The Commanders hatred
Sonic yawned as he awoke to his fourth day of being disabled, he was actually starting to get used to it, but he desperately longed to run. To run out in the cool open air and feel free again, with Shadow helping him with everything and him being shut up indoors like a bird in a cage, he felt like his condition had made him prisoner.
Being disabled was indeed hard on him, every morning he tried with unbelievable determination to try to move his legs, if even just a millimetre. But try as he might his legs refused to work and he felt a strong feeling of depression wash over him. He could feel nothing, almost as if his legs were numb, they didn't have that much feeling yet they still felt pain when it was inflicted on his legs. Sonic gave a sigh as he lifted his upper body by leaning on his elbows.
The sun once again burst through the window in the summer morning and the heat was already starting to get worse, from Sonics point of view it was about ten in the morning. He grunted as he turned uncomfortably over onto his side and used his hands to shift his legs over so that he could be more comfortable. He took in deep breaths as the whole thing took quite a lot of effort with him growling at himself for the pure weakness.
Sonic turned his head and froze. There, on the table, was a tray with a huge breakfast. Sausages, scrambled egg, hash-browns and even a plate of toast. There was a giant glass jug of orange juice with a glass next to it already filed to the brim and ready to drink. However it was not the breakfast that caught his attention the most. Next to all of this was a bouquet with an assortment of flowers blooming wonderfully and showing off their sheer brilliance in the morning sun.
Cream must have brought another bouquet round, she's a nice kid, Sonic thought and smiled at the very large bouquet.
Using a lot of his strength he pulled his body towards the desk that had the tray and the bouquet, taking breaks to help catch his breath, he would admit that his upper body strength was considerably weaker than his bottom half and legs. But his legs were out of use so he might as well start toning up his weak arm muscles.
The first thing he grabbed was the glass of orange juice which he gulped down gratefully, pausing as he noticed that the bouquet wrapped in white paper had a tag attached to it. Finishing off his glass with a satisfied sigh he dragged himself up into a sitting position before stretching out his arm and grabbing the bouquet. He had to admit that it indeed was a beautiful set of flowers this time around as he held them in his lap.
A strange feeling suddenly filled Sonic as he stared at the tag that needed to be turned over. Hesitantly, he gently held the small piece of card and slowly turned it over, the words written there were in an unfamiliar handwriting. Sonic felt the corners of his mouth upturn into a smile as he read the words.
I'm sorry. Was written there in black fashionable letters, and it didn't take long for him to realise that these were from Shadow. This fact made his smile even broader as he smelled the blissful scent of the lilies. Shadow must have felt guilty after what happened yesterday morning; he even made a breakfast to boot. Shadow is definitely changing...even though he probably wouldn't admit it, but I like that about him, he is proud and has a strong sense of dignity. Sonic suddenly burst into laughter as he thought of the last past with a memory of Shadow coming out of his kitchen closet covered in brooms and all sorts.
Shadow was down stairs sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee steaming in his gloved hands. He had just put it to his lips and was about to take a sip when he heard a laugh coming from upstairs making him pause. Shadow unintentionally smiled before having a sip and placing the cup down on the table, the kitchen was spick and span just as it was the day Amy came around with the exception of the pots and pans that were awaiting to be washed in the sink from Shadow making Sonics breakfast.
"I promised I would make it up to you, and I always keep my promises." Shadow whispered before standing and heading over to the sink to do the washing up. The laugh he heard was the first real laugh he had heard from his blue counterpart since the incident. And it felt good to hear it.
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It is now the next day after their boss had threatened Blaze and Silver that they would lose their jobs and Blaze seems to be the only one concentrating. Blaze sat on her seat beneath the sun umbrella as she waited for Silver to come back with the drinks; it was a really hot summer and incredibly uncomfortable for one with a fur coat. She tapped her pencil impatiently on the table as she stared at her new yet empty notepad, the incident at McDonalds meant that she had to get an entirely new one. She did not even look up at the sound of familiar footsteps coming towards her.
"I got normal milk, your favourite." Silver smiled as he put it down near her notepad; on impulse she moved it further away not wanting to risk the waste of another notepad. Silver could not help but snigger at her behaviour since the orange juice accident; she would not let any liquid near her notepad, not even a small drop.
Silver plonked himself down in the seat opposite her and put his drink of chocolate milk down as well. Blaze just stared at him.
