The sudden jostle of the train speeding down the railway toward Shibuya inside the city of Tokyo startled and jerked Shadow the Hedgehog (who's wearing a long sleeve dark blue hooded open jacket with multi pockets on it) up from his slumber before he look at the interior of the train around him, saw that it's filled with various humans and mobians standing or sitting in the train with him before he let out a small sigh of relief then lowered his head to glance blankly down at his clasped gloved hands on his blue duffel bag lying on his knees as he remember back the time that landed him in his current unlucky situation.
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Shadow was on his way home from his creator/father figure science building after another check up on his body health and Chaos energy, only to came to a stop when he saw and heard the familiar figure of his creator/father figure granddaughter and best friend calling for help while she struggle to get away from a dark blue and grey-coloured, black and red-eyed robot that look like a hedgehog. Not wanting to see the granddaughter of his creator/father figure got harassed by the robot hedgehog any further, Shadow approach them, grab and push the robot hedgehog away from his best friend as he stood in front of his best friend in a protective manner before Shadow and the robot hedgehog began charging and fighting against each other. Not long after that, Shadow best friend got hurt badly during the fight and fell into a coma, Shadow got arrested and taken to the police station by 2 dingo policemen (while the robot hedgehog make itself scarce by fleeing away), obtained a criminal record and a probation from the courts, disappointed and sadden his creator/father figure for fighting and putting his granddaughter into a coma instead of getting her to safety before his creator/father figure decide to go into hiding with his granddaughter for her safety and recovery and decide to sent Shadow away to stay with one of his old mobian friends living in Yongen-Jaya.
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"Professor Gerald… Maria…" thought Shadow sadly and guiltily in his mind on disappointing Professor Gerald and putting Maria in harm's way as he let out a sad sigh before he heard the voices of 2 female students standing and talking to each other near the train's door and Shadow turned his head to glance at them both.
"What? Are you for real? A mental shutdown?" asked the first girl in disbelief to the second girl.
"It's the truth." replied the second girl with a nod of her head.
"But to a person though? That's gotta be a joke. You really love all that occult stuff, don't you?" said the first girl to the second girl before they began chuckling to each other about the mental shutdown thing.
"A mental shutdown, huh?" thought Shadow to himself before the train eventually reached and came to a stop inside the Shibuya station and the train doors opened for her and the other passengers. Shadow stood up and walked out of the train amongst the other passengers, walked up the stairs out of the station and into the station square and had a surprise look on his face when he saw the large group of people walking or hanging out together in different corners of the station square around him. Shadow then make his way down a street away from the square as he take his phone out of one of his jacket pockets to look down at the message he received from his caretaker whom he'll be living with for the year.
The next second, a mysterious yet creepy looking red and black icon that looks like an eye with star inside appear in Shadow's phone before it suddenly expanded and covered almost the bottom half of his phone screen. "What the Chaos is this? I don't recall ever seen or downloaded such a creepy app on my phone before I leave my hometown and came to Shibuya." thought Shadow with a frown look on his face before he tapped the expanded icon several times on his phone screen to get it to disappear to no avail.
As Shadow try to get rid of the creepy icon on his phone, the people and the vehicles around him started to slow down then came to a silent stop as time stand still. Shadow gasped and raised his head to look at the sudden abnormality of the situation around him with surprise, confusion and unease on his face. "W-What's going on? First my phone had a creepy icon suddenly appear on it and now everyone and everything around me came to a standstill?" said Shadow out loud to himself before something in the middle of the road caught his attention and he saw that it's some kind of dark blue flames rising and burning in the middle of the road.
"Blue flames? In the middle of the road?" thought Shadow with more confusion and unease in his mind as he kept on staring at the dark blue flames, which continue to rise and burned until it take the form of a man with wings behind his back. Then, bright orange flames appear and burned within the blue flames and formed into what appear to be slitted-eyes and a wide, wicked smile before it disappear to reveal another figure that make Shadow gasped and widened his red eyes in shock and fear. Shadow see the familiar figure of himself with his entire body completely glowing and gold-coloured from within the bright orange flames.
The next time resumed and the people and vehicles around Shadow continue to walked and drive on down the street and road as if nothing had happened while the dark blue flames bearing the form of the winged man, the bright orange flames and the familiar and different figure of himself that he just saw burning in the middle of the road vanished without a trace. "Whatever it is I just saw must have been my imagination." thought Shadow with a tired sigh and shake of his head before he glance down at his phone, saw that the icon had reverted back to it's miniature size before Shadow tapped the phone on with his finger to move it down to the trashcan icon at the bottom of his phone and watched as it shrunk and fall into the trashcan icon and out of his sight.
