Chapter 3: Who Am I Exactly?
Later, at night, Shades had set up a campfire, along with a bed that wasn't very comfortable.
He got up, not able to sleep, and then he started to have flashes of something...weird...
He thought of it as nothing, and decided he should keep moving.
Later on, he scared himself by stepping on a twig...and started to run...
Everything was flashing by him as he ran...he could feel wind everywhere on his body...
He was running faster than humanly possible!
He stopped, and he wondered...just who was he?
A failed android?
Or was he...himself?
He couldn't answer that now...because he saw lights ahead.
City lights.
He walked into the city, and looked at the sign there.
"Station...Square?" Shades read aloud to himself.
"Yep! Station Square, the city that was attacked a few months ago, remember?" a random guy passing by said.
"No...I don't...I uh...come from a different country!" Shades said.
"Oh, really? Funny...you look alot like Sonic The Hedgehog...but more like Shadow The Hedgehog…" The guy said.
"What's this? Did you say...Shadow The Hedgehog?" Shades asked excitedly.
"Yeah, he died...but he came back recently. It was weird." The guy said.
"..." Shades just stood there.
The guy walked away.
"How long was I asleep? Eggman just RECENTLY said he'd bring him back to life..." Shades said, trying to remember.
"I must have been knocked out for at LEAST two days I guess..." Shades said to himself.
He looked at the day's newspaper.
"Sonic Defeats Eggman Once Again! Metal Sonic Behind It All!" The headline read.
"Sonic...and Metal Sonic? What is this?" Shades says, thinking aloud.
"History of Sonic! Page 27!" The paper says. Shades turns to Page 27.
It tells him all about Sonic, all his adventures, and his misadventures, and his freinds, and his enemies.
"So...I guess I should look for this..."Sonic" person," Shades says.
While walking off to see if anyone knows where he currently is, he looks at a picture of a blue hedgehog.
"Sonic" is written under it.
"He looks a lot like me..." Shades says, then looks to the right of the picture.
It's a picture of a black and red hedgehog, with the name "Shadow" under it.
A girl walks by.
The girl gasps.
"MR.SHADOW!" The girl says excitedly.
Shades turns around.
"Sorry but...you got the wrong guy," Shades says.
"Oh...well, why do you look like Mr. Shadow?" The girl asks.
Shades looks down.
"I've been wondering that very thing myself," Shades says, sadly.
"I can help you find Shadow though! I'm looking for him too!" Shades says.
"Ok! My name's Cream! Cream the Rabbit!" Cream says, excitedly.
The ground shakes.
"Wait..WHAT THE HECK IS THAT!?" Shades yells.
Up in the sky, a big black hole.
Shades notices something on a cliff...it's a black and red alien talking to...Shadow the Hedgehog!?
The alien disappears, as Shades grabs Cream's arm and runs to the cliff.
But Shadow runs off before they can get there.
"Darn! We lost him!" Shades says, angrily.
"Um...Mr. Shades...how can you run so fast?" Cream asks.
Shades closes his eyes.
"An evil man created me...I think his name was...Eggman...I'm called...The Shadow Android." Shades says.
"I was a failed first project...so he threw me away," Shades says, sadly.
"Oh...so that's why you wanted to talk to Mr. Shadow then?" Cream asks.
"Yes...I want to find him...to find the truth," Shades says.
"Last I saw Mr. Shadow he went out to look for the truth too...about his past. I think he had...amnesia or something?" Cream said.
"Hmmm...Do you know what he might be looking for to uncover his past?" Shades asks.
"Well...maybe he's looking for the Chaos Emeralds!" Cream says.
"The Chaos emerald hold unlimited power, plus they come in colors too!" Cream says.
"The Chaos Emeralds..." Shades says to himself.
Shades hears something.
"WATCH OUT CREAM!" Shades yells.
Shades saves Cream from a laser just in time.
It looks like we have to fight our way to Shadow...