*Maniac, and very evil laughter* I am SOOOO evil! I do such bad things to my characters!
Shadow: Yeah, what did I ever do to you?
Nothing, but this idea happens to be very popular. Check it out - 50 reviews!
Shadow: But you...what did you do to me, anyway?
You'll see...
I don't own Sonic, or Sega, or anything worth mentioning. Seriously, my life stinks.
Well, I own Cross, but I think you've figured that part out.
POV is slightly...ahem, _altered_, but it's still Shadow.
Read on to find out!
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All I knew was the darkness.
It filled me to my soul, and I was afraid.
Then I was 'I' no longer, but 'we'.
We felt the changes begin, and wrapped in the safety of our cocoon we felt no fear.
It was not long until we emerged into the light.
Many small things surrounded us, but we didn't care.
We were too busy examining our new body.
It was dark green, covered in beautiful scales.
Two fast legs, two powerful arms, a long tail tipped with a thin sickle blade.
Thousands of tendrils flowed from our back, marvelously supple and surprisingly strong.
Quills decorated the back of our head, dark green with stripes the color of blood.
Like mine.
Mine?
Confusion.
We saw our reflection in a pane of glass that lay near us.
Our eyes glowed orange, framing our powerful snapping jaw in their light.
We were invincible.
"You! Don't move or we will open fire!"
There were others here, in their shiny toys they called tanks.
We raised ourself on our tendrils to get a better view.
The leader of these others, these humans, came forward.
We recognized him. General Vox, of GUN.
Maria! He killed her!
What was that?
"Attention, Project Cross! You will obey me now or I will be forced to open fire!"
We sneered at him before we opened our mouth to reply.
"We are Project Crozz no longer, General Voz."
"We are Crozz, the Zupreme Life Form!"
"Open fire!" The humans shot us with their little bullets, their missiles. Nothing
they did affected us. We merely waited while they wasted their time. Then we retaliated.
Using a few of our many tendrils, we batted the humans away like leaves. Once they were
silent, we lowered ourself to examine a small glitter. It was a crystal, cut and polished.
We used our tendril to pick it up. It was a Chaos Emerald. It was familiar in our claws.
We watched the swirling colors until a movement caught our eye. It was a blue hedgehog. We
knew him. "Okay Cross, hand over that Emerald!" We watched him for a moment. "No, Zonic,
we think not." Using his name made him jump. "Uh, 'we'?" "Correct. We are Crozz. We
think we will keep thiz Chaoz Emerald. Goodbye." "No you don't!" He yelled, but it was
far too late. "Chaoz Control!" We warped away, leaving the hedgehog far behind.
We chose to go to a small tropical island. It was a pleasant place to determine our
next move. We tossed the Emerald as we thought. Many things occurred to us, but only one
held our interest - to see this world, in all it's splendor. And to destroy whomever tried
to stand in our way. Where to go first? We decided the desert, and teleported away from
our island sanctuary.
As we arrived at the desert, we saw a building in ruins not far away. Letting our
tendrils carry us over the burning sands, we saw this had been a temple. But now, a large
man lead an army of machines against us. We knew him. Dr. Eggman, the grandson of Dr.
Gerald Robotnik. That last name filled us with both loathing and pride. Pride, for his
genius made us possible. Loathing, for what he did to us when he discovered our potential.
This Eggman, he told his metal fighters to destroy us. We sneered, for we would be doing
the destroying. And we did. As we laid waste to his creations, he tried to flee. We
ensnared him easily and held him aloft as we finished. Then we held him close to our face.
"How dare you do this to me! Who do you think you are dealing with?!" "Why, Doctor Eggman,
grandzon of our creator, of courze. We know you very well." "We? Who are you?" "You
zpeak to Crozz, the Zupreme Life Form, you zilly perzon. You are a dizgrace to our creator.
We would kill you now, but we are not interezted in you." With that, we dropped him and
made our way to his base. It was deep within the ruins, but we found it. And we destroyed
it. We left soon afterwards.
We went many places. In many of them, the humans of GUN tried to stop us. We
eliminated them all, every time. It was many days later when we paused to sleep. We had
the strangest dream…
We were surrounded by people.
We destroyed them, but as we did something cried out in anguish.
"Shadow! Give everyone a chance to be happy…"
I'm so sorry Maria, I failed you, I failed everyone!
What was making that sound?
It was strangely familiar, like we had known it well once but had forgotten it.
It tore at us, and we reeled in confusion.
You killed her! She would never die but you forgot and it killed her!
Stop it, we do not understand!
We beat the sound-maker into silence, but the pain remained as we continued to destroy…
We awoke, and found our claws clenched tightly around the Chaos Emerald. It glowed
softly as we watched it. We dropped it and the glow faded. Picking it up, we found the
glow did not return. We tried to decide what that meant. We couldn't come up with
anything, but an new idea occurred to us - why not find more Emeralds? They might hold the
key. We reached out with our senses, but we felt no more Emeralds. Chaos Emeralds are
indestructible, which meant something was blocking them. And the only thing that could
was…we grinned. We knew where all of them were now. "Chaoz Control!"
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How'd I do? Huh? Huh? Tell me!
I'll put in another Auther's Note if people have a lot of questions, but if you don't ask then I won't.
