1x03: The Aftereffects

Previously on Desperate Hedgehogs...

Sonic, Tails, and Rouge discovered an old friend, Shadow the Hedgehog, trapped in Eggman's old base. Their reunion unfortunately ended in one of the worst ways possible as Shadow was looking for a fight rather then catching up.

Amy, Cream, Cheese, and Knuckles went on a search for the master emerald. It's led them to Eggman's old Mystic Ruins base, but they didn't seem to find much.

Silver met Vector, and they started their search for Dr. Eggman. They also decided to go enter the Mystic Ruins base, trying to look for clues and maybe even Eggman himself.

But plans changed when Shadow activated a time bomb that sent everyone running towards the exit. Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Cream, and Cheese were able to exit. But the fates of the Chaotix and Silver are unknown. And where has Shadow taken Amy and Rouge? And what does Eggman exactly have to do with everything?

So many memories came to the minds of some people when they were to look at the Mystic Ruins base that belonged to Dr. Eggman. It was deep and hidden in the dark green forest of the ruins. But now, the base was gone, ten minutes after Shadow had unexpectedly activated a bomb that no one knew existed in the first place. But it doesn't matter, what matters now is that the base is gone, and a place that could have contained tons of clues to find Eggman was gone.

A blue hedgehog, a yellow fox, a red echidna, a peach rabbit, and an average chao stared at all the remaining pieces of the base. It had been only a minute after the bomb had truly detonated. They stared at all the destruction deep in the forest, amazed at the sight. They didn't know this would be the fate of the base until ten minutes ago, five for Knuckles, Cream, and Cheese.

“Wow, it's really gone,” said Knuckles looking out into the flames burning the remainder of the base.

“Yeah, I can't believe it,” said Sonic as he walked over to Knuckles.

“Gosh, I never thought this place would actually get destroyed,” said Tails.

Cream and Cheese took a step back and looked away from the destruction, as they couldn't bear any more of seeing such destruction. They both were crying, trying to comfort each other because they knew if they hadn't run into Sonic they would have never escaped.

They both turned around and took a look around. But Cream noticed something extremely important was missing, and this showed in her face in an instant. Cheese noticed, and knew exactly what Cream was thinking too, as his face showed the same expression. “AMY?!” screamed Cream. “W-where's Amy?”

Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles suddenly looked around, both surprised by Cream's outburst and wondering where exactly Amy was. They searched as far as their eyes could, and they couldn't find a trace of Amy anywhere.

“Now that you mention it, she's not here...,” said Knuckles, who sounded very worried.

Tails kept looking around, as he noticed there was another person missing as well. “R-Rouge is missing too!” said Tails, who also sounded very worried. “Where could they both possibly be? I'm sure they were with us before!”

Suddenly, all five of them simultaneously thought up what could've possibly happened to their friends, and this sense of horror came to their faces, as what was in their minds was probably the worst possible scenario that could ever be thought up.

“N-no, that couldn't have happened,” said Tails.

“Well to be honest, the base had exploded as soon as Cream and Cheese came out of the base,” said Knuckles. “I-I'm sorry, but it's possible guys.”

“No!” shouted Cream. “That can't be true! Amy's my best friend, she can't be..............” Cream couldn't bring herself to say that word that started with a d. She was in tears, it wasn't normal for someone under the age of thirteen to have to deal with a dead friend. Cheese cried along with Cream, and Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles just looked down at the ground.

Knuckles walked over to Cream and Cheese and tried to comfort them, as he was with Amy too, and she was very nice to Knuckles as well. Sonic and Tails looked at them, with all sorts of sad thoughts in their heads. Were Amy and Rouge really gone?

Knuckles suddenly remembered something while comforting Cream and Cheese, and then said, “H-hey, the Chaotix and this guy I didn't know entered the base right before we did. Where are they now?”

Tails shook his head in frustration and worry. Their adventures involving Eggman were always tense but, they never lost any close friends. He sighed and said, “Look, I'll call the president and ask him to send troops here to search for Amy, Rouge, and the Chaotix. Maybe some of them are still alive out there and that they'll be found.”

