At the luxury apartment; Shadow and his family are awake and having breakfast in the morning. They didn't have to go to work because it was Saturday. Shadow was really getting good at cooking which is thanks to Nebula.

"Here come your yum-yums, Neptune" Nebula feeding her son with baby mushy food.

Raven had pancakes for breakfast like her parents but she often got jam on her muzzle. Shadow shook his head and cleaned her muzzle.

"Raven, stop messing up your face" Shadow said.

"Sorry Daddy" Raven giggled.

"It's alright. At least you are a good girl. Say what did you dream about?" Shadow asked.

"About you saving me from bad guys" Raven said, "Do you think I'll be tough and strong like you, Daddy?" she asked.

"You will be like both me and Mommy when you're grown up, you might be called Ultimate Lifeform Girl" Shadow said with a proud smile.

"Thanks Daddy" Raven hugged her father tightly.

"You're welcome" Shadow said and pats her head. Then Raven continued to eat her pancakes while Nebula finished feeding Neptune. He was looking at his mother and claps his small hands in joy.

Nebula chuckled at him doing that and pulled his cheek playfully, "Coochie coochie coo" Nebula said in a cute voice. Then a signal came from Nebula's iPhone. She checked it and it was a message from Silver.

'Nebula and Shadow, you got to see this' said the message. Then an image of the asteroid piece was shown.

"Whoa....What is this?" she gasped at the picture, "Is this some kind of a new asteroid rock type?"

"We got to see that" Shadow went over and saw the picture. "Wow. It looks crystallic"

"I've never seen anything like this. We gotta get to the Astronomy Research and see what this thing is. Also, we need to bring our kids too. We can't leave them home" Nebula said.

"True. Raven, as soon as we finish breakfast, you gotta be on your best behavior when we get to your mom's work place" Shadow said to his daughter.

"Okay then!" Raven said cheerfully and eats what's left of her pancake.

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As soon as breakfast was finished, the family gets into their car and drives to the astronomy research facility. Neptune was in the baby seat in the car next to Raven.

"Raven, remember what I said, be at your best behavior" Shadow reminded his daughter.

Raven nodded at her father quickly, "Okay then. Is there something cool there?" she asked.

"We'll get there when we show you, sweetie. But right now your father and I have to see your godfather Silver" Nebula said.

They parked the car and the family got inside the facility to go see the asteroid piece. Raven had to keep an eye on Neptune in his stroller.

"Alright guys, this is the piece we found in the forest. We don't know what kind of crystals it is on the inside, but some sort of purple energy is emerging constantly from them. We got to analyze it" Silver said and tells them about the asteroid piece and the crystals inside.

"Some kind of energy you say?" Shadow leans in for a closer look, he then picked up a shard of one of the crystals, "This crystal feels kinda warm"

"Probably from entering the Earth's atmosphere I guess" Nebula said.

"I suppose. We better not let G.U.N or the military take this asteroid before finishing analyzing this" Shadow said, putting the shard back.

"What do you mean, hon?" Nebula asked.

"They might want it in storage. What do you think?" Shadow asked.

"Well since you work for G.U.N, you can tell them that the asteroid piece has to be analyzed before getting kept in storage" Nebula said.

All of a sudden, Silver's eyes glowed in teal-blue color. He fell on his knees and keeps looking through his future vision but he wasn't able to see what he's seeing in the future.

"Silver? Silver, are you okay?" Nebula helped him up.

Silver's glowing eyes returned to normal and he snapped out of it, "I don't know what I saw. I couldn't see what it is. It was too dark"

"Does it have something to do with the crystals?" Nebula asked.

"I don't know, Nebula. But it feels like danger" Silver said. This made Nebula and Shadow a bit worried.

"I hope it does not have to do with our children" Nebula said.

"It's not your children, Nebs. I don't know what I saw but I'm guessing it has something to do with that crystal asteroid thing" Silver said.

The hedgehogs looked at the asteroid piece and then at each other again.

"This means there is an evil force in those crystals inside it" Nebula said.

"Yup. So we gotta analyze it quickly" Shadow said, "I gotta keep an eye on that thing. It better not be another alien inside that thing" Shadow said.

