Shadow the Hedgehog, the self proclaimed ultimate life form, stood before Sonic with his arms crossed as he looked at Sonic in disgust. "You have some guts showing your face around here after what you did to the Space Colony Ark, Blue Hedgehog." He shouted.
"The Ark?" Sonic replied. "You were with me when we stopped it from crashing into the Earth." Sonic replied as he stood up and dusted himself off.
"Do you take me for a fool?" Shadow barked. "The Doctor told me everything! Right before we had the chance to fire a shot from the Eclipse Cannon to wipe out the Earth, you interfered with the controls and set the Ark to self-destruct! If the Doctor hand't help me find an escape pod, I'd of died in the blast too."
"What are you talking about Shadow? None of that ever happened!" Sonic yelled.
At that moment Tails quickly chimed in on the communication watch, as he looked at the confrontation from afar. "There's no point in trying to convince him Sonic. Shadow's been acting like ever since Eggman started waging war on the whole world," He said. "He was one of the first people to rebel against Eggman, but after he confronted Eggman he started to act like this out of nowhere."
"I think I get it, Eggman must've done something to mess with Shadow's memories." Sonic muttered as he scratched his head.
"Enough of this! I'm going to an end to you once and for all, Blue Hedgehog!" Shadow shouted as he charged for Sonic.
Within an instant, Sonic quickly dodged Shadow's attack and turned around to kick Shadow away. "It's going to take more than that to beat me!" Sonic taunted.
Shadow grunted as he got up from the ground. Suddenly Shadow pulled out a green Chaos Emerald from behind him. Before Sonic had any time to react, Shadow yelled "Chaos Control!" Within a single instant, almost as if he teleported, Shadow appeared behind Sonic and punched the back of his head. Sonic was sent the ground in to time at all. Shadow then quickly disappeared again, only to reappear next to the downed Sonic to kick him in the stomach. Although he was in deep pain, Sonic readied himself for Shadow's next attack. As Shadow disappeared once more, Sonic quickly pressed a button on his communication watch, projecting the force field that Tails mentioned to him before. Shadow's next strike was blocked by the transparent green sphere that surrounded Sonics entire body. With quick reactions, Shadow jumped back to a safe distance as he yelled "Chaos Spear!". A yellow light formed around Shadows palms as he began throwing spear like energy at the protected Sonic. However, knowing that his force field was not made to take a lot of damage, Sonic turned it off by pressing the same button and then at his top speed, began to dash toward Shadow while dodging left and right to avoid the spears. In no time at all, Sonic quickly dashed in front of Shadow to catch him off guard. With one swift strike Sonic uppercut Shadow's jaw sending him flying into the air.
As Shadow was sent flying into the air the Chaos Emerald he held in his hand began to slip. Sonic used the opportunity to quickly grab it, but before it came within reach, Shadow shouted "Chaos Control." to teleport the Emerald away.
"What was that for!?" Sonic asked with a displeased expression.
As Shadow got up to recover from the attack he took, he grinned. "The Doctor told me teleport to Chaos Emerald to safety if I ever felt it was in danger. Besides, now that I've got a good understanding of how you fight, I won't need a Chaos Emerald to defeat you!" he taunted.
"We'll see about that!" Sonic responded as he dashed toward Shadow with his fist ready to punch.
With a cocky smirk, Shadow easily blocked Sonics punch with one arm, and then responded with a punch of his own, hitting Sonic directly in the face. This sent Sonic toward to ground. Before Sonic had a chance to recover however, Shadow quickly dashed forward and kicked him while he was down to send him even farther back. "To think someone like you could've taken down the whole Space Colony Ark! You're so pathetic!" Shadow mocked.
Sonic began to get back up off the ground. "I never did tha-" But before he could finish his sentence Shadow delivered another kick, sending Sonic even further back.
"I had enough of these games, I'm going to end you once and for all!" Shadow roared.
"I guess it's time to do what I do best!" Sonic announced as he quickly jumped up and began running away from Shadow at mach speed.
"A coward to the end, how pathetic." Shadow muttered as he began to dash after Sonic. "You can't escape me!"
"I'm not trying to escape you!" Sonic taunted as the two began dashing through the barren wasteland. Sonic began to make a quick U-turn back towards Shadow as he was now headed for a straight on collision course with Shadow.
As the Blue and Black blurs began charging for each other, Sonic prepared his fist to punch Shadow, while Shadow did the same. As the two met both punches were thrown out creating a massive shockwave.
Tails, who was still watching the battle from afar through a pair of binoculars, could not see anything through all the dust the shockwave created. As the dust began to clear it looked like Sonic was panting heavily on his knees. Shadow on the other hand was knocked out on the ground. Sonic was able to land his punch before Shadow could land his.
"Tails, give me a hand, we need to hold down Shadow before he wakes up so that he doesn't do anything rash while we're trying to get Eggman to set his memories straight." Sonic said into his communication watch.
Within a few minutes Tails was landing the Tornado near Sonics location. With the press of a button Tails revealed a hidden cockpit near the tail of the Tornado. Tails pulled out some handcuffs to hold Shadow down, as he put him inside the second cockpit.
"Wait, you had another seat this whole time and you had me riding on the front wings?" Sonic asked.
"Well yeah, I installed it recently and you never asked, you just jumped straight onto the wings." Tails responded. "And besides, I guess it's kind of Shadow's seat now for the time being."
"Alright, then let's keep going." Sonic Sighed as he hopped onto the wings of the Tornado.
Tails laughed to himself as he jumped into the pilot's seat. As he started up the Tornado to prepare for takeoff he noticed Sonic standing up on top the wings pointing his finger forward. "Sonic, are you okay?" Tails asked concerned.
Sonic took a deep breath then yelled at the top of lungs. "Next stop, Dr. Eggman's Mobile Fortress!"