(Well once again, I’ve been dead for far too long. Well, I’ve been busy with a few things. I’ve been on a week holiday, worked on some fics that I don’t know if I should post on But also, I’ve been getting into Sonic Rush, and got some motivation back for this fic. I don’t own Sonic, Shadow or any of SEGA’s children, but you know that already.)


CHAPTER 7


In a flash of pink light in front of the Black Arms, Shadow appeared smiling evilly at them as the 7 Chaos Emerald circled around him.
“A trap…” Sonic growled as he focused his vision at his black furred doppelganger.
“Hello there Faker…” Shadow said calmly with a cruel smile.
Sonic merely replied with an angry scowl. “I thought smelled raw garbage coming…”
“Heh… Witty as always aren’t you?” Shadow replied sarcastically. “Your retorts never seem to get old, Faker.”
“And even now, you still have the nerve to call me faker…” Sonic retorted with a sour smile. “You really have a lot of balls, don’t you?”
Shadow chuckled. “Flattery will get you nowhere, Sonic.” He looked around at Sonic’s teammates, and noticed Cream, and Amy. “Sonic… I’m surprised at you.” He said with mock disappointment. “Fancy bringing young children to this fight... Tsk, tsk, tsk.” He waggled his finger at Sonic. “You should be ashamed of yourself.”
Amy overheard Shadow’s insult and fumed angrily, clutching the handle of her hammer. “Who are you calling a child, you monster?”
Sonic held out his hand. “Calm down, Amy… You’ll get your chance. But right now, I’ll handle this.”
Amy looked at Sonic worriedly. ‘That’s what I’m afraid of, Sonic…’ She thought with worry. ‘Please… Don’t do anything to drastic…’
Sonic fixed an angry gaze at Shadow. “Why Shadow? Why’d you have to destroy Knuckles’ home, his life, his purpose in life? Why’d you kill GUN’s commander in cold blood?” Sonic was trying in vain to fight down his fury. “Why did you commit such despicable acts?” Sonic was now beginning to yell.
“Don’t you get it?” Shadow asked rhetorically. “It’s my true destiny, to purify this Earth. I only exist to make humans and their allies suffer. The Black Arms opened my eyes, and have made me realize the truth. Of course, I was never content to be just a pawn. That’s why I killed Black Doom, and took over as leader of the Black Arms!” Shadow grew an insane smile on his face. “Now that I have all 7 Chaos Emeralds…AND the Master Emerald… No one in this world can stop me! Not even you, Sonic! I am the TRUE personification of power now…” He then turned his eyes to GUN HQ which stood a few yards behind them. The look in his eyes displayed a look that a tiger has when stalking its prey. “Anyway… I have some important business to attend to…so if you’ll excuse me…” He began to walk away, with the Black Elites following him close behind.
Sonic grabbed Shadow by the shoulders and forced him to turn around, looking at him with pure fury. “Don’t give me that crap!” He shouted. “We’re settling things here with you, right here and now!”
Shadow suddenly scowled, grabbed Sonic by the wrist and threw him away, causing him to land right at Amy’s feet. “Don’t touch me, you goody-goody filth!” Shadow dusted himself off. “Now I’ll have to shower, to get the smell of faker off of me.” He growled as the Black Elites pointed their guns at Sonic. But when he turned to face the Sonic crew, his scowl was once again replaced by a cruel smile. “Alright then… If you’re so eager to fight me…then I’ll be happy to oblige… But first, you’ll have to defeat my children first!”
The Black Assassins held out their hands and began to produce Death Leaches from their palms. They tossed them out onto the field, and shot their refractor beams at them. But instead of the creatures being destroyed, they seemed to fast forward in evolution. The Death Leeches quickly evolved into Black Warriors, some armed with Flash Shots. They began to crowd around the group, with their refractor guns pointed directly at the furries…except, where was Knuckles?
Shadow noticed Knuckles’ sudden absence. “Wait a minute… Where’d that echidna go?” Suddenly, he heard a deep rumbling under where the Black Warriors were standing. “Son of a Bitch…” He cursed.
THOOM!
The ground underneath the Black Warriors erupted in a shower of soil, gravel, and concrete, sending them flying everywhere, while a screaming mad echidna spun into the air with a spinning uppercut.
