Author: Hey hey! I'm back for the another one, and I gotta say, this is the end of Shadow and Pinkie's arc :P And yeah... that's all. Let's get to it shall we?
Chapter 18: "It's Okay"
Shadow was still shocked to see that his "friends" are all tied up in their places.
"Help! Help!" Rainbow Dash's calling out. She can't move to hard as if she did the rope that is attached around her might broken causing her to fall in a bed full of spikes.
"Anyone! Helppp!" Rarity is crying out as she is strapped around in a bed with spikes that will crush her body if she moved too much.
"Arghgh!" Silver is struggling to untie himself, although if struggled too much the rope that connects himself from hanging will shoot out a layered crossbows aiming at his head.
Sonic was in a cage holding on to the bars. He doesn't seem to move that very much at he seems that he knew that struggling won't be much. Shadow can't seem to find Twilight and Fluttershy in the area but he can slightly hear Fluttershy's cries and Twilight's slight call of help. One more thing is that Shadow doesn't want to jump in. One thing in his mind that, it could a be trap to set foot in the ground.
He was wondering that Pinkie could be in danger as well with Applejack is no where to be found in the area. Shadow grabbed a chaos emerald in his quills and then thinks that he could use that idea to escape. As he held the chaos emerald, he felt... nothing from the gem itself.
"What.. no chaos energy?" Shadow thought as he held on to the gem much more, "Grrr... Chaos Control." He calmly said but as he expected nothing happened.
While Shadow is having troubled he heard that his friends stopped from shouting as he also heard a humming voice. He felt a strange aura, the sounds from the humming is quite pleasant but from where it comes from, sounds... off. He got closer to the view as he watched a figure coming out from the shadows. His eyes' widen to see that it's none other than Pinkie Pie.
"P-Pinkie...?" Shadow's thought can't process most of the information right now as he can't move as much as he wanted. Pinkie looks different, she doesn't have her poofy pink hair, and her skin is a dark pale of pink. Her hair is just straight with her smile is wider than usual.
But then, he also noticed that she is dragging someone else with her. Shadow then couldn't as much as he should since the person that Pinkie is dragging was Applejack who is unconscious. Shadow was forced to act but then a light shine on his back, well not naturally light but rather a purple glow. Shadow took notice of this and as he looked back, it is was his reflection of a darker version again.
"You... what do you want? Can't you see my friends are in danger?" Shadow's worried gotten to his reflection.
It chuckled.
"What so funny?! You don't care do you?" Shadow's voice gotten louder but he quickly realize that he might get heard by Pinkie.
"It seems that you are still dense, I'm sure Sonic and the others will tell you... but right now. Yes, she is the one that I requested a help back then." His reflection said which made Shadow surprised, annoyed, and alot more confused.
He just shake his head and looked at the different Pinkie Pie.
"What have I done... she's not like this... in fact..." Shadow then starts to remember the first time he met his so-called 'dark' reflection. "Don't tell me... that was you?" Shadow then looks back from where he is standing.
He now understand what he did for Pinkie was something that made her change and feel like this. Shadow then decides to stand and fight but then something stopped him from charging forth.
"You are heading straight to your bloody death Shadow." His reflection told him, "If you're gonna wonder why, look at your 'friends' that are captured. You must've understand why they are all afraid to ask for help when she is around right...?" He added like it's a big deal.
Shadow didn't answer since it could be right. He doesn't trust it but he made a point why Sonic is all caged up as he has no hope for escaping. Shadow examines the situation, he stared at the freakishly smiling pink friend of his. He is mad and confused and worried, he doesn't know what to do against her. One thing is that he can't use his chaos powers so he has to rely on his strength. But he just matches Sonic in combat meaning that if Sonic got captured by her, she must've surpassed Sonic's speed... "Or faker just stupidly caught off guard..." From what Shadow have taught.
Shadow then cancelled his thoughts as he watched Pinkie places Applejack on a table. He put his head closer as he wanted to see what's happening until Pinkie put an apple in Applejack's mouth. Which made her wake up.
