Adventures of the Orange Flash

Chapter 6: Dark Reveal and Railroad Rush

In the middle of a street of present day Soleanna, a blue swirling portal appeared and out fell Sonic, Tails and Knuckles.

"Looks like we made it back in one piece," said Knuckles as he looked around to make sure that they're back in the present.

"Yeah but where did Shadow and Rouge go? I don't see Naruto here either," said Tails, the trio turned to look at the portal which was slowly closing, then at that moment an orange fox with nine tails came through it and landed before them.

"Hey Naruto, you almost had us worried there for a second," said Sonic.

"Actually I'm a clone, the boss decided to hang back at the future," said the clone which surprised the others.

"Huh? But why would he do that?" asked Knuckles.

"Boss saw Shadow going after that doppelganger we saw earlier talking to Silver and decided to hang back to get some answers on what he possibly knows,"

"Are you sure they'll be all right?" asked Tails.

"Don't worry, the boss will meet up with you guys later," said the clone.

"Okay then, we'll catch you later," said Sonic with a thumbs up, the shadow clone nodded in affirmation before disappearing "While Naruto is doing his thing, let's find information that could help us locate where Eggman could have taken Elise," then a newspaper which was floating in the wind hit his leg, Sonic picked it up to read it with Tails and Knuckles looking over his shoulder to read as well.

Meanwhile in the future, Shadow had pursued Mephilles all the way to the middle of a large rock platform surrounded with lava. There he saw Mephilles standing on top of one of those strange trees.

"So you decided to void your return ticket? And it seems like you're not the only one," said Mephilles.

Shadow heard footsteps and turned around to see Naruto walking towards them much to his surprise "What are you doing here?"

"I wanted to get some answers from this guy, I have reasons to believe that he knows what happened to make the future end up like this," Naruto replied.

"And it's possible that he could be the cause from what we saw back at the facility, since he lied to those two about Sonic being the reason why the world was destroyed," said Kurama.

"That's part of the reason why I followed him as well," said Shadow, then they turned to face Mephilles "Which leads me to ask, why are you here and if you ruin this world?"

"The answer is yes and no," said Mephilles.

"What is that supposed to mean? Get to the point," said Naruto.

"If you insist, then it's best that I show you," Mephilles snapped his fingers, then Naruto and Shadow saw a cage appear nearby but it was who was inside the cage that shocked them. Inside the cage was… "That's right Shadow, it is you,"

"What happened?" asked Naruto with narrowed eyes.

"After the world was devastated by Iblis' flames what do you think happened? A search for the guilty. What did this you may ask? Humanity wasn't just jealous of your power, they feared it and used this incident as an excuse to hunt you down,"

"People fear what they don't understand or can't control," thought Naruto sadly remembering back how the people of the Hidden Leaf would treat him with anger and hatred all because they thought he was the reincarnation of the nine tailed fox. Kurama felt the same way as he and the other tailed beasts were treated as weapons instead of beings of free will. But in the end, villagers finally acknowledged Naruto for who he truly is and Kurama found true friendship in his host. They turned their attention back to Mephilles who continued to speak.

"Come with me Shadow, let us punish this world of humanity. It is only fair to give back what was intended for you, you have every right to want justice," said Mephilles.

"This guy is no different from Madara! He's trying to deceive Shadow and use him as a pawn to destroy the world!" said Kurama angrily.

"I know, just like how Madara tricked Obito. I just hope that Shadow makes the right decision," thought Naruto as he looked at Shadow.

Shadow was silent for a moment before finally speaking "That's absurd, whatever it is you want to do you can do it alone," Naruto and Kurama smiled at his refusal to fall into temptation.

"So you forgive humanity this folly then?" Mephilles pointed at the cage containing the future Shadow.

"I decide my own destiny,"

"Truer words can't be spoken Shadow, no one can decide your path except yourself," said Naruto as he stood next to Shadow.

Mephilles could be heard growling in anger as purple light surrounded before fading to reveal him in a different appearance, his whole body is crystalline with no visible mouth, nose or feet and was emitting a large purple aura.

"Hmph, such foolishness. Very well, let's see if you can entertain me," as he said that, a large number of dark creatures which bear resemblance to him except that their heads are triangular with a single eye on their face and two hands with claw-like fingers appeared behind him before charging forward.

Music Start: Sonic the Hedgehog OST; Boss: Mephilles

"Here they come, get ready Shadow!" Naruto took out his Hirashin kunai while Shadow simply nodded before taking a stance.

