"Shadow? Wait? What's going on?", Silver looked down to the hedgehog who had his hands cuffed to strange mechanism. They looked heavy enough and the black hedgehog looked too tired to even try and move.

"Silver? What are you doing here? Where's Amy?", Shadow stood up as carefully as he could, Silver noticed that he tried to move his hands as little as possible.

"First, you tell me what's going on right now!", Silver demanded.

"The day I went to see Tails, I  couldn't get out of G.U.N's building because...they told me if I did so, they were going to hurt Cream. Tails begged me to not go and with that, they cage all of us up. I was placed here, while Tails and Cream are somewhere else." Shadow concluded.

"Then, what about the other Shadow that came to us?"

"He is a fake of course...Infinite made a clone out of me... a really good one I must say."

"Infinite?"

"You don't know him yet."

"Ok, one last question."

"Spit it boy"

"Why are you moving like you can't move your hands.?" Silver asked, Shadow sighed and looked at the white handcuffs around him. Now that he thinks about it, Silver's gloves and boots had a similar aesthetic to it.

"If I try to move my finger a little, this thing electrocutes me...if I try to punch the wall, the energy goes back to me with double the force. If I try to do any type of Chao Control...I can just imagine the magnitude of it." Shadow left the thought of telling Silver how close looking were his handcuff to his attire, as he noticed that he also was aware of it.

"Your handcuffs...Those are the same handcuffs they use to enslave my people. Let's be careful as we move along to find the Zoombot liquid." Silver opened the door to make way for Shadow to walk through it slowly and delicately.

"I can show you the way."

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"The real Shadow would never say no to coffee," Amy said as she looked to Infinite who had a smirk plastered on his face. Who would have thought that this pink hedgehog was gonna be able to figure it out? He had underestimated how close this hedgehog and Shadow were.

How close they were...

How close...

Close...

"Finally...I found it," Infinite walked towards Amy as he grabbed her by her arm.

"You found what?", Amy demanded.

"How to destroy Shadow the Hedgehog once and for all." Infinite opened the door of the interrogatory room but stopped as soon as he noticed that the fake Shadow wasn't following him.

"You are probably my best creation so far  Shadow...If you want answers, find the blue hedgehog and bring him to me."

    Infinite had never told the fake Shadow that we was well...fake. As far as he knows, Fake Shadow had the same memories as the real one, with some tweaks he had made of course. In his mind, he was the real one, and the fact that he wasn't anymore must be shocking to him.

Not like he cared at all. Infinite opened the door and dragged Amy out of the room as she gave one last sad look to the black hedgehog behind her.

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It didn't take long for everyone in the building to know that the prisoners, Tails Miles Prower, Cream the Rabbit and Shadow the Hedgehog were freed from their cells.

That really wasn't the plan well more like a part of it. Sonic was fast to get Tails to the communication room, where he had said the following:

"G.U.N is under attack, it is required for everyone in the building to evacuate in less than 10 minutes. I repeat this is not a simulacrum."

    Not long after that, Sonic had put Tails and Cream into safety, but another encountered happened.

"Blue hedgehog."

    Sonic turned around to face Fake Shadow in front of him. He was quick to put himself in a fighting stance in order to protect Cream and Tails as it seemed that Shadow wasn't planning on backing away.

"Seems like we are gonna end it here, once and for all, Shadow."

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There wasn't any other way. Shadow and Silver waited a few minutes to make sure everyone on the building was out. When it comes to life or death situations, saving your own life is more important than stopping two possible world threats. It was logical that none of the G.U.N agents would want to stay. That should be good enough for whoever was taking care of Amy to leave her unattended and giving her a chance for her to leave the building. 

        Shadow walked slowly towards the Zoombot liquid as to analyze it.

"I should start destroying them." Silver said as he used his psychokinesis to grab one of the containers that has the Zoombot liquid.

"Do you really think your powers would be enough to destroy the liquid.?" Shadow inquired.

"Actually, if my powers doesn't work we have a plan b." Silver then pulled out a Chaos Emerald and Shadow's expression changed to a concerned one.

"If my psychokinesis isn't strong enough, Sonic had this hidden on his base...Sonic is supposed to do a Chaos Control and move the Zoombot Liquid to another part, this should give us some more time to figure out how to destroy it...but it seems like he is behind schedule." Silver said as he took a quick look at the door behind him.

"Then hurry up and try-"

           Shadow was interrupted as he saw the door fly through the room and land with a loud 'bang'  on the floor.  There was a little bit of dust and Silver and Shadow waited for that someone to appear on between the smoke.

But it wasn't just someone...there was two.

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"Even if I wanted to fight with you, I have better things to do right about now, Shadow. So move out the way." Sonic knew that even if he wanted to talk things through, he needed to make sure Shadow was as far as away possible from Cream and Tails. He needed to get back into the building in case Silver needed him. However, he needed to figure out how to make Shadow go away first.

"Let's get this over with the old way, should we?."

"Old way?"

    Sonic noticed that Shadow wasn't acting the same. Something was off, his eyes seemed to be looking at him but his mind was somewhere else.