“That sounds like a good plan Tails,” said Sonic.

Tails took out his phone and dialed the number for the president. He took the phone to his ear and then said, “Mr. President. It's Tails. I'm here to report that Eggman's old base in the Mystic Ruins base had recently exploded because of an activated time bomb. Unfortunately, not everyone I know that was in the base has escaped, so we need to find some of these missing people immediately.”

Eyes were closed, the body that those eyes belonged to were resting in a nice bed that you could probably just lie on for the rest of your life. But, the eyes suddenly opened, and the person looked at the white setting, and the white room. The person was in some white clothes and had many appliances attached. We finally get a look at the figure, and it's none other, then Silver the Hedgehog.

“Ugh,” he moaned. “W-where am I?”

Silver saw that the room wasn't too big, his bed took up most of the place. There were many appliances hooked up to him, and he just felt very weird overall with what the appliances were doing to him. But it didn't feel bad, it felt like it was making him feel better actually.

Suddenly, a girl in a hospital like uniform came in with a clipboard. She saw that Silver was awake and was actually pretty stunned, probably not expecting him to be awake. “Oh my, you're awake,” she said.

“W-where am I?” asked Silver, who was barely awake.

“You're in the hospital,” said the girl. “And I'm the nurse assigned to checking up on you!” The nurse walked closer to Silver, seeming like she wasn't going to be leaving anytime soon. “How are you feeling?”

Silver then said, “Oh, I guess I'm fine. So I'm in the hospital then.”

The nurse nodded. “Yes, you're in great care. It's lucky that we were able to find you before something happened to you that would've been un-treatable. Now, just rest, we'll worry about other things later. What you need to do now is just relax and focus on recovery sweety.”

Silver nodded and smiled. “Thank you.”

The nurse smiled and was about to leave the room. But before that, she turned around and said, “By the way, what's your name?”

Silver then said, “Silver.” Silver's face then turned around as he stared out the window, as the nurse finally left the room and then closed the door.

But Silver was thinking about a lot of things, he couldn't even think about recovering. He had so many questions. He didn't know how hospitals worked here, and he thought a lot of things were strange. “Where am I...”

The forest fire was starting to calm down, as there were now troops everywhere trying to calm all the destruction to preserve all signs of evidence that could be used to actually find the doctor. Cream and Cheese were still crying, Knuckles was still comforting them, and Sonic and Tails were observing the entire process.

“I can't believe Shadow is back,” said Sonic.

“I know,” said Tails. “Why would he activate that bomb and try to kill us all?”

“I don't know Tails, this whole thing just reeks Eggman, and I'm not liking the smell.”

“The more reason to find him. Sonic, it's hard to realize that some of our friends might be gone, but we need to continue this search as soon as possible. The government should have everything under control here.”

Sonic nodded his head in agreement, and then said, “Sounds good Tails. It's not like we can do anything right now anyway.”

Sonic then walked over to Cream, who seemed to be trying to wrap up her crying with Cheese. He then told her, “Hey Cream, are you and Cheese gonna be okay?”

Cream sniffed trying to stop crying to answer Sonic's question. She finally said, “Um, yeah. I think we're gonna go home right now. My mom must be really worried because I forgot to tell her where we were going.”

“Good idea Cream, tell Vanilla I said hi,” said Sonic. Cream nodded in return, and she and Cheese waved to the other three and started walking away towards wherever her house was.

Knuckles walked over to Sonic and Tails, who seemed to be beginning to take off themselves. Knuckles stops, and then said, “So um, what were you guys doing in the Mystic Ruins base anyway?”

“We were looking for some clues to Eggman's whereabouts,” said Sonic. “Obviously though, we found something a lot more interesting then that.”

Knuckles knew exactly what Sonic was referring to, proving it when he said, “Oh yeah, Shadow. You mind explaining what all that is about? I mean, he's been away for five years after all.”

