SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG: MEPHILES

Disclaimer: I do not own the Sonic characters, just the OC’s

Chapter One: Infiltration

It has been three months since Sonic, Shadow and Mach (who is really Amy in disguise) raced the Babylon Rogues across the legendary Babylon Garden. And speaking of Shadow, the famous black hedgehog was currently hiding out in the forest outside the steel door entrance that led to Eggman’s secret base. “I have to very careful around this place. One wrong move could trip the alarm.” Shadow said silently to himself. Just as Shadow took a step forward, the alarm suddenly went off. Shadow looked down and saw that his foot had landed in the path of an inferred laser. “That’s just great.” Shadow said sarcastically. When the alarm went off, numerous white mechs dropped down from the sky and started firing into the forest. Shadow quickly moved behind the trees to avoid the shots, one nearly taking Shadow’s head. “All right, no more hiding!” Shadow shouted as he quickly jumped out from behind the tree and charged at the army of mechs.

The army of white mechs tried to shoot Shadow, but his speed gave him the advantage and avoided all the shots. Shadow ran past the white mechs, destroying them in his wake. Shadow ran up to one of mech and jumped off its head to successfully jump over the steel door. Shadow landed safely on the other side and looked back for a moment to watch the explosion made from the mechs he destroyed. “Shadow here. I have successfully infiltrated Eggman’s base. Requesting mission instructions.” Shadow said formally into his wrist communicator. “There’s an SOS coming from Dr. Eggman’s base. Our last communication with our agent was 26 hours ago. We expect an immediate rescue, Shadow.” The G.U.N. commander responded. “Understood. Initiating the mission now.” Shadow said. Shadow then used chaos control to teleport further into the base.

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In the canyon part of the base, a couple white mechs were making their routine patrol around the base. “Perimeter is clear. Continuing search for intruder.” One of the white mech said before moving on. While the white mechs started to walk away, one of the mechs metal feet then hit something solid in the snow. “Ow!” a muffled voice came from the snow. The white mechs stopped upon hearing the sound. One of the white mechs continued to kick at the object, but no sound came from it. Thinking it was noting, the white mechs just shrugged it off and continued their patrol. When the white mechs were gone, the object they kicked began to move and popped out of the ground. It was Rouge the Bat, who had a splitting headache from the mechs kicking at her head. “Ugh...note to self: never hide where others can trample you.” Rouge said to herself.

After digging herself out of the snow, Rouge flew up to one of the cliffs in the canyon to get an update on her surroundings. It appeared that the only way she could get out was to go through the canyon. But, as usual, there was something to stop her. The whole canyon was filled with mechs, from white fighter mechs to red giant mechs, and to top it all off, there were several searchlights that would attract many mechs if spotted. “Well that might cause some problems. I better take out those searchlights if I want to make it out of here in one piece.” Rouge said to herself. While Rouge wasn’t looking, a red fighter mech walked up behind Rouge. Thanks to her ultra sensitive hearing, Rouge was able to hear the mechs movement and jump into the air before it fired its gun. Once Rouge was above it head, she quickly spun around at a fast pace, shouting “SCREW KICK!” Rouge’s signature technique plowed straight through mechs chest and destroyed it. “That’ll teach ya not to mess with a lady.” Rouge said before flying off.

Rouge then landed on a cliff only a few yards from one of the searchlights. “This place is almost impossible to get by, almost.” Rouge said with a wicked smile. Rouge then reached into the pouch she brought with her and pulled out a small grey orb. Rouge pushed a secret button at the top of the orb, causing it to turn red and begin to beep, like a bomb. “Let’s see how you like this, boys.” Rouge said as she threw the bomb at the tower holding the searchlight. The bomb latches itself at the foot of the tower and starts to beep even faster, which attracted the attention of the surrounding mechs. The mechs walked up to the bomb and started to examine it until the beeping finally stopped. “Uh oh.” The mechs said, knowing what was going to happen next. The bomb then exploded, destroying not only the mechs, but the mechs as well. “That should keep them busy for a while.” Rouge said before she flew off.

Thanks to the little distraction she created, Rouge was able to pass the searchlights without being detected. Rouge then landed in front of a steel door that most likely led to the inside of Eggman’s base. There was good news and bad news on getting inside. The bad news was that the door required a password to open. But the good news was that Eggman never changes his passwords. “M-A-R-I-A. Maria.” Rouge said out loud as she typed in the password. “Access granted.” The computer said as it opened up the doors. “Always trust Eggman to never change his passwords.” Rouge said as she walked into the room. “Yes. And you can also trust him to always have a backup plan.” Eggman’s voice came from the loudspeakers.

Just then, a large number of white mechs dropped from the ceiling and landed in front of her. “That’s bad.” Rouge stated the obvious. Just as the mechs were about to fire their guns, they were interrupted when a familiar voice could be heard. “CHAOS BLAST!!” A pulse of red energy was released in the middle of the mech army and destroyed all the surrounding mechs, but was surprising stopped only a few inches away from Rouge. When the red energy disappeared, Rouge found Shadow standing in the middle of where the mechs used to be. “Shadow? What are you doing here?” Rouge questioned. Shadow walked over to her and said “I was sent here to save you as a request from the G.U.N. commander.” “Thanks, but I don’t need any rescuing. I can handle myself just fine.” Rouge said stubbornly. “Whatever. Come on, let’s move.” Shadow said as the both started to walk away.

