CHAPTER 10
NEW ADVENTURES
That next day at the Chaotix, Everyone was gathered in the main lobby waiting for Vector to announce the winner of the position of second in command.
Vector confronted his team, "The votes are counted and the results are in. I am proud to announce that the new second in command is Shadow."
Shadow's eyes widened, "Me? But Vector, I really don't want to boss anyone around. I don't know anything about being in charge."
"Don't worry about it Shad, being second in command is easy work."
Shadow faced the rest of the group, "All of you voted for me?"
"Not me", Espio said.
Shadow rolled his eyes, "Let me guess. You voted for Tonya?"
Espio shook his head, "Nope, I voted for me."
"You can't vote for yourself Espio, so yours didn't count", Charmy said.
"What! You should've told me!" The chameleon shouted.
Charmy turned to Shadow, "I voted for you because yours had a nice ring to it. Captain Shadow."
Shadow faced Vector, "I didn't vote for anyone. To tell you the truth I didn't know who to vote for."
Everyone looked at Tonya.
"Tonya?" Shadow said wanting to know who she picked.
All of a sudden her cheeks turned bright red, "Uh...you."
"Why me?"
"Yeah why him!" Espio asked with jealousy.
It took time for Tonya to think of a reason, but she couldn't think of a reason to cover up the real reason.
"It's okay if you can't think of a reason", Shadow had said with a smile. "You voted for me and I...voted for you", he blushed after his comment.
Tonya's face really glowed after his words, "Why?"
"Because it seemed that you had years of experience here and seemed strong and smart. You would make an excellent second in command in my eyes."
Tonya couldn't believe that Shadow had said that, "Do you really mean that, Shadow?"
The black hedgehog nodded slightly.
'He must...like me back...', she thought.
Espio glared at Shadow with his arms crossed looking angry, "I can't believe you're trying to take my future wife away from me! You got a lot of nerve, Shadow!"
Shadow didn't mean to make Espio so upset, "Calm down, Es. Those things I said to her was the honest truth, but I would never try to take Tonya away from you."
"Well...you look honest enough to admit it", he then saw Shadow heading for the door. "Where're you going?"
Shadow looked back to the group, "I'm going to settle some things with Anita." He ran out of the building by using his super speed.
Charmy was confused at the time, "Who's Anita?"
"She's his mother", Espio answered.
The bee scratched his head still acting confused, "Can't he just call her mom?"
Later at a mansion, Anita was standing on her balcony watching the sunset in front of her. She
was sad and worried about Shadow. She was thinking back when she had seen his face for the
first time since 12 years ago. Instead of happy, he tried to attack her for her money. Tears came
to her eyes. She remembered the feel of his powerful punch touching her face and the way he
yelled at her. He seemed to be a much different person. "What if he wasn't Shadow? What if it
was someone else? No it had to be him! It just had to! But why did he attack me? Maybe he
doesn't love me anymore or maybe he...just forgot about me." She then bursted into tears and
started to cry loud, until a hand touched her shoulder. She looked behind her with tears still running from her face. Once she turned, she saw a black hedgehog trying to calm her with a smile.
"Anita", he said softly.
"Shadow?" She was a little afraid at the time. She feared that he would hit her again and would try to take her money.
He took out a silver watch, but it seemed that it didn't work. "This was dad's watch remember? He planned to give it to me once I matured and don't worry I'll take good care of it and I know I will, mom."
The pink hedgehog couldn't believe what she just heard, "...You just called me mom. You do remember me!" She quickly embraced on the hedgehog with tears and this time of happiness.
Shadow slowly broke away from her, "I want to live the middle classer life instead of the rich life."
"But why?"
"Well the normal life seems a lot more exciting and being rich and getting everything you want seems pretty boring. Besides I made some new friends and I have a great job."
Anita smiled, "Well if it makes you happy."
"I'm glad you understand", he hugged her. "But this doesn't mean I'm calling you mom all the time."
Anita frowned at the comment.