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The sound of alarms and sirens echoed through the base and a series of robots marched towards a forest as they aimed weapons at the intruder; a black hedgehog skating towards them at high speed. Firing their weapons, the hedgehog simply skated through the attacks and there was an explosion as he skated through the robots, resulting in them to blow up to smithereens. Jumping onto one of the robots, he leapt over the tall wall guarding the base. "That better have been recorded because I freaking owned! And I'm gonna upload that onto YouTube!" Shadow thought to himself as he landed on the other side of the wall.
Shadow smiled as he heard a loud explosion on the other side of the wall, impressed with himself about his kickass skills. Looking around, he saw a pile of metal barrels and dashed to them. Seeing a spotlight pass by, he moved into the shadows more and Shadow remarked, "Damn. I better keep out of the light. That's how the aliens get you. You get in the light and suck you up by your chest…or that's the more rabid fangirls searching me out because I'm so badass." Hearing a beeping noise, Shadow looked at his left wrist. "How the Hell does talking into my wrist let me communicate with people? Did I get a radio chip implant or something?"
"Transmission from HQ. There's an SOS coming from Dr. Eggman's Base. Our last communication with our agent was 26 hours ago. We need you to make sure that they didn't take off or they're not dead. If it's neither option…we expect an immediate rescue Shadow the Hedgehog." Shadow heard a GUN Agent tell him through his wrist and paused to think about it.
"Understood." Shadow decided and the connection ended. "You know, I don't know how I ended up working for these guys after they declared war on me and tried to kill me. Initiating the mission now."
Looking around for any other robots or enemies to use his kickass skills on, he disappeared into thin air with his Chaos Control the instant he was sure the area was clear.
Walking away from Eggman's base in White Acropolis with Rouge behind him carrying some sort of glowing object that looked like a satanic bright purple glow stick with something black weaving around it that Shadow was not going to ask about, Rouge questioned, "Don't you want to know what this is?"
Stopping as he turned to face the part-time government agent, Shadow looked at the object in question and Rouge before he responded, "First of all, what the Hell is wrong with your voice? You sound like you're forty or something. Second of all, my assignment was to rescue you, nothing more. Third of all, why the Hell does it matter to me what that glowing evil looking thing is?" There was a rumbling noise as the ground shook and the pair looked around. "What in the Hell was that?"
"Fine. With you, it's always business, but looks like they want to know." Rouge remarked as three robots dropped in front of the duo and pointed weapons at them. "It seems they don't want us to leave. And they really want us to take this thing back."
"Hmph. Shut up Rouge. I got some robots to kill," silenced Shadow as he faced the robots and took a fighting stance, getting ready to show off some more of his kickass abilities, "let's get this over with."
Surrounded by a mysterious bright pink substance, Rouge and Shadow appeared out of nowhere in a room that really only consisted of a computer. Still holding the unknown object, Rouge went up to the computer and looked at the screen that had a map while Shadow wandered through the room, just looking around for nothing in particular. "Ah Soleanna, the city of water. Here's some info about the place. It has a constitutional monarchy you know. The primary industries are tourism and crafting precision machinery." Rouge informed as she looked at a computer screen. She saw Shadow looking at a portrait of a redheaded girl. "The current sovereign is Princess Elise the Third."
"Shut up Rouge. I don't care about the economy or political system of the place. Do you know what I want to know?" Shadow replied. He turned to face her with his arms crossed and a serious expression on his face. "Why does Eggman's base lead to an odd place like this?"
"How should I know? I just followed my orders and retrieved the item. What else do you want me to say?"
"That's it? You didn't ask for any details or anything?"
"Hey, like I said, I just did what I was told to get the evil satanic glow stick thing. Anyway, I have a little favor to ask of you. Could you escort me to the GUN rendezvous point?"
"Wasn't I only supposed to rescue you? I didn't sign up for this, but fine. Where's the rendezvous point?" agreed Shadow.
"Again, I just asked you for a favor, it wasn't a life or death choice." Rouge replied. She pointed at a red dot on the map on the computer screen. "It's the ancient castle of Soleanna in Kingdom Valley."
Walking into the abandoned castle, Rouge and Shadow stopped as they looked around and Shadow remarked, "Damn. I got a bad feeling about this. If you're supposed to meet them here…where the Hell are they?"
"Here's a fact about the place. The former king of Soleanna used to reside in this castle, but a major accident occurred 10 years ago and no one's lived here since." Rouge informed, ignoring what he said.
"I really don't care why the place is abandoned, but seriously Rouge. You should really put some sorta complaint to SEGA about your voice and I really want to know why GUN isn't here."
"I'm telling you anyway."
"Fine," Shadow replied as he turned to face the treasure hunting bat, "accident?"
"I heard a prototype energy engine failed, which caused the accident. I think the name of the plan was…" Rouge trailed off.
"The Solaris Project." A familiar voice interjected. Rouge and Shadow looked in the direction of the voice to see Eggman in a floating robot with two large hands. "It was an ambitious project named after their eternal sun god."
"Doctor!" responded Rouge and the evil genius looked at her.
"It's been a while, my dear Rouge," continued Eggman before looking at the black hedgehog, "and of course, Shadow."
"What? I'm not important enough that I don't get an adjective to my name?" Shadow sneered. "And what the Hell happened to you? You look like a real douche bag."
"I am going to do what my therapist told me and to ignore what you said. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me," Eggman replied, "now, if you'd be so kind as to hand back the Scepter of Darkness you took from me."
"Tsk. Forget about getting your satanic glow stick back!" Snarled Shadow and Eggman snapped his fingers, resulting in a massive heap of robots to surround Rouge and Shadow. "Holy crap! Where the Hell do you keep getting all these effing robots?"
A robot fired a weapon at Rouge and Shadow who jumped out of the way and Rouge took to the sky. Eggman pushed a lever and Rouge yelled as something collided with her and she began to crash to the ground, losing her grip on the Scepter of Darkness that Eggman was attempting to take from her. Seeing Rouge plummeting towards the ground, Shadow exclaimed, "Damn it! I have to save you again!" Rushing towards the falling bat, the black hedgehog slid along the ground underneath Rouge as he caught her. "And that was a friggen sweet catch! I hope I got that one recorded and I'm gonna put it on YouTube as well."
Watching his actions had the object smash onto the stone ground, smashing it open, and the robots malfunction, Eggman cried, "No! That wasn't supposed to happen!"
Setting Rouge down and standing up, Shadow walked up to the object and looked at it. Reaching down to touch the cloud of dark purple smoke, Rouge exclaimed, "Shadow!"
Shadow withdrew his hand and remarked, "Damn. I don't know what this is. Maybe I should poke it with a stick first."
