"What do you mean? I have no idea what you're talking about," Sonic lied, Shadow Underpants practicing his underwear shot in the living room.
"Then follow me!" the angry pink hedgehog known as Amy Rose growled, dragging the hapless Sonic and Tails to the living room, narrowly dodging a shot of fresh underwear.
"That!" Amy yelled, pointing an accusing finger towards Shadow Underpants, who assumed it was some sort of cue and posed proudly.
"Oh…Umm…Well it's a long story," Tails grinned, sweat dropping as he remembered the incident that got Shadow hypnotized, so every time he heard the snapping of fingers, he turned in 'Captain Underpants,' and that only water on the head could snap him out of it. (A.N. Read 'Shadow Underpants Number 1 for the story!)
Amy sighed, shaking her head slightly, "Well this certainly explains quite a bit…Sonic, go get a glass of water for Shadow."
"I am Captain Underpants!"
"Okay, whatever. For 'Captain Underpants' then," Amy said irritably. Sonic nodded and did what he was told. Amy was acting different, but for now, Sonic pegged it as an after effect of her own hypnotism and rehypnotism.
"You're not going to tell Shadow, are you? He'll kill us!" Tails pleaded, looking up at Amy with pleading eyes.
"I'll keep it secret if you guys don't try it again," Amy sighed, shaking her head. "Got it?"
"Gotcha!" Tails grinned, happy his life had been spared, for now.
Sonic returned and Amy convinced Shadow to remove the underwear and red cape, and once the other fresh underwear was picked up and placed safely somewhere, the water was dumped upon his head.
"What? What happened? I was in the store when that weird octopus guy 'attacked.' I was about to beat him up…Then…nothing," Shadow wondered, forehead furrowing in thought.
"You…uhh…Beat him up, and then you slipped on a can when you landed and hit your head!" Amy smiled sweetly, partially lying, partially telling the truth. "So I brought you back here and we used that water to wake you up!"
Shadow frowned, thinking something was wrong with this explanation, but shrugged, buying it.
"So you got Sonic and Tails back up I see…" Shadow then said, after an uncomfortable silence.
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Deep within the waste of a dump, in the outskirts of Station Square, three strange beings were arguing with each other.
They were green, had no legs, and tentacles instead of arms. They were also kinda chubby. They seemed gelatinous too. Their names were Xlater, Ktry, and Bob.
"You landed us in a waste of human filth Xlater! I told you to let me land the ship!" Ktry shouted, waving his tentacles arms at Xlater.
"It doesn't matter now!" Bob said, stepping between the two, assuming his leader position. "Since Zorx, Klax, and Jennifer failed in their invasion of this planet, we have been sent to take it over!"
"Humph, trying to create zombie nerds and take over the world! Indeed! We'll do better!" Xlater laughed, talking in a slight Alpha Centarian accent, which we all how that sounds.
"We'll make a whole city of zombie nerds! Now get the right juices. We want to make sure the 'Super Power Juice' or the 'Exploding Juice' isn't used instead. Last thing we need is exploding humans," Bob commanded, and the ship hovered upwards again, dropping a banana peel from it's hull, and heading for the nearest water supply…
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It was a few days later, and Shadow was laying comfortably in his chair, remote now his as Sonic had left for a glass of water. Tails was off in his room building something that would either bend the laws of space-time, or a toaster.
"Ack!" Sonic shouted, Shadow now hearing glass shatter. Sighing, he got up and headed to the kitchen, where a horrible sight met his eyes.
Sonic was wearing short pants that went up well past his belly button, a white button up shirt with collars, a pocket protector with pens and pencils in the front pocket, and glasses that had been taped together rested on his nose.
The Ultimate Life Form stared in horror as Sonic mumbled some algebraic equation, moving towards Shadow with fast zombie-like speed. Needless to say, Shadow had enough time to gape, twitch, get a sandwich from the fridge, then meander to Tails room, where he opened the door with a Chaos Spear.
"Tails! Sonic's been turned into a zombie nerd!" Shadow yelled, racing in, Tails looking up from his invention, one of the magnifying goggles on his face.
"Oh no! You're one too!" Shadow yelled, seeing the hugely magnified eyes.
