Chapter 5: The Flames That Lie Within Part 2
"SHADES, WAKE UP!" Sonic yells.
Shades opens his eyes.
He sees everyone standing over him. The Chaotix, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Shadow, Cream, Vanilla, and even Big is worried!
"Ok, so, when's the party gonna start?" Shades says sitting up.
"There's a problem with the Black Comet," Shadow says.
"Ok, I thought you destroyed it," Shades says.
"Well...that's the problem. The pieces need to go somewhere, don't they?" Shadow says.
"You mean..." Shades says with fear growing in his voice.
"The biggest chunk is coming our way! I saw it during my meteor watching! We need to find the emeralds, but only you can destroy it completely!" Tails says.
"How much time do we have left?" Shades asks.
"About 45 hours," Espio says.
"Well, you're gonna have to explain to me how I can help." Shades says to Tails.
Tails showed him the red gem he picked up all that time ago.
"Ok, that thing sure creeped me out, but I do not see why it would help." Shades says, pointing at it.
Tails puts the Gem in his hand.
Not only does that weird thing occur again, but more visions come.
They're still all chopped up, but he could make out one of them.
It was a vision of a lock?
After all of that weirdness, Tails freezes for a moment.
"I...I thought so," Tails finally says.
"You have a Power Gem?" Shadow says.
"Well gee, I guess I do. What does it have to do with anything?" Shades asks.
"...everything," Tails says.
"What does it do, anyway?" Shades asks.
"It's the Red Power Gem, so it allows you to harness the power of fire, with the right amount of power," Tails explains.
"So that's why I need the Chaos Emeralds...to burn the meteor!" Shades realizes.
Meanwhile...
The Mysterious Figures are talking, again.
"Sir, we figured out how to unlock Shades' seal," Figure 1 said.
"How?" Figure 2 asks.
Figure 1 whispers something to Figure 2.
"Excellent, you may leave," Figure 2 said.
Figure 1 leaves.
Back to Shades...
"Ok, so since the Emeralds were scattered, how do we find them?" Shades asks Tails.
"Well, the only way is to run a scan on the world. That will take about...3 hours," Tails says.
"...who's up for some Super Smash Bros?" Shades says.
"I am!" Shadow, Sonic, and Knuckles say in unison.
Much later...
"How the HECK do you keep beating us, Shadow?" Shades asks.
"Because I'm awesome," Shadow says.
Tails runs in, a worried look on his face.
"All of the Chaos Emeralds...except for one...are on the Eclipse Cannon!" Tails says in fear.
Shadow stands up.
"WHAT!?" Shadow yells.
"This is bad..." Shades says to himself.
"Who would DARE try and activate the Eclipse Cannon again?" Shadow asks.
"That's the thing...I can show you who it is...but you won't like it...at all," Tails says.
They walk in and look at the screen.
"OH HOLY-" Sonic begins to say.
On the screen...
Is Gerald Robotnik.