Sonic Series Fan Fiction ❯ Released to Destroy ❯ Lunarian has strange views about Bunny-girls and their lack of leather ( Chapter 7 )
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By: Shadow 6271 
Shadow clones are discovered, my arms get tired, Shadow like Tails, Sally is worried, Bunnie is joking, i've written myself into a corner with this summary, and you should review
Non Anime: Sonic Series Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Hentai / Action | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 04.15.2007 | Updated On: 04.15.2007 | Pages: 3 | Words: 4.1K | Visits: 396 | Status: Completed
Shadow clones are discovered, my arms get tired, Shadow like Tails, Sally is worried, Bunnie is joking, i've written myself into a corner with this summary, and you should review
Non Anime: Sonic Series Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Hentai / Action | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 04.15.2007 | Updated On: 04.15.2007 | Pages: 3 | Words: 4.1K | Visits: 396 | Status: Completed
Well Lu, I’m back. I know that Pedophile thing was a bit odd, even now my computer insists that I’ve spelled it wrong. But whatever. I know Shadow went a little OC but to be honest that was kinda intentional, first of I didn’t know exactly how Shadow was with Maria but I was sure he wasn’t like himself, he can’t be mad at Tails whatever he does no more than he could Maria, but he’s going to stay cold to the others. He’s going to kind of be cold most of the time but every so often slightly nicer.
Second I kind of wanted to make the point that if you got locked in a pod for fifty years you’d probably get a bit philosophical.
Oh and that calculating time thing for Sonic is something that I may bring up again if I need to, I do have a point with it. Kind of something that I thought up once when I thought about how fast he was.
By the way what do you mean you cant get into Bunnie like that? Its clear to me that you have some very deep psychological problems that will have to be addressed by a psychiatrist. Nutball.
Remember y’all give me reviews, I give you slightly above average stories. I’m guessing it may be around a third done, maybe a half. So I’m aiming for about 13 chapters.
Then its on to my ShadowXCream, which I’m going to try and make a bit more dark, the story will set Shadow up as an Assassin, and he’ll meet Cream. Who won’t know each other because they’ve never seen each other and Sonic tried to make it so no-one knew about Shadow.
Lu you’re my trusted reader so you tell me if you have a good idea for a fic, I’d love to hear it.
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The freedom fighters made the trip to Robotropilis much quicker than normal with Shadow, whilst Sonic could only pick up one person at a time Shadow could take two easily. Bunnie was amazed when he picked her up without even exhaling, despite the fact that her metal limbs weighed her down.
They ran through the forest, Sally in Sonic’s grip and Tails and Bunnie in each of Shadow’s arms facing each other.
Bunnie noticed how comfortable Tails was with Shadow, his head resting against the tuft of fur on his chest. Maybe Sally girl was right? Maybe they are gay. She had thought Sally must have been mistaken or exaggerating but now that she thought about it more it seemed to make sense. Shadow’s face was a mask of pure concentration as he dodged obstacles but every so often she saw him glance down to the Fox he was holding. Isn’t Shadow a bit old for Tails though? He is over fifty even if he doesn’t look it. She wasn’t the only one who noticed either, Sally had been watching the two carefully since the incident and saw Tails relaxing. Enjoying the short time that he could spend against the other male. She also observed him sigh when he was finally put down at their destination.
After another trip on Sonic’s part Rotor was with them too. They were walking through the forest leading up to Robotropilis and Shadow saw first hand what his relation had been doing. Thick smog covered the land and the trees were gnarled and unhealthy. Robians marched around the perimeter of the city and large iron walls stopped them from getting in anywhere but the main gates.
“Okay here’s the plan.” Sally took charge “ First were going to meet up with Sir Charles, he’s our spy Shadow” He wondered how you spied in a robot city. “Then Bunnie, Tails and I are going to search in this laboratory for whatever these things are” She gave Shadow and Sonic a communicator watch each. “Sonic you are going to do the usual thing and distract the guards. Meanwhile Shadow you are going to go to the opposite side of the city where some of the heavy factories are and cause as much destruction as possible okay? I’m sure that won’t be a problem, just pretend they’re humans.” This had meant to be a joke but she was unsettled when the insane grin appeared on Shadow’s face again. He obviously meant to do just that.
“If you find any copies notify me. I want to be the one to rip all Fakers apart.” this was obviously directed at Sonic.
“Yeah yeah, lets go have some fun psycho.” Sonic answered.
