Shadow the Hedgehog: The Ultimate Life Form and Savior of Humanity
Prelude: Battle for Mobius
The world was currently sitting in a moment it never faced before. Yes, this world has faced wars, tragedies, global disasters, and even more then that. But it never faced a moment like this. Because everyone on the planet Mobius held their breaths. Wars, national disasters were shrugged off by many countries, kingdoms, lands, and governments because it wasn't their problems. But the situation that the world was facing was everyone's problem. Because in short of 30 minutes time, the whole world will be obliterated. Every man, woman, child, animal, and being on Mobius will be wiped out just like that. But the world had hope. Two beings with the ability to control the power of Chaos have the power of all seven Chaos Emeralds at their disposal have inherited all it's energy to stop the impending doom the world faces.
Two hedgehogs. One named Sonic the Hedgehog, who saved this planet many times in the past, and Shadow the Hedgehog, a bio-genetic engineered being created to be the Ultimate Life form and help humanity also the one who put this whole situation in motion, but now trying to correct his mistake with every fiber in his body.
With the power of all the seven Chaos Emeralds they are able to tap into their Chaos Energy in their blood and become nearly indestructible beings, are now currently in space fighting the Final Hazard. You see, the Space Colony ARK was led and created by the brilliant and creative Dr. Gerald Robotnik, to help study certain diseases that were quite unknown and deadly and create beings that could benefit humanity and help make it a better race. He also had a grand-daughter he loved very much named Maria Robotnik. She was one of the reasons why Dr. Robotnik was studying diseases because she was diagnosed with the rare disease of Nerou-Immune Deficiency Syndrome. She was born and raised on the Space Colony ARK, her mother shortly died after giving birth to her so that left her grandpa to really be her only family left (besides an uncle she never knew of because her grandfather and uncle had a falling out before the Space Colony ARK was in development). But with her grandfather and the other scientists busy with their studying and tests, it led to her being very lonely aboard the Space Colony ARK. With his granddaughter's loneliness and her disease rapidly growing, Dr. Robotnik quickly set out to create a cure for her which then turned turned into Project Shadow to create the perfect life-form already cured to get any disease and to be immortal, and to be a being to help defend and help grow humanity. This project led to many failed tests and prototypes that ultimately led to his greatest creation: Shadow the Hedgehog.
Created through many blueprints, tests, and a deal, Shadow was ultimately the most powerful being ever created and he started from a test tube. He lived five years on the Space Colony ARK, and through those five years he learned to how to control Chaos Control with all seven Chaos Emeralds, he learned to train with many martial-arts masters and learned many skills, he learned how to control his speed which he easily became the most fastest being in the universe (until arguably Sonic came along), and most importantly, he grew a very close bond with Maria.
There were only two people that Shadow was close to, that was Gerald and Maria Robotnik. He always thought of Gerald as a father and was always grateful for him for creating him and giving him his abilities. But it was mostly Maria he was closer to. They had a tight bond like brother and sister. She wasn't lonely at all when Shadow was created. They immediately grew close to each other as she led him to have some of his most favorite hobbies like reading or watching old films. But most importantly, they're main wish was to visit Mobius, look around, and meet all the people.
But all of that changed when the fifth year of Shadow's life happened. The government agency known as G.U.N. (Guardian Unit of Nations) grew weary and suspicious of Dr. Gerald Robotnik and his scientists work so the boarded the facility and only realized in horror of what they were doing in this space station as they saw in fear of the weapons and beings they created. Dr. Robotnik and his scientists created weapon embedded as the Eclipse Cannon powered by the seven Chaos Emeralds to 'protect' humanity. Horrified of what Dr. Robotnik and his scientists were doing, G.U.N. was then immediately dispatched to arrest every single one of the scientists in the facility, to capture Shadow, and to close off the space-station.
Enraged that all of his life work was ruins, he programmed the ARK's system's to destroy Mobius when powered by the seven Chaos Emeralds since he knew that his granddaughter was going to because he was unable to find a cure in time. He then made Shadow promise that he re-collect all seven Chaos Emeralds and would destroy Mobius and make humanity pay for Maria's short life after she lived out the rest of her sick-ridden life. He instantly agreed. Before he got captured by G.U.N. soldiers his final order to Shadow was to lead Maria to the escape pods and go with her to Mobius where he would watch over her as she would finally get her wish before she died.
But he failed.
As they got to escape pods, it was Maria who pushed Shadow in. The pods were meant to shut off any powers so Shadow helplessly watched his beloved friend make the preparations to launch the escape pod into Mobius' atmosphere. But before she could a lone, G.U.N. soldier saw what was happening and instantly ordered Maria to stop what she was doing or he will shoot.
She ignored him and launched the pod as Shadow screamed out her name.
