SONIC ADVENTURE 2: SHADOW

Disclaimer: I do not own the Sonic characters, only Kumori.

Chapter Nine: Fighting and Healing

"I'm the new hero in town. The name's Mach." The masked hero, Mach, said. "Mach? Let me guess, that's short for Mockery." Dark Sonic coldly said. "No, it Mach, like Mach speed. You know since I can run really fast and…" he was cut off when Dark Sonic jabbed his elbow into Mach's stomach. The jab had sent Mach flying into one of the crumbling buildings, plowing her into the wall. "That's gonna hurt in the morning." Mach said as he pried himself out of the wall.

Dark Sonic slowly walked over to Mach as he pulled himself out of the wall and fell, head first, into the ground. Dark Sonic chuckled at the antics of his so-called 'opponent'. "You talk too much and you are an idiot when it comes to this sort of stuff. You might as well give up and die." Dark Sonic said cruelly. Mach pulled himself up from the ground and readied himself into a fighting position, causing Dark Sonic to laugh harder. "I'll give you something to laugh about." Mach said.

Then Mach disappeared into thin air and appeared again, right in front of Dark Sonic. "He's faster then he looks." Dark Sonic thought. Mach delivered a hard punch to Dark Sonic's jaw and shot him straight into the air. Dark Sonic caught himself in the air by using his super dark powers and looked down onto Mach. "You're faster then I thought kid. But you're not fast enough." Dark Sonic told him.

Dark Sonic gather a great amount of energy into his hand to form a sphere and flung it to the masked speedster. To a normal person, it would be impossible to avoid something moving that fast, but, as you could easily tell, Mach wasn't normal. he just simple moved to the side like it was no big deal. Unfortunately, when the sphere hit the ground, it created a shock wave that flung Mach five feet away. "Ok, that is now on my list of things to avoid." Mach said to himself.

"So you were able dodge that one. But let's see you dodge these." Dark Sonic said as he raised both his arms and created more dark energy sphere. "That's not good." Mach said obviously. Dark Sonic threw both spheres, but he wasn't done there. After he threw the two spheres, he created more and threw them and continued to do so in a extremly fast pace. Mach used his speed to avoid the first two, but was having trouble keeping up with the rest of the assault.

Mach continued to run around the street until he ran into a brick wall. But instead of stopping or slowing down, Mach ran up the wall, like he was Spider-Man or something. Dark Sonic was surprised that Mach was able to run so fast that he could walk on wall, but did not let down his barrage. When Mach was getting close to reaching the top, he put all the power into his leg jumped off towards Dark Sonic. Mach pulled back his fist and swung it at Dark Sonic, causing him to fall to the ground. Unfortunately, Mach didn't realize that he was falling too. "See ya." He said as he plummeted to the ground.

Mach was lucky enough to land on his feet, but the initial shock from the landing caused his legs to shake a little. "I'm going to be feeling that one later." The masked hero said in pain. He put his pain to the side for a while and saw Dark Sonic standing up, still unscratched. "You have got to be kidding me." Mach whiningly. Dark Sonic walked over to Mach and stood his ground when he was five feet away.

"You know you can't win, so why bother?" Dark Sonic asked. "Because it's the right thing to do. It's because I believe that I have the power to protect the people I care for." Mach replied. The Dark hedgehog looked at Mach in anger before saying "I once believed that to. I once believed that I could protect everyone that were held close to my heart. But I was wrong." "What do you mean?" Mach asked "Because I couldn't save her. I couldn't save Amy from dying, I rid myself of every belief I once had." Dark Sonic said sadly. "Do you think this is what she would have wanted?" Mach gestured.

Dark Sonic looked in surprise at the masked man before asking "What do you mean?" "Do you really think this is what she would have wanted you to become this? A cold-blooded, murderous monster, huh?" Mach questioned the confused hedgehog. Dark Sonic looked around him and then at himself and could only think "What have I become?" Sonic's quills returned to their normal position and his fur returned to its normal blue color. Sonic's fell to his knees and gave out a long sorrowful cry.

"Sonic" a voice came as Tails and Cream ran to Sonic's side. Mach next noticed one of the manhole covers being moved to reveal Knuckles climbing out of it. "Man, I guess I got lost in those tunnels." Knuckles said. Knuckles then noticed Mach and then Sonic on the ground, crying. Knuckles ran to his side and quickly asked "What's wrong?" "She's dead. She's dead and it's all my fault." The blue hero cried out. The group was confused. "Who's dead, Sonic?" Knuckles asked. "Amy." Sonic gave a short reply.

The group gasped at the information they had just received. The group looked downcast as the information sank in; one of their greatest friends was gone. "I can't believe it. She was so young and strong. Crazy maybe, but strong." Knuckles said as he looked towards Tails, who was holding a sobbing Cream in his arms. "Amy was always a kind-hearted girl. She had an unusual ability to bring out the best of people. Even when they did see it in themselves." Mach speeched. Sonic looked up from his sob-fest and looked to Mach asking "How do you know all that." Mach quickly sputtered, trying to think of an excuse.

Lucky for Mach, one of the remaining giant television screens came on and Eggmans face appeared. "Bwah, ha, ha, citizens of earth, lend me your ears. I, Doctor Eggman, the worlds most brilliant scientist, am giving you the chance to witness the begin of the Eggman Empire." Eggman said dramatically. Out in outer space, the second moon (How long has that been there) began to crack until the entire bottom half was broken off. From that broken half, appeared three large panels on each side with a large tower in the center. The tower then opens itself up and a large green beam leaves it to destroy half of the other moon, leaving it viewers in shock. "You have 24 hours to surrender or your planet is doomed." Eggmans face disappears and is replaced by a timer, signaling how long they had to reply.


Back on the ARK, Eggman was grinning from ear-to-ear in joy as he watched his, actually Shadow's, plan unfold. Rouge had entered the room before the cannon fired and was amazed by how much power the place possessed. "Amazing, what was that?" the bat asked. "That was the Eclipse Cannon. Shadow told me it was a weapon developed by my grandfather. It gains its energy from the power of the chaos emeralds. Have all seven and it's full power will be unleashed." Eggman explained. "Well that says a lot. By the way, where is Shadow?" Rouge asked. "He is in the training room, teaching Kumori a little something called discipline." Eggman said with a sadistic grin.


In the training room, Kumori was flung to the one of the walls in the room and collapsed from the pain she had recieved. Kumori was severally beaten and had many scratches and bruises all over her body. Shadow walked over to her and picked her up bridal style as he carried her out of the room and towards the medical bay.

"I didn't want to do that Kumori. But you need to learn that you can't go off, acting like a fool." Shadow said to her. She said nothing in return. When he had reached to the medical bay, Shadow placed her into the same healing pod he used earlier and walked over to the control panel. Before he could activate the pod, Kumori's voice came, asking "Do you hate me?"

Shadow looked at her in shock before asking "What?" "Do you hate me, because I am useless?" Kumori asked once more. "I told you before, never to think like that, Kumori. You are not useless, you are a strong fighter. The only reason I did what I did is because you are important to me and I worry about losing you. understand." Shadow said to his female prototype. She nodded her head with a smile plastered on her face before Shadow activated the pod. As she soon fell to sleep, she had one more thought in her head.

"Thank you, Shadow."


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