"Yes, let's race"

    Sonic knew that he was at a disadvantage.  It had been a long time since he had raced anyone or run for that matter. He had to be faster, he needed to win. He has to win no matter what.

He couldn't do anything now but to thrust his skills that he was gonna make it on time, that he could be fast enough to be there for Silver when he needed him.

and the race began.

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"One movement and she's a goner." Infinite threaten them both.

Everything happened so fast. One moment, Silver wasn't using his psychokinesis,  Shadow wanted to hurry up to Amy and Infinite but he was holding her arm strongly.

    Even their breathing had to stop for a second. What would it be? What did they have to do to stop this madness?

    Shadow noticed Silver hiding the Chaos Emerald behind his back.  He was smart enough to know that Infinite could feel the energy emitting from it. What he was about to do could cost him his life. But seeing Amy once last time was all he needed to throw everything away. He knew that she would be fine, she's strong that way. He just knew it.

She would be fine.

He pushed Silver towards Amy, which made Infinite lose his grasp from her. By his touch, Silver passed to Shadow the Chaos Emerald immediately, which he caught without a problem.  Silver then created an energy bubble  using his psychokinesis which surrounded Amy and him completely. Leaving Shadow and Infinite outside of it.

Infinite didn't dare to move an inch, knowing that Shadow was a bomb ticking due to the handcuffs around him and if he knew better, he wouldn't do it. However, when it came to the pink hedgehog...he would do anything.

     Amy looked at Shadow through the energy bubble. Still not understanding why did Silver create such thing around them.

    She knew this feeling, she had felt it before when Sonic had 'died' ;that feeling of incompetence...she knew it too well.

"I don't know what you are gonna do Shadow but I swear if you get hurt...I am never going to give you black coffee again....so please don't do anything stupid."

    Shadow got closer to the energy bubble and even if he was still hurt by pushing Silver towards her, he made the effort to softly touch it where Amy's hand was.

    Shadow gave it a thought. Now that he thinks about it, Amy was something he could get close to but never to get. Something to appreciate but never to touch.

"I don't think I am going to need it from now on." Shadow smiled at her and back away, he looked at Infinite who had a terrified look.

"If you do it, you won't survive"

"I know that, but if I do, the world would be destroyed."

    Shadow gave Silver a quick look. "Is that right, Silver?"

    Amy looked at Silver who waited for answers. "What does he mean?" She asked but Silver remained quiet. "Silver, I want answers!"

    Silver was under pressure and although he had promised not to say anything, Amy's pleading voice broke him down.

    "Although it is not very clear, it is said that Shadow the Hedgehog becomes the Dark King...if Shadow were to die then..the future may change, for the better..."

"No...please Shadow, don't do this, you don't even know if that's real, please."

"I know its real...because Silver told me something that's it's true." Shadow gave Amy one last smile as he continued, " that I would die protecting the Queen."

Infinite runs towards Shadow, as he tried taking away the Chaos Emerald from his hand. Silver closed his eyes waiting for the impact, Amy could only watch as Shadow's Chaos Emerald' lights became brighter and brighter.

    Infinite by seeing that his plan wouldn't work, turned to the energy bubble surrounding Silver and Amy. He pulled out his last energy source from his chest, something as powerful as the Phantom Ruby and something that he swore he would never use unless it was the last resource.

    He used the stone to break the energy bubble and it happened. For a second, Silver had lost his powers, leaving both of them unprotected.

Shadow runs towards them but immediately feels extreme pain from doing so, making him drop the Chaos Emerald.

    Now it was a battle to see who was faster. Silver or Infinite. Everything happened in slow motion as they both run towards it. Shadow put his body on top of Amy's to protect her from whatever harm would come next.

Silver got the Green Chaos Emerald and put it close to his heart. It was as if an electric shock had gone through his whole body. That moment, right then and there, he knew what to do.

"CHAOS CONTROL!"

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    Sonic saw how G.U.N's building tore down from far away and didn't hesitate to run as fast as he could. He may have beaten Shadow on the race, but he still had failed to make it on time.

    The Zombot Liquid had disappeared into none existence, Silver was nowhere to be seen and there was only Amy who was trying to keep Shadow alive by giving him CPR.

"Sonic! We need to take Shadow to the hospital! He is not breathing, please!"

    Amy had tears on her eyes and although he still couldn't believe what was going on, he obliged quickly. He picked him up and as he saw Amy one last time, she was devastated and he wonders if that was the way she looked when she found out that he had 'died'.

He didn't have that time to think about it;

so he began to run.

    Amy didn't waste any time as she began to look for Silver in between the scrums of the building. It took her 15 minutes to find him. He was injured and dust all over his body. She held his head delicately as she noticed that he was breathing delicately.

Silver opened his eyes slowly as he coughed a little. Amy smiled as a little relieve ran through her body.

"Amy...", Silver whispered.

"Yes, Silver?"

"Did I...did I...use Chaos Control?"

    Amy let out a small laugh as she nodded softly.

"Yes...you did...you did"

    Silver smiled, knowingly.

"It's my time to go."

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