Chapter 10: hidden agendas (MATURE: violence sexuality and ideologically sensitive)

Shadow left the motorcycle in an abandoned property about a mile from the base. When he finally arrived at the forested area just outside the fortified fences of the base, he saw the robot waiting for him. It turned to him in an eerie silence and a familiar voice emanated from within its chest.

"Shadow! What took you so long?! Don't tell me you're thinking of backing out on our little deal!" roared Robotnik through the speakers buried deep within the mechaniod, giving the portly doctor's voice a tinny sound.

"No doctor, I had some business to attend to first." Shadow was not about to let Eggman know of his relationship with Amy Rose. Even though they had only recently become close friends and he had developed feelings for her against his own will, he knew he had to protect himself and his companion, soon to be roommate, from the genius. If Robotnik knew of the darkened hedgehog so much as regularly talking to the Mobian girl, he would use it against him, and Shadow knew the fact well.

"I didn't realize homeless, antisocial characters like yourself could have any business besides what I give them." Eggman verbally slammed Shadow regularly as far as he could remember. In fact he could barely remember meeting the doctor- only that Robotnik had released him from his imprisonment. That detail was what gave the evil genius the little amount of strained tolerance from Shadow; that and his creator was the doctor's grandfather. His unbridled love for his long deceased friend and respect for his creator was another reason Shadow allowed Ivo Robotnik in his favor. Family of the only humans he trusted in his life could be given a chance. Any other details were lost to the past-blurred ultimate life form and didn't seem to be so important to him at the time.

Shadow sneered at the area on the robot's chest where the corrupt doctor's voice produced from as he assembled a gun and placed various tools within his spines. Many Mobians had found their fur and quills useful places to hide objects- especially hedgehogs and echidnas as they had rigid quills that could easily be compressed to grip small objects. Shadow tucked the last disk into his dense spines, and after a quick study of the terrain, he launched forward, trying to use stealth for as long as he could until the eventual alarm triggering from one of the many security measures on the computer system.

The robots steely eyes gave off a deadly red glow, having changed from their usual luminous green, and watched the black male move into one of the buildings and begin his course through the vents into the records center of the headquarters building.

Shadow emerged into a large computer lab dully illuminated by backup lights. 'Nothing yet. This is too easy.' He thought as he walked up, inserting the disk into a slot and began hacking into the mainframe of the computer system. It didn't take long to do- Robotnik had given him all the possible codes used by the programmers of the security system, and had quickly extracted the data and released the destruction virus into the computer. As Shadow began to leave the room he heard warning sirens, and red emergency lights started flashing. 'Great. The virus must be triggering the alarms.'

As the midnight hued hedgehog bolted out the door to the hallway, he searched for a direct exit from the building, barely ducking in time to miss being hit by three bullets flying over his head. He turned sharply to glare behind him and saw three G.U.N. soldiers firing at a target just past him. Looking to the other side again, he saw Robotnik's android jetting towards him in the rounded passage. It continued to cruise forward, hovering just above the ground by its anti-gravity thrusters, leaving a neon green light trail behind it from the speed of its travel. Instinctively, Shadow did a spin dash into the outer wall to allow the robot through, and jumped back off the surface, firing off rounds at the combatants attacking from where the mechanoid had appeared. The robot took down the soldiers that had only barely missed shooting the ultimate life form, and launched a missile into a wall, creating an exit point for the dark duo. Shadow raced out the cavity only to find more soldiers approaching the building from outside.

"Chaos BLAST!"

Shadow wiped out numerous assailants, and took off ahead of the robot towards the fence line to make his escape. Just as he began to reach a point to jump the barrier, something struck him in the back twice. Immediately, he felt two sharp agonizing pains in his ribs on opposite sides of his spine, and felt a wave of disorientation flood his mind while his breathing became strained. He fell to his knees in anguish, reaching into his quills for the emerald still held inside. A bullet nicked his temple and another ripped through his ear as he pulled out the silvery teleportation stone and weakly cried out.

