Chapter 1: Mystery Storm
In Canterlot City, it's been clouder and showering rain for a few days. Right now, it's raining hard and thunder begins to clash. In one of the homes of the city, Sunset Shimmer, Shadow are having the girls over for a sleepover. Shadow is sitting on the couch with his arms crossed while Sunset and the girls are playing a game with playing cards on the floor behind it. They are also wearing their pajamas and warm rob.
"Alright Flutters, have any fours?" Pinkie asks.
"Go fish," Fluttershy answers.
Pinkie takes a card from the pile.
Fluttershy turns to Twilight, "Um Twilight, do you um, have any queens."
Twilight takes out a card and gives it to Fluttershy. She then puts the pair of cards on the ground next to her.
Rainbow groans, "This is so boring."
"Well, it can't be helped. It's been raining for days and now it turned into a total downpour," Applejack says.
"She's right. It's been like this for a while," Sunset says.
Suddenly, lighting flashes, and thunder booms in the hay. Fluttershy yelps and quickly hugs Rainbow as she drops her cards on the ground. Rainbow feels like she is getting a little crushed.
"It's okay Fluttershy, it's just thunder and lightning," Rarity says.
"I know. I just hate hearing so much loud noise," Fluttershy scaredly says, hugging Rainbow.
"Relax Fluttershy, the rain can't get in here. Now can you stop hugging me, you're starting to crush me a little?" Rainbow says.
"Um, sorry," Fluttershy replies, blushing a little.
Sunset looks at the couch and look over to see Shadow just sitting and looks almost like he is a sleep.
"Hey Shadow, are you going to play with us or sleep on the couch?" Sunset asks.
Shadow sighs, "I don't feel like playing games."
"If you say so. Would you like someone to hang out?" Sunset replies.
"You can play with the girls if you want," Shadow says.
"Nah, i'm kind of done playing cards anyway," Sunset says.
Pinkie happily says, "Come on Shadow, it won't be a sleepover without you playing with us."
"Darling, Shadow doesn't have to play if he doesn't want to," Rarity says.
"If you say so," Pinkie happily replies.
Then Rainbow says, "I'm getting sick of card games. You wanna play something else?"
"Like what?" Applejack asks.
Before Rainbow can answer, the doorbell rings.
"I'll get it," Pinkie sings.
Then zooms down stairs and zooms back with a box full of small take out boxes.
"Chinese food is here," Pinkie cheers.
"Good, I'm getting hungry," applejack says.
"Yeah. It's a good idea to get something hot to eat," Twilight says.
Rarity gets up, "I'll make us some tea."
Rarity heads to the kitchen and begin to heat a hot pot of water on the stove. Sunset and Rainbow help Pinkie with the Chinese food and passes the girls their dinner. They make sure to check the inside to see which is which.
Pinkie smells the food, "Yum, there's so good."
"I think a nice hot dinner is a good way to keep us warm," Applejack says.
Sunset passes a box to Shadow, "Here you go Shadow."
"Thanks," Shadow says, grabbing the takeout box.
As the girls and Shadow continue to eat their dinner, they can hear the rain and thunder going outside.
"Man talk about a real story," Rainbow says.
"I have to agree. This has to be the worst storm I've ever seen," Twilight says.
"I have to admit, it is unsettling to hear the thunder crashes and the rain pouring very hard," Rarity says.
"Just as long as we're inside, we don't need to worry about any storm," Shadow says.
"Easy for you to say. You spent more of your life in a space colony and in space. They don't get weather in space," Rainbow bluntly says.
"Doesn't mean he doesn't have issues with meteors or asteroids," Applejack remarks.
"To true," Rainbow says.
Shadow looks at the girls, "We didn't have any issue with meteors or asteroids."
"You're luck," Rainbow mutters.
Sunset rolls her eyes, "Okay, we're having a major weather problem, but we're not making things easy by just talking about it."
"Alright, how about we talk a little more about our mystery," Applejack says.
Shadow says, "You're right, those strange plants are still growing around town."
"Yeah. We never did find out where they came from or actually grew them," Fluttershy says.
"I still think it's the alien that the newspaper has taken," Pinkie says.
"I have to agree. That alien has something to do with it. And I don't know, but it seems to be related to Shadow come how," Sunset says.
Shadow thinks, "Hmm, I think you're right. Remember what happened two days ago."
"You're right. We found on in Principal Celestia's backyard and she wanted us to check it out," Sunset says.
Sunset remembers the situation well. Sunset has received a call from Principal Celestia about a problem in her backyard. Since everyone else is busy, Sunset, Shadow, and Shadow are the only ones who have come. When Principal Celestia shows them the backyard, they are shocked to see strange blue and red color plant. The same one they have seen for a while. Only this one has strange red color fruits on it.
"Another one of these plants?" Shadow asks.
"Yes. I found it here this morning. I tried to dig it out, but it was already too deep. Not to mention the soil is so dry that it's making it almost impossible to get rid of it," Celestia says.
Sunset looks around, "Yeah. This is the same plant that we saw in Sweet Apple Acres."
"And in Wallflower's garden," Shadow says.
"It is the same plant, and it's origin unknown," Twilight says.
"I've been hearing those gardens have been growing around the city lately. I can't seem to figure out what they are," Celestia says.
"We couldn't find anything either," Twilight days.
Then Sunset says, "we believed that alien that appeared on the paper is the one who planted these thing around and they seems to be sucking the earth of it energy."
