Chapter Four: Some Things Never Change
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Shadow landed on a building just outside the city, it cracked below his feet. He saw the robots flying out to the ocean. He cringed his eyes angrily and he held out his green chaos emerald and looked at it and looked back at the robot who was entering a drop door of the Egg Carrier which just floated above the ocean. Shadow wanted to save his energy, so he put his emerald and he teleported himself a few city blocks down. He teleported onto a building and around it were more structures. He picked up the speed and hopped of the building, sprinted across the one he landed on and the building he stood on before, below it hung out a flag pole he jumped for it and grabbed on he swung very fast and finally let go and was swung into the air and headed toward the Egg Carrier.
Eggman was in the bridge and watched out the window in front of him with a evil smirk. Behind him was Kuki being held prisoner by a robot. "You know shadow will come for me!'' she shouted at him. He chuckled and stood up from the chair and walked to her and stood before her. He walked to the left "That energy swirling inside shadow will sooner or later kill him, then you can say bye-bye to your so called friend.'' he said "Shadows the strongest and won't be defeated you dummy!'' she exclaimed, eggman was being annoyed every second. "Keep that up, and I'll have you shot out of the air lock!'' he threatened. She looked down and ignored him "Shadow may be the ultimate life form, but this will change that for good, what do you think he'll come crashing into MY ship!?'' he shouted and then breaking through the glass behind Eggman was shadow and he held a M60 in his hands. Eggman quickly noticed and turned around "Me and my big mouth.'' eggman mumbled. Kuki was full of joy as he came to her rescue. Shadow pointed the heavy machine gun at his nemesis. "You let her go.'' shadow said pointing the gun at Eggman's heart. Eggman held his hands in surrender and backed up slowly "Calm now shadow, you don't want to do anything rash.'' "Oh I think I do.'' shadow replied. Eggman sat in his chair and under the arm rest he pressed a button and the room turned red and the high alert was activated. Eggman of course ran for it. Shadow charged at the robot holding Kuki captive and gave a strong kick into its chest and it slammed to the ground setting Kuki free.
She ran over to shadow and hugged him, he picked her up and headed for the window except a group of robots came from behind, shadow smirked and took out a M79 grenade and tossed it at the robots and jumped out of the hole in the window and the grenade exploded destroying all the robots in the bridge. Shadow and Kuki fell through clouds, but kuki held onto him. Shadow spotting buildings below him he teleported onto a building top safely. He sighed heavily and smiled at kuki he started to walk when metal knuckles landed on the roof in front of him. He turned around and there landed Metal Sonic.
Shadow growled and looked at both of them, without warning the two metals came charging but shadow teleported leaving the two metals crashing into each other. Shadow started speeding down a street and weaved through traffic. Shadow jumped onto a car and looked behind him and saw metal sonic and knuckles jetting towards them with their boosters at full speed. Shadow jumped off the car and skated across the side of a building and looked over his shoulder to see the metals flying after him and they fired machine guns which their arms transformed into, the trail of bullets was behind them but shadow continued going.
Shadow left the building but metal sonic tackled him and kuki fell out of his grip, she started falling and fast. Shadow who was tackled by metal sonic was still holding onto him. Shadow kicked him in the chest and gave him an upper cut and metal sonic crashed through a window. Shadow teleported quickly to kuki and she was screaming until shadow had her in his arms and he hovered to the ground in the middle of a street. Shadow perked up and metal knuckles came lunging at him but shadow evaded it as metal knuckles claw cracked the street. He took his claw out of the pavement and next to him landed metal sonic, the two activated their boosters and charged shadow did a front flip over them and landed on the ground and put kuki down. He grabbed his chest in pain "The energy is starting to work.'' he spoke kuki wanted to help but shadow pointed away "You go, I'll handle this.'' he said looking back at the two metals walking toward him. Kuki was about so speak but was interrupted "NO! You run and I'll handle this, just GO!!'' he demanded.
She then started running away from him as he told her. Shadow regained his strength and got up and he cracked his knuckles and got in a fighting stance. The two metals didn't wait and charged shadow stood still and he held his hands to the left and right. Shadow charged as well and he skidded across the ground, the metals zoomed past him and they stopped and turned around at shadow who was smiling victoriously. The metals looked confused and noticed on their chests were C4 charges, shadow held the detonator and pressed, the place the metals stood turned into a fireball with smoke rising into the air. He smiled and walked away, then quickly the pain came back again he gripped his chest the poison energy was getting stronger and sooner or later he has to give. Shadow felt a sharp pain in his back as he crashed into the side of a parked car.
He had a dizzy head from that and looked in front of him to see metal sonic and metal knuckles ready for more fighting. Shadow felt his head he couldn't fight in this condition but ignored the fact. He stepped away from the car and he clenched his fists at his side metal sonic flew at him first shadow countered by grabbing his wrist and tossed him into a building window. Shadow saw metal knuckles charged next, shadow jumped to the left and metal knuckles came to a halt and turned around to see shadow drive his foot into his face. Metal knuckles rolled across the ground and metal sonic charged again, shadow evaded it except metal sonic grabbed him by the leg and dragged him across the ground and ended by flying up and threw shadow down to the street with great force and impacted the pavement with a loud bang. Shadow got up slowly but metal sonic stopped him by landing on him full force. Shadow then lay still and motionless. Metal Sonic walked out of the crater shadows body created when being thrown and metal knuckles followed. Shadow crawled out of the hole covered with bruises, covered with some dirt and severe wounds across his body. Shadow had one of his eyes closed and looked up to see eggman in his hover ship fly in front of him. Eggman smiled and moved his hand to one of his robots holding a unconscious kuki in its grasp. "This is no longer your world shadow, you'll die no matter what you do, this is the end of you.'' eggman said at him and he flew away in his hover ship with the two metals and the robot with kuki captured flew away. Shadow held out one hand in front of him and then he passed out into a deep dark sleep.