Chaos: Oh yeah! Disclaimer! (gasp) I should be sued for all the times I've haven't done a disclaimer! Anyway...Sonic the Hedgehog and all affiliated characters are copyrighted to Sega, Sonic Team. Also I do not own Pretzels. Though it would be cool if I did. (grin)
Flower: Review responses! Lookit, I got reviews! (dances)
Sonicrules - No, Shadow isn't normally that pathetic, but...it's so much fun to write him that way! (laughs)
Ryuko - Hi! Glad you like story. Especially sarcasm. Plenty of sarcasm. It's sort of a parody of games/stereotypes/fanfics and just random humour. Hee. I think you'll be surprised how the Knuckles scene turns out. (grin)
Izzy - Isn't it fun when Shadow loses control? Heehee. Though, it's actually Sonic who finally freaks in this one.
sprite-can - I like Tails too! But it's so much fun to make him throw a tantrum, and yet act all clever. Ah, I love writing this story!
Sally - w00t, thanks!
Kirbs - Yup, you're still freaked. (grins) Maybe you shouldn't still be reading.
NM - (pokes) Yes, you should update. More often. Like me. Yes. Update now! (poke poke)
Kemious - Wow, glad you think so! (dances) The first chapter wasn't so great, I agree. But I think it's getting better! In a random sort of way.
Kitkat - (gasp) I can't believe you're reading one of my Sonic stories! (passes out) Well, Shadow is basically your overly-cool, was-evil-but-now-good character. Mmm, yes. He is also nothing like how he acts in this story. Heeheehee.
Midnight el Gatito (or just midnight) - I'm glad you like it so much! (grin)
Shade-the-hedgehog - Well, in case you hadn't noticed, Shadow is overly OOC and stupid in this story. i guess he got introduced to chocolate or something. (laugh)
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After about five painstaking hours that I'm too lazy to describe, Shadow made it onto Angel Island. He clawed his way over the edge, grinning OOCly despite the fact that he looked a mess.
He stood up and assumed a pose not unsimilar to the one from before - he was rather fond of it, actually - and pointed at the sky. "Haha! Who says hedgehogs can't fly!" Then he walked towards the centre of the Island, leaving a huge plothole behind him.
Of course he didn't know the way, not like in all those ridiculous games where the characters know exactly where to go through the forest and jungle and city and god-knows-what-else, so he promptly got lost.
Splat. He tripped over a tree root, slipped through a puddle, slid down a short slope, and landed on his face. "Hmm...that's the third time I've done that." he muttered, before finally coming to the inevitable conclusion...
"I'm going in circles!"
"Yes. It's quite amusing, actually." Shadow looked up in surprise at a vaguely familiar figure.
"Heeeeeeeey," he said eventually, "don't I...know you?"
Knuckles sighed and raised an eyebrow sarcastically. "No, I've never met you before in my life." Shadow shrugged innocently, though god knows how he managed it, not really being the innocent type. Except in soppy romances, and that's mostly angsting.
"Uh, ok. Hey, do you know where I can find a Master Emerald?"
"What if I do?" Knuckles said carefully, feeling quite proud of himself for managing to remain rather cool and in-character so far.
"I need to..."
Shadow was quite suddenly and unexpectedly hit with a bolt of genius! Ouch!
"...use it to neutrallise the Chaos Emeralds! Otherwise the world will...er...be taken over by rabid squirrels! And I'm the only one fast enough to get there in time!"
And Knuckles, being the gullible idiot he quite often is, fell for it.
later
"Bye, Shadow!" Knuckles yelled with a wave as Shadow jumped off the rapidly-falling Angel Island, which was soon to fall into the sea and quite probably disappear forever. But that's another story.
"Goodbye!" Shadow yelled politely, absently wondering how the stranger knew his name. Then he realised that he was falling to his doom with a quite fragile, but very heavy, Emerald in his arms.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
For the second time that morning, Sonic was disturbed from his sleep - and a rather interesting dream about hunting a wild pretzel. They can be dangerous when only wounded! - this time by a high-pitched scream from the sky.
...what? Well, have you ever heard Shadow scream? No? Ha! Well, in this story he screams like a girl, he he he.
Sonic had just opened his eyes, when he was promptly flattened by said screaming (and previously falling) object. He jumped up furiously, sending a rather dizzy Shadow and an amazingly-unbroken Emerald bouncing onto the sand.
"Would you people leave me alone for five minutes?! I mean, for god's sake!! I just want a little nap!!! AREN'T I ALLOWED A LITTLE NAP?!!!"
Shadow took his hands away from his ears and stared at Sonic for a few minutes.
"Heeeeeeeey," he said eventually, "don't I...know you?"
Sonic dumped his drink on Shadow's head and stormed off. After a few seconds, Shadow suddenly jumped to his feet, grinning. "I know! I have to destroy Sonic the Hedgehog!!!"
Sonic was, of course, long gone. So, Shadow sat on the Master Emerald and decided to sulk for a while. Which is a convenient point to end the chapter and go eat some pretzels. (grin)
