Aftermath: Part 2

Shadow shouted again and dashed toward the homes on skates of fire and he catapulted forward with Spin Attack. People screamed and homes cracked and burst apart as Shadow's spinning cannonball shot through layers of wood walls. He changed course in the air and shot through another row of homes in a flurry of splintering wood, shattering glass, bursting furniture, and rupturing trees. People were fleeing in fright from Shadow's path and witnessing the destruction in confusion and bewilderment.

Shadow landed on the road at the end of the line of homes and he looked back at the destroyed homes with evil satisfaction showing in his red eyes and his sinister grin.

Shadow whirled his head around when a car came speeding down the road toward him. The tires screeched on the white vehicle as it approached Shadow, but it was still going too fast. Shadow jumped straight into the air with the car passing right underneath him and he spun in midair to fling a lightning Chaos Spear at the car. The bottom of the car exploded from the Spear and the car spun out of control in the middle of the road until it collided with another car, demolishing both vehicles in the impact.

Shadow landed back on his feet facing the two wrecked cars and saw the driver of the white car. The man's head stuck out from underneath the lifted back of the other car that had penetrated through his car and there was blood all underneath the hat on his head. Shadow saw the blood and the dead man and held his fists up in determination. He must kill more humans and he must kill as many pathetic Earth beings as he could.

Shadow ran forward with rage where bewildered people braked their cars and ran away from the road in panic. Shadow's feet skated to the white car and his hands seized the hood of the car. The driver of the car that it had crashed into scrambled out as Shadow heaved the car off the ground, ripping it away from the other car. The parts of the car groaned from being lifted and Shadow clenched his teeth from the strain of its weight.

Then Shadow flung the car forward and people screamed. The car flew fast through the air just above the road while spinning sideways until it crashed into one of the cars on the road. They hit each other with a bang and the force of the throw sent both carts flying. The other car went rolling on the road and it smashed through multiple vehicles in a path of demolition while the white car bounced off away from the road. Tumbling violently through people's yards, it trampled any lone object and killed any person it contacted. It crashed through a mailbox and finally stopped when it hit a car parked in the side road.

Shadow smiled maliciously at the smashed cars in the road with traces of blood and dead people inside of them and the yards around the branched-off road where bloody people lay in torn-up grass and dirt. These evil humans were getting what they deserved, Shadow thought, when he saw a woman near him lying dead by her flower bushes.

A man opened the door of one of the cars that had been smashed and Shadow whipped his head around in alarm at him. The man's arm was bleeding, but he came out alive, and Shadow wouldn't accept that! Shadow rolled into Spin Attack and zoomed toward the man to knock him dead in a flash just as the man tried to run out of the car.

Shadow continued to spin in the air and he flew forward down the road. He shot through the few cars that were on the road, killing their occupants with is force and speed, and then he curved through the air toward another road.

He flew above brick shops and town buildings of various sizes and shapes which lined the road. Shadow knew there were more Earth-humans in these buildings so he crashed down with his Spin Attack on one of the buildings. He blew through the brick and concrete on the flat roof with some difficulty and he cracked the tile floor as he landed. People all around him at open desks screamed and jumped up in surprise. The sight of the people enraged Shadow and his want was to kill. He spun into his destructive ball and he crazily ricocheted back and forth all around the building, blasting through some interior walls, to kill all of the building's occupants by knocking them dead. Shadow didn't stop killing, with the grief of Maria's death fueling his hatred.

Then Shadow rolled out the front door and shattered its glass to find the nest building outside that would meet its death. He continued to crush the other buildings in the town, causing chaos, destruction, and death. There were groceries, restaurants, school buildings, and other buildings where unsuspecting people were killed and crushed by collapsing walls from Shadow's Spin Attack.

After repeatedly hammering a small building with Spin Attack until it collapsed, Shadow flew onto the road and landed on his feet in surprise when something caught his attention.

Shadow stared in bewilderment at a line of soldiers stretched across the road, marching towards him, with more soldiers behind them, and behind those, there were lines of armored trucks equipped with weaponry spread out in the distance on the road. Most of the town had fled already or were dead and Shadow stared at the disturbance in the town.

