Life With Father
Chapter 10
Shadow V's Eggman: there is no competition there.
After obtaining the second Emerald from the city Shadow quickly left before anyone could distract him or try to take the emerald away. He teleported and appeared someplace far different and far stranger than the human city. It was definitely manmade for sure but it also looked as if a crazy person with a few screws loose designed the area. Shadow stood by the entrance to this strange castle like fortress with a tilt of his head.
"What a strange place this is, I have never seen such a bazaar looking castle like structure in all of my existence. It almost looks as if it was separated and joined back together as a huge labyrinth to confuse others and get them lost. I know there is an Emerald in this place somewhere and I bet it is in the centre of the castle." Shadow thought as he gave the place, what he could see of it from this position, a once over with curious eyes.
If Shadow had known Dr Eggman personally then he wouldn't have to have wondered and knew without thinking on it he was right. Eggman did have a tendency to go extreme when building his fortress' and did make them maze like to not give intruders an east time finding the middle where he would be.
"Well the Emerald isn't going to get itself and come to me, as much as that would be nice, so I might as well get this trip started. Maybe have a little look around while I'm at it." Shadow muttered under his breath then began to cautiously walk forward.
Shadow looked around with a curious gaze as he continued to walk, wondering what kind of being designed this place and why they chose this layout in particular. Then all of a sudden he stopped as some metal robots began to charge at him. Rolling his eyes as he has dealt with robots before and knew a chaos spear would combust them, he was not at all concerned by them. He called upon his inner energies then flicked his wrist at the robots. The spears flew straight at them and as predicted they combusted into pieces.
"Honestly when will others learn that robots are not strong enough to be guards, regardless of what weapons they have for defence." Shadow sighed with a shake of his head then pressed on.
Unknown to Shadow a monitor was watching his every movement. Eggman was frowning as he thought the hedgehog was Sonic but with some new moves.
"How dare that pest enter my castle uninvited when there are bigger problems to deal with. I'll show him not to mess with the great Dr Eggman during an alien invasion. Just you wait until you get to the centre Sonic, then you will be in trouble but first I need to send out more robots to defend my fortress. Those aliens have got through and are destroying everything I worked so damn hard to build. Ok I didn't construct it personally, my robots did that, but I did do a hell of a lot of ordering to get this place finished on time." Eggman said as he glared in anger at his screen over looking what Shadow was doing.
His monitor was originally sent out to see what was going on in order to get alert messages on his computer then Shadow showed up and destroyed two robots with a flick of one wrist. So Eggman manoeuvred the viewing monitor to follow Shadow and find out why the hedgehog was here.
Shadow stopped on the edge of the pathway he had walked down and looked up slightly at a strange looking thing just floating there in the air. He tilted his head in thought and tried to figure out what that was and why it was there.
"What a strange thing this is and why does it have a bar? Maybe one is supposed to grab onto it but what would be the purpose of just hanging in the air while holding onto the bar?" Shadow thought as he figured some of it out on his own.
"Oh for the love of. Grab onto the bar and it will take you across safely!" Eggman shouted out as his monitor hovered behind Shadow.
"Huh?" Shadow lightly whispered as he slowly turned around and looked at the picture of Eggman on a floating computer monitor.
"Wait you are not Sonic, who are you?" Eggman questioned as he made the monitor move closer to Shadow and had a very good look at the hedgehog before his monitor.
He knew his arch enemy well and this hedgehog was not Sonic.
"No I am not." Shadow frowned as once again that blue hedgehog seemed to pop up, no matter where he went.
"Guess you can't be a hero without everyone knowing who you are, would be kind of pointless. Also he did come across as having a big ego and was full of himself so it is no wonder all seem to know him." Shadow thought as he crossed his arms and glared dangerously at Eggmans image.
"Then who are you and why are you in my castle?" Eggman demanded to know with a serious expression.
"So this is your strange fortress, I do admire your work but it will not stop me from destroying my way through and getting what I came here for. Oh and thanks for the tip but I do not need something to assist me through this place, I was simply wondering what it was for a brief moment." Shadow said and slowly began to smirk then chaos controlled to the other side so he could continue exploring as he heads for the Emerald.
"What, how did he?" Eggman half whispered in total shock and now having an open mouth expression as he could faintly see the hedgehog in the far distance walking away.
Shadow walked with confidence and began to smirk as he soon noticed his brothers also made it here with no troubles. There were fights between aliens and robots dotted all over the place with the aliens winning the mini battles of this giant all round war between the Black Arms and the planet. Shadow kept going and left his very capable brothers to their battles as he had more important matters to attend to. Finding that Chaos Emerald is what he was here for then once he has fully completed his task of collecting all seven Emeralds then he can join the fight.
"I am actually getting a little bored with this place now, it is all basically the same wherever I wonder to in here…chaos control." Shadow muttered with a frown then teleported away to the Emeralds location.
Shadow appeared in an open area and just there hovering in the air in the middle was a Chaos Emerald, waiting for him to take it. Shadow smirked as he walked towards it and kept his eyes on his prise but then a large robot came crashing down in-between the Emerald and Shadow. Shadow stopped walking and looked up at the large robot with a tilted head then he saw the human from the monitor sitting in the cockpit of the metal man.
