SAF: At 1:30 am the check up was completed!

Silver: woohoo!

SAF: i'm sorry this chapter is short but I have a lot of explaining to do in the next story!

Sonic: I can't believe you ended it this way...how could you?

Shadow: I read over this chapter sorta... this is nice.

SAF: aww.. thanks Shadz

*shadow growls*

SAF: I mean Shadow...thanks Shadow.

Sonic: SAF DOESN'T OWN US WE BELONG TO SEGA!

SAF: wait... no mean comments?

Silver: well this is your first complete story so...i guess not.

RSAF: Well that was unexpected.

Sonic: Who is that?

SAF: ...She's another version of me...goes by the name RadicalSuperAwesomeFan...RSAF what are you doing here? you already showed up once! leave!

RSAF: fine, fine...guess someone is a little nervous... hope this doesnt suck.

SAF: *growls* it does not suck! You'll see! Story-Start!


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Was today bad luck day or something?

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Sonic blanched as the robot took one angry foot step after another. The blur scrambled, looking for the emerald hoping that he could find it before S.E got within grabing range. The door was wider now. It was wide enough to stick half a body through...There! behind the opengin door! Sonic quickly crawled towards it but the door, by then was already wide enough for S.E to enter.

And he did.

The emerald sliding away from his reach was understandable when S.E's foot was right infornt of him. Sonic's cursed his bad luck. Now? Not wanting to risk an easy capture the blur scrambled through the vault door only to have his legs pulled from up under him. Sonic took a look back at what grabbed his legs only to see S.E's arms in that metallic liqudated state. " Lack of behavior and running away... that makes you derseve some time with the t.s.s. "S.E said as he started to retract his arms, dragging back, a struggling hedghog.

He was so close!

He couldn't let this keep going!

NO! NO! NO! NO!

"NO!," Sonic shouted angrily. " I'M NOT GOING BACK IN THERE!" the hedgie said as he tried to pull away from S.E. The robot had a firm hold on his charge, which made Sonic's efforts look futile. "It seems that as long as you have control over your body, you'll only try to escape...The doctor suggests injecting the medicine throughout your entire body, making you completely reliable on him and preventing you from escape."S.E said as his hands turned back to normal and he was holding the upside down, punching hedgehog.


OUTSIDE THE BASE

So there was another way of entering the base...

Shadow blasted down the door using his chaos energies and rushed inside the base. The hallway, for the most part, had nothing but one way in and ... what was that sound?


WITH SONIC

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH." Sonic screamed. S.E stopped shocking the hedgehog who was stwitching slightly from the volts. The robot slowly turned Sonic the right side up and held hm the bridal/ baby hold. The said hedgie closed his eyes tightly until his vision stopped looking so shaky. Sonic tried to move his body was tired. It was acting like it wouldnt move even if Amy decided to show up.

S.E turned around to carry the hedgehog back into the "Playroom" but was stopped by a punch to the back of it's head, making him almost lose hold to his charge. Teh robot turned to face his opponent who was none other than the passed out ebony hedgehog from before... The robot's optical sensors tighted. So they both faked passing out. S.E laid Sonic down against a wall and threw a blow to the stomach.

Shadow had expected this and dodged to the side before jumping over the robot, kicking the piece of metal to the floor, grabbing the blur and running off down the other hallway. S.E slowly removed his face from the ground and stood over the dents he made in the tile floor. Eggman would not be pleased. The robot gave chase after the two hedgehogs who were ziging and zaging in and out of hallways and rooms, searching for an exit.


IN THE COMPUTER ROOM

"You must begin the Interdimensional Traveling Mechanism!" one figure shouted. The doctor glared at him before retuning back to the monitors. "He is not ready, nor is the I.T.M stable...If I launch it now I could hinder and destroy all of our progress!" Eggman said as he stared intently at the screen. Soon the figures leaned in the light revealing they all had ...Mustaches...? Oldly enough they seemed to look like Eggman's. "Look, doctor, If that rodent isn't stopped our plan would be ruined!... I knew I could never trust another version of my self.." The other worldy Eggman said.