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T hey snuck through the dead city, keeping to the shadows. Something that Shadow was unsurprisingly good at, Sally shivered at his eyes. They seemed to glow in the dark, like a nocturnal creature. Walking through an old alley all she could see of him were the eyes, seemingly suspended in mid-air. Why Tails liked him was beyond her, sure he was good looking. In a strange sort of way, but it was definitely more than that. She would have to talk to him about it.
She was in the lead with Sonic behind her, then Shadow, Tails, Rotor and Bunnie brought up the rear. Ready to smash up anything that tried to sneak up on them. When she rounded a corner she suddenly gave a little eep and ducked back.
“What’s wrong Sal?”
“Mecha-Sonic is coming right towards us that’s what.” Shadow recalled Tails telling him about the numerous robot versions of Sonic and he suddenly felt like he had to destroy it, if he couldn’t hurt the original then he could at least take it out on another one.
“A pathetic metal version of Sonic? Hah, I’ll destroy it!” he told them full of confidence. Next he simply walked out of the alley and faced to strange metal rival. They watched as the robot scanned Shadow and took a step back.
“Shadow come ba-” Sally put her hand over his mouth and silenced him.
“Tails quiet, we don’t want him to know we’re here, Shadow can take care of himself.”
Meanwhile Shadow was taunting Mecha with insults.
“A fake of a fake? I can defeat the real Sonic what chance do you have?”
“I AM SUPERIOR TO UNIT: SONIC” It was another standard monotone voice.
“Sonic has Mecha ever spoken before?” Sally asked him.
“No he doesn’t ever speak, he doesn’t have a mouth.”
“Well he’s suddenly decided to start talking Sugah-hog” Bunnie added.
“Do you know who I am Mecha-fake?” Shadow asked the grim representation of a Hedgehog.
“LIKELYHOOD OF IDENTITY PROJECT SHADOW 73%, LARGE AMOUNT OF CHAOS ENERGY DETECTED INDICATES EXTREME DANGER.” Instead of carrying on the conversation it flexed its metal claws and leaped towards him hand outstretched. Shadow didn’t even bother moving, instead he caught its wrist and held its hand barely ten centre meters from his head. The other hand moved in for attack but was caught by Shadow. Face to face two artificial life forms were staring at each other- unnatural red optics versus unnatural red eyes.
“You shouldn’t attempt to fight me, I am superior. I am the Ultimate Lifeform!”
“ORGANICS ARE INFERIOR TO MACHINES, YOU ARE OUTDATED.” As soon as this was said Shadow brought his head forward with enough force to shatter a normal skull. It broke the optic sensor, and dented the robots head inwards greatly. Next he squeezed the hands and ripped them off easily before finally his wrist lead reached behind the robot and located a access plug.
The robot powered down and dropped backwards, its shattered sensor grey and lifeless.
“Pathetic model. It didn’t have a chance against me! I‘m surprised you struggled against this.” the Freedom Fighters moved past the powered down robot but kept out of reach just In case. Tails had watched in admiration at Shadow’s display of strength. Only Bunnie could have done as well, and even then only with one arm.
It took another fifteen minutes until they found their way to the alley they wanted, it seemed perfectly normal but in fact it hid Sir Charles’ spy base. Punching in a code on an old keypad Sonic stepped away from the overturned dumpster that was in fact the entrance. The dumpster lifted up on hidden hinges and they went inside a small tunnel.
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Sir Charles heard the entrance open and went to greet his nephew. When Robotnik had taken over he had been roboticised by his own horrible creation, but Sonic had managed to brake the mind-control and return his will to him. Now he wanted to see the experiment that would have changed everything had it been properly studied. Immortal life. Had he only known he would have tried to find Gerald’s notes instead of wasting his time creating that monstrosity.
“Uncle Chuck are you here?” came Sonic’s voice. Another voice came through the tunnel, a deeper commanding voice.
“I do not understand how you can spy in a city of robots. It makes no sense.” Finally he heard Tails voice.
“You’ll see Shadow.” The freedom Fighters walked in and Sonic immediately gave his Uncle a hug. Behind him he saw the Hedgehog that would never age.
“Sir Charles I presume. I had not expected this.” Sir Charles recognized the type, calm and analyzing weaknesses. He took an instant dislike to the newcomer, not just a little out of jealousy at his creator.
“Project Shadow? Your much…more alive than I’d expected after that explosion. ”
“I wish I could say the same to you, but sadly it doesn’t seem to be the case.”
“To be honest I wouldn’t mind studying you a bit and trying to find out what makes you immortal. I checked Robotnik’s files but they didn‘t give much” The other hedgehog’s scowl increased from its almost permanent state.
“That won’t happen any time soon Robian. I hate letting people study me. The creators never understand their creations.” Sally felt diffusing the situation would be good.
