To answer Maverick 1812's questions, this is an alternate reality and not a
sequel. I have not made a Shadow Adventure 1 and I don't plan to. It would
be a tad too confusing to do that. I mean, I can't really picture Robotnik
running around doing all the levels Amy did in Sonic Adventure. Tails will
not show up. However, I will tell you that in Shadow's previous adventure
in this universe (Shadow Adventure 1) Tails took up the role of the
fisherman. Sorry, but that's the only was he would have fit into the story.
I might consider writing a story about Amy's creation, but I'm not sure
yet. Sorry if I've disappointed you.
Disclaimer: You already know what I own, okay?
Shadow paced his cell. He had given up any attempt at escape hours ago. Instead of metal bars, which he could dig through easily, they had put up a force field to keep him in the cell. He had no idea why he had been captured, as he had been left in the cell for the last several hours. There had been no interrogation or explanation, just a dumping into the cell. He had already covered the walls with multiple figures by scratching into the metal with one of his quills. He had spent the first few hours solving math problems so complex that even Einstein would need the help of a calculator to deduce them. After that, he had managed to get around Einstein's theory of relativity and figure out how it was possible for him to move faster than the speed of light even though he should lose all of his mass by exceeding the light speed limit. But after figuring out that the egg came before the chicken, discovering that the answer to the great question of life, the universe, and everything was 42, and providing mathematical proof for the existence of God, he got bored. So he started drawing pictures of his friends. He started with Knuckles, then did Robotnik, Professor Big, that dead robot E-102 Gamma, and the weird two-tailed fisherman from his last adventure. After that, he drew an incredibly detailed picture of Amy. Then he did comedic renditions of his foes, Metal Shadow, a few badniks, and Snively. He got bored of that as well, and was now ransacking his brain in an attempt to find any trace of Scales in his memory. He was vexed by his inability to recall anything past his awakening by Robotnik, after he had been pulled from the capsule and the bullet had been removed from his head. He punched one of the walls. Why couldn't he remember? Why wouldn't the scar tissue in his brain heal and allow him to remember. He sighed and went back to pacing. He stopped, hearing some shouts, gunfire, and several thuds outside. The door into the small his room his cell was in opened. Shadow was astonished to see his savior. "Amy?" "Hi Shadow!" she said. "Amy, what are you doing here? How did you get through the security?" "I got an early birthday present from Dad. I think it'll come in handy." She walked closer, inches away from the force field. "So how are you? Did those GUN assholes hurt you in anyway?" "Well, I haven't really been tortured, if that's what you mean." "Why are you in here, anyway? I refuse to believe you committed a crime." Said Amy firmly. Shadow sighed. "If I committed a crime, I'm not aware of it. Look, Amy, can you get me out please? There's a weird lizard on the loose and-" "Lizard?" asked Amy, surprised. "Yes, a lizard. Do you know anything about it?" "I met Robotnik on the way in here. He said that he was on his way to bail you out when he ran into a bat, Snively, and a weird lizard." Shadow's eyes narrowed. "Snively! I should have known he was up to something! Amy, you've got to get me out of here, that lizard stole a Super Emerald! Who knows what Snively will do with that thing?" Amy paused. "If I let you out, will you marry me?" she said, joking. Shadow instantly said, "Yes, I will." Amy blinked. "W-what?" "I was actually planning on asking you on our date last night, but my arrest ruined everything. So yes Amy, I will marry you." Amy hesitated. "You're not just saying this because you want out, do you?" Shadow smirked. "Amy, we've been going out for years now. What do you think?" Amy nodded slowly and walked over to the control panel for the force field. She ran the card key she had stolen from one of the guards through the lock, deactivating the cell. Shadow walked out of the cell, looking relieved. He went over to Amy and gave her a little hug. "Thanks." A sudden siren going off ruined the nice moment. "What?" Amy slapped her head. "D'oh! I can't believe I forgot! This place is probably riddled with hidden cameras, they probably know you're loose! We gotta get out of here before they send in the heavy artillery!" "We'd better split up, we don't want to make it easy for them to catch us." Shadow said. "Robotnik is waiting at the south end of the island. We'll meet you there." They ran out into the hallway and started going down it in different directions. As she was about to reach an intersection, she turned around and yelled at the receding back of Shadow, "I love you!" "I love you too!" he called back. Amy got a broad smile on her face, and then she headed back to the Passion. Shadow exited the building and found himself on the docks.
