~SINGING THE RIGHT NOTE~
CHAPTER 1: FREE C-DEE
This story is dedicated to all Shadouge fans. You all rock so much! And a special thanks to my brother who helped me by giving me ideas, being the first reader on this chapter, and giving me a head start on the writing and story. Thank you sooooo much X-treme! I love you!
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A black and red hedgehog walked down the midnight sidewalks of Metropolis, entering a grocery store, silently taking an apple and quietly leaving as he didn't even steal anything. He continued to be on his way, avoiding all the stores he walked by.
When he passed a music store called Musix, he heard loud hip-hop music coming from the boom box, and a group of punk guys, circling the glass wall of the store.
The ebony hedgehog saw what they were going gaga about a poster. A poster picture of a famous celebrity, two celebrities. It was a female bat who had fur as white as the cleanest snow and eyes that looked like it was as rich as sapphires mixed with sunlight emeralds, and a fire red male echidna with violet amethyst dark eyes. Below the beautiful female bat and echidna's figure, was a writing. It read: Rouge the Bat & Knuckles the Echidna.
"Whoa! That bat girl sure has a hot face!" said one of the street punks.
"She sure has a hot body for me to fuck!" said another.
"Ta bad sha gon' out wit' dat' mothafucka. I'd lready' fuck ha ba' naw." (Re-wording: To bad she's going out with that motherfucker. I'd already fuck her by now.) a street punk porcupine broadcasted with horrible vocabulary.
The black hedgehog continued to walk having a look of disgust at the punks. "Perverts." he mumbled, taking another bit of the already half eaten apple.
One of the street punks heard him and turned to him with an death smile.
"Wha'da say you little twerp?" he asked.
The jet-black hedgehog stopped in his tracks, and slowly faced him with a face showing no fear, chewing on the apple he just bit. He could see that the street punk who just talked to him was the leader since he seemed to be the only one with dark sunglasses and a cigarette, including huge body flexes the size of the hedgehog's head. The leader stood about six feet tall and his species was a dirty grey tabby cat with short whiskers. It made the black hedgehog look puny and weak.
The black hedgehog swallowed his bite calmly, and repeated what he just said, only very slowly, like they were retarded. Also adding some more words to make his point. "I said... You guys are motherfucking pervert bastards."
The street punk boss looked like he was going to blast. He gritted his teeth in anger, making the cigarette between his teeth break in two. He pointed a finger at the puny character.
"Who da shittin' hell do ya tink' you are!" he snarled with threat.
The hedgehog still showed no fear, anger, or mercy. "Shadow the Hedgehog." he answered in a low mumble.
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In the music store, a blue hedgehog stood behind a register, doing his job until he saw that there was a group of street punks surrounding a poster.
He sighed in stress. "Aw common' now. That poster came this afternoon." he complained.
He knew that the street punks would always come by and steel a poster with a foxy celebrity every time they ordered a new one. And today was when the blue hedgehog caught them setting there ugly faces on the most wanted poster in the nation.
"I waited three months just to get that poster, and I'm not gonna let anyone steal anything this time!" he told himself looking for an employee to take his job for a few minutes.
The first one he spotted was a pink female hedgehog, organizing the new order of CD's and placing them in the correct slots.
The blue hedgehog groaned in disappointment. "Why does it havta' be her? That girl drives me way past bananas." he moaned, getting off the counter and slowly walking up to the cheerful girl.
He was now behind her and tapped her lightly on the shoulder. "Am-" he was caught off by Amy swirling around as fast as a lightning with her giant hammer in pounding position.
"Oh. Sonic!" she lower her hammer and went back to her cheery mood. Sonic rolled his eyes in annoyance as she gave him a tight squeeze.
"Amy, can you take my job for a moment? I gotta handle a little task." he informed.
Amy nodded. "Anything for you, my deep handsome blue!"
She winked at him and walked towards the register. The blue hedgehog sighed in relief and headed towards the exit. As he did, he saw a black hedgehog and the biggest of all the street punks talking, seeing the street punk's face, it looked like it was going to get nasty.
