Restrained
Chapter 1
This story is set during Sonic Adventure 2. It's kind of like what it would be like if Eggman were actually a lot more sinister and crueller than he actually is.
The very mischievous and scheming Doctor Robotnik blasted into a high security area on prison island with a missile launcher on his eggwalker. When he broke through the last door he needed to break through to reach his target he gave an evil laugh. "That was all too easy. Let's take a look at what my grandfather was working on... a top-secret military weapon. The military shut down the research because they feared it."
He jumped down a shaft and went to the last door. This one was too large and too thick to blast open and it needed a security code, but he could hack it easily since he had the knowledge and skills to. The large metal door hissed open, he had gained access to this weapon.
He used his machine to walk over to a set of machines and controls which was in front of the storage space for the weapon Robotnik had found out about. He was confused when he saw it all, for a weapon that made the strongest military, GUN, afraid, this weapon was small. Before he could see what this weapon actually was and what it looked like, he needed to enter a password, but that wasn't a problem for him, he knew the password. It was 'Maria', the name of his grandfather's granddaughter.
"Now all I have to do is to enter this chaos emerald into this console." he said becoming tense, he was worked so hard to find this and it was simply one placement of a gem away. When he placed the emerald in the designated spot it clicked into place. A few seconds later there were hissing and whirring sounds, a few sounds of rattling metal. The machine below was working and it was rising to reveal his prize.
Eggman was expecting to see a power source or a large machine of some kind but what emerged from the casing was nothing like that. "What? You're not what I wanted!" Eggman said. "What are you?!" he yelled at the small dark beast that had escaped from its casing and jumped down to stand by the surprised scientist.
"My name is Shadow. Since you were so kind to release me, my master I will grant you one wish." he said in a calm, sly voice.
"Grant me a wish? Surely there's a catch... you're just a pathetic little hedgehog." Eggman said and narrowed his eyes at Shadow.
"Don't underestimate me. Find the rest of those chaos emeralds and meet me in the central control room of the Space Colony ARK." Shadow demanded.
"There will be no bargaining with me, Shadow." Eggman said firmly then sent one of his missiles at him. Shadow leapt out of the way thinking that he could dodge it as simply as that but he didn't realise that the missile would track and follow him afterwards.
Shadow was blasted in the side by this small missile, it made a small gash below his ribs. The startled hedgehog gave a cry of pain and fell to the floor. "How is this happening to me? I'm the ultimate life form... I should have been able to take care of you in a second!" Shadow cried out and banged his fist on the floor.
"You've been frozen in a cryogenic chamber for over 50 years, perhaps it made your joints stiff and slowed you down a little." Eggman said triumphantly.
"I'm going to the ARK you ungrateful bastard, now bring me those emerald or there will be no wish." Shadow grunted while trying to get up, there was a small puddle of blood on the floor where he had been laying but his wound was healing already.
"You're not going anywhere." Robotnik hissed, he slammed his fist down on one of the large buttons in his walker, a clawed hand broke out, reached over and dragged Shadow over to him.
Shadow cried out in pain, the metal claws were squeezing against his newly made wound. The poor hedgehog was in too much pain to break free and escape."Let's get out of here." Eggman said and led the distressed hedgehog off of the island, to his base.
Shadow grunted in pain and squirmed in the grasp of the metal claws for about five minutes of the journey, after five minutes Shadow had passed out. The hedgehog came back to his senses when he was thrown to the floor at Eggman's base. He looked up with a blurry eye sight so see Robotnik's scowl, he was out of his Eggwalker now. "You lazy fucking bastard. You could have had anything if you had just given me those emeralds." Shadow hissed from the floor, he sounded quite groggy from just waking up.
"But you're the one granting me the wish, you should be doing all of the work." Eggman sneered. "Some brilliant 'top secret' weapon you are." he jeered.
"Ugh! You don't deserve a wish! Let me go!" Shadow gave a fierce yell.
"No, you will stay here with me until I think you can behave and grant me that wish." Robotnik said sinisterly. Shadow wasn't taking any of it, he got up to his feet with a little struggle and then tried to run. "Oh no you don't." Eggman said, he leant over and pressed the button on his walker again. Shadow was grabbed and pulled over to Robotnik in midair. The hedgehog squirmed, grunted and cursed as he was pulled along. Now he was being dangled at face height of Eggman. "I can't be too careful with you." he said with an ominous tone. "It's a lucky thing you're a lot like an enemy of mine... a prison I made for him will work perfectly for you."