The soldier yelled as as he let a bullet at his rifle.
But not before Maria made Shadow promise that he would move on from her death. That he would forgive humanity for off it's mistakes and he will do what he was meant to do. Defend it and help it grow. And to give every last human a chance to be happy.
Shadow didn't say it but he took Maria's promise over Gerald's. Though he did love Gerald he loved Maria much much more. She made him laugh, she taught him how to read, she taught him about Mobius' history and it's cultures which fueled her excitement even more about visiting the planet and it eventually led to Shadow being excited about it.
But now he couldn't visit the planet with Maria. But he will fulfill her promise. Because he'll do anything for his sister.
When Shadow's escape pod entered Mobius' atmosphere it put him into stasis and he went into a deep sleep. Not long after, G.U.N. found Shadow in stasis but they were too afraid to kill or release him so they took the pod and put it in a secure unknown base. The scientists aboard the ARK were either killed for un-cooperation, arrested, or given the choice to work for G.U.N. for their freedom. Gerald was held on prison island where he lived there for the rest of his life before his execution. But before he was executed his final words were video tapped and made it into the ARK's computer systems. As for the seven Chaos Emeralds they were taken to disclosed locations. And the whole situation was covered up as an accident.
Shadow was locked in stasis for 50 years until Gerald's grandson, Dr. Ivo Robotnik (really preferred to as "Eggman") broke in to the G.U.N. base and released Shadow. Once Shadow was released his plan was to fool Eggman to get the seven Chaos Emeralds and destroy Mobius to avenge Maria and Gerald's death. That's because Shadow has been in stasis for so long that his last few moments before being launched from the Space Colony ARK were hazy and he had developed a bit of amnesia so he thought he was keeping Gerald AND Maria's promise to destroy humanity.
So with the help of the Doctor and a undercover G.U.N. agent named Rouge the Bat he collected the seven Chaos Emeralds and clashed many times with a "faker" named Sonic the Hedgehog in the processes. To Shadow, despite only really being 5-years-old (or 55 if you want to get technical) Sonic was nothing more than a stupid kid that barley even recognized Chaos Control so that's why he referred to him as "faker."
So when they got back to the ARK Sonic brought some of his allies with him and tried to put up a fight but they were unable to stop the computer systems taking over and destroying Mobius. It was all going as planned as Shadow was standing near a window watching Mobius as it's destruction neared. Then a pink hedgehog he met earlier on his quest to collect the seven Chaos Emeralds and she mistaken her as Sonic. At first he ignored her since his promise would be fulfilled, humanity would pay for what they had done to Maria and Gerald and he couldn't care to what happened to him after. Until the pink hedgehog persuaded him. No.
Reminded him of Maria's promise.
She said that not all humans were bad and that most of them were good people.
Memories instantly flooded back into Shadow's head of Maria's promise as fast as guilt grew in his stomach. After his amnesia went away, he ran to the core room to help shut off the Eclipse Cannon from firing. The core held the seven Chaos Emeralds and luckily for Shadow the Master Emerald was aboard the ARK along with it's guardian, Knuckles the Echidna. The Master Emerald was the mother and controller of the seven Chaos Emeralds which means it could take away their tremendous power and Knuckles who is the guardian of it could make the Master Emerald take away the power. Shadow met Sonic and Knuckles at the core but unfortunately the cure was guarded by the Bio-Lizard, a prototype of Shadow programmed by Gerald as a last resort to have his revenge. Shadow engaged and distracted the Bio-Lizard while Sonic and Knuckles made it to the Master Emerald and made it take away power from the Chaos Emeralds. During the battle with Shadow, the Bio-Lizard lost it's life-support system and with his master's quest for revenge not fulfilled it used Chaos Control from the Master Emerald and infused itself with the Eclipse Cannon and started to move the ARK into Mobius' atmosphere.
With not any other options left, Knuckles made the Master Emerald give power back to the seven Chaos Emeralds. Sonic and Shadow knew exactly what to do. With all seven of the emeralds circling around the pair at a rapid rate they begun to levitate and soon their blue and black skins both turn into gold.
They have turned into their super forms.
Their super forms is when they have all seven Chaos Emeralds the Chaos Energy in their bloodstreams start to grow in power and gives them almost invincibility, God-like powers. Almost. They were still vulnerable to other beings that possessed Chaos Control, other powers that matched Chaos Control, and very large objects.
Sonic, in their super forms, Sonic and Shadow are now currently fighting the Bio-Lizard's final form: the Finalhazard.
Less then 10 minutes...
