"Shadow the Hedgehog will die?! " Caim thought as he carried his "sister" into her room, "You foolish little bastard there is no hope for you isn't it??" He thinked.
After reaching her bed he slowly droped her on the soft cheets, "Next time don't be so foolish!!" he shouted with disdain.
She felt some pain when her back riped skin toutch the cheets, making her to get up enough to look at Caim that was looking at her with despise.
-"You don't need to be so harsh Caim... I know that what I did was an mistake... But I don't get why even you, my brother, are so harsh on me..."
"You don't get why?!" he chuckled to himself, "You the most powerful asset of GUN resistence doesn't get it?!" a sarcastic smile filled his face as now he saw an oportunity to mock her as she did to him before, "You are so stupid in all ways!! First you mock me on the training grounds, and now you are here, weak and broken, blooded and ripped, if weren't so insolent, maybe you wouldn't have to face all that "pain", but I see you like to suffer so, I guess you don't mind, I mean, to face a GOD!?!" he laughed hard for several moments "What chances would you have agains't him anyway?? I say you have zero, I say he didn't killed you because he want's something to play with afterwards, I mean he could already have destroyed us, but he enjoys this, he likes to see us suffer, just as I like to see you in that state."
At his statements, she started to feel pain from the inside. It happened once again, the way that he spoke and his eyes where so similar to all the people that those years had rejected and pushed her away... She thought that Caim was diferent, but in the end he turned his back to her as well... And the pain was unbearable, because she still couldn't figure out...
-"Why?..." She asks with tears filling the corner of her eyes.
-"Why it is hapening AGAIN? WHY YOU?..." she shouts crying, putting herself on her foot with the strenght of rage and pain filling her soul and her body. Then she starts to trow things against the ground and the walls, breaking objects just not to make the same to her "brother".
-"GET OUT!!!"
She yells crying, strugling with her will to make him feel pain...
His previous sarcastic smile took a more sadistic form, he had her where he wanted her to be, in tears, in pain, and maybe in self doubt??, he didn't cared about that her suffering was amusing to ther and her cries like a melodie in an Opera on his ears, "Why you ask me?? Ask 'our' father if you want to know, he could stopped all that rejection if he wanted but, he didn't, now tell me what kind of father is that??" he made is way out of the room, but before closing the door he let a low whisper slip from his lips, "And never, NEVER dare to call me brother again..." and door slowly closed behind him.
Angela with mad rage grabs the first thing that cames out to her hand and slams at the door her table lamp, breaking it into pieces while she lets go an scream.
-"ARGH!!"
After breaking the lamp, her room was filled with darkness, and the only things shining were her tears that were runing down her checks filled with chaos energy and desapointment. She was getting enough... Of being pushed, of being shout, of being humiliated, of being REJECTED. Ignoring her fisical pain and the blood that were still droping from her back, she made up her mind : she was leaving, and she never want to return.
No more concern, no more pain. She realised: she had always been on her own, so why suffer for creatures that didin't even say an simple thanks to her? With her remaining strenght, she opens the window of her room and looks around, just to be sure that she wasn't noticed by the vigilants G.U.N. soldiers that walk randomly on the streets of the undergroun citidel.
As she sees an chance to get out, she don't think twice and makes an small jump, letting behind an place of pain and an trail of blood.
However... At the surface, stormy weather didin't give an rest to Angelus city. Their citizens where being repressed by the heavy rain and the lightings where striking several times the towers of the dark palace.
The dark ruller was looking trough the huge window of his office lost in thoughts, thinking in everything that happened latelly... Could it be just an coincidence or...
Then he turns his gaze to Amy's face that was floating on the oxigen liquid and for moments, when he saw his reflection over the glass and Amy's peacefull face it hit his mind like an ton of briks...
She's so much like you he thought while he starred at his lover, "Can she be her Rose?? After so many years..." he said with a touch of caress in his voice, that blasted day never left his memory for a single day, Amy's screams and the kidnaping hunt his dreams every single night, but now he maybe had a chance to recover his life, he just joped however, that he was right, for once...
