Shadow 2: Revenge of Doom

Chapter 10

The Ultimate Power: Hyper Shadow

*1* Shadow lay deep within the recessions of his mind, in a dark abyss. He slowly stood and looked around inquisitively, searching for something that deep down, he felt was lost in his life. Slowly, images came before him of people he knew all too well. First Sonic, the great blue blur. Then Eggman, and Tails, Knuckles, and Omega, eventually all the people in his life he held dear appeared before him. And most of all, Rouge stood before him, her arms open, holding out a helping hand. Shadow slowly reached for her, only to have them disappear.

As they faded, the images of Gerald and Maria Robotnik appeared before him, just as they were in life. Maria looked Shadow in the eyes, smiling slightly, as the others appeared behind her. "Remember Shadow… They're all your friends. Never forget them. And always protect them. As you would me." Shadow shed a single tear, and looked around himself as the abyss faded. His spines began to float and shine all seven colors, and he found himself in a crater on the moon, surrounded by the seven Super Emeralds. He smirked and looked into Dooms four eyes, his spines aiming to the skies as if he was struck by a bolt cast by the gods themselves. The colors began to flicker faster and faster until he seemed almost white. In a flash, the Super Emeralds bonded with him and Hyper Shadow was born! "This is the Ultimate Power!"

Shadow clenched his fists and flew toward Doom, dodging a massive barrage of winding tentacles, their pointed edges aimed to stab him through. Shadow quickly activated Chaos Control and began to attack Doom from all sides, Chaos Spears landing devastating blows, leaving burns on his skin the size of houses. For a moment, it seemed Shadow was gone, but then he reappeared only a few miles from him, staring down Dooms main eye. Doom took the opportunity to begin charging his ultimate attack, a beam that could obliterate the entire Earth.

"Black Doom… I'm done letting that name control my life. I'm done with your schemes and abominations. Now I'll show you what the Ultimate Power is. I bring your destruction. I end your life. You're not the god of the Black Arms. Because from where I see things…" Doom fired his beam directly at Shadow, and behind him was the Earth itself, prepared to be destroyed. "I'M YOUR GOD!" Shadow lunged directly into the beam, his hand covered in a massive spike of chaos energy. "HYPER CHAOS LANCE!" Shadow then charged directly through the beam, and entered Black Dooms main eye. Doom screamed in pain, both hands on the eye, but then he realizes that Shadow never exited his eye.

"Chaos………. BLAST!" A sphere of chaos energy was instantly released, so great that it immediately disintegrated Dooms main eye. As his body burnt away, he yelled his final words.

"HEAR WHAT I SAY SHADOW! THIS IS NOT THAT LAST YOU'LL SEE OF ME! I'LL BE BACK VERY SOON!" Doom laughed maniacally as his head was burnt away, leaving nothing left of Black Doom or the Black Arms. The light soon faded, and Shadow stared down upon the dying Earth in grief.

"Immortality is a burden that I cannot bear… So I give my eternal life to the Earth……" Shadow slowly removed all four of his rings and his power flowed out in a torrent beyond belief, flooding across the Earth, bathing it in a pure light that seemed a gift from the gods. The lights quickly seeped into every living organism on the planet, reviving its lifeforce and returning the planet to normalcy. Color returned to the trees and plants, and the sleeping and sickened awaked refreshed and renewed. Shadow slowed the torrent and replaced his rings on his ankles and wrists, then warped space and time to appear down on the surface, among his friends. He quickly powered down to normal and collapsed on his back, and began to laugh, looking into the once again blue skies, slowly turning golden in the sunset.

Rouge looked at him oddly, and asked the obvious question. "What's so funny?…"

"Heh… I'm not immortal anymore! I'm just like you guys now!" Shadow smiled wide and everyone else joined in his glee, knowing exactly why he was so happy. Now he could someday join them in the afterlife, whenever that may be. The Ultimate Lifeform. The giver of life.

Epilogue

The President stood on the ceremonial pedestals at the GUN HQ, placing the badge of leadership onto the reformed Dr. Eggman. "Thanks to your technologies, our soldiers faked death and survived the onslaught of the Black Arms. Our General died in battle with honor, and now I hope that you are willing to take the post he defended with such honor.

"I would be delighted Mr. President." Eggman took hold of his new badge, in a shining gold that now reflected the gold of his heart. After a long year in prison, he learned the error of his ways and took to be their top scientist, and now their leader. "As my first act as the GUN general, I would like to erect this golden statue of our greatest operative, and recent world savior, Shadow the Hedgehog. Also, today just happens to be the day that Solleanna erects their statue of their newest Solleanna Guard, Silver."

"WHAT?! THEY'RE COMPARING ME TO HIM?!"