Sonic quickly dodged the the lasers attached to the Finalhazard as he aimed for it's weak point: the large red boil. Sonic then gasped as a laser from the Finalhazard's Chaos Energy powered cannon's on it's sides and nearly hit him in front of him but then had to dodge an asteroid that was circling the ARK is it started to enter Mobius' gravitational pull. Sonic then hopped on an other asteroid as they started to surround the Finalhazard and jumped off quickly before the Finalhazard could send a laser at it and destroy the asteroid. Sonic the begin to hop on asteroids before they exploded and luckily grew nearer and nearer until he was in close proximity in the Finalhazard's weak spot and hit it through spinball attack. The boil popped and the Finalhazard screamed out in pain but still prevailed and trudged through Mobius' atmosphere and grew enough energy so it could fire on the planet.
Less then 8 minutes...
It was then Shadow's turn on the other side to deal with the other boil as he created and threw Chaos Spears (a weapon small burst of Chaos Energy that could be controlled by a skilled Chaos Control user like Shadow but not Sonic who wasn't skilled enough like Shadow), and destroy many asteroids in his way. But it was no use since the Finalhazard was making good head way on it's mission. Shadow then moved quickly through the asteroids as the Finalhazard's lasers cut through them easier then a knife in butter, he needed to get the boil fast and would go to great lengths to do it. He saw a asteroid coming near him fast so grabbed it with his bare hands (one of the many props to having the power of all seven Chaos Emeralds) and threw at one of the laser cannons. But the cannon's sensors picked up the asteroid coming at it fast so it was quickly obliterated and soon faced the same fate as itself as Shadow used it to be a distraction and throw a couple Chaos Spears at the cannons. With this side's cannon's done, Shadow went in fast and with enough force and kinetic energy Shadow spinballed attack the boil and popped it. The Finalhazard once again screamed out in pain, because with it's life support system and boils gone, it knew it didn't have long to live. But it didn't care. It kept going and trudging into Mobius' atmosphere collecting enough Chaos Energy to fire.
Less then 5 minutes...
Both Sonic and Shadow looked on in shock. They knew they had to go in stronger to save Mobius. They knew the consequences if they didn't succeed. And only Shadow, was strong enough, and determined enough to do it.
"He's not stopping anytime soon." Sonic said grimly as he flew near to Shadow. "How do we beat this guy?"
Shadow's mind raced for an answer. He knew they haven't had much time left, but he was willing to go to the lengths to save this world. He then realized there was solution. But with Sonic un-experienced with Chaos Abilities, Shadow was really the only one that could pull it off. But his chances of survival were slim. But he didn't care as long as he could keep Maria's promise.
"I have an idea," Shadow said. "We could combine both our powers and create a force of Chaos Control so powerful it could teleport the ARK out of Mobius' gravitational pull."
"Shadow, that's crazy!" Sonic said surprised. "Are we sure that's even possibly with that thing having Chaos Control itself?"
"Look we're running out of time and this our only option!" Shadow quickly retorted firmly. "Are you in or not?"
Less then 4 minutes...
Under normal circumstances Sonic would say something witty, but now since billions of lives were in danger he was pretty stressed out and wanted to save his homeworld. Sonic nodded a yes so the pair quickly flew in front of the Finalhazard's way with all the air around them wickedly moving around them since the ARK's decent into Mobius' atmosphere was really beginning to take it's toll. As the Finalhazard's opened it's mouth about to complete his fallen master's final order, it's superior and the other put their hands in the open and focused with all their might to create enough Chaos Energy to prevent this oncoming disaster. With the skilled and the un-skilled's use of power of the seven Chaos Emeralds they created a ball of uncontainable power and aimed it at the Finalhazard. But before they could release it the ARK was rapidly entering Mobius' atmosphere which meant the Finalhazard was at it's last stage to fire. Shadow knew that it could take even more power to send the ARK away from Mobius' gravitational pull, and he was prepared to take the lengths of keeping Maria's promise.
But he wasn't gonna take Sonic with him.
Less then 2 minutes...
If you asked him about thus later Shadow would just say that Sonic was in the way but in reality he truly thought Sonic was a stupid kid. A stupid kid with good heart ro protect Mobius when he is gone.
So he pushed Sonic out of the beam that was forming with the Finalhazard opening it's mouth, leaving Shadow alone to control the ball of Chaos Energy.
"Shadow, I beg of you," said ghostly voice in Shadow's head. And that ghostly voice was Maria.
"Maria?!" Shadow yelled as sweat beat across his face.
"Give them a chance to be happy." Maria finished making Shadow even more determined to save Mobius.
"Shadow, what are doing?! Stop it!" said another ghostly voice in Shadow's head. It belonged to his father, Gerald Robotnik.
"G-Gerald?!" Shadow yelled in confusion as he prepared to possibly sacrifice himself.
Less then 1 minute...
"You know what they did to Maria, don't you? They deserve to get what happens next!" Gerald countered.
