Hey Ace here with a new story, this one was inspired by a lot of logics and what-if scenarios that appeared in my mind. This is a scenario of what if; when Shadow had fallen down to earth after the events of defeating the Bio-hazard along with Sonic someone else had found him other than Dr. Eggman. This story will pick-up right after Sonic Adventure 2 and go on from there, it will mostly be Shadow centric but Sonic will have a part in this to so rejoice, Sonic fans, the blue hedgehog has a major part in this story. OCs will appear in the fanfic helping Shadow deal with his mysterious past and then forward.

This story is inspired by logic thinking, and ClementJ642 opinions (The man is a totally hilarious Youtube gamer by the way.) totally fan-based on what I feel (And I'm sure others would agree with me) should have happened when Sega Team decided to bring Shadow back along with a few tweaks. Anyone who reads and likes the story are welcome to give their ideas, I'm always open to suggestion.

This chapter is more of a mini prologue, the story will pick up on chapter two. Other than that I hope you enjoy.

Disclaimer: I do not own Sonic or any of its characters, just the OCs that appear in this story

Chapter 1: Lost then Found

"Shadow…I beg of you…give them a chance to be happy."

That was the only sentence coursing through my mind as I headed towards the falling colony. Looking at the gigantic space laboratory with new found strength and determination I increased my speed towards my target.

"No way is that getting through." I heard Sonic state "Now Shadow"

Steeling myself I raised my hands along with Sonic towards the falling colony and we both shouted at once

"CHAOS CONTROL"

We engulfed the ark in an orb of light, stopping it in its tracks before teleporting it back into its normal orbit. We had done it, The Ark was stopped, The Bio-lizard was defeated; it was over. The earth was saved.

-X-

Sonic gasped for air trying to catch his breath, using chaos control had taken a lot of him. He could feel his super powers slowly slipping away from him. He turned to head back to the Ark when he paused and went wide eye

"Shadow…" he whispered

He whipped his head around frantically trying to locate the red streaked hedgehog; and when he found him, he got a huge hitch in his breath. Off in the distance was Shadow lying motionless as he drifted away from the Ark and towards Earth; Sonic flew towards him at high speed all the while burning the last of his super energy trying to catch up with him

"SHADOW!" he screamed as he grabbed his arm, the unconscious hedgehog slowly opened his eyes and looked at the worried golden hedgehog

"S-Sonic…"

"Shadow, don't talk, save your strength man. I'm gonna get you to Ark, just hold-"

"Listen…"

Sonic paused in his talking and looked at the ebony hedgehog "You have to leave me behind and get back to the Ark."

"WHAT! No Shadow I can save you, I can-"

"You won't have the energy to make it back Sonic; you'd barely have enough energy to support yourself getting back, much less carrying me." As if to prove Shadow's point both hedgehog's golden fur started to fade back to their original colors signaling that their super forms was starting to wear off "I can pass the last of my Chaos Energy onto you, so that way…at least you'll be able to make it back."

"But…what about you" Sonic gritted, upset by the suggested plan "You could live, finally have the life Maria would've wanted for you."

Shadow let out a smiled, a true genuine smile since his reawakening "Maria always wanted me to make the people of earth be happy. I'm content knowing that her wish is fulfilled and that they'll always get a chance to be happy now that this crisis thanks to the professor has been resolved."

"Shadow…"

Sonic despite himself loosened his gripped a little and felt Shadow to slip between his grasp. Sonic holding onto Shadow by his wrist looked at the slowly reverting hedgehog passing on the last of his Chaos energy to Sonic.

All the while this was happening Shadow had his head lowered all the while still having his smile on his face "Sonic even though we were enemies in the beginning, even though we only teamed up for a short while. You were the closest person I could ever call a friend."

He looked up with happy yet sorrowful expression "Thank you, and…goodbye."

Freeing his wrist from Sonic's grip, the ebony hedgehog started to fall into Earth's orbit gradually becoming a fireball in the process. Sonic could only watch his once enemy now fully atoned hedgehog rival disappear from his sight and towards the earth orbit below. Sonic balled up his fist in anger, up to the point of where his knuckles whitened. He eased up when he felt something his right hand; opening up his palm Sonic made a silent gasp as to what he was holding.

It was Shadow's inhibitor ring, the only sole remnant of the ebony red streaked hedgehog. Sonic wordlessly took off his glove and place the ring on his wrist before placing the glove back on. Flying back to the Ark only on thought remained in Sonic's head

'I promise Shadow, I will make sure yours and Maria's wish stays a reality. I swear'

-Three Weeks have passed since that day-

"God, these robots are starting to get annoying."