Preparing to find a stick to poke the smoke with, the smoke suddenly shot up to the sky and Eggman shouted frantically, "It's no use! Pull back, pull back, pull back!"
Eggman took off in his giant floating pod with arms and Shadow and Rouge watched the smoke as it passed through Eggman's robots before diving down into the ground where Shadow standing, resulting in the Ultimate Life Form to have met the same fate as the robots if he did not jump back just in time. Rouge stood up and the pair looked at the spot where the smoke had disappeared and the cloud of smoke slowly evaporated out of the ground. Watching as his shadow was absorbed into the mysterious smoke, Shadow swore and huffed, "Aww, it took my friggen shadow."
Watching the smoke as it transformed into a being similar to Shadow except for the coloring and eyes, Rouge remarked, "What? His shadow…"
"Wuahahahaha!" The figure laughed and Shadow gave a slightly surprised look mixed with confusion.
"Damn. That is one Hell of an evil laugh." The Ultimate Life Form complimented.
"Oh, how ironic fate can be! I would never have believed I would be resurrected through your shade! I thank you, Shadow the Hedgehog!" the figure responded and bowed to Shadow.
"Hang on a sec. Who are you? How do you know my name? And why are you bowing to me?"
"I'm Mephiles. Mephiles the Dark. And I'm bowing because you resurrected me through your shade."
"Hmph. More like Mephiles the Shadow the Hedgehog Recolor. Damn. SEGA got lazy with their villain designs."
"What? Did you forget me?"
"Can't say I remember you. Otherwise, I would know your name and other details about you that would explain something."
"I owe much to you, Shadow. Oh yes." Mephiles continued and shuffled up to Shadow and stopped so Shadow was able to see the bright green lizard like eyes he had.
Watching Mephiles as he raised his hand, Shadow took a couple of steps back and snapped, "Hey. Personal space Recolor."
Ignoring what the onyx hedgehog was saying, a small ball of violet energy appeared in Mephiles hand as he finished, "Enough of this chit chat. What you gave to me, I now return to you! A one-way ticket to oblivion!"
Holding his hand up in the air, the ball of energy floated into the air before it surrounded the three of them and Rouge and Shadow shielded their eyes as Rouge yelled, "Ah! The light! It's bright!"
Rouge disappeared into thin air and a few seconds later, Shadow did as well, and Mephiles disappeared as the ball of energy vanished.
Landing on their as they dropped out a floating swirling blue hole, Rouge and Shadow stood up as the space-time rift disappeared and looked around. Running to the edge of the ruins to get a better look at the rest of the ruins, Rouge questioned, "What is this place? It definitely isn't on one of the top holiday spots."
"How in the Hell should I know? I got zapped with you." Shadow answered. He looked at the ruins which seemed endless before they looked at each other. "It seems we've been teleported to another location."
"Well, let's find out where we are and since you're not going to want to ask for directions about where we are…I'm going to find something that will help us." Decided Rouge and she ran off.
Moving to catch up to Rouge, Shadow stopped and looked in the opposite direction the part-time government agent took off in. "Mephiles…who is he?" Shadow wondered to himself before chasing after Rouge. "Well, at least SEGA decided to do a recolor of the good looking one."
Standing in front of a computer that somehow managed to miraculously survive in nearly perfect condition, Shadow had his arms crossed looking incredibly bored while Rouge typed away. "Crap. That huge green rock I wanted…someone outbid me on eBay for it…oh well. I'll go steal it from them." Stated Rouge and Shadow gave her a pissed off look.
"Rouge. Don't talk more than you have to. Your voice sucks. Now stop cruising eBay and find out some relevant information I care about." Shadow ordered and Rouge glared at him before closing eBay.
"OK, fine." Rouge retorted and she typed into the computer again. "I'm in…Well, that was faster than I thought. It was just-"
"Rouge. I don't care. What'd you find?" interrupted Shadow, getting annoyed with her getting distracted.
"Alright, alright. I've pinpointed our location, it's…" replied Rouge as she continued to type into the computer. "No…that's not possible…We're still in the Doctor's base. But how can that be? The only way it could be…Wait, there's no doubt now!"
"Lemme get this straight. So, it's not where we are…" Shadow trailed off as several different things popped up on the screen and Rouge gasped while Shadow uncrossed his arms as they looked at all the pop ups before he looked at Rouge. "It appears we've gone through time…doesn't it?"
"Yes…Approximately 200 years. Maybe more, depending on when this database was last updated," Responded Rouge as she looked at him. "well, at least we know we're arrived in the future. That means this Mephiles character has the power to control time. That's some good news in all of this."
"His power feels very similar to my own Chaos Control…damn. He really is a Recolor of me, but…" Shadow trailed off and Rouge and Shadow whipped around as they heard a noise, ready to kick ass if needed.
Appearing in a blob of a pink substance, Knuckles, Silver, and Tails fell from the ceiling as the substance faded away, yelling until they landed, Sonic landing on his feet, Tails on his rear end, and Knuckles on his noggin. Still sitting on the ground as Knuckles and Sonic got up, Tails commented,"Boy, do I feel dizzy…that really hurt."
Rubbing his head, Knuckles looked at Sonic and Tails as Tails got up before Knuckles stated, "Hey. I feel kinda off."
"Shut up and suck it up." Retorted Sonic, looking at the place they were in.
"Sonic. I landed on my head and I think I'm seriously hurt. I might need to go to the hospital." Knuckles continued and Sonic turned to face the Guardian of the Master Emerald.
"I said shut up and suck it up!" snapped Sonic, obviously annoyed with the echidna's whining.
Gazing around the room while Knuckles and Sonic bickered about taking Knuckles to the hospital, Tails wondered, "Where are we?"
"Oh, look who's here! I didn't expect to see you guys," the trio heard someone respond, "and do you mean apart from a crappy video game?"
Looking in the direction of the old lady sounding voice, Knuckles, Sonic, and Tails saw Rouge and Shadow standing above them, Rouge waving and Shadow look like he could care less about seeing them. "Rouge the Jewel Obsessed Bat! Shadow the Emo Sonic Recolor!" Tails exclaimed.
"Hi. Long time no see!" greeted Rouge.
"What the Hell is wrong with your voice? You sound like you're forty or something." questioned Sonic as he looked at the treasure hunting bat and she stopped waving.
"Shut up. I don't want to talk about it!" Rouge snapped, obviously very sensitive about her voice after some of the insults Shadow had given her.
"And I'm not emo anymore!" Shadow sneered.
