This is just a quick oneshot that came to me while i was listening to 'What I've Done' by Linkin Park. Not much else to say about it so, enjoy.
What I've Done
It was a cold, dark night in Station Square and Shadow the Hedgehog stood atop a large skyscraper looking up at the large full moon. Shadow sighed, "Why? Why don't these humans treat me with any respect? Don't they know who I am? What I've done?" Shadow closed his eyes and remembered how the humans had treat him.
Shadow walked down a street and as he walked everyone around him stopped and stared, he could feel their eyes watching him, and he heard them whispering,
"Isn't that Shadow?"
"He's the one who tried to destroy the earth, right?"
"That's the freak that insane professor used to try and crash a space station into the planet."
"What's he doing here?"
"Isn't he supposed to be dead?"
Shadow walked into a restaurant and sat down at a table in a corner. A young girl in her twenty's walked over in a waitress outfit, a happy smile on her face, her smile faded as she saw Shadow sitting in the corner. The waitress cautiously approached, "Um, excuse me?" Shadow looked up, "Yes?"
"Are you Shadow the Hedgehog?" the girl asked, Shadow nodded, unsure what was about to happen. Suddenly the girl's face became full of anger, "Get out of here! We don't serve terrorists!" she shouted, Shadow sighed and got up and walked out of the restaurant.
Shadow looked out into the city and saw several billboards and posters with pictures of a blue hedgehog on them, "Sonic." Shadow said, "He's their hero. Nobody cares that I helped to save the earth too, to them I'm the one who tried to kill them all. Still, I suppose I shouldn't get too upset, after all, I didn't do it for them, I did it for Maria. But what difference does it make? I still can't bring her back, and without Maria, I'm alone. No one cares about me." Shadow then began to think about everyone he knew, "Sonic, he and I worked together to save the planet, but we could never be friends, he's too full of himself. There's that pink hedgehog, what was her name? Um, Amy I think. She seemed to care, but that was probably just because she needed my help. Dr Eggman was the same, he only cared about me because he needed me, he never actually cared about me." suddenly Shadow stopped, "Rouge." Shadow remembered how Rouge had cared for him, and how he had saved her, "Maybe I do have someone who cares." then Shadow remembered the last thing he said to her on the ARK when he caught her trying to steal the Chaos Emeralds.
"If you want to live, leave the Chaos Emeralds where they are. The fake emerald is good enough for you."
"Rouge probably won't be too friendly towards me after I threatened her like that." Shadow thought, "So I've lost the only people who ever really cared about me, I can never be accepted by the humans and I no longer have any purpose, after all I was created to destroy the planet and I fulfilled my promise to Maria when I saved the earth, so I don't have a reason to live anymore." Shadow sighed and bent over to pick up a handgun at his feet. Shadow drew the hammer back on the gun and looked up at the moon again, "So it's come to this. I can never run away or deny who I am, or what I've done." Shadow took one last look at the moon before he closed his eyes and held the gun under his chin with the barrel facing upwards, "We'll finally be together again Maria." Shadow put his finger on the trigger, "Sayonara, Shadow the Hedgehog." Shadow pulled the trigger and freed himself from the guilt, the blame and the loneliness that he felt because of what he'd done.