We'll be together again someday

Shadow World

The Thorndykes Sonic, and his friends were in Chuck's lab watching the news.

"After the explosion on Prison Island, an emergency search team searched for survivors. Fortunately, the team now reports that everyone made it off the island safely." News Reporter said and everyone sighed in relief.

"I told ya not to worry. Chris must be okay." Sonic said.

"But if he's not on Prison Island and he's not here..." Amy said then gasped seeing Shadow. "Shadow must have taken him to Eggman!" she said and Tanaka nodded.

"In related news, authorities are still searching for Sonic the Hedgehog, who is-" the news reporter said.

Ella turned off the TV. Everyone was dumbfounded. Sonic stood up.

"I'm gonna go find my friend Chris." he said.

"But the police are looking for you." Amy said.

"Don't worry." he said and took off.

"I hope Sonic doesn't get caught again."

"If we all search, perhaps we can find Chris." Tanaka said.

"Where should we look? Shadow probably brought Chris to Dr. Eggman's secret base. But we don't have any idea where it is." Tails said.

"Tails has a good point."

"Well, if we're gonna find Chris, we'll have to find that base." Amy said.

"Then let's start looking right away!" Cream said.

"Chao!" Cheese said.

In the desert Knuckles stopped running.

"I'm gonna get even with that bat!" he said then saw his first encounter with Rouge.

"She stole the Master Emerald from me!" he narrated in Angel Island.

Rouge was attempting to flee from him.

"Come back here!" he said thinking about the day Sleet and Dingo got it and punched her into a tree.

Her mask slipped off, allowing him to see Rouge's face for the first time.

"You're... that girl!" he said and she leapt back up as the flashback ended.

Back in the desert the ground shook, throwing Knuckles to the ground. He stood back up and saw smoke rising in the distance.

"Sounded like a rocket." he said and ran up a sand dune to see Eggman's pyramid base, and smoke rising from it. "Eggman's base..."

Meanwhile Chris was on a space station of some sort looking out the window.

"Whoa... It's hard to believe that I really traveled into space." he said turned around to see Shadow behind him. "And we're inside a space station?"

"We call this place Space Colony ARK." he said.

"I never heard of it before."

"It was built fifty years ago by Professor Gerald Robotnik. It's been kept... secret." Shadow said and looked out the window again.

"Wow, a secret space colony!" Chris said and turned back to Shadow. "I wonder if I'm the only kid who's ever gone into space."

"You're not."

"What? Then who was?" he asked as Shadow appeared conflicted, but didn't answer. "Hey, you know what? You look a lot like my friend Sonic. Are the two of you... related?"

Shadow's penetrating gaze caused Chris to tremble. However, in Shadow's vision, Chris' reflection in the window changed to an image of Maria.

"Maria." he said to himself.