Sonic 25
Level 4: The Labyrinth of time
Act 2: The Genesis Point
Shadow found himself in the past again, he saw his father take his younger self to a small laboratory.
Charles Hedgehog his father knocked on the door of this lab, the door opened and a robot hedgehog greeted them.
"Master Charles unit is here" said the robot
"Fantastic Worker-bot 00001" said someone else, a man came into view and it was Robotnik
"Hello you are the doctor I heard so much about?" Charles asked
Robotnik nodded "yes and this is your son Michel is it not?"
Charles nodded as he wheeled the young hedgehog in
"Poor little guy" Robotnik mused "his illness has made him very sick now has it?"
Charles sighed "yes the other doctors said they cannot cure it but you said you know the Mobia more than anyone else on the planet"
Robotnik nodded "lets just say I spent a lot of time on the subject, I will do what I can for your son"
Charles nodded "you be as good boy now okay?"
"I will try" said Michel
"I have this stasis chamber over here" said Robotnik "it will make you better"
Michel nodded as Robotnik placed him inside.
"I will look after him over the next few days" said Robotnik
Charles nodded as he walked off with a very sad look on his face.
Robotnik closed the door as he said "don't worry my friend this town is filled of people I have helped"
He then opened the door nearby as hundreds of Worker-bots were slaving away making Robotniks new invasion force.
"Yeah it was barrels of fun after this" said Shadow
"But yet it is who you are" came a voice
"Tikal ol girl long time no see" said Shadow dryly
"You have to break this chain Robotnik made for you, you are not on his leash" she said
"It's a chain I can't really let go of" said Shadow as he looked at his hands "I am still his property am I not?"
"Yet Bunnie fights him" said Tikal "it's not too late to change"
"Whatever" said Shadow as he woke up.
Shadow got out of his cabin and checked himself over, most of the scars he had from the battle with Bunnie were healed and he seemed fit.
It made sense, his "blood" was more like a synthetic compound that was able to self heal in a flash.
Another fine piece of work from the good doctor.
Shadow walked across the hallway and saw Rouge
"Good morning you" she said
"Good morning, so where is that Fang character at he is usually hovering about around here?"
"He said he was busy" she said "want to chat?"
Shadow smiled "sure its always nice to talk to you"
"Heard Robotnik is near done his new weapon"
Shadow nodded "it will be active soon, he said it will be ready in a few days"
"And what will you do?"
"I think I am going to take a drive on my new Dark Rider, want to join?"
"No thanks" said Rouge "give me a hover-board and you may have me though"
Shadow laughed "I may get Robotnik to do that for you"
Rouge laughed herself and the two went their separate ways.
"Oh wow, really?" Tails asked hearing Sonics story
"That is incredible" said Sally
"Oui mon amie that is most fascinating" said Antoine
Sonic nodded "it's all true"
"So let me get this right" said Knuckles "a meteor came down from the sky and inside that meteor was the Master emerald?"
Sonic nodded "yup" he said
"This meteor nearly killed all life but soon reversed that by giving birth to us Mobia" replied Knuckles
"Yup" Sonic mused again
"Then there was this kid Chris Thorndyke who survived the war between the Mobia and the humans by sleeping in a tube. Woke up and saw the Mobia go into war and decided to become Robotnik"
"Yup anything else?" Sonic asked
"Well there is one question I have" said Amy "why did the meteor come in the first place and why did it cause our race to exist?"
"No idea" said Sonic
"Then we have to ask why the emerald came apart" said Sally "there are so many unanswered questions to be had here"
"Well at least we know why Robotnik wants to take over" said Bunnie "when I was under his power such questions were forbidden I only know that he thought we were sick and making us into robots was the only cure."
"Its kind of sad really" said Tails "sounded like Robotnik was a kid much like me"
"Well monsters just don't come from out of an egg" said Sticks "boot this is one egg I wish I could have scrambled"
"Well the Genesis point may be our only clue to the rest of the mystery" said Lupe "I have heard stories about it and even that is questionable"
"Well the vision I had only given away so much" said Sonic "but there is one other thing we know, there is another me out there"
Tails nodded "you were probably caught in a temporal causality loop caused by a rift in the space time continuum"
"A what now?" Knuckles asked
"Well think of time as not a line but as a rubber band, ball it up and the possibilities can go anywhere. Then place that balled up rubber band in another one and you get what happened."
