SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG
Disclaimer: I do not own the sonic characters, just the OC's
Chapter Fourteen: Cosmic Fall
The shuttle that carried the heroes inside was traveling at a slow pace to avoid being detected by the Black Arms. Inside, the heroes were planning a stage of attack against Black Doom. "How do we even know that this "Black Doom" is even still on the ARK?" Knuckles asked. "He presents an excellent point. There is a chance that Black Doom could be expecting us to attack." Eggman said. "Then it is a chance we will have to take. We have to make sure the Eclipse Cannon is no longer under the control of the Black Arms or Black Doom." Shadow said.
A few moments later, the space shuttle landed at the flight deck of the ARK without a problem. The large group of heroes tried to exit the shuttle, but Shadow accidentally ran into an unknown person upon exiting. Shadow and the unknown person were knocked down to the ground and Shadow looked up to see the new arrival. The new person looked to be a large green crocodile with red spikes going down his back. The crocodile wore grey headphones, a golden chain around his neck, black cuffs with golden buckles and black and white sneakers. The Sonic gang knew him as Vector the crocodile.
"Hey, guys. It's Vector. What are you doing here Vector?" Sonic asked. Vector sat up and looked at the group, surprised that they were here on the ARK. "Hey guys, Great to see ya. I'm here doing some under cover work for Team Chaotix." Vector said as he got back to his feet. "Great, another one." Shadow said sarcastically in his mind. Shadow remembered when he ran into the other members of Team Chaotix, Charmy and Espio. Shadow was surprised that he didn't kill Charmy, but he respected Espio.
"What are you doing, Vector." Cream asked. "I'm trying to find the computer room to this place, but I'm lost." Vector admitted. "There's a surprise." Knuckles said sarcastically. Out of everyone, Shadow seemed the most interested in Vector's mission. "First Charmy took those top secret disks from Prison Island. Then Espio stole the data from Eggman's computer. Now this guy wants to extract the data from the computer room. Maybe the data they took hold the secrets of my origin." Shadow thought
"I shall take you to the computer room" Shadow said out loud. Everyone looked at Shadow, surprised that he would give this kind of offer to someone he didn't know. "Are you sure, Shadow?" Rouge asked. "I am the only one that knows where it is. Besides, he looks like he could use our help." Shadow explained. "But what about Black Doom." Tails asked. "It would be a good idea if we split up into groups of two. Sonic and Eggman, Rouge and Knuckles, Kumori and Mach, Tails and Cream, Chaos and Tikal. You will be those groups. Search every inch of the ARK for Black Doom." Shadow explained. "Got it." everyone said.
The Five groups ran to different directions while Shadow turned to face Vector. "So, where is the computer room?" Vector asked impatiently. "If you want to find it, then try to keep up." Shadow said. Shadow ran of into another direction, leaving Vector in his dust. "Hey! Wait for me!" Vector yelled as he ran after Shadow.
Shadow and Vector walked into a room that was built as a bridge with glowing blue ooze beneath it. Remembering the time at the G.U.N. base, Shadow knew it was artificial liquid chaos. "Why would there be liquid chaos onboard the ARK?" Shadow asked in his mind as he looked down from the bridge. Vector looked back and noticed that Shadow had stopped walking as was looking at the strange ooze. "Hey Shadow, hurry up. We don't have all day." Vector said as he continued walking. Vector soon stopped walking when he ran into something that felt wet.
Vector looked up and saw a round blue blob with tentacles and a metal head shaped like Chaos. Upon seeing the creature, Vector let out a loud scream of surprise and ran next to Shadow. "This must be another one of the professor's experiments." Shadow thought. The fake Chaos enlarged its tentacles and aimed them at Shadow and Vector. Shadow jumped out of the way while Vector tripped on his own two feet to avoid the attack. When Shadow was over the fake Chaos head he yelled out "CHAOS SPEAR!" and sent several yellow arrows at the fake.