In short, R&R!
Shadow: Yeah, what did I ever do to you?
Nothing, but this idea happens to be very popular. Check it out - 50 reviews!
Shadow: But you...what did you do to me, anyway?
You'll see...
I don't own Sonic, or Sega, or anything worth mentioning. Seriously, my life stinks.
Well, I own Cross, but I think you've figured that part out.
POV is slightly...ahem, _altered_, but it's still Shadow.
Read on to find out!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
All I knew was the darkness.
It filled me to my soul, and I was afraid.
Then I was 'I' no longer, but 'we'.
We felt the changes begin, and wrapped in the safety of our cocoon we felt no fear.
It was not long until we emerged into the light.
Many small things surrounded us, but we didn't care.
We were too busy examining our new body.
It was dark green, covered in beautiful scales.
Two fast legs, two powerful arms, a long tail tipped with a thin sickle blade.
Thousands of tendrils flowed from our back, marvelously supple and surprisingly strong.
Quills decorated the back of our head, dark green with stripes the color of blood.
Like mine.
Mine?
Confusion.
We saw our reflection in a pane of glass that lay near us.
Our eyes glowed orange, framing our powerful snapping jaw in their light.
We were invincible.
"You! Don't move or we will open fire!"
There were others here, in their shiny toys they called tanks.
We raised ourself on our tendrils to get a better view.
The leader of these others, these humans, came forward.
We recognized him. General Vox, of GUN.
Maria! He killed her!
What was that?
"Attention, Project Cross! You will obey me now or I will be forced to open fire!"
We sneered at him before we opened our mouth to reply.
"We are Project Crozz no longer, General Voz."
"We are Crozz, the Zupreme Life Form!"
"Open fire!" The humans shot us with their little bullets, their missiles. Nothing
they did affected us. We merely waited while they wasted their time. Then we retaliated.
Using a few of our many tendrils, we batted the humans away like leaves. Once they were
silent, we lowered ourself to examine a small glitter. It was a crystal, cut and polished.
We used our tendril to pick it up. It was a Chaos Emerald. It was familiar in our claws.
We watched the swirling colors until a movement caught our eye. It was a blue hedgehog. We
knew him. "Okay Cross, hand over that Emerald!" We watched him for a moment. "No, Zonic,
we think not." Using his name made him jump. "Uh, 'we'?" "Correct. We are Crozz. We
think we will keep thiz Chaoz Emerald. Goodbye." "No you don't!" He yelled, but it was
far too late. "Chaoz Control!" We warped away, leaving the hedgehog far behind.
We chose to go to a small tropical island. It was a pleasant place to determine our
next move. We tossed the Emerald as we thought. Many things occurred to us, but only one
held our interest - to see this world, in all it's splendor. And to destroy whomever tried
to stand in our way. Where to go first? We decided the desert, and teleported away from
our island sanctuary.
As we arrived at the desert, we saw a building in ruins not far away. Letting our
tendrils carry us over the burning sands, we saw this had been a temple. But now, a large
man lead an army of machines against us. We knew him. Dr. Eggman, the grandson of Dr.
Gerald Robotnik. That last name filled us with both loathing and pride. Pride, for his
genius made us possible. Loathing, for what he did to us when he discovered our potential.
This Eggman, he told his metal fighters to destroy us. We sneered, for we would be doing
the destroying. And we did. As we laid waste to his creations, he tried to flee. We
ensnared him easily and held him aloft as we finished. Then we held him close to our face.
"How dare you do this to me! Who do you think you are dealing with?!" "Why, Doctor Eggman,
grandzon of our creator, of courze. We know you very well." "We? Who are you?" "You
zpeak to Crozz, the Zupreme Life Form, you zilly perzon. You are a dizgrace to our creator.
We would kill you now, but we are not interezted in you." With that, we dropped him and
made our way to his base. It was deep within the ruins, but we found it. And we destroyed
it. We left soon afterwards.
We went many places. In many of them, the humans of GUN tried to stop us. We
eliminated them all, every time. It was many days later when we paused to sleep. We had
the strangest dream…
We were surrounded by people.
We destroyed them, but as we did something cried out in anguish.
"Shadow! Give everyone a chance to be happy…"
I'm so sorry Maria, I failed you, I failed everyone!
What was making that sound?
It was strangely familiar, like we had known it well once but had forgotten it.
It tore at us, and we reeled in confusion.
You killed her! She would never die but you forgot and it killed her!
Stop it, we do not understand!
We beat the sound-maker into silence, but the pain remained as we continued to destroy…
We awoke, and found our claws clenched tightly around the Chaos Emerald. It glowed
softly as we watched it. We dropped it and the glow faded. Picking it up, we found the
glow did not return. We tried to decide what that meant. We couldn't come up with
anything, but an new idea occurred to us - why not find more Emeralds? They might hold the
key. We reached out with our senses, but we felt no more Emeralds. Chaos Emeralds are
indestructible, which meant something was blocking them. And the only thing that could
was…we grinned. We knew where all of them were now. "Chaoz Control!"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
How'd I do? Huh? Huh? Tell me!
I'll put in another Auther's Note if people have a lot of questions, but if you don't ask then I won't.
In short, R&R!