged their oversized boss.

I used Clarostra's head as a dance floor, fending off the smaller lizards and annoying the crap out of Clarostra. He swatted at me like a fly, knocking away some of his buddies in the process.

"Knuckles could ya hurry up? I'm getting bum-rushed over here!" I shouted from the other side of the building. I dodged a glob of Clarostra's acrid spit, which splashed a boulder, the surface sizzling.

"I'm getting spit at too!" I shouted desperately.

Knuckles grunted under the weight of the building before answering.

"You wanna come over and do this?!" he asked gruffly. "I'M TRYING TO LIFT A BUILDING!! Leave me alone!" he shouted annoyed.

A loud metal groan cleared the air, stopping everything as everyone watched the top twenty stories of the building careen towards the ground-right on top of Clarostra. This gave Knuckles enough give away to lift the rest of the building, so he practically threw it at the now enraged and injured Godzilla wannabe.

A huge cloud of dust kicked up, covering the whole area, and settling quickly. The lizards watched the rubble with the three of us, waiting for any kind of reaction from the rubble.

The giant tail (which I still remembered had serious power) reacted first, swinging into Knuckles like a crane, a loud bone crunching crack echoing as Knuckles went flying. He crashed into a two-story school, demolishing it in a cloud of dust.

I ran to help Knuckles as Clarostra was getting up, when I felt the powerful whip-like tail across my back. I yelped, the burst of pain nearly blinding me as I slammed face first into the dirt. It took me a minute to recover; the blow had been so unexpected that I'd quite literally been floored.

When I finally got myself together, I found Knuckles digging himself out of the only standing classroom. I helped him up, he was thoroughly dazed and his fur was the magenta color of his Super form.

As we walked back, we heard a blood-curdling scream coming from the sky, and Knuckles and I watched in horror as Shadow-covered in acid- was slammed into the ground by Clarostra's massive black tail.

"Shit, I hope he's alright," Knuckles said worriedly. I just nodded and pulled Knuckles along again.

Carrying Knuckles wasn't quite so difficult, but I was tired and hurting. I could feel a drag on my body, the energy of Hyper fading as we flew to meet Shadow. Clarostra was in a pain driven rage, and he was flailing all over the place.

We dodged his wild swings, until I heard a loud sharp whistling coming straight for us. I turned just as we were caught by a massive block of concrete, which dragged us towards the earth miles below.

Knuckles smashed the block in half, but a rain of concrete started just then. I knew if I didn't act quickly, we would both die buried under the rubble. Knuckles had Rouge and I had Amy, there was no way in hell I was going to just let us die.

I focused my energy and forced it out into a force field around the two of us, forming a rainbow colored bubble. Knuckles concentrated the last of his energy onto the bubble, allowing me full access to my own. We hit the ground, but I ignored it focusing on the rubble that still rained down on us, smashing the bubble horridly.

"Knuckles! Grab my quills and brace yourself!" I yelled behind me. I felt his rough fist wrap around my top quill, as the bubble blinked itself away.

I used Chaos Control just as a huge black foot came crashing into the rubble overtop of us.

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The hospital was almost a hundred and fifty miles from where we had actually started fighting, and while it was easy to fly there when healthy, it is highly exhausting teleporting two living beings across that distance in a weakened state. I actually moved Knuckles into the room where the rest of our family waited anxiously, but I could not say the same for myself.

I appeared over the hospital's garden, now in ruin, using the last of my strength to put Knuckles in the room. I could feel my quills trying to stay upturned an effect that, combined with my fur flashing between blue and gold, signaled I'd exhausted all my power. I felt battered, bruised, and my fur was ragged and caked with dirt and dust.

I sighed and closed my eyes, hoping Shadow was okay. I heard several people calling my name, and I realized I wasn't floating anymore. I was sprawled across a bed of crushed flowers, their faint fragrance tickling my nose. I was so exhausted I hadn't even realized I fell.

Amy's gentle hands rubbed the back of my head, directly under my top quill, the way I liked. Her voice was muffled, but I could tell she was trying to talk to me. I tried sitting up, but I don't think I did more than twitch. I tried again, being a little more successful this time, and put my head in Amy's lap. Being closer made it easier to hear her, it sounded like she was talking to Knuckles or someone.

"Sonic, can you hear me?"

I twitched at the sound of my name, and turned my head to look up at my girl. I gave my best cheese, getting a chuckle out of her. The exact reaction I needed to feel better.

Suddenly, I felt a burst of powerful chaos energy, one that created a wave of rushing air. It filled me with energy, and I realized where it had come from. I jumped up, nearly falling over again, and ran to the end of the garden.

"S-Sonic! What's wrong?" I heard Amy yell.

I focused on the wind, sensing the energy of Shadow's Chaos Blast. The wind was getting stronger, and my skin tingled with the energy, which was quickly turning to a shock. That's when it hit me. The blast was coming towards the hospital!

"Amy, get inside now!" I said running back towards the tattered building.

I snatched her up before she could respond and took her inside, just as a gale busted the first floor windows. I created another bubble shield, the glass shards bouncing harmlessly off it. I raced upstairs, still holding onto Amy and entered the room where the others were.

"Stay here, I gotta go back outside" I said racing back out the door.

The gale was even stronger now, and I saw an insanely bright red flash as Shadow let loose his Chaos Blast. Knuckles grabbed my quills and shoved a Chaos emerald into my hands.

"That blast is spreading fast; if we don't hurry we'll all die!" Knuckles shouted over the wind.

I nodded and changed to my Super form. It was highly difficult despite the chaos energy blowing around us especially because the emeralds were already exhausted more than normal. As I powered up, the emeralds developed long jagged cracks across the tops and sides. Knuckles was also Super, which explained why the cracks in the emeralds were so large.

Knuckles climbed up the side of the hospital to the roof while I stayed in front of the building. The two of us created huge dome shields around the hospital, which also shielded the houses and small offices behind the hospital.

The dome of energy from the Chaos Blast crashed into our shield like a train. I could feel the energy draining out of me as I held the blast back; I knew Knuckles was probably having a harder time since he'd been hurt worse. The blast broke apart in a burst, dragging the shield down with it and knocking me out cold.