Chapter Four: Wrath of the Mecha Spider
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Nearing Washington D.C., 10:00 am
Shadow, Kuki, and General Richards were in the Huey helicopter, Shadow was glaring at Richards the whole time. "How long are you planning to do that?'' asked the general "I'm having trouble trusting you.'' shadow replied. "Once again, I need you help on this.'' Richards begged "What is it then?'' shadow asked sitting back in his chair. "We caught something on radar, something big.'' Richards began.
"How big?'' shadow questioned "Egg carrier big.'' Richards told him "Eggman was here?'' shadow rose to his feet, he started gritting his teeth. "Calm down shadow, we're not sure if it was him.'' Richards added, shadow sat back in his seat. "However something large was dropped off by the Egg Carrier, something more big.'' Richards explained. Shadow and Kuki both looked at each other then back at Richards, "We got pictures of where it landed, problem is-'' Richards hesitated "What problem?'' shadow raised his voice "Whatever was dropped off immediately ran off somewhere.'' Richards continued "So what your saying is that something so big just came and went, and you have no evidence!!'' shadow yelled "We have one picture.'' Richards handed him a tan paper folder with the words "Top Secret" across it.
Shadow took the single picture out, there were eight round holes dug into the grassy ground, four on one side and four on the other, they were also spread out far. "Where did you get these pictures?'' shadow asked "They were taken just outside of the state, it was close to the capitol building, but like I said whatever it was it ran off.'' Richards told. "So why do you need me?'' shadow asked curiously "I'm going to be giving a speech at the capitol building and I need you to watch me.'' Richards answered. Shadow gave him a glum look, "Are you serious?'' asked shadow, Richards nodded yes. "Why in the world!?! Did you choose me!?'' shadow shouted.
"Just in case someone tries to kill me or ruin this speech, you will be watching.'''' Richards replied "You'll be lucky if I'm not the one doing so.'' shadow replied angrily "Death threats? Very bold shadow, but you'd better do what I say.'' Richards said raising his voice. "I have better luck finding this thing Eggman left.'' shadow replied. "Sir we're here.'' the pilot said "Take us down.'' Richards ordered.
Shadow and Richards both glared at each other until the helicopter landed and Richards stepped off. "Your pretty serious when it comes to this stuff shadow.'' Kuki spoke up "Yeah I guess so.'' shadow said stepping off the chopper with Kuki following. They were behind the Capitol building, what a large structure it was. In front of the building waiting at the wide set of steps to the building was a large group of people waiting there. There were some men in suits standing by the podium General Richards would be giving his speech.
Shadow teleported himself and Kuki on a small balcony overlooking where the speech will be held. "I still don't know why he chose me.'' shadow said sighing "Your pretty reliable, that's probably why.'' Kuki answered "Yeah, but times before he nearly got me killed.'' shadow added "You know that's not possible.'' Kuki said "Just don't think about it and think about this, once your done with this we can leave.'' Kuki said reassuringly. Shadow had a small smile on his face after what she said, but he just noticed general Richards stepped up to the podium. "This ought to be good.'' shadow whispered. "My good people, I know over the past years we have had dangerous forces and disasters that nearly threatened our good world, but I am here to say that there is nothing to worry about.'' Richards spoke "You gotta' be kidding me.'' shadow muttered "We have everything under control, our military forces are keeping their eyes out for any signs of the nefarious Dr. Eggman.'' he continued.
"What a load of garbage.'' shadow said "Higher numbers of military forces are being put around the globe to protect their country so nothing that may come will surprise us.'' Richards spoke on. Then a slight rumble shook the Capitol building, only shadow and Kuki felt it since they were standing on one of its balconies. Shadow jumped above the balcony and saw long metal leg, except it was sharp at the end. Shadow stood back confused, "What in the world is going on?'' he said. Richards however continued his speech. "I am here to confirm that the situation is under control.'' he spoke to the large crowd. Not knowing that more long legs were coming out of the spire. "There is nothing, absolutely nothing we aren't ready for!'' he yelled at the end. Then the entire spire imploded, a large shadow jumped from the spire. It slid across the pool of water in front of the Washington Monument, it slid to a halt. The huge beast turned around, it was a gigantic mechanized spider robot. "Looks like this is the robot Eggman dropped off.'' shadow said in shock.
The huge spider had eight needle like legs, three large spikes ran across its back. Huge spike fangs came from its mouth. The monster let out an echoing screech. Shadow glared at the monstrosity, he saw the crowd of people scattering like a colony of ants. "Kuki get far from here, this is gonna get ugly.'' shadow said cracking his knuckles "Please be careful.'' she said giving him a quick hug before leaving. Shadow used chaos control to teleport a mini gun in his grasp. Shadow teleported onto the spider's head. Shadow aimed it straight into it's head and let the bullets go. The spider stood on its back legs, shadow held on to the robot until it got back on all eight. Shadow continued firing the weapon into it's cranium. The spider's waved his head throwing shadow off and landing into the pool of water in front of the Washington monument. Shadow sped across the water dodging each of its piercing legs from crushing him. Shadow went up one of its legs and leaped into the air. Shadow's hands glowed gold, "Take THIS!!'' he fired a thick beam of golden light in its back. It impacted with strong force actually throwing the spider on its back. It's legs squirmed in the air, but it got back on its legs again. It opened its mouth, a dark purple laser fired out and smashed into shadow. The laser stopped leaving shadow in a crater.
