Black, Red and Pink
Chapter 6: Shadow: Westopolis
Previous Chapter Next ChapterAs the two reached the city they found a large crater in their way, looking around Pinkie spotted a large dash panel that would send them across. Once they were flung into the air Shadow began to free fall into a large hole in a broken building as huge lasers shot down from the sky. Once they were on the ground they were flung across another crater.
On the other side they landed on a broken road with a G.U.N. soldier hiding behind a barricade. Upon closer inspection there seemed to be a few flying creatures surrounding him. Shadow took them out with a homing attack while Pinkie comforted the soldier. Just then Pinkie saw a laser coming down on their immediate area and grabbed the soldier and jumped out of the blast radius.
Shadow heard something come from behind him and saw another flying creature flying towards him. It was then punched out of the sky by a familiar face.
"Hey Shadow, long time no see." Mighty chuckled as he looked around the area. "This place has gone to hell, I need your help dealing with these black creatures." Just then they heard a gunshot and looked at the soldier. "Did he just shot at us?"
"Is it because we're black?" Shadow asked in a offended tone.
"N-no! I-I-I'm new to the agency, I didn't know that this was all going to happen. I'm just on edge, please, I'm sorry!"
Shadow walked over to him and placed a hand on his shoulders. "It's fine, you're scared. You stay here and guard this spot, and tell your other soldiers to not shoot at us." The soldier nodded and sent the message to the other agents in the area. "Come on you two, we have a city to save." The group ran down the road until the came across a group of soldiers fighting some alien foot-soldiers.
Pinkie nodded to Shadow and walked up to the aliens. When they looked at her they paused, she looked at them with huge puppydog eyes and a quivering lip. They looked to each other nervously as one scratched his head in thought. They then began contemplating something in their own language before pointing their guns at her.
Pinkie smirked and pulled out her party cannon, blasting the creatures with confetti and small explosives. When the last alien fell a dark red box opened revealing the green chaos emerald. Pinkie grabbed it and presented it to her father. "Look daddy! A chaos emerald!"
Shadow looked at the area confused. "Why would that guy want me to collect the chaos emerald but put one in a box that can only be opened if you kill his soldiers?" Mighty thought about it for a second.
"Maybe he has a weird fetish for that kinda thing?"
"Mighty! Not in front of Pinkie!"
"Daddy, what's a fetish?" Mighty chuckled nervously as Shadow gave him a death glare.
"You're too young to be saying that Pinkie, I'll tell you when you're older."
"I'm just gonna look it up when we get home~"
"I'll put safe-search on."
"I already know how to turn that off." Shadow facepalmed and Mighty started shuffling away.
Shadow then looked and pointed at him. "You, you are the uncle that no one likes."
Uh...Shadow, it's my job to give the characters their place in the family.
"Daddy, who is that voice?"
Shit! I've been compromised! Memory wipe! Memory wipe!
A bright light envelopes the group, erasing their memory of the narrator talking to them. They looked to each other and shrugged. A spring appeared and they jumped onto it, taking them to the next section. They found a large iron wall in the way, which was then blasted by a laser. They took out a few more black creatures before proceeding to the next area that became available due to another road block being destroyed.
Before they could move further they were stopped by the starfish-like creature.
"Shadow, you're late...from now on, my eye sh-"
It was cut off by Pinkie shooting it with her cannon. "He's in charge of these meanies, he took away the people's smiles." Pinkies mane became flat. "Let's tear 'em all apart!" She raced ahead and started to attack more of the black creatures that had set up a barricade further down the road. A few lasers tried to hit her, only to hit its own soldiers.
"Come on Mighty, we have to get to her before gets hurt." Shadow was about to take off when he heard a G.U.N. soldier call him.
"Here, take this!" He threw him his sidearm. "Go protect the little pony, and wipe out these freaks!" Shadow saluted the soldier and made his way down the street. Upon arrival he found Pinkie had returned to her normal self while helping a wounded soldier into cover as some aliens shot at them. Shadow aimed his gun and shot the aliens one by one.
"Oh yeah, I love this thing." Mighty smashed a creatures head with his fist and punched a hole through the barricade. Shadow walked over to Pinkie as another soldier helped her carry his teammate. "Are you ok Pinkie, you went a little nuts back there?"
"Sorry daddy, when I saw the looks of horror on the aliens faces, I turned back and helped make them smile again...before blasting them off the face of Mobius."
"Atta girl." He ruffled her mane and they pressed onwards. They were flung by another dash panel over to a rooftop. There they helped some soldiers deal with more aliens before lowering a bridge up to the next rooftop. Taking out more aliens to reveal a spring, the came across a section where they needed to triangle jump from wall to wall to reach the other side, where some flying creatures and one foot-soldier stood behind a cluster of red plants. Shadow shot one of the plants causing it to explode. Taking out the aliens they jumped down to the next street where more lasers tried to hit them.
Upon reaching the end of the street they found an abandoned bus with a few aliens behind it. Mighty went over and flipped the bus onto the creatures, squashing them with a satisfying poot noise, causing Pinkie to giggle and proceed to make fart noises all the way down until they came across a flying G.U.N. drone trying to shoot some aliens behind another bus. Repeating the process they came across a section where the lasers had caused the main highway to bend in a lop like the ones in Green Hill.
"I have no idea how they are gonna fix that, but I have a feeling Bark is gonna demand a raise for it." Shadow mumbled to himself as they ran up the loop with the help of dash panels, Pinkie holding onto Shadows quill.
Flying of another dash panel they came to an underground section of the road where they found more soldiers shooting the aliens. Taking them out they charged forward and came into a large open area where a huge battle was taking place. A helicopter flew overhead and began to mow down the aliens in the area only to be shot down by a laser. "Uncle Mighty, go help the pilot out of the wreckage!" Mighty nodded at Pinkie and separated from the group.
Taking out a few more enemies they eventually reached a large goal ring with the blue chaos emerald inside it. Just then a G.U.N. soldier ran up to them.
"Hey, thanks for all your help you two. There was a few more black aliens up ahead but they were killed by a well trained squad. Here, we got you something as a thank you." The soldier reached into his pocket and pulled out a flame bracelet. "Found this lying around, figured you could use it better than we ever could."
"Uh...thank you. Secure the area and tell your higher ups that we will assis you in the fight against the aliens." The soldier nodded and ran off. Pinkie just looked at him confused.
"What happened to getting your memories back, if we go against the aliens then we go against that guy with the eye, it even rhymes!"
"I'm doing this because they are a danger to you. You are the only ray of sunshine in my life. So if that means I have to give up my memories to protect you, then it's worth it."
Pinkie jumped down and hugged him. "I love you daddy."
"I love you too Pinkie Pie."
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