Visible and Invisible
Chapter 1
Shadow stopped, looking over the rocky plain that was starting to show a bit of green again. He saw something, he quickly skated down. It was Robotnik's Egg-o-matic machine, and close to it were Robotnik's bones. Shadow didn't feel any nausea at the sight, he just felt contempt for Eggman. He had kept on trying to destroy the environment that he loved when he was taking a break from trying to stop Sonic, or rather, pretending to take a break.
But he wasn't looking for Eggman, he was looking for Sonic. The battle had been terrible....
Flashback.
Robotnik's latest machine was destroying more and more of Mobius's surface each minute, and Sonic wasn't there to stop it, Omega and Gamma were inside trying to learn which controls would turn it off, every second another foot of green was torn up, chewed, and spat out as dull wood chips and shredded green. Shadow was unable to do anything. Even though he and Sonic shared a sometimes less-than-friendly rivalry, he wanted to help Sonic.
Sonic had even gone to his hyper form and still hadn't beat Robotnik's latest machine. They weren't named Egg then something anymore, this was the Destructo-Sonic (how subtle), Robotnik had gotten obsessed with destroying Sonic, now every machine he built had Sonic's name in it somewhere. This robot was tall, much taller than a tree, and the cockpit was the head, Robotnik was in it. The robot was shaped like Sonic.
If Robotnik had come up with something like that three years ago Sonic would have said something like "Aww... I didn't know you liked me so much!" but all he could do now was dodge and shoot off the occasional attack. He had gone straight at Robotnik at first, but had been wounded, the chaos energy healed him, but he realized that wouldn't go on long. So he'd taken to retreating and attacking when possible. Amy was locked in one of Eggman's ruined bases, and so was Rouge. Everyone else was...... gone.
Shadow pounded harder against the box like structure he was trapped in, but it wasn't good. Sonic couldn't stop long enough to free him, and both of them knew it. "Sh...Shadow!" Shadow heard Sonic call his name, "Toss me your Chaos emerald and try to lend me your powers!" Shadow wasn't sure he should, so he flatly refused. "Shadow this is the only way I'll be able to win!" So Shadow managed to shatter a small section of the box using the chaos emeralds powers as fuel, then he tossed it out and grabbed Sonic's hand.
He could feel himself getting weaker the longer he held on, but hold on he did. Soon he collapsed, only able to lean against one of the corners and watch. "Thanks Shadow." Sonic's fur was white which flickered to blue, then yellow, then red, then black. "Time to end this Robuttnik." He had a trace of his old smile back on his face.
"Chaos............... BLAST!" Sonic's chaos blast was much bigger than Shadow's had been, maybe because he had all the emeralds, maybe because of his hatred for Robotnik, maybe because he was using double the energy he usually had..... whatever it was, it created a huge orb of destructive black energy laced with blue.
Robotnik died on impact, his machine was destroyed, the Egg-o-matic was unharmed though. Omega and Gamma exited the machine they'd been trying to stop as soon as they saw the blast heading their way. They quickly rose high into the air, Gamma helping Omega. The machine was destroyed, almost everything for miles around was reduced to rubble, then Sonic lost power during the middle of the blast, it hit him in the chest and he was flung far away, they couldn't see how far.
When the blast dwindled to nothing, Omega and Gamma came down, they lifted Shadow from the rubble and collected the chaos emeralds, freed Rouge and Amy... but didn't find Sonic.
Amy partly blamed Shadow for Sonic's disappearance, ("You didn't try hard enough to get out!") Shadow would have vented his grief and rage on her if he hadn't know she was taking Sonic's disappearance just as hard as he was. Sure Sonic could be annoying but..... he had always been there, you could always hear some smart remark from him, you could always feel a rush of wind as he ran past... but now..... nothing. Gone, just like the others. Shadow went out every day to look for Sonic, and so far, hadn't found him.
He put his shoulder against a huge rock blocking the path he had to go through, it would take longer to find a way up then continue, his muscles stood out like cords along his arms as it shifted, a robotic hand appeared on the rock behind him and pushed. Shadow stood there just breathing for a few moments then said, "Thanks Gamma." "Affirmative." They continued on.
***
Clunk. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk. Beep beep beep. Omega stood still in the middle of a half-dead forest that Robotnik's final battle hadn't reached... but there wasn't as much water for all the trees, if you were to find a fully green tree it was rare. Clunk. Clunk. Clunk. "Hard drive scan commence." Ninety-nine percent of all the files he had access to. He halted with a final clunk as he found one he couldn't access.
He scanned it, and found to his roboty surprise that Robotnik never had access to it either. It was labeled with two simple letters. P.B. Omega slowly blinked, indicated by the lights that were his eyes slowly dimming until they were black, then slowly brightening back to full intensity. He would have to look into this. As he clunked on, P.B. was burned to his mind.
***
Rouge and Amy were not aware of the small creak as the door opened and the slight draft that swept through the house, the two females were playing a game of monopoly and enjoying themselves immensely. The intruder was pleased (in a fiendish way) that Omega, Gamma, and Shadow were out of the house. He needed them out. He swept forward silently, something in his hand.
"I win!" He heard Amy shout with delight. He aimed, and fired, two shots, in quick succession. They both gasped with surprise, Amy fell across the board, scattering pieces everywhere, Rouge fell back onto the coffee table, water poured onto her shirt and the floor. The intruder smiled, a cold, metallic smile. "Well my pretties. You come with me now, just like before." And he quickly picked them up and disappeared. A curtain blew inward with the wind, the glass smashed.
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