SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG
Shadow looked into the city with amusement. He never thought that Westopolis would ever be demolished like this. The roads were cracked open, some buildings were smashed in, cars were crushed, and even a fire hydrant was smashed flat causing water to spurting out from it. It was all probably from the huge, falling aliens.
Buildings also burned, cars were torched black, and people were even seen lying motionless on the ground.
None of it mattered to Shadow. All Shadow knew was that he had a new purpose now. And the purpose was to find the seven Chaos Emeralds. With the help of his shoes and super natural abilities, he would be able to find all the emeralds before one month has passed.
Almost instantly, the G.U.N. army spotted Shadow and began to fire at him rapidly. Shadow swung from side to side to avoid the shots at him. Successful, Shadow raised his own rifle at the army and fired. One by one, the men fell.
Next thing Shadow knew, G.U.N. machines were charging at him. The machines were robots, artificial intelligence, that were supposed to act just like a real G.U.N. soldier. They were a little bulky, and that only made them harder to destroy.
As one of the machines charged at Shadow, Shadow jumped over the robot and curled up into a ball. He fell onto it like a rock and smashed it. The robot broke into pieces and scattered everywhere.
Five other robots began to shoot at Shadow with their built-in guns. Shadow jumped into the air again and sent himself flying into one of the machines. The machine broke, and as Shadow made contact, he bounced off the machine's surface and, in one motion, hit another robot, and once again bounced off onto another. The cycle continued until all five of them were down.
That little trick was called the homing attack. He could hit multiple enemies by bouncing off one another. Just one of the many things Shadow could do.
Shadow walked away from the debris of the broken machines. He saw 3 of the Black Arms aliens fending off a few G.U.N.s, and Shadow decided to join in with the aliens. He shot down a few of the G.U.N. men.
The Black Arms seemed to recognize Shadow immediately. Shadow felt strange about that, some of the aliens might have known Shadow very well while he had no idea whom they were.
Shadow continued down the road full of destruction. Shadow hid inside of a building when he saw that a tank was heading his way. He saw that the marine that was driving the machines had his head sticking out from the top of the tank. Big mistake. Shadow took aim at the marine's head and shot once. The shot impacted his skull and killed him immediately.
Shadow ran to the tank, and with the help of his hover shoes, he was able to get there much faster than he could normally do without them.
He knocked the dead corpse out of the tank and took control. He began firing wildly at all G.U.N.s he saw. He had to help Black Doom and the Black Arms get control of the city successfully. If he did, then he could possibly get a group of Black Arms to aid him in the search for the Chaos Emeralds.
The Chaos Emeralds. That was his purpose. His purpose was to get the Chaos Emeralds for Black Doom. Or at least, that was his purpose for now. Shadow was sure that was subject to change.
Just then, out of the corner of Shadow's eye, a blue dart came and swooped him out of the tank and onto the ground. Shadow knew instantly who it was. He picked himself up immediately and started shooting at the blue object ferociously. The blur of blue came back into Shadow and knocked the gun out of Shadow's hands.
Shadow got a good look of the blue blur. It was Sonic, just as he suspected. Sonic, like Shadow, was a hedgehog. However, Sonic had a natural ability to run at the speed of sound whereas Shadow was aided with his shoes to be able to perform a task such as that.
"What the hell do you think your doing?" Sonic yelled at Shadow. Shadow picked the gun up from the ground. "I'm helping the aliens to take control of the city."
"Is something wrong with you? The aliens here are going to kill all of us! Me, you, our friends, the military, civilians, everyone!" Sonic shouted at Shadow. Sonic seemed very stressed. Obviously because of what was occurring here on Earth. But Shadow didn't care. All Shadow cared about was his purpose.
"These aliens won't hurt me. They know me. I don't know how, but they do. They want me to collect the seven Chaos Emeralds and bring them to the Black Arms. The Black Arms is what these aliens call themselves," Shadow explained to Sonic.
"Chaos Emeralds? You mean… these?" Sonic asked while pulling out a green Chaos Emerald from behind him. Shadow was eager to take it from Sonic right then and there, but he decided not to. Another natural decision, Shadow thought.
"You help me rid the city of the aliens, and you get this emerald. You choose not to help me, and I smash the emerald into tiny bits right here," Sonic threatened Shadow. Shadow wondered why Sonic would break the Chaos Emerald; Shadow knew it was very valuable to Sonic. Then Shadow realized Sonic probably thought the Chaos Emeralds were less important to him than saving the world from this deadly threat.
"You know, the Black Arms will hate me for this. But my purpose is to collect the Chaos Emeralds, so it seems I have no choice but to help you out here. I'm sure the Black Arms would understand anyway," Shadow told Sonic without a regret.
"Right answer," Sonic said, and placed the Emerald back where it was.
A huge explosion shook the city. It came from within a building far away. Sonic and Shadow could see the flames from miles away and the huge, black smoke that puffed above the building.
"Wonder what that was," Sonic said in fear.
"Lets check it out," Shadow requested and handed Sonic one of the G.U.N.'s pistols.