DNA Results…
Black Doom was laughing sinisterly as he held out all seven chaos emeralds. The hero's and Dr Eggman were frozen from the toxic gases from the Black Comet and Shadow was on his knees in despair as he was tricked into finding the emeralds for Black Doom.
"I can't believe I fell for your tricks, the only reason you wanted those emeralds is so you could warp the comet down to the planets surface." Shadow said in despair as he looked down to the ground.
"Yes and now you will face the same fate as everyone on this planet. It is very ironic that I gave you life and now I can take it from you." Black Doom sinisterly said as he glared down at Shadow.
"Wait what? You never gave me life, Professor Gerald did." Shadow gasped as he looked up at the alien leader, confusion in his eyes.
"So he never told you of my involvement, humans are so selfish. Oh yes Shadow I helped to create you, my blood runs through both of our veins. I gave you life by donating my blood." Black Doom chuckled as Shadow widened his eyes in disbelief.
Shadow cleared his throat and composed himself. He stood to his feet and crossed his arms as he looked up at Black Doom.
"I don't believe you, you have fed me so many lies since you appeared here." Shadow firmly stated with a serious look in his eyes.
"Yeah you have done nothing but twist Shadow mind to suit yours. None of us believe you." Sonic called out as he remained frozen on the spot.
"Yes alright faker." Shadow rolled his eyes as he spoke in a casual tone.
"So you do not believe me then my child, care for a DNA test?" Black Doom raised his eyes in slight shock as he was not expecting this reaction.
"Yes I do want one done actually." Shadow smirked deviously at the one claiming to have a huge involvement in his creation.
"Very well, we shall have someone do one for us." Black Doom chuckled a little darkly then waved his hand and made them all vanish from inside the Black Comet.
They all appeared on a studio set and now that the hero's and Eggman weren't on the comet the toxic gas was slowly leaving their system. They looked around in puzzlement and even Shadow was confused as to why they were here. Black Doom vanished but many Black Arms soldiers were surrounding the area, counting at least forty.
"Erm why are we here exactly?" Knuckles asked with a very confused look, speaking to no one in particular.
"Beats me but I think I recognise the set. Hay Amy isn't this the Jazz Corry show set?" Sonic said as he looked over at Amy.
"Yeah it is, why bring us here for?" Amy widened her eyes as he finally recognised the place they were in.
"Sonic you watch that show?" Rouge gave Sonic a questionable raised brow.
"Hell no I don't, well not willingly that is." Sonic pouted with unhappy features as he looked at Rouge.
"What is the Jazz Corry show?" Shadow asked as he was still looking and now sounding confused.
"Oh it is this talk show where Jazz helps people with problems they are having, like lie detector results to see if their partner or whatever are lying to them about something. He helps people find long lost family and friends and…o-oh. I think I know why we are here." Amy went to explain to Shadow then stopped as she realised why they were brought here.
"Yeah I just realised too." Rouge sighed with a shake of her head.
"Well we haven't so care to share with the rest of us?" Sonic raised a brow at the two with an impatient look.
"Jazz Corry also does DNA results for families." Amy sweat-dropped with a nervous smile.
Three hours later…
"H-hello all who are watching, I'm Jazz Corry and welcome to this very special show." Jazz, a very scared looking black cat with green eyes and dressed in a fancy looking black suit, said down the camera that was recording live to any and all board cast stations still up and running.
"Do I have to really do this?" Jazz whispered with fear to the producer in his ear.
"If you want to live then yes." The producer said back through the ear piece also with a fearful tone as he had guns pointed at him by three Black Oaks.
"O-ok guys, we have a very special guest with us. Please welcome on the stage Shadow the hedgehog." Jazz nervously said as he stood on the stage facing the audience.
The audience was Eggman the hero's and a whole bunch of Black Arm soldiers. The camera guy who had a gun pointed to his head, moved the camera so Shadow was filmed walking onto the stage and not looking very happy with being here. Shadow took a seat in a chair provided and crossed his arms as he looked at Jazz.