Shadow didn't know weather he was hearing these voices from insanity from the death of the only two people he cared for in his life, or stress from defending Mobius from it's depending doom. The voices swarmed through his head back in fourth like game and Shadow tried to ignore them as he was about to pull off a nearly impossible feat. It then occurred to him that at this moment that this moment was about Maria and Gerald's promises. No matter how he loved Gerald as is father, there was no doubt in his mind that he would pick Maria over him any day. If this situation was switched with Maria was the one wanting to destroy humanity and Gerald the one wanting to save then Shadow would stop at nothing to kill every last human on Mobius. It really was amazing how Shadow went from humanities killer to it's savior in a matter of minutes. With sweat practically pouring down his face and looking directly into the Finalhazard's face he then realized another thing: this thing was his brother. No that it mattered to Shadow but this thing was his prototype. His original. His older brother. And Shadow couldn't care less. All that mattered to him was to keep Maria's promise, while the only thing that mattered to the Finalhazard was keeping Gerald's promise to destroy humanity. It seemed symbolic and complicated, but when it really comes down to it, it's all about a brother keeping his promise for his sister.
Less then 20 seconds...
For Maria. His sister.
With all the might of his body and powers Shadow yelled, "CHAOS CONTROL!" Sending the ball of Chaos Energy straight to the ARK right before the Finalhazard was about to fire. Everything was a light show to Shadow afterwards as the ARK spiraled out of control and eventually teleported out of Mobius' gravitational pull. With the impact of Shadow's stunt of Chaos Control, the Finalhazard died instantly, fell off the Eclipse Cannon, and burned up through Mobius' atmosphere. Sonic made it back to the ARK with the last remaining energy of the Chaos Emerald's. And as for Shadow, he was no where to be seen. Which meant he went to the lengths for Maria. He chose his sister's promise over his father's.
Mobius was saved.
Sonic made his way through the ARK as he entered the control room where everyone else was at. There was his oldest and bested friend Tails "Miles" Prower, a young brilliant two-tailed Fox. His "friend" Amy Rose, a pink hedgehog (yes, the pink hedgehog that met Shadow and helped him restore his amnesia) who was obsessed with marrying Sonic because she's just a huge fan girl. Dr. Eggman his sworn enemy and the one behind all of this, but right now there's a truce so they'll just leave each other be. Rouge the Bat, a treasure hunter and a undercover G.U.N. agent who pretended to be on Eggman's side on this whole fiasco. And Knuckles the Echidna, one of the most helpful players in this adventure.
"Where's Shadow?" Rouge asked sorrowful, already knowing what happened.
Sonic answered by sorrowfully looking at the floor and the others got the message: Shadow the Hedgehog, the Ultimate Life Form, was dead.
As the others coerced about the recent events, what led them here, and what they're going to do now, Sonic just looked out the window thinking about Shadow's sacrifice. 'Why did he do it?', He asked himself many times in his head. Every encounter they had together they just fought and got into arguments together, so why all of a sudden stop being a jerk and save Mobius? And most importantly: why push him away and save Mobius all bu yourself? Shadow basically saved Sonic's life and Sonic just couldn't shake it off. He didn't felt flattered or honored but guilty about it. He knew nothing about Shadow except he was a egotistical jerk but apparently nice enough to save his life. There were no final words to Sonic as he was just pushed out. Sonic didn't know how to feel, but one thing was for sure: Sonic will never forget Shadow's sacrifice.
As the others begun to say goodbyes and take their leave, Sonic followed them but not before giving the control room one final glance and saying,
"Sayonara, Shadow the Hedgehog."
Sonic then left the ARK with his friends and went home, besides how was Sonic going to stop Eggman's next scheme when he's in space?
But the thing that nobody knew was: Shadow didn't die. He, along with the seven Chaos Emeralds were teleported into another world. A harsh world were Shadow will fight on to keep his promise to Maria. A world that will make Shadow question his promise to Maria.
I'm starting this story again. My last attempt was actually my first story that I put on here and it was really shitty. It wasn't until some dude wrote on the beginning of this year that I messed up how Chaos Control works and how stressed I was at the time I decided to scrape the story and come back later. Now is the time. With season 3 of AOT almost here I decided there's enough source material to go off on since I'm not too far on the manga. As you noticed I changed some little things like changing up the ending where Amy doesn't talk to Sonic and changing up how the battle with the Finalhazard went, expect more like that but it won't affect the plot in a big way.
The next chapter is where Shadow first enters the AOT world. I don't know if we're gonna see Eren or Mikasa yet so you all are gonna have to wait awhile for chapter 1, probably until season 3 is done or halfway through. And since this prelude is finally done I can finally work on my Sonic/RWBY crossover fic set in the same universe as this, so more info on that later.
This is Shadow the Jedi, ending transmission and as always, May The Force Be With You.