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They are copyright of other companies. Besides, I have no money that you
could sue me for anyway.
"Shadow, its me, Sonic, come back!" Sonic said. "Chaos Emeralds, ultimate life forms, experiments. What DOES it all mean?" Shadow asked himself as he turned a corner. "Shadow!" Sonic yelled as he chased after him. "Chaos Control," Shadow whispered as he teleported over a large gap. Sonic quickly Light Attacked a row of enemies to get across the gap. "Sonic! Wait up!" Tails yelled as he hovered over the gap in his Tornado 2.
They continued onward like this for some time, until they finally reached the inner chamber. "Now I can find the answers," Shadow said as he pushed a couple buttons on the keyboard.
The computer screen showed a picture of Shadow's face with a title above it. It said project Sonic. Bottom of Form 0
"Shadow! What are you doing? What is this?" Sonic asked. "And furthermore, how is it you're alive?"
"Sonic, this is the truth," Shadow said as he pointed at the computer screen. Shadow read what was written there out loud.
"Project Sonic was created as a test project, to test the cloning machine to see if it would work. It did. Project Sonic was almost identical to Sonic, except that the test project had its own unique personality and colors. Next up we had to program information into the clone's brain. Disaster struck us. Someone had accidentally swapped the programs that were meant to go into the ultimate life from project, Shadow, with the information that was supposed to go into project Sonic. Project Sonic from here on after called himself 'Shadow' and was very uncooperative in future experiments. We finally decided that it would be best to eliminate this failure as soon as possible before more chaos could strike, but Professor Gerald's granddaughter, Maria, was against the whole idea. She said that Shadow should deserve a chance, just like any one of us living now. We agreed that she was right, and she kept complete surveillance on it for the next forty-eight hours," Shadow finished.
"What, that's it?" asked Sonic.
"I'm afraid so, Sonic," Shadow answered. "The end of this document probably never got finished because of the 'accident'. Damn it, if only I would've been out of that capsule, I would've been able to save Maria."
He walked towards a corner and hid his face from view. "After all this, I find out I'm nothing but a clone. Just a 'copy'of someone else."
"Shadow, don't think that way," Sonic said as he placed a hand on Shadow's shoulder.
"And why shouldn't I!? Maria is gone, and now I have just found out that I am a clone!? My whole life is going to hell!"
"Calm down Shadow! Do you even know for sure that Maria is gone?" Tails asked.
"Professor Gerald said he saw her name on the list of casualties after the accident," Shadow said.
"But did you actually see her die?" Tails asked with a slight grin.
"No," Shadow replied. "Are you trying to say that she might still be alive?"
"You bet she might. We all know now that the accident was faked and that GUN robots were sent on board, cause a ruckus, and blame it on an accident that didn't happen. Now, what I am trying to say is that maybe the robots didn't kill anyone. Maybe they."
"Took Maria and the other scientists prisoner and brought them off the space station!" Sonic finished for Tails.
"Right! If she is still alive, I can find her," Tails said as he started typing on the keyboard.
"Hurry Tails! The reinforcements should be back soon!" Sonic warned as he guarded the entrance. "By the way, Shadow, how did you get through those security doors?"
Shadow pointed at a smoking rocket launcher leaning against the wall.
"Something I borrowed from Eggman," Shadow said with a grin.
"I see," Sonic said as he continued to watch the hallway. "Hurry up Tails!" he said.
"Got it! She's being held at Prison Lane!" Tails said.
"Ok! Lets go!" Sonic yelled as he raced down tbe corridor with Shadow right behind him.
"Why do I always get left behind!?" Tails yelled grumpily as he tried to catch up.
Suddenly they reached the gap that Sonic had Light Attacked across earlier.
"How do we get across?" Sonic asked.
"My Emerald is out of energy, though it lasted pretty long for being a fake," Shadow said as he threw the Emerald away.
"Leave it to me guys! Hop on!" Tails yelled as he charged the Tornado 2's power.
Tails quickly flew the three of them over the gap in the floor.
"Thanks Tails, we owe you one," Sonic said as he raced on ahead.
"Maria, I won't be long," Shadow said to himself as he hurried after Sonic.
"Whoa!" Sonic shouted as he came to a stop.
There must have been over fifty robots guarding the entrance. They all pointed their guns at Sonic and Shadow.
