Ch 10: Darkness and Goodness of Truth
Tails was surprised to see Shadow standing right in front of him. "I thought you died from that battle against the biolizard!"
"Well you see, I thought I was going to die too, but instead I got warped here. Right before the colony did it's warp to a safe distance from earth, I lost my super form and I was falling towards the earth." Shadow explained.
"Man, If Sonic was here he'd be glad to see you." Tails was glad that Shadow wasn't dead.
"Tails, I have some terrible news about Sonic." said Taurean. "When you got here our computers picked up two energy readings yours and Sonic's. The only difference is that his reading was massive. We've never seen anything like it. So I sent Shadow to investigate you first."
"I watched you after you ran away from that girl. Then I saved your life from that robot. You almost spotted me in that forest. I saw that training you did with Zuyen. I have to say, That was impressive. After all of that I was sent to see that other reading." Shadow went over to the desk and got some pictures out of a drawer. He tossed them into Tails' lap. He looked through the photos. He saw a white hedgehog with four demonic wings. It was in all the pictures in the pile.
"So, It's just a bunch of pictures of a freaky hedgehog." Tails had forgotten what happened during the warp.
"I knew you'd say that so I'll show you this. Now I'll show you what it looks like on this computer screen." A screen drops from the ceiling. It shows a picture of the devilish hedgehog. "Now I will get rid of the wings, the extra spines, color the eyes green, and the fur blue." Shadow finished. Tails has his mouth opened in awe.
"Oh my god...it...it's...Sonic. Where is he, I want to know, NOW!" Tails demanded.
"That's the terrible part. He isn't the Sonic that you remember. He is now the king of the Darlan Federation. He goes by the name King Cinos now. That warp must've done something to him. After I spied on him I went down to him in the castle and tried talking to him but he doesn't remember me or anything about who he is. His power is immense, I barely made it out alive. I managed to use chaos control because I fed off his energy. I'm sorry Tails, but it's true."
Tails had his head down on the desk. He just couldn't take any more bad news. Tails was thinking about the whole thing. "I remember something!"
"What?" said Shadow and Taurean.
"Before Eggman warped us, Sonic was in his super form. The energy from the emeralds and the machine must have mutated Sonic into that form. That would explain the physical change, but what would make him evil? I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!" Tails is just to overwhelmed right now and can't think straight.
"Tails, you should go back to your apartment and relax, just give yourself some time to think. Don't worry about the job we'll set it up tomorrow." Taurean gave tails 50 for showing up today.
Tails left without saying anything. He went back to the elevator and walked outside. By the time Tails had gotten back to the apartment building it was already 5pm and he was still walking with his head down. He reached the door and went inside. He went down the hall to his room. He knocked on the door first to avoid another encounter with the nasty dog. He heard the dog bark viciously and he went to the room next over. He opened the door and walked over to the couch and layed down facefirst.
"Oh, Tails your back...so how did it go?" Tails didn't answer. "Tails?...What's wrong?" She went over to him and sat next to him.
"Mffmffmfm...mffmfffmfmfm" said Tails. His head was in a pillow and no one could even understand him. May pulled the pillow out from under his head. She saw that his face was wet.
"What do you want. I just want to go home. I don't even have any hope of making friends here." Tails was sniffling a little.
"What do mean you don't have any friends, I'm your friend. You know what, I don't care what Kaida said. Tails I want to be more than just friends with you. I know I only met you a week ago, but I've never been this happy in my whole life. I already know you like me because Kaida saw how you are always looking at me. You don't need to keep it secret anymore, just tell me." May had just poured her heart out and Tails was looking right at her.
"Uh...I...love you too, May" Tails got up and kissed her on the mouth. It lasted for a minute and he stopped and thought about what had just happened. Even after all the bad news he got, Tails was smiling. 'I love May. I don't care if Sonic is a demon. I don't care about anything anymore. I'll just find a way to fix everything that happened. I will turn Sonic back to normal If it's the last thing I do.' He just sat with May in his arms for the rest of the night.
It is midnight now and the moon is full. On another building, Shadow is crouched down watching Tails' Apartment. The streets are empty and lifeless. There are sounds of people far away in the rich sector of Genocide city. Apart from that, the city is really quiet. "So your the one that destroyed the gaurdbot." Said a mysterious female voice.
"Who are you and what are you doing here!" Growled Shadow. He saw a beautiful hedgehog girl. She was black and had pink stripes going down her long spines. She was wearing battle armor that was very high tech. There were armored plates in spots like the chest, upper arms, lower legs, and lower body. The armor was attached to some kind of cloth that was tightly wrapped around her. She had a helmet that had a visor hiding her eyes.