The other worldly Eggman's began to mutter, causing the prime doctor to get uneasy... he had no other choice... at least he would have some form of getting the hedgehog back. "I'll begin to lead the rodent's to the room... From there on however, we'll depend on S.E...Understood?" Eggman finished as the others began to quite down.

"Commencing the Sequence plan to intiate the I.T.M... Reprogramming all units through out the base to manual command...Adjusting-"


BACK TO THE CHASE

"Where is that cursed Exit?" Shadow hissed as Sonic weakly looked from side to side at the doors and rooms. "I think that's it!" Sonic said as Shadow saw the direction of the entrance. Before he arrived however, there was a cut shuffling of the base and the floor. Their chance of escape sealed off.

"What?" the two hedgehogs said in unison. Shadow quickly turned around only to see the robot fast approaching. There was another hallway to their right... that was their only chance as of now.

The ebony hedgehog waisted no time as he took off down the other direction. "SHADS!" Sonic yelled alerting the hedgehog in enough time to speed up and miss a punch to the head. Shadow quickened his pace as he went throught the hallways. Eggman quickly shifted keyboards and input a temporary new set of commands in his finest creation. The same pattern happened twice again where the base shifted. Shadow anxiously looked behind him only to see no sign of the robot. Shadow smirked for only a second.

He had lost that robot.

Settling down by the door way, Shadow placed sonic on the floor as he thought over a plan to escape...oh yeah..."Do you still have that emerald?" The ebony hedgehog asked the other. "Well...I had the emerald..." At the response Shadow looked inquisitvely at his counterpart.

"You lost the emerald?!" he asked. "I wouldn't say lost. More like misplaced." "How do you lose an Em-er-ald?" the other stressed. "I didn't lose a real emerald. Just the fake one." "So you admit to losing it!" "..Drats.." Sonic said but quickly put up a finger as to silence the other.

Shadow noticed it. The robot still wasn't onto them. Don't get it twisted, they were thankful, but the robot soulcnt be that slow. If this was an Eggman base, the robot would have been attacked them. The question was, 'Why hadn't it'? The two hedgehogs shared a look, coming to a secret agreement befor looking back the way they had came. Shadow began to reapproach the way he came until the base moved and sealed off the exit.

There was a slight whizzing sound coming from the door behind them. Sonic looked at the door unsure as to weither or not he wanted to venture in or just leave. Shadow picked up the blue indeisive hedgie, who opened the door, and walked inside. Shadow placed Sonic back down as the two of them scanned over the big object in theirsights. The Machine looked somewhat like an upside down horse shoe, Sonic thought. Shadow scanned over the machine and slowly placed his hands on the warm metal... warm..? could that mean... it had already been used?'

Sonic looked at it, putting his arms crossed above his chest, and chin rested in one hand. "I'm getting a bad feeling about this..." Shadow ignored the hedghoge as he scanned furhter more into the base. There was a shake and the rooms door was crashed open by S.E. Sonic had expected the robot...but not so soon!

The door slammed shut as the robot lunged almost redy to swipe at the hedgehog. SOnic's pupils dilated as he realized he would be too slow to defend himself. Shadow sprung into action and intertwined the robots fingers within his own. S.E pushed Shadow trying to get to his charge, as the other pushed him to keep him away.

Sonic felt a strange tingling sensation as he looked behind him and saw the machine turning on. Sonic was instantly confused. Why were they led here? S.E's eyes transformed back into a screen that revealed Eggman to be there but the robot's strengthe wavered not. While Shadow was stuggling, Eggman began to speak.

"I orignally planned to begin this phase much, much later..." The doctor tapped the tip of his fingers together before he looked at the camera. "I won't gurantee anything to you all except that regardless of when you return, everything will be different.." "What're you sayin' Eggman?" Sonic said as Shadow puffed and pushed harder against the robot.

He needed to get a hold of an emerald or anything emitting chaotic energy. The machine was working more and more. It was slowly sucking in the things in the room, those being Sonic, Shadow and S.E. Sonic shielded his eyes as he took a glance at the portal before looking back at S.E and Shadow. Almost like the doctor heard the question, Eggman replied.

