Hey HEY HEY! This time I'm pumped and ready to make this chapter crunk. I also want to give a warning...this chapter and probably the next will be Saw themed, only Shadow and Prank based in a way.

And if you don't know what Saw is...then you should either look it up or go, find some Death traps, or just live your life wondering what could have been...

Speaking of which...only ONE MORE CHAPTER!

Yeah time really does seem to fly by doesn't it?

Shush that mouth, start the story because we are about to have a little...TALK!

Uhmm Shadow don't come at me like that...let's handle this like civilized, reasonable, AHHH!

Sorry people I won't be handling much of the pranks as we shall be talking, but I have a special...'sibling', who will be doing some of the work for me.

Chapter 8: All leading up to...

"LET US OUT!" Knuckles growled as he punched the door with enough force to shatter a bridge but to no avail. "Dangit Tails! Why did you make these walls so permeable."

"Well you said and I quote, 'Make the walls and doors harder than I punch, so I can punch them without making holes.' He gave Knuckles a look as everyone else glared upon him.

"Hehe...uhmm...well...you know not to listen to my words." Knuckles growled.

"Because that brain of yours doesn't function at a good enough level to form smart words." Rouge rolled her eyes at Knuckles stupidity.

HEY! My brain functions at a higher pace than other people, they just don't understand the words made from my brain..." Knuckles crossed his arms sticking his head up.

-Within Knuckles's Brain...-

A tiny Knuckles was running on a treadmill holding a thin book that said 'The Knuckles Dictionary' , wearing glasses and biting the edge of his pencil.

"Now how how do you spell function. Eh who cares, I won't be using that word anyway." He threw the utensils down and went back to running, but slipped and fell off making the whole treadmill explode in sparks and him falling to the ground asleep on the book.

-Back to Real World-

"Way to smart for ya Tails." Knuckles nodded his head, unaware of the events unfolding in his brain.

"Ignoring Knuckles lack of knowledge, welcome to one of the final chapters in my game which lead up to a very dramatic sequel." Shadow cackled as he moved the frozen Commander out of the way.

"What's going on Shadow!" Silver cried as he glared at the ominous figure above them.

"You see, I'm working on your final prank, but it's going to take some time to get it done, but I also need you all to be distracted in order for me to get it done. So I've had a 'friend' of mine rig your whole workshop to keep you all 'occupied' for the moment." He dragged the last bit out with a dark tone.

"Hahaha!"

Everyone turned to the only person crazy enough to be enjoying this situation as Mephilles made his way to stand in front of the screen.

"Once again dear brother, you seem to underestimate me, you should remember that I am not these petty and moronic creatures you call friends."

"Ah Mephilles, I almost didn't notice you their, I actually thought I was looking at myself but wondered why I had such a pedophilic look on my face. So how goes you and your mission to chase people younger than you around?"

"You should talk, I mean what kind of man cries over one girl for every moment of his life."

"The kind of man, who doesn't need to steal an awesome man's look just to stop crying over not having any girls at all."

The both of them grew evil grins as they had a stare down which held enough power to split the world between them in half. As they continued this baited battle with each other, but Shadow laughed looking away as Mephilles held his head up in what seemed to be pride of victory.

"I shall not amuse myself with making Mephil here feel bad about himself, so I will just begin my hour of amusement...Let the games begin." He grinned viciously as the screen went black and the light went off in the room. Their where a lot of girlish screams and whines of protest before the lights came back on and both Sonic, Knuckles and Silver had all jumped into Blaze, Rouge, and Tails arms.

They immediately dropped the scared boys on the ground who embarrassingly began to rise up from their spots on the ground.

"Sorry about that, I uhmm felt something on me was all." Silver cleared his throat. Blaze just shook her head in pity before she felt something off about the room.

"Ughh guys...where's Mephilles?" She indicated to where Mephilles form had originally stood in his heated lock-down with their ebony enemy.

"Forget Mephilles, where's Amy?" Rouge cried as everyone began looking every which way for their friend, or in Mephilles's case...enemy. Tails made his way to the door and twisted it open, only to yell in shock at seeing a barrage of chaos spears coming his way. He quickly shut the door and slid down it as a spear surprised him, digging into the metal of the door.

"Tails! I said make the doors harder than I punch!" Knuckles growled as Tails picked himself up glaring at Knuckles and kicked him in the shin as he hopped around.

"You said stronger then your punches, NOT A CHAOS SPEAR!" Tails growled as Sonic came in between and began to pull Tails away from Knuckles before he bit his head off.

"Now guys, I'm sure if we can find a way out of this, then we can find Amy, not so much of Mephilles, and probably figure out what Shadow is planning."

Everyone nodded in agreement and turned to Tails. "You know this place better then anyone else, seeing as you built it, so are there any other exits...excluding the door." Silver asked remembering what happened just a second ago.

