Shadow flinched slightly as the pistol made contact with his skull, the slightest of cringes forming before he suddenly found the space before him devoid of any sort of monkey. The mimic of one of his trademark abilities caught him off guard for a brief moment before he spotted the copier in question on the distant side of the platform. When the hedgehog immediately took chase, it probably wasn't out of urgency for Desmond's safety.

Off the dark figure went in another flash that was becoming quite the common occurrence, his destination obvious.

As if on cue, a solid foot came careening into existence with a flash of light. The kick came in a wide arc, a blazing amount of momentum being put into the single action, aimed straight for Rock's head. The hedgehog spun around on one hovering shoe mere inches off the ground to swing back around to face the primate. The whole maneuver had been relentless in execution, Shadow having used the cheap teleporting and Rock's lack of foresight to his absolute advantage.

No matter the size of the impact — or if it had even landed at all — Shadow would unleash a chaos-energy-infused punch straight for Rock's gut, his body being thrown slightly forward from the momentum.

Fwoom.

Where Big stood a second before, there was now a very large ball of fluff. Perhaps there was a crackle or two that remained. Indeed, Big stopped for a moment.
Outside of making him substantially fluffier, it seemed that his thick fat protected him from not only grenades, but also exceedingly high amps of electricity. Truly, superflab.

The look on Jam's face had to have been one of simultaneous disgust, confusion and alarm. This was not how this was supposed to go. With an indignant frown, the monkey squared her shoulders, and chucked another bolt with a snarling snap. The kid gloves were off... and (for want of a better word) a fat lot of good it'd do.

Big looked at himself, waved one hand in front of his face, and then proceeded to continue his approach as though nothing had happened-- so much so, in fact, that he up and walked straight up to Jam.

He put out his hands and began pushing the reddish primate towards one of the edges of the platform.

A cold panic gripped Jam's pupils and shrank them to pinpoints as her jaw fell agape. She didn't even have time to get out the strangled "What the fu--" Big's tenacity elicited, before she was quite suddenly drowning in frizzy cat blubber.

Her heels dug in, and she pushed back amid her electric onslaught. Truly, she shocked him like she had never seen nobody get shocked before. But the man. kept. coming. And she was rapidly losing ground.

Jam used Thunderbolt!

It doesn't effect Big...

The more Jam tried to electrocute him, the more completely obvious it would become that the effect was negligible at best. All of the monkey's continued attempts at electrical assault only succeeded in making Big resemble more of a giant sentient pompom than a cat.

It wasn't for lack of trying, either. Jam was flustered, incredulous, and all-in-all freaking out like a cornered animal. She was literally throwing harried, impassioned haymakers from fists wrapped in lightning, shoving madly at the gelatinous blob, her boots scuffing and scraping against the floor, and for all her target's recoil, she may as well have been giving him a belly rub.

When he was at his fuzziest and his floofiest, he... ... shoved Jam, casually, up to the side of the ring, totally and thoroughly undaunted by any of her attempts.
And then he shoved her right on through the energy barrier.

It wasn't sudden. Very gradually, Big's slow-moving forward momentum had pushed Jam outside the isolation field much as a stalled car pushed by another car. In fact, she was still hurling herself at the vast gut, shocking, and punching, and grunting, with clenched eyes and teeth, when Big shoved both himself and Jam over the side with one smooth motion.

"Huhuhuh, that tickled."

Shadow took off with a might FWOOSH of his skates, leaving a twister of twirling air behind him.

The blast of acceleration was probably unneeded for the actual distance between he and Rock, but it seemed the hedgehog had every intention to finish this here and now. He was hunched low as his legs swept from side to side in frantic motions, covering the few meters in the minimal amount of time possible. Shadow at least seemed wary of the glowing field of energy surrounding the platform, appearing to be going at a controllable speed that would not send him careening of the edge if things went sour. Otherwise, Rock would soon find the high-speed, spiky figure's shoulder rocketing straight towards him with the firm goal of shoving him clear out of the ring.


Meanwhile, the other hedgehog with a much greener shade was, yet again, pushing himself back onto his feet. After the grenade (where the hell had that come from?) had launched him off his feet unexpectedly while in pursuit of Jam, Geoff had been found tumbling across the platform, chips of crystal flying everywhere. Now, out of frustration, he slammed a rocky fist into the ground as he hurriedly got back to his feet, small shards of stone flying every which way upon the impact.

Geoff was soon treated to the peculiar sight of... Jam and an over sized puffball of purple disappearing over the lip of the control tower. How had this happened, he wasn't particularly sure, but it sure concluded in a substantial subtraction of the overall threat gracing the cramped battle ground.

But where was-

There. At the edge. Under the brutal assault of their super powered space 'hog.

Despite Shadow's tendency to finish what he started, Geoff began to march forward towards this new scuffle, a troubling look of sudden contempt in his eyes.

Bewildered. That one word could explain Shadow's expression as he was promptly embraced and lifted by the (seemingly) immovable monkey.

In all reality, Shadow really wasn't given much time to actually react to Rock's impromptu action. Before he could even give a flail of his legs, the hedgehog found himself upside down in a sudden lurch. Of course, that wouldn't do for him for long, and the primate would eventually find Shadow struggling against the grip, managing to slip out once gravity and physical force were combined.

The hedgehog teleported the moment he was free.

...only to appear a split second later, the yellow film of the isolation barrier now between him and the platform.

In the last brief few seconds, Shadow seemed to have failed to realize Rock had actually managed to toss him just enough to force him outside of the one-way wall. Now, he suddenly found that he was incapable of returning inside. Again and again the hedgehog flashed in and out of existence, reappearing at different points in the air, but every time he remained outside the barrier.

Finally, he appeared at the top of the stairs just a mere feet from the perimeter of the wall, crossing his arms and staring with absolute malice.