Star: I'm here!

Aurelio: It's about time.

Star: Since when were you here?

Aurelio: About when you started getting 'Too Busy' to update.

Star: Hey! It's not my fault my schedule has been chock full recently!

Aurelio: And yet you still find time to draw, read and review other fan fictions, get obsessed with Undertale…

Star: ANYWAY…welcome to the predictable, requested, sequel to 'Light': Dark! If you do not like minor whump, then you have been warned.

Aurelio: But first, comments:

Waterthorn13- As much as I find P.O.V. segments annoying to type for various characters, I find myself adding them in anyway cause apparently I love putting myself through tough and tedious chapters. ^^ So yes, there should be more Shadow segments as well as other other characters.

Dreadwing216- That actually was my reaction when I first saw the comics in the series. I keep on trying to figure out how that happened, but it just doesn't add up. Now that you mention it, I think that that would be a good idea to have how they got together as one of the themes, so thank you for that suggestion. I already started looking into it and re-read the years later section of the comics. So far I haven't found any hints, so that means that the adventure shall continue…

Eba-chan150- Thanks, and I'm glad as well. As always, you guys are amazing and every review counts! It's the magic of the reviews that brings more updates, so it's really thanks to you as well as anyone else who takes the time to review that this story still exists! Thank you for your support!

Chapter 4-Dark

Shadow's P.O.V.

It was just a normal evening. Well, maybe not too normal. Rouge had forced me to go to one of the Faker's and Tails' hangouts. It was mostly just competitive gaming for the guys and cooking and talking for the girls. Not much to it. I was just standing in the corner, leaning against the wall and watching when I noticed something. Tails had busted out the chess board and had beaten Knuckles easily, no surprise there. It was when Sonic had offered to play that was weird. I honestly couldn't believe that the Faker was setting himself up to lose, and by this point the girls had finished cooking so they were watching the show.

So Tails would always spend a minute per turn in chess, which was surprisingly fast by my standards. This was mostly because back on the ARK, the professor and his research team would always spend so long calculating the moves so games would span over days sometimes. The Faker would move his piece within 5 seconds, so it was easy to see that he was going to lose. Something was up. Sonic was actually holding dead-still, showing no emotion instead of his normal constant motion foot taps or something. It was when Sonic had only his king on the board that he showed his expression. It was a wide grin. "Checkmate". You could hear a pin drop the room was so silent. Then, it exploded. Tails sighed and cleaned up the chess set while Amy tackled Sonic in a bone-crushing hug. Knuckles was grumbling about how Tails should have been able to sweep the game like he had done to the guardian. Then, everyone had moved on to the Wii to play a racing game. Obviously won by Sonic.

A newfound interest in the night, I watched closely and saw that Sonic was almost always winning. from Yahtzee to Battleship, the games were mostly won by the Faker. The night was soon over, but everyone was staying over so it was mostly just Cream and Cheese, Knuckles, and Tails heading off to their rooms while Rouge and Amy were cleaning things up. I was going down the hallway on the second floor to get to my room when I noticed something. Everybody that had come tonight had a room, so the doors had names on them in order to not get them mixed up. I was too curious. Between the laser incident from a few weeks ago and tonight, I actually thought that snooping around his room might get me answers. Sonic had gone out for a late night run so he was probably on the other side of Mobius by now.

The room had a black carpet and dark blue walls. The right wall had large cork board that took up the entire wall. It was covered in photos and sheets of paper. I looked to the left and saw a black desk with a high quality computer and printer along with drawers along the sides. A one-way glass window was on the outer wall, with a hammock hanging in front of it. Walking in, I saw a black closet door next to the desk. I was about to open it when I heard the front door downstairs open. I darted out of the room and into mine which was conveniently placed across the hall. I didn't actually hear footsteps, but the creaking floorboards on the stairs gave the Faker away. I listened and didn't relax until I heard Sonic shut his bedroom door. I found myself planning on sneaking into his room in the future to solve this mystery. Maybe coming over to this house did have its perks.

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Sonic's P.O.V.

I know I may act dumb at times, but I'm no idiot. When Tails brought out the chess board, I just had to play. I was so focused playing against Tails that I actually won. Now, I used to play all sorts of games with him all the time when I was younger, but chess was our all time favorite. Whenever we had free time, we would settle down and hone our skills in some way other than our daily experiments. Sometimes, the Flickies and the others would join us, and soon all of South Island would be competing. I started out somewhat decent, but by the last game we ever played I could beat even the professor! I internally winced. I hated thinking of our last game, mostly because we didn't know that it was at the time.

For the rest of the night, I was in my full-blown game mode. It wasn't until we started cleaning up that I broke out of my trance and realized that I may have raised a few questions, but thankfully everyone just thought it was my lucky night. I slipped out of the house and didn't even try to cover my Sonic Boom as I left the house with one particular destination in mind.

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When I got back to the house, it was past midnight. I hurried in and closed my bedroom door before going to my computer. I heard it beep silently. I logged in and opened up the website I had made, where I sometimes uploaded pics that I took on my runs. The best part? Nobody knew who I was. People were honestly loving (Or hating, which I may or may not cherish) my pictures, and not just because I was a famous hero. I turned around and looked at my cork board, which had my favorite photos and letters posted on it. I plugged in my small camera that Tails himself had made for me. I bet he never expected how much I would love it. I posted a new photo on both the board and the site before shutting down everything for the night. Looking one last time at the photo, I got into my hammock and looked out the large glass panel of a window before going to sleep. Who knew what was in store for me tomorrow. If only I had known.

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Shadow's P.O.V.

