Sonic: Scrap Metal
"Warning high toxic levels rising..."
Shadows left eye slowly lifted to see what his scanner was saying, the image on the screen startled him a little, he looked down over the ledge he was perched high above the ground, he runs towards it and jumps off of the building he was on, he lands on the side of the building and takes off down the edge and slides onto the curb, he lifts himself up and looks at his scanner a second time, he says," Computer relay last command, what is the toxin levels?"
His small side scanner beeps a few times and then stops, it responds," Toxic levels at the tower are reciting sir…."
Shadow slams his fist down in rage, he shouts," Damn it all, I'm not letting this thing get away this time!" He books it down the street at his top speed, letting nothing get in his way running over all of the cars, he makes a sharp curve and gets his pace back.
Within a matter of minutes he reaches Sonic Tower, his scanner is processing the data needed to find the toxic presence, the computer beeps to his left and he instantly takes off South West of his prior destination, the scanner beeps right in front of him and Shadow spots the creature that is making the Toxic levels rise.
Shadow hits a button on his suit and shouts," All S Ops here now! We have a G Alert I repeat a G Alert heading down City central let's go!" He hits the button and the receiver shuts down he says to himself," Those idiots will never get here in time before I stop it, oh well (a smile crosses his face) more fun by me!"
Shadow runs right up to the creature shouting," Stop where you are! You are under arrest for crimes against the city." The creature ignores every word and keeps running forward, now Shadow could see what it actually looks like, a dark figure in the form of a hedgehog with a large gear shape on his fur, shadow pulls out his gun and shouts," One last time, stop where you are or I will blow your brains all over the streets!"
The creature swipes at Shadow knocking him down, Shadow raise his gun and shoots it at it, but the bullet only nicks the creature, it turns around sharply and charges at him, Shadow jumps up and spin kicks the creature as soon as it gets to him, the creature is pushed back but just swipes at him, knocking into the nearby cars.
The alarm of the car is sent blaring through the air as Shadow spins right at the creature not giving himself a second to recover from the blast, he bursts through the creature and lands behind it, the creature bursts into a mist and reanimates in front of him again, Shadow spits on the ground and says," What the hell are you!" The creature spins rapidly and lunges at Shadow who tries to dodge it, but is slammed into by it, causing him to spiral into the wall, Shadow tries to get his game together, but the creature rams into his stomach with all of its force, Shadow falls down. Trying to swipe the creature he runs at the metal pole and swings around it building up speed and finally spins at him, the creature slides aside but Shadow grabs on top the pole behind it and spins back slamming right into it.
The creature slams into the wall, alarms and sirens are heard in the area approaching fast, The creature turns to run but is kicked in the face as Shadow runs up to him, the creature slams into the ground impacting it, it stands up and holds its hand out, a spiraling ball of energy appears and it tosses it at him.
Shadow jumps and flips over it landing back on the ground as his head falls downwards, he lifts his head up to his opponent only to see mist, and he turns around as his scanner beeps twice towards it, as soon as he spins around the creature slams into him grabbing his arm.
Acidic ooze covers Shadows hand and wrist; he lets out a holler of pain as he falls down slowly. His hand slowly melts as the acid burns away his flesh, blood from the wound runs down to the street below, the creature kicks him over leaving him badly wounded, and jumps up the wall of the building climbing to the top and disappearing again.
Four cars pull up, the doors open and sirens flare all around them, A few men step out covered in S Ops armor, Rouge gets out of the final car. Seeing Shadow on the ground she runs over to him, and immediately calls for a medical band for Shadow. She asks him," Shadow what happened, who did this to you?"
Shadow looks up at Rouge and blood drips from his mouth as he speaks, he snarls angrily," I don't know, (lets out a sharp grunt) I need a Doc... Doctor quickly I'm losing conscious... conscious…" Shadow faints from the loss of blood; Rouge quickly rushes him over to the medical station…
Sonic bites into a freshly made chilidog, the bits of beans and meet spit out onto the floor of the lab, Tails looks at Sonic and shakes his head, he says," Sonic stop eating chilidogs and listen this is serious, we need to discover why the cities toxin levels are rising dramatically." Sonic nods his head and says," yah I know this is serious I just wish we had something to go on, instead of computer data, we don't even know what were up against."
