I DO NOT OWN ANYTHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING. I think... Just Samantha and other crappy extra characters :3 Enjoy!

Darkness Shall Thrive

-Chapter 2: What seemed a normal Day-

Shadow sneaked into the hidden base where the two soldiers were heading to. It was most likely a G.U.N base, except with less security and not giant robots patrolling the area. He easily sneaked inside and kept following both of the men until they reached an area of maximum security. Shadow could see that it led to a secret room which probably was the main laboratory for the looks of it. He entered to the place going through the ventilation system and landed in a desk. Luckily, there was no one there, for the two soldiers stayed behind eating lunch.

There were all kinds of experiments. There were these slimy worms in glass containers and what seemed a monkey going turbo inside its cage. The other creatures were most likely the Artificial Chaos. Shadow remembered how his creator lost control over them and raided the entire colony. He had to take care of them alongside his friend.

There was this odd looking liquid inside a glass cube at one of the room´s corner. Shadow got closer to it. The liquid was dense and obscure with a purple color. There was even like smoke coming out of it.

"This seems… somehow… familiar." Shadow thought. He touched the cube with his index finger and the liquid destroyed its "cage", going crazy around the room like a fish escaping from a shark. It attacked Shadow, trying to go through him, but the hedgehog dodged its attack.

The creature stopped moving and Shadow stared at it deeply.

-O-O-O-

"So what´s the question, miss?" Sonic asked nervously.

"Well, this may seem strange but… Oh, you know what? Forget about it. I´ll be on my way back to Central City." Samantha shyly said standing up and walking away. Sonic also stood up and ran towards her stopping her to keep moving.

"I insist, Samantha. Don´t you wanna know everything about the two heroes who saved the day again?"

Samantha sighed and kneeled down to be at Sonic´s size.

"Well, I´ve told you that´s it´s weird, and maybe crazy…"

"Oh, please. I love crazy stuff!" Sonic exclaimed.

The girl shut her eyes for a moment. Sonic waited impatiently for the question. When she opened her eyes, they appeared to be from a different color. Sonic hid his smile while staring at her face. Her eyes changed to a pale green color that looked straight a Sonic with an evil smile. Sonic backed down a little bit.

"Sa-Samantha? Are you feeling alright?" The blue hedgehog asked nervously.

"Oh, my darling Sonic. I have never been better!" She exclaimed bending down creepily approaching to the blue blur. "Do you want to hear the question now?"

Sonic nodded clearing his throat. Samantha opened her mouth and with a hoarse voice asked:

"What are you capable to sacrifice?"

-O-O-O-

Shadow looked confused at the creature. "What do you mean by that?"

The liquid experiment got closer to the black hedgehog, wrapping him with his dense texture. The creature asked again:

"What are you capable to sacrifice?"

-O-O-O-

"What are we talking about here? Sacrifice for what?" Sonic asked.

-O-O-O-

"For the future."

-O-O-O-

"The future?"

"Yes, for the next generations and for the planet."

-O-O-O-

"Who are you?" Shadow asked while staring at the creature still going in circles around him.

"I am your worst nightmare…"

"?"

"I am…" the creature said as taking its new form. The black hedgehog gazed astonished how it was taking his shadow to be completed. When done, the creature exclaimed: "… Mephiles the Dark!"

"Shadow, I won´t let you get in my way! Why are you doing this?! Don´t you remember that this world is devastated by your "friend" here? What´s gotten into you? Tell me!" Silver shouted wanting an explanation from the black hedgehog.

Shadow was about to enter to Station Square when Silver suddenly appeared. The black hedgehog was demanded to answer a lot of questions.

"Hmph… I don´t have to give explanations to people like you."

Silver grabbed him with his telekinesis and threw him to some rubber that were in pile in the outsides of the city. Shadow stood up and threw him a massive Chaos Spear which made the silver hedgehog crash into a building. He spit out blood.

"Don´t you know that there are people who live in fear here? They all need a real hero. I´m not one. All I can do for them is to help them to find shelter. But you can do more than that!" He shouted as Shadow walked to him giving the other hedgehog a rage look.

"I´m not Shadow." The black hedgehog exclaimed giving Silver a punch in the stomach. Silver, with the little air he had left, asked Shadow:

"If you´re not the Shadow I know, then, who are you?"

The black blur smirked.

Shadow started to feel pain in his head. He knew that name. He knew the creature. The hedgehog started to go deep in his thoughts, but couldn´t remember the other at all. But, his form, his shape, his eyes, were so familiar. Why? He took a few steps back and tried to concentrate.

"Me-Mephiles the Dark?"

"I bet you don´t remember me, do you?" Mephiles asked convinced that Shadow couldn´t recall meeting him. "Oh, I get it. You don´t remember me because the timeline was erased."

"What are you talking about?"

"I know you, Shadow the Hedgehog."

Shadow gasped.

"You are the one that helps me out in the future…"

"You are saying nonsense! Why would I help you?"

-O-O-O-

Samantha disappeared in black smoke before Sonic could do anything about it.

"The next generation…. What was she talking about?" Sonic thought. He soon realized that all the people was staring awkwardly at him and what had been the girl that was interviewing the hedgehog. He took off a little far from there and sat down near a tree.

"That was… interesting, I think…" Sonic tried to puzzle the situation until he remembered that Shadow had gone someplace else. He looked for him around the place, but the black hedgehog was nowhere to be found.

-O-O-O-

"You´ll find out soon enough." Mephiles said and laughed. Shadow tried to attack him but the creature vanished in the air. Shadow closed his eyes and thought:

"Mephiles… who is he?"

And he returned to the park where Sonic was looking for him.

"There you are! Geez, I keep on losing you." Sonic exclaimed giving Shadow a pat on the back.

"Umm, just poking around. I found some experiments in that base over there." Shadow said pointing at the military facility behind them.

"Oh, okay. Yikes! Let me tell you what happened. It was really strange, though."

"Okay…" Shadow sighed not looking forward to this conversation.

"Well, Samantha, the girl that was interviewing me, suddenly was possessed by someone."

"Possessed?"

"Yeah, she suddenly started to talk with a different voice, smiling kind of evil and her eyes turned flaming green!"

"That´s bizarre… Did it seemed evil?"

"It was the creepiest thing I´ve ever seen, Shad!"

"Something similar happened to me. One of the experiments that I found was a mysterious shadow that looked the same way you´re telling the girl transformed into. Did it say its name?"

"Not at all. I was gonna ask, but she disappeared."

"Do you remember someone named Mephiles?"

Sonic thought for a moment. "No, but it sure sounds familiar."

"Yes, it does."

Sonic looked at Shadow confused on what was happening and asked him another thing.

"Was he talking about the future?"

"Yes…"

"Okay, what is going on here?!" Sonic asked exclaiming furiously to the sky.

"Yelling won´t help, Sonic. It seems like we got another mystery to solve here."

Sonic nodded.

"Yes, I guess it´s time for another adventure!"

"Your last adventures hadn´t been that exciting for you to get like that."

"You ruined my moment, Shadow!"

I simply love writing this kind of stuff. You may be thinking: "What is going on?!" Well, as Sonic said Samantha was posessed by Mephiles right at the moment when Shadow got him out. So yeah... Oh, and we also see the return of Silver the Hedgehog, YAY!

If you have any other questions, feel free to PM me.

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