Shadow Saves Them All
Chapter 18
Author's Note: I'm back and better than ever! School's been pretty taxing and life in general's been a bit rough recently but I've gotten through it and I'm ready to finish this up! Hope you guys are as excited for this chapter as I am because writing it was difficult! Enjoy!
Sonic, Shadow, and Silver helped load the presents out of the bunker while Santa watched and ate a few cookies with some milk while leading an elf choir in Christmas Carols, meanwhile several other elves worked on the new makeshift sleigh. The highlight of the evening was when Silver played a Christmas remix of 'Stereo Hearts,' everyone singing and jumping around while working together, it was the very essence of Christmas spirit.
Finally the sleigh was finished at last. A small elf pulled a curtain off the sleigh and the design was very familiar. It was the design of the cars from 'Sonic Heroes,' one driver, one person would do a spin dash as the front wheel, and one person used their flight to hold the car up off the ground. The only design difference was the sides had wings. Shadow quickly hopped in the driver seat after saying right in Silver's face; "SHOTGUN!"
Silver frowned and got on the flight end while Sonic just hopped onto the front and got ready to spin dash.
"Thanks for your help everyone!" All the elves cheered and whistled hoping they would have a safe trip. Sonic looked back at the others and nodded his head, Silver nodded back while Shadow gave him a thumbs up. Sonic looked forward with great determination and then… SPIN DASH!
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!
Sonic and friends burst out of the toyshop with all the presents in tow. Shadow looked to his computer device in the driver seat and an aiming mechanism and G.P.S. pulled up on the screen. They all soared through the wonderful winter night sky, the wind and snow rushing past them. The skies of the north pole were lit up with the celestial lights, the three hedgehogs were so high it was like the lights were other sleighs flying right next to them.
"First stop, Greenland," Shadow said.
"Alrighty then," Sonic said, he stopped spin dashing when they were high enough.
"Yeah! Let's do it! Lets save Christmas!" Silver shouted. They soared off ready to deliver the presents, hopefully it wouldn't be too long of a night.
Hours had gone by since they started to deliver the presents and they were all getting a bit exhausted. Sonic rested on his guard rail and almost fell asleep. Silver's arm were tired from holding up the sleigh for so long, and Shadow's eyes were getting red from staring at the G.P.S. for so long.
"Last stop at long last," Shadow said waking up Sonic.
"Oh Thank Goodness!" Silver exclaimed. Their final destination was their home, Station Square. They went from house to house in just a couple of minutes and before they knew it they were down to one last present. They lowered down the sleigh and landed it on the beach. Sonic fell off the guard rail and relaxed on the sand, breathing smoothly for the first time in a while. Silver slowly floated away from the car until his psychokenesis gave out and he fell to the ground, welcoming the soft sand like a blanket. Shadow hopped out of the sleigh and ran to the water, he dipped his hand in the water and flicked it into his eyes, he didn't care if it was salt water, it felt good on his red eyes. He blinked a few times and then turned back to look at his exhausted companions, they were both practically asleep.
He grabbed the last present out of the back of the sleigh and checked the tag.
"Humph, guess I'll deliver this one on foot," he said to himself. The tag read;
"To Sonic, Shadow, and Silver. Thank you all and have a Merry Christmas! From Santa Claus! Ho Ho Ho!" Shadow was about to open the present when he heard a noise. He turned around and saw none other than Dr. Eggman. His large robot had snatched up the other two hedgehogs who were too tired to even retaliate. The Robot also bore a great resemblance to the 'Death Egg Robot,'
"Ho! Ho ho ho ho ho ho! So Shadow, are you ready to perish? Because when you're finished, these two will die and the Eggman Empire will rise!" Eggman's robot pointed a gun at Shadow's head and the barrel spun, ready to fire. Shadow looked at the present and wondered…
"Doctor, don't I get a last request?" Eggman shouted annoyed.
"Fine! But make it quick!" Shadow held up his present and said;
"I want to open my last Christmas Present,"
"You have one minute," Shadow nodded and unwrapped the box and opened the lid. He couldn't believe his eyes.
In that box… in his hands… were all Seven Chaos Emeralds.
"Time's up Shadow the Hedgehog," he said aiming the gun at Shadow once again. Shadow looked right at the doctor.
"You're right, time is up Doctor," Shadow grabbed a single emerald quickly and used Chaos Teleport to escape. He teleported right above Eggman's cockpit.
"For YOU!" He pounded his feet down on the glass and damaged the robot greatly to the point where the power began to flicker. The arms holding Sonic and Silver twitched and released them, they fell to the ground once again, both of them nearly unconscious. Shadow jumped off the glass and landed right next to them, grabbing Silver and Sonic quickly while the emeralds floated out of the box and began to surround them. Eggman saw the emeralds and this time he was furious.