Stage 4: Metal Harbor. Mission: Escape from the military base.
Shadow was on a metal platform rising from the water. Ahead of him were some dash panels leading to a ramp with a jump plate. Shadow ran over the dash panel, picking up speed and running over the jump panel, launching himself into the air. He landed on top of another metal platform that curved downwards. He ran down the slope, hitting a dash panel and going around a loop. After getting back on solid ground, he ran over another jump plate, launching himself onto a different platform. He was on top of a steep slope that led to a flat run and a covered portion of the road. Shadow ran down the hill, picking up speed. He dashed under the cover, hit an angled spring placed at the end of the path, and was launched to another platform. As he landed, various Beetles attacked, shooting lasers. Shadow wiped them out with multiple homing attacks. He saw another cover over the short section of platform ahead of him. He curled into a ball and bounced to the top of the metal cover. He saw a hovering Beetle to his right, floating between him and a big fuel tank with a spring on it. He flew into the Beetle with a Homing Attack, using another Homing Attack to get onto the tank. He ran onto the spring and was bounced onto a higher platform, with lots of huge crates and metal towers. The towers had several platforms between them, but there seemed to be no way onto them. Or was there? Shadow bounced to the top of tone of the crates and jumped from there to one of the tower platforms. He ran into one of the towers and grabbed onto a pulley, going up to the next level. He jumped off the pulley and ran across the platform, seeing a ramp that went up and off the platform. Shadow positioned himself behind the dash panels in front of the ramp and ran, zipping up the ramp and off the end. He landed on a small platform in the middle of the sea. A long line of Beetles turned towards him. He jumped into the air and used one Homing Attack after the other, going from Beetle to Beetle until he reached a platform with a pulley on it. He grabbed onto the pulley and was elevated through a tower to a platform facing another long chain of Beetles. Shadow jumped onto the platform and started homing across the chain, eventually landing on an aircraft carrier. As he started running along the surface of the great ship, Blue Eagle fighter planes swooped down, dropping bombs. Shadow darted from side to side, barely missing the explosives. After the bombing run was over, he kept going, reaching one of the garages on the carrier. He bounced up to the top of the garage, where he saw a platform sticking out. He jumped off of the platform, landing on the next garage. He bounced over to a platform adjacent to that garage, and started jumping across a series of platforms over the water, some of which moved back and forth, before finally reaching a small isolated road. He ran to the end of the road, where there was a spring. He hit the spring at the edge, launching himself onto a platform that went into a loop. Running across the dash panels ahead of him, Shadow ran through the loop, down a long path, and hit a spring. He was launched towards a fuel tank, where another spring bounced him towards a higher spring on a different fuel tank, which in the end launched him to the top of a hill. He ran down the hill, picking up speed, and ran off the jump plate at the end, hurtling onto a walkway leading to a tower. He ran down the walkway and was assaulted by a Hawk. He killed the Hawk and ran into the tower, grabbing onto a pulley. The pulley carried him up, where he jumped to another pulley, which took him to the top of a hill. He ran down the hill, going over dash panels and straight into two loops. After the second loop, he was launched by jump plates onto a fuel tank. He saw another fuel tank nearby and used his Homing Attack to jump across to it. He used the Homing Attack several times to get across many fuel tanks before being assaulted by a Hornet. Before it could launch its homing missiles, Shadow destroyed it with a Homing Attack, using another Homing Attack in midair to get onto a platform. In front of him was a gate too low to walk through. He somersaulted under the gate, right onto a set of dash panels, which launched him off of a ramp, and onto a low platform. Extending out of the platform's left side was a pad with a rocket on it. He grabbed onto the handle on the bottom of the rocket and was carried by it to a launch pad across the water. A huge missile was on the launch pad, and a spiraling pathway went up around the missile. He landed on a platform beneath the spiral ramp. There was a button and a spring on the platform. He could see a tall building on a platform on the other side of the harbor, but no way to reach it. There were no platforms or enemies of any kind he could use as stepping-stones. He looked up at the missile