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*At the Space Colony ARK*

"You ready Knuckles?" Tails asked as they were about to depart on their missions. "Yeah, but how am I supposed to navigate this place? It's not as easy as you think," Knuckles stated. "Alright then here," Tails handed him a holographic map of the ARK," It's a map." Knuckles nodded. "Ok. We've wasted enough time, let's get going!"

Knuckles ran, once more, through the hallways to find his destination. Luckily the cannon was nearby. Hopefully there wouldn't be anything in his way, but that was probably a little too much to hope for.

It was as if that thought jinxed it because up ahead four G.U.N robots stood blocking the path. As Knuckles ran up to them, they cocked their laser guns and waited for him to come close. He made a fist and and punched right through two of the bots, kicked one, and gave an uppercut to the last one. He then continued to run forward. 'Piece o' cake,' he thought to himself. He made a right into the next metal hallway, but it came to a cliff at the end.

"Now what do I do?" Knuckles asked to no one in particular. Across the cliff was another wall and an opening to, what looked like, another hallway. Knuckles looked around for a way to get over there because it was to far to just glide to. He looked up and saw a poll that was perpendicular to the walls and connected them. Knuckles jumped up and grabbed hold of it. He swung himself back and forth and when he had enough momentum he let go. It flung him just far enough so that he could glide the rest of the way. He landed and started running again. The map said to make a right and then a left so he did just that. As he went on more and more robots came into his path. At one point he ran into two Artificial Chaos that shot lasers at him.

Knuckles dodged the lasers as they came and punched the creatures in the head causing them to explode. "I remember fighting the real Chaos not to long ago," Knuckles reminisced, "I have to admit, Sonic did a pretty good job that day." He felt a twinge of grief for a moment at the thought of his deceased friend, but shook it off and kept running.

*With Tails*

"How's it going, Knuckles?" Tails spoke into his walkie talkie. "Alright, so far. How 'bout you?" Knuckles responded. "Ok. I'm almost at the control room, where Eggman is headed."

"Ok then. Got to go," Knuckles said. Tails continued with his mecha through the ARK. He passed by a window that faced Earth and looked out it. The view was really breath taking. The Earth looked so beautiful. The blue and green planet seemed so peaceful among the stars. It would be so easy just to forget everything, all your troubles, and just stare at it forever. Tails almost did. He stared out it for a moment, but then shook his head and stayed on task, "No. I have a mission to complete. This is for Sonic," He said to himself.

He continued forward. Just then a robot jumped out in front of Tails. The fox thought quickly and locked on to the robot and shot multiple laser bullet. The (cheaply made) robot exploded once in contact with the bullets. Just as that one was gone, three more took its place. Tails locked on to them all and shot lasers at them which caused them to also explode. Up ahead a few boxes were stacked like stairs and lead up to another hall at a higher level. Tails hopped up there and continued down, only to find a group of robots and a giant pit of bright green acid. Tails shot the bots and raised an eyebrow at the pit. "Uh, why do they need an acid pit on a space station?" He questioned and flew over to the other side where there was a landing to another hall. (A/N: Exactly my thoughts while playing -_- they don't need a flippin acid pit on the ARK, just sayin.)

*With Knuckles*

Knuckles ran into many robots which he destroyed but because of his time constraint he ran past a few groups of them. They didn't do anything about it though.

"Almost to the cannon," he stated to himself. The hall came to a dead end, but the ceiling had a square hole above the dead end. Knuckles climbed up the wall with his shovel claws on his gloves and went through the hole above him. He went up through the tall chute for about thirty seconds until there was finally an opening to a platform. Knuckles climbed out of the hole and onto the platform which turned out to be a long path but had no walls or ceiling like the ones he had been through. It just sat there in space being barely kept aloft by supports. It looked kind of like a runway in its shape. Knuckles was about to continue down it when a voice behind him spoke.

"And where do you think you're going?"

Knuckles turned and saw a black and red hedgehog walking toward him. "What do you want?" He asked sternly. "I believe I asked you first," the hedgehog retorted. Knuckles turned back around and continued forward and said, "Look pal, I don't have time for this. See ya."

Suddenly something struck him in the back causing him to yell out in surprise. The hedgehog came up to him. "I'm afraid I cannot let you leave." Knuckles glared at the hedgehog. "Who are you anyway?" he asked. "My name is Shadow the Hedgehog and I am the Ultimate Lifeform created by Doctor Ger-" the hedgehog was cut off by Knuckles who said, "Yeah, I didn't ask for your life story just your name." The hedgehog glared daggers at the Guardian.

"How dare you mock the Ultimate Lifeform," he growled. Shadow charged a Chaos Spear in his hand and shot it at Knuckles. Knuckles dodged it and got in a fighting stance. "Bring it, hedgehog!" he exclaimed. Shadow charged with a fist full of Chaos Spears and a look of determination. Knuckles drew back his fist and punched at Shadow. The hedgehog dodged and grabbed the echidnas fist. He kicked Knuckles in the stomach with his metal shoes and punched him in the face.

Knuckles grimaced but used his free hand and punched back at Shadow, this time hitting him in the face. He then pulled away his hand and got back in his fighting stance. He came forward to kick Shadow but the hedgehog disappeared in a flash of light. "Huh?" Knuckles questioned but right behind him was another flash and Shadow appeared. The hedgehog did a round-house to the back of Knuckles' head. Said echidna was shot forward and hit the ground. Knuckles growled and got up. Shadow was already throwing punches at Knuckles, but Knuckles dodged them all and kicked back at Shadow, who also dodged. "Chaos Spear!" Shadow yelled and shot the spears at Knuckles. A few hit Knuckles' shoulder while he tried to dodged.

Knuckles ran at Shadow. Shadow just stood there until Knuckles was right in front of him and dashed to the side at an amazing speed. Knuckles halted and looked over at Shadow. "How did you- " Knuckles was cut off by a fist full of Chaos Spears coming at him. He ducked and the spears flew over him. "You know you are really starting to get on my nerves!" the echidna said. He ran at Shadow and grabbed him by the neck. He punched Shadow's face multiple times. "Chaos Spear!" Shadow repeated and five spear shot forward. They blasted Knuckles backwards and he landed on the ground a few feet away. He slowly got back up though. Shadow ran towards Knuckles so fast that he was just a blur. He body slammed the echidna to the ground and pinned him there. Knuckles fought under Shadow and tried to roll him off of himself.

He was able to roll Shadow off of him and then pinned the hedgehog down on the ground. Knuckles drew back his fist and was about to punch Shadow. But he noticed Shadow looking at something behind Knuckles. "What?" Knuckles asked. He felt a finger tap on his shoulder. Knuckles turned his head and looked behind him. The echidna's eyes widened at the blue figure that he saw standing there with a smirk on its face.

"Mind if I cut in?" Sonic asked.

A/N: Yay chappie numbero cuatro is up and running :) Sorry if this is boring though, I'm feeling really lazy. Derp :p So anyway, thx again followers and favoriters! You all get a cookie!

What will come next in this adventure of surprises and mystery? Tune in next time for Chapter 5!

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