Skating through a forest at top speed a young adolescent boy who looked to be at the age of 12; he had long pure black spiky hair that formed a bang with a blue trim on the edges covering his left eye and partially his face and a spiky blue streaked ponytail in the back (Imagine Madara's hairstyle from Naruto in a ponytail.) His outfit consisted of a sleeveless slight hugging deep blue shirt with black panels on the side, black jeans with a sapphire blue flame design at the bottom, white belt with a double row of studded spikes, white sneakers with an black 'X' strap. He was wearing pure white padded gloves that had studded spikes that covered his fingers to the back of his hand and Crimson blood red belt straps wrapped around his forearms. VANITY

Immediately stopping on a dime the boy came onto three orange robots that had blue eyes sporting a very weird looking smile (In his opinion). Sighing for what could've been the fiftieth time today, Vanity brought his hand up and appearing from under the straps was a red & black two pronged slash harken. The poor unsuspecting robot was mercilessly cleaved in two as the boy fired his harken at the middle of its torso. Seeing the harken wedge itself into the tree behind the robot the young adolescent used that momentum to reel himself in towards the other robots and brought out his second slash harken though instead of it being red, it was blue this time. Instead of firing it Vanity used as a makeshift wrist blade and sliced the robot effectively destroying it. The third grunt bot seeing its first two comrades go down and the person responsible for all that aim its machine gun that it's been carrying for a while and unleashed a hail of bullets towards the young boy though it proved futile as Vanity brought his arm up as if shielding his face and a dark red diamond like shape shield appeared deflecting all the bullets; Vanity kept the shield up until the robot emptied all its clip on the boy. Seeing it was out of ammo the robot looked up to see Vanity appearing in front of it before its head got decapitated by Vanity's slash harken.

Seeing the three robots thoroughly destroyed Vanity started walking "This is the third group of robots I've seen in the last hour. It's starting to get really annoying."

It had been three weeks since the incident with that insane scientist who had threatened and attempted to destroy the earth had been prevented. Sonic, the blue hedgehog that had been falsely accused committing crimes had managed to save them all from a devastating fate. How ironic, that the very people that accused and attempted at condemning him to life in prison ended up being save by that very same hedgehog. Some would call that Fate's very cruel idea of a joke. After the whole ordeal was done these strange robots started to appear out of nowhere; and while Vanity paid no mind to them at first when they started shooting near his house… oh no, no, no, no, no that's when they had to go.

Reaching his house though Vanity couldn't help but wonder why they kept appearing. Were they actually searching for something? If so, then why were they focusing around where he lived? His thoughts were cut off by the sounds of rustling coming from a few bushes near him, no normally that didn't bother Vanity as he would normally chalk that off as an animal. What did grab his attention was the low moan that emitted from same bushes. Slash harken at the ready, Vanity dropped into a defensive stance as a shadowy figure came out of the bushes. Vanity's apprehensiveness turned to shock at what he saw.

As the figure dropped to the ground, only three words could be uttered out of his mouth "Oh…my…God"

End of Chapter

Well…chapter one up and running, let see how it goes. As I said before, this is more of a prologue than a real chapter so that's why there wasn't much going on; the action will slowly but surely pick up in chapter two.

So the reason I was inspired to write was from what I took what ClementJ642 had said on Youtube that got me thinking, along with discussions me and my friend had -who is a diehard Sonic fan like I am by the way- it got me thinking. Sega, after Sonic Heroes, fucked up big time with the franchise and royally decimated Shadow's image with his game. All because Sega had to give into popular demands of the people, instead of using their common sense of how they should go about dealing with Shadow.

Clement made some pretty good arguments and points about how things had gone when Shadow had been resurrected while he was playing Shadow the Hedgehog; all the while bashing the shit out of that game. And while I normally don't bother with other people's opinions, his seemed really interesting to listen to. Now I not gonna put him on the spot so that you guys who don't agree with me can find him and bash his channel or anything. I'm just saying that I agree with a few things he said and made my own theories of what should've happened.

Now while this story is going to go on what I felt should have been canon, it's not going to remain canon. Meaning at some point into the story is going to crossover with another universe, but don't worry…that's not gonna been for a long time. So…I think that about covers everything I wanted to talk about, if I forgot something I bring it up next chapter. So anyways I hope you all enjoyed the chapter

See you next time ^_^