Chapter 4:
Sonic and tails both fell in the water.
"HELP! I CAN'T SWIM!" yelled sonic.
Tails noticed a tunnel downside.
"Hold on to me!" Yelled tails.
Using his tails, he pushed himself an sonic down the tunnel. And at the end of it was solid land.
"are you okay?" asked tails.
"yeah… never felt better…" said sonic.
"liar." Said tails.
"sorry, bad habits don't die easily." Said sonic. "again I am sorry I lied."
"Forget it, I understand, honestly I don't know what I would have done if you didn't lie to." Said tails.
"You wouldn't have been to save me if I did that." Pointed sonic.
"yeah… yeah!" said tails smiling. "don't you see?! He was expecting you to disobey him and bring me along!"
"you're right!" said sonic a huge smile on his face.
They looked around, they were in what looked like a small metal island, and in it middle a treasure chest.
"That probably what uncle chuck wanted us to find!" said tails.
They both approached the chest and opened it.
Back At Meh Burger:
"Knuckles and shadow, you guys try to hold his chainsaw when he attacks, then sticks and I will get on it and go attack his head. Got it?" said amy.
"piece of…" started shadow before getting cut by sticks.
"DON'T SAY IT!"
Knuckles got in front of the bot and yelled:
"Hey screw bag! Why don't you get here and face me!"
"why does everyone like to steal my lines!" said shadow.
The bot attacked again with his chainsaw, but knuckles stopped it with his bare hands.
"it's only know I am noticing, there are no blades in his chainsaw!" said knuckles.
Shadow joined him and grabbed the chainsaw, and after checking that the girls were near the head, The both ripped it off.
"looks like you may need a hand!" said knuckles.
Meanwhile, Amy ripped off his head with her hammer and sticks got inside his armor.
"what are you doing?" asked shadow.
"I am gonna make it explode!" yelled sticks.
"how do you know how to do that?" asked Knuckles.
"you need to know your foes!" yelled sticks back.
After seconds she got out.
"ok its done, NOW RUN!" she yelled jumping from the robot with amy.
The robot explode, the explosion pinned everyone on the ground, but they weren't hurt.
"what a fight." Said knuckles getting up.
"yeah." Said shadow getting up too, Then punched knuckles right in the face.
"what was that for!" yelled Knuckles.
"For begin a cry baby," answered shadow. "I always knew you had the brain of two years old but I didn't think you had the mentality of one, STOP LIVING IN THE PAST"
Knuckles grabbed shadow and threw him and a nearby rock.
"STOP THIS!" yelled amy, but sticks stopped her.
"Let them, Amy." Said sticks.
Amy was hesitant, but she trusted sticks.
"I never had a family before, uncle chuck was the only father I ever had, DO YOU REALLY THINK YOU CAN UNDERSTAND!"
Shadow got up, ran to knuckles, Jumped, grabbed his head and tackled him on the ground.
"Of course I understand!" yelled shadow, "Maria was my only family, and when I lost her I didn't even get to hear her last worlds."
Knuckles stayed down.
"we are all the same knuckles, you, me, tails and sonic, we all lost or never met our families. So what makes you so special!" said shadow.
Knuckles got up pinned him on the ground and started punching him.
"BECAUSE I CAN NEVER HAVE THEM BACK!" yelled Knuckles. "SONIC AND TAILS CAN STILL FIND THEIR PARRENTS! I'LL NEVER WILL!"
"THE SAME GOES FOR ME!" yelled shadow.
Knuckles stopped.
"I can't get Maria back, I don't have a father or a mother, and unlike you, I can't even cry over it because a monster will destroy the world if I do!" yelled shadow.
Knuckles let shadow go, who got up.
Later:
After the fight, Knuckles and shadow both went home their separate ways. Until tails contacted everyone and told them to meet him and sonic near the shack.
Once there, shadow and knuckles looked at each other's beat up face. And both started laughing out loud.
"I will never understand them." Said Amy.
"that's how guys bound, beating each other up." Said sticks.
Tails and sonic got out of the shack.
"here is the gift." Said sonic, showing them a medallion in form of a guitar.
"well that was anti-climactic." Said amy.
"it's not all, we also found a Disk inside, it's quite old. But I think I managed to convert it so we can play it." said tails.
"we wanted everyone to hear it," said sonic. "play it tails."
Tails put the disk in his computer and started the video.
"hello boys, I am happy that you made it. as I thought you broth tails with you sonic, there is no other way you could have passed the last test without him."
"he knew I would bring you!" said sonic, "it was part of the test!"
"I also want you to know that all the traps were holograms and you were in no real danger, I would never hurt any of you. And to all of you, Sonic, tails, Knuckles and shadow. I am proud of you."
Sticks noticed shadow getting out the shack and followed him.
"Going somewhere?" she asked.
"I've heard enough." Simply said Shadow.
"really? What's the real reason?" asked sticks.
He signed.
"I am afraid to cry, and release Iblis." Said shadow.
"but you said it was impossible for you to cry!*" said sticks.
(*back in episode 2)
"it kind of is, I can't cry for physical reasons, like because of pain or if I had something in my eyes." Explained shadow, "but I can still cry for emotional reasons."
"So you didn't cry when Maria died then?" asked sticks.
Shadow stayed silent a moment trying to remember.
"I don't… know…" he said, "I kinda blanked when I knew, I don't really remember what happed In the moment… I just don't know."
"STOP LEAVING IN THE PAST!" yelled Sticks trying to mimic shadow voice.
"worst impression ever, what would you think if tried to do your voice." Said shadow with a little laugh.
"that it's impossible." Laughed sticks.
Back at the Shak:
"There Is… important… know."
"oh no! the disk is damaged!" said tails.
"you have a brother a… separated at birth… your mother gave you to me… ind them… Protect the medallions not matter what!"
To be continued In the next episode.