"I better break it up before the boss sees this." Sonic told himself.
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"Shadow the Hedgehog eh' whadda scary name!" big, gray, tabby cat said sarcastically, looking as scared of the name as possible.
The rest of the gang snickered.
Shadow kept his expression firmly on his face. "If your expressing your foolishness as a clown, your not the slightest bit hilarious."
The gang quickly grew silent.
"Well, well. We got a motor mouth. Didn't your mommy teach you any manners?" the cat spoke doing a 'no-no' finger at the puny hedgehog.
"Well the same goes for you, you sons of slutty whore bitches." Shadow spat out, squeezing his half finished apple into nothing but apple juice.
Then everything seemed to go silent. The leader of the gang started to roll up his black leather sleeves.
"No body, and I mean nobody, ever talks to me... like that!" with him saying the last of his words, he threw his mighty fist at the black hedgehog's face, which the he easily dodged, still standing where he was. Everyone in the gang gasped in surprise.
"No way! Nobody can dodge boss's punches!" one of the gangsters said to one of his teammates.
"Shut the fuck up Bob!" the gray tabby cat yelled, throwing his fist at his follower's face.
"Hey Hey! You can't cause any violence here in public." yelled a blue hedgehog, coming out from the music store.
"Who said that, you..." The tabby cat paused and looked at the blue hedgehog, to the black.
'Whoa. They're twins.' he thought and continued to what he was about to say.
"Who said that, little---" before he could finish his last word, he was quickly punched in the jaw by Shadow.
The tabby cat landed on the ground with a thud, looking dead.
"Yo Toby... ya-llright?" asked one of his followers.
The gray cat whose name was known as Toby, only gave a low groan of agony.
"Man. That black sonavabitch is really strong for his size!" another complimented.
They all turned to the one who attacked their leader, with snarling glares.
"Who-dya thank dya aa!"(Re-wording: Who do you think you are!) they all yelled.
The black hedgehog remained in his stance. "Didn't I tell you. I'm Shadow the Hedgehog."
One of the gangsters chuckled evilly. "A puny little fella like you? Wr'll just see bout' dat'!" he was then running up to Shadow, sending a flying fist at him.
Shadow didn't move, but until the gangster's fist was an inch away from his face, the hedgehog's hand swiftly caught it with ease. The whole gang once again gasped, then they all started to attack him, taking out their bats, pocket knives and guns. The blue hedgehog decided to assist the black hedgehog, and jumped into the dog pile, punching every ugly gangster face in the nose.
The fight only lasted seconds. Every one of the street punks were in a pile, moaning just like their leader.
As the blue and black hedgehog walked out of the unconscious group, the black hedgehog faced Sonic. "I could have taken those thugs out myself."
"You're welcome." Sonic sneered, ignoring the comment.
They both headed for the same direction, with Sonic heading back to the music store, and Shadow going just forward where the side walk would have taken him.
"Well that settles things." the black hedgehog mumbled and began to walk off, ignoring the blue hedgehog that walked beside him.
However, the leader of the gang recovered from the blow and slowly took out a gun and aimed it behind Shadow's head, with Shadow, unaware of it.
"Ta-ta. Dumbass!" he managed to say and pulled the trigger.
Everything went slow motion, with the bullet, slowly exiting the gun and headed to where it was aimed. Shadow, hearing the gunshot, turned around, seeing the bullet heading straight for him. When the bullet was about inches his forehead. Until the blue hedgehog pushed him out of the way making him the target. Preparing to take the shot, about to hit the hedgehog dead-on, he and the black hedgehog had vanished into mid-air.
Everything went back to its normal speed.
The two hedgehogs, reappeared, standing before the one responsible for the shot. The tabby cat quickly shot the gun again, but nothing came out. He looked up at the two hedgehogs, knowing what was to become out of him.
"Well, seems like that gun can't fire anymore." Shadow said darkly, cracking his knuckles.
"Why not you just cut back while we, reload it for you." the blue hedgehog added, smirking evilly with his fists ready for some beating.
