CHAPTER 2
A POSSIBLE RETURN
The next day, Shadow had went to the Chaotix to meet the others. He was first greeted by Charmy, "Captain Shadow!" He shouted with excitement.
"What's up with you?"
"Come into the garage, I want you to see the new modifications that I added to the X-jet."
Shadow shrugged, "Sure why not."
When they got into the garage Shadow was prepared to see what Charmy had did to the plane. He faced Charmy, "Okay Charmy, lets see what you got."
Charmy jumped in the air, "Yay!" He took out a remote control from his pocket and pushed a button.
The plane that stood before them then started to change into a giant robot with a sword on its back.
Shadow's mouth hung open, "What the hell did you do to the X-jet!"
"Well I decided to make a fighting form in the plane in case of an emergency like Hao's robots tearing the city apart type of deal."
"Charmy."
"Yeah?"
"You watch too much TV."
"Shadow!" Vector called from the main lobby.
Shadow used his supersonic speed and ran up to Vector, "What is it?"
"There's just been a sudden shooting in the city can you go investigate?"
"Sure", he almost ran out the door until a purple cat called him back.
"Shadow."
Shadow spun around and faced her, "What?"
"I just want you to be careful. Don't let your anger control you."
Shadow sighed, "Yeah Ton, I know." He ran out the door.
When Shadow had gotten into the city, he immediately saw the culprit having a machine gun in his hands shooting everyone he saw. Shadow took out his handgun from his holster and pointed it in the back of the culprit, "Put your hands in the air, you're under arrest!"
The culprit stopped shooting and started to laugh, "Shadow, Shadow, Shadow...so bossy. I knew you'd show up sooner or later."
Shadow's grip around the gun tightened, "Who are you?"
"Shame on you, Shadow. You don't recognize my voice?"
"Turn around now!"
"As you wish", the shooter turned around exposing his identity.
Shadow's eyes widened, "It can't be..." He dropped his gun on ground.
Meanwhile at the Chaotix, Tonya was sitting at her desk worrying about Shadow, 'I hope Shadow is okay.' Someone then came through the door interrupting her thoughts. She looked over to the doorway and saw a stranger in a black cloak. She started to get nervous, "Who are you?"
The stranger said nothing and just walked with pace up to her desk.
Tonya thought the stranger was going to hurt her, "Vector!"
Back in the city, Shadow was still shocked about the face of the shooter, "No...it can't be. You're...dead."
The shooter turned out to be a grey fox with blue eyes and was wearing a blue vest with grey shorts and blue boots. He laughed, "Dead? As you stand before me I am clearly not dead."
"Lance...how did you come back? I used Chaos Spear and killed you."
Lance shook hi head, "That wasn't enough to get rid of me and you know that."
Shadow gritted his teeth, "You're lying! You're not the real Lance! You're a fake!"
The grey fox just smiled, "Refusing to believe the truth? Heh..." Lance quickly pointed the machine gun at him and started to shoot at him. When he thought he had him, he looked where he was and didn't see him, "What!" He then turned around and everything went black.
Back at the Chaotix, the rest of the gang had approached the stranger in black.
Vector pointed at the stranger, "Who are you?"
The stranger slowly took off the hood and reveled her face. She was a white bat that looked like she had gotten into a fight.
Everyone gasped.
"Please, you have to help me! I need him!"
"Need who?" Espio asked.
"I need Shadow the Hedgehog!"
