The Shadow Of A Pony

All was quiet; the stars were glistening like glitter on an evening gown. The earth looked beautiful; the ocean looking as blue as ever, the clouds dancing over the land, all of which made it appear like a perfect vacation spot. Well, except for the fact that a giant spaceship was about to blow it up.

The ship had the appearance of a sports dome. It was in pretty bad shape considering that it had been up there for half a century. There were rusted areas around the ship along with some significant dents and scratches. But the feature that struck out the most was the cannon that was about to fire its deadly beam. Over at the exterior of the canon was a giant cybernetic lizard.

The creature had the manifestation of a deformed dinosaur. It had crimson colored leather skin, long elastic wires running down its neck, and gooey energy sacks on its sides. The creature also had blue lifeless eyes, those that belong to a robot of mass destruction.

With a roar, it prepared to fire down at the planet. The interior systems hummed as the creature was receiving all the power it needed. As soon as it was about to fire, it was immediately hit on both sides of its neck.

In retaliation, it fired balls of energy at them from its teeth-serrated jaws. Unfortunately, as powerful as its attacks were, its two opponents evaded them. All around, the glowing balls of light bounced around the blasts like pin balls. Being fast as they were, the creature could not make out their true forms.

Just then, both glowing forms struck it continuously on the neck line in an effort to take it down. Angered by this, the crimson dinosaur swung its head and hit one of its adversaries. Pushed back by the force, the attacker lost focus and was knocked out of his attack stance. Now that one of them was distracted, the biolizard could clearly see its opponent. He was about three feet tall, had red and white skates, and pointed quills with red highlights. He remained floating in space unconscious until he woke up with a jolt.

"Shadow, you okay?" yelled his other golden companion.

Beside him, his rival came floating towards him with a stern expression. Unlike him, this one was pure gold and had red and white sneakers.

"Fine, but what about the biolizard?" the ultimate life form responded.

They both looked at the bio-cannon and saw the creature readying for another attack. Once again, the ship's systems hummed and gave the lizard more fuel. Then, the dark hedgehog noticed something strange about the lizard; he saw that once the systems powered up, the orbs down its neck started glowing.

"Sonic, aim for its neck sacks! We have to stop the energy flow!" Shadow yelled.

Sonic nodded and replied back to him. "Got it!"

Both hedgehogs went into ball form and sped towards the cyborg. One by one, they broke the energy sacks and angered the dinosaur.

Right then, the cybernetic lizard released a poisonous liquid all around its body. Sonic and Shadow dodged them with ease and proceeded with breaking the sacks. With each hit the creature received, the energy sacks spilled out oozes of purple blood and oil. Consequently enough, the energy that it was receiving was going down as well. Slowly, the lights in the ARK were going out along with its generators.

Just when he was about to hit the last energy sack and kill the biolizard, more toxins were released from his body and blasted the blue hedgehog close to the earth's atmosphere. Furious, Shadow gathered all of his strength and zoomed towards the creature's weak spot. As he continued, a geyser of the poison liquid spewed from one of the pores on its back and hit the hedgehog. The lizard, appearing as if it were continuing its mission of world destruction, was trying to keep the final hedgehog from destroying it. Even thought the force was great, Shadow refused to give up. On the other hand, he was also getting weaker, since the liquid was also sapping his energy.

"No, I refuse to give in to a robot like you!" he hollered in defiance. He then powered up again and sped back to the final energy sack.

The deformed dinosaur released more liquid as obstacle-like bubbles in the air, but that did not stop the blazing hedgehog. He then let out a battle cry as he neared the pink colored tumor.

"I am Shadow the Hedgehog! The Ultimate Life Form!" he cried furiously.

In a split second, he broke through the sack and at the same time, broke through the lizard's neck. The lizard groaned and its entire body began glowing. The crimson color soon became orange while the cords and its eyes glowed green. This meant one thing to Shadow. Floating just about a hundred yards form the cannon, he crossed both of his arms and attempted to teleport himself to safety. Unfortunately, the lizard imploded on itself in a burst of flames and smoke. The afterburst shook throughout the area as if it was a star's end. Not surprisingly, Shadow was caught in the explosion.

"Augh!" he groaned as he fell out the smoke.

As he fell towards the planet below, his gold coloring had been reduced to his original black fur. It didn't take him very long to enter Earth's atmosphere. Like a falling meteor, he became surrounded in flames and rained down from space. Being the ultimate life form, he did not burn up.

Suddenly, right when he was about to fall through the first atmospheric layer, a swirling blue portal opened up out of nowhere. Shadow's form descended into the portal's depths and was never seen again. Above him, the image of the stars disappeared as the exit closed in on him.

The ebony hedgehog fell out of the portal at what seemed to be a town of some sort. The town seemed to be inhabited with what seemed to small horses. They all seemed healthy and fit. Unfortunately this was not true of our furry friend. Even though the portal dropped him a mear couple of feet from the ground, he maintained the acceleration of his fall to earth and crashed into the ground.

The horses seemed startled, as any sane sentient thing would be, and the rushed over to help their new visitor. Shadow was bloody and broken. He tried to stand up, but quickly faded out of consciousness.