Well now, it appears that the old Reploid hasn't lost its touch. I thank arkard once again for reviewing my story. I also thank tigerprime for his/her comments. I hope to get many more. Fi you didn't read that last note I put in one of my previous chapters, Vincent and Shadow are the main characters of this story. The story will from time to time digress to what the other characters are doing but soon enough I will reveal the relationship of Shadow the Hedgehog and Vincent Valentine. Enjoy.

Chapter 4

Vincent lifted himself up. He coughed a couple of times, each cough weakening his arms more and more. His felt hot and he could barely remember what had happened. Viewing his surroundings Vincent found that he was in what appeared to be library of computers. Floppies and CDroms were scattered all over the floor and some of the computer monitor screens had been blown out. There were bullet holes in some of the windows, which appeared to be bullet proof. What was this place, Vincent wondered. His head began to cause Vincent to kneel over from dizziness. The memory of Chaos flying through space entered his mind. He remembered passing out just before reaching the space stations walls. But was it that he got in this room? The windows, he thought. There was something strange about them. One of them was missing. Vincent counted three windows in an organizing row and then found a metal plate that apparently slid from the under the wall keep the pressure stable. He must've crashed through the window. That would explain why the room was in such bad shape. Vincent's attention was caught by a flickering light in a nearby corner. He put a his hand on his gun, Cerberus, and slowly approached the light.

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Shadow panted heavily, he couldn't take these discharges much longer. Well he could but at the same time he couldn't. if only his creator were still alive. He would probably be able to explain the strange behavior his body was undergoing. But sadly, neither his creator nor Maria was alive. He would have to resolve this matter on his own. Shadow dragged himself to a desk and lay upon it. He let his head drop to the side and shut his eyes for second. A strange light could be seen from behind the shade of his eyelids. Shadow opened his eyes to find the large monitor hooked into a wall was shutting on. There was a visual on the screen saying " Please Enter Password."

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Vincent had scene this same technology before. The computer repeated again, "Please Enter Password. The computer's voice, it was a women's voice. And not just any woman it was the voice of Dr. Lucrecia Crescent. Vincent's heart began to ache as the terrible memories swelled in his mind. He reached into his cloak and pulled a red disk. It was one of the G-Report he had found while searching the Shinra manor in his fight with Deepground. He immediately found a port in which the disk could be entered and inserted it. The computer made soft drilling sound letting Vincent know it was processing. There had to be some kind of connection with Lucrecia and this space station. The enter password screen disappeared revealing a list of documents that came from the G-Report. He had scene all of these documents multiple times. But this time something was different. There were four new document highlighted in purple.

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It was strange. The computer had mysterious started up on it's own. Shadow approached the computer and admired the documents labeled G-Report. Could these documents have kind of connection to him? What did it all mean? The bar highlighted G-Report 1 began to scroll down the other programs on its own. Shadow narrowed his eyes with anger. There was someone aboard he Space Colony ARK and there was only one other computer that was connected to the one he stood in front of. Within no time at all, he dashed off into the hall. He came to a halt in front of a door labeled library and placed his hand on the door. The two connected broke apart then stopped and continued to open once more. There standing in front of a computer was a human unlike another. You could almost smell the Chaos energy radiating from his body.

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Vincent's eye was caught by the small black creature that stood before him. It had strong aura of both pure and corrupted Life energy coming from his body. What was this creature. Vincent slowly reached for Cerberus as a precaution.

"Don't even try it," came a deep and dried out voice. Vincent's eyes must have been playing tricks upon him; the black creature from before was gone. He spun around to find that it was standing only a few feet before. This time it was holding a small handgun aimed at Vincent. Vincent showed no signs hesitation as he put his hand back to his side. "What are you doing here?"

Vincent didin't know how to answer. How could explain something so complex? Hi, my home world was destroyed so I decided I'd crash here for a while. I hope you don't mind. No that wasn't going to work.

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"I'll ask again," Shadow fired a round towards one of the human's feet. "What are you doing on the Space Colony ARK."

The human moved one his feet back and put his hand on the desk next to him. He was planning to do something. Without even hesitating, the human swipe his hand across the desk, knocking dusk into Shadow's face. Shadow backed away from the dust and swept his arms around, moving the dust away. Once he opened his eyes, Shadow met a fist to the forehead that knocked him over. He quickly recovered and pointed his gun forward only to find that he too had a gun pointed at him.

