This is it, end of Sonic Heroes. I would prefer if there are any specific levels from Shadow the Hedgehog would you write them down in your reviews? Thanks.
Also I am sooooooooo sorry for the super slow update. I had writers block on how to go about with this chapter. I will try to never go this slow ever again.
Chapter 8
Shadow stood on a hill near Rouge's house. He tried to remember anything from his past but could not manage it.
"Darn it. Why can I not remember anything?" Shadow asked himself. "Am I a fake Shadow?"
Shadow remembered when he, Rouge, and Omega destroyed the Egg Albatross they found half built robots in the shape of Shadow.
"Am I just another robot? Is that why I have no memories? But if that was so. Then why was I hidden and not with any other robots?"
Shadow remembered how the liquid in his stasis chamber was drained and he awakened from the blackness. He had only a second to see the bat in front of him when a robot started to shoot everything around him.
"Why did I have Omega in the room anyways? Was he guarding me? Does that make me different then the other Shadows?
"Or was he thrown out like junk? Was I a failure and thrown out as well? But then why would I have been in stasis?"
"And how did I know that Rouge is always trying to steal gems? I have never heard her talk about gems while we were chasing Eggman. But I knew immediately when she mentioned it in passing that she was always going after gems. Was that a memory?
"And this Eggman. I heard him once call himself Dr. Robotnik. Why does that name stir something in my mind?"
Shadow started to shake from all of the questions. Finally he looked up at the sky and shouted his anger.
"WHO AM I? WHAT AM I?? WHAT IS MY PURPOSE!!!!!!??????"
Shadow then in the nearby forest to vent his frustrations.
Meanwhile in Rouge's house Rouge was looking out the window at Shadow when Omega came in.
"Oh, hello Omega." Rouge said. "How is Metal Sonic?"
"His power is near normal levels. He is steadily getting stronger." Omega said.
Rouge went back to looking out of the window. Omega was about to walk out of the room when Rouge asked, "Omega, do you think Shadow is a clone?"
"Negative." Omega said.
"Why?"
"He does not act like one. He showed compassion to Metal Sonic and has mentioned that he has felt a bond with a few of your friends when he thinks I am not listening."
"Really?" Rouge said.
"Affirmative. I have met some of Eggman's clones before. They had no free thought. They also used weapons that most other robots would use. They do not ask questions and are extremely violent. That is as far as Eggman wished to precede with the mental aspect of the clones. He did not want them to have free will and then try to destroy him." Omega said.
Like you? Rouge thought.
"Omega, can you bring me my computer. I want to see if I can find any more information on Shadow if I hack into the GUN's computers."
"Affirmative." Omega said and left.
Meanwhile
Shadow was standing in the center of a clump of trees. He could barely see anything because the trees were so closely packed that no light was getting through. Normally the darkness comforted him. This time it did not. Whenever he looked around he saw a face with three eyes laughing at him. He did not know who it was but whenever he saw he got extremely angry.
"Grr. Go away." Shadow said. He started to get angrier.
The questions. The faces. The half-memories. The information that I have not been told about. The people that look at me with hatred. Why is it like this? Why? WHY?
The face started to appear everywhere. It just kept mocking him. More and more appeared around him.
Then the robots that looked like him also appeared. They started to mock him. All around him people that he knew or did not know kept appearing. Faster and faster they started to spin around him. He was trapped in a whirlwind of images.
Then more images appeared. An old man with a huge white mustache. A young girl with blond hair. A young child with different colored eyes that had a look of horror on his face. A huge monstrous lizard.
The final face that appeared was his own. A smirk was plastered on his face as his eyes completely glowed red.
"Pathetic." The Shadow face said to Shadow. "You have so much power and yet you don't use it. You waste your time worrying about your past. You who were blessed by the gods with the great power. The gods set you up for a grand destiny and yet you are still nothing. If you became yourself even the gods would tremble."
"You. Are. A. Loser."
Shadow finally snapped. His whole body was surrounded by a black and red energy field as his mind went crazy from the mental stress.
"#&$ YOU! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! HERE IS WHAT I SAY TO YOU, THE GODS, AND MY PAST!!!!!"
Shadow started to charge up for a chaos blast but made a mistake. His anger coupled with his confusion made his dormant powers awaken. All of his energy tripled as he started to tap into his energy stores.
With a scream of rage, Shadow released the red energy. Instead of exploding in a sphere like usual, the energy exploded as a huge twenty mile high pillar of energy. Everything in its path was immediately obliterated.
Rouge looked out of her window and watched as the 4 square mile forest disappeared in a huge pillar of energy.
"Shadow!" Rouge exclaimed. She ran out of her house and glided towards the disaster area.
She stopped when she saw Shadow laying on the ground semi-conscious. To her surprise she noticed that he was smiling.
"Showed them didn't I? I call it the chaos inferno." Shadow said to himself right before falling unconscious.
"What power!" Rouge said. It looks like a volcano exploded here."
Rouge picked Shadow up and glided back to her house. She laid Shadow on his bed and walked over to where Omega had her computer ready.
Two hours later
Rouge started to read the journal entry of a scientist that worked on project Shadow.
Today a truly frightening event occurred. Shadow was doing his usual tests for us. Usually he does them pretty easily. He does not think much about them. As long as we give him a bit of a choice and don't hurt him more that a few pricks from needles and gets to see his best friend Maria he is happy.
"Maria?" Rouge said. "His best friend?"
Today was different. We do not know what happened but Shadow got extremely angry. His power levels skyrocketed straight off the charts. The scariest part was that the charts could record power levels up to ten times Shadow's normal energy.
