Bad ending 6

"Sorry."

Sonic turned at the sound of his voice and finally looked his rival in the face. Undisguised skepticism and anger burned in emerald eyes, but Shadow, overpowering himself, repeated:

"I'm sorry I raped you. I didn't want to."

The hero was silent for another second, waiting for a possible continuation, and then his face contorted with rage.

"Didn't want to?", the blue hedgehog jumped off the sofa, throwing the tablet aside. "Is that all you can say?", he moved closer, bristling his quills up with a threat. "I noticed how you 'didn't want to'! Felt it fully. What, was it cool," he slammed his palms on the table with a flourish, already almost shouting, "to bring me to tears? Did you like being begged to stop?" His voice trembled and he uttered the last phrase more quietly, almost squeezing out of himself, "Do you even know what it's like to be raped?"

The black hedgehog lowered his gaze, meeting this furious outburst with visible hesitation. It was deserved and he seemed to be ready for it from the very beginning. If it had happened then, he would have taken it for granted, swept away from his soul the fragments of the collapsed hope and moved on without thinking about his own future. But, cracked last time, his endurance could not cope with the pressure of emotions this time. And Shadow gave up.

"I know," he admitted wearily. "I know, faker. And I didn’t…” his voice suddenly sat up and he stopped, but clenching his fists, looked up into the face of the blue hedgehog and continued firmly, “I didn’t want you to know that either. I did my best to not harm you. I'm sorry if it didn't work."

Bewildered by his words, the hero froze in shock. But then realization flashed across his face, and he turned white as he staggered away from the table.

"You know? Wait, but…” he took another step back. "You... with him…"

Sonic waved towards the door, alluding to the captain of the ship, but before Shadow could get a word in, the blue hedgehog suddenly put his head in his hands and nervously, completely out of character, giggled.

"Chaos, of course," he ruffled the quills more, digging his fingers into them. “Of course. How I didn’t understand it right away?” he looked up at the black hedgehog, who carefully rose from its seat. "This bastard is raping you. How long already, all three months? Every day, like today, several times? And Jerald? Is he also-?"

"Faker…" Shadow began, holding out his hand soothingly in an attempt to stop the blue hedgehog's unexpected tantrum. 

But Sonic recoiled to the side and tossed his head, tightly clenching his fists. "These lunatics even think about anything other than violence?" he shouted, trembling with anger. "Oh, and other than murder and torture? How many, you said, passed through their hands? One hundred twenty seven? One hundred, damn it, twenty seven?!", his quills rose up and began to darken rapidly, pouring into a frightening anthracite blue. "Why don't you count the ones they killed outside of their ship? You saw it, you saw it with me! And you are still waiting…" he spread his arms, "for what?! When the rebels give the go-ahead? Why are they even better?"

"Listen," Shadow made one more attempt to reason with the hero, cautiously looking sideways at the flashes of strange purple energy running between the dark blue quills, "I agree that they should all die, but the plan-"

“Fuck this plan of yours,” Sonic growled in response and rushed forward.

The hiss of the activating defense system merged with the sound of the cut air. Before the first particles of the ubiquitous Diamond Dust had time to fly even half the distance from the ceiling, Shadow got the air knocked out of his lungs for the second time: the hero with an elusive speed appeared next to him and with a swing hit him exactly in the solar plexus.

"Don't stop me," he twisted his fist, and Shadow wheezed, feeling the Chaos energy flowing out of his body, leaving him defenseless against the paralyzing poison. “I’ll deal with them and return,” Sonic removed the medallion from the wrist of the black hedgehog, his eyes sparkled with otherworldly green. "I'll do what you should have done right when you got here."

He disappeared swiftly, ignoring his rival who was trying to hold him back. Shadow powerlessly settled down, falling on his side almost face down on the floor. His ears caught the distant rumble of a broken door, someone's screams and shooting...

And then the security system spoke in a monotonous voice:

"Protocol four-four-nine. All crew proceed to evacuate immediately. I repeat, protocol four-four-ni…"

The rest disappeared in the darkness.

…

Forever.

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And that's bad ending number 6!

That's an unexpected twist, right?

Oh, who am I lying to, you probably expected something like this sooner or later - it’s not for nothing that the hero had already almost crossed the line several times with his bad thoughts. But still, it was rather sudden, and it was a poor choice for Shadow to decide that new revelations in the middle of the night would help the cause.

The dark side took over, and this finale ended with the death of all the characters in just five minutes. Aidan died first, but… *smiles mysteriously*

Protocol four-four-nine, guys. And do not forget from which country the original game came to us.