Chapter 34: Training
The Arm of the ultimate life form is glowing. He's charging at the side of a cliff near a river smashing holes and holes. Testing to see how strong his arm is. Amy is sitting at a safe distance watching him put massive holes on the tall rock wall. She sitting on a blanket with a picnic basket she has her normal attire on with her in a pony tail. She notices he's gotten stronger. She remembers when she had to take care of him on the island. Now it seems like it all never happened. He's an all-new man. Amy is eating a sandwich.
Amy: "Hey Shadow!"
Shadow: "Yep?"
Amy: "How's the arm?"
Shadow looks back towards with a smile.
Shadow: "Freaking sweet."
He grows orange spikes out of his hands. They have dagger like sharp ends. He sends two towards the wall of his new power.
Shadow: "This stuff is really starting to come in handy."
He learns a new trick. He grows spikes out of his head and down his back. Shadow jumps into the air and turns into a ball. He spin dashes towards the wall cliff and does like a saw blade. Doing major damage and learning the new trick. Amy looks in amazement and shock to see him do things that are better than Sonic. He bounces off to see a bunch of spikes onto the wall. He looks at the spot to see a crater with a drill in the middle. He's like an upgraded shadow. Amy runs up to him.
Amy: "Shadow."
Shadow: "Hmm."
She looks at the hedgehog who is ready to train some more.
Shadow: "Is something wrong?"
Amy: *Giggle*
Shadow: "What?"
She reaches for shadows head and grabs something that's poking off him. It's a spike still there. She touches his horn and pulls it out slowly with him feeling.
Amy: "You looked like a unicorn."
Shadow: "Heh."
She holds it and admires it. It looks like a orange lava lamp that's not glowing. She admires it and the sharp ends. She hands it back to shadow.
Amy: "Pretty but dangerous."
Shadow tosses it like a throwing knife at the wall. Amy goes back to sitting and watching him train. Shadow sends out his chaos spears and all his other skills he knows. In the distance a blue hedgehog is watching his every move. He saw what he can do and smiles. He looks at his hand and remembers when he went full power mode back on the island. Sonic knows how to sharpen his quills and use them in battle but its not as better than Shadows. Sonic runs down next to Amy.
Sonic: "I see he's enjoying his new skill."
Amy: "Oh Sonic. I didn't know you were there."
Sonic: "I like his new skill."
Amy: "I just hope he doesn't hurt himself."
Sonic: "Aren't you worried that if he holds you he might stab you."
Amy: "He won't, he knows how to control it."
Sonic: "So how's he been holding out?"
Amy: "He's doing great. Right now he plan's on taking a break from finding Gloom."
Sonic: "I don't blame him. He earns it."
Shadow turns around and sees Sonic who waves at him. He senses something coming up. A large rock heading his way. Shadow turns around and groups spikes out of his back wrist. He catches the concrete and splits it in half with his new blade arms. A floating hedgehog is ready to train with him.
Shadow: "It's about time you got out. So how's your head?"
Silver: "Still hurts."
Shadow: "Sorry about his recklessness. he's a jerk but he's not that bad."
Silver: "Yeah not that bad."
Shadow: "He has every right to be angry."
Silver: "that I agree but doesn't he not know the pain he's causing to others?"
Shadow: "Not as great as his."
Silver lifts more rocks and a tree ready for shadow. Shadow launches two to three spikes towards silver who blocks them. He sends rocks towards him and Shadow Blocks them with his arm. Shadow jumps and Dodges all the oncoming rocks and trees trying to murder him. Shadow sends out chaos spears towards silver who moves out of the way. He charges at Silver. Silver sends a psychic slice towards him who dodges. Shadow pulls out a spike throws one at silver who dodges. Shadow was getting close and he uses his psychic powers and grabs Shadow.
Silver: "Almost had me there."
Shadow: "You really think you have me?"
Silver: "Huh."