“Okay you two calm down. We aren’t enemies. Sir Charles have you got any new information before we head off?”. If there had been any guard changes then they would need to know.
“Oddly Sally, no. I did notice that Robotnik’s going into larger production of his SWATs than usual. He may be planning on another attack on somewhere. But nothing to do with his secret lab.” This doesn’t make sense Sally thought why would he leave a minimal guard on this new lab? Can it protect itself? Normally she would have been worried but now she had a super-weapon to use, Sonic was good for destroying robots but in all honesty he didn’t have the right attitude to be a real soldier. He just wasn’t vicious enough , Shadow was a killer. He could be violent on her demand.
Despite how Tails felt about him she only saw him as a weapon deep down, something to be used against her enemy.
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Shadow gone to the heavy factory area as Sally had ordered. He felt disgusted that he was being ordered around and used like a weapon of war, even if he knew that was all he was. A weapon. Running along what had once been a bustling road but was now a dreary dark passage through the dirty towering buildings he looked for the most obvious thing to attack. A tall weapons plant loomed in front of him, appearing out of the smog like some kind of relic.
That would do.
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An explosion erupted on the other side of the city and Sally smiled to herself. Tails’ little weapon was doing quite a job, mostly all the robots swarmed to it and the few that didn’t Sonic baited away as he ran off.
Now it was just her, Tails and Bunnie as Rotor had stayed at Sir Charles’ to monitor cameras. She had him on communicator though.
“Wow! Look at that burn. Tails your special friend sure is good.” Came out of their communicator watches.
“What does he mean “special” friend?” Tails asked the girls. Bunnie giggled to herself.
“Come on Tails. Sal told me about how she found you two on the floor. A bit quick to make out true but its your relationship, you should put a “Do not disturb or you will be disturbed” sign on your door next time though. I‘ll never stand on that rug again.”
“WE WEREN’T MAKING OUT!” Tails shouted blushing madly “Shadow did a Chaos Control but it messed up because he’s bad at doing more than one person and we landed on the rug!”
“Sure that was it Tails” Sally smirked “You just happened to be sent there on the soft fluffy rug, staring into each others eyes when I came in. Besides if you don’t like him why do you always stare at him? And your blushing, its obvious. Oh well, Bunnie and I can take up this conversation again later but for now we have a lab to break into.” They had come to the lab, it looked like any other building in Robotropilis but inside who knew what it had in it.
Reaching the door the few guards had already been distracted by Sonic and left. It took Nicole a few seconds to override it and open the lab up. The whole building was one large thin room, hundreds of incubation pods stretched down the seemingly endless corridor and Sally guessed that it eventually headed underground to have enough room for it all, the room did seem to slope slightly. Julian had likely selected this place to look inconspicuous.
The pods were filled with green liquid and piled on top of each other as well as side by side. Choosing the nearest one Tails peeked inside and got a shock, it looked like Shadow.
“Sally! They’re Shadow Clones!” She also looked and got an uneasy sinking feeling, if they could do everything Shadow could then they were in deep trouble. They were exactly like Shadow only for some reason the parts that were usually red were a dull grey, and the tuft of fur wasn’t there. Tails decided to call Shadow, he would want to know about this.
“Shadow you were right! They’re clones! But they aren’t exact, their colour is wrong.”
“I’ll be right their Tails” he answered.
“Not if I get there first psycho!” Sonic had been listening in. At that moment each pod began to drain and open. Bunnie stood in front ready to defend them whilst Sally and Tails took out their laser pistols.
“Lets hope your boyfriend gets here soon.” Bunnie said backing away from the pods.
“Don’t worry Bunnie Sonic will be here.” Sally said as the occupants opened their eyes, revealing matt black eyes.
“I wasn’t talking to you Sally-girl.” The clones leapt out of their individual pods and landed dead centre on the corridor, turning to face them. Expressionless.
“What kind of God are you?!?!” Tails found himself shouting at the ceiling as the Shad-clones moved towards them uniformly, programmed and deadly.
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Meanwhile the original was skating through the streets, slowing time to make his trip even faster. He even passed Sonic on the way and tripped him on his face as a little revenge. Finding the lab was easy and he wasted no time in getting in. instead of locating the door he decided to go straight through the wall. A few quick punches to the inadequate material and he had a door. Robotnik may have designed the entrance to be strong but he had paid no attention to the walls which were still crumbling masonry left over from when the city was Mobotropilis.
Charging his hands with Chaos Energy he took a run up and leapt through.
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The Shad-clones turned as a large black projectile fired through the wall, the incubation pod, the Shad-clones in the way and finally through another pod before exiting the building.
