Chapter 2
((((((((A/N: this chapter starts a bit weird but yes it does start like that. Enjoy ^-^)))))))))
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"So, how was school?" I asked the 16-year-old, light orange rabbit. "Good, daddy" she answered as she adjusted her seat belt. "You know you don't have to call me that...I'm not your real father" I chuckled, "we're not even the same species, Cream" I said as I started driving. "Well...you raised me since-"
"Me AND your mother raised you...since you were 7 years-old"
"yeah...you know me well, Shadow"
"Hey what can I say? I have a good memory and we spend a lot of time together"
"Yeah...but there are some things about me that you don't know, you know?"
"Pardon?" I asked raising an eyebrow. I heard a click and saw her take of her seat belt with the corner of my eye. "Young lady put on your seat belt this instant!" I said a bit too loud. Next thing I knew, her lips were pressed against mine.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" I screamed sitting up from my bed. I felt sweat run down my muzzle and my heart beat rapidly. I turned left, but foumd it difficult to do so. That's when I realized I was wearing some kind of mechanical collar around my neck. I looked down at my hands and saw gray metal bracelets over my golden ones. How come I hadn't noticed before?
"You okay bro?" I heard a voice ask; it was the same one from the night before. "Y-yes...I am fine" I answered as I got off the top bunk. I looked at the green hedgehog in front of me. He was wearing the same orange uniform as me and the metal collar and had long vangs going all over the place, 4 green quills and bright blue eyes. "You...said some things while you were asleep" he said. I ignored him. "Everyone else is asleep" he whispered as he peeked out of the cell. "So?" I asked. "So we talk...cause something people are eavesdropping" he said.
I felt sorry for this young hedgehog. He had probably been isolated from his family for so long that he doesn't even care who he talks to as long as he talks to someone. I tried to shake those those thoughts away. It wasn't in my nature to feel sorry for someone.
I sat on his bed and looked at him. "Soo...how old are you kid?" I asked trying to keep my voice low. I looked straight into his blue ocean eyes. "17...how 'bout you?" he whispered back. But I hesitated. It was never good to give too much information away. "I'd rather not tell...what is your name?"
"Manic"
"I'm Shadow...Shadow The Hedgehog"
"nice to meet ya"
"same...say...what were you talking about last night? why were you shaking?"
"...uh..."
He just looked at me and stayed silent then looked away moments later. "That ain't your business and I don't wanna talk about it" Manic said. I sighed. Poor kid. We stayed silent for a couple of minutes until I broke the silence. "So...what are you in for?" I asked. He looked at me and hesitated. Then he looked at the other cells as if checking for something.
"Okay they're asleep...so you wanna know why im here, right? The answer's simple: I tried to kill 'president' Absterold" he said with a confident smile. I could not believe my ears. Had he just said that he tried to kill a dictator that was being protected by his bodyguards 24/7?
"So...what went wrong? I asked. He laughed. "It was obvious that it wasn't gonna work. I sneaked into his mansion with my teleporter, snraked into his room through an air vent, but when I finally got there, there were some guards there and caught me. It seemed as if they already knee I was coming. Someone from the resistance had snitched. Someone was a double agent" Manic said.
"It appears so..." I said crossing my arms. "What are YOU in for?" he asked raising an eyebrow. I could only stare back at him and stay silent. "I see" he said. My ears perked up at the sound of footsteps approaching from far away. minutes later, two guards came to our cell and opened the gate. One was a blue fox and the other seemed like a brownish wolf. The fox grabbed Manic by the neck and threw him into the wall. Iwas exploring with rage inside of me, but I couldn't do anything. I knew I couldn't touch the guard because if I did I would never see the light of day again!
"You can't do that! we have rights!" I growled only to be laughed at. "Rights?" asked the wolf. "What rights?" asked the fox, still laughing a little, "prisoners don't have rights"
I looked over at Manic who was know knocked out. "Especially prisoners level 2" said the wolf disgusted.
They dragged me and Manic to the eating room. Manic had already waken up when we got there. I looked around and noticed that many prisioners were looking at me suspiciously. "Why are they looking at me like that?" I whispered to Manic.
"Maybe cause your the new guy...and a prisioner level 2"
"so?"
"they either think your sick and want to kill you or they want to rape you...or both"
"gee thanks Manic. I knew I could count on you to cheer me up"
I tried to ignore the stares and lined up in the line with Manic. As the line moved, the other prisioners eventually stopped staring at me. When it was finally my turn, I grabbed a tray containing some kind of gray matter that looked like mash potatoes. I followed Manic to a nearby table and sat next to him. I stared at my tray with disgust as Manic ate silently. "Dude are you gonna eat?" asked Manic with his mouth full. My stomach grumbled. I had to eat something, even if it was a colorless god-knows-what. "Um...I guess" I answered. "I'm done" said Manic. I put my spoon in my mouth, tasting the most bitter taste that had ever touched my toungue. It tssted like a mixtute of salt and vinegar. I tried not to vomit as I forced the so called food down my throat.
"Why does it taste do bad?" I asked after I gulped down my "food". "The government doesn't wanna waste money on prisoners. so they take left overs from restaurants and schools" Manic explained, "but everyone's used to it...the best you could forma is rat as fast as you can"
"You don't say..." I said, then looked at him straight in the eye. He had pretty eyes. "Do you miss...I don't know...your relatives...your friends...or that special someone?" I asked and at the same time I wondered: 'what the hell do i care?!'