"Chaos… CONTROL…"

Shadow fell onto a hard metal surface, barely able to move from the devices lodged in his back. He gathered just enough strength to pull one out of his hide, and before his sight completely faded from his cherry tinted pupils, he attempted to focus on the object resting in his palm. His eyes struggled to focus, barely seeing the glass tube dart's green lined silver case, filled with an odd purple liquid before his sight blurred and faded into grey hues. Suddenly, everything went black.

Footsteps approached Shadow, unconscious and grimly splayed against the floor, blood slowly leaking onto the surface around him.

"Relay another to help lift him. It's time to begin."

Shadow blinked in an uneven stagger and his jaw slackened, giving the appearance that at any moment he could start drooling. His unresponsive nerves just allowed his head to sway to the side and his body flinched and twitched. Everything in his view was distorted now and most of it had become so blurred, or appeared so psychedelic, that his vision was more like that of a kaleidoscope, making all reality lost to him. The world around him faded from all conscious thought, and everything hazed in a cloud of confusion within his sights.

He could feel cold steel underneath him, and tried to move but his body was restrained by straps holding him down to a medical table. He attempted to break free, but in his weakened state he could hardly flex, let alone put pressure on the suppressing cables.

"This final set of injections will allow him to regain partial consciousness but will soon have him knocked out again- we need to finish this quickly and get him into final recovery."

Shadow's ears strained to sway forward and he did everything he could to focus his senses on the voice coming from someone near him. His ears and head fur were matted with his own blood, and his wounds felt like they had been stitched shut, tissue scabbing over, making it painful to even open his eyes. "Doctor?" he spoke weakly, in doubt and questioning, his pupils still clouded and searching around for the source near him, in hope.

"Yes Shadow, you were lethally poisoned, but you being created as strong and resilient as you are, I will be able to treat you, but I need you to allow me to put you into a coma for this to work."

Shadow's head pounded again, and he felt himself slipping into the unnatural sleep once more. He nodded groggily and in doing so, his mind went turbid, making him unresponsive.

Robotnik typed some information into a computer, showing large amounts of file entries. After storing the last of the data, he approached a pair of medical androids near him in the room. Unlike his battle machines, these robots had a softer metallic or aluminum like build, and their white coloring and shape made them look almost like a human medical caretaker. After the doctor's departure, all of the mechanoids came to life, and as some entered data in the procedure log, the other medical robots began connecting various attachments, wires, and tubes to their subject.

Shadow felt as though his skin and fur were crawling as obscurities pressed against his body. He started to pass out, until something was clamped down hard onto his lower body and seized him tightly in his pelvic region. He might have initially winced in pain if his body could have reacted, but shortly after, it had an anesthetized yet almost pleasurable feel to it. His mind wandered and he began to hallucinate in his delirium. His vision started to form an image of Amy Rose in front of him. As his sight cleared more, it showed the two of them in the dark with the only light coming from indistinct glows surrounding them, while she stood before him, slowly illuminated by the growing light. He focused even more on her, and could see she had no clothes on, showing off her softer pink fur and femininity. She gazed at him alluringly in an enticing pose with a seductive grin, and as she moved toward him, her hips gracefully shifted in each step she took forward. She made no pause as she forced herself onto him and moved her spread hips against his own, moaning in pleasure. What was not done in reality, Shadow's mind enticed and the fantasy continued to become even more involved.

Shadow forced his body against the equipment surrounding him, struggling to escape the unnatural situation he had been placed in. He felt an overwhelming pressure within him as he tensed and relaxed his muscles, trying to escape the overbearing objects enveloping him that caused the mix of sensations inside his body. His mouth weakly emanated a word in a longing tone before his head sank and he completely succumb to all the stimuli rampaging his system, making him finally slip back into the coma.

"Amy"