“Don’t you want to know what this is?” Rouge asked suddenly. Shadow looked back for a moment to see Rouge holding up a silver glowing scepter. For some reason, Shadow felt small chill run up his spine from looking at the scepter, but shrugged it off. “My assignment was to rescue you. Nothing more.” Shadow told her. “Fine. With you, its always business.” Rouge said. “That’s not true.” Shadow retorted. “Oh yeah. Name one time you actually loosened up.” Rouge challenged. “Uh...” Shadow could think of anything. While Shadow busy was thinking, three giant red mechs dropped from the sky and landed in front of the two. “It seems they don’t want us to leave.” Rouge said. “Let’s just finish these things off.” Shadow said. “Allow me.” An unknown voice said.

Just then, a cloud of black smoke passed through the mech and sliced them in half. “What just happened?” Shadow asked, completely confused. The black smoke landed in front of the two and took the form of Erazor Djinn. “Allow me to introduce myself. I am Erazor Djinn.” Erazor informed them. “Well...thanks for the help.” Rouge said uneasily, not trusting this newcomer at all. “Don’t be thanking me just yet. As I last remember, you have something that belongs to me.” Erazor said. “And that would be?” Shadow questioned. “The scepter of darkness.” Erazor answered as he pointed at the scepter in Rouge’s hands. “Forget it. Whatever you want with it, you won’t have it.” Shadow told him. “Then prepare for you demise, you filthy black rat.” Erazor said as he unsheathed his razor blade.

Shadow jumped to punch Erazor, but surprisingly, his fist went straight through him. “What? It’s an illusion.” Shadow said. “Oh, I assure you, I am no illusion. Here, let me show you.” Erazor said. Erazor then struck Shadow in his back multiple times with his razor blade and sent him flying back over ten feet. “Shadow!” Rouge shouted as she quickly ran to his side. “What just happened?” Shadow asked. “You fool. Without Arabian and Babylonian magic, you can’t touch me.” Erazor informed him. “Well, you’re not the only one with tricks up his sleeve.” Shadow said as he released one of his power rings from his wrist. As Shadow clutched the ring in his hand, Erazor charged and brought his razor blade down on them. “CHAO CONTROL” Shadow shouted before disappearing with Rouge, which cause Erazor to miss his target. “No!” Erazor shouted in anger. “The master isn’t going to be happy about this.” Erazor said quietly to himself.

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Thanks to the powers of chaos control, Shadow and Rouge were transported into to the center of Eggman’s base. Rouge took a good look around the room and saw a map of Soleanna on the main viewing screen. “Ah, Soleanna, the city of water. It has a constitutional monarchy, you know. The primary industries are tourism and crafting precision machinery.” Rouge informed Shadow. Rouge looked over to Shadow, who was staring at an oil painting of the princess of Soleanna. “The current sovereign is Princess Elise the third.” Rouge continued. “Why does Eggman’s base have an odd place like this?” Shadow questioned. “How should I know? I’m just following my orders to retrieve this item.” Rouge said as she held the scepter in plain sight.

“Hmm...Seeing as that Erazor Djinn person is after it, you will most likely need me to assist you.” Shadow said. “Great, then can you help me bring this scepter to the G.U.N. rendezvous point?” Rouge asked. “And where is the rendezvous point?” Shadow questioned. Rouge then pointed to a section of the screen map that was far from the town. “It’s the ancient castle of Soleanna in Kingdom Valley.” Rouge informed him. “Then let’s go.” Shadow said as he grabbed her arm. “CHAOS CONTROL!” Shadow shouted and disappeared along with Rouge.

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Inside the forest outside of Eggman’s base, Erazor was retreating until Black Doom blocked his path. “Look who it is. The great genie of evil arriving from the midst of failure.” Black Doom said. “Cram it, you three-eyed freak! I didn’t fail, that black rat merely found a hole to escape through!” Erazor exclaimed. “I warned you. That “rat” is craftier then he looks.” Black Doom said. “Of course, you would know. You were killed by the rodent.” Erazor said with a chuckle. “At least I wasn’t defeated by a filthy green pigeon.” Black Doom retorted. “I’m gonna...” Erazor was cut off. “Enough!” a harsh voice said.

The two looked over and saw their master moving out from behind the trees. “M-master.” Erazor stuttered in fear. “Did you bring the scepter of darkness?” their master asked. “N-no.” Erazor stuttered again. The mysterious master then pulled out Erazor’s red and gold lamp and began to crush it in his hands. A surge of pain washed over Erazor and forced him to his knees. “I won’t accept failure...from either of you.” the mysterious master said as he kept a close eye on Black Doom. “Do not worry, master. I will retrieve the scepter of darkness for you.” Black Doom offered. “No. Leave that to me. I have another job for you.” the mysterious person said as he gave Black Doom the blue chaos emerald. “We will be expecting a visitor from the future here. I want you to test him and if he passes, give this to him.” The mysterious person instructed. “As you wish.” Black Doom said before using chaos control to disappear. “No matter what happens, I will not let you be resurrected, Mephiles” the mysterious person said.

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