Shadow picked Snipe up with unknown strength and hurled him into his own bike. This caused it to fall into a pile of scrap with a stunned Snipe on top. Repton just growled and approached the Merb, "You mean to tell me that I handed over my best catch to have him become even more powerful? I suppose now your going back to your ship?"
Shadow never stopped his evil grin as he simply stated, "No, Repton, you overgrown chameleon. I have become the greatest Cyclonian because of Master Cyclonis and I, the dark side, was released to exact my revenge on the Storm Hawks and anyone else who ever stood in my way. Now either get your but off that bike and hand it over or I make you sorry you put me in that cell." Behind him a few troops he had recruited got on their bikes and waited to take off
Repton laughed and said, "Just try it Toad."
Shadow suddenly kicked Repton in his knees making him fall to the ground. He then stood on his back and pulled his tail in the wrong direction until it snapped. Repton howled in pain as Shadow sped away on his bike, laughing about fragile baby lizards.
"Now I wonder who I should attack blindly first?" Shadow asked himself, "Maybe the Merckraiders, or the Raptors just to tick them off. Maybe I could go home. I have tons of revenge to those bullies who called me a freak for leaving. Yeah lets go with that one." Said Shadow evilly as he laughed at his own sarcasm, "So, home it is. Now which way was it again?"
Two hours later Shadow was circling above his home Terra Merb. He found his old town and landed just outside the town limits. He put a cloak he found on the bike over his head so no one could recognize the black skin of Dark Shadow. The troops did the same thing and followed him. He walked through the busy streets until he came to an alley that he had once feared. In it were the boys who had teased him so often from a young age. He smiled under his cloak and said in Stork's scared voice, "Hey wimps guess whose back." He hardly held in the laugh at how scared he could make himself sound, "I just came to tell you I'm not scared of you anymore and you had all better beg for my forgiveness."
"Is that little baby Stork I hear?" said a light blue Merb, "And look, he brought friends."
"Yes and no." said Shadow
"So you want us to say sorry? Don't you and your friends want to play first?" asked a red Merb
"Sure," Stork threw off his cloak to show his new hideous form, "let's play tag." Then the Cyclonians took off their cloaks
The group of 5 Merb's in the alley gasped and stared in wide eyed fear. The red one yelled, "Holy shit Stork went Shadow. Let's get out of here."
They tried to run out the other side of the alley but were trapped by two more Cyclonians with rifle staffs. They turned as Shadow approached them and coward, "Please man, we were just kids. We were just fooling with you, honest."
Shadow smiled down at the five quivering boys and picked the leader up by hid hair. He threw him to the center of the alley and began to punish him slowly. He kicked punched and clawed until the boy passed out from pain and blood loss. He then threw the form out onto the street before snapping his fingers. At the sound of the snap the Cyclonian soldiers began to beat up the rest of the boys. Shadow followed the beaten and bloody body onto the street. His appearance was met with screams and shouts of terror. But his ears picked up one sound he never thought he would hear.
"Stork, my baby." Yelled a yellow female, "What happened to you? Why are you with these Cyclonian thugs?"
Shadow approached his mother and smiled as he reached out. Suddenly this head throbbed and the good side broke out, "Run mom, I can't control him much longer. Run home and lock yourself inside."
Before evil Stork could come back the female Merb was gone. After Shadow returned he realized something was wrong, "Cyclonians, we are going home now. Bring the five vile Merb's with us and throw them into the dungeon upon arrival." And with that they were gone, leaving five grieving mother Merb's behind
