Now, I would have liked to have finished off the whole story on this chapter, and I would have well done. Only my mother comes in exclaiming we're off to Oxford Street 2 hours earlier than planned. And I wanted to get somethin' up for you guys as I might not be on for a while. D;

Sorry! Anyway, hope you like this. Isn't my best but I tried!

Oh and I forgot the disclaimer last chapter, so this counts for both.

Disclaimer: Anything you recongise is not mine, oh except Diamond's power. I don't care, Sega so owes me like millions 'cos I invented her and her powers WAY before this Silver dude! D ... Anyway, on with it...

A Rose's Revenge - Chapter 10

Some Things Are Best Left Unseen

The sound of Rouge's heels clicking against the concrete jail floor echoed throughout the hall as she paced up and down in fear. Amy looked up from her sitting position when the comforting, rhythmic clicking stopped. Rouge looked terrified.

"What's wrong?" Knuckles was the first to speak, concern all over his face as he stood up.

"Cream..." Without warning at all Rouge suddenly spun around and kicked the metal bars forcefully, they shook violently as the metallic ringing echoed and made Rouge cover her sensitive bat ears. "Ow.." She frowned angrily then looked at Amy who was suddenly looking around frantically, in a frenzy of worry.

"What are we going to do! She's all on her own! Oh poor Cheese must be terrified!"

"Amy…"

"And Cream's still ill, she's probably worse than ever and-"

"Amy."

"We have to find that cure and make sure Diamond doesn't get her, what if she takes control of her oh-"

Shadow sighed and silently growled while jumping up. "AMY! Calm, down." The pink hedgehog stopped her ranting distress and looked at Shadow who was looking at her in his usual way, a slight stoic frown and his arms crossed. Amy felt her heart shudder, and a overwhelming feeling of guilt washing over her.

Hunter was going to kill Shadow, and she was worried Cream was on her own. Amy knew the little rabbit had much up her sleeve and Cheese would kill himself protecing her. Amy took a long, deep breath as she calmed then her eyes started to well up.

"Amy?" This time Tails had spoken, lifting himself and hovering by her side.

"It all my fault!" She blurted, trying not to cry but failing and wiping her eyes. "If I hadn't gotten oh so angry.." Amy sobbed silently, her shoulders shaking in the tears as suddenly a pair of black furry arms wrapped themselves around her, a gloved hand on her head as Shadow pulled Amy's head against his chest.

"Rose's are too pretty to cry." That's all he said, that simple sentence and not even looking at her Amy instantly calmed in his arms, closing her eyes slowly and softly whispering.

"I won't let them kill you." She couldn't put into words how right Shadow was, un-wrong. The man was a liar.

Sonic frowned, staring at the ground until he finally accepted it and stood up walking behind Shadow, the ebony hedgehog tensed readying for a return of his previous attack. As he raised his hand Amy pulled back slightly, until Sonic simply put his hand on Shadow's shoulder and grinned his trade-mark grin and gave him the thumbs up.

"None of us are going to let them, buddy." Shadow stared at Sonic as he spoke, his brow furrowing in confusion until he accepted that was a truce and nodded ever so slightly holding Amy a fraction closer. Sonic looked down sadly at Amy. "And Amy." The pink hedgehog looked up from Shadow's chest fur. "I'm sorry.." Sonic's eyes closed slightly as he looked down in shame, honestly sorry for what he done and lost.

"It's okay." Amy smiled at him, and in the corner Knuckled chuckled and banged Sonic on the back in approval.

(A/N: Hey! So what?! I'm sick of bashing Sonic. Dx I love Shadow and Amy, seriously. But I love Sonic too! Shadow's still the main man. But give the blue dude some dignity here! Anyway. My story, hmph. -Childish-)

"S'bout time you realized your mistakes!"

"A bit too late though, oh well, what you gonna do!" The blue blur grinned at his Echidna friend before turning to the group. "Right, we have to get out of here."

"We kind of figured that out, hun." Rouge smirked at Sonic, making him feel a bit stupid. Knuckles rolled his eyes, Sonic was always trying to play the hero and Rouge just being herself. He walked over to Rouge and slung his arm around Rouge's shoulder and gave her a toothy grin.

"Hey, me and Batgirl here could get us out, couldn't we, babe?" Knuckles tried not to buckle under the glare he was getting for calling Rouge Batgirl… or maybe Babe, who knows? Rouge blushed before diving under the Echidna's arm and putting her back to him before strutting to the cage bars again. Knuckles chuckled again before joining her in front of it. "Let's do this!" He yelled before Rouge started hammering the bars with her kicks and Knuckles with his punches.

Sonic and Shadow glanced at each other before sharing a nod as they both began to spin-dash the cage bars in perfect unison. Tails grinned at Amy before he flied above the rest, trying to undo the bolts to make the bars give easily, suddenly there was a threatening creak and they all stopped.

"Right. Both of you spin-dash it on the count of three!" Amy commanded as she elegantly flicked her wrist as her piko-piko hammer appeared. "One." Shadow and Sonic got ready as Amy held the hammer back. "Two.." All three took aim. "Three!" Amy yelled as she slammed her piko-piko hammer down to the bars as Sonic and Shadow launched themselves at the metal spinning furiously.

The door didn't budge, in fact. Amy had hit something a good few inches from the actual bars, Shadow and Sonic glared as Shadow went up and tried to touch the bars but were stopped by something.

"Stop it." A voice hissed making all of them cringe, Diamond walked in front of them, one hand on her hip the other held up as her eyes glew faintly.

"Damn psychics." Shadow glared at her, she turned her head to give him a look that was beyond any death glare. She flicked her wrist at them all, the party was slammed back against the back wall.

