Bits of all that was streaked across the sky like fallen stars, racing across the Heavens in flight from the dying God's all-consuming embrace, then vanishing as they returned to their proper timelines. The unnatural realm trembled as it realized itself, giving way to the rightening world. Everything shook as it reveled the moment; The Chaos Emerald's chosen heroes had again overcome a great evil in the nick of time, and balance was being restored. Solaris gave a cry as he crumbled and burst into flames, manufactured power no longer enough to hold him firm in flesh and might.
Shadow stared at the display from the air, still in his super form. His eyes flickered through different emotions as he ponders his memories of Mephiles and Iblis. He watched as Solaris' core sparked with escaping power, and then broke apart. He blinked at the embers, lips pursed as he wondered which part of Solaris was who: Iblis, or Mephiles? Perhaps the core was Iblis, as fiery as it was, powering the body… His eyes flickered with a curious emotion as he watched the body burn, pondering what this would mean for the future of them all. Chaos energy was such a complex power, but yet so simple in some things. The Gods willing, Shadow himself would live through this but as Mephiles died now, what would become of his stolen form? Could his power too have been replicated, and simply not used? If that was the way it was, what would that mean for Chaos itself, considering Shadow carried so much energy with him?... Shadow flinched slightly as Sonic grabbed his shoulder and grinned at him. Silver was beside him, also beaming. "Why so glum, Shadow?" Sonic remarked, tilting his head in that mockingly inquisitive manner of his. Shadow withheld a scoff toward his antics – this was a time for celebration after all – and simply turned away. "Nothing. We should get down from here before this place gets too dangerous." Sonic's smile never faded. "Well alright buddy, if that's what you want." Leaving him to follow, the emerald-empowered hero went back down to join his friends, Silver following without a second thought, as he was new to this hero business. Shadow narrowed his eyes at the raging white mass of unholy fire, shivering as Sonic and Silver took off in a flash of golden light. He could sense their Chaos energy almost too well, like his subconscious had noticed something different. Not wanting to trouble himself any further, Shadow gritted his teeth and followed them down nonchalantly. Mephiles was dying as he was thinking these things. His prophecies… were probably lies. And of course, everything would be different after being pulled apart and put together again. Nothing to worry about… Suddenly something moved behind him as he touched ground, and he flinched, swiveling his ears to investigate. It was just Amy getting closer, he could tell by the unique clop of her boots. He ground his teeth again, looking upwards to the future and the burning Solaris. What an ugly habit he had, getting stuck on the past… First the ARK, and now Mephiles; this was almost getting to be too much. Then, he could sense it before it happened- Sonic and Silver seemed to as well, as they braced themselves with him. Solaris exploded into a rush of white light, the amount of Chaos energy in the world spiking to a painful level. Shadow gasped inwardly, his skin burning as his mental sensors almost overloaded. The light only grew closer, and his head began to throb in agony. He gurgled a moan, springing back from the light as it consumed him and everything else in that unnatural space.
Blackness, like he was sleeping… In fact, he was sleeping, he could tell. Actually, not quite sleeping, but something heavier – more like a coma, but he wasn't unwell. Disturbed by this, Shadow blinks awake, and looks about him. He was right where he was last, dozing in a tree as he awaited orders from G.U.N., paused in pre-mission status. He looks himself over to see if something perhaps had hit him in his sleep, feeling perplexed. Since his instincts never lied, what could have happened to him to make his head so heavy? His ears perked to the sound of his communicator tuning in. "Shadow, the Commander has requested you abandon the mission and return to base immediately." Shadow gawked. This was supposed to be an incredibly important mission he thought; something about capturing a dangerous entity? "Why?" He asks the operative feeding him directions. "I wasn't given any intel on why, but from what I can see all the data has vanished just now, so the mission has been withheld until we can find the source of the disappearance of data." The ultimate life form stays silent, pondering what could have happened. It might have been a hacker or a mole not wanting the mission to go down, but this was a relatively rouge mission, and this "Mephiles" was a being that should be kept behind closed doors for sure. No one had any reason for hacking these files if they knew about them – even if they did, every single access to government data has been recorded and checked in since the Black Arms compromised the CIA's mainframe. Narrowing down his realistic options, Shadow's mind begins thinking over what he knows of space-time connections from his own experience. "But if we did something that erased a section of the continuum… Why do we remember it even existed?" His eyes widen with concern and revelation: For that to happen, there would need to be an existing link tying that which doesn't and does not exist, something that escaped. For Shadow, as he could only speak for himself, to go after something that he would erase from existence itself, it would have to be a terrible evil.
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Author's Note:
So, viola, my first fanfiction. 8D Naturally I'm pretty psyched but still nervous, so any kind of feedback would be splendid. ;w; Hope you enjoyed it, please review! I also can't promise any sort of regular updating, though...