He is My Master

56: My Name Is Kingslayer

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"WHAT has he done to you?!"

"Hey, Shads. Good to see you." Sonic smiled up at the black hedgehog, choosing a light tone deliberately to hopefully calm the Ultimate Lifeform down a bit – Shadow's eyes looked like hellfire, his expression black as thunder, both of which Sonic freely admitted might have scared the living chaos out of him a little if it had been aimed at his person. Scourge wasn't quite aware of Shadow's mood yet – the green hedgehog was currently lying on his back in a ditch and wheezing, (just slightly resembling a certain 'puny god' after a beat-down by the Incredible Elk in one of the recent Mobian 'Revengers' action movies, Sonic thought...).

"I swear if he has hurt you-"

"No worries, my legs are fine, and so am I," Sonic said, lifting briefly lifting his limbs into the air as if for inspection, before using the movement to flip onto his feet. "But... it might've been a bit close," he continued with a slightly embarrassed smile. "So, y'know, thanks for coming." He nodded at Shadow, lightly touching the other's hand to show he seriously meant it. Then he glanced back the way Shadow had rushed toward them, estimating Scourge would likely be out for a few moments more, and added, "But, er, shouldn't you be-?"

"It's no use," Shadow cut him off, teeth gritted, but apparently at least managing to focus on the battle again now that it was clear that Sonic was unharmed. "I can't defeat Black Doom on my own. I am merely running myself ragged in the attempt," he said, and Sonic almost had to wince as he heard the contempt in Shadow's words, the Ultimate Lifeform obviously not dealing well with what he apparently perceived as failure on his part. "Lara-Su is using a combination of chaos magic and fencing to keep him busy for a moment," Shadow continued, nodding into the direction where Sonic thought he could see Knuckles' younger sister leaping and slashing at the enemy king, and the fact that closeby someone was apparently using a tree to beat Black Doom's troops to a pulp indicated that her older brother was at it as well, "-but even if her technique is sound, her strength is not, and we need to come up with something else and fast...since I am obviously worse equipped to deal with this than I thought," he said, adding the last part while not meeting Sonic's eyes.

Sonic frowned and stepped closer. "Hey, 'm not gonna listen to you talk like this," he said, at the same time grabbing Shadow's wrist until the other looked at him. "We both sucked a bit at fighting our respective opponents so far, so what. If anything, that means a change of strategies." The hero of Mobius winked. "Tell you what. If we need a sword, you take care of Scourge, I'll get myself a proper weapon, and then we'll take on Black Dork again, but together this time. Sound good?"

Shadow looked at him for a moment, face impassive as he was seemingly considering, and then, finally, managed to let his lips twitch into an attempt at a smirk, easing a bit of the unrestrained fury that had been burning in his eyes since his arrival, and the contrition he had obviously felt about not being able to beat Black Doom on his own for far.

"Well," the black hedgehog said, "considering you're asking me to take on the guy who tried to take you away from me not once, or twice, but three times in a single week..."

Shadow let his eyes zero in on the green hedgehog who was just choosing this very inopportune moment to regain consciousness and try sitting up, groaning. The Ultimate Lifeform threw Sonic one last look and cracked his knuckles.

"Sounds excellent."

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Sonic briefly wondered whether it made him a bad person to feel not a smidgen of remorse to leave Scourge to the tender attention of one incredibly ticked-off Shadow, and then decided that no, it did not make him a bad person, but would hopefully make Scourge into a person in requirement of a hospital.