"Regardless of what you were to do now Sonic...I've already altered this world's current time rift capacity. Once you leave everything will begin to shift. It would do so anyway due to me bringing other versions of myself here," At the statement Sonic instanly undrstood who the 'thems' and 'they' were, were as Shadow's suspcioins about the letter were confirmed.

The machine wasn't to far off from being fully activated. The three figures were sliding more steadily towards the swirling bluish bright light. "You'll be on a constant state of travel. The lengths you stay in one place maybe eqivalent to a year or a second in another. Regardless i will succed." Eggman said as he paused greatly. "As if I'll ever give up so easily Eggman!" The doctor smirked, like he had expected the rodent to say that.

Eggman got close into the camera's screen and stayed there for a while before speaking again. "There is no way I can be stopped Sonic.. I've planned this all out... the world you should be going to first will amount up to two years here..." Sonic stared, more angrily this time at the screen while trying to reset the pull, Shadow was as well to no avail. Eggman broke out into a mad smile." ... What exactly can I accomplish in two years without Mobius fiercest fighters?"

Sonic's eyes widened by the reality and the genius behind the plan. With them out of the way... What would happen to Tails? What about everyone else? Eggman disappeared from the robot's screen as S.E's eyes reverted back to normal. Shadow, sensing a change in gravity, quickly let go of the robot's hand, as it was sent flying into the portal. He was so close. Shadow was instantly pulled towards the portal seeing as one of his hands still was being grasped by S.E. Sonic quickly grabbed his counterparts hand only to join the line. Before falling completely in the portal, Sonic managed to grab hold of the outside lining of the portal. He was slowly losing his grip.

So this was what Eggman had planned.

Shadow realized that he and Sonic leaving would be rather fatal to the world.. the world he swore to protect. "Sonic," the said hedgheog looked down pained as his hands slowly slipped away. "You have to let me go." "Are you insane? We've been through this! I'm not losing you like in the ARK nor when we stopped Eggman's secret invasion! I'm definately not leaving you now!" Shadow smirked at the younger ones words. the smirk quickly became a deep frown. "Who is going to protect this world?" the ebony hedgehog asked. Sonic offered no offer as he pulled harder, trying to pull them out of the contraption.

Sirens went off. "WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!1 20 SECONDS UNTIL COMPLETE DEMOLITION OF THE I.T.M. 19...18...17-" a voice said in their room. Sonic sighed. "Regardless,we'll be separated." Shadow looked from the outside world to the seemingly never ending portal. He had finally managed to shake S.E free and the robot was dangling by holding on to Shadow's feet. "Sonic," Shadow said agin as the other was holding on by two fingers. "8..7..6-" "I'll find you." SHadow said as he let go. Sonic stared in shock until his fingers could no longer hold him and he to proceeded to fall. "2...1.." The I.T.M sucked upp it's own parts so to the point that it began to break down. With an increasing ringing,

it exploded.


SAF: ..*Wipes brow*...Yes!

Silver: ...wow...

Sonic: ...yea...

SAF: Well guys please review! I'll be taking up some suggestions as to what it is you'd like to see happen! I check the reviews daily! and love to see new things there! Thanks for all of your support! This story couldn't have been finished without you...

Shadow: You heard the lady, remember to read and review. Add a suggestion that you might like to see in the sequel and we'll add it in here!

Sonic:s-see ya guys...can't believe it ended like this...

Silver: quick question SAF... i thought Sonic would get sick...

SAF: oh he is sick... i gave him a *spoiler alert NOT REALLY* NEW SUPER POWER IN THE SEQUEL!

Sonic: WHAT?!

SAF: yup! this power pretty much makes up for all the things faced in this story...i also reveal the secrets behind the momma bear and more!

Scourge: When did i end up with blue's crew..?

Sonic: SAF, WH is he here?

SAF: *giggles* ok,ok last spoiler...Scourge is in the next sequel too...

Sonic and Scourge: What?

SAF: BYE GUYS! I LOVE YOU ALL AND HOPE TO HEAR A LOT OF FEED BACK!