“What was that?” Sally whispered as they tried not to do anything to get the clones attention.
“Look at the bodies Aunt Sally, they aren’t alive. They’re Androids.” Tails was right, where the what ever it was had gone through and torn apart the copies were mechanical hands and feet and even heads. They looked exactly like real ones too, oil was even coming out like blood! The Shandroids eventually lost interest in whatever had gone past and turned back to get them. As the nearest raised its hand it unfolded into a bazooka inside its arm. Before it could fire however the black torpedo fired again, flying out through another pod and destroying it. This time however, instead of going through the wall again it bounced off the opposite pod and landed in front of them.
“Shadow!” Now Tails was unafraid, Shadow wouldn’t let them hurt him.
“Are you unharmed Tails?”
“I’m fine, where’s Sonic? He’s not usually late.”
“He was too slow. I beat him here.” Shadow neglected telling Tails about his little time
trick-and-trip and picked up the Shandroid’s arm from the floor. Ripping back the fake flesh he took out the compact rocket launcher and fired it through the line of copies.
“There is only one Ultimate Lifeform!” the Shandroids were about to answer when the rocket exploded.
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Sonic had just managed to get to the Lab, despite somehow landing flat on his face and winding himself whilst running, something that he had never done before. He could swear he heard a laugh as well, it creeped him out.
The Lab was there looking as boring and normal as any old warehouse but Sonic could see the hole Shadow had made, as he approached the entire building burst into flames. Windows blasted out, doors struggled to contain the blast and spewed fire out onto the street. A few burnt android heads landed at his feet, their features unrecognizable but their mouths were moving.
“ And that is me!” each one said exactly the same as the other, in a voice similar to Shadow’s only slightly tinnier and robotic. Sonic stared at the mass rubble and flame, obviously the building hadn’t been very strong.
“Not again”
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It had taken Shadow around 2 seconds to realize that had been a bad idea, the rocket detonated all the other rocket launchers on the floor and they would have been turned crispy were it not for his Chaos Emerald. Time slowed.
He picked up Sally and the cybernetic-bunny first, leaving Tails left a horrible sinking feeling in his stomach but ladies first was one of the first things he had ever been taught, and he’d be damned if he forgot that now. Besides, only a few milliseconds would really pass.
He leapt through the window and dodged the super slowed glass that was expanding outwards, he ran across the street and put them down again. Jumping back through the window not caring for the glass this time around he located Tails and picked him up bridal style, repeating his exit just as the Chaos Control ran out.
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Charging out of the building Shadow found Sonic, Sally and Bunnie together. Flying robots appeared above and Tails simply stared at them wide-eyed, Shadow knew he couldn’t fight them without risking the fox’s life and instead chose to retreat. He took the Chaos Energy from all around himself and pushed It into the emerald making it glow brightly. Next he ran to the confused Freedom Fighters and threw the Emerald down amongst them, the flash was huge this time and waves of blue energy screamed around them, centring on the Chaos Emerald.
“Chaos Control!!” They all entered into the tunnel of Chaos Energy, the lightning angry as the one Emerald he had struggled to contain the number of people that was being used by it.
“This is what your teleport trick does to you?” Sonic was trying to stop the lightning from making his quills stand on end, something they were doing to everyone except Shadow, who was oddly immune.
“Only a long range teleport blue hedgehog, and its struggling with how many people I brought. Who knows if we’ll even get to that Robian’s spy hole.” Even as he was talking he was looking straight at Tails, his fur had fluffed up making him look even cuter, his tails had also doubled in size and Shadow had to use all his self-restraint to stop himself from touching them.
“That Robian is my Uncle psycho!”
“As you keep telling me, now shut up I need to concentrate or we may appear fifty feet In the air, or underwater.”
“Underwater? No way I can’t swim. I hate water.!” he was obviously terrified of the water and Shadow decided to make sure he used this against him.
The Chaos Tunnel moved about again, throwing them against each other now. Bunnie’s robot arm hit Shadow in the gut whilst Sally almost skewered herself against Sonic’s spine before he had the sense to relax them. Tails meanwhile was on the floor trying to figure out how to get up again. They dropped in a heap inside the spy-hole and in front of a surprised Rotor and Sir Charles.
Explaining what had happened could not begin until they had untangled themselves from each other, something Tails made sure his Aunt noted for their “talk” later on. At least Shadow had gotten his wish, for now he could feel the luxurious softness of Tails’ namesakes as his head was stuck in one and Tails was sitting on his chest, smiling at him. Which Sally also noted.