Knuckles, Rouge, Shadow, Sonic, and Tails stood on a ruined building as Knuckles, Sonic, and Tails looked at the rest of the ruins, the trio standing at a point where, if they "accidentally" fell, no one would be to blame, especially Rouge or Shadow. Consulting the little angel and the little devil on his shoulders, Shadow began, "This is the distant future, far removed from our own timeline."
"Wow. Everything kinda went downhill." Sonic responded as he continued to look over the ruins with Knuckles.
Turning around to face the onyx hedgehog, Tails questioned, "The future? Then that means Eggman's machine can control time!"
"Damn. Maybe I should give him more credit than being an overweight douche bag." Replied Shadow, taking this new information into consideration and Knuckles and Sonic turned around.
"Eggman's got some nerve dropping us here. I mean-" Sonic started.
Shadow interrupted, "Silence! Go complain to SEGA about it."
"Fine. I will." Sonic huffed and muttered something along the lines of he was going to suggest that Shadow got fired from SEGA for his attitude as well.
"Now, how can we get back to our own time?" Knuckles questioned as he kicked a rock away, nearly having it veer off course and hit its target of Rouge in the face if she did not move out of the way.
"You need a space-time rift, but this requires a lot of energy and it's far too complicated for someone with an IQ level like you." Replied Shadow and Knuckles also muttered something about suggesting Shadow should be fired from SEGA.
"I see. You mean using your Chaos Control will…" Sonic trailed off.
"Yes, but that alone is insufficient," Shadow cut off as he pointed at Sonic, "it hurts me to say that because it wrecks my credential as an all powerful kickass hedgehog."
"OK Shadow. As much as I hate it…it looks like we need to work together." Sonic stated and gave a thumbs up, trying to make the experience more bearable, resulting in Shadow to cross his arms.
"Damn. I was afraid you were going to say that." Mumbled Shadow, but still reluctantly nodded in agreement.
Strolling down a ruined street, still in Crisis City, Shadow gave an annoyed look as he looked around while Rouge held on to the Green Chaos Emerald they found, flaunting it in every direction to get it to sparkle while she stared hypnotically at it. "My precious Chaos Emerald. You are all so beautiful. Your mysterious brilliance…Oh, all the things I could do if I sell you on eBay…" Rouge remarked with a small laugh.
"Rouge! There is no freaking way in Hell you are selling that on eBay! Either you put it away or you don't get to carry it anymore!" snarled Shadow and Rouge glared at him as she stashed it away.
Shadow came to a stop as he stared at something and Rouge stopped as she saw a familiar robot that Shadow was staring at. "Omega! What's he doing here?" Rouge questioned.
Shadow picked up a stick as he went to the dust covered robot and poked him with it. Not getting a response, Shadow tossed the stick away and Rouge went up to Omega as Shadow went behind him. "You don't think he got a virus or something, do you?" suggested Rouge as Shadow wiped some dust off the robot.
"Give me some time to find out!" Shadow retorted and typed something into the back of Omega. "It seems he's in standby mode."
"What could have possibly happened to create this future?" Rouge wondered while Shadow said nothing before shaking his head. Rouge's wrist did a series of small rings and she looked at it. "Now, who could that be? Yes, this is Rouge. Understood. We'll be there in a minute."
"I still don't know how talking into your wrist lets you communicate with people." Stated Shadow, still not taking his eyes off the lifeless Omega.
"I don't know how they got my number since it's highly classified information, but I guess it doesn't matter now. It looks like Sonic and his friends have found something too. Let's go." Rouge told Shadow as she looked at him and saw he was still transfixed on Omega. "It's not like we can do anything for him now."
Unable to express all the emotions he was feeling about the scene, Shadow nodded as he half-heartedly answered, "Yeah."
Walking away from one of his friends, Rouge gave one more look at Omega before rushing after the Ultimate Life Form.
Knuckles, Sonic, and Tails reached Flame Core where they decided to meet the other two trapped anamorphic animals and they saw Rouge and Shadow waiting, Shadow with his arms crossed and Rouge with her hands at her sides, both of them looking incredibly bored. "Oh my gosh! Finally! You guys are so slow-" Rouge commented once they the other three.
"Well, Knuckles got lost and we had to find him again." Retorted Sonic, glaring at the crimson echidna that was the reason he, the world's fastest hedgehog, was called slow.
Knuckles snapped, "Shut up Sonic!"
"Typical of Knuckie. Anyway, look." Rouge replied and held out the Green Chaos Emerald.
"A Chaos Emerald!" Tails exclaimed, full of excitement as he pointed at it. "You've already found one! That's amazing!"
"Well now…I may not look it, but I'm a real treasure hunter," bragged Rouge with Knuckles turned around and Sonic crossed his arms, obviously annoyed with her attitude, "unlike a certain echidna I know…and we all know who I'm talking about."
"What?" Knuckles growled as he turned around to face her and stomped up to her. He scoffed and turned away again. "Look, the only reason I haven't found any treasure is because I've been guarding the Master Emerald."
"Yeah, right." Rouge countered.
Finally speaking still with his arms crossed, Shadow scoffed, "You two are just like two little kids who like each other. Just admit that you like each other already."
"Yes!" the Knuouge shippers cheered.
"What? Me and Knucklehead? Eww!" Rouge replied, putting the precious gem away.
"Me and Bat Girl? That's just wrong!" added Knuckles.
"They're in love. They just won't admit it." The Knuouge Shippers reasoned, still full of happiness from Shadow's comment.
"Yeah, whatever," Shadow responded, "have you guys discovered anything?"
"Um, yeah. I received a signal indicating there's a Chaos Emerald here, but…it's not gonna be pretty…" Answered Tails as he pointed behind them and the group turned to see a giant, dangerous looking gorge.
"You mean we're got to go through there?" Rouge interrupted. "That doesn't look like it'll be a walk in the park."
"If you don't like it, you can stay here and be labeled a Scaredy Cat." Smirked Knuckles as he stomped back up to her, glad to finally get a shot at Rouge.
"You've got to be kidding!" Rouge snapped back, tempted to kick Knuckles in the head for getting into her personal space as well as trying to insult her honor.
Seeing Shadow start to walk towards their goal, Sonic told him, "Don't be late Loser."
"Same to you Dumbass." Shadow snapped and took off, resulting in the others to dash after him.
Standing in Flame Core, Knuckles, Shadow, Sonic, and Tails watched as Rouge jumped in the air and flew to the Cyan Chaos Emerald that was floating in the air. "I found a Chaos Emerald!" Rouge proclaimed and reached to touch it.
Remembering all the adventure movies he watched, Shadow shouted, "Don't touch it!"
