"Well, that's all of them." Shadow said dryly as he set the red chaos emerald down with the other six, all of the emeralds now in his possession.

"Wow, they sparkle when they're all together!" Pinkie sat in front of the mystical gems as she poked at them curiously with her hoof, Gummy standing still on top of the green emerald.

Omega was holding Rouge in his hand as she desperately tried to reach for the emeralds to add to her treasury. "For the last time Rouge you can't have the emeralds." He stated tiredly.

"But they're so beautiful and shiny! I must have them!"

Omega shook his head in disapproval before walking towards the front door, the flailing bat still in his grasp. "If you'll excuse me I'm going to take Rouge to rehab to try and get rid of this gem addiction. Later."

"No! Pinkie! Don't let him take me!"

Pinkie just giggled and waved as Omega walked off. "Bye Mommy! By Nanny!"

Shadow just chuckled as he watched the pair fade out over the hill at the top of the street. "And here I thought Rouge had outgrown her obsession."

"I think it's funny." Pinkie chimed in as she plopped herself down on Shadows head after jumping up.

"Of course you do Pinkie, but I don't want to have to deal with another situation of Rouge stealing the Master Emerald from Knuckles again." Groaned Shadow as he looked down to the gems. "What was the point of even collecting these? We aren't going to get answers from Black Doom anymore and the most we can do with them is advanced chaos control and go super."

"Well, maybe it's best that we have them and not G.U.N. or Doomy Gloomy, Eggman would be more trust worthy. Why not give the emeralds to him?" Pinkie suggested.

"No, I'd rather keep them in my possession."

Pinkie just looked down at her father confused. "Why? Eggman can get far more use out of them than we can."

Shadow stared at the gems in a trance-like state. "I don't know...something is just telling me to...keep them...here..." Suddenly, he grabbed his forehead as another stream of headaches and flashbacks flooding into his mind.

Pinkie lept off of his head and immediately slapped him in the face. "Darn, that usually works..." She held both sides of his head and looked into his pain filled eyes...his pupils the size of mere dots on a page as the white of his eyes became slightly bloodshot and he began to sweat. "Daddy? Daddy snap out of it! Didn't you take your meds today!?"

"Ahahahahahaha!" Black Dooms voice echoed through the room as Shadow fell onto his knees while clutching his forehead. Black Doom rose out of the ground and grabbed the Emeralds. "You fools, now the Prosperity Ritual can begin!"

Gummy jumped off of the emeralds and onto Pinkies back. She looked from her father to the creature that was stealing the things that could be the secret to his lost memories. "You! What did you do to my daddy!?"

"Idiotic equine, I have not done anything to this miserable traitor. He is realising his reason for being, remembering a life that is not his own. Chaos, Control!" With a flash of light, Doom was gone, as were the emeralds.

"D-Damn it..." Shadow shakily got to his feet, only to fall onto his hands and knees while his limbs began to tremble. "Doctor...Maria...Ark...Eclipse Cannon..." Was all he could say before he passed out onto the cold floor.

"Daddy!" Pinkie began shaking him furiously, even getting Gummy to like his face to try to wake him up, but it was no use. Her mane began to deflate once more, her fur getting slightly darker in tone. She glared at the spot that Black Doom had risen from and looked out a window, seeing the red and black clouds moving in as the Black Commet was teleported down into the city of Station Square.

She pulled out her phone and dialled up a certain number. "How may I be of assistance?" A robotic voice asked from the other end.

"Metal Sonic, do you still have all that data stored up from before I arrived here?"

The various citizens of the city all ran for their lives, feeling the large roots that so mercilessly chased them down through the streets. As a woman fell over she looked up in horror as one of the vines from the Black Comment raced towards her. As it was about to grab onto her it was cut in half, causing it to fall to the ground.

"You're safe now ma'am, please get far away from here." Espio assured the woman while helping her up, throwing another shuriken start at an approaching root. Meanwhile Mighty and Ray began pushing a large section of the roots back with a combined spindash.

Bark the Polar Bear and Mina the Mongoose worked on setting up a blocked down the Main Street of the city to slow the roots down while Knuckles and Vector held them off. The many Black Arms soldiers that had taken residence in the city aided in the effort, using their numbers to halt the roots progress.

The rest of the mobians were either helping evacuate civilians or fighting against the roots coming from the later comet. Omega stood on top of a building facing off against Black Doom himself. The robot blasted the alien with everything he had, Doom firing waves of purple energy from his eyes.

The two were in a stalemate until Doom used the emeralds and threw Omega into the air with great force. "I have had it with you throwing me into the sky! Now, it's my turn!" With a swipe of his hand, Omega was sent hurdling through the air towards the side of Angel Island.

"SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-" Before Omega could hit the side of the floating island, he was caught by a large metal claw. "What the hell?!"

"Hey, Doom'n'Gloom! Over here!" Omega heard Pinkie call out from above him. Looking up he felt his mechanical heart sink as he saw the state his precious little pony was in. Her mane straight and dull, her eyes filled with a lust for battle and her smile nowhere to be seen. She held a black version of her Party Bazooka in one hoof and the trigger for her party cannon in the other.

Black Doom growled at the pony and her companion. "What is this?! Where did you find that...thing?!"

"You know what they say Doom Guy, if at first you don't succeed..."

"...USE A GIANT MECHA DRAGON!!!"

"I'm...so...proud." Omega sniffed as he looked up at Pinkie.

Metal Overlord growled in anticipation, while Pinkie only stared into Dooms soul with nothing but contempt. "You'll pay fir taking away everyone's smiles...you'll pay for trying to destroy my home...you'll pay for what you've done to my daddy."

Author's Notes:

And shit just got crazy