"This is fucking insane! Stop this! You're sick and twisted! GAH! No! Please! Stop!" Shadow cried out frantically as he was injected. He couldn't help but shake about.
"Hold still or I might miss," the human said in irritation.
"Go ahead! Miss!" Shadow yelled, but his eyes widened as the human got him. Shadow sucked in a sharp breath of pain through his gritted teeth, then cried out again. "I'm still sensitive there from when- AHHH!"
"I'm not entirely sure that this is the original. The ultimate life form?" the man injecting said dryly. "He's screaming like a little girl."
"It fucking burns, that's why!" Shadow cried out.
"It must be working," he said. "Finally. We're getting somewhere." Shadow breathed through the pain of his insides burning up. "Alright. Send him back inside the vault. We'll bring him back out in two days to test his sperm count."
"Judging by how it feels. I guess 0," Shadow said, teeth gritted in pain.
…
2 Days Later
Shadow was correct. He sat on the edge of the table, looking down in shame. The humans were discussing it and celebrating with grins and cheers.
"Rub it in why don't you," Shadow mumbled under his breath. He looked up at them. "This means we can all go free now, right?"
They all looked at him in silence. One of them finally spoke up.
"It depends whether we can get the funding for this," he said. "It won't be cheap to sterilize one-hundred-thousand of you." Shadow narrowed his eyes at the group.
"And, you're going to take the pain out of it when you do," Shadow demanded.
"That will require even more funding," they added dryly. Shadow looked down, feeling troubled. This feeling surprised him.
"I actually care now?" he mumbled under his breath. "No." He grit his teeth, trying to push the feelings back. Shadow jumped off of the table and walked over to the counter at the side of the room.
"What are you doing, hedgehog?" one of the humans asked and stepped forward.
Shadow suddenly grabbed one of the devices and held it to his chest.
"GAH!" He dropped to the floor in pain and dropped the device. Stuck to it, was a small metal chip. The device was strongly magnetic. There was a hole on Shadow's chest. The human ran over to him, but it was too late.
"Chaos Control!"
…
Shadow appeared on one of the quiet backstreets of the city he was in beforehand. He saw Silver, leaning against the building on the other side of the road. Shadow ran over to him.
"Silver!"
"Shadow!?" the grey hedgehog said in surprise. "The original!?"
"Yes!" Shadow said once he reached him. "I escaped. We need to break everyone out of there. It's awful."
"That was the plan before you got yourself captured," Silver remarked.
"Thanks for your help with that, by the way," Shadow remarked back. "You did a great job running away." Silver rubbed the back of his neck. "But that doesn't matter now. They're trying to sterilize everyone!"
Silver didn't look too bothered.
"Maybe that's a good idea. Considering your offspring's uncontrollable libido," Silver said and folded his arms. "That's what got you into this mess to begin with. Unhealthy obsession with sex."
"You're beginning to sound like Faker. You definitely take after him more," Shadow commented.
"You could have at least used protection," Silver scolded.
"Faker, is that you?" Shadow remarked. Then he looked away. "I thought I was infertile."
"Idiot!" Silver yelled.
"Hey! If I did use protection, you wouldn't have been born," Shadow said with a smirk. Silver was silent at that. "If it's any consolation, I can't spawn anymore demons, due to…" He looked down at his crotch.
"Why are all of you so… promiscuous?" Silver asked. "It's obviously genetic. Do you think it's the Black Arms' DNA?"
Shadow looked up at Silver.
"That… would make a lot of sense," Shadow said. "I… have the DNA of their leader. And their leader needed to reproduce an awful lot. I don't know how it worked exactly, but it seemed he was the father of his whole species. He called them all his offspring." Shadow looked at Silver, surprised at his own deduction.
"So it's… instinct," Silver said.
Shadow looked down in shame.
"Instinct or not, I caused the pain and misery of so many. I… need to put it right," he said in a solemn determination. His fists began tightening.
"And how do you think you're going to do that?" Silver asked.
"I have to break them all out of there!" Shadow said, then ran down the street. Silver charged after him.
"What? So they can all be free to reproduce even more. They'll just get captured all over again!" Silver called after him.
"We'll find a way to sterilise everyone," Shadow said. "But in a painless way. I'm not letting my children and grandchildren suffer in the same way I did. No way!" Shadow yelled. "It's up to you whether you help me or not!"
"Alright I'll help!" Silver yelled. Shadow stopped. Silver skidded to a halt, going further than Shadow accidentally. He turned around to look at the dark hedgehog.
"You know this time and place better than I do. Find someone who's willing to do the research," Shadow said. "And… I'll break everyone from the Concentration Camp."
"Got it!" Silver said, then ran the opposite way to Shadow. The dark hedgehog turned the corner and went into the dark alley. He smashed through the door.
"What the-"
"It's me!" Shadow yelled. "And I need your help." Dozens of red and black hedgehogs looked at Shadow in surprise and confusion. "You all have use of chaos control. Something useful for what I need done."
"Why should we do anything for you?" a female yelled, stepping forward. Shadow had a feeling it was the same one from before. "You're a complete asshole."
"It's to save everyone in the concentration camps. I was taken there…" Shadow said. "So I know the location, the set up, everything."
There was a mixture of gasps and chatters from the crowd.
"You escaped? But that's impossible," the girl said.
"And you think I'm lying about this!?" Shadow snapped. "Come on! Help me! We need to do this!"
"We'll help," said the girl. "If you can answer me something." Shadow nodded his head. "What's my name?" Shadow's eyes widened. He opened his mouth to speak, but his mind was blank. "You don't even care. Why should we believe that you actually care?"
Shadow fell to his knees.
"There's too many of you for me to remember all of your names," Shadow said. "And I'm sorry I never learned them while there was a small enough number to remember." A silence fell upon the room. "Please. This is for the others. Not me. I'm already sterilized. I can't be saved. But they can."
"Sterilized?" a few of the hedgehogs said in surprised.
"I'll tell you everything. Just listen… with an open mind. And… help me."
