There are no sonic fan chars in here, no ShadRouge or ShadAmy, just original Sonic chars. =D
My first try at a Shadow Fan fiction, It's not one of those "OMG SHADOW LOST HIS MEMORY AGAIN!" either, he remembers, but I'm not gonna explain it till the right time, if you explain everything in the beginning, ya ruin the story. XD
Based off the games not the archies.
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Summery: Shadow the hedgehog wakes to find himself in suspended animation, with only Omega for explanations. What will happen when he finds himself in the world he knew…but ten years later, and with Eggman missing?
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Fight Like I Always Have

Chapter 1 “Blurred Vision”

A vision blurred through Shadow’s mind…the echoing voice of a life long friend as her last moments repeated in a muffled tone.
“MARIA!” He shouted, but all at once his voice got quieter until he couldn’t speak.
Gunshots running through his mind playing in a loop with the shriek and terrifying scream. “SHADOW!”

The hedgehog woke up breathing fast paced as his heart matched it beat for beat.

“I thought I was passed this…” Shadow thought to himself. “I stopped the ARK Maria, what have I left undone?”

A robotic voice aroused Shadow. “SHADOW…? WHAT…IS…WRONG…?”

Omega?
His eyes darted back at it with his blurred eyes but sharpened ears. “Omega, how did you get here?” Shadow said still trying to see.

“…I WAS ASSIGNED TO PROTECT YOU SHADOW.” Omega said in his robotic voice.

The grey red and black robot shifted himself side to side trying his best to seem normal.
As Shadow’s vision got clearer; he noticed something very wrong.

“Omega?! What am I doing in here?!” Shadow said pushing against the glass.

Shadow the Hedgehog was laying in a pod; the very same one he’d been in when Maria had died…he didn’t know why but he felt too weak to even break through the glass.
The room was dark around him, ill lit with a foul smell of metal against metal and steam rising in the air.
Shadow noticed his rings were missing and when he looked over himself he could see two chaos emeralds fueling the pod…keeping him alive.

“Omega, let me out of here.” Shadow commanded.

The robot moved backwards slowly. “NEGITIVE…MUST…PROTECT…MUST…PROTECT.”

Shadow tried moving but his limbs were so slow…he was so slow…
Omega’s metal fists shook and laid down against his side…he was confused as to what to do.

“Even if it hurts, I need to get out of this thing.” Shadow thought.

He grunted as moving his arms was painful, but he pushed against the glass none the less.
Smoke rose from the untouched air of the suspended animation chamber and Shadow lifted himself on his feet.

“Omega, what’s going on? What happened to me?” Shadow asked.
“ACSESSING MEMORY…SHADOW THE. HEDGEHOG…WAS SUSPENDED HERE…FOR TEN YEARS AND THIRTY DAYS…DURING THAT TIME…DR. EGGMAN HAS FALLEN…AND I WAS SELF-ASSIGNED TO PROTECT YOU…” Omega said.

A quiet moment passed between the two of them.

“Are you saying Eggman is dead?” Shadow said as his eyes opened up in surprise.

The robot hesitated to answer. “MISSING…STATED TO BE DEAD BUT IS UNCONFIRMED…THAT IS ALL I KNOW…”

Shadow stood there consumed in thought…he looked over himself and noticed the bandage across his leg and the scars across his side. “Omega…I don’t understand what has happened, how could ten years have passed? And if so why don’t I know how I got here?”
“HEDGEHOG SUSTAINED DAMAGE…SHADOW WAS FOUGHT…SHADOW WAS RESCUED…SHADOW WAS SEALED FOR TEN YEARS…I HAVE NO MEMORY OR RECORDS OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED…I DO NOT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED…BUT I AM SURE…I WAS SHUT DOWN INTENTIONALLY AND YOU WERE SEALED HERE…INTENTIONALLY…” Omega struggled to say.

The robot looked very drained of energy, he was speaking in a monotone and all but something was clearly wrong with him.
Dust was flowing though the air and Shadow almost choked on it.

“I remember now…” Shadow said suddenly. “…but it might have been better if I had not…”

Shadow used all his strength to open the door to the dark room…outside he saw the night had come and he was standing in one of Eggman’s old bases.
The base however was full of wreckage as the moon gave enough light to look back at it.
Old robots which were shattered lay on the floor, Emeral’s model shattered to pieces.
Shadow wasn’t going as fast as he usually did and it made him secretly…a little frightened, he’d never walked so slow unintentionally in his life…and the looming feeling haunted his thoughts and mind.

“Omega…how could all this have happened…”
End chapter

I think that should be spelt "Negative"

That should be "accessing" instead of "acsessing"

Also if I may interject at this point in the speech :

Instead of a full stop before hedgehog you should maybe use "..." to empathise on the delay with the robotic voice and add to the suspense maybe.