"Mrfffmmmrppp!?" Applejack was surprised to see Pinkie although different.
"Shhh shhh... Don't move too much Applejack! Or things won't be easy for me." She said with a creepy tone of voice.
Shadow is silently watching while surprised to hear Pinkie's voice. He saw that Pinkie walked towards of from Shadow's view but returned with a knife. Sonic notices this and stood up on his cage.
"Pinkie Pie, what are you gonna do to her?!" Sonic yelled out as he held tightly to the bar.
Pinkie looked at him slowly, "Don't worry! She will be the main course for our dinner date!" She said happily which this shocked all of the people that heard it, including Shadow.
"Dmirpf?!" Applejack questions out loud but Pinkie pins her down to kept her in one place.
"Stop this nonsense Pinkie Pie! Come back to us!" Sonic said as he fears Applejack's death.
"S-She's right Pinkie! Please stop this!" Silver tries to convince her.
"I-I don't want this anymore Pinkie! L-Let's go home and prank someone like we always do!" Rainbow Dash said out loud since she is spinning slowly.
"P-Please darling! I-I'm scared..." Rarity said as she closed her eyes for hope.
Twilight can't hear what's going on as she is trapped in a place filled rocks and spikes making her unable to move easily and freely to cast magic. Fluttershy can't talk as she is above in the forest directly connected to the storm. Pinkie was just standing beside Applejack while holding the knife. She looked down and think of what her friends say, but it looks like it didn't bother her as her head raised up with a big smile that frightens her friends.
"Nope! I wanna have my date superamazinglygood!" She said as she raised her hand with her large knife ready to chop off Applejack's head.
Applejack's and the rest of the people witnessing this have their eyes widen.
"If you insist of their lives I suggest you use my strength... now." His purple reflection suggested as Shadow ignore its words.
Shadow thinks a way to charge in, without any choices he performs a quick spindash. As he let's go of holding his spin, he charges towards Pinkie's position as she is about to hit Applejack's neck. Pinkie slowly turns her head as she heard the noise but with a little time to react, she took the damage and got knocked back away from Applejack. The knife, that Pinkie supposedly chop off Applejack's head, is spinning in mid-air. Shadow caught the falling knife and quickly slashes the rope that ties to Applejack.
"Shadow!" The group shouted in unison as the events went to quick for their eyes.
Sonic smirked on Shadow's performance as he slightly relieved from the situation. Though this disappeared as he saw Pinkie slowly stood up.
"W-What are you doing Shady...? Pinkie's words feels cold in a way.
Shadow looked at her. It felt that the gravity is getting stronger around him. He can't move an inch just by him staring at Pinkie's different look. He felt his mistake for what he have done. He clenched his fists and couldn't answer Pinkie's question.
"You're hurting me Shady... Maybe it's time I show you how I felt huh?!" Pinkie raised her head with a crazy smile in her face.
Shadow's head went back to him. He quickly looked at Applejack and gave her the knife.
"Take the knife and free the others, and here." Shadow gave her the knife and her hat.
Applejack's eyes sparkled as she saw her hat again, she quickly accepted the gift and she dashed away to rescue the others. Pinkie's sight was looking at Applejack's but Shadow then blocks her sight making her focus on to Shadow. He gave her a determined look as it seems that he is ready to fight her. What remains on Shadow's thought is how did she win against Sonic. Shadow took that precaution and stands on to his battle stance.
"You think.. ahah, you think, you can beat your original girlfriend?!" Pinkie said out loud,
"Who are you exactly? What have you done with the real Pinkie Pie?!" Shadow shouted back, at a far distance, he noticed that the Pinkie is smiling while giggling.
"It's always me Shady! Pinkamena Diane Pie!" She answered with a wider smile.
"Pinkamena...? But that's..."
"It's what her dark-side name called." A purple flame appeared beside Shadow.
"What? What do you mean by that?" Shadow said in his thought asking for an answer.
"No time, she's gonna charge at you." The purple flame said as Shadow focused on to the battle.
