(Since I got some good feedback with the first chapter I'll post the second now. I've had it done and just needed to check it through first...so enjoy...)

Life with father

Chapter two

Waking up

As soon as the Black Comet was hundreds and thousands of miles away from Earth, Black Doom decided that it was time to awaken his hybrid son. He pressed a few buttons that detached the wires from Shadow and pulled on a leaver to empty the liquid inside the pod. As soon as the liquid was completely gone, the pod automatically opened reviling a drenched looking hedgehog, collapsed on the floor due to slight lack of strength in his legs and lightly breathing.

Shadow slowly opened his eyes and blinked out the blurred vision then settled his sights onto his biological father. Shadow instantly eased himself a little out of the pod and slowly inched towards Black Doom on his hands and knees. Shadow then used what little strength he had in his legs to stand up but very slowly and with many wobbles.

Black Doom watched in high annoyance at how weak Shadow seemed to appear, for one he could barely stand without losing his balance. The only part of his hybrid son he seemed to like were his ruby red eyes that with time would strike fear in the most fearless of creature, Doom would definitely make sure of that. Shadow stumbled forward and quickly gripped onto his father's robes to avoid hitting the hard floor of the comet. Black Doom was once again looking highly annoyed at the hedgehog hybrid and lightly growled at its clumsiness and non-coordinated balance, as well as getting that wet substance on his robes, they were dry clean only.

"He's like an infant learning to walk, how pathetic...I was expecting something more stable than a mere infant like hedgehog, who can't even balance on its own damn legs..." Black Doom thought as he frowned down at his so called son in disappointment.

Shadow looked up as he clutched Black Doom's robes and saw a look that he somehow knew he will receive throughout most of his life. Shadow quickly steadied himself and stepped a little away from the alien overlord without falling backwards. He made eye contact with who Shadow assumed to be the soul reason for his existence and did something he would no doubt never do again, Shadow smiled warmly up at Black Doom.

That smile almost made Black Doom vomit all over the comets floor, if he had a mouth that is. It really disgusts him to see any creature, especially his own flesh and blood, showing sickeningly sweet emotions such as smiling and in such a caring fashion too. Black Doom frowned darkly at the hybrid and narrowed his three eyes. Shadows smile quickly vanished and was replaced with fear and confusion. Shadow wondered what he did to displease the being in front of him but couldn't come up with an answer so he just remained staring at him all confused like.

"Shadow, I am your creator Black Doom...now follow me and do not fall behind." Black Doom announced in a threatening way as he turned to exit the room they were in, he planned to rid that substance off his hybrid son to avoid it getting anywhere else that would be difficult to get clean.

Shadow stood there for a few seconds, tilting his head a little in confusion but not wanting to be in a huge room alone he followed Black Doom, wobbling a little as he did. Even though Doom pacifically told Shadow not to fall behind, Shadow found that he was struggling to keep up and was indeed falling behind. Black Doom turned a corner and headed down the next hallway to his destination, completely unaware that his hybrid son was far behind and almost falling onto the floor with every quick-ish step he made to try to catch up. Shadow reached the corner Doom turned around and peeped down it while leaning against the wall, slightly out of breath. Panic filled his entire being as he couldn't see Black Doom. He moved and walked down the hallway Doom did and tried to move fast in order to catch up enough to see where he went.

Black Doom carried on moving after turning a few corners here and there but for some strange reason Black Doom froze on the spot, suddenly feeling alone. He slowly turned around and saw nothing but an empty hallway of the comet. Doom growled in anger at not seeing Shadow behind him and started to make his way back to find his disobedient hedgehog son. He moved fast down the hallways and zoomed round each corner until he came back to where he started.

"Where the hell is that damn hedgehog? When I find him he will be severely punished for his disobedience." Black Doom roared out then went on the hunt for Shadow, following the spots of green liquid that fell off Shadow fur.

