SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG
Disclaimer: I do not own the sonic characters, just the OC's
Chapter Twelve: The ARK Again
Shadow was found walking through a deep forest outside Central City. Shadow's mind was uneasy because of all that had happen over the past few days. Shadow had helped Sonic and his friends save the world more the once. But he has also helped Black Doom and Eggman try to conquer it. He was confused on whom's to side one and one memory of Black Doom made the pressure worse. "What am I going to do? I want to help my friends, but if I do, Black Doom may not reveal the secrets of my origins. Why must this be so difficult?" Shadow thought.
He continued to walk through the forest until a circle of light surrounds him. "What the?" Shadow said in surprise. Soon the circle spreads itself and Shadow finds himself hovering in the Earth's atmosphere. "Shadow. You have not been following orders lately." Black Dooms said as he appeared from behind. "I told you, I am going to keep my promise to Maria. So just back off." Shadow said. "You made a promise to the girl. But do you remember who it was that killed her?" Black Doom asked. Shadow didn't reply because he knew the answer to the question.
Black Doom floated closer to Shadow and placed his hand on the hedgehogs shoulder. "It was the humans that did it. The humans killed your friend, Maria." Black Doom said. Shadow looked away as he remembered the day Maria was shot by one of the G.U.N. soldiers 50 years ago. "Not only did they kill the girl, but they have also defiled your home as well. Take a look." Black Doom said as both of them turned around to face Shadow's old home, Space Colony: ARK.
It had been over a month since Shadow saved the world by destroying the ARK's most powerful weapon, the Eclipse Cannon. After taking a good look, Shadow saw that everything, even the Eclipse Cannon, on the ARK had been repaired. "The ARK. But how can it be?" Shadow asked Black Doom. "The humans have repaired it and now use it as a base for their military operations" Black Doom said.
"What?" Shadow asked. "Yes, the humans have defiled the sacred ARK and now use it as a weapon of war. If that weapon were in our hands, it would be used to bring prosperity to the world." Black Doom said. "Then consider it done. No one ruins my home and gets away with it!" Shadow said with anger. Black Doom then summoned a Black Hawk and allowed Shadow to ride it. As Shadow rode off to the ARK, Black Doom chuckled evilly. "This is almost too easy." Black Doom said silently.
As Shadow flew the Black Hawk closer to the ARK, he noticed that many electrical barriers were surrounding it. "What are those things doing here?" Shadow asked. Then, Doom's Eye floats along side Shadow. "Those are barriers that the humans built to keep out all intruders. It would seem that the humans continue to defile your home with those barriers." Black Doom said. "Not for long." Shadow said. "Good. To get rid of the barriers, you must destroy the two defense units around the ARK." Black Doom said. "Understood." Shadow replied.
Shadow was searching for one of the defense units until he saw a laser that nearly hit them. Shadow looked back to find several G.U.N. beetle droids shooting at them. "Do not pay any attention to them. My soldiers will take care of them." Black Doom said. Black Doom then summoned two more Black Hawks that charged at the G.U.N. robots. The beetle constantly fired at the flying aliens, but they were too fast to hit. Soon enough, both Black Hawks flew past the robots and destroyed them.
"Not bad." Shadow complimented. After a long search, Shadow had run across an unknown machine and he could only guess was the defense unit. With the target in sight, Shadow formed over twenty yellow arrows around him. "CHAOS SPEAR!" Shadow shouted. The arrows flew past the black hedgehog and broke straight through the defense unit, causing it to create a large explosion "One down, one more to go." Shadow said.
As Shadow continued his search for the defense units, he ran into a bit of trouble when asteroids were hovering around the ARK. Shadow used another chaos spear to destroy another asteroid that was about to hit them. "These barriers can keep out intruders, but not asteroids? The humans really are as dumb as they look" Shadow said. Another asteroid was headed for their direction and Shadow was prepared to use another chaos spear. But before he could use it, the asteroid suddenly exploded without any reason. "What?" Shadow said in surprise.
Then, out of the destruction of the asteroid came G.U.N. walker that looked similar to the one Shadow fought on Prison Island over a month ago. "Target sighted. Firing cannons now." The pilot said. The walker let out a barrage of laser that Shadow was barely able to avoid. Knowing that he could win while on the Black Hawk, Shadow made a sharp turn left and headed into another direction. "You can't escape me, traitor!" The pilot yelled as he chased after Shadow.
For the first time ever, Shadow was running for his life. Shadow looked back and watched as the walker continued to follow him without giving any signs of stopping. "Shadow, look up ahead." Black Doom said. Shadow looked forward to find the second defense unit and an idea hit him. "This should be fun." Shadow said with confidence. Shadow increased the speed of the Black Hawk and headed for the defense unit. Shadow looked back to find that the walker was following him to the exact speed. The unit came closer and when Shadow was only an inch from hitting it, he jumped off the hawk to a floating safety area.