Pinkamena charged directly at Shadow, her feet that bounces her charge, caused a mark due to it's force. Shadow prepared the impact but Pinkamena has vanished in front of him. Shadow's eyes widen but then he expected an attack on the back, which his predictions were correct but he didn't prepared a block for a spin kick. Shadow was hit as he got knocked for a distance. He stopped as he hit a tree. Shadow then grunts but as he looked in front, Pinkamena reappeared again to hit him with another spin kick. Shadow jumps out but as Pinkamena performed her action, the tree was cut in half and she quickly went to another position. She jumps and quickly catch up with Shadow.
"Wha-" Shadow was surprised but he also didn't have time to finish his shocking discovering.
Pinkamena punched Shadow in the stomach and as Shadow curled to hold the pain, Pinkamena use both of her hands and smashed Shadow to the ground. Shadow tried to stand up but Pinkamena's hand glowed and shoots out an energy-like spear towards Shadow. He dodge this just in a nick of time, but Pinkamena quickly backs down and performs another spin kick but this time Shadow, jump slightly higher although that didn't stop Pinkamena as she used her hands to hit him. Shadow blocked the attack but the scratches became visible on Shadow's arms. Shadow eased in with the pain but then Pinkamena points her hand on Shadow's face and a light burst out. Shadow was knocked far and Pinkamena went after him.
Back to Applejack, she looked on who to save first. Sonic is now forcing the bars to break even though it's pointless. She can't see Fluttershy but she can see Rarity, although if she cut the rope that is wrap around Rarity, the spikes might close in killing the both of them. She then looked around to see Twilight, but no luck. She then saw Rainbow Dash, but she can't reach it.
"Hey!" A voice was heard making Applejack looked around, she then noticed it came from Silver, "Yeah, over here!"
Applejack then think that she needs to save Silver first in order things to get easier. She then walk up close to Silver's death layered crossbows and one by one she remove the arrows that are loaded.
"It's a good thing Pinkie didn't put me in Fluttershy's or Twilights... even though it's pretty bad to admit it." Silver said which then he feel bad for it.
"Why so? Where is Twilight and Fluttershy anyway?" Applejack wondered as she look around.
"All I see from this angle is where Pinkie put Fluttershy, but for Twilight, I don't know..." Silver said as Applejack finally able to reach the rope.
Applejack then started cutting Silver's rope. The others kept quiet just so Pinkamena won't change her target. As Applejack finishes cutting Silver free, he manage to float himself and points at Rarity. They both nodded and went for Rarity. Sonic watched the two saving the others as he starting to doubt himself by remembering what happened in the forest.
"I know I can save them... Maybe not today..." Sonic said in his thoughts.
Silver uses his powers to hold the spikes that will crush Rarity. Applejack went on to cut the ropes while Rarity is crying for help. Literally. As Applejack cuts the rope, Rarity answered with a hug.
"Oh thank you, thank you darling!" Rarity said as she had her tears running down.
"Ehehe, don't mention it." Applejack's reply with a hug.
"Uhm... s-sorry to inter-rupt girls, but c-can you please move o-out? I don't t-think, I can h-hold this m-much longer!" Silver said as he struggles in his situation.
The girls both chuckles and do what Silver has said. They got out and Silver lets go of the bed and it closed in. He sighed and breath in relief. As he float down, Rarity then hugs Silver. This surprised him and he blushed slightly.
"Oh Silvy... I don't know what to do without you..." Rarity said but as she looked at his face she blushed madly and lets go, "I-I didn't mean to... I was... I was... just checking if you're okay that's all!" She yelled out as she tries to cover her face.
Silver is still standing in shock. He is still blushing and Rarity couldn't afford to look at him. Applejack giggles at the two but then she remembered that they have a to do something more important.
"Alright you two, we still need to save the others." Applejack said as both of them looked at her and nodded.
Silver and Rarity's embarrassment disperse, although they just simply put it away for awhile. Silver went in the air and Rarity joins in with Applejack. They saw Rainbow Dash trying to move around but she is just spinning around on her rope. Rainbow Dash then saw the girls approaching her which gave her a joy in her face.
