CHAPTER 4
ONLY IN TIME
The next day was the second day and the gate to hell was getting bigger and bigger and soon it would open completely.
Later at the Chaotix, Shadow decided to spend the day with everyone. It was already too much that he had to die to save the planet, but what other way could he close the gate? It had to be done tomorrow and he and the guys wouldn't like it. He was in the main lobby taking with Vector for possibly the last time. "Vector, there are so many things that I need to tell you."
Somehow Vector already knew what he was going to say, "And you don't have to."
"I know but you were such a great guy and an even better leader. You always kept me in line even when I didn't like your ways of doing it. In some way you were kinda like a father to me...sorta."
"And you didn't make a bad second in command neither. I remember your first expression when you got that position like it was yesterday. That day you acted like you weren't ready and now look at yea."
He made a slight smile at the comment.
"I enjoyed having you around, Shad. You were the best."
After what Vector said, Shadow just immediately hugged him, "Vector! I'm going to miss you so much!"
Vector was surprised to see Shadow's behavior. He had never saw him act like this before, but he smiled, "I'll miss you too, Shadow."
Later Shadow had walked into the garage and found Charmy working on the X-jet. "Charmy?" He said as he approached him.
Charmy quickly spun around and smiled, "Captain Shadow! What are you doing here?"
"To talk to you, you silly bee."
Then it all came to him, "Oh yeah that's right. What do you want to talk about?"
"Tomorrow you know what goes on right?"
The bee's antennas flopped down, "Yeah, that's when you die. I'm not so happy about that."
Shadow placed his hand on his shoulder, "And nobody else is either. I hate the idea as much as everybody else."
The little bee started to have tears in his eyes, "I'm gonna miss you."
"Yeah I'll miss you too, Charms. Just try not to miss me too much okay."
Charmy made a slight nod and smiled.
Later Shadow was sitting with Tonya on the green grass.
They were both silent and didn't know what to say to each other.
Tonya looked over to Shadow and noticed he was looking back at her. She immediately turned away from him.
Shadow was getting suspicious from her actions, "You know Ton, I'm going to die tomorrow. Don't you have anything to say to me before my death?"
She looked over to him once more, "I would but you would get mad."
"I won't get mad just tell me."
"Well I won't lie to you, but I think you were...a hot guy and you were always strong. You saved me so many times. I always thanked you, but I thought that sometimes that wasn't enough. You were always there for me when I was in trouble and I really appreciated that. So...are you mad?"
Shadow shook his head, "No, I get that a lot around woman. They always stare at my ass and it kinda creeps me out."
The purple cat laughed.
Shadow later met with Espio at his house and Espio was freaking out over Shadow's future death.
"This isn't right, Shad. There's gotta be another way", Espio said while he was walking in every place in his living room.
"But there is no other way. I have to die and that's the way it's going to be. I'm sorry."
All of a sudden he started to get angry at Shadow, "You seem so calm about this. Do you want to die so badly just to get away from us?"
"Espio, what are you talking about? I don't want to die and I don't want to do it to just get you out of my life."
He remained quiet for a second or two. He looked up at Shadow in sadness, "You're right Shadow, I'm sorry I didn't mean to...well it's just..."
"You're going to miss me."
The chameleon nodded slowly.
"Of course you're going to miss me and so will everybody else. You're not the only one." He watched as a tear fell from Espio's cheek and landed on the floor.
Espio tried his best to hold back his tears, but it was no use. He ran up to the hedgehog and hugged him, "You're my best friend, Shad and I'll miss you."
"So will I, Es."
Later Charmy was walking in a field of white floors and he saw a blue haired butterfly kneeling on the ground picking flowers. He walked up to her with curiosity, "What are you doing?"
"Gathering flowers for Shadow's funeral", she answered.
"You know, Chloe. It seems to me you want Shadow to die. Are you sure you're not from some evil dimension and was sent here to promote Shadow to kill himself?"
Chloe gasped and turned to him in shock, "Charmy, what a horrible thing to say. I would never do something so cruel. Even though I have never met him, I still wish not to kill anybody. Shadow seems like a very nice person. I hate this idea as much as everybody else, but it has to be done...to save the world."
It made Charmy feel bad to accuse Chloe for the things he said, "I'm sorry, Chloe. I didn't mean that honest. You really do seem like a very nice, kind, beautiful girl."
Chloe blushed at his comment, "Oh you think I'm beautiful?"
Charmy realized what he said and started to blush of embarrassment, "I didn't! Well I did! I mean!"
Later Shadow was walking around the lake trying to find Rouge to say his last words to her. Soon he found her sitting on the short grass laughing with Knuckles. He clenched his fists as he saw them together. He just stared at them with anger. He wanted to do something, but he decided to leave them alone. He turned and sadly walked away.