Ignoring the obvious piece of advice, Rouge went ahead and touched the Cyan Chaos Emerald and flew back as a huge flame flared in front of her. Landing with the rest of the group, Shadow did the badass thing and jumped ahead of everyone as a giant magma, ugly, and incomparable to anything they have ever seen worm thingy reared its ugly head and roared at them. Rouge exclaimed, "What? What's this?"
"Damn it Rouge! Why don't you ever listen to me?" snapped Shadow as the creature roared at them. "This is the third time I'm saving your ass this game! And now we have to take out some magma worm thing!"
Knuckles, Rouge, Shadow, Sonic, and Tails were still in Flame Core, the only differences being that they took out a giant magma worm thing and acquired a Chaos Emerald in the process. Sonic took out the Cyan Chaos Emerald while Shadow took out the Green Chaos Emerald and the two hedgehogs looked at each other. "Let's just get this over with and I don't have to see your face anymore." Shadow stated.
"Agreed." Responded Sonic.
"Enough with the chatting and let's go home!" barked Knuckles and Shadow and Sonic nodded.
Holding up the two Chaos Emeralds, Shadow and Sonic chorused, "Chaos Control!"
There was some glimmering and a space-time rift hovered out of the two Chaos Emeralds before turning blue and Sonic dashed through it, ready to get away from the onyx hedgehog with Knuckles and Tails close behind him. Rouge jumped into the air and turned to face Shadow as she stayed in the air, watching him as he casually walked towards it. Watching Rouge as she slowly flew into the space-time rift, Shadow was about to follow her when he saw a cloud of dark black smoke by a single flame behind him, the smoke eventually forming into Mephiles. Mephiles looked at the flame before looking at Shadow in a creepy way and the Ultimate Life Form began a staring contest, his badass look against the creepy Shadow the Hedgehog Recolor. "To go after Recolor or not to go after Recolor…that is the question." Shadow pondered to himself as he continued his staring contest with Mephiles. He quickly thought about it. "Screw it! I'm going to go kick his ass for being a recolor!"
Determined to follow through on the decision, Shadow skated after Mephiles who did some sort of gliding thing going backwards.
Rouge jumped out of the space-time rift, the Green Chaos Emerald clattering onto the stone ground next to her. Standing up as the space-time rift disappeared, Rouge looked to see Soleanna again and smiled as she joked, "That sure beats getting a pair or red shoes, clicking our heels three times, and saying "There's no place like home", doesn't it Shadow?" Not getting a response of any sort, Rouge took a few stops around as she searched for the Ultimate Life Form. "Shadow? Shadow!"
Still not getting any response or any sign of him, Rouge noticed the Green Chaos Emerald on the ground and bent down as she picked it up. Looking at it, she began to piece together what all these things meant. "Shadow…and he doesn't a Chaos Emerald anymore…oh crap. Shadow's stuck in the future!" she exclaimed and heard a ringing noise coming from her wrist.
Looking at her wrist, Rouge heard a GUN agent start, "Hello? Agent Rouge? We've been trying to contact you for a while already. Report your status immediately. Have you retrieved the Scepter of Darkness?"
Standing up, Rouge began, "Well, uh, umm-"
"Is there a problem?" the GUN agent questioned and Rouge felt like she was being backed into a corner.
"Well…Shadow is...well…I'll provide a full report shortly. Right now, I have a priority situation to deal with. I need to contact E-123 Omega immediately." Answered Rouge and ended the conversation before further questions could be asked.
Omega marched to the where of the assigned meeting with Rouge would take place in Tropical Jungle and Rouge commented as she arrived, "This is a charming little place. Why are we meeting in a jungle?"
"Because GUN said so." Omega bluntly answered as he turned to face Rouge and Rouge gave a look that she did have to agree with the location…somewhat.
"Alright then. Hi. Long time no see." Rouge greeted with a small wave.
Looking down at the female bat, Omega responded, "Rouge the Bat."
"Yeah, yeah. It's me. Alright, I'll make this short. To sum it up…Shadow's stuck in the future and can't get back to our time without a Chaos Emerald, so yeah…you see what I'm going at with this?" Rouge explained.
"Situation understood. What would you like me to do?" replied Omega.
"Take this and deliver it to Shadow," Rouge instructed as she held out the Green Chaos Emerald to him, "and make sure he gets it."
Taking the precious gem from her, a disk drive ejected from Omega's middle and he threw out a CD that Rouge barely managed to catch was "Omega's Party Mix" and he dropped the Chaos Emerald into the slot. The disk drive returned inside Omega and he informed, "System reactivation countdown initiated. Backup power source and spare magazines secured. Command program priority changed. New mission: Shadow Support. External access no longer permitted. Confirmed."
"I'm counting on you, so don't mess up or you're going to the junkyard…and Shadow's trapped in the future as well." Rouge finished with a small wave and Omega marched away to complete his new mission.
Running until he slowed to a stop, Shadow searched around for the antagonist whose ass he was about to kick and he thought, "Where is he?" He looked up to see Mephiles standing on a stalagmite, relatively balanced. "Oh. How the Hell did he get up there?"
Looking down at Shadow, Mephiles started, "So, decided to void your return ticket to the past and follow me now, did you?"
"So what if I'm stuck in the future with you? I've got my reasons." Shadow retorted. He pointed at his copycat. "Why are you here? Did you ruin this world?"
Mephiles answered, "The answer's yes and no."
Lowering his accusing finger, Shadow gave a WTF look and replied, "What the Hell kind of answer is that? It's a yes or no question!"
"Perhaps it's better to show you." Mephiles began and waved his hand, resulting in an advanced prison cell to appear and Shadow's eyes widened when he saw who was in the cell. "Yes, that's you."
"Geez, no kidding. How many black hedgehogs are there in the Sonic the Hedgehog series?" snapped Shadow, still staring at the scene. "Damn. I knew I was gonna get jail time for something eventually, but that just sucks. There's no room to move in there or anything."
"Silence. After the world was devastated by Iblis' flames, what do you think happened? A search for the guilty. Who did this you may ask?"
"I'm not gonna ask because you're gonna tell me anyway."
"Silence. Humanity wasn't just jealous of your power. They feared it."
"You mean my power to be kickass? Damn. I knew it was going to get me in trouble."
"Silence. They used this incident as an excuse to hunt you down. Come with me Shadow. Let us punish this foolish world of humanity. It is only fair to give back what was intended for you. You have every right to want justice."
Still looking at his future self in his prison, Shadow took a few moments to ponder what the right decision was and, after a short conversation with the small angel and devil on his shoulders, he looked back at Mephiles and responded, "That's absurd. Whatever it is you want to do, you can do it alone."