“Yeah, we know about as much as you probably do Knuckles. But since he was in Eggman's base and all, who knows, maybe Eggman has something to do with this. Tails and I need to get going though, we're supposed to find that egghead sooner or later. Sucks that Rouge is um...well...”

Knuckles sighed and looked down at the ground. “I haven't seen her in forever, I wonder how she's been doing after all these years.”

“Well, she's the same as ever.”

“Well, that's good to know I guess. Um......hey guys, do you mind if I come along?”

Sonic and Tails were a bit surprised by Knuckles' comment. They thought he had other things to do like, protect the master emerald. Sonic said, “Sure Knuckles but, don't you have some giant green rock to protect?”

“Well, Vector was in charge of it, and when I got back, I found out that the master emerald was gone. I came to this base to try to ask Vector about it, and obviously, he might still be down there. So maybe if I just travel with you guys, I might find the master emerald since Eggman could always had just stolen it.”

“What else is new?” asked Sonic in a joking like way.

“Hey now, it was that idiotic crocodile that...”

“Hold up guys!” said Tails. “Of course you can come with us Knuckles. It's actually been awhile since all three of us came together like this.”

“Well, let's get started then,” said Sonic.

“Ugh...”

The eyes slowly opened up. The figure was laying down on the cold brown dusty ground. The figure sits up and sees some bars in front of her. The figure then looks behind, and sees a wall. The figure then looks to her right, and notices a white bat also laying on the ground. Yes, this figure was the pink hedgehog named Amy Rose, who was miraculously saved along with Rouge the Bat from an impending death.

“W-where am I?” she asked.

Suddenly, Rouge began to sit up, waking up thanks to Amy's loud voice. Rouge's eyes opened, as she petted her head. “Could you keep it down, I'm busy looking at my jewels...,” she said.

Amy's face showed a bit of shock, as she definitely didn't expect to be sitting there waking up to Rouge. “Rouge?” she asked.

“Amy? What in the world are you doing in my vault?” It was obvious Rouge was having a typical dream while she was asleep. Rouge annoyed Amy very much because of her thieving nature, and her dreams definitely showed what kind of person Rouge was. At least, the Rouge that she portrays.

“No Rouge, get out of dream world, because I don't know where we are,” Amy asked.

Amy was right, and Rouge realized that when she finally woke up and saw what kind of place they were in. The room they were in seemed a little small for two girls, but there were bars in front of them. They came to the conclusion that they were being trapped like prisoners, but the question is, by who?

“Wow, where the heck are we?” asked Rouge.

“Weren't we running from a time bomb before?” asked Amy.

Rouge nodded. “Yeah, we were. So, how did we end up here?”

The room seemed like part of the inside of a pyramid, as there were Egyptian like paintings all over the walls, with hieroglyphics standing right next to them. The ground looked like it was made out of bricks covered in sand, although all that could be really felt was dust. This disgusted the girls, as they were sleeping on the ground with this dust.

“Ugh, this place is gross!” said Amy.

“My clothes are covered in dust,” said Rouge.

It seemed like the Mystic Ruins base, where there was dust everywhere as if the place wasn't cleaned up in forever. But there were no machines anywhere, especially Eggman kinds. However, something about the place seemed very familiar to them both, but they couldn't put their finger on it.

Suddenly, the girls could hear footsteps coming towards them. The girls were suddenly shocked, as they didn't know anyone else was there. They stood there facing the wall in front of them so far away, blocked by the bars, waiting for the person that was walking towards them to appear. The footsteps got louder and louder, and the girls just kept on wondering who the person was. They got more and more nervous, until the figure was revealed to be the black hedgehog that had so many questions surrounding them.

“S-Shadow?” they both asked.

“Hey you two,” Shadow said. “Did you have a nice rest?”

“Shadow, where are we?” asked Amy. “What are you doing here?”

“That's not important right now,” said Shadow.

“No, it is Shadow,” Rouge suddenly said. “Where are we?

Shadow paused for a second, wondering how to answer Rouge's question. Rouge seemed pretty pissed, she obviously wasn't the kind of person that liked to not be in control. Rouge always seemed to be the person in control of the situation, but this situation was clearly not in her virtue.

