A Prisoner in the Past

Shadow's Rage

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Shadow looked down at the motionless Maria. He looked up, and saw Sonic with a gun in his hand. 'The fox-boy also has one,' Shadow thought. 'He would not have shot her.' Shadow then leaped off his feet, put his face to his hands, and left the room.

"That was weird." Tails said.

"Come on, we still have to ask for help. Hey! I still know the plan!

"Are you crazy? He'll kill us both!"

"We've got to try."

They nudged closer to the door, baby step by baby step. When they finally creaked opened the door, Tails gasped.

What they saw before them was Professor Gerald, laying face flat on the ground. He had a knife in his back. Shadow then seemingly jumped out of nowhere, his twitching eyes cold murder, his mouth a mantic smile. But he did not aim for Sonic. Instead he lunged at the knife. Sonic and Tails stood motionless.

Shadow then took the knife out of Gerald's back, the dirk stained with blood, his laughter an insane one. His entire body twitching, with the knife in his sweating left hand, he lunged at Sonic.

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" Sonic screamed, and jumped out of the way, missing death. Tails tried Shadow by grabbing his arm, but Shadow meekly pushed him away.

"It's that blue hedgehog I'm after." Shadow managed to say.

"Listen would you do me a favor?"

"Like kill the hedgehog?"

'Phew. Tails is good at stalling.' Sonic thought, and without another word, Sonic crept behind Shadow, trying to snatch the dirk out of Shadow's hands.

"No, I mean something different."

"Like singing?"

"Umm…yeah! Sing something!"

"A ME O LA CLARA…"

While Shadow was singing, Tails said: "I will be in front row seats!" In an orange blur, Tails zoomed to Sonic, who was very close to stealing the knife out of Shadow's hand.

"Psst." Sonic did not hear, over Shadow deep and loud voice, for he was covering his hand to his ear. Tails tapped Sonic on the shoulder. Having caught Sonic's attention, he slowly made way to Tail. Sonic got the idea and followed him.

"QWJENHT FERYT GHASQUDXEZST GJPOLSJM. MEMAY…"

Once they made there way to Tail they got inside. 'Tails is turning some freaky looking' knobs' Sonic thought. 'I should distract loud mouth over here.'

"Yo, quit singin' that song and come and make me breakfast!" Sonic cried.

"No!" Tails said, covering Sonic's mouth. But he didn't make it.

"HYAK NHR-……" Shadow stopped singing and looked around, blade still in left hand. His first sight was Sonic. "HEY!" Shadow lunged at the time machine.

"Opps." Sonic said, and he covered his mouth. "Tails, activate this thing already!"

"I'm trying!" Tails said looking at a bar that was halfway full.

"We disappeared in a flash last time. Whats taking it so long?" Sonic behind him. Shadow was getting closer by the second.

"Each time we use it, it runs out of fuel!"

"You know better than that!"

"Well somebody fell asleep on the job!"

"You are right. It was you!"

"Eventually," Tails continued on. "the time machine will completely run out of fuel. We would than be stuck in that time period." The bar was almost full.

"oOOHHHh. What does this button do?" Sonic reach out for a button.

"Good thinking." Tails said. When Sonic pressed the button, the door closed. Shadow made his way to the time machine, stomping it with the dirk, creating dents and markings all over it.

In a bright flash, the time machine zapped backed to 2004. When the door opened, they were in a very different place…