Manic hesitated."Of course I miss my family I've been here for 6 years! and I didn't even get a trial and that special someone's gone...even though I see him every day-...i mean.. forget it" Manic said before picking up his tray and leaving. The suspicious way he acted lefy me with many questions, but thr main question was: 'how could he see his ex partner and see her every day in an all-male facility?
I picked up my tray, left it where it was suposed to go and walked out of the eating area. "Free time...now" said one of the guards as he grabbed me and pushed me out the door that lewd outside the building. The warm sunlight felt good against my fur for the first time in a lifetime. Probably because I haven't been put in the sunlight for a while. I looked around and saw about 50 other prisoners. Some we're lifting weights, some were smoking and some were just standing around talking. Buy they were all in groups. I walked around for about 10 minutes while trying to find Manic, but he was nowhere to be found. Fortunatelly, I found him sevetral minutes later.
"Hey Manic" I greeted from behind him. He turned around brusquely and growled at me. That's when I figured it wasn't Manic. But, he looked just like Manic, except he was dark green (not lime green) he had 6 quills instead of 4 and his eyes were a lighter blue. he also had sharper teeth and had no vangs. "You must have me confused...I'm not a faggot!" said the rude hedgehog, "my name's Scourge, you asshole" he said.
If he wanted a fight I was willing to give him one. "Now now, I made a mistake, so what?...besides...you do not want to mess with me" I threatened, "if you do then u better start planning your funeral"
"oh yeah?!"
"yeah!"
"and whos gonna make me?!"
I chuckled. This foolish Hedgehog thought he was better than me, but he was dead wrong. "Thought so" he murmured as he started to walk away. I grabbed him by one of his and ripped it off with all my strength. He screamed in pain so loudly that now everyone was now staring at his bleeding skull. He fell on his syomach, looking as if he was about to cry. I ran towards him and kicked him on the bleeding spot of his skull, making him scream again. I chuckled. "Pathetic"
I began to walk away, figuring that he was no longer a threat to me. Suddenly, I felt a rock hit the back of my head. I turned around and found Scourge standing and holding another rock. He ran towards me and punchede right in the jaw with all his strength. He tried to punch me in the face, but I was able to catch his slow fist. I twisted his wrist with all my strength, making it crack. My heartbeat increased as he yelled in pain. Adrenaline trabajo through my veins. I grabbed him by his second quill and thew him as far as I could, making him crash into some other prisoners.
I could feel fury, loathe, and adrenaline run through me. It just felt so good to kick someone's ass! specially someone who acted and looked like Sonic. But I had had enough of his foolishness. I slowly walked towards him while the rest of the prisoners (who were in a circle) started getting out of my way. I looked down ay my arms and saw a red aura forming around me again. I smirked. "Perfect.."
I took a deep breath, closef my eyes and tried to concentrate all energy. "CHAOS...BLAST!" I yelled at the top of my lungs as I released al my energy, causing an explosion around me. All the prisioners nearby flew and crashed into others farther away. But Scourge was the one who took the most damage since he was the closest creature to me. He crashed into the wall of the building then fell to the ground, leaving a big mark where he had landed.
I walked towards him and looked down at him. He was bleeding, gull of bruises and cuts. I could have sworn U saw tears in his eyes. I growled and picked him up by the neck. "Don't...do...th...this" he chocked out.
I took one last look at the pathetic creature and chuckled. "You should have thought of that before you messed with me" I said. And with those final words I formed my right hand into a fist and striked him right on the forehead with all my strength, making him bleed again. His eyes rolled all the way back, making his eyes look blank as his body shaker a little. I let go of him and he collapsed on the ground. "Pathetic!" I laughed feeling no remorse. He was a disgrace to our species.
I looked around at the terrified and shocked inarticulated prisoners, who seemed as they never seen a corpse before (well at least some did). Among them, I saw Manic in the distance. I tried to read the expression on his face but I just couldn't. He seemed somehow terrified and disgusted of me. 'He thinks I am a monster...and he will never have the same opinion of me again' I thought as I kept starting at the green hedgehog's dead body. It somehow felt like I had been looking at it for hours. I just couldn't take my eyes away from it.
My ears perked up as I heard the loud blow of a whistle and yells from the distance. I saw two guards running out of the building as some prisoners looked at me frightened, some disgusted ans some giving me approving nods and smiles. The first guard pushed me onto the ground, got on top of me and handcuffed me while the other checked Scourge's pulse. The first guard helped me get up brusquely, buy didn't say a word. The second cop looked at me then at his partner. "Tale him to 'The box'..." he told his partner pointing at me. "This guy's dead. The black one broke his skull, making his brain bleed" said the second guard. The first guard growled and dragged me back inside the prision building. He dragged me through a hallway surrounded by many empty cells. We walked for about 10 minutes until we reached a dead end. "Where are we?" I askrd but got no responce. He opened a tall, heavy metal door at the end of the dark and empty hallway, unhandcuffed me and pushed me inside an empty room. I hit the hard, cold floor and looked around the room. The room was dark with no windows and in vile conditions. I looked up at the guard. "You're 'grounded' for 3 weeks. You will not get out and you will get one meal a day" said the guard before closing the door and leaving me in complete darkness.
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