Convergence Infinites: Halo

Chapter Seventy Nine

Another Universe

The Black Comet

Stepping into the light, Shadow caught sight of an ostentatious GUN-built robot, painted similarly to Omega upon closer inspection. It was a half-humanoid sort of thing, with two large arms, a torso, and a head, but it simply floated, and contained no legs. However, not even the giant metal contraption with "Diablon" emblazoned on the front was what threatened me even slightly...

...It was the blue hedgehog standing in front of Diablon, tossing the purple emerald almost carelessly in his hand.

"...get out of my way," Shadow warned them with five words, approaching to take the Chaos Emerald that he came here for.

"Shadow, I can't let you go..." Sonic spoke in a solemn tone, tucking the emerald in his quills where he'd have to get up close and personal to claim. "...not like this!"

"YOU!" the GUN Commander's voice rang out from inside Diablon. "You're the one who destroyed the ARK and killed everyone on it!"

What...?!

The Commander's voice was taut and determined, not faltering one bit. "It's time to settle this once and for all!"

"I didn't kill anybody...I didn't destroy anything..." Shadow seethed through his teeth, negative energy flowing through me once again. Black Doom was wrong- he didn't need to serve him to tap into this unbridled rage...

After all, he had before.

"You liar," growled Sonic, in a tone that most certainly shouldn't have been associated with him. "You had a hand in destroying Central City...and you destroyed Knuckles! My mother! My father! My brothers! And my sisters! And even my girlfriend Sally! What's next, the world!?"

Well, he had considered it...

"I won't let you go any farther on this path of evil!" Sonic finished, striking a battle pose.

Shadow don't know what came over him in that instant, but a sickening sneer possessed my face and a fire-igniting laugh absconded from my being.

"All right then...I know what I have to do." I challenged as I clenched my fist. "I plan to bring order to the humans...these humans, they don't value life, and someone like you should understand that, Sonic..."

"I don't understand!" cried Sonic, throwing up his arms. "Not all humans are outrageously heartless...in fact, more of them are kindhearted rather than the fiends you make them out to be!"

"They're going to pay, Sonic...pay with their lives for what they've done!"

"You deplorable scum!" the Commander hissed, completely insulted and offended beyond belief.

"They haven't done anything!" Sonic protested, and the unnatural rage building up within him was definitely something I wasn't looking forward to facing. "Why are you siding with those infernal black creatures?!"

"Siding with them...you're joking, right?" I questioned right back, folding my arms.

Sonic's brows narrowed. "Of course not. You've been aligned with them ever since I met up with you in Westopolis."