"So there are two rubber bands now?" Knuckles asked again
"Yes and they are twisted together intertwined and split apart, but both rubber bands still come from the same rubber tree."
"I really don't get it now" said Knuckles
"Same here" moaned Sticks
"It's not that complicated but fine I get the confusion" replied Tails
"I think I get it" said Sally "it's actually more like a tree branch though then a rubber band"
"It's a little of both actually" said Tails
"The kids got me" said Rotor "Tails never let that big brain of yours go to waste"
Tails nodded
Marine said "well as for going to the Genesis point it won't be easy, it is deep below lots of water in another chamber, I know as I checked"
Sonic sighed "we have to go there, I have a feeling that something that can help us is in there"
"How so?" asked Sally
"It was something in the back of my mind the whole time I was there in that room, the thing is that it was strongest when I was roboticized"
"Wait you think you can find your answer… by getting roboticized?" Asked Amy
Sonic nodded
"But that is crazy!" said Knuckles "how can it be in the back of your mind when you don't have one of your own?"
Bunnie nodded "this unit never had such things when this unit was a slave, how can you be so sure?"
"I think I get it" said Tails "if there are two Sonics one in the past and one now in two bodies one retains something the other did not, like a recessed memory of some kind"
"I think your wish of getting a roboticizer is going to be granted Tails" said Sonic
"But are you sure?" asked Sally
"I have to try, I am willing to be a robot for that"
The others nodded as soon they went outside to fetch a roboticizer.
Fang was on Robotniks carrier, he looked about as the various Worker-Bots toiled for their master.
He was here to find where the emeralds were, he wanted to take them for himself.
He wondered onto as small lab where Robotnik was at work on some sort of modified Worker-Bot.
The Worker-bot was a hedgehog and Robotnik took its head off its body and painted most of it gold and blue
Beside him was another robot body, one that was sleeker and faster looking then any other Fang had seen. It was painted blue and gold and it had what looked to be a turbine in its chest"
"Almost there my friend" said Robotnik "you will be more powerful than even Shadow"
He then placed the head on and the robotic hedgehogs eyes lit up as it said "Metal Sonic Online"
"Good" said Robotnik "you are now ready"
"There is someone out there watching us Master" said Metal Sonic
"Let them, better let my surprise come sooner anyhow"
The robot stared at Fang, its eyes lit up a bright red as Fang moved on.
"This is completely nuts!" said Amy as she was running luring a nearby roboticizer pod her way.
"But Sonic wants this" said Tails
"We still got other robots to deal with though" said Antoine
"Let me take a slam at them!" said Knuckles
"And let them taste my boomerang!" Sticks cried as she tossed her boomerang.
"I got the bots over here" said Sally shooting her pistol
"And I got the ones over here" said Rotor
"Just lure our roboticizer to the cave, like our plan we are letting it caught in the net that Lupe and Marine set up!"
"Why isn't Sonic out here with us anyhow?" asked Amy
"Guess he is going to be there in the cave before the net" said Tails
The group backed away as the roboticizer pod followed Amy, she raced forward to the mouth of the cave where she saw Sonic waiting
"Its all yours blue boy!" she said
"I thought you were going to stop calling me that?" said Sonic musingly
"Hey have your fun you are going to be a robot here in a minute!"
The two ran forward and Sonic stopped, Amy got past where the net was as the roboticizer grabbed Sonic.
Sonic once again felt it transform his body and alter his mind, he felt the robot personality take over as the roboticizer let go of him.
"All hail Robotniks eternal empire!" he said
The roboticizer was soon caught afterwards Tails ran forward and put some sort of device on both Sonic and the roboticizer, it took them both down as the mission was complete.
Sonic was placed inside a room in the temple, his body held down by weighted steel chains.
The roboticizer was being studied closely by Tails, he looked at every part and every section of the machine on his scanner.
"So we got our own one of these now" said Amy "what are we going to do with it?"
"Come up with some immunity first then reverse engineer it, afterwards I will use it on one of us" said Tails
"Can you do all that?" asked Sally
"Sure can" said Tails "the matter conversion is complex but I think I can do it"
"Then what about Sonic" said Amy
"I think you should talk to him, see if you can reach him and guide him to what he knows"
"I still say this is insane" said Amy
Tails nodded as Amy walked off to join Sonic.