"Now Shadow why are you here today?" Jazz asked as he tried to keep calm and composed.
"Well Jazz for the past three days we have had an alien invasion and their leader, Black Doom has just enlightened me with some information I don't believe is true. Throughout the invasion he as been lying to me and feeding me false information in order to twist my mind in joining his invading army and destroy the planet and its people." Shadow explained with a I-don't-believe-I'm-actually-here-doing-this-but-what-the-hell look, whatever that look looks like.
"I am not lying to you Shadow." Black Doom calls out from back stage, smugness in his tone.
"Will you damn well wait your turn to talk!" Shadow calls back with anger in his voice.
"Do not speak to your father in such a disrespectful manner my son." Black Doom darkly calls back with aggression in his voice.
"You are not my father and the DNA results will prove that." Shadow grumbles with a glare to the ground.
"So he tells you he is your father and naturally you don't believe him. I can understand why you wouldn't, it is not like you both look that much alike and as you said he has been lying to you since he came on the scene." Jazz calmly said with a faint smile at the angered Ultimate Life-form sitting on a comfy chair.
"Exactly my point, how can I believe anything he tells me if all he has done is lie to me in order to get me to do what he wants." Shadow confirms with a smirk at the nervous cat.
"Right, now ladies and gentlemen I give you Black Doom on my stage." Jazz said as he turned to his audience then welcomed Black Doom.
Black Doom floated on the stage and glared in annoyance at Shadow, who just rolled his eyes and looked away. Black Doom refused to sit on the chair provided and just floated a little away from Shadow while facing the audience and camera.
"Now Shadow has told me his side of things, what do you have to say on the subject?" Jazz asked with a sincere look at Black Doom.
"Well Jazz I was in the middle of gloating upon my victory and happened to not know Shadow had no idea about my involvement on his creation. I made a comment that confused him and then I explained how I was involved. He didn't believe me and demanded a DNA test to be done. Which leads us here in your studio and having this domestic on your stage." Black Doom calmly explained with a casual look.
"You are unbelievable, you are causing this domestic and involving those it doesn't concern. I could have easily done the DNA test in a damn lab without getting anyone involved but no you just have to make this a bigger issue than it is." Shadow growled with high annoyance as he glared with hate at Black Doom.
"This is your last warning my child, don't talk to me in such a manner." Black Doom narrowed his three eyes at Shadow, venom in his voice as he warned.
"You are not my father so stop lying to me." Shadow shouted back with anger in his tone, also narrowing his eyes.
"Yes I am Shadow, I donated my blood to create you and bring you to life, that makes us biological father and son." Black Doom matter-of-fact said with a smug look.
"If this is true then where have you been throughout Shadows life?" Jazz asked with a grin as he seemed to caught the warlord of guard.
"Well erm, I left Shadow in Gerald's care until I returned in fifty years to take this world and the emeralds." Black Doom replied with some shock in his features.
"So you left your son with someone you barely knew and never stayed in contact with him for fifty years. Now I know I'm no father-of-the-year but I would never just abandon my children with a stranger and not speak to them for over fifty years." Jazz said with slight anger at hearing this.
"Yeah you claim you are my father so where were you when I was forced into painful experiments? Where were you when the ARK was invaded by humans and killed everyone aboard? Where were you when I was captured and thrown into status for no reason?" Shadow said with a smirk as he knew Black Doom could not answer any of those questions.
"Granted this does sound bad and irresponsible on my part but Shadow was only meant to be a tool for me to use to get the emeralds so I could chaos control the comet to the surface. The ARK's invasion and what happened to him was just a bonus and made things way more easy to manipulate him to do my bidding. It worked for a while but he soon found out my true intentions and rose against me." Black Doom indifferently said with no remorse for what he did.
"I'm just glad I got my memories back or things would defiantly have been different." Shadow muttered under his breath as he looked down to the ground and not looking at all happy.