"You forgive humanity this folly then?" questioned Mephiles as he gestured to the future Shadow had in store if he did not join him. "You'll go to jail for them?"
"I determine my own destiny…and I gotta make sure they're around so I can get a second game from them." Shadow stated with his left hand in a fist, emphasizing his point as the Ultimate Life Form and his kickass skills, and Mephiles held his arms out. There was a bright flashing light and Shadow took a fighting stance as he saw Mephiles turned into some other form that was pretty…interesting looking. "That was kinda sweet, but I'm still gonna kick your ass…Now get your ass down here and fight like a man!"
Mephiles slowly got up after the kick ass moves Shadow used as Mephiles and Shadow faced each other and Mephiles spread out his arms dramatically, causing a ball of large violet energy to fly at Shadow. The ball collided with Shadow and pushed him back into a stalagmite, temporarily stunning the Ultimate Life Form and causing him to see a small Sonic speeding around his head. Recovering from the attack that luckily resulted in Sonic to disappear, Shadow fell to the ground, landing so he narrowly avoided a face plant into the dirt that could have resulted in severely hurting his ego and reputation. Looking up at Mephiles, Shadow snarled, "Oh! That hurt! You've just earned yourself a double ass kicking for that!"
"It's useless for you to fight me Shadow. I will keep beating you. Nothing can stop me!" Mephiles cackled when suddenly, a series of bullets passed between Shadow and Mephiles.
Looking at the direction the bullets came from, Mephiles and Shadow saw Omega pointing his weapon at them and Shadow exclaimed, "Omega! You're alive!"
Switching his right arm from a weapon to his hand, Omega responded, "Now is the designated time. I shall assist."
Mephiles flew backwards in slow motion and bounced along the ground until finally stopping, Shadow and Omega watching as the antagonist slowly got up and stumbled around like he took too many hits to the head or he was drunk. Once he finally steadied himself, Mephiles held out his arms and a large purple ball of energy appeared before Mephiles jumped into it. "Mephiles! Crap! He's getting away!" Shadow shouted and he skated into the space-time rift as Omega followed him before the time-rift sealed.
Dropping out of a purple cloud that was Mephiles' version of a space-time rift, Shadow and Omega stood up as the cloud disappeared. Taking a few steps as he searched for his evil clone, Shadow commented with a seriously pissed off look, "Damn. Where'd he go? I didn't finish kicking his ass."
"It appears Mephiles is no longer here. I will assist in pursuing him." Informed Omega and Shadow turned around to face the robot before nodding in approval and appreciation.
After all, two heads were better than one when it came to looking for someone whose ass needed to be kicked.
Rouge walked towards Shadow and Omega as she waved at them and the pair turned to face the female treasure hunter and part-time government agent as she waved at them. "Hi. It seems like Eggman's machines are looking for you. What did you do this time?" Rouge began with crossed arms. "Really. What'd you do that you managed to tick people off?"
"Nothing. I was stuck in the future Rouge, so it's impossible for me to have done something," Shadow responded with his eyes closed, "their target is probably Mephiles. You know, the guy who looks like me because he's a recolor of me."
Rouge rolled her eyes while Shadow opened his and Omega wondered, "What is Eggman up to? Who is Mephiles?"
"Screw this standing around here talking. I'm gonna ask him directly." Shadow declared and started to walk away.
"Hey, wait a sec! What-" started Rouge as she took a couple of steps to follow the onyx hedgehog and reached her hand out to him.
"Rouge. It's me. I can handle this alone," Shadow cut off as he stopped and turned to face the other two, "you keep track of Mephiles."
Watching Shadow as he resumed leaving and was completely gone, Rouge turned to Omega and remarked, "Hmph. He finally shows up again and then he leaves before even saying "Hello". Or thanking me for getting him out of the future. He can be such a dick at times. Well, it seems his little trip hasn't changed him." She activated her wrist communication which she had turned off so the telemarketers would stop harassing her. "This is Rouge. GUN HQ? Yes, pull all available data on an item called the Scepter of Darkness for me…it doesn't matter why or why I haven't given that report that I said I would, but I just need this data."
There was an explosion in the roof of the train and Shadow dropped through it and landed on the ground as he commented, "Badass entrance through the ceiling."
"Wouldn't the door have been easier?" Eggman remarked, his back turned to the Ultimate Life Form in his spinning chair.
"If the train wasn't moving…yes, but since the train was moving…my way was easier." Answered Shadow as he stood up and pointed at Eggman as the evil genius spun around a couple of times before he faced him.
"So, what do you want now?"
"Answer some of my questions. Easy as that. Who is Mephiles? And why are you trying to capture him?"
"Why should I? You insulted me earlier."
"What? What'd I do?"
"You called me a douche bag…and now I have to repair that hole in the roof because of you!"
"Cry me a river. Go complain to SEGA about it. I honestly don't care. Tell me about Mephiles the Shadow the Hedgehog Recolor now!"
Standing up as Shadow lowered his finger, Eggman turned his back to the onyx hedgehog as he did some weird form of pacing and replied, "If you want to know, you should go find him yourself."
"Then that kind of defeats the purpose of me coming here to ask you! Now stop with nonsense and tell me something useful!" Shadow snapped back, slightly annoyed from the chit chat.
"Oh, fine, but here's a hint…it's all linked to the Soleanna disaster 10 years ago." Replied Eggman.
"The Solaris Project." Shadow assumed.
"Indeed. When you capture Mephiles, you must bring him to me. Then I'll tell you the truth about Solaris." Eggman bargained as he once again faced Shadow and Shadow raised an eyebrow as Eggman sat down in his spinning chair and spun around a couple of times.
"Why the Hell would I do that? If I go through the effort of getting the guy…I'm gonna beat the crap out of him until I get what I want." Retorted Shadow and he quickly thought over the deal in his head and how the scenario would play out in his favor.
Running down the tracks carrying Elise after rescuing her from Eggman again, Sonic wished this game would finally end. He was really starting to get sick of rescuing this Princess from Eggman. It was basically all he did this game. "I knew it…I knew you'd return! You had to! You're my hero!" Elise cried and she held him in the point of where his face was turning blue before she finally let go of him.
Coughing to catch his breath again, Sonic mumbled, "Yeah. I kinda have no choice."
Seeing a teal light fly at them, Sonic jumped out of the way as the light hit the ground and set Elise down as he faced their attacker, a silver funny-looking hedgehog called, if he remembered correctly, was named Silver. Knowing this was not going to be pretty, Sonic sighed. He began, "You again. What do I have to do? Get a restraining order or something?"
"This time, there will be no more interruptions! The Iblis Trigger must die! And that's all there is to it!" Silver retorted.
