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Shadow: Dark Horizon

Part Eight: XX

A/N: So... This one came out earlier than Part 7 but that ain't saying much _. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy this next chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it (My favorite so far!) It has a lot of action, information, surprises, and DEFINITELY a game changer plot-wise. If I were you, I'd look at the chapter title. It might give you a few hints!

Sunlight City - Ocean Spine Parkway

Shadow stared at his opponent's eyes that seemed to be stabbing Shadow as they gazed upon him. Before the monster could strike with its' maw, Shadow quickly squeezed his way out from under the monster's bulky hands. The monster's mouth then collided with the asphalt below it, causing a few teeth to crack and crumble. Shadow then relocated to the right side of the creature and attacked.

"Chaos Blast!" He roared as he fired a crimson colored laser.

The laser just simply grazed the creature, barely causing a scratch. The creature then lunged at him with its razor sharp appendages, although the ultimate-life-form was a bit too swift and avoided them. Shadow then pressed his palms together. His hands started to glow with blue energy and tremble with power. The ebony hedgehog then sprinted forward a few meters and then clapped his hands together. A blue wave –like energy pulse rushed forward into the creature. When the beam made contact with the monster, it caused its exoskeleton to start steaming and then cause small explosions on the outside.

The creature quickly retaliated and shot a dark blue beam surrounded by black lightning. Shadow charged his attack again and then fired. His ice wave collided with the energy beam and fought each other. The two beams struggled against each other before the energy beam overcame the ice wave, running right into Shadow and jamming him into the ground. The hedgehog's skin stung and burned from the cuts he received but he shook it off. He was better than that.

Shadow quickly formulated his next plan of action. He backed up a few meters and then planted his feet in the ground. He then started to glow and green energy coursed throughout his body. The monster gazed over at him and tilted its head in confusion. The ebony hedgehog then launched himself towards the menacing foe. As he quickly approached, the creature simply just stood still in its place, somewhat amused by the hedgehog's efforts. Before the ultimate life-form had a chance to attack, he was clubbed with the monstrosity's burly tail. The impact sent the hedgehog back a few meters right into a halfway collapsed street light.

"Agh… why is it that I always underestimate these things!" The hedgehog growled as he regained his stamina.

He looked around at his surroundings trying to find something he could use to damage the creature. As his eyes searched, he noticed that the sun had finally started to peek through the charcoal colored smoke that covered the crippled metropolis. Shadow eyes desperately searched for something to use to his advantage. Then, something caught his attention out of the corner of his eye.

That semi-truck, of course! His thoughts raced.

He then redirected his attention back to the creature, who started to charge towards his position.

Time to move… Shadow thought as he hoisted himself upwards over the creature as soon as it arrived.

While in mid-air, he struck the creature behind the head, cracking the shell covering it's neck in the process. The creature roared in pain, and before Shadow could land, he was bashed by the creature's forearm. When shadow finally hit the asphalt of the road, the creature's blue colored markings began to light up. Shadow's eyes widened and he quickly got up and ran toward the huge truck. Right before Shadow was within arm's reach, he was picked off on his left side by the dark energy beam. The force of impact made him do a wicked spin and land flat on his face.

An exhausted Shadow then opened his eyes to see the beastly creature coming toward him, yet again. He tried with all of his energy to get himself off of the ground, but he found no strength within him. When the creature arrived, it grabbed Shadow by the leg and held him up to its' face.

"Ha! This is what the commander was so concerned about?" The creature questioned with a dark voice. "A puny rodent dubbed 'The Ultimate Life-form?' Pathetic…"

"Please, I have more power than you and the others will ever dream to have!" Shadow snarled as he tried to shake himself out of the creature's grasp. No good… too… strong… Shadow thought as he struggled.

"If you're as powerful as you claim to be, then I'm sure you can handle this!" The creature roared maniacally as it threw Shadow toward the semi-truck's fuel tank.

Before shadow collided with the tank, the creature unleashed a beam from its' naval, making it explode as soon as shadow was near it. Shadow saw flames from both sides and just closed his eyes. Black smoke and debris filled the area as the flames seemingly consumed him. The creature simply stood there and laughed at Shadow's apparent demise. The creature started to walk away when it heard a scraping sound. It stopped in its tracks, but then ignored it. A piercing scraping noise began to fill the area and the creature started to wince from the intense sound waves.

Shadow's body trembled inside the flames and began to glow red. The creature's crystal body parts then started to light up. "What is this? My power… it's fading..! How? He can't! Impossible!" The creature shrieked as it started to stumble. Shadow opened his eyes, revealing they had turned blank white. His body blacked itself out, and a blackish-red aura surrounding his body surged throughout the area. Shadow had absorbed the negative energy that was present in the creature's body. Dark Shadow had emerged.

