Sonic Adventure 2 adaptation- part 3.
"City Escape"
By T. Evans.
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Chapter 1
Location: Metropolis Zone City
1 Time: Around noon
It had rained the night before, but today the sun was out and the Metropolis was a hive of activity. A mixture of Mobians and humans went about their daily business, paying no attention to the sound of a helicopter overhead. Within seconds, though, there came a sound that was much harder to ignore.
It wasn't every day that a hedgehog fell out of the sky…
"Yaaaaaaaaargh!!! Look out below!!!" Sonic yelled, grimly hanging on to the sheet of metal he'd been using to slow his fall. Where was Tails when he needed him?? Jumping from that helicopter had seemed like such a good idea at the time.
Cars swerved out of the way as the metal panel hit the tarmac with a loud clang, and skidded down the steep hill- Sonic now using it as a makeshift skateboard.
"All right!" He grinned, silently adding the words "It must be my lucky day." Expertly keeping his balance, Sonic guided the board between the startled drivers. But all was not well- friction between the road and the metal was causing it to heat up alarmingly. A shower of sparks fanned out behind and Sonic could feel the heat through his insulated trainers. He had to get off – and fast!
That problem, however, was resolved much sooner than he expected. Distracted by the heat, Sonic hadn't been looking where he was going. There was a loud crash, a screech of tires and suddenly Sonic found himself flying through the air. He caught a glimpse of the startled driver of the car he'd crashed into before slamming into the side of another, then rolling under a third- avoiding the deadly wheels by barely an inch. Luckily, he pulled himself onto the pavement before he could get squished.
"Idiot, idiot, idiot!!" He grumbled. A crowd of onlookers had gathered, and they didn't know if he was talking about himself, the driver or both.
"What the heck are you lookin' at??" Sonic hissed, his ego hurt more than anything. "It's as if they haven't seen a blue hedgehog before, or something…"
Someone giggled. "Er, are you alright?" One human ventured.
"Of course I am!" Sonic snapped, trying to regain his composure. However, as he got to his feet his right leg gave way. There was a long graze from knee to ankle- it wasn't serious, but it still hurt to move.
"This just isn't my day, is it?' Sonic moaned, limping off into a quiet back alley. "I knew I should've stayed in bed…"
This wasn't going to do much good for Sonic's reputation. As he tried to tidy his spikes up a bit, he noted that apart from the graze on his leg and a few bruises, he was unharmed. However, he thought, hearing sirens in the distance, that injury was bad enough. The city was still on high alert after last night's bank robbery, and the police were no doubt looking for Sonic- he would need to get out of there, fast.
Then something grabbed Sonic's attention, a familiar buzzing in his head that could mean only one thing.
"A Chaos Emerald!" The energy signature was somewhere in the city. "Got you now, thief," Sonic grinned, his injured leg forgotten for the moment, and turned to follow the trail of the Emerald.
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A few blocks away, Shadow stood on top of a building, wondering why he had remained in the city after stealing the Chaos Emerald. The place disgusted him- a hive of people like a virus on the planet's surface. Still, he felt strangely reluctant to return to ARK, even though he knew he must go there. Too many bad memories. Shadow looked up at the sky- the ARK space colony was not visible at this time of day. Within a few days, however, every being on the planet would know of its existence… if Robotnik managed to find the other Emeralds, that is. Pleased by the thought, Shadow gathered his energy ready to warp to the space colony, but something distracted him. Shadow was a chaotic creature and he could sense Chaos energy even more accurately than Sonic could, so he picked up Sonic's energy signature easily.
"That wannabe again," He thought, remembering seeing Sonic in the alley the night before. He decided to take a closer look, and headed in the direction of the energy signal…
* * * *
"I hate days like this!!" Sonic yelled as he pelted down the wrong side of the road. First, he'd fallen out of a helicopter, then made a fool of himself by nearly getting run over, now this.
"I've seen this movie," Sonic said to himself as he glanced behind.
The huge ammo truck thundered down the street, intent on turning Sonic into hedgehog pizza. The vehicle stuck to the centre of the road causing cars to swerve around it.