Unfortunately, since the attack was made from chaos energy, the fake Chaos absorbed the attack and grew larger. "What!?" Shadow yelled in surprise. The fake Chaos then wrapped its tentacle around Shadow and lifted him off the ground. The fake Chaos began to squeeze the life out of Shadow. All had seemed hopeless until Vector jumped from out of nowhere and snapped his jaws onto the fake Chaos mechanicl head. The fake body reverted back into its ooze form and allowed Shadow a chance to escape.
Vector walked over to Shadow with the fake Chaos head in his mouth and spit it out. "Oh, that was nasty." Vector said as he pulled out a bar of soap from nowhere and scrubbed his tongue with it. "This guy is even stranger then Sonic. And that's saying something." Shadow thought. "I guess I owe you one." Shadow said. "Yes, you do." Vector stated. "Then allow me to show you the real way to the computer room." Shadow said. "What? You were leading me in the wrong direction?" Vector asked in surprise. "Actually, I was hoping I would lose you. Now come on." Shadow said as he ran off with Vector following.
After taking the real path to the computer room, Shadow and Vector found themselves in a room with three floating sections and toxic waste underneath them. "At the end of this room, the computer room is there." Shadow said as he pointed to the door across the room. "But I suggest you let me take you across." Shadow said. "How come?" Vector asked. Vector walked closer to the floating sections and jumped to it until Shadow pulled him back. As Shadow pulled him back, a large energy beam shot up and nearly killed Vector. "That's why." Shadow said to his shaking ally.
"So, how do you plan on getting us across?" Vector asked. Shadow then pulled out the purple chaos emerald that he obtained from Eggman and showed it to Vector. "Hang on." Shadow said as he grabbed Vector's arm. Shadow raised his chaos emerald and Shouted "CHAOS CONTROL!" Shadow and Vector disappeared and reappeared on the other side of the room. "Why didn't you do that at the beginning?" Vector questioned. "You never asked." Shadow replied before walking into the room.
Shadow and Vector walked through the door and entered a room with large, green, electronic towers with a small control panel in the center. "Wow! This place is huge!" Vector shouted. Shadow scanned the room but suddenly stopped when he heard a familiar annoying voice. "Shadow!" "Oh no." Shadow said silently. Shadow turned around for a moment before being slammed to the ground by Charmy. "Shadow, you're here! Yay! Now you can give me my autograph!" Charmy Shouted.
Lucky for Shadow, Espio came from behind the bee and lifted him into the air by his wings. "Charmy. Do not be rude to our ally." Espio said. "Aww." Charmy complained. Shadow got back up to his feet and stared at his old allies. "What are you doing here?" Shadow asked. "We were heading towards the computer room when Vector somehow got lost." Espio explained. "I'm here now aren't I?" Vector said. "Indeed." Espio said. "Well, good luck with whatever you are doing. If you find anything, let me know." Shadow said. "Will do." Vector replied. Shadow held his chaos emerald and used chaos control to teleport away.
Shadow's chaos control teleported him to the same place he started this whole crazy adventure. Just then, the five groups had returned to the spot and looked disappointed. Except for Mach, he is wearing a helmet. "What happened?" Shadow asked. "Nothing, that's what." Knuckles replied. "It looks like the Black Arms left this place a while ago. They didn't leave trace of where they might be going." Tails says. Shadow was confused. Where could the Black Arms be if they weren't on Earth or the ARK?
Then, Sonic looks up to the sky to see a large comet wrapped in flames. "Hey guy, look." Sonic said to the group as he pointed to the comet. Shadow looks at the comet and asks "What is that?" "That is the Black Comet. Once every 50 years, it passes by the planet." Mach explained. "Hey. I remember seeing that comet when Professor Gerald was creating Shadow. Do you think there is a connection between the two?" Kumori said. "Black...Comet?" Shadow said slowly.
Just then, Shadow fell to his knees and held his head in pain. "Shadow, what's wrong?" Tikal asked in concern. Shadow weakly gets back to his feet and looks to the Black Comet again. "I think you're right... I feel it... they're up there. That's where the answers are... I've got to get to that Comet!" Shadow exclaimed. Shadow pulled out his chaos emerald and shouted "CHAOS CONTROL!" and with that, the entire group was teleported to their new destination: the Black Comet.
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