Sonic Adventures

SHADOW STORY

Prologue

Shadow Unsolved

"Where are you taking me?" Shadow asked curiously as four armed men and Rouge the Bat accompanied him down a lavish hallway.

Rouge turned to him, "You'll see." She snickered inside; she had finally done it. The world's strongest life form had been caught and she had done it. And the great part was that even he didn't know he was done for.

The group reached a large set of double doors. One of the men pressed a red button on the wall by the doors. A panel slid up revealing a keypad and a sensor. The man put his hand on the sensor. It glowed and a light on the door turned from red to green. "Agent John Kent. Access approved." The doors opened and the group stepped into the room.

It was a large, circular room with white plaster walls covered in paintings of people neither Rouge nor Shadow new anything about. The carpet was decorated with the American seal, as was the desk, which sat in front of the large window opposite the door. In the easy chair behind the desk, sat the President himself.

"What do we have here?" he asked the group, looking at Shadow, "Catch this one in the front lawn did you? I have to say your Sonic costume is a little off don't you think men?"

The guards chuckled. "This isn't a kid, or Sonic," Rouge said, agitated.

"Then what is it? One of your stuffed animals? Seriously Agent Rouge, we need to find Gerald's ultimate weapon. But I promise I'll look at your doll later."

Steaming with anger, Rouge slammed her fist on the President's desk, rattling pens and papers. "This is his ultimate weapon! Shadow! The ultimate life form! Capable of traveling through space and time via Chaos Control!"

"Ah," the President said, looking towards Shadow. "Well men, you know what to do, take him away."

"Away?" Shadow asked?

The men began to grab for Shadow. Alarmed, he jumped to the side; two guards raised their weapons. Shadow looked frantically for a way out. He scanned the four men, and then the door. He saw Rouge walking calmly out.

"Traitor!" he cried as he leapt towards her. Rouge turned in time to be toppled to the floor by an angry hedgehog. Gunshots were fired seconds late of Shadow's leap.

Rouge leaned back and kicked Shadow off her. He landed with a thud down the hallway, knocking a picture off the wall.

Rouge dashed for the window in the President's office. She leapt up on the desk as the President ducked aside. She was almost free when she stopped short; Shadow had her leg in his grasp.

The cracking off bones made the guards wince. Shadow threw Rouge into an office wall. She landed on the carpet, clutching her mutilated leg.

Shadow jumped off the desk and walked towards her. "I thought we were a team!" he shouted, "What about Omega? Are you going to turn him in too? Maybe to a scrap yard?"

Rouge curled into a tight knot on the floor as more gunshots rang out. Shadow jerked violently as bullets plowed through his chest.

Rouge looked up at him. Through teary eyes she could see a silvery fluid oozing from Shadow's wound. It was not blood. "A clone?" she thought aloud.

Her first instincts were to lye back and wait for the guards to take her to a hospital. But her second instinct took over and she made on last desperate leap at the window.

"She's seen too much!" cried the President. Instantly the air filled with bullets. Rouge crashed through the window and flew. She needed to find Sonic. The real Shadow was still out there.