It was the day after the concert and I was sat on the beach, relaxing when I heard Autumn shifting slightly, I looked over to see her staring in the distance behind me.

“What is that?” she asked, I followed her gaze and saw a dark dot in the far distance. It must have been moving at some speed because it was kicking up a large cloud of dust. I stood up and switched to the mask of accuracy and zoomed in before sighing in exasperation.

“You have got to be kidding me” I muttered, rubbing my non telescopic eye in frustration “of all the damn planets to land on, it has to be the one with the emo, amnesiac hedgehog” run…err, skating towards us was Shadow the hedgehog, at some speed. I opened the come link.

“Vapaa, I’m gonna need you here for a minute” I said.

“What is it?” he asked.

“You wouldn’t believe me if I told you, just get here, fast” Vapaa appeared with a flash of light “mastered F.T.L. travel?” he nodded.

“Perfected it a few days ago” he said “I always had trouble maintaining a constant velocity up until now”

“What’s your secret?” I asked.

“The best way I can describe it is you have to physically become your element” he said “requires a lot of concentration”

“As much as this is all very interesting, which it’s not” Autumn said “why don’t we actually get to why we actually summoned the walking glow stick” I rolled my eyes before pointing at Shadow the hedgehog.

“See that?” I asked, Vapaa nodded “think you can put your abilities to the test against a theoretically hypersonic hedgehog?” he smirked.

“Against him?” he asked “no problem” he then disappeared in a flash.

*POV 3rd person

Shadow ran towards the aliens, the last time he encountered aliens it resulted in the threat of an extinction level event, he wasn’t going to make the same mistake twice. He was a quarter of a mile away when he saw a flash next to him and looked over to see a human in gold and white armour flying along on his back with his arms behind his head,  he had a feint gold aura surrounding him.

“Hey” the human said, giving a two fingered salute. Shadow didn’t answer, only raise an eyebrow. The human rolled his eyes “I expect your probably wondering how I’m able to keep pace”

“I actually don’t care” Shadow said, before accelerating. The human kept perfect pace with him.

“Now what would one such as you be doing around these parts?” the human asked.

“None of your damn business” Shadow said, before teleporting away. Vapaa could see an infrared trail left by his teleportation and teleported in front of the dark hedgehog as he reappeared, surprising him “what!?” Vapaa chuckled and leant against one of the palm trees.

“I seriously doubt even the so-called ‘ultimate life form’ could outpace light itself” Vapaa said “sorry, but I can’t allow you to go any further and spoil our little holiday” Shadow snorted and tried to go around, or teleport behind, only for Vapaa to ‘light-jump’ to block his path each time.

“Get out of my way, human” Shadow said.

“No can do” Vapaa said “we don’t mean this planet any harm”

“Likely story” Shadow said “if you won’t get out of my way, then I’ll have to make you” Vapaa snorted before getting out his double ended sword, splitting it into two and holding one blade in each hand.

“Are you really sure you want to do this?” Vapaa asked, Shadow harrumphed before changing to a fighting stance.

“Let me show you the meaning of true power” Shadow said, as a red aura surrounded him “Chaos...blast!” the aura expanded rapidly in a shockwave, thinking quickly Vapaa changed to the Hau to shield himself, but the blast still pushed him back a few feet. The moment Vapaa saw his chance he lunged towards Shadow at light speed and delivered the uppercut to end all uppercuts, sending Shadow streaking through the sky at several thousand miles per hour. Vapaa put a hand above his eyes to block out the sun as he watched Shadow streak into the distance.

“True power my ass” Vapaa muttered, before turning and heading back towards the camp at a normal walking pace. He was just reaching the camp when he heard a dull bang from behind him, he turned just in time to see a monumentally pissed off and glowing-red Shadow slam into him and begin unleashing a volley of punches as they both shot forward. Thinking quickly Vapaa kicked away from Shadow and back flipped before landing on his feet, sliding several tens of feet before coming to a stop. He quickly activated his mask of shielding, causing shadow to slam into it and begin sliding down in true cartoon style. Vapaa deactivated the shield and walked towards Shadow before picking the dark hedgehog up by his neck, he then turned around and began carrying the unconscious hedgehog back towards the camp.

*POV 1st person Vuur Koning*

After some time I spotted Vapaa walking towards me holding an unconscious Shadow by his neck, Vapaa dropped the dark hedgehog at my feet.

“He’s all yours” Vapaa said, not stopping or turning around, I got a pair of power-supressing cuffs out of my hammer space and clipped them around Shadow’s wrists.

“Get a containment cell set up” I said to Autumn “preferably before he wakes up” Autumn nodded before running towards the Dragon.