Shadow was on his dark rider on the streets of Star Light City, he was moving fast on the mostly empty streets as most of the city was evacuated.
Beside him came Fang on his own craft, the Marvelous Queen.
"Nice bike" said Fang "does it go fast?"
"As fast as I want it to" said Shadow "what brings you here Fang"
"You do know Robotnik is building your replacement right?"
Shadow stopped his bike and said "yes I know, what of it?"
Fang blinked "you are not jealous or anything, he is building a Sonic robot you know!"
"So what, it's not my concern. It may be faster and stronger but it will never be me"
"You really don't get much under your skin do you?" said Fang
From the distance they heard a loud cry "hey guys wait for me!"
Rouge then came down beside them riding on a hover-board
"Well look at that!" said Shadow "the big guy gave you a present!"
Rouge nodded "I call it the Hover-bat" she said
Fang shrugged "more like a white thunder"
"okay I will go with that one instead" she said musingly
"Come on guys the night is still young!" said Shadow
The other two nodded as the three raced through the city.
Sonic was looking down at Amy, he stared at her coldly with his robotic eyes and stated "you will be cured!"
"Sure I will blue boy" said Amy
"That is not the designation of this unit, this unit is Worker-bot 59013"
"Didn't you say as Sonic that you were Worker-Bot 00001?"
"That is correct but that designation was taken"
"And what happens if you go over your five digit numbers?"
"We will have more complex designations" said Worker-bot 59013
"And if we change you back?"
"That is not possible" said Worker-bot 59013 "roboticization is permanent"
"I knew this idea was crazy!" said Amy "now you are just another stupid robot Sonic I hope you are happy!"
"Robots do not feel, we only… we only"
Worker-bot 59013's eyes flickered, something odd was happening to the roboticized Sonic.
His feet became less square and more like his old sneakers, his speaker turned into a mouth and his eyes turned green.
"Malfunction" said Worker-bot 59013 "this is illogical"
The armor of the robot became blue as Worker-bot 59013 said "I… I am free!"
Sonic looked down at Amy and said "what are you waiting for, let this unit down!"
Amy took off the chains and Sonic smiled at her "I knew it"
Amy looked confused "you knew what Sonic?"
"The energy in this place it is slowly turning me back to normal"
"But how?" Amy asked
Sonic walked over and said "I think its time for a little swim"
The two walked over to where Tails was studying the roboticizer and Tails spotted them
"Sonic!" he said as he ran up and hugged Sonic "you look… different"
Sonic nodded "Tails how far have you gone in your study of the roboticizer?"
Tails shrugged "not far, why do you ask?"
"I think I have the key on how to counter it, but Tails you said you wanted to be a robot I think this place will give you that chance"
Tails nodded "I think I see where you are going with this, okay Sonic I will go into the roboticizer now!"
"Wait this is crazy he will be just like you were right?" Amy asked
"Just watch" said Sonic
Tails nodded as he climbed into the roboticizer, it activated and it turned Tails into a robot.
He stepped out of it but the others saw that Tails was different.
His feet were more rounded and colored like that of his shoes, he had a mouth and his metal was still the same orange yellow as it was before.
"Wow, neat!" said the robot Tails "this unit feels awesome!"
Knuckles looked on and said "okay what just happened?"
"It's the genesis point" said Sonic "it is the epicenter of everything about us Mobia and the emeralds"
"Then why isn't Bunnie being effected?" asked Antoine
Sonic shrugged "I think it's because she wasn't roboticized near the center of the temple like I was or Tails for that matter"
"But this energy can change me back?" asked Bunnie
"I think over time yes" said Tails scanning himself "for you it will take days but for us it will only take an hour or two, but already the energy has effected you as you didn't refer to yourself in the third person."
Bunnie looked surprised "why golly I just did, and there I did it again! Woohoo!"
"So if Bunnie stays for a few days she can be here old self" said Antoine
"Well she can probably revert faster if we took her to genesis point" said Sonic
Bunnie smiled and said "thanks, but I think I will stay like this for a while longer, being a robot came in handy during the last battle"
"So I guess now we will head to genesis point" Said Amy
Sonic nodded "I want you and Knuckles to join Tails and I, we have to go there"
"But why us?" said Knuckles
"Chaos energy, its inside of us" said Tails
Sonic nodded "lets go, but Lupe you said there were robots?"
