T: Here is chapter 9, for all you loyal readers. As usual a big thanks to all who have reviewed, favoured and alerted, this keeps me inspired to write for this. Anyway on with the story!!


Shadow had eventually woken up from hitting his head on the tree; he was walking through the forest. His mind raced with thoughts, these black aliens and all of this random teleporting to random locations were starting to drive him nuts.

He was currently standing in the middle of an open area of the forest where a few trees were, he looked up at the sky hoping to figure out what was going on. His thoughts were interrupted when he realised the floor was disappearing and the scenery had changed to space.

"No! NOT SPACE!! AHH, MY ONE WEAKNESS!! CAN'T BREATHE!!" Shadow made choking noises until a familiar alien overlord appeared.

"Shadow you seem troubled...what the heck?" Black Doom raised an eyebrow at Shadow.

"Can't...breathe..."

"We can breathe you idiot!" Black Doom slapped him around the head and Shadow returned to his senses.

"Well now, what do you want?" Black Doom pointed towards something.

"Look..." Shadow looked at what Black Doom was pointing at, he gasped loudly at it.

"A PIZZA HUT IN SPACE!?" Shadow had a face of pure surprise.

"Yes, pizza hut...what? NO! Look at that..."

"...The Earth?"

"NO! LOOK THERE!!"

"The moon?"

"NNOOOO!!"

"The Sun...?"

"NO YOU BLOODY IDIOT!!" Black Doom slapped his head.

"The ARK?"

"FOR HEAVENS SAKE N – the ARK? Yes...YES! That's right, the ARK, 50 years ago."

"The ARK...50 years ago?"

"Yes..."

"Wait...if this is 50 years ago...then shouldn't that mean we look what we did then?" Shadow looked at Black Doom.

"Oh no..." The two of them began to spin round and round until they reverted to what they looked like 50 years ago.

Shadow had reverted to a small baby hedgehog with a nappy and Black Doom looked younger and had a multi-coloured Mohawk, he also wore jazzy clothes.

"Goo goo gaa?" Young Shadow said to Black Doom.

"It appears we have reverted to out old looks, dude! AWESOME!!" Black Doom played an air guitar just like Bill and Ted.

"Chaos...REVERT!!" Shadow yelled in a baby voice before turning him and Black Doom back to their original selves.

"Don't ever...tell anyone what I was like 50 years ago. Got it!?" Black Doom looked at Shadow who was laughing at him.

"NOW GO FORTH!!" A random Black Hawk appeared and Shadow flew towards the ARK.

"Excellent...just as I had...WHERE ARE YOU GOING!!"

"I'm going to get a pizza!" Shadow flew off towards the Pizza Hut in space. Black Doom sighed and slapped his forehead again. This was going to take a while.


Shadow had appeared in the ARK randomly, he was still eating the pizza he bought, it was called 'THE ULTIMATE PIZZA!' it came with every topping including chocolate. He looked around before noticing Maria using a gun to repel the GUN soldiers who were invading.

"SHADOW! GRAB A GUN AND HELP ME DESTROY THESE FOOLS!!" She continued to shoot the soldiers.

Shadow stared at Maria with disbelief at what she had said; he couldn't believe she would say something like that. Then a rope descended and Gerald Robotnik came sliding down wearing Samurai armour. When he landed, he pulled out two samurai swords and gave off a mighty war cry before beginning to slaughter all of the GUN soldiers.

"I am Samurai master Gerald Robotnik. Bow before my blades! HWAAA!" yelled the professor in a Samurai tone. Shadow stared at this scene with a look of pure shock, worry and horror.

He quickly legged it out of the room before panting and noticing Doom's eye. He raised an eyebrow as he saw him hiding a blonde wig in his treasure chest which disappeared in a dark cloud.

"What are you doing with that wig?" Shadow looked at Doom's eye with a questionable look.

"NOTHING, IGNORE IT!!" Doom's eye looked rather jumpy.

"...Okay..."

"Now Shadow, take your revenge against these foul humans!" Shadow suddenly realised something.

He quickly checked the mission choices on the pause menu, the dark mission was to take down the GUN soldiers and the hero mission was, to kill them in some gruesome way. After a moment's thought he decided to ignore it and start slaughtering soldiers.

"Yes Shadow...unleash your anger!!" Doom's eye was enjoying seeing this.

For Shadow, the more he killed, the more he could feel his hatred towards humans return. He eventually got to the point where he would kill them and start jumping on them laughing hysterically. Doom's eye was smiling at Shadow's new behaviour, that was until a certain professor's granddaughter threw a grenade below him, ending Doom's eye career as a Dark assist character.

"What the? Maria?" Shadow looked at Maria.

"Yes Shadow, now come. We have soldiers to slay!" Maria ran off in the direction of the soldiers who were being cut down by none other than Samurai master Gerald Robotnik.

Shadow looked at weapon he held in his hands and looked toward the soldiers, he grinned and began to slaughter them all without mercy. He and the professor started to do many cool looking Samurai moves on the soldiers; they quickly cut down 100 of the vile humans.

Maria and Shadow ran through the corridors, looking for any stragglers that had managed to survive. What neither of them could sense was Doom's eye pulling off a Spider-man; he swung from web to web, glaring at the back of Maria's head.

"Must...kill...Maria...must...kill...Blondie!!" His eye burned with a burning hatred.