Shadow slowly rose up from the blaze and eyed his diminishing opponent. He smirked with an evil grin that soon turned to a frown.

"I will…" He breathed in, "Show you true power!" The darkness within him bellowed.

Before the creature's eye's could blink, Dark Shadow sped through his body, striking him while passing through. The creature started to scream a blood curdling scream, a scream that seemed to last forever. Shadow teleported back in front of the monstrosity. Shadow gave the creature a deathly stare and the creature winced from his previous wound.

"He was … right…" The creature admitted as Shadow quickly sped around to the back of the creature.

"Yet you wouldn't listen…" Dark Shadow replied coldly. Before Dark Shadow struck with a killing blow, he halted. He then smiled a dark smile.

"I'd rather kill my enemy while I look them in the eye…" The Dark filled hedgehog uttered in a dark tone.

Shadow grabbed the creature by the head and quickly twisted the creature's head around. The creature screamed and shadow twisted it until the head was facing his face.

"There we go…" The negative hedgehog whispered amidst the screams.

The hedgehog then let go of the head. Before the creature had time to react, Dark Shadow re-grabbed the head and thrust it sideways, tearing it off entirely. He then took the head and smashed it to the ground, causing it to shatter into millions of pieces. He then charged his entire body and his body started to flash red. His body shook with power before he bellowed

"Chaos… Burst!" A Black beam surrounded by spiraling red lightning was shot at the corpse.

The dark beam completely disintegrated the body. Shadow then lifted all loose object nearby in midair and made them hover. With the movement of his fists, he caused them to explode, wreaking havoc through the area of the city. His eyes now flashed red and he started to emit a continuous shockwave that started to decimate everything in the area.

"The power's too MUCH!" He screamed in agony as buildings, roads, vehicles, everything around him was completely annihilated…

Razor Plateau - City Outskirts

The wind blew through the air at a steady rate, enough to calm one's nerves. Gazing upon the city beyond it however, was a different story. Through the short grass and sandy plateau climate, Sonic the hedgehog and his friends, who were trailing behind, closed in near the entrance to the devastated city. Before he knew it, the cobalt hedgehog was already near the cliff of the giant plateau around the city.

"Ah! This is way too high!" Sonic exclaimed as he stared down the cliff's edge.

"Well maybe you'd find an easier way to get down by just using the road…" An annoyed Knuckles called out as Tails and Amy followed behind him, taking the path of the dwindled road.

Sonic quickly ran over to the group and cut in front of Knuckles, taking the lead. He looked behind him to see Knuckles starting to growl and Tails shaking his head. Sonic just shrugged and stayed in place. After a few more minutes of traveling, the two tailed fox rested his bag on the ground and sat on a nearby rock.

"Phew, I'm beat!" He exclaimed as he wiped the sweat from his forehead. Knuckles and Amy then also proceeded to find a place to sit and rest.

"Well, we're almost there." Sonic said as he motioned tails to pass him a water bottle.

"Yep, only a few more miles and we'll be dead center in the middle of the city!" Tails happily replied as he tossed Sonic the water.

Amy wasn't so excited though. In fact, she was heartbroken from the image she saw in the distance. Sonic noticed this and quickly walked over to her location.

"Amy, is something wrong? You look sad." Sonic asked concerned.

"The city it's… it's worse up close than on T.V." The rose colored hedgehog quietly replied.

"I know. I'm not happy about it either Amy. That's the reason why we're here though. To find out what did this." He spoke, trying to confort her.

"I know, but it's still sad. Do you think anyone made it?" She asked with a small sign of hope.

"I… I don't know, but we'll find out when we arrive, that's for sure." The azure hedgehog assured her.

Amy turned towards Sonic and smiled a soft smile. Sonic smiled back too and put his hand on her shoulder. Their moment was interrupted however, when all of a sudden the ground began to shake violently.

"Whoa! What the heck?" Sonic yelled as he grabbed Amy and helped keep her balance.

Tails and Knuckles behind them both stood firmly, keeping their posture. The metallic object off in the distance lit up and let loose a multi-colored shockwave off in the distance, destroying other buildings surrounding it. The shaking then came to an abrupt halt, making all four Mobians fall to their looked off into the distance at the object, puzzled.

That's a lot of power. TOO much power… His mind operated.

After Amy was helped back up by Sonic, Knuckles was the first to break the silence.

"Looks like we've got quite a big problem on our hands." The crimson echidna told his allies.

"Yeah, that was some shockwave! It absolutely destroyed those buildings!" Sonic exclaimed as he looked at the horrifying image before him. Amy just looked away from the image and buried her face in her hands.

