《 Dark Beginnings Pt. 2 - Finding the Way 》
Back to Space Colony ARK, 50 years ago, Maria can be seen walking down a hallway, about to enter a room. The door to the room opens, and Maria steps inside the room. Suddenly, a young boy named Abe runs past her. Maria looks at Abe, who turns to her angrily.
"Tell that freak to stay away from me!"
Abe then runs off.
Maria gasps in disbelief and calls out in a scolding tone.
"Abe!"
The door to the room closes, and Maria turns to look at Shadow, who is staring shakily at a container holding a Death Leech.
"Shadow? Are you alright?" she asked.
Shadow can see Maria looking at him with a concerned look on her face.
"Maria! I'm fine. It's just..."
Shadow looks away from Maria, until he looks back at the container holding the Death Leech. Shadow stares at his reflection.
"The professor created me using alien DNA. The Black Arms, he called them. The same DNA as this... larva. This ugly, heartless creature. I may look like a hedgehog, but I'm really no different than this thing."
Suddenly, Maria hugs Shadow.
"That's not true! You have a big heart. It may be difficult for you to express it, but I know that deep down you really do care."
Maria places her hand on Shadow's chest. Shadow looks down at Maria's hand, until looking back up at Maria.
"About me. About everyone!"
Abe stares through the room's window, watching as Maria comforts Shadow. Abe begins to get frustrated. Maria grabs Shadow's hand and the hedgehog looks at her.
"What you do is what defines you. I know you're having a hard time finding answers, but I'm certain you will one day."
Maria smiles. Soon, the screen is engulfed in a bright light, and the past changes to the present day.
"Then you'll find even more people you can trust. Maybe find significant other who will both accept you and love you."
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In the Hidden Base, multiple explosions begin to happen, and many lasers are shot towards Shadow and Gwen as the hedgehogs approaches. Shadow breaks down a door into Hidden Base and makes a safe landing, his eyes crackling with chaos energy. Shadow and Gwen are met with an army of samurai armor-clad Egg Pawns, each wielding swords. Glaring at them, Gwen pulls out her ice sword, that was gifted by Espio's mother, and points at them before leaping into the air and spins her sword in front of them with incredible speed and strength, enough to confuse the robots. Once within range, Gwen delivers either a horizontal slash, cutting each Egg Pawn in half. She breathes out icy breathe after delivering the blow on them.
Shadow charges at another Egg Pawn and begins to get into an intense battle with it. The Egg Pawn tries to attack Shadow using its sword, but Shadow dodges the attack, causing the Egg Pawn to throw the sword into the air. Shadow grabs the sword and throws it at the Egg Pawn. Soon, another Egg Pawn approaches, and it begins swinging its sword at Shadow, but the hedgehog dodges. Shadow grabs the Egg Pawn's lag and spins it around rapidly, throwing it at a tall tower.
"Face me, inferior models!"
Shadow and Gwen turns to see that Omega has arrived to help take down the Egg Pawns. He shoots down at multiple Egg Pawns. Soon, Rouge arrives, and she flies in the air, looking down at the sight. She gasps, noticing that another Egg Pawn is about to strike at Shadow and Gwen. Rouge quickly defeats the robot.
"Evening, handsome. Heya, cutie!"
Rouge grunts, jumping off the robot and lands in front of Shadow and Gwen.
"Didn't expect to see you two here."
Shadow, Gwen, and Rouge notice that there are three Egg Pawns about to attack them, but they quickly defend themselves.
"Rouge! Surprised to see you here!" Gwen said in slight surprise.
"Rouge. What're you doing here?" Shadow asked.
Shadow punches an Egg Pawn. Suddenly, another Egg Pawn approaches, and swings its sword at Shadow, but he dodges. Gwen lunges forwards at high speed and does a horizontal slash, a direct hit aimed to the neck and sliced off Egg Pawn's head.
Rouge continues to fight an Egg Pawn. She delivers a high kick to the Egg Pawn, until jumping on its head, spinning it around. Finally, she delivers another high kick to the robot, taking it down. She runs up to a keyboard and begins typing on it.
"Just gathering some intel for G.U.N. I convinced Omega to be my backup. What's your guys' story?"
Shadow continues to fight another Egg Pawn. He dodges every attack that the Egg Pawn tries to do with its sword, and punches the robot, soon delivering a high kick to the robot. He grabs the Egg Pawn's sword and uses it to throw the Egg Pawn to a far distance.
"We need a spacecraft to reach the ARK! I have reason to believe the Black Arms have returned." Shadow explained.
"Same here. Plus, my vision and my ruby told me something is up and I need to get to the bottom of it." Gwen added, kicking away the robot.
"Well, you're out of luck here. This is just a supply depot." Rouge informed them.
Suddenly, Gwen grabs Rouge and saves her from an attack. Shadow, Gwen, and Rouge look up to see a giant Egg Breaker. The robot jumps down and faces Shadow, Gwen, and Rouge. They get up and face the robot as well, ready to attack it. Omega arrives to help them.
"Hold that thought." Rouge said.
"I call dibs!" Omega said.
This made Gwen snicker a bit at his words.
The Egg Breaker throws its giant spiked ball into the ground, causing rocks to launch into the air and fly towards Team Dark and Gwen.
"Take it out!" Shadow ordered before charging at the Egg Breaker, while Rouge flies into the air, and Gwen and Omega speeds off.
Shadow looks up to see a rock flying towards him, but he dodges. Shadow goes to attack the Egg Breaker. Gwen dashes to the Egg Breaker with incredible speed. While doing so, she swings her word around to build up power, much like an avalanche. Upon reaching the Egg Breaker, she delivers a single, powerful slash that is enough to decapitate one of its legs.
At the same time, Omega shoots multiple times at the Egg Breaker, destroying another leg as well. The Egg Breaker falls to the ground, and Rouge flies past it. The Egg Breaker looks up at Rouge and its eyes glow red, trying to fire lasers at Rouge, but she dodges. Soon, the Egg Breaker tries to use its giant spiked ball and launches it into the air towards Rouge, but she misses again. Rouge takes down the Egg Breaker's giant spiked ball, while Shadow slides in and Spin Attacks against many of the rocks in the air, so that he can take down the robot. Finally, Shadow delivers a powerful punch to the Egg Breaker, which causes an explosion to happen. Rouge flies down towards Shadow.
"Now about this spacecraft. I can take you to a ship, but in return, you're going to have to promise to come to Sonic's birthday party." Rouge said.
Hearing that made Shadow close his eyes with a groan.
"Ugh."
"Oh, yeah. I almost forgot about that. I'll sure be there after this." Gwen said, remembering her brother's birthday. "You coming though, Shad?"
Shadow says nothing and just turns his head to the side with a huff. Rouge smirks at that gesture.
"I'll take that as a yes. Now then, interested in raiding a G.U.N. base?"
"Count me in." Gwen smirked.
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