Shadow the Hedgehog: Friendship is Chaos

The awe-inspiring sunset shed the modern city of Westopolis into a red-orange color. The streets were calming down after an average day of work for the humans, and are ready to go home and end their days with a peaceful starry night.

But tonight, it'll be a whole different night.

Outside the city and into the park-side area, a black hedgehog is standing next the the edge of a small hill, crossing his arms around his waist. He was above the shadow of an adult sized tree as a gust of wind blew out leaves and garbage left out by the humans. A newspaper followed the direction of the breeze and flew like a bird, spreading its wings out and ready to fly. The newspaper collided onto the hedgehog's leg and was stuck there for a couple of seconds, trying to escape the leg and continuing its course.

"FIRE IN THE SKY FESTIVAL! 50 Year return of the Black Comet!" the newspaper showed on the front page. The paper escaped the thin leg of the hedgehog and made several loops with the wind. The paper eventually flew away and vanished off to the distance.

The black hedgehog was staring at the evening sky as his mine was conducting a thought, trying to battle with his case of amnesia.

"Shadow the Hedgehog.. why does that name haunt me? It's the thing I can remember. And that...  gruesome image." his face began to grin with lassitude as he thought of the image.

The sound of heavy breathing and jogging is heard as the hedgehog was running along the corridor of a base, holding the hand of a girl at its teen years. They soon reach a dead end and is confronted by soldiers by the back of them.

Then a soldier took out his gun and pointed it directly at the girl.

*gunshot*

"Maria!"

"Who am I... and why can't I remember anything? And who is this Maria?"

The hedgehog continued to ponder his thoughts as he looked up to the sky. A gargantuan red cloud came from the south. The cloud sped like a supersonic jet that's about to break the sound barrier, and blanketed the entire metropolitan city of Westopolis with an eerie red cloud above the city. The  light suddenly disappeared as nothing but a shadow of darkness can be seen throughout the city. Then, a giant white hole came from the sky, covering the central part of the city in that light. The hole bolted out lightning as the hole began to spread more colossal than ever. Several people feared for their lives as they thought it was the end of the world.

And they were right.

As the gaping hole continues to open up the sky, odd black and red creatures descended from the hole and started to cause pandemonium throughout the city.

The hedgehog turned away from this catastrophe, not giving a single sign of guilt for the humans.

"Hmm. Look how pathetic they are! I don't have time for these humans." he said out loud to himself. As he was about to turn away, a deep, creepy voice was heard through the hedgehog's ears.

"Shadow..." it said to him. Shadow gaped as his eyes began to open wide. He turned back and saw the ruined city once more, fighting for its lives.

A strange floating eye came out of nowhere and emitted a weird demon-like creature.

The demon roared out in an echoed voice, "As you can see, the day of reckoning will soon be here. Find the SEVEN Chaos Emeralds and bring them to me as promised."

"Huh? Who are you and how do you know I'm Shadow? And what are you talking about?" Shadow replied to the demon.

The demon disappeared and the eye was seen again, it swam away like a swimming squid and the ghost of the demon appeared again. He slammed his hand onto the ground, creating several explosions around Shadow. Shadow let his hand out as if he wanted to know more about the strange creature. After the rubble and smoke cleared off, the eye vanished.

"Just what was that all about?" Shadow asked to himself, pondering once more. "If he says he knows the truth about who I am... then like it or not, I have to believe him. The only way I'm going to get the secrets to my past is by collecting those Chaos Emeralds."

Shadow stared to skate along the grassy hill as he started to head for the city: Westopolis.

The sun started to set on the horizon of Equestria as the moon began to peek out of the forest. Once again, a peaceful night was at stake for the ponies as they started to head for their wooden houses and are about to wrap up another trouble free day.

Inside the Ponyville Library, a lavender unicorn was quietly reading a book called " Ancient Stars and Comets" while sitting on her newly made bed.