"Well, that's a rude way of saying hi." She was just standing there. Shadow knew she was evil. He could sense it.
"Leave now, or I'll make you leave." He threw off his cape and hood. He had no use for it since he's not hiding from tails.
"Okay, have it your way...you'll just have to die." A blade came out of each wrist on her armor. She vanished and appeared behind Shadow. Shadow jumped up and kicked her back. She was vanishing and reappearing all over the place, until Shadow punched her in the face and knocked her down. "How...can you hit me. This armor is supposed to make me unbeatable."
"I simple really...your just a pathetic lifeform." Shadow didn't even break a sweat. He just stood there ready to strike. The girl launched missiles from her armor. They all were aimed at Shadow. He put his hand out and a small black orb of energy was right in front of his hand. It sucked up the missiles like a black hole. "Your not even a challenge, go home."
"NO, I will kill you!" Her boots ignited and she was hovering. She then charged at Shadow, but he kicked her in the stomach and she dropped. She staggered away to the edge of the building. "I'll see you again, and when I do, your dead." She teleported away.
"How pathetic." Shadow ran back to base. It only took him 5 seconds. He jumped off a building near the warehouse. Off to the right of the warehouse was a sewage pipe. He went inside it and through the pipe. The pipe had no sewage in it. It was just a secret entrance to the base. It was filled with traps. At the end of the pipe Shadow stopped at a door. He typed a code on the door panel. A camera came out of the wall and 5 guns pointed at his head. After they scanned him the guns withdrew and the door opened. Inside was the warehouse full of the vehicles that Tails had been through before. The place was very active even though it was past twelve.
"Hey Shads, where have you been?" Said an unknown voice. Shadow looked up and saw a brown hedgehog emerge from a jetplane. He was at least twice the size of Shadow. He looked identical to shadow except he was missing a spike from his head. The lower left spike to be exact. He wore just a pair of jungle camo pants with big boots.
"I just beat one of the grand hedge-knights, she was weak though. So what do you want now, Zack?" Shadow jumped up on top of the plane and looked down on him.
"Wow, I'm shocked that you would think that I wanted you to do something for me." He was being sarcastic. "But, since you mention it, I do have a slight favor to ask of you." He had a weird grin on his face.
"Uh-oh, I know that look and It spells disaster. Just tell me now and lets get it over with." Shadow had his hand on his face.
"It's not that bad, all I want is for you to go to the Federation capital and steal their plans for the big ship." Zack had a map and gave it to Shadow.
"You think I will go back to that hell hole, find someone else. I barely made it back alive last time." Shadow threw down the map.
"Aww C'mon Shads, I'll tell the boss about your crush on that human girl from the forbidden continent, and besides your the ultimate lifeform." Said Zack.
"You wouldn't dare do that!" Shadow was really angry now. "I don't have a crush on her, I just want to learn about human girls. She reminds me of Maria."
"Will you do the job or not, I'll reward you big time." He held out the map for Shadow. Shadow was hesitant, but took the map.
"FINE, but this is the last job I do for you, okay?"
"Yeah, sure, whatever..." Shadow had left in an instant. He went in the elevator and pushed the down button. He got in and went to the underground dorms and weaponry. He went to his room and grabbed another black cloak and a water attachment for his jet shoes. It was just extra wide boosters that won't get damaged by water. He then proceeded to a secret tunnel that goes to a beach cave. He is the only one that knows about it, except for Zack.
He went all the way down the cave until he came to the waters edge he snapped on the water gear for his shoes and sped off on the surface of the water. He was going the speed of sound to avoid any radar that might detect his presence. He was gone in seconds.
Shadow arrived at the destination marked on his map. It was a huge building that looked like an airport garage but three times as big. "Looks like it's heavily guarded. I can use that ventilation shaft to enter." He gets out a pair of high powered binoculars. The door is guarded by three metal hedgehogs. They are black in color but are extremely powerful. "Man, how am I gonna get past them." Shadow made a small energy ball in his hand and threw it over to a safe distance away from him. It made a small explosion.
"What was that, lets go check it out." The three guards flew over to the explosion. Shadow rushed to the door and jumped onto the roof. He took off the vent cover and went inside. The vent was so small that he had to crawl through it. Shadow stopped above a small broom closet. He opened the cover and dropped down. He slowly opened the door. He looked through the small crack and saw a hallway. It was deserted. He got out of the closet and looked around. He then heard footsteps and ran to the closet door, but it was locked from the outside. The footsteps were getting closer. Shadow spotted a big trash can and dove in. "That was close" Said Shadow.
"What was that voice!" said an unknown voice. He is about to lift the trash lid.