"It's terrible… people don't deserve that, no matter how bad they may be!" Amy exclaimed while holding back tears.

"Well we have come this far, so it wouldn't make sense to leave now. I say we go forward." Tails suggested as he got up and put on his supply pack.

"Agreed." Knuckles briefly said as he too stood up.

"Yeah, I'm ready. Come on Amy." Sonic said as he pulled her up from the ground.

"Ok…" She said as she sniffed.

Sunlight City – Seahorse Villa

All four of them followed the dirt road down a narrow pathway that hugged the edge of the plateau, carefully keeping their balance so they wouldn't tumble down it. After clearing the steep pathway, they finally came to a sign.

It read: Welcome to Sunlight City! The sunny Vacation and Business capital of the world!

"Not a vacation spot anymore…" Knuckles commented.

Amy gave knuckles an annoyed look but he ignored it. The outside of the city was still intact, and barely any damage was done to the area. The outside of the metropolis consisted of town homes and apartment complexes and the particular area they were in right now was called Seahorse Villa, a town home village. The crippled City seemed to loom over the unscathed homes, intimidating it in a way. As the heroes walked down the road, Sonic was reminded of something he had seen earlier.

"Hey Tails, have you seen any humans since you arrived at Leatherback Bay?" The cobalt hedgehog asked his best friend.

"No I haven't… kind of weird isn't it?" He responded.

"Very. It's not normal at all. They're usually walking the streets or driving cars most of the time, and I haven't seen one person." The hedgehog stated as he and the other three Mobians kept a steady jog down the street.

"I also noticed that I haven't seen any armed forces in the area. It's very odd for that to occur, especially when a city like this is put on its' knees." Knuckles intervened, also informing them of his suspicions.

"Yeah, definitely." Sonic and Tails both agreed.

As Sonic led the group, he noticed a strange glare in the sky.

What is that? He thought to himself.

Soon, he was seeing multiple glares in a particular area of the sky.

"Tails, what is that?" The blue hedgehog questioned as he frantically pointed his finger toward the flashes.

"I have no clue Sonic…" The fox answered paused and then noticed that the flashes were getting closer, putting him on alert."But whatever it is… it's heading toward this way!" The now alarmed fox said as he started to scurry for cover.

"Amy, Knuckles, find some cover! Something's coming our way!" The hedgehog sounded to his allies as he himself dove for cover underneath a garage with an overhead roof.

Tails ran and sticks to a brick wall facing the opposite direction of the oncoming force while Knuckles and Amy hide behind a cargo truck. Tails quickly reaches into his supply pack and pulls out a pair of high tech goggles.

Alright… let's see what you are…The fox thought as he looked into the goggles.

As he scoped in closer, his jaw dropped. "Guys, we have hostile crystals on the way! Prepare yourself and Take them out quickly if you can. They're a force to be reckoned with!" He screamed to his allies.

Sonic looked over at Knuckles' and mouthed the words 'wait until they go by' to him. Knuckles nodded and readied himself for the imminent battle. The swarm of blood red crystals rushed by at a speed that would make Sonic jealous.

Ah. They're the same type of thing that took out the news crew! Knuckles thought as he steamed with anger.

Knuckles and Sonic changed directions and Amy switched her cover over to Sonic's area.

"Amy. Why are you here? Take cover somewhere else! You're not safe here!" Sonic whispered annoyed.

Amy responded "I'm just here to he-"

"You're not helping Amy! Go find cover!" Sonic cut her off harshly.

"But…" Amy now said with a quivering lip. "

Go!" Sonic said as he stammered.

With her head hung low, she quickly made her way to a safer area.

See? Just a speed bump. Nothing more. His thoughts persisted to say. What are you doing Sonic? She has potential to fight and you know that yourself from past experience. Remember the Metarex? That's proof enough. His thoughts clashed.

At that moment, Sonic had spaced out and wasn't paying attention to his surroundings.

"Sonic! What are you doing? Attack! Attack! They're here!" Knuckles cried out as he jabbed an oncoming crystal with his fist.

"Whoah!" Sonic took notice and shook his head.

The crystals came blazing by once again, slashing through cars and some houses, shredding anything that made contact with them. Sonic took the time to charge his spin dash move. As he saw three crystals come around the corner, he let loose and sliced through them with his speed. Tails flew out from under his cover and took pursuit to two other crystals heading toward Knuckles. Before they collided with the echidna, Tails bashed them to the ground with his two tails while Knuckles finished them off with a double-jab punch. More crystals came rushing out of the sky and made Knuckles its' target once again. What the echidna didn't know was that another group was headed his way ready to flank him.