Another lightning strikes the towers, iluminating with bright light the dark office and Shadow places one hand on the glass as he sets on his mind. He will get his family unnited, even that is the last thing that he do.
With his mind foccus on his goal, he starts to dashes down the set of spiral stairs in the midle of the castle and heads towards outside, where was raining like it was no tomorrow.
Opening the gates of the castle with viccious force, the dark ruller steped outside and started the quest of an thing that could give him the definitive response: Was "Nocturna" Angela?
There was only one way to find out.
He searched everywere in the plaza were the destroyed statue lay, destroing every rumble of stone, he had to find it, no he MUST find it, only then could atleast ease some pain in his tainted heart, he searched for the scarf like a madmen, throwing spears of caotic energy onto the stones and almost every single object and when the dust settled, there it was, the scarf that his oponent used.
The scarf that may bring him, the scarf used by that being, that perfect being, that the resoulted from a perfect union. He didn't thought and grabbed the scarf as if he was carrying a child a young child, a fragile baby, and then like he appeared he vanished, but not by running, no, he chaos controled himself to the labs in his Palace, there was no time to lose, and he wanted awnsers.
"YOU!! Come here." He yelled at a scientist which was working in another twisted contraption for his own pleasure, he bowed as he spoke "What would you have me do, Lord??", "Compare my DNA with the fur on this scarf!! You have two HOURS!!", he spat at the madman as he tried to give him the scarf, but his hands didn't move, "My Lord, is something wrong??", the madman asked as he moved closer to the onyx hedgehog, "just take this godamn thing and do as I say!!" he barked as he gave him the scarf, the madman noded and rushed his way to make the test.
Shadow's heart pounded in his chest, and so he made his way into his dark office, and spoke to the perfect but dread form of Amy Rose for hours, some in joy, some in pain, but the main subject of his monologues, was about their lost daughter...
Time is like an river and never turns back. Now it was time to know the awser for the ultimate question. The rain had stop, and stormy clouds step aside to let shine the full moon over the city.
The dark ruller without hesitation, exactly after two hours apears on the lab to get the results... And with no more delays he reaches the madman and asks:
"Where are the tests?!" he barks the order to the madman who ran towards him with a paper, "Here they are, L--", but before he could finish the sentence, the dark ruller took the paper from his hands, and his eyes widenned not with suprise but joy, he found her, after so many years he finnaly found her!! He expressed an honest smile, "I found her Rose.", he though to himself, now we can be a family... Again...
However, not everything was runing so smootly to everyone has it was to the dark ruller. Several feets bellow the castles fundations, his rival, the "adoptive father" of his child was regreting the punishment that he put Nocturna through.
He couldn't sleep with the regret and besides, he needed someone to take her place as an vigilant of the gates at south of the citidel.. When he saw Caim arriving to G.U.N.s facilities, he starts to walk towards him.
-"Hi there son... So... I was waiting for you... Perhaps you could join me in an small dinner..."
Comander says with some sadness on his voice while reaching Caim.
The boy smiled at the sight of his father, but his brow wrinkled at Comander's sad tone, "Of course dad!!" he said normally.
"Comme... You deserve an nice hot meal instead of the regular canne food! By the way Caim... How is Nocturna?"
He says turning his back to him after noding him to be followed to his office.
He breathed deeply as he anwsered, "Nocturna is", *sigh* "she's trying to rest, you were too harsh on her father.... She just wanted to help others and this is how you repay her??" he said faking both a sad tone and expression as he walked in to his father's office.
-"You're right Caim... But I can't allow this to happen again...She doesn't understand my motives, but she will thank me someday for it..."
He replies as he walks towards an small refrigerator next to his desk and take out two pizzas to set them on an small microwave near by the window.
"She will thank you someday?? You just... She feels so depressed father you can't imagine, she's feels so... Ignored by you... Couldn't you start treating her like you do to me, she may only be adopted, but she's my sister father, and I can't stand to see her like that..." he says sheding a single fake tear.
Comander folds his arms as he sat on the desk chair waiting while the meal was being cooked.
-"You're right Caim... But if I didin't punish her she could face again Shadow, and she could get killed..."