"That is barbaric, how can you say that about your potential son?" Jazz gasped in horror at what he heard, so did Sonic and his friends.
"It is the truth, it was Gerald who was the one that wanted Shadow and even he had his own agenda for Shadow. I do believe it was to find a cure for his sick granddaughter so Gerald also just used Shadow." Black Doom matter-of-fact said with a shrug.
"Well he does have a point, seems like everyone just uses me for their own needs. No one cares what I want or how I feel about it all. No, it's alright Shadow doesn't feel anything because he's just a created being from long ago. Why would he care to be used, it's all that he knows anyway." Shadow said with a very unhappy tone while sounding a little sarcastic.
"That is so sad." Amy cried out with watery eyes.
"Well almost everyone, Maria never asked for anything from me." Shadow faintly smiled as he mentioned his long lost friend, separated by death.
"Wrong again my son, she wanted friendship from you so she wouldn't be lonely." Black Doom rolled his eyes in disgust.
"Shut up, you are not worthy to talk about her like that. She was the only one who saw me as more than an experiment and never once lied to me." Shadow shouted out with rage, starting to glow red with how much anger he was feeling.
"Sh-Shadow, you might want to calm down." Sonic nervously called out, having seen Shadow perform a chaos blast recently.
"Shadow closed his eyes and took in deep breaths to calm himself down, he did after all need to hear the DNA results. Now calm Shadow opened his eyes and avoided looking at Black Doom.
"Ok so Shadow what do you want?" Jazz asked with a sincere look and smile.
"In all honesty, I just want to live in peace and not be a tool to anyone anymore. I just want a normal life and live in a house with a garden. Me and Maria used to talk about doing that when we would eventually leave the ARK, you know do normal things every day people do." Shadow said with a faint smile at the thought.
"Oh please, that is such a pathetic thing to want." Black Doom groaned as he gave a disgusted look at Shadow.
"Well it is better than going around and mindlessly killing people. Going from planet to planet and destroying innocent lives just for fun." Shadow shot back with a dangerous growl.
"And what is stopping you from achieving your goals?" Jazz asked next as he grinned, making Shadow look at him.
"GUN is always after me to throw me back into status, Black Doom wont give up and wants to end my life, no one trusts me and fears me because of the power I poses. I did nothing wrong all those years ago you know. I did as I was told and nothing else then one day GUN soldiers just came out of no where and started shooting everyone. I was scared to death, I never seen or heard of a gun but I did find out very quickly what they did. Then I was forced to watch Maria die as I was forced into an escape pod by her. When I was finally on the planets surface I was dragged to prison island and thrown into suspended animation for fifty years where Gerald messed with my memories for some revenge plan." Shadow half sadly said as he spoke in a weak tone and drooped ears, never having told anyone all of this before and didn't know why he was even saying any of it.
"Shadow, we had no idea about any of this. Why didn't you say anything?" Sonic sadly said with drooped ears and locking eyes with Shadow.
"Would any of you really truly have cared or had the time for me? Oh it's just Shadow, he's the Ultimate Life-form and can over come anything. He is strong minded and doesn't let anything get to him. News flash, just because I hold that title does not mean I lack feelings, I'm not a robot." Shadow seriously said with a raised brow and sarcasm in his voice here and there.
The friends remained silent and all held a guilty look at what Shadow had just said. All at some point did think like that and that was what made them all feel guilty.
"Shall we just get these damn results over and done with please." Shadow growled with annoyance and looked at Jazz with seriousness.
"Y-yes the results please." Jazz said as he looked at the guy holding the sealed envelope.
The envelope was passed over with shaky movements and Jazz teared it open but before he read it out his looked at both beings on his stage with a forced smile.
"Now we did a DNA test a couple of hours ago on both of you. The results are in this envelope and no one but the examiner knows what they are. What ever they say will determine your next move." Jazz said then pulled the card out and gulped with a nervous look, seeing what the card read.