"You meddling hedgehogs! DIE!" he smashed a red button on his dashboard and tons of guns and rocket launchers popped out of the side of the robot and aimed at the three heroes. They fired, rockets, bullets, grenades, explosives, acid, whatever Eggman could fire he shot straight at them.
BOOM BANG BOOM BANG SIZZLE KABOOM BAM BOP BOOM POW!
A large cloud of smoke surround them, and once it cleared it was plain to see, there was nothing left there but a crater of sand and char.
"I… I did it," Eggman looked down at the few remains of his adversaries and let the reality of it set in.
"I WON! HAH HAH!" the thrilled doctor did a little victory cheer in his chair and laughed. That's when a bright light got in his eyes, at first he thought it was the moon but when he looked harder he noticed it was something else, someone else. Descending from the sky came three super powered hedgehogs, each one a different shade of burning yellow. Eggman stared in utter disbelief, which didn't last long. In pure anger and frustration he slammed down on every button he could find, and dispatched every robot he could. They came from everywhere and attacked relentlessly. The trio flew away and into the city to escape.
The robots tailed them and tried to destroy them but in the end they were no match for them. Silver used his advanced psychokenesis to blow back tons of robots and knock away any ones that got near him. Shadow used his Chaos Spears and Chaos Control to destroy hoards of them all at once. Sonic used his ultimate speed the run right through miles of robots, dodge their rockets and bullets, and even land a kick-ass explosion or two. Once all the robots had been dealt with they flew back to the beach, where they knew Eggman was waiting.
Eggman waited there and as soon as they landed in front of him he cracked an evil grin.
"Eggman! Give up We've beaten all your robots! You can't hope to defeat us!" Sonic said.
"That's where you're wrong hedgehog," he said menacingly.
"You see as I said before I learn from my mistakes. I've learned that I can never defeat you while you have the power of Chaos on your side… However… I DON'T HAVE TO!" With the push of a button the container on the back of the Death Egg Robot that looked like a back pack changed. The metal armor slid down to reveal it as a prison cell, and the prisoner shocked them all.
"Maria?" shadow said trying to believe it. He didn't think the doctor would put her in harm's way. What if they attacked the robot? What if it exploded when he hit it?
"Now…" the doctor said with a crooked smile. Some part of Sonic knew he didn't want to do this, but he had no other choice. Sonic grabbed Silver and quickly closed his eyes, the glowing yellow faded from the both of them leaving them back to their normal states once again.
"Now nothing Egghead! When we're not in our Super Forms we're useless to you!" Eggman's face turned worried, but then turned back to evil once again after realizing something, he even began to laugh.
"What's so funny Eggman?" Silver asked.
"What's so funny is I don't need either of you! The one person I really need is still in his Super Form!" They all looked to Shadow who clenched his fist. He looked at Maria through the glass of the cell, it was just like how she looked back on the Ark, only she was the one locked up.
"Don't listen to him Shadow! He's just trying to mess with you! He'd never hurt me! I'll be okay!" she kept saying to him, but it fell on deaf ears, he was too busy being caught between two serious decisions. Turn back to normal and risk Maria's life again, or do what Eggman wants and guarantee her safety.
"Shadow…" Sonic said warily.
"I really must thank you Sonic and silver, if you didn't change back to normal you would've stood a chance against Shadow! Thank You for making this much easier!"
"C'mon Shadow… change back… please?" Silver asked. Shadow clenched his fist tighter, the decision was killing him, tearing him apart.
"Shadow…" Shadow looked up with an intense glare, Eggman looked him dead in the eye.
"You know what you must do," Shadow released his fist and slowly turned around, facing Sonic and Silver.
"Shadow?" Sonic asked again. Shadow looked at him with anger and rage. Eggman cracked a cruel smile.
"Hmm, good choice Shadow. Now Shadow…" he said as if ordering around a lackey. He turned back and looked Eggman dead in the eye, Eggman smiled back with great evil on his face.
"Kill Sonic and Silver," Shadow looked back at the two Hedgehogs and smiled faintly. His ultimate power rising immensely, he slowly moved his hands up to his inhibitor rings and clicked them both off one by one. When they fell to the ground Shadow's true power was unleashed. A dark crimson red and burning intense yellow power surrounded him and his eyes turned from red to entirely glowing red like a demon. No... not a demon, the Ultimate Life Form. When he spoke it was like another creature spoke with him.
"Of course… Dr. Eggman,"