and had an idea. Chances were the button nearby launched the thing. If he was holding onto the missile when it launched, he could let go at a high enough altitude and drop to the top of the building. He pressed the button. A computerized voice said, "Missile launch in progress. Liftoff in 30.29.28." Shadow started moving. He hit the spring, launching onto the corkscrewing ramp. As the countdown kept going, he ran up the ramp, getting to the end, which was halfway up the missile. He looked around frantically and saw no way to grab onto the missile. He noticed a string of Beetles floating nearby. He Homing Attacked across the Beetles, coming to a higher platform on the other side. He saw another chain of Beetles, and Homing Attacked across them until he reached a platform with a spring on it. He hit the spring and was launched onto a platform near the very top of the missile. There was a spring facing a handle attached to the side of the missile. Shadow hit the spring and grabbed onto the handle. The countdown finished. The missile was fired, roaring up into the atmosphere. When the missile was right over the building he was aiming for, Shadow let go of the handle and fell, using his jets to slow his fall. He landed safely on top of the building. He was relieved until the panel beneath him collapsed, dropping him into a winding tunnel through the structure. Shadow was forced to board down the tunnel using the panel he had dislodged from the roof. After a few minutes of boarding, he came out into the fresh air again, on a platform full of Hunters. Before they could fire, Shadow blew up all the robots with a few somersaults, running down the path ahead of him. After several twists and turns along the path, he reached a platform with a switch on it and nothing else. He looked to his right and saw the Goal Ring hovering over the water, and the jungle right past it. He was almost at the end! He hit the switch, and a rocket appeared before him. He grabbed onto the rocket and blasted off, passing through the Goal Ring.
(STAGE CLEAR. RANK A.)
As the rocket blasted through the jungle, Shadow let go, landing on an island in the middle of the water. He looked around and saw that most of the jungle on the island was actually partially submerged. Since he couldn't swim, this could prove to be a problem. There were some large tree roots nearby he could walk away on, so he seemed fine. He was about to walk over to the closest root when he heard something land on a different root. He turned around and saw Scales.
What's going to happen next? I smell a confrontation. Tell me what you thought of this chapter and stay tuned for the next one.
Shadow paced his cell. He had given up any attempt at escape hours ago. Instead of metal bars, which he could dig through easily, they had put up a force field to keep him in the cell. He had no idea why he had been captured, as he had been left in the cell for the last several hours. There had been no interrogation or explanation, just a dumping into the cell. He had already covered the walls with multiple figures by scratching into the metal with one of his quills. He had spent the first few hours solving math problems so complex that even Einstein would need the help of a calculator to deduce them. After that, he had managed to get around Einstein's theory of relativity and figure out how it was possible for him to move faster than the speed of light even though he should lose all of his mass by exceeding the light speed limit. But after figuring out that the egg came before the chicken, discovering that the answer to the great question of life, the universe, and everything was 42, and providing mathematical proof for the existence of God, he got bored. So he started drawing pictures of his friends. He started with Knuckles, then did Robotnik, Professor Big, that dead robot E-102 Gamma, and the weird two-tailed fisherman from his last adventure. After that, he drew an incredibly detailed picture of Amy. Then he did comedic renditions of his foes, Metal Shadow, a few badniks, and Snively. He got bored of that as well, and was now ransacking his brain in an attempt to find any trace of Scales in his memory. He was vexed by his inability to recall anything past his awakening by Robotnik, after he had been pulled from the capsule and the bullet had been removed from his head. He punched one of the walls. Why couldn't he remember? Why wouldn't the scar tissue in his brain heal and allow him to remember. He sighed and went back to pacing. He stopped, hearing some shouts, gunfire, and several thuds outside. The door into the small his room his cell was in opened. Shadow was astonished to see his savior. "Amy?" "Hi Shadow!" she said. "Amy, what are you doing here? How did you get through the security?" "I got an early birthday present from Dad. I think it'll come in handy." She walked closer, inches away from the force field. "So