Shadow the Rock Star
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-Also, please review, even if it sucks! On with the ficcy!
Shadow was bored, he was the Ultimate Life-Form, and was created for action. With nothing to do anymore all he ever did was sit around the apartment he was renting watching TV. Occasionally he went out to eat and when he saw others he knew he waved and sometimes stopped to talk. He never spoke long though, he was mostly a loner and when he was around people, unless he was arguing with them or yelling at them, he just wanted to get away. Back at his apartment he would resume watching TV, whatever was on, and the boredom would commence.
One day he was walking along in the city and he saw Omega, the robot, walking across the street.
Shadow quickly slipped through the traffic and casually walked up to Omega.
"Hello, Omega," he said, "what are you doing here?"
"Greetings, Shadow. I am going to buy some oil," Omega droned in his robotic voice, "I need some to keep my hydraulics running smoothly."
"That's… interesting," Shadow said, "I was just…"
Shadow had stopped in his tracks and fallen silent.
He was staring into a shop window, not just any shop window. It was an electronics store, Everything From TVs to CDs, the banner in the window proclaimed loudly. Shadow was looking at an electric guitar, not just any electric guitar. A silver and red sparkly Jackson with a wamybar, sitting in the window, glinting in the sun.
"Shadow?"
Omega sounded worried (A/N-though I don't know how, his voice is robotic!) he looked at Shadow for a moment and walked off to the auto parts store.
Shadow ran into the electronics shop and found a young man with dark hair, and sunglasses, wearing a green vest with a nametag that said "Shaun". He walked up to a man and asked breathlessly,
"What is the price of the electric guitar in the window?"
"You mean the sparkly one?" Shaun asked with a grin.
" Yes"
"The silver and red sparkly one?"
"Yes," said Shadow, a little annoyed.
"The silver and red sparkly Jackson?"
"Yes," Shadow was close to pissed off.
"The silver and red sparkly Jackson with a wamyb"
Interrupting Shaun, Shadow screamed,
"WHAT OTHER ELECTRIC GUITAR IS THERE IN THE WINDOW YOU IMBECILE!"
"That is the only one sir," Shaun said in a fake bright voice.
"How much is it?" Shadow would give him one last chance.
"What, sir?"
"ARRRGGGGHHHHHH!"
Shadow stormed up to the desk at the front of the store and asked the clerk how much it was, the man quickly replied,
"400, sir".
"Thank you," Shadow replied.
On his way out he punched Shaun's face in.
Walking out of the store and down the street, Shadow, with a spark in his eye, chuckled to himself,
"heh heh heh, I know just the way to get the money".
Shadow had everything set up for the best lemonade stand in history. This would surely get him the money, and quickly. He had a table, lemons, ice, sugar, water, and signs. He made signs galore, and then posted them on every street corner within 2 miles of his stand. It only took about 30 seconds. The biggest sign he made had a picture of lemons on it and the words,
"Ultimate Lemonade, No Fakers Allowed".
He then sat down and waited. He waited for a while and had to go to the bathroom. He waited a while longer and had to go get more ice because the ice had melted. In face, he waited so long that he fell asleep sitting with his feet propped up on his little table by the road.
If he hadn't fallen into a deep sleep, he would have notice a small blue plane fly overhead, and a small orange face peeking over the edge of the cockpit to see what was below.
Up in the plane the small orange figure was none other than Tails the two tailed fox himself. Tails shook his head, not daring to believe what he thought he saw by the side of the road. Shadow? Running a lemonade stand? The thought was completely absurd, preposterous, unthinkable! Why, in the world, would he do that? It went against all of Tails' perceptions of Shadow's character!
"I have to tell Sonic," the small orange fox thought.
H flew off to the Mystic Ruins to his workshop where Sonic was waiting for him. He landed the Tornado in the landing area and ran inside the workshop. Sonic was reclining on the couch and watching TV.
"Hey, Tails! What's up?"
"Sonic, you'll never guess what I saw," Tails exclaimed as he ran in the door.
"Amy?" Sonic's eyes widened in fear.
"No."
"Eggman?" Sonic was curious now.
"No."
"Knuckles and Rouge making out?"
"No!" Tails said looking shocked.