"I wonder how you will prevail," they heard a voice and looked down to see Mephilles acting as Shadow's shadow and staring back at them.

"How did he get there?!" said Naruto.

"More importantly, you two should focus on the incoming enemies!" said Kurama.

"Got it! Shadow Clone jutsu!" Naruto summoned a large number of clones who immediately charged at the shadows along with Naruto himself. He started slashing left and right as the shadows faded away in smoke with several charging in to take their place, he slammed an explosive tag on the ground and quickly backflipped to evade the converging enemies before releasing a pulse of chakra for the tag to activate as it exploded and took a majority of the shadows out "Swift Release: Bladed Shadow Dance!" the shadows began to disappear as he was zipping around and taking them down before they could even react.

Suddenly he heard an explosion and a memory of a clone flowed into his mind, he looked through the memory before calling out to Shadow "Heads up Shadow! Don't let any of those shadows get a hold of you. They turn into makeshift bombs when they grab you!" No sooner he said that did he throw the Hirashin kunai into the air before disappearing in a flash to avoid a cluster of the shadows that tried to pile on him. He reappeared in the air to grab the Hirashin kunai and formed a Rasengan with his free hand as he dived back to the ground and rammed it into his opponents.

"Understood!" said Shadow as he was using his Homing attack to take down the shadows approaching him. He saw the shadows converging towards him and quickly reacted to them, he pressed a hand against the ground while holding himself and his body up before proceeding to spin around in a 360 degree circle that almost seems like he was breakdancing to take down the shadows before landing back on the ground. He reared his hand back as yellow electricity appeared on his hands "Chaos Spear!" then threw a volley of arrow-shaped energy at some of the shadows which left them paralyzed and quickly used his Homing attack to take them out.

"It doesn't matter how many you defeat you know?" Mephilles sneered from within the shadow.

"I have to find a way to draw him out of the shadows," thought Shadow as he continued to fight back the shadows who were still attacking him.

"Shadow!" he turned his attention to Naruto who had just used a Rasengan to blow the enemies away from him before turned towards him "We need to flush out Mephilles and take him down since he must be the one controlling the shadows!"

"I know and I have an idea how to do so," said Shadow.

Mephilles scoffed at what he heard "It's useless, I'm your shadow. There's no way you can touch me,"

"We'll see about that, Chaos Boost!" Shadow's body began to emit a red aura of Chaos energy had such intensity that it forced Mephilles out of his shadow much to his shock and also made the shadows recoil in fear.

"Amazing," said Naruto as he watched Shadow emit such power.

"I can sense a portion of his sealed power being released, now's our chance to attack Mephilles," said Kurama.

"What?! How could you do this?!" Mephilles was in disbelief.

Shadow simply smirked, then the shadows swarmed around him again to attack "Chaos Blast!" he charged the Chaos energy inside his body before releasing in a form of an explosion, taking down a lot of shadows within a ten-yard radius. He jumped into the air and took aim at Mephilles "Chaos Lance!" then fired a long red bolt which struck, causing him to cry out in pain and tried move but couldn't as his body was crackling with electricity to signify that he was paralyzed. Shadow didn't miss a beat as he quickly followed it up with a Chaos attack and knocked him back.

"Damn you Shadow!" Mephilles yelled in outrage as he raised his hands in the air and a purple ball of energy formed and was growing in size "Take this!" he was about to throw it when he heard a voice from behind him.

"He's not the only one you should pay attention to!" he turned around to see Naruto diving towards him with a blue spinning ball of energy in his hand "Rasengan!" he slammed his attack into Mephilles' chest which sent him crashing to the ground, he got up from the ground and looked up to see Naruto charging straight at him while twirling a large windmill shuriken in his hand "Demon Windmill Shuriken!" then he threw it straight at Mephilles.

"As if that will harm me!" Mephilles was about to sidestep out of the way when the shuriken puffed into smoke much to his surprise to reveal Naruto right in front of him with his fist reared back.

"Surprise surprise!" he slammed his fist under Mephilles' chin which launched him upwards into the air before crossing his middle and index fingers together "Shadow Clone jutsu!" three of his clones appeared before jumping after Mephilles, with two grabbing his arms and slamming him to the ground and the third driving his knee into his gut before they dispelled. Naruto was about to attack again when the shadows appeared to engage.

