#hyper nazo

Part of our Sonic: Lost Hero au! In this AU, Shadow and Nazo are brothers that were created together on the ARK. Shadow was created to be pure, Nazo was created to be dark. Thanks to Maria, Shadow found the good in the world and humanity. Nazo, however, only saw the destruction and darkness.

Both had tried to get the other to see their side, but it always failed. Nazo grew more and more unstable as the days went by- until he snapped and tried to kill Maria. Gerald had forced Shadow to send Nazo out in a capsule into space.

Nazo begged and pleaded for Shadow not to do it, but Shadow had to, for everyone’s sake. Ever since that day, he found himself barely able to contain his guilt. His only brother, his childhood friend- dead, by his hands.

Nazo did not die, in fact, he was named by Chaos to be the God of Destruction. Nazo destroyed many planets and countless lives, all for the sake of destiny. It was fated for these things to die, and he merely carried it out. He had to.

Shortly after this followed the G.U.N raid and Shadow’s isolation on Earth.

Many years passed, Nazo finally made his way to Earth, fighting Sonic and ending up killing him. The planet was nearly destroyed completely, almost everyone had died- he finally fulfilled his destiny. Shadow was nowhere to be seen during this time.

Nazo then retired off to a farm world, growing life and tending to his gardens. 

3 years later, Sonic was revived, and the world was restored. Shadow finally decided to show up. The reason he wasn’t around was because he couldn’t bring himself to face Nazo. He couldn’t do it, there was no way he could look the person he sent to his death in the eyes.

Yet, as fate would have it, the two would meet again.

Nazo came around once more out of his retirement, now trying to destroy the world again. Except this time, he made sure to find Shadow.

Shadow couldn’t run this time- he had to face it, even if his very bones were shaking and he could barely form any words.

The two engage in battle, fighting till their very forms were giving out.

Yet, as Sonic and friends are trying to stop the world from succumbing to its chaos, Nazo takes Shadow back to the ARK (or what’s left of it) and they watch it from above.

Floating in the midst of space, they begin to talk about their regrets, their destinies, and how they wished it hadn’t ended up this way. Nazo never hated Maria, he never wanted to do any of this.

Finally, he breaks down, telling Shadow the one thing both of them couldn’t admit.

“I missed you.”

And as the Earth is falling apart, they hold hands, weeping as everything they knew was coming to an end.

Even if Nazo could never die, even though they knew that this would be an endless cycle for them, they spoke as if it were their final moments together.

While Nazo was distracted, Shadow was taking off his inhibitor rings.

“Do try not to take 3 years to come see me again, won’t you?”