Hello one and all, this is the sequel to Sonic the Hedgehog: Secret Identity. I don't have much to say other than enjoy. It takes place one year after the last.
Thank you Mike for betareading.
Secret Identity: Red Shadow
Chapter One: A not so average day.
New Founders Base, Texas.
A large rounded older man, with a mustache, white skin, and dressed in a lap coat, with a simple white shirt and pants under it, stared into a room.
The room was filed with badly wounded people, guns scattered around the room, with one man standing tall.
The man clicked a button and spoke into it, "Good work… now, what is your name?"
Something the man had been asking the boy sense he woke up. The young man glanced over to the window, squinted his eyes to try and remember.
"My name… is…" He opened his dark red eyes and looked at the doctor, "My name is Shadow."
New York City.
One year after Chaos.
New York, the most crazy and amazing city in the world, filled with as much wonderful things as disturbing. And on this early fall day it was like most.
SLAM!
The doors burst open to a bank as six men ran into the bank, their faces obscured by masks and their hands swinging around assault guns.
"Everyone on the floor!" A man screamed, "This is a robbery!"
And like all most Mondays, a certain Hero went to this certain bank every Monday to retrieve his lunch money from his parents' bank account.
That's right, me!
"Fill the bag with the money!" A man yelled, pushing a bag into the face of the receptionist.
A chaotic scene was unfolding, people were pushed to the floor, the men were yelling that they would kill everyone, and then suddenly someone stood up in the middle of it.
"Um… excuse me?" The voice grabbed the attention of the man who was bothering the receptionist, "I was here first you know, you can't cut the line."
The man turned around, he probably wasn't expecting what was going to happen next, "Do you have a death wish or- GHA!"
He stumbled back in shock, all of his allies were on the floor, knocked out, and a blue hedgehog was standing right behind him.
"SONIC!" He yelled, aiming his gun at me and pressing the trigger…
To let water fly out of it.
I laughed, "That's right, I replaced your gun! When you ask? Why just a second ago of course!"
As I finished my sentence and delivered many punches to the man, knocking him to the ground, knocked out cold.
"Don't worry fellow citizens!" I yelled out, posing for the press that was taking pictures outside, "I've come to, ah, no… that won't do…"
I paused, trying to figure out a better line to say, finally I gave up and prepared to speed away.
"Ah forget it!" I yelled racing away.
My name is Sonic Suai, I've lived in New York City for most of my life, when one day as transformed into a blue Hedgehog… probably wanting a better explanation, right? Well apparently I was picked by an ancient order to help bring peace back to the Earth, I wasn't their first pick, though. My brother Michael was their first pick, but due to the fact that he went missing at a young age I was their backup. Fun stuff.
I was trained by a couple people, Dart, who after the Chaos event went off to do… something, and Tikal, who sacrificed her life to bring me back from death. She gave her guardianship of the emerald to me.
My best friend, Miles, got wrapped up into the Chaos event too, was nearly killed by Albert Robotnik and Chaos. He's a genius who probably has been arrested and questioned by the government more than a dozen times. I owe that kid my life for everything he has done for me.
But now that you got the idea of my life so far I'm pleased to say my life has been much easier lately, no raging beasts running amuck in my city!
I stopped running once I reached my school, transforming back into my human self I looked at the school with a heavy sigh.
Things hadn't been the same since Maria moved to Texas, I still don't blame her, after all her entire family was killed off by Albert.
And to make matters worse, during the bank robbery I forgot to pick up my lunch money! I could've ran back to get it… but even with my speed I would be late for school.
Looks like I'm skipping lunch today…
The sun shimmered along the cool grounds of Toronto, Canada. It was cool around this time of year, frost frequently settled on the ground of this bio research planet with the initials of N.F.
Armed guards patrolled the surrounding area, an electric fence keeping anyone from getting over. It was a tightly held area.
"Everything is clear over here…" One of the guards spoke into the radio, scanning the area once more before turning around.
What he didn't notice was a shadow that zipped across the electric fence, and right past the armed guards.
The shadow swept through the property and into the front door, no one noticed it, camera's caught but just a glance of the mysterious intruder. The shadow suddenly stopped in it's pass, stood still for a moment, then ducked under a door and into a computer room.
It was dark, and clear of any security systems, the shadow suddenly was not a shadow anymore, but a man. Probably around twenty years of age with Asian facial features that was covered by a dark purple outfit that seemed to blend perfectly into the dark environment.
"I've reached the objective…" the man spoke into a communicator that was hidden underneath his mask.