He starts glowing red and unleashes Chaos Blasts. Silver is sent back falling and hitting the ground with rocks and trees falling beside him. He looks up to see a red and black hedgehog standing in front of him ready for his next attack. Silver sends an uppercut towards him that misses. Shadow kicks him into the stomach and he flies back towards the rocks. He sends out a swarm of rocks and pebbles and shadow sends out a swarm of Spikes. They all continue deflecting each other and the swarm is like a wall vs a wall. Bullets hitting the other bullets. Until shadow teleports behind silver. He charges silver and they head towards a tree. silver grabs the tree thanks to his powers mixed with his strength and slams shadow in the face into the cliff wall. Shadow picks up a boulder and tosses in the air that's about to smash Silver. Shadow hops into the air and smashes the rock he smashed and is heading towards silver who grabs the punch impact from shadow. They both have their hand palms trying to push the other holding their ground. They both have faces of contempt and rocks start floating. Silver uses the rocks and they all start hitting shadow. A lot of rocks bury him and he gets consumed. Silver carries the piled rock into the air with shadow inside it while burying him in more rocks. He sends psychic slices towards the rocks and jumps above sending a powerful strike down with his psychic fist. Shadow his hit directly into the stomach and hits the ground hard. Silver falls down and lands on shadows stomach feet first.
Sonic: "Ooohh, that's gonna hurt tomorrow."
Amy: "I hope he's okay."
Shadow teleports. Silver turns around to find him but is met with a roundhouse kick into the face. He does a flip sideways and Shadow grabs him by the legs. He sends him up in the air with him teleporting above silver. Silver tries to strike but is met with a side dive kick. He is sent into the ground but is met with a face that stops in front of his face. Silver stares at the ultimate life form.
Silver: *pant* *pant* "man, you got strong."
Shadow: "and faster."
He helps the white hedgehog up and dusts himself off and so does he stretching. A blue hedgehog walks up and asks for a sparing match.
Sonic: "Alright, my turn."
Shadow: "Are you sure about this faker? I won't go easy."
Sonic: "Hey, its been a while since we did something like this. Besides I've noticed I been slacking off. Plus, we're gonna need to get stronger if we're gonna stand a chance to your evil counterpart."
Shadow: "Hmph."
Shadow glares at Amy in the distance. Amy smiles and nods knowing that Sonic asked. Shadow smiles too.
Shadow: "Okay then."
Sonic: "Sweet!"
They distance themselves and stretch. Shadow Pulls out a spike in his wrist and holds it like a knife. Sonic cracks his wrist and arms and gets ready. Silver walks away near Amy and sits beside a tree.
Sonic: "On you!"
Shadow tosses the spike towards him and misses.
Sonic: "Really?"
He teleports and appears behind Sonic where the spike landed. Shadow grabs the spike and uses it for combat against the fastest thing alive who was quick to know what his intentions was. Shadow swipes at the fastest thing alive with his ability to know how to use knives. He jabs at him with multiple strikes that miss the blue blur. He toys with him for a bit and decides to kick the spike out of his hand. Sonic grabs it and tosses it towards shadow who misses. Shadow teleports to him and punches Sonic in the face. Sonic reacts and slides towards his legs and trips him. He twirls on the ground and sends a knee towards Shadow who blocks it. He kicks the blue hedgehog away on the ground sending him at a safe distance from him. Shadow runs with sonic in speed mode and they both dash at each other like pinballs across the battle field. Sonic dashes for shadow who teleports on top of a rock. Sonic sees shadow from a height and Shadow sends a swarm of spikes at his nemises. Sonic runs for his life dodging all shots of the Spikes. He jumps from rock to rock to the cliff's wall and runs across the wall. He notices a whole in the ground and dives towards the crater. Shadow sends chaos spears towards him but misses at the last second. Shadow teleports down to the crater.
Shadow: "Got nowhere to go… Huh!"