"Rarity! Applejack!" Rainbow Dash said as she is glad to see her friends okay.
"Don't worry Rainbow Dash, we'll get you out of there." Rarity said with Applejack nods.
"But how are you gonna get me out of here? If I move too much, I would fall to my death..." Rainbow Dash said as she looked down on the spikes.
"Ya got a good point there." Applejack said as she put her fingers in her chin.
"Oh don't worry Applejack, all I have to do is use the same spell of how I carry things around." Rarity said as she closed her eyes and concentrates.
A few seconds later, Rarity's horn and hands glowed in a cyan like color. Applejack has her arms crossed and waits for Rarity to do her thing. In the next seconds, Applejack's whole body is covered with the same magic aura from Rarity's.
"W-Woah nelly!" Applejack is slightly surprised at this as she starts to float.
"There! A-A levitation s-spell that is n-not a material t-that I carry t-to often!" Rarity said as she tries to hold herself from holding Applejack.
"Have you done this before Rarity?" Applejack became slightly worried at this.
"N-Not really, B-But I-I can still hold a p-pretty large o-object, n-no offense!" Rarity replied back as she has her sweat falling down.
Applejack's only response is a gulp as for her danger. Rainbow Dash didn't talk as she understands Rarity's focus but she is also afraid for Applejack's safety. Applejack is now at Rainbow Dash's rope and she pulls out her knife. She moves the knife and tries to set Rainbow free.
"U-Uhm! I'm n-not i-impatient but can y-you please hurry up!" Rarity reminded as she is struggling to maintain Applejack, "How can Twilight dear carries everything by just her magic?" She said in her thought thinking of how difficult this is.
Rarity's arm is starting to shake, Applejack is focusing on cutting the rope, and Rainbow Dash is now scared at this situation. At the right moment, Rarity lost her touch with her magic which it disperse. Applejack successfully finishes cutting the rope but then she felt that is falling. Rarity falls on her knees to catch her breathe. Applejack closed her eyes as she just hope that something will happen and hope for her safety. Applejack was expecting a painful impale but she felt an arm. She opened her eyes and saw Rainbow Dash carrying her.
"Hey! Thanks for setting me free." Rainbow Dash said as Applejack smiles that she is safe.
Rainbow Dash flews down with Applejack. Rarity then went to them with a teary eyes.
"Applejack darling, I-I'm so sorry that you could've almost die..." Rarity said as she looks down.
"Hey, don't worry, you did your best." Rainbow Dash said as she smiled happily.
"Yeah, I mean, I never see you carry someone before." Applejack said with a cheerful tone.
"M-My, well... Thank you." Rarity said as her cheeks turned pink.
"It seems that you guys save Rainbow Dash." Silver's voice was heard and they all look around to see where he is.
They looked above and saw that he is floating down with Fluttershy hugging Silver. As they both landed, Rainbow quickly came to her aid. Rarity just stand there while looking jealous of sort. Although it disappear as she saw Fluttershy crying. Rainbow Dash then simply removes her arms around Silver and then hugs Fluttershy.
"I'm so glad that you're alright." Rainbow Dash said while a slight of tear is coming off.
"R-Rainbow Dash..." Fluttershy said as she tightens the hug from Rainbow Dash.
Rarity was sad about this. She did felt jealousy at first but her feelings changes when she saw Fluttershy is really scared. Applejack came in and comforts Fluttershy and Rarity couldn't help it so she joins in. Silver watched the group hugged and lets them be for a while. Afterwards, they decided to break it apart and decided to rescue Sonic. They reached upon where Sonic is caged up. He was surprised to see that almost everyone one of them are free.
"Everyone! You guys are all safe." Sonic said as he looked around and noticed that Twilight isn't in, "Wheres..."
"We can't locate her position, but don't worry, we'll find her." Silver said as he levitate himself and position himself in front of Sonic's.
His hand glowed in a cyan color and so did the bars on Sonic's cage. Silver moves his away apart and the bars started to bend giving Sonic a space to escape.
