Anonymous asked:

Feelin the Shadamy feels lately, so would you care to write a story where Shadow survives the end of SA2 and goes back to Amy on the ark? Thanks for what you do!

cutegirlmayra answered:

Ugh, me too. Me too.

And thank you ;u;

Gentle reminder that Prompts are on Shutdown! Don't send me a prompt request till they reopen! :Db

Prompt:

Tails approaches Sonic, wearily watching him gaze out the window. "Sonic?"

Sonic shakes his head down, "It was a close call." He turns and smiles as Shadow approaches the two from behind.

"Ah! Shadow!" Tails exclaims, spinning around and not sure if he should attack him or not.

"Easy, buddy. He's cool." Sonic explains, somewhat, and walks over to Shadow. He playfully whacks his shoulder, "Tough job, you may have the workings of a hero in you yet, Shadow!"

"Hmph, I wasn't created for sporting a hero's smile." He steps away from Sonic, dusting off the place where he touched. "All this has done for me is left me with more unresolved questions. I don't need your gratitude, just your compliance." he folded his arms.

"Oh? Is that so? I see." Sonic, without skipping a beat, cheerily leaned his body a bit and folded his own arms, as though to mirror Shadow but in a more relaxed way. "Well, you're still getting one. Thanks, Shadow!" He charmingly gave him a thumbs-up, and Tails jumped with his fist held high.

"Yeah!"

"What's the compliance?" Knuckles and Rouge entered then, angling their bodies towards each other, but looking squarely at Shadow.

"You aren't sayin' you're gonna ask for our quiet demise some other time are ya?!" Knuckles swung an arm out, but Rouge placed a hand on her hip and sharply turned her head to him.

"Enough. He's clearly not being hostile. You are!"

"What!? You-!" Knuckles stepped toward her but she broke eye-contact and turned her cheek to him, addressing Shadow again and ignoring Knuckles's outburst toward her.

"You were saying?"

"Wha?! Hmph!" Knuckles saw the blatant turnaround and kicked the ground as he turned away from her, walking off by Sonic.

"Only to stay out of my way…" Shadow unfolded his arms, then looked to Tails and Sonic.

Sonic nodded, closing his eyes and opening them in the process.

Shadow lowered his head, acknowledging that Sonic had heard his request and accepted it.

"I simply want answers. Nothing more." Shadow began to walk off, moving passed Rouge as she followed him with her eyes.

"Kinda moody for an ultimate lifeform, don't you think?" she teased, tilting her head as Tails rushed over to the center of the bunch.

"B-but! What if he tries to hurt people again! We're just gonna forgive him like that? Q-quick! Someone put a tracker on him!" he pointed to Shadow's direction, but Knuckles and Sonic looked to each other, then away as Sonic gave a smirk to Tails.

"Come on, Tails. He kinda did help me save the planet." He stood beside him, comforting his worried friend.

"Y… yeah, I guess that's true." Tails looked to where Shadow had left, then Sonic, and then to the ground, letting the topic go.

"Besides, he'll have to face me again if that happens! And everyone knows I'm the fastest hedgehog alive!" Sonic struck a pose, and Tails happily laughed with him.

As Shadow continued down the hallway, he looked at the battered metal with old bullet holes in it… contemplating exactly what had happened, to the best of his memory.

"If this is what you wanted, Maria,… then I'll stop this path, and find another way to achieve the purposes you asked for." He continued to study the area, but nothing was triggering his mind. "Whatever those may be… and however much I may not agree with it." he shook his head, not sure if saving the earth was right, but knowing that if Maria wanted it, then he had no choice but to follow it.

"Soooniiicc!"

"Huh?" He stopped to turn around but was ambushed by the girl's doting arms in yet another accident. "You never cease to forget to look first before jumping."

Amy continued to smother him before realizing this texture felt a little off. "O-oh..?" Her arm felt fluff… that wasn't right.

She also squinted her eyes to the black and red contrast on Sonic's features… wait…

"Oh no!" she pulled away, "It's Shadow!" she reached her arms back and quickly pattered her feet away from him. "Wait, if you survived, then Sonic must have come back too, right!?" she put her hands gratefully to her chest. "Oh, thank goodness. I was really worried about you two!"

"…You were… worried… about me?" Shadow looked a bit in shock, unable to understand that.

"Huh? Silly, of course I was! You both had me scared! When you dashed off to help Sonic save the world, I just knew you weren't a bad guy!" she swayed a bit in her words, then pointed very sternly to Shadow. "Bad guy's don't say they'll keep their promises! What was that promise you were referring to, anyway? I don't remember asking you for anything."

As she continued to speak, Shadow grew more… was it embarrassed?