“Great thinking, Knux!” Sonic yelled to his friend. He jumped in the air and started spinning madly, revving up like a turbo engine, until he blasted off and performed his “Light Speed Attack,” dodging pink energy shots from the light shot guns that fired his way, and homing attacking into every Black Warriors in his path, knocking them smack to the ground.
Amy was running through, deflecting away any laser shots with her Piko Piko Hammer, while she swung her hammer around in a spinning motion, knocking down any Black Warriors within 1 to 5 feet of her.
Tails and Cream, meanwhile, flew above in the air, trying to keep out of the line of fire as they watched their friends fight on the ground.
“Cream, we need to cut down, or at least distract the number of Black Warriors from Sonic and the others.” Tails explained. “Knuckles is handling himself pretty well, since his ground attack knocked down most of his adversaries. Sonic and Amy on the other hand…they’re doing fine for now, but they’re gonna be swamped soon.” He then reached behind and pulled out what looked like a set of rings. “Here’s what we need to do. For example, I’ll be helping Sonic out, by using my thunder shoot, and my fake rings will hopefully paralyze more than enough of the Warriors.”
Cream nodded to Tails, understanding what he was getting at. “Then, I can help Amy out. I’ll just fly around the battle field and use Cheese for some Chao attacks and ease Amy’s burden.”
“Right.” Tails agreed. Then he looked at the edge of the field, noticing Shadow watching the entire fight. “If you can…then help me keep a close eye on Shadow. It’s just in case he tries something dirty, and his actions lately haven’t put him in the greatest light.” Tails said the last sentence with a tone of disgust.
Cream, not knowing the full extent of what was going on, wanted to know what Tails was talking about…and why Shadow was working with the Black Arms. But she decided on asking that after the battle was over. Instead, she flapped her ears and started flying towards Amy’s part of the battle field. “Alright, Cheese! Go!” Cream pointed to the desired targets, and Cheese took off like a missile, surrounded by an energy field, and started either running through every Black Warriors in sight, or shattering their light guns, leaving them weaponless and lifting off some of Amy’s burden.
Tails meanwhile, was hovering above Sonic, launching his “Thunder Shot” attack and firing his fake power rings at the Black Warriors, immobilizing them in an electrical field with each hit, paralyzing them to the spot, and setting them up for an easy take down from Sonic.
With one quick spin in mid-air, Sonic unleashed his “Blue Tornado” attack, generating high winds that tossed Black Warriors into the air, where he jumped after them, knocking them out of the sky with his homing attack.
Amy followed with her own wind attack, swing her hammer around and blowing Warriors, sky high with her tornado of hearts. She then distributed her “present bombs” all across the ground and stood clear as the Warriors fell right onto them, blowing themselves up in seconds.
Knuckles raised his fists in the air and whistled to Sonic and Tails, who immediately recognized his signal, jumped towards him, went into ball form, and started spinning tightly around his hands. “Alright you black buffoons!” Knuckles yelled at the warriors. “Let’s see how you like my fire dunk attack!”
The Black Warriors immediately opened fire on the red echidna, detecting hostility.
Knuckles put up his “gloves” and the tight spinning from Sonic and Tails, deflected the shots easily. Knuckles jumped in the air, facing the Black Arms and extended his arms out. “TAKE THIS!” He started making throwing motions, and fired Sonic and Tails like heated projectiles, hurling them into Black Warriors left and right, badly burning injuring them with the impacts, or sometimes even killing them with close hits.
Shadow watched the entire battle with a deep scowl on his face. “How dare they…?” He growled, his hands shaking with rage, while the chaos emerald seemed to glow ominously. His eyes suddenly shone an angry white. “How dare they treat my soldiers so shamefully?”
The Black Elites pointed their refractor guns towards the battleground ready to open fire, and they would have, except…
“NO!” Shadow held out a hand in front of the Elites, signaling not to make any movements whatsoever. “Don’t shoot until I say so…no…” He kept his eyes on the battlefield. “I’ll handle this myself… You need to carry out the mission and blast GUN HQ to rubble. But we can’t let Sonic and his gang let on that I’ve sent you inside… We’ll pretend that I’m seeing you off to the Black Comet to regroup and rethink. Once you teleport off, immediately change direction, for inside of GUN. Do you understand?”
The Elites nodded in understanding, saluting to Shadow in response.
