Chapter 6
Shadow awoke the next morning to the loud sound of obnoxious talking. Amy, Cream, and Rouge were all sitting in the dining room eating breakfast. Shadow hopped off of the couch and made his way over to the table. He took one of the seats on the other end of the long table.
"Hey Shadow, why don't you come sit over here?" Rouge asked.
"I prefer not to."
"Come on, have some of my famous pancakes."
"I told you, I do not require food."
"But will it kill you to eat it?"
"I suppose not."
Shadow made his way to the other end of the table and sat next to Rouge.
"Here you go." She said as she handed him a plate of pancakes. He looked at it for a minute before he picked up his fork and was about to take a bite when he looked up and noticed all three of them staring at him.
"What?"
"Oh, nothing." They all answered.
Shadow took a bite and swallowed it. After that he took another bite. He continued taking small bites until the pancake was completely gone. He shoved his plate forward a little and sat back.
"That was quite delicious."
"Why thanks Shadow." Rouge said blushing a little.
"I would like some more."
"Of course Shadow."
Rouge was about to get some more pancakes when her phone rang. She put the plate down and answered it.
"Hello."
"Hey Rouge, it's me Tails."
"Oh hi there, have you got any news?"
"Well I think you better come over and see."
"Alright, we'll be right there.
"Bye."
"Bye."
Rouge hung up the phone and walked back to Shadow.
"Tails wants to see us."
"Has he found anything?"
"He didn't say. He just said to come over."
"Alright."
Rouge turned to Amy and Cream.
"Sorry guys, we have to go."
"Where to?" Amy asked.
"To see Tails in Mystic Ruins.
"Oh can we come? We were gonna go over there today to visit Sonic and Tails anyway."
Rouge turned to Shadow. He nodded his head.
"Alright."
The crew made their way out of the house when Shadow stopped by the gates in front of them.
"What is it Shadow?" Rouge asked.
"Grab on to my hand."
He turned over to Amy and Cream. "You two grab on to Rouge."
All three did as they were told. "Chaos Control!" In a flash of green light, they were gone.
Mystic Ruins
Shadow, Rouge, Cream, and Amy all appeared in front of Tails' workshop in a flash of light. Tails and Sonic came out to greet them. Amy was about to hug Sonic but he put his hand up.
"Not now Amy, we have some serious business to attend to."
"Aw!"
Sonic and Tails turned to Shadow.
"I think we should let Shadow see this himself first." Tails said. The 3 girls nodded and Shadow followed Tails and Sonic in to the house. They went into a room with a large gray computer in it.
"I'll pull up the files."
Shadow stood at the opposite wall of the computer with his arms crossed. He could still see the screen perfectly. Sonic was beside him. Tails clicked the mouse and a file popped up. Shadow slowly read it.
Log Entry 2736
I have done it! The ultimate life form project 001 was a complete success. It's strength, speed, and ability to harness chaos emeralds is far greater than we expected. We decided to name him Eclipse the Hedgehog. I believe it suits him very well.
Tails clicked another file and a different screen came up.
Log Entry 2750
There is something wrong. After our recent tests of it's ability to transform in to it's super form, Eclipse has been found highly unstable when coming in to contact with all seven chaos emeralds. The transformation was a success, but his mind was going delusional. He started blasting random objects and attacking by-standers. We had to restrain him and but him in lock down deep with in the ARK. I have no choice but to abandon this project. I will have to try again.
Tails closed all the files and turned to the hedgehogs. "That's it."
"That doesn't really help much Tails." Shadow said with sarcasm in his voice.
"Oh yes it does. It means that if Eclipse gets all the emeralds, he will become uncontrollable and out of touch with reality."
"He won't get mine."
"I hope so."
The three walked back outside towards the females.
"Yes, we have to go." Sonic said.
"Go where?" Amy asked.
"Away to where HE cannot find us."
Shadow stepped in at this point. "I will not run away from him like some coward Sonic!"
"We have no choice. He has 5 emeralds and we have 1."
Shadow simply snorted and turned his back to them, walking away.
"I'll try to talk some sense in to him." Rouge said and headed off after Shadow.
Sonic turned to the others. "Time to pack!"