"Th-the results s-say that Black Doom…is your biological f-father Shadow." Jazz fearfully said with horror in his eyes as now his usefulness was up.
"WHAT?" Shadow shouted out in shock and horror then slowly turned his head to look at a very smug looking Black Doom.
"Told you I was not lying Shadow and now that you know the absolute truth we can finish what we started aboard the comet." Black Doom chuckled with a dark edge.
"What? You actually plan on killing me, why?" Shadow raised a brow as he tried to buy some time in distracting his so called father.
"Simple, your usefulness is up and you are too disobedient. I have no time for someone like that." Black Doom simply said with an uncaring voice.
"So all I was to you was a tool?" Shadow asked with slight anger in his voice.
"Basically yeah." Black Doom shrugged indifferently.
"And you never really planned to keep me alive for long?" Shadow growled as his body began to turn red then motioned Sonic and his friends to leave with a hand movement.
"Nope having you join my army was a lie, I don't need you now my plan to warp the comet down here was successful." Doom casually said as he seemed to not notice Shadow charging up a chaos blast or all but his soldiers leaving fast.
"Fine then you have made your choice." Shadow smirked darkly at Black Doom.
"And that would be?" Black Doom asked with some level of curiosity in his tone then widened his eyes as he finally realised what Shadow was planning to do.
"Chose to die…chaos blast…" Shadow chuckled then unleashed his attack, leaving nothing standing.
Black Doom had just managed to chaos control away in time so he was never hit.
"Then so be it Shadow, prepare for our final battle in the skies above." Black Doom called to Shadow from where ever he was.
"Oh it is so on." Shadow growled then closed his eyes to call the emeralds to him.
They appeared and began to spin around him then they were absorbed into Shadow body, turning him into Super Shadow. Shadow smirked then chaos controlled high above and near where Black Doom was sensed. Shadow looked around with a determined gaze then widened them when he saw a large creature with two heads, wings and was large in the torso area.
"Behold my true form and soon you will face my true power." Devil Doom roared with anger.
"O-k now I have seen everything." Shadow whispered to himself as he tried to figure out possible weak spots.
Then the battle commenced between the two. Chaos spears were thrown by Shadow and fire was sprayed all around by Devil Doom, neither giving up or giving in to the other. Shadow soon found the week spot and powered each spear to its fullest, hitting Doom in the eye which ever end it happened to appear on. Shadow was finally starting to win their battle as Devil Doom was losing energy and getting weak with every hit to his eye. Shadow was getting tired and occasionally his fur flashed from gold to black to gold again, he knew he was winning this battle and it would only take a couple of more powered up spears but his energy was getting low, just like the time he helped Sonic with stopping the ARK from colliding into the planet.
"I need to keep going and finish this once and for all." Shadow thought with a determined look then began to charge another spear in his hand.
"It is no use Shadow, you carry on and we will both be destroyed." Devil Doom called out in a desperate manner, hoping to reason with Shadow.
"I do not care what happens to me nor do I care what happens to you. This planet will never be taken by you because I am going to stop you no matter what the cost is." Shadow seriously said then threw his chaos spear at Devil Doom, making him roar out in pain.
"Ok I think one more ought to do it." Shadow thought as he charged his final spear.
Suddenly fire was coming his way but Shadow was growing too tired to move quick. The results, Shadow got hit and was flung far away from Devil Doom. That took a lot out of Devil Doom but he figured it was worth losing more energy than be killed by his wayward son. Shadow recovered from the attack and his fur flashed again, taking a few seconds longer to turn back to gold. Shadow took a deep breath and charged up his final chaos spear again then chaos controlled as close as possible. This was it, this was the last and final chance to defeat Devil Doom. Shadow threw his spear then he watched the spear hit where it was aimed and Doom roared as he began to perish and burn.
"N-now for that comet." Shadow weakly said as he focused on chaos controlling to the comets surface.
