Rise of the Chosen one

Part one of the Ultimate Sonic series

"Sigh" Shadow stands at the edge of the cliff, looking out at all the lights of the city. Most had dimmed by this point of the night, as it was easily past 2 in the morning. "Yet the faker and his friends insist on throwing a party all night long…and insist that I come." Shadow looks at the invitation in his hand with annoyance. "The only reason I'm going is to get away from them…" Shadow nudges his head in the direction of the shadow's lurking around in the bushes. "I don't know who they are but, they don't seem to be GUN soldiers…"

As if on cue, the shadows burst from the bushes, which to their surprise didn't even cause Shadow to look in their direction.

"You know, it's rude to ignore people when they jump out of the bushes!" Shadow turns around to face the trio. The one had said the comment was a young…echidna?

"This makes no sense…There shouldn't be any other Mobians, let alone echidnas on the planet!" Shadow thinks to himself as he stares at the echidna.

"It's kinda rude to stare you know!" The echidna bursts out again. This was already getting of Shadow's nerves. He ignores the echidna and turns to the rest.

The second was a female fox with a black and grey dress and two tails, "just like Tails himself" Shadow thinks. The echidna was orange with a white star shaped symbol on his head. The last one looked like the eldest, a grey hedgehog with black gloves and grey shoes with black stripes, his quills dropped the same way Sonic's did.

"We've come to talk to you, Shadow the Hedgehog…" the grey hedgehog says.

"It would seem I'm rather popular around here so…what do you want?" Shadow replies.

The first one to speak up was the girl, "we've come to force you to join our group!"

"Oh? Is that so? And how do you suppose you're going to do that?" Shadow replies with sarcasm in his voice.

"You ignorant fool! I crush your bones into dust!" The grey hedgehog yells as he charges Shadow.

"Bring it on! I'll crush you just like everyone before you, pretty boy!" Shadow says as he charges up a Chaos Spear.

"The name is SHADE!" Shade collides with Shadow in a explosion of energy, sending sparks everywhere.

"Be careful not to destroy him Shade! We need him!" The female yells as Shadow collides with Shade again.

"I don't see why we need him Shallow." The young echidna mutters as the two hedgehogs collide again.

"We need him Crush, that's all there is too it." Shallow says with softness in her voice.

"Whatever you say, I'll do anything if it makes you happy." Crush says as he looks Shallow in the eyes.

"Thank you Crush…" Shallow says as she ruffles the young echidna's quills.

Shadow looks over at the duo and has a disgusted look on his face. He never had someone he could think of as a brother, but now was not the time to think about that. He has to deal with Shade before things got out of hand. Shade threw another wild punch and Shadow dodges easily. Shadow crouched down to avoid Shade's kick and sweaps his legs out from under him. He then quickly rises and elbows Shade in the gut, then he then grabbs his leg and swing him around a few times before tossing him back toward Shallow and Crush.

Shallow catches Shade in mid air; it was if he was as light as a feather! Shallow gently puts him down as Shade grunts in pain. "Let me at him Shallow…I-I can still fight!" Shade says with anger in his words.

"No Shade, it's my turn now." Shallow says calmly as she rises from the ground and stares at Shadow.

"Shallow! You don't need to fight him!" Crush yells as Shallow walks toward Shadow.

"I do Crush, after all; I am the strongest of the group." Shallow says calmly.

"You're the strongest? That's a good thing. I hope you're stronger than the other one over there." Shadow sayx as he drops into a fighting position.

"I am, I'm much stronger" Shallow says with anticipation in her voice.

"That's good, I'm ready to fight after that warm-up" Shadow says as Shallow gets ready to fight.

"You're going to regret saying that." Shallow says…and then she disappeared.

"What? Where did she go?!" Shadow thinks when Shallow reappears in front of Shadow and kicks him in the face.

"She's fast!" Shadow thinks as he blocks the second kick from Shallow. He tosses Shallow off him and charges her with a chaos spear ready, but she was already gone. "This is just too much…CHAOS CONTROL!" Shadow slows down time and saw that Shallow was about to kick him in the face again. "Nice try girl, but it's not enough!" Shadow says as he punches Shallow in the face. Time speeds up as Shadow continues to combo Shallow with a series of kicks and punches in mid-air. He finishing by launching her back with a mini Chaos Blast.

"How did he keep up with my speed?!" Shallow screams as she hit the tree full force. She coughs up blood on impact and falls to the ground.

"SHALLOW!" Crush screams as he runs over to her, checking to see if she was okay. "Shallow…" He mutters with tears in his eyes, and then turns to Shadow. "YOU!" Crush yells with a massive amount of anger in his voice as he charges Shadow. As he barrels toward Shadow a giant hammer appears in his hand.

"A weapon eh? Okay then, bring it on!" Shadow screams as he runs toward Crush. Crush raises his hammer up high and swings down at Shadow. Shadow disappears the moment before the hammer hit him and reappears right in front of Crush.

"How?..." Crush was cut off when Shadow slams his fist into Crush's gut, causing him to spit out blood.

"Crush no!" Shallow screams as she runs toward the two.