"What? These are just magnifying goggles…" Tails muttered, taking off the goggles in question, then paused, "Wait, Sonic's been turned into a zombie nerd?"
Shadow just grabbed the kitsune and showed him the zombie nerd Sonic, who was making his way slowly towards them, albeit a little faster then normal zombies.
"Hmmm," Tails muttered, eyes narrowing as he looked at Sonic. He poked his head out the window, seeing a large number of zombie nerds, then out the door, where others were heading outside.
"We seem to have an infestation," Tails finally told Shadow, who nodded, thinking. "What did Sonic do before he was turned into a zombie nerd?"
"He had a drink of water," Shadow answered, shrugging.
"It must be the water then! We'll have to make an antidote!" Tails shouted, running to the kitchen and getting a sample of water, careful not to get any on himself.
"Do you have the right equipment here?" Shadow asked, Tails nodding, going into his room and moving some stuff to make a barrier to stop Sonic.
"What can I do?" Shadow wondered, calling through the mechanical supplies while Sonic kept limping at him.
"Go into the city and keep the zombie nerds from attacking non zombie nerds! Might want to check on Amy too," Tails called from his room, a muffled explosion now sounding.
"Gotcha!" Shadow called, leaping over Sonic and heading down the stairs via zombie nerd heads.
Outside, Shadow gulped. There were a lot of zombie nerds…
With a sigh he darted forward, bounding off lampposts, zombie nerd heads, mail boxes, and more. He couldn't find one normal person or Mobian, but then…
"Back zombies!" a familiar voice sounded. With a hiss of his Air Shoes, Shadow had warped forward, squatting on a lamp post as he saw a familiar pink hedgehog beat back zombie nerds.
Shadow sighed, jumping downwards and landing next to Amy.
"Hey Amy, how's it going?" Shadow asked, punching a zombie nerd away.
"Oh, you know. Same ol', same ol'," Amy answered, swinging her mallet some more.
"Sonic got turned into a zombie nerd. Tails thinks it's something in the water. Working on antidote," Shadow answered, "And I for one would rather not be fighting zombie nerds till he finds one. Come on!"
With that, the Ultimate Life Form grabbed Amy by the waist, surprising the girl as he leapt unto a light pole, then headed for the water treatment facility.
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"The Water Treatment Facility? Why are we here?" Amy wondered, Shadow pushing open the door and walking in.
"Well if it is in the water, whoever's doing this should probably be here," Shadow answered, Air Shoes clicking on the floor as he looked and listened.
Amy took his cue and became quiet, also looking and listening as they made their way deeper into the facility. In about five minutes, they heard voices.
"Excellent! We've turned almost the entire population of Station Square into zombie nerds who shall do our bidding!" a voice with an Alpha Centarian, Xlater, laughed.
"Soon, we'll use the Super Power Juice to give them super powers, and we'll take over the entire world!" Ktry added, also laughing.
"Silence fools! I hear footsteps!" Bob shouted, silencing the other two.
Shadow and Amy nodded to each other and ran forward into the room, seeing the strange green aliens that we all saw before!
"Who are you?" Shadow demanded, assuming a battle position, staring at the aliens.
"We are evil aliens bent on taking over this puny planet! These are my colleagues, Xlater and Ktry," Bob announced, slithering forward with an evil look in his eye. "And I am their leader…Bob!"
"Well you guys picked the wrong planet to take over! I am Shadow, The Ultimate Life Form!" Shadow said, preparing to attack.
"Oh…Don't be worried about that!" Bob laughed, then snapped his tentacles at Ktry and Xlater, "Attack!"
"Hold it! How do you snap a tentacle?" Amy wondered, the three aliens pausing in their attacks.
"I…don't know," Bob finally relented, wondering himself. "now…Prepare to be defeated!"
"Ha! Let's do this Shadow!…Shadow?" Amy wondered, turning and seeing the Ultimate Life Form had disappeared.
"Oh no…" Amy muttered, the realization of what had happened dawned upon her…
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A.N. Cliffhanger! Will Shadow, I mean, Captain Underpants return in time, or is it up to Amy to take on these beings from the stars?
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