Chapter 26 A Glint of Hope
Shadow ran faster than he ever had in his life. The blade that Ceneca had designated was in Switzerland. Why not Russia? They were supposed to get it, not Umbra! At least, she had got it where there were no Arms . . . yet. The Swiss had already found the item and were waiting for Shadow to come a take the 'small space shuttle.' Thankfully, the Swiss were more than eager to give the Protectorate the capsule. This was one more reason to get rid of the lizards.
He had already encountered resistance. Black Arms were swarming. They were becoming bolder and bolder. The domain of Umbra was spreading from that one island in the Atlantic. One little island with the most powerful communication array in the galaxy.
Shadow thanked God that he had these Hover boots. He hated to have to run with just his feet. He could do it, but who in their right mind would want to do that? His blue brother in-law didn't qualify for sanity. He led a bunch of teens into a war zone. HELLO!
Even though he knew the Bem were one of the most advanced races he had ever encountered, how could they have developed a way to kill something that could easily regenerate his limbs and his could shape shifter? Still Shadow was never one to question a free ride. Of course, sending the stuff to Switzerland didn't truly make it a free ride.
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Shadow had to admit, the Bem knew what they were doing when they made this blade. It was shaped like a Japanese Katana, just as long, just no hand guard. It was made of something similar to steel but far stronger. For example, to test the strength of the blade against the katana he owned at home, he sliced a bolder in half. When he looked at his handy work, he saw that the blade had left such a smooth cut sandpaper wouldn't be able smoothen it any more. Too bad he didn't have this when he was younger. Still, he could scare the hell out of Sonic. And to wield this while breaking up Shade and Emily's make-out sessions. He could scare them to death
Thank God his little girl didn't have a boy friend. He would never have any peace. A teenage girl going out on dates scared him. He knew she was just as smart as her brother but still. All dates in general scared him when he was younger. He was never for one for romance in his opinion. Sonia disagreed. Shade and Crystal were proof. But still he was terrified of dates. Now, just to think that his children were dating scared him to the point of breaking. Apparently, Shade had inherited his mother's confidence in that department. Shadow had never been able to live down the giant poster that Sonic had put up over his apartment building.
Shadow the Hedgehog is scared of DATING!
Almost the entire male population of Station Square had called him in stupid girly voices. Then it was broadcasted on the local news. Every single damn channel he turned to had the same $*&%!^ banner! Lucky for him, revenge is best served with a flaming torch and a girlfriend who can seriously deliver a powerful knee to her brother.
Tails was in a dilemma. Should he tell the world's leaders, they would fight over the info for their own purposes. Most of which would be non-beneficial to the big picture. He needed someway to hide this info and yet leak it weakly so it won't look what was. Thankfully, he was genius so he make it look he was a scientific breakthrough. Course he would have to come up with all the notes. Not the easiest thing in this insane world to do.
He put his fingers up and began to pinch the bridge of his nose. Why did everything have to be so complicated? Couldn't he get an easy metaphysics problem to pass the time? I knew I shouldn't have lost that Theoretical physics problem book by Steven Hawking. Tails sighed mentally. He almost didn't notice the warm hands wrap around his neck.
"We really should stop meeting like this," said a very beautifully seductive voice in his ear.
Tails smiled and brought his wife into a deep kiss. "We?" He said with a smile as he brought her out of the kiss. "I always thought it was just you and I making out. Not we"
She rolled her sapphire blue eyes and gave him a playful punch to the arm. "What sort of scientific breakthrough are you and I working on?"
Tails causally and rapidly typed into the saved transmission. Cosmo listened intently. When it was over she looked at her husband with serious eyes. "What do you plan to do with all this?"
Tails ran his hand through his hair and pounded his head on the control panel. "I swore that I would never let my science be a part of politics, and here I am with the most powerful science that Earth could obtain, centuries before our time if I use it, everyone will want and could cause political turmoil. Twice in my life I am the verge of a breakdown and once again I have no idea how to approach this task."
Cosmo smirked, "And what, pray tell, dear, was the other thing that you were about to be on the verge of a breakdown?"
Tails guiltily rubbed the back of his head. "Well . . . It was to ask you out for the first time and not look like a complete and total idiot."
Cosmo shook her head. "You sort of did look like an idiot then," he hung his head in defeat. She brought her hand under his chin, pulled his chin up and smiled at him "But you were my idiot."
He instantly perked up, came to his feet, twirled her in the air and brought her into a very passionate kiss. They played a game of tonsil hockey and broke apart gasping for air.
"You know," said a dark yet teasing voice from the doorway, "it would probably be better if you got yourselves a locked room to do that in, in case one of the little kiddies came around and saw this."
"Shut up, Shadow!" Tails said at the hedgehog. But his eyes were on what was strapped to the enigma's back. A long sword was there in a black scabbard. "Where you get the armory?"