Tails began walking around and examining different parts before stepping up onto his table and stomping his foot down on the middle of the table as a plate began to move his foot down. Soon a hatch opened up in front of the table and Tails jumped down with a smile.

"Wow Tails, when did you make this." Cream clapped in awe.

"Aw it was nothing, I made sure to build this place with precautions in case someone like Eggman or Mephilles attacked."

"Hmph as if that would do you any good." Eggman laughed as everyone seemed to actually notice his presence in the room.

"Woh Eggman, when did you get here?" Sonic scratched his head in thought as Eggman's seemingly moment of superiority was shot down.

"What?!"

"Yeah Eggman, how did you get in here? I don't even remember letting you in." Tails also said as everyone looked at the dumb-founded Eggman.

"Seriously! I've been here since the beginning and you didn't notice me!? I was sitting right beside the thieving bat and the future boy their!" He indicated to both Silver and Rouge who also began to try and remember.

"Now that you mention it, I do remember myself saying for someone to move their 'fat-ass' over." Rouge tapped her foot in thought.

"Yeah I think so to..." Silver also nodded in agreement as everyone began contemplating on when Eggman arrived.

"Really!? Really!" Eggman growled before turning the other way and crossing his arms to glower. "This is why I despise you all..

"Come on guys, we aren't gonna get anywhere wondering where Eggman's been and what, let's just get out of here, find Amy possibly Mephilles, and cease Shadow for what he's planning."

Everyone did a victory pump, excluding Eggman who was still in his shame, as all of them began to make their way down inside of the hatch. Eggman was the last to go down and soon the room they where once in, was left in a dark silence until a feminine giggle cut though it.

"Time to have some fun." Her voice resonated around the room before once again leaving the room in the silence it was originally in.

-Scene Break-(Time to leave you all shell-shocked...well those who didn't guess right.)

Shadow stood atop his hill by his tree which outlooked the whole city. Instead of having a hard and angry glare as he usually was fond of making, his eyes where soft as he was in a deep and silent thought.

'Chaos, this world is screwed.'

He gave a small laugh to himself seemingly unaware of the purplish and black goop forming behind him. It began to rise in the air as it slowly began to mesh into a being, it's grayish-black furred arms materialized first showing it to be wearing gloves and an inhibitor ring on each arm, next came it's legs with hover skates that matched the man in front of him.

Finally as his feet touched the ground, his head formed to match the counterpart in front of him as he opened his lids to reveal the shallow emeralds that lay within.

Shadow continued looking forward as a grin came to his face knowing pretale of who may be behind him.

"Hello again, Dark."

"Nice to see you as well brother." Mephilles chuckled as he crossed his arms and came to stand beside Shadow as well to glare upon the city.

"How goes construction on Prank X?"

"It is complete and ready whenever you are."

Shadow could only maliciously grin as Mephilles turned to him with an amused look. "I must say though, you have come very far and held up to your promise of showing this world your true colors."

Shadow merely shrugged and turned around to began walking as Mephilles followed in suite. "Of course, these idiotic people should have known not to make such a mockery of me. What that hedgehog, his friends, and those people did to me shall never be forgiven. If they survive the ordeal that is."

"I do have to say though, even I can't await for this Prank X to go underway, I actually enjoyed putting it together minus the person you had me working with that is."

"If I am going to make this world pay for their shameful sin, then I will need assistance so as to not go overboard that is." Shadow stopped as did Mephilles as a flash of light began to appear in front of them.

Neither closed their eyes as Shadow's grin took up nearly his whole face and Mephilles just gave a glare in the direction. Soon the light began to dissipate as a small wolfish-hedgehog appeared in front of them.

She wore a black sleeveless jumper, black shorts with red stripes along the side, gloves that held inhibitor rings, and small hover skates that resembled Shadow's. Her appearance resembled that of a girlish type of Shadow including a tail and her ears being more angled out and down in a wolfish way. Her quills cascaded down as a few hung in her face between her eyes.

When she looked up to Shadow she gave him a sweet and innocent smile, but as she turned to Mephilles her features became the opposite as she gave him an equal and dispassionate glare.

"Mephilles." She spat his name.

"Girl." He equally said her name with disgust.

"It's Death! For the last time!" She growled moving to advance towards him before Shadow extended his hand out and shook his head.

"This is not a time to be fighting sis, did you do what I asked of you?"

The girl known as Death seemed to finally let her and Mephilles's battle go for now and turned to Shadow with a nod. "Yep, and I set them up like you told me to."

Shadow laughed while ruffling her hair as Death gave him a playful pout. "That's my girl. And how goes our 'stalling' of the others?"