When the first group arrived, Sonic used his Homing attack on five of them while knuckles did a side kick on another.

"Knuckles, look out!" Tails cried as he pointed to the right of the echidna.

"Right!" Knuckles called.

"Got it!" Sonic responded back as he jumped at Knuckles who proceeded to throw him at the flanking crystals.

While airborne from the throw, Sonic curled up into a ball and shredded through the pack of crystals. After Sonic was apart from Knuckles, Amy peeked her head out from cover to see what was going on. The next thing she saw horrified her.

"Sonic, behind you!" She cried out to the blue hero.

"Ah!" Sonic cried out surprised as he fled from the oncoming crystals.

As he sped through the villa, he looked over his shoulder to find out that the crystals were gaining ground on him.

"No, I'm the fastest thing alive! This shouldn't be!" He cried out in shock as he tried to maneuver through tight spaces and narrow pathways.

Man, I can't shake 'em off. I'm toast! Sonic thought as he kept running.

Before the crystals could reach the hedgehog, Knuckles cut off the oncoming onslaught by Throwing his fist in the way of the aligned crystals. He punched them one by one until they were shattered. Sonic noticed this and aimed his gaze back toward the sky. The large swarm of crystals that had hung out there had reset its' course back to the metallic object. He ran back over to where Knuckles was standing and once again looked at the retreating crystals.

"I've gotta say Knux, you saved my hide back there." Sonic admitted as he offered a hand shake.

"Hey, it's no problem. It just feels good to be back in action again hehe!" Knuckles chuckled as he accepted Sonic's hand shake, causing them to both chuckle.

"At least we act good as team. That's something we've always had." Tails intervened and pounded Sonic and Knuckles' fist.

"Is everyone alright?" The cobalt hedgehog asked his allies.

"I'm good.' Knuckles answered while Tails nodded. Then, it hit sonic like a brick wall.

Amy Sonic thought. "Hey Amy, it's ok to come ou-"

"SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" An overpowering sound wave attacked the group's ears.

"AHH!" Knuckles screamed as he pressed his hands against his hurting ears.

"My brain… feels like it's melting!" The two tailed fox screamed as he fell to the ground.

"That noise… too much NOISE!" The cobalt hedgehog bellowed as he instantly dropped to his knees. "Amy!" He screamed amidst his own agony.

He started crawling over to where she had taken cover. About a meter from her location, he ran out of strength. The noise was just too much for him and his vision started to blur. He rolled on his back and looked up only to see a heavily armed helicopter landing in the area. Several armed mean with tactical gear came storming out of the vehicle. Two men started heading towards his way.

They're here for me… Sonic thought.

He was proven wrong however. The two men blew right passed him and picked up a partially subdued hedgehog behind a barricade.

"AMY!" Sonic called as he extended his arm out for her.

"SONIC!" She cried out with tears running down her face with her arm extended also.

Sonic tried with all of his strength to get up, but he failed. A man with a black mask and an Automatic rifle walked up to the weeping hedgehog.

"NO! AMY!" The hedgehog screamed until his voice became hoarse.

The man standing over him eyed Sonic suspiciously and then signaled the other men who were over Knuckles' and Tails' bodies. They gave them both a hit to the hit with the butt of their rifle, and Sonic was next. Although the man was wearing a mask, he could've sworn he saw an evil smile on his face. The man bashed sonic on the forehead with the rifle, surely knocking him out. They loaded the struggling Amy Rose into the intimidating gunship. Soon after, the helicopter's men re-boarded the gunship and it took off. Sonic's vision was going dark, but there was one thing, one thing that he saw, that scared him.

Amy Rose was captured.

She was captured by armed men.

"G-GU-" Sonic managed mouth before he passed out from the blow and the terrible squealing.

She was captured… by G.U.N.

"What Has Helped You Countless Times... Is Now Against You."

A/N: O HO HO HO HO! -How'd you like my eggman laugh? TWIST G.U.N. has turned against Sonic and co. But why? WHY SO MANY QUESTIONS? Well, they will be answered (hopefully soon) since I will try and crank out a lot of chapter throughout the rest of the summer. Dark Shadow was awesome to write for since he is such a BA and has a whole bank of nasty moves so I thought it was cool. Kind of weird for him to go Dark without Chaos emeralds isn't it? Hmmmmm... . Having G.U.N. as an enemy just seemed like a really good idea to me, plus the fact that I can do so much with it and it really gives a good aspect of how Sonic and friends can go against the world sometimes. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chappie! What will Happen to Amy? What are the motives behind G.U.N. truning against Sonic and Co.? Will Sonic, Tails, and Knux be able to save Amy? Find out in Part Nine!

