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Chapter 23

After a while, Tails had come back with a rather large medical kit. Many of the other residents of the Underground Resistance decided that they wanted to brave out into the forest, with Tails Amy and Ray, and watch Shadow fight for their freedom.

Tails led the way out into the woods he waited for Ray and Amy.

"OK Ray, lead the way." He said.

Ray nodded and grabbed Tails' wrist with his free hand (his other hand was holding Shadow's gun). He zoomed off, pulling Tails along with him, as fast as he could.
Amy blinked.

"…I'll stay here then…" she said quietly.

The other residents began to slowly emerge from the hidden entrance in the ground. Suddenly the earth shook slightly and everyone gasped. Amy looked up and saw Shadow and gasped again, noticing that he'd transformed into Super Shadow.

Her mind went back to the ARK, watching both him and Sonic in their super forms fighting the Ultimate Life form Prototype. She remembered how confident and heroic they looked.

The other residents saw him too and began to cheer and clap.

"You can do it!"
"Go for it!"
"We're counting on you!"

"Now this really is like the ARK incident." Amy thought to herself, smiling.

…

Shadow quickly rolled himself into a ball and dashed at the huge robot. He hit the robot's exterior and dented it slightly. The Egg-Destroyer 3000 stumbled backward slightly and there was the small quake in the ground as its foot hit the ground. Its eyes glowed red and it quickly swung its fist and hit Super Shadow's face.

Super Shadow was flung backward but he gritted his teeth and managed to stop himself in mid air. He hovered there for a few seconds, breathing heavily. He was beginning to feel like he did back at the ARK battle. His energy was beginning to fade, as he was trying so hard to damage the Egg-Destroyer 3000.

Small sparks began to frizzle around him.

"Oh no…" he thought. "I have to hang in!"

…

Ray was beginning to feel tired again too. He stopped just a few metres from where he'd left Knuckles and Sonic.

"They're…just ahead…" Ray gasped. "You go to them…I've got to help…my dad…"

He zoomed off again, clutching the gun in his hand. Tails blinked but then nodded to himself.

"OK… hang on guys!" he yelled.

Tails ran ahead, using his tails as a propeller. He quickly reached his friends but he saw that something wasn't right. Sonic was lying very still on his front and Knuckles was leaning against a nearby tree, his face buried in his hands.

Knuckles heard someone approaching and slowly looked up. He saw Tails but his expression didn't change. Tails looked at Sonic, not able to see the blood he'd drowned in.

"He's…he's gone…" Knuckles stammered.

Tails looked back up at Knuckles. He was beginning to get very anxious, as the terrible thought of Sonic being dead sunk into his mind.

"Wh…what?" he said.

…

Ray ran on around the area where his father and Eggman were fighting and hid behind a nearby tree. He watched his father hovering in the air and saw that he was beginning to get exhausted.

"I've got to do this quick!" he thought to himself.

Bravely, he stepped out onto the battleground. He was behind the Egg-Destroyer 3000 so neither Super Shadow nor Eggman could see him.

"DAD!" Ray yelled.

Super Shadow blinked and saw Ray standing below him, holding a gun. The Egg-Destroyer 3000 turned too and Eggman was able to see the young hedgehog standing before him.

"Ray, get out of here!" Super Shadow yelled.

Ray didn't answer but instead held up the gun. Super Shadow gasped and understood what Ray was going to do.

"You're such a fool, young hedgehog!" Eggman yelled. "Next time, you should stay hidden. It's for your own good!"

The Egg-Destroyer 3000 lifted its fist and pummelled it into the ground where Ray was standing. Luckily, Ray thought quickly and ran out of the way. He skidded around and held the gun ready.

"Eat this, bastard!" he yelled and fired.

The large blue surge of energy hit the Egg-Destroyer 3000 in the joint, connecting the fist to the arm. Sparks began to fly from the arm and quickly moved up from there to and around the rest of the robot's body.The robot stood upright and began to jolt violently. Eggman was being hurtled around the machine's head.

"Aaaaaaah! What have you done!" he yelled.

"Get him now, Dad!" Ray yelled.
"Got it!" Super Shadow answered and rolled himself into a ball again.

He shot himself at the robot and broke through the body, emerging at the other side.

The robot stopped shaking and fell to its knees. Eggman was screaming like a madman at his creation, ordering it to fight.

"No! Get up and fight you cowardly piece of junk! We must destroy that hedgehog!"

Suddenly, there was an explosion. Ray hid behind a tree, shielding himself from flying pieces of debris.

Super Shadow felt his knees hit the earth as his power left his body. He breathed heavily, coughing amongst the smoke. Then out of nowhere, a chunk of the Egg-Destroyer 3000's exterior hit the back of his head. Shadow fell to his front and lay there unconscious.

…

Everybody else saw the explosion too. Amy and the Underground Resistance cheered and clapped. Their hated ruler was gone for good.

Tails and Knuckles saw it too. Tails smiled amongst his tears.

"They've done it…" he said quietly.

…

Ray began to slowly walk across the terrain, waving away smoke from his mouth and coughing.

"Dad?" he called. "Are you OK?"

The smoke began to clear and Ray saw the outline of his father lying on the ground. Ray ran over to him.

He was thankful to see he wasn't dead but saw the nasty wound to his head which had knocked him out. Carefully, Ray put his father's arm around his own shoulder and began to walk away from the remains of Eggman and his weapon.

…

A few hours later, Shadow (now back in his normal form) began to slowly open his eyes. As his vision focused, he saw Ray Tails Knuckles and Amy standing above him. They seemed unhappy and Shadow noticed straight away that something had happened.

"What's wrong?" he said.
"Shadow…"Tails began "…it's Sonic.