Chapter 1: It's a long road
On a highway that separates on one side a rocky hill and on the other a large wood inhabited by critters and deers and some creatures that aren't affected by the radiation of GENE bombs, a black hedgehog with red lines running on his back and sides carrying a leather luggage walking to the nearby city of Westopolis. His name is Shadow the hedgehog. He came to the outskirt of town when a police cruiser came up in front of him. The driver was an pin sized Overlander with only 6 hairs left on his head. "Where are going? North or South?" he asked the hedgehog, Shadow replied to him with a mumbling like voice, "North". "Hop in i'll make sure you'll head to the right direction." And so the hedgehog embarked on the police cruiser and let the officer take him wherever the officer like to. But little does Shadow knew that this is officer Snively Robotnik, famous for his ego and a control freak who will do whatever it takes to get his way. "Is there any place i can eat in here?" Shadow asked, Snively gave Shadow an answer that aimed to drive the hedgehog out of town. "There's a diner about 30 miles out of this town. Eating around here while on my time is against the law of me." When they've reach the far side of the city, Snively let Shadow continues walking to the diner that he mentioned earlier. "Hope that this trip help you." Then Snively turn around and drive back to his police station. But then the rain was coming in and Shadow was too hungry to walk or dash to the diner, let alone his super speed. And so risking the law violation, Shadow decided to walk back into the city to seek shelters from the weather.
Snively suddenly looked at his car's mirror and saw Shadow was walking back into the city, enraged by the return of the hedgehog, Snively turned the car around and stop Shadow, "What do ya think ya doing huh? Hands on the car!" But Shadow still standing around like a statue, this provoked Snively to use extreme measures on Shadow, "I said HANDS ON THE CAR!" only with that yell, Shadow placed his gloved hands on the police car, Snively then searched Shadow for anything that he might find suspicious. "What's this?" Snively uncovered a knife hidden in Shadow's jacket, this discovery led Snively to arrest the hedgehog without anything that could be call a crime. Some minutes later, Snively brought Shadow into his police station for a long stay, the desk worker at the entrance of the station wrote down the so called "Crimes" that Shadow commited, "Suspect is arrested for resisting arrest and having a concealed weapon. He said he was using it for hunting." Snively said to the desk worker. After doing the paper work, Snively brought Shadow down to the basment where the cells are located. This is where Shadow met Snively assistance, another control freak named Art Gulch. Gulch was older than Snively in many ways, he had grey hairs, moustache, a face with wrinkles all over. "So what do we got this time? Another drifter?" Gulch asked Snively. "Yes, and this time, he's a hedgehog." Gulch stand up from his desk just to see the new comer and prisoner, he was amazed to see a small multicolored hedgehog, "You got a name son?" Gulch asked Shadow.
But the same thing that happened to Snively goes to him, Shadow doesn't answer the man. The fat assistance immediately got an impression that Shadow was playing with his mine, "Starting to dislike you, alot." Gulch holds a cane on Shadow's chin, he happens to found a dogtag hanging on the hedgehog's neck. Gulch took a closer look into the words written on it, "Hedgehog, Shadow. That might come in handy." Gulch then typed down the name of the hedgehog whilst Snively went upstair to continues his patrol. The police officers were having so much problems from a tiny little hedgehog, when they took his gloves off to take his finger prints, Shadow resisted them hands down. It took more than three person just get a finger print. Then they subjected him to a high power water hoist, calling it "Bath time." Finally, their torments forced Shadow to the very breaking point of his endurance, the tried to shave him while his chin was still dried and without the use of soap. From Shadow's point of view it was like how he was tortured by one of Dr Eggman's robot crossing his chest with knife. He screams loudly and start kicking the cops back, to Gulch's surprise, the hedgehog gave him a throw into the cell that they used to imprison him, another cop came up on the entrance into the cell block was kicked back by Shadow hanging on the bar. THen Shadow ran upstair to lighting speed, an officer opens the door to basement in curious to know what happened down there was immediately knock out cold by Shadow. The evidences holder was examining the survial knife of Shadow was suddenly kick in the leg by the hedgehog, Shadow took his knife back and ran out to the streets of Westopolis.
He saw a motocycle was passing by, and so Shadow jumped on a car and kick the owner of the motorcycle off, he then commandeer the vehicle and make a quick dash out of town into the forest. Snively saw what just happened with his own two eyes, and decided to run after Shadow, the chase lasted through the highway, off to the rocky side of the forest and finally ended with Snively accidently overturned his cruiser and leaving Shadow running with his own two legs up to the hill.