Hey, this is a fan fic about Shadow, I'm sure you've all heard of his game coming out, but no, this is not based on his game. So no jumping to conclusions. The story may immediately change from a topic to the next.

CHAPTER 1: Lost and running…

Shadow the Hedgehog… what do those words mean? Who owns them? Not Shadow… he may have a name. Who gave him that name? Too much questions. Nothing ever answered him. It was hard to guess, the only one he could go to was Dr. Robotnik. But that always led to trouble… involving Shadow. Every night he ran through the same nightmares, never ending, and it was getting old, quick! Sometimes, he felt like it was hard to tell right from wrong. He had too much anger and hate built in him. He had so much to ask. Why didn't he get hungry as quickly as people? Why didn't he get tired as quickly… and why didn't he bleed blood as much? He was a freak. He couldn't help it. What would happen if he asked the wrong person? All he had with him was a chaos emerald. A red chaos emerald he found after Sonic had foiled Dr. Robotnik's last plot. Sometimes when people yelled at him on the streets, he had problems in his head. His fist would clench up over his chaos emerald, and he felt anger flowing through him. He just wanted to decinigrate them all in one powerful chaos blast. But he felt like his chaos blast was becoming too big of a weapon. He needed to just throw that emerald away. Before something bad happened. His conscious was hard to listen to when he was mad. Maria, the only thing he lived for in life was gone, and wanted Shadow to do good. He wasn't doing good. He was a threat. He should just chunk that emerald now… right into the beach.

It was night time, with a cloudless night. Shadow was just standing by the beach, looking at the moon. He listened to the waves. He slowly lifted up his arm… but what if the emerald fell into wrong hands? Better it than his. He through it as hard as he could, he tried to watch were it landed in the ocean. But it was lost in the dark sky and he didn't see it. He walked away. Slowly, wondering if he did the right thing. He had only come out at night, but still mostly awake at day. He didn't sleep much. He never hardly felt tired. He was always wide awake. It was strange. He didn't know who he was. Was he just really some lab experiment? To take out revenge. He was useless to Professor Gerald. There was a mix up, and Shadow was given his unique ability to disobey bad orders given to him. He always imagined Maria as his conscious. She told him to do the right thing. While menacing Dr. Gerald ordered him to use weapons and kill things to test theories.

Shadow noticed the sun rising. He suddenly felt strange. He wanted to leave Station Square. He needed a quiet place to think, where no one could bother him. He ran over to the train station doors. He planned to phase through the wall and hitch a ride on the train, unseen or undetected by security. But, he suddenly remembered that he had chunked his emerald in the ocean. Now, he wouldn't be able to use his powers. Maybe someone could help him out. He looked around. He didn't have an idea. Just then, he caught Sonic walking around the train station's steps. Then, Sonic ran behind a wall. It looked like he went through it from Shadow's view. He followed Sonic's direction. There was a large gap in between the train station wall, and the shop right next to it. Shadow ran in Sonic's direction. He had something in his hand. He put the small metal object in the rusted door's lock. He was apparently trying to break in. Shadow walked up to him, Sonic wasn't looking. He suddenly spoke to Sonic. "What are you doing?"

Sonic jumped back fast. He didn't recognize Shadow's voice in so long, he thought it was a cop or something. "Shadow… how long has it been?" Sonic asked. "I wanted to know what you are doing over here." Shadow replied. "Well… knowing you, it's not like you'll tell on me. I always hitch a ride on the train to the mystic ruins this way, the lock to this back door goes into a janitor's room. Through there is the train security room. The guard is off duty until the train station opens for schedules. Plus, there is now way to detect me. I'll slip right through, shut off the security, and bam! Have a free ride to wherever I want." Sonic said. "Could you help me get to the Mystic Ruins?" Shadow asked. "Easy, just follow my lead." Sonic replied.

Shadow waited as Sonic opened the door, and he followed him to the security room. Sonic sat at a computer desk. "What now?" Shadow asked. "We delete the camera footage. Then, shut off the security." Sonic answered. He tinkered with the computer for a while, then, got up and headed for the lobby, where a mono-rail was. Sonic jumped up onto the mono-rail's top. He waved for Shadow, who jumped on too. "Now what?"
Shadow asked. "We hide and wait for the ride to start. Be holding on tight."

Sonic said. "Sonic... this feels awkward…" Shadow said. "Well, were the hell are you all the time, I never see you around here. Funny meeting up here!" Sonic said. "I'm confused… I always feel depressed." Shadow said. "I imagine you're always bored. I'm glad we met up. You need to have fun every now and then. See, I may not be good for advice, but if you keep it built up, no wonder you're depressed. Why not hang with me for a while?" Sonic asked. "I don't know… I came here to be alone…" Shadow said.

"If you don't socialize with someone, you're bound to explode." Sonic said. "I have important things to do." Shadow said. "Alright…we'll go our separate ways after this is over…" Sonic said. "I need time to think…" Shadow said. "Shadow… are you always going to sit around and annoy yourself with this who am I crap? Maybe you never were anyone, well maybe you were just an organic lab experiment, well it's time to be someone. Now you can be." Sonic said. "You don't know what I go through! You're not helping either!" Shadow yelled. "Sorry! Geez! I'll bet you a million buck freakin' Dr. Robotnik has some old file with your name on it…" Sonic said. "Drop it Sonic... I'm not friends with you, and your not friends with me!" Shadow said. "Well… that's what you say after all the things we've been through? I haven't seen you in a year!" Sonic said. "And I want to keep it like that!" Shadow jumped off the train onto the rail. "What are you doing?" Sonic asked. "I'll run across the rail… I don't need this." Shadow said.

"Not a smart idea…" Sonic said.

Shadow kept walking, until the tunnel came to a close end. He turned to see the train heading at him full speed. He had run into his own death. He turned to desperately try to run. He had been walking for seemed like 2 hours. He kept running, until he hit the end of the tunnel, and felt himself trip over a sharp metal object, and felt himself drop. But more like a fall. Before he knew it, he saw the sun again and realized he had tripped over the end of the tracks off of the bridge's train stop. He felt himself smack water over a large cliff…

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