"She didn't expect it, she didn't knew that he would be there!!" he cried, "There was no such need to us the lash on her, I mean WHY FATHER?!! Why did you punishes her if she was only trying to help??" He shed more tears of deceive, he had his father just where he wanted him...
-"Stop crying Caim, you are making an fool of yourself... I already know what I did was wrong but I regret it!"
The man shouts geting out of his chair and walks towards the microwaves to get the pizzas.
He suddenly stoped crying, ok new moves, he thought, "So, why did you invited me to eat with you dad?? I mean we are all busy down here..."
The comander sighs again as he sets the pizzas on an plate over his desk.
-"Since Angela is off the charge of vigilant tonight, I want you to take her place son... Just for today. I would if I could, but I'm getting old for this stuff..."
"Ahhh, I expected something like that, yeah sure no problem." He said as he took a slice of the pizza, "Perfect..." he thought, "Shadow gave me one month and maybe if I warned him today, oh Gosh, I can feel my hands bearing such power, so young, so powerful, i shall became the ruler of one third of the world tonight!!" he thought as he slowly ate the pizza...
Comander get himself an slice of the pizza and taste it, unaware that perhaps soon, it could be one of his last meals. After finishing it, he gets up and cleans his mouth with an soft tissue. Then he places one hand on Caim's shoulders and says:
-"Thank you for doing that for me son... I'm going to rest now, so I'm counting on you. Here* he handles to him an gun * You might need this one."
"No problem dad, now go, you must rest, and don't worry I'll not fail you." he says as he grabs the gun and places it on his hoister.
The older man gets out of the office closing the door behind, he was tired of everything and the remorse of what he had done to Nocturna was starting to bring him down... But right now he still couldn't look at her... Not yet... Perhaps tomorrow, he would see her and apolosige... Now he needed to rest and he trust to his older son the security of the citidel.
The young man smirked after his father left. Now it was his oportunity and he couldn't wait any longer. Minutes after Comander left, Caim gets out of the oficce with his mind set on his part of the deal that he had made with Shadow: open the gates of the citidel for him to conquer and get the chaos esmeralds.
He had to stay sharp to avoid comit any mystakes and let go this golden oportunity.
He heads towards outside and sees some guards watching over an fence. Behind that fence was the only chance that he had to give the good news to his new "ally". But he had to stay sharp or else they could figure out what he was up to.
He stealthly approaches the fence and seeing the guards changing turns, he steals the initiative and climbs it as fast as he can, confirming that no one is around he looks at the guards again and knows that the next guards will take at least 4 minutes to get there, he head all the time in the world.
Pressing the number as rapidly as he could, as soon as he finished typing he heard Shadow's voice on the phone:
-"What? Its better being important or else..."
The dark ruller's says in an monotone, but yet menacing voice, kinda annoyed like like he was interrupting something important.
"Sorry my Lord." He said, "But I want to inform you that you and all troops have a chance to destroy the resistance tonight.",
-"Hmm... Intersting... Is better that you aren't playing with me, my "dear" ally... Now... Tell me where and when?" the Onyx hedgehog says with some desbelief about how things where going so well to him...
"Be ready at the southern entry, in one hour, you will find no oposition... and when they find out about your strike force, it will be too late for them." he said with a sadistic tone.
-"Good. Soon enough I will be there... Tonigh the resistance will meet doomsday... And I will have something precious to me soon... Very soon... Ah just an remark Caim, remember if you fail, i shall have your head isntead!..." the dark ruler shouted as he hang up the phone.
As the left the pone boot he felt a chill up is spine. If all went right, we would rule a third of the world, he just had to kill some guards on the southern command post, he made his way through it, the post wasn't far but the feeling of power that he would have was overwellming and of course, sooner he had the job done, sooner he could prepare himself to deal the killing blow!!
