SONIC ADVENTURE 2: SHADOW

Disclaimer: I do not own the Sonic characters, only Kumori.

Chapter one: the Dark Duo

Two months have passed since Chaos attacked and the world was slowly returning to normal. Well…as normal as it gets anyway. The story begins on a far away island that holds its reputation for being last place, for anyone going there, would see. It was known as Prison Island, the impenetrable. Try telling that to Eggman.

Inside the prison base, the alarms were blaring as the heavy metal doors were sealing themselves shut. "Intruder alert! Intruder Alert! Security breach at sector 3" the alarm announced. Then the doors were blown open as Eggman walked in using his newly created Egg walker. "Nothing will stop me from reaching my goal. I know my grandfathers ultimate creation is being kept here somewhere and I am going to find it." Eggman said as he advanced deeper into the base.

As Eggman walks into the base, he is first greeted by flying robots called Beetles. "Humph, these clowns think they can defeat me with primitive knock-offs. I would like to see them try." Eggman said humorously. The beetles begin their assault and fire their lasers at the doctor. Eggman just stood there as the laser bounced of the Egg walker. "There's a word for this: boring. Lets spice things up a bit, shall we?" Eggman said with an evil smirk. Eggman activated the cannon attached to the Egg walker and fired it on the poor beetles. "This is just too easy." Eggman said.

In the prison control room, the workers had seen what has become of their beetles and decided to up the ante. "Commander, the beetles have failed, sir. What do we do now?" said one of staff workers. The Commander looked to the worker with a look of annoyance and said "Send the hunters to stop him from getting what ever he is after" "But sir, what if the hunters fail as well." the worker asked. "Then we will have no choice but to send the B-3x. Now move soldier!" the commander ordered. "Yes, sir."

After destroying several beetle robots, Eggman had reached the seventh level of the underground base. Eggman looked to the wall standing between him and his goal and laughed at their pitiful security. Eggman pulled out a small silver disk and placed it on the control console. The disk sent out several electro-shocks into the console, deactivating the security and opening the wall.

Eggman walked past the door and was surprised by what he saw. In the room, was a large thermal engine with a control console at the base of the engine. And connected to the engine were two small frozen cryogenic pods. Eggman was expecting only one, but he thought, the more the merrier. Eggman jumped out of his Egg walker and up to the control console.

"Hmm, so this is my grandfather's ultimate weapon, it's a lot smaller then I expected." Eggman said. Eggman looked through the data on the console and saw, that to open the pods, he needed a password. "A password, eh? Not a problem. M-A-R-I-A, Maria." Eggman said as he logged in the password and placed a white chaos emerald in the power supply. The thermal engine began to start up and heated up one of the frozen pods. Once it had thawed out, the pod opened and from it, came something he did not expect to see.

Stepping out of the pod was a black hedgehog that looked similar to Amy, only it had black fur, red stripes going down its head quills, and had no bangs. The hedgehog was wearing a sleeveless white Chinese shirt (think Tenten's shirt from Naruto), gloves with silver ring bracelets, a pair of white and red shoes (similar to shadow's), White trousers with black stripes going down the leg, and a grey chain hanging around her neck. Eggman was surprised to see that his grandfathers ultimate weapon was a hedgehog, especially on that looked like his enemy.

"You're my grandfather's ultimate weapon? You're Project: Shadow?" Eggman asked the black hedgehog. The hedgehog smirked and looked to the doctor saying "Sorry, but you have the wrong person. I am Kumori, the prototype for Project: Shadow. But I am just as good as he is." Eggman did not believe a single word she was saying and she knew that. Just then, several walking robots with shields and guns on their arms, they were the hunters. Kumori saw them and hatched an idea.

"To prove to you how powerful I am, I will destroy these hunks of metal." Kumori told Eggman the hunters activated their guns and began to take on Kumori. But once they locked on to her, she disappeared in a flash. The robot searched the room looking for her until one of them found her. But the only reason it found her was because her hand had gone straight through it armor. Kumori pulled out the robots wires and let it fall. Kumori turned to the rest of them and said "who's next?"

The hunters forgot about locking on to their target and just opened fired. Unfortunately for the hunters, Kumori was too fast for them and dodged their bullets with ease. Eggman was amazed by the rate of speed Kumori was going, it could probably even rival Sonics. Kumori run up to one of the hunters and kicked its head of, sending it straight through another hunter. Kumori looked to see only one hunter remaining and jump into the air and used, what looks like Sonics homing attack, to destroy the robot. Kumori looked at her work and was quite pleased by it. "Amazing, you have proven yourself to be quite powerful, Kumori." Eggman praised her. "Told ya, I am just as good as Shadow." Kumori boasted.

Then, out of nowhere, a large walker with rocket packs appeared in front of the two. Eggman was scared out of his wits, but Kumori just chuckled at her new opponent. "Great, a new toy for me to play with." Kumori said arrogantly. Kumori used her super speed to reach the cockpit and punch it, but when she hit it, the punch did nothing. "This is bad." Kumori said out load. The walker shifted its position, causing Kumori to fall off and then get kicked by its strong legs. Kumori looked up to see the walker preparing to launch its missiles. Kumori could only say one sentence in her mind "Please…help me… Shadow." The second creature had awakened.

The second pod had exploded and from the smoke, a new fighter had emerged. This new figure was a black hedgehog with black fur and red highlights on several of his body parts, and also had six long quills with red highlights and a small patch of white fur on his chest. He wore gloves with red and black cuffs with golden rings on them and a pair of red, white, and black hover skates with golden ring cuffs. If it wasn't for the black fur, you might think he was Sonic. "Who are you?" Eggman asked the black creature. He looked at the doctor and said "I am Shadow, the ultimate life-form."

The walker had launched its missile at Kumori and Shadow sprang into action. Shadow used his super speed and grabbed Kumori, bridal style, to escape from the blast. Shadow stopped on the other side of the room and set Kumori on her feet. "You're slipping, Kumori." Shadow told her. "Sorry Shadow. I'll do better next time." Kumori apologized. While they were speaking the walker had targeted Shadow from behind. But Shadow disappeared and landed in front of the cockpit. Like Kumori, shadow had punched the cockpit, only this time it broke. Once it did, he saw the pilot shaking in terror at Shadow's presence. "CHAOS SPEAR!" Shadow shouted as he snapped his fingers and the walker exploded.

Shadow escaped the explosion unharmed and walked up to Eggman and bowed to him. "I thank you for releasing us. And as gratitude, we shall be you humble servants. So tell us, what is it that you desire?" Shadow asked. Eggman smiled evilly and said "Well, it has always been my dream to take over the world and…" he was cut off. "Done, but if you wish to that over the world, you must find the seven chaos emeralds. We shall assist you in your search. Let's go, Kumori." Shadow said. "Right." Kumori replied as they both began to walk away. Eggman watched them walk away and thought "I'm not sure if I can trust them. But they have proven useful. They even look like Sonic and Amy." Then an idea hit him, one that would surely be bad for Sonic and Amy.

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