Yay another update. Wah. I only got two reviews. Sniff Sniff I was hoping for four reviews so I could have four reviews per chapter. I guess I should be happy I got any reviews at all but I was really counting on everyone. Anyways this is the finale of Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. I hope you will enjoy it.
Chapter 7
Shadow woke up as the platform he was on went into free fall. He opened his eyes and watched as Sonic threw the fake chaos emerald into the center of the cannon. He watched as the cannon charged up its energy. He then watched as the energy started to reverse its flow until the cannon exploded.
"So that was his plan." Shadow said. "I better get back to the main part of the ARK. Chaos control!" Shadow shouted as he chaos controlled from his platform to a nearby one. He then jumped onto another platform that led to the inside of the ARK.
Shadow's radio started to beep. Eggman's voice came over it. "Shadow! WHAT HAPPENED? WHY DID THE CANNON EXPLODE?" Eggman screamed through the radio.
"The intruder defeated me. He then used the fake chaos emerald to reverse the flow of the cannon. The power was too much and the cannon exploded." Shadow said simply.
"The fake chaos emerald... SONIC!" Eggman shouted. "He has thwarted me again!
"You should be happy he did." Shadow said.
"What do you mean?" Eggman asked.
"Think about it. How much damage did six chaos emeralds do to the moon?" Shadow asked.
"It destroyed about half of it." Eggman said.
"How powerful is Sonic when he has six emeralds?" Shadow asked.
"The same as usual." Eggman said.
"How powerful was chaos with six emeralds compared to seven emeralds?" Shadow asked.
"About five times more powerful with seven then with..." Eggman trailed off.
"So if you multiply the destruction of the moon time five and then send that at the Earth what will happen?"
"Earth would have been destroyed!" Eggman said. "Shadow you tricked me. Why do you want to destroy the Earth?" Eggman asked.
"I did not trick you. If you had used any sense and thought about the plan then you would have realized what was going to happen. And you want to know why I wish for that stupid planet to disappear? Do you know why all the passwords are Maria?"
"No, why are they that name?" Eggman asked curiously. He knew that whoever Maria was influenced everything that was occurring.
"Maria Robotnik. Granddaughter of Professor Gerald, and my best friend." Shadow said. He heard Eggman gasp slightly.
"I remember. She was my cousin." Eggman said. "Wasn't she killed during accident here on the ARK?"
"Yes. But she was not killed by an accident. She was killed by GUN when they attacked the ARK. Her last wish was to have me give her revenge." Shadow said getting slightly angry as he remembered that day.
"So Sonic stopped the destruction of the world by blowing up the cannon?" Eggman asked.
"No. Your grandfather also wanted destruction of all humans. He hoped that someone would awaken me and he made it so that if that happened I would tell them of the eclipse cannon, they would get the emeralds, power up the cannon and BOOM! No more planet Earth.
"But the cannon did not fire so we are safe. Right?" Eggman said.
"No. Professor Gerald had a back-up plan. If the cannon did not fire when all seven emeralds were in then the emeralds would use their power to send the ARK into a collision with Earth destroying both the ARK and Earth." Shadow said.
"But then you would die to." Eggman said. "Why would you do something like that? I don't understand."
"I do not know why I was created. I once thought that I was created to help the humans. But then I realized how evil you all are. Once I have fulfilled Maria's last wish then I will have no more reason for living. Death will be a nice thing to have occur to me after all that has happened during my existence. You will get Gerald's message to the world soon." Shadow said and then cut his connection to Eggman.
"Damn you Shadow. This is going beyond horrible." Eggman said. Suddenly the screens near him started to flash with a man's face. "It's my grandfather... Professor Gerald." The ARK started to shake. "Darn it. It has begun."
Shadow started to walk through the hallways of the ARK and watched the Earth. As he stood there he heard Professor Gerald's message being sent through the computers all over the ARK.
Ten Minutes later.
Shadow was still looking at the Earth when Amy came in.
Amy came towards Shadow. "Shadow you have to help us stop this. Please." Amy pleaded.
"It is all going as it should. I don't need to do anything else. Besides, anything you do will not stop the destruction of humanity." Shadow said and then turned away.
"Yes there is. Sonic and the others are all going to the core to stop the emeralds power." Amy said.
"Then I must stop them. " Shadow said and he started to walk away. Amy ran in front of him and stopped his walking.
"Please. Don't do this." Amy said. As Shadow looked into her eyes, he saw something that he remembered. It was as if the look in her eyes put a key in the lock the held back his memories. All that was needed was that key to be turned. The fact that Shadow had not pushed her away gave her hope that she could make him change his mind. She continued speaking.
