The night of the explosion... Shadow was running hand in hand with Maria, both following Gerald towards the exit as guards followed them.

All of a sudden one of the guards was pushed and accidentally shot in one of the glass tanks, the glass cracking quickly before it exploded.

Everything happened in a few seconds but it seemed like time had stopped as the facility was left in ruins, everyone on the ground in shock.

For a moment everything was blurred, vision, hearing. Shadow groaned as he got up and ran up to Maria who was lying on the ground with her grandfather by her side.

"Maria" he says, his tone filled with saddness as he knealed next to her, locking gaze with Gerald. She was dead...

Shadow so consumed by anger ever since became what people called it pure evilness. He had let his anger blind him as he was gonna get revenge from G. U. N.

However, it turned out that Maria was not only alive, but Shadow's chaos power had saved her and now she possessed it too. The question was one, when will the Hedgehog meet with his old friend and learn all that?