He approached the post and saw 10 guards, he smiled to himselff as he walked to one, "Hey Soldier, how's your duty going??", the soldier turned and smiled "Pretty good sir, this last weeks are being very calm so far." he said as he turned back for a second to see Caim aiming a gun to his head, "Is this some kind of joke?!" the soldier asked in panic, "Well, no."bang, he said as the soldier's lifeless body hit the floor with a loud thump, swiftly, he grabed his rifle and ran into the command post while a rain of bulets fired by the other soldiers passed through him, as he entered he smashed the alarm that would warn everyone on the underground town, and started to shot from the window, but they were to many he wouldn't get out of there alive without any kind of help. Then he look throught the oposite window and he saw one soldier running to the post, possibly not knowing what was happening, he shouted to him, "HEY YOU, I NEED SOME HELP HERE!!"
-"Yes Sir!"
Says the naif soldier unware of what was hapening while dodging an shower of bullets to enter the comand post where Caim was.
-"So sir what is going on?? Are we under the "Beast" atack?"
Asks the boy crouching under an window next to Caim.
"Yes private they look like a scout force of the "Beast".", he said as he raised his weapon to deliver a couple of shots, "If they take this post down we're done for!!"
"What weapons do you have with you?!"
-"Some granades, an rifle and an shotgun... Is not much... We should press the alarm buttom sir while we still can... They are aproaching!"
Says the soldier while shotting some shadowy figures. Because of the faint lights he couldn't tell who where the "oponent" and it was even hard to hit them because of the darkness.
The only lights that were strong enough was the guns whem they were shooting, and still it was just for seconds that it could ilumintate the shadowy place.
"We can't press the alarm, the console it's completly destroyed!!" he shouted as he pointed to the console, "No do as I say, You gonna take the pin of a granade and give me the other, before you throw it count until 3!! and then run as fast as you can shooting like theres no fucking tomorow while i cover yoy from up here!! DO OU UNDERTAND SOLDIER?!"
-"Yes sir"*says the soldier before handles one granade to Caim and another for him, taking off the pin of it* Kay sir I'm ready! Start the countdown!"
"1,2,3 GOGOGO!!" he said as he got up shooting randomly in order to make his enemies search for cover.
The soldier trows the granade and starts to run like there's no tomorrow. The shock wave of the granade trows away big part of the enemies down and the blast ecoes trough all the underground city. Then the soldier jumps to take cover behind an small truck and fire at the remaning enemies that were only shadowy stading figures on the smoke.
The citizens all over the city were wake up because of the sound of an explosion. Warned by the sound, Comander jumps of the bed and grabs an shotgun thinking on the worse, that Shadow's minions breaked trough the gates and they were under atack.
-"Caim..." He says with an worried expression before runing in the direction of the southern gates, in pijamas.
Freedom fighters were running into the direction of where the blast ocorred and Sonic was at front line ready for the worse.
-"Okay people, is now or never. Get ready the "Beast" can be already on town. Be carefull and don't let him come close to the emeralds!!"
Says Sonic being followed by an croud of furries with all kinds of weapons.
As the dust settles Caim can see that the only one soldier stood up and aimed his rifle, striping the soldier of his life, he smiled as he saw that no one remained up, but then he heard a voice, "Sir are they dead." it was that soldier that helped him, he laughed as he took the pin of th granade, "Stay there soldier, there's only one left...", he said as he threw the granade to the truck were the soldier was hidding, as it exploded he laughed once more, "Now I just need to wait" he hissed.
Gasping for air and with the shotgun on his fist, the Comander reaches the gates followed by Sonic and his crew of fighters.
"What happened? Where is that damned black hedgehog??"
He asks while reaching near to Caim, without having an clue of what happened, looking suprised to all the destruction around him.
"I don't know dad, I've heard some explosions and ran here as fast I could."
Sonic get close to the gates and was suspicious about it. Something was wrong... The gates where untouch and Caim was the last man standing...
-"It wasn't supposed to be Nocturna here too keeping the gates safe from any intruder? Where is she? And why didin't you activate the alarms?"
Says Sonic suspicious about it, glaring at Caim and pointing one finger to him.
And why didin't you activate the alarms?*
"Well, check the post and see their state, the console is completly destroyed!"
-"How dare you to talk to my son like that blue hedgehog?? My son came here to replace Angela, because she had an punishment of being an litle brat like you are being now!"
Say's the Comander steping between them and shoving him, almost making the blue blur falling on his back.