"How didn't you manage to break free? It's just as simple as it is." Silver wondered.
Before Sonic could talk, he jumped down and talk to the rest of the group.
"I think, Pinkie or who ever this girl is that resembles Pinkie, knows what we can do and can't do." Sonic said which then the girls with Silver to looked at each other and then back at Sonic, "For what I've gathered, the reason why I can't break the cage with my magic, is the the cage is anti-magic. Isn't it obvious?" Sonic reminded which then Silver has the realization.
"Now that you mention it. I think the reason why I can't break the ropes is that I'm upside down which is making me hard to concentrate." Silver said as Rainbow came up next.
"Yeah, like me, without my wings I can't do anything very much. Not even my fighting skills will set me free." Rainbow Dash said with Rarity walking beside her.
"Even with me, I can't simply put any magic cutters to cut myself free because I was so afraid that the spikes will closed on me." Rarity said as she looked beside her with Applejack and Fluttershy.
"And I reckon that Fluttershy is really scared that she can't even move a little bit." Applejack answered for Fluttershy as she is still hugging to Applejack.
While they were thinking for awhile. They heard explosions coming from the far distance.
"Shadow..." Sonic whispered. He then looked to his friends and prepares a plan. "Alright, all of you, go and help out Shadow and I'll find Twilight." Sonic said which then make Rainbow Dash feel bit off.
"What? Lemme help you, it will be twice as faster." Rainbow Dash suggested.
Sonic shake is head, "Twilight isn't important in this fight. We need to save Shadow and Pinkie from that freak show." By that Rainbow was about to fight back but then she saw Sonic's determined eyes which made her quiet and nodded in defeat.
"Goodluck everyone." Sonic's last word as he sped off to find Twilight.
The rest of the group then went to aid Shadow.
Shadow was pushed back by a hit and he tried to stand up. His body is scratched and his other arm is bruised so he have to put his other free hand to ease in the pain.
"What are you doing? Why aren't you fighting?" The reflection of Shadow said.
Shadow didn't replied but he is just breathing heavily.
"Hmph... you are changing without my guidance..." His reflection said in his thoughts, "If you want to save them, I'll be right here for you to activate it." It said as it vanishes.
Shadow just looks at Pinkemana walking slowly towards him with a freaky smile. She has blood in her hands and then she licks it.
Pinkamena then giggles with a sinister laugh, "I guess this the reason why she liked you... you're amazing Shadow the Hedgehog." Pinkamena said as she laughs.
Shadow grind his teeth and annoyed that he can't do anything. "I can't harm her... she may not be the Pinkie I know... but why can't I fight back?!" Shadow said in his thought.
Pinkamena prepares for an attack. Shadow's just stood there and he is letting himself get killed by this. Pinkamena's sharp nails came out from her fingers.
"Show me more blood will you Shady?" Pinkamena requested as she rushes towards at Shadow. At incredible speeds, Pinkamena is a feet away on hitting Shadow, but then Applehjack lands in front of Shadow.
Shadow's eyes widen from this surprised attack. Applejack prepares a punch and as soon Pinkamena got in her range, Applejack fires off with a fast punch. The result was unknown for a few seconds and Pinkamena suddenly felt the impact that caused her to feel intense pain inside. Pinkamena then suddenly got knocked back far distance due to Applejack's true strength of the buck punch.
"You're not the Pinkie we knew." She said.
While Pinkamena is flying away and Rainbow Dash came to drag Pinkamena in the ground and throwing her in mid-air. Rainbow Dash opened her wings and fly straight to Pinkamena. She punches her and then she flew back and went in to a punch one more time. She did this like countless of times as if she is totally punching Pinkamena in all sides in less than seconds.
"You can't fool us!" Rainbow Dash said in this mass speed.
She finishes her off by smashing her into the ground creating a crater. As soon Pinkamena hits the ground a giant rock just completely smashed her.
"You are just a big meanie! Pinkie would never do such a thing!" Rarity said as Fluttershy nodded behind her.
