Darkened Return: Shadow of the Robotnik

by Tyrant Overlord Killidia

(Like in Blackened Revival, Lucian Katubor and Chocolate the Rabbit belong to nerokin4. Corbenik the Echidna is an original character.) One week after the firefight that ended Blackened Revival, Neoshadow finds himself working with G.U.N. in what is just a short part of his story. And nothing that the inhabitants of Mobius can do is capable of stopping Black Hope's covert actions.

1. E-123 Omega

Darkened Return: Shadow of the Robotnik

E-123 Omega

Northlands, Central City, 3645/08/05, Local time is 03:35, near an inactive "City Annihilator Bomb."

Neoshadow was pursuing a red robot that had stolen the Red Chaos Emerald from the Kaito ruins on North Island. The pursuit had taken Neoshadow to Central City and the Mystic Ruins even though the robot looked like it could not cross half of the Northlands without losing all of its power. The robot was now standing next to a recently placed "City Annihilator Bomb" that had been placed by another R-robot. After the initial skirmish with the Black Arms, Dr. Robotnik had managed to reverse-engineer some of their technology, mostly explosives, small arms and the Black Cannon. The bomb technology was dangerous as the City Annihilator explosives could destroy an entire city if they were placed strategically and then detonated. The Original Shadow the Hedgehog had defused some of these after being admitted into G.U.N. as part of a training mission. The red robot tried to activate the bomb, but Neoshadow attacked it and prevented it from detonating by neutralizing an R-robot that had come to arm it in case the red one failed.

The red machine got up and said to Neoshadow, "Who are you and why do you oppose the rule of Robotnik?! I am E-123 Omega, the last of the recently- reformed E-100 series."

"I am Neoshadow the Hedgehog, embodiment of the Black Arms, Omega. You have been blindly following orders if you are being powered by an animal." Neoshadow said to the machine of red coloration.

"I have no organic battery, Neoshadow. I have a single EGG-4003 Hydraulic Nuclear Fusion Power Core energizing my systems."

Neoshadow fired a green-colored chaos spear at Omega and it hit him, rewriting his Artificial Intelligence from scratch to oppose Robotnik and help G.U.N., the South Islanders, and all other sentient life on Mobius. E-123 then called an Explosive Ordinance Disposal squad to his current location and they defused the City Annihilator Bomb. Heading out to Headquarters for a debriefing, Neoshadow reported that the mission was a success and that the red machine is now opposing Robotnik due to having its Artificial Intelligence rewritten. Headquarters hears this and issues another mission to Neoshadow, this one being a base infiltration. The mission is simple: G.U.N. is preparing to attack a large Robotnik base found on the continent of Zalvonia in the Southern Hemisphere of Mobius. This base is rather large, can be entered from multiple methods and is known as Geltina Base. Neoshadow is to enter the base through the underground caves and destroy the installation's radar systems before the attack actually begins. By disabling the radar, the G.U.N. forces will be able to surprise the R-robot defenders and take the base without suffering very many casualties. As Neoshadow heads out for Geltina Base, he finds out that Zalvonia is one of three continents in Mobius's Southern Hemisphere. The other two continents are known as Noxtralia and the Southlands respectively.

Meanwhile on the Space Colony ARK, Black Hope, disguising himself as the deceased Miles 'Tails' Prower Sr., is trying to hack into Gerald Robotnik's research data hidden inside a secret laboratory that had not been used in over 1050 years. So far he has not been successful in breaking in but he isn't daunted as he knows that it is all classified data that has been forgotten. What is surprising is that G.U.N. still didn't find all of the research labs and some of the creatures are not only alive, but have reproduced and populated the entire colony.