In a huge hallway, full of weapons aiming at him, Shadow was looking at the exit which was ten meters ahead, he hesitated a little bit, but when he heard the guards coming, he had no other choice but to run and try to dodge the upcoming shots, so he ran the fastest he could while jumping on the walls and still looking at the exit. He managed to get out without any wounds, he was already out of the building. "Damn, where is she?" Shadow was supposed to meet with Rouge after the mission.

"Aw, You can't be a second without me? That's…" Rogue appeared flying with a gem on her hands, then she landed on the ground, but she couldn't finish her phrase.

"Dont even start, Rouge, we barely made it, so I hope you to be happy with your little prize." Shadow looked at her with anger.

Rogue didn't want to argue. "Whatever honey, did you get the files?"

Shadow opened his hand to reveal a pen-drive. "Yes, this contains everything we need to know about G.U.N.s plans."

"It's weird to think we were working for them two years ago." Rogue cleaned some dirt from her arm.

"Now they are the enemy." Shadow walked away from Rogue.

"Uhm…Goodbye? Take care?" Rogue said while watching Shadow going away, but she was ignored. "Whatever, tough guy."

On his way, Shadow was too exhausted to run, and also, he secretly enjoyed to walk on the streets while watching the skyscrapers, the street lightning, trying to ignore the bums who were laying on the alleys, the suffocating smell of piss and alcohol, avoiding the trash that covered the sidewalk, he got into an alley, then he opened a door that led to a dirty stairway, he entered to the room he was renting and left the pen-drive over an old desk, he put off his shoes and layed on his old bed, then he took a frame that was hanging near of the window, it had a picture of him and Maria sitting on the grass, he looked at that picture every night before sleeping, when he returned the frame to its place, he looked at one corner of the ceiling, it had a cobweb, he kept looking at that until he fell asleep.

Later that night, he woke up by hearing a weird noise, then he saw a blinking light near of the door, he realized what that meant and he ran fast to the table to get the pen-drive and then he jumped out of the window smashing the glass and a great explosion occurred behind him when he was still in the air, then he landed heavily on the street. He stood up with all his body aching and started to feel an intense fear, suddenly he realized that all of the things that reminded him about Maria were lost forever. "No… N…No it can't be…Ma…" The anger and the sadness put him on his knees as he clenched his fists, he screamed several times while punching the street's concrete, which made his knuckles to bleed.

After a few minutes, Shadow stood up again and looked around to try to find the attacker, he also searched on the alleys, he got more desperate and started to yell while still gazing at every corner of the street. "Where are you bastard! Come on! I will paint the street with your blood!" As Shadow expected, no one appeared, then he went to the rubble, ignoring the corpses of his neighbors, trying to retrieve only one thing, unfortunately, it was all turned into ashes. "They will pay." He moved some rocks and found his shoes, it looked like a miracle for him to find them practically intact, so he cleaned the dust that was covering his shoes, then he held them upside down to let all of the dirt and rocks to come off, then he put them on.

Shadow took a cellphone from the hand of a corpse, then he made a call, he waited two minutes before getting an answer.

"Chaotix Detective Agency, in what can we…Oh wait, that number… Mike? What's up bud it's been a while!…"

"I'm sorry Vector, it's me, Shadow, I need your help, It's important."

Vector sounded very confused from the phone's speaker. "Wait what?! Shadow the…? But this is Mike's…What did you do to him is he…"

Shadow sighed and tried to calm down Vector. "No! I just took a phone from a dead body, that's all! And this is why I need your help!"

Vector freaked out after Shadow's failed intent to clarify the matter. "He, he is dead?!, Oh my..." A sigh came from the speaker. "What did you? Okay, alright, just go to my office tomorrow in the morning and we will discuss it calmly, because I bet you have a lot to explain."