So this was why he invited me; that blue bug had amassed a small cult of enemies since I last saw him. If this wasn't for her, so help me I wouldn't be here at all. Was this a meeting for an improv club or was it a meeting to destroy Sonic?
This needs to end now; and so help me if an opportunity doesn't rise soon, I'll make one!
"And so, with my leadership and your blind loyalty, we can finally get rid of those meddling muskrats." Eggman declared before turning to Shadow. The rest of the room followed suit, looking toward Shadow as if he was going to announce some ground breaking discovery. What he gave them was a blank stare and an unamused eyebrow raise.
What did they want, a cheer leading squad that consisted of only Shadow or something?
"Hey, how come you're leading the shots?" one of the morons that attending the meeting questioned. Not one that Shadow recognized at the most. "I'm the best villain here, I've spent more time in the pin than all of you combined!"
"All that proves is that you're the best at getting caught." some dolt in a mechanical suit spat back with a smirk.
"What we need is an educated fellow," another moron with some kind of circus getup suggested to the mechanical suit dolt. "An organized leader who knows how to keep hot heads like you under control and can maintain parliamentary procedures."
Oh, you mean like Shadow?
"Objection!" a guy dressed up as a tree declared. "Anyone can learn parliamentary procedures."
"Point of order," the circus idiot then decreed, "'Objection' is court room terminology, not parliamentary."
"Sustained!" the tree-furry once again declared.
"As anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the sci-fi classic Battle Force Galaxia knows," some kid with a nasally voice then said, "Our leader should be a young, inexperienced teenager who's destined for glory, least you want to repeat Admiral Glork's mistakes..."
Wow, that kind of sounds like Shadow too!
"You're losing focus!" Eggman then shouted, "Remember, I'm the one who called this meeting!"
Shadow looked at the doctor before the room started to argue over who should be in charge. In midst of this chaos, that dumb doctor came up with an idea.
Team building exercises- one of which took the form as the overly used 'trust-fall' thing. Everyone was assigned a partner, with Doctor Eggman being paired with Shadow for some reason. As all the other partner successfully caught their partner, while Shadow simply stared as Eggman fell over on his back. He jumped right back up and blamed himself for Shadow's negligence to go along with the exercise.
Seriously Maria, how is this imbecile even related to you? Let me take note to never let him know you're alive, got it? I won't tolerate being with this idiot long enough- even with you around.
. . .
Later on, Doctor Eggman attempted to play a little game he had done some time when he wasn't a complete waste of space. The rules were simple enough, pretend to toss an imaginary ball while saying some nonsense word that had nothing to do with what they were doing. Naturally, Shadow did nothing. They were not going to make him play this game, he needed to get to Eggman's library, if anything. It was only a matter of time before the doc gave Shadow exactly the opportunity he needed to raid Eggman's fortress for the parts he needed for the Ancients' machine.
"We're making history here!" Eggman pleaded as Shadow started to make his leave. "A collection of villains like this has never been assembled before!"
And I want my friend back, so who's going to lose here?
"I see no villains." Shadow told the doctor in a low tone, "Just some fools whose only ability is wasting time!"
"That's something, isn't it?" Eggman nervously chuckled.
"No. Not really." Shadow spat before utilizing Chaos Control to teleport out of the room and out of Eggman's sight. He didn't care what happened next to the sad group after landing inside of Eggman's rarely used library. Anything Shadow could find on the Ancients would be good enough.
A book on quantum physics? Sure, that might come in handy too.
Once he had what he needed, Shadow once again utilized Chaos Control to teleport back to the Ancient ruin where the resurrection was taking place. From there, Shadow looked over the books at the computer console and input more codes that theoretically would work. Once sure that he could do all that he could at the console, Shadow walked over to the capsule. He watched as the fluid started to glow again, this time it was a bit more brighter than the last. The fluid remained illuminated as Shadow carefully leaned against the glass waiting for a sign -any sign- that this time it really was going to work.
Before anything could happen, a sudden explosion directed Shadow's attention upwards. He looked at it and growled.
If that battle got any closer…
Without looking back at the capsule, Shadow left the area, going to help Eggman crush Sonic or whatever before they brought it to him. What he didn't see was the illuminated fluid start to thin out as the figure inside slowly lowered as the fluid melted away.
What he didn't see was his friend's resurrection.