Shadow watched as the Black Hawk and the walker both crashed into the defense unit and was destroyed in the explosion. "Well done, Shadow. That was the last one. Now you must enter the ARK and activate the Eclipse Cannon." Black Doom said. "Yes, but unfortunately I don't have a way to reach it." Shadow said. Just then, a Black Hawk flew down next to Shadow. "You were saying." Black Doom said. Shadow said nothing as he jumped on the Black Hawk and rode off to the inside of the ARK.
Once inside the ARK, Shadow jumped off the Black Hawk and decided walk the rest of the way. After a peaceful walk through his old home, Shadow had reached the power core of the Eclipse Cannon. "It looks exactly the say before Sonic and I destroyed it." Shadow said. Then suddenly, a large, blue, round G.U.N. machine appeared from behind the cannon core and faced Shadow and readied itself to strike.
"ARK to Headquarters! ARK to Headquarters! Come in! Come in! Shadow has penetrated the ARK! He's headed towards the control room of the Eclipse Cannon." The pilot said over the radio. "I knew he couldn't be trusted. Blue Falcon, do whatever you can to stop him. I want you to destroy him at all costs. That is an order." The G.U.N. commander responded. "Yes, sir." the pilot said. "Alright hedgehog, prepare to be destroyed." The pilot said to Shadow.
"Foolish humans. Do they really believe they can defeat me?" Shadow said. The Blue Falcon began the battle by using the rocket launchers around its body to attack him. Shadow made no effort to move, but instead, he just swatted the rockets away like they were flies. "What? But how?" The confused pilot asked. "Have you forgotten? I am the ultimate life-form." Shadow said. "We'll just see about that." The pilot said. Soon, the Blue Falcons body started to glow light-blue "Particle beam cannon, FIRE!" the pilot shouted. A wave of light-blue energy lashed out around the entire area.
After the destruction was over, the pilot looked around to see that Shadow was no longer there. "Alright. That hedgehog is finally dead." the pilot said. "I wouldn't be too sure of that." A voice from the passenger's seat said. The pilot looked back to find that Shadow was sitting in the seat, completely unharmed. Shadow grabbed the pilot from his seat upfront and that was the last time he was ever seen alive.
All around the earth, the Black Arms destruction had stopped as Black Dooms voice filled the sky. "We are the Black Arms. We are here to take rule of this planet. Any attempts to resist are futile, and will result in death. As of today... this planet, is MINE! Annihilation for this planet is near. It is time to embrace the dawn of your demise and despair." Black Doom said
Out in space, the once destroyed Eclipse Cannon had become active. The large tower open up on the ARK and charges itself with a ray of green energy surrounding it. After a few moments the cannon fires its blast towards earth at incredible speed. The blast tears through two fleeing escape ship before colliding with the white house. The blast expands farther and completely destroys all of Central City. Black Doom's laughter could be heard from the sky.
Back on the ARK, Shadow watched in horror as the Eclipse Cannon had been fired onto his home planet. Shadow then realized that he had been tricked by Black Doom so that he could use the Eclipse Cannon on the planet. And speak of the devil, Black Doom floated behind Shadow and looked out to the planets destruction. "It is truly a beautiful sight. Wouldn't you agree, Shadow?" Black Doom said to the black hedgehog. Shadow looked to Black Doom with anger in his eyes.
"What are you doing?! You said that you would bring prosperity to the planet!" Shadow yelled at the alien leader. "We are bringing prosperity, Shadow. Only in a different way." Black Doom said to him. "By destroying the planet?! That is not prosperity, this is total destruction. You said you would protect the planet! You lied to me." Shadow said "Hmm...so I have." Black Doom said like it was no bid deal.
Shadow was now furious and lunged at the lying alien leader. But Black Doom just swatted Shadow away with a wave of his hand. Shadow was thrown to the other side of the room and felt unusually drained after a single hit. Black Doom hovered above Shadow and took the five chaos emeralds he collected. "Now I possess six chaos emeralds." Black Doom said. "Six" questioned Shadow. Black Doom revealed a red chaos emerald that most likely got from the Lethal Highway when the tank tried to escape.
"With these six chaos emerald, finding the last one with be a simple matter." Black Doom said. Shadow struggled to get on his feet and looked at Black Doom with the chaos emeralds floating around his head. "You won't get away with this Black Doom." Shadow stated. "Too late, Shadow. I already have. With the chaos emeralds in my possession, you are no longer needed." Black Doom said. "What?" Shadow said. "CHAOS CONTOL!" Black Doom shouted. And in a flash of light, Shadow had disappeared off the ARK.
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