Pinkie screamed in excitement as she dashed around in her new dash shoes, given to her by Shadow for her birthday. They fit normally around her hooves and had anything that was red on Shadows shoes were pink on hers. The cylinder like shoes didn't rely on fuel, having been built to sustain themselves on leftover energy from the rings Pinkie collected.

After the party had ended Pinkie found herself tuckered out as everyone bid farewell. Pinkie had to scold the Tails Doll into giving her back a flicky's soul before he was allowed to leave the house, but Tails Doll could not resist her adorableness for long and quickly returned the spirits before flying away with Eggman who would work to prevent another soul being lost.

Pinkie yawned and sat down on the couch. "Man, rushing around and greeting so many people at one time is exhausting."

"You're just on a sugar low Pinks, let's get you to bed." Shadow explained as he scooped up his daughter and carried her to her room. During a test with Eggman who had volunteered to analyse Pinkies body as he was the only doctor to have experience with other worlds creatures not counting his grandfather, Shadow had found that sugar was basically Pinkies natural fuel source. Without it she would become tired or just slightly less energetic.

Pinkie streched like a cat before circling a spot on her soft mattress before lying down and allowing Shadow to tuck her in as he moved the blanket over her body. He leaned down and planted a kiss on her head. "Happy birthday Pinkie. I hope you enjoyed your downtime, because tomorrow, we're right back to hunting those emeralds."

"Eh, it's just more downtime." Pinkie stated begore closing her eyes and letting sleep take her, Gummie crawling up and entering her main, disappearing from sight. Shadow blinked and began searching Pinkies mane in search of the little alligator, but found nothing but a dreamcast and SEGA Genisis.

Meanwhile Omega and Rouge were busy tidying up after the party, Rouge flying up to take down banners while Omeag picked up the trash laying around. "You'd think with how long they all spent fighting for nature that everyone would know to not throw things on the ground." He complained as he placed a full bag of garbage on the small pile of garbage bags.

"It was most likely the kids attending Omega, they don't know better." Rouge explained as she landed beside the robot.

"Well then maybe they need a lesson in discipline." Omegan said darkly as he switched his right hand to a gatling gun.

Rouge rolled her eyes. "No Omega, you can't discipline the kids in the neighbourhood."

"But their parents do such a bad job and get stressed out over it, I will do it with a Goddamn smile on my face."

"You don't even have lips!"

"Keep it down! Pinkie is trying to sleep!" Shadow yelled from the upstairs landing.

"Sorry!" The two called back before sighing.

The next day

In a flash of bright light Pinkie and Shadow appeared at their next location, an old G.U.N. prision island. There were long rivers of toxic green liquid and the metal buildings and platforms had moss growing all over them.

"Man, having some chaos emeralds really makes getting around easier." Pinkie said as she began looking around. "This place is a dump, it could really use some cleaning. How long has G.U.N. been away from this place?"

"Actually their robots are still here, so we should expect to see them around, this facility is still fully functional, it's just that G.U.N. hasn't had need of a facility like this for years." As Shadow took a step forward he froze as images began to flash in his mind, images of Eggman releasing him from his imprisonment before the Space Colony Ark was set to fall to earth, but stopped by Sonic and Shadow. Shadow grasped his head as more images flashed in his mind.

"Daddy? Are you ok? Are you getting visions of that girl again? I told you to take your pills!" Pinkie scolded. A while ago, Rouge and Omega had put Shadow on a special medication that would suppress his violent clashes and horrid memories, stopping the pain and allowing him to go about his day normally.

"I took the pills Pinks...this is...different." Shadow said painfully before he stopped with his eyes wide, looking around. "Wait...I remember this place. I escaped the ark, but was then captured by those humans...but where...and why?" He asked no one as he looked around.

While Shadow was looking away Pinkie quickly jotted down what he was saying in a notepad to add to her "daddy's past research" project, as well as writing down what he was experiencing.

"Well we aren't gonna find any answers standing around here, let's get going!" Pinkie exclaimed as she dashed off, Shadow recovering and soon following after her, not used to her taking the lead.

The two jumped onto a grind rail that took them down to a small area where some robots were fighting the Black Arms. The robots looked at Pinkie for a second, aiming their weapons at the two before their scanners recognised Shadow as a friendly and Pinkie as "too adorable to shoot."

With the assistance of the robots the two made there way up to a cell block where they encountered the last mobian they expected to see there. "Charmy?" Shadow asked.

The bee knocked a Black Arms soldier away begore turning to them. "Oh, hey guys!"

"What're you doing here?"

"Well, Vector wants me to find five top secret discs that are supposed to hold some really important info, they're scattered all around the place." The bee said as he dodged blaster fire which ceased as the nearby robots killed the Black Arms in the area.

"Well since we're here we can help you out!" Pinke said happily as she dashed forward and came back with a compact disc in her mouth. "Found one!" She squeaked happily.

"Alright! One down, tha is Pinkie!" The group confined forward, Shadow picking up an alien blaster on the way. They launched off a dash panel and landed on a wide platform that held the first toxic river. "That stuffs poisonous, I wouldn't touch it if I were you, try finding some kinda raft or board." Charmy intructed.

Shadow found an alien that appeared to be ridding some kind of floating disc, killing the alien hai took it for himself. Not seeing any other hover discs around Pinkie hopped onto Shadows head as they began surfing down the toxic sludge, collecting rings as they went. They eventually landed on a pressure pad that launched them high into the air and onto another platform that held another hover disc leafing down a different river which also held one of the discs Cahrny was hunting.

As they progressed they came across a large flower like creature that was spitting fire everywhere, the robots desperately trying to take it out. Seeing a large slab that hand fallen onto the platform Shadow rushed over and flipped it, causing it to land on the plant which retreated into a small pod which Pinkie then burned. "I no longer trust demonic flowers!"

Shadow facepalmed. "I should never have shown her Undertale."

As they progressed further they collected two more discs and encountered a new enemy from the Black Arms, large worm like creatures that burst out of the ground and spat energy waves. Strangely, once killed, they dropped a gun.

Grinding down one last rail the group encountered another plant monster but was quickly dealt with. Looking down a small hallway they saw the goal ring with the white emerald but also noticed another path leading further in. "That must be where the lady disc is hidden." Charmy pointed out.

"Alright, I'll grab the emerald while you guys go for the disc." Shadow ordered resulting in the tow young adventures nodding and dashing through a flying dash panel and began to follow the last pathway and toxic river.

Shadow rand forwards, humped up and grabbed the emerald before placing it in his magic satchel.

"That makes four, meaning only three left to go. But..." Shadow looked to his hands. "What will I do when I have them all?"

Meanwhile Pinke and Charmy grabbed the fifth and final disc. "Hey Charmy, what're the discs fir anyway?"

"I dunno, Vector said something about hacking into some computer place to get info on that space station that kinda looks like Eggmans face." The bee explained. "Well, I gotta get these back to the boss, later Pinks!" With that the young detective buzzed off, leaving the pink pony alone.

"Um...how am I meant to backtrack here?" Just then a light began to envelop her. "Oh yeah, chaos control." With a flash she was gone.

Author's Notes:

Didn't have time to really watch any playthroughs for this level, so I went by memory. Hope you enjoyed.