Shadaze – Curiosity can kill cats you know

Author's note – This is a fanfic pairing Shadow The Hedgehog and Blaze The Cat. Some things to take note of continuity wise: In this fic, Sonic 06 is canon, Shadow works as a GUN operative, takes place a while after Forces, Shadow can use his chaos powers without chaos emeralds barring his super form, Shadow isn't some angry edgy teen, Blaze originally comes from the Sol Dimension but then lived in Silver's future for a considerable amount of time before saving the future and coming back to life (after sacrificing herself to seal Iblis)

Shadow's POV

Months have passes since the attack of Infinite and to be honest, I don't think anyone is really still impacted by it. The destruction was amended and no one has seen or heard from Infinite since. This sits well with everyone, everyone but me. In these months while the others have been taking their premature victory laps, I have been tirelessly searching Mobius for that cursed Jackal.

They all seen what his power can do, it can even incapacitate me, he defeated me, Sonic and Silver in single combat, it would be foolish to allow him to lick his wounds. The others should be helping, that power can't be left unchecked, then again I work better alone and this has always been my job. Dirty work I mean. Sonic, he shows up in times of crisis, rushes in headfirst and he is adored, gets all the credit. Me? I work tirelessly running ops and doing jobs others aren't willing to do. I don't rest, I constantly fight against those that would hurt the innocent and people still doubt my intentions, if only people knew how much I do.

Foolish of me to think like this. I don't care what anyone else thinks of me. They want to hate me? Fine. That won't stop me from keeping my promise.

Okay that part about tirelessly searching and never resting? Slight exaggeration. Even the ultimate life form needs to sleep. Luckily my search led me to a local park. I find it easier to sleep atop trees, I couldn't tell you why but I do but off the top of my head, it's peaceful, natural and no one really bothers you up there. Or so I thought.

About an hour into my slumber I heard my phone go off, normally I'd ignore it but it was Rouge, probably the person I'm closest to, not that that's saying much, our relationship is purely work related.

I picked up the phone, "What" I grumbled bluntly.

"Well that's no way to greet a friend Shadow" Rouge replied, bubbly and carefree as ever.

"You think I care Rogue? What's this about? Why are you calling me?" I questioned her.

"Straight to business I see" She remarked, "just get her quickly, it's an emergency, I can't elaborate, people are listening".

"You should've led with that, on my way ETA 3 minutes" I hopped out of my tree before activating my air shoes and skating back to station square.

While skating, I looked down at my wrist mounted communicator to get a fix on Rouge's position. "Odd" I thought out loud, "She's at Sonic's home". I dislike Sonic's home, mainly because it's the site of many gatherings I have been forced to neglect my duties to attend. "This better be important Rogue" I murmured before skating faster.

Rouge POV

As I hung up the phone, I made sure the call had ended before bursting into laughter. I simply couldn't hold it in anymore. It's a miracle the phone and more importantly Shadow didn't pick up on my giggles.

"So is he coming" Rouge turned round to see the blue hedgehog, Sonic.

Rouge bit her lip before saying "He'll be here in 3 minutes but he is not going to be happy when he gets here".

"Is he ever happy?" Sonic asked part of him genuinely curious as to whether Shadow was ever happy.

"Fair point" Rouge conceded "But he's going to be very angry, seeing as I just lied to him".

"Did you really though?" Sonic continued "It is an emergency, just nothing life threatening and to be fair to you, people were listening" Sonic winked as he gestured to the doorway to reveal the poorly hidden forms of: Knuckles, Tails, Big, Cream, Tails, Amy, Omega, Charmy and Vector.

Well that was unexpected. "Where the other two" I asked as I pushed through them to see the better hidden forms of Espio and Blaze listening in.

"Of course" I said slightly exasperated.

"We were just wondering what the hold up on the party is" Knuckles said before looking around "We're all here".

"Except for Shadow" I told him putting my hands on my hips, he knew Shadow wasn't here.

"Who needs him?" Knuckles exclaimed, "What's he gonna do, stand in the corner or maybe he'll decide to start a fight".

"The only reason you say that is because you keep trying to fight him, can't you just leave him in peace?".

"Can't you?" Knuckles retorted "I'm sure he has other places he'd rather be".

I glanced at Sonic hoping for his help as I was defeated.

Sonic walked over to Knuckles "Look I know you don't like the guy that much, but whether you or him like it or not, he is part of our family and now that Blaze is living in our dimension, she needs to meet everyone" Sonic continued by saying "Besides, I have a feeling Shadow and Blaze will hit it off" as he winked at Blaze who most forgot was there as she was standing in the corner silent, reminiscent of Shadow to say the least. What was that look in her eye, curiosity?