"What? It's bound to happen someday! Fine, then what?" Sonic asked impatiently.
"Shadow is running a lemonade stand!"
"……."
"It is true, I saw it!"
"AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…"
Sonic was uncontrollably laughing and couldn't stop. He clutched his sides and rolled on the floor. He was practically shrieking with laughter.
"Oh my god," Sonic exclaimed, "this..this is unbelievable! I have got to tell Knuckles!" Sonic was still out of breath from laughing, he caught his breath and picked up the phone, dialing a number.
Somewhere on the floating island Knuckles picked up the phone wondering who the heck would be calling him?
"Hello," he said cautiously in his deep voice.
Knuckles, it is Sonic, you won't believe what I have to tell you!"
"You called me to trade gossip?" Knuckles asked incredulously.
"It is not gossip," Sonic said, laughter in his voice, "Tails saw Shadow running a lemonade stand while flying in the Tornado!"
"Shadow was running a lemonade stand in the Tornado, when it was flying?"
"No, idiot, Tails was in the Tornado, flying overhead!"
Knuckles bristled at being called an idiot, and then the words Sonic spoke sunk in.
"Mphhh," Knuckles said trying not to laugh, "I, um, well that's…I mean. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…!"
"Yeah," said Sonic, "that's what I said!"
"Hey," said Tails, "What did Knuckles say, Sonic?"
"Ya know what, Knux," said Sonic, "I think we should pay Shadow a little visit!"
"I'll get Rouge and meet you guys there, something tells me she'd like to see this!"
"Yeah right Knux, you just wanna excuse to see her again!"
"Shut up!" Knuckles yelled and hung up, glad Sonic couldn't see the blush covering his face. He recovered quickly at the thought of Shadow and the lemonade stand.
Knuckles smiled to himself and thought as he walked away from the phone,
"This is gonna be fun!"
Knuckles headed for the place he thought Rouge would be. He got there and went up to the door and, taking a deep breath, he knocked on it. Rouge opened the door with a quizzical look on her face, she looked as good as ever. She was wearing a purple halter top, and slightly bell bottomed jeans, with purple embroidered gems on the cuffs. Knuckles glanced at the cuffs and thought to himself, 'I should have known' with a smile on his face.
"Well, are you gonna say something, or did you just come by to admire my jeans?"
Rouge's voice startled him, it was confused, yes, but also curious. She was thinking why Knuckles would come here and bother her, and whether he had anything useful to say.
"Hey," Knux said, "I just came by to invite you to a little get together we're all having. May I come in for a moment?"
"Sure, only if you tell me what's going on, I can tell when something's up," she said with a sly grin.
They went into the apartment and sat down on a black leather sofa, with dark purple and hot pink throw pillows.
"Lap of luxury, isn't it?" he asked with a wry grin looking around at the stylish lamps, leather furniture, built-in dry-bar, and huge plasma screen TV on one wall.
"My line of work pays well sometimes," she said, with emphasis on the word sometimes, "Now, tell me what you're here for, I am guessing you aren't here to inquire about my standard of living either."
"Well here's the deal," he said, taking his time to draw out the suspense, "I just got a call from Sonic. It seems that Tails was flying the Tornado and he spotted Shadow."
"So," said Rouge, "since when is seeing Shadow front page news?"
"When he is running a lemonade stand by the road," Knuckles smirked.
"He's doing what?" Rouge looked a little shocked, and somewhat disturbed. "Why would he be doing that?"
"I don't know, but Tails, Sonic, and I are stopping by for a visit. I wondered if you might want to come along for the ride, it sounds like something you'd want to see."
Rouge was wondering why he even thought of her, they weren't that close of friends. She hadn't even seen him in almost a year!
"Sure I'll come, sounds like fun," she said with a smile, standing up from the sofa.
Knuckles smirked, and thought, 'I knew she'd come'.
"What was that?" Rouge asked him sharply, "You just smirked at me!"
"Who, me? No, I didn't smirk at you." He stood and smiled a genuine carefree smile, one that not often is found on the serious Guardian's face.
"Come on," she said, "Let's go meet Sonic and Tails there."
They arrived at the agreed meeting place, a block away from the stand. There, they found Sonic and Tails waiting for them, Sonic looking impatient, like he always does when he has to wait for people.