how are you? Did those GUN assholes hurt you in anyway?" "Well, I haven't really been tortured, if that's what you mean." "Why are you in here, anyway? I refuse to believe you committed a crime." Said Amy firmly. Shadow sighed. "If I committed a crime, I'm not aware of it. Look, Amy, can you get me out please? There's a weird lizard on the loose and-" "Lizard?" asked Amy, surprised. "Yes, a lizard. Do you know anything about it?" "I met Robotnik on the way in here. He said that he was on his way to bail you out when he ran into a bat, Snively, and a weird lizard." Shadow's eyes narrowed. "Snively! I should have known he was up to something! Amy, you've got to get me out of here, that lizard stole a Super Emerald! Who knows what Snively will do with that thing?" Amy paused. "If I let you out, will you marry me?" she said, joking. Shadow instantly said, "Yes, I will." Amy blinked. "W-what?" "I was actually planning on asking you on our date last night, but my arrest ruined everything. So yes Amy, I will marry you." Amy hesitated. "You're not just saying this because you want out, do you?" Shadow smirked. "Amy, we've been going out for years now. What do you think?" Amy nodded slowly and walked over to the control panel for the force field. She ran the card key she had stolen from one of the guards through the lock, deactivating the cell. Shadow walked out of the cell, looking relieved. He went over to Amy and gave her a little hug. "Thanks." A sudden siren going off ruined the nice moment. "What?" Amy slapped her head. "D'oh! I can't believe I forgot! This place is probably riddled with hidden cameras, they probably know you're loose! We gotta get out of here before they send in the heavy artillery!" "We'd better split up, we don't want to make it easy for them to catch us." Shadow said. "Robotnik is waiting at the south end of the island. We'll meet you there." They ran out into the hallway and started going down it in different directions. As she was about to reach an intersection, she turned around and yelled at the receding back of Shadow, "I love you!" "I love you too!" he called back. Amy got a broad smile on her face, and then she headed back to the Passion. Shadow exited the building and found himself on the docks.
Stage 4: Metal Harbor. Mission: Escape from the military base.
Shadow was on a metal platform rising from the water. Ahead of him were some dash panels leading to a ramp with a jump plate. Shadow ran over the dash panel, picking up speed and running over the jump panel, launching himself into the air. He landed on top of another metal platform that curved downwards. He ran down the slope, hitting a dash panel and going around a loop. After getting back on solid ground, he ran over another jump plate, launching himself onto a different platform. He was on top of a steep slope that led to a flat run and a covered portion of the road. Shadow ran down the hill, picking up speed. He dashed under the cover, hit an angled spring placed at the end of the path, and was launched to another platform. As he landed, various Beetles attacked, shooting lasers. Shadow wiped them out with multiple homing attacks. He saw another cover over the short section of platform ahead of him. He curled into a ball and bounced to the top of the metal cover. He saw a hovering Beetle to his right, floating between him and a big fuel tank with a spring on it. He flew into the Beetle with a Homing Attack, using another Homing Attack to get onto the tank. He ran onto the spring and was bounced onto a higher platform, with lots of huge crates and metal towers. The towers had several platforms between them, but there seemed to be no way onto them. Or was there? Shadow bounced to the top of tone of the crates and jumped from there to one of the tower platforms. He ran into one of the towers and grabbed onto a pulley, going up to the next level. He jumped off the pulley and ran across the platform, seeing a ramp that went up and off the platform. Shadow positioned himself behind the dash panels in front of the ramp and ran, zipping up the ramp and off the end. He landed on a small platform in the middle of the sea. A long line of Beetles turned towards him. He jumped into the air and used one Homing Attack after the other, going from Beetle to Beetle until he reached a platform with a pulley on it. He grabbed onto the pulley and was elevated through a tower to a platform facing another long chain of Beetles. Shadow jumped onto the platform and started homing across the chain, eventually landing on an aircraft carrier. As he started running along the surface of the great ship, Blue Eagle fighter planes swooped down, dropping bombs. Shadow darted from side to side, barely missing the explosives. After the bombing run was over, he kept going, reaching one of the garages on the carrier. He bounced up to the top of the garage, where he saw a platform sticking out. He