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1. While You Were Gone by EmmaSmoke

   Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   22 Mar 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Shadow the Hedgehog/Sonic the Hedgehog
   • Miles "Tails" Prower & Shadow the Hedgehog
   • Miles "Tails" Prower & Sonic the Hedgehog
   • Shadow the Hedgehog
   • Sonic the Hedgehog
   • Miles "Tails" Prower
   • Vanilla the Rabbit
   • Cream the Rabbit
   • Rouge the Bat
   • Infinite (Sonic the Hedgehog)
   • Amy Rose (Sonic the Hedgehog)
   • E-123 Omega (Sonic the Hedgehog)
   • Blaze the Cat
   • Silver the Hedgehog
   • Topaz (Sonic X)
   • Abraham Tower | G.U.N. Commander
   • Vector the Crocodile
   • Espio the Chameleon
   • Charmy Bee
   • Marine the Raccoon
   • Shadow the Hedgehog Needs a Hug
   • Shadow the Hedgehog is Bad at Feelings
   • Protective Shadow the Hedgehog
   • Soft Shadow the Hedgehog
   • Shadow the Hedgehog Has Black Arms Biology
   • Miles "Tails" Prower and Sonic the Hedgehog are Siblings
   • Sonic the Hedgehog Needs a Hug
   • Sonic the Hedgehog is Imprisoned in the Death Egg Station
   • Sonic the Hedgehog is a Tease
   • Sonic the Hedgehog is Miles "Tails" Prower's Parent
   • He's a little bit of everything to Tails
   • Alternate Universe - Superheroes/Superpowers
   • Supervillain Shadow the Hedgehog
   • Vigilante Sonic The Hedgehog
   • Implied/Referenced Sex
   • Temporary Character Death
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Dissociation
   • Violence
   • References to Game: Sonic Forces (Sonic the Hedgehog)
   • Top Shadow the Hedgehog
   • Bottom Sonic the Hedgehog
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • Sonic the Hedgehog is the Phantom Rider (Sonic the Hedgehog)
   • Vigilante Amy Rose
   • Amy Rose and Sonic the Hedgehog are Best Friends
   • Badass Amy Rose (Sonic the Hedgehog)

   Summary

   Shadow is a supervillain. He is Ultimate, one of the worst in the city. He deserves the death penalty before he deserves fondness and affection, but he gets exactly that when he indulges the vigilante Phantom, also known as Sonic.

   He also doesn't deserve a family, but after one of the heroes kills Sonic, Shadow finds it impossible to abandon Tails, Sonic's remaining family.

   And he definitely doesn't deserve a second chance to make things right, but the universe seems quite insistent on giving him what he doesn't deserve.
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   Vaguely the plot of Sonic Forces but it's a superhero AU and most of the details and even the broader strokes are wrong
   Trigger Warning: Implied/referenced sex(ual content), temporary character death (murder), grief and its stages, violence (blood, injury, you know the gist), dissociation, terrible foster care system, corrupt government/Hero's Commission

   This technically takes place in the same universe as 'In the Darkness of the Safehouse' but you don't need to read that. That's just villain Shadow and vigilante Sonic flirting and then cuddling

   Series

   • Part 40 of This Hedgehog Has Me in A Damn Chokehold
   • Part 23 of The Moon and the ARK

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   119,867

   Chapters:

   31/31

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