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Shadow: Dark Horizon

Part Eight: XX

A/N: So... This one came out earlier than Part 7 but that ain't saying much _. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy this next chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it (My favorite so far!) It has a lot of action, information, surprises, and DEFINITELY a game changer plot-wise. If I were you, I'd look at the chapter title. It might give you a few hints!

Sunlight City - Ocean Spine Parkway

Shadow stared at his opponent's eyes that seemed to be stabbing Shadow as they gazed upon him. Before the monster could strike with its' maw, Shadow quickly squeezed his way out from under the monster's bulky hands. The monster's mouth then collided with the asphalt below it, causing a few teeth to crack and crumble. Shadow then relocated to the right side of the creature and attacked.

"Chaos Blast!" He roared as he fired a crimson colored laser.

The laser just simply grazed the creature, barely causing a scratch. The creature then lunged at him with its razor sharp appendages, although the ultimate-life-form was a bit too swift and avoided them. Shadow then pressed his palms together. His hands started to glow with blue energy and tremble with power. The ebony hedgehog then sprinted forward a few meters and then clapped his hands together. A blue wave –like energy pulse rushed forward into the creature. When the beam made contact with the monster, it caused its exoskeleton to start steaming and then cause small explosions on the outside.

The creature quickly retaliated and shot a dark blue beam surrounded by black lightning. Shadow charged his attack again and then fired. His ice wave collided with the energy beam and fought each other. The two beams struggled against each other before the energy beam overcame the ice wave, running right into Shadow and jamming him into the ground. The hedgehog's skin stung and burned from the cuts he received but he shook it off. He was better than that.

Shadow quickly formulated his next plan of action. He backed up a few meters and then planted his feet in the ground. He then started to glow and green energy coursed throughout his body. The monster gazed over at him and tilted its head in confusion. The ebony hedgehog then launched himself towards the menacing foe. As he quickly approached, the creature simply just stood still in its place, somewhat amused by the hedgehog's efforts. Before the ultimate life-form had a chance to attack, he was clubbed with the monstrosity's burly tail. The impact sent the hedgehog back a few meters right into a halfway collapsed street light.

"Agh… why is it that I always underestimate these things!" The hedgehog growled as he regained his stamina.

He looked around at his surroundings trying to find something he could use to damage the creature. As his eyes searched, he noticed that the sun had finally started to peek through the charcoal colored smoke that covered the crippled metropolis. Shadow eyes desperately searched for something to use to his advantage. Then, something caught his attention out of the corner of his eye.

That semi-truck, of course! His thoughts raced.

He then redirected his attention back to the creature, who started to charge towards his position.

Time to move… Shadow thought as he hoisted himself upwards over the creature as soon as it arrived.

While in mid-air, he struck the creature behind the head, cracking the shell covering it's neck in the process. The creature roared in pain, and before Shadow could land, he was bashed by the creature's forearm. When shadow finally hit the asphalt of the road, the creature's blue colored markings began to light up. Shadow's eyes widened and he quickly got up and ran toward the huge truck. Right before Shadow was within arm's reach, he was picked off on his left side by the dark energy beam. The force of impact made him do a wicked spin and land flat on his face.

An exhausted Shadow then opened his eyes to see the beastly creature coming toward him, yet again. He tried with all of his energy to get himself off of the ground, but he found no strength within him. When the creature arrived, it grabbed Shadow by the leg and held him up to its' face.

"Ha! This is what the commander was so concerned about?" The creature questioned with a dark voice. "A puny rodent dubbed 'The Ultimate Life-form?' Pathetic…"

"Please, I have more power than you and the others will ever dream to have!" Shadow snarled as he tried to shake himself out of the creature's grasp. No good… too… strong… Shadow thought as he struggled.

"If you're as powerful as you claim to be, then I'm sure you can handle this!" The creature roared maniacally as it threw Shadow toward the semi-truck's fuel tank.

Before shadow collided with the tank, the creature unleashed a beam from its' naval, making it explode as soon as shadow was near it. Shadow saw flames from both sides and just closed his eyes. Black smoke and debris filled the area as the flames seemingly consumed him. The creature simply stood there and laughed at Shadow's apparent demise. The creature started to walk away when it heard a scraping sound. It stopped in its tracks, but then ignored it. A piercing scraping noise began to fill the area and the creature started to wince from the intense sound waves.

Shadow's body trembled inside the flames and began to glow red. The creature's crystal body parts then started to light up. "What is this? My power… it's fading..! How? He can't! Impossible!" The creature shrieked as it started to stumble. Shadow opened his eyes, revealing they had turned blank white. His body blacked itself out, and a blackish-red aura surrounding his body surged throughout the area. Shadow had absorbed the negative energy that was present in the creature's body. Dark Shadow had emerged.