"Don't worry, I have a few clones taking my place at the moment." She shrugged as Shadow's look turned to one of disappointment.

"I thought I told you not to use that ability, it can cause serious damage if not handled properly and your still not sure how long you can keep it up."

Death merely moved her hand in a way to say calm down. "It's all right Shadow, I haven't been doing it all day, and plus you should already know I can keep it up long enough to get back in time."

Shadow sighed and nodded. "Fine, but you better be telling the truth on this."

Death rolled her eyes and gave him a playful glare. "Whatever you say...mom."

"That's brother to you little missy." They laughed and shared a moment before Mephilles cleared his throat for them to remember his presence in the field.

"Don't we have work we should be attending to Shadow?" Shadow seemed to come out of his moment as he nodded and came to stand beside Mephilles as Death stuck her tongue out at him as he muttered 'ignorant child' under his breath.

"Now that those idiots believe you to be gone, Amy to be kidnapped, and unaware of my full intentions. We can begin to let the motions of my plan go to work. Death, you can have fun with them in whatever way you like, but make sure all of them get out in time for me to unveil my precious gift to them."

Death did a mock salute. "Yes sir private Shadow sir!" She laughed before chaos controlling away as Shadow shook his head.

"Siblings." He muttered before turning to Mephilles...

-Scene Break-

Death arrived back in time to see all of the Sonic team going down the hatch as she predicted. She pressed a button and watched as the hatch began to open up into different sectors and each one of them began to go into a certain one.

She prepared to leave when a beep on the screen alerted her, she returned and nearly sweat dropped at seeing Eggman stuck inside of the shaft he was supposed to be going in.

'Man that guy needs to cut back on his food.' She thought to herself as she began to make her way out of the room shaking her head in pity. If she had stayed a little longer she could have heard Eggman with his cries and pleads for help.

"I knew that diet wasn't crap, this is why I'm sticking to the dance workouts!" Eggman growled as he began to move in order to try act least budge in the shaft only finding it no use.

"Well...now what am I supposed to do while I wait? Maybe I can just sing a few tunes while I wait." He soon began to sing his theme song again only to stop with a disappointed sigh and banged his head against the steel.

"Damn I need butter, GET ME SOME BUTTER!"

-Scene Break-

Blaze rose up as she found herself within a large white room. "Ow my head." She began to look around and take in her surroundings, seeing as their was no type of door or any other related exits in her way. She moved to a wall and prepared to punch it, before a figure appeared before her in the room.

"Hello Blaze."

Blaze immediately turned her head already in a battle position, flames ready and poised to attack. Her eyes soon widened as she saw that it was Death and she immediately had her fire go away as she embarrassingly laughed.

"Sorry about that, you kinda snuck up on me."

"Don't worry, I get that a lot." Death laughed.

"So who are you, and what are you doing here." Blaze asked as she knelled to Death.

Death grinned as her hand went behind her back. "My names Death and don't worry I'm not here to take your soul. What am I doing here? Well I'm not sure..."

Blaze laughed at the little joke she made. "Nice to know, but it would be nice if a girl as sweet as you were the one to take me away. I wouldn't want any giant skull faced man in a creepy robe telling me to come with him."

Death laughed along with Blaze and gave a sweet smile. "Thank you, I'll be sure to look in on position as a grim reaper."

Blaze soon remembered something that the girl said earlier. "Wait, how do you know my name again."

The girls sweet smile soon turned into a devilish one as she crossed her arms. "Well you did happen to hurt my brother, so of course I know my enemies."

"Wait I don't even know who you're brother is...unless, those shoes, those rings, it couldn't be..."

"Oh but it is." Death clapped as the room began to fall apart and it revealed both her and Blaze atop a large building touching nearly the edge of the sky. Blaze immediately shrieked as she went to the middle and off the edge to get away from the dangerous hazard.

"How did we get here?!"

"The real question is how will YOU be getting down. You see this building is said to shrink every single moment before it is the size of nothing but a pebble, when it does it will be a long plummet to the ground, spelling impudent doom." Death winked as she made her way to the edge.

"Wait but won't that mean you will also go down?" Blaze watched as the girl turned to her and laughed before jumping down and seemingly disappearing. Once she was gone Blaze watched as the edges of the building shrunk in and she did an audible gulp.

"Oh dear..."

And thus I shall end it here, since it got to long for my comforts. So now we discover the truth...that Mephilles has been working with Shadow all along! We also discover that Shadow has been having a secret sibling working, 'behind the scenes' throughout it all.

Now first off, I wish to say their may be two more chapters seeing as I didn't expect this chapter to get so long and third...well me and Shadow had a talk which will be discussed in the next chap.

R&R, Leave feedback and tell us how you feel, and don't worry about Amy, her fate will be revealed soon.

See you guys next time! :)