By a tree that sat by a city was a dark hedgehog by the name of Shadow. He was thinking about his recent events with an alien invasion that he had stopped.
"Could it be true? Did the professor really use Black Doom to make me? Could I turn into that monster?" Shadow said to himself. A paper came over and hit him in the face. It showed a bunch of capsules containing shadow clones that had gone and destroyed a lot of people and stole. Shadow growled and threw the paper away. His thoughts went to Memphiles, a shadow that took the form of Shadow and then caused more trouble to Shadow. Shadow growled again at the thought. What could he do? Everybody seemed to hate him even though he saved the planet three times now. He was an out- cast. His only friends that he could trust were Rouge the Bat, Omega, and….Emerl. He wouldn't admit it to anyone but he missed the Gizoid. It was one of the few people who he could actually get a good fight out of. Shadow's train of thought was interrupted by a blue blur running by. Shadow had nothing better to do so he went after it. When he caught up to it he was surprised to see it wasn't Sonic…It was Metal Sonic running like Sonic. Metal Sonic was holding on to what appeared to be a Metal Tails and Metal Knuckles. In fact Metal Sonic was running so familiar that-
"Sonic? Is that you?" Shadow asked.
Metal Sonic came to a stop and said, in a very sarcastic tone, "Shadow? How did you recognize me?"
Shadow smirked and said, "With a run like that who couldn't? And the fact you have the fox and the idiot with you helped that fact.
Metal Knuckles gave the robot equivalent of an angry face to Shadow and said, "Hey Tails isn't an idiot!"
Metal Sonic and Metal Tails fell over anime style and Shadow said, "Wrong idiot."
Metal Knuckles looked confused and said, "Sonic isn't an idiot either….Wait a minute….Hey! I'm not an idiot!"
Metal Sonic and Metal Tails both fell over laughing. Shadow said, "You fooled me…"
Metal Sonic and Metal Tails had to stop Metal Knuckles from planting his fist into Shadow's head. Shadow looked at Metal Sonic and said, "Why do you look like the metal freak you have dealt with so many times? Better yet why are the fox and knuckle head robots?"
Metal Sonic scratched the back of his head and said, "Well we fell for a trap set by Egg-man. He managed to robotize us…Although I am not fully a robot. Tails isn't either. Knuckles is. He is only helping us so he can get revenge on Egg-man. And because I look like I am Metal Sonic, I am an outlaw here."
Shadow laughed slightly and said, "Join the club. I have been an outlaw since Memphiles came and messed me up. Nobody cares that I saved their lives. They treat me like I am the enemy!"
Metal Sonic said, "Well…want to help us? It will be fun…Also for future references just call me Sonic, call Tails by his name, and call Knuckles either Knuckles or Metal Knuckles."
Shadow looked at sonic and told him, "I will call you whatever I want to. Also I will not join your band of imbeciles. I don't want to have anything to do with you. Stay out of my way or I will not hesitate to destroy you."
Sonic shrugged and said, "Fine…. The offer stands though. And three against one won't get you to far…"
With that Team Sonic ran away. Shadow scoffed, "The fools…although maybe I should go after the doctor…But first I want to go get Rouge and Omega…" Shadow ran away.
-At Egg-man's base-
"OH HO HO HO HO HO!" Egg-man shouted. He was very happy with recent events. He looked on a screen and saw what Team Sonic was doing. He looked on another screen and saw what another person was seeing. It was a high speed rush. On the bottom of the screen it read True Metal Sonic.
"Now that Metal Sonic listens to me fully I can finally use him to destroy that pesky blue hedgehog…once and for all…"Egg-man said.