SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG

"So… my grandfather's journal was correct, just as predicted," Eggman whispered to himself watching the computer screen in front of him. Eggman was in his base in a secret facility heavily guarded with Eggman's henchmen robots. On the computer screen Eggman was watching was a report showing the city of Westopolis in ruins and what had happened yesterday there.

"It's time to initiate the SCAP program," Eggman said aloud to himself.

Eggman was a tall, obese man sporting a long, hazel mustache. He walked down the platform he was previously on and accessed another computer close by. He switched the power of the computer "ON" and booted up the file named SCAP.

Eggman looked at the many capsules in front of him. They were all standing upright looking towards him.

Eggman had a total of 3,560 capsules in total. They were about five feet high and contained life forms in each of them. Each pod was filled with a mysterious green liquid supporting the life of each creature. All of the creatures inside their pods had their eyes closed.

"It's time to awaken," Eggman called to the creatures in the capsules.

The green liquid in the capsules where drained from the inside when Eggman started the SCAP program. Each being inside the pods opened their eyes. The pod's top lifted up and the creatures were released.

One life from stepped out of the crypt-like capsule. His dark red eyes looked directly at Eggman.

"The Shadow Clone Awakening Process was successful," Eggman told himself with pride.

The creature that stepped closer to Eggman. It looked exactly like Shadow. It had dark hair with slick red streaks, bright red eyes… even its shoes were identical to Shadow's.

Eggman looked to the other capsules. The other Shadow clones were up from their sleep also. They, too, looked at their master, Eggman.

Eggman pointed at the group of Shadow clones. He called to all of them:

"Attention S-3000's! I am your creator and master, Eggman! You are to obey me and only me! Failure to obey my orders will subject you to brutal disciplinary actions! Do you understand?"

The massive wave of Shadows' acknowledged Eggman by brightening and flashing their eyes red. They continued to stair at him.

"The purpose of the S-3000's is to exterminate the world of all humans. That is you primary mission. After you complete phase one of my plan, you will go on to step two. Step two is that you must create a bond with the Black Arms.

"This…" Eggman showed the S-3000's a picture of what the G.U.N.'s called a 'Gargantue' on his computer screen "…is a Black Arm. You are to find their leader and join his army. From what my grandfather's journal says, they will not harm anything that is part of their army.

"That would include Shadow. Shadow is part of the Black Arms. From what my grandfather has written, the Black Arms seem to be the perfect race of life forms. They are the strongest, smartest, fastest, everything. Shadow's DNA consisted of traces of Black Arms, therefore making him one of them.

"Because you, the S-3000's, have Shadow's DNA forged within you, the Black Arms should easily accept your peace offering. Then, once you are in the army, you must collect their precious Chaos Emerald from their home planet and bring it to me. With it, I shall harness the power of the Chaos Emeralds and will rule the entire universe! Do you understand?"

The Shadows' flashed their eyes again.

Eggman looked down to his right. There was a ball made out of machinery, it was about the size of a basketball. It had a small screen on it and a miniature satellite dish on top of it.

Eggman reached into the back of his head and pulled out a little chip from a machine attached to his spine. He slipped the chip inside of the computer-ball. Eggman switched the invention on. The ball's screen flashed and a picture of Eggman come into view.

"Proceed," the Eggman on the screen said to the Eggman human.

The Eggman human then looked back to the S-3000's. "Begin your mission," he told them, and held his arms out and prepared himself.

In seconds, all 3,560 of the S-3000's sprang up from the ground and threw themselves towards Eggman and completely obliterated Eggman's human body.

Eggman's dead corpses lay there badly beaten. From the ball's computer screen, Eggman stared and watched his own dead body on the floor while the Shadows' were breaking windows to escape their hold and kill the humans.

Lucky for Eggman, he predicted his distinct orders to "exterminate the world of all humans" that he gave his Shadow androids would, of course, include himself. So Eggman processed his own DNA into this nifty machine for a second life.

The ball began to float and Eggman followed the S-3000's out into the world.