New to the 3 Shadows? Here’s some info so you can catch up.

 

What is The 3 Shadows?

 

The 3 Shadows is a series of Stories that take place after the ARK incident up to the point in which Shadow gets frozen. In the 5 years that pass Shadow teams up with two other fighters to create a team to fight Gerald Robotnik, who had gone insane from what happened on ARK.

 

If you have no idea what happened on ARK, play Sonic adventure 2 or read my own Sonic Adventure 2: A Shadow’s memory.

 

Cast:

 

 

The leader of The 3 Shadows. You know who this is surely. Completely dictated by Maria Robotnik’s dying wish, he’s committed to bringing peace to the world. Though to do that he has to stop his master destroying everything and work with a company that took everything away from him.

 

 

A resident of Green Woods. A Brilliant inventor and paintball champion. His home made wrist shooters give him unlimited possibilities on what he can fire. Noted for being the brains of the team and also inventor of upgrades. He also created the original Tornado. Although very young he has proven to be a vital part to the 3 Shadows. Note he hates the name Sharpshot.

 

 

A mid twenties bat famous for being the best bounty and treasure hunter in the world. His skills are so good he got the title of Master hunter. The powerhouse of the group, his flying skills and sword skills are invaluable to the team. He can also sense bullets with his wealth sense and thus can easily deflect them. Though his wealth sense left him with an unhealthy obsession with Jewels. Every so often he goes into a Gemcraze, where all rational thought is lost and if he doesn’t get the Chaos Emeralds he dies. Who was it that made him this way, why none other than Gerald’s company, R.E.E., thus Joz wants to kill Gerald himself.

 

 

The villain of the tale. Seeing his life’s work, his colleagues and his family all destroyed by the government, he vows to destroy every single person to avenge his suffering. He’s not a bad guy; just his heart has been twisted by madness. Nothing will stop him achieving his goals, except perhaps, The 3 Shadows.

 

 

A teenage girl who is murdered by GUN at a young age. She may only appear in one episode but she’s still very important. Her last wish is all that drives Shadow.

 

 

Note I call GUN the General United Nations. The world’s single government. To save their reputation they had everything to do with Project Shadow destroyed, including Gerald’s family. They assist the 3 Shadows in finding Gerald so they can stop him before things get out of hand. Although they work with them, The 3 Shadows find it hard to trust them.

 

 

The leader of the Deadly gems. Her past is still a mystery, what we do know however is that she led the attack on ARK. She is also envious of Joz’s title of Master hunter. So much so that she challenges him for it as often as she can until she wins it. She’s also a G.A.S.H. graduate. Her sword skills are extremely good and she prefers to work alone.

 

 

The lowest ranked Deadly gem. She is a professional hunter who is also envious of Joz’s title. She also carries a sword and has mastered many sword techniques. She is also a G.A.S.H. Graduate like her fellow gems.

 

 

Rank 2 of the Deadly gems. Ruby is a hedgehog that looks similar to Amy Rose. She carries a special hammer and can stand high temperatures. Like the other Deadly gems, she is envious of Joz’s title. She is also a G.A.S.H. Graduate like her fellow gems.

 

 

Rank 3 of the Deadly gems. Emerald, like most Chameleons, can turn invisible. She throws ninja stars as well as using a sword. She is also envious of Joz’s title and is also a G.A.S.H. graduate.

 

 

Grandson of Gerald Robotnik. Made an orphan by a mercenary, Ivo also aims to get vengeance. However he is still a little kid and has much to learn before he can get what he wants.

 

 

The Real ultimate lifeform. Sealed away deep within Gerald’s most hidden base. Pure evil, very strong, and has all the abilities Shadow has.

 

 

Gerald’s ultimate weapon. An orb that can assimilate all machinery into one massive machine.

 

 

Seven monstrous creatures, one for each Chaos Emerald, named after their corresponding emerald. Created to balance out all the positive use of Chaos Energy, used by Shadow for his Chaos Manipulation techniques.

 

 

The original creator of JTB’s sword. His spirit is sealed within the blade, soon to be replaced with Joz the bat’s spirit. Until then all of this Joz’s techniques are available to JTB.

 

Glossary:

 

 

The name of Joz’s sword.

 

 

Joz has the ability to use three wing modes thanks to one of Miles’ upgrades. Jet wing allows him to boost using a jet, Armour wing turns his wings into metal shields, and Stealth wing does the same as armour wing only they make anything behind them invisible to the naked eye.

