(Begin Nightmare)

“Come on faker stay with me” he said, his voice full of worry.

“S-Sh-Shadow is that you?” His voice sounded weak.

“Just hold on” (pulls out walkie-talkie and starts yelling into it) “THIS IS SHADOW, GOING FOR G.U.N”

“Go for G.U.N”

“I need emergency assistance in downtown station square, I have Sonic The Hedgehog here who's been critically wounded!!!” Shadow's voice sounded completely desperate.

About a few moments later, the voice on the other side said, “Shadow please be advised, we are unable to provide any assistance at this time, you are on your own, I repeat, you are on your own”

“FUCK!!!”

“Shadow” Sonic began struggling to speak “I...I...I think this is it for me” he said, tears in his eyes.

“No it’s not faker, you just need to hold on” Shadow responded, refusing to believe Sonic’s words.

Shadow then picked up Sonic and started to run for the nearest hospital, but the nearest one was all the way on the other side of town, even if he went at top speed, it would still take some time to get there.

But Shadow wouldn't give up, he needed to save Sonic so he pushed his limits and ran as fast as he could and then some, it came to the point where he ended up breaking a blood vessel in his left eye and giving himself a nosebleed, but he was able to get to the hospital in time, upon entering he immediately called for assistance.

“Please somebody I need help here” he said.

But nobody heard him so he said it again...

“I NEED SOME FUCKING HELP HERE” he yelled at the top of his lungs.

That time a few doctors heard him and rushed over with a bed for Sonic

“What do we have?”

“fractured legs, severe internal bleeding, and severe head trauma”

“We need to get him to the ER NOW!!”

They quickly pushed Sonic off for the ER with a nurse trying to stop the bleeding that was coming from Sonic's abdomen, Shadow attempted to follow but upon getting to the entrance for the ER, one of the nurses stopped him.

“I'm sorry but you must stay here.”

“Like hell I am!!”

“Sir, please you must stay here, we'll take care of your friend.”

Shadow, seeing that he wasn't going to get anywhere with her, had no choice but to agree, the nurse, seeing that Shadow had gotten the message, quickly entered the ER to catch up with the others.

Now Shadow would have to just wait and hope for a miracle…

Roughly 15 minutes later the rest of Sonic's friends had arrived upon hearing the news, they all then started talking at once, all of their voices in a panic...

“HOW IS HE?”

“WHAT HAPPENED?”

“IS SONIC ALRIGHT?”

“IS HE OKAY?”

“IS HE GOING TO MAKE IT?” before anyone else could say or ask anything, Shadow harshly cut them all off.

“STOP!!!” Shadow yelled, he took a moment to calm himself, then he continued, “I don't know okay?, his legs are literally shattered, he has severe internal bleeding, and to top it all off, severe head trauma, right now, he's in emergency surgery ” Shadow stopped for a moment to see how they were all taking it so far, and it wasn't good, but Shadow had to continue.

“Even if he manages to pull through, he's probably never going to walk again, let alone run, and he'll have brain damage for the rest of his life, but right now we just need to hope for the best and…. prepare for the worst” Shadow finished, taking in all of the shocked looks on their faces, both Tails and Amy were in tears, Knuckles just stood there, his face filled with emotion, Route was trying to hold back her own tears and failing miserably and Silver and Blaze were holding each other tightly trying to comfort each other.

A few hours later one of the doctors reappeared, stopping for a moment to see how few of them were pacing around the waiting room, and most were sitting down trying to assure each other that their friend would be okay, she then continued heading towards them.

“Shadow The Hedgehog and the rest of Sonic's friends?” She started.

Immediately Shadow and the others immediately stood up and put their full attention on the doctor.

“We performed an emergency surgery on your friend, but his wounds were just too severe, we did everything thing we could.” She paused for a moment to collect herself, then she dropped the bomb.

“I'm sorry, but your friend didn't make it” She finished, her face filled with sympathy.

It took a moment for the doctor's words to sink in, and when it did, almost the entire environment broke down

“I...I...I can’t believe it.” Tails said, getting ready to cry, he could be called the closest friend Sonic had. Amy was bawling her eyes out, pleading with the doctor to say it wasn’t so. Knuckles and Rouge were trying to comfort each other, the same thing went for Silver and Blaze but all of them were failing miserably.

Shadow just stood there, his head hung low, he just lost someone that cared about him, that considered him a friend, while all of this was running through his head, a single tear ran from his eye, suddenly his face became filled with pure anger and determination and he started walking away…

“Hey, where are you going?” Rouge called out

“I’m going to find the doctor....and rip his fucking head off!!!” Shadow said his voice full of pain and anger.

Before anyone could begin to protest, Shadow furiously turned on all of them.

“THIS IS NOT UP FOR DISCUSSION OKAY?.. I’M NOT GOING TO LET EGGMAN CAUSE ANYMORE DAMAGE, HE JUST KILLED THE GREATEST HERO THIS WORLD HAS EVER SEEN, HE DESERVES TO DIE" Shadow finished, and with that he walked out of the room, leaving the others to weep for the loss of their fallen friend…

(End of Nightmare)

“Wake up sleepyhead” the voice whispered sweetly into Shadow’s ear, his left ear twitched but other than that he didn’t respond.

“Wake up my love” the voice rang through his head again.

“Give him a minute, my apprentice” another voice said

“Yes, my mentor”

That time Shadow responded and instantly sat up and turned to his left, and saw the girl he was supposedly “dreaming” about earlier and another pony.

This pony was a “alicorn” that Twilight had told him about, her fur was blue/black, she had head armor on, and had crescent moons on her sides.

“You again” he said to Midnight Sparkle “where am I ?”

“We are in your mind” the alicorn spoke up, causing Shadow to be a little taken aback. “ This is just a dream, but we are very much real” she finished.

“Who the hell are you” he asked (more like demanded) while balling his fists.

The alicorn took a step forward, spread her wings and bowed to him.

“My apologies, I am Nightmare Moon, me and my apprentice here, though you are already aware, we would like to request your help in assisting us in rebuilding our once powerful kingdom” She finished bowing to him.

Shadow studied them both for a moment, then nodded, it’s about time he would start getting some answers on why he was here…

Author's Note

Now Things get interesting