Shadow's eyes widened. "Prison? But I just got out of prison!" Shadow said in shock. "I hate you." Shadow hissed while narrowing his eyes again.
Not so long after, Shadow found himself to be in a small prison cell, there was hardly any room in it but that didn't matter, he couldn't move anyway. In the middle of the room he was held by cuffs on his arms and legs, the arm cuffs were attached to the ceiling and the leg cuffs attached to the floor. He was made to look like a spread eagle, unable to move but able to complain. "Who would make something like this? You're twisted." Shadow snarled as Eggman left the cell and locked the barred door.
"I can't take any chances. If the military feared you then you must be very powerful." Eggman said while standing on the outside of the door.
"Hmph. You're right. But I don't need to be mobile just to attack." Shadow said sinisterly. "Chaos Blast!"
Eggman stood and waited for the attack to come, but nothing happened. "What? No way! What's going on?" Shadow exclaimed.
"Oh, by the way, this drains chaos energy. It won't take enough to make you weak but you still won't have enough to use attacks." Eggman said confidently.
"How did you know this much about me when you didn't even know what I was?" Shadow asked.
"This enemy of mine, he is very similar to you. I'm hoping he will join you one day. I'm sure you'll get along." Eggman teased and left Shadow to wallow in his own misery.
Meanwhile, Rouge was trekking through the desert when she came across a large pyramid. One that looked awfully suspicous, her mission was to find out what Eggman was up to and stop him from causing anymore disasters and she had a strong feeling that Eggman would be inside the pyramid. She put up her hand so that she could speak to those commanding her at GUN. "This is Rouge, I have located Eggman's base, I will proceed to enter it now." she said and ran off to find the keys.
At the time, Robotnik was sitting in one of his control rooms grumbling to himself. "All of that work for a lousy little hedgehog. If I wanted a hedgehog I would have gone after Sonic, and he isn't far. I had to go all of the way through prison island to find Shadow." he complained to himself.
"Aww, what's the matter?" came a feminine voice that sounded as though it were mocking him.
"What!? Who's there?" Eggman looked around the room, he eventually saw a small white bat emerging from one of the corners of darkness. "Who are you? And what are you doing in my base?"
"I'm Rouge the Bat." She said, she sounded smug. "And I'm here to make a deal with you."
"What kind of deal."
"I know how you work. I was thinking that I could work with you." Rouge offered.
"And what will you want in return? Surely you wouldn't just come out of nowhere and offer me something for free." Eggman scoffed.
"Once we're finished with what you want to do then I get the chaos emeralds... but since you'll be finished with them you won't need them anyway." Rouge explained.
"Hmm... seems like a good deal." Eggman said and smirked. "You're hired." he added.
"Marvelous. Now, what do we do first?" Rouge asked sounding eager. "Shall we look for those emeralds?"
"We shan't be doing anything. I will look for the emeralds while you stay here... and guard my prisoner." Eggman said callously. Rouge's smirk turned to a scowl. "It'll be worth it in the end though, I can assure you that you will have those emeralds when I'm done with them." he said and pointed to the corridor that led to the prisoner. "Go down there, it's the third door on the right."
Rouge gave a sigh and went to find this prisoner. "At least I can keep an eye on him, after all he did escape with GUN's top secret weapon earlier... perhaps I can find it when he's gone." Rouge said to herself quietly as she walked a long to find the prison cells.
Shadow continued to sulk alone, thinking about how miserable his life is, getting out of prison island only to be made a prisoner again. His ears pricked up when he heard footsteps. "That bloated man is returning. Maybe I can persuade him to let me out." Shadow said to himself in hope. Then he listened again. "That's not him... unless he wears high heals." Shadow said to himself in confusion.
"Who's been a bad boy?" came the voice of a mischievous woman, then the white bat's head appeased at the side of the door. She looked interested once she had seen Shadow then showed the rest of her body by walking to the middle of the door. "So, what did you do to annoy Robotnik?" she asked.
"Robotnik?" Shadow asked and tilted his head. "That pompous git is a Robotnik!?" Shadow exclaimed. Rouge nodded her head. "Now that you mention it... he does bear a resemblance to Gerald." Shadow admitted sadly.
"So?"
"I... got on his bad side since he wasn't willing to do any work for himself, he expected me to do all of it." Shadow grumbled. "Since I refused to work without help... he... put me in here." he said nervously.
