Black Comet Throne Room.

9:58am

Black Doom was walking in a circle, around Erazor Djinn.

"I'm not happy." He said. "Do you know why?"

No answer.

"It is because of the Darkraigers. Twice they've battled the Sonicangers, TWICE they've given them a beating, but both times, they haven't finished them off, but simply walked away instead, and of course, that's no good, is it?" Black Doom put his face into Erazor Djinn's. "Next time, they WILL kill the Sonicangers, do you understand me?"

"Yes, sir."

"Good. Now go, I have better things to do than deal with you."

Erazor Djinn glared at him, but walked out of the room.

'I will show him. Sonicangers, I can assure you that you will not survive your next battle!' He thought to himself angrily.

Prison Island.

10:34am

Everybody had gathered in the central control room, apparently a way to break Shadow and Rouge out of their trance.

"As I was saying, I knew that not even Erazor Djinn's magic was powerful enough to take a hold of someone as powerful as Shadow. Djinn would need an object of immense power to place the spell. What's more, he'd need to make sure that the object was linked to the Darkraigers at all times." Shahra explained.

"And how does this help us, exactly?" Knuckles asked.

"See for yourself." Tails replied, pushing a button on the keyboard, and a diagram of the Darkraijin came up –on-screen. "Look here." Tails pointed at the Darkraijin's chest plate, where a fist-sized glowing jewel could be seen.

"A chaos emerald?" Sonic asked.

"Yep. Erazor Djinn's using that emerald to keep Shadow and Rouge under his spell, and he's basically using the Darkraijin as a link to the Darkraigers." Tails explained.

"So if we take that Chaos Emerald..." Amy began.

"The spell holding Shadow and Rouge will break." Blaze finished for her.

"And how, do we get the emerald, exactly?" Sonic asked.

Tails, Shahra and Blaze exchanged nervous looks.

"...That's the hard part." Tails said.

"You mean we'll have to face them AGAIN?" Amy asked.

"Unfortunately, yes." Tails told her.

They all groaned.

Just as expected, the computer started beeping frantically, and an image of Shadow and Rouge, this time at Emerald Coast. They appeared to be waiting for something.

"Well, here goes nothing." Sonic said.

Emerald Coast

10:37am

Shadow and Rouge looked across at their approaching opponents.

"Didn't think you show." Rouge commented.

"Come on, did you really think we'd no-show the party?" Sonic asked.

"Believe me; it would've been smarter for you to do that instead of coming here." Shadow told them.

"Are you guys just gonna talk, or we actually going to start the fight?" Knuckles asked.

"Fine, let's cut to the chase. Are you ready, Rouge?" Shadow replied.

"Ready."

"Darkrai, Shinobi Change, HAA!"

"Black lightning, Chaos ninja Shadowraiger!"

"Violet thunderclap, winged ninja Batraiger!

"Facing the shadows, slicing the shadows..."

"Facing the light, slicing the light!"

"Denkosekka, Darkraiger, Kenzan!"

"Let's do this." Rouge said.

"Let's." Amy replied.

"Ninpuu! Shinobi change, HAA!"

"The wind howls, the sky rages! Air ninja, Sonikku Blue!"

"The water dances, the waves jump! Water ninja, Sonikku Yellow!"

"The ground shakes, the flowers sing! Earth ninja, Sonikku Red!"

"The flowers bloom, the trees grow tall! Plant ninja, Sonikku Pink!"

"Mobians do not realize..."

"The planet doesn't realize..."

"We are shadows..."

"That battle evil!"

"Ninpuu Sentai, Sonicanger! Asan-n-n-jo!" The Sonicangers struck their battle pose.

"Attack!" Sonic said, snapping his fingers.

The two teams drew their weapons and charged.

Shadow and Sonic went one-on-one while the others Triple-Teamed Rouge.

"Ha!" Rouge aimed a blast of violet lightning loose, hitting Knuckles and sending him into a rock.

"Not so fast!" Amy used her powers to make vines crash out of the ground and tie themselves around Rouge's feet, preventing her from moving.

Tails started spinning his namesakes and lifted up into the air, Amy leaping onto his back and Knuckles gliding alongside them, all weapons drawn. They swooped down towards to Rouge, who was too busy untangling herself from the vines to notice them, and when she did it was too late.