"Those humes must be really desperate. No police cars in the area, so they send that after me…" Sonic leaped over another car, heard rather than saw it smash into a shop window behind him. "Oops." The worst thing was, of course, that Sonic couldn't outrun the eighteen-wheeler. With the injury to his leg, the best he could manage was an 80mph jog. "All right, let's see if he can corner as well as I can…" Sonic thought, swerving into a side street. There was a screech of tires and a crash behind him. "Didn't think so." However, a scream of tortured metal made Sonic look back over his shoulder. The truck had just made it, and scraped along the side of some buildings before moving back to the middle of the road. It was back on the chase- if a little dented.
"So that's the way you wanna play, huh?" Sonic grinned, beginning to enjoy himself despite the pain in his leg. "OK, let's see how you like this!"
Sonic led the huge vehicle on a mad chase through the city, taking as many turns as possible. He weaved and dodged in a twisting path though dozens of streets, the truck leaving a trail of destruction behind it. But the juggernaut could not be shaken. "Gotta admit it, whoever's driving that thing ain't bad…" Sonic spotted something in a side street, and took another sharp turn. "But that don't count when you're up against Sonic!"
Grinning, Sonic shouted "Low Bridge!!" As he shot under a highway overpass. The truck followed- and came to a grinding halt as the roof of its cabin wedged under the low archway.
"Man- these humans are dumb," Laughed Sonic, finding himself in a small, open courtyard. He bent down and rubbed his leg. "Now, where did that Chaos Emerald go…"
Sonic didn't get an answer. Some instinct told him to look up… to see a remote-piloted G.U.N aircraft, bristling with weaponry, floating menacingly above him.
"Gimme a break! Now what?!"
The vehicle lowered its machine gun and opened fire…
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Chapter 2
2 Location: Ancient Ruins
Time: around noon
The great building in the desert had stood for aeons. Thousands of years ago, an army of Echidnas had toiled to build this place- perhaps in celebration of a great victory in battle. The Echidnas were long gone, the ancient palace forgotten. But now it had a new purpose…
It had been a stroke of genius to make a new base inside the ruins. But, Robotnik thought, what else could be expected from the greatest mind on Mobius?
Robotnik gazed around at the dozens of flashing computer monitors with pride as he entered the small control room. No one would ever find him here. Getting out of his mechanical Egg Walker, he looked around at his creations.
Suddenly, the silence was broken by a strident beeping.
"Hmm."
Thoughtfully, Robotnik pressed a button on one of the consoles- this one's purpose was to monitor the airwaves for anything of interest, saving the mad scientist the trouble of doing it himself. The screen lit up with a fuzzy, static-slashed picture of a news broadcast.
"The main headlines again:" A reporter was saying. "The federal bank in the Metropolis Zone was robbed today. Strangely, the only thing that was stolen was the Chaos Emerald."
"The Chaos Emerald??" Robotnik exclaimed, suddenly interested as the picture switched to a shot of the new Metropolis City Bridge. There was a figure on one of the support struts, grasping the emerald.
"Police are now in pursuit of the main suspect," The reporter continued, "Who, shockingly, is the world renowned hero, Sonic the hedgehog…"
"Hmm, that sounds more like the work of Shadow," Robotnik pondered. But at least Sonic was going to have his hands full with the police for a while. "With the Chaos emerald in the space colony ARK…" For a moment, Robotnik stared at the ceiling as if he could see the ARK through the solid stone. Then he grabbed the two emeralds he'd been able to find so far. "I think I'll find out what he's up to." Robotnik clambered back into his Egg Walker, and the machine clanked its way over to another complex invention. After keying in a couple of commands, Robotnik disappeared in a flash of light.
* * * *
The would-be dictator didn't know that he'd been followed.
Rouge the bat had used her treasure scope to track the concentration of Chaos energy into the centre of the ruins, after her confrontation with Knuckles a few hours before. She'd managed to pick up a few pieces of the Master Emerald along the way. After spotting Robotnik, however, she had known that she would have to follow him- this part of her mission was more important than finding the scattered fragments. She did want to be paid, didn't she?
Of course, it didn't hurt that this mission involved those fabulous Chaos Emeralds. Rouge smiled- she never had been able to resist a good jewel.
Slipping into the control room after Robotnik, she watched as he was beamed up. Rouge strode over to the machine, and expertly tapped at the keyboard.
"Ahhh, a space transporter… and the destination is ARK." The bat frowned. "What's he doing up there?" After typing in another brief sequence, she too disappeared.
