"Hey daddy! Check this out!" Pinkie called from another end of the street. Shadow quickly caught up with his daughter near a large bell tower overlooking the ocean.

"What is it Pinks?" He asked looking around.

"It's this store, come see what it has for sale!" Pinkie exclaimed in excitement as she zipped over to a small shop with one man behind the counter with some sort of floating yellow computer monitor beside him.

"Hey there, take a look at any items we have in store." The man greeted as the monitor powered up, showing a list of items, some out of stock and others just normal items, but there were a few that caught Shadows interest.

"Memory Shards? What are those?" He asked with curiousity.

"Those are gem shards filled with chaos energy, each gem either grants or increases chaos powers to the user, although you'll need certain qualifications to purchase them." The man explained.

"What kind of qualifications?" Shadow asked as he looked to how many rings he had brough with him.

"Like papers from the government or government ID cards."

"Would being an agent of G.U.N. cut it?" Pinkie asked for her father while she looked through some of the more usual items.

"Sure. Look, I know who you are and what you two have done for the planet, so I can skip the whole process of qualifications and I'm sure my manager won't mind if I give the worlds greatest heroes a little discount."

"Awww, thanks." Pinkie said as she smiled brightly.

"Alright, I guess I'll take a Memory Shard." The man nodded and handed a strange red gem over to Shadow who then handed over a bag of rings. "What are you getting Pinkie?"

"I'm getting tiny aviator glasses for Gummy." Gummy poked his head out of Pinkies mane wearing sunglasses before slowly retreating back into the hair. As the two were about to walk away Pinkie saw something hidden behind the man in the store. She hopped up onto the counter and raised a brow. "Is that a plushie of me?"

The man chuckled nervously. "Yeah...it is. I'm a...big fan."

Pinkie smiled and planted a tiny peck on his cheek. "Well, have a nice day!" Pinkie sang as she walked off towards her father.

The man just blinked and shook his head. "Man...and here I thought working as a store clerk wouldn't make me happy..."

Once they were in a clear area, Shadow held onto the Memory Shard and powered up. Soon his body was coated in a dark red aura that layered over his body. "Sweet, new power."

"Hey, I think I saw something in the description of that things, something about an ability called Chaos Snap or something." Pinkie pointed out as she sat on top of a barrel to watch her father, a barrel was about to explode beside her but she punched it with her hoof. "Nope, no more glitches."

Shadows body returned to normal, mich to his confusion. "Hmm, I guess it only lasts so long." He pocketed the gem and looked out at the nearby ocean. "Hey, isn't that the Egg Carrier?"

Pinkie perked up and looked in the direction that Shadow was pointing, pulling a pair of benochulers out of her main to get a better look. "It is! Eggman is near Soleanna!" She yelled joyously before activating her hover shoes reach to skate across the water to meet him.

Before she could leap off the barrel Shadow stopped her."Now Pinkie, you know what the hover shoes are like on water. I think there's a zone over there, why don't you use it to catch up to him?" He suggested as he pointed over to a strange mirror standing on in a small cave across the river, with a long trail of rings leading to it.

"Ok! I wonder what the zones are like here." With that Pinkie was off. She jumped up to the ring trail and used a light speed dash(1) to cross the river. Once at the large circular mirror she tilted her head before jumping up and touching the surface, being transported to a new area. However...the teleportation was not instant.

Wave Ocean

After a ridiculous amount of time wasted on the slow teleportation, Pinkie popped up on the top of a large, tall island with a few houses on the top. She smiled and shot towards a dash panel, which sent her speeding down a very steep cliff before running through a large lop and being launched by another dash panel. She went through three lops before landing on a small beach area. There she came across a group of new robots(2), with machine guns as right hands and hover packs that helped the, to float just above the ground.

"Cool! You guys definitely aren't any of my cousins models, oh well, time to smash." As she said this she suddenly pictured a large green human monster with some kind of pony in a metal suit bashing some weird green alien looking things. Shaking her head she dashed towards the bots, who all aimed at her and opened fire. She had to take a second and dodge the bullets quickly. "Ooooo, you use real bullets huh? Smart move, faster than those surpringly slow laser or plasma guns the Black Arms used."

She managed to get close to one of the bots and tore it to pieces with a spindash, as another approached she pulled out a party bomb and stuffed it into the robots chest before knocking it over to a group of robots, exploding on impact and letting confetti rain down over the area. The other robots either kept firing or stopped after they got a good look at her. Their eyes turned pink and they shot down the ones that were still firing before floating to Pinkies sides to follow her.

"Well, at least some of them resisted this time, or just focused on trying to kill me." She shrugged and bounced on the newly freed spring that had been trapped in a force field, moving onto the next area. "This place is reminding me of that place near my Chao Garden in Station Square...wonder why."

Meanwhile, on Eggmans ship, the sceptre glowed with slightly more power. "Soon Shadow...soon..."

Author's Notes:

(1) Basically if there's a long trail of rings Sonic or whoever can zip across them with this ability.

(2)

I'm gonna be trying to do my own thing with this arc, I'll be following the basics of 06 but mostly it's just gonna be me having fun with it, also found a hilarious let's play of the game by a guy named TearsofGracs in YouTube.