“Good…” The Chaos Emeralds began to float above his head. “Now go!”
The Elites all vanished in flashes of glittering light.
“And now…” Shadow snapped his fingers, and the emeralds flashed above him.
Just as Sonic was about launch a Black Warrior into the air with another “Blue Tornado,” the Black Warriors still standing suddenly stood still for a few seconds, before vanishing in a flash of purple light. “What the… Where’d they all go?”
“Back home…”
Sonic and the group turned around to see, and irritable looking Shadow, storming their way, with all 7 Chaos Emeralds floating above him. “So…you’ve finally decided to quite hiding behind your minions and fight us face to face, like you usually do?” Sonic challenged.
“Oh…don’t push me, Sonic!” Shadow spat the other’s name out like a bad piece of meat. “You harmed my children… Now you shall suffer their father’s wrath…” He clenched a fist. “Now it looks like I’ll have to fight you myself…which is fine by me.”
“YOU!” Knuckles suddenly darted in front of Sonic. “You took away the Master Emerald, destroyed my home, and tried to hurt Rouge… You’ve ruined my life Shadow…AND NOW YOU’RE GOING TO PAY!”
Shadow just snorted. “Beat it Knuckle-bastard! I’m not interested in fighting you.”
“We’ll you’re gonna HAVE to be interested!” Knuckles swung a fist in Shadow’s face.
Shadow caught it in one quick swipe…
Knuckles growled and fired his second fist at Shadow’s face.
Shadow caught that fist too… Shadow shook his head. “I could’ve thrown you away after the first failed punch, you know.”
“Then… Why did you let me throw a second one?” Knuckles demanded angrily.
A cruel sneer sported Shadow’s lips. “So…I…could…do…THIS!” Shadow started to grab tightly onto Knuckle’s fists…VERY hard.
“AGH!” Knuckles’ hands were suddenly infused with sheer pain. “Wh-What are you doing?” He groaned, as he felt Shadow’s grip tighten each second. The pain was agitating at first, but slowly…it was becoming more than that. The pain started to become excruciating, as Knuckles felt like every bone in his fists was slowly starting to break.
“It’s simple, echidna…” Shadow threw Knuckles a murderous glare and scowl. “I’m going to hurt you like you’ve NEVER been hurt before…” He tightened his grip.
Sonic’s jaw dropped in horror. ‘Shadow…is he doing what I think he’s doing? Come on Knuckles…don’t give in…please hang in…’ His body began to shake.
Tails was shaking with fear. “Shadow…please, stop this…please…” He begged.
Amy just stared. Her body was numb with tension and fear. ‘No…Knuckles…please…don’t hurt Knuckles…’
Cream was holding onto Amy tightly, shivering with fear. “Mr. Shadow… Mr. Knuckles…”
Rouge was crying with anger, and fear as she watched her beloved being tortured. Fear for Knuckles’ safety…and anger towards Shadow. ‘Shadow…if you do something to Knuckles…I swear…I’m going to hurt you…’
Now the pain was becoming unbearable, and tears slowly began to trail down Knuckles face as he tried to break free. ‘I…can’t take it… So…painful…my hands…he’s…he’s crushing my hands!’ Suddenly…
CRACK! CRACK! Two sickening cracks were heard; the cracks of breaking bones.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!” Knuckles screamed in pain. Shadow had just broken every bone in his hand…and he was still crushing what was left. Knuckles was now on his knees crying in agony, as the pain increased by the minute. “STOP! STOP!” He shouted, sobbing like a child. “PLEASE STOP! OH GOD, IT HURTS!”
“SHUT UP!” Shadow roared at him, his eyes shining an angry red, and his teeth barred like a savage beast. “YOU DON’T KNOW THE MEANING OF PAIN YET!” He eased up for a brief moment before giving one mighty squeeze.
“WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!” Knuckles screamed like a banshee, as he felt his hands crushed so hard, blood splattered onto the ground from his broken hands.
Sonic turned white as a sheet as he heard the sounds of breaking bones, but when he saw blood splattering out form Knuckles’ crushed hands, he felt a violently nauseous feeling in his stomach, and resisted the urge to throw up.
Tails however, did not have Sonic’s will power and vomited right on the spot, not being able to stand the sight of crushed flesh and bone, or the pouring blood.
Amy let out a horrified yelp and shut her eyes, tears streaming down her face as she cried.
