I know I haven't written in a while, but here it is the long awaited chapter 3. I would like to receive more feedback so please read and review! The robots are coming! Bad robots and also good ones will debut in this chapter. At least a few will. Just so you know, it begins to get a whole lot better from here on; also the sorrow is coming up. We can't forget that, after all it's in the title.

Rapt Sorrow Chapter 3: Technology and Why did you break my back?

Shadow sat in his seat. Spanish class bored him. All he ever did was copy Knuckles' paper, but then again, maybe that's a bad idea. A girl with purple hair sits down in the seat in front of him, and at the same time steps on his foot. "Aah!" The girl turned around. "Oh, I'm sorry. I always seem to step on your foot." Shadow looked up at her. "It's alright Mina."

Just then, a guy with black hair enters the room and sits down next to Mina. "Hi, Ash!" Shadow began thinking to himself, "Ash? Who is Ash?" He seemed rather surprised to catch himself thinking about such things. "Psst, Knuckles," Shadow whispered. "No, you can't copy my notes hombre," Knuckles said. "No, I want to ask you something."

Knuckles sighed before replying, "What is it?" Shadow then said, "Who is that?" Knuckles looked over at Ash. "That's Ash. He's Mina's manager, and her boyfriend." Shadow began to boil. He stood up suddenly and yelled, "¡Qué!" Everyone looked at him. The instructor then yelled at him, "Shadow, sit down! As I was saying, study for your test on regular and irregular verbs in the past tense, and that means don't steal Knuckles' paper. Class dismissed."

It was now lunchtime. Amy had told Sonic to meet her here for something. She saw him walking by. "What are you doing?" She said to him. "What do you mean?" Sonic answered. "You were supposed to meet me here ASAP!" Sonic scratched his head.

"Oh yeah, that's right." Amy sighed. "It's to late to go over it now. You'll have to come by my apartment after school." Sonic began to feel sorry for himself. He couldn't think of a half reasonable excuse to get out of it so he replied, "Sure, why not?"

"I thought you were supposed to be out of the hospital by now." Vector said. "It was a bigger injury than they thought," Espio said, "I took one step and collapsed." Vector laughed. "Maybe you shouldn't throw those exploding ninja stars of yours around at school." Espio sat up in his bed.

"I wasn't throwing my ninja stars again. I was working on an exploding smoke bomb." Vector's jaw dropped to the floor. "What the heck are you doing building something like that?" Espio smiled. "It's a secret."

Sonic walked into the pink room. "So what's this all about, Amy?" Sonic said. "Well, I'm going to set up Knuckles a-" Amy said before being interrupted. "Your going to set up Knuckles!" he said surprised.

"I'm not finished. As I was saying…" she said. Amy began to whisper in his ear. "You're going to set up Knuckles and Rouge on a date?" Sonic said yet again surprised. "Exactly. So here's what I need you to do."

Shadow didn't really believe what he had just done. "Am I jealous?" He thought to himself, "no, that's as stupid as Knuckles." An awkward, "Hey!" is heard in the background. "Damn he heard me." Ash approached him. "Something on your mind Shadow?" Ash asked him. "Like what?" Shadow responded. "Like my Mina!" He yelled at Shadow. "What are you talking about?" Shadow said coolly.

"Don't play games with me. I know what your sudden outburst was about." Ash said approaching Shadow defiantly. "What's your problem punk! You seriously don't want to mess with me on a bad day," Shadow said bitterly. "You're the problem around here!" Ash yelled.

Shadow began to have another strange vision. "You're the problem around here! You and all these other worthless experiments," a guard says as he spits on Shadow, "ultimate life form eh? You disgust me. Let's see Maria save you know." Shadow broke out of his temporary trance, and started going berserk.

"Eh, What's wrong with you?" Shadow jumped in the air screaming loudly. As he dropkicked Ash, he heard a sickening crack. He then circled him and homing attacked him repeatedly, until he just broke out of his current state.