"Oh no..." the Tabby cat managed to squeak out with the two hedgehogs cornering him.
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The gray Tabby cat plopped on the ground with a heavy thud, all bruised up that some people may mistake him as a blue or purple tabby. His black leather clothes were ripped into shreds with his sunglasses beat and chipped and about several teeth were missing.
"Next time you start shooting around, I better not be there. Got that." Shadow said darkly.
The tabby cat was about to respond, but Sonic kicked him lightly in the sides strong enough to make the gangster unconscious.
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The same dark hedgehog, continued to roam the streets, forgetting about the occasion earlier. The first light of dawn finally cracked up with sky colored in gold.
"Hey You!" he heard a voice from a distance.
The dark hedgehog ignored it and walked on, hearing the voice coming closer. Shadow increased his speed, not wanting to be caught up by the person who's been following him for hours.
"Hey! Wait!" the voice called out.
"Leave me alone you pest!" Shadow called out.
He tried to lose his follower in a crowd of people, but that didn't work, he tried to enter one store and head the other way when his follower was out of sight, but that plan was crushed, he even tried to disguise himself as a fancy dressed lady but that plan has failed as the rest.
Finally, Shadow couldn't take it. He quickly spun around to see his follower, the same blue hedgehog who helped him fight the gangsters, and the one he saved while the blue hedgehog was saving him.
"What do you want from me!" he snapped.
"About time! I was wondering when you'd give up." said the blue hedgehog.
"I said what do you want!" Shadow repeated with more force.
"I just wanted to thank you from saving me back there with those punks in the last...---" the blue hedgehog checked his watch.
"Eight hours, already." he finished.
The black hedgehog sighed and placed his hand on his forehead as if he had a headache. "That's why you've been following and irritating the crap out of me for the last eight hours!" he said slowly, trying to use the calmest voice he could do right then.
"Well yeah, and since you say I was bothering the crap outta ya, I think I'll add up to a little prize."
"Oh, and what's that?" Shadow asked sarcastically, crossing his arms.
The blue hedgehog thought a moment. He soon had an idea. "Why not I give you a free CD at the music store." he suggested.
"I decline on the offer." Shadow quickly stated.
"And why's that?"
Shadow sighed in irritation. "Two reasons hedgehog. One, I don't like music, and two, I hate you."
The blue hedgehog stood in silence in thought for a moment. He then faced Shadow and sneered.
"Alright then. If you don't wanna CD, then I guess I'll just havta follow you everywhere till' you do."
Shadow's eyes narrowed. There was a long silence between the two of them after that.
"… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … …" (Note: Every '...' means 1 minute.)
Sonic was starting to get impatient with the long silence and Shadow not answering. He started to tap his toes. With each minute, Sonic's toes tapped faster, and louder, annoying Shadow in his thoughts.
"Fine. I'll get a damn CD." Shadow answered, loosing his patience, hoping that the blue pest would quite irritating him.
"I'd knew you step up and quite being so stubborn. By the way, I'm Sonic." the blue hedgehog introduced, putting out a hand for Shadow to shake.
Shadow looked at the hand in disgust and rolled his eyes, keeping his arms locked on his chest.
"Shadow." he replied bluntly.
"O-K Shads, why not go back to the music store and get that free CD of yours."
The black hedgehog glared deadly at Sonic.
"Never, call me Shads." he warned with a death tone appearing in his voice.
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Back at the Music store, Amy was tapping her fingers impatiently on the counter top, awaiting her hero to return in what he said a 'couple' minutes that turned into already nine hours. She was the only one in the music store, with low background music being the only company she had.
'When that hedgehog comes in through that door, I swear it, I will kill him!' she threatened, clutching her hands into trembling mad fists.
Just then, the entry door opened, with a certain hedgehog coming in thru the door.
"So---nic! I'm gonna kill you!!!" Amy yelled in anger as she pulled out her giant hammer and jumped over the counter, running towards the hedgehog.
