Destructive Lust Reborn
By TrebleX
Chapter 4: Attack On The City.
He trembled a little as he once more got to his feet, still shaking with the anger and hatred that these haunting and painful memories had renewed. In fact, the anger had brought his power to a whole new level, for the chaos emerald's power was slowly being drained into his own body. His muscles seemed to expand a little over his entire body, his eyes fading to a hazier damask hue, feeling more extreme power begin to pulsate within him. Sure this wasn't quite him turning hyper, but this rage was making him extremely strong. Not only that, his mind was washed over suddenly with new abilities, more destructive ways to use the chaos energy.
"Now...I shall show them all." Shadow said in a darker tone than usual, giving a slight dim laugh as he let the chaos emerald fall from his grasp. He didn't need it any more, and it had now faded to a dark grey hue instead. The power of that chaos emerald, and of the master emerald, was now contained within his body. With a simple snap of his fingers, and not a single word having to be muttered, chaos control overcame his body and whipped it away into the winds with a single flash of light.
The black furred hedgehog reappeared atop one of Station Square's higher buildings, looking down upon the people that walked around carelessly. He hated them, every last one of them, they'd probably never had to suffer as muc has he had...until now. He blamed it all on these...the death of his beloved Maria, and he would avenge her, no matter what. Pressing his weight down on both of his feet, he suddenly launched himself forwards and landed heavily in the middle of one of the roads, planting a fist to the concrete before himself also. The ground quaked a little from his powerful impact, and it partially erupted upwards. This caused cars to swerve to a halt, the people in them looking to try and see what had caused the sudden tremor.
Some dust that had arisen from the sudden impact, and as the wind slowly trailed it away, Shadow was revealed to the many people around him as he glared at them all with a hating stare. A few people instantly pulled out their phones, recognising him and wishing to notify news stations and the likes. Others merely stared in disbelief at how someone of his posture could so easily deal that much damage to hard concrete.
Another dark smirk played upon Shadow's lips, before he reared up his hands and begin to collect chaos energy between them. He glanced forwards towards a line of cars ahead of him, instantly gaining terrified stares in return, crowds of people leaping out of their cars in fear. Giving them just enough time to move out of the way, he then unleashed an almight blast of chaos energy that tore through the center of an entire row of cars. It then spread outwards a little until the material of the vehicles was entirely annihilated. People looked on in fear before everyone soon ran from their vehicles and fled from the streets into their homes. This made Shadow laugh a little at their pathetic attempt to escape, before raising his hands upwards as he began to gather further chaos energy.
Little did he know, his act of destruction was already being broadcast to his previously assigned targets. Tails and Eggman were both gazing at the screen in utter disbelief at their own places, not only had Shadow seemed to of 'returned from the dead', but his powers had reached new levels. "Sonic, come quick!" Tails called into the other room, where Sonic had been relaxing. The blue hedgehog walked in to the room after being summoned so urgently.
"Hey Tails, what's wro-?" Sonic began, but was cut off immediately as he heard the television speak the name of his old rival.
"Shadow The Hedgehog, said to of previously aided world reknowned hero Sonic The Hedgehog in saving the world from the ARK's collision, has been seen once more alive. It seems also that he is intent of destruction of Station Square." Said the woman on the television, doing her best not to show her own fear.
"Shadow's still alive!? No way, this HAS to be one of Eggman's tricks!" Sonic said with some surprise.
"You're right, we have to go and stop whatever it really is, Sonic! It could destroy the whole of Station Square!" Tails replied urgently. He gained a slight nod of Sonic, who raced out of the door at top speed, heading towards Station Square where all of the action was taking place. He didn't want to take Tails with him, not this time, it was far too dangerous.
Sonic's amazing speed wasn't enough however, because Shadow had already launched a powerful beam of chaos energy upwards into the sky. The few that had the guts to even watch him through their windows wondered what exactly he was doing, and they soon found out. At a certain point, the beam stopped going up and exploded into thousands of shards of chaos energy, which began to rain down all over Station Square. As each one connected with something, it said ablaze, and the flames rapidly began to spread across the town. Shadow laughed darkly as he once again began to be surrounded by a blinding white light. "Enjoy your last moments, I shall avenge Maria's death by making you all suffer, pathetic humans!" Shadow yelled, his voice full of loathing and rage, yet also some satisfaction as he vanished into the air.
The blue hedgehog soon reached the scene, but came to a sudden halt and gazed on in horror. Everything was on fire, there were even people in that state. He wanted to help them, he really did, but he had to go and find Eggman and stop this chaos. At least, that's how he thought he was going to stop all of this, but little did he know that Eggman was as clueless as he was. Hesitantly taking off away from the city before the flames caught onto him also, Sonic began to head off in search of the evil scientist's base...