New Embrace

New Embrace - Chapter 1

Time and time again, there was the same thing, Eggman would conjure a nest devilish scheme, he would attempt to conquer the earth until he was stopped by Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends. Yet the consistency of these events made many feel complacent towards it, especially Sonic himself, once Eggman was defeated, that was it, wait until he plans something next time.Shadow however knew better, he understood the danger that Eggman raised, more than that the pure genius of the doctor, he knew what he was doing, he knew very well how to bounce back from failure, so with that in mind the ultimate life form chose to investigate things himself.Looking over the base from above Shadow jumped down from the mountain he was on, curling into a ball as he rolled down before uncurling himself as he came to a stop at the bottom, the place was wrecked, Eggman had a self destruct sequence that resulted in Sonic and Tails having to make a run for it, but Shadow couldn't help but think there was more to this and thus began his investigation.

He wasn't the only one.

Amy the pink hedgehog was also making her way through the rubble on foot. She kept her hammer in hand to give extra balance on the uneven grounding. Setting her boot down on top of a board and testing it, the board jerked downwards but came to a stop. It startled her at first but she quickly recovered. She proceeded forward.

Along the way, she came across what seemed like a light peeking through under some wreckage. Amy leveraged her hammer to lift a metal sheet and unveiled what was hidden underneath. It was the head of a robot that had been a part of the fight. One of the eyes still glowed. Frowning, Amy swung her foot forward and kicked it. The light shut off. Then Amy pulled her hammer back and let the metal sheet fall back into place.

Something had been nagging at her about this battle. It all just seemed too strange. Eggman didn't normally have such a spectacular exit. She had tried to convince Sonic to investigate but he blew it off and left. But Amy couldn't just walk away. There had to be something. Eggman was incompetent at times but the man was also well known for pulling the rug out from under people. One couldn't trust the man with anything.

Amy sighed and brushed her bangs aside from her eyes. This was hard to do by herself. If only the others had stuck around to help.

Shadow was very careful and methodical with his search, he found what was left of the front entrance and stepped through, tapping on his communication device on his wrist a small map manifested on his screen. As an agent of GUN he had enough resources to get schematics of what this base originally looked like. He began slowly walking along when all of a sudden he heard something collide with metal and his eyes glanced forward, his head jerking to the side before he took cover against a wall.

He wasn't alone, that was clear, the ultimate life form closed down his communicator as a means of diminishing the light coming from him before leaning his head out from the corner, checking to see if he could identify if his new company was friend or foe.

Having no sighting of any life Shadow decided to hell with it and dashed forward, with great speed that rivaled that of Sonic, Shadow charged forward and grabbed... Amy?

Instinctively grabbing the pink hedgehog by the neck but immediately after realising who it was, Shadow let her go and took a step back. "What the hell are you doing here?" He questioned, crossing his arms over his chest.