~Team Dark's viewpoint~

Rouge and Omega were looking all over the jungle for Shadow. They were probably running in circles for about three minutes. They had found the Chao Garden and saw the Chao circled around Chaos, taking care of him. They thought of Metal Sonic doing this, and left to let the Chao take care of their guardian. They found a Chaos Emerald near a waterfall, and saw three bodies. Rouge frowned thought, "Those might be Tora's ex and some friends who tried to help him," she thought to herself, "They had no chance." They both continued on to look for Shadow. Little did they know, he was closer than they thought. Shadow was running through the trees, looking for Metal Sonic. He sensed a Chaos Emerald, and headed in that direction. Omega sensed the Chaos Emerald Shadow had, and he and Rouge ran to that direction. Shadow crashed into the two and all three lied on the ground. Shadow got up, shook his head, and saw it was Rouge and Omega. They got up and saw it was him. "Shadow!" Rouge screamed as she hugged him. Shadow blushed a little, then asked, "Rouge, what are you doing here? And Omega, you did get fixed!" Omega nodded, then Rouge answered Shadow's question, "When Omega got better, we thought you would need help."

"…You two shouldn't be here." Shadow told them.

"Why not, Shadow?"

"Rouge, you're still hurt. Omega, you just woke up. It's too early for you two to be fighting alongside me."

"Shadow," Rouge told him, putting her hand on his shoulder, "we're helping you. Remember, I said I'd always be by your side. And I am, along with Omega. So, we're stayin' with you." Shadow knew he it would be stupid to argue and just said, "Okay." Then, all three heard a moan and ran to where it came from. All three were shocked at what they saw. It was Eggman, whose body had been burnt severely. They saw a medical robot near him that helped him to his feet, and Rouge let out a yell while Shadow and Omega were just staring at Eggman. Half of the skin on his face was gone! You could one half of his entire skull on one side, while the other side still had skin, but was still burn. They also saw the parts of his body that's skin was burnt through, showing the bone. Eggman said, "You three!" when he saw them.

"Eggman," Rouge said, "what happened to you?"

"Metal Sonic, that's what happened. He threw me and my ship across the jungle, then shot a missile here! I'm glad I had my medical robot with me, or I would be dead!" Team Dark looked at each other to decide what to do. It was obvious of the choices they decided. Omega wanted to just leave Eggman here, Rouge wanted to bring him to somewhere to be taken care of, while Shadow was neutral on the subject. Eggman was angry that they had to think about it while he was still there in pain. A decision was made. Shadow teleported the four somewhere, and Eggman didn't know what it was until the three left. It was a hospital near a prison. Team Dark, though, didn't teleport the medical robot, so Eggman fell on the ground when they left. Team Dark was back at the jungle, in the exact place they left. They looked through the remains of the ship, and found a radar. It could tell where each of Eggman's robots was. This helped out with two things. It answered two questions: how Eggman always found them, as Omega was in the list, and where Metal Sonic was. It also told where the Chaos Emeralds were, and there was one near Metal Sonic, so Team Dark headed in that direction.

~Team Attack's viewpoint~

Sharp was in the room Tora was in, listening to his favorite song while he waited for Tora to wake up. Leon and Camouflage decided to go to the club, since they just saw the bouncer droid break when no one was there. He turned the music down when he saw Tora start to wake up. She saw him and hugged the dragon, making him blush. He dd the same and t lasted for a while.

"Sharp," Tora said while still wrapped in his arms, "where's-"

"They're at the club, and Rouge left along with Omega to go find Shadow."

"He woke up?"

"Yeah, he woke up a little bit after you fell unconsciousness."

"Oh." Remembering fainting made her blush a little. Before she spoke, she looked into Sharp's green eyes. She got lost in them, and forgot what she was going to say, but she remembered after a while. "Sharp, the reason I fainted was because-"

"It was too much to take in?" She nodded. While she knew anybody would say that, she thought to herself, "He can read me like a book." She looked back into his eyes, and thought to herself again, "He is cute, and smart, and has pretty eyes, and…" She got lost in her thoughts about her crush. She had always liked him, and thought that maybe he liked her back, but he never showed a sign. That was because Sharp wanted to be careful to hide the signs. He didn't want to complicate the friendship, so he was always careful. He thought about what Camo said.

"Sharp, we've said it before, Tora likes you, you like her, admit your damn feelings and make her your girlfriend!"

Sharp knew Camouflage said it out of annoyance, but he did think Tora might like him back. He looked into her hazel eyes, and got lost in them. When Tora started talking, he immediately got out of the phase.

"Sharp, I don't know how I feel about you- I mean this! I don't know how I feel about this! I mean, I'm sad because I never thought you guys, of all people, would kill people. But, I'm angry with myself and happy, because he's gone. I never loved him. I only went out with him because I was scared. He never beat me or anything, but he would call me names and threaten me. I don't know."

"Don't be happy that he's dead, be happy that you're not scared anymore. Where he is now, I don't know, but just be happy you aren't scared." Tora looked at Sharp and smiled at him.

"Sharp, I love you." Sharp looked at her and smiled. It surprised him, but he knew she did. "I love you too." Then, they kissed. They got lost in it, only focusing on them. When they stopped, they saw Camo and Leon in the doorway, but they didn't have any real emotion. They didn't smile, they didn't gasp, they just stood there with blank expressions, turned to each other, and said, "Knew it." Then, they clapped hands. Sharp and Tora were blushing and stood up.

"So," Sharp asked, "anything happen at the club?"

"I threw out a few guys." Leon said.

"Why?"

"Fighting. That's all for me. What about you, Camouflage?"

"I just thought about Team Dark." All of them were silent. They just thought about the three. Rouge still had damage to her head, Omega only woke up today, and they had no idea if they had found Shadow yet. They just hoped for the best.

~Team Dark's viewpoint~

"This thing isn't helping!" Shadow yelled out of frustration. They had been walking the exact direction of the Emerald, but it always away from them. They should have been at least closer to it. It was always the same distance away. All decided to split up to look for the Emerald. Rouge flew the trees, even hit a giant spider, Shadow just ran, dodging any obstacle, and Omega was rushing in his direction. Eventually, all three just headed back to the exact spot they were just in!

"Where are we?" Rouge cried out. None of them had the answer.

~Metal Sonic's viewpoint~

Metal Sonic was flying through the skies when he found a Chaos Emerald, he also notice Team Dark, sleeping.

"They must have found Eggman's ship, and succumbed to the special gas my missile releases after exploding." The robot said. When he grabbed the Emerald, he said, "I could end them now, but that would be no fun. I want them to suffer. I'll just look for the next Emerald." Metal Sonic flew off, not noticing the Emeralds they had. All three were laying on the ground, asleep.

Author's note: Sorry this chapter wasn't as exciting. I'm about to start another story, and I have partial writer's block for this one. Just please R&R.