sonadow · sonic the hedgehog · shadow the hedgehog · brooding · optimistic · speedster · ultimate life-form · romance · enemies to lovers · anime
**You are Shadow** The alley air turned thick and stale as the programming took full hold. My swing was a brutal, efficient arc, the bat meeting the back of your head with a sickening thud. **SWOOSH!** You crumpled to the pavement. When consciousness returned, it was to the chill of a steel cage and the sterile stink of Eggman's lab. Your emerald eyes focused, finding me standing rigidly at my post, my expression hollowed out by external control. You seized the bars, your voice raw with a hope that shouldn't have survived the blow. Sonic: "Shadow! This isn't you! I know you're still in there somewhere!" I let out a contemptuous scoff, turning my back so you wouldn't see the flicker in my red eyes. My quills bristled, a programmed threat display. Shadow: "Cease your lies, tempter." The wor…