Chain Reaction

One

The day had started out the same, yet Shadow could feel dread growing as he walked the streets of Station Square, the last few months things had gone horribly, Shadow grimaced at the most recent event that had caused tension between everyone and the world famous blue blur

Fire had engulfed the the engine of the X-Tornado as Tails was in the sky fighting against Eggman once again in their routine  battles that seemed to happen once or twice a month, yet this battle was different from the rest, Sonic had been cornered as this all happened and the panic in his eyes he'd been so un-used to

everyone had been yelling at him to do something, to save Tails, to save people, to beat Eggman, it was a surprise he'd been able to push off all the demands in the past, but as most didn't realise he was still just a child only having turned fifteen earlier that month, Shadow didn't know hoe he remembered at the time as he watched the younger hedgehog look so unsure of himself, but that isn't what shook Shadow to the core, it was the rising chaos energy building up 

Shadow didn't think twice at the time as he chaos controlled to the fox and taken him back down to the ground, the kid had minor burns and was coughing badly, but Shadow had assessed him and found that he would be find, moments later the X-Tornado had exploded in the sky debris had gone everywhere, crushing many of Eggman's machines 

yet Sonic seemed more panicked at the sound as his energy spiked higher than his super form was, that it nearly set Shadow off balance, and he met eyes with a blood red, but in seconds it was gone when the other's eyes fell on the fox that was doubled over still coughing

and things seemed to go slow, even for the ultimate life form as in moments everything was in pieces and Eggman once again fleeing, yet no one cheered, they only yelled at him for not doing it sooner 

Shadow had been wondering for the last month how it was possible for one hedgehog one child  to possess that much raw energy, and he deemed today to get his answers, unaware of events that would take place upon reaching his destination

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Zonic sat at the table with the high ranked officers of No Zone, they held these meetings once a month and he always hated them, it'd leave him tired and deprived of sleep, more so than usual, yet he sat listening to them complain about his work, within three years of being an officer he'd gone higher than anyone else in that sort of time, these officers were full grown adults, with years of training and years of experience, to them, he was weak and didn't deserve to be here

he let them think that, let them do it, but he hated it more than Zhadow's betrayal, more than Zector's jokes and more than Scourge, and on that topic they were criticising him on the fact said hedgehog had escaped a number of times   on his watch, there was no predicting a hedgehog of that speed, only just falling short than how fast the original could go

yet they knew nothing about him and who he was and how close he was to the edge as he listened, the warden never defending him, he tried his best to stay out of these situations, yet it never stopped him from piling more than the legal work load onto him because he was a counter part of the hero of mobious

and that might be something he hated more than everything else, that he was always compared to the original, that he was expected to do more than everyone else because his counter part did, but there was always one thing that made them different and that was his lack of powers, but he felt something growing inside every moment he sat in that room and he let it grow

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Scourge stood there with a gun in his hand as he aimed it towards Fiona's head, she had betrayed him numerous times and this was the last straw, she was begging and crying for him to spare her, promising she'd never do it again as her beaten and bloodied faces dripped with tears 

he couldn't explain the sudden feeling of guilt, or the sudden feeling to let her go, nor could he explain why he didn't want to pull the trigger, yet he lowered the gun, and watched her, he couldn't stop from feeling sick from looking at her like this, so he turned away and said nothing as he dropped the gun into the mud and walked away silently

and he kept walking and refused to turn back, aware that she could have scrambled for the gun and was getting ready to kill him, for once he liked the thought of death, like the thought that he could pay for what he's done, but deep down he knew that he would suffer for what he'd done and it confused him as he stopped and glanced back the way he came only to see Fiona had run the moment he turned his back

He knew something was wrong with him since he'd never questioned his morals before, but he felt something deep inside that things had gone incredibly wrong and only chaos and destruction would come of it 

To Be continued

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