Flash back

The clanging noise echoes throughout the hallway as well as heavy breathing, as we run down this hallway.

I look to my left to see a little girl, no older then 12, running franticly down this metallic hall with me.

She has long blond hair and blue eyes. This girl wore a blue dress and with a matching hair band.

Then I look behind myself to check the progress of the chasers, and just as I feared, in fact worse. They are closer then ever and still catching up

The group of men were wearing matching uniforms, and carried various guns. They had a gray-brown helmet with a red visor covering their eyes. They wore a shirt that matched their helmets and pants. On the helmet and shirt was a G.U.N. logo.

Looking back a head, we can finally see the end of this long hall.

We ran through and it is in fact the escape pod room.

After all the preparation was done we walked to the pod.

The doors suddenly 'whooshed' open and there stood the men.

I looked to the girl, just as they shot. She got hit.

"MARIA!" I yelled.

'End flashback'

All of a sudden Shadow shot up. His eyes widened as the sweat poured off of him like there was no tomorrow, panting as if he had just ran a race with the faker around the whole of Japan.

There was only just enough time for Shadow to catch his breath when a loud booming noise sounded from the door. Knowing that it was the soldiers; he stood up and hit the door, signalling to them he was ready to leave.

A series of loud noises came from the door before it opened, most likely the locks un-doing. There were the same 6 soldiers, for an unknown destination.

Although before they got out of ear shot, a call came out from an unnoticed spectator. Knuckles. Shadow then realised that he saw this reaction before when he awoke.

"So, am I meant to stay here all day on my own?" Knuckles asked. Shadow then thought whether or not he was afraid of the dark.

"No, there has been another cell prepared for you all to stay in." The lead guard had stated. "Once we have finished with Shadow, we will escort you all to the volt."

"Sure, I'll just wait here." And with that Knuckles went back into his volt.

As the guards and hedgehog walked down the hall, Shadow had a look to the left. He could see all the money and gold that was behind locked gate thingies, although he knew where he was he still never expected this much money and gold. He himself had no use for it, but because of his relationship with Rouge he could not be trusted and as such was guarded.

They soon arrived at their destination. The loading dock. Shadow saw the crate that he was to get into. He checked to see weather or not he had his Equipment. Once he was satisfied he jumped into the crate, gave the signal and checked his watch.

After the signal was given, two of the G.U.N. agents got the lid to the crate and nailed him. The other four agents walked off and grabbed a second crate.

Just after they put the crate down, a truck had reversed into the loading bay. Then a man with a confused look got out of the truck. He was handed a page of instructions and 2000 rings. After loading the two crates, he drove off.

It was now 30 minutes later. In a small opening with nothing overly different to it, a truck stopped. The man inside quickly read over the page again, this time out loud. "Once you put the crate on the ground you have 2 minutes to get to a safe distance. About 5 Kilometres is best. Wait until it happens, you will know when it happens, head back and drop off the second crate; wait for the buzzer to go of where you will be given your next instructions. During the time that you are waiting for the buzzer to go off you are allowed to go do whatever you want or need to. Suggest a clean change of clothes."

"Well seems easy enough, for now." And with that he got out and opened the back of the truck.

After about 2 minutes he decided to just push the first crate out, knock on the top and drive.

Big mistake. As Shadow re-gained himself, he made a mental note to make him pay.

Then there were two knocks and the sound of a truck starting. Two minutes later. 'BOOM'. The truck driver was not expecting this large explosion or the plank of wood that nearly killed him flying through his room. As a result he had also made a boom, in his pants. This must have been why he was told to bring a spare set of clothes. He drove back to a sizeable creator and put the second crate down, got changed and drove off to do something.

As Shadow watched the truck drive off from the trees, he completed a re-check, making sure that nothing got lost during that chaos blast, dusted himself off and was on his way.

Making sure not to travel to fast Shadow finally made it to the area which he was told to go to. Out of nowhere, or so they thought, a robot appeared in front of him.

Shadow was familiar with this robot and wasn't scared in the least. Even though he wouldn't show it, even if he was.

The robot that said in a cold voice that which could nearly rival Shadows, "STATE YOUR PURPOSE HERE OR BE DESTROIED."

Shadow chuckled to himself, clearly one of the friendlier greetings that he has gotten from this person. It then became clear that even this person wanted to see Shadow, as much as Shadow wanted to see him. "I know that you can hear me; I haven't attacked yet and neither have you, so why don't we just drop this act and let me in. I might have something that will interest you." Shadow said looking at the robot. There was a moment of silence before…