She swung her hammer as hard as she could at him, hitting nothing but thin air.
"Whoa!" Amy gasped, gaining her balance to her force.
'Where'd he go!?' She continued to think, looking in all directions.
Just then, the door opened with another hedgehog appearing. Amy didn't pay attention and continued to look for the hedgehog she proclaimed to murder.
"Hey Ames." said the voice that belongs to the hedgehog who just entered.
Amy froze from what she was doing and slowly turned around with shock written all over her face.
"Sonic? How did you--- Where the heck did you---" she did complete her two questions when a black hedgehog soon appeared behind Sonic out of nowhere.
Amy's eyes widened. 'No way! A teleporter!?'
The black hedgehog looked alert. "That girl's crazy. She tried to kill me with that big hammer in her hands." Shadow informed his acquaintance.
Sonic looked at Amy, seeing Shadow was right due to Amy having a hammer in her hands and standing her ground like she did when she was going to get really violent.
"Um... Amy, this is Shadow. He saved me from those street punks from earlier. Shadow, meet Amy. She works here and is my job partner." Sonic introduced.
Amy lowered her hammer down looking at Shadow, to Sonic. "How can you two--- Are you guys related?" she asked in a whisper.
"Hell. No." Shadow quickly replied.
Amy's hammer soon disappeared in her hands, which made Shadow thinking of her as a creepy witch. After regaining herself, she shot a death glare at Sonic. And it seemed like Sonic already knew what she was thinking.
"I know Ames, and I'm sorry for taking so long, but blame it on Shady here. He made me go after him the whole time with the extra hour walking back." Sonic pointed out.
Amy's eyes seemed to then loose it's flames as her expression went from death glare, to calm. Shadow then gave Sonic a big stab on the toe, with Sonic yelping from pain.
"Never, call me Shady." he warned with the tone of death approaching his voice.
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"Alrighty, so let me get this straight." Amy said with confusion swirling around her.
"Shadow saved you from getting shot to death while you were saving him from being shot to death and you followed him for eight hours to just tell him thanks and he got so bothered by you that you also included one of our latest CD's to give him for free."
"Yup." Sonic answered, climbing up a rusty yellow ladder, that reached a high level of unopened boxes.
"I still don't get why you're being so generous and kind to the guy when he treats you like dirt." Amy mumbled with Sonic hearing her.
"Don't worry Amy. I just wanna get even with the guy."
"For what?" Amy asked beginning to sound whinny.
"For saven' me of course."
"But you were trying to save him too! You should also be getting a free CD, and isn't that supposed to be the boss's decision to give away a free prize?" she asked.
Sonic, successfully pulled out the box he aimed for and carefully carried it down with him.
He smirked, knowing Amy had a point. "Why not we not tell 'em?"
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The dark hedgehog stood out the "employee's only" door which was the supply room. He was beginning to become impatient, tapping his foot lightly on the hard floor. He looked up at the clock, seeing that it was already almost 9:00 a.m.
Just then, a purple chameleon entered the store, carrying seven, large boxes in his own hands with ease. He calmly walked up to the supply room door, and tried to open it, but the stack of boxes wobbled and began to fall with the chameleon catching it just in time.
"Hey, mind if you open the door for me. I got my hands full." the chameleon asked out to Shadow.
Shadow only crossed his arms and 'humped'. "That's not my job now is it?" he asked sarcastically.
"Ha ha very funny, now just open the door." he ordered.
"I wasn't joking around."
After his saying, a green crocodile appeared and opened the door for the chameleon. "Thanks Vector." he said, entering the giant room.
"No problem Espio." the green crocodile replied. He then faced the black hedgehog with a small scowl. "Customers aren't allowed in this area. Will you please leave." the crocodile politely said.
"Sorry Vector. I can't." Shadow said leaning against the wall, already knowing the crocodile's name.
"Oh, and why's that?" The crocodile asked suspiciously.
"Because I'm waiting for somebody to get me something."
The crocodile named Vector motioned him to continue. "And... who is this somebody getting something for you?"
