Disclaimer- Yeah…I'm not SEGA…or Sonic Team…

A/N- Welcome to my brand new story! Er…I don't know what else to say here…Oh right, warnings, those are important. This story is going to contain all kinds of cursing coming from a specific hedgehog, so watch out for that. Other than the foul language…there isn't anything else to note, so…go ahead and read the first chapter of this freshly made story! Go on, there isn't anything worth of interest up here anymore. Aren't you gonna scroll? Geez…bold letters really catch and hold people's attention…

Chapter 1- Prologue

"Shadow! Duck!"

The Ultimate Lifeform immediately did so without any question, very narrowly dodging a missile that sailed over his head before hitting a tree, blowing the trunk into many pieces. Scowling, the ebony hedgehog swiftly spun around and Chaos Speared the red Eggrobo who had sent the mini-rocket. The hovering robot, now with a gaping hole in its middle, shorted out and fell down to the ground.

Shadow turned his head to nod thankfully at Rouge, which she returned before tornado kicking her own Eggrobo before it had a chance to attack. The ebony hedgehog focused back on the task at hand, getting rid of all of these pests. Dashing, he jumped up and bashed a robot's head in with his foot. Using that as a stepping stool, Shadow achieved a greater altitude and did the same to another Eggrobo, with his fists this time. Landing back on the ground with a thud, he sprinted toward a robot targeting Tails. After doing a 360 to get momentum, Shadow side kicked the machine, sending it crashing into another, both falling to the ground.

The two-tailed fox smiled in appreciation. "Thanks Shadow! I owe ya one!" Tails used his namesakes to give him some height, trying to find a weaker robot that would go down with a couple of his kicks.

After watching the kit fly off, he searched around for another target, locking on to a robo not paying attention to him, rather watching a specific echidna pound and smash its robot clones with ease. When he was about to give the Eggrobo the surprise of its mechanical life, a blue blur came in from the left and destroyed the robot in one hit. Uncurling from his spin dash, Sonic gave Shadow a competitive grin. "Gotta be faster than that, Shads!" Before the Ultimate Lifeform could respond to his doppelgänger's taunt, the blue hero dashed away in a flash, going to trash more of Eggman's robots.

Shadow sighed as he scoured the yard for anymore machines, finding one, he made scrap metal of it immediately without any effort. Skating around Tails' house, the ebony hedgehog tried to find any wayward robots, but he only saw the other Mobians on the property doing the same thing he was. Making sure that the threat was gone, Shadow asked the person closest to him. "Knuckles, did we get them all?"

The echidna nodded, rotating his shoulder. "Yeah, I think so. Me and the others searched all around the place, but the area's clear."

"Jeez, Red." Rouge said as she sauntered up to us. "You sound like you want to fight more robots."

Knuckles shrugged. "Hey, even though they're a nuisance…" He smirked. "…it's fun to smash them to pieces."

Tails laughed as he landed, making our little group grow by one. "Of course you would think that, Knuckles." He then pointed up to the sky, glancing at all of them. "Before we can relax, guys, don't you think we're forgetting something…?" The group followed the kit's finger and focused on a very gloomy Eggman sitting in his hoverchair, overlooking the area.

"I can't believe…" Eggman pounded his fist against his control panel, barely missing the steering mechanism. "I had one hundred robots!" He gestured wildly at the now trash filled yard. "And they were nothing but toys to you!"

Sonic, standing on the roof of the two-storied house, placed a hand on his hip. "Whatd'ya expect, Eggy? That you'll just stroll in and take the emeralds?"

The doctor scratched his head. "Honestly? Yes, I did."

The blue hero smirked. "And how did that work out for ya?"

The doctor glared at his nemesis before grumbling under his breath. Eggman then sharply turned his flying automobile around and started to head back to his lab to work on a new plan to obtain the two Chaos emeralds the rodent and his friends were hiding. He might need to bring more robots in the future… "Be ready next time, rodent!" He called back to the group, more specifically Sonic. "I'll be back and will get those emeralds!"

"Yeah, sure, Egghead." Sonic rolled his eyes and jumped down from the roof, landing without trouble. Shadow watched as he joined with him and the others. The hero stretched his back, cracking it. "Just to think that he interrupted me from eating my chili dog! I bet it's not even warm anymore…"

Shadow silently agreed with his rival. They all were out here for some time defeating all of the doctor's robots, putting a pause on their dinner. Sonic, evidently, was about to eat some chili dogs while the rest of the Mobians were going to enjoy a couple slices of pizza. Normally, Shadow wouldn't have gone for something so greasy, but Tails invited him and Rouge over for dinner. He accepted, not really doing anything at the time and didn't have any important plans in the near future.

The kit patted Sonic on the back sympathetically. "It's okay Sonic! I don't know if you've forgotten, but we do have a microwave."

"I know…" The rival was going back to the house, slumped over. "But it tastes different than it does when it's freshly cooked! You realize this, right?"

Tails chuckled at his brother's childish behavior and followed him. "If it's still edible, you'll eat it, am I right? Do I need to bring up the chili dog you ate after you dropped it on the floor?"

Sonic blushed embarrassingly before rushing into the house, calling back, "That never happened!"

Knuckles and Tails laughed loudly at the hero's reaction, trailing after their friend. Rouge giggled and walked forward a bit before gesturing Shadow to follow her and the others into the home.

He never made it.

Something was watching the whole interaction of the group from the shadow of the trees. It had witnessed the destruction of all of its 'brothers'. The lone Eggrobo stepped out of the shade and hovered as quietly as it could over to the one who did the most damage. Most of the hedgehog's friends were in the white house while the one still outside was facing away from it. The last robot got right behind its target and raised its missile launcher over its head, ready to bring it down onto the hedgehog's own, like the rodent did to its 'brothers'.

Shadow thought he had heard something strange behind him, but shrugged it off, thinking that it was the wind. How wrong he was. The Ultimate Lifeform identified the familiar hum of a jet pack too late before he felt a something hard and heavy hit him in the back of his head. Shadow was unconscious before he hit the ground, not hearing Rouge's shout and the sound of metal shredding, falling to the grass in a heap.

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Sometimes the line between dreams and reality is so blurred that one would think that they were one in the same, or even mistake one for the other.

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The first thing Shadow realized wasn't that he was cold, wasn't that he was wet, and wasn't that he was in a room shrouded in complete darkness-

But it was the mind numbing fact that he couldn't breathe.