"Leave him to me!" said Shadow as he skated towards Mephilles who was about to fire a purple orb at Naruto. a few shadows moved in to intercept the black hedgehog much to their error "Chaos Snap!" then he disappeared from their sigh only to reappeared before one of them and take it out with a kick, he warped again to another one and attacked again until he appeared before Mephilles and dealt him a powerful punch to send him crashing to the ground again.

When Shadow landed on the ground, the red aura faded away as he felt his power being sealed once more before approaching Mephilles to interrogate him again. Suddenly Mephilles got up and shot a purple orb, knocking Shadow into a tree to incapacitate him before he proceeded towards him.

"Shadow!" Naruto punched one of the shadows away and was about to move in to help the black hedgehog, when a barrage of bullets came in between Shadow and Mephilles. They all turned to see a robot with an arm cannon standing in the distance. It's humanoid in shape with a stocky upper body and arms with claws for hands and yellow wrists studded with spikes like a dog collar. It has a color scheme of red, black, yellow, green, silver and grey. What is noted is the red visible Greek symbol on the front of the left and the back of the right shoulder, plus the silver stripe running from the head to the stomach.

"Omega!" said Shadow in surprise.

The now identified Omega retracted his arm cannon and brought out his clawed fingers "Now is the designated time, I shall assist,"

"He's a friend of yours Shadow? And what does he mean by that?" asked Naruto.

"He's my partner, Rouge and I found him back at the city but he was in standby mode," said Shadow as he got back to his feet.

"Shadow, Rouge sent me to assist you," said Omega as he walked up to them before taking a glance at Naruto "Creature unknown, energy signature unknown. Alignment requested,"

"What is he talking about?" asked Naruto confusedly.

"I think he's trying to find out if we're his enemies or allies," said Kurama.

"Stand down Omega, his name is Naruto and he's on our side," said Shadow.

"Confirmed, creature identified as Naruto the nine tailed fox. Alignment: ally," said Omega before turning to face Mephilles who had summoned more of his minions to attack them "Incoming hostiles, firing Omega Shot," Omega's right forearm retracted and brought out a gun barrel then he took aim at the shadows and fired a spray of yellow pellets, destroying them completely.

"Whoa, I'm pretty sure that Tenten would want to take this guy home with her," thought Naruto with wonder.

"Stay focused kit, we need to take down Mephilles," said Kurama.

"Got it!" Naruto took a stance with Shadow doing the same before charging at Mephilles, the shadows stood in their way and tried to grab them but Naruto leapt forward with his claws out " Fox Flurry!" he proceeded to slash rapidly through them before finishing it up with a cross slash which took a majority out.

A swarm of shadows were heading towards Omega with a pincer attack to catch him off guard, "Activating Lock-On Shot," the robot started charging energy to his left forearm as gun barrels opened up with orange auras emitting from them. From Omega's point of view multiple crosshairs appeared on the shadows and beeped to signal that the targets have been locked on "Firing," then a barrage of orange lasers shot out of the gun barrels and homed in on the targets destroying them completely "Switching to Rapid Fire," he proceeded to shoot volleys of bullets at the remaining shadows.

"Chaos Spear!" Shadow threw another projectile at Mephilles who was darting left and right to evade the attacks and responded in kind with purple orbs which Shadow avoided by skating around quickly with his hover shoes.

Mephilles raised his hands to the air as a purple orb appeared and grew larger with each passing second "Take this and perish Shadow!" then he threw straight Shadow.

Shadow stood ready as the purple orb quickly closed in towards his location, as the very last second he called out "Chaos Control!" he disappeared much to Mephilles' shock before reappearing and slamming a roundhouse kick on his back, sending him flying forward towards the ground.

He was about to crash when he saw a tri-pronged knife hit the ground before there was a yellow flash to reveal Naruto standing there with his fist reared back "Chew on this!" then he thrust it forward to slam haymaker punch to send Mephilles bouncing along the ground before skidding to a stop at the same time the shadows disappeared without a trace.

Music End

Shadow and Omega came and stood by Naruto as they watched Mephilles struggle to his feet and glare at them with hatred, then he raised a hand to form a purple orb which made them tense for an attack but then he jumped into the orb and disappeared.

"Mephilles!" Shadow shouted before racing towards the orb with Omega close behind.

"Don't let him escape!" Naruto joined the pursuit as they all jumped into the orb before it disappears.

The trio exited from the orb and looked around to notice that they're back in present and are currently in New City, however they couldn't find any trace of Mephilles.

"It appears Mephilles is no longer here, I will assist in pursuing him," said Omega to which Shadow nodded in affirmation.