Shadow was really panicked now, Black Doom was nowhere in sight and he just knew he took a few wrong turnings. To him it was pretty obvious, otherwise he would have bumped into his creator by now. Shadow continued to walk slowly along the corridor he chose to go down, in hopes he would eventually be reunited with Black Doom but instead he found himself to be face to face with 5 large creatures. Shadow stopped and hoped they would pass by and ignore his existence but they didn't. The huge creatures stopped and stared at their hybrid brother, not really sure what to make of him.

"Hi..." Shadow plucked up the courage to say in a friendly voice not wanting to give off a bad first impression for some reason or another.

The creatures or Shadow's brother if you will, backed up a little in surprise, not expecting the young hedgehog to sound so welcoming, infact they weren't even expecting him to talk. A couple of the large creatures growled lightly in acknowledgment and they all slowly walked to wherever they were going, glancing at their hedgehog brother as they passed him. Shadow watched them make their leave in utter confusion mixed with curiosity. He somehow wanted to follow them, having the sudden urge to find out what they were and who they are. Shadow shook his head and carried on searching for the one who awoken him, away from the large creatures.

Doom was catching up with Shadow and was going down the same corridor, the green liquid was no longer anywhere to be seen so Black Doom was simply relying on his inner parental signal, he was tuned in to all his children and vice versa. You could say that they all had a sort of special bond with one another, a special mind link. He stopped as ie of his children walked near him and Black Doom motioned them to stop as they approached in front of him.

"Have any of you seen a black and red hedgehog?" Black Doom asked in a slightly angered tone.

"I know he's down here somewhere. I can sense him but it's faint." Doom thought as he waited for an answer.

The soldiers all nodded and one of them pointed down the hallway to show the warlord where they saw him. Black Doom nodded and left to find his twenty minute old hedgehog son while the large creatures watched Doom float down the corridor in a fast like motion, all glad they're not the ones about to face their father's rage.

Shadow found he was right at the very end of the hallway, which led into a huge room with loads of different optional hallways to go down and a massive walk in area. Shadow had reached to the centre of the comet where all the soldiers would gather to receive battle tactics and orders for invading planets before teleporting away to carry them out. So yeah you could just imagine how big this area was. Shadow was just standing and staring at this huge room in wonder, not noticing his father approaching him from behind. Black Doom stopped right behind his disobedient son and looked down at him, noticing the wondrous look Shadow was giving to this room.

"Shadow! I told you to keep up and what do you do instead, fall behind and get yourself lost. You better improve in your obedience otherwise we are not going to get along." Black Doom bellowed out in anger causing Shadow to turn around fast and shaking a little in shock and fear.

"I-I'm sorry." Shadow apologised in a whisper as he looked down sadly with his ears folded flat on his head and tail tucked in-between his legs slightly.

"I'll let you off with a warning this time Shadow but mark my words, next time you disobey me you will be punished, severely. Now this time you better keep up." Black Doom warned in an annoyed tone then floated passed Shadow, signalling him to follow once again.

As they walked Shadow made sure he was only a few inches behind, even if it was a struggle for him he didn't want to find out what kind of punishment his creator would dish out to him. Shadow had to admit his walking was improving, even if it was only slightly. Black Doom suddenly stopped which caused Shadow to bump into him from behind and fall backwards onto the floor landing on his rear. Shadow quickly picked himself up and stood looking down to the ground in an apologetic manner as Doom turned to face his offspring. Black Doom looked down at the black and red hedgehog with a disappointed glare and sighed out in frustration, still not at all impressed with this hedgehog before him.

"Right in this chamber, is where you will rid that horrid green and slightly fowl smelling substance off your fur. Now stand inside and once the water starts to pour down, rub your body to clean away the sticky green muck. Understand?" Black Doom announced to the young hedgehog who nodded to signify that yes he did.

