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GUN headquarters was in a panic. Their best agent had not returned from his previous assignment for about a week. Rouge was also getting a little worried about her partner. He had always come back whenever he felt like it but he was never gone this long. He had been sent to figure out what was happening with the chaos emeralds. They had been acting strange.

"Commander." Rouge called. "Could we send someone out to go and find Shadow? He's been gone way longer than usual and with my mission I'll need someone else to assist me, and by somebody I mean Shadow." She clarified. The Commander just sighed. "Rouge, he's fine. He always does his own thing, even when we need him elsewhere. If you want to go look for him then be my guest. You have three days to try to find him and then it's back to finding out where your criminal went. Got it?" The commander explained. "Thank you Commander." Rouge replied and walked out the exit looking for Shadow.

Shadow was done. He did not enjoy getting zapped by his chaos emerald every time he tried to use it. He had been sent to figure out what was happening to the damn chaos emeralds and so far hadn't found shit. He had tried Eggman's lair and wound up with nothing. All Eggman got out of that visit was a couple smashed walls and damaged robots courtesy of Shadow. Shadow was not going back to headquarters until he figured it out. Then he saw a flash of blue and felt a gush of wind. He decided to follow him as he knew who it was and wondered if he could find out some more information about the chaos emeralds.

Sonic couldn't stand it anymore. He was breaking but he couldn't let anyone know. He had be okay for everyone, especially his little buddy. The guilt and anger was stronger now. He knew this would happen. His little buddy was probably worried after he suddenly left and he wondered if he should go back. That's when he heard someone, then a zap and a dammit. Shadow.

"What's up Shads?" Sonic asked trying to hold in a laugh when he saw Shadow's quills all messed up, probably from whatever had zapped him.

"Nothing faker." He said as he pointed a gun at Sonic.

"Woah man, don't go hurting anyone." Sonic then looked around. "Well I guess I mean don't go hurting me. I don't really feel like getting a bullet through my chest."

Sonic then got quiet as he felt the presence of a chaos emerald and saw that Shadow had one that was hanging out of his quills.

"What are you looking at hedgehog?" Shadow asked aggressively.

"What exactly happened to your quills Shadow?" Sonic quietly asked.

"They were zapped by this piece of crap," he said as he pulled out the emerald, "and now they won't go back. Why?"

Sonic started backing away slowly as the emerald started calling. "Maurice… You can't escape us… You are a part of us… You are essential to our plan and we will not let you go!" "Gah!" Sonic screamed as he fell to the ground. "No! Get away! I can't do this again!" "What the hell are you doing faker? Ouch!" Shadow yelled as the emerald grew hot and he dropped it. "Ah… No… not again… You won't control my life anymore! No!" Sonic screamed as his fur started turning black and his eyes turned white. Shadow took a step back, as far as he knew, no one was able to use the chaos emeralds at that point in time. Except Sonic.

By the time the blue hedgehog calmed down enough where his fur and eyes were back to normal he collapsed. He was so tired. The attack had drained him. The attack… Did he, really kill those guys? He lifted his head from the place on the floor it was resting and saw all the blood gushing from the doctors' throats. He almost vomited. He did that. He had killed them. He was to blame. But… He felt… Satisfied. He destroyed some of the people responsible for the murder of his family. He had felt true power and he wanted it again. He knew that as long as he had negative emotions it could happen. He had figured it out while he was transformed. Now all he needed to do was to find the chaos emeralds as he had felt their power in the machine. He wanted that power again to annihilate all of those who caused harm to others. Wait… That would include him. He almost threw up again, he had killed those guys in cold blood, he could've just used the power to escape, but instead he had used it to kill. Then he heard the same cold voice on the intercom.

"Doctors, bring him back to his cell. We have found him."

Knuckles had been resting. He had been searching Angel Island for something to eat, then he got a call from Tails on his wrist communicator saying that he needed help and got right down to Tails' house.

"What's wrong Tails? You didn't tell me what happened before you hung up." Knuckles asked before getting squeezed to death by said fox kit. "Knuckles!" Tails cried "Sonic just took off after having a nightmare! It was affecting the chaos emerald on his dresser too and and it was getting all weird and I'm really worried and I need help finding him!" Tails finished with a sob.

"Woah there Tails, I'm sure Sonic is okay, I mean, he always goes on his runs…" Tails then cut him off. "But he has never acted so strange and with all the nightmares he's been having, it has never been like this!" "Tails," Knuckles started calmly, "I think you're right about the chaos emerald being affected by his dreams. I mean, the Master Emerald has been acting strange too and now I wonder if Sonic is connected somehow. Let's go and see if we can find him." "Okay."

Sonic couldn't control himself. He wanted to kill anything and everything in his path, and that included the hedgehog standing before him. He struggled with all the negative feelings towards Shadow and tried to direct them elsewhere. It seemed to be working and Sonic's emerald eyes had returned as well as his blue fur. His strength however, did not and he fell to the ground. He was so tired he couldn't keep his eyes open, but before he slipped into unconsciousness he noticed Shadow's look of surprise, and, was that a little fear? Sonic couldn't tell. Then he fell into a deep sleep.

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