"I know that people fight over the most trivial things. Some are selfish and mean, but most are good. As they live down there they try to help each other and they try to help the world. They are good if they just try their best and never give up on their wishes. They always have a reason to be happy, and that is why you should help them out. Saving them is a good thing." Amy said. Shadow looked like he was on the edge, not sure what to do. "Please do it for them! Give them a chance!"
That finally opened the lock on his memories. He remembered as Maria was dying what she really said.
"Shadow... I beg of you... do it for me... for a better future."
"Maria!"
Maria took a deep breath as she struggled to finish what she needed to say. "For all the people who live on the planet down there. Give them a chance to be happy. Let them live for their dreams. Shadow, I know you can do it. That's the reason you were brought into this world. Sayonara, Shadow the hedgehog." Maria finished speaking and then collapsed from blood loss.
Shadow looked at the Earth as he remembered all of this. He started to speak to himself. "She always wanted me to help the world. That has always been my purpose. I've started something I should never have begun." A tear slid down his face." I must keep my promise. That is what Maria wanted."
Shadow started to walk out of the room. Amy called after him. "Shadow? What are you going to do?"
"I am going to help." Shadow said and he ran off through the hallways.
He found the passage to the cannon and started to run through it. Eventually he ran into Tails who was on his way back to one of the other rooms of the ARK.
"Shadow. What are you doing?" Tails asked.
"I am here to help Sonic. My intuition tells me that there is something waiting for him when he gets to the core.
"Okay. Thanks Shadow." Tails said.
Shadow then ran through more corridors and destroyed some GUN robots that Eggman had left standing. As he kept running he encountered Eggman.
"Shadow what are you doing? I am not going to let you pass if you are going to try to stop Sonic." Eggman said.
"I am going to help Sonic. And why are you not helping him?" Shadow asked.
"I took to much damage opening the security door that leads to the colony. And why did you suddenly decide to be nice? Eggman asked.
"My true memories returned. My purpose was not what I thought it was." Shadow said and then started running again. Eggman watched him as he ran with a look of curiosity on his face for a few minutes and then continued going back to the main part of the colony where Tails was.
Shadow ran through three more rooms and found Rouge looking down into an area full of water.
"Where do I go to follow Sonic?" Shadow asked. Rouge looked up at him in more than a little surprise and gestured to the huge door that was situated behind her. Shadow looked around for a moment.
"Where is the echidna?" Shadow asked.
"He is with Sonic. He is going to use HIS master emerald to stop the rampant power of the chaos emeralds." Rouge said. Shadow noted that she did not say Her emerald like usual.
"So that is how they are going to do it." Shadow said. "Thank you Rouge. Maybe it would have been better if you had stolen the emeralds after all." Shadow said smirking. He then ran off and grabbed a pipe and started to zoom down.
Shadow ran through three rooms when he entered a huge room with rushing water. He tried to get under the bars that were separating the room into two parts by somersaulting but failed. The rushing water pushed him backwards.
A/N I am going to go in depth with Sonic's section because I played it last night.
Shadow saw a time switch on a nearby ledge. He tried to jump up to it but could not jump high enough to hit it. He started to get angrier and angrier because he knew he was wasting time. He did not want to use chaos control because that would expend to much energy.
Shadow started to have his anger (negative emotion) and his want to help Sonic (positive emotion) started to run rampant. His whole body started to glow a dull red. As he became more red, energy started to swirl around him that was making him have a power level higher than ever. Shadow did not notice because he was too preoccupied by the problem of the Shadow finally let out a yell of rage that was amplified by the energy surrounding him.
The bars shattered into pieces as they were hit with the power behind the yell. Shadow stared at the destruction that he had suddenly had occur. He then started to run through the now open passage.
Shadow grabbed another pipe and started to slide down. He then flew off the pipe into a large room with two slopes that had sand moving downwards. He homing attacked from the top of the first slope onto the second slope.
He started to slide extremely fast down the second slope when it entered a tunnel that looked like that of an old ruin. What happened to all of the technology? Shadow asked himself.
The tunnel was really long at Shadow started to worry that he would arrive to late and everybody would die. He tried to run through the sand so he could get to the end faster but could not.
"Damn it. Move FASTER!" Shadow shouted. As if it had been waiting for him to ask a bright light surrounded the walls and the speed of the moving sand doubled and then tripled.
At first he thought that there was technology in the walls that made it occur, He thought that until he looked down and noticed that he was glowing with the same light. He was making the sand speed up!
Shadow then asked the question that so many had also asked. "Who am I? Who is Shadow the Hedgehog?" Shadow asked himself.