Shadow slowly rose up from the blaze and eyed his diminishing opponent. He smirked with an evil grin that soon turned to a frown.

"I will…" He breathed in, "Show you true power!" The darkness within him bellowed.

Before the creature's eye's could blink, Dark Shadow sped through his body, striking him while passing through. The creature started to scream a blood curdling scream, a scream that seemed to last forever. Shadow teleported back in front of the monstrosity. Shadow gave the creature a deathly stare and the creature winced from his previous wound.

"He was … right…" The creature admitted as Shadow quickly sped around to the back of the creature.

"Yet you wouldn't listen…" Dark Shadow replied coldly. Before Dark Shadow struck with a killing blow, he halted. He then smiled a dark smile.

"I'd rather kill my enemy while I look them in the eye…" The Dark filled hedgehog uttered in a dark tone.

Shadow grabbed the creature by the head and quickly twisted the creature's head around. The creature screamed and shadow twisted it until the head was facing his face.

"There we go…" The negative hedgehog whispered amidst the screams.

The hedgehog then let go of the head. Before the creature had time to react, Dark Shadow re-grabbed the head and thrust it sideways, tearing it off entirely. He then took the head and smashed it to the ground, causing it to shatter into millions of pieces. He then charged his entire body and his body started to flash red. His body shook with power before he bellowed

"Chaos… Burst!" A Black beam surrounded by spiraling red lightning was shot at the corpse.

The dark beam completely disintegrated the body. Shadow then lifted all loose object nearby in midair and made them hover. With the movement of his fists, he caused them to explode, wreaking havoc through the area of the city. His eyes now flashed red and he started to emit a continuous shockwave that started to decimate everything in the area.

"The power's too MUCH!" He screamed in agony as buildings, roads, vehicles, everything around him was completely annihilated…

Razor Plateau - City Outskirts

The wind blew through the air at a steady rate, enough to calm one's nerves. Gazing upon the city beyond it however, was a different story. Through the short grass and sandy plateau climate, Sonic the hedgehog and his friends, who were trailing behind, closed in near the entrance to the devastated city. Before he knew it, the cobalt hedgehog was already near the cliff of the giant plateau around the city.

"Ah! This is way too high!" Sonic exclaimed as he stared down the cliff's edge.

"Well maybe you'd find an easier way to get down by just using the road…" An annoyed Knuckles called out as Tails and Amy followed behind him, taking the path of the dwindled road.

Sonic quickly ran over to the group and cut in front of Knuckles, taking the lead. He looked behind him to see Knuckles starting to growl and Tails shaking his head. Sonic just shrugged and stayed in place. After a few more minutes of traveling, the two tailed fox rested his bag on the ground and sat on a nearby rock.

"Phew, I'm beat!" He exclaimed as he wiped the sweat from his forehead. Knuckles and Amy then also proceeded to find a place to sit and rest.

"Well, we're almost there." Sonic said as he motioned tails to pass him a water bottle.

"Yep, only a few more miles and we'll be dead center in the middle of the city!" Tails happily replied as he tossed Sonic the water.

Amy wasn't so excited though. In fact, she was heartbroken from the image she saw in the distance. Sonic noticed this and quickly walked over to her location.

"Amy, is something wrong? You look sad." Sonic asked concerned.

"The city it's… it's worse up close than on T.V." The rose colored hedgehog quietly replied.

"I know. I'm not happy about it either Amy. That's the reason why we're here though. To find out what did this." He spoke, trying to confort her.

"I know, but it's still sad. Do you think anyone made it?" She asked with a small sign of hope.

"I… I don't know, but we'll find out when we arrive, that's for sure." The azure hedgehog assured her.

Amy turned towards Sonic and smiled a soft smile. Sonic smiled back too and put his hand on her shoulder. Their moment was interrupted however, when all of a sudden the ground began to shake violently.

"Whoa! What the heck?" Sonic yelled as he grabbed Amy and helped keep her balance.

Tails and Knuckles behind them both stood firmly, keeping their posture. The metallic object off in the distance lit up and let loose a multi-colored shockwave off in the distance, destroying other buildings surrounding it. The shaking then came to an abrupt halt, making all four Mobians fall to their looked off into the distance at the object, puzzled.

That's a lot of power. TOO much power… His mind operated.

After Amy was helped back up by Sonic, Knuckles was the first to break the silence.

"Looks like we've got quite a big problem on our hands." The crimson echidna told his allies.

"Yeah, that was some shockwave! It absolutely destroyed those buildings!" Sonic exclaimed as he looked at the horrifying image before him. Amy just looked away from the image and buried her face in her hands.