"Oh." Rouge said and felt slightly unnerved herself, she began to think to herself about how this could happen to her is she didn't so as she's told. "Anyway... who are you... and where did you come from? I haven't seen you around before."
"None of your business." Shadow snarled. "Why are you here?"
"I was asked to guard you." She explained plainly.
"Oh... so you're working for him." Shadow hissed.
"No, I'm working with him, to get his emeralds." Rouge explained. "I'm definitely not his servant."
"You want the chaos emeralds?" Shadow asked. Rouge nodded. "I need them too... do you... think you could share?" Shadow asked hopefully.
"No way, those emeralds are mine and mine only." Rouge said and folded her arms. "Why would you need them anyway?"
"It's complicated. What I need to know is why someone like you would want them." Shadow scoffed.
"I like gems. Those chaos emeralds would look great in my livingroom... by the Master Emerald when I get that." Rouge said with glee. Shadow narrowed his eyes at her. "So, you're not going to tell me your name?"
"Like I said, none of your business." Shadow snarled again.
"Oh, are you hiding your identity from me... have you done something naughty?" Rouge teased.
"Hmph. No... at least... not yet." Shadow mumbled. Rouge gave a smirk, the two of them were silent, no one said anything.
"Aren't you going to ask me what my name is?" Rouge asked. Shadow stayed silent and looked to the side to avoid eye contact. "I'm Rouge." she said.
"Nice..." Shadow said sarcastically.
"Thanks." Rouge said teasingly, she knew that Shadow was using sarcasm and wanted to get on his nerves. Shadow began to grit his teeth in anger.
"That cryo chamber would be a godsend right now." he growled to himself.
"Cryo Chamber?" Rouge asked.
"You heard that?" Shadow said and looked at her, noticing her large ears. "Hmph... well of course, you're a bat..." Shadow sighed. "It meant nothing." Shadow said.
"It meant something. Have you been in a cryochamber before?" She asked. Shadow didn't say anything, he didn't nod nor shake his head. "The silent treatment again?" she said irritably and sighed. "Well, this is going to be boring. Why do I have to guard you anyway? You're stuck... it's not like you can break through these bars." Rouge scoffed. Shadow still said nothing, just gave a death stare.
Rouge couldn't take his stare and turned away from him. "Hmm... you must be pretty powerful, if Robotnik had to trap you like that." Rouge teased. "A bit like another hedgehog I've heard of. Do you happen to know someone called Sonic?"
The silent treatment continued. "Yes? No?" still nothing. "Weeeelll?" Rouge gave a sigh of irritation.
Shadow watched as she walked off again to the side of the cell, she was out of sight. This was a huge relief to Shadow, he didn't like Rouge one bit. Then he heard the sound of metallic keys rattling. His ears pricked up again as he heard it and saw Rouge walk over to cell with a set of keys. "You're... going to let me go?" Shadow asked with hope.
"Nope." She teased. Shadow gave a growl of fury. She opened up the cell and walked inside. Shadow wasn't hanging up very high so his face wasn't a lot higher than Rouges. Shadow began to feel uncomfortable since she was now very close to him. She gave a few sniffs of his fur. "Eww... you smell kind musty... like my grandparents house of something."
Shadow rolled his eyes and tried to avoid looking at her. After a few seconds, Shadow's stomach let out a grumbling sound. "Hey... Sunny, you hungry?" Rouge asked.
"Sunny?" Shadow questioned.
"Yes, since you refuse to tell me your name, I'm calling you Sunny since it totally reflects you attitude." Rouge joked.
"No way. My name is not Sunny. It's Shadow!" he yelled.
"Thank You!" Rouge said, she finally knew his name. "Wow... I was way off." she joked.
"Yes... very much." Shadow added with a scowl. His stomach rumbled again but louder this time. The hungry hedgehog tried to look unaffected by this and act as though is never happened.
"Do you want me to find you some food?" Rouge asked. Shadow didn't answer. "Fine then, starve." she snapped and walked out of the cell and locked the door. "So... I got a name out of you... how about telling me more... like, where you came from?"
"I long way away." Shadow said simply.
"Care to elaborate?"
Shadow gave her another death stare. "Say... Shadow... did Robotnik come through here with a large weapon that he might have stolen or something?"
"Why are you asking such a silly question? Are you spying on this guy on something?" Shadow asked, then widened his eyes. "You're a spy." he realised. Rouge began to look uncomfortable. "That's a bit risky isn't it, asking his prisoners about him? You just carelessly gave yourself away."
