(After much thought and failed ideas, I think I’ve finally come out with a worthy chapter fic for the Sonic genre. This takes place after one the first “Dark” ending of Shadow the Hedgehog. Shadow has collected all the Chaos Emeralds, and defeated Sonic and Diablon in combat. What will he do now? I don’t own Sonic, Shadow, or any of the SEGA characters.)


CHAPTER 1


Shadow the Hedgehog stood proudly in the core of GUN’s fortress, the wreckage of GUN’s latest weapon, Diablon, and a wounded Sonic the Hedgehog nearby. The 7 Chaos Emerald circled around him, showing that his quest had been complete. “Finally! He said with a tone of satisfaction. “I’ve got all the Chaos Emeralds!”
Sonic weakly picked himself up off the ground, ignoring the pain in his body as he stood up defiantly, glaring at Shadow with suspicion and disbelief. “Shadow!” He shouted at his rival. “What are you gonna do with them?”
Shadow looked at Sonic, his eyes narrowed, with an evil smile on his face as all 7 Chaos Emerald circled around him. “I am Shadow the Hedgehog.” Shadow announced with an ominous tone. “I was created to bring order and justice to the humans. With the power of these Emeralds...I'm going to destroy this damn planet! This is who I am! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!” His evil laughter echoed throughout the entire GUN base. GUN soldiers throughout the building could hear the wicked laughter that filled them with a terror never felt before, like a demon had suddenly erupted from the depths of hell.
Sonic could hardly believe his ears. This wasn’t like Shadow at all. Why was he doing this? “Shadow… ARE YOU INSANE?” Sonic walked over angrily to his rival. “After your whole quest to recover your memory, you simply just want to destroy the Earth?”
Shadow snorted. “Do you have a problem with that, Faker?”
“As a matter of fact I do!” Sonic yelled at him. “This is insane! Just because of what happened in the past, doesn’t mean that everyone’s to blame! If Maria knew about this, she’d be very upset with your choice and attitude!”
“MUAHAHAHA!” Shadow almost seemed amused by Sonic’s words. “There’s no such thing as an innocent human being! All life on this planet shall die by my hand! I don’t give a fuck about Maria’s death anymore! Black Doom showed me that it was holding me back, from my TRUE nature!” He raised a glowing hand. “Don’t believe me? Watch this! CHAOS SPEAR!” Shadow fired a blast of chaos energy from his hand that zipped right past Sonic, and straight for the Diablon. The Commander never even had time to scream as the Diablon suddenly exploded into a million pieces. Fire, ash, scrap metal, and the stench of burning flesh filled the air as the leader of GUN and Diablon were no more.
Sonic stared in horror at what just transpired before him. How could Shadow do something like this? Had the Black Arms really corrupted him to the point where he’d take an innocent life in the blink of an eye? Angrily, he turned to Shadow and stood ready to attack him.
“Hahahaha… That felt good…” Shadow said, staring at the flaming wreckage before him with sadistic eyes. “He was my first victim; the leader of the very soldiers that tried to stop me before!” He noticed Sonic’s fighting stance, as if he wanted another battle. “Hmf… Save some for later. You’re in no shape to fight me, Faker. I’ll let you go for now, so I suggest you heal up until the next time we meet…” Shadow closed his eyes as the emeralds drew themselves closer around him. “Superb power… CHAOS CONTROL!” In a flash, Shadow was gone.
“Damn it!” Sonic pounded the ground with his fists, before turning back to the flaming wreckage of the Diablon. “Poor Guy…he never even had a chance to escape… UGH!” He clutched his side. “Shadow banged me up pretty good…”
“I’ll say, my Grandfather’s creation certainly gone off the deep end.”
Sonic looked up to see a familiar flying pod ship, driven by a familiar mustachioed scientist. “Eggman?” He smiled faintly. “Aren’t you a sight for sore eyes?”
“Never mind sore eyes, sore everything is what I can see of you.” Eggman noted, looking at Sonic’s injuries. “What in blazes happened?”
“Shadow…” Sonic said solemnly. “He’s sided with the Black Arms and has all 7 Chaos Emeralds. He just killed GUN’s commander and left with Chaos Control.”
Eggman’s face seemed to be written with fear as Sonic relayed his story. “Egad… This is quite the predicament. But before we discuss this any further, might I suggest we leave this facility?”
“You read my mind Doctor.” Sonic laughed weakly.
“I had a feeling you wouldn’t be at 100 health when I found you.” Eggman said pulling out a canister filled with glowing bluish-white energy. “So I brought this along. It’s an invention my grandfather made.” He tossed it Sonic’s way, where it broke apart, bathing Sonic in the energy.
“Whoa… I can feel my strength coming back to me!” Sonic was able to stand, jump up and do a quick spin attack in mid air, before landing back on the ground. “Let’s blow this pop stand before GUN shows up.” With that he sped off for the exit.
“And I’d best return to my base.” Eggman said to no one in particular.
7 minutes later…
