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The 3 Shadows, Final Episode - Ultimate Life
Chapter 7 - Locked up
Punches, kicks and energy blasts were exchanged between the two super hedgehogs orbiting the Earth. Super Shadow thought about taking the fight to ARK, then hiding out Sonic's super form. Then he realised that his would run out quicker and if he got caught then no one would be left to save the world. Instead he realised the only way to save the world was to make his super form outlast Sonic's.
Super Shadow proceeded to avoid all of Super Sonic's attacks and aimed to keep his chaos energy topped up by collecting rings. Super Sonic soon realised that he too needed to get rings to stay super. The two dashed to claim the rings, Super Shadow picking up the first lot. Super Shadow then thought about Super Sonic's chaos energy and knew there was only one way to beat him here. He had to prevent Super Sonic getting rings while getting some for himself.
As Super Sonic went after a set of rings, Super Shadow smashed into Super Sonic and collected the rings himself. After lots of incidents where Super Shadow knocked Super Sonic away from and then collecting rings, Super Sonic began to weaken. Super Sonic knew he was going to lose his super form soon and dashed into Super Shadow. Super Sonic grabbed Super Shadow and pulled his back to Earth. Amazingly they both ended up back at Gerald's base.
Super Shadow couldn't break free of Super Sonic's charging body slam and with a great force Super Sonic smashed Super Shadow into the ground. Super Sonic stepped back from Shadow who had reverted back to his old black self.
"Nice try Shadow, but we all know who the victor was going to be", said Sonic reverting back to his blue self. He looked over Shadow's body for any signs of life unaware that Joz was preparing a surprise attack. Joz flew into Sonic using his jet wing and dropped Sonic back into the capsule he came from. Miles quickly shut the door locking Sonic back in his capsule. Water filled the tank again and Sonic was put into a state of suspended animation again.
"Yeah, the 3 Shadow", said Joz flying in front of the capsule to join Miles. They both walked over to Shadow. He was breathing but he wasn't conscious.
After a long wait Shadow woke up to see his fellow Shadows beside him.
"What happened?" asked Shadow, "Where's Sonic?"
"He knocked you out but you must've done something special. A few seconds after your crash to Earth he reverted back to his normal form. Weakened by your fight and caught of guard we managed to throw him back into his capsule", said Joz.
"He's trapped in there now until someone lets him out. Trapped in suspended animation", said Miles.
"Good. Destroy Sonic, a monstrosity like that cannot exist", said Shadow.
"But he's a living being and harmless…" said Joz
"Until someone lets him out. And let's face it we haven't stopped Gerald yet", said Shadow.
"I have an idea. Let's take him back to the lab. Perhaps I can turn him from the ultimate weapon into the ultimate hero", said Miles.
"You can do that?" asked Shadow
"Of course. All of Gerald's technology and files are stored here", said Miles, "All we have to do is bring him to my lab"
"I'm all for it", said Joz.
"Me too. Let's go home and plan our next move", said Shadow getting up slowly. He was weak, standing seemed extremely difficult but he managed to do it. With some help from Joz, Shadow limped to the capsule.
"I told you Sonic. I am the ultimate lifeform", said Shadow.
Suddenly from out of nowhere Gerald appeared in a huge machine. Before they knew what was going on Gerald had grabbed Shadow with the machine and fired a gas grenade at Joz and Miles. Shadow was too weak to escape as the other two Shadows fell to the ground unconscious.
He was just about to finish Joz and Miles off when GUN came crashing through the roof. Gerald took immediate action and flew away. Two robots followed Gerald while the rest stayed to help the fallen Shadows. Whatever was going on it wasn't over yet.