 

 

The name for a sword slash during a Jet Wing

 

 

The name of Joz’s ultimate technique. He spins like Shadow with the blade extended. If this isn’t effective he then flips his opponent in the air before slamming them to the ground and pinning them to the floor, like Miles tends to do. Then finishes them off by slamming his armour wing into the floored opponent.

 

 

Miles’ main weapons. Guns mounted to his wrists that connect to a small backpack containing lots of ammo for all his shooting modes. These include PAINTBALL, NORMAL BULLETS, STICKY MUD, ELECTRICITY, BIG LASERS and TRANQUILIZERS (not in 3 Shadows) so far.

 

 

Gerald’s main attacking machines. The G series go by the names of the planets so far. Yin and Yang are Gerald’s main bodyguards.

 

 

Stands for Robotnik’s Experimentation Enterprise. A research and development group that have come up with some twisted stuff, or at least experiments with nasty side effects.

 

 

Stands for the Guild of Assassins Spies and Hunters. A group that trains up people to be Spies, assassins and Bounty hunters.

 

 

A subgroup of G.A.S.H., renowned for being the best.

 

 

Sapphire’s signature technique. By extending blades in her boots and performing a drill drive (twisting her legs while falling to create a drill) she makes a devastating attack.

 

 

The 3 Shadows Team blast. Miles thunder shoots Shadow, who is then fire dunked by Joz to create a fast paced extremely powerful meteor strike move.

 

 

A precious metal that can only be shaped using Chaos Energy. Nothing else can destroy it.

 

Episode guide:

 

 

Starts off with the ARK incident. Miles finds Shadow badly hurt from crashing into Earth in that escape pod. While Shadow heals Gerald is captured by GUN. Shadow goes to rescue his master unaware of how the event twisted his heart. To escape from GUN, Shadow and Gerald head to the mythical Angel Island. Meanwhile Joz is hired to capture the two fugitives and is convinced by Miles to let the kid come with him. Joz confronts Shadow and Gerald as they examine the Master Emerald. Joz and Shadow fight while Gerald sneaks off. By now Shadow figures out that Gerald is insane with rage. They spend some time getting to know each other before heading back to GUN for some answers regarding the ARK incident. Their discussion is interrupted when Gerald attacks a city with G-001 Mercury. Together the 3 Shadows find a way of destroying Mercury by slicing up his armour. With Mercury defeated the city cheers and the name 3 Shadows is thought up by Shadow.

 

 

A thief that sounds a lot like Joz has stolen the Chaos Emerald from a museum. When confronted by GUN about it Joz runs off. Shadow and Miles agree to capture the thief unaware that it is actually Joz. They soon discover that his actions are because of a side effect of his Wealth Sense known as a Gemcraze. Once the other Shadows knew about Joz’s illness, they help him find the Chaos Emeralds as he seems to be getting weaker and weaker, with worries that he might die without them. Joz gets the Emeralds but the team are then attacked by Venus. Joz must then decide whether he should help his fellow shadows take down Venus, or get revenge for making him act the way he has been. In the end he shows what he’s really made of by taking out Venus. After a daring escape from the base self destruct they chase Gerald off a cliff; however Joz knows that somehow Gerald is still alive.

 

 

During the fight again G-003 Earth, the qualities Miles is usually known for fail him. He feels like he isn’t a contributing member to the team, so much so that he’s actually a liability. He goes off on his own to think for a while and is captured by Gerald. Gerald mutates him giving him a second tail. He also gives him a special crown that leaves him completely loyal to Gerald. Shadow and Joz race off to find Miles and end up Gerald’s slaves too. With the 3 Shadows at his command Gerald takes over the world. All is not lost however as Diamond appears and frees Miles. They both work together to free the other two shadows, and then all four fight Gerald’s G-004 Mars to bring down his short lived Empire.

 

 

The Deadly gems challenge Joz to a tournament. They are all envious of his title and want him to prove he’s worthy of the title. Joz accepts, taking down each gem one at a time. When he reaches Sapphire, Joz is completely outclassed. During a break though the real reason why the tournament was revealed. Sapphire reveals she led the assault on ARK, which in turn leads Joz to reveal his secret. Joz reveals how he killed the only other family of Robotniks. Shadow is furious, though the tournament was yet to be decided. Through a few words of guidance from the creator of the Annemuir, Joz creates the Shadow Blade technique and defeats Sapphire. The 3 Shadows go home, even though Shadow is still mad at Joz, as Shadow knows he has nowhere else to go.

