Tsubasa Shadow Chronicles

Prologue: One's Journeys End

"Chaos Regeneration!" With those words Super Sonic and Super Shadow flew towards the now dying Planet Egg to finish the job and defeat the Metarex once and for all and maybe even save a save life. Everyone one of them from Sonic's gang and even Eggman has been traveling the galaxy to find the Chaos Emeralds and stop the Metarex from destroying all non-plant life in the universe and the final battle was drawing to a close but at the cost of one's life, Cosmo. No one wanted her die, even Shadow wished there had been another way, but this was what she wanted, her wish was to stop the Metarex and even though it was hard he, Sonic, Tails and everyone helped grant her wish and hopefully with Chaos Regeneration they might be able to save her. Once Chaos Regeneration had be used up however he immediately sensed something was wrong and quickly realized that the pressure surrounding the Planet Egg would soon explode, sending out all it's power and destroying anything in its path, including everyone on the Blue Typhoon and Crimson Egg! Sonic must have realized it as well.

"If the Planet Egg lets out all of its energy the others won't have time to get away! I have no other choice! Chaos-!" Shadow knew what Sonic was about to do and he couldn't have that!

'Oh no you don't!' Shadow launched his fist into Sonic's abdomen hard enough to knock all of the air out of him, Sonic didn't see it coming so he couldn't stop Shadow. Before he lost his ability to move Sonic managed to say his last words to him when he realized what Shadow planned to do.

"Sha..Shadow..hold on.. you can't..." with that Sonic fall away from the Planet Egg and out of harms way. Shadow watched him fall and replied to his descending form while removing his inhibitor rings.

"Don't be angry, I didn't have any other choice either. After all we wouldn't want you to hurt yourself now would we?" 'And besides you have people to protect and who care about you, you can't let them down.' He left the last part unspoken, there was no need to say it. It was true that if Sonic died he would not only be greatly missed but there be no one left to stop any other dangers that might appear in the future, while it would be different in his case. Also, he had better control over Chaos than Sonic.

'Now before this burst.' Shadow summoned every ounce of power and energy left in him to stop the Planet Egg and save the others.

"CHAOS CONTROL!" With that Shadow teleported the entire Planet Egg a massive distance away from the others and stopped time around it to prevent the energy from escaping. 'They're safe now, it's over.' Shadow suddenly felt extremely weak. It wasn't like the other times he used up too much of his energy, those times he knew that still had enough left to live, this time however he used it all in this final Chaos Control. He could feel the Chaos Energy leave him as he floated away into deep space. He was about to shut his eyes and accept his fate when he saw what looked like a rift in space opening up not far from him. 'What is that?' As the rift expanded he could barely make out a large figure inside the rift and bore what appeared to be a symbol of a bat on his chest. The figure appeared to be reaching towards him, Shadow immediately had the instinct to stay away from the rift and the figure inside.

"You're not getting away this time Shadow." he was shocked to hear that this figure knew him, but what did him mean that he won't be getting away from him THIS time? As far as he knew he never met this person, or had he? Before Shadow could even attempt to reply, out of the rift came out what appear to be black mist as it solidify and began heading straight for him. Shadow tried to move but was too weak to even move his head and he could only watch as the solid mist closed in on him.

'This is how it ends? No! I don't want it to end like this! Not yet! I still have to find what I lost!' Shadow had no idea where that thought came from, he had been ready to die just seconds before why the sudden change to live? Right before the black mist reached him he felt a new energy from within appear, coursing through and out of him in a burst of pure, white energy that kept the mist at bay. 'What the?!' Shadow had no idea what this energy was, it wasn't Chaos Energy yet it felt familiar none the less like it's always been there.

"Not again! You will not escape!" more mist came out of the rift towards Shadow and he knew that this time this new energy won't be able to hold them all back. Suddenly he felt the energy turn take on a new action and a pinkish-violet aura appeared around as the space around him started to swirl around him, turning into different colors as it wrapped around him, but unlike the black mist this aura was comforting, warm, and safe. As the colors completely enclosed him he felt himself lose consciousness, but before his world faded into black he heard a voice of what sounded like a young girl say

"You know...everything will be alright."