"I'm coming along as well, I get the feeling that I won't be able to find Sonic and the others in the city right now," said Naruto.

"Especially since they've obviously gone to search for the princess," said Kurama.

"Very well then," at that moment, Shadow's wrist communicator started to beep before he pressed a button and a male voice is heard.

[Agent Shadow, we've lost contact with Agent Rouge. Head to the warehouse district immediately.]

"Understood, we'll be heading over immediately," said Shadow before cutting of the link.

Then they quickly moved towards the warehouse district where Naruto had gone before with Sonic and where looking around for Rouge when they heard someone call out to them from behind

"Hi, looks like you also brought foxy along with you," they turned around to see Rouge approaching them with an airy wave "It looks like Eggman's machine are looking for you Shadow, what did you do this time?"

"Nothing, their target is probably Mephilles," said Shadow.

"Makes sense since he's currently taking on your form, so those mechs would mistake you for him," said Naruto.

"What is Eggman up to? Who is Mephilles?" asked Omega.

"I'm gonna ask him directly," Shadow started to walk away from them.

"Hey wait a sec," said Rouge.

"I can handle this alone while you keep track you Mephilles,"

"Well I'm tagging along Shadow, Eggman still has the princess in his custody and I'll be sure to meet up with Sonic along the way," said Naruto, Shadow stood there and gave him a curt nod before resuming his walk.

"If both of you are looking for Dr. Eggman, Intel tells me that he's currently traveling by train to his hidden base," said Rouge.

"In that case, I got to get to the station," Shadow skated off and then Naruto turned to Rouge and Omega.

"I wish you two luck," said Naruto before running after Shadow.

"You too foxy," said Rouge then she tapped on her wrist communicator "This is Rouge, I need all available data on an item called the Scepter of Darkness,"

Meanwhile Naruto had caught up with Shadow and they both reached the train station and entered it to find another mirror displaying the image of a moving train before jumping inside. Then they exited out of the void tunnel and found themselves standing on a platform next to a set of rails in a mountainous area and they could barely see the bottom of the mountain.

"Now that we're here, how will we know which train Eggman will be on?" said Naruto as he looked around, Shadow was about to answer when they heard a blare of a horn and turned to see a locomotive passing by while pulling several metal containers along the rails. Shadow's eyes narrowed upon seeing a certain red logo on the train.

"That's the doctor's train that just passed us, we have to destroy it so it doesn't get away," said Shadow.

"Got it, let's go," said Naruto as he got ready to run.

Music Start: Sonic the Hedgehog OST; Radical Train: The Abandoned Mine

Naruto and Shadow dashed after the train and were currently running at the right side of the rails. Eggman must have seen them coming as they heard his voice through a loudspeaker.

"You are just wasting your time! You're never going to catch me!" said Eggman with an arrogant tone, then he deployed several squads of mechs to intercept them.

They dashed to the broken end of the platform and bounced off a spring to the other side where a squad of gunners and flyers appeared before them along with a new one that they haven't seen before.

This one was flying at first but when it descended to the ground, it proceeded to shift into a form with large legs with drills on its feet, lasers on the arms and a cannon at the front.

This new mech fired lasers from its arms, forcing Naruto and Shadow to move out of the way. Naruto dashed forward and formed a Rasengan before slamming it into one of its legs, causing it to lose its balance. Shadow lunged forward as he jumped into the air towards its back and used his homing attack to destroy the core, causing it to explode. Then they went ahead to engage the flyers and gunners quickly as the train was slowly getting ahead.

They located another spring and bounced off it into several more until they went over to left side of the train and were ahead of it. There was another squad of mechs waiting for them so Naruto created some shadow clones to engage them while they tried to find a way to stop the train.

"There has to be some way to stop the train so that we can destroy it," said Shadow.

Then Naruto saw something nearby and pointed at it "What's that over there?"

Shadow turned to look at where he was pointing and saw a floating white ball with a yellow star in it and it was floating above a round metallic plate with red edge.

"That's a ball switch, activating it should erect a barrier that will stop the train," Shadow dashed towards the switch and pressed it, then red lasers appeared across the rails just as the train was approaching, forcing it to halt.

They heard Eggman voice which was full of irritation through the speaker "The barrier is stopping me! Hurry up and take down the barrier!"

"Now's our chance! Fox Flurry!" Naruto lunged forward with his claws extended and his time covered in chakra.

"Chaos Attack!" Shadow was close behind as he leapt into the air towards the train.

The train was getting inflicted with claw marks and dents but Eggman finally managed to disable the barrier and was on the move again.

