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Sonic the Hedgehog

CHAPTER 2: SHADOW

Act 2: Kingdom Valley Zone: Part 2

After escaping from Robotnik's base in White Acropolis, Shadow and Rouge headed for Kingdom Valley, to meet up with G.U.N. Shadow and Rouge walked around in Soleanna to find a into Kingdom Valley as they didn't have any transportation with them. All the while, Shadow pondered about the voice he heard that threatened to kill him.

"Who was that?" he asked himself.

"Now I got you, Sonic!" said a voice.

Someone ran up behind Shadow and grabbed him in an embrace. He looked to see it was Amy again, the same girl he spoke with onboard the ARK.

"You're not Sonic!" she said as she looked at him, "You're Shadow!"

"This is the 2nd time you thought he was Sonic, little girl," said Rouge, "Either you're stupid or you need glasses."

"Looks who's talking," Amy said back, "You should see the way you're dressed!"

"How dare you!" said the insulted Rouge.

"Enough!" said Shadow. "Let's just be on our way."

Shadow continued walking into the city as Rouge followed after, looking back at Amy who stuck her tongue out to insult her.

As Shadow and Rouge walked forward, Shadow stop short.

"What is it?" Rouge asked. "

Don't turn around," he answered, "We're being watched."

A robot watched from behind them, sent by Robotnik's teleporter to capture Shadow and Rouge. He threw a Chaos Spear at it, destroying completely. The people close by turned their attention to the sound of the explosion, wondering what happened. They looked at the 2 nearby the explosion; Rouge and Shadow, wondering if they had something to do with it.

They continued walking as Rouge said, "Looks like he's not giving up yet, is he?"

"The sooner we get to Kingdom Valley, the better," Shadow answered.

They came across a G.U.N boat in the harbor of the city.

"Looks like they prepared us a ride," said Rouge.

Shadow boarded the boat as Rouge flew into it. He turned it on and set its course for Kingdom Valley. As the ship sailed, the mysterious whisper came to Shadow again.

"Shadow....the....hedgehog...." it whispered, ".....You....will....die!"

"What is this?" Shadow asked himself, "Who is it that knows my name?"

"It's a shame I hadn't brought my bathing suit," said Rouge as she sat on the board, looking at the scepter in her hands.

"Stick 'em up!" yelled an unseen voice.

A small robot emerged from below the ship, armed with an oversized gun with a wide barrel to it.

"Now if you're smart to listen to me," said the robot, "You'll take this boat over ta Robotnik! Or else I'd blow this ship up and we'll see how good ya are at swimming, Sonic!"

"Why do they always think I'm him?" Shadow asked out loud.

"My, if it isn't Coconuts," said Rouge.

"And you!" said Coconuts as he pointed the gun at Rouge, "If you're smart, you would hand over that scepter ta me!"

"Oh, you mean this?" she asked, "Well, I just like to hold onto it for a little while."

"We don't have to time to deal with weaklings like you," said Shadow.

He quickly dashed next to Coconut and kicked him off of the boat and into the air. Coconuts took aim at Shadow while in the air and fired, shooting a spring-loaded boxing glove at him. Without even looking, Shadow punched the glove away, sending it back and punching Coconuts with his own weapon in the face and drop him into the water.

"A boxing glove?" Rouge asked, "Not a very good weapon to take hostages with."

They arrived at Kingdom Valley after a while after sailing in the boat. They left the boat and headed deep into the valley, shortly arriving at the rendezvous point.

"The former king of Soleanna used to reside in this castle," said Rouge to pass the time, "But a major accident occurred 5 years ago, and no one's lived here ever since."

"Accident?" Shadow asked.

"I heard a prototype energy engine failed, which caused the accident. I think the name of the plan was...."

"The Solaris Project," said Robotnik appearing in his Egg-O-Matic and finishing Rouge's sentence. "It was an ambitious project named after their eternal sun god."

"Robotnik," said Rouge as she saw him.

"It's been a while, Dear Rouge," said Robotnik, "And of course, Shadow. Now, if you would be so kind as to hand back the Scepter of Darkness you took from me."

"Is that what it's called?" Shadow thought, "Scepter of Darkness?"

Robots flew down from the air, surrounding Shadow and Rouge with guns drawn to fire. They split up, avoiding the gunfire with Shadow running around the robots and destroying them as Rouge flew in the air. She looked down to check on Shadow for a second before looking back and seeing the Egg-O-Matic's arms up close. It punched her out of the sky as she let out a scream and the Scepter dropped.

"No!" Robotnik yelled, "She dropped the Scepter! Catch it!"

Shadow see the falling Rouge and Scepter. Thinking quickly, he dashed and caught Rouge from falling to her death. The robots rushed to catch the scepter, but were too late as it shattered before they could reach it. They started to malfunction for a strange reason as Shadow walked to observe the remains of the Scepter. Suddenly, a black smoke erupted out of the remains, destroying the surrounding robots.

"It's no use!" said Robotnik, "I gotta get out of here!"

The dark smoke finished destroying the robots and landed near the remains of the scepter as it came into contact of Shadow's shadow. As the 2 looked, his shadow was being absorbed into the black smoke.

"What?" said Rouge, "His shadow!"

The black smoke started to take form, turning into something their eyes couldn't believe; The smoke transformed into Shadow himself, although colorless with gray streaks of fur than red, green sinister looking eyes and no mouth, yet it spoke.

"Oh, how ironic fate can be!" he said, "I would never have believed I was resurrected in your shade. I thank you, Shadow the Hedgehog!"

He bowed his head as a token of thanking him as Shadow asked, "Who are you? And how do you know my name?" Shadow asked.

While keeping his head down and slowly walking toward them, the Shadow look-a-like introduced himself,

"I'm Mephiles!" he said, "Mephiles the Dark! What...did you forget me? I owe much to you, Shadow."

Shadow and Rouge back away from him as he raised his arm, looking like he planned to attack.

"Oh yes," he said, "What you gave to me, I now return to you! A one-way ticket to oblivion!" A large dome appeared around the 3, trapping them inside.

It zapped them with bolts of energy as they screamed in pain before disappearing from sight, along with the menacing creature, Mephiles.

To Be Continued!