*Shadow's POV *
I killed him. 

I finally did it.

But.

Something didn't seem right.

I panted heavily as I fell to my knees beside Fakers body. I looked down at him then realize Metal was standing right beside us. He wasn't moving or trying to attack me, he was just watching.

"No!" Miles ran towards us and fell to his knees beside his best friends corpse. "How could you do this?" He sobbed as he looked at his best friend.

He wasn't as young as he used to be when I first met him. The fox was near his twenty's already but I still felt bad he had to see this, he was still too young to witness this. I couldn't answer him, but he kept punching me, weak punches.

I stayed quiet as I kept looking down at the pistol I used to end my rivals life. One shot is all it took, one bullet, Faker had trusted I wouldn't pull the trigger and I did. Ending his life in an instant.

I looked at him, looked where the bullet had gone straight through his head then dropped the pistol. I didn't like this. I didn't like taking the life of someone.

Why did people always assume I did?

I hated it. Hated the feeling, hated the blood in my hands, hated seeing everyone cry, I hated it.

Rouge landed beside me and immediately pulled me away from the fox. She was the only one who knew me, she was the only one who cared.

"Tails." Rouge stepped in between us. "We all knew what we had to do." She said to him as I kept staring at my rival.

I actually killed him. I couldn't believe it.

"Why is he not attacking us? Why did Eggman leave?" The echidna said, trying to keep himself from crying, I could tell from the tone on his voice. "Did you break him?" He asked me.

I finally snapped out of it and looked at him then shook my head. "No." I tried to get up but I just managed to fall back down from the pain I was in.

"Did Eggman get the emerald?" He asked again and I shook my head.

"I still have it." I answered as Rouge helped me get up and wrapped an arm around me to keep me still. I didn't mind, I was used to Rouge helping me.

There was a puddle of blood surrounding Fakers body now. I looked up at his Metal copy and realized he looked back up at me. I growled at him. "What are you still doing here?" I charged a chaos spear which only made him get into an attack position making the others gasp and take a few steps back.

"This is not finished." Metal managed to say before he launched at me yet again. This time, it was all of us against him.

*Sonic's POV *
(Few days before the fight)
"I need that chaos emerald!" Eggman yelled at me as I rested back on the wall, standing beside Metal. I had grown to get along with him and it was the same for him. It had been almost 3 months already since I decided to work with them.

"I said I'll get it." I rolled my eyes as I crossed my arms. I was tired of hearing him say that to me every single day. And Metal was also tired of him, Eggman treated him like dirt. "We had a deal, remember?"

"Yes. Yes. You'll get me Shadow's emerald and you'll be free." He waved his hand in the air as if dismissing what he was saying. I couldn't help but growl at him but it earned me immediate pain as the gloves sent a wave of shock down my entire body.

"I swear I'm going to kill you." He had me. He had me the day I went to see what he wanted. He had used Metal to attack me and hold me while he put these on me. I couldn't lie, they were pretty cool and very useful but they kept me from attacking Eggman.

Metal had apologized to me, in his own ways, for doing this to me. Which I had forgiven him but he continued to apologize everyday, in secret.

"I have one last thing I forgot to do." Eggman said and before I knew it, some robots held me and dragged me to an examination table.

My eyes widened and I started to panic, confused and scared as to what Eggman was doing. I looked around hoping Metal would help but he was also being held back. Eggman knew. He knew Metal and I had gotten closer.

A mask was put on me as I tried to get away and my vision suddenly started to blurr, soon enough it turned dark and all I could hear was Eggman laugh. What was he going to do to me now?

*Shadow's POV *
"You can't continue." Rouge said as I used even more of my energy to continue the fight. I was tired and I could start to feel myself get weaker by the second.

Everyone was now focused on Metal, trying to get him to stop, trying to destroy him.

"Get back!" I snapped at Everyone as I started getting ready to chaos blast Metal. Everyone was quick to listen and run away.

My eyes were focused on the metal copy of my former rival, he was getting closer, knowing my attack would quickly eliminate him. I would use all the energy I had left but I didn't care. As long as it finished the fight.

"I don't think so." My ears perked up in pure shock as I was tackled down to the floor by none other than Faker himself. His wound, where the bullet had gone straight through, was nearly gone.

My eyes widened in shock as I stared up at the hedgehog on top of me as he looked down at me for the second time with a smirk. He knelt down and reached for the emerald in my hand, I was too tired and weak to stop him this time.

"You were..." I panted then growled and kicked him off me as I tried to retrieve back the emerald.

"Dead?" He laughed and walked to Metal after he got back up. "Yeah. Sorry to disappoint." He handed the emerald to Metal. "Let's get out of here." The dashed off leaving me and the rest of the group looking in their direction.