"Can't you just have normal stuff?" Blaze asked and continued when Silver gave her a confused look. "Meaning why can't you have normal milk? It has to be chocolate. You won't have normal cake, it has to be chocolate. Not even biscuits, IT HAS TO BE BLOODY CHOCOLATE!" Blaze suddenly burst out as she snapped her pencil.
"See, I told you that you should have brought a pen instead." Silver sniggered at the broken in half pencil.
"Enough of this!" She snarled as she suddenly grabbed her cool glass of milk and gulped it down. "We need to find where Sonic lives."
Silver gave a shocked look as Blaze started to walk away; he gulped down his choc milk before jogging to keep up with her.
It seems that Shadow is indeed involved like Silver said, Blaze thought as she remembered that time in McDonalds. She kept walking at a brisk pace. Shadow is very tough and even though she would not admit it to Silver, she was actually slightly frightened of him.
However she was not about to let that deter her from her mission, she was going to find where Sonic lived if that was the last thing she would ever do. To be honest, if she didn't get the story soon, it would be the last thing she ever does.
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"Sir..." a GUN soldier stuttered nervously as he stared at the back of his frightening commander.
The Commander remained unfazed, arms behind his back as he glared at the full mission list on Shadows screen. Mission upon mission appeared with no sign of ceasing and the commander was on the end of his thin rope, it did not take a lot for him to blow.
His fists clenched as more popped up on Shadows mission screen waiting for him to accept them. The commander snarled in fury as he thought of that disgusting excuse of an ultimate life-form, the disgusting disobedient creature that refused to be used as a war weapon and only for data retrieving missions. The damn creature that refused to kill unless it was absolutely necessary, unlike his partner Rouge that took all the assassination missions. The creature he so desperately wanted to humiliate.
"Sir," the soldier tried again with a smidgen of confidence, now standing straight awaiting his commander to answer.
The commander still refused to answer but turned around and looked at the soldier with cold narrowed eyes. The soldier physically shied away from that evil stare as the commanders medals reflected in the light. Coming closer to the soldier he towered over him with a sense of pride as the other slightly twitched nervously.
"Young man," the commander paused as he stepped down the few steps that lay between him and his prey. The soldier quickly put his hand to his forehead in a salute. "Walk with me." he beckoned and watched with satisfaction as the soldier practically ran to his side in fear.
"Do you not realise," The commander began, his steel based boots clinking on the metal tiled floor. "What we are dealing with."
The soldier remained in complete silence in fear of giving the wrong answer and experiencing his commander's wrath. This did not satisfy the commander, not one bit. He suddenly grabbed his soldier's collar and lifted him off of his feet in rage. The soldier yelped in fear at the strong grip around his neck.
"ANSWER ME PRIVATE!" The commander roared in the soldier's ear. Bits of spit hitting the others face.
"Y-Yes sir." The other croaked. All the others sitting at computers turned to see the scene and gasped in horror at the treatment.
"No you don't." The commander dropped the soldier who crawled away from the commander and trembled with fear. The commander snorted with disgust at his so called soldier that cowered beneath his gaze. He turned to face his team of technicians that were gaping at the scene.
"We, the people of today, are experiencing a crisis," The commander paced up and down on his platform, his eyes never leaving his audience. "A crisis that not only involves the strange wolf beast that lies within GUNs basement, a crisis that not only involves the lack of GUN men because of that fowl beast. But involves what he calls himself `the ultimate life-form`." The commander spat out the name with obvious distaste and disgust, his face scrunching up with hatred at the thought of the black hedgehog.
Some in the room exchanged glances, others listened intently, and some even had the same look as the commander on their faces.
"We, as the protectors of this planet, have a right to choose who we have to protect our planet, not some lunatic scientist who created the ultimate life-form." The commander continued, standing in the middle of the platform with a strong look of leadership as he faced his listening audience. "That pest is the crisis here. He thinks that he is so superior to us; I give him my most heartfelt generosity by giving him a place here in GUN. And what does he do, he refuses to work and thinks he is so almighty and powerful." The Commander slammed his fist on a metal desk making an indent in the sturdy material.
"Well...we shall show the world what a slacker and down right lazy piece of trash Shadow the hedgehog really is."
Many of the technicians sitting at the computers rose from their seats and cheered in agreement, whilst others had a look of worry on their faces for Shadow. One person who was not in the room also gave a worried look; Rouge was against the door ears dropping on the commander's speech with her brows furrowed in a mixture of anger for her boss and worry for her partner.