"Sonic…" Elise trailed off as Sonic moved her behind him defensively, obviously in a move to deal with Silver without her getting hurt.
"Why is everyone trying to kill me? First Eggman, then Shadow, and now you…again!" Sonic snapped and Silver clenched his teeth.
Silver jerked his hand and Sonic did a slow motion jump out of the way before somersaulting to his feet. A few minutes later, Sonic was surrounded in teal light and being choked by the Force and Elise, deciding not to help the cobalt hedgehog who kept saving her in any way, slowly backed away from the two hedgehogs. "Finally! I've been looking for you to kidnap you again! So, how was your little walk Princess?" she heard Eggman remark and turned to see the antagonist as the robot arm reached out and screamed as it snatched her up.
Looking in the direction of the scream, Sonic saw Elise in the robot's arm and take off. "Elise!" Sonic shouted. He looked at Silver. "Great! I have to save her again! Thanks a lot Silver!"
Silver clenched his teeth as Sonic made a rude gesture at him and the teal light around Sonic got tighter. "It's time to end this!" stated Silver and moved in to deliver an attack to complete his mission.
Silver jumped back as a black hedgehog dropped down in between him and the blue hedgehog and Sonic was gasping for breath as the attack that was suffocating him disappeared. The black hedgehog looked at him and Silver clenched his teeth from frustration about his mission being stopped again. "Who? Mephiles! Why are you getting in my way? Why did they recolor you?" He demanded, ready to take out this black hedgehog guy.
"I'm Shadow. Shadow the Hedgehog." Shadow responded as he stood up and crossed his arms with a badass look, "and don't ever confuse me with that recolor!"
Shadow turned around to see Sonic was up and recovered and Sonic thanked, "Aww, thanks Shadow. I might take back some of the trash I said about you."
"Sonic. Stay here. I need to kick your ass because I have to save you." Shadow ordered and Sonic scoffed.
"Hell no," retorted Sonic and he gave Shadow a thumbs up before racing after Eggman, "thanks again Bro."
"Damn. I'll get you next time." Shadow decided as he uncrossed his arms and turned to face Silver, both of them getting ready for a showdown of epic proportions.
After their showdown, Shadow and Silver faced each other, both hedgehog breathing heavy and now using their looks to intimidate the other. Silver raised his fist with some sort of battle cry and moved towards Shadow, preparing to slam his fist into him. Whipping out the Green Chaos Emerald he managed to conveniently to get his hands on, Shadow held it up and began, "Check out this kickass move. Chaos Control!" Silver slowed down into slow motion before Shadow dashed behind him and delivered a kickass kick to the back of Silver's head and sending the psychic hedgehog to the ground. "Boom! You're down!"
Time returned to normal and Silver spat out a mouthful of dirt before turning to face the onyx hedgehog who was giving a badass look to emphasize his move. "You…" Silver trailed off, unable to find an insult that did not involve swearing to throw at Shadow.
"Don't bother. With a Chaos Emerald's power, I control time and space." Shadow responded as he tossed the Green Chaos Emerald in the air and caught it.
"Really? That's cool!" commented Silver as he watched Shadow repeat throwing the Green Chaos Emerald in the air.
"Silence!" Shadow retorted. He caught the Green Chaos Emerald. "You can't break free noob."
"I won't give up! It all depends on me! Can't lose…Not when I'm so close! I won't be a noob!" Silver responded as he got to his feet and let out another short of battle cry thing as he took out the Blue Chaos Emerald and held it up.
Getting annoyed with the psychic hedgehog's noobness, Shadow moved towards Silver to perform the same move and started, "Chaos…"
Determined to prove he was not the noob Shadow was making him out to be, Silver moved towards Shadow and repeated, "Chaos…"
Slamming their arms hold the Chaos Emeralds against each other, Shadow and Silver chorused, "Control!"
Taking a moment to realize what they just done, the two jumped apart as a swirling blue space-time rift appeared. Looking at the space-time rift before looking at Silver, Shadow stated, "You…you induced Chaos Control."
"I won't let anyone get in my way! I'll change the past and save the world! I'll be a hero, not a noob!" replied Silver, clenching his fists to emphasize his point.
Shaking his head at Silver's noobness, Shadow turned away and told Silver, "Ugh, you're disgusting me with your noobness. Mephiles isn't trying to help you create a better future…" He looked back at Silver. "He's trying to eliminate the past. Anyone could see that you noob!"
"What? What are you talking about? And my name's Silver!"
"Ugh. Where did SEGA find an idiot like you?"
"Hey! I'm right here!" huffed Silver.
"Whatever. I don't care about your feelings. Therapy can sort that out for you. To discover what happened, it seems we must see what took place 10 years ago," Shadow explained as he took a couple of steps towards Silver and stopped, "follow me if you want the truth…and if you won't annoy me."
"Wait-" Silver began, but Shadow already jumped into the swirling blue space-time rift.
Conflicted about following the onyx hedgehog he just faced off against and that was insulting him, Silver jumped into the space-time rift, hoping he made the right decision.
Dropping out of the space-time rift, Shadow and Silver landed on their feet and stood up as their method of time travel disappeared. Glancing around their surroundings, Shadow noticed Silver beside him and mumbled, "Damn. You followed me."
Silver decided to ignore the remark and Shadow and Silver looked down the hall of the base. "Where are we?" Silver wondered and neither of them said anything.
Somewhere else in the Aquatic Base, two scientists and the King of Soleanna were in a lad with a device holding two components; a fireball like thing and some gooish smoke. "An electromagnetic pulse has just been generated. Injecting the decompression agent! No, the level's not dropping! A spatial meltdown is inevitable!" one of the scientists informed. "We'd like to point out that we said this wasn't a good idea!"
"My Lord, it's too late! We've got to take shelter!" the other scientist added.
Slamming his fists against a table in frustration, the King of Soleanna demanded, "Why Solaris? Why do you refuse to listen to my voice?" Suddenly, there was an unusual ticking noise which was usually a bad thing. "What is that mysterious ticking noise?"
"Father!" he heard a young girl cry and saw his daughter, the Princess of Soleanna, rush towards him.
"Elise. Why did today have to be "Take Your Daughter to a Secret Base Day"?" he responded. He realized what the ticking noise was. "Get down!"
Shielding Elise as a bright light filled the room, there was an echoing boom as a massive explosion occurred.
From their place in the base, Shadow and Silver heard and saw the explosion and looked at each other before rushing in the direction of the disaster. Silver questioned, "Shouldn't we be running AWAY from an explosion instead of running TOWARDS it? Or at least be faster?"
"Shut up noob." Responded Shadow.