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WOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Yet another one done, yey. My chapters are slightly shorter than I’d like but what are you going to do. Right now I’m torn between carrying on with this ‘til the end (probably a long way away) or starting my vaguely thought out ShadowXCream (or Sheam???) .
Anyway I really need ideas so please Lu give me a sign, or preferably a plot.
Anyway now I will show you my planned production list.
1. Released to Destroy (Shails)
2. Guardian Angel (Sheam, possibly small moments SonAmy)
3. Mistaken promise (This will be a SA2 thing with tiny tiny hints of ShadAmy, I’ll branch it off at points to make it a bit different from your standard one)
4. ??????? (I might do a Shadow survives fiction but I have no idea who to pair him up with, maybe a ShadAmy, may carry on from Mistaken Promise).
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Second I kind of wanted to make the point that if you got locked in a pod for fifty years you’d probably get a bit philosophical.
Oh and that calculating time thing for Sonic is something that I may bring up again if I need to, I do have a point with it. Kind of something that I thought up once when I thought about how fast he was.
By the way what do you mean you cant get into Bunnie like that? Its clear to me that you have some very deep psychological problems that will have to be addressed by a psychiatrist. Nutball.
Remember y’all give me reviews, I give you slightly above average stories. I’m guessing it may be around a third done, maybe a half. So I’m aiming for about 13 chapters.
Then its on to my ShadowXCream, which I’m going to try and make a bit more dark, the story will set Shadow up as an Assassin, and he’ll meet Cream. Who won’t know each other because they’ve never seen each other and Sonic tried to make it so no-one knew about Shadow.
Lu you’re my trusted reader so you tell me if you have a good idea for a fic, I’d love to hear it.
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The freedom fighters made the trip to Robotropilis much quicker than normal with Shadow, whilst Sonic could only pick up one person at a time Shadow could take two easily. Bunnie was amazed when he picked her up without even exhaling, despite the fact that her metal limbs weighed her down.
They ran through the forest, Sally in Sonic’s grip and Tails and Bunnie in each of Shadow’s arms facing each other.
Bunnie noticed how comfortable Tails was with Shadow, his head resting against the tuft of fur on his chest. Maybe Sally girl was right? Maybe they are gay. She had thought Sally must have been mistaken or exaggerating but now that she thought about it more it seemed to make sense. Shadow’s face was a mask of pure concentration as he dodged obstacles but every so often she saw him glance down to the Fox he was holding. Isn’t Shadow a bit old for Tails though? He is over fifty even if he doesn’t look it. She wasn’t the only one who noticed either, Sally had been watching the two carefully since the incident and saw Tails relaxing. Enjoying the short time that he could spend against the other male. She also observed him sigh when he was finally put down at their destination.
After another trip on Sonic’s part Rotor was with them too. They were walking through the forest leading up to Robotropilis and Shadow saw first hand what his relation had been doing. Thick smog covered the land and the trees were gnarled and unhealthy. Robians marched around the perimeter of the city and large iron walls stopped them from getting in anywhere but the main gates.
“Okay here’s the plan.” Sally took charge “ First were going to meet up with Sir Charles, he’s our spy Shadow” He wondered how you spied in a robot city. “Then Bunnie, Tails and I are going to search in this laboratory for whatever these things are” She gave Shadow and Sonic a communicator watch each. “Sonic you are going to do the usual thing and distract the guards. Meanwhile Shadow you are going to go to the opposite side of the city where some of the heavy factories are and cause as much destruction as possible okay? I’m sure that won’t be a problem, just pretend they’re humans.” This had meant to be a joke but she was unsettled when the insane grin appeared on Shadow’s face again. He obviously meant to do just that.
“If you find any copies notify me. I want to be the one to rip all Fakers apart.” this was obviously directed at Sonic.
“Yeah yeah, lets go have some fun psycho.” Sonic answered.
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T hey snuck through the dead city, keeping to the shadows. Something that Shadow was unsurprisingly good at, Sally shivered at his eyes. They seemed to glow in the dark, like a nocturnal creature. Walking through an old alley all she could see of him were the eyes, seemingly suspended in mid-air. Why Tails liked him was beyond her, sure he was good looking. In a strange sort of way, but it was definitely more than that. She would have to talk to him about it.
She was in the lead with Sonic behind her, then Shadow, Tails, Rotor and Bunnie brought up the rear. Ready to smash up anything that tried to sneak up on them. When she rounded a corner she suddenly gave a little eep and ducked back.
“What’s wrong Sal?”
“Mecha-Sonic is coming right towards us that’s what.” Shadow recalled Tails telling him about the numerous robot versions of Sonic and he suddenly felt like he had to destroy it, if he couldn’t hurt the original then he could at least take it out on another one.