jumped off of the platform, landing on the next garage. He bounced over to a platform adjacent to that garage, and started jumping across a series of platforms over the water, some of which moved back and forth, before finally reaching a small isolated road. He ran to the end of the road, where there was a spring. He hit the spring at the edge, launching himself onto a platform that went into a loop. Running across the dash panels ahead of him, Shadow ran through the loop, down a long path, and hit a spring. He was launched towards a fuel tank, where another spring bounced him towards a higher spring on a different fuel tank, which in the end launched him to the top of a hill. He ran down the hill, picking up speed, and ran off the jump plate at the end, hurtling onto a walkway leading to a tower. He ran down the walkway and was assaulted by a Hawk. He killed the Hawk and ran into the tower, grabbing onto a pulley. The pulley carried him up, where he jumped to another pulley, which took him to the top of a hill. He ran down the hill, going over dash panels and straight into two loops. After the second loop, he was launched by jump plates onto a fuel tank. He saw another fuel tank nearby and used his Homing Attack to jump across to it. He used the Homing Attack several times to get across many fuel tanks before being assaulted by a Hornet. Before it could launch its homing missiles, Shadow destroyed it with a Homing Attack, using another Homing Attack in midair to get onto a platform. In front of him was a gate too low to walk through. He somersaulted under the gate, right onto a set of dash panels, which launched him off of a ramp, and onto a low platform. Extending out of the platform's left side was a pad with a rocket on it. He grabbed onto the handle on the bottom of the rocket and was carried by it to a launch pad across the water. A huge missile was on the launch pad, and a spiraling pathway went up around the missile. He landed on a platform beneath the spiral ramp. There was a button and a spring on the platform. He could see a tall building on a platform on the other side of the harbor, but no way to reach it. There were no platforms or enemies of any kind he could use as stepping-stones. He looked up at the missile and had an idea. Chances were the button nearby launched the thing. If he was holding onto the missile when it launched, he could let go at a high enough altitude and drop to the top of the building. He pressed the button. A computerized voice said, "Missile launch in progress. Liftoff in 30.29.28." Shadow started moving. He hit the spring, launching onto the corkscrewing ramp. As the countdown kept going, he ran up the ramp, getting to the end, which was halfway up the missile. He looked around frantically and saw no way to grab onto the missile. He noticed a string of Beetles floating nearby. He Homing Attacked across the Beetles, coming to a higher platform on the other side. He saw another chain of Beetles, and Homing Attacked across them until he reached a platform with a spring on it. He hit the spring and was launched onto a platform near the very top of the missile. There was a spring facing a handle attached to the side of the missile. Shadow hit the spring and grabbed onto the handle. The countdown finished. The missile was fired, roaring up into the atmosphere. When the missile was right over the building he was aiming for, Shadow let go of the handle and fell, using his jets to slow his fall. He landed safely on top of the building. He was relieved until the panel beneath him collapsed, dropping him into a winding tunnel through the structure. Shadow was forced to board down the tunnel using the panel he had dislodged from the roof. After a few minutes of boarding, he came out into the fresh air again, on a platform full of Hunters. Before they could fire, Shadow blew up all the robots with a few somersaults, running down the path ahead of him. After several twists and turns along the path, he reached a platform with a switch on it and nothing else. He looked to his right and saw the Goal Ring hovering over the water, and the jungle right past it. He was almost at the end! He hit the switch, and a rocket appeared before him. He grabbed onto the rocket and blasted off, passing through the Goal Ring.
(STAGE CLEAR. RANK A.)
As the rocket blasted through the jungle, Shadow let go, landing on an island in the middle of the water. He looked around and saw that most of the jungle on the island was actually partially submerged. Since he couldn't swim, this could prove to be a problem. There were some large tree roots nearby he could walk away on, so he seemed fine. He was about to walk over to the closest root when he heard something land on a different root. He turned around and saw Scales.
What's going to happen next? I smell a confrontation. Tell me what you thought of this chapter and stay tuned for the next one.