Obsolete
Chapter 1: The Offer
This story is set after Sonic 06.
Shadow had done well at settling down and living a normal life. He still used his powers at his job but he was earning like everyone else and had somewhere to live, he was stable and contented. He was living in a large two bedroom apartment with Rouge, his best friend and work partner, a girl he loved so much but not so much as a lover but as a friend.
He still worked at GUN, he hadn't tried getting a new job despite the fact that he hated GUN and it's Commander, he just knew that he wouldn't be accepted into any other jobs and if he was it just wouldn't be right for him. It would also mean that he would be separated from Rouge all day and it would be foolish to move from a job with someone to talk to in to a job without someone.
One late Friday afternoon while Shadow was about to go on his lunch break he was called to one of the command rooms, this meant that there was some type of emergency. When he arrived him the room he was briefed on the situation by The Commander. "There's a large vessel headed towards station square, we have reasons to believe that it belongs to Eggman." The Commander said solemnly.
"What are those reasons?" Shadow asked, he sounded as though he was in a foul mood.
"Isn't it obvious, if there is a large ship heading towards station square on a day like this then it's most likely something to do with Eggman, he's the only person who would do this." The Commander said irritably. Shadow sighed and rolled his eyes.
"I'm on it." Shadow said and turned to leave.
"Shadow, do you want my help?" Rouge offered before he could walk out of the door. Shadow shook his head.
"If it's Eggman then… no. He's too easy to deal with." Shadow said plainly without turning to look at her. He then left the room in silence. Soon after he was seen leaving the building and heading towards Station Square at top speed using his jet shoes to propel himself towards the city faster than the speed of sound.
As he arrived at the main area of Station Square, buildings and streets started to become shadowed as though there was some kind of eclipse happening or a large dark cloud had covered the sun. Shadow looked up to see the large vessel. "Hmph definitely Eggman." Shadow grumbled.
None of the citizens were bothered, one of them yelled, "Aww, this is like the third time this week." and went inside one of the nearby sky scrapes. No one was afraid, they all knew that either Sonic or Shadow or at least someone would defeat Eggman before anybody got hurt, it was how it always turned out.
Shadow got out one of his chaos emeralds and performed Chaos Control in order to get inside in time. Eggman had made countless and various models of large ships but each one had the cockpit or control room in roughly the same place so Shadow found the predictable evil genius within thirty seconds. "You're going to pay dearly for what you've done!" Shadow yelled viciously.
"What have I done? I've not done anything yet!" Eggman exclaimed while sitting at his seat in the middle of the large control panel and computer screens.
"You made GUN send me out on an urgent mission… during my lunch break!" Shadow growled at the same time as his stomach did. He looked furious. "If you thought I was grumpy before… you haven't even seen what I'm like while I'm hungry." he hissed and narrowed his eyes.
"Okay Shadow, calm down. I wasn't going to hurt anyone or do anything bad… this was all just a ways to lure you in." Eggman explained sinisterly.
"Continue your attempt to ambush me and I'll snap your neck in two." Shadow snarled.
"This isn't an ambush." the scientist chuckled. Shadow looked interested. "I'm giving you an offer. Work for me to help me take over the world and you won't have to work for GUN again, also, you'll have anything you want because you'll rule the world with me."
"No." Shadow gave the simple answer.
"What!? But I need your power Shadow, it's incredible, why can't I use it!?" he exclaimed sounding fed up.
"Because it's mine! My power!" Shadow snapped.
"No, GUN's power." Eggman commented. Shadow sent a chaos spear that broke part of the support on the bottom of the chair. The stunned scientist fell to the floor.
"I belong to no one, and certainly not you." Shadow said and pointed and angry finger at him.
"That's just the hunger talking, come on." Eggman said nervously while getting up off the floor. "It'll be okay, you won't work for me, you'll work with me."
Shadow sighed and shook his head as though he had heard it all before. "Chaos control!" he yelled. There was a large flash but Shadow hasn't seemed to have gone anywhere, he was still in the ship.
"Shadow, where did you transport my ship to?" Eggman asked nervously.
"I suggest you use one of your emergency escape pods." Shadow said monotonously. "Chaos-"
Eggman made a dash out of the room as Shadow's body began to glow red. "-Blast!" The whole ship began to explode and disintegrate bit by bit, the fire and bangs following Eggman as he ran.
Shadow performed chaos control again, he was back in Station Square like before. He gazed up at the sky at what looked like a comet burning in the atmosphere of the earth, never to be seen again., but is wasn't a comet, it was Eggman's ship. Shadow then held his wrist up to his mouth. "Mission complete." he said and headed back to GUN HQ with his fists at his sides looking miserable and irritated, like he could snap any second.
When he arrived back in the command room, he unexpectedly got a sudden and tight hug from Rouge. "Oh Shadow, you're okay." she said sounding distressed as she hugged him.
"No big surprise there. Like always, it was nothing." Shadow said. "In fact it was easier than most times, it was like he was just asking for it."
"Well, I can understand your disappointment Shadow, but don't worry, we have another mission for you now." The Commander said.
"Excuse me!?" Shadow said looking at him furiously. Rouge broke away from Shadow, knowing that he had gotten angry for me. "I have a lunch break now. There is a large pizza with my name on it." Shadow hissed. "And I'm not going anywhere until I've had it."
"You missed your lunch break while doing the mission, the pizza will have to wait." The Commander said firmly. Shadow looked at him with pure hatred. "Here is the information, now go and complete your next mission before I punish you." The Commander threatened. Shadow's face expression was livid, he snatched the piece of paper with the details on and stormed out of the room.
"He is not going to go easy on anyone who gets in his way on that mission, he skipped breakfast today." Rouge said sounding concerned.
Shadow came through the main door of HQ again two hours later he looked just as annoyed as he did when he left. All soldiers and workers at the place avoided him at all costs, he appeared to be so angry, he could break someone's leg if they got in his way. The grumpy hedgehog made his way back to the command room to report back his progress. After ten minutes of discussion, Shadow was dismissed for his break.
"Finally." he grumbled as he left the room. "It's time to go and get that pizza." he said and left the building feeling determined to get a takeaway pizza for his lunch.
Meanwhile Eggman was entering the Space Colony ARK in an escape pod, he climbed out of it sounding as though he was out of breath. "I'm glad I was able to get here after all of this time. If Shadow was planning on killing me then he shouldn't have put my ship so close to the ARK. I should be safe here for the time being. All I need to do is gather materials to build a ship or find some kind of abandoned space vessel to fly me home." Eggman said to himself.
He made his way into the main corridors and found an old abandoned lab. "Oh, this must be the place where Shadow was made. Pretty pathetic compared to the labs I have." Eggman said in disgust as he walked inside and looked at the old fashioned equipment.
He began fiddling with old technology left behind and looking through the files and what was stored in the cupboards. Then there was a look of glee and triumph on his face as he found the top secret and most important pieces of information from Project Shadow.
Several hours later he left with what he needed for his next evil scheme.
Lucy Labrador