"Oh Shadow." Rouge sank to the ground with her wings folded in sadness."If only you could see how much I need you here."
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"You got the camera ready?" Blaze whispered to Silver next to her who was fiddling around with the lens. Both were lying behind a bush in hiding as they waited for their prey.
Silver got it ready and checked the focus in silence before smiling and slightly trembling with excitement said, "this is so exciting!"
Blaze just gave him a blank expression before saying, "You're so naive."
It was now about midday and both had decided to hide outside of the GUN building just outside of the city, lying in wait for Shadow to exit the building. If only they knew that he was not there.
"Why are we here again?" Silver asked as he scratched the back of his neck sheepishly.
"We can not find Sonics home and everyone we have asked has refused to give us information. We are here waiting for Shadow since he will probably lead us straight to Sonics house." Blaze answered with an irritated sigh as she fiddled with her notepad with a bored expression.
However what they didn't expect was Rouge to come flying out of the building with a some what frightened and desperate expression on her face as she flew off. A couple of seconds later a whole crowd of GUN soldiers and the commander came marching out of the GUN building with an unknown crew of camera men that also followed them with cameras held high. Silver quickly got his camera ready with wide eyes and snapped away wildly, Blaze also having the same expression as she watched the small crowd head the way Rouge had flown.
"What do you think is going on Blaze?" Silver asked quickly not even stopping his camera work as he continued to snap away through the leaves of the bush.
"I don't know," she muttered before pulling at Silvers arm to follow. "But we're going to find out."
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Shadow was just about to finish his cup of coffee when a loud banging came from the front door, the knocks were close together and quite hard showing that who ever was knocking was highly desperate. Shadow cocked an eyebrow as the knocking became even more violent not even five seconds later, he got up and hurried to the door to take a small peek through the eyehole. Standing out there with an obviously frightened and nervous expression was Rouge.
He undid the safety lock which he suspected Sonic had for Amy since she did have a key before opening the door. He did not even get a chance to move out of the way as Rouge came barging in almost knocking him over.
"You've got to flee now!" She practically screamed at him in panic as she ran into the living room with Shadow hot on her heels, he wore an expression of worry as he watched her pace up and down the room nervously as she bit the fingertips of her gloves. Although he never felt worried often he couldn't help but feel worry at seeing his partner Rouge in so much distress. She never acted like this.
"Flee? Flee fr-"
"GUN! GUN IS COMING, YOU HAVE GOT GO! NOW!" She interrupted as she pulled at her ears in frustration.
"Shadow what's going on down there?" Sonic called from upstairs with a hint of worry in his voice at sensing the sudden tension down stairs.
Rouge looked at Shadow with wide eyes before charging up the stairs at top speed, she knew it was Sonics house but Sonic also had to get out of here too.
"ROUGE NO!" Shadow shouted as he bolted up the stairs and tried to stop her. Rouge didn't know about Sonics condition!
The door to Sonics room burst open as Rouge almost broke the door off its hinges. She froze immediately. First she stared at Sonic in bed with a look of confusion plastered on his face and then at the metal contraction opened up next to his bed. Rouge was staring at his wheelchair. Her hand went to her mouth in shock as she stepped back with her thoughts running wild, was this the permanent condition the doctor was talking about, is Sonic...disabled?
Shadow came into the room seconds after looking at the bewildered Sonic with an apologetic look. Shadows ears suddenly pricked as he heard the muffled sound of not far off voices that were heading this way, Rouge had also heard them and she rushed to window to look back the way she had came.
"What is going on?" Sonic demanded answers as he felt himself become uneasy at the other twos behaviour.
"GUN is coming! The commander is furious at the lack of commitment Shadow has shown and he is using it as an excuse to humiliate him in front of the entire world. I was worried for Shadow because I thought the commander would actually attempt to confine him like he threatened to do long ago. But now I see that Shadow has not been slacking off, he has been looking after you." Rouge said as she looked at Sonic that she had just realised was disabled.
"How can they humiliate me in front of the entire world?" Shadow asked as he crossed his arms with discomfort at Rouges words.
"They have got a camera crew and every channel in the entire world is on it. But to be honest I am now more worried about him!" Rouge raised her voice as she pointed at Sonic. "If we can't get him out of here quick enough the entire world is going to find out that their hero is in a wheelchair!"
END OF CHAPTER
I am already working on the next chapter as quickly as i can, please bare with me :)