"It's terrible… people don't deserve that, no matter how bad they may be!" Amy exclaimed while holding back tears.

"Well we have come this far, so it wouldn't make sense to leave now. I say we go forward." Tails suggested as he got up and put on his supply pack.

"Agreed." Knuckles briefly said as he too stood up.

"Yeah, I'm ready. Come on Amy." Sonic said as he pulled her up from the ground.

"Ok…" She said as she sniffed.

Sunlight City – Seahorse Villa

All four of them followed the dirt road down a narrow pathway that hugged the edge of the plateau, carefully keeping their balance so they wouldn't tumble down it. After clearing the steep pathway, they finally came to a sign.

It read: Welcome to Sunlight City! The sunny Vacation and Business capital of the world!

"Not a vacation spot anymore…" Knuckles commented.

Amy gave knuckles an annoyed look but he ignored it. The outside of the city was still intact, and barely any damage was done to the area. The outside of the metropolis consisted of town homes and apartment complexes and the particular area they were in right now was called Seahorse Villa, a town home village. The crippled City seemed to loom over the unscathed homes, intimidating it in a way. As the heroes walked down the road, Sonic was reminded of something he had seen earlier.

"Hey Tails, have you seen any humans since you arrived at Leatherback Bay?" The cobalt hedgehog asked his best friend.

"No I haven't… kind of weird isn't it?" He responded.

"Very. It's not normal at all. They're usually walking the streets or driving cars most of the time, and I haven't seen one person." The hedgehog stated as he and the other three Mobians kept a steady jog down the street.

"I also noticed that I haven't seen any armed forces in the area. It's very odd for that to occur, especially when a city like this is put on its' knees." Knuckles intervened, also informing them of his suspicions.

"Yeah, definitely." Sonic and Tails both agreed.

As Sonic led the group, he noticed a strange glare in the sky.

What is that? He thought to himself.

Soon, he was seeing multiple glares in a particular area of the sky.

"Tails, what is that?" The blue hedgehog questioned as he frantically pointed his finger toward the flashes.

"I have no clue Sonic…" The fox answered paused and then noticed that the flashes were getting closer, putting him on alert."But whatever it is… it's heading toward this way!" The now alarmed fox said as he started to scurry for cover.

"Amy, Knuckles, find some cover! Something's coming our way!" The hedgehog sounded to his allies as he himself dove for cover underneath a garage with an overhead roof.

Tails ran and sticks to a brick wall facing the opposite direction of the oncoming force while Knuckles and Amy hide behind a cargo truck. Tails quickly reaches into his supply pack and pulls out a pair of high tech goggles.

Alright… let's see what you are…The fox thought as he looked into the goggles.

As he scoped in closer, his jaw dropped. "Guys, we have hostile crystals on the way! Prepare yourself and Take them out quickly if you can. They're a force to be reckoned with!" He screamed to his allies.

Sonic looked over at Knuckles' and mouthed the words 'wait until they go by' to him. Knuckles nodded and readied himself for the imminent battle. The swarm of blood red crystals rushed by at a speed that would make Sonic jealous.

Ah. They're the same type of thing that took out the news crew! Knuckles thought as he steamed with anger.

Knuckles and Sonic changed directions and Amy switched her cover over to Sonic's area.

"Amy. Why are you here? Take cover somewhere else! You're not safe here!" Sonic whispered annoyed.

Amy responded "I'm just here to he-"

"You're not helping Amy! Go find cover!" Sonic cut her off harshly.

"But…" Amy now said with a quivering lip. "

Go!" Sonic said as he stammered.

With her head hung low, she quickly made her way to a safer area.

See? Just a speed bump. Nothing more. His thoughts persisted to say. What are you doing Sonic? She has potential to fight and you know that yourself from past experience. Remember the Metarex? That's proof enough. His thoughts clashed.

At that moment, Sonic had spaced out and wasn't paying attention to his surroundings.

"Sonic! What are you doing? Attack! Attack! They're here!" Knuckles cried out as he jabbed an oncoming crystal with his fist.

"Whoah!" Sonic took notice and shook his head.

The crystals came blazing by once again, slashing through cars and some houses, shredding anything that made contact with them. Sonic took the time to charge his spin dash move. As he saw three crystals come around the corner, he let loose and sliced through them with his speed. Tails flew out from under his cover and took pursuit to two other crystals heading toward Knuckles. Before they collided with the echidna, Tails bashed them to the ground with his two tails while Knuckles finished them off with a double-jab punch. More crystals came rushing out of the sky and made Knuckles its' target once again. What the echidna didn't know was that another group was headed his way ready to flank him.