His whole body glowed black and his eyes became completely red. He looked like a demon with a look of savage hatred on his face. The plants nearby completely burst into flames as he walked near them from his aura alone. All the animals on the ARK attempted to get as far away from him as they could. Even the Biolizard exhibited fear for the first time ever even though he was on the other side of the ARK.
The Chaos Emeralds then flew out of the rooms they were in and started to circle around Shadow. For some reason this made his power drop a bit. Strange markings started to appear all over his body. They each started to glow in the colors of the emeralds. We were all sure we were starting at our death.
He then raised up his right hand at sent a bolt of pure chaos energy through the ceiling and blew up the room above us. He then walked out of the ARK through one of the air locks. Once outside he released a huge pillar of red energy that was almost as bright as the sun. He then came back in and made a ball of energy in his hand. He then started to stomp towards us.
A look of savage pleasure on his face he started to approach us. Out of nowhere Maria grabbed Shadow in a hug from the back. She begged him to stop doing all of the destruction and become the Shadow she knew. He stood there for about two minutes as if thinking about that. Then slowly the marks on his arms started to disappear and the energy fields dispersed. His eyes rolled upwards and he collapsed with Maria still clutching him.
We now see what we have truly created. A being fitting of the name ultimate lifeform. Our only fear is that GUN will notice what happened and come to kidnap Shadow. I hope they never have to come up here. If they do, it could spell disaster for everyone here on the ARK and on Earth.
"Wow." Rouge said. She could not believe what she had just read. But she had seen first-hand what his power was.
"I think I will go and tell him all that I learned from this." Rouge said and went to Shadow's room.
When she entered she saw that Shadow was gone and there was a note for her.
Dear Rouge. Thank you for everything. I have to now go and sort out my past. I will probably see you again sometime. Shadow.
"Urgh. He is so annoying. I go to help him with his whole past but he runs off. Stupid fool." Rouge said and went back to her room mumbling about how stupid Shadow was.
(A/N I have decided on making two endings to this story. One will be a mix of dark side and good side. The other will be pure, pure evil. This next part has nothing to do with the pure dark part but will be a major element in the the mix ending. If you don't care about the mix ending then you can skip this.)
Shadow was walking down one of the streets of Station Square when he was knocked out of his thoughts by the sound of someone running. Someone who was blue and running extremely fast. So in typical Shadow manner he stuck out his leg.
Klunk. Sonic tripped over Shadow's leg and crashed into a mail box. He got up and started rubbing the top of his head when he noticed Shadow standing nearby. He guessed that Shadow tripped him but decided not to mention it.
I just never know what he is thinking.
"Hey Shadow. What's up? You busy?" Sonic asked,
"No. Why?"
"Want to come to the chao garden with me. I have to watch/babysit Cream."
"No."
"Come on."
"No."
"Well your coming whether you want to or not." Sonic said and then started to pull Shadow toward the Chao garden.
"Okay. What is a chao?" Shadow asked.
"Chao are cute little creatures that you can keep as pets. They will evolve and be influenced in the way they are raised."
"Hmm."
"I think you need one of your own. I will go get you one." Sonic said and ran off.
Shadow stood around for a few minutes until he felt something grabbing his leg. He looked down and saw a little chao holding on to his leg. When Shadow looked at it, it got a huge smile on his face and started to gurgle in baby talk.
Shadow bent down and petted the chao on the head. They actually are really cute. Shadow thought.
The chao then got a huge heart over his head and fell asleep still leaning its head on Shadow's leg.
"I guess you found one that likes you." Sonic said as he came back over. "Good thing because there are no available eggs right now."
"The chao will get bigger and stronger the more you play with it. Who knows what it might do sometimes." Sonic said.
Shadow picked up the chao and laid it down on a nearby patch of grass. He then walked away.
"I guess I did not get through to him." Sonic said to himself. He did not realize how wrong he was.
Next day.
Shadow entered the chao garden and whistled. Immediately the chao he had played with the day before came running over with a big smile on his face. Shadow took an apple out of his quills and gave it to the chao. The chao got an even bigger smile on his face and ate the apple in a few bites.
Shadow then started to play little running games with his chao. After doing that he left.
He continued to do this for a few more days and was able to witness his chao transform into a dark chao. He also started to notice little changes in the chao over time.
After two weeks of coming every day, Shadow came back and found his chao looking a lot different then it had looked at first. It was black except for a thin red stripe on his forehead. It also had sprouted three quills on its back. It looked like a mini Shadow.
"Is that your chao?" Sonic asked popping up beside Shadow making him jump. "Good likeness."
"How did this occur?" Shadow asked.
"It went through its second evolution. It likes you so much that it changed to look more like you. You are kind of like its idol." Sonic said.
"Hmm." Shadow said and started to play with his chao some more. Sonic looked on interested in the change in Shadow's personality then walked off.
One week later.
Shadow came back to the chao garden and started to play with his chao some more. After eating and apple the chao gave Shadow a little wave. After doing that a tear shaped cocoon appeared around the chao.
Shadow looked in surprise and confusion at the cocoon. He did not know what was happening.
Sonic came up right at that point and saw Shadow staring at the cocoon. "What's up Shadow?"
"My chao suddenly went into this thing. I don't know what is going on."\
"Your chao is dying. After awhile they do that. He will then drop an egg and after about a week will be reincarnated back in baby form." Sonic said.
Shadow watched as the cocoon turned transparent and then disappeared leaving an egg behind.
Shadow picked up the egg and then walked out of the chao garden. He walked over to the big tree that he had found and went into it through the huge hole that he had made in it. Once inside he placed the egg on a blanket and walked off. He knew he would be back in a week.
Shadow ran to different cities that were nearby. He then stopped on a hill near Westopolis and sat down to think.
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Phew. Finally finished that. I once again apologize for my slowness. I will never go this long without updating ever again.
Please review. Tell me if there is any specific level you wish to see.