Sonic the Hedgehog: The Shadow Chronicles Vol. 2

By Carmelo Ildefonso

Prologue

Shadow befriended a love-crazy thirteen-year-old hedgehog girl in order to fulfill his desire to find out more about himself, when he crash-landed into a crime scene. Trying to figure out the truth, Shadow found himself searching for his rival and befriend him to try to save the world together, as he believes they have done before in a distant memory…

Chapter 9- The Truth

Shadow looked at the hospital wall, just staring. He wondered why it was always his fault that his friends, which were in few numbers, especially now, were getting hurt.

His eyes shifted in the direction of Amy, who was still unconscious from the attack. He thought that it was his fault that it happened, just because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. At that instant he decided to see for himself why Eggman did what he did.

Shadow said "Chaos Cure", and Amy's crushed arm was back to normal. He then took his rocket acceleration shoes, and hovered just above the ground. He switched their mode to low-speed flight, and took Amy right through the window.

He glided back to his tenement apartment, and set her down on his bed. As she slept, he was busy thinking about the truth. He knew that she was hiding it all from him, rather that she, of all people, knew what his past was, and he was going to shake the information from her.

Convincing her was not going to be very easy, and Shadow knew that, so he decided to do things in such a manner that she would be obligated to answer.

Shadow kept his promise to her and started construction on her house. It was pretty easy to fix up the old shack, because the heaps of scrap metal, a.k.a. the huge robots that he destroyed at the museum, made easy fixings of the wall and the furniture. He melted down the parts with their high-tech flame-thrower, and used that to fix the wall. He then used the arms and legs to replace wooden parts of the furniture that was wrecked. He finished his work, and was ready to question her.

As he walked in, she woke up. Shadow said to her, "You finally woke up. I never thought I'd see the day. Considering what happened last night, you should have woken up earlier."

Amy said, "Where am I?"

Shadow told her what had happened while she was asleep. He sat her down at the table and began to question her.

"You know about my past, but yet you still didn't tell me the truth. Why?"

"I was being chased by Robotnik. I knew that if he knew that I had any connection to you, I'd probably be caught faster."

"That still doesn't answer my question. Why didn't you tell me?"

"The police told me not to tell you."

"Why did they tell you that?"

"Because they know your capabilities, and were afraid of you. They didn't want you to retaliate, and they figured that it was the only way to prevent it from happening."

"Okay, so that's one question answered, but I still don't know why you hid your identity from me."

"I did it because I thought you'd rat me out if you knew who I was."

"Well then, why did you do it if you knew that it was illegal?"

"I did it because I felt sorry for you."

"That all?"

"…"

"You don't want to get caught, do you?"

"…"

"Why did you feel sorry for me?"

"It all happened recently. It's a reason I'd rather not tell you yet."

"I didn't know that you were being chased by Robotnik, but I'm not involved with him. But I want you to tell me something. Do you know what happened between me and Robotnik that made me do what I did?"

"Robotnik made you think that it was the military's fault that your creator, or Gerald, and Maria died, but it wasn't. That evil militia was made up of Gerald's robots, infected with a computer hack to betray its owner. Ivan installed it, and used Gerald's robots to create the militia. Where its name comes from remains to this day a mystery."

"That answers another question. Why is he chasing you?"

"I don't know. I think I figured it out though. He needs the Chaos Emerald that you took."

"I'll give it to him, alright. I'll use it and rip him apart, just like what he did to my 'family'."

Shadow got up, and said, "This conversation is over. I'll take you back to your house in a few minutes."

He went back to his bed, thinking about what had happened. He sat there, with his hands in his head. He wondered why the world hated him, and was always trying to annoy, confuse, and otherwise be mean to Shadow. Was it something he did? Why were they always after him? How could he fix his mistake?

A tear streamed from his eye. He knew that the last time he'd ever be cared for had already passed. No one would ever want him around again.

It was at that instant that Shadow decided to be what he wanted to be, not what everybody expects.

While they were walking down the street, headed toward that old shack, Amy started asking questions, like "Why the long face?" Shadow simply replied, "Leave me alone."

Suddenly, Shadow stopped. His fist clenched, and he said, "You're here. Now, you probably will never see me again, so if you have anything to tell me, tell me now."

Amy replied, "I know where the next article is."

Upon hearing those words, Shadow's mind changed, and a grin appeared on his face. He said, "You might just see me again sometime, after all."

Shadow followed Amy into her house. She rolled out a map of a military base.

"This base is about 50 miles southwest of Prison Island. It's on an island with a jungle on it. To get in, you're going to need some help. That's where I come in."

"Okay, but how can you help when you're not going to be there?"

"Who said?"

"… You win…"