Chapter 10: Your True Inner Nature
Back in the city, a black hedgehog is seen walking through the city, looking for nothing other than Chaos Emeralds. The city is still a wreck, as the hedgehog stares all over the place, looking for whatever Chaos Emeralds there could be in the city.
"I better find more Chaos Emeralds before Eggman gets to them first." The hedgehog says to himself, having that dark, mysterious voice that can send needles crawling down your spine. He's seen walking through the city as he looks all around for the Chaos Emeralds, pin-pointing every peculiar object in the city. He comes across a black watch object, that's been snapped apart and picks it up, staring at every single detail of the object itself. "What the hell is this?" He says to himself, as he notices that the watch's screen is completely cracked.
"A device used to paralyze elementals in a quite painful way. Lucky for you, it's useless now." A dark voice says, as the hedgehog turns around to see Shavecke lying against a city building, having his arms crossed as he's smirking towards the black hedgehog. The black hedgehog gives a bitter glare towards Shavecke before responding.
"And you are?" The hedgehog asks, as Shavecke chuckles in response.
"Haven't you noticed already?" Shavecke says insultingly, as the black hedgehog starts to get irritated.
"I don't have time to play games! Give me answers now!" The black hedgehog demands, as Shavecke continues to chuckle and starts broadfully walking over to the black hedgehog, as if he were ready for anything.
"Alright then, let's get to the point, Shadow the Hedgehog!" Shavecke says arrogantly, as Shadow is shocked that Shavecke knows his name.
"How do you know who I am? Tell me who you are!" Shadow demandingly shouts, as Shavecke stops walking a few feet in front of Shadow and pulls out the yellow chaos emerald that he was holding. Shadow was staring at Shavecke with pure confusion and annoyance, as Shadow chuckles slightly when he sees Shavecke holding the emerald with the tips of his fingers.
"Do you seriously think that's going to help you out?" Shadow says mockingly, as Shavecke only blinks in response, standing there, waiting for Shadow to attack him. Shadow then mysteriously pulls out a red Chaos emerald, as Shavecke widens an eye out of interest.
"So, let's see what you've got against me." Shavecke says tauntingly, as Shadow grins with no feeling of fear whatsoever.
"Alright then, you asked for it!" Shadow says presumptuously, using the emerald to teleport behind Shavecke instantly and kick him right in the back with a spin kick, only for Shavecke to teleport at the last minute and stand there casually. "WHAT?!" Shadow thinks to himself in shock, as he lands on the ground gently and slides back a bit on his feet.
"So I asked for it, huh? If you're gonna say that then at least give me a challenge." Shavecke says tauntingly, as Shadow angrily teleports instantly and tries to kick him in the face, as Shavecke teleports again and so does Shadow along with him. Shadow tries to down-kick him in his nose, as Shavecke only punches his foot upwards with ease, having Shadow flip backwards multiple times as he lands on the ground carefully, sliding back a bit more from the attack failing.
"So, he can use Chaos Control like I can. Well played." Shadow says to himself, as Shavecke is still standing there without a care in the world.
"Let's see if you can handle this!" Shadow says, spin-dashing towards Shavecke like Sonic would, only more aggressively.
"So you wanna play baseball huh?" Shavecke says pridefully, as he easily punches Shadow with a large amount of force, sending him flying straight into a building at high speed. The building then shatters apart, as Shadow comes running out of the building, ready to attack even more, not being affected by the crash into the building.
"He's way stronger than I thought." Shadow says shocked, as he then continues to engage Shavecke into countless, short battles which Shavecke handles with ease. A gunshot can be heard, and a bullet is seen flying towards Shavecke, who flicks it away with the flick of his finger, as Shadow slightly gains the upper hand by trying to uppercut him. Shavecke simply punches downwards on Shadow's fist as Shadow then spin-dashes backwards, giving himself some distance.
"Need some help?" Kyousuke says who's standing on top of a short, city building as Shadow is still struggling to give Shavecke some trouble.
"This isn't your fight so stay out of it!" Shadow demandingly says, angered by the fact that he's having a high amount of trouble with Shavecke. Kyousuke just shrugs his shoulders while watching Shadow and Shavecke continue to battle with each other.
"Yeah, ok. Have fun fighting yourself while I check on my pistols." Kyousuke says sarcastically and carelessly, sitting down on the building's edge and checking the condition of his pistols as Shadow gets easily confused by what he just said.
"What the hell are you trying to tell me?!" Shadow says angrily, as Shavecke kicks him and Shadow flies into the wall painfully, picking himself up afterwards and holding on to his arm, still holding the Chaos Emerald in his palm.
"I'm saying that he's a genetic clone of you." Kyousuke says informingly, as Shavecke gets irritated after finding out that Kyousuke knows about him.
"How do you know about that?!" Shavecke says angrily, as Shadow attempts to teleport and kick him in the back again, only for Shavecke to back-bump him painfully as Shadow falls to the ground and rolls across it a bit before getting up with ease.
"Well my intuition asked me that after seeing this hedgehog here teleport like you did, how does a crocodile teleport with a chaos emerald like that, have electro kinesis that's just like my own, and have that much strength with an amazingly, striking appearance?" Kyousuke explains, as Shavecke easily understands and Shadow gets up angrily, not wanting anymore involvement from Kyousuke. "Sorry to do this to you hedgehog, but we've got business with Shavecke too!" Kyousuke says aiming his pistol at Shavecke as he quickly fires a bullet towards him. This bullet, however, is engulfed completely in electricity, creating an electrical ball that's flying towards Shavecke, gaining speed and size in the process.
