A Raven in the Shadows (Rewrite)
By RTDH
A door creaked open, and a black figure walked inside. It was a mobian, alike the others. Jet black and crimson streaks, with rings cuffed around hands and ankles. Only the ones who had seen it's power, have knowledge of what the rings meant. It looked around, and started to search the base. When it found it's goal, it activated it's wrist communicator, and spoke.
"Agent Shadow to base. I found Eggman's base control unit. I'm going to blow it up, ten minutes to countdown."
"Good. Make sure there are no survivors."
"Yes, commander." He said, and shut it off.
He went up to it, and set the entire base for self destruct. He was about to leave, but was knocked down by something, with grand force. He got up, and looked around. He found a black figure in the ceiling rafters, staring at him with dark, grey eyes.
"Who are you, and why did you do that?"
It smirked, and jumped down. When it landed, Shadow could already tell it was another hedgehog, but something was off about it. It's looks were odd, it had a long tail, with red detail, and an odd purple fin on the top of his head, with the looks of major detail. And the eyes, were just deceiving. I mean, it's not like everyday you find a black hedgehog, with black eyes, and grey pupils, right? The hedgehog chuckled, and smirked.
"You really don't recognize me? That's low, Mephiles."
"Who?"
"That's not fooling me, Mephiles."
"I'm not this 'Mephiles' guy you're talking about!"
"Well, if that provides to be true, then why do you look exactly like him?"
"How should I know? I've never seen anyone like him."
"Then follow me."
"I can't. Don't you realize that the base is about to explode?!"
"What? How?"
"I have orders to blow up this building-"
"This is the only home I know! Please don't let this happen!"
"I'm not sure if I can do that-"
A siren went off, and a computerized voice said "Building set to self destruct in five minutes."
I must've been out for a few minutes... Shadow thought, as the hedgehog ran over to the computer, trying to hack it.
"That's not going to help. We need to get out of here, NOW."
It cursed to itself, and looked at the other. It growled, and lashed out at Shadow. He stumbled back in pain, looking at the other. He could see a feeling of hatred in it's eyes. He got up, and started to run, realizing they only had about one and a half minutes left.
He knew the other was following him, possibly launching that other thing he did earlier. He was almost there, but the other got in his way. Shadow threw a Chaos Spear, the hedgehog throwing something alike. When the two met, time was up, and the building exploded, bringing the hedgehogs with them. As it went on, an ominous purple light shot up into the sky, with a menacing laugh following. Far off, a familiar blue hedgehog and yellow fox stood and watched as this all went down. They looked at each other, nodded, and sped towards it.