SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG

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Chapter Two: Westopolis

The black aliens or as Black Doom calls them, the Black Arms, were rampaging around the helpless city of Westopolis, with very few people protecting it. G.U.N. soldiers were stationed at many points of the city, but did not have enough men or fire power to destroy the invaders. On one of the wrecked buildings, Shadow watched as the struggle for survival continued. "I don't know which of them to side with. I made a promise to Maria, but Black Doom knows about my origins. I must make a decision here." Shadow said as he fell of the ledge of the building.

When Shadow had reached the ground, he saw a G.U.N. soldier shooting at winged black alien. Shadow still hadn't decided which side to join and watched the two battle until a large blue laser came from out of nowhere and killed them both. Shadow walked up to the dead G.U.N. soldier and looked as his body had been completely burned by the laser. Shadow then heard the sound of fast moving footsteps coming from behind and already knew who it was. Shadow looked back to see that his answer was correct, it was Sonic the Hedgehog.

"Hey Shadow, long time no see." Sonic said to his dark counterpart. "Sonic? I thought you were looking for Amy." Shadow said. "I was looking for her in this city when these black creatures attacked. I could really use your help to get rid of them." Sonic said to him. Shadow gave no reply because he hasn't decided which side he was on. Instead, he just ran in the direction of the fighting and Sonic thought Shadow was helping him.

They ran down a hillside to find three G.U.N. soldiers being killed by a single black alien. "Come on Shadow, we got to help them." Sonic said. Defeating the black alien was simple, all Sonic had to do was use a single homing attack and the creature was down. "Ha, that was easy." Sonic said. Sonic noticed that Shadow did not help him, but instead walked past him to a glass box. Shadow thrust his hand through the glass and pulled out a green chaos emerald. "Alright a chaos emerald, that is sure to help us defeat these black creatures." Sonic said.

Then, Black Doom's alien squid, or Doom's Eye, slithered through the air and stopped in front of Sonic and Shadow. "Good work, Shadow. You have retrieved one of the chaos emeralds. Now all we need is six more to complete our plans." Black Doom's voice came through the eye. Sonic walked up to the eye and asked "Who are you and what do you want with Shadow?" "Shadow has agreed to obtain the seven chaos emeralds for me and my army in our plans for your world." Black Doom said. Sonic looked to Shadow in disbelief and asked "Is that true, Shadow?"

Shadow was caught between two impossible choices. If he said no, then Black Doom would not tell Shadow what he knows about his origins. But if he said yes, he would be betraying his greatest rival and, possibly, best friend. Shadow continued to think hard until they heard a pair of screams coming from one direction. A Black Arm soldier had caught a young women and her daughter and raised its sword to kill them. "Yes, do it." Black Doom said. "No, don't!" Sonic shouted.

The alien raised its sword to its highest point and started its descent on the poor mother and daughter. But then, the sound of a gun shot rang through the air and the creature stopped only an inch from the young girls face. The girl looked up and watched as the alien stood there for a moment before falling sideways to the ground, dead. Sonic and Black Doom looked back to see Shadow holding a pistol he took from a dead G.U.N. soldier aimed at the aliens previous position.

"Shadow, What have you done?! You have attacked one of our soldiers!" Black Doom said furiously. Shadow said nothing as he aimed the loaded pistol at the Doom's Eye. "I don't take orders from you or anyone else. I follow my own commands, understand?" Shadow said as he placed his finger of the trigger. "This isn't over Shadow" Black Doom said before his eye flew away. Shadow dropped the gun and walked next to Sonic.

"There are most likely more aliens in the city. We must stop them before they destroy anymore lives." Shadow said to him. "Wow Shadow, you really surprise me. Back when I first met you, I never would have thought we would be working together." Sonic said running. Shadow smirked as he ran into the city along side Sonic, saying "Your right. I never would have guessed." They raced into the deeper part of the city the find a road block of Black Arm soldiers.

The Black Arms were facing Shadow and Sonic as the activated their laser shield and to create a wall. By the looks of the formation, it looked like they were trying to guard something from them. Sonic was able to peek though the wall a bit to see an alien soldier holding the blue chaos emerald. "He's got a chaos emerald." Sonic said. "Then we'll just have to get it back." Shadow said as he cracked his knuckles.

The hedgehog heroes charged at the wall of alien until they pulled out their strangely shaped gun and fired. Seeing them fire, Sonic and Shadow stopped dead in their tracks and jumped behind a piece of rubble. They could feel the rubble shake from the blasts, knowing that it wouldn't last for long. "Great, now what are he going to do?" Sonic asked. Shadow was equally clueless at how to proceed until he remembered the chaos emerald he had obtained earlier. He pulled out the green chaos emerald and showed it to Sonic, who smiled, knowing what Shadow had planned.

The Black Arm soldier kept blasting away at the rubble, trying to kill the hedgehogs behind it. Thinking it was taking to long, the soldier with the chaos emerald walked to the front line and pulled out small black gun with a large hole in the middle. The alien pulled the trigger and a missile-like blast escaped from it and destroyed the rubble and probably the heroes. They looked at the spot where the blast hit to see nothing but a small crater, causing them to think they had won. Big mistake.

Out of nowhere, a small yellow arrow plunged itself in the aliens head and killed it. The other looked to where the arrow had come from to see Sonic and Shadow falling from the sky, holding the green chaos emerald. The aliens resumed firing at the two and Sonic formed a familiar blue sphere of energy in his other hand. "Do it." Shadow said. As the shots came closer to them, Sonic threw the small blue sphere of energy at the aliens as it engulfed the shots along the way to become bigger.

When it had reached the ground, the sphere was the size of a Sonic's ego (And that's big). The aliens were expecting something to happen, but nothing did. "SONIC WIND!" Sonic shouted. The energy sphere finally gave out and released all the stored energy to create several blades of wind to chop all of the alien soldiers to pieces. The hedgehog duo had landed on the ground and Shadow was shocked at how powerful Sonic's attack had become.

"Your new move has become more skilled and powerful since the last time you used it." Shadow stated. Sonic smiled at Shadow for the compliment before saying "Well, I've been practicing while searching for Amy." Sonic walked to the dead alien soldier and grabbed the blue chaos emerald out of its hand. Sonic then surprisingly threw it to Shadow. "You deserve it after all you did today." Sonic said with a thumbs-up, which Shadow returned.

The Doom's Eye had returned and floated in front of Shadow. "Our men have found the third emerald in this city. I am giving you a chance to redeem yourself, Shadow. Bring me those chaos emeralds and all will be forgiven." Black Doom said before his eye floated off. "I guess that means…welcome to the next level! Let's go!" Sonic said as he ran off. Shadow saw that Sonic was acting reckless again and tried to stop him. "Sonic, stop! Oh, what's the use?" Shadow said to himself before chasing after Sonic.

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