“I'm sorry, you can't know that yet,” said Shadow.

“Why not?” asked Rouge.

“Look, you should be glad that you are even alive,” said Shadow.

Shadow didn't mean to say that. He wasn't supposed to tell the two prisoners much for some reason, and it showed in his face that he knew he wasn't supposed to let something like that slip.

“W-what do you mean Shadow?” asked Amy.

Shadow sighed, knowing he wasn't gonna get away with this with a lie. “Okay, the truth is, you two fell in the Mystic Ruins base and didn't seem like you two would be getting out of the base in time. So, I chaos controlled you two here. That's why you should be glad.”

“Oh wow, thanks......Shadow,” Rouge said.

Shadow nodded and began walking away from the cell. Amy's face was filled with shock, as this was the first time she had seen Shadow in such a long time. Rouge was just as surprised, as the last time she communicated with Shadow, Shadow had attacked her pushing her into a wall.

“Rouge, what's going on?” Amy asked.

A white hedgehog named Silver was finally up on his feet after a bit of rest. All the appliances that were attached to him were taken off, as Silver was finally aloud to walk across the hospital. Perhaps he would see his new friends, the Chaotix, and then get out of the hospital as soon as possible to go continue on their search for Dr. Eggman. Silver had some questions of his own though, like how he got into the hospital anyway. But first, he just needed to see his friends. So, he went all around the hospital looking for the Chaotix. It took awhile, but he finally found a room with a purple chameleon in it. He had found Espio.

Espio was sitting on the bed, not hooked up to any appliances, just meditating. It seemed like he had finish recovery just as fast as Silver had. It looked like his friends really were in this large white colored hospital. Silver walked over to Espio, wondering if Espio could sense his presence.

“Hello Silver,” Espio suddenly said, with his eyes fully closed.

Silver was a bit surprised that Espio was able to figure out he was there while keeping his eyes closed. Silver got over that quickly though, then said, “H-how did you know I was here?”

Espio got ready to say yet another one of his tips for a ninja. “If you want to defeat your opponent, you must be able to sense your opponent from miles away.”

Silver nodded, he didn't expect anything less from someone like Espio. It was pretty clear at that point Espio was the kind of guy that just liked to think of himself as this wise leader that always had great advice. “So um, are Vector and Charmy here too?” Silver asked.

“Yes, if you had asked the nurses like I did, you would have known,” Espio said, sounding a little annoyed.

“Well sorry then,” Silver said, not completely understanding why Espio sounded so annoyed.

“Look, a ninja shouldn't be interrupted during his or her meditation,” Espio said. “So please, we'll talk later, please exit through the door.”

Silver sighed and understood. Espio wasn't the nicest person to him so far, but he wasn't going to start anything, there wasn't any real big reason to go off on him. So Silver just exited the room, and continued walking around the hospital to find the two other Chaotix members.

Silver walked up a floor, looking at the names at each of the doors he was passing. This definitely seemed like a big hospital that could hold tons and tons of patients. But, his search finally paid off, when he spotted Charmy's name on a door. He opened up the door, and walked inside, to see Charmy playing video games in front of the TV in his room.

“Ch-Charmy?” asked Silver.

“Yahoo!” shouted Charmy, who seemed to be completely forgetting that he was in the hospital. He may be part of a detective agency, but he was still a kid. A little more mature then he was five years ago, but still pretty childish being a pre-teen. “Hey Silver!”

Silver felt like a babysitter, seeing someone as childish as Charmy having the time of his life. But it was the least of Silver's worries. He just wanted to see if Charmy was okay. “Hey Charmy,” Silver said. “You've recovered too?”

“Yeah, but this is the coolest hospital ever!” Charmy said, while still keeping his eyes on the TV. “I never heard of a hospital with video games before, we don't have any of these games back at the detective house!”

Silver walked over to Charmy, and saw the game cover sitting right next to him on the bed. Silver didn't bother to see what the game was however, his eyes was just on the television screen. The game seemed a little bit....mature for Charmy. He saw it was some FPS shooter, with lots of blood in it. Silver wasn't concerned however, he barely knew Charmy.

