SONIC ADVENTURE 2: SHADOW

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Chapter Eight: Born of Hate

"She's dead." Kumori said coldly. Sonic could not believe what he had just heard, he would believe it. Amy Rose, the girl that chased him to the ends of the Earth, the girl who loved him with her whole heart, was dead. "You're lying. You're lying, I know you are!" Sonic shouted. "I know that it is hard to accept. But in time that wound in your heart, along with her memory." Kumori said like it was no big deal. "You're wrong, I would never forget Amy!" Sonic shouted. "Then why do you constantly abandon her and break her heart?" Kumori asked coolly.

These words struck Sonic hard. It was true that Sonic would run away at the sight of Amy, but did he really think it would break her heart. Sonic always thought that Amy would never give up, so he paid no attention to what he was doing to her. Could that have been the wrong thing to do? "Amy died of her own free will. She said that she was tired of you breaking her heart. I don't blame her. How could anyone love a hyper-active brat like you?" Kumori said.

Kumori's speech had first caused Sonic to fall into state of sadness, thinking it was his fault Amy was dead. Then when he heard the rest of her speech, he quickly grew angry. "Only a stupid ditz like Amy could love someone like you." Kumori continued. Sonic's anger had risen to a new level that had never been reached before. "What did you call her?" Sonic said darkly. "I said she was a stupid ditz." Kumori repeated. That was the last straw; Sonic was now ready to kill Kumori on the spot.

"Don't you ever, ever, call her THAT!" Sonic shout in rage. Sonic quills stood up like they did when he fought Chaos, only this time it was different. Sonic's pupils completely disappeared and his fur transformed into a dark and evil color. When it was over, Kumori was standing in front of a dark glowing Sonic. The air had turned cold as the dark hedgehog looked to Kumori and gave a glare that made her think she was staring at the Grim Reaper himself.

Sonic walked slowly to Kumori, hoping to drag out her long and painful death. Kumori was not willing to go down so easily, she ran straight to the dark transformed hedgehog, ready to kick. But before she could even got close to him, dark Sonic snapped his fingers and a dark wave of electricity was sent through Kumori's body and she fell to the ground. Kumori weakly got up and saw dark Sonic staring down on her. She closed her eyes to await death, but it never came, thanks to the unexpected arrival of another black hedgehog.

"Shadow?" Kumori said quietly. Shadow looked back at her and could tell he was not happy. "Kumori, I never said that you could leave the ARK." Shadow said with spite. Kumori flinched and quickly pulled herself to get out of his way. Shadow looked up to the newly transformed Sonic and felt small chills going down his spine. "His power is so evil. I have never felt anything like it." Shadow thought.

Dark Sonic stared Shadow straight in the eyes before instantly vanishing. Shadow felt Dark Sonic appear right behind. Dark Sonic lifted his fist and sent it straight to his back, but missed as Shadow disappeared as well. Shadow appeared next to Kumori, holding a red chaos emerald and said "This hedgehog is serious. If I didn't bring this chaos emerald, that punch would have killed me in an instant." Shadow looked back at Dark Sonic and knew that this was a fight he couldn't win. Shadow picked up Kumori and raised the chaos emerald before saying "You're in a lot of trouble when we get back to the ARK. CHAOS CONTROL!"

Dark Sonic watched as Shadow and Kumori disappeared in a glow of red light. Dark Sonic was angered that he did not get a chance to kill the girl who kill someone close to him. Dark Sonic formed a black sphere of energy in his hand and hurtled it at one of the many hills. Dark Sonic found pleasure in the small bit of destruction he had caused, but it wasn't enough to sooth his savage hunger to destroy. He soon remembered Station Square and used his dark powers to fly to the city.

In a small mine hidden underneath the city, a shard of the Master Emerald was lying on the ground and it didn't take long for the hunters to reach it. "Well Rouge, I say you're doing well. I see you already have half the emerald shards." Knuckles said as he felt the presence of the emerald shards in her bag. "That's right and I'm guessing you have the other half don't you?" Rouge asked. Knuckles nodded his head in reply, never taking his eye of the remaining shard. "Well then, I'm sure you won't mind if I take them. Right Knuckie." Rouge said flirtingly. "Actually, I do mind. No hand them over!" Knuckles demanded.

