Chapter 7 - Betrayed
"I'm getting close." Shadow could feel the energy from the other chaos emeralds. He walked around the corner and saw Topaz along with multiple GUN robots.
"Wanna live?" Shadow growled.
"Give it up, you're not getting those emeralds.
He smirked. "Don't fool yourself, you haven't seen me so motivated… yet." He launched and started knocking the robots into the wall, bouncing from one to the next before landing and facing Topaz.
"One last chance, I'd hate to kill you, but know I won't hesitate." His eyes were beginning to flame. The mist also returned, and he could see the fright in Topaz's eyes.
"O- Over my dead body, hedgehog."
He frowned. "Have it your way." He hit her with a chaos spear, she collapsed, then he grabbed her pistol.
"You should've handed them over." he said, pressing the gun up to her forehead. He cocked the gun and was about to shoot when the gun was kicked out of his hand.
"Shadow, what in the hell are you doing?" Rouge pleaded, now standing between them.
"Rouge… don't make me do this." The mist was fading, but the fire in his eye screamed how serious he was.
"Listen, I know you're doing this for Eggman. He has something you want, what is so important that you'd kill all these people to get those emeralds?" she held his hand out to him.
He thought about taking it, then he smacked it. "The doctor says he has Maria. I know it… it sounds crazy. You know she means the world to me, and nobody will stand in between me and her, not even you." He stared coldly into her eyes.
"I really don't wanna hurt you, Rouge. You've always cared about me, so do this for me."
Her heart sank, he was crazy. "Maria? She's dead Shad, listen, you saw it yourself."
He winced. "Rouge, my memory has been lost and altered so many times, I don't know what really happened." He clenched his fist. "Move. Now." He showed his fangs.
She took a step back, then moved over. He began to walk past her then she reached out to grab his shoulder. He turned and hit her in the stomach with unrelenting force. The wind instantly left her body. She glanced into his icy cold eyes one last time before everything went black.
"I told you to let me go." He leaned down and grabbed her hand. "I'm sorry." he whispered. Then kicked Topaz in the head and knocked her out. He speared through the door and saw the emeralds. He hit a button on his watch. "Doctor, I have the emeralds, once I grab them I'll chaos control to you." He walked over and put them all into a bag, then held up his red emerald, and used chaos control again.
A bright light appeared on Eggman's ship. Shadow appeared and handed Eggman the bag. "I see you upgraded from that wack ass base you had." he smirked.
"Very funny Shadow, hand me the red one."
"Not so fast doc. Where's Maria."
Eggman sighed. "This way."
Shadow followed "I don't sense a trap, or Maria…"
"Doc, where are we going?"
"To meet someone who can take you to her."
Shadow was hesitant, something started to creep into his mind.
"Shadow, it's me, Maria! Come find me!" Shadow froze, hearing her voice in his head took him off guard. He continued walking behind the doctor.
They entered a dark room, then the doc hit the lights.
"Well look who it is, if it isn't Shadow the Hedgehog."
Shadow stood there. "Wha- how do you know me?" he was stunned.
"Know you, heh, I know everything about you shadow."
"Who… what are you?" Shadow was near speechless from what he was looking at.
"I've been called a lot of names, God, Destroyer of Worlds, but you can call me Mephiles."
*Hey everyone, quick note. If you made it this far and there's no chapters after it's because I've written all of this in a two day span, I'm a college student with lots of free time, so between classes I tend to write. More will be coming soon, I promise! - PackageHD