*POV 3rd person*

Galvetron flew through interplanetary space towards a small moon, he transformed from his jet mode and landed on the surface of the moon, kicking up a cloud of dust as he did so. After checking to make sure no one was around he brought out a relatively small hologram-device and chucked it on the ground, the device activated to reveal Jul ‘Mdama, scaled up to be standing the same height as Galvetron.

“[Were you followed]?” ‘Mdama asked, Galvetron shook his head.

“Teridax doesn’t know of our arraignments” the Decepticon said, ‘Mdama does the closest approximation to a smirk.

“[Good, try and lead him to the Human abomination’s home world, make sure that Vuur Koning and his ilk follows you]” the Sangheili war lord said “[our plan must go flawlessly if we are to succeed]” Galvetron nodded and the hologram deactivated.

Shadow awoke with a groan and sat up, he tried to put a hand to his aching head and noticed with some surprise that he had a pair of metal cuffs on his wrists, causing the other hand to get pulled up as well. He looked around to see a force field of some kind surrounding him. He heard the hiss of a door and the sound of footsteps on metal plate approaching, he turned towards the source of the sound to see a 7ft tall human in red and silver armour and wearing a gold mask walk over

“Oh” the human said in a British accent “good, your awake” Shadow jumped up.

“Who are you!?” Shadow demanded “where am I!?” the Human held up a hand.

“Just…relax” he said “you’re in the cell for our protection and yours. We are currently in a Dragon class Dropship 10’000 feet up in the air, try and escape and you might end up killing yourself” Shadow snorted.

“I’m fallen from greater heights” he said, turning around and crossing his arms.

“But not whilst wearing suppressing cuffs” the human said “the reason we are currently on this planet is because the last planet we visited…wasn’t exactly friendly, we came here to catch a small break from it all” the human tapped a device on his wrist and several holograms activated, showing footage of…Shadow wasn’t sure what they were. He focussed on a hologram showing a being in black, crystalline armour.

“This” the human said “is Makuta Teridax, he’s wanted for causing all the planets to appear in the sky. He plans to assemble an army to conquer the entire galaxy”

“Why are you showing me this?” Shadow asked “and furthermore, why aren’t you out there going after him right now?”

“I’d like to see you go against Nazis and come back not wanting a break” the Human said, leaving Shadow confused.

“What’s a Nahtsy?” Shadow asked.

“Never mind” the Human said “I want to know if you would be willing to join us”

“You must be joking” Shadow said.

“Do I look like I’m fucking joking” the Human said, deadpanning “we are up against not one, but multiple armies, what do you suppose will happen if the Black arms somehow got into an alliance with one of them”

“The Black arms are destroyed” Shadow said.

“Teridax was supposedly destroyed 400 million years ago, yet he’s still very much alive” the Human said “nothing is totally certain now, for all you know it could be a black arms from an alternate universe where you sided with them”

“Alternate universe?” Shadow asked, deadpanning.

“Where do you think the planets came from?” the Human said “they had to come from somewhere” Shadow went to say something but was interupted

“Hoher Herr allgemeinen!” a female voice said in a language Shadow didn’t recognise “Ve might have ein problem” the Human quickly left the room.

*POV 1st person Vuur Koning*

I walked into the cockpit and stopped dead in my tracks.

“Oh…fuck…” I muttered, hovering in front of us was an armada of Black arms, I ran back into the hold “Shadow! Black arms!” I remotely deactivated his cuffs and holding cell.

“You’re letting me go!?” he asked, rubbing his whists “just like that!?”

“No” I said, getting out my sword and extending it into a staff “I’m trusting you not to ditch me” I then activated my com-link.

“Glück?” I said.

“Jawohl?” she asked.

“I need you to keep doing passes through the armada, Shadow needs a stable platform to teleport from” I said, I felt the Dropship accelerate, I then picked up a suppresser multiple clips and chucked them to Shadow, he caught them and raised an eyebrow “Z-130 Directed Energy Automatic Weapon, each clip holds 48 hardlight rounds, perfect for close quarters combat. Enjoy” he smirked, the back of the Dropship opened up and I ran towards it before grapping a handrail on the top door and using my momentum to swing me onto the roof, I flipped 180 degrees in the air so I was fading forward as I landed on one knee.

“Damn I’m good” I said as Shadow teleported next to me. I turned to him “you ready?”

“Just stay out of my way” he said.

“Alright then” I said as the dropship flew closer and closer to the armada “Let’s do this!” Next Chapter: Chapter 27 Estimated time remaining: 3 Hours, 16 Minutes