"So you are here for my Emerald are you, well you cannot have it." Eggman seriously said as he glared down at the strange hedgehog below him.
"I will take what I came here for and if you insist in getting in my way then I will end you. I will not have some alien life-form stopping me from completing my mission so get out of my way." Shadow said with aggression in his words while glaring up at the human with rage of being stopped in his task.
"Ha-hahaha you think a puny little pest like yourself scares me?" Eggman laughed with high amusement as he spoke back to Shadow.
Shadow growled dangerously as he narrowed his eyes at the man that insulted him. He gathered his chaos energy in one hand and when it was charged fully he threw it at the robot. Eggman soon stopped laughing when his robot was hit with chaos energy, making the robot stumble backwards violently. There was a smoking dent in the middle of the robot and now both Eggman and Shadow glared in hate at one another.
"I warned you and now you will die human." Shadow spat out then charged another powerful chaos spear to throw.
"Oh yeah take this!" Eggman shouted out then commanded his robot to slam its large mace ball down on Shadow.
Shadow vanished and appeared in the air behind the robot with his now charged spear ready to throw, which he did and it landed a direct hit on the robots back. The robot fell forward and landed on the ground, making the area vibrate and rumble on impact. Shadow gracefully landed on his feet and threw an onslaught of spears at the robot while it was down and struggling to pick itself up. Eggman was now officially panicking for his life as now he only just realised this hedgehog meant what he says. His life was going to be over with if he doesn't do something fast, like a fast exit.
The robot was taking the hits and smoking more as it sparked and fizzed, telling all to run fast for it was going to explode any second now. Eggman only just managed to detach his flying mobile chair from the cockpit and flew up into the air only to see his killer robot violently explode with shards of metal flying in all directions. Shadow was standing near the exploding robot with a chaos shield over him then when the metal pieces settled back onto the ground he cancelled the shielding out. Shadow dusted himself off as he walked confidently towards the Emerald now resting on the ground.
"Ok now that is three down and four to go, father will be please with my progress so far." Shadow said to himself as he picked up the Emerald and held it tightly in his hand.
"Give that back!" Eggman called down with anger at the hedgehog, making Shadow look up at him with an uninterested stare.
"I shall allow you to keep breathing but mark my words, you get in my way again and I will not be so generous next time." Shadow warned with a deadly serious expression up at Eggman then chaos controlled away with the Emerald he just gained.
Shadow appeared by the start of Eggmans castle fortress and looked into the Emerald he still had in his hand. He frowned a little then closed his eyes.
"Father, I have successfully retrieved the third Chaos Emerald for you. Would you like me to bring you them?" Shadow telepathically called to his father, opening his eyes and waited patiently for a reply.
"Well done Shadow, I will take twp now with me and keep them safe aboard our home." Black Doom announced as he appeared in front of Shadow, holding out a hand for two of the three Emeralds Shadow had collected.
Shadow passed the one over he had in his hand then reached into his quills for a second one, passing that to his father afterwards. Black Doom held them securely then looked down at his obedient son.
"I have news for you my child, Black Death and Eclipse have returned to assist us all in invading this world. Eclipse will join you soon but until he does I want you to carry on with your task." Black Doom said with amused eyes, always wanting to know what Shadow and Eclipse would be like when working together and now he will find out.
"That is good news father and I look forward in working with Eclipse as we take this world but may I ask why they are needed? We are winning with just us so why did you call for them?" Shadow asked as he was excited in seeing his brother again after so long but equally confused as to why his father asked for their assistance.
"Do not question my decisions Shadow and do not underestimate these humans. Yes we are winning at the moment but I know they are planning a huge attack that will make our numbers fall. With Black Death and Eclipse here as well it will assure our victory. Now go find the remaining Emeralds before these humans or that hedgehog gets to them." Black Doom firmly said with narrowed eyes down at Shadow then vanished with the two Emeralds given to him.
"I fail to see how anyone on this planet could do something that extreme to us but father is right it is not good to get too cocky and it is best take caution." Shadow thought as he frowned while bowing his head down slightly.
"Ok lets just leave this place to my brothers and go find that forth Emerald. I wonder if I will bump into Sonic this time? I half expected him to be in that humans castle, actually I kind of feel a little disappointed he wasn't. why is that?" Shadow muttered with puzzlement then slowly lifted his head up as he tried to figure out the reason to his disappointment in not seeing Sonic again.
Shadow, after a moment or two, shook the feeling away and tried to keep them hidden deep within himself. There was no time to dwell on questionable feelings as there was Chaos Emeralds to collect and deliver to his father. Shadow composed himself quickly and dashed away fast, having his jet skates activate.
"Still if I do bump into his again while going after this Emerald I will not allow him to stop me." Shadow thought with a small grin forming on his muzzle while running at top speed away from Eggmans castle fortress.
(OMG! I am totally sorry for the late update and yes this story is still active as well as my other unfinished stories. Busy, busy, busy with what life throws at ya and sometimes it is hard to get chapters the way you want them. I re-did this one three time, this being the third re-do of it. I do hope it is alright and you liked the chap. Please tell me your thoughts by reviewing, it is appreciated and I do enjoy reading what you think. Until the next probably long waiting update…Thanks for reading…)