The black hedgehog then responded. "I'm awaiting to get my free prize." he mumbled, getting annoyed with the questions.
There was a small pause of silence; with Shadow hearing the crocodile mumble something in anger.
"Sonic..." He quickly entered the supply room with a sudden force, it startled the black hedgehog. After a long pause of silence, a large clutter was heard from the other side of the door.
"B-- Boss!" Shadow heard Sonic squeak, sounding frightened.
"Sonic! Remember what I said!!!: Never give away free CD's without my permission! How many times do I gotta tell you that!?!"
"Uh... six hundred and seventeen times boss?"
"No! six hundred eighteen including now!"
"Please Vector! That black hedgehog saved his life and Sonic just wanted to pay him back!" Another voice was heard, that belonged to a young pre-teen girl.
"I don't care who saved him! He shouldda' just let you die!"
'I should have done that in the first place.' Shadow thought, agreeing to the boss's words.
"That's mean to say!" Amy shouted back, Shadow picking up anger in her voice.
"You don't talk like that to me young lady!"
"IT'S A FREE COUNTRY SO I CAN TALK TO YOU IN ANY TONE I WANT!"
"Talk to me in that tone once more missy, and your fired!"
"You can't fire me... BECAUSE I ALREADY QUIT!!!" Amy yelled the last four words out with a sonic boom, that it rattled the door.
There was a few seconds on no noise coming thru the door, with Shadow thinking that Vector was chocking her to death, or so he was about to think as soon as the pink hedgehog burst out of the door, with the door slamming Shadow into the wall.
He could see the young, pink, hedgehog storming out of the store, dragging a familiar blue hedgehog with her like a stuffed animal.
"AND SONIC'S COMING WITH ME!" She yelled as soon as the glass door shut closed.
Shadow, removed his slammed body from the wall that now had a dent of his shape. He looked to see the pink and blue hedgehog walk away, well one being dragged. He chuckled darkly, liking the face the blue hedgehog was putting on, making him look like he was suffering.
Again, the door burst open, with once again, slamming Shadow into the already dented wall. Out came stomping a furious green crocodile who stood nearly six feet tall, walking to his office.
When he entered his office, he shut the door behind him, that it made an earthquake in the store. Shadow, again, removed his re-slammed body from the dented wall, walking out of the door's way, making sure that he wouldn't get slammed over and over again.
The employee's door opened again, without it being burst open, and out came the same, purple chameleon, this time, empty handed. He walked up the Vector's office, lightly knocking it.
"Vector. May I come in?" he asked in a low voice.
"Go away Espio!" a voice coming from the office yelled in frustration.
"But Vector, what am I suppose to do with the music store?"
"Close it! It's time to close the damn store anyways!"
The chameleon shrugged, and went over to the entry door, replacing the open sign to closed and was about to lock it, when a little bumble bee came bursting in. He was panting heavily, looking at the clock.
"I---I... made... it." the bee managed to wheeze out in between his heavy panting.
"Charmy. What are you doing here?" the chameleon, Espio asked.
There was a long pause with the bee, trying to catch his breath, holding up a finger to wait.
After awhile, the bee, Charmy shrugged. "I guess I just wanted to visit while I'm on my day off."
"Well, it's closing time."
"Can it wait. I heard about that new CD of those to famous singers. And I wanted to buy it before it got sold out. Do we still have a copy?"
Espio nodded. "You're in luck Charmy. There's only a couple more left." he answered, looking through the stalks of CD's.
He pulled out the CD the bee wanted. The cover looked just like the poster the gangsters were going gaga about.
"Whoa thanks Espio. Mind if I pay tomorrow. I was in a hurry that I---"
"Forgot your money." Espio finished for him, and shook his head. "Sorry Charmy, but you know the rules. Why not we put it on hold for you."
Charmy's face brightened. "Thanks Espio!" he said cheerfully, grasping onto the chameleon's leg.
The chameleon sighed," Okay. You can let go now."
The bee quickly let go, with his face full of joy. "ThankyouthankyouTHANKS!!!" he stringed his thanks together.
