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- /SHADOW'S PAST/ /
-\ ) / / A Sonic FanFic by Super Sonic /
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____/ Shadow, I beg of you... /
SS / give them a chance to be happy... /
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---AUTHOR'S NOTES---

1. This story is best viewed in Notepad. If you would like to see the title in its full glory, copy the text into Notepad. (The hedgehog was the best that I could do!)(You try making one! It's hard!)
2. I will refer to Eggman as Dr. Robotnik because that is who he is. Eggman is absolutely rubbish as Robotnik's nickname. The only thing it is good for is the song in SA2 :). "I am the Eggman..."
3. The locations in this story are in Sonic Adventure games.
4. All of the characters in this story are either created by SEGA (The coolest company ever!) or by me. If you wish to copy any of my characters tell me before you do so that I know where my characters have gone.
5. Please review this after you read it!

Anyway, on with the story...

--- Station Square ---
---1 Month After the Shadow Incedent---

The day was perfect, like every other day in Station Square. Sonic was out on the beach while Tails was surfing in the sea. Knuckles was taking a day off protecting the Master Emerald and was at the beach with them. Nobody knew where Dr. Robotnik was, but nobody really cared: he promised to stop terrorising the city. Then again, what is a promise from Robotnik? Everything was great and everyone was happy.

At least, that's what it was...

After Tails had finished surfing he came back and started pestering Sonic.
"Please!!"
"No!"
"Why?"
"Because I'm relaxing."
"But I need to see if it's worked!"
"No, I'm busy."
"Pleease!"
"No."
The pleases and nos kept going for quite a while until Sonic gave up.
"Alright, I'll go."
Tails bounced around excited. Finally, he thought, I might be able to make something work. Sonic followed the bouncing fox to their home. Sonic opened the door and Tails flew through his open bedroom window.
"I must get that window bolted up." thought Sonic.
Sonic was climbing the stairs when a large bang sounded. A few seconds afterwards a large fireball started going down the stairs toward Sonic. After a little evasion Sonic had dodged the fireball and was staring at the crater that was Tails' bedroom.
"Sorry, Sonic." said Tails with his head hung low, showing his burnt quiff.
Sonic looked downstairs and saw that there was a message on the phone. It was Rouge. There was a lot of fuzz in the background.
"Sonic...come...my place...important...news...you..."
Most of the message was blanked out by the fuzz.
Tails heard the message. "We have to get to Rouge's place right away!"
"What?" Sonic said confused, but by the time he asked Tails was already halfway down the street.

---Rouge's Home---

Sonic and Tails arrived at Rouge's house. Rouge was on the porch waiting. She seemed overjoyed when they arrived.
"Finally," she said, heaving a sigh, "I wondered when you would show up."
"what's your important news?" Tails asked. Sonic was still wondering how Tails knew all of this from only bits of the message.
"Come in." she said. Sonic and Tails went in.
Rouge sat them down and put a disc into her computer. A large photo of Shadow appeared on the wall.
"Shadow died exactly 1 month today. We still don't know whether he is still alive or not, but no sightings have been reported."
"So?" Sonic said impatiently.
"New information I have found may mean that Shadow was not the only Ultimate Life Form."