"You're right but... you hate him right? So you wouldn't go telling him about me would you?" Rouge asked.
"I might... if it'll get me out of this chaos forsaken cell!" Shadow yelled. Rouge's eyes widened. "I won't though. I don't think it'll help me at all." he sighed.
Shadow's stomach went again, his cheeks began to go a light red but he ignored is nonetheless. "Did he steal some kind of weapon that you're looking for then?" Shadow asked.
"Yes... he broke into prison island and took with him the top secret project called Project Shadow-"
The two of them looked at each other with wide eyes and small pupils. "You're what I've been looking for!?" Rouge exclaimed. Shadow wasn't the one to lie so he was silent again. "I have to get you back to GUN!"
"YOU DARE!" Shadow roared and bared his fangs, he looked furious. "They'll put me back in the cryochamber, they want to keep me locked up forever just because of my awesome power!" he exclaimed.
Rouge understood now, why he was so secretive and why he was restrained so toughy and why Rouge hadn't found the secret weapon before she had found Shadow. Then she realised something else. "Shadow... you know when I asked you earlier if you'd done something bad and you said 'not yet?'" She asked him reluctantly. Shadow nodded, still looking ticked off. "What did you mean by that?"
"I need to have my revenge, that's why I need the emeralds." Shadow said and wondered why he was telling Rouge everything when she could easily just tell GUN and cause him to get captured again. Rouge began to look worried
"What for-"
"I'm back! Bat girl, you better have done a good job!" Eggman's voice came echoing down the corridor that Rouge was in. "If my prisoner is gone I'm holding you responsible."
"It's fine, he's still here!" Rouge called back sounding annoyed. She then looked to Shadow sympathetically and walked off. Shadow continued to hang alone in his shame, feeling worse than before, he was at risk now that Rouge knew everything.
Hours later, when it got dark outside and Eggman went to bed, Rouge snuck back down to see Shadow. She peeped her head from behind the wall to him, the hedgehog looked miserable. "Aww, Shadow, are you okay?" Rouge asked.
"I've been stuck like this for hours now and probably will be for weeks, do you honestly think I'm okay?" Shadow sneered.
"Are you still hungry?" Rouge asked. Shadow didn't reply, he just glared at her in response. "What's the matter? Are you angry because I didn't bring you food earlier?" she asked with concern. Shadow gave a 'hmph' and turned his head away. "Shadow!" Rouge yelled.
"I'm starving for fuck's sake!" Shadow snarled.
"You sound like it." Rouge said nervously, she could tell by the way he had snapped at her that he was desperate for food. "What do you like?"
"I don't know. Just get me something." Shadow said urgently. Rouge smiled and ran off to get Shadow something to satisfy his hunger.
She tiptoed into the kitchen which Eggman had showed her too earlier. She froze on the spot when she heard the door open again behind her, she turned to see that Robotnik was coming into the kitchen. "Oh, don't mind me Rouge, I'm just having a midnight snack." Eggman said and went to the fridge.
Rouge stood in silence has he went to grab a whole plateful of food from the fridge and cupboards and took it back to his room. Rouge was worried that there wouldn't be enough left for Shadow but she managed to find some bread and soup.
Shadow waited impatiently for his guard to return with his meal. "Where the hell is she?" Shadow growled as his stomach did the same.
"Here I am Shadow." Rouge said as she brought a tray to his cell and set it down. She then unlocked the door and came inside with bread and warm chicken soup.
"Wait... I can't eat... my hands are stuck... do you have the keys for these cuffs?" Shadow asked. Rouge shook her head. Shadow groaned as his stomach did the same. "Don't worry Shadow, I'll feed you."
Shadow's eye twitched. "No. I'm not a child, I don't need feeding." Shadow said stubbornly.
"You don't get any food then." Rouge said and walked away with the tray.
"Wait!" Shadow exclaimed. Rouge turned back around to face him with a smirk on her face. "Please... could you feed me?" Shadow asked sheepishly.
"Of course Shadow." Rouge chirped and walked back to him with the tray. She set it down on the floor and picked up the bowl. Shadow felt pathetic getting food shoveled into his mouth but it was the only way. "There, I bet you feel a lot better." Rouge said with a smile once they had finished.
Shadow closed his eyes and nodded in delight. "Thank you." Shadow said sincerely. "You can go to bed now if you want, Rouge." Shadow offered. "I don't think I'll need anything else tonight." he added as she walked out of the cell and locked the door.
"Okay then Shadow, Goodnight." Rouge said and left.
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