Before he could think anything else he emerged from the tunnel and saw Sonic and Knuckles. Before he could say something to them a flash of light occurred and a huge lizard appeared. The same one that had been on the piece of paper that Rouge had shown him. The Biolizard. The prototype of the ultimate life form. Shadow did not know why he knew that.
"Maybe the professor told me about it once and I just ignored it." Shadow said. He walked forward between Sonic and Knuckles. "I will deal with the prototype. You two stop the chaos emeralds!"
Sonic and Knuckles ran around the monster and started to make their way to what looked like an altar. Where have I seen that type of altar before? Shadow asked himself. And why do I ask myself so many question that I do not have any answers to? Shadow though to himself while smirking.
Shadow then looked at the monster in front of him. As he looked closer he entered one of his memories.
Shadow stood next to a huge lizard that looked very much like the Biolizard. It had more black parts though. He was standing in front of a huge structure which had the seven chaos emeralds on pillars with a huge green emerald The master emerald? in the middle. He started to pet the lizard's head.
Shadow made a gesture at the emerald altar. The lizard let out a roar and started to step towards it. Suddenly a creature of water formed in front of the master emerald. It let out a stream of water at the lizard. The lizard tried to get out but the water froze and turned into a huge cube of ice that completely froze the lizard. Shadow glared at the creature of water. Shadow spat on the floor and walked away.
End Flashback
Shadow came out of his memory and looked at the Biolizard. If that was a real memory then the professor and all of the other researchers probably used its remains to make this monster.
"Well I will not be petting this one." Shadow said. And stepped forward. The Biolizard who had not be sure up to that point whether Shadow was alive or not went on guard and shot an energy sphere at Shadow.
Shadow jumped over it and under the next one. The Biolizard started to breathe heavily and started to use the pipe coming out of its mouth. Shadow realized that whatever the pipe lead to was what was keeping the Biolizard alive. Shadow jumped up the pipe and grinded up it until he reached the top. He then kicked the top of the life support system. The Biolizard roared and coughed up blood all over Shadow who had landed on the ground around the Biolizard.
Shadow looked at the blood all over him. He realized he liked the smell of blood. He wanted to hurt the Biolizard some more. As he thought this he had black energy swirl around him. But only so I can help my friends. Shadow thought. At this thought the black energy dissipated.
Once again the red energy surround him. The Biolizard shot a beam of energy at Shadow . Shadow hit it away from him and it smashed into a wall. Shadow then jumped up and over the Biolizard and kicked the Biolizard's life support system once again before he landed to the other side of the Biolizard.
"I now understand." Shadow said to himself. "My power increases if I want to help a just cause and I glow white. If I have negative and positive emotions then I turn red. And if I go evil I guess I would turn black. No matter what the situation is I have an energy burst. That could be helpful."
The Biolizard released lots of eggs while Shadow was talking to himself. The eggs started fly at him. Shadow started to homing attack them one by one until he got close enough to kick the life support system.
The Biolizard screamed again and enacted its last power. Shadow yelled in surprise as he flew upwards along with all of the eggs and started to float in the air.
"You think that can stop me?" Shadow said. He started to float towards the center of the Biolizard. He then shot a chaos arrow at the support system making it blow up.
A/N The chaos arrow is the non charged chaos spear in Shadow the Hedgehog in case you did not know.
The Biolizard screamed one last time and collapsed. Shadow looked up from his defeated foe and saw Knuckles using the master emerald to control the chaos emeralds on the pillars.
The Biolizard shrieked and showed it was not finished yet. It used the chaos control and disappeared. Shadow ran to the altar and reached it right as the colony started to shake once again.
"If we stopped the emeralds then why is the ARK still moving?" Knuckles asked before falling over.
"The prototype is controlling the colony. He is going to send us straight at Earth if we don't stop." Eggman said over the colony's speakers.
"Shadow. We have to use the chaos emeralds." Sonic said. "We can stop it if we fight together."
"Fine." Shadow said. He stood next to Sonic as the emeralds appeared around the two hedgehogs. As if he had done it many times before Shadow absorbed the power of the emeralds as they spun faster and faster.
In a burst of light he transformed into his super form. Sonic did the same thing. Both hedgehogs flew out into the space around the fast moving ARK.
"Sonic. How do we keep our energy up?" Shadow asked.
"We use the power rings. They will keep our power up. Tails will release some from inside of the colony.
"Cool. Let's go!" Shadow yelled as they both flew towards the Biolizard. That must be really painful. Shadow thought as he saw how the Biolizard was attached to the space colony.
Shadow noticed the red swellings on the Biolizard that had appeared because he did not have his life support system. He decided to see what happens if he hit one so he flew forward and kicked it.
