Destructive Lust Reborn
By TrebleX
Chapter 5: Encounter.
Dr. Eggman sat there, still gazing at the television in astonishment. Was that really Shadow he had just seen? That power...it was amazing! Perhaps soon Shadow would return to him, and with that power...annihilating Sonic would be easy! Soon...soon he would be able to carry out his life long dream of building the Eggman empire. At least, that's what he thought, but that hedgehog had other plans. Of course Eggman would be prepared for this, he quickly moved towards another room of his base.
Currently his base was still that pyramid, as it was spacious enough to contain what he had created. A pair of large metal doors slid open, revealing a room with tubes along the sides, each one containing a clone of Shadow which he had created. Sure they weren't as fast or powerful as the original, but a group of them could surely take him 't they? He pressed a switch to the side of him, each of the tubes slowly opening as the fake Shadow's seemed to awaken. Each one stepped out of the tube, landing perfectly on it's feet and turning to face their master. The one before him was a little different to the others, it had entirely red eyes. This was the one he had assigned as their leader, in case he never needed to send them all out at once.
"Right, listen up! If and when the real Shadow comes here, I want you to try and stop him by all means necessary, but don't kill him!" Eggman commanded, looking across them all.
"Understood, sir." Their leader had said, Eggman in return nodded a little and returned to his main area, in order to keep an eye on his security cameras.
Elsewhere Tails was wondering around alone, heading namely to the floating island. He had just recently noticed it had fallen, he had been too distracted before to realise. Tails whirled his two tails behind himself, propelling himself at a greater speed towards Angel Island. When he did eventually reach it, he stopped in shock at what he saw, kneeling down next to Knuckles' body. "Kn-Knuckles!? Are....you alive?" Tails asked worriedly, hoping to gain some sort of reply. He waited a few minutes...nothing. Tears welled up in the corners of the young vulpine's eyes, and he shook the red echidna a little before resting his head in his lap. "Knuckles...?" Tails asked again hopefully, trying his best not to cry. Another few minutes passed by...still nothing happened. That was it, he really was dead. "No..." Tails whispered, unable to hold his tears back any longer. The poor young fox broke down as his tears soaked his fur, collapsing onto Knuckles' chest and whimpering at the loss of his friend.
The black hedgehog was currently speeding through the deserty at an amazing velocity, the sand firing up behind him as he raced forwards. There were a few guard robots around the desert, but he easily bypassed them all, not detected by even one. A few miles behind him a blue streak also dashed across the desert hastily, taking down a few robots as it went with ease, despite slowing him slightly. Shadow continued directly ahead, not bothering to look for an entrance to the pyramid base as chaos energy began to form around his body. Upon colliding with the wall of the pyramid, it merely exploded into thousands of shards around him and he entered. Sonic on the other hand wasn't quite so reckless, he decided to run around the pyramid and search for a way to sneak in. He didn't intend to make his prescence known immediately, just so he could investigate further in the Shadow matter.
Eggman almost leaped out of his skin as a plate of metal came crashing down from the wall behind him, taking his attention from the television with reports on Shadow's damage. The bloated human turned around to see the ebony furred hedgehog himself standing before him, one hand held out towards him. "Doctor...your time has come." Shadow said darkly, chaos energy once again rushing to his palm.
"No Shadow, wait! Guards, get in here, now!" Eggman shouted urgently. There was a sudden sound of metal clanging against the floor, as if robots running. The hundreds of Shadow clones had quickly made it into the room and surrounded the original, ready to attack him upon command.
"Now listen to me Shadow, and listen well. Agree to work for me, and I'll allow you to survive, understood?" The doctor called to him over the many clones, merely gaining a slight laugh from Shadow in return. Knowing that meant he had declined, the robots quickly leaped forwards and piled down on top of him, burying him alive. That is however, until a few shards of chaos energy erupted through the cracks. Then with a sudden outward blast the robots were sent flying away from him with ease, smashing against the walls with extreme force and exploding. Last standing was their leader, still standing before the doctor as a sort of shield. Shadow's eyes flickered and sparked with chaos energy a little from the sides, gathering energy once more between his hands as he reared them up a little.
"It's time to say goodbye, doctor." Shadow whispered dimly, before letting loose another poweful blast that made Eggman and his Shadow clone seemingly just dissapear. This was true power you see, he could make someone vanish from existance without a trace if he wanted to.
Unknown to Shadow, his act had been watched fom above in a ventilation shaft by none other than Sonic The Hedgehog. Due to misplacing himself though, Sonic fell out of the shaft and just about managed to hit the ground on his feet, facing Shadow. Trying to act as if he'd planned it all, Sonic glared towards Shadow, who in return merely smirked back. "Shadow! You'll pay for what you did to Station Square!" Sonic yelled angrily.
"Try it, faker." Shadow replied, still grinning dimly as he leaped towards Sonic, who in returned leaped towards him...