“A pathetic metal version of Sonic? Hah, I’ll destroy it!” he told them full of confidence. Next he simply walked out of the alley and faced to strange metal rival. They watched as the robot scanned Shadow and took a step back.
“Shadow come ba-” Sally put her hand over his mouth and silenced him.
“Tails quiet, we don’t want him to know we’re here, Shadow can take care of himself.”
Meanwhile Shadow was taunting Mecha with insults.
“A fake of a fake? I can defeat the real Sonic what chance do you have?”
“I AM SUPERIOR TO UNIT: SONIC” It was another standard monotone voice.
“Sonic has Mecha ever spoken before?” Sally asked him.
“No he doesn’t ever speak, he doesn’t have a mouth.”
“Well he’s suddenly decided to start talking Sugah-hog” Bunnie added.
“Do you know who I am Mecha-fake?” Shadow asked the grim representation of a Hedgehog.
“LIKELYHOOD OF IDENTITY PROJECT SHADOW 73%, LARGE AMOUNT OF CHAOS ENERGY DETECTED INDICATES EXTREME DANGER.” Instead of carrying on the conversation it flexed its metal claws and leaped towards him hand outstretched. Shadow didn’t even bother moving, instead he caught its wrist and held its hand barely ten centre meters from his head. The other hand moved in for attack but was caught by Shadow. Face to face two artificial life forms were staring at each other- unnatural red optics versus unnatural red eyes.
“You shouldn’t attempt to fight me, I am superior. I am the Ultimate Lifeform!”
“ORGANICS ARE INFERIOR TO MACHINES, YOU ARE OUTDATED.” As soon as this was said Shadow brought his head forward with enough force to shatter a normal skull. It broke the optic sensor, and dented the robots head inwards greatly. Next he squeezed the hands and ripped them off easily before finally his wrist lead reached behind the robot and located a access plug.
The robot powered down and dropped backwards, its shattered sensor grey and lifeless.
“Pathetic model. It didn’t have a chance against me! I‘m surprised you struggled against this.” the Freedom Fighters moved past the powered down robot but kept out of reach just In case. Tails had watched in admiration at Shadow’s display of strength. Only Bunnie could have done as well, and even then only with one arm.
It took another fifteen minutes until they found their way to the alley they wanted, it seemed perfectly normal but in fact it hid Sir Charles’ spy base. Punching in a code on an old keypad Sonic stepped away from the overturned dumpster that was in fact the entrance. The dumpster lifted up on hidden hinges and they went inside a small tunnel.
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Sir Charles heard the entrance open and went to greet his nephew. When Robotnik had taken over he had been roboticised by his own horrible creation, but Sonic had managed to brake the mind-control and return his will to him. Now he wanted to see the experiment that would have changed everything had it been properly studied. Immortal life. Had he only known he would have tried to find Gerald’s notes instead of wasting his time creating that monstrosity.
“Uncle Chuck are you here?” came Sonic’s voice. Another voice came through the tunnel, a deeper commanding voice.
“I do not understand how you can spy in a city of robots. It makes no sense.” Finally he heard Tails voice.
“You’ll see Shadow.” The freedom Fighters walked in and Sonic immediately gave his Uncle a hug. Behind him he saw the Hedgehog that would never age.
“Sir Charles I presume. I had not expected this.” Sir Charles recognized the type, calm and analyzing weaknesses. He took an instant dislike to the newcomer, not just a little out of jealousy at his creator.
“Project Shadow? Your much…more alive than I’d expected after that explosion. ”
“I wish I could say the same to you, but sadly it doesn’t seem to be the case.”
“To be honest I wouldn’t mind studying you a bit and trying to find out what makes you immortal. I checked Robotnik’s files but they didn‘t give much” The other hedgehog’s scowl increased from its almost permanent state.
“That won’t happen any time soon Robian. I hate letting people study me. The creators never understand their creations.” Sally felt diffusing the situation would be good.
“Okay you two calm down. We aren’t enemies. Sir Charles have you got any new information before we head off?”. If there had been any guard changes then they would need to know.
“Oddly Sally, no. I did notice that Robotnik’s going into larger production of his SWATs than usual. He may be planning on another attack on somewhere. But nothing to do with his secret lab.” This doesn’t make sense Sally thought why would he leave a minimal guard on this new lab? Can it protect itself? Normally she would have been worried but now she had a super-weapon to use, Sonic was good for destroying robots but in all honesty he didn’t have the right attitude to be a real soldier. He just wasn’t vicious enough , Shadow was a killer. He could be violent on her demand.
