A Hero...
He was not a hero...
This world had no heroes.
Not even the blue hedgehog was a hero. Battling the tyrannical schemes of a demented doctor from time when there were so many greater threats in the world could barely grant you such a romantic title.
And Shadow the hedgehog, was definitely not a hero.
He had not saved this world from Black Doom because it was right, he'd done it simply because he'd made a little girl a promise to protect this planet from all threats, and he was intent on keeping it.
Even now, his crusade against the vile beings on Mobius was not some valiant stand against evil, or because he personally felt driven to.
He did it simply because he owed Maria his very existence, for the kindness and the love she'd shown him, for giving her life for him....
He would fight forever if that's what it took to fulfill such a great debt, and he very well could. For immortality knew no bounds. With it he could very well rid the world of those who would continue to fill Mobius with pain and suffering.
Shadow snorted, now he was beginning to get too far ahead of himself.
He'd barely even begun this purging and already he felt he could truly eliminate all the threats?
He'd heard one too many of the blue hedgehog's bigheaded assertions of his superiority to the Doctor's schemes....
It would be hard enough doing all of this by himself, and adding to his troubles was the eventuality that he would sooner or later have to deal with G.U.N. He knew for sure that his actions hadn't gone unnoticed and expected any day now for G.U.N to make it known he was starting to get on their nerves by doing their job for them.
Oh well. Let them come.
Perhaps they would make his ventures a little more interesting as it was becoming quite boring really; the ease of his path of destruction.
Every time it was the same.
He would arrive, be greeted by surprised faces, pathetic fools who were, despite the danger they presented, completely unprepared for an attack against them of any kind.
Then, he would crush them. All of them.
With the power of Chaos he would send the cowards scattering as he destroyed absolutely everything around him that they could use to spread their own destruction.
While Shadow prided himself on being efficient, he would admit that he that every so often left stragglers, but only so that the survivors could run like the gutless worms they all were to let their leaders--if he of course had not already disposed of them--know that there time was up. That something was coming for them, all of them.
And that something was the Ultimate Life-form.
Ahead of him, he could see the bright lights of his next destination.
Rainbow City....It had taken him days to reach it.
The night sky was brilliantly illuminated by the gleaming beams of color that had earned this city its namesake.
Such a shame...
If what he'd heard of the Dingoe Regime was true, then this city would soon be considering something a little less colorful to go by.
If there even was a city left to name...