Coming to a stop in the observation deck of the lab, Shadow and Silver looked down before looking at each other. After a quick round of Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock to decide who jumped down first, Shadow mumbled something as Silver's Spock vaporized his Rock and jumped down. Running up to one of the unconscious men, Shadow looked over him before shaking him relatively gently. "Why are you shaking him?" asked Silver as he saw the actions.
"To see if he's alive noob. I don't have a stick to poke him with, so this is the next thing I have to do noob." Shadow explained.
"Stop calling me noob!" snapped Silver.
"Shut up noob." Shadow retorted and Silver glared at the other hedgehog.
Doing the same to one of the other men, Silver looked at the device and told Shadow, "Shadow. I think you better get a fire extinguisher."
"Why?" replied Shadow.
"Because there's a huge fire ball in the middle of the room!" Silver answered. He thought about it harder as it crumbled up into fire. "Is that? That flame…it's Iblis!"
Silver stood up as Shadow got up and walked next to him and added as they saw the gooish like substance, "And the black shadow is the original Mephiles. You know, the guy you're listening to and my recolor."
"That's Mephiles?" Silver exclaimed. Iblis and Mephiles split up and began to race in different directions. "They're escaping! We have to get them!"
"Damn it. We'll have to split up. I'll pursue Mephiles." Instructed Shadow as he looked at Silver.
"OK. Then leave Iblis to me!" agreed Silver as he looked at Shadow.
Just as they started to leave after their targets, Shadow and Silver heard someone weakly call, "Wait." Turning around, they saw the King of Soleanna holding out an object they recognized as the Scepter of Darkness. "Seal it with this…"
Shadow rushed back to the King and Silver called, "Hurry!"
Taking the object, Shadow nodded before racing after Silver and stated, "Dibs the satanic glowstick thing!"
"What do I use then?"
"Figure it out yourself noob."
"I said stop calling me that!" Silver snapped.
"Shut up noob." Barked Shadow.
Watching the two take off, the King of Soleanna went back to an unconscious Elise.
Finally, Mephiles came to a stop and Shadow took out the Green Chaos Emerald. Holding it up, he shouted, "Chaos Control!"
"What?…Stop!" Mephiles responded as he flashed a bit and Shadow held out his arms, resulting in the Scepter of Darkness to float into the air and begin glow as it started to pull Mephiles into it like a vacuum. "Who…who are…you?"
"I'm Shadow. Shadow the Hedgehog...and don't forget it!" answered Shadow, only in a way he could to emphasize how awesome he was.
"Shadow…your face…your form…I will remember. Your death…Certain…You…will die!" Mephiles vowed as he continued to get sucked up into the Scepter of Darkness.
"Yeah, yeah. You're going back into your glow stick thingie." Shadow replied and wished that this sealing thing would speed up a bit because it was uncomfortable to hold out his arms like this.
Once Mephiles was fully inside, the Scepter of Darkness stopped glowing and fell to the ground, luckily not breaking and releasing him. Lowering his arms and ending down, Shadow picked up the object and looked thoughtfully, now explaining some of the highlights of the day.
Shadow walked outside the Aquatic Base carrying the Scepter of Darkness, going to Silver who was holding an unconscious or sleeping Elise, preferably sleeping. Seeing the ebony hedgehog coming his direction, "Did you do it?"
"Yes. Of course I did. Why else would I be out here if I didn't do it?" responded Shadow, a look on his face saying that it was a stupid question. "And you?"
"Yes. The "Flames" are properly sealed. It's done. I-" Silver answered and decided to finish with the bored look Shadow had on his face. Going over to a tree, Silver carefully set Elise down and Shadow looked at the Scepter of Darkness before taking a few steps and putting the object next to the young child. "Wait a minute? You're going to leave it behind?"
"Yes. I already know what becomes of it in the future…" replied Shadow as he stood up and took out the Green Chaos Emerald. "It's time to return."
"But-"
"Besides, I don't have to explain my actions to you."
"Well-"
"Silence. Let's go before you mess up and alter the future to be even worse noob." Shadow finished and Silver gave a small sigh.
Knowing there was no point in arguing with him, Silver agreed, "Yes…Of course…" Once he was certain Shadow was not paying attention to him, he muttered, "Prick."
Standing up, Silver took out the Blue Chaos Emerald and both hedgehogs held up the Chaos Emeralds as they shouted, "Chaos Control!"
Like the other times, a small white light floated out of the Chaos Emeralds and eventually turned into a swirling blue space-time rift. Having spent enough time with Silver, Shadow quickly jumped into the method of time travel and Silver turned around and saw Elise comfortably shift in her sleep before walking backwards and jumping into the space-time rift before it disappeared.
Dropping out of the space-time rift in the city, Shadow heard a female voice he recognized as Rouge behind him comment, "You're back sooner than I expected…at least you weren't stuck somewhere this time." Shadow turned around to look at her as she waved at him before she pointed behind them. "Omega is still in pursuit of Mephiles. So, where's the kid?"
Giving a slightly confused look as Rouge lowered her hand, Shadow questioned, "What kid?"
"Uh, not important. What did you find 10 years ago?" asked Rouge and Shadow started to walk away from her.
"Some dumbass noob, but he's not important. I need you to access GUN'S database. Specifically, find out what materials the Scepter of Darkness was made from." Instructed Shadow as he stopped.
"Sure I can do it. But you haven't answered my question yet. What'd you find-" started Rouge.
Annoyed with her many questions about what he did, Shadow turned around and told her with a tone in his voice that he was really starting to get pissed off with the whole situation, "I found the means to seal Mephiles. I'm having a lousy day, so from this point on…don't question what I say and just do it!"
"Prick." Rouge muttered with a scoff and Shadow stormed away from her, leaving Rouge to slightly chase after him, holding her hand out to grab him.
Omega was on a beach near Wave Ocean as he fired bullets at Mephiles repeatedly, the antagonist somehow collecting rings since he would not die. After a few more hits, Mephiles laughed, "Oh, this is only too perfect. This only proves you were created to stop Shadow, the Ultimate Life Form." Omega stopped firing at him. "Don't tell me you didn't know. You may have been programmed by humanity, but what you did to Shadow in the future, that was your…"
Unable to show his emotions, Omega's hands turned into machine guns and he blew Mephiles away with a rat-a-tat-tat until Mephiles fell to the ground, cackling the whole time as he faded away in a puff of smoke. "What just happened? What was Shadow's Recolor talking about?" Rouge questioned as her and Shadow came up to him and Omega turned to face them as his arms returned to normal.
"Shadow. The one that defeats and seals you in the future…is me." Omega confessed and Shadow uncrossed his arms and, even though he did not really show it, was stunned and hurt by this statement.
