Shadow the Hedgehog: Puzzle of the Past
CHAPTER 1: The Black Arms' World Conquest
"It is now time," says an alien life form, viewing the earth from space. The alien's "fortress'' had finally reached the vicinity of the blue and green planet. "full speed ahead!" the alien says. The alien's soldiers somehow make the burning space rock they are all boarding go much faster. The comet its the earth's atmosphere. The comet starts to burn more, and pieces of it break off. "Stop!" the alien leader yells. The soldiers make the comet go back, hovering just above a dome shaped metal spaceship. "It appears the velocity of the Black Comet is not strong enough to pass through another planet's atmoshere. I'll just have to send my army down in small numbers. Ready the Black Cloud!" Tons of soldiers got to a large room and start to jump into a giant black and red cloud. The cloud starts its journey toward earth. "Now go! Start by going into that large city." the alien says, pointing to a city on the planet. "This is going to take longer that I assumed, No matter, I'll just use him."
Down on Earth, it is a sunny day. The wind gently pushes against the grass and the trees' leaves. A lone hedgehog stands, arms crossed, his red eyes frozen in concentration. He has black fur woth crimson strips on his quills, and a crimson stripe on his forehead leading black to his quills. He has four quills that point upward, and two that point down. He has a white tuft of fur on his chest. He wears white gloves on his hands, white and black shoes on his feet, each shoe with a red bottom with miniature jets on the bottoms. He wears golden rings on his wrists and ankles.
A newspaper is blown towards him as the wimd grows stronger. It is caught around his leg, but the hedgehog ignores it. The title of the newspaper says "FIRE-IN-THE-SKY-FESTIVAL. Celebration! 50 year return of Black Comet." The newspaper blows away, going wherever the wind carried it.
"Shadow the Hedgehog," the hedgehog says. "Why does that name haunt me? It's the only thing I can remember, and that gruesome image."
The hedgehog close his eyes.
The hedgehog runs down a dimly lit corridor, holding the hand of a young, blond girl wearing a blue shirt and a white blouse. Both are panting heavily. They reach a dead end and turn around, facing a group of four soldiers with black uniforms with a white G on their helmets. They have goggles with 6 red "eyes" on them. The girl gasps and reaches for Shadow. One soldier raises his gun and fires at the girl.
"MARIA!"
"Who am I...And why can't I remember anything? And...Who is this Maria?"
Suddenly, the sky grows dark. A humongous black and red cloud passes over the hedgehog and heads for the center of the nearby city, Westopolis. the cloud stops above the center, and the lightning repeatedly strikes in the very center of the cloud, and hords of black creatures, some flying, drop down into the city. There are explosions, and fires start.
"Hmm, look how pathethic they are," says the hedgehog. "I don't have time for these humans."
The hedgehog starts to turn and walk away, but something stops him.
"Shadow..."
The hedgehog's eye's widen at hearing his own name. He turns around to see what looks likie a big starfish with 6 tentacles. In the center is a snake like eye. The eye glows and projects an image if an alien. He is black, with two pointed portrusions on either side of his head with red tips. He has 3 red eyes two at the bottom and one at the top. The top eye is similar to the eye on the starfish like thing. He has no mouth, but bags that get bigger as they go down his face. He wears an emourmous shirt, with huge sleeves that conceal his ams, only revealing his three clawed hands. He wears a chain around his neck that hangs down both shoulders. The chain has some sort of artifacts on it. he also wears two shoulder pads and two scarves hang down his back. He also wears a necklace with different colored stones on it. No lower body is seen.
"As you can see, the day of reckoning will soon be here." the alien says. "Find the seven Chaos Emeralds and bring them to me, as promised."
"Huh?" Shadow says. "Who are you, and how do you know I'm Shadow? And what are you talking about?"
The hologram disappears and the star-shaped alien flies off. Shadow reaches out but explosions blind him. The smoke soon clears.
"What was that all about?'' Shadow says. "If he says he knows the truth about who I am, that like it or not I have to believe him. The only way I'm going to get the secrets of my past, is to get those Chaos Emeralds!" Shadow says, clenching his fist in front of him. And with that, he skated off towards Westopolis on his air shoes.
Elsewhere, Sonic, a blue furred hedgehog with quills that point back, a yellow underbelly, green eyes, white gloves, red shoes with white stripes and yellow buckles on them is chillin on the couch at Tails, a yellow fox with two thick yellow tails with white tips house, watching TV. he is flipping through the channels, when he stops on a channel showing a giant black and red creature with gigantic spikes on it's back land on top of a car and toss an incoming one into a nearby building. Another giant creature holds a police car above it's head. Soldier's of G.U.N.(Guardian Units of Nations) shoot at it rapidly with with rifles, having no effect on it. The creature tosses the car into some other soldiers, blowing some a few feet away.
"Cool, monster movies!" Sonic says. "About time I found something to watch!"
"This is the scene all over Westopolis as these unknown black creatures continue to fall from a mysterious red cloud and cause ruin",says a female reporter in the TV. She barely escapes as another police car is tossed at the camera, cauesing the screen to go to static.
"Hey, this is no movie!" Sonic says. "We've gotta do something about this!" Sonic speeds out the door and towards Westopolis.
