~Team Dark's viewpoint~

Shadow, Rouge, and Omega had just found an Emerald by a tree. Omega took it, and put it in his chest, as he uses it as storage. They hadn't found that strong power yet, but they just kept looking for the Emeralds. Later, Omega sensors went off the radar. All three rushed to where it came from, but couldn't find it.

"I don't see an Emerald, or anything else that would give off that strong of a power." Shadow said.

"Maybe, it's a little further?" Rouge suggested.

"It's nice to see you three." A robotic voice said from a cliff. All three turned toward it, and saw who it was.

"Metal Sonic?"

"Hello," Metal Sonic said as he jumped from the cliff, "If you would just hand over the Emerald, I might let you survive." Shadow went into fighting position and said, "How about you just leave before we kill you?" Metal Sonic then rushed at Shadow.

~Team Attack's viewpoint~

"I can't sense anything." Camo said.

"Maybe we could use the Emerald's power?" Sharp said.

"Good idea, let's try-" Camo got cut off when a large bang was heard in the distance.

"What was that?"

"It came from over there!" Leon said. All of them then headed to that location.

~Team Dark's viewpoint~

Omega had just launched a rocket at Metal Sonic. The robot dodged it, and it hit the cliff, creating a giant hole in it. Shadow jumped at the robot and kicked at the side of his head, but the robot grabbed his leg and threw him at the cliff. Then, he punched Shadow in the stomach. Shadow, while in some pain, grabbed Metal Sonic's head, and bashed it against the cliff, making them both fall to the ground. Metal Sonic got up, and was about to grab Shadow, when Rouge came up behind him, and kicked him in the back of the head. Then, she planted a bomb on his back and threw him to the side just before it exploded. Shadow got up, and saw the robot standing. The bomb did some damage to the robot, but he still didn't go down. He flew back to the cliff, and looked at all three of them. Then, he sent his fingers as mini-missiles, and shot them at the three. Omega shot his own missiles, and they hit the ones targeted at Rouge and Shadow, but the ones targeted at him hit him almost perfectly. He jumped back and felt the explosions on his body, but still stood up. Metal Sonic jumped down, but as he did, Omega punched him right in the chest. Metal Sonic slammed into the cliff, and fell on the ground. He then got back up, and flew at Rouge and Shadow. He punched Rouge in the face and elbowed Shadow. Rouge got back up, and ran at Metal Sonic, but the robot grabbed her by the neck and threw her against the cliff, knocking her out. Metal then grabbed Shadow, and threw him at the cliff, then threw him against a large tree. The black hedgehog felt the pain sting, and he slowly lost consciousness. Metal Sonic then looked at Omega and said, "Now, we will see who is truly the stronger robot." Omega, filled with rage as to what his opponent did to his friends, shot thousands of bullets at Metal Sonic. The robot defended himself from the bullets shot at him, feeling a little bit of sting from some of them. He then shot more mine-missiles at Omega, making him stop shot shooting and dodge the missiles after him. Metal Sonic then jumped at him and threw a punch, but Omega caught it and threw his own punch, with Metal Sonic doing the same. Both were locked in combat, and then Omega threw him at a tree. The robot rushed at his enemy, about to grab his head, when Metal Sonic reversed it. He grabbed Omega and slammed him on the tree. Metal Sonic jumped back on the cliff, jumped off it, and punched through Omega's chest, grabbing the Chaos Emerald. When Metal Sonic pulled back his arm, oil covered it entirely. Shadow and Rouge regained consciousness and saw Metal Sonic, holding the Emerald in his hands, and Omega, chest open with oil dripping out like blood out of a dead body. Rouge was in shock as she saw her friend's torn body. She also felt a liquid dripping her off chin, and saw it was blood. Shadow saw Rouge's bloody head, and his rage was filled even more. His body was shining red as he rushed to Metal Sonic. He grabbed Metal Sonic, jumped up, and let the machine go before he shouted, "Chaos Blast!" As a giant blast appeared in the sky, Shadow jumped down as Metal Sonic was landed somewhere far out in the jungle. He saw Rouge over by Omega, crying on his shut down body. They both heard someone saying, "It was over here. Come on guys!" They saw that it was Sharp, Leon, and Camo.