 

 

Shadow destroys G-005 Jupiter using a vast amount of Chaos Energy. Joz then has a Gemcraze and reluctantly Shadows helps Miles help Joz. It ends up being a trap and Shadow is pulled inside the Chaos Emeralds. Within each one he must face a demon created to balance out the positive Chaos Energy he has used over his life so far. Soon Joz helps despite their tension. Once all seven Chaos Demons are defeated Shadow finds a new respect for Joz, even though he cannot forgive him for what he did.

 

 

Saturn falls despite fighting between Shadow and Joz. Joz goes off thinking about the situation and comes up with a plan. He and Sapphire team up to reunite Gerald with his grandson Ivo. Though to get that far Joz had to beat Sapphire again, defeat Gerald’s bodyguards and somehow keep his cool as he asks the person he’s most angry at to assist him. Gerald and Ivo are delighted to see each other but the story isn’t over yet. GUN step in and Kidnap Ivo, taking him back to the GUN base. Joz wasn’t ready to give up just yet. While Gerald stormed off and planned his assault, Sapphire helps Miles (who had followed them) destroy a small fleet of GUN troops. Miles gets Shadow to assist the two bats as they infiltrate GUN HQ. Joz finally caught up with the kidnapped Ivo, thanks to assistance from Sapphire and the other Shadows. Then had managed to save Ivo only to find Gerald taking matters into his own hand. Through Teamwork the 3 Shadows destroy Uranus with the new team blast, the Shadow Meteor. Throughout this adventure the characters learn more about themselves.

 

 

It’s the anniversary of Maria’s Death and Shadows feeling very depressed. The 3 Shadows are suddenly attacked by a Robot mimicking all their moves. After an intense fight the Shadow Robot is defeated and after some examination find that Gerald’s pulling the strings from ARK. Shadow Chaos Control’s the team to ARK where they are greeted with the same Blood Stained Corridors left from the assault by GUN. While Shadow is distracted Gerald and a mysterious accomplice capture the other two shadows, and with Shadow feeling to depressed to fight he surrenders. He is soon reminded of the thing that drives him, Maria’s Wish, and together the 3 Shadows plan their escape. The accomplice turns out to be Sapphire and appealing to her competitive nature, manage to distract her with another fight with Joz. Joz frees the other Shadows who quickly go straight for Gerald’s latest super weapon, The Eclipse Cannon. Meanwhile Joz throws down the gauntlet and decided to fight Sapphire without his sword and gadgets. Shadow and Miles attempt to stop the cannon but are greeted by an army of Shadow Robots. Fortunately a hidden power deep within Shadow is awakened as the seven chaos emeralds that power the Eclipse Cannon give him his Super form. Super Shadow takes the Emeralds and warps the rest of the team back to Earth. No emeralds no cannon, or so they thought. Gerald had made a battery of Chaos Energy and used that to fire shots at Earth. Super Shadow pushes beyond his limits and meets the cannon fire head on. His invincibility deflected every shot as he raced to cannon to destroy it himself. Shadow destroys the cannon but is left exhausted. Gerald takes Shadow to a new prison, Deep Pressure, after he finds that he cannot kill Shadow. Meanwhile the other two Shadows assume Shadow’s dead after they can’t find him anywhere, on ARK or on Earth.

 

 

COMING SOON

 

(OTHER IDEAS: PLUTO’S RAMPAGE, SEVEN IS NOT ENOUGH)

 

 

The 3 Shadows corner Gerald in the Mystic ruins. The infiltrate the base, splitting up at three tunnels, each assigned a name from the 3 Shadows. Each leads to an enemy they must face. While Sapphire keeps Joz busy. Miles faces off against Gerald’s ultimate weapon, Apocolypse. Shadow meanwhile faces off against a new villain. A cold hearted, extremely powerful Blue Hedgehog set on destroying the world. Joz beats Sapphire, Miles beats Apocolypse, and together the three Shadows defeat the Hedgehog, until he becomes super. Fuelled by anger over how the Hedgehog hurts his friends, Shadow become Super with the Emeralds too for one final Super Hedgehog fight. Shadow is defeated but manages to exhaust the other Hedgehogs super form. The 3 Shadows then quickly seal the Hedgehog away; with promises of doing all they can to turn him good or to at least seal him away forever. Suddenly the exhausted Shadow is kidnapped, brainwashed and frozen in GUN HQ. Gerald is captured but the other two Shadows find themselves having to say goodbye to Shadow. Unfreezing him in his brainwashed state would by very dangerous and thus they feel it would be best to leave him be. Miles and Joz then go their separate ways as The era of Shadows becomes the era of Heroes.