That is the only changes I can suggest myself n_n; It is good with the atmospheric generation techniques you are using; but there is room for improvements (the ones I just listed xD )

Yeah, grammar is not my friend. XDD
If you can put up with it, here's another chapter. XDDD
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Chapter 2 “Passed the Creaking Door”

Shadow walked back inside, he got this strange feeling…then he remembered there were two chaos emeralds filtered through his chamber.
He lifted the glass up and took both of the glowing gems.

“That’s strange…why don’t I feel anything…” Shadow wondered as he realized the emeralds were not giving the usual vibes when being held. “Omega are these fake emeralds?”
“UNCONFIRMED,” Omega said rather bluntly.
“They feel like fakes…” Shadow said simply.

The hedgehog stepped out and Omega followed slowly behind; the image of the outside seemed normal enough.
Shadow looked to be in Central City only something about it bothered him.
The city lights were shining in the dusk and the moon was out covered with a pail velvet cloud.
But there wasn’t anybody there.
Shadow passed by houses and shops and stores and parks but no matter where he would look there wasn’t a single person to be seen.
Creak…
Shadow jerked his head backwards alerted by the sudden loud noise.
Omega turned switching his hand-mode to gun-mode ready to fire at anything.
But it was just a squeaky door…flapping back and forth from the wind.
The house was shabby but Shadow felt a presence despite that.
Walking straight in not intimidated Shadow opened up the creaking door.
The floorboards were noisy too and when he looked back at the window before entering he saw there were bars on it.

“Is anybody there?” Shadow said as he walked into the house.

Omega was too large to fir through so he made himself ready by the window pointing his gun-like arms though the slits in the bars.
Shadow turned looking at the torn up furniture; and saw somebody was there, she stood wielding something ready to strike…but she hesitated.

“Who…who are you?” she said.

Shadow looked oddly at her; surprised at the question.

“Sonic? Sonic is it really you…?” the girl said.

Shadow couldn’t see in the dim light and neither could the girl who was questioning him.
Lucky for him there was a light switch next to the door; when he flipped it on they both jumped as one of the light bulbs broke; but the light in the hall was at least enough to see.
The girl looked disappointed with Shadow’s presence and then she seemed puzzled.

“Shadow? How are you still alive?” Amy said.

Shadow was equally as confused; Amy looked very different.
For one she was wearing a pair of jeans and her bangs were longer, the second odd question was why would Amy Rose of all people be hanging around a place like this?
Shadow knew it was Amy easily enough though; after all she was wielding her hammer.

“What’s happened since our last encounter?” Shadow said.
“Shadow? You vanished off the face of the earth; you nearly scared me to death running into my house like that!” Amy shouted.

Shadow flinched. “I couldn’t help my absence you don’t know the full story, also I was unaware this was where you lived, I was under the impression we were in Central City.”
“IDENTITY CONFIRMED…AMY ROSE…” Omega said.
“What are you? Captain of the obvious club?” Amy said with an irritated voice. “Of course I’m Amy Rose.”
“THIS UNIT IS UNAWARE OF ACTIVITY FOR TEN YEARS AND THIRTY DAYS…WOULD YOU PLEASE UPDATE?” said Omega.

Amy sighed and sat down on the old tattered sofa. “Frankly I don’t feel like explaining…I had to move when the new Death Egg blew off a chunk of mobious.”
“What?! The Doctor built another?” Shadow said with tension in his voice.
“Gosh you have been out of it haven’t you? Well yeah; you wouldn’t think he’d try it after all the times Sonic has stopped him…everything’s quiet now though.” Amy said, the end of her sentence sounding less like her spunky self.
“I know what happened to me but I don’t know what happened to the rest of this planet since then. Why is everything so ‘quiet’ as you put it?” Shadow said, sounding not in the mood to talk.
“well, the Death Egg was just one of the things that happened, it’s hard to name what’s happened the last ten years right off the bat but ever since that last battle nothing’s been the same. I haven’t seen Sonic since he left to stop the Death Egg…but we saw it crumble to pieces and fall to earth as huge chunks of rocks, most of it burned up in the atmosphere but after that everyone’s gotten paranoid,” Amy explained.
“And that’s why you were so surprised when I entered…?” Shadow questioned.
“No Shadow, I’m used to people breaking into my house,” Amy said sarcastically.
“It’s not only that it’s that Eggman’s robots have run amuck since his and Sonic’s disappearance. Probably why your robot friend over there’s so uneasy,” Amy commented on Omega’s alertness.