He looked to the ground, his eyes darting around before turning away from her, gesturing to the world. "I remembered making a promise long ago to someone… your words… they brought those memories back to me." he tightened his fist, bringing it in before his shoulders fell a bit from their rising tension, and then he nodded to Amy. "Before, I asked for no thanks… simply because I realized this was what I should have done all along. You… The thanks I received should be given back to you."

He walked towards Amy, making her a little nervous as she looked up into his serious eyes, "Shadow…"

He placed a Chaos Emerald in her hand. Its glow and radiance looked much like the earth's surface in hue and light…

The two stared at the emerald… before back up at each other.

"Thank you…"

"For what? Reminding you of a long lost promise? You really are kinda weird, but for that person's sake, I'll gladly accept your thanks." Amy nodded, but something tugged at her heartstrings then. It didn't really feel appropriate to have him thanking her, she didn't feel like what she did was really the cause of his sudden change of heart.

"You've had that promise buried in you all this time. If anyone should give thanks, you should give it to that person you made a promise with, right?" she tilted her head cutely, and he seemed to be processing her words.

"Perhaps you're right." He started to think about it, before turning around and walking off.

"Oh, that reminds me." He turned his head to look over his shoulder somewhat back at Amy, "I never did fully learn your name…"

"It's Amy! Amy Rose!" She let out her signature vocal pattern and then waved to him. "I'll always remember your name, Shadow! Shadow the Hero!"

"Amy…Rose… And a Hero..? You sound just like him." He walked forward, repeating her name as he departed. "Farewell, Amy Rose. Sonic The Hedgehog… and Space Coloney Ark…" He then closed his eyes.

"Forever."

"Huh?" Amy watched him round the corner, not sure what he meant by that…

She placed her hands over the Chaos Emerald and close to her chest as Sonic and the others came by.

"Hey, Amy. Long time no see!"

"Oh, Sonic!" She spun around, rushing into his arms. "How could you! I thought you were-! Ohhh, Sonic!" she dug herself into him, remembering that for a moment, he had almost died from a trap that exploded in space!

"W-woah! Hang on, Amy! It's all good! Yikes! Don't pull me so hard! Amy..!" she kept on laughing as Sonic protested little by little, but something still plagued her thoughts.

"Hey…" She pulled away, revealing the Chaos Emerald as she brought her hands forward from her chest. "Shadow gave this to me… And for saving my life back there… I'll give it to you."

Sonic looked down at the Chaos Emerald. He took it a moment and nodded to her. "Thank you." then stuck it away.

"Hehe! That's the second time someone's thanked me today!" she chimed, as Tails walked over to her.

"What do you mean, Amy?"

"Well… Ah! That's right! Shadow! I forgot!" She suddenly grew panicked and took off. Waving behind her, she encouraged them to not follow, "I've gotta make sure he gets back to earth, alright! What if he tries to use that fake Chaos Emerald!"

Knuckles suddenly jolted back in spot, "Oh no! That's too far a distance! He'll not make it!"

"You mean… if that's what he was planning." Rouge argued, "I don't think the bloke's stupid enough to consider that…"

"We needed the Chaos Emeralds… but maybe he thinks he can get by with Sonic's fake Emerald?" Tails looked to Sonic.

"Either way, I'm not leaving a new friend behind!" Sonic struck a cool pose, showing his resolve as he took off. "Come on! We'll find him! Leave no asteroid unturned!"

"Got it!" the others agreed, taking off.

As Amy searched, she gasped.

Seeing Shadow prepare an old containment pod to put him back into sleep, possibly killing him this time since he probably didn't know exactly how to do it…

And there was a location… he was going to blast himself into space…

"No!" Amy shook her head, her face full of horror as she read the screens he had momentarily programmed to start up on its own. "Shadow, stop!"

She dashed to the pod as he approached it, grabbing his arm.

"L-…Let me go." Shadow struggled a bit.

"Don't do this! You belong on earth! Like the rest of us!" she wouldn't cease, and he was somewhat confused by her odd strength.

"This must be… I'm not like anything on earth. I don't belong there. I don't belong here, either… You don't understand what I am." He tried to fight against her, but it was clear he was lenient in actually repelling her away. He didn't want to hurt her.

"I don't care what you are!" she shouted out, stopping him a moment from tolerating her moxie against him.

Her words shook him to his core.

"You… What?" his eyes quaked, widened by her sudden outburst.

"If what you are scares you from living a full life… then reinvent yourself!" she ducked her head down, making sure her arms were like iron bars he couldn't escape from.

It was an awkward hold, her still gripping him from behind and him trying not to hurt her while attempting to move away and get in the pod that would make him sleep while he drifted aimlessly into space for eons and endless years.