"That's great!" A loud, over excited voice spoke back, it sounded really young in comparison to the other man, "Do you see computers!"
"Yes," the man spoke cold and calm, a complete opposite to his partner, "I'm moving to download the files."
"YAY, so much for hard job! We'll be swimming in cash once this goes out into the market!" The young boy cheered into the man's ear.
"Relax, we're not home free yet," his words fell to deaf ears for the boy was cheering like crazy on the other side. The man reached the computer and plugged a flash drive into the console.
"Uploading virus now…" the man said as a bar appeared on the computer screen, once the bar had been fully filled a picture was pulled up.
A large comical picture of a bee appeared on the screen.
"It's done." The man said, taking out the flash drive and pocketing it.
"YES!" The boy laughed, "The Queen Bee strikes again! MUHAHAHAHAHAH!"
"Yes, now pull up the live feed, I have a message for…" He stopped mid-sentence as the door behind burst open.
Men with machine guns burst into the room, spotting the man.
"Stop, intruder!" They yelled, lifting their guns and were about to pull the trigger when three Shurikens flew through the air, stabbing into the men. They yelled, but still tried to pull the trigger, but for some reason they could press the trigger.
"Don't even try…" The man said calmly to the guards, "Right now a poison is running through your veins… paralyzing your entire body."
The man tapped some buttons, a screen being pulled up.
"Don't worry though, it'll fade away…" He said with a small smirk, "I'll be long gone though."
The screen finished loading, the boy's voice coming through the communicator.
"You're on, man!" He yelled through, "Have fun."
"Of course…" He said looking up at the screen… it was streaming live, to the entire world.
I probably looked like a Zombie, seriously, sitting there in the cafeteria hungry and tired. It wasn't my day, I got a C on a history quiz and was warned by my teacher to 'stay focused' or he'll call my parents.
How humiliating…
"Sonic," a voice called out to me, I glanced over to see a, bright red haired, white skinned, teenaged girl dressed in a bright pink shirt and blue skirt run over to me. I smirked a bit, a good friend of mine who was just a bit younger then myself.
"Amy," I said as she took a seat by me, "How are you doing?"
"I'm doing fine," She said happily, waving a small paper around, "I was just asked out by that guy over there."
She nudged me, I glanced over to see a bulked up man sitting at a table across the room.
"Oh really?" I questioned, "Good for you, he's actually a pretty nice guy. Not too bright, but sure is nice."
She seemed somewhat down by my reaction, perhaps it's because I was so hungry that I decided not to ask why. She looked at me with a puzzled expression, it vanished after a moment, "You forgot your lunch money again, didn't you?"
"…Yes." I sighed.
"Don't worry about it," She opened up her lunch pack and took out some food, handing me a sandwich, "We'll share!"
"Huh?" I glanced at the sandwich that she placed in my hand, "Oh no, I couldn't-"
"No, no," She shook her head, "Go ahead. Mom always packs too much for me anyway."
"Oh, well… thanks." I nodded at her, she smiled and motioned for me to take a bite.
I took a bite of the sandwich, it was pretty good, I smiled to indicate I liked it which earned a happy 'yay!' from her. There was no more talking for a little bit, we just sat there quietly as we ate. I finished my sandwich and felt much better.
"Hey, thanks again for the food. I really…" I stopped, something caught my attention, the TV's screen that sat on the other side of the room suddenly changed.
"Really what?" She questioned, I stood up from the seat to get a better look at what was happening.
"Have to go for…" I answered her, stepping away from the table. Other students began to surround the TV, I shoved through a bit to see what was going on.
A man, voice distorted was on the screen, in the middle of what he was saying.
"I have hit dozens of other facilities like this all over the world, there is nothing the local authorities or security guards can do… I've actually gotten very bored, which brings me to my point."
A map was suddenly pulled up, it showed USA, "I'll be visiting this country now, I do hope their police can pose a better fight against me, but…"
A picture was suddenly pulled up, of myself, in my Hedgehog form of course.
"I publicly challenge Sonic the Hedgehog to stop me, perhaps add a little excitement to my job. So here it is Sonic."
I glared at the TV, this idiot just made the biggest mistake of his life for what he was just about to say.
"You can call me Espio, Sonic the Hedgehog… and I challenge you to stop me."
I growled, this guy challenged me! Big. Mistake.
"Challenge accepted." I muttered to myself as the image blinked off the TV.
"Bring it on."
So there you guys go, hope you enjoyed it. Reviews are wanted because they are the fuel for the fanfiction-writing-machine.
In other news, I'll also be releasing shortly a small fic about Dart, AKA Knuckles. So stay tuned.
