Chapter Two: The Beginning of Something Evil
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Shadow woke from his sleep and looked around and he got out of the bed and yawned. He jumped out of the window and jumped to the roof and looked to the sun rising over the horizon. He sighed and looked down, he jumped of the roof and headed to the city. Shadow was balancing himself on a flagpole high above the city. He had his face in a stern look and he fell backwards and swung from the flagpole and with his hover shoes dashed across the side of a skyscraper. He walked across the roof of a building around in circles and trying to figure out Eggman's plan. He stopped and a thought occurred, he might be after kuki. He wore a shocked face and then rushed off to kuki's house.
He stood in front of her house and noticed no car in its driveway, her parents must be out. So he decided to go through the front door. He walked in slowly and quietly he went up the stairs and got to kuki's bedroom. He looked through a creek that the door was slightly open. He saw kuki sitting on her bed she was reading a magazine and she was listening to some music, she was wearing earphones. She was smiling of course, he opened the door and she smiled at him and waved. He sat in one of her chairs, she turned off her MP3 and took the earphones out and looked at shadow. He looked bored and somewhat less caring. He looked at her broken window and back at her "Sorry about that.'' he apologized "No worries.'' she said "So what do you think Eggman is up to?'' she questioned "Who knows, but we have to be ready he could come at any time.'' he replied. All of a sudden a explosion hit her wall and the two were pushed back from the explosion. They both looked to see a group of eggmans hovering out of the hole in the wall. "I hate irony.'' shadow said he picked kuki up in his arms and jumped toward the hole the robots moved out of the way and shadow sped down the street and once again the chase is on.
Shadow sped through the neighborhood with the robots giving chase. One of the robots fired a missile, shadow jumped onto a car and at the last second the missile hit the car as it exploded into pieces of metal. Smoke came from behind them and shadow finally landed back on the street and continued using his speed to avoid the robots. Shadow jumped onto the roof of a house and leapt from one to another. When shadow stopped on one he looked back to see the robots not there anymore. He turned back around and jumped off the roof and onto the road again. He looked around with kuki still in his arms.
They both looked at each other "Don't worry we'll lose them and I'll protect you no matter what, alright?'' he explained kuki smiled with her eyes sparkling and she hugged him. Shadow smiled and continued down the street he jumped onto a roof and walked across it, but the roof was destroyed as a metal claw stuck out of it, another claw broke through it and out came Metal Knuckles. Shadow and metal stared each other down, metal charged first. Shadow evaded and landed on the ground and headed back to the city. Metal charged up his jets and boosted after shadow. Shadow gritted his teeth and looked back to see metal still determined to fight. Shadow closed his eyes and with chaos control the two teleported on top of one of the skyscrapers. He looked around just to see sky and the buildings below. A crack in the roof formed and bursting out of it was metal knuckles. Shadow took a few steps back and looked behind him to see that he was at the edge of the building. He looked back at metal knuckles who charged and tackled shadow off the building not only that he fell kuki was knocked unconscious and fell down the building, "KUKI!!'' shadow shouted, he focused back on metal who came down toward him shadow swung to the left and used a swing kick and sent metal impacting through the surface of the building they fell from.
Shadow looked down to see kuki was nearing solid concrete. Shadow teleported below her and she landed in his arms and shadow hovered with his trusty shoes down to the ground. She lay motionless in his arms, shadow couldn't say nothing he was just shocked. He fell to his knees and his lip quivered and he closed his eyes. "I…failed.'' he spoke "I couldn't…protect her.'' he said sadly. He saw people around him staring at him, he looked back at his best friend. He laid her on the sidewalk. He lowered his head and shed a few more tears, until a loud clang sounded behind him, metal knuckles stood behind him. Shadow looked straight forward and his faced turned to angry, he clenched his fists and teleported behind metal and turned him around and sent powerful punches left and right across his face. Metal fought back except shadow avoided all his punches, and shadow grabbed him by the neck and with great force he slammed him head first into the ground. Metal struggled to get his head out of the ground. Shadow glared and placed a grenade under him. He stepped back and the explosive detonated and sent metal hurdling skywards.
Shadow leaped up and tackled him square in the chest until they both crashed through a building wall and into a work office. Shadow got up and saw around him the panicking civilians running away from the scene. Shadow wasted no time, he marched towards metal as the metal knuckles started to get up shadow kicked him right in the face throwing him back skidding across the ground and stopped. Shadow marched at him again however metal gave him an uppercut and shadow crashed one floor up through the ceiling. Metal jumped through the hole and as soon as he was seen, shadow held an A4 rocket launcher and fired it and metal collided into the wall. Shadow lunged at him and sent both his feet into metals chest and they both crashed out of the wall of the building and sent falling again. Shadow and metal spun around in mid air and falling exchanging punches and kicks. Shadow got the right moment and shadow got above metal and dove kick at metal in the back and sent metal crashing into the concrete street and shadow hovered to safety. He growled and metal came out of the small crater with sparks coming out form his body, metal activated his jets and flew into the sky and made his escape. Shadow was breathing heavily and he stopped and closed his eyes and lowered his head. Then a distant cry was heard "Shadow!'' a person screamed and that person happened to be Kuki.
Shadow's ears perked up and he turned around to see a few feet from him was his best friend. He turned all the way around and they both looked at each other from afar. Shadow had a small amount of tears fall form his cheeks, with Kuki's eyes glimmering at the sight of her friend. Shadow and kuki then ran toward each other and finally they hugged each other tightly. The two were together again and when they separated they both gazed at each other happily. Shadows face changed as he flinched with his eyes widened he looked back to see Eggman in his hover ship with a gun. Shadow noticed a dart that hit him in the back, it was Eggmans vial he had before and it slowly emptied into shadows body. Shadow yanked it out and threw it to the ground and shadow and kuki both glared at Eggman, but what is in the dark red chaos emerald energy and what effects will it have on Shadow?