"Hey Twilight," said the voice of the unicorn's assistant, a purple baby dragon with green scales. He came up to Twilight's room without knocking at all, showing a sign of carelessness. He noticed Twilight was busy reading a book. "Sorry Twilight. Didn't mean to barge in like that..."

Twilight giggled. She replied to the dragon "It's okay, Spike. You're actually just in time to witness something very peculiar."

Spike wondered. "Really?" he replied. He came closer to Twilight as he glanced at the bent pages. The pages showed bright stars and comets that pass by Equestria once every one-hundred thousand years. As Twilight flickered through the pages of the book, a picture of a comet that was shaped like a colossal squid caught her attention. She stopped flickering the pages and examined the pages.

"Whatcha' looking at, Twilight?" Spike asked.

The unicorn replied, "Take a look Spike. It says here that a comet called the "Black Comet" passes by Equestria once every one million years. And it says whenever the comet passes by, a hoard of strange creatures fall from the sky as they destroyed Equestria and put it down to its knees."

"Once every one million years?"

"Yea. According to this, it says that the comet is coming when a red cloud sheds the sky into complete darkness, marking the end of that planet."

"You mean that comet unleashes a band of creatures that can destroy Equestria?"

"It says it here in the book. They have no proof, however."

"Well, luckily there isn't gonna be any weird cloud to cover the sky. Besides, there's not even a single cloud in the sky." Spike took a peep through the window and saw the clear evening sky of Ponyville.

Except for that rainbow that was creating loops in a matter of seconds.

Spike saw the rainbow and said, "Look, it's Rainbow Dash." Twilight closed the book and peeked through the window to see Rainbow Dash speeding through the town. Except the problem was that Rainbow Dash was charging straight towards the window. Rainbow couldn't stop her speed and crashed through the window, creating a shock wave that toppled down organized books to the oak wood floor. Rainbow Dash was panting, she couldn't breathe, as was showing off a scared expression.

"Rainbow Dash," Twilight inserted, "what's the matter? Something happen?"

Rainbow Dash let her hoof out as she took a couple of deeps breaths. Then, she screamed out, "There's a big red cloud coming this way! It's so massive, I can't even stop it!"

Spike realized the thing Rainbow Dash had said; that big red cloud, which was mentioned as a sign of the return of the "Black Comet".

"Ugh, Twilight," Spike insisted, "you don't think that 'Black Comet' is coming, do you?"

"Black Comet?" Rainbow Dash wondered.

"Its just some squid-shaped comet that sends out creatures to destroy a planet and take it over. Oops."

Rainbow screamed. "Well we gotta do SOMETHING! Look!"

Twilight and Spike looked at the window Rainbow Dash was pointing at. There, they could see what was going on. The red cloud... speeding its way towards Ponyville, covered the town into darkness and eventually covered all of Canterlot in darkness. A gaping hole opened up the red sky as the red and black creatures Spike mentioned about spawned from the hole as they dropped down to the ground, casing destruction to the town of Ponyville.

Then, a strange creature came out of nowhere and was covering the hole up with his multiple eyes on its face.

"Ponies of Equestria!" the creature echoed, "as you can see, the day of reckoning has arrived. Equestria will soon fall down to its doom. Brouhaha..." the creature disappeared and the creatures continued to annihilate the town of Ponyville.

Rainbow Dash squealed. "What are we gonna do?!" she screamed.

"Calm down, Rainbow Dash." Twilight softly said.

"Are you CRAZY?! Equestria will soon be a pile of rubble if we don't do something at this moment."

"Well, we have to go to the princess ASAP! She'll know what to do."

Twilight nodded in agreement. Rainbow and Twilight flew out of the shattered window and started to head for the castle, leaving Spike all alone at risk.

"HEY! YOU FORGOT ABOUT ME!" Spike exclaimed to the ponies. They couldn't hear his cry for help due to the sounds of tumbling buildings and crying ponies. Spike grunted. He raced down the stairwell and headed for the castle on foot, hoping not to get caught by the creatures.