Chapter 3: The hunt for Shadow…
After escaping the clutches of some one's mysterious robots, Shadow fell unconscious inside of a strange temple. The big question was: Who's after Shadow?...
Shadow awoke inside the temple, but it wasn't dark anymore. This part was lit with torches all over the place. Shadow slowly got up. He immediately realized he dropped his chaos emerald. Those robots probably got what they were looking for. Who was behind this? Easy, the first thing that came to Shadow's mind was Dr. Eggman. It had to be. But why hadn't anyone seen that big glass dome? Well, the only explanation was none of the archeologists have made it this far yet, or, that they have been taken captive and have been robotisized. Shadow approached the steps. He looked around. Nothing but the steps. He kept walking up them, to a large room. With a large stone, similar to the one in the lab. It had more, unreadable writing on it. Shadow looked at the large stone. More hedgehogs and echidnas were charging at each other with torches and weapons.
"Was… this war?" Shadow thought to himself. But why did the hedgehogs look similar to him? With long curly quills covered in stripes of red. With small white fur on their chests. Covered in black. What did it mean? Shadow had been wondering… did this have something to do with his command of the Chaos Emerald's power? To his surprise, he found a green chaos emerald on the floor. "This is getting weirder and weirder…" Shadow said. He looked down, and saw a chaos emerald down, by his feet. How did it get there? "I though I had dropped it." Shadow said. He picked it up, and walked down a corridor.
----Inside the glass dome----
The dome was all smashed up. Shadow totaled that one room. The owner slowly approached the room. It was Dr. Eggman. He looked around. One of his robots walked up to him with the stolen emerald. Dr. Eggman snatched it from the robot's hand. "Good… the emerald was retrieved. Was the target destroyed?" Dr. Eggman asked. "No sir, the target escaped." The robot replied. "Show me the security camera film. I want to know who it was!" Dr. Eggman walked over to the large security computer. He pressed a few buttons on the key board, and soon he was watching the camera. He was surprised to see who it was. "Ah! Shadow, my very key to this… I want him brought to me! Go find him, send squads all across the mystic ruins. Take all witnesses captive." Dr. Eggman ordered the robot. "Yes sir!" It replied.
----Back inside the temple----
Shadow saw 7 holes in the bottom of the rock. "I wonder…" Shadow said to himself. He put the chaos emerald into one of the holes, it fit perfectly. The emerald suddenly flashed. Shadow tried to pull it back out. But no avail, it was stuck! He wondered how long he would be stuck in here. But then the emerald popped itself back out. "What the…?" Shadow said. He picked up the emerald. He heard a very loud bang coming from the top of the temple. Some of the rock in the roof started crumbling off. Then, the roof collapsed on Shadow, he watched, but it was too late to move. He knew he was about to die. There was a sudden flash, and Shadow fainted again. He awoke what seemed like in a second in front of Sonic and Tails. They were starring over him. He jumped up. "Calm down…" Sonic said. "CALM DOWN? I'm being hunted by Dr. Eggman! He wants my emerald. I found this one in some temple!... I… it must have been Chaos control that saved my life…" Shadow said. "What are you talking about?" Tails asked. "Let me explain… Sonic, as you know, I went into the jungle to take a walk to clear my head, so I come to this door after like two hours of running. There was a door, I went through with some robots, I destroyed them and entered the room the door led to. It was a large laboratory inside of a glass dome. The things I saw in there… they were unbelievable." Shadow stopped because Tails cut him off. "What was in there?" Tails asked. "A big stone, carved with markings of hedgehogs and echidnas charging at each other in a war. The hedgehogs had similar appearances to me, so then, I see this gray chaos emerald. I remove it from a container. The computer screens around me automatically come online. They have writing I can't understand. A different language. So, alarms go off and I run like hell. I come through a clearing in the jungle, a big temple, which is my only hiding spot, so, I ran up the steps and accidentally drop my gray emerald and don't have time to get it because dozens of robots are after me. I ran into the temple and passed out from hitting my head on a slide on the way underneath it. The robots are cut off from a trap door. When I awoke, I walked up to a carved stone just like the one in the lab, only bigger. Then, strangely, I find a green emerald on the ground. There was a loud ka-boom. The robots were blasting through the temple to catch me. The roof caved in and I thought I was about to get smashed, and then there is a flash of light and I end up here. It had to be chaos control that teleported me. I have one conclusion. It's Dr. Eggman." Shadow told them. "Not possible, if there was a lab back there, the archeologists would have found it!" Tails said. "Actually Tails, if you read the Station Square paper, the people that go out there don't come back…" Sonic replied. "Oh… that explains that…" Tails said. "We'll worry about the temple later, there are tons of robots headed this way, looking for me!" Shadow said. "He's right, we'll need aid in our fight, tell Knuckles right away!" Sonic said. "I'm on it!" Tails replied.
----On angle island----
Knuckles was lying next to the master emerald when he saw a flash of light. Shadow appeared in front of him. "Knuckles, there is no time to explain, the Mystic Ruins is under attack, now grab my hand!" Knuckles did as told. Shadow teleported them.
----In the Mystic Ruins----
Only Knuckles, Sonic, Tails and Shadow were there to defend the Mystic Ruins secrets. For once, victory didn't seem likely… robots were lining up… it wasn't long until they came charging in their direction. Shadow clutched the Chaos Emerald in his fist hoping for the best. Everything was happening TOO fast, and it was all confusing…
END CHAPTER
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