CHAPTER ELEVEN

All Shadow and Rouge remember is, they were at Kingdom Valley, Eggman was asking for the Secret of Darkness, they were under attack by his robots, black smoke appeared from the scepter, then Shadow's shadow was taken away, and..!

Shadow and Rouge were taken to oblivion. When the portal ended, where Mephiles took them, they both fell down on their feet, and looked shock where they are.

The sky was dark with black smoke, fire on the ground with lava, and all buildings are broken down.

"What is this place?" Rouge walked up to the end of the building they were standing on.

Rouge looked down and found some glass on the floor, so Rouge took caution steps.

"It seems we've been teleported to another location."

"Well, let's find out where we are."

Rouge ran inside the building, finding a computer.

Shadow was about to run, until something came to head.

"Mephiles... Who is he?" Shadow whispered to himself, it seems like Mephiles knew him well, but he hasn't seem him before. Shadow looked out to the dark sky again, and followed Rouge.

Rouge turned on the computer and started hacking it. "I'm in..."

She went to work on their location now. "I've pinpointed our location, it is..." Rouge trailed off, and looked up at the screen and gasped, "No... That's not possible... Were still in the Doctor's base. But how can that be? Wait, there's no doubt now!" Shadow had his arms cross and was thinking, then something clicked in his head, "So it's not where we are..." Rouge started typing on the computer, then she got an update.

Shadow and Rouge looked up at the computer, Rouge gasped and covered her hand over her mouth, not believing what they see. "It appears that we've gone though time... Doesn't it?" Shadow asked.

"Yes... Approximately 200 years. Maybe more, depending on when this database was last updated." doubted Rouge.

Shadow looked over at Rouge, "Well, at least we know we've arrived in the future. That means this Mephiles character has the power to control time."

Rouge and Shadow were looking at the data that they found, to see if there's anymore to this Mephiles and the future.

"His power feels very similar to my own Chaos Control." something clicked in his head, there was another person that was like him, but he never saw her again, after Eggman took her away.

'Jasmine,' Shadow signed.

He always blamed it on himself but Amy told him that it wasn't his fault, he didn't know that Eggman would follow them, so mostly Amy blamed it on herself.

"But..." Shadow trailed off, when they heard a loud thud in the building. Rouge and Shadow nodded at each other and started following the noise.

Sonic, Tail, and Knuckles were spinning in the portal where Eggman took them. Once the portal finally ended, they all fell from the ceiling.

"Ahh...!" they all screamed.

Sonic landed safely on the ground, Knuckles fell on his head with a hard thud, and Tails fell on his bottom that sounded it really hurt.

Sonic looked at them, seeing if their ok, then looked around the place they just went through Eggman's machine. It looked like Eggman's base, but why does it look like it was destroyed from something big.

"Boy, do I feel dizzy..." groaned Tails.

"Ow, my head!" growled Knuckles.

Sonic didn't say anything.

"Where are we?" Tails questioned, still feeling dizzy.

"Oh, look who's here! I didn't expect to see you guys." Said a voice, that sounded familiar.

Sonic looked up, where Eggman's window use to be, and found a familiar bat and hedgehog.

"Rouge! Shadow!" Tails said surprised.

"Hi, long time no see!" Rouge smiling and waving at them.

Shadow had his arms crossed over his chest.

Far away from Eggman's base. Sonic, Shadow, Tails, Rouge, and Knuckles were all staring at the destroyed buildings.

"This is the distant future, far removed from our own timeline," Shadow started the conversation, over the dead silence.

"The future?" Tails shocked.

"Then that means Eggman's machine can control time!"

"Eggman got some nerve dropping us here!" Sonic knew Eggman needed time to do something stupid or create another machine to complete his plan, but what was his plan though.

Knuckles was shaking his head, not believing any of this, "Now, how can we get back to our own time?" grumbled Knuckles, while he kicked a rock off of the bridge.

"You need a space-time rift, but this requires a lot of energy." replied Shadow.

Everyone looked at Sonic, "I see. You mean using your Chaos Control will..."

"Yes, but that alone is insufficient..." Shadow interrupted and pointed at Sonic.

Shadow might do everything alone by himself, but he had to ask for help, if they were in the future, then the Chaos Emeralds would not have a lot of power in them, for one person to open the portal back home.

"Okay, Shadow. It looks like we need to work together." Sonic huffed out to Shadow, and gave him the thumbs up, to let him know that they made their deal. Shadow nods in return.

Shadow and Rouge take the left side to where all fire and lava is and Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles take the right side to where all of the buildings are destroyed.

Unknown to all of them, that someone was watching them behind their backs. There the black smoke watch as they talk to one another and making their deal to each other, to find the Chaos Emeralds, to leave this future and change it all.

The black smoke turned back to his form, he walks where they were just now and looked where Shadow and Rouge left, "Hah hah... They will never know what comes to them." at that Mephiles turned back to black smoke and followed Shadow.

BACK AT EGGMAN'S BASE

Silver and Blaze walked through the snow to Eggman's base is, they were too late.

As they walked further, Silver finds a sapphire Chaos Emerald, Silver picked it up and observed it.

"That's a Chaos Emerald." Silver looked at Blaze.

Blaze continued talking, "It's said this gem can transform your thoughts into power. Collect seven, and a miracle's supposed to happen." Blaze looked at the Chaos Emerald in Silver's hands and turn around to leave, into the city.

"Keep it as a lucky charm." Blaze told Silver.

Silver looked down at the gem, "It transform your thoughts into power..." whispered Silver.

Silver was thinking of something, that it might work. If the gem can transform your thoughts into power, then he knows what he can use to kill the Iblis Trigger.

Silver fisted the gem and began to run, to catch up with Blaze.