Cream was sobbing like a baby as she buried her face in Amy’s dress, trying not to look at the horrible scene in front of her.
Rouge couldn’t stand this any longer as she watched her loved one suffer so much pain. “Kn-Knuckles…sob…how could he do such a thing to you…” Her hands were shaking.
Knuckles was on the ground crying in agony, his voice racked with choking sobs. “STOP! PLEASE, IT HURTS! ENOUGH! ENOUGH!”
“NO!” Shadow yelled at him. “One more…and you’d better take it like a man…” Shadow gave one last squeeze, making Knuckles scream in almost a crescendo, before letting go. He stared at the hysterical, sobbing Knuckles with disgust. “WIMP!” He slapped Knuckles across the face fiercely, causing blood to spurt from his nose and mouth onto the ground, trickling out of his nostrils and lip, and sending the echidna right smack to the ground, where he continued to cry in unbearable physical pain. “Disgusting…” He snarled as he stared at his blood soaked gloves.
“KNUCKLES!” Rouge ran over to the fallen echidna, tears stinging in her eyes and streaming down her face. She rolled him gently onto his back and cradled him in her arms. “Knuckles…sniffle…speak to me…” She sobbed.
“M-My…hands…” Knuckles whimpered hoarsely. “Shadow…sob…crushed my hands…sniff…the pain…hurts so much…” He lifted dup what was left of his hands. They were disjointed, out of shape and bloodied, cut right through the flesh and bone, staining his gloves with blood.
Sonic had had enough of this. “Shadow…” He whispered in a low growl a she stomped towards Shadow. “You… You… You…”
“You what?” Shadow asked, uninterested, acting like nothing had happened.
Sonic was now trembling with anger. “You…FUCKING ANIMAL!” He punched Shadow so hard and fast, due to his super speed, Shadow was sent almost burrowing into the ground. “How the fucking hell could you do such a thing! You took Knuckles home away from him…and now…NOW YOU TORTURE HIM!”
Shadow picked himself up off the ground, his face covered in dirt and blood. “It was his, own fault. He never should have raised his fists to me.”
“He’s my friend, Goddamn it!” Sonic screamed in Shadow’s face. “You mess with him, and then oh god, do you mess with me…” Sonic snarled with narrowed eyes.
Shadow narrowed his owns. “You’re challenging me? Then maybe you want to share that stupid echidna’s pain…” Shadow clenched his fists. But before he could strike, something flashed in his mind, like a signal. His eyes widened, and then narrowed again, his scowl replace by an evil smile. “Ok Sonic… I’m not going to hurt you, or the rest of your friends… But I’m going to leave something that will scar the rest of you…” He pointed to GUN HQ. “You tried to warn them? It was all in vain.” He snapped his fingers.
KABOOM! GUN HQ suddenly blew up in large eruption of fire and smoke, rubble and metal flying everywhere as the once mighty foundation as reduced to nothing but a smoldering crater, filled with fire, smoke and brimstone.
The Sonic Team all stared at the scene with horror and disbelief. The very scen brought tears to their eyes.
Shadow turned back to them, an evil, insane look in his eyes. “Now do you see? Now do you see, what happens to those who oppose the Black Arms? THEY ALL DIE! AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!” He laughed maliciously up at the sky. “PROFESSOR! BLACK DOOM! NOW DO YOU SEE WHAT YOUR ‘SON’ CAN DO?”
Sonic dropped to his knees. “No…No…They’re…all gone…we couldn’t save them…” His voice quavered.
“You never had a hope of saving ANYBODY!” Shadow jeered at Sonic. “So don’t even bother trying…” He looked at everyone. Rouge was trying to comfort a sobbing Knuckles, despite her own tears. Amy and Cream were huddle together, weeping for the lost lives. Tails was in the same position as Sonic, just staring at the horrible image and weeping silently. He turned back to Sonic, who continued to stare and cry. “Don’t you see Sonic? You’ve lost…” Shadow cackled. “This pathetic planet never had a hope in hell… Mwahahahahahahahaha…BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!” Shadow laughed insanely as he chaos controlled away from the scene.
“No… No… No…” Sonic repeated over and over again. His brow furrowed against his eyes and his teeth started to clench in anger and hatred, against his tear stained face. “SHADOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!” He screamed with primal rage at the sky.
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.