"Several" said Lupe
"We must be careful then" said Sonic "do you have a list of any underwater foes we can encounter Sally?"
Sally nodded as she said "yeah I can give you the data right from Nicole"
"Then Knuckles, Amy please hop into the roboticizer" "what?" said Amy and Knuckles simultaneously
"It's a long way there you would drown" Sonic replied
Marine nodded "it would take too long as you are now, I almost died down there I should know"
"Fine" said Amy "but if I get stuck as a robot I am blaming you"
"What she said" said Knuckles
The two were soon roboticized and made their way to a large body of water.
"This is the way to genesis point?" asked Sonic
Lupe nodded "it's the only way we know of" she said
"Okay lets dive in" Sonic replied
"But we are robots, we will sink like stones!" said Amy
"Will we now?" Sonic chimed as he gently walked on top of the water
Amy gasped as best as she could as a robot "its like the mystic cave"
"Chaos energy" said Sonic "this is why I am willing to dive in here, we will be safe"
Then from the water jumped a robotic fish that tried to attack Sonic
"Oh look it's a Chopper!" he said as he smashed it apart
He looked down and saw more robots below
"The gang is all here" he said as he then dove into the water, Tails, Amy and Knuckles followed as they went into the water.
Shadow was on the outskirts of Starlight City looking at it from afar, Rouge was by his side looking at the town.
Shadow just stared at it and did not say a word, it seemed he was deep in thought as Rouge came near.
"It's a beautiful town is it not?" Rouge asked
Shadow shrugged "what does it matter it will soon be gone"
"Well you seem captivated by this place, is it your old home?"
Shadow laughed "what do you think I am sentimental or something?"
"No I was just curious. Did I insult you?"
Shadow sighed and said "no, but you are right this is my old hometown"
Rouge grew curious "but I thought your former father was from Green Hill?"
"He was, he moved here for a short time when he was with my mother"
"You don't speak of your parents much do you?" Rouge asked
"My mother died giving birth to me, she had the same illness I did before I became who I am today. That illness was called N.I.D.S that made her frail and weak and didn't do anything to her until I was in her belly. I was born with the illness and despite many doctors my condition would have killed me if it were not for Robotnik."
"Well sorry to hear about your mom" Rouge replied
"Its not necessary" Shadow replied
"As you say, anyway where are you heading, you are not going to look for Sonic are you?"
Shadow gave another shrug "there is a place near here, the Labyrinth. It is the place where Genesis point rests"
Rouge looked at him with a curious look "genesis point?"
Shadow nodded "they say it is the birthplace of the Mobia"
"Is that so?" Rouge asked
"Indeed" said Shadow "I plan to go there soon after the island is conquered, something is calling me and I don't know why"
Rouge nodded "its Tikal isn't it?"
Shadow sighed "you know of her, yes I can feel her near as well as something else."
"Like what?" Rouge asked
"No idea" said Shadow "right now I won't worry about it but I will check it out later. Anyhow it seems Fang has gone AWOL again"
"That guy comes and goes as he pleases, he is not the most loyal guy I know"
Shadow laughed "no I guess he isn't, anyhow lets go back to base I am sure Robotnik is waiting for us now"
Rouge nodded as they drove back to the carrier.
Fang looked on as the others left and said "I just don't want you in on my stealing of the emeralds"
He then patted a bag full of the four chaos Emeralds he stole from Robotnik and said "as long as the fat guy doesn't know it won't hurt him"
Sonic and his team were swimming, they navigated though the under water caverns fighting many robots along the way.
First there were the Choppers and as they got deeper they met shark type robots called Jaws.
From the walls came more robots, ones that dug through the walls called Burrobots.
All of these robots were just stragglers and not a sign of an invasion force and probably got in from another section of the Labyrinth.
They saw a large crack nearby that was allowing the robots in, the group decided to briefly seal it up using some nearby stones and material so no more robots were able to get in.
There was plenty of stone blocks nearby and it was an easy fix with the help of their robot bodies.
Soon though they saw a bright light and eventually dove towards it, they soon reached a large temple chamber full of air.
This was the Genesis point, the group swam up to bit and got inside.
"Wow look at this place" said Tails looking at the large temple.
They found themselves in a large room decorated with stone slabs with colorful paintings of Mobia on them.
In the center of the room was a large odd shaped object.