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Chapter 3
Location; Metropolis City
2.1 Time: Five minutes later
"This is wonderful," Sonic hissed sarcastically, as he dived for cover behind a wooden crate. "Just flipping brilliant." A stream of bullets smashed the crate into splinters, sending Sonic out into the open. The G.U.N robot swung around for a better aim. This time, the Bigfoot- model machine lowered itself to the ground on two mechanical legs and started to power up its' main cannon.
"Two can play at that game," Sonic thought. "Let's see which of us can charge up the fastest," he said aloud. Sonic began to glow neon blue as he tapped into his reserve of Chaos energy. The Lightspeed Attack could provide a momentary burst of Super Sonic-like speed and strength, but it took time to gather enough energy. Sonic didn't like using the Lightspeed Attack, but here it was necessary…
Sonic attacked at the same moment that the cannon fired. The spinning ball of speed Sonic had become knocked the laser bolt aside with ease, and powered though the G.U.N machine is if it was made of tissue paper. Sonic kept going…
"Where did that wall come from? Aargh!" Sonic thought, a millisecond before impact.
*THUD*
"I'm never gonna get the hang of that…" Behind him, the smoking wreckage of the Bigfoot robot sagged to its' knees and keeled over.
Picking himself up off the floor, Sonic noticed the cut on his leg had nearly healed up. "I guess that's why Super Sonic never seemed to get hurt…" It was weird how, as soon as Sonic thought he'd figured out what Chaos energy could do, it did something new and unpredictable. "Guess it's not called Chaos for nothing. This could come in handy though," he added thoughtfully. "Speaking of Chaos—"
Sonic whipped around, sensing the presence of the Chaos Emerald.
"Not bad for an impostor…" A quiet, sinister voice said.
"What the-?" Perched on the wreckage of the G.U.N robot was the hedgehog that Sonic had glimpsed briefly the night before. The black hedgehog bore some resemblance to Sonic, in the same way that a distant relative would- like Sonic, he was small, compact and athletic looking. But where Sonic's spikes curved smoothly the stranger's were all sharp angles and points. Although he was the same size as Sonic was, the shape of his quills made him appear slightly taller.
"It all starts with this…" The hedgehog said, idly tossing and catching the green emerald. "…A jewel containing the ultimate power."
"So, the military has mistaken me for the likes of you," Sonic said. It was time to teach this guy a lesson. "Well- say something, you fake!" Sonic launched into an attack. The mysterious hedgehog threw and caught the Chaos Emerald one last time, drawing power from the glowing jewel.
"Chaos control!!" There was a blinding green flash. Sonic blinked-
"Where'd he go?!" There was no sign of the black hedgehog anywhere. Then, Sonic glimpsed a flash of black on his right hand side as the two hedgehogs passed each other in opposite directions. For an instant, green eyes met red as they sized each other up.
Sonic screeched to a halt and turned around in one movement.
"Man… he's fast," he grudgingly admitted, seeing the dark stranger standing on top of the wall that Sonic had crashed into earlier. "He must be using the Chaos Emerald to warp somehow..." Sonic had never seen anyone who could focus the power of the emeralds like that, not when they weren't using the Grey Emerald. Who was this guy?
"My name is Shadow…" He said, as if in answer. "I'm the world's ultimate life form." There was no hint of bragging in Shadow's voice.
"He really believes that," Sonic thought.
There was no doubt in Shadow's mind as to who was superior. So far, this blue hedgehog's abilities seemed less advanced than Shadow's- in other words, not worth bothering with. In any case, Shadow had more important things to do than waste time in the city.
"There's no time for games," He said contemptuously. "Farewell" There was another green flash, and Shadow was gone.
Sonic frowned as the last traces of Chaos energy disappeared. This guy had turned up, stolen the emerald and literally disappeared into thin air right under Sonic's nose, and had got away with it. No ordinary hedgehog could do that. Where had this strange, chaotic creature come from?
"What is he…?" Murmured the dazed Sonic. The only reply was the all too familiar sirens. "Awww, not again," Sonic groaned. He looked up, knowing what he was going to see but hoping against it anyway. "Ugh, it looks like every G.U.N craft in the city is here," he thought, scanning the ring of heavily- armed vehicles all pointing their guns at him. "I'm gonna get Shadow for this," he muttered as he put his hands in the air.
To be continued…
Coming up: Sonic finds himself behind bars, while Robotnik, Shadow and Rouge make plans aboard the ARK. What are they up to?
