CHAPTER 3
REMEMBER THIS
"What do you want, chameleon? Can't you see I'm working here?"
"Don't touch her. Stay away from her", the chameleon said as he gritted his teeth.
Anita ran over to the chameleon, "Who are you?"
The chameleon looked over to her with a serious look, "It doesn't matter who I am just get a move on."
Anita took one last look at the black hedgehog.
The chameleon noticed she was still standing there, "I said go!"
The pink hedgehog quickly ran out of the alley.
Shadow stared at the chameleon in anger, "Great I hope you're happy, kid."
The chameleon chuckled, "Kid? Who are you calling a kid? You just don't remember do you? The Street Punks are lying to you."
"How do you know? You don't even know me."
The chameleon crossed his arms, "Everyone knows you, Shadow the Hedgehog."
Shadow's eyes widened, "What!"
The chameleon stood in a fighting stance, "For causing all this trouble, it would be my honor to defeat you."
Shadow smirked, "It'll be my honor to kick your narrow ass." He held out his hand and a yellow light in form of a spear came from it and came towards the chameleon.
The chameleon took out another shuriken star and the blast reflected off his weapon and back to Shadow.
The blast hit Shadow and he fell on the ground bleeding from his arm.
While they were fighting, Anita ran back to Will in a hurry, "Will! It's a Street Punk!"
The grey rabbit looked back at the chipmunk being conscious, "You bastard!"
The chipmunk quickly got off the ground and ran from the crowd, "Ha, ha thanks for the money! Later suckers!"
Lance and the rest of his gang fled as well.
Back in the alley, Shadow kneeled to the ground exhausted from the fight. He panted heavily as he looked up at the purple chameleon, "Heh, you're pretty strong, chameleon."
"That's not even the half of it", the chamaeleon said in a deep voice.
Shadow stood from the ground about to fight him once more, but someone had grabbed his arm. He looked behind him and saw Appex holding his arm.
"We gotta go now."
Once Shadow looked back at the chameleon, he was gone. He had no choice, but to follow Appex.
Later at the Street Punks' hideout, Lance and Shadow were in Lance's room with Lance yelling at Shadow for messing up his big plan.
"You idiot! While me, Appex, and Zena were taking those people's money, you were goofing off with some damn middle classer!" Lance yelled.
"It's not my fault. He got in the way", Shadow was trying to get himself out of trouble, but it didn't seem like it was working.
"I don't care what he did. I can't believe you let that woman get away."
Once Lance mentioned Anita, Shadow wanted to know more about her. "Uh Lance, about that rich woman..."
"What about her?"
"She knew my name and she kept saying that she was my mother. Is it true?"
Lance tried to laugh, "Of course not, she's crazy. We both know that your father killed your mother and abandoned you while he was drunk."
Shadow seemed to believe that wasn't true, causing him to have his bad headache again. He kneeled to the floor in pain, "Lance, what are these pains in my head? Do they have some sort of connection to my past?"
Lance shrugged, "Hell if I know. Listen I gotta go, get some fresh air tonight maybe that'll help." Lance left the room and found Appex leaning against the wall with his arms crossed.
"He's starting to remember isn't he?"
Lance nodded, "I'm afraid so. Lets just hope that the chip lasts a little longer."
Later that night at the park, the purple chameleon was leaning against the tree looking at a Chaotix Detective Agency flyer. He sighed, "Chaotix would be the perfect job for me. Too bad I keep failing their tests. And that Tonya, she sure is a hottie." Then a black hedgehog out of nowhere appeared in front of him with anger.
"She is a good looking girl isn't she? She's to die for."
The chameleon stood from the ground with a shuriken star in his hand, "Shadow, you again? Look we need to talk."
"About what?"
"About you and your memory", he said as he put his weapon away.
"My memory? What could you possibly know about my past."
"Not much, but I do know that you have been lied to. 12 years ago was no accident your father died for you while he was trying to protect you against the leader of the Street Punks, Lance. He ended up killing your father, but he decided to brainwash you and started to fill your head with crazy shit like how your mother died. She never did, that pink hedgehog you saw was her. Everyone started to think you had died because of your 12 year disappearance."
Shadow couldn't believe Lance had lied to him this entire time. The pain inside of his brain no longer hurt him. He now realized for his past 12 years that Lance had lied to him.