When the first group arrived, Sonic used his Homing attack on five of them while knuckles did a side kick on another.

"Knuckles, look out!" Tails cried as he pointed to the right of the echidna.

"Right!" Knuckles called.

"Got it!" Sonic responded back as he jumped at Knuckles who proceeded to throw him at the flanking crystals.

While airborne from the throw, Sonic curled up into a ball and shredded through the pack of crystals. After Sonic was apart from Knuckles, Amy peeked her head out from cover to see what was going on. The next thing she saw horrified her.

"Sonic, behind you!" She cried out to the blue hero.

"Ah!" Sonic cried out surprised as he fled from the oncoming crystals.

As he sped through the villa, he looked over his shoulder to find out that the crystals were gaining ground on him.

"No, I'm the fastest thing alive! This shouldn't be!" He cried out in shock as he tried to maneuver through tight spaces and narrow pathways.

Man, I can't shake 'em off. I'm toast! Sonic thought as he kept running.

Before the crystals could reach the hedgehog, Knuckles cut off the oncoming onslaught by Throwing his fist in the way of the aligned crystals. He punched them one by one until they were shattered. Sonic noticed this and aimed his gaze back toward the sky. The large swarm of crystals that had hung out there had reset its' course back to the metallic object. He ran back over to where Knuckles was standing and once again looked at the retreating crystals.

"I've gotta say Knux, you saved my hide back there." Sonic admitted as he offered a hand shake.

"Hey, it's no problem. It just feels good to be back in action again hehe!" Knuckles chuckled as he accepted Sonic's hand shake, causing them to both chuckle.

"At least we act good as team. That's something we've always had." Tails intervened and pounded Sonic and Knuckles' fist.

"Is everyone alright?" The cobalt hedgehog asked his allies.

"I'm good.' Knuckles answered while Tails nodded. Then, it hit sonic like a brick wall.

Amy Sonic thought. "Hey Amy, it's ok to come ou-"

"SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" An overpowering sound wave attacked the group's ears.

"AHH!" Knuckles screamed as he pressed his hands against his hurting ears.

"My brain… feels like it's melting!" The two tailed fox screamed as he fell to the ground.

"That noise… too much NOISE!" The cobalt hedgehog bellowed as he instantly dropped to his knees. "Amy!" He screamed amidst his own agony.

He started crawling over to where she had taken cover. About a meter from her location, he ran out of strength. The noise was just too much for him and his vision started to blur. He rolled on his back and looked up only to see a heavily armed helicopter landing in the area. Several armed mean with tactical gear came storming out of the vehicle. Two men started heading towards his way.

They're here for me… Sonic thought.

He was proven wrong however. The two men blew right passed him and picked up a partially subdued hedgehog behind a barricade.

"AMY!" Sonic called as he extended his arm out for her.

"SONIC!" She cried out with tears running down her face with her arm extended also.

Sonic tried with all of his strength to get up, but he failed. A man with a black mask and an Automatic rifle walked up to the weeping hedgehog.

"NO! AMY!" The hedgehog screamed until his voice became hoarse.

The man standing over him eyed Sonic suspiciously and then signaled the other men who were over Knuckles' and Tails' bodies. They gave them both a hit to the hit with the butt of their rifle, and Sonic was next. Although the man was wearing a mask, he could've sworn he saw an evil smile on his face. The man bashed sonic on the forehead with the rifle, surely knocking him out. They loaded the struggling Amy Rose into the intimidating gunship. Soon after, the helicopter's men re-boarded the gunship and it took off. Sonic's vision was going dark, but there was one thing, one thing that he saw, that scared him.

Amy Rose was captured.

She was captured by armed men.

"G-GU-" Sonic managed mouth before he passed out from the blow and the terrible squealing.

She was captured… by G.U.N.

"What Has Helped You Countless Times... Is Now Against You."

A/N: O HO HO HO HO! -How'd you like my eggman laugh? TWIST G.U.N. has turned against Sonic and co. But why? WHY SO MANY QUESTIONS? Well, they will be answered (hopefully soon) since I will try and crank out a lot of chapter throughout the rest of the summer. Dark Shadow was awesome to write for since he is such a BA and has a whole bank of nasty moves so I thought it was cool. Kind of weird for him to go Dark without Chaos emeralds isn't it? Hmmmmm... . Having G.U.N. as an enemy just seemed like a really good idea to me, plus the fact that I can do so much with it and it really gives a good aspect of how Sonic and friends can go against the world sometimes. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chappie! What will Happen to Amy? What are the motives behind G.U.N. truning against Sonic and Co.? Will Sonic, Tails, and Knux be able to save Amy? Find out in Part Nine!