Find out in part 4- 'Gathering of the Dark'
"City Escape"
By T. Evans.
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Chapter 1
Location: Metropolis Zone City
1 Time: Around noon
It had rained the night before, but today the sun was out and the Metropolis was a hive of activity. A mixture of Mobians and humans went about their daily business, paying no attention to the sound of a helicopter overhead. Within seconds, though, there came a sound that was much harder to ignore.
It wasn't every day that a hedgehog fell out of the sky…
"Yaaaaaaaaargh!!! Look out below!!!" Sonic yelled, grimly hanging on to the sheet of metal he'd been using to slow his fall. Where was Tails when he needed him?? Jumping from that helicopter had seemed like such a good idea at the time.
Cars swerved out of the way as the metal panel hit the tarmac with a loud clang, and skidded down the steep hill- Sonic now using it as a makeshift skateboard.
"All right!" He grinned, silently adding the words "It must be my lucky day." Expertly keeping his balance, Sonic guided the board between the startled drivers. But all was not well- friction between the road and the metal was causing it to heat up alarmingly. A shower of sparks fanned out behind and Sonic could feel the heat through his insulated trainers. He had to get off – and fast!
That problem, however, was resolved much sooner than he expected. Distracted by the heat, Sonic hadn't been looking where he was going. There was a loud crash, a screech of tires and suddenly Sonic found himself flying through the air. He caught a glimpse of the startled driver of the car he'd crashed into before slamming into the side of another, then rolling under a third- avoiding the deadly wheels by barely an inch. Luckily, he pulled himself onto the pavement before he could get squished.
"Idiot, idiot, idiot!!" He grumbled. A crowd of onlookers had gathered, and they didn't know if he was talking about himself, the driver or both.
"What the heck are you lookin' at??" Sonic hissed, his ego hurt more than anything. "It's as if they haven't seen a blue hedgehog before, or something…"
Someone giggled. "Er, are you alright?" One human ventured.
"Of course I am!" Sonic snapped, trying to regain his composure. However, as he got to his feet his right leg gave way. There was a long graze from knee to ankle- it wasn't serious, but it still hurt to move.
"This just isn't my day, is it?' Sonic moaned, limping off into a quiet back alley. "I knew I should've stayed in bed…"
This wasn't going to do much good for Sonic's reputation. As he tried to tidy his spikes up a bit, he noted that apart from the graze on his leg and a few bruises, he was unharmed. However, he thought, hearing sirens in the distance, that injury was bad enough. The city was still on high alert after last night's bank robbery, and the police were no doubt looking for Sonic- he would need to get out of there, fast.
Then something grabbed Sonic's attention, a familiar buzzing in his head that could mean only one thing.
"A Chaos Emerald!" The energy signature was somewhere in the city. "Got you now, thief," Sonic grinned, his injured leg forgotten for the moment, and turned to follow the trail of the Emerald.
* * * *
A few blocks away, Shadow stood on top of a building, wondering why he had remained in the city after stealing the Chaos Emerald. The place disgusted him- a hive of people like a virus on the planet's surface. Still, he felt strangely reluctant to return to ARK, even though he knew he must go there. Too many bad memories. Shadow looked up at the sky- the ARK space colony was not visible at this time of day. Within a few days, however, every being on the planet would know of its existence… if Robotnik managed to find the other Emeralds, that is. Pleased by the thought, Shadow gathered his energy ready to warp to the space colony, but something distracted him. Shadow was a chaotic creature and he could sense Chaos energy even more accurately than Sonic could, so he picked up Sonic's energy signature easily.
"That wannabe again," He thought, remembering seeing Sonic in the alley the night before. He decided to take a closer look, and headed in the direction of the energy signal…
* * * *
"I hate days like this!!" Sonic yelled as he pelted down the wrong side of the road. First, he'd fallen out of a helicopter, then made a fool of himself by nearly getting run over, now this.
"I've seen this movie," Sonic said to himself as he glanced behind.
The huge ammo truck thundered down the street, intent on turning Sonic into hedgehog pizza. The vehicle stuck to the centre of the road causing cars to swerve around it.