"If you want him back so badly then I won't stop you." Shadow says as he picks up Crush and tosses him toward her. She catches him and lays him on the ground only to find that he was unconscious. "Mind you that I don't have any intention of killing any of you." Shadow says in a calm voice. "Just to get you away from me."

"I understand…We will leave you now." Shallow says as she flings Crush over her shoulder. She then walks over the Shade and does the same. "You are much stronger than we thought, but this won't happen next time" Shallow says with venom in the last few words.

"Keep dreaming all you want, you'll never defeat me, the Ultimate Life Form." Shadow says with pride in his title.

"Goodbye, Shadow the Hedgehog." Shallow jumps into the forest and disappeared.

"That was a monumental waste of time…guess I better head to the party." Shadow pauses, and then dashes through the forest toward one of the lights in the distant city.

*Station Square*

"Sonic? Are you sure this is okay?" Tails asks with a nervous voice.

"Of course it is Tails! This is a busy city after all! And we did rent this place out for the night!" The blue hedgehog responds with vigor.

"If you say so…" Tails mutters quietly.

"I can't wait until the music starts playing and Sonic and I start to dance real slowly until..." Amy was about to finish when Sonic interrupts her.

"Amy! Knock it off will ya?"

"Oh Sonic! You just refuse to accept your feelings for me!" Amy quickly counters.

"Whatever you say Ames…" Sonic replies with sarcasm. "Anyhoo, where is Shadow? I'm starting to wonder if he's gonna show up at all." Sonic comments.

Almost as if on cue, the black hedgehog bursts through the doors and slowly walks into the room. "Glad you could make it Shads!" Sonic yells at Shadow.

"Will you please try to be a little less annoying faker?" Shadow replies with annoyance in his voice as he walks to the nearest table to sit down. He looks around at his surroundings. There are streamers all over the place and balloons hung up everywhere. There are 5 tables in a pentagon shape around him, one with he was sitting by. The room itself was dark blue with a grey ceiling.

"Come on Shadow! No need to act so glum!" Sonic says trying to get the hedgehog to act more cheery.

"Unlike you Sonic, I don't act out with unnecessary emotions…it's a waste of energy." Shadow replies darkly.

An anime style sweat drop appears on the back of his head. "Okay…Well, LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED!" Sonic yells at the top of his lungs.

"See? This is what I was talking about…Oh what's the use?" Shadow saying knowing it's pointless to try and stop Sonic.

*A few minutes later…*

Everybody around the room was enjoying the party in their own way. Amy was trying to get Sonic to talk to her but every time she got close, he would do some crazy dance move that would launch him across the room. Tails and Cream are playing a game of hopscotch with a twist; you had to jump to the beat of the music! Knuckles is glaring at Rouge, making sure she doesn't bolt to go and steal his emerald. Finally Shadow just sits at the same table, sometimes moving his head to the beat of the music.

Suddenly however, a figure comes through the double doors to the building. Nobody seems to notice him, nobody except for Shadow that is. "Who is that?" Shadow wonders out loud as he gets up and walks toward the figure. He is able to see under the cloak that this person has on, but only a little bit. He sees that he was a hedgehog, but that's all he sees. Shadow approaches the figure and stands right in front of him as the person stopped.

"I need to speak to Sonic the Hedgehog; I have no time for you…" The cloaked hedgehog says in a dangerous tone, but this only makes Shadow smirk.

"You'll just have to make time; now tell me why you're here. If you don't…" Shadow charges a Chaos Spear in his hand, "Or I'll just have to blow you all the way to hell." Shadow says darkly with a smile on his face.

"I'd love to see you try-"He was cut off when Shadow blasts him to the other side of the room, causing everyone to stop and look at the pair.

"What the? Shadow! What are you doing?" Sonic yells as he speeds toward the black hedgehog.

"This guy came in without an invitation…I was just escorting him out" Shadow jokes as he lets out a chuckle.

"If you wish for a quick death than you could have just asked…" The cloaked hedgehog replies. Suddenly the air becomes much denser and Shadow starts to sense an immense amount danger.

"What is this strange feeling?" Shadow thinks to himself as his enemy charges him. He swings a chop for Shadow's neck but Shadow easily dodges…Only to get a cut on his neck anyway! "What the hell? How did…" Shadow trails off as he gets a clear look at his adversary. The cloak is off the reveal a red hedgehog with black stripes; he has a purple and black t-shirt and black jeans, along with purple and black shoes. Another thing he notices was that his hands are radiating energy!

"So that's how you injured me…" Shadow says out loud with interest.

"Yes Shadow, these are my Chaos Blades, forming energy around my hand, I can morph them into a blade like structure, which would be capable of taking you head off in an instant." The red hedgehog replies.

"What is your name?" Shadow asks.

"I am Larnet, the Saiyan Hedgehog." Larnet replies in a very serious tone.

"What the hell is a Saiyan?" Shadow asks with anger.

"I don't need to answer your question; after all, you're going to die anyways." Larnet replies with venom in the last words.

"WE'LL SEE ABOUT THAT!" Shadow screams with fury as he charges toward Larnet.