Blaze POV

After my sacrifice and then my resurrection upon the death of Solaris, my power was drained and I had to return to the Sol Dimension to restore myself. This was unforeseen and painful.

I left the Sol Dimension after the death of Gardon. I had nothing left for me. Parents. Dead. Gardon. Dead. Claim to the throne. Renounced, not that I needed to, someone else already claimed the throne. When I came back to Mobius I wound up in an alternate future inhabited by few including Silver the Hedgehog and the flames of disaster. Long story short I died, came back, left to heal and now I'm back for good, in the right timeline.

-Shadow and Blaze will hit it off" Sonic winked at me. This snapped me out of my thoughts, my ears perked up at the mention of my name and I noticed everyone looking at me causing me ears to go back down and me to shrink back into the wall.

I'm assuming it's expected of me to say something to get everyone to stop staring at me. "Must there really be a party, I can get to know everyone in time, most of you I already know"

Sonic laughed, "Blaze don't think of it as a party, just see it as a gathering among friends" trying to reassure her "Besides you still don't know Amy, Team Chaotix, Omega, Rouge, Big or even Shadow"

There it was, that name again. I don't know why but this Shadow character intrigues me. I mean the name Shadow doesn't scream colourful extrovert like the rest of Sonic's friends with the exception of Espio plus Sonic did say we'd "hit it off".

"So who exactly is this Shadow?" I asked curiosity finally getting the better of me.

Everyone glanced around nervously before Sonic opened his mouth to speak.

"It's better that you see for yourself, none of us really know much about him at all". "You must have seen him around though, he's that black hedgehog".

I vaguely remember seeing him during that time travel mishap and occasionally at those Olympic things but I've never really spoken to him.

Knuckles them butted in "What Sonic means to say" he said glancing pointedly at Sonic "Is that Shadow is an antisocial egotistical freak. He goes around acting like his life is the worst, but as far as we know nothing's happened to him beyond what our job of heroes inevitably brings, but even then that's a shaky excuse for him seeing as half the time he's just fighting us or not present".

Well that changes things not that I trust Knuckles, first time we met he tried to steal the sol emeralds. "Is there something wrong with being antisocial Knuckles?" Knuckles was at a loss of words from this.

"Also you don't get to judge his life, no one does anything for no reason, just because you don't know his life's story, doesn't mean nothing ever happened to him and Rouge said earlier you always start fights with him".

Tails then spoke up "Actually he does fight us quite a lot" I looked at Tails slightly startled. He continued "There's that time he framed Sonic, tried to blow us up, that time all of team Dark attacked us, that time travel mishap where he attacked Sonic, that time he backed up an army of evil aliens oh yeah and that time he relentlessly hunted Cosmo"

I heard his voice break slightly at the mention of this Cosmo. Would this Shadow really be so evil? If so why is he part of this family?

How I was feeling must have been very apparent, because then Vector stepped in. "Look princess I know how this sounds but Shadow is a good guy. Sure he fought us but at this point everyone in this room has fought everyone at some points"

I looked round surprised by this and all I got was solemn nods. Even Big?! How does that happen?

Vector continued "But that guy has given his all to doing the right thing, he's sacrificed himself for this planet probably about three times now and he always does the right thing. He defeated the biolizard, the black arms, Mephilles, he turned the tides of battle against the Metarex and he helped me find the computer room". I looked to Sonic, I needed his true judgement of this Shadow.

"So what do you truly make of him Sonic?" Sonic sure taken his time in answering before saying "As you can see all of us are pretty divided on him, even he is. You need to form your own opinion on him but me personally? I think he's my friend and I like to think he sees that. He's difficult to reach but underneath his shell there is a good hedgehog. Plus he is an invaluable ally in battle. Nearly as powerful as me" Sonic said ending his mini speech with a cocky smirk.

Then Silver piped up "ummm actually Sonic, I'm pretty sure all of us agree that Shadow is stronger than y-"

"Zip it Silver" Sonic yelled sharply but playfully. Silver shrunk down and I may have smiled slightly at this. "Silly Silver" I thought. Well I guess all there is to do is wait and see.

Shadow POV

I've been outside Sonic's house for the past few minutes, casing the environment. I see no party decorations and I can't hear any loud noises so my initial fears have been alleviated, this isn't a ploy to force me to go to a party. That means this is a genuine emergency but I can't find any traps. Novice hostage takers it seems. I pull out my gun and prepare myself for the rescue

"CHAOS CONTROL"

Well that's it for the first chapter hope you like it. Please give me your feedback but don't hate too hard, this is my first Sonic fanfic.