Forces Prompt: Why did Shadow Join the Villains?
cutegirlmayra
Summary: I want to write a prompt where Infinite (I guess that's what we're calling him now?) talks about having infinite time, where time is all one. and then convinces Shadow to join him, because it's not like they trusted him anyway, or did any good for him. He's always been the monster they'll never look to for help. Also.. he knows a thing or two about bringing something from the past… to the present. (Maria trigger) and that's why Shadow joins him, turning away from the rebellion/resistence.
So I did, lol.
Prompt:
"Shadow! Hurry up and take care of those Eggbots!"
"I'm on it."
"Shadow! Don't just rush in. Watch your back!"
Directly after the G.U.N solder gave his commands, Amy, on his same adjacent communicator, blipped on with similar urgency.
"We really need those paths cleared up for our forces to get through. You're one of our only hopes."
He glanced down at the communicator, then forward again.
'Only hope..?'
After Sonic had been sent through time, the only options left were anyone who could fulfill his role.
Shadow…
The Ultimate Lifeform…
However, after destroying countless robots, completely thousands of missions…
Being the last hope wasn't enough…
"Shadow…"
After teleporting to destroy the last fleet of the street, Shadow's head lifted up in surprise, not expecting to hear a voice outside of his own communications.
"…You…" He glared, standing up from having chaos speared the last of the piled robot's sparking their last time.
"…You and I have something in common… Ultimate.. Life… form." He hovered down, his cubes following the trail before spiraling rapidly around him.
In almost a seamless elegance, he gestures his hand out to Shadow, and then to the cubes around him.
"Imagine… if only creatures of normal intelligence and powers could see time manifested in such a way as Chaos shows us…" he brought one of the cubes closer to him, having it blink before looking down at it, holding a hand below it as it hovered over his chest.
"Such a marvelous ritual… counting time. But what if time could be all but one? A complete organism of itself… a unit of nothing, but everything."
He suddenly looked up, back at Shadow.
"What if… I could pull the present away… and mash the past and future together?"
"You're mad… and that's why were taking you down." Shadow pulled out a gun, cocking it, before lowering a Chaos Emerald into a pack on it's center top.
"Heh. A gun? Is that all your allies can surmise? Or is that what your abilities dictate of you? To serve a people that never once thought of you as their friend…"
Shadow suddenly halted his advance, and widened his eyes.
"Shadow! Come in, Shadow? What's the hold up?! Respond!"
He glanced quickly down at his communicator to the G.U.N solder's abrupt voice.
"They only want to use you as that powered gun." Infinite pointed directly towards the gun. "Think of it Shadow… an Eternity… no longer will you and I be immortal… but we'll be one with time… and so will all things… past.. and future…" he spread his arms and indicated both parallels with them, before smashing them together. "Unified."
"Shadow! Shadow!" the communicator started to fuzz, as Shadow looked down to it, then to Infinite.
Infinite narrowed his eyes, lowering his hands, "Why help them..? When they took all the time you've ever had… away from you?"
Shadow's mind traced back to Maria, and quickly gripped his head.
"Urk… what has he told you!?" Referring to Eggman, he then threw the gun his way.
"About Maria!"
The gun fire shot multiple times, as the Chaos embedded power shot through him, making Infinite stagger back at each blow.
The fire raged in Shadow's eyes, the flashes shown on his gritted teeth as he kept firing, no mercy… no law and order…
"Hahahaa…. hahaha…HAHAHAHA..!" Suddenly, Infinite reversed and mended time.
His wounds were healed as the bullets shot back from where they came through him, and even though he experienced the pain twice, he was able to hold the bullets where they once were, freezing time.
"Now… you see the beauty… of the past and future… as one."
"The bullets… they killed you… and yet… you live?!" Shadow staggered back, now amazed as the wounds were healed, and yet… scars.
"Would you like to see her again?" In trauma of pain, his body recovered to normal, and he jerked his head up, slowly rising his body back to it's straight form.
He had the body that was once untouched now with the body of the future bathed in bullet holed wounds. Time was infinite… and became one.
Shadow's eyes shook.
"I could bring her… the past and future her… the living and rotting… together at last…" His eyes then glowed with his body as the cubes formed to create the time lapse he made spread around the whole area. "Infinite! She would be resurrected before your very eyes, Shadow! Join me! Create her awakening!"
Shadow's whole being was engulfed in what was being offered, his being torn apart by such a offer, before the communicator came back on.
"Shadow? Are you alright? Weird energy readings are coming from you, and yet… you're blipping out of signal. What's going on? Shadow? Shadow?"
Amy's voice came on, before Shadow slowly reached for his communicators…
Infinite's eyes spazzed a moment open, before he began to slowly bellow a laugh that expanded across the space of the whole area, as Shadow broke the first communicator at the crush of his raw power within just a gloved-hand.
"And then, we shall take back time! Unhook it from it's oppressors! Eggman's only request is that we crush the resistance."
Hovering back in the air, Infinite watched as Shadow destroyed the second communicator, and turned, pulling the Chaos Emerald out and dropping the G.U.N gun.
"Who's first?" Infinite ducked his head, glaring towards the on-coming forces…
—-
Amy ran into the mist of the army, looking for Shadow as they all advanced.
She turned to and fro before everyone had passed her, leaving a trail of destruction and fire around her.
"The last known signal… it had to be here…"
Shadow teleported, silently, behind her in a ray of red. A perfect camouflage.. as he readied his fist to take her out…
"Amy!"
In hearing an unexpected, but familiar voice, Shadow looked back, and pulled away, teleporting again.
Sonic comes bursting through, along with Classic Sonic, checking up on Amy and asking her questions.
She's amazed and thrilled to see him, almost in shock, before crashing into him with a death hug.
He stampers back and falls, not realizing Shadow's betrayal either.
Classic Sonic hasn't met Amy yet, so he's terribly confused on what's going on and the odd greeting.
—-
"Sonic… how'd he return?" Shadow met up back at the counsel, folding his arms as he looked to the others.
They looked at him a moment, before Infinite continued what seemed to be an already discussed topic. "Take your deadly six and keep them busy."
He then turned to Shadow, "With time being reunited at last… some… side-effects… have taken place." He placed both hands on the desk before them.
"Past and Future… Sonic was sent to the past, and with them merging so slowly… we need more of itself. Haha. Time that is." He gestured with a block. "Stab this into Past Sonic… That should take care of our problem…"
"…And Maria?" Shadow was starting to doubt, feeling manipulated.
Infinite looked to the corner of his eye, up to the sky.
"If I'm not mistaken… the Ark's arrival has already been half converted…"
Shadow immediately speed-walked to the window, before seeing the past side of the world being slowly brought to existence. He pushed his palms to the windows when he saw half the Ark already within the sky.
"Then…" Infinite threw the cube at him, and he caught it, squeezing it in his hold. "Now…Soon…. 'When' is never a question anymore…Shadow."
Shadow nodded, showing his contentment, and immediately departed.
(My ideas continue as follow: Classic Sonic is merged with the cube, creating a energy force of time since everything connects to him, and allows Infinite to speed up the process of merging the two world's times together. Then, the side-effects means Classic goes berserk, causing Modern Sonic to have to work with the forces even more before he, too, gets converted from time being merged. Chaos is being controlled by the Master Emerald that Eggman possesses, but I thought it would be cool if he merged with Modern Sonic (turning good later from being controlled by all seven Chaos Emeralds effects?) and create a new super, watery form for Sonic. either way, Classic is defeated and the cube escapes. They go on with the war.)