"Those humes must be really desperate. No police cars in the area, so they send that after me…" Sonic leaped over another car, heard rather than saw it smash into a shop window behind him. "Oops." The worst thing was, of course, that Sonic couldn't outrun the eighteen-wheeler. With the injury to his leg, the best he could manage was an 80mph jog. "All right, let's see if he can corner as well as I can…" Sonic thought, swerving into a side street. There was a screech of tires and a crash behind him. "Didn't think so." However, a scream of tortured metal made Sonic look back over his shoulder. The truck had just made it, and scraped along the side of some buildings before moving back to the middle of the road. It was back on the chase- if a little dented.
"So that's the way you wanna play, huh?" Sonic grinned, beginning to enjoy himself despite the pain in his leg. "OK, let's see how you like this!"
Sonic led the huge vehicle on a mad chase through the city, taking as many turns as possible. He weaved and dodged in a twisting path though dozens of streets, the truck leaving a trail of destruction behind it. But the juggernaut could not be shaken. "Gotta admit it, whoever's driving that thing ain't bad…" Sonic spotted something in a side street, and took another sharp turn. "But that don't count when you're up against Sonic!"
Grinning, Sonic shouted "Low Bridge!!" As he shot under a highway overpass. The truck followed- and came to a grinding halt as the roof of its cabin wedged under the low archway.
"Man- these humans are dumb," Laughed Sonic, finding himself in a small, open courtyard. He bent down and rubbed his leg. "Now, where did that Chaos Emerald go…"
Sonic didn't get an answer. Some instinct told him to look up… to see a remote-piloted G.U.N aircraft, bristling with weaponry, floating menacingly above him.
"Gimme a break! Now what?!"
The vehicle lowered its machine gun and opened fire…
* * * *
Chapter 2
2 Location: Ancient Ruins
Time: around noon
The great building in the desert had stood for aeons. Thousands of years ago, an army of Echidnas had toiled to build this place- perhaps in celebration of a great victory in battle. The Echidnas were long gone, the ancient palace forgotten. But now it had a new purpose…
It had been a stroke of genius to make a new base inside the ruins. But, Robotnik thought, what else could be expected from the greatest mind on Mobius?
Robotnik gazed around at the dozens of flashing computer monitors with pride as he entered the small control room. No one would ever find him here. Getting out of his mechanical Egg Walker, he looked around at his creations.
Suddenly, the silence was broken by a strident beeping.
"Hmm."
Thoughtfully, Robotnik pressed a button on one of the consoles- this one's purpose was to monitor the airwaves for anything of interest, saving the mad scientist the trouble of doing it himself. The screen lit up with a fuzzy, static-slashed picture of a news broadcast.
"The main headlines again:" A reporter was saying. "The federal bank in the Metropolis Zone was robbed today. Strangely, the only thing that was stolen was the Chaos Emerald."
"The Chaos Emerald??" Robotnik exclaimed, suddenly interested as the picture switched to a shot of the new Metropolis City Bridge. There was a figure on one of the support struts, grasping the emerald.
"Police are now in pursuit of the main suspect," The reporter continued, "Who, shockingly, is the world renowned hero, Sonic the hedgehog…"
"Hmm, that sounds more like the work of Shadow," Robotnik pondered. But at least Sonic was going to have his hands full with the police for a while. "With the Chaos emerald in the space colony ARK…" For a moment, Robotnik stared at the ceiling as if he could see the ARK through the solid stone. Then he grabbed the two emeralds he'd been able to find so far. "I think I'll find out what he's up to." Robotnik clambered back into his Egg Walker, and the machine clanked its way over to another complex invention. After keying in a couple of commands, Robotnik disappeared in a flash of light.
* * * *
The would-be dictator didn't know that he'd been followed.
Rouge the bat had used her treasure scope to track the concentration of Chaos energy into the centre of the ruins, after her confrontation with Knuckles a few hours before. She'd managed to pick up a few pieces of the Master Emerald along the way. After spotting Robotnik, however, she had known that she would have to follow him- this part of her mission was more important than finding the scattered fragments. She did want to be paid, didn't she?
Of course, it didn't hurt that this mission involved those fabulous Chaos Emeralds. Rouge smiled- she never had been able to resist a good jewel.
Slipping into the control room after Robotnik, she watched as he was beamed up. Rouge strode over to the machine, and expertly tapped at the keyboard.
"Ahhh, a space transporter… and the destination is ARK." The bat frowned. "What's he doing up there?" After typing in another brief sequence, she too disappeared.