"You… You don't know what you're saying. Let me go!" he tried to be a bit more forceful in his voice now, but she continued to struggle against him.

"No! This isn't right, Shadow! What about your promise to me? Do you remember!? I have a new promise, promise you'll stay! Promise me you'll try and understand what you just saved! See the world for what it really is, a beautiful new home for yourself! You can be whoever you want to be on earth! No one will despise you!"

He couldn't believe her words this time.

"That's enough. Release me!" he was threw listening to the ramblings of a child.

"No!" She felt him using more of his strength now, his large hands finally placing themselves on her head and shoulder.

"Amy… You don't realize what you're saying." She knew nothing of him. Nothing of his origin. He was a monster, that's all he needed to know. Earth didn't hold the answers he so desperately desired. Nothing did. It was all dead and gone… like he should be.

"I do! I know far more than you because I've seen earth! I know the precious lives that you've saved and you don't, Shadow! You don't know!"

"I've never saved any lives!" growing more frustrated, he bent his knees and began to push back against her, realizing he doubted her initial strength. His memories swarmed with Maria, the ones he could recall, anyway. "All I do is end lives… even if I don't want too, and even if it costs me a promise!"

"Make a new one! I dare ya!" she pushed back against him, and for a moment, his feet scooted back and almost gave way at the sudden velocity of her shove.

"Ah…" He was actually kinda impressed, but quickly withdrew the thought. "I'm growing tired of this..!" he threw an arm up, whacking her back as she fell and landed on her back. "You may have swayed me before, Amy. But this isn't something you can interfere with again!" he spoke with much more firmness in his voice now, a dark essence dripping from his tone. "If you only knew… the destruction I could cause to your precious earth… you'd let me turn into a forgotten curse." He held his hand up, picturing the earth before lowering his hand into a shaking fist. "Leave me…" he swiped his hand back and began to load himself into the pod.

He put his arms in a similar position as when he had awoken from Eggman triggering his activation. He intertwined his fingers and let his head rest back, breathing in the fumes that would place him back into a warm, comatose state.

"Maria… Forgive me." He closed his eyes, "I should have never been created… or you'd still be with us."

"Preparing launch sequence."

"Grr… ughh… GRAAAHH!" Amy swung her Piko Piko Hammer into the pod.

It cracked the pod.

"What?" He opened his eyes and looked around, seeing the electricity spark and red lights flash on with yellow sirens spinning around.

"Containment breach. Launch in jeopardy."

"HAAA!" Amy continued to swing into the pod.

Shadow's eyes studied the girl, the powerful swings, the tears in her eyes..?

"Why… tears?" Then something happened, he felt an emotion pour from a heart he didn't know he had.

With each swing, Amy's arms would lift and he would see her. When it crashed down, he would see Maria, crying and desperately placing her hand on the containment pod.

His heart melted again, and he tightened his jaw, leaning back and kicking the pod to escape.

"Launch still imminent. No emergency code registered. 10…9…8-"

"SHADOW!" Amy cried out.

He strained against the militarized, seemingly glass surface.

"7…6….5…4…3…2-"

"You promised!" Amy cried out, her eyes like shattered pieces of a prism, shining with an endearing love for the stranger she had only just met. "Promise you will stay!"

"1."

"…GrraAAAHHH! I PROMISE!" Shadow shouted out, the two's force finally breaking the pod as it blasted out into space.

"Shadow!" Sonic and the others finally arrived, as Sonic threw the Fake Chaos Emerald, having found it slammed dunked like he remembered.

Shadow, being tossed around by the speed of which the pod was launched, finally was able to maneuver himself to grabbing the Fake Emerald.

He looked to Amy, "I'll keep my promises… I'll see you on earth… I'm not a bad guy, then… right, Amy?" he looked at the Fake Emerald in his hand, her image on the other side of it.

"Hmph, very well. I'm no hero, but I'll keep my new promise to you." He held up the Fake Emerald, "Chaos..! Control!"

It shook him to his core, but because he had far more chaos power than Sonic, the Fake Emerald was enough to send him to earth's surface.

He fell unconscious, landing after the shining light had brought him to a beautiful forest.

The Fake Emerald rolled out of his hands, shattering from its final use, and Shadow blinked his eyes open.

The first thing he noticed was the rays from above, the sun hitting his fingers and causing light to part into shadows on the ground around him.

He tried to focus his exhausted eyes, then looked to see trees… felt grass… heard nature for the first time.

"Ma… Maria…" He barely could mouth it out, feeling his consciousness slipping away again, his eyes getting blurry as they faded in and out… he spoke one other sound…

"I see it… A-… Amy… I see what we've saved…"

And then, darkness… as was his fate.