"Now that the barrier's down, I'll be seeing you losers later. Farewell~," said Eggman arrogantly.

"Quickly, let's get ahead of him and but up another barrier!" said Shadow to which Naruto nodded in affirmation.

A nearby metal gate opened up for them to pass through, then they stepped on a dash panel which sped them through a loop to the other side where they launched off a dash ramp to land on a platform next to a wooden building where they could see sets of conveyor belts.

"You better be careful Naruto, those things seem to change directions at any time," said Kurama.

"Got it," said Naruto.

Naruto and Shadow quickly made their way through the conveyor belts while making sure not to fall off until making it to the top of the wooden building. Before them were several scales that led to another platform ahead.

"These scales look fragile, we better run across it," said Shadow, then they heard a blare of the horn signaling that the train is coming.

"And fast, the train's almost here!" said Naruto.

The duo stepped on one of the scales with one side sinking and the other rising but they jumped to the other one before getting to another set of scales until they finally gotten to the next area. There Naruto and Shadow found another ball switch to activate the barrier, however it was locked in a cage similar to the one Naruto found back at the desert with the mechs guarding it.

"If it is similar to the one from before, then it means that you have to take out all the enemies for that cage to open," said Kurama.

Naruto nodded in affirmation as he took out a handful of kunai before wrapping some explosive tags around their handles, then he dashed towards on the walker mech which fired its guns at him.

"Swift Release: Shadow Dance!" he sped forward as he evaded the gunfire before he got between the walker's legs and stabbed them with the kunai, then he jumped away and set off the tags to explode which destroyed before finishing up with a Rasengan aiming at the head. Naruto turned around to see Shadow defeating the last of the mechs with a Homing attack which opened the cage, Naruto touched to ball switch to put up another once stopping the train in its tracks.

"This again?! Looks like I have to take down this barrier as well," said Eggman.

Once again, Naruto and Shadow attacked the train with their individual attacks, further damaging it. But Eggman had managed to take down the barrier much quicker than before and the train was on the move again and entered through a tunnel in the mountain.

"This time there are no more barriers from here on, so see you losers later,"

"Damn! Now how can we stop the train?" Naruto spoke with a frown.

"I have an idea, follow me," said Shadow as he bounced off a spring and went into a mine tunnel, Naruto looked confused for a moment but decided to follow as he also stepped on the spring to go after him.

Meanwhile the train have exited out of the tunnel and was currently moving along the tracks towards the hidden base. Eggman was sitting before the control panel with an arrogant smirk on his face. He could tell that neither Shadow nor that fox who was beginning to annoy him were anywhere with his sight ever since he passed through the tunnel.

"That ought to teach those two not to mess with me," said Eggman, at that moment one of his screens started t beep loudly

[Doctor, we have vehicle which is currently pursuing the train.] said the AI of the computer system.

"Put it on display,"

A screen lit up for Eggman to watch, his eyebrows raised up in surprise before he started to growl in anger at who was pursuing him behind the vehicle.

"Deploy all units! Keep them away from the train!" Eggman pressed a button on the control panel to activate the mechs.

Music Change: Sonic the Hedgehog OST; Radical Train: The Chase

Outside the train, an open-topped motor vehicle (Buggy) was slowly catching up with Shadow behind the wheel and Naruto who was standing at the back, manning a gun turret.

"It's a good thing we found this in the mine tunnel," said Naruto.

"Aim for the cargos for us to get closer to the train before disabling it as well," said Shadow.

"Got it," said Naruto, then they saw several of Eggman's mechs approaching the buggy "Not before we take care of the receptionists,"

Following the instructions given to him by Shadow, Naruto aimed the turret at incoming fleet of flyers who were approaching from the left and pulled the trigger to release a rapid fire of bullets upon them. Most of the mechs tried to dodge the gunfire but were shot down as Shadow swerved the vehicle to avoid the wreckage and continued to catch up with the train. When they got close enough, Naruto took aim at the first cargo and fired, before long it exploded after being pelted with bullets but the turret let out a hissing sound and emitted steam while feeling hot.

"What happened?" asked Naruto as he looked at the gun confusedly.

"The gun overheated, it's best that you wait until it cools down. Afterwards I suggest that you use short bursts to avoid overheating again," said Shadow swerving to evade the parts of the destroyed cargo.

While he waited for the gun turret to cool down, Naruto took to using chakra enhanced shuriken to take down the pursuing flyers which was until a walker in flight mode appeared from behind them. He threw his shuriken at it but they only scratched the armor and fell off much to his ire.