Rouge jumped into the air began by using her signature screw kick to start things off. Knuckle just stood there like the idiot he is as her attack came closer. Then at the last second, Knuckle somehow managed to catch Rouge's foot before it hit. Rouge was shocked at how Knuckles was able to pull off such a move. "Didn't expect that did you? then you probably didn' expect this." Knuckles said as he flung her to the other side of the mine. Knuckles picked up the emerald shard and began to walk away.

Rouge saw Knuckles trying to walk away with her emerald and decided to trick him again. Rouge began to cry fake tears, which quickly caught Knuckles attention. Knuckles ran to Rouge and asked "What's wrong?" "My… arm… I think it's broken." Rouge said through the tears. "Here let me see." Knuckles began to inspect Rouge arm to check for injury. Knuckles was so busy, that he did not notice Rouge stole the shard out of his hand until she kicked him where the sun don't shine (if you know what I mean).

Knuckles soon collapsed, holding himself, hoping to stop the pain. Knuckles looked up to find Rouge, perfectly fine, holding the emerald shard. Rouge kneeled down to Knuckle and said "Thanks for the present, Knuckie. Here's a present of my own." Rouge then kisses Knuckles on his cheek before walking away, leaving a flustered Knuckles. "What is with that crazy bat?" Knuckles asked himself.

Back in Station Square, the entire city had turned into a hell on Earth. The buildings were crumbling and fire had engulfed nearly everything in sight. Standing in the middle of the destruction was Dark Sonic as he looked satisfied of the chaos around him. He heard a rumbling sound coming from behind him and looked back to see a small army of G.U.N. soldiers, tanks, and robots.

"Alright, deploy the hunters! I want that hedgehog dead!" the leader ordered. The hunter robots activated the jets on their back and flew to the evil hedgehog, not knowing what would happen next. Once the robots were close enough to fire their guns, they surprisingly shut down for no reason as Dark Sonic walked past them. "What happened?" the leader asked his men. "I don't know, sir." The soldier replied. "Alright then, fire the tanks now." He ordered. The tanks began to fire on the dark hedgehog with their cannons and then the area was covered in smoke. "We did it. There is no way anyone could survive that" the leader cheered. He was wrong.

Out of the smoke came Dark Sonic, completely unscratched. "What?!" the leader shouted in surprise. Dark Sonic lifted his hand and another sphere of dark energy formed in his hand. Dark Sonic plowed the energy sphere into the ground and waited for what happened next. Soon the ground underneath the soldier began to rumble and crack until they were all disintegrated by a purple light.

But somehow one of the soldiers was able avoid the attack and live. The soldier looked up to see Dark Sonic standing in front of him. He quickly reached for the gun next to him, but Dark Sonic crushed the soldiers hand under his foot before he could grab it. Dark Sonic pointed one of his fingers at the man's forehead and a small purple beam began to form at the end of it. "No, please don't." he begged before being shot through the head by the purple beam.

"Sonic!" Dark Sonic looked over to see Tails and Cream, who were stunned at the destruction he created. "Sonic, how could you do this?" Cream asked, on the verge of tears. Dark Sonic gave no reply, but instead, held his hand out to them and fired a wave of dark energy. Tails quickly threw himself in front of Cream to protect her before the wave had hit the two young animals. Dark Sonic looked to the spot where they last stood and found they were no longer there. Dark Sonic slowly turned around to see Tails and Cream being protected by a new arrival.

Tails and Cream noticed that they weren't dead and opened their eye to gaze upon their savior. Their protector was wearing a red and grey battle-suit with white electrical lines going all around the suit (think of Sora's valor form in space paranoids). The only problem was that they couldn't see the persons face because of the red and black helmet he was wearing. "Who are you?" Dark Sonic asked in a demonic voice. The masked figure chuckled for a moment before saying "I'm the new hero in town. The name's Mach."

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