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Shadow and Vincent stared at each other for what seemed like hours. Neither of them moved. Vincent flexed the muscles of his right arm and squeezed it into a fist. He swiped his claw through the air only find that Shadow easily evaded it. Shadow countered by firing off a few rounds. Vincent fired a few rounds of his own. The bullets met in midair and fell to the metal ground, melting into one another. Shadow and Vincent gave each other unnoticeable smirks. This was going to be interesting.

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Cloud stood hunched over, grabbing onto the tornado's wing and Tails drew closer and closer to Eggman's fortress. He looked to Sonic who seemed to maintain perfect balance throughout the whole trip. Cloud envied the blue hedgehog and told he would to learn Sonic's technique. "Sonic!" Tails shouted as from the cockpit. "We've got bogies at 12 o'clock. Sonic and Cloud squinted their eyes trying to see through the heavy wind pounding against them. From over the horizon of Eggman's ship came a bundle of small dots which faded into the form flying robots as they drew closer. Cloud clutched the handle on his sword and brought it across the bottom half of his face. He WAS going to get Tifa back.

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Tifa pounded on the cage doors. "Let me out!" she shouted. She pulled back fists and folded her arms. The sound of screws mechanically being undone came from above as a screen folded out of the ceiling. The screen clicked showing the image of Dr. Eggman.

"Will you cut that out?" the evil doctor shouted.

Tifa responded by pulling the bottom half of her right eyelid down and sticking out her tongue. Eggman cursed in frustration. "Fine then. Since you can't seem to behave on your own then I'm going to send you a friend to play with. A slot opened in the side of Tifa's cell. Tifa struck a fighting pose, not knowing what to expect. Within seconds, a small, pink creature came crawling through. It stood up revealing it was obviously a girl. She had on a pink dress and red headband. The pink creature looked about her surrouds in confusion.

"Oh," she said grabbing her head and shaking. "I thought I was out of here for sure."

"Amy Rose," Eggman caught the pink hegdehog's attention. "Meet uh?"

The screen turned back towards Tifa as if waiting for a response. Tifa dropped her fists and scowled at Eggman. "The name's Tifa."

Eggman stared at Tifa for a while and then without saying anything further, the monitor pulled into the ceiling. Amy slowly approached Tifa while looking at the cell. "Wow," she said with awe. "What happened here?"

The room was covered in deep dents and cracks. Deep ones, but not deep enough to break through. "I did," replied as she turned back to the cells bars and pounded her fists against them. With every punch Tifa made the room would shake. Amy stood at Tifa's side, shocked. She had never met anyone, let alone a woman strong enough to do such damage. Not even Knuckles could do such damage to one of Eggman's cells. He could barely break out of a level one cell but this was a level three and a mere human female did enough damage to flatten Knothole Village.

"So how did Eggman get you?" Amy sat against a wall still watching Tifa wail away at the wall. Tifa stopped and looked at her fist.

"It's complicated," Tifa said and continued her assault on the prison bars. She couldn't tell Amy that she was from another world and at the same time she didn't want to lie.

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Eggman rocked back and forth in his chair looking at his new assistant. She was unlike anyone else he had ever met. Her knowledge of computers had far surpassed his own. She could solve equations in the speed an elementary school student could solve on plus one. "Tell me Shelke," the young, orange haired girl stood in front of him. She bore no emotion in her glowing mako eyes. "Tell me more of this world you come from. I am still intrigued by the technology of your home world. How is it that you are able to extract a naturally formed element and make it into a manufactured power source?"

Shelke lifted her head a bit and responded with a question of her own. "Doctor," she started her in her monotone voice. "Are you sure that you didn't find any kind of communication device when you discovered my pod?"

"Why no I did not," Eggman shook his head, lying. Shelke must've had some kind of connection with his new prisoner. He put his hand on gently pulled her along with him. He led her over to a nearby door that automatically slid open. Inside, were the body parts of old robots. All the pieces seemed to be somewhat identical. Eggman led Shelke over to a large test tube that contained a robot. "This is Metal Sonic. I created him for the soul purpose of protecting this planet."

"By placing Metal in the name I assume that this is of many robotic versions of some kind of organic life form," due to her blunt tone of voice, it was difficult to tell if Shelke was asking a question or making a statement.

"Correct,"Eggman slapped her gently of the shoulder. " I just recently downloaded all the information I have into your chair."

"What does all this have to do with me?"

"Simple my dear," Eggman guided Shelke out of the room.

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That's number four. Please review.