Slam: Aren't you forgetting something?
Matt: Oh yeah! Thanks to CodeLyoko for beta-reading this for me and helping with grammar errors.
CodeLyoko: It's no problem, always happy to help.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything in this fic, except Stealth, he's my character
Slam: I'm your character, too!
Matt: Are you in the main part of the story?
Slam: No.
Matt: Case in point.
Chapter 4: The Final Showdown
Super Shadow flew out of the Black Comet at breakneck speeds, ready to face this so-called "Devil Doom". He flew above the clouds of red gas released by the comet and looked around, trying to find that blasted monster that had destroyed much of the planet. Truthfully, he was half-expecting Doom to attack him from behind, but he was nowhere to be seen. Shadow couldn't even sense his energy.
All of a sudden, his communicator buzzed to life. "Shadow, it's Eggman. Don't worry about us, we're all safe. Do whatever you need to defeat Black Doom, hold nothing back." The communicator died and Shadow went back to waiting, but he didn't have to wait long as a large energy spike soon grabbed the super hedgehog's attention.
From out of nowhere, a large creature came and slashed at Shadow, who was just barely able to avoid it. The creature was a large gargoyle-like being with two heads that were, well...god, how can I explain this?
Basically, just think of conjoined twins that were joined from the hips to the neck. It had large, fleshy wings, two long, double-jointed arms, and its torso was fashioned to a piece of rock that looked like an uprooted bulb plant, but the most disturbing thing about this creature was the fact that both heads had empty eye sockets...AND THEY WERE OPEN!
This severely grossed Shadow out to the point of no return, but what grossed him out even more was when Doom's Eye came and stuck itself in the socket of the head that was facing him. It made a sound that caused the poor hedgehog revisit his lunch. Getting a hold of himself, he raced forward and tried to finish the demon off before it got a chance to put up its defense, but the creature teleported away from him.
"You are quite lucky," it said as it appeared several meters away from him, "you are the first being in two millennia that will both see and die by the hand of my ultimate form, and when I am done with you, your planet will be destroyed and your precious human friends will be powering our ancestral home."
"Not if I have anything to say about it," Shadow exclaimed. He put his hand into the shape of a gun and rocketed forward, ready to turn the gargoyle-like creature into a pile of smoldering ash. The demon saw this and countered by levitating huge pieces of rubble and flung them at the super-powered hedgehog, who was just able to avoid them. This continued for about a minute when Shadow realized that he forgot one VERY important detail...
Now, as all of you Sonic gamers out there know, in order to transform into a super form, you need the power of all 7 Chaos Emeralds AND 50 rings in order to activate the transformation, and you would loose one ring for every second you stayed in the form. Shadow, however, was different.
Because of the fact that he is, almost literally, a living Chaos Emerald, Shadow's "Super" time was considerably longer than Sonic's. He lost one ring for every three seconds that he was in super form, meaning that he could stay in super form, from the exact nanosecond that he transforms to the exact nanosecond that he changes back, for exactly two and a half minutes with 50 rings, AND THEY WERE ALMOST UP!
With only ten rings left (30 seconds), Shadow made a risky maneuver. He flew close to Devil Doom and looked to see if he picked up any rings with the buildings, roadways, cars, ect... Sure enough, he found about four item balloons floating next to a taxi cab. Shadow used his Chaos Arrow attack to pop all four of them (A/N: All of the balloons contain 20 rings each), and got the hell out of there just as Devil Doom threw the car at him. They then began to beat each other senseless for about another two minutes, and neither Shadow nor Devil Doom was backing down.
Dammit, thought Shadow as he avoided a laser blast from one of the small comets that were now circling Devil Doom, I've used up well over 100 rings just trying to find this monster's weakness, and I STILL haven't found it. Just then, the communicator buzzed to life again.
"Shadow, it's Eggman again, there is a red hedgehog here who, on a side note, looks remarkably similar to you, that says he knows how to beat Devil Doom. But before I put him on, there is something that I want to confess. What I said, about you being an android, it was all a lie. Everyone had thought you had died when you saved the planet from the Biolizard, but I saved you with one of my robots. The trauma from the fall had just caused you to loose your memory that's all, you really ARE the ultimate life form that my grandfather had created."
There was a brief silence on the link as Eggman passed the communicator to Stealth. "Shadow, my name is Stealth, your final prototype. There's no time for pleasantries so I'll make this short, sweet, and to the point: aim for Doom's Eye with a fully charged Chaos Spear. His eye is his weakness. Also, if you get too close he will automatically teleport away from you and start levitating objects again. Don't ask why, he just does." the communicator went dead.
(A/N: This strategy that Shadow is going to use is the basic strategy that is used when fighting Devil Doom in the final boss battle except for the fact that the attack hits.) Shadow decided to put this new information to good use. First, he flew close enough to make Devil Doom teleport away from him and levitate objects again. The hedgehog then proceeded to pop all of the item balloons and take the rings that were in them.
Devil Doom switched back to his Laser Comet strategy and began shooting at Shadow again. The super hedgehog easily dodged the lasers and started charging his chaos spear to its max. "CHAOS..." exclaimed Shadow as his attack reached maximum capacity. He then waited for the mini-comets to move out of the way so that he could get a clear shot at the eye. "...SPEAR!" he exclaimed as the energy left his hand. Just as the attack was about to hit, though, Doom's Eye quickly left the socket that he was in and hid in the other, causing the attack to just bounce off of his eyelid harmlessly. "Shit," Shadow said as the reflected Chaos Spear nearly hit him in the gut. "He can change heads; this is going to be a little tougher than I thought."
And so it continued, Shadow kept trying to hit the eye, and Doom's Eye kept moving. This aggravated Shadow to no ends. "STAY STILL YOU MOTHER FUCKER!" That is when he got an idea; Shadow began to charge his Chaos Spear and launched it at the eye. Doom's Eye quickly left the socket that he was in and began to move. That was when Shadow used his trump card...
Next chapter: Peace-of-Mind