"Freeze!" one of the gun robots ordered.
"Ready!?" Sonic said to Shadow. Shadow caught the cue.
"There's no time to play games," he said as he also powered up.
The robots never knew what hit them. Sonic and Shadow both Light attacked at the same time and took out all fifty of them in less than three seconds.
"Next time go for quality, and not quanity," Sonic taunted.
BOOM!
Sonic was knocked over from the impact and it took him a couple seconds to figure out what had hit him.
"Eggman!" Sonic said as he got up.
Eggman was in his Egg Walker and was preparing another attack.
"Long time no see, Sonic. I figured I would see you here when I saw Shadow on TV. I rushed here as fast as I could, and hoped I could get a shot at getting rid of you once and for all!" Eggman laughed one of his evil laughs.
"Leave him to me, Sonic!" Tails shouted as he moved his Tornado 2 forward.
"Ah, Tails. I figured I would see you here, so I prepared a little present for you." Eggman shot out a ball of electric energy at Tails. "Here!"
"Urgh!" Tails said when the blast hit him. "What the heck!? My controls aren't working!" He yelled in a panic. His machine was firing missles and bullets all over the place, including at Sonic and Shadow. They had no trouble dodging the attacks, but they now had Eggman to deal with.
"Sonic! I am going to have to cut the power! It will be up to you!" Tails exclaimed as he turned off his machine.
"You got it Tails!" Sonic said as he faced Eggman.
"Don't count me out!" Shadow said as he joined Sonic.
Eggman started laughing one of his evil laughs again. Then he pushed a button on his machine, and a huge, bubble-like capsule surrounded Sonic and Shadow!
"What the.? Not again!" Sonic said in disgust. "I fell for the same trick twice!"
"You're right, Sonic, and there is nothing you can do now! Fire rocket launcher!" Eggman said as he pushed a button on his Egg Walker. Nothing happened. He pushed it again. Nothing happened.
"What's wrong, Eggman, is your rocket launcher gone?" Shadow asked with a smile.
Eggman looks on the back of his machine to find his rocket launcher missing.
"Shadow, you will pay for that. I still have my power laser!" Eggman said as a huge cannon opened in the front of the machine.
"Oh shit," Shadow said as he pressed against the back of the capsule. Eggman pushed a button. Nothing happened. Eggman pushed it again. Nothing happened.
"What the heck is going on!?" Eggman shouted as he looked at his mal- functioning laser.
"Are you missing this, Doctor?" a familiar voice asked.
Suddenly, Rouge walked out from behind the other side of the building holding a Chaos Emerald.
"My emerald! You cunning little thief! You know I need that emerald to fire my power laser!" Eggman said as he trapped Rouge in another capsule. "Now I will take your life, as well as the Chaos Emerald!"
"Not if I can help it," Knuckles said as he out from around the other side of the building.
"Well, isn't this turning into a party," Eggman said as he trapped Knuckles also.
"You should know something if you have an I. Q. of 300, Eggman," Knuckles said from inside his capsule.
"Oh, and what is that?" Eggman asked Knuckles.
"That I wouldn't have gotten caught if I didn't want to get caught. I have rings," Knuckles said.
"Oh no," Eggman said as he backed up.
"You guessed it," Knuckles said. "Take this!"
A thunder arrow came from the sky and struck Eggman's Egg Walker, shocking Dr. Eggman inside and nuking the controls.
"NO!!!" Eggman yelled as his Walker spun out of control, shooting everyone out of their capsules.
"Turn your power off, Eggman!" Tails warned from the still-smoking body of his own machine.
"Never!" Eggman shouted. Suddenly, his Walker exploded, sending debris all over the place. However, just before the explosion, Eggman had pushed the eject button and was shot upwards into the sky in his Mini-Speeder.
"The next time I see you, you're dead," he warned as he sped off.
"How's everyone doing?" Sonic asked.
"I'm fine," Shadow said.
"My walker is busted!" Tails complained.
"Just peachy," Rouge replied.
"Never felt better!" Knuckles said as he practiced a few punches.
"Let me guess, you two saw the news on TV and came here to check it out?" Sonic asked Knuckles and Rouge.
"Right," they both said.
"Well, now that we are back together, let's form a plan," Tails said as he got out a pad of paper.