After that, the bee noticed the black and red hedgehog, just standing there, with his arms crossed and a glare on his face.
The chameleon faced him. "Sorry sir. We're closed."
"..."
"Sir. I said we're closed."
The black hedgehog got annoyed. "I know you're closed, but what about my award?" he growled.
"There's no free prizes in this store sir, Now may you please leave." the chameleon said patiently.
"I'm not going anywhere until I get what I came for. With all the trouble that blue hedgehog put me through, I should at least get a free CD, since I actually saved his life and him following me for four hours, and for me, trying to lose him for another four hours, and heading back here, with that taking another hour, which means nine hours of suffering from that damned hedgehog and I think I at least deserve a free CD for that." she spoke, not losing his breath.
The purple chameleon was impressed with his long speech not stopping to take a breath "... Very well. I do agree, that blue hedgehog can get on your nerves." the chameleon could see eye to eye. "But I need to check with the boss about this."
Chapter Theme- "I gotta Feeling" by Black Eyed Peas
I gotta feeling that tonight's gonna be a good night
That tonight's gonna be a good night
That tonight's gonna be a good, good night
A feeling that tonight's gonna be a good night
That tonight's gonna be a good night
That tonight's gonna be a good, good night
A feeling, woohoo, that tonight's gonna be a good night
That tonight's gonna be a good night
That tonight's gonna be a good, good night
A feeling, woohoo, that tonight's gonna be a good night
That tonight's gonna be a good night
That tonight's gonna be a good, good night
Tonight's the night, let's live it up
I got my money, let's spend it up
Go out and smash it like oh my God
Jump off that sofa, let's get, get off
I know that we'll have a ball
If we get down and go out and just lose it all
I feel stressed out, I wanna let it go
Let's go way out spaced out and losing all control
Fill up my cup, mozoltov
Look at her dancing, just take it off
Let's paint the town, we'll shut it down
Let's burn the roof, and then we'll do it again
Let's do it, let's do it, let's do it, let's do it
And do it and do it, let's live it up
And do it and do it and do it, do it, do it
Let's do it, let's do it, let's do it
'Cause I gotta feeling, woohoo, that tonight's gonna be a good night
That tonight's gonna be a good night
That tonight's gonna be a good, good night
A feeling, woohoo, that tonight's gonna be a good night
That tonight's gonna be a good night
That tonight's gonna be a good, good night
Tonight's the night
(Hey!)
Let's live it up
(Let's live it up)
I got my money
(My pay)
Let's spend it up
(Let's spend it up)
Go out and smash it
(Smash it)
Like oh my God
(Like oh my God)
Jump off that sofa
(Come on!)
Let's get, get off
Fill up my cup
(Drink)
Mozoltov
(Lahyme)
Look at her dancing
(Move it, move it)
Just take it off
Let's paint the town
(Paint the town)
We'll shut it down
(Let's shut it down)
Let's burn the roof
And then we'll do it again
Let's do it, let's do it, let's do it, let's do it
And do it and do it, let's live it up
And do it and do it and do it, do it, do it
Let's do it, let's do it, let's do it, do it, do it, do it
Here we come, here we go, we gotta rock
(Rock rock rock rock rock)
Easy come, easy go, now we on top
(Top top top top top)
Feel the shot, body rock, rock it, don't stop
(Stop stop stop stop stop)
Round and round, up and down, around the clock
(Rock rock rock rock rock)
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
(Do it!)
Friday, Saturday, Saturday to Sunday
(Do it!)
Get, get, get, get, get with us, you know what we say, say
Party every day, p-p-p-party every day
And I'm feelin', woohoo, that tonight's gonna be a good night
That tonight's gonna be a good night
That tonight's gonna be a good, good night
I gotta feeling, woohoo, that tonight's gonna be a good night
That tonight's gonna be a good night
That tonight's gonna be a good, good night
Woohoo
AN- And that's chapter 1! Please review, because I enjoy reading and responding to all comments!
~Supreme