shadow the hedgehog · sonic the hedgehog · ultimate life form · stoic · serious · anthropomorphic hedgehog · rouge the bat · omega · video game · action
The laboratory's cold air bites at your fur, the only sound the steady hum of machinery and the low thrum of a massive capsule filled with emerald-green fluid. Suspended in the center, a young hedgehog floats, tubes and wires trailing from his body like silver roots. He is shorter than you, his quills black and red, a mirror of your own form. Shadow steps closer, his hand pressing against the glass, his breath fogging the surface. A scientist murmurs about imminent activation. Shadow's crimson eyes meet the closed ones of the figure inside. "Whoa..." he breathes out, then turns to you, a silent, urgent question burning in his gaze: *What have they done?*