Shadow smirked. "Our friend left her package of at the wrong address. I simply did a Good Samaritan. And there was this." Shadow pulled out a little disk and put it on the table. A hologram of the Bem on the screen appeared.
"Greetings," the Bem said. "This is defiantly the most important component of our achieves. We, the Bem, have longed suffered from brushes with both the Black Arms and the Xorda. However, we are a peaceful race and we cannot effectively defend ourselves. The Xorda on the other hand were very proficient in the art of war and have waged war with too many races to count. The Black Arms were different. Their leaders, Black Doom and Umbra fought outside all the concept of warfare that the Xorda had ever seen. No honor. No primitive tactics. This was outside everything they had every faced. Along with the fact that the two leaders seem to be immortal. We knew that everything must have a time to die. We waited outside one of the great battles outside the Loramian system. There Black Doom himself fought and slaughtered most of the Xorda army. But, one of the attack machines was able to successfully launch a hit on Black Doom and draw his blood. Black Doom took no notice. Since it was such a small wound, it healed almost instantly. However, the small blood sample was collected for study. We were able to conclude that his genetic structure was almost that of perfection. His blood network seemed to be always adapting and reconstruction to fit a different environment. However, it seemed to draw energy from the Chaos energy of that of Xorda Emerald fragments.
"Soon after we were able to acquire a sample of Umbra's blood. A large sample. For one of my race, it would be enough blood to circulate throughout our entire body. We almost concluded nothing. One of our drones monitored umbra and we concluded that every time he changed shape, the blood changed with him to match his environment and species that he was mimicking. We were entirely baffled. We had seen adaption . . . but this was horrendous! This was how Doom knew so much about each of the races that he conquered. Umbra was the ultimate spy network.
"We tried everything to try and destroy bits of the Umbra sample. Everything we tried ended in that the sample would just regenerate the lost blood. Nothing seemed to happen, until we stumped on a breakthrough. One of our researchers made a needle using a tiny bit of the Doom sample. She stabbed the Umbra blood and to our great surprise, the entire Umbra sample in the secondary container vanished. Like it had never been there. We soon, repeated the test. The same result came again. We were all joyous. We had a way to defeat the Arms.
"Extensive research into the result showed that a lower Black Arms could not kill a higher Black Arms. Only one of equal status or higher. Black Doom was the highest and umbra was not his equal. We knew if we could get rid of the information train, we could cripple the Empire.
"Our happiness came to end when we were informed that the Xorda were dead. Who could now deliver a weapon to kill the Arms. We couldn't. We are a peaceful people and it against our sacred code to do so. However we finished the new and improved blade. It took much research into such things before we could make it but we believe it will be useful. Whoever receives this message, we pray that the blade will find its destiny and that this menace to life will be dead."
The image faded and the disk went silent. Shadow pulled the sword from it sheath and looked at it with a cruel smirk on his face.
Tails looked at his comrade apprehensively. "What are you planning?"
Shadow chuckled. "I believe its time I met that old scum bag face to face for a nice cup of tea."
Shadow left the room and Tails couldn't help but feel a glint of hope.
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YEAH! Bam! MUHAHAHAHAHAHA! I have been dying to write this scene. All that info was really clogging up my brain. Well, I also hate to say that we will soon be done with Legacy. However, I will set up a poll to ask if you people want be to make prequels. One will be about how Shadow met Sonia and all the disasters that led up to him marrying her and leaving for his mission. The other will be about a pervious conquest with Doom and Umbra. You get to see how the Father and First Born acted around each other. However, do not get the idea that these are sequels, they are only prequels. There are two sequels in the works: Return of an Empire and Return of the Opposite Twins. So I leave no in suspense, just like Alfred Hitchcock.
REVIEW TIME!
White Keyblade Oathkeeper-Sorry, I've got so much info going in my head I got your new fic confused with someone else's. My bad . Hope you forgive me (pout)
XT-421-I hope you don't get slapped for that trick, even though it is pretty good. Sorry I haven't got to read much of your story lately, been studying. However, right now, I am where Randal has proposed to be given rule of Hyrule. I will continue reading when I can.
Themunks-How are you lost? I will draw you a map if you wish if not, TELL ME! I wish for all my readers to be able to follow!
flowergirl220-Calm down, if you remember two chapters ago, Crystal and Lucas were making out in the hologram room. And Charmy is trying to keep his pregnant wife Cream from killing him. The Comets are Black Arms fleet ships. The Black Comet from Shadow the Hedgehog was Black Doom's, however the rest are about the same size. Umbra's is just the same as his father's. And yes, people's face can go that red, seen it.
I don't know if I will update till after exams and the holidays, so if I don't get to, from myself a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a Happy New Year!