"Take this!" the trio delivered a flurry of blows and the bat fell to the ground, defeated.

"You're goin' down, Bat-Girl!"

A short distance away, Sonic and Shadow were really going for each other. The two hogs' were showing why they were called 'The blue and black blurs'. As soon as one would appear to get the upper hand, the other would come powering back. Shadow had definitely not thought that Sonic could be this hard to take down, he had to admit it, he was impressed with the fight the blue hedgehog was putting up.

"Give up, Blue hedgehog; this is a battle you can't win." Shadow said, ducking another deadly sword blow. "You're weak, worthless." Shadow parried another blow. "It's why you were unable to save your father..."

"WHAM!"

Shadow was thrown against the cliff face. "What the..." he was cut off by a sharp jab to the stomach. Shadow fell to the ground. Although it couldn't be seen by anybody else due to the helmet, Shadow coughed up a little blood. Shadow's eyes widened. Never, not in any battle, not even against Biolizard or Devil Doom, had this happened. Shadow had said the wrong thing to Sonic and now there would be hell to pay. Shadow whipped out his Shadow Blaster, only for it to go flying out of his hands and for Sonic to catch it, who then aimed both lasers at Shadow. The only thing that was preventing him from going Dark Sonic was the fact that he was morphed. Sonic pulled both triggers. The resulting burst of energy carried Shadow about twenty feet, before landing on the ground roughly. The other Sonicangers could only gape at how Sonic was handling Shadow.

The Darkraigers slowly staggered to their feet.

"We're not done yet! Shinobi Bear! Shinobi Jaguar!" the duo leapt into the cockpits of their machines, before combining to form the Darkraijin.

"We were hoping you'd do that!" Amy called, summoning the Sonicangers' own machines. The four mechanical animals combined to form one: the Sonpujin Fury.

"Powerdisk!" Rouge inserted a small medal into her slot and the Darkraijin's chest opened and produced a Karakuri Ball, which opened up to reveal the Lightning Blade.

"Come on!" the Darkraijin landed multiple hits, sending the Sonpujin back. The Darkraijin then caught the Sonpujin in a bear hug, as though trying to squeeze the life from it.

"Not so fast!" Tails called, and another Karakuri Ball shot out of the Sonpujin and hit the Darkraijin squarely in the chest, sending it to the ground. The ball then opened up to reveal the Axe of Gods. The Darkraijin got back up and Blade met Axe, causing sparks to fly everywhere.

"Guys! We've got a bit of luck! According to these readings, the Karakuri ball hit the Darkraijin right where the Chaos Emerald is stored! If you can penetrate that armour, that emerald is yours and the spell will be broken!" Blaze shouted.

"All right, let's go!" Sonic said, pushing a switch. The deer's horns came off.

"Boomerang Horn!" The Sonpujin threw the horns threw at the Darkraijin, hitting it where the Karakuri Ball had, sending the Darkraijin back a few steps.

"Dirt Strike!" Knuckles yelled, and the Axe of Gods glowed a brilliant red, before delivering a single, lethal slash, finally penetrating the Darkraijin's armour. A few seconds passed, and then something purple fell out of the crack in the armour, which was then caught by the Sonpujin. The emerald was then teleported into Sonic's cockpit.

"It worked, look!" Tails called. He was right; the Darkraijin had finally gone limp.

Later, on Prison Island...

"I've got three words for ya: count me in." Rouge told them.

"All right!" Tails and Shahra exclaimed. Knuckles then looked at Shadow.

"And you?"

"Hmph, I don't need any of YOUR help. I can handle this myself." He told him.

Sonic, who had remained silent up until that point, sniggered.

"What so funny?!" Shadow demanded.

Sonic's trademark grin appeared across his face.

"Oh, it's just that, although you've defeated Black Doom before, but what do you really know about Erazor Djinn?"

Shadow bit back the snappy retort he was just about to say.

"Fine." He told them. "But remember, this alliance is only temporary."

Black Comet...

"You idiot! Not only are those brats still alive, but they've got two new Sonicangers, and a Chaos Emerald to boot! Do you have any IDEA-" Erazor put up a hand to stop him.

"I wouldn't shout at me if I were you, Doom. Are you forgetting the one who granted your wish for an alien empire?"

Doom fell silent.

"I didn't think so." Erazor then turned and strode out of the room.