Day: August 1, 2184
Shawn felt no thoughts in his mind at that moment in time. His conscience wasn't speaking, and logic had left his mindset. Nothing mattered to him more at that point than to kill Shadow. He felt the negative energy around him. While this felt strange and different to him, he liked it. He liked feeling the power he had, it made him feel superior and almost like a god. With that in mind, he began his dash straight at Shadow, his entire body surrounded by a black aura. Shadow raised an eyebrow, shrugged his shoulders, and sent a chaos spear at Shawn. The spear made direct contact with Shawn and exploded. Everyone gasped as they saw Shawn take a huge hit from Shadow's Chaos Spear. As the smoke cleared, Shawn came running up and charged into Shadow, knocking him to his back. Shawn ripped the gun out of Shadow's hand and began to fire, shooting at both of his arms and legs. He aimed for the kneecaps and elbows and made a direct hit with all four shots. Shadow screamed, feeling the pain flow through his body and mind. Shawn then pointed the gun to Shadow's head.
"Take a good long look." Shawn said, "Because this is the last thing your pathetic self is ever gonna see."
Shadow smiled and laughed, "Go ahead, kill me. Just know that the great Dr. Eggman has hundreds of me back on Mobius just waiting to be activated. Even if you kill me, another Shadow will just come back for you."
Shawn gave a devilish smile, "Well then I guess I have a hundred more Shadow's to kill." And with that, Shawn pulled the trigger, sending a bullet straight into Shadow's head. Something was different, however. His head wasn't pouring blood, it was pouring oil. Upon further examination, he saw some hardware inside of Shadow.
"Was he a robot?" Shawn asked aloud. The black Aura left Shawn's body and he returned to normal. He felt very de-energized and tired from the fight that they had just had. Shawn turned around to see the entire group running up to him, with Knuckles carrying Jane. Shawn ran up to Jane and picked her up out of Knuckle's arms.
"Is she going to be okay?" Shawn asked.
"The bullet wound barely missed a blood vessel." Tails said, "Had he shot an inch or two lower, I don't think Jane would've made it." Shawn sighed and looked at Jane, who was starting to wake up.
"Are you okay?" Shawn asked.
Jane coughed and smiled, "Well, besides the fact that I just got shot and I've kind of lost feeling in my right arm, I'd say I'm doing pretty good." Shawn laughed and pet Jane's hair. Shawn put Jane on her feet and looked around. While everyone else was celebrating their victory, Shawn looked off into the distance. Tails noticed this and flew up next to him.
"Hey Shawn, are you okay?" Tails asked.
"Correct me if I'm wrong Tails," Shawn said, "but I'm pretty sure that there is some sort of temple of their a little farther into the forest." Tails pinched his eyes to try and look farther and did notice some sort of building off in the forest.
"Yea, we should go check that out." Tails said.
"Grab Cosmo as well," Shawn said, "she might know what's up with this tomb or some of the writing that's in here." Tails nodded and ran back to Cosmo. He turned around to see Amy helping Sonic walk back over to the group after the beating he took from Shadow a few moments ago. Sonic tried walking on his own after getting closer to the group.
"Alright everyone," Sonic said, "Let's all get back on the ship and try and figure out about this final phase that the dark monsters keep talking about."
"Actually, Sonic," Shawn said, "Tails, Cosmo, and I want to go investigate a little. Could we have at least a couple of hours?"
"Yea, I guess that's okay." He said.
"Come one Sonic!" Amy said as she tugged on Sonic's arm, "Let's go see what's in the forest."
"Alright," Sonic said, "I guess." Shawn smiled as Amy pulled Sonic away from the rest of the group.
"Alright," Tails said, who was accompanied by Cosmo, "We're ready to go check this temple thing out."
"Sounds good!" Shawn exclaimed. The three then made their way into the forest and towards the temple.
Meanwhile, Sonic and Amy walked in the forest and looked around.
"Don't you think this place is beautiful?" Amy asked, "I feel terrible knowing that Cosmo never got to truly see her home planet because she was missing out on such a beautiful planet."
"Yea," Sonic said, "it looks nice, I guess." Amy found a nice tree and sat down with her back resting against it. She patted the ground requesting Sonic to sit next to her. Sonic decided to obey her and sit down next to her. Amy sighed as she looked up into the sky.
"Is something bothering you, Amy?" Sonic asked.
Back at the temple, Shawn, Tails, and Cosmo entered the building and looked around them. It looked like some sort of cubed shaped building. The building had definitely seen its better days a long time back, for now it was covered in dirt, dust, and vines. The three looked around and investigated the building to look for anything suspicious.
