Chapter 18: Firing the Eclipse Cannon

Shadow stared at Black Doom in shock. He couldn't believe what he was seeing; he thought that Black Doom had been killed!

"I can see that you are shocked by my appearance, Shadow," Black Doom said.

The black hedgehog finally found the courage to speak. "How...how are you alive? I killed you years ago!"

Black Doom smirked. "You only weakened me. I am very hard to kill, but you almost did. Years later, I came back to Earth in secret hoping to try and destroy it once again. Then I met Sonic. He said that he was evil due to Eggman's experiment and also wanted to destroy the planet, so i decided to help him. Now, here we are. Enemies turned allies, I guess you could say."

"You, Mephiles and Sonic will never get away with this!" Shadow shouted. He threw a punch at Black Doom, but the alien teleported out of the way, reappearing behind the hedgehog. He blasted Shadow in the back with a Chaos Spear, sending him flying into the wall. Shadow got up and looked at Black Doom. "I'll defeat you no matter what!" he shouted again.

"Keep telling yourself that," Black doom replied. He looked at Sonic. "Is the Eclipse Cannon almost ready to fire?"

Sonic nodded. "It's about 85 percent complete. In a few minutes, it should be ready."

"Excellent," Black Doom whispered. He then looked at Shadow again, who was in a battle stance, ready to fight. "Well, are you going to just stand there? I though you wanted to destroy the cannon?"

"Shut up!" Shadow screamed. A red aura surrounded him as he built up power. Black Doom saw this and narrowed his eyes. Chris, Blaze and the Chaotix all got out of the way.

"CHAOS BLAST!" The hedgehog yelled. A bright red blast rippled outwards and surrounded the entire room.. Everyone braced themselves as the blast expanded. When the attack was over, the room was nearly destroyed. Shadow and the others looked up, but were shocked to see that the Eclipse Cannon was still running.

"How is that possible? That was Shadow's Chaos Blast at full power!" Espio exclaimed. "The cannon should have been destroyed."

Sonic chuckled. "The Eclipse Cannon has just reached full power, and is now ready to be fired, Nothing can stop it now."

"No...it can't be!" Chris yelled. "We have to do something."

Mephiles sneered. "There's nothing you can do; now watch as Earth is destroyed!"

Everyone watched as Sonic pressed the button to fire the cannon. As soon as he did, all of the emeralds began to glow brightly. The room shook and the roof opened, revealing a view of space and Earth. A bright laser beam had build up on the side of the ARK and build up power, then shone brightly as it reached full power. Then the cannon fired.