Silver is above in the sky with his magic form. The cyan flames on his hands grew larger as he put his hands closer and then lights emit in between.
"Where is the real Pinkie..." He whispers and the light grew larger. "Silver Magic: Cyan Nova Beam!" He shouted as symbol with a circle formed with the beam shooting out.
The beam got larger as it hits the giant rock that Rarity squashed her with. The result is devastating which caused a light that could potentially blind most of them. So they covered their eyes. Shadow is just standing there watching Pinkamena got devastated.
"No... Pinkie..." Shadow couldn't yell nor couldn't feel pain, but what he felt is somehow fear.
As the beam ended, Silver land back and the girls went beside him.
"Did we win?" Rainbow Dash wondered.
"I don't think so. We are still in this dark forest." Silver said as he looked around, "Gah!" Silver was stunned as he felt an intense pain from his chest. They all looked at Silver slowly and surprise in their eyes that it's Pinkie showed up.
She gave them a smile that made them shocked and surprised. Silver was knocked away from the punch. Pinkamena stand between Rarity and Rainbow Dash, she points her palm at the duo and a chaos sphere came out of her palm shooting at the duo making them go bye bye. Pinkamena then slowly walks to Fluttershy and just simply slaps her really hard enough that causes her to fly away. Not like she used her wings but from the hit. Applejack was the only one left. She felt scared and starts to tremble in fear.
"You guys think that you will save her huh? Well, don't worry, we all gonna have a good time yeah?" She said as she tilt her head with a smile on her face.
Her sharp nails came out of her fingers and was about to hit it to Applejack until a barrier shelled her in.
"What the?" Pinkamena then became confused about this.
The barrier teleported Applejack away and so does the rest of the group. Except for Shadow away from Pinkamena. She saw where they reappeared, under at Sonic's barrier that he casted with Twilight inside and the rest of their friends. Sonic looked at Shadow even far distance meaning Shadow knew what Sonic meant. Pinkamena's eyes twitched and starts walking towards them.
"Pinkie!" Shadow shouted which caused Pinkamena to change her direction.
"You want me right? How about we settle this." Shadow continued as he his other arm clenched into a fist.
"My, my. Sure thing but first..." She then looked at the barrier, "I want them to have some fun as well." As she said so blood started to come out of her hands.
Shadow's eyes were widen by this and decides to keep this to himself. The blood that came from Pinkie was pour on the floor and it turned into animals.
"Do you like my pet Shady?" She asked the black hedgehog who looks stern as it seems he doesn't care.
Pinkamena smiled and her "bloody" pets looked at the barrier and rushed at it. Shadow was left with Pinkamena. He didn't dare look nor has the time to be worried.
"Pinkie... I know you're still in there..." Shadow said while breathing heavily.
"Oh sure, try your best Shady. But I think it's time you hear the true facts." Pinkamena said which gave Shadow a curious look.
Back with the blood animals that is right now trying to break the barrier.
Sonic grunts as he struggles maintaining the barrier while Twilight his aiding the other girls to recover faster.
"I sure wish Shadow... would be here..." Sonic said as he starting to get push back due to holding the barrier back.
"Great... Hold them for a while Sonic." Silver said as he sits down and meditate.
"Oh come on we don't have time for that!" Sonic yells out as he heard the barrier cracking, "Damn it! Not now! I can't fail to protect them here!" Sonic said in his thoughts as he smash his hands on to the ground.
The barrier then glowed and a few seconds the barrier grew spikes that decimates or impales most of the creatures. But it didn't work since they're almost fluid like.
"This must be the animals that 'she' killed..." Rainbow Dash said as she looked down.
Sonic was slightly bothered as he looked at her. He knew that something must've hit her to tell that fact.
"What makes you say that sugarcube?" Applejack wondered while crossing her arms.
"I'm not sure. I may not be like Fluttershy, but I can feel that they are supposed to be alive..." Rainbow Dash said as she looked at the bloody animals and then a crack showed up which made Rainbow gasp.
"Silver!" Sonic said as he closes his eyes from the struggle.