The next day consisted of Sonic and I setting out to Eggman's base, mostly because he had just threatened that if we didn't meet him there, he would drop his newest creation into the center of Station Square. We could probably take him on if that did happen, but Rouge had made a good point by stating that by just going to meet the doctor would prevent a lot of damage and possibly spare some lives. So there we were, quite literally knocking down the door (I had been practicing my punches on the sentries we passed on the way there).

"Hellooooo? Anybody in there?" Sonic shouted as we entered the main room. It was suspiciously dark and empty, and I tensed as a laugh came from the shadows. "Ho ho ho! Just who I wanted to see!…Thought I must admit, I didn't expect to see you here Shadow." I scoffed and was about to talk back when a glare from Sonic silenced me. It wasn't intimidation so much as it was a reminder of what happened last time I had gotten too cocky. So I settled on a "Don't count on me being here next time either, doctor." Eggman sighed before moving on. "Behold, my newest invention, the Egg-o-magic!" The lights turned-on to reveal a top hat-shaped robot covered in blinding lights. Squinting, I dodged a blow aimed for me. "Playing card missiles, I should've known" I grumbled. Why did every one of Eggman's robots involve a pun? Sonic spin dashed one of its light bulbs, and it seemed to grow agitated the more he broke them. So I joined in and soon, the weak point was revealed as a panel on the top opened to reveal an extra bright light. "This is lights-out for you, Egghead!" Sonic yelled before spin dashing the final light. The room exploded as we raced out of the base. Sonic's communicator buzzed. "Sonic! I'm right outside the base, so I'm coming in!" I recognized the voice to be Tails, and I figured that I wouldn't mind recharging my chaos powers on his plane. So we went to the top of the base, preparing to jump onto the nearing plane.

That was went things went wrong.

A missile came out of nowhere and hit the plane, sending it crashing. Sonic actually jumped off the top of the base in his rush to get to his brother. I favored skidding down a power line and got there just as Sonic escaped the wreckage with Tails in his arms. Sonic laid him down on the ground and was checking the fox over while I went back to the plane to retrieve the Chaos emerald that powered it. I heard yelling, and rushed out of the flaming mess to see Sonic facing off against a new robot. Eggman was taunting him, and I saw Sonic glaring at the doctor with pure hatred.

Wait, hatred? Sonic had said that while he disliked the doctor, he didn't actually hate him.

Sonic's quills changed, and almost looked like mine as his eyes meted into a darker green before vanishing all together. I was actually scared of him as an empty, dark aura surrounded him. Eggman panicked as he tried to withdraw his attack, but Sonic was too fast for him. The robots exploded and Eggman was sent flying over the hills. I saw Sonic turn back to normal before collapsing in a dead faint. I rushed forward and grabbed his communicator. I had a feeling I was going to need backup if I wanted to get them back safely.

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I sighed as Amy left Sonic's room, claiming him to need rest before she went to check up on Tails for the third time in the last hour. I ignored her request and went into the Faker's room anyway. He was laying in his hammock and shifted over to see me. I closed the door behind me and pulled up his desk chair so that I was sitting next to him. He coughed awkwardly. "So, uh, thanks for helping us back there…" He started. I gave him an unamused look as he sighed. "I guess you want answers, huh?" I simply nodded. I listened as he told me about absorbing negative chaos energy from some fake chaos emeralds, resulting in a new Dark form whenever he lost his temper. I thought about how I would never be able to handle that and probably end up destroying some major city if I was put with that kind of power. I carefully asked him about my suspicions and I saw him cave.

I know that when Rouge asked me about myself awhile back, I had started out normally, but by the end I had spilled everything. It was just relieving to spill everything. So I wasn't too surprised when Sonic started telling me an outline of his life.

Apparently, he had been kicked out of his village when he was three, because of his unnatural speed. His village was one with only hedgehogs, and they had instinct, just as I had guessed. On Christmas Island, it got cold fast and was barely inhabited at all, other ten the wildlife that thrived on it. Four years of living on the streets and constant moving between towns led him to go for a place far away from bullies and adults. Sonic had apparently picked up all sorts of thieving skills, so he never went hungry and picked up a decent education, though it was still far below what was considered to be minimum for his level. Sonic had picked up a map of Mobius to figure out where to go next when he had noticed an island that wasn't on the street maps. It was the wild South Island, that had no civilization. Sonic had found out that that was false when he met a human professor whose name was Ovi Kintobor. The Professor acted as a kind of parent to Sonic, and taught Sonic stuff most college professors didn't know. In return, Sonic trained to be faster as to help Kintobor gather the chaos emeralds. When he was training, Sonic broke the sound barrier and gained his blue color. The faster he got, the more dark his coloring. According to Sonic, he actually knew what kind of person Shadow was by his coloring the second he saw him. Later on, a lab accident happened one day and transformed Kintobor into Robotnik, now known as Eggman.

By the end of his rant, I was enraged, shocked, and impressed. we did have more in common than just physical traits. I assured the Faker that I wouldn't tell anyone and was leaving when he stopped me. "Shadow?" I turned. "What?" He smiled. "Thanks…I owe you big time." I smirked. "You sure do."

Star: Okay, I know this chapter was a bit rushed, but I wanted to get this posted by today. As for Sonic's past, that is my personal cannon, though ages and orders of events may vary. I will accept other cannons, and while some of mine may be far-fetched, I still like mine so please no flames.

Aurelio: If you see any errors, please PM Star and she will try to fix them as best as she can.

Star: Where will you go now that I'm done, Lio?

Aurelio: I think I'll just stay here and do intros with you from now on. Someone has to make sure you get stuff done.

Star: *Sigh* Until next time, then. Have a wonderful day!