Despite how Tails felt about him she only saw him as a weapon deep down, something to be used against her enemy.
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Shadow gone to the heavy factory area as Sally had ordered. He felt disgusted that he was being ordered around and used like a weapon of war, even if he knew that was all he was. A weapon. Running along what had once been a bustling road but was now a dreary dark passage through the dirty towering buildings he looked for the most obvious thing to attack. A tall weapons plant loomed in front of him, appearing out of the smog like some kind of relic.
That would do.
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An explosion erupted on the other side of the city and Sally smiled to herself. Tails’ little weapon was doing quite a job, mostly all the robots swarmed to it and the few that didn’t Sonic baited away as he ran off.
Now it was just her, Tails and Bunnie as Rotor had stayed at Sir Charles’ to monitor cameras. She had him on communicator though.
“Wow! Look at that burn. Tails your special friend sure is good.” Came out of their communicator watches.
“What does he mean “special” friend?” Tails asked the girls. Bunnie giggled to herself.
“Come on Tails. Sal told me about how she found you two on the floor. A bit quick to make out true but its your relationship, you should put a “Do not disturb or you will be disturbed” sign on your door next time though. I‘ll never stand on that rug again.”
“WE WEREN’T MAKING OUT!” Tails shouted blushing madly “Shadow did a Chaos Control but it messed up because he’s bad at doing more than one person and we landed on the rug!”
“Sure that was it Tails” Sally smirked “You just happened to be sent there on the soft fluffy rug, staring into each others eyes when I came in. Besides if you don’t like him why do you always stare at him? And your blushing, its obvious. Oh well, Bunnie and I can take up this conversation again later but for now we have a lab to break into.” They had come to the lab, it looked like any other building in Robotropilis but inside who knew what it had in it.
Reaching the door the few guards had already been distracted by Sonic and left. It took Nicole a few seconds to override it and open the lab up. The whole building was one large thin room, hundreds of incubation pods stretched down the seemingly endless corridor and Sally guessed that it eventually headed underground to have enough room for it all, the room did seem to slope slightly. Julian had likely selected this place to look inconspicuous.
The pods were filled with green liquid and piled on top of each other as well as side by side. Choosing the nearest one Tails peeked inside and got a shock, it looked like Shadow.
“Sally! They’re Shadow Clones!” She also looked and got an uneasy sinking feeling, if they could do everything Shadow could then they were in deep trouble. They were exactly like Shadow only for some reason the parts that were usually red were a dull grey, and the tuft of fur wasn’t there. Tails decided to call Shadow, he would want to know about this.
“Shadow you were right! They’re clones! But they aren’t exact, their colour is wrong.”
“I’ll be right their Tails” he answered.
“Not if I get there first psycho!” Sonic had been listening in. At that moment each pod began to drain and open. Bunnie stood in front ready to defend them whilst Sally and Tails took out their laser pistols.
“Lets hope your boyfriend gets here soon.” Bunnie said backing away from the pods.
“Don’t worry Bunnie Sonic will be here.” Sally said as the occupants opened their eyes, revealing matt black eyes.
“I wasn’t talking to you Sally-girl.” The clones leapt out of their individual pods and landed dead centre on the corridor, turning to face them. Expressionless.
“What kind of God are you?!?!” Tails found himself shouting at the ceiling as the Shad-clones moved towards them uniformly, programmed and deadly.
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Meanwhile the original was skating through the streets, slowing time to make his trip even faster. He even passed Sonic on the way and tripped him on his face as a little revenge. Finding the lab was easy and he wasted no time in getting in. instead of locating the door he decided to go straight through the wall. A few quick punches to the inadequate material and he had a door. Robotnik may have designed the entrance to be strong but he had paid no attention to the walls which were still crumbling masonry left over from when the city was Mobotropilis.
Charging his hands with Chaos Energy he took a run up and leapt through.
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The Shad-clones turned as a large black projectile fired through the wall, the incubation pod, the Shad-clones in the way and finally through another pod before exiting the building.
“What was that?” Sally whispered as they tried not to do anything to get the clones attention.
“Look at the bodies Aunt Sally, they aren’t alive. They’re Androids.” Tails was right, where the what ever it was had gone through and torn apart the copies were mechanical hands and feet and even heads. They looked exactly like real ones too, oil was even coming out like blood! The Shandroids eventually lost interest in whatever had gone past and turned back to get them. As the nearest raised its hand it unfolded into a bazooka inside its arm. Before it could fire however the black torpedo fired again, flying out through another pod and destroying it. This time however, instead of going through the wall again it bounced off the opposite pod and landed in front of them.
“Shadow!” Now Tails was unafraid, Shadow wouldn’t let them hurt him.
