After the events of Sonic the Hedgehog, Shadow has abandoned Team Dark to uncover the truth about his past. The story begins with Shadow standing on a hill next to a tree outside the city of westopolis. A newspaper with the headline of celebrations taking place now that the “Black Comet” has come back after its fifty year cycle blows in the breeze, catching shadow’s leg, then blowing off into the distance A large floating figure known as Black Doom appears and tells Shadow to bring him the chaos emeralds as promised before disappearing Fueled by Black Doom’s words Shadow speeds off into the city.