"What?!" Silver shouted back but he still kept his meditation.
"Anytime now!" Sonic yelled out.
"A little bit more..." Silver said quietly.
"Sonic!" Twilight said as the cracks are starting to get wider.
"Wwarghgh!" Sonic used his final energy to hold the barrier but failed as it got broken. Sonic kneeled down and breathe heavily as the blood started to fall off.
Before the blood covers them, Silver opens his eyes with a golden flash of light.
"Silver Magic: Time Field Barrier!" Silver shouted as a cyan like sphere surrounds the area.
The blood was frozen in mid-air and Silver waved his hands that made the blood go away. Silver then stood up and smiled.
"Looks like I did it just fine." Silver said to himself.
"Wow..." The girls said in unison as they watched Silver's magic.
"You could've just..." Sonic didn't finish his sentence as they got a clear view of Shadow and Pinkamena.
Pinkamena is starting to walk closer to Shadow, but in a slowly manner.
"You think you could save Pinkie right? But news flash Shady, she's gone. That is why I'm here. I'm her other side, and if I'm here that means she is gone." Pinkamena said with a scary smile in her face.
"Don't listen to her. She's just trying to..." His reflection stopped and looked at him for a moment, "Well, looks like you have it under control." His final words before he disperse in thin air again.
"But if you don't believe me... let's talk about promises and dreams shall we?" Pinkamena said as she put her finger in her lips, "Although, I think you'll be interested if it's about Maria isn't?"
Shadow's eyes widen as this girl knew about Maria's name and how he is interested to her.
"It is a shame that you couldn't do anything to protect her. Not even the promise she asked for. You failed to do so, why is that?" She is then standing in front of Shadow and then her face went to his ear, "Because the promise you did got broken when you hurt Pinkie..."
"She even failed to accomplish her promise to herself which is also a downer to her. Oh how amazing her face is when she realized how foolish she is been doing all of this." She whispers and leaves him be with a chuckles.
Shadow was stunned and couldn't move. His pupils were small as it seems that he couldn't believe that it make sense. He opened his mouth but an intense pain went straight to his body. The group inside of Silver's barrier is also in shock to see Pinkamena pierce to Shadow's body. "Shadow! No! It can't be..." They all said as they just watched the horror.
"In the end, you failed to protect her. And to protect everyone you love, all because you cared is for yourself and what you think is the best." Pinkamena said as she watched Shadow's closing.
Pinkamena's smile grew but it disappear when Shadow put his hand in Pinkamena's arm.
"Y-you're wrong Pinki... Pinkamena..." Shadow said which made Pinkamena's eyes widen.
"W-whaT?! How?! You're supposed to be dead! I pierce right to your heart!" Pinkamena wondered in anger.
Shadow's grip tightens which Pinkamena felt pain.
"It's true that I may failed to protect everyone... It's true that I failed to proctect Maria... but I can't fail to save 'her' now. Not that she is almost close to accomplishing her promise." Shadow said as he smiled.
"What..." Pinkamena is still unbelieved by all of this.
"And for the record... I'm not going to stop if I haven't bring her back." Shadow said as the wind started to increase around them.
"You've finally accept it... Goodluck, Shadow the Hedgehog." His reflection said in a distance.
The wind slowly getting stronger. Pinkamena looked around and tries to remove her arm out but Shadow's grip has tighten. Pinkamena looked at Shadow who has his eyes closed. The wind became almost a some sort of hurricane. Shadow's red highlights on his quills became purple. The golden rings on his arms glowed brightly and grew larger to his hands. Shadow's lets go of the arm which gave Pinkamena to jump backwards from the intense wind and pressure.
"W-What's going on?" Silver asks as he watches the wind.
Twilight examines Shadow, her visions says that he doesn't have any chaos flame inside.
"No Chaos energy? Then... that means...!" Twilight said in her thought as her vision changes of a magic flame burning inside of Shadow, "Shadow is filled with... Magic?!"