“I didn't know hospitals had video games for patients,” Silver said.

“Well, I guess this one did!” Charmy said in happiness, still playing his video game.

Silver still wondered how they had gotten to this hospital, he forgot what had happened back at the Mystic Ruins base. But, maybe Charmy knew. He was a kid, but he might have a good memory. “Hey Charmy, do you remember how we all got here?” he asked.

Charmy shook his head while playing his video game. “Nope, but who cares!” he said.

Silver nodded, and exited the room. But he started getting these suspicions, as he had started to figure out, something wasn't right about this whole situation. How had he gotten here in the first place? The last thing he remembered was running away from something. Maybe, the leader would have some answers. Silver set off to look for Vector's room.

Ah, the classic trio that used to fight against Eggman. Well, at least the majority did. For a bit, the red echidna of the trio was fighting with Eggman, but he had obviously eventually come to his senses. Knuckles still saw Sonic as a threat in some ways skill wise, but they were no doubt on the same team now. These three haven't seen each other in a long time, so it seemed like quite the reunion. Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles were out of the Mystic Ruins forest, pretty close to the train station.

The three were walking, just coming out of the forest from the cave that was the entrance into it. Mystic Ruins was still the same place it was five years ago. Thankfully, Perfect Chaos' damage was only limited to Station Square, which the Mystic Ruins was actually far from. So the Mystic Ruins really didn't have much to worry about.

Knuckles thought about what had happened to the Chaotix. He hoped that they were okay, and that they would turn up sometime soon, as he needed answers from Vector soon. He needed to know what had happened to the master emerald. He hoped this reunion with Sonic and Tails would lead him somewhere.

Knuckles was thinking so much though, he forgot where the three of them were going. So he asked, “Um guys, where are we headed off to again?”

Sonic chuckled, as he was pretty sure Knuckles had heard before. “Knuckles, we're heading off to Tails' lab to see if he could possibly find Eggman,” said Sonic. “But I'm not sure if there's anything on the internet that can help us ya know.”

Tails then said sounding annoyed, “Well Sonic, if you were listening as well, you would know that I suggested going to the lab because maybe we could find other locations Eggman could be hiding out at. You know, more clues?”

Sonic nodded. “That's right,” he said. “Gee, I hope Amy, Rouge, and the Chaotix are okay. I mean, that bomb was pretty intense and all but, they can't be gone, can they?” Sonic's voice definitely had shown a sign of worry, which you didn't hear in him most of the time. When Sonic was worried, he was definitely worried.

Knuckles sighed. “Well, we can't just sit around and pause our lives for them, we have to solve the questions that are out there,” Knuckles said.

“You're right Knuckles, I didn't expect to hear such wisdom out of ya.”

“What's that supposed to mean??”

“Ah nothin' just messin' with ya Knuckles, it's been five years after all, right?”

“Well unfortunately, it looks like you haven't changed.”

Sonic loved to play around with Knuckles, as Sonic always thought he was one step ahead of the echidna, no matter how much Knuckles tried. They've come a long way to be friends now, and despite some minor things like Knuckles being tricked to battle Sonic again by Eggman when Chaos was around, their friendship remained intact. Although, they both hadn't spoken in five years, the trio didn't have any contact with each other in five years.

The three walked up the stairs to Tails' lab, which seems to have gotten the upgrade. It was about ten times the size of the lab that was there five years ago. It probably wasn't the biggest lab out there, but it was pretty big for only one scientist. The three entered the lab to be met with hundreds of inventions and a big monitor all the way in the back.

Sonic, amazed at the sight, said, “Tails.....this is your lab?”

Tails nodded, and felt a little proud that Sonic and Knuckles were amazed at the sight. “Yep, I've been pretty busy these past five years,” he said. Tails flew to the computer at the back, with Sonic and Knuckles quickly following.