It was made of black stone, rectangular but the sides were almost hexagonal, on the left side there were what appeared to be stone switches, one was to the left recessed a large trough and appeared it could be slid up and down and the other next to it that seemed to be able to flip left and right and at the middle had a red marking on it.
And right under that was a small gray button lined with dots.
The most notable feature was off to the right of the object, it was large and round and just below it the stone curved oddly.
The front seemed to have around hole on the left and two far larger oddly shaped cutouts on the right.
"Its astounding" said Amy "never seen anything like it"
"It's the legendary genesis shrine!" said Knuckles
The others looked at him and Sonic said "what can you tell us about it?"
Knuckles shrugged "it's a story from the religion of my people and my Grandfather only taught me so much, my grandfather was going to teach me the whole thing but died before he could, but what I do know is our teachings. Long ago the great god Solaris came to this planet and saw that it was ruled by a race of monsters we call the Namuh who polluted and ruined this world. Solaris grew angry at this so sent his son Sol to deal with things, soon the time of the great cleansing came which killed most of the Namuh and gave birth to us. Soon one day the Mobia and Namuh waged war and over time Sol chose us his children to be his disciples and this Genesis shrine was made to mark the birthplace of our god."
"Well obviously the Namuh in your story are the humans" said Tails
"Heck the name Namuh is human spelled backwards" said Amy
"Hey I didn't write the old texts!" said Knuckles "but yeah I guess it's a given"
Sonic nodded "well is there anything else you know?"
Knuckles shrugged "sort of, according to my teachings the seed of Sol was placed in the Genesis point and it was found by the true followers of Sol, Pachacamac the founder of my tribe found the great emerald and then afterwards it shattered"
"Just like what Sonic saw" said Tails
Knuckles nodded "it was said that the reason why the emerald shattered is that my people abandoned the path of Sol and the only way to salvation was to get the emeralds and eliminate all those who oppose those true path."
"Well now we know why the chaos war started" said Amy
"And that makes up for some holes in my story" said Sonic "for Knuckles it became a part of his faith but for me I saw it from the outside"
"And now what you talked about earlier makes sense" said Knuckles "now that you mention it your experience in the time room does match up to what my religion has said."
"But sometimes stories can be twisted" said Tails "and I wonder was this Solaris a real god"
"You don't believe in a god?" asked Knuckles
Tails nodded "sorry I am a scientist and I only believe what I see, and while Solaris might have been powerful am not sure if he is worth worshiping especially after causing so much death"
Knuckles gave a nod "no I understand where you are coming from kid, my people are all but gone now thanks to its holy wars in the age of chaos. But if Solaris isn't a real god how did it create our race?"
"I have the answer for that" said a voice and soon appeared Tikal looking like some sort of ghost.
"Well now we see why they say the place is haunted" said Amy
"Tikal I knew you would come here" said Sonic
Tikal nodded "yes this temple is tied to that above us, so I can appear here."
Knuckles came forward "hello Tikal, long time huh?"
Tikal nodded "I am sorry my descendant"
Tails looked at Knuckles "you are related to her?"
Knuckles gave a nod "my bloodline goes all the way back to her father, anyway so what do you know Tikal?"
Tikal nodded and said "I know everything, the origin of the emerald, the meteor and Solaris"
"Were listening" said Amy
Tikal nodded and said "before Solaris came there was a great and terrible war far from our planet, a race called the Wisps were fighting a war against a race called the Black arms and their allies the Zeti. The Wisps were a peaceful race pushed into desperation as they were nearly wiped out, they created Solaris a living weapon to deal with their enemies. But Solaris rebelled and went off destroying everything it wanted to, it used special meteors as its weapons with the emeralds inside of them. The Wisps captured Solaris and sealed it away but the damage was done. The Wisps were filled with regret and used the emerald to reverse the damage and as a side effect created us"
"What happened to the black arms and the Zeti?"
"I am not sure about the black arms but the Zeti were imprisoned on what is called the Lost Hex, another dimension"
"Huh like what happened with the Nocturnus Clan" said Knuckles
The others looked at him as he said "it's a long story"
"So there we have it" said Sonic "pretty much every answer we need"
"But if Solaris gave birth to our race then certainly it gave birth to other things right?"
Tikal nodded "the Chao are another side effect but so are far more evil things out there"
"Trust me you don't want to know bout that sort of stuff" said Knuckles "but believe me there is worse evil out there than Robotnik"
"Indeed but for now we are safe from them" said Tikal
"But there is one other thing I need to know" saids Amy "why did the emerald split?"