An aura that's to form around Shadow. The golden ring cut loose and the pressure of the winds bursts out. As the wind disappeared, Pinkamena then looked at a different Shadow. Shadow slowly opens his eyes, and then it quickly opened revealing that he has a black sclera with his ruby red eyes shining. Along with Shadow opened his eyes, the purple highlights burns out purple flame.
"W-What is this!" Pinkamena started to shout out things.
He didn't answer which then Pinkamena grabbed a conveniently placed knife on the ground and charges at Shadow. Pinkamena yells out as she is excreting lightning signing of chaos energy over flowing. Pinkamena started to hits randomly at Shadow but he just kept dodging this barrage.
I'm not leaving you again Pinkie..." Shadow said as he just dodge a knife.
"I DONT! CARE! LEAVE US ALONE!" Pinkie shouted as she charged at Shadow.
Shadow dodge the attack and Pinkamena teleported away. He looked behind him and sees Pinkamena who is crazier than ever.
"DIIIEEEE!1!111!" Pinkamena lunges at Shadow.
Shadow cast a purple flame in his hand, "I'm sorry if I had do this..." He waited for the right moment as Pinkie is too near to him, "But I have to."
He then lets out a purple flame but as he did that, Pinkie vanishes in front of Shadow's attack.
"What?" Shadow's thought as Pinkie reappeared behind him.
Shadow slowly turned his head and Pinkie used her knife to slash Shadow but before he got hit, he quickly ducked and point his palm behind him along a flame burst. Pinkamena didn't quite expected this so she tried to block it. She then wondered why it didn't hurt but then she felt heat... or comfort suddenly. She then quickly realized that Shadow hugged him.
"W-What... What are y-you doing...?" Pinkamena's voice is slowly changing as if someone is with her.
"I'm sorry Pinkie... I'm so sorry that I treated you like a nobody..." Shadow said as tears slowly coming off. He tighten his grip on hugging just so he could regret the things he have done.
The group just watched them and didn't talk about a thing. They waited for Pinkamena's response. They see taht Pinkamena is raising her hand that holds the knife and ready to stab Shadow which it alerted the time but for some reason Pinkamena dropped the knife. She just answered with a hug back.
"It's... okay... Shadow..." The voice changed with the straight her starts to inflate to poofines.
"Pinkie?" Shadow wondered but before he could realize it, the whole place starts to crack up like a mirror of sorts.
The pink girl became unconscious right after she spoke about the forgiveness. Shadow then carries her and went to the group. The pink girl's vision begins to slowly fade as she can only see is Shadow.
Pinkie Pie slowly opens her eyes and slowly tilts her head. Her vision isn't cleared since it's still blurry, but then it slowly became clear as she saw the girls that some have bandages.
"What happened to all of you guys?" Pinkie quietly said as the girls quickly looked at her and hugged without talking, "G-Guys? C-Come on please d-don't cry!" Pinkie then burst out tears in her eyes as her friends hugged her tightly.
Shadow is standing on a door where he could still see Pinkie and the other girls.
"You've changed." A familiar voice was heard, Shadow quickly took notice of this and looked to the one who said it.
"Faker? What are you talking about." Shadow said for being annoyed, Sonic then gives him a gem and stood beside him to watch the girls.
"Eh, just keep what you're supposed to do Shadow, because I know that she is proud of you." Sonic said as he wink and gave a thumbs up to Shadow before he left him.
Shadow just stood there and think what Sonic said but then he looked at to the chaos emerald that Sonic gave him, "It's okay..." He heard from the gem and it reveals a silhouette of Pinkie Pie. Shadow then agains smiled at this.
Author: Yes, I am still alive, but I guess I can't keep my promises heh... Well that is all for the chapter. Took me awhile to accomplish this with school schedule being worked on. I do apologize for the long wait for my chapter to be released since I have only a minimal amount of time to work with. I hope that I will get to work on more chapters since this story is going pretty far. And, I do feel that it kinda felt off now since I didn't have the same feeling of making the story before, which I hope you guys understand in away. Anyways, stay tuned for more and again, I am still alive. That is all for me, Moonlight Arc here. Over and Out.