"I don't see anything." Cosmo said. She then felt some sort of pressure plate go down below her feet. She jumped into Tails arms and went far away from the middle, knowing the last time she touched a pressure plate, it nearly sent Tails and her to their graves.
"What's wrong?" Tails asked, comforting the Seedrian.
"I felt some sort of pressure plate below my feet go down." She said. Suddenly, a female voice boomed through the building.
"Travelers, Seedrains," The voice said, "If you are hearing this, then you have been chosen to stop a force that was awoken by pure hatred."
"Mother?" Cosmo asked aloud.
"While the metarex are a serious threat and could send us all to an end unless Sonic the Hedgehog is able to save us all, there is a worse threat that, if you're hearing this, has probably been awoken now. The leader of the dark monsters, Dark Master, is invincible and will be able to protect himself with pure darkness. No one can get through this pure darkness, except the chosen one that will wield this." Then, a hidden compartment opened in the middle of the temple and had a table coming up from underneath the floor, holding a black ball with orange spikes surrounding it.
"That's my mother, I'm sure of it!" Cosmo said.
"This is Destiny's light." Earthia said. "Whoever wields this weapon has the means necessary to defeat the dark monsters and save the entire universe from being plunged into darkness." Destiny's light began to blink a bright light from its orange spikes. "Upon pressing the activation button on Destiny's light, when it's ready, it will create a small explosion that would span about 5 feet, but would release an after-blast of pure light, that of which the deepest of darkness wouldn't be able to survive. When Destiny's light is ready, the spikes will begin to blink again as they are now. The chosen one will know who he or she is when Destiny's light goes form blinking to staying a pure white. The only way you may obtain this right now is by the hands of a true Seedrian." Tails and Shawn looked at Cosmo. She gulped and walked up to this precious item. She lightly got a grip on it and began to easily lift it off the table. The blinking on the light stopped, and the tomb doors opened up.
"You are now ready to defeat the dark monsters." Earthia said, "Good luck my heroes, I hope that I may watch you save everyone in the afterlife." Cosmo began to cry from hearing her mother speak these words and began to cry. Tails came over and embraced her. Cosmo continued to cry into Tails chest as the group left the temple and made their way back to the ship.
Meanwhile, Amy continued to look off into the sky above her and Sonic.
"You're not answering my question, Amy." Sonic said, "Why are you so upset?"
"I don't know Sonic." She said, "It's just, anytime I try and make something happen between you and I, you always just run off, leaving me all by my lonesome." Sonic sighed and looked to the ground. He did admit that he felt like an asshole for always leaving Amy all alone whenever she would attempt something. "But yet here you are," She continued, "You haven't run off yet, and you're actually concerned for me. When I was patting on the ground, I was expecting you to run off and leave me here all on my own again. So my question to you is what changed? Why are you so concerned for me now when you didn't give a care in the world for me before?"
Sonic was concerned and placed his hand on top of Amy's, "Amy," He said, "Don't ever say that again. I care for you way more than you think. You mean a lot to me, almost as much as Tails, and I consider him a brother." Amy smiled and put her head on Sonic's body. Sonic began to wildly blush, not knowing what to do. He then felt his arm go around Amy as the two sat together in the forest. Soon after, he felt his hand on top of hers and they began to hold hands. Sonic began to smile, "This feels nice." Sonic thought, "No it doesn't!" his conscience said, "What are you doing? I thought you didn't like her!"
"True," Sonic thought in his head, "But I guess things change over time." The two sat in the forest like this for another hour before being requested back at the ship. Upon entering the ship, both Shawn and Tails noticed that Sonic was happier than he normally was.
"So Sonic," Shawn said, "How was the forest?"
Sonic looked back at Amy and smiled, "It was amazing. The views were breathtaking."
"I'm sure that the views weren't the only thing taking away your breath, Sonic." Tails said. Sonic began to wildly blush again and ran off.
"Sir," Shawn's CPU began to speak out of nowhere, "I did a random dark energy check, and you're not going to like this."
"What's up computer?" Shawn asked. Shawn's helmet then began to project a hologram on the main screen on the deck, it showed a spot in space and it had many red dots on it. "We just detected that about a couple days away from us if we were to go into slip-space right now."
"That must be where the Dark Monsters are doing their final phase thing." Knuckles said.
"We need to get there as soon as possible!" Tails said, "Let's get moving right now!" Tails then ran up to the captain's seat and started the Blue Typhoon. The ship's engines roared and began to lift off and went into space. Once they were a safe distance away, they went into slip-space and made their way to begin their final battle.
End of Part 35