Dust and Shadows

More Problems

  Sonic and myself pretty much raced to the conference room, blazing by security guards, and fellow agents, who honestly had no clue what was going on. I could hear people as we went by say things like, "Hey Shadow! Welcome back!" "Aren't you on suspension?" "Look what the cat dragged in." On top of all of those came the insults that I really hated, the ones where people make fun of us for being together.

I looked at Sonic as we raced to the meeting, and I could see that those insults seemed to bounce off of him, as if he had not a care in the world. Who could blame him? For god sakes, he had me, and I think that's all he needed. He didn't care what other people thought, no matter how bad it got. That was something that I admired about Sonic, that no matter what... he could be strong. I wish I had his strength, and his courage in the face of any adversity.

In the time that it took for us to get the conference room, was about the same amount of time for the meeting to settle down and take place, "Whew... made it just in..."

"YOUR LATE!!!" Spoke Amy from the back of the room. She was pissed, you didn't have to have a crystal ball to even see that. Sonic turned to look at her and stated, "Well if you hadn't stopped us in the middle of..."

"LATER! I don't need to know specifics! ~mumble~ jackass ~mumble mumble~" You didn't have to hear her to understand what she said, but I left the insult alone and looked upon the front of the room. Standing in front of everyone was Miles, who just happened to have his assistant right by him.

"Before I start, I would like to introduce my assistant who has been working here for a year now... Chris Thornedyke. He will be here to bring in the newest project we have been working tirelessly on." Miles turned the lights off and turned the projector on, as well as an overhead lamp above a covered object.

He began to explain the specifics of the project and its future uses, "This project has been dubbed, A.O." He clicked the mouse and the first slide had shown the specifics of what this project was capable of.

Chris then uncovered the object, what was seen was truely a marvel, that is until he broke the silence, "Miles and myself have really dubbed this project, 'Alpha Omega.' This is due to the fact that the project here is depicted of Miles." The object was an exact representation of Miles. It had two tails, its fur was real to the touch, and when cut with a blade it bled the same viscous blood we did.

"Technically this is a clone of Miles, but it wasn't used with his DNA. No this is what you could call a robot, but its not a robot. Very hard to explain." Chris didn't even have to go any further but, he did anyway. "Each and everyone of you was medically scanned this week, with the exception of Sonic and Shadow, to be duplicated in case emergencies were to happen and you needed to go on a mission of top secret priority."

Sonic didn't look amazed. He knew that this project had been going on, Miles had been keeping him in the loop ever since the idea was approved. However something else was on his mind, and he didn't have any problem telling me about it at that moment.

"Shadow." He whispered just loud enough for me to hear.

"Eh?"

"See Chris there?"

"Yeah, what about him?"

"He's been trying to break us up ever since we had fun in the training simulator."

I looked up at Sonic, and into his eyes. I could tell he was serious. When Chris was done, he looked over at me and glared as if I had completely done something wrong, and I knew immediately that Sonic was telling the truth.

I turned my eyes back to the front of the room, just in time to see the presentation end and Amy begin hers.

"As you may know, about two months ago a set of two teams, set out to find out about our missing agents. These agents were Rouge, Silver, and Espio." Pictures of their faces, and their records began showing across the projection screen. Each one had many distinguished awards listed, and each was well known for their service in the agency.

Amy went into the next slide which had shown the bodies of Rouge and Silver as they were found. "This is what happened to them, which we had no clue who had done this terrible act... until now."

Amy put another slide up, which had shown the emblem of the group they apparently tracked down. It was an emblem with a red lion's head with a sword going through it. "This group calls themselves the 'The Blood Lions.' A group which has been known to delve into artifacts known only to us as the Chaos Emeralds."

There was loud talk about the room. Everyone had heard about the legends of the Chaos Emeralds, but very few had actually seen one, and even fewer than that had actually known how to use them. It was a source of unimaginable power, when if in the wrong hands, could possibly mean the end of the world. However, if left in the right hands, it could bring forth life and properity.

"We received a message from one of the group members, Miles...." Amy pointed at Miles, and he began to play the tape....

"Well hello esteemed Agents of the Mobian Secret Service. It is with respect that I dearly thank you for sending your team to join my master. Don't worry though, In mere months I will have all the Chaos Emeralds, and soon I will accomplish what no master of these emeralds has ever done...

Resurrect."

The voices of fellow agents were now at a stand still, not a single person dared breathe.

Amy pointed at Miles and he shut the recording off. "That is who be believe the leader is. Next slide please." The next slide came up and there was a picture, but no name. It was of a man who I had never seen before. Just as the slide moved to the next one to show his name, place of birth, distinguishing characteristics, and just as I read the first letter of his name....

The power cut out, and the emergency red lights came on with their alarms. "Alert.... Alert, Intrusion detected in sector 1 victor. Security reaction force, report to the armory. Alert....Alert, Intrusion detected in sector 1 victor. Security reaction force, report to the armoty. Alert... Alert...."

Everyone in the room was stunned, but Sonic, Amy, Miles, and myself started to unlock the hidden weapons racks on the back wall. Chris punched in his code and began to hand out weapons to all of us. However the bastard handed out all the best ones leaving me with a worn out Makarov. Just as I racked the slide and put my extra clips in their respective places, I could see Chris give me a deathly stare, and I returned it.

Somehow I knew you were going to do that you little bastard.

Right now I couldn't think bad thoughts.... I had to get Amy to her office....


And nothing was going to stand in my way.....



Not even that bastard Chris.

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I'm sorry if these chapters were short I'm a busy person but I will update as soon as I can. Until then Sayōnara!