Shadow crawled out of the crater and stood back up, a hatch opened up on its head, a pack of missiles fired up into the sky. Shadow gasped and immediately sped away. The missile impacts followed him closely, shadow turned his head, he saw one coming right on him. Shadow turned around and kicked it back at the spider. The missile hit the spider in the head making it screech. A giant sliding door opened up on its back, a huge plasma cannon rose out of its back. A green light was brightening inside, "Oh boy.'' shadow said taking off running. The green beam of laser shot out of the barrel following the hedgehog.
Shadow made a quick right and dashed back to the spider. The laser stopped its firing, two doors opened out of the sides of its head. Two giant twin mini guns came out and fired on shadow. He swerved between the bullets, but some actually zipped across his skin making him bleed a little. Shadow jumped towards its face, he teleported onto one of its machine guns and yanked it off. Shadow being so close fired into its head with extreme velocity.
Shadow jumped back on top of its head, he tossed two C4 charges on its other machine gun. He jumped towards it back and pressed the detonator. A cloud of fire came out of the side of its face. Shadow looked confident, until he was grabbed by a metal tentacle coming from a portion of its back. The tentacle threw him into the air, the giant cannon's barrel glowed green and fired a single shot at shadow. A direct hit slammed shadow into the stairs in front of the capitol building. A large crater was left where he laid, covered with dirt and drops of blood dropping he stood back up.
Shadow noticed general Richards hiding behind a piece of debris. In one of his hands was a briefcase, shadow felt a large amount of power radiating from it. He widened his eyes, "The Chaos Emeralds!'' his mind shouted. Shadow marched over to him and snatched the briefcase from his hands. "I'll need these.'' shadow walked off "You come back with those!!'' Richards yelled furiously. Shadow opened the case, he held his arms out to his left and right. The spider screeched and roared at him, shadow saw it charging up its cannon again. The seven emeralds spun around him quickly, the shot from the spider fired. Shadow absorbed the emeralds creating a bright gold light. The laser hit where he stood, instead the laser shot from the spider reflected and hit the spider dead on. The metal arachnid stumbled backwards and scanned for shadow. The cloud of smoke cleared revealing Super Shadow.
Now with the power of the chaos emeralds bundled up in him, it was an even fight. The giant spider stomped the ground with his front legs before charging at shadow. Shadow fired five red glowing chaos spears, the spears hit it creating large explosions pushing the spider back. Shadow sped right towards its head, he collided with it throwing it into the pool of water in front of the Washington monument. The Mecha Spider got back up and fired twenty rockets out of its back, shadow put up a bubble shield around himself. The missiles pummeled against his barrier, he couldn't withstand the power of the missiles. The shield went down and the last ten rockets hit shadow into the ground as more came and exploded on him. The spider marched forward waiting patiently for him to reveal himself. Shadow teleported above the spiders head and lunged both his feet into its dome. The spider was forced to fall flat on the ground by the pressure. Shadow saw its missile pack opening in its head, shadow fired a chaos spear in it. A large explosion drifted into the sky, shadow flew back and smiled with victory. Shadow's face turned to confusion when its head was still attached. "Pretty strong robot Eggman.'' he mumbled.
Ten tentacles came and grabbed shadow in their grasp. Shadow let out a burst of energy freeing himself, but he didn't see when the spider lifted on leg up and brought it down on shadow. Shadow was crushed into the ground by its girth. All of a sudden, its leg imploded into tiny bits and pieces. Shadow was glowing gold brighter as he hovered back into the air. The spider roared with a loud screech, the enormous came out of its back. It immediately powered up and fired a full blast. Shadow stuck his hands in front and took the blast. It continuously fired, with shadow stopping.
"You want power? I'LL SHOW YOU POWER!!!'' he yelled. His hands fired a large blast of red energy shooting through the cannon blast and hitting the spider. The spider flew across the air and hit the ground with a loud bang. The spider got up looking not weakened a bit. "Damn thing just won't stay down.'' shadow muttered. The spider fired barrages from its cannon now, shadow ducked and weaved through the shots doing his best to avoid them.
Shadow sped right through a shot and hit the spider under its head throwing it in front of the Washington monument. Shadow came charging again, but the spider grabbed him with the tentacles and pinned him down on the ground. It lifted its left front leg and it transformed into a giant spike. Shadow gulped, the spider lifted the leg high up, "CHAOS BLAST!!'' shadow thundered. A dome of red energy through the spider off him and flew into the air. Shadow turned around to the Washington monument. He stuck his hands out at it, a golden light formed around it. The monument lifted off its hinges and shadow turned it toward the still flying spider. The spider was lined up with the capitol building, shadow aimed the point of the monument carefully. With all his power he launched it, the monument speared and stuck in the spiders stomach. Finally it slammed against the capitol building being pinned by the monument.
It squirmed helplessly until it's legs drooped down, with no power left inside its body. Shadow hovered down to the ground. He was breathing heavily after all the energy he used during the battle. The seven emeralds dropped around him, "Well that wasn't as easy as I thought.'' he said. Suddenly he felt a sharp pain in his back, he looked and saw tranquilizer darts in his back. Shadow yanked them out and threw them aside, he saw general Richards dropping the dart gun and walking towards him. Shadow dropped to the ground on both his knees, the general grabbed the seven emeralds and put them back in his case. "Sorry Shadow, I need these.'' he walked away. Shadow fell flat on the ground until he fell into a deep dark sleep.