On contact with the red spot the Biolizard screamed in pain. Shadow was about to kick it again but the Biolizard shot a huge beam at Shadow. Shadow flew backwards and lost a good deal of his power.
"Sonic, I will collect the rings while you bring him down." Shadow said. As he started to fly around to get more energy from the rings.
When Shadow heard another roar from the Biolizard signifying that Sonic was successful in hitting the red spot himself.
"Sonic. You get rings. I will stop him." Shadow called. Sonic gave a thumbs up and flew off.
As Shadow flew at the Biolizard the Biolizard made a shield of eggs. Shadow smirked as the eggs started to fly at him. With a shout the speed that he was flying at doubled as he glowed even whiter than his now silver fur.
Shadow flew around the eggs and the beam of energy and punched one of the red swellings with all of his strength. The Biolizard roared and released a second beam of power at Shadow. Shadow was going to use his power boost to zoom around the beam but his power boost ended right as he was about to attempt it and he was knocked flying backwards into a cluster of rings.
Shadow was going to attack again when Sonic flew towards the distracted Biolizard at hit a swelling on its right side. Sonic then flew far backwards as a red swelling appeared on both sides of the Biolizard's neck. Shadow also flew backwards. Both flew forward at top speeds.
"Haha. Sonic, I think I have found the ultimate life form. And it could be you." Shadow said laughing as he zoomed to wards the monster.
"Shadow, I understand. Your invincible. Let's kill this creep because everyone is waiting for us on Earth." Sonic yelled back.
With a resounding explosion both super hedgehogs smashed into the red swellings on the Biolizard's neck. With a mournful cry of defeat, the Biolizard's head slumped in unconsciousness. To the surprise of everyone watching the Biolizard disappeared in a flash of light that accompanies chaos control.
Because the ARK was close to Earth the ARK got caught in the gravitational field and started to fly towards Earth still.
Sonic and Shadow flew ahead of the ARK and turned around and flew towards it side by side.
"CHAOS CONTROL!" They both shouted and the engulfed the ARK in the time/space warp.
The ARK disappeared in a flash and appeared in its rightful spot in the heavens. Sonic turned to Shadow. "We did it!"
Shadow smiled a little sadly. Sonic had a confused look on his face as Shadow started to drop down towards Earth.
"Shadow!" Sonic cried and grabbed the bracelet on Shadow's arm. Shadow looked at his rival turned friend.
"Sonic. I had only one purpose in life and it is fulfilled. If I go back to Earth then I will not be looked at as Shadow the hedgehog. Some people might, but most will only be able to see the ultimate life form. The ultimate weapon to bring destruction. Let me go. Please."
"Shadow. You can come with us. We can help keep the world a place of peace like you want it to be. We all need you." Sonic said straining to keep holding Shadow. The gravity of Earth was bringing both of them down.
"Sonic. I don't have enough energy to get back to the ARK and you are wasting your energy trying to hold me up. If you don't let go then you will die with me. You can survive if you let me go." Shadow said. He held up his hand.
"Shadow. Don't do it." Sonic said.
"Goodbye Sonic." Shadow said and released his bracelet from his arm. He immediately started plunging downward.
"Shadow!" Sonic cried as he watched Shadow fly down. He turned away and started to fly back to the ARK. He looked back behind him one last time and was surprised to see a red glow and then a flash of light. "If he was the ultimate life form... could he have managed it?" Sonic asked himself and then flew away.
With Shadow.
This is what you wanted right Maria. This was my promise. Shadow thought to himself. "But what if Sonic was right and I am needed to keep the world a place where everything has a chance to be happy?" Shadow said to himself.
While he was thinking on it all of his memories suddenly returned. Shadow's eyes opened as he remembered the betrayal by Black Doom and everything that happened in his past life.
I promised myself revenge against him. If he wants the chaos emeralds then everyone on the planet will die. And I will have failed myself and Maria. I have to be alive to stop him. But can I do it? As Shadow thought this his whole body was covered in the red glow. His whole body started to shake as he felt all of the energy come into his body all over.
It was the most power he had ever felt. It went beyond anything he had ever dreamed of his whole life. He had almost activated his true power. The power and destiny that had been put on him when he was born.
He had not activated all of his power but he had activated enough. He used some of his power to stop the speed he was moving at from burning him up. The rest he used to unleash his signature move.
"CHAOS CONTROLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!" He shouted and warped to ground level. Shadow smashed into the ground full force with a few broken bones but still alive.
As Shadow laid there dying he though how after everything he did it would all be a waste if he died right there.
Shadow started to lose consciousness when he felt metal arms pick him up. He opened his eyes and looked at the stars.
"Don't let me forget again. That is the worst thing of all. To forget everything." Shadow said and fell unconscious.
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