~Third-Person Viewpoint~

"Shadow, Rouge, Ome-," Sharp stopped in his words as he saw the robots ripped open body. The three rushed over to it and saw his body up-close. A pool of oil had formed as it leaked out of Omega. "What happened?" Sharp asked.

"Metal Sonic." Shadow told Sharp. Sharp then stayed quiet. He looked at Omega again, and then looked back. He couldn't stand seeing it. It was like a dead guy in a horror movie. Omega's chest was ripped open, wires cut out, with oil dripping all over him. There were also more cuts on his shoulders and legs, where oil just kept spilling. Then, Leon called, "Hey, I found some parts! Maybe, I could repair him!" Shadow and Rouge immediately turned their heads at Leon. "I might be able to take these parts and fix him up. Come on! Let's head to my place!" All five stood around Omega as Shadow teleported them to Leon's house.

Leon and Camo were working on Omega. Shadow and Rouge, with her head fixed up, were outside of the room, waiting. Sharp came out and talked to them, "Guys, we need to talk about Omega." Sharp closed the door before he spoke to them, "Okay, Omega does have a chance of surviving," Shadow and Rouge stared at Sharp, waiting for him to continue, "But, there's also a chance he won't. Also, even if he does survive, the parts we got were damaged a little. They contained some of his memory too, so he may not remember you guys." Shadow eyes were full open as he heard that. He didn't want Omega to go through what he had gone through. Then, he looked at Rouge's head, wrapped all over because of what had happened. He rushed through the hallway, with Rouge running after him.

"Shadow! Shadow!" Rouge shouted as she chased after him. They both stopped and Shadow turned to her. "Where are you going?"

"It's none of your business, Rouge."

"We're in a relationship and a team, I think it's my business wherever you go after something that could have had us killed."

"I can't let you come."

"You're going to go look for Metal Sonic aren't you?" Shadow stood there quietly, then spoke, "Yes, I'm going to go look for him."

"Then, I'm going."

"No, you aren't, Rouge."

"Why not?"

"You just can't!"

"I'm going unless you give me a real reason!"

"You're not going!"

"I told you I'd always be by your side and I mean it!"

"You aren't coming with me!"

"Why not?"

"Because I can't lose you!" Rouge stood there with her mouth dropped opened as Shadow continued, "I have nothing in this world without you and Omega! You two are my only true friends! When I saw Metal Sonic keep hurting you two, I was filled with rage! Then, I see Omega dead and you bleeding severely, I just couldn't take it. You heard Sharp! Omega may not survive! If I lose you too, I have nothing! I can't let you go because I love you, Rouge! I fucking love you! Don't you get that?" Rouge stared at Shadow. They were both quiet for a while. Then, Rouge kissed him, and hugged the hedgehog as she whispered, "I love you too, Shadow. I know that you want to get revenge. I know you were filled with anger when you saw Omega and I hurt, I know. I won't go if you don't want me too, but just remember, even if we aren't there physically, we are there. I love you, Shadow." "I love you too, Rouge." They both kissed and, although he didn't want to, Shadow pulled back. He then headed out the door, and went to go look for Metal Sonic.

~Metal Sonic's viewpoint~

Metal Sonic got up and looked for the Chaos Emerald. He kept walking until he found a Chao Garden. There, the Emerald was being tossed around in a game of monkey in the middle. When the emerald was tossed far away enough, one of the Chaos picked it up, and Metal Sonic grabbed it, with the Chao still hanging on.

"Unless you let go, you'll be tossed into the skies," Metal Sonic told the Chao. The Chao still held onto the Emerald, "Okay, you asked for it!" As Metal Sonic lifted the Emerald in the air, and was about to throw the Chao, a giant blue arm came out of the ground, and hit Metal Sonic, throwing him in the air. He also dropped the Emerald and the Chao, but both were caught by Chaos. He set them down, and told the Chaos to hide somewhere, while he turned toward Metal Sonic. The robot turned to Chaos and said, "Ah, I've scanned your data, but I never thought I would actually meet you." Chaos went to battle stance and Metal Sonic did the same as he said, "Time to meet your doom, Chaos." Then, they rushed at each other.