"Kit, I think the turret has totally cooled down so you can use it now!" said Kurama.

Naruto moved to the turret but he saw that the walker was beginning to open fire "Shadow, watch out! The mech is about to shoot at us!"

Shadow could see from the rearview mirror as he turned the wheel to make the buggy take evasive maneuvers to avoid the gunfire. However he couldn't dodge all of them as some of the shots struck parts of the buggy and Naruto used a kunai to deflect some. He aimed the gun turret at the walker opened fire at him in short bursts.

The walker suffered some damage from the rapid fire before retaliating with missiles. Naruto aimed at the incoming projectiles and quickly shot them down before resuming his attack on the mech. suffering from critical damage, the walker dive-bombed at them with its drills rotating.

"Oh no you don't! Shadow Clone jutsu!" Naruto created a pair of Shadow Clones who leapt off the buggy and towards the walker, the clones held their hands close as they form the Giant Ball Rasengan which they used to slammed into the mech which resulted in an explosion. Naruto turned the turret on the next cargo and fired, destroying it as well and finally revealing the train.

"Aim for the wheels!" said Shadow.

"Gotcha!" Naruto shot at the left wheel and soon focused on the right as well.

Music End

Then the train started to skid on the rails before slowing to a stop, Shadow stopped the buggy beside it and they got off before walking towards the steel door at the back. Naruto took out kunai which he channeled wind chakra through before slashing the door open, then they walked inside to find Dr. Eggman sitting on a revolving chair with his back to them.

"Couldn't you have been gentler with the door?" he swiveled around to look at them "So what is it you want?"

Shadow stepped forward "Who is Mephilles? And why you trying to capture him?"

"What is this guy up to? First he goes after princess to attain the Flames of Disaster, and now he's after Mephilles for who knows what?" thought Naruto.

"It might be possible that those two are related," said Kurama.

"If you want to know, should go find him yourself. But here's a hint…it's all linked to the Soleanna disaster 10 years ago," said Eggman.

"…The Solaris Project," said Shadow.

"Solaris Project?" asked Naruto who looked confused.

"Ten years ago, the Duke of Soleanna was the driving force behind a research project whose purpose was unknown to the outside world. However a great disaster occurred which took the lives of the researchers and the Duke himself,"

"Could it be possible that both Mephilles and Iblis originated from this so-called disaster?" thought Naruto.

"There's no doubt about it," said Kurama.

"If you want to know the truth about Solaris, you must capture Mephilles and bring him to me," said Eggman.

"You're obviously lying, that stunt you pulled back then on me and the others shows that you'll definitely go back on the deal," thought Naruto with a frown.

Shadow remained silent as he turned and walked away, Naruto continued to look at Eggman who turned his attention to him.

"What is it you want fox?" asked Eggman.

"…You're not really 'here', are you?" said Naruto.

At those words, an arrogant smile crossed the doctor's lips "Guess you're not as gullible as I thought, how did you know?"

"Because I don't sense anything coming from you, where's the princess?" said Naruto with a frown.

"Do you really think that I'll tell you? Good luck finding her yourself," then the Eggman sitting before him disappeared in a flicker of light, showing that he was nothing but a hologram.

Naruto clenched his fists tightly as he growled in anger at this and quickly turned to run out of the train, he got out and noticed that Shadow was gone.

"Where did Shadow go?" said Naruto.

"He must have gone after Mephilles, but I don't think he'll bring him to Eggman though," said Kurama.

"What do you mean by that?"

"I can tell that Shadow had dealt with Eggman before, so this won't be new to him,"

"Okay then, but how can I search for Sonic or the princess?" asked Naruto as he sped through the area.

"You should be able to use Sage Mode now, I've fixed more of your chakra coils. Just a little more and you'll be back up to a 100% and access the higher levels of your power,"

"Thanks for the info Ku-," Naruto trailed off as he skidded to a stop upon seeing someone standing before him, someone familiar "Neko?"

The said person turned around and looked at Naruto with a frown.

"Naruto, for the sake of the future…I will defeat you to prevent you from aiding the Iblis Trigger who will destroy our world," Blaze lit up her claws in flames before charging at Naruto who stood there stunned.

The only thought which came into his mind was "What?"

What's going on? And why is Blaze attacking Naruto like that? And where is Sonic and the princess? Find out on the next chapter. Be sure to read and review like always.

This is Hussbek from Ghana.

Signing out.