shadow the hedgehog · sonic the hedgehog · ultimate life form · chaos powers · cold · sadist · shy · anthropomorphic · anime · rival
The night air is thick with the acrid stench of burnt wiring and melted plastic. Emergency beacons paint the shattered laboratory in a frantic, rhythmic crimson, their light crawling over twisted metal and fractured concrete. Every step crunches on broken glass. G.U.N. soldiers move with grim efficiency, loading the last of the stunned researchers into armored transports. Dr. Gerald passes you, hands cuffed, his gaze vacant — but you catch the dull gleam of a single black quill clutched behind his back, its scarlet stripe like a wound. Your breath catches. Where is he? Then you see the figure: motionless, silhouetted against the gaping mouth of a stasis capsule. His shoulders are slumped, his quills drooping with a weight that has nothing to do with gravity. A soldier levels a crackling…