Dark Chao Adventures Episode 14: Shade and Dark's Strange Journey Into the Beyond Part 1: The Soggy Saga Starts
Chapter 1: CPAK's Basement
[the story begins in CPAK, Shade and Dark are playing hooky]
Shade: Dark, hooky doesn't need fish hooks.
Dark: What about butcher hooks?
Shade: No hooks at all, Dark. Now, let me stand on your shoulders so I can reach that doorknob.
[he does that, and behind the door is darkness and stairs leading down, and they enter it]
Dark: Wow... it's ME!
Shade: No, it's not dark, it's shaded. Heavily shaded.
[the lights turn on, and in front of them is a time machine]
Dark: What is that? Is that a pizza maker?
Shade: No, you idiot! It's a time machine!
Dark: You mean-- it makes the very fabric of time we know and live during!?
Shade: NO! No, no, no, no, NO! It sends us forward and/or backwards through time!
Dark: Oh. Sorry.
Shade: That's alright, you're just stupid. So... when should we go?
Dark: In half an hour, I want to eat some pizza first then go to the bathroom.
Shade: (sigh) I meant-- when in time should we go?
Dark: How about tomorrow?
Shade: Grrrrrr-- okay, fine. I'm calm. Yeah, let's go tomorrow.
[tomorrow, in the Dark Garden]
Chapter 2: To... the Future!
Shade: Dark, listen: I was playing Sonic the Hedgehog yesterday, and decided: let's go to the future!
Dark: Oh, boy! I can't wait to see what we look like! How far into the Future?
Shade: 30 years.
[later, all the chao are gathered around CPAK's time machine]
Chao: What do you want, Shade?
Shade: Not much... just to go into the future!
Chao: The Future!? Count me out of it, I don't want to be spoiled of the future!
[all the others say the same, and they leave]
Dark: FINE! If you don't wanna go, I'll go! Let's go, Shade!
[they do, and 30 years later...]
[in the Future CPAK, very broken-down and destroyed with a yellow-brown sky]
Shade: Whoa... it's so... freaky.
Dark: It's spooky.
[the basement door creaks open, and somebody looks down on them with blue eyes]
?: Hey! What are you two doing down there?
Shade: Huh? Who are you?
?: I was gonna ask you the same. Come up here!
[they do, and the person was the now-38 Tails]
Dark: Mister Prower?
Tails: What'd you call me!?
Dark: Uh... Mr. Prower, that's your name, right?
Tails: Oh, that name... so haunting. So petrifying. So... horrorful.
Shade: What's wrong, Tails?
Tails: 'Tails'? Who?
Shade: Who are you, then?
Tails: I'm Miles. Just Miles, no last name, as far as you know. That name you called me.... Tails.... brings back so much happiness. So, what brings you boys to the school? It's a Saturday.
Dark: We come from 30 years ago, Future-dweller! We come in peace!
Shade: Shut up. Long ago, we found a time machine in the basement, and took it here.
Tails: Ugh... that machine, I didn't know where it was! What was it doing down there!?
Shade: We don't know. But... what's going on here? I thought the future would be awesome, me ruling the Chao World and all that stuff, not a run-down school and yellow-brown sky!
Tails: Well, kids, alot can happen in 30 years. A lot can happen in 30 years. World Peace, or the contrary.
Shade: So... what's going on here?
[an alarm goes off, very loud]
Tails: What? No, not now! I'm not ready yet, so much to do!
Shade: Huh? WHat's going on?
Tails: You two-- in the basement-- now!
Dark: But what--
Tails: Now! If you want to live!
[they go into the basement as Tails rushes to the main hallway, and a door is heard open. (This is from Shade and Dark's point of view)]
?: It is time, mortal. Do you have the oil and the money?
Tails: Well, I kinda ran low on money and couldn't buy any oil...
?: I gave you a chance. I even gave you a second through seventh chance. Get in the back.
Tails: No, no! Please, one more chance!
?: ENOUGH!!! I have given you SEVEN chances now, your time is up! Now, get in the back of the hearse or else there'll be blood stains all across this room!
