Hour 3: Victim or Creator

Shadow slowly starts to move his hand on the mouse and moves the output device. He clicks on the digital video. When he clicks it, the weirdest thing happened. It came to a section that said that it couldn't play the digital clip for some reason.

"What, how come it will not start? Why won't it start?" he yelled with furry demanding some sort of answer from a machine. "Fine… Let's try the next one then…" He closed the window and moved onto the next one, this time the clip works.

Shadow was standing in the simulation room while Professor Gerald Robotnik was over at the controls in a different room closed off from each other. Though there was a large window in between, allowing Gerald to see Shadow.

"Alright Shadow, You know what to do then, right?" Gerald asked. Shadow just nods. "Okay, begin with Operation Alpha Delta…" He presses a button on the controls.

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The number on the screen continues to show this and ones almost resembling them, repeating the 1 and 0 over and over again.

When the computer was finish running all those numbers, Shadow starts to glow red as he squeezes his fist shut. A red aura starts forming around Shadow's body and spreading out across the room. It starts to spread fast and release an intense pressure in that room. Robotnik was unaffected because that aura wasn't traveling through this tough material made glass and a thick layer of metallic wall between them. He only looks at the numbers right now and he was impressed but only a little. He wanted to see how far Shadow can go.

"Alright, Shadow, now full capacity!" Robotnik demanded. Shadow gave another nod; understanding what the professor was asking him to do. The pressure and aura was getting stronger, too strong that it was leaking through and getting into the control room. Robotnik was trying to hold his ground from the strength of the wavelength of Shadow's power. The super computer's hard drives were overheating and crashing because of all the force and extreme heat from the radiation.

The video was cut out there. Right when the intense part was coming, it had to stop. Shadow throws his fist at the wall. There were really large cracks shown where Shadow punched at. Knowing him being the ultimate life form, doing something like that was nothing to be surprise about, but what was a shocker was that when he looks at his fist he saw something he never saw before. He saw his own blood pouring out of his knuckles.

"What is this red thing? Wait, this is blood! My blood, it's my blood!" he screams it out in the top of his lungs. He was breathing hard, inhaling and exhaling with a loud scared sound, not knowing what he should do. Even after all those battle and many times he came close to dying, he has never bleed before and now from a single punch in the wall and he's bleeding. Without realizing it, he was moving his body backwards. He continued until he accidently moved the mouse and towards the next clip.

Shadow and Maria were at the hallway in the Colony running and then stop. Maria was catching a breather. Shadow on the other hand didn't need to take a rest.

"Maria, I think you should rest right now." Shadow suggests. She didn't say anything until she stopped breathing hard and recovered her stamina.

"Don't be such a fancy pants. Come on" She continued to run, but Shadow only showed a confused look.

"What kind of pants? Hold it Maria, repeat what you said." He starts to chase after her.

The movie stops. There was silence in the room. Shadow couldn't think of anything to say. He was still in the same area and position he was before the video started.

"My life is-" Shadow says as he swallows his saliva. "-so mysterious,"

Who am I? Why can't I seem to recall who I am? Everything I'm looking at… I can't seem to recall, but for some reason… that person is me. Shadow continues to wonder in his mind. All thoughts he continues to have just lead to many questions that is left unanswered. His whole world was falling apart and nothing in him had the power to stop it, even though he's the ultimate life form. What am I doing? Should I even continue with my search for the truth or stop? It's obvious that I know nothing about my past. So would that mean that this person on the images isn't really me, but some copy version of me? Or am I the copy one? Shadow continues to think for a while until he gave up.

"I should just stop right now," he said. "My life would be better off if I never know what the rest of this show." He turns around and starts to walk the other direction. "He is not me. He is but a different person."

I am the one and only… I am one… there is no one that is close to me… even if there is an imposter… I am the one and only Shadow the hedgehog! The door slides open and Shadow walks through. As the door closes, he turns around and faces back at the computer before the door slams shut.