Sonic rushed straight through the hanger gates of the base, reaching the outside and seeing GUN soldiers running all around, possibly unaware at the time that their commander was dead. The Black Arms Aliens seemed to have pulled out from the base, and the soldiers were attending to their wounded, checking up on supplies, and fixing any damaged equipment. As Sonic remembered passing through HQ, he had seen all the damage that the Black Arms had done, and it wasn’t pretty. “Man… The Black Arms really did a number on this place… But why did they suddenly up and leave? Did Black Doom order them to, or did Shadow Chaos Control them to safety?” Putting those thoughts aside, he could see Tails and Amy Rose waving to him in the distance next to the Tornado. “Alright, there they are just like they said they’d be.” He said with relief as he ran towards them, skidding to a halt when he got close. “Whew, finally made it out of there.” As if on queue he was greeted with a big hug from Amy.
“Sonic!” Amy called as she gave her blue hero a big hug. “Oh thank goodness. You’re ok!”
“Ow… Easy Amy, I’m still a little tender after the fight.” Though the healing canister had done its job, Sonic was still feeling a little sore all over.
Amy quickly pulled away, realizing she should have been gentler. “Oh! I’m sorry Sonic… How bad does it hurt?”
“Eggman threw me a healing canister so I was able to make it out of there, but I’m still a bit sore from the fight. Shadow wasn’t pulling any punches back there. That’s for sure.” Sonic replied rubbing his lower back. “But thanks for caring.” He gave her a smile, causing Amy to blush slightly and smile back.
“So Sonic?” Tails interrupted with a serious look. “What happened to Shadow?”
Sonic sported his own serious look as he looked back at GUN HQ. “Shadow’s got all 7 Chaos Emeralds in his possession now. He used his Chaos Spear and Barbequed GUN’s Commander.”
Tails and Amy both gasped in horror.
“He’s probably reporting back to Black Doom even as we speak. I’d say we’ve got quite a battle on our hands…”
Elsewhere, on the Black Comet…
Shadow materialized in the core of the Black Arms’ base, with the chaos emeralds in tow. When he opened his eyes, he found Black Doom waiting for him within the black/purple/grey/red stony area, as the said dark robed alien overlord floated towards him, his form blacking out the lit background of the core.
“Well done Shadow…” Black Doom rasped. “I see you’ve gotten all the Chaos Emeralds and executed that foolish Commander.”
“Yes. GUN’s leader has been disposed of just as you asked.” Shadow confirmed and waved a hand, making all 7 chaos emeralds land at Black Doom’s bottom robes, since he had no feet. “Here are the emeralds.”
“Excellent work… Now you have fulfilled your destiny, and have proven yourself to be one of us.” Black Doom praised, his eyes twinkling evilly.
“So… What is the Black Arms next objective?” Shadow asked suddenly.
“Now that we have the emeralds…” Black Doom explained. “We can easily dominate this bothersome planet and cleanse it of all human life. I’ll start off by sending out a full force of our soldiers to overtake GUN Headquarters, and wipe out those human soldiers.” He turned his back to Shadow as he began to pace. “Once they’re gone, Earth’s only defense will be that idiotic Sonic and his Freedom Fighter friends. But even they won’t be able to stop us for long. We’ll be able to use the human army base as a branch for our own army.”
Shadow nodded in agreement. “Sounds like a great plan…only one small problem.”
“Problem? What do you mean?” Black Doom did not like his authority challenged, and demanded just WHAT Shadow’s reason was. He turned around to glare angrily at Shadow.
“The problem is…” Shadow began calmly, before his eyes shot open. “You won’t be the one to lead them!” He vanished from sight with Chaos Control.
Black Doom’s eyes darted around the room as he searched for Shadow. “You dare to challenge me?”
“Oh I AM challengeing you.” Shadow’s voice corrected. “And you know what…” He suddenly materialized right behind Black Doom. “CHAOS SPEAR!” A bolt of light shot from Shadow’s outstretched hand, and blasted right through Black Doom’s left shoulder blade, and out through his left breast.
“GOOOOOOUUUUUUHH!” Black blood spurted from out of the enormous hole in Black Doom’s chest spilling all over the stone floor. He fell to the ground, almost motionless, barely breathing. “Why….?” He gasped. “Why…have…you…betrayed me?”
Shadow walked towards Black Doom’s corpse, until he was walking right on top of his back. “I have no desire to follow YOUR order Black Doom! Like I said before, NO ONE tells me what to do. “But I AM interested in leading the Black Arms myself…and as for you…” Shadow gave one swift swipe, and ripped Black Doom’s head from his body. Once more, Black Doom’s blood stained the rocky floor with splotches of black, as Shadow raised the head to eye level. “Well you’ll serve as food for your own spawn…or should I say MY spawn?” With a laugh, Shadow dropped Black Doom’s head to the floor and stomped on it, watching as blood and brains splattered everywhere. Shadow’s evil laughter echoed through the walls of the black comet, as Black Arms spawn appeared to devour the corpse of Black Doom. The 7 Chaos Emeralds began to glow and circle around Shadow, filling the core room with bright colored light. “Hear me Black Arms!” He called out. “Black Doom is no more than feed for the spawn! I am your new leader! Side with me, and together we’ll conquer the humans and take this planet for our own! What do you say?”
As if on queue, the many forms of Black Arms soldiers materialized into the room and began to gather around Shadow. In 5 seconds, they bent down onone knee and bowed respectfully to Shadow, showing their allegiance to him.
Shadow smiled sinisterly as he gazed at his new army. “You have all made a wise decision…my Black Arms…MUAHAHAHAHAHA!”
TO BE CONTINUED


I DID NOT MAKE THIS STORY!! IT WAS WRITTEN BY A AUTHOR ON FANFICTION.COM CALLED “Milleniumon the Sonamy Freak”, and ALL credit goes to him/her.