Welcome back to Silver and the Quest for the Chaos Emeralds.

In our last adventure, Silver finally started his journey for his first Chaos Emerald, which is on the edge of Spagonia. After walking for four hours with NO BREAK WHATSOEVER, he had his silver little bottom handed to him on a silver little platter by a rebuilt Metal Sonic, thanks to his old foe, Nega Eggman. However, Shadow came to the young hedgehogs' rescue.

So, will Shadow succeed in defeating Metal Sonic? Will Metal Sonic ultimately destroy him and Silver? Will either Silver or Nega get the Chaos Emeralds in the end?

Find out most of your questions NOW.

Well, this was surprising. Shadow actually came to my rescue. That's actually kind of funny, when I think about it. Shadow never really paid too much attention to me. Sure, I raced him a couple times, and he was quite persistent about me and the Chao disappearances a while back, but I wasn't much special to him. So why was he helping me?

Oh, the other part that's surprising? I'm dying. My everything hurts, I'm coughing up blood. Yeah, I'm quite positively sure that I'm dying faster than celebrity reputation.

But that's not currently important. There's something Shadow needs to know about Metal Sonic! "Sh-...Shadow...Metal Sonic...he can..."
Shadow stopped me right there. "I know, Silver. Nega was hidden quite for some time. I'll tell you later, but now, you need to get patched up. Rouge! Omega! Get him to the nearest hospital!"

At that point, I saw two figures head towards me. The first was a giant metallic robot, with the Greek symbol omega written on his shoulders. This was E-123 Omega, Eggman's last and strongest of his E-series robots. Or so what Sonic told me. Meh. The other figure was a...modestly dressed bat who was...*ahem*. Gifted, I should say. PHYSICALLY gifted. She was Rouge. From what I know, Shadow, Rouge, and Omega all work for a military organization known as GUN. Which is kind of funny. In my time, GUN was a peace keeping organization hating the idea of war. History can be quite interesting.

"Hang on, Silver. We'll get you out of here." Rouge said, picking me up. "OOF! You wanna lay off the...whatever you're eating?" ...I'm not that heavy, am I?

Omega took me from Rouge's arms and proceeded to walk towards the nearest city. Granted, it wasn't the direction that I was heading, but it did two things in my favor: Remove me from the fight, and get me patched up. Only problem. I needed patching up NOW.

"Rouge...my bag...bandages...right side...now..." I uttered weakly. Rouge rushed to my bag and found the bandages. She quickly put them to use under my right arm. Granted, this would only buy us an hour at most. No cream was being applied, just the pure pressure of the bandages. However, that was an hour granted, and I'm thankful for at least that. The bandages should soak up most of the blood.

"How...long...until we reach...town?" Rouge grabbed my map from my bag and looked for a bit. "About twenty minutes. Can you hold on for that long?" I took a look at the bandages. Rouge put them on well enough. I wasn't expecting perfection, she's no surgeon. "Maybe..." Rouge looked straight at Omega after I said that. "Omega, we need to put the pedal to the metal! Let's go!" Rouge jumped on Omega's back after saying that. Then Omega started doing something...odd. Does his back always catch on fire like that?

"ACTIVATING ROCKET JET ACCELERATION. PROCEEDING FOR HIGH SPEEDS TOWARDS GRAYLEY CITY." Omega said. Ah, rocket accelerato-ROCKET ACCELERATORS?! I'm too injured for that speed!

Well, thankfully, when he said high speeds, he was just going around the speed of a car on the freeway, so my bandages were fine. I noticed the next destination was Grayley City. That...could present a problem.

Now, Grayley City isn't all bad. It's a city full of anthropomorphic animals, and they're all nice. The one problem is that it's REALLY small. Seriously, the town only had around 40 buildings, not including houses. So my chances of getting into their hospital easy was small.

I just hope Omega gets us there in time.

Now, I know what you're all thinking. "Why can't we see the fight between Shadow and Metal Sonic?" Well, I originally wanted to do that when I got a better idea. I'm going to have this story cross over with two others that I will eventually work on. The only thing planned for them so far is that Shadow will be the main character for one and Sonic will be the main character for the other.

With that being said...yes, this chapter is a bit slow. I'm sorry, but...I'm kind of building here as I go. Without an editor. If someone wants to help me out, that'd be great. I'd prefer someone who has written a story though.

With all that said, I'm the Silver Keyblade, and I'll see you all next chapter, take care.