"Shadow, its me, Sonic, come back!" Sonic said. "Chaos Emeralds, ultimate life forms, experiments. What DOES it all mean?" Shadow asked himself as he turned a corner. "Shadow!" Sonic yelled as he chased after him. "Chaos Control," Shadow whispered as he teleported over a large gap. Sonic quickly Light Attacked a row of enemies to get across the gap. "Sonic! Wait up!" Tails yelled as he hovered over the gap in his Tornado 2.
They continued onward like this for some time, until they finally reached the inner chamber. "Now I can find the answers," Shadow said as he pushed a couple buttons on the keyboard.
The computer screen showed a picture of Shadow's face with a title above it. It said project Sonic. Bottom of Form 0
"Shadow! What are you doing? What is this?" Sonic asked. "And furthermore, how is it you're alive?"
"Sonic, this is the truth," Shadow said as he pointed at the computer screen. Shadow read what was written there out loud.
"Project Sonic was created as a test project, to test the cloning machine to see if it would work. It did. Project Sonic was almost identical to Sonic, except that the test project had its own unique personality and colors. Next up we had to program information into the clone's brain. Disaster struck us. Someone had accidentally swapped the programs that were meant to go into the ultimate life from project, Shadow, with the information that was supposed to go into project Sonic. Project Sonic from here on after called himself 'Shadow' and was very uncooperative in future experiments. We finally decided that it would be best to eliminate this failure as soon as possible before more chaos could strike, but Professor Gerald's granddaughter, Maria, was against the whole idea. She said that Shadow should deserve a chance, just like any one of us living now. We agreed that she was right, and she kept complete surveillance on it for the next forty-eight hours," Shadow finished.
"What, that's it?" asked Sonic.
"I'm afraid so, Sonic," Shadow answered. "The end of this document probably never got finished because of the 'accident'. Damn it, if only I would've been out of that capsule, I would've been able to save Maria."
He walked towards a corner and hid his face from view. "After all this, I find out I'm nothing but a clone. Just a 'copy'of someone else."
"Shadow, don't think that way," Sonic said as he placed a hand on Shadow's shoulder.
"And why shouldn't I!? Maria is gone, and now I have just found out that I am a clone!? My whole life is going to hell!"
"Calm down Shadow! Do you even know for sure that Maria is gone?" Tails asked.
"Professor Gerald said he saw her name on the list of casualties after the accident," Shadow said.
"But did you actually see her die?" Tails asked with a slight grin.
"No," Shadow replied. "Are you trying to say that she might still be alive?"
"You bet she might. We all know now that the accident was faked and that GUN robots were sent on board, cause a ruckus, and blame it on an accident that didn't happen. Now, what I am trying to say is that maybe the robots didn't kill anyone. Maybe they."
"Took Maria and the other scientists prisoner and brought them off the space station!" Sonic finished for Tails.
"Right! If she is still alive, I can find her," Tails said as he started typing on the keyboard.
"Hurry Tails! The reinforcements should be back soon!" Sonic warned as he guarded the entrance. "By the way, Shadow, how did you get through those security doors?"
Shadow pointed at a smoking rocket launcher leaning against the wall.
"Something I borrowed from Eggman," Shadow said with a grin.
"I see," Sonic said as he continued to watch the hallway. "Hurry up Tails!" he said.
"Got it! She's being held at Prison Lane!" Tails said.
"Ok! Lets go!" Sonic yelled as he raced down tbe corridor with Shadow right behind him.
"Why do I always get left behind!?" Tails yelled grumpily as he tried to catch up.
Suddenly they reached the gap that Sonic had Light Attacked across earlier.
"How do we get across?" Sonic asked.
"My Emerald is out of energy, though it lasted pretty long for being a fake," Shadow said as he threw the Emerald away.
"Leave it to me guys! Hop on!" Tails yelled as he charged the Tornado 2's power.
Tails quickly flew the three of them over the gap in the floor.
"Thanks Tails, we owe you one," Sonic said as he raced on ahead.
"Maria, I won't be long," Shadow said to himself as he hurried after Sonic.
"Whoa!" Sonic shouted as he came to a stop.
There must have been over fifty robots guarding the entrance. They all pointed their guns at Sonic and Shadow.