"It's…it's so unfair! Shadow's always here to defend the world! Despite that…" Rouge trailed off, remembering some of the things Shadow done, but regardless, was not worth being sealed away for while Shadow said nothing, the news still sinking in.
"Eventually, when something, or someone is seen as too powerful…It is seen as a threat, and then the world becomes its enemy." Omega explained and reached out to Shadow who was turned away from him.
Not used to having all these different emotions coming at once, especially on a day like this, Shadow started to walk away, hoping to clear his mind. "Shadow…Even if you believe everyone in the world will be against you…know that I'll always remain by your side. Remember that…" Rouge told him and Shadow stopped walking as he turned to face the treasure hunting bat who turned away from him.
"I will." Shadow responded and resumed walking away. He quickly rethought the conversation. "Damn. That was the moment the Shadouge shippers were waiting for."
"Yes! Now to start writing Shadouge fan fiction and drawing fan art!" the Shadouge Shippers cheered and rushed off to do either option.
After Shadow was finished pondering what the meaning of his life was, Team Dark reunited on the edge of Dusty Desert. Pointing at some ruins in the distance, "Mephiles appears to have headed for those ruins. He's probably looking for the Chaos Emerald that's supposed to be there. It's the only logical thing. After all, isn't everyone looking for them?"
"Silence Rouge. Your old lady voice annoys me," Shadow replied and Rouge glared at him with a scoff, "there's no doubt in my mind. His movement shows he's seeking any Chaos Emerald he can find. Supposedly, he needs one in order to join with Iblis again. Well, actually, he'd probably need all seven, but I'm going after him to finish kicking his ass."
"I will seal him before that." Omega declared and Shadow turned to face the robot.
"Oh, no you're not. You can do that after I'm through with him." Informed Shadow and took off before another word could be said.
Omega and Rouge took off after him, knowing that when Shadow set his mind to something, he would not quit until he accomplished it…especially when it came to kicking someone's ass.
Inside the ruins, Rouge flew in, Omega flew in with boosters and Shadow skated in, all three coming to a stop or landing as they Mephiles hovering in the air above an altar, his back turned to them in a theatrical way. "Mephiles!" Shadow shouted and the antagonist slowly turned to face them and the three of them saw the Yellow Chaos Emerald in his hand.
"Oh, it took all of you long enough to get here. I was expecting you sooner. As you must know, you're already too late. But there's still time for you to change your mind. Join me, Shadow. Let us teach this world a lesson and rewrite the future. Let us show-" Mephiles started, using hand gestures to make his words more dramatic and impacting.
"You know, I think I've made it pretty clear, but don't try to deceive me." Shadow retorted, making sure Mephiles knew that he was serious.
Frozen with his arms in the air, Mephiles replied with shock, "What?"
"You have no desire for revenge. You only crave destruction. Your only lust is to fuel Iblis until there is nothing left of time itself. And if you try to ask me again…I will kick your Recolor ass! Now get your ass down here and fight like a man!" Shadow continued, first of all pointing for the first half of his statement and the second half with his hand in a fist.
"It's a pity, Shadow the Hedgehog. Truly a shame that you wish to go against me! You-" Mephiles began.
"Yeah, yeah. I get it already. It's time for you to get a serious ass kicking Recolor!" Shadow countered and the Yellow Chaos Emerald floated above Mephiles.
Some sort of wave came at Team Dark and they went backwards in their own ways, still steady on their feet. Slowly, the ground became covered with some sort of goo stuff. "Crap! What's that stuff on the ground?" exclaimed Shadow, but did not waste time thinking about it as he got ready to have a face off with Mephiles.
After his showdown with Mephiles he successfully won, Shadow took out the new Scepter of Darkness and took a few steps towards Mephiles as the main antagonist of his part of the game began to melt as he cried, "I'm melting! I'm melting!"
"Shut up and stop ripping off from the Wizard of Oz Recolor. You're going back into your glowstick thing." Shadow replied as he held up the object needed for the situation.
Spreading his arms apart, the Scepter of Darkness floated into the air and began glow as it started to suck Mephiles up. Once Mephiles was sealed up, Shadow gave a confused look when it did not clatter onto the ground. "What in the Hell? Did I get the cheap rip off version?" Shadow wondered as the Scepter of Darkness glowed brightly before going boom in a bright light. "Oh crap…that isn't good."
Uncovering her turquoise eyes, Rouge saw the Scepter completely disappeared and exclaimed, "It's destroyed!"
"Geez, you don't say." Shadow retorted sarcastically
"Shut up Shadow." Rouge snapped and a black cloudish goo thing appeared where the Scepter of Darkness exploded.
Seeing Mephiles reappear, his head spinning counterclockwise until stopping as the rest of his body did the same, Shadow commented, "That is kinda disturbing."
"Wuhahahahaha! You dim-witted fool! The "I" of now absorbed your power through your shadow in the past. What may have worked 10 years ago, no longer does!" Mephiles cackled and created a sonic wave thing and threw it at Team Dark.
It took a couple of minutes to sink in, but eventually the three members of the team flew backwards and landed on their back or stomach while Mephiles floated down to the ground onto his what he had for legs. While the three anti-heroes recovered, the Green and Yellow Chaos Emeralds did repeated figure eights over Mephiles' head and Team Dark was surrounded by several copies of Mephiles and Shadow groaned, "Oh great. More copies of the Recolor."
"You must realize now that you cannot hope to stop me with your limited power." Mephiles stated, putting a lot of emphasize on the word "limited".
Shadow stood up at this point, looking seriously pissed off by the statement that crossed the line. Sensing Shadow had reached his snapping point, Omega and Rouge quickly got up. "So you say…" replied Shadow, the tone in his voice proving what Omega and Rouge figured.
Clearly, Mephiles did not take these signs seriously and Omega and Rouge dashed behind Shadow as Mephiles continued, "It's futile. The world will betray you. Why fight at all? Why risk your life for those who will persecute you later?"
"If the world chooses to become my enemy…" Shadow began as he took the inhibitor ring off his left wrist and it clattered onto the ground. He took off the inhibitor ring on his right wrist and it clattered onto the ground next to its match. "I will fight like I always have! And I will kick their ass!"
Taking a fighting stance, a huge wave of gold energy burst out from Shadow and Shadow skated through the copies surrounded by a gold bubble thing and Omega and Rouge close behind. The copies started to fly every direction, but did not figure it would be a good idea to get out of the way and Shadow kept cruising through. "Holy crap this was friggen sweet. Why couldn't I do that in this game?" Shadow remarked and continued to eliminate all the copies.
Okay, well that's the chapter. Hope you enjoyed it.
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