"Pinkie!" Silver yells, "Two of them on your six!" She looks back confused and then realizes what Silver means, and bucks the two robots, they spark and explode a few yards away. Silver gives Pinkie a thumbs up, and she giggles. Sonic and Rainbow Dash spot scores of them trying to break into town hall, then they both swoop in and destroy every last one. They both sit and try to catch their breaths, as they fist bump, a Metal Rainbow Dash jumps out of a bush, but before it could touch them, a magical blast hits its side, and it gets blasted into the side of a wall. Before it can explode, Silver tosses it high into the sky, and its blast rattles the ground. Sonic and Rainbow Dash look up to see Shadow, scratches and bruises cover his body, and Twilight without a scratch, but before they could ask about what happened to him, Shadow preemptively answers, "I destroyed the satellite, I don't think I can use Chaos Control to warp, but I suppose it doesn't matter." The Mayor of Ponyville steps out of town hall, shaking, "Are those-those monsters taken care of?" She sees Rainbow Dash and screams, "There's one left!" Before she can slam the door, Rainbow Dash yells, "No, I'm the real Rainbow Dash!" Then the Mayor peers out, breathes a sigh of relief and walks onto the porch "Thank goodness! I was certain that me, and the congressional committee had no chance!" She walks up to Sonic, "I'm not exactly sure who, or what, you are, but you definitely helped to save my life and the lives of the committee, I guess this is fate telling us not to have a meeting this week." She nervously chuckles then the townsfolk timidly trot to the center of Ponyville. The hedgehogs and the ponies stand behind the Mayor of Ponyville about to make a speech, then she begins to speak into a microphone.
"Due to the events of today, not that I know the full story, but we have been saved… again!" the town cheers, "Do any of you have any words for the crowd?" The ponies murmur, then Shadow stands up, he stands at the podium, "I'll keep my words brief and blunt; I am Shadow the hedgehog, the two behind me are Silver and Sonic the hedgehog, us three are stuck here for an undisclosed period of time, while we are here, we will not hesitate to assist with anything that isn't normal for this area. Thank you."
Night falls yet again, as everyone falls asleep, Shadow sneaks out of Fluttershy's cottage, he walks to the field and he wonders into the Everfree forest, he finds the scraps of Moto-bugs, and he follows their tracks. After fifteen minutes he finds that the tracks just stop, he tries to walk forward, but he's stopped by an invisible wall. "What is this?" He mumbles to himself as he runs his hand along the invisible wall, feeling a smooth metallic structure, then as he runs his hand along the wall, he feels the indentation of a door. He feels around the dimensions of the wall. Shadow finds a keypad to his left and enters in a code that G.U.N. uses for all of their systems, assuming this is a G.U.N. facility, "One, Two, Four, Three, Five," He mutters as he types, then the lock in the door clinks loudly, "I.T. was never creative…", the door opens as the invisibility shuts off, he walks in and the door shuts behind him, then he reactivates the invisibility from inside, then changes the keypad code. "There now I can sleep soundly." He turns around from the door to get a view of this place as the lights flicker to life, it seemed like a rundown garage, he sees broken Badniks of all types, all of them are covered in a thick moss, he sees the G.U.N. symbol on the garage doors but sees the Eggman symbol on the Moto-bugs, Shadow furrows his brow and then he suddenly smells intense rot, and he gags. Looking around he sees a rotted human corpse, splinters litter the body, bite marks do as well and is in a shredded lab coat, he walks over and looks the corpse from head-to-toe and he sees a keycard, it has the name 'Colin Robotnik' written on it, he also spots a gun in his hand, he checks the clip, and it is two bullets from full, as he's kneeling. He also turns his head to see a busted open ventilation shaft, with remnants of twigs and leaves covering it.