Shadow appeared then closed his eyes, putting in the remaining energy to teleport the comet back into space for the eclipse cannon to destroy it completely. Shadow and the comet vanished leaving a crater where it sat. The comet appeared in space and was soon hit by a bright green beam from the cannon. Shadow appeared in the observation deck facing the planet and had lost his super form. He collapsed to his knees as his energy was dangerously low. He witnessed the comet explode and the pieces falling into the atmosphere, burning up as they hit it.
"Finally it is all over." Shadow faintly smiled as he was finally free from his creators and hopefully the life of an experiment forever.
"Now how am I going to get off the ARK?" Shadow thought as he stared out of the thick window.
"Hay look it's Shadow." Charmy excitedly shouted as he and the other members of the Chaotix walked passed the room Shadow was in.
"Shadow, need a lift back?" Espio asked with a grin as he watched the hedgehog stand and turn to face them.
One hour later…
"I wonder where Shadow is?" Sonic asked as he and his friends gathered where the Black Comet once sat, worry on his features.
"I don't know. I would normally say this is Shadow we are talking about and that he is fine but after hearing what he had to say on that talk show Doom organised, I'm just hoping he is ok and didn't die with Black Doom." Rouge sighed with sad features.
"It wouldn't be the first time he died and came back." Knuckles shrugged with a small frown as he too was starting to get worried.
"Hay guys, look there's a ship flying towards us." Tails pointed up high as he was the first to spot it.
"Doesn't that belong to the Chaotix detective agency, pacifically Vector?" Sonic said as he squinted his eyes to try and see better.
"Yeah but we all know it's Espio flying that death trap." Amy rolled her eyes as she looked up.
"I think we better move out of the way, it's coming closer to us which makes me think they are landing right here where we are standing." Tails nervously said as he widened his eyes.
Everyone moved far away and watched the ship make a bumpy landing, making a loud crashing sound. The door dropped and hit the floor hard causing dust to fly up and cover the area. The friends walked over and stopped at the bottom of the sloped door only to see a silhouette of a hedgehog standing at the top. Once the dust cleared they all recognised who it was.
"You call that a damn landing Vector? I could have don't a better one with my eyes shut and one hand tied behind my back." Shadow called out with an annoyed tone, his head turned to look at the one he was addressing as said being was walking slowly closer to Shadow.
"Yes I agree with Shadow, next time I drive the ship." Espio sighed as he shook his head, glad to be conscious this time round.
"Don't blame me, it's not my fault the controls are acting up again." Vector groaned as all exited the ship and joined the friends on the ground.
"You really need to get that thing serviced before you kill everyone." Shadow sighed with a disbelieving tone that they weren't already dead from flying that ship.
"It's good to see you are alright Shadow." Sonic smiled at Shadow in a friendly way.
"Don't get sentimental with me faker, I'm grieving." Shadow smirked playfully showing off his canines.
"Yeah about those DNA results, you know it doesn't matter who was involved in your creation Shadow ok. The important thing is you are here and alive." Sonic said with a sincere tone and smile.
"What did I tell you about being sentimental Sonic? It doesn't bother me ok and it is all over and done with." Shadow rolled his eyes then began to walk away from the group.
"Oh and thanks for the lift guys most appreciated." Shadow calls back as he waves a hand in the air briefly, never looking away from in front of him.
"Shadow, don't..." Amy called out but was stopped from talking by a hand on her shoulder.
"Give him some time alone, he has had a few rough truths over the past few days. He just needs a little time to actually come to terms with it." Sonic softly said with a friendly smile then dropped his hand.
"Yeah I suppose he does, it's not every day you are forced to end your own fathers life in order to save a whole planet and everyone on it." Amy sighed with a sad look as she watched Shadow disappear in the distance.
Hope you enjoyed reaing this little one-shot and my slight but not slight addaption to the final ending to the game Shadow the hedgehog. please let me know what you thought and remember it was all just for humor and not to be taken seriously ok...