The robot shifted back and fourth and Amy was right, he was very uneasy.
Shadow’s eyes sunk down a little, feeling weak for some strange reason.
End chapter

I'm feeling a sense of Deja Vu here...The second chapter reminds me so much of Firestar's Quest, A book from the Warriors series. Shadow's behaving like Firestar...Having no clue why Amy is mad at him. And Amy is behaving like Sandstorm! Sandstorm was always sarcastic to Firestar. She hated it when Firestar would mention Spottedleaf. Anyways good work Trixie! When will we find out if Sonic's alive or not?

Is that your series? Cool a coincidence there. =D

Also thanks very much! and lol I'm gonna try not to spoil. *runs away* XD
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Chapter 3 “In the Ground”

Lightning came down to the ground with a terrifying amount of electricity, unusually leaking to parts of the street, cracks began forming.
Cars all of a sudden started getting tipped over and hurled different directions.

“STATUS:…ALERT! ALERT!” Omega started going off.

Amy flinched then ran up to the window.
Clouds were gathering overhead, thunder and other weird noises Amy or Shadow had not heard before.

“OMEGA! GET OUT OF THE STREET!” Shadow shouted.

Omega was outside the house because he couldn’t fit through the door, and reacted by moving.
The loyal robot tried avoiding the cracks in the ground when they came all the way to the ground where he was standing.
Rain started pouring bucket loads, almost flood like.
The craters were getting bigger, the earth shook.
Omega was now separated from Amy and Shadow by a huge cliff that formed between them, the drop looked endless.

Shadow grunted in frustration then backed up.

“Shadow wait!” Amy pleaded. “It’s too far a drop!”

But it was too late by then, Shadow began picking up speed.
He was a few feet from the jump that he would normally sail across...but something was different…instead of seeing a glowing red streak when Shadow looked behind him, he saw a faint wind.
Shadow was slow…
And he only realized it after he’d already made the jump.
Slowly he felt gravity taking him by force as he kicked and clawed at the other side.
Omega’s ground beneath him was breaking apart slowly, the robot saw where he’d been standing a minute ago shatter into a thousand pieces, and his weight was making him desperate for a steady ground.

“ALERT! ALERT!” was all the robot could say at this point, he moved back hastily and narrowly missed falling off the newly made ledge.

Shadow was hanging on slightly to the side with his last ounce of strength; the ledge was out of reach for what seemed like miles.
His feet hung down and he could see blackness and nothingness below.
Amy tried to help Shadow, but he couldn’t see her at all when he looked up.
Then the rumbling stopped…out of the blue the clouds started parting from each other, the rain got less but still the wetness was making Shadow slip small amounts.

“It looks like…there’s nothing more I can do…” Shadow said gravely.

His glove started to slide and his grip started to get less firm, but Shadow realized something.

“Those emeralds.” Shadow thought to himself. “Where are they?!”

Above, Amy hung her head down searching for Shadow, but it was so dark and it was raining, so it was hard to see anything without risking the fall.
The earth had stopped separating and moving, but Omega was still stuck on the other side.

“Oh gosh…is he dead?” Amy said with distress in her voice.

As she looked down she glanced to her side, looking at the area from where Shadow had jumped.
Lying on their sides were two chaos emeralds, glowing in the darkness of the night.

“How could I not have noticed those?!” Amy thought to herself, picking them up swiftly.

But she couldn’t see Shadow, if she simply tossed the emeralds in hope that he’d catch them, she could be forever ridding two chaos emeralds, forever.

“What would Sonic do…?” she thought to herself, closing her eyes gently, trying to act quickly, but trying to avoid error.

Omega starred at her with his deep red and black eyes, the robot could feel and think like a person, Eggman’s machines always did seem to have something more to them.
And Omega’s stare felt to Amy; he was trying to say something but didn’t know how to say it.
Shadow’s grip was almost lost on the ledge that was half way down to nothingness, he closed his eyes waiting for the last few seconds he would have.

“Maria…at least I have fulfilled your wish…and kept my promise…maybe now…I can die with dignity…” Shadow thought, sadly, but somehow very meaningful.

Shadow blinked once, then he felt the gush of wind from something propelling down, a purple gem fell with a push to it, falling down before his eyes.
He attempted to grab it with his legs and barely caught it.

“A Chaos Emerald!” Shadow exclaimed.

The gem was slippery, it had been watered by the rain and to Shadow’s dismay, it was starting to fall off his foot where he was balancing it.
The sound of the water dripping against his fur and on top of the gem startled Shadow; he could tell he was loosing the chaos emerald.
Then finally, the inevitable happened, the gem fell off.

The glow from the jewel let him see all the way down underneath him, until it disappeared.

“NO!” Shadow shrieked in anger.

Shadow had just lost the chaos emerald…
End chapter