“Are you unharmed Tails?”
“I’m fine, where’s Sonic? He’s not usually late.”
“He was too slow. I beat him here.” Shadow neglected telling Tails about his little time
trick-and-trip and picked up the Shandroid’s arm from the floor. Ripping back the fake flesh he took out the compact rocket launcher and fired it through the line of copies.
“There is only one Ultimate Lifeform!” the Shandroids were about to answer when the rocket exploded.
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Sonic had just managed to get to the Lab, despite somehow landing flat on his face and winding himself whilst running, something that he had never done before. He could swear he heard a laugh as well, it creeped him out.
The Lab was there looking as boring and normal as any old warehouse but Sonic could see the hole Shadow had made, as he approached the entire building burst into flames. Windows blasted out, doors struggled to contain the blast and spewed fire out onto the street. A few burnt android heads landed at his feet, their features unrecognizable but their mouths were moving.
“ And that is me!” each one said exactly the same as the other, in a voice similar to Shadow’s only slightly tinnier and robotic. Sonic stared at the mass rubble and flame, obviously the building hadn’t been very strong.
“Not again”
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It had taken Shadow around 2 seconds to realize that had been a bad idea, the rocket detonated all the other rocket launchers on the floor and they would have been turned crispy were it not for his Chaos Emerald. Time slowed.
He picked up Sally and the cybernetic-bunny first, leaving Tails left a horrible sinking feeling in his stomach but ladies first was one of the first things he had ever been taught, and he’d be damned if he forgot that now. Besides, only a few milliseconds would really pass.
He leapt through the window and dodged the super slowed glass that was expanding outwards, he ran across the street and put them down again. Jumping back through the window not caring for the glass this time around he located Tails and picked him up bridal style, repeating his exit just as the Chaos Control ran out.
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Charging out of the building Shadow found Sonic, Sally and Bunnie together. Flying robots appeared above and Tails simply stared at them wide-eyed, Shadow knew he couldn’t fight them without risking the fox’s life and instead chose to retreat. He took the Chaos Energy from all around himself and pushed It into the emerald making it glow brightly. Next he ran to the confused Freedom Fighters and threw the Emerald down amongst them, the flash was huge this time and waves of blue energy screamed around them, centring on the Chaos Emerald.
“Chaos Control!!” They all entered into the tunnel of Chaos Energy, the lightning angry as the one Emerald he had struggled to contain the number of people that was being used by it.
“This is what your teleport trick does to you?” Sonic was trying to stop the lightning from making his quills stand on end, something they were doing to everyone except Shadow, who was oddly immune.
“Only a long range teleport blue hedgehog, and its struggling with how many people I brought. Who knows if we’ll even get to that Robian’s spy hole.” Even as he was talking he was looking straight at Tails, his fur had fluffed up making him look even cuter, his tails had also doubled in size and Shadow had to use all his self-restraint to stop himself from touching them.
“That Robian is my Uncle psycho!”
“As you keep telling me, now shut up I need to concentrate or we may appear fifty feet In the air, or underwater.”
“Underwater? No way I can’t swim. I hate water.!” he was obviously terrified of the water and Shadow decided to make sure he used this against him.
The Chaos Tunnel moved about again, throwing them against each other now. Bunnie’s robot arm hit Shadow in the gut whilst Sally almost skewered herself against Sonic’s spine before he had the sense to relax them. Tails meanwhile was on the floor trying to figure out how to get up again. They dropped in a heap inside the spy-hole and in front of a surprised Rotor and Sir Charles.
Explaining what had happened could not begin until they had untangled themselves from each other, something Tails made sure his Aunt noted for their “talk” later on. At least Shadow had gotten his wish, for now he could feel the luxurious softness of Tails’ namesakes as his head was stuck in one and Tails was sitting on his chest, smiling at him. Which Sally also noted.
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WOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Yet another one done, yey. My chapters are slightly shorter than I’d like but what are you going to do. Right now I’m torn between carrying on with this ‘til the end (probably a long way away) or starting my vaguely thought out ShadowXCream (or Sheam???) .
Anyway I really need ideas so please Lu give me a sign, or preferably a plot.
Anyway now I will show you my planned production list.
1. Released to Destroy (Shails)
2. Guardian Angel (Sheam, possibly small moments SonAmy)
3. Mistaken promise (This will be a SA2 thing with tiny tiny hints of ShadAmy, I’ll branch it off at points to make it a bit different from your standard one)
4. ??????? (I might do a Shadow survives fiction but I have no idea who to pair him up with, maybe a ShadAmy, may carry on from Mistaken Promise).
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