Chaos Uncontrolled

Chapter 13

"You can't be serious." Shadow deadpanned. Shadow drug a hand down his face. When Sonic had come back from his short run rather hastily he'd known it couldn't be good news. It just had to be the doctor didn't it? As if they didn't have enough they were dealing with right now.

Sonic frowned, pinning his ears against his head. "Trust me Shadow, I wouldn't joke about this with everything else going on."

"This has trap written all over it." Tails put a hand on his chin. "Eggman inviting you to come to his base? There's no way he doesn't have something planned."

"Oh it's definitely a trap." Sonic agreed, nodding. "The question is, should we go anyway?"

"Absolutely not." Shadow shot the other hedgehog a glare. "You're in no condition to fight and frankly neither am I."

"We don't know what he might do if we ignore him though." Sonic argued.

"I can imagine plenty of what could happen if we did go." Shadow crossed his arms. Seriously, how could Sonic even be considering this? "At this point I feel it's not worth the risk. Nothing good is going to come from going there."

"I feel like... Shadow is right." Tails said slowly, looking away from Sonic as the hedgehog shot him a look. "We don't know what Eggman has planned and that on top of the whole Super situation this is just a bad idea. What happens if you lose control while we're fighting?" He finished, turning back to Sonic.

Sonic sighed as his ear twitched. "Look I know it's a risk-"

"A risk you shouldn't be taking right now." Shadow huffed. "Not until we know how to stop Super for good."

"Look, guys." Sonic rose his hands in a placating gesture as his ears perked back up. "It'll be fine. You guys'll be there. Plus it should be a while til he's strong enough to try taking over again." Sonic folded his arms over his chest and looked between the others. "We can't just let Eggman do... whatever it is he wants to do. My own issues aside."

"Sonic." Shadow stared at the other hedgehog until he met his gaze. "You're an idiot." Sonic shot him an unamused look and opened his mouth to respond but Shadow held up a hand to cut him off. "We have no idea if things will follow the same pattern as before. Whatever Eggman is planning can either be dealt with by us or handled later. It's possible that nothing will even happen if you don't show up."

"We don't know that for sure though!" Sonic threw his hands up and looked away. Shadow blinked at the sudden anger in his tone. Sonic also blinked and shook his head before looking back. "Uuuuh sorry about that." He rubbed the back of his head.

"This is exactly why you shouldn't be anywhere near Eggman right now." Shadow shook his head. He'd thought perhaps this whole experience had knocked some sense into the faker, but clearly not. Hopefully they could talk some sense into him, but if not... Well Shadow wasn't against forcing him in the ball again just to keep him out of trouble.

"Look I get it." Sonic said, sighing. "I know it's dangerous for me to go out there right now. But I also know that if Eggman's up to no good then it's dangerous to not take care of it. Sure sometimes it's more harmless but other times it's not. I don't think I need to remind you all that he broke apart the planet to unleash dark gaia a while back." He pinned his ears down. "And that's only one thing he's done. He's been quiet for a while, which means he has something planned. We can't just ignore him."

Tails looked Sonic in the eyes. "We're not going to be able to stop you huh?"

Sonic sighed and shrugged. He shot the fox a lopsided smile. "You know me, and you know the answer to that."

"Guess that's it then." Knuckles shook his head and huffed.

Shadow looked between the three of them. Had... had they seriously just agreed to this? Why? "What? You're just... giving in? Just like that?"