Hello everybody! It's been a while since I've made a battle for the Battle Archive, but now I'm gonna have a battle between my two favorite characters, Shadow and Tails! Although this might sound like a completely one sided battle at first, don't count Tails out just yet, he's got plenty of tricks up his sleeves.

*Location: Mystic Ruins: Tails Workshop: Third Person POV*

Tails had been running for his life for the last 5 minutes, for some reason of another Shadow was quite angry at him, although he couldn't get the hedgehog to tell him why. After he tried talking with Shadow, the black hedgehog just suddenly attacked him! Tails had barely escaped the attack and had run back to his workshop in the Mystic Ruins; he'd have the advantage if he could get to his workshop…

Shadow had been chasing the fox through the forest for the last 5 minutes now, which had annoyed him greatly. Shadow wasn't in the best of moods, mainly because Sonic had decided to pull a prank and painted his whole damn apartment blue! Maybe he was being a little harsh when he demanded to know where Sonic was, only for the fox to not know, so in anger Shadow attacked the kid and was now chasing him through the forest. Shadow approached Tails' workshop, prepared to cause some havoc and destruction.

Tails had managed to get to his workshop and into the garage where he was currently preparing everything for battle. He knew that if he wanted to have to fight Shadow anywhere, it would defiantly be on his home turf. Tails climbed into the Tornado 2 and clicked a button on it, causing the plane to transform into its mech mode, the Cyclone! Tails smiled at his invention before opening the garage doors, only to see Shadow running straight at him! Tails panicked and started shooting his basic cannon's at the hedgehog, and although these slowed him down he wasn't stopped by them. Tails then fired a Vulcan barrage, which is a series of large lasers orbs that shot toward the hedgehog, who had to cease forward movement completely and back flip to avoid being fried.

Tails took this opportunity to finally step out of his garage so his machine would have some room to maneuver. The fox fired more Vulcan blasts at the hedgehog, who easily dodged them before spin dashing Tails' mech, causing him to nearly fall over. Tails recovered and fired a barrage of missiles at Shadow, who ran in circles and then ran all the missiles into a tree, causing it to nearly fall on top of Tails. "Fire power laser!" Tails yelled as he clicked a large red button of his mech, which caused a huge laser to shoot out of the front of it. Shadow didn't react quick enough and was completely engulfed by the laser and blasted back into the forest. "Did…did I win?" Tails asked in confusion. He question was quickly answered though, as multiple Chaos Spears impaled his vehicle, causing the fox to jump in shock. Shadow then appeared right below it, glowing red.

"Chaos…" Shadow started, which caused Tails to panic and fly out of the Cyclone to avoid getting himself hurt. "BLAST!" Shadow yelled as he attacked completely obliterated the Cyclone, but not Tails since he had flown a good distance away to avoid the explosion. Tails flew into his workshop, only to be tackled by Shadow! This frightened Tails quite a bit, who had managed to grab a wrench on his counter and whacked the hedgehog in the head with it! Shadow released Tails and stumbled backwards, holding his head in pain as the fox ran to another part of his workshop. Shadow finally recovered, and wasn't in the slightest happy about being hit with a wrench. He charged after the fox, but by time he caught up with him Tails had equipped his arm cannon. "Take this!" Tails yelled as the arm cannon fired, this being the second beam to smash into Shadow today as he was thrown through the stairs! This time Tails thought he had finally defeated the hedgehog. "I did it! I beat Shadow!" Tails yelled jumping for joy, he had never thought he could ever take down someone as strong as Shadow!

However, the poor fox was about to figure out that he hadn't beaten Shadow. The ebony hedgehog was beyond furious that Tails, TAILS of all people had damaged him this much. "You'll…pay dearly for that fox…" Shadow said as he rose from the wreckage of the stairs, causing Tails to freeze with fear. He slowly turned to see Shadow, with hatred in his eyes, rising from the pile to destruction that was the staircase. Tails couldn't do much but try and speak, only to fail and mumble out undistinguishable words. Shadow slowly raised his hands and removed the rings that were on them, "Be proud fox, you're actually making me…take these off." Shadow said as he removed the second of his inhibitor rings. To tell the truth, Tails was more terrified then proud at this moment, he hadn't expected Shadow to still be conscious after that last blast, much less still able to move AND fight!

Tails decided to best course of action, was to run for his life! But before he could get so far as a step Shadow uttered those horrible words, "Chaos Control." Time completely froze, Tails expression being nothing less then horrified. Shadow ran up to the fox and proceeded to pummel the poor fox with punches and kicks, before finally unfreezing time when he hit Tails with a roundhouse, sending him flying back into the garage. Tails was, to say the least, sore as hell now. He had landed on his stomach and could hardly move, but luckily for him, he had landed close to the one invention that he had that could win him this fight. Tails slowly reached out and grabbed the fake Chaos Emerald that he had off the counter, which Shadow noticed. "You think a Chaos Emerald is going to help you with this fight?" Shadow said before running up and kicked Tails' hand, then grabbing the emerald out of the air. Shadow just smirked as he held the two emeralds, his emerald, and what he didn't know was a fake emerald in the other hand. Shadow stomped on Tails back, causing the poor fox to cry out in pain. "Now to finish this, Chaos…" Shadow started, which caused Tails' eyes to widen in fear, if his plan didn't work, then this was really going to hurt.

"BLAST!" Shadow yelled, but instead of having the desired results of a giant red blast knocking Tails' block off, the energy instead proceeded the shock the hell out of Shadow! The black hedgehog was then thrown back by one mighty jolt, causing him to drop both the emeralds! Tails barely managed to stand to his feet and grab the emeralds as Shadow hit the ground, shocked and in massive pain from what just happened. "Wha-what? How…did that…" Shadow began, but Tails cut him off. "The emerald…you took from…me…was a fake…I designed…it…to electrocute the user…or machine…when used…it was meant to…sabotage Eggman's…machines…but this…works just...as well…" Tails managed to say, barely standing after the battle. Shadow was now in more shock then ever, the fox not only managed to trick him into using a fake emerald, he had also used that trick to defeat him! Shadow was way to drained and damaged to even move, and he wasn't going to recover his energy without his inhibitor rings on. Shadow just grunted in anger before his lost consciousness. "I won…heh heh…ugh…" Tails managed to speak before falling flat on his back, out cold as well.

Well, I bet none of you saw that coming! Even though some can consider this a tie, since both Shadow and Tails were knocked out by the end of the battle, it was meant more or less as a victory for Tails! And also, I judged this purely by the abilities, inventions, and powers of these two, not just who was my favorite, because I like Shadow more. Yet I had him lose because Tails not only has superior intellect on his side, he's got plenty of inventions to help him out in battle. See you guys next time!