RtD: Chapter One

“Chaos Control!” Once again Shadow the Hedgehog was on the run from GUN forces. The pace was picking up and time was of the essence. The ground seemed to just fly away from below his feet and the clouds came ever so closer. Shadow realized that after all the running he’s been going through; his body seemed to have taken him to the rooftops of the buildings in the city without his mind truly comprehending where he was actually going.

Before he truly realized his situation, a few GUN-Bots flew down and landed in front of him, aiming their weapons and preparing to fire. Shadow had nowhere to run now. He was surrounded and outnumbered. Though outmatched had no meaning to the black hedgehog. He quickly jumped into the sky, igniting the flames from the exhausts of his jet boots and hovering in mid-air. He glared at the robots below him with blood red eyes and twisted his hand above his head, energizing it with a thick gold coating of energy.

“CHAOS SPEAR!” His eyes gleamed and he quickly sliced his energized hand through the air and created several spear-shaped bars of energy out of nowhere. When his hand came to the end of its slash, the spears flew down and rammed hard into the surrounding area of the robots. The spears stabbed and cut through the armoured plating of the robots like a hot knife through butter and completely obliterated them. Shadow huffed and looked away as he slowly hovered onto the rooftop. His arms crossed and his eyes stared into the horizon.

After all that he did for the world, GUN refuse to accept him as a normal civilian. He may have been created as a weapon or he may be a creature with the DNA of an alien warlord but he was by far the saviour of this planet. Not only did he help Sonic the Hedgehog by stopping the ARK from ploughing into the planet and destroying it but he also destroyed an entire alien empire, keeping the human and anthro race from near extinction.

Apparently GUN still wish to bring him in for dissection so they can study his abilities to use Chaos Energy, even without a Chaos Emerald. Why must he be hunted like cattle? His anger raged on inside him with every single time this question ran into his mind. He may have only saved the planet for Professor Gerald and Maria Robotnik but the least the inhabitants of Earth could do is show some generosity.

This was starting to get tiresome. The assaults were becoming more frequent and Shadow’s patience was starting to diminish awfully fast. He wasted no time and warped away into thin air and travelled back to his apartment.

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The sun was shining bright. Today was going to be a good day, she could feel it. Amy Rose has been walking back and forth through the mall lately, trying to find some new things to wear and new foods to try out. Her diet’s been a success all the way through and she couldn’t be happier. Well she could, if Sonic would stop rejecting her so much. Her life long dream was to settle down with him but so far no such luck. Her mind began to think this through has her hands rummaged over some new clothes she bought and began to try on in the changing rooms.

“Amy? Are you done yet?”

Her little rabbit friend Cream had also been trying on some new clothes, though she had no distractions in her head like Amy did so she finished a lot faster. Summer was coming up pretty fast so they needed something suitable for the season. Amy walked out from the curtains dressed in her new clothes. She wore a sleeveless pink and white shirt with somewhat of a small skirt at the bottom and a white stripe along the hem. To match her top, she wore a long pair of pink jeans with a white stripe trailing down the sides. She ditched her boots and pulled on some red and white laced trainers and wore over her hands a new pair of white gloves with red and yellow striped wristbands. She kept her old head band over her head to keep her quills in place, which were now a little longer and draped over her shoulders slightly.

“You look great, Amy!” Cream complimented her with a kind and gentle tone.

“Thanks Cream, you look amazing too!” Amy replied in a happy voice.

Cream too dressed differently. She wore an orange visor attached to a dark orange headband across her forehead and under her long ears. Down her body, she wore a short orange dress with a bright yellow star on the front and a white stripe along the bottom of her top. Under her dress, she wore a pair of orange shorts with white stripes training down the sides. She also wore a pair of orange and yellow shoes. Her gloves remained the same though. Her pet chao Cheese dropped its red bow and instead wore a bright orange collar, light and loose so it didn’t choke him. The chao spoke out and flew around Cream’s head to try and get Amy’s attention.

“Heh heh. Yes Cheese, you look nice too.” Amy giggled and shook her head gently.

“I bet Sonic will really begin to notice you now!” Cream could see Amy was a little worried that this wouldn’t change Sonic’s opinion about her but she did her best to cheer her friend up.

Amy sighed and smiled weakly at the energetic little rabbit and nodded gently.

“Yeah, I suppose you’re right. We won’t know till we find out!”

Cream smiled happily then grabbed Amy’s hand and tug on her arm.

“Come on! We better go find him!”

Amy smiled and let Cream pull her away. She didn’t know how her little friend was able to stay happy for so long so much but however she did it Amy wished she could learn how to herself.

They searched for an hour before they realized Sonic was busy doing an errand for a friend somewhere over in Europe. Amy sighed and felt really depressed. She was really eager to see and hear what Sonic really thought of how she looked. The pink hedgehog and the cream rabbit with the blue chao lying on her head sat at a table in a café inside the mall. Amy’s head rested in her arms and Cream just stared, trying to think up some way to cheer her up while drinking her sundae.

“Oh come on Amy, it’s not the end of the world! Sonic will be back sooner or later then you can surprise him!”

Amy looked up at Cream, still pretty depressed but did her best to force a smile. Cream wasn’t able to see through it but she still felt concerned for her. The chao on top of her head hovered onto the table and began to nibble at his doughnut. The pink hedgehog continued to stare in wonder as to how this little rabbit was able to stay happy. What was it that kept her pleased? Maybe it was because she was around her friend? Amy felt really bad now. She was depressed over her boyfriend being so far away and she was making this trip miserable for her friend and herself. She rubbed her face with her hands while leaning far back then smiled at Cream after taking them away.

“Sorry, I guess I’m still a little too dramatic about these sorts of things.” She spoke apologetic and bound her hands together with her fingers. Cream shook her head and smiled.

“It’s okay Amy. You don’t need to be sorry for anything.”

Amy sighed and smiled. She nodded and stood to her feet once Cream finished her beverage.

“Okay, what do you say we take a trip down to the movies? Maybe they got something good on!”

Cream jumped up and grinned like a little kid who’s just received a present from Santa. She nodded in a hyper sort of way as if she had an overdose of sugar, which was pretty much of a high chance. Cheese hovered into the air and landed on Cream’s head. Amy chuckled, held Cream’s hand and escorted her out towards the exit of the mall.