At that moment, Twilight makes a surprise appearance, as she teleports in. She sees the body and almost screams, before she does Shadow covers her mouth and says quietly says, "Shh!", while covering her mouth he looks at her and her panicked look leaves with a deep breath through her nose, as Shadow uncovers her mouth he goes back to checking Colin's pockets, "Shadow? What in Celestia's name, are you doing here?" Shadow responds, "I could ask you the same thing Twilight; appearing where I am in the middle of the night." Shadow says as he raises an eyebrow, Twilight shrinks back, "Well, I was trying a new teleportation spell that would allow me to teleport to a location based on a thought or pony, and you three were on my mind." "Ah, somewhat similar to my chaos control, I can understand the concept." Twilight looks curiously at Shadow, "Do you happen to study magic?" Shadow pulls out a bronze key from the back pocket of Colin's pants, he looks at it inquisitively, and looks to the only container in the room, a locker, fallen front-first but responds to Twilight as he gets up, saying "No, but, I do know of magic users where I come from, their magic comes from Chaos energy," Shadow walks up to the knocked over locker flips it over, and unlocks a padlock, "I wonder if there's a connection," He pulls a file out of the locker, then Twilight says, "What I wonder is, where and what is this place is, and who is this poor human." she says while looking at the corpse with unease, while Shadow starts flipping through the papers. "This garage is in what you called the 'Everfree forest', I'm assuming the man over there used this place to preform research, " He flashes the folder, "that man was, Colin Robotnik, engineer for G.U.N., a government back on Mobius, Colin, driven mad by the Rainboom, must've come down here after that satellite began producing those robotic copies of your friend. Peculiarly, he used his own blueprint and didn't base these Rainbow Dash copies off of any pre-existing design. Other than that, I'd say he's been dead for months, killed by those wooden wolves." Twilight perked up, "Oh, the timberwolves?" Shadow shakes his head not believing that Silver was right, "Yes, of course, those. They must have gotten in through some kind of air vent above us." Twilight walks up to the body and magically lifts up the arms, "This… isn't right…" She looks at Shadow as he walks up to the body, "What do you mean?", she lets the arm drop, "From what Fluttershy told me, timberwolves only attack to defend their territory," Shadow studies the bite marks as she talks, "This is atypical, compared to their normal behavior, even if this building is in their territory, they tend to move farther away from unnatural structures rather than move toward them, meaning something drew them here."
Then they hear something topple over in the back of the building, acting instinctively, Shadow grabs the gun from the corpse, slams in the clip, cocks it and aims at the darkness, holding it with both hands to keep it steady, the light in the back, was flickering due to age. As the light leaves and goes, they start to hear a gargled voice, "C-Crush. Kill-ll-ll. Destro-ro-roy." Shadow gestures his head forward to Twilight and starts to move forward, Twilight follows, and her horn begins lighting up with purple energy.
As Shadow walks into the darkness, and he sees a light coming from the corner, and he sees a Rainbow Dash robot, with an amalgamation of crystals imbedded into its chest, the crystals form a symbol, a cloud with a lightning bolt, the lightning bold had three distinct lines, "Twilight, look at this." Shadow is firm on the trigger, while Twilight investigates the robot, but as she gets close the robot tries to launch forward, in response Shadow opens fire at its joints in its shoulders and legs, the bullet blasts the joints to pieces. Twilight isn't prepared for the gunshots, which scared her more than the robot, she turns to Shadow, who checks his clip to see only two rounds left, Shadow remarks, "Damn…" Twilight looks at the gun, "That's a very loud weapon, I've never seen anything like it," he cocks it again, "Yes, this is a G.U.N. standard pistol, a near ancient gun, an M1911. Does Equestria have any type of firearm?" She looks back at the disabled robot, "The closest thing we have are cannons and muskets, but besides that, this crystal is in the shape of Rainbow Dash's Cutie-Mark." Shadow then asks, "Is there a more scientific name?" Twilight realizes how she sounded, "Oh, sorry, the slang sounds extremely juvenile, if you want the medical term, it is Cutaneous Iconographia, as its typically appears on the skin during when a pony discovers their special talent," She laughs to herself, "Usually no pony asks about the medical terminology." He gets closer to the writhing Badnik, "This crystal is emitting energy. Chaos energy." Twilight hovers over it with her horn, "I sense magic." He looks at her, "Which means this is a part of Colin's research." Shadow walks over to the file and finds a paper labelled, 'The Original Six Chaos Emeralds, Equestrian Magic and a Possible Second Master Emerald' He reads it for a second while Twilight pokes and prods at the robot. "Twilight." Shadow paces as he reads, she responds, "Yeah?" he stops looking at the paper "Colin was very meticulous and obsessive, he knew who you and the other five were, he knew what the 'Elements of Harmony' are, and he says that they are the 'Original Six Chaos Emeralds'," Twilight thinks for a moment, "So, these Chaos Emeralds are thought-based power conduits from Mobius, correct?" Shadow nods and Twilight continues, "We had a problem with a being named Discord, a little while back, he was a spirit of Chaos, I wonder if they could be related…"
Shadow says, "How coincidental, he even detailed this Discords' world altering abilities, which apparently, aligned itself very well to Chaos-type abilities." Shadow lets out a yawn, "Damn it. Guess I need to rest," Twilight follows him to the door, "Should we… bury him, give him a proper funeral?" Shadow looks at Colin's body, "We should." He says grimly.
They make a fairly deep grave outside of the facility, and they cover the body with dirt and put a small stone to mark the grave Shadow also buries Colin's ID badge next to the grave.
They split at Fluttershy's house, Shadow returns to Fluttershy's and goes back to sleep.