"Hey, guys!" Knuckles greeted them with a toothy grin.
"Long time no see," Rouge spoke to Sonic and Tails, "What have you two been up to?"
"Not much, Rouge. Hanging, working out, running… and, um tinkering with stuff," said Sonic, flashing a grin at Tails as he said the last thing.
What do you say we go say hello to Shadow?" asked Knux as he started walking down the street. Everyone walked along and came upon Shadow sitting at his table, still, you guessed it, fast asleep.
They all stood silently for a moment, Sonic trying not to laugh, Tails with a small smile on his face, Knuckles smirking, and Rouge standing with her mouth agape. Sonic was tired of waiting, he whined,
"I'm bored just standing here, someone do something!"
"Alright then," said Knuckles, "tap him, or poke him, or something."
"You poke him!" the cerulean hedgie insisted.
"Fine then!" Knuckles walked up to Shadow and held out a gloved fist, prodding him, not as lightly as he could have. Shadow woke blearily from his slumber, and rubbed sleep out of his eyes. He looked at Knuckles and his brow furrowed in confusion, he blinked and then said,
"What are you doing here, Knuckles, aren't you supposed to be guarding that hunk of rock, living in lonely isolation on a godforsaken floating island?" Shadow seemed trying to annoy him.
"What a lovely speech," said Knuckles, a little pissed, "would you like to meet some friends I brought for a visit?"
Sonic, Tails, and Rouge stepped out from behind Knuckles as Shadow's eyes widened at the sight of them.
"Oh, hello, Shadow," said Sonic with a grin, "do you have any Girl Scout cookies for sale, or is it that you just stock lemonade?"
"What are you doing here, faker? Didn't you read the sign?" Shadow growled.
"I did read the sign, 'Ultimate Lemonade, No Fakers Allowed,' sorry, Shad, but I guess you'll have to leave." Sonic retorted.
All the others were just standing there, watching the developing face off.
"You may be grinning now, but just wait until I wipe it off your face." Shadow glared at Sonic fiercely.
"In your dreams, faker, I'd beat you any day, and there'd be nothing left!"
Their voices had escalated and now they were yelling at each other, Sonic still smirking, revved up by the argument and competition, and Shadow still glaring.
"I am going to kick your butt, you cocky, insolent, faker!" Shadow yelled with intensity.
Sonic tried to say,
"Don't you think you're over-using that word a little, Shad?" but he was cut off in the midst of his remark when Shadow spin-dashed at him and Sonic had to dodge to the left.
Sonic's face went from cocksure smirk to determined and angry in a second, he ran at Shadow and was about to attack when,
"Oh, stop it boys. Can't we all just get along?" Rouge had stepped in between them and was holding the mad hedgies at bay.
"He started it!" both the angry hedgehogs said simultaneously.
"Actually," Knuckles cut in smirking, "Sonic may have 'started it' when he made that cruel remark about the girl scout cookies, but on the other hand, Shadow didn't have to react so hostile."
"Shut up, Knucklehead, your stupid logic is not helping!" Rouge yelled at him.
Knuckles bristled, "Don't tell me to shut up, and don't call me that!" he said, somewhere between a yell and normal voice level. (A/N-is there a word for that? If you know it tell me in your review!)
Rouge smiled cruelly, "Call you what? Oh, you mean Knucklehead? Well you deserve it you stupid, stubborn,"
"Now look who's 'getting along,' Rouge!" Shadow interrupted, smirking.
"You have no right comparing your bickering with mine!" she said, realizing how stupid that sounded.
"Well I think you could use a dose of logic," yelled Knux, "Sonic was right, practice what you preach, you hypocrite!"
"Oh my god! What about you," she screamed at him, "you're the one always telling people to remain calm, look at you now! And telling people to lighten up and take a joke! When have you ever 'lightened up' you screwed up, serious, echidna, you'd grab the first person to make a joke at your own expense and pin them against the wall!"
"I," Knux began angrily.
"SHUT UP both of you," yelled Sonic as the pair of them silenced and looked at him, "I can't find Tails anywhere!"
Gasp, Doo doo doo! Anyway, review! Huggles!