Shadow slowly walked inside, which annoyed Black Doom further and stood right in the middle of the smallish room. He stood still waiting for this so called water to appear, looking around as he did to pass the time. All of a sudden lukewarm water fell from the ceiling making Shadow yell out in surprise as it hit him at a slight hard force. Shadow stood frozen on the spot but then realised he better do as his creator instructed him to do. So Shadow started to rub his fur vigorously with the water, getting rid of all the green substance.

Black Doom hovered outside the room Shadow was washing in, becoming increasingly annoyed upon how much time the hedgehog was taking to wash. Ten minutes passed by slowly and it was by pure luck that Shadow came out arms wrapped around his body from feeling a little cold and dripping wet before Black Doom had a chance to go in and drag the hybrid out.

"About time…wait here." Black Doom instructed in a slightly angered tone then disappeared via teleportation.

Shadow flattened his ears upon Black Doom's angered voice, unsure of what he did wrong this time then total shock and curiosity rushed through him as he witnessed his creator disappearing within a blink of an eye.

A puddle of water was quickly forming where Shadow stood and looking down at it Shadow had upon that moment decided to lightly stomp in the puddle then not long after jumped in it. Just as Shadow was about to land in the largish puddle of water for the third time, Black Doom reappeared. It all happened way to fast for the both of them to registered, Shadow landed in the puddle quite heavily causing the water to splash up and over Black Doom's robes and back onto himself. Doom looked down at his hedgehog son with a deadly glare, growling menacingly with utter disgust at how childish Shadow was acting. He will definitely have to crush that side of the hybrid, infact it will be the first to go.

"I-I'm s-sorry…I…I didn't know you were going to reappear so quickly…" Shadow once again apologised to his creator with ears folded back, hands behind his back and looking down with regret of what happened.

"Just dry yourself you little pest." Black Doom grumbled, dumping a cream coloured towel over the head of his so called Ultimate Weapon harshly.

Shadow did as he was told going quicker as he heard irritating grunts from the slightly wet warlord above him.

"Why the hell did I even think of this plan?" Doom thought as he glared down at the his child, who had suddenly stopped in his actions.

"F-finished…" Shadow announced with fear in his eyes as he looked up at Black Doom who snatched the towel off him.

"About time…stay!" Black Doom said narrowing his eyes then teleported out of sight again.

"Why do I get the feeling he hates me." Shadow thought as he did as he was told.

Doom reappeared without the towel but instead he held Shadow's belongings he took with him from that space station. Shadow stepped back a little in surprise then looked up with an unhappy look. Doom dropped Shadow's rings, skates and gloves onto the floor for the hedgehog to put on. He shouldn't have been surprised by the confused yet unhappy look Doom was given by Shadow. Grumbling in complaint he once again glared at the forty minute old hedgehog in front of himself.

"Put them on, the rings go over your hands and feet. They were designed to help you in controlling the chaos energy your feeble body possess. The gloves are to be put over your hands and the hover skates are to be put over your feet…now get a move on and put them on!" Black Doom explained feeling extremely frustrated then thought as he watched Shadow get 'dressed', "didn't those idiot scientists even think to give this pathetic creature basic living information."

"What is chaos energy?" Shadow built up the courage to ask once he was done.

"Chaos Energy is an ancient power that runs through both of our bodies. It allows us to perform different abilities such as teleportation, disappearing then reappearing somewhere else. It also allows us to harness it and use it to our advantage for attacking our enemies with a destructive force and defending ourselves from opposing threats." Black Doom explained with a sense of pride.

"So can I teleport like you do?" Shadow once again asked with a little more confidence then before.

"Maybe one day. I will need to teach you upon how to successfully accomplish such powerful abilities." Doom replied with, what could only be described as, a small frown.

Shadow had noticed his creators look and decided to leave any more questions for another day. He didn't want Black Doom getting angry at him again, not now they seem to be somewhat getting along…well so Shadow thought anyway.

(There you are chapter two for you, hope you enjoyed it and thanks for reading. Please review if you liked the story so far…next chapter will be up soon...)