Tails had reached the computer, and began typing on the keyboard in front of the huge monitor screen, looking like he was getting started on his work. “Hey guys, this might take awhile so you can look around, or wait outside if you want,” he said.

Sonic nodded and smirked, and went to exit the lab, giving Knuckles a gesture to come with him. Knuckles noticed the gesture, and followed Sonic out.

Sonic walked to the side of the lab, and stopped there, waiting for Knuckles. Knuckles came, wondering what Sonic could possibly want.

“So Knuckles, you do realize it's been five years since we've last seen each other right?” asked Sonic.

Knuckles nodded, saying, “I would've visited, but I had to be guarding the master emerald. Whenever I let someone else guard it, it seems like they fail on the job, and that's really annoying too!”

Sonic chucked at Knuckles, who still seemed to be pretty pissed that Vector lost the master emerald. And since Vector could possibly be dead, Knuckles might not be able to get a clue to where Vector may be.

“So Sonic, why haven't you visited me yourself?” asked Knuckles.

Sonic hesitated to answer for a bit, as he honestly didn't want to answer the question at the moment. But he began to answer it, by saying, “Well, to be honest Knuckles, I haven't really had contact with anyone during these past five years.”

Knuckles was actually a bit surprised at Sonic's comment. He thought of all people, Sonic would be the one to keep in close contact with everyone. But, it looks like that wasn't the case. Maybe Sonic had a similar reason to Knuckles on isolating himself from everyone. “Why Sonic?” he asked.

Sonic was about to answer Knuckles' question, but before he did, he got lucky, and noticed something sparkling in a bush right next to Tails' lab. “Hey Knuckles, look!” he said.

Sonic and Knuckles walked over to the sparkling bush, wondering what could possibly be in it. Sonic reached into the bush carefully, not sure what to expect to be touching in there. But Sonic's face showed a sense of shock, when he took out a green sparkling shard. “Knuckles, is this what I think it is?” asked Sonic.

Knuckles' face showed nothing but shock, as he also knew exactly what that jewel is, and what it means for him. This was a missing piece of the master emerald. There was no doubt about it, because Knuckles could feel the familiar energy.

Amy hated being trapped. She felt useless in that kind of state, and she hated being useless, as she was so sick of being looked at as useless so much in the past. Amy was older now, and she wanted to show that she was capable of being just as heroic as someone like Sonic. She couldn't however, if she was stuck in a cage.

Amy was smashing the bars with her hammer, trying to find a way out of such a confined room. She was pretty loud, and basically in emotional rage. “We've got to get out of here!” Amy screamed.

“Calm down sweety!” Rouge said sounding very annoyed. Rouge had to put up with Amy's loud hammer for awhile now right after Shadow left them. Rouge was very fed up, and could kick Amy into the wall a dozen times from the built up annoyance levels in her.

Amy finally stopped, breathing in and out. Amy tried to regain her energy, but she was in a state where she could actually pass out. “B-but, we have to get out of here!” she cried in desperation.

“I know, I want to get out of here as much as you do,” Rouge said. “But you have to calm down, and think with me of a way to get out of here!”

Amy sat down listening to Rouge. She was right, she wasn't going to smash her way out of this situation. She had to think of something, and to do that, she has to work with someone she really despised. “B-but, I'm so confused Rouge,” she said. “I mean, why would Shadow save us, and then trap us in here? More importantly, how in the world did Shadow survive that fall to Earth? For five years, I thought he was dead! And just where are we?”

Rouge didn't answer for a bit, as she was thinking of an answer to Amy's numerous questions. Rouge unfortunately didn't have any answers, she was just as confused about the situation as Amy was. So Rouge unfortunately said, “I know just about as much as you do. Believe me, I'm still shocked from that first time I saw the guy.”

Amy sighed, she wanted answers now. And she didn't like not being able to do anything about it. “Are we ever going to get out and figure all of this out?” she asked.

“I don't know, but we need to just calm down, and think of something,” Rouge said.

Amy nodded, and moved closer to Rouge, and they both started chatting with each other, trying to figure out any possible way to get out of this prison cell.