[footsteps exiting the building are heard]
?: (sigh) I have been going easy on these life forms for too long. Now, no more second chances!
[the door is slammed, and more footsteps are heard exiting the building are heard]
Shade: Hearse?
Dark: They have horses in the Future?
Shade: No, a hearse-- you know, the black car that the Chao Reaper drives?
Dark: The Chao Reaper is in the Future?
Shade: NO! That didn't sound like a skeleton... that sounded... familiar. Like... a..... (gasp)! Come on, we're going to the Dark Garden!
Chapter 3: Shade and Dark Meet Shade and Dark:
[in the Dark Garden, it's even darker, more tombstones, and the cage actually has chao in it, who call for help]
Shade: Hello? Anybody?
?: (grumble)
Dark: Who are you?
?: I'm Shade. Who are you?
Shade: I'm Shade!
ShadeF: No way, I'm the only Shade around here!
Shade: Well, I'm you from 30 years ago! Where's Dark and Shade the girl, and Devilish, and Shadow?
ShadeF: They're... uh... gone.
Dark: Are those them? (pointing to the cage)
ShadeF: Unfortunatelty, no... they're... gone. But, since it's really the old you, Dark, look in the pool and you'll see them.
[Dark looks and screams]
Shade: WHAT!? What!?
Dark: (stammering) Th-the pool... not... red water....... friends... no breath...
Shade: If you have no breath, then breathe!
Dark: No, our friends... (sob)
[Shade looks in, and screams]
Shade: OH MY GOD, THAT'S NOT RED WATER!
ShadeF: Yeah... like the saying goes... 'blood is thicker than water'. It's quiet in here without them. But, I suggest you leave in a few minutes, that is... if you don't want to meet them.
SHade: 'Them'?
ShadeF: Your future friends.
[Shade shrugs, unsure of what he meant]
ShadeF: Oh, and... could you hand me that shotgun?
Shade: Why?
ShadeF: If you stick around...
[He doesn't finish, and Shade just gives him the shotgun]
Dark: So... who are those guys in the cage?
ShadeF: Take a look for yourself.
[Dark and Shade look, and recognize a few people]
Dark: Holy cow-- is that Shade Jr? An-and Speedy, Tail, and Knuckle?
ShadeF: Plus a few newborns. Just the chao who stuck around.
Shade: I'm curious... what happens if we stick around?
ShadeF: It's too horiffic, can't tell you.
[ShadeF looks at the clock (which is somehow on the wall)]
ShadeF: BUT, you can find out if you don't leave in 10 seconds.
[Shade and Dark gasp and run]
[10 seconds later, shotgun shots and screams are heard, and splashes]
Dark: I'm not even gonna peek...
[they go into the Hero Garden]
[all is ruined, dark, and everyone's crying]
Shade: What's going on here?
ChaoF: What? Shade? What are you doing-- you're not Shade, are you? Well, you are, but you're not our Shade, are you? Those memories still run through my mind... and... Dark, was it?
Dark: Yeah, it's us.
Shade: So... are you gonna tell us what horiffic thing happens here, or are you gonna give us the choice of waiting around to find out?
ChaoF: Oh my-- you've found Shade, haven't you? Yeah, I'm just gonna give you guys a choice. Of course, the punishment here's probably as horiffic as waiting in the Dark Garden. No, worse. Oh, and... you only have 30 seconds to choose.
[the two run back, and go into CPAK and to the time machine, go back, and run back to the Dark Garden]
Chapter 4: It's Not Over Yet!
Shade: Guys, I beg you, come with us to the Future! There's something extremely scary that's gonna happen if it doesn't go unattnded to! You've GOTTA! Do you want the future you's to die in a bloody pool of blood?
[the others scream and gasp, and all make acknowledging remarks]
[they head to the Hero Garden]
Dark: Guys, something bad's gonna happen if you don't come to the Future! So bad, the Future Shade needed a shotgun for it!
Chao: Okay, we'll come... but, only if this isn't a trick.
Shade: Good! Everybody's all together, now! Next stop... 30 years from now.