Give me your heart ~Sonadow~

Prologue : The toughest enemy I'd ever have to face

(Trailer to the side - WARNING: Contains mild spoilers at the end)

Shadow's POV

Ever since the day I first met Sonic he's been the only person to ever truly intimidate me. Maybe I didn't let him know that, but his powers almost matched mine, and he had far more allies... if it came down to it, Sonic is the toughest enemy I would ever have to face.

But when I think of that now, it makes me laugh. I am one of his allies - his strongest one, I like to think. Unless I did something unbelievably stupid, he would always give me the benefit of the doubt.

At first, Sonic and I weren't exactly best friends. After all, Eggman's true intentions when he awoke me was to destroy Sonic. Maybe I was the ultimate life form, and a tool for him to use to take over the world, but in the end all he wanted was to be rid of Sonic.

"You know, Shadow. You understand what it's like to have people constantly getting in your way, stopping you doing the things you wanted to do. After all, the ones who left you captive on the ark - you see them as your true enemies, don't you? The one's who took Maria from you? I want to stop him before he takes anything away from me. Maybe I don't know how loss feels, but I do know I never want to feel it."

Eggman had seemed quite sincere in that moment, and although I'm now against him, knowing what his true goal was and always has been, I wonder if any of what he said was true, to this day. It's not impossible. Maybe he is evil, but evil has to stem from something, doesn't it?

Eggman has told me that Sonic was effectively my lookalike, but I wasn't quite prepared for how much we could look alike. Because, man, we're similar. And yet our personalities couldn't have been more different.

I'm still unsure of how to act around him. Every time I look in the mirror, I see a black and red hedgehog with a frown on his face - and yet every time I look at him, I see blue with a big smile. I would say it's the only time I can ever see a smile on my face, but the truth is it's not mine.

But I digress. After I left Eggman, I settled down, moving from place to place, but always staying in Mobius. I had no home, but I wasn't lonely or scared - I just ran, and stole, admittedly, but only in small amounts, until I was tired of running. When I went to Rogue.

Maybe I'll tell the rest of the story later. But you'll just have to wait. I think Sonic wants to speak first...