* * * *
Chapter 3
Location; Metropolis City
2.1 Time: Five minutes later
"This is wonderful," Sonic hissed sarcastically, as he dived for cover behind a wooden crate. "Just flipping brilliant." A stream of bullets smashed the crate into splinters, sending Sonic out into the open. The G.U.N robot swung around for a better aim. This time, the Bigfoot- model machine lowered itself to the ground on two mechanical legs and started to power up its' main cannon.
"Two can play at that game," Sonic thought. "Let's see which of us can charge up the fastest," he said aloud. Sonic began to glow neon blue as he tapped into his reserve of Chaos energy. The Lightspeed Attack could provide a momentary burst of Super Sonic-like speed and strength, but it took time to gather enough energy. Sonic didn't like using the Lightspeed Attack, but here it was necessary…
Sonic attacked at the same moment that the cannon fired. The spinning ball of speed Sonic had become knocked the laser bolt aside with ease, and powered though the G.U.N machine is if it was made of tissue paper. Sonic kept going…
"Where did that wall come from? Aargh!" Sonic thought, a millisecond before impact.
*THUD*
"I'm never gonna get the hang of that…" Behind him, the smoking wreckage of the Bigfoot robot sagged to its' knees and keeled over.
Picking himself up off the floor, Sonic noticed the cut on his leg had nearly healed up. "I guess that's why Super Sonic never seemed to get hurt…" It was weird how, as soon as Sonic thought he'd figured out what Chaos energy could do, it did something new and unpredictable. "Guess it's not called Chaos for nothing. This could come in handy though," he added thoughtfully. "Speaking of Chaos—"
Sonic whipped around, sensing the presence of the Chaos Emerald.
"Not bad for an impostor…" A quiet, sinister voice said.
"What the-?" Perched on the wreckage of the G.U.N robot was the hedgehog that Sonic had glimpsed briefly the night before. The black hedgehog bore some resemblance to Sonic, in the same way that a distant relative would- like Sonic, he was small, compact and athletic looking. But where Sonic's spikes curved smoothly the stranger's were all sharp angles and points. Although he was the same size as Sonic was, the shape of his quills made him appear slightly taller.
"It all starts with this…" The hedgehog said, idly tossing and catching the green emerald. "…A jewel containing the ultimate power."
"So, the military has mistaken me for the likes of you," Sonic said. It was time to teach this guy a lesson. "Well- say something, you fake!" Sonic launched into an attack. The mysterious hedgehog threw and caught the Chaos Emerald one last time, drawing power from the glowing jewel.
"Chaos control!!" There was a blinding green flash. Sonic blinked-
"Where'd he go?!" There was no sign of the black hedgehog anywhere. Then, Sonic glimpsed a flash of black on his right hand side as the two hedgehogs passed each other in opposite directions. For an instant, green eyes met red as they sized each other up.
Sonic screeched to a halt and turned around in one movement.
"Man… he's fast," he grudgingly admitted, seeing the dark stranger standing on top of the wall that Sonic had crashed into earlier. "He must be using the Chaos Emerald to warp somehow..." Sonic had never seen anyone who could focus the power of the emeralds like that, not when they weren't using the Grey Emerald. Who was this guy?
"My name is Shadow…" He said, as if in answer. "I'm the world's ultimate life form." There was no hint of bragging in Shadow's voice.
"He really believes that," Sonic thought.
There was no doubt in Shadow's mind as to who was superior. So far, this blue hedgehog's abilities seemed less advanced than Shadow's- in other words, not worth bothering with. In any case, Shadow had more important things to do than waste time in the city.
"There's no time for games," He said contemptuously. "Farewell" There was another green flash, and Shadow was gone.
Sonic frowned as the last traces of Chaos energy disappeared. This guy had turned up, stolen the emerald and literally disappeared into thin air right under Sonic's nose, and had got away with it. No ordinary hedgehog could do that. Where had this strange, chaotic creature come from?
"What is he…?" Murmured the dazed Sonic. The only reply was the all too familiar sirens. "Awww, not again," Sonic groaned. He looked up, knowing what he was going to see but hoping against it anyway. "Ugh, it looks like every G.U.N craft in the city is here," he thought, scanning the ring of heavily- armed vehicles all pointing their guns at him. "I'm gonna get Shadow for this," he muttered as he put his hands in the air.
To be continued…
Coming up: Sonic finds himself behind bars, while Robotnik, Shadow and Rouge make plans aboard the ARK. What are they up to?
Find out in part 4- 'Gathering of the Dark'