As the three female talk. Shadow looks at the strange tree with the red fruits on it. Curious, Shadow decide to pick on from the tree. He looks at it with skeptic expression, and takes a bite. Surprisingly, it actually taste okay.
"Hmm, not bad," Shadow replies, and continues eating.
As Shadow eats the fruit, Sunset and Shadow finish explaining to Celestia.
"Thank for your time girls, I just hope this alien can be caught soon. We don't need another problem on our hands," Celestia says.
"You can say that again," Sunset says.
"It's kind of frustrating. If only we can figure out the alien's location," Twilight says.
Sunset asks, "What do you think Shadow?"
"Shadow?" Sunset says, looking confused.
Shadow turns around, "Sorry, I manage to take one of the fruits, and taste it. It's actually not dangerous."
"Really?" Sunset asks.
Shadow gives Sunset the fruit that already has a bite on it. Sunset takes a bite of the fruit. Then Twilight takes a bite on it as well. They chew on the fruit and suddenly stops.
"Bleh!" Sunset says in disgust.
"Gross!" Twilight adds, sticking her tounge out.
The flashback ends revealing sunset and Twilight showing grossed out looks on their faces.
"That fruit tasted like tar," Sunset says.
"I didn't even know taste buds can hurt," Twilight says.
Applejack scratches his head, "I wonder how could Shadow like the fruit and you two think it taste like trash."
"Who knows? Maybe the alien's taste is different from humans, and this is one of the things they eat?" Sunset thinks.
"Hope so. I never want to taste that fruit again," Sunset says.
"I do like observe the fruit. I happen to brough one that Shadow didn't ate. It's strange, I could pull them out and yet Shadow was able to pick one like it was nothing," Twilight says.
"Hmm, maybe Shadow is part of their race. You know like a alien hedgehog hybrid," Pinkie says.
"That does sound like a possibility, but wouldn't Professor Robotnik told me about it by now. That would explain how I was able to pick the fruit with no problem and think the taste is good," Shadow says.
"Hmm, I wonder if this Professor Robotnik had some secret of some kind and didn't told you about it or possibly, didn't get a chance to do it," Applejack says.
"Yeah. Shadow replies. Then sadly sighs.
The girls look that Shadow suddenly goes quiet and turn his head away with his arms crossed.
"What's wrong Shadow?" Fluttershy asks.
"It's… it's nothing," Shadow answers.
"You know, you've been acting strange since this morning. You sure you're okay?" Applejack asks.
"I'm fine. I just think I need to sleep off for a while," Shadow says. Then leaves to go into Sunset's room.
Sunset sighs, "I think it's still going to take come time before Shadow can share more of his feelings with us."
"I'm sure Shadow will, someday," Applejack says.
"I sure hope," Sunset says.
She sadly sighs and hope Shadow is alright.
Shadow lays down on Sunset's bed and lets out a sigh. He grabs the calendar and looks at it.
"It's almost the day isn't it and I won't be able to celebrate it with you... Maria," Shadow sadly says.
Shadow ends up falling asleep.
In the planet of Mobius of G.U.N. Headquarters, Rouge the bat decides to have Sonic, Tails, Amy, Knuckles, and surprisingly Cream and Cheese to come along. She also make sure to ask them to bring the seven chaos emeralds after finding them for a while.
Shadow has his arms crossed with a stern expression, "I still don't see why you decided to ask them to come along."
"Alright one; there is no way you're going to this other world alone. Two; since they have the chaos emeralds, they need to know. Three; Eclipse is a big problem and we need to stop him before he give everyone in that world more problem so we're going to need the help," Rouge says.
"Alright, but why are we bringing the little rabbit and her chao?" Shadow replies.
Amy sternly says, "Cream's mother, Vanilla, had put me in charge of Cream and Cheese while she's away for a week, so wherever I go, she goes. Plus, I couldn't find anyone to watch her and she's actually a good fighter."
"Yeah. You should have seen her when she took on Emerl," Sonic say.
Rouge smirks, "I can vouch for that."
"Fine, but make sure she doesn't get herself into trouble," Shadow says.
"Don't worry Mr. Shadow, I'll stay with Ms. Amy and Mr. Sonic the whole time," Cream happily says.
"Chao chao," Cream says.
"Just make sure you don't get in the way," Shadow says.
Cream and Cheese nod their heads.
Amy mutters, "Would to it kill him be nice to us?"
"That's close to impossible," Sonic says.
Knuckles groans, "Are we ready or not?"
"We're ready. We just hope four of them is enough," Tails says.
"Yeah. I can't believe Eclipse took the emeralds and chaos controls himself and his minions far from here," Shadow says.
"And from G.U.N Headquarters as well," Rouge says with her arms crossed.
"Yeah. and into another world. This is going to be just as much fun as we went to Station Square," Sonic says.
"We're going on a mission, not sightseeing," Shadow says.
"Okay. Geeze," Sonic says.
Everyone walk to the teleporter Tails has build and bring all the way to the headquarters. They lift the chaos emeralds in the air and transfer the chaos energy into the machine. Tails presses the button and pulls the switch. Soon the machine activates.
"Alright, let's go stop that alien," Sonic says.
Everyone then walk through the portal and make sure to take emeralds with them. Little do they know, the world they're going and pick cup the other emeralds signal is full with their own type of energy.