"We?" Shadow says confused, as he's startled by Vector, unexpectedly coming towards Shavecke at an impressively high speed with his fist covered in green flames, ready to knock-down Shavecke instantly, as Shadow watches the scene, being completely mind-blown by Vector's knew pyro kinesis.
"You've had it coming for a while now!" Vector says while clashing with Shavecke while Kyousuke's bullet is getting even closer to them, only for Shavecke to teleport out of the way.
Vector quickly launches a massive fireball at the now very large electrical ball, cancelling them both out in the process as Shavecke is standing there in pain, having been hit with the flamed punch and having a somewhat swollen bump on his back as he's holding it in pain.
"Man, this stuff really comes in handy, you know." Vector tells Kyousuke, who's still sitting on the building's edge. Shadow comes walking over to Vector, as Kyousuke jumps off the building, flipping multiple times before landing perfectly in between them, seeing Shavecke in pain.
"I'm gonna end this fast!" Shavecke says, creating an electrical ball in the palm of his hand. It suddenly starts to turn yellow, due to Shavecke using the Chaos Emerald's power to increase its size and power tremendously. "He can pull the energy directly from the emerald itself?!" Shadow informs them all shocked, shocking everyone as Shavecke continues to power up his electrical chaos ball.
"We have to stop him now!" Kyousuke says, as he quickly creates his own electrical ball in the palm of his hand.
"I'm on it!" Vector says while combining his green flames with the electrical ball, morphing it into a cyan ball of flames that show sparks of electricity. Kyousuke then stares at Shadow, who throws a chaos spear into the ball carelessly, transforming it into a large, cyan laser ball, with laser beams flying all around it.
"Alright, I've got this." Kyousuke says, walking forward a bit, compressing the energy into a slightly smaller ball for a more explosive impact. Shavecke's yellow electrical chaos ball is ready to clash with their Cyan laser ball.
"It's over kid!" Shavecke says bitterly, as Kyousuke shakes his head in disappointment.
"Once again, I'm 19!" Kyousuke shouts, as they both start to launch the energy balls against each other, screaming in fury as they both launch them towards each other and it creates and extremely large bright white light upon impact. It causes Vector and Shadow to shield their eyes from the light, as Kyousuke shields his too.
Kyousuke then finds himself in a lavender realm, with the entire environment being in lavender as he's seen standing in the air like there's an invisible floor underneath him. Kyousuke looks around to see that neither Vector nor Shadow is with them, and looks forwards to be startled, seeing Shavecke standing there, glaring at him as Kyousuke walks up close to him in curiosity.
"Why are you attacking us? Why do want to stop us so badly?" Kyousuke calmly asks him, as Shavecke's expression doesn't change and he answers in an irritated tone.
"I was created by Dr. Eggman and Theotrin themselves to stop and destroy you, at no costs whatsoever." Shavecke explains sternly, as Kyousuke tries to convince him otherwise.
"But why would you want to stop and destroy your only relatives?" Kyousuke says convincingly, as Shavecke changes to a more emotionless expression in response, never realizing that before.
"Because I'm a tool, with no one to ever hold close to me. I'm not supposed to know or understand things like love or emotions." Shavecke says, as Kyousuke starts to feel upset for Shavecke. Shavecke then clenches his fists, as he starts getting upset about the situation. "But, I don't wanna be like that! I never wanted to!" Shavecke says sadly, as he begins to tear up and a tear falls from his eye, falling to the ground as the sound it makes echoes loudly through the entire realm. Kyousuke starts to feel upset at that, and walks up close to Shavecke, as Shavecke opens one eye to see what he's doing.
"You're not though, and you don't have to be." Kyousuke says comfortingly, as he hugs Shavecke caringly, who is surprised by this and starts wrapping his arms around Kyousuke in response.
"After all I did to you and Vector, you still have the care to comfort me like this?" Shavecke asks, as Kyousuke still is hugging him.
"Knowing you're related to Vector and myself is all I need to help you out." Kyousuke says comfortingly, as Shavecke is shocked by this, feeling a large amount of happiness rush through his body like the sweet taste of cherry pie running through your tongue and throat. He grabs Kyousuke even more, while smiling in relief and joy, realizing that he has his own will to make is own decisions. "Now, you care to stop Eggman for us?" Kyousuke asks, as Shavecke chuckles in response.
"Don't worry about that. It's gonna take a lot for them to stop me!" Shavecke says confidently, as Kyousuke smiles in response.
"Well then, let's finish this battle." Kyousuke says, still hugging Shavecke. The realm all the sudden turns into a bright white light, as Kyousuke appears back in the city afterwards where he clashed with Shavecke before. Vector and Shadow are standing there, staring at Kyousuke confused as Kyousuke realizes that Shavecke is gone.
"Hey, what happened to him?" Vector asks confused, as Kyousuke closes his eyes and smiles in response.
"Don't worry; he's not going to be a problem anymore." Kyousuke says happily, as Shadow starts walking away.
"Good, I don't have to worry about anyone getting in my way now." Shadow says impatiently, teleporting out of the city before anyone could say anything to him. He teleports into the forest behind the city, as Shadow looks at the ground in sorrow. "He looks just like her." Shadow says to himself, remembering Maria while he was with her. Shadow then gets a move on, continuing to search for more Chaos Emeralds.
Meanwhile, Vector and Kyousuke stare at each other, wondering what to do next.
"Want to start looking for a way to Eggman?" Kyousuke asks, as Vector starts moving once again.
"Let's get moving." Vector says confidently as Kyousuke follows behind him. "He's never gonna expect this coming!" Vector says even more confidently, popping his knuckles, ready to show Eggman his new prowess.