"Let's find out. I'll get the computer" Silver said.

Shadow goes to check on his children to see if they are all okay right now. Nebula stayed at the asteroid piece and looks at the inside of it.

Then the shine of the glowing energy began fade and bright up repeatedly in front of hers and the other scientists' eyes. Silver came back with a laptop under his arm and saw the crystals in the asteroid piece glow from fading and back to glowing.

"Man, this is getting spooky. I don't like it" Nebula said.

"Me neither. But let's get-...." Silver was interrupted by a nearby explosion from the ceiling, everyone inside takes cover from falling debris and from the ceiling was an obese mustachioed man flying in a floating Egg-mobile.

"Somebody told me that you got an asteroid piece here. Well it shall be mine to keep it in my storage room!" the man said.

"Doctor Ivo Eggman!" Shadow glared at the evil doctor.

"In the flesh. And you alien scum won't stand in my way like the blue rat! Now hand over the asteroid piece or else your children will be in trouble!" Dr. Eggman pointed his laser gun at Neptune and Raven.

"NO! You won't!" Nebula's eyes glowed purple and she knocks the laser gun from Eggman's hand. Eggman made metallic arms grab Nebula and threw her across the room. He then is about to grab the asteroid piece by the metallic hands. But as they were about to get the piece, Shadow grabs the metallic arms and crushes their claws with his bare hands.

"YOU STUPID ALIEN! Taste this!" Dr. Eggman fired a grenade at Shadow but missed. Shadow dodges it and the grenade blew up. Unfortunately, this made the asteroid piece fall to the floor and the crystals breaks as soon it hit the concrete floor.

"YOU IDIOT!!!!" Silver yelled at the doctor for damaging the asteroid piece, "Look at what you did!"

"What?!" Dr. Eggman shouted, seeing the cracked crystals.

The broken asteroid piece released a dark ghost-like amorphous entity flew out from it and flies up in the air, circling around like crazy.

"I'm out of here!" Eggman cowardly took off in his Egg-mobile.

"Silver, get my children out of here!" Nebula screamed at him to get Raven and Neptune to safety.

"Got it!" Silver said as he ran to Neptune and Raven, he used his telekinesis to lift Neptune out from his stroller and takes Raven's hand to run to his car. Shadow and Nebula watched as the amorphous entity flies straight down towards Shadow.

"Shadow! Look out!" Nebula tackled him down to dodge the amorphous entity as it went through the floor like a ghost.

"Thanks hon" Shadow said to his earthling wife and gets up, helping her up too, "What the hell was that thing?"

"I don't know. But it's gone" Nebula said.

"No, it's still here" Shadow said, looking down at his shade on the floor. All of sudden, his shade moved away from him. The dark black aura that took Shadow's shade is now transforming into a copy of Shadow but different colors. It emerged out from the floor, into a new shape form.

"What? His shadow?" Nebula gasped in horror.

The dark copy of Shadow had black fur, pale powder blue color that is identical to Shadow's red color, pale grey skin on his muzzle and inner ears, green reptilian eyes, and no mouth.

Then his muzzle moved as if he had one, "I am Mephiles the Dark!" the entity said in a scary voice, "It's about time I found a form. Thank you for giving me your shade, earthling creature" he said to Shadow.

"Hmph. You stole my shade. But thankfully I have my own shade" Shadow looked at his real shade on the floor, "And I'm guessing you're not a good guy. Where did you come from anyway?"

"I am from the planet Tikawng. And I have been exterminated millions of other lifeforms to make their planets mine. And now after being imprisoned for a long time I shall start with you TWO!" Mephiles said and charges an energy beam in his hand. He then fires it at Nebula and Shadow but they both dodged his beam and Mephiles flies up to attack the two and backhands them.

Then he uses some dark energy against them to throw them at the walls. He fires a beam at the ceiling to make it collapse at the two in a minute. Shadow on the ground takes out his communicator before it collapses on him and Nebula, but he held up the falling ceiling with one hand.

"Rouge, send them in! A new alien is here at the astronomy facility!" Shadow tells Rouge at G.U.N base. Mephiles leaves the facility to cause chaos at Station Square.

"Quick! He's heading to the city!" Shadow shouted.