Knuckles walks through the metal door of the lab with a few charts in his hands, he stumbles over spilling them on the ground, Tails turns around and rushes over to help him out. Knuckles says while picking some up," Here are the readings you asked for Tails; it seems that we aren't the only place that is rising with those toxic levels or whatever." Tails smiles and replies," Thanks a lot Knuckles I'll call you if we find anything useful for us, catch you later."
Tails waves goodbye as Knuckles leaves who raises his hand in response, Tails spins around and steps back to the computer, he puts them onto a conveyer belt which brings them into the computer for analysis. Sonic peers over the computer screen to watch the computer beep and blerp back and forth.
Suddenly a knock on the door startles both of them, Tails walks over to the door and unlocks it, not a second later the door is swung forward slamming Tails into the wall, Amy bursts through the door saying cheerfully," Sonic!" Sonic startled by her appearance barely escapes her grasp; he zooms around the room and out the door, only to run into a black car.
An agent steps out of the car and looks at them, he looks around the area and then back to Sonic; he asks," Are you Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic team?" Sonic rubs his nose and thumbs up towards him, he announces," Yah Sonic's the name speed is my game, what do you need?" The agent pulls out a white folded up piece of paper and unfolds it.
He reads it aloud," To Sonic and or friends, this letter comes directly from S Ops command central, late night last night our top man, was on a special case involving the sudden change in Toxic level build, up you know him as Shadow the hedgehog. He called the base at around 10:34 reporting that he had found the creature that was making the toxins, but…." Sonic folds his hands over his head and replies," So he solved the case, that just means more missions to get done for us."
The agent starts again," I wasn't finished, eh hmm, but around 10:45 our troops arrived at the spot where Shadow had broadcasted his message. We are sorry to inform you but your fellow comrade has been severely injured in the battle we believe took place and is under severe treatment, he wishes for us to bring his closest friends." Sonic, Knuckles, Tails, and Amy are hit hard by the news of what happened, Sonic mutters," But that can't be if anyone else could have stopped it, it would have been Shadow…" After a few moments of taking in the info Sonic finally said," Well what are we still waiting here for we need to make sure he is ok, ready lets go guys."
Sonic and the others stand outside of the medical room where Shadow was being held, Rouge walks over to them and says," Hey guys long time no see?" Sonic and the others nod their heads, Sonic replies," So what happened here, what damage was there?" Rouge looked down for a bit and said," Well he is on treatment for loss of blood, his left hand was bleeding badly and he was grunting and hurting badly, in fact his entire hand was gone when we got there, as if someone destroyed any trace of it, if it wasn't for the medical wraps he may not even be here, if you want you can go talk to him, he is still conscious at the moment but he loses consciousness every once in a while." Sonic nods and says," Thank you Rouge."
Sonic walked into the room, the others following slowly behind, Shadow could barely turn his head in their direction to look at them, Sonic sat nearby him and said," Hey bud don't worry you're going to get through this, we will help you through this." Shadow looked over at them as best as he could, with all of the strength in his body he spoke," You have to def… eat this th….ing Sonic please if you don't the…. World could be des…troyed, this thing it… it's a hedg….hog Sonic…" Shadow passed out from the force rushing through his body.
Sonic turned and looked around not towards a particular person, but seemed to be thinking about this whole thing, he whispers," This is some creature." He turns towards the door and starts to leave, Tails asks," Sonic where are you going, we don't even know where to check?" Sonic turned half way to him and says," If anyone knows about this thing its Eggman, he will know about this thing that's where we are headed."
Sonic looked out of the window of the building he thought to himself," I sure hope that Eggman knows something otherwise I don't think we will stop this thing.
What is Doctor Eggman's hiding and if not him, who is behind these attacks? Find out next chapter.