Tikal sighed "It is a conscious being itself and it sensed that one should not hold all the emeralds thus divided itself but as a side product started the war."
"That explains that part" said Tails" does anyone else have a question?"
"The roboticizer" said Amy "what does this have to do with why the roboticizer energy is countered by this place"
"Its simple" said Sonic "the roboticizer is corrupted chaos energy, sure its artificial chaos energy but chaos energy nonetheless"
"Indeed look at your bodies" said Tikal
The group did not notice until now but they were all back to being normal again.
"Oh man!" cried Tails "I never got to have any fun as a robot!"
"Well we still have the roboticizer upstairs if you want it" said Sonic
Tails shrugged "it's okay maybe later"
"Well then I guess we will be going back soon then" said Knuckles
"Before we do there is only one other thing I want to know" said Amy "the rings, where do they come from?"
"They are all artificially generated" said Tikal "they are made by reserve chaos energy thus why you all need them to keep your powers, even the ring pools are artificial"
"well that is all cleared up then" said Amy "I just hate loose threads"
"Question is how do we get out of here?" asked Knuckles
"Let me take care of that" said Tikal as the four were teleported from the Genesis point.
Shadow and Rouge got on board Robotniks carrier and were immediately surrounded by robots.
Robotnik came up to them and said "we have a problem"
The robots then grabbed Rouge and they tossed her into a roboticizer.
Shadow angered said "what is this about Robotnik?"
Robotnik sighed "you know Rouge is working with the enemy do you?"
Shadow backed off a little "yes I do, she was playing us so she could find out what you were going to do with the emeralds"
"she brought on Fang and she had him steal back the emeralds" said Robotnik
"No Robotnik I had no idea that Fang stole the emeralds!" cried Rouge "please don't make me into a robot!"
Robotnik sighed once more "I really don't believe you, you shall tell the truth soon enough"
"Wait" said Shadow "Robotnik please let her go for now, I will find Fang and bring you back the emeralds."
"And why should I let our enemy go for, she is destined to be a robot so why the delay?"
Shadow sighed "I was… enjoying her company"
Robotnik nodded "I thought you would say so, you have become close have you not?"
Shadow nodded "Rouge is not a threat to your plans and she had no control over her companion. I will take responsibility for this and I will get the emeralds back"
Robotnik gave a nod "I will give you 24 hours to find the emeralds but fail and Rouge here will be roboticized"
Shadow nodded "I will get started soon"
Robotnik nodded as Shadow headed back out
"Wow you guys learned a lot" said Sally "this really changes everything we know about our history to be sure"
Sonic nodded "and we finally have a counter to the roboticizer"
Amy shrugged "we can just try to lure Worker-bots here and help them"
"Yes but Robotnik still has his forces and they would remain strong" said Tails
"It's all easier said than done" said Antoine "Robotnik still has the upper hand"
"well we have to do something y'all" said Bunnie
"Well the next target is the last place Robotnik hasn't enslaved" said Sally "we have to help Starlight city"
"It is not going to be easy" said Knuckles "even with what we have here we are still a small force"
"Perhaps we can use the energy of this place to help us" said Lupe
"It would help improve our odds" said Marine
"I mean it beats sitting around here all day" said Sticks
Sonic looked at Tails and said "well Tails can you use the energy here for something?"
Tails nodded "well creating more power ups will be east but I need your help Rotor"
Rotor nodded "hey I am willing to lend a hand"
"How about I help you too?" asked Bunnie "as a robot I really don't sleep anymore just put me to work"
Tails nodded "but are you sure, you would be just like the other roboticized people out there"
Bunnie shrugged "I am doing it willingly and you guys can use the help"
Rotor gave her a nod and said "thank you Bunnie"
"Well there is one other thing we need to worry about, my resources say that Robotnik is making a new weapon that can roboticize a whole city"
"Indeed he is" said a voice
The others turned and saw Shadow standing behind them
"Hey its you!" cried Knuckles
The others stared at Shadow as he came forward
"Well the gang is all here" he said "and there are some new faces too. But I am not here to fight you right now and take you to back to Robotnik, truth is… I need your help"
Shadow gave them all a cold hard stare as he waited for one of the others to respond.
End of level 4