-"Dude I'm not Angela your daughter! And if you thouch me aga..."
Says Sonic but he was interruped by an huge blast that took the gates down. An cloud of dust apears and walking trough the dust with an imperial pose, apears Shadow with an silked red batle coat floating with the wind. Behind him was Egg-man on board of an mecanic beast being followed by hordes and hordes of robotic slaves that once used to be alive.
-"FAKER!!"
-"BEAST!"
Says Sonic and Comander at the same time when they saw Shadow apoaching Caim with an smirk on his muzzle.
Caim slowly bows to the dark ruler "As I promised you my Lord, the GUN resistance and as a bonus the Freedom Fighters, all served in a silver dish."
Sonic and the rest of freedom fighters were just with their jaws droped... And the Comander couldn't believe on what he was seing... His son, his BIOLOGIC son, was an traitor.
-"What is the meaning of this Caim???"
He asks while placing an hard over his shoulder, making him tun around to face his shocked expression.
-"Hmpf... Foolish human... I thought you were smarter Comander... How ironic isn't it? To use your own child against you? Do you like the feeling wrenched fool?"
Says Shadow with an evil smirk, walking trough Caim's side and aproaching Comander that was in shock with his statement... He had an chill that runned down his spine when he thought to himself: "He knows about her..."
-"Caim?? Did you told him??? Why are you betraying me?? Your own FATHER??""
Asks the Comander kinda desperate, grabing his shoulders and shaking him.
"WHY!? I'll tell you why!!" he said shoving his father, "I'm tired of living in fear in this freaking underground city were he don't have anything!! Really look at us, he are living like we we're some rats on a sewer!! We are few and futile, we can't stop them!!" Points to Shadow and Eggman, "And so, I did what I had to do!! And finnaly achieved something that I always craved, something that you
couldn't ever give me... Power." he said coldly, "But as you know Father, all power demmands sacrifice, and you, and everysingle person of this underworld are the sacrificial lambs."
-"Sacrificial lambs! Ha lets see about that punk!"*says Sonic punching him hard on his face, making Caim fall into the ground and making his crew of freedom fighters and more people of the city that joined his croud starting the riot against Shadow, Egg-man and his minions.
Comander was katatonic and speechless. He couldn't actually believe... His son betrayed him like an twist ironic destiny of using Nocturna against her own father... Plus he was also in pain for having punishing her so harsly... When the only things that she did were actually saving some slaves and preventing Shadow to inaugurate another colossal statue on his honor with the sweat blood and tears of the some humans and furries that were enslaved by him.
Hordes of mecanic monsters passed by his side as well, in the oposite direction the resistance... He was sourronded by the heat of the batle without doing nothing. Shadow smirked as he aproaches him and puts one hand on his troat, lifting him few inches from the ground:
-"Tssk... What happened to the Comander that I used to know? The courageous fool that thought that could have an chance against me? Hmpf... How pathetic... I only don't kill you here and now because I need you to tell to Nocturna the truth from your mouth."
-"Doctor *he says as he trows Comander to the feet of the Egg-man mecanic beast* Keep him alive and take him to the castle. I'm gonna look for Angela."
He says looking through his shoulder to the evil genius on board of an huge mecanic spider while stroking his mustage with amusement by the sight of his creatures taking down all the resistance and by seing that even Sonic was having an hard time dealing with them.
-"Okay partner! Ah have this!*he says trows Egg-man at Shadow's that caugh it even with his back turned, only by rising his left arm and hand*Its an radar for the chaos esmeralds, don't forget about them."
The dark ruller nodded and started to walk with an evil red outline glow over his body with his mind foccus on the esmeralds and most important his daughter.
"My Lord!!" Caim shouted to the black hedgehog, " The last thing I want right now is to be here, so would you let this faithful servent to go with Doctor Egg-man to the surfice??".
-"Go...*he growled* I have no use for you here..."*says the dark ruller keeping walking and looking to an point of the horizon, to G.U.N.'s headquarters where Nocturna could be with an smirk on his muzzle...
After 19th years... He was close... So close to have her when she were supposed to be all this time, by his side, as his daughter.