He leapt off the web and dived for the girl; he made various monster noises and yelled.

"DIE, FEMALE!!" Maria turned around to see a starfish latch on her face.

"EEK! Get it off!! GET IT OFF!!"

"MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!" Maria tried to peel it off but forgot about the deadly pit drop.

She and Doom's eye fell into space while Shadow laughed at their unfortunate fate. He then reached a checkpoint which asked for 700,000 rings, Shadow's jaw dropped and hit the ground cartoon style. The only way to acquire this amount of rings was to most likely play through the story a thousand times.

"Screw that!" He ran through the corridor before bumping into Maria.

"MARIA! YOU'RE ALIVE!?" Shadow looked pleased to see the girl looking fine.

"(cough) Oh Shadow! Will you help me by destroying these little insignificant humans?" Maria sounded different in some way to Shadow but he couldn't tell.

He happily obeyed her and began to slaughter the poor soldiers, he laughed like a loony at this. He thought he saw at one point a soldier with long blonde hair, he quickly punched the human in the gut and shot the soldier in the face. He then picked the dead body up and threw it into the Biolizard's pen, he laughed like an evil genius as he saw the soldier be ripped apart.

"SHADOW!!" Shadow recognised the voice, the soldier was actually Maria.

"NNNOOOO!! MARIA!! WHY!?" "MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!" Doom's eye appeared again laughing at Shadow as the result screen appeared.

Shadow was on his knees moping about how he killed Maria while in the background Doom's eye just pointed and laughed at Shadow's misfortune. The result was a 'D', Doom's eye burst into a louder laughing spree at this.


Shadow was running through the ARK trying to get to the Biolizard's pen, hoping to save whatever was left of Maria. Doom's eye was following him, laughing at the hedgehog's feeble attempts to rescue a human that was doomed from the moment Shadow threw her into the pit.

"Hold on Maria..."

"SHE'S DOOMED I TELL YA! DDDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMEDDDD!!" Doom's eye continued to mock Shadow until the starfish was flattened by a huge GUN battle machine.

Shadow skidded to a halt but unfortunately smacked his head off the machine, he landed on his butt. He glared at the machine that was hovering in front of him.

"This is Heavy Dog, reporting. I have located a hedgehog...what do I do?" The pilot sounded nervous.

"Well soldier, I believe you start to charge the most repetitive attack up and keep shooting him with homing missiles. But make sure you deploy the aerial mines as well to help hinder him." The current general sounded wise.

"Really sir?"

"NO YOU IDIOT!! IF THAT'S A HEDGEHOG IN THERE YOU CAN'T HOPE TO POSSIBLY WIN! HAHA! YOU ARE GOING TO DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH!!" The general began to laugh at the unfortunate pilot in a rather hysterical laugh.

Shadow stared at the strange machine with a worried face, what sort of loonies laughed at their own soldiers imminent demise. Doom's eye on the hand hovered over Shadow and whispered in his ear.

"Humans...willing to kill and sacrifice everyone and everything just to get the latest copy of porn. They are a stupid, foolish, selfish and inferior race..." Shadow turned to Doom's eye and screamed at what he saw.

"WHAT THE HELL!?" What Shadow saw was Doom's eye wearing a blonde wig and a blue dress designed to fit a starfish.

"What? I think these suit me." He fiddled with the dress slightly.

"So...it was you back in that corridor? I thought something seemed off." Shadow recalled the stupid voice and overall, starfish look.

"That's in the past...NOW DESTROY THIS LOSER!!" Shadow reached into his quills and drew out the rubber duck from the matrix.

He hugged it tightly, listening to the ever so cute squishy sound it made when he hugged it. He let a tear role at the thought of losing it, but after summoning forth his courage, threw the rubber duck at the 'Heavy Dog' and watched as it clogged up the engines.

"NO! THE ENGINES!! THAT'S ONE OF MY MANY WEAKNESSES!!" The pilot yelled in fear at the blockage in the engines.

"Well soldier, allow me to say...that you won't be missed! HA! NO ONE EVER LIKED YOU!!" Was the last thing heard before the Heavy Dog exploded.

Shadow went over to the wreckage to see if he could find his beloved rubber duck, he found it still intact. He hugged it tightly while letting tears of happiness flow, until he noticed something. The rubber duck was not yellow, instead it was burned, sure it could be cleaned, but that would take a while.

His eyes narrowed as he knew who the culprit was for this, the wretched humans. He turned to Doom's eye and looked at him before kneeling before him.

"I will do anything you ask...as long as I get revenge on those disgusting humans for what they did to MY rubber duck!!"

"Of course...come Shadow. Let us show them why the Black Arms are the most powerful beings in the universe!" Doom's eye held out a tentacle for Shadow.

Shadow grabbed it and the two of them walked off to their next location, thoughts of glorious revenge ran through Shadow's mind. How he longed to make the humans suffer for what they did to the rubber duck.

"Shadow, may I ask you something?" Something puzzled Doom's eye.

"Yeah..."

"Do you want revenge for the rubber duck alone, or for the duck and Maria?"

"...Maria?" This name sounded alien to Shadow.

"You know what...never mind."

And so the darkness within Shadow had risen, he would let all humans on Earth know why he should be feared. Especially when you dirty his rubber duck.


T: There you go, we all learned a lesson from this. NEVER GET SHADOW'S RUBBER DUCK BURNED! Till next time.