Then Shadow gasped and his eyes widened when he saw "G.U.N." written across the soldier's chests and on the sides of the vehicles. The soldiers and trucks advanced toward him from down the road and Shadow realized what they were here for. They hadn't finished their job on the Space Colony ARK and they were here to capture him. G.U.N. had found out where his escape pod landed and they were here for a fight to put a final stop to Project:Shadow.

Shadow curled his hands into tight fists. He wouldn't let G.U.N. capture him. Not after what they did to Maria and everyone else on the ARK. He would make them pay for what they did on the ARK!

Shadow skated forward down the road and the G.U.N. soldiers raised their guns. They fired together at Shadow, who ran straightforward at them without fear of being shot. Bullets exploded on little spots on the road all around Shadow and he rolled into a ball as he approached them. Shadow rolled right through a line of soldiers, knocking them off their feet and sending them flying toward the armored trucks as he killed them.

Shadow stopped at the end of the line of soldiers, turned around on his feet, and as the G.U.N. soldiers started to fire again, Shadow swung his arms to throw a double Chaos Spear at each side of soldiers around him. The lightning spears electrified all of the soldiers and knocked them dead to the ground, but the bullets they had shot hit Shadow in the arm. Shadow clutched his arm in pain and he felt the spot on his arm burn on his flesh. He quickly looked down at his arm, expecting to see blood like he saw on Maria's shoulder, but there was no blood. The bullets didn't go through him.

The trucks behind Shadow drove even closer to Shadow and he flew into the air when he heard how close the sounds of their engines were. Shadow turned to see the trucks close behind him on the road and there were turrets mounted on top of the armored trucks that aimed at him as he flew up.

The trucks fired rapidly at Shadow with heavy bullets, but he rolled into a spinning ball in midair and he flew out of the way of the bullets. Shadow rolled to the nearest truck and he crashed straight through its hood. His Spin Attack smashed the front of the truck and knocked it over backwards as he rolled through it, but the other trucks were still firing at him. One of the turrets aimed straight at Shadow as he slowly rammed into another G.U.N. truck and Shadow was shot with bullet after bullet in his Spin Attack. The bullets penetrated through his spin and Shadow shouted, falling to the ground with his skin being stabbed repeatedly by bullets until the turret ran out of bullets.

Shadow slowly and painfully rose to his feet again with a struggle and as the truck was reloading, Shadow threw a Chaos Spear at it and the gun exploded.

Shadow fell to his knees as the pain from the bullets drained energy from him. He winced as his movements caused more pain in his body, but he heard the G.U.N. trucks fire again, so he forced himself to stand again. He began to skate away from the trucks, but he couldn't escape. The guns' fire hit him directly on the back and Shadow shouted again as the bullets hit him forward to the ground. Shadow's head hit the road and his arms sprawled out in front of him. Even more pain surged through his body now and his mind became panicked of his lessening strength. He couldn't lose to G.U.N!

Shadow rose to his knees on the road looking beat and exhausted. He had to get up and fight G.U.N, but he was losing energy. He couldn't let them kill him if that's what they were planning to do to end the Professor's work and most of all he couldn't let them get away with killing Maria, but when Shadow looked up, his hopes fell.

In front of him were even more armed G.U.N vehicles on the road. Shadow looked up ahead of him, and then back behind him, and he was surrounded. This was the end for him. The large truck in front of Shadow lowered its gun to aim at him. Shadow knelt there, facing his end, remembering back at what he lost. He lost the life he had on the ARK, he lost his friend Professor Robotnik, he lost the life he could have had on Earth, and he lost Maria.

The gun clicked and fired at Shadow. The bullets hit him in the chest and bullets hit him in the back and as he was pounded down, Shadow closed his eyes and remembered Maria through the pain. Shadow remembered a time when he was with Maria when she hugged him in her arms as the bullets slowly pulled Shadow to the ground. He remembered having her soft hair against his head and her sweet voice telling him she loved him as the pain brought him into unconsciousness and the last thing he remembered was the vision of Maria's face as he fell on his back. He fell into a sleep, that G.U.N would make last fifty years, where they would keep him, trapped inside a capsule, preserving his life in secrecy, until the day he would awake, and open his eyes, to take revenge on Earth, or fulfill his destiny.