Light, the Opposite of Shadow

By Luigi III

Chapter Six: General Cody

Shadow swore. He had no chance of escape. He fired his gun, and missed. He hit the security camera. His eyes turned red.

"Chaos…" he began. The men in the mechs were confused. They had no idea what would come next. "BLAST!" The Chaos Blast took out the mechs. Shadow continued on. He saw a large robot similar to Diablon in front of him.

"You!" the pilot yelled. "You've escaped us for the last time!"

"Who are you?" Shadow questioned.

"I was the one who ordered the attack on the ARK, 50 years ago!" the pilot answered. "I was the one who brought you here! I brought you here to die!"

"You…" Shadow said. "YOU'RE the one responsible for Maria's death!" Shadow was now very furious. "WHO ARE YOU?"

"I am General Cody. I was the greatest military mind in the whole world! I was at the top! I had every weapon on Earth under my control. Then, I heard three words that almost made me lose all my power: the ultimate life-form. Then I learned of everything that insane scientist was doing up there! He had re-created the ancient Gizoid, and created a weapon that could destroy an entire planet. If anyone else learned anything about those weapons up there, I would lose my power! I had to do something. My only option was to send troops up there. I had to kill you and the Gizoid, and imprison everyone who knew about you! Then I had to disguise the ARK as a common asteroid. With that done, I would continue to be the most powerful man on the planet! But then word got out that I sent men up there with authorization AND orders to kill innocent people! I lost all of my power anyway! Then, when I thought I would never regain my power, several weeks ago, I came in contact with someone who would help me regain my power!"

"And who was this?" Shadow asked, already knowing.

"Black Doom!" Cody answered. "Black Doom gave me my power back! He gave me armies! And soon, the world will be mine!" By now, the Ultima-Diablon was glowing red. "Anti-Particle Charge Complete! This beam will rip you to pieces!" He typed on his keyboard. 'Anti-Particle Cannon' He hit the return key. "Anti-Particle Cannon: FIRE!" Shadow turned around. He was five meters from the door. The door was just out of range of the cannon. He started running, but the blast door slammed shut. Shadow had no way out. Shadow watched the beam thrust at him. But he wasn't destroyed. He was thrown back into the wall.

"I…I'm alive?" Shadow asked himself. He grasped his hands over his eyes. They burned like white fire.

"What the hell happened?" Cody exclaimed. "Your molecules should have been ripped into a thousand pieces!" Shadow stood up. He kept his eyes tightly closed.

"I guess not." Shadow managed to say. "Now then, time to pay for what you did 50 years ago." He opened his eyes.

"WHAT THE-?" Cody yelled after seeing Shadow's eyes. They were completely solid yellow, every bit of them. "This…THIS IS IMPOSSBLE!"

Meanwhile aboard the ARK…

"Doctor, I've obtained three Chaos emeralds." Light reported. "I now have four."

"Muahahaha! Very good, Light!" Eggman laughed. "There are two emeralds in the GUN fortress where you were created. Go there, now!"

"Yes, Doctor. Light out." The comm. link ended. Eggman laughed evilly.

"I can't believe this was so easy!" he exclaimed. "I trick Light, and he brings me the emeralds, AND gets rid of GUN for me! Nothing can go wrong!"

to be continued…