"Freeze!" one of the gun robots ordered.
"Ready!?" Sonic said to Shadow. Shadow caught the cue.
"There's no time to play games," he said as he also powered up.
The robots never knew what hit them. Sonic and Shadow both Light attacked at the same time and took out all fifty of them in less than three seconds.
"Next time go for quality, and not quanity," Sonic taunted.
BOOM!
Sonic was knocked over from the impact and it took him a couple seconds to figure out what had hit him.
"Eggman!" Sonic said as he got up.
Eggman was in his Egg Walker and was preparing another attack.
"Long time no see, Sonic. I figured I would see you here when I saw Shadow on TV. I rushed here as fast as I could, and hoped I could get a shot at getting rid of you once and for all!" Eggman laughed one of his evil laughs.
"Leave him to me, Sonic!" Tails shouted as he moved his Tornado 2 forward.
"Ah, Tails. I figured I would see you here, so I prepared a little present for you." Eggman shot out a ball of electric energy at Tails. "Here!"
"Urgh!" Tails said when the blast hit him. "What the heck!? My controls aren't working!" He yelled in a panic. His machine was firing missles and bullets all over the place, including at Sonic and Shadow. They had no trouble dodging the attacks, but they now had Eggman to deal with.
"Sonic! I am going to have to cut the power! It will be up to you!" Tails exclaimed as he turned off his machine.
"You got it Tails!" Sonic said as he faced Eggman.
"Don't count me out!" Shadow said as he joined Sonic.
Eggman started laughing one of his evil laughs again. Then he pushed a button on his machine, and a huge, bubble-like capsule surrounded Sonic and Shadow!
"What the.? Not again!" Sonic said in disgust. "I fell for the same trick twice!"
"You're right, Sonic, and there is nothing you can do now! Fire rocket launcher!" Eggman said as he pushed a button on his Egg Walker. Nothing happened. He pushed it again. Nothing happened.
"What's wrong, Eggman, is your rocket launcher gone?" Shadow asked with a smile.
Eggman looks on the back of his machine to find his rocket launcher missing.
"Shadow, you will pay for that. I still have my power laser!" Eggman said as a huge cannon opened in the front of the machine.
"Oh shit," Shadow said as he pressed against the back of the capsule. Eggman pushed a button. Nothing happened. Eggman pushed it again. Nothing happened.
"What the heck is going on!?" Eggman shouted as he looked at his mal- functioning laser.
"Are you missing this, Doctor?" a familiar voice asked.
Suddenly, Rouge walked out from behind the other side of the building holding a Chaos Emerald.
"My emerald! You cunning little thief! You know I need that emerald to fire my power laser!" Eggman said as he trapped Rouge in another capsule. "Now I will take your life, as well as the Chaos Emerald!"
"Not if I can help it," Knuckles said as he out from around the other side of the building.
"Well, isn't this turning into a party," Eggman said as he trapped Knuckles also.
"You should know something if you have an I. Q. of 300, Eggman," Knuckles said from inside his capsule.
"Oh, and what is that?" Eggman asked Knuckles.
"That I wouldn't have gotten caught if I didn't want to get caught. I have rings," Knuckles said.
"Oh no," Eggman said as he backed up.
"You guessed it," Knuckles said. "Take this!"
A thunder arrow came from the sky and struck Eggman's Egg Walker, shocking Dr. Eggman inside and nuking the controls.
"NO!!!" Eggman yelled as his Walker spun out of control, shooting everyone out of their capsules.
"Turn your power off, Eggman!" Tails warned from the still-smoking body of his own machine.
"Never!" Eggman shouted. Suddenly, his Walker exploded, sending debris all over the place. However, just before the explosion, Eggman had pushed the eject button and was shot upwards into the sky in his Mini-Speeder.
"The next time I see you, you're dead," he warned as he sped off.
"How's everyone doing?" Sonic asked.
"I'm fine," Shadow said.
"My walker is busted!" Tails complained.
"Just peachy," Rouge replied.
"Never felt better!" Knuckles said as he practiced a few punches.
"Let me guess, you two saw the news on TV and came here to check it out?" Sonic asked Knuckles and Rouge.
"Right," they both said.
"Well, now that we are back together, let's form a plan," Tails said as he got out a pad of paper.