Back with Silver, he was still looking around for Vector. He had found Charmy and Espio, who were basically completely useless in his quest to look for answers. They seemed to be busy in their own matters. Didn't they know they were technically working for him? Silver didn't care at the moment though. He'd probably need the leader to get them back on track.

Silver felt like he was walking for hours though. He kept looking at every single room in this huge hospital, but none of the doors had Vector's name on it. Silver was running out of rooms to look at, he was starting to get worried that he wasn't going to find Vector. He had to find Vector, he had to get out of this hospital, he had to do what he came to this place for.

“Where could he be?” he asked.

Silver stopped however at the top floor, when he finally found a door that directly said Vector the Crocodile on it. Silver, being as impatient as he was, quickly opened the door, shouting, “Vector! Finally...”

But once Silver entered the room, he noticed that Vector wasn't there. Silver's face was filled with disappointment. Where could the green crocodile had run off to? Silver quickly exited the room, and kept looking for Vector, unfortunately just figuring out his search was nowhere near over.

Vector wasn't in the cafeteria eating food, he wasn't in some special room getting tests done, Silver couldn't seem to find the guy anywhere. Silver sighed at this annoying search. He had just returned to Vector's room after another long search, and Vector still was nowhere to be found in his room. Silver closed the door behind him, ready to continue the search.

But Silver looked at the name tag right next to the door, and he realized something he was quite surprised about. Vector's name......wasn't on there anymore. This room was no longer holding Vector as a patient.

“That's strange,” Silver said.

Shadow the hedgehog. A name that rings a lot of questions to minds of quite a few people at the moment. Most people will say this person is dead. But it turns out, this person is still alive. At least, that's what it looks like to the eye. Anyway, this hedgehog hasn't answered any questions, as he felt there really was no need to answer any.

He walked, he was going to go pay Amy and Rouge a second visit, but he had decided against that. He was recently called to the main room of wherever the place was. It seemed like the inside of an Egyptian pyramid, except, there was this strange feeling to it.

Shadow kept walking, noticing all the paintings on the walls around him. Wondering if he had ever been here before. He wondered why he even came to this place anyway. He wondered why he had saved those two girls. What was the importance of them? Why did he feel the need to save a girl he attacked a few minutes ago?

Despite the questions surrounding him, Shadow had some questions himself. He seemed to be suffering from amnesia. Well, slight amnesia at least. Shadow entered the room he was summoned to at last, as he wondered why he was there.

“You wanted to see me?” Shadow asked.

Shadow was looking at a chair. It was obviously some kind of man was sitting in it. The man chuckled, and slowly turned his chair around to face Shadow, which he had summoned. He finally turned around, and reveals that with the instantly recognizable mustache, it was no doubt the other person many questions surrounded as well. Dr. Eggman had summoned Shadow.

“Do you remember this place Shadow?” Eggman asked.

Shadow looked one more time at the room he was in. He suddenly had yet another flashback in his head, this time, of him talking to the doctor in this control room. How Eggman was telling him the end was near, and that he was going to go break the news to the heroes. Shadow nodded. “Yes, this is your base,” Shadow said.

Eggman chuckled, and grinned. “Well Shadow, I have a mission for you,” Eggman said.

“What is your mission then my master?” Shadow asked. Shadow had called Eggman his master when he was first awakened by him. Eggman was pleased he was being called that again. Very pleased.

“I need the chaos emeralds Shadow,” Eggman said. “And only you can help me get them.”

Shadow nodded, remembering exactly what the chaos emerald were. “And you will reveal to me answers to all of my questions? You will tell me who I am?”

Eggman nodded. “Of course Shadow, I care about you,” Eggman said.

“Good, then I'll be happy to help,” Shadow said, sealing the deal.

Whoever stole the master emerald, why did they let the master emerald shatter into pieces? Did they do it on purpose, or by accident? Will Amy and Rouge be able to escape their prison cell? Where in the world could Vector be? And why does Eggman need Shadow to collect the chaos emeralds? All this, on the next Desperate Hedgehogs.