"You're coming with me." The door of the prison swung open as Diamond lifted her hand and Shadow came towards her, a few feet off the ground. He yelled in protest, struggling to get free of his invisible binds. If only his feet touched the ground he'd have her!

"Shadow!" Amy was screaming and struggling madly against the wall that held her down and back with the others. She screamed louder when the prison door shut.

-:-

"Ah.. Shadow.. Look at you." Hunter laughed mockingly as the ultimate life form was put into a circle against his will and was suddenly enclosed in a see-through cylinder. Shadow frowned angrily, banging on it before he attempted to kick, punch and spin-dash the transparent material, but to no avail. Not even a scratch.

"Let me go! LET ME GO!" Shadow became increasingly more annoyed at the small space, he was almost baring his teeth like an angry dog. Only earning more laughter from the General.

"So helpless!" Hunter wiped the imaginary tears from his eyes after his laughing fit, cruel as it was. Diamond sat down lazily beside a control panel in a chair. Leaning her head on her hand staring intensely at Shadow, her eyes flashing dangerously.

Shadow glared straight back at her, hatred coursing through him. His eyes seemed to flash back, until he felt a cold feeling wash over him and suddenly all the bad memories of his past started to relive themselves before his eyes. The room around the container he stood in started to fade as a new one came up.

"Maria…" He whispered softly as the blonde girl was running towards him, dragged by a younger version of himself. The shouting was blurry, apparently filtered out by the glass-like material. He saw Maria shut himself into a container, like the one he was in now and grimaced as he saw her lips move.

"Sayonora. Shadow the Hedgehog."

Shadow cringed when she pulled the leaver… Wait, why wasn't the memory fading?! Didn't he pass out after that! He couldn't see himself. No, no. Shadow winced banging on the glass in despair, he wasn't here. He didn't want to see-

Bang.

Shadow's heart and stomach went to his throat as he choked up, then to the bottom of the soles of his feet as Maria fell against the control panel in front of him and slowly slid down it, leaving a trail of her blood against the metal panel. Shadow tried not to, but tears started to dampen his muzzle as he looked up to see a much younger version of who he knew now as Hunter walking towards her. The man smirked a little before nudging the dead girl with his foot. Shadow yelled in fury and began to go crazy at the container practically beating himself up in an attempt to free himself.

"Stupid girl." Shadow suddenly stopped and looked up into those evil grey eyes, how could he suddenly hear? Hunter sighed and rolled his eyes poking Maria with his rifle, just making sure she was dead. "Shouldn't have let the disgusting thing get away."

Suddenly the room span as Shadow collapsed back onto the ground, rubbing his damp face with his gloved hand, shaking with silent wreaking sobs. He had dreamed of the girl for so long, tried to forget it all, yet it always managed to haunt him. Maybe it was because she was the only one who ever actually cared for him?

The blue eyes and the blonde hair and the face of Maria that was all he could think of, he didn't even notice the icy blue smoke filling the container. But he had never actually seen her die, he had heard the shot. The sickening thump of dead weight hitting the floor before everything had gone blank. But seeing her..Die.. Shadow sat, torn and the pain in his heart was beyond consolation. Shadow didn't want, or need to ever see that. Some things are best left unseen; her kind smile and face haunted him, he could practically see that warm, loving and caring smile.

Then suddenly everything flashed red, and the container shattered into a thousand different pieces. Amy Rose stood over Shadow, smiling and holding her hand out to him. She was surrounded by Sonic, Rouge and Tails. Knuckles was seen pounding the life out of Hunter.

"Shadow the Hedgehog." Amy said smugly, holding her piko-piko hammer aloft over her shoulder. "You didn't give up and think we'd left you!"

"Maria?…" Shadow murmured staring at Amy, slowly coming from his trance as he was helped up by Sonic who held Shadow's arm over him to get him onto his feet.

"You alright, Buddy?" Sonic asked uncertainly, until Shadow came to his senses kick starting his hover skates and a small smirk found it's way to his face; realizing the situation.

"How did you?" Slowly, a small cream rabbit peaked out from behind Amy, Cheese the chao holding a set of keys chiming happily. "Cream!" Shadow said, grinning in amazement.

"Mr. Stephan and Miss. Katie helped me get better than gave me the keys and told you to come and free them to help you, because no-one wants you hurt, Mr. Shadow." Cream finished, smiling happily up at the ebony hedgehog. Shadow was about to ask who these people were when a lilac blur was flung past him and Diamond crashed into a wall before she growled, got up and practically flew back towards two other lilac hedgehogs. One looked almost the same as her (feature, height and frame-wise), but was a male who's eyes glared a bright red as he fought against her telekinesis, the other a slightly darker shade of purple and a lot younger, smaller girl. Her eyes glared a fierce green as she fought along side the taller male hedgehog.

"Apparently Diamond has blood relatives…" Amy said tilting her head. "Who knew!" She said happily before gesturing for them to go, tugging at Shadow's hand. The relief from saving him was bliss, Amy was scared she had lost him. "Come on, we have to get out. Tails hacked in the system and set this place to blow up!"

Shadow looked over towards Knuckles, who got off the General and walked towards them standing besides Rouge. His eyes followed back to the man and he shook his head to them. "I must end this." He said, determination in his voice. "I must end this, I must end his life. Then maybe." Shadow glanced at Amy, and her eyes. He could have sworn he had seen Maria.. Like back on the ARK. He shook his head and smirked. "Then maybe I can get on with my life."

Ooer. What will happen?! What will become of Shadow?! Will he get out of the GUN base before it goes boom?!

GaspShockHorror

Hope you liked it and Ima gonna have to leave you there 'till I find time to write again! Since Christmas is comin' up and everythin'! Oh oh, on that note. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year-!

- Emz