There's nothing but an empty crater with a whole in the middle. It seems like he dug his way underground. Shadow looks around to see where he went but is met with the ground trembling a bit. Sonic comes up in a ball almost hitting him. Shadow is cornered against the cliff's wall. Sonic spin dashes towards the ultimate life form but teleports making a new whole into the cracked cliff's not only did he miss but caused a few other hazards. The cliff starts rumbling from Sonic hitting it. Rocks and boulders start collapsing and Shadow notices. He jumps out of the way from oncoming rocks and Sonic runs towards shadow trying to strike him with a punch. Shadow dodges but a rock is about to hit him. Shadow curls up in a ball and grows spikes out of his back. He spin dashes up Shattering the boulder. Sonic notices and runs up the avalanche. He speeds up noticing Shadow hoping and teleporting onto the rocks as well. Shadow kicks one of the rocks towards Sonic and he moves out of the way. Shadow sends chaos spears towards sonic who uses the environment to his advantage. Sonic moves behind the rocks and sends them towards Shadow who punches and kicks them away. Sonic runs up the cliff wall that's collapsing and stops to get an aim at Shadow who is jumping on the rocks. He spin charges and dashes towards the ultimate life form shattering rocks between him and his target. Shadow spin charges and dashes towards Sonic. They collide with Sonic breaking some spikes off Shadow. Sonic seems to have the better hand when he's pressuring Shadow back. Shadow Charges even more using some of his chaos strength and gives him a challenge. Sonic bounces off and so does shadow. Now they are spin dashing and bouncing all over the place like a pinball machine in 4k. They bounces over each other like team blasts. Sonic reaches the top. Shadow teleports in mid air and sends chaos spears at him destroying the cliff. Shadow runs towards Sonic and they duke it out fists to fists. Kicking, punching, Dodging, and blocking they attack each other over and over. Shadow ducks while Sonic misses kicking him. Sonic does kick off some spikes on his back. He jumps over Shadow and grabs two blades of spikes thanks to his new power. Shadow grows spikes out of the palm of his hand. Sonic and Shadow fight with blades trying to slash each other into bits. They fight in cunning and sneaky ways, cutting each other and slashing but making sure they don't kill the other. Sonic and Shadow clash and hold their ground.
Sonic: "Man you got strong."
Shadow: "Same to you, but technically the power was given to me."
Sonic: "Hey, maybe it was, but it's still yours."
Shadow: "Hmph, smartest thing you ever said."
They back off with each other and continue the fight. They send slashes and use their average skills during the fight. Shadow's arm starts glowing again, the black aurora comes from him again. he clutches his fist and spikes start glowing all over his arm. It's like a mace for an arm. Shadow's muscles start swelling. Shadow snarls and growls a bit. He kicks Sonic away and at the edge of the cliff.
Sonic: "Whoa buddy, You're trying to kill me."
Shadow: "Yes."
He smashes the ground making the whole cliff side tremble and the cliff wall looks like it's on its last leg. Shadow bring his arms up and clutches it his hands into a fist. He Roars into a voice that doesn't represent Shadow at all. It's like he's a different person now.
Shadow: *ROAR*
Sonic: *Gulp*
He charges at him with his spike arm and Sonic quickly jumps off the cliff with the Black hedgehog soaring with rage into his eyes. Sonic falls down with rocks falling next to the wall. He uses the spikes in his hand and stabs the wall making sure he slows down. He slows down until he makes a stop. Shadow's aurora goes back into his body and he's back to rational thought. Shadow's arm stops glowing and he's back to regular shadow again. Shadow free fall's down and lands safely onto his feet. He looks up to see a blue hedgehog and rocks falling down. He jabs the spikes off of him removing all of them and punches his arm out instantly ridding every single one off his arm. Sonic hops down to see him.
Sonic: "Yo man, what the heck was that up there?"
Shadow: "I don't know. It wasn't me."
Amy packs up the picnic she shared with Silver. She picks up the basket.
Amy: "Shadow! Time to go see them."
Shadow: "Well, the lady calls."
Sonic: "Where you heading?"
Shadow: "The rabbits."
Sonic: "Oh, tell em I said hi. Also good fight."
They fist bump and Sonic stretches and dusts himself off. He heads towards amy.
Sonic: "Yo Silver? Heading to Tails?"
Silver: "Yeah, gonna help them out. See what we can find."
Sonic: "And get that Emerald."
Amy: "Good luck guys."
Sonic: "Later Ames."
Silver flies while Sonic runs towards Tails workshop. Shadow walks towards Amy helping her with the basket.
Shadow: "Well. To vanillas?"
Amy: "Yep. Lets go talk to them."
He teleports them off towards Cream's house.
To Be Continued…
