Chapter Ten "New Appearances"
Shadow was about to get on the move again, but as he saw something he didn't continue running.
His glowing streaked died down as he slid to a complete stop, bothered by the interruption.
Eggman's robots were out in the open, marching slowly towards him.
"What the?" Shadow said. "I didn't realize he was going to send them out so quickly."
The head MLbot approached Shadow with at least twenty behind him.
They were moving slowly with a fingers-on-a-chalkboard sound to their movements.
Clearly Eggman was serious this time.
"Scanning...Shadow the Hedgehog, allied to Dr. Eggman." It said in a robotic sounding voice.
Shadow put his hand to his chin, lowering his eyes as if suspicious.
His black fur was moving slightly as the wind was picking up again.
"Accessing data…Emerald found, key objective 3, other target acquired." It said.
As it's gray colored metal body came slower, it's metal hinged hands had it's grasp out to Shadow, opened Shadow's hand, and lowered the item from his other metal hand for Shadow to except.
"Target acquired, Chaos Emerald, Objective Number 4; Give Shadow as many emeralds acquired." It said.
Shadow smirked amused, feeling the emerald's access energy in his hands going straight through him, giving him a powerful and eager feeling.
"Well this should be interesting, I thought I felt an emerald near by." Shadow said in a hushed voice. "Any others found?"
"Negative." Was his reply. "Prioritized objective; message for Shadow the Hedgehog, confirmed identity. Transmitting message..."
Shadow put his hand on his hips as a message in a mechanic voice pressed on.
"Shadow the Hedgehog,
mission; collect chaos emeralds to receive memory, objective; receive
them by the end of day, before night falls, or it will be too late to
obtain. Collect emeralds or Dr. Eggman will not have enough achieved
time to deal with your memory objective." It said.
"The
Doctor's giving me a time limit?" Shadow said almost insulted if
not for the idea Eggman was planning on pressing on his plan at that
time.
Shadow ran fast not caring to give the robots any explanation, leaving the grass that was actually there blow fast and the wind give a loud sucking sound as he left.
The red streak that broke the sound barrier ran by at sonic speed, him being the only one besides Sonic to be able to do that.
In the meantime Mint had been wandering for a long time, but she couldn't find Tim wherever she looked.
She started regretting following after him, and realized she'd completely forgotten Gizmo who was still wounded.
"Oh great…wait a second what's that?" Mint thought out loud.
An image started getting closer until it became in focus, a panting fox stood before her.
"Gizmo, how'd you find me?" asked Mint.
"I heard a crash." said Gizmo panting through the sentence.
"Oh, it must be that rock I threw into the ground." Mint said nervously. "Why is our first instant after hearing crashes to run straight for it?"
"Wait…you made the sound by throwing a rock?" he said looking dazed from the running.
"Yeah I sorta got strong all of a sudden." She said.
Mint laughed trying to make light of the situation, but Gizmo was far more concerned which got her attention.
"What is it Giz?" she asked.
"I saw Angie back there…I looked out my window and something black or gray or something was attacking her, I could barely see it was a little far off, but the glowing green belt gave me enough to see something's going on." Gizmo said.
Mint stomped her foot.
"I'm sick of all this chaos." She yelled.
"Mint calm down, it's not like this planet was labeled friendly." Gizmo said kindly.
Mint had distaste in her mouth she was not liking her current situation.
"I guess we should go check out what's wrong with Angie." said Mint.
"What about Tim?" Gizmo asked.
"He's having a 'Loner' thing, I'm sure he'll turn around." She said doubting that in her mind.
With that the two of them trotted off, Gizmo way in front as Mint wasn't looking forward to getting there.
As they came up to it they realized more and more that something was wrong, strange sounds got louder and louder and as they followed the glowing green light their surroundings seemed to get darker.
Angie's teenage scream shattered glass as they saw something tear into her side.
Wounded she tried fighting it off.
"Gizmo what's that fighting her!" Mint exclaimed.
End chapter