"Wha… What am I doing?" Shadow's scream rang through the silence. Miraculously, Ash manages to get up and limps away leaving Shadow alone in the street.

Shadow didn't see Ash get up and leave.

Rouge and Knuckles were sitting together in the restaurant. "I can't believe this is actually happening," Knuckles thought to himself. "Well, how are you Knuckles?" Rouge asked him. "Oh, I'm fine." The two of them are eating their food through the awkward silence. Rouge speaks up suddenly. "The nerve of those two! Setting us up on a date." Knuckles acted a bit panicked. "It's okay, really. How about we go on a date to Twinkle Park tomorrow?" Rouge's eyes lit up. "Really?" Knuckles nodded. "Yeah, really."

Disguised in the background was Sonic and Amy. "It's just so great…" Amy said with a tear in her eye. "It doesn't seem all that great to me," Sonic said. "Sonic?" Amy said. "Yeah, what?" Amy moved closer to him. "Will you go on a date with me to Twinkle Park?" Sonic began to think. "I had better or I'll never hear the end of it," he thought to himself. "Sure, why not?"

The day's light sank below the earth and man-made lights took over the night. Children that were once outside, are now tucked away, sleeping until the light showed itself again. The last two things heard that night were the screams of men and the laughter of a madman.

Shadow got up at the first signs of light in the sky. After he got dressed, he realized it was Friday. There was no school today for some reason. The administration never said why. "Oh well, another day off I guess," he thought to himself. He decided to watch the news since nothing good was bound to be on so early in the morning.

Ping! The screen lit up and the sounds faded in slowly. "Late last night, Dr. Ivo Robotnik, AKA Dr. Eggman, escaped military custody last night during his trial. GUN officials have no comment at this time, except that they've raised the priority of security in order to protect our city's citizens until he is captured."

"In other news, Neotype Industries has released information on its new MECHAOS models. Chief Engineer Soran Shade has this to say." A strange man appeared on the screen with jet-black hair and dressed in all white. "We are proud to announce that the new RAEDIN type MECHAOS are now complete and are in the process of being mass produced. With this new powerful machine, not even Dr. Eggman will threaten the public."

A reporter asks him a question, "Do you have any other new projects in development?" Soran replies, "Yes, but I can't say exactly what except for the name 'VANTA'." Shadow turned off the TV. "So Eggman has escaped. I sure hope GUN can put a stop to him with those new machines."

His computer lets out a strange noise sounding like, "You've got mail!" Shadow sits down at the computer and reads the message.

Dear Shadow,

I have a new simulation for you down at the arcade.

Steve,

PS You should get rid of that dam AOL and get Mozilla Firefox instead.

Just then his browser crashed. "Stupid AOL!" Shadow then went outside for a while.

Shadow arrived at the arcade. No one would ever guess that he was the type who'd sit on his butt playing video games. Well not really. He plays the new semi realistic simulators where you live it, but not die in it of course. "There you are Shadow," Steve said. "Hi Steve. So what's this new simulation you've got for me?" Steve began to smile. "It's a battle simulator featuring Neotype Industries' new RAEDIN type MECHAOS."

Shadow raised his left eyebrow. "Who's it from?" Steve paused for a moment. "It's from Soran Shade himself. He says that you should give it a try." Shadow seemed reluctant. "Hmm. He hasn't released the simulator for the SHADE type yet has he?" Steve looks at him surprised. "You didn't know? It came out yesterday." Shadow's jaw dropped. "Wow! I guess I've got two games to try out." Steve jumped up just then. "You're really going to do both of them in one day?"

"Yeah, really. Why do you ask?" Shadow questioned. "Well most people can only do one simulation on this machine a day. That's because of the effects it has on your body. It drains you literally. I'm surprised you didn't know that Shadow, especially considering you're the only person who even dares to use the simulator," Steve said. "Come on! I've done ten in one day and haven't had any physical side effects," Shadow informed him. "Well go ahead and try them out then."