Chapter Ten: Shadow's Decision
Meanwhile, we reach back to Shadow's unknown location. After a few minutes of walking about, he found the location where Rouge found him and Omega before they formed Team Dark.
"Who the fuck needs them? What do they know about me anyway? They can't judge me, when they don't know what I do or feel!" Shadow complained.
He then steps inside the old hideout, and looks about. He then saw the old pod that he was once held captive in. He remembers it all like it was yesterday.
"Why did Rouge even have to be here, and let me be alive again? I should have been dead the day I fell from the Space Colony Ark, defending the Earth from the Biolizard, I shouldn't even have a second chance in life!" Shadow snarled, as he picks up a rope from the ground.
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(Shadow singing)
Do you know what that's like just to crawl through this life?
Like a ghost, like a ghost
I've have beauty and rage, filled with love, filled with pain
That no one knows, nobody knows
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So I've wrote this letter today,
Written in blood just to say
I can't take this another day
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Shadow then tied the rope on the ceiling, and then on the bottom of the rope, he made a loop to resemble a noose. Shadow has sad tears flowing from his eyes.
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(Shadow singing)
Far away, there's a place
Where the lonely go, as there's no way home
No one knows, no one cares
To know who I was, so please take me there
Because now I have nothing left, now I am scared to death
Would they remember me, hanging this noose this week?
Throw this all away
I will throw it all, all away for fifteen minutes of fame
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Shadow stands there looking at the noose he has made.
"If we are gonna die soon, better get this over with, before Infinite does this for me." Shadow stated.
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(Shadow singing)
Do you know how this feels, no control of the wheel?
I am lost, oh, so lost
Do not call me a freak, I won't choose to be weak
Holocaust, I'm the holocaust
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In this last and final will, I shall not be standing still
For once I shall finally be something worth remembering
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Shadow then approached the noose, stands on the pod that he was held captive in before, and wraps the noose around his neck.
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(Shadow singing)
Far away, there's a place
Where the lonely go, as there's no way home
No one knows, no one cares
To know who I was, so please take me there
Because now I have nothing left, now I am scared to death
Would they remember me, hanging this noose this week?
Throw this all away
I will throw it all, all away for fifteen minutes of fame
.
Shadow's eyes were flooded with sad tears, and he tiptoed on the edge of the pod.
"I am sorry, Rouge. I am sorry I could not save you. I will see you very shortly." Shadow sadly stated.
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(Shadow singing)
Was I born to be broken, is this the life I've deserved?
Have a voice not worth listening, is this so absurd?
I wish my moment of glory, if this costs me my soul
This heart condemned that nobody's known
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Shadow was about to jump off the pod, but he stopped himself in his tracks. A thought just came to his mind.
"Why can't I make myself do this?!" Shadow wondered.
(Flashback)
It was back over sixty years ago on the Space Colony Ark, and Shadow was in the space pod, and there laid Maria who was dying from a gunshot.
"Shadow, I beg of you! Please do this for me, for a better future! For all the people who live on that planet, give them a chance to be happy. Let them live for their dreams. I know you can do this, Shadow. That is the reason you were brought into this world. Sayonara, Shadow the Hedgehog!" Maria explained.
And with her final action before she died, she pulled the lever, and it shot Shadow into space.
"MARIA!" Shadow yells.
(End of Flashback)
Shadow remembered the day he was sent to Earth, and his main purpose for being there. Shadow sheds more sad tears.
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(Shadow singing)
Far away, there's a place
Where the lonely go, as there's no way home
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Shadow then takes his head out of the loop of his noose, and he swings his hands across the rope, and it cuts it down.
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(Shadow singing)
No one knows, no one cares
To know who I was, so please take me there
Because now I have nothing left, now I am scared to death
Would they remember me, hanging this noose this week?
Throw this all away
I will throw it all, all away for fifteen minutes of fame
.
For fifteen minutes of fame
For fifteen minutes of fame
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Shadow then uses Chaos Spear to destroy the pod that he was revived from, and he wipes the tears away from his eyes.
"I was wrong to be thinking that. It wasn't Tails who was weak after all. This whole time I have accused him of being weak, when this whole time it was me. What have I done? This was not the reason I was brought to Earth, I was brought here to give people a chance to be happy. And for them to be happy, they need to live happy lives. And to live happy lives, they need to be saved, whether I die in the battle or not!" Shadow stated, as he ran out of the hideout.
After he made it out of the hideout, he then proceeded into looking for Knuckles. He knows exactly where to look for him. What will happen if he finds Knuckles? Will he be able to convince him into fighting back with Infinite, and help Sonic and Tails?