Chapter 14 A few Reckless actions

Needless to say, Sonic and the children were not happy being stuck inside the Beta Site. Tails, Shadow, Omega, Loveless, and the President were still in the process of making the counter attack. Which meant Sonic, the Blue Flash, was bored out of skull. What was worse that the children had started their own plans, but had decided to keep 'Uncle Sonic' out of it. Even his wife couldn't find anything they could do that was appropriate with some many people around. Their rooms had not been yet assigned so Sonic was denied an enjoyable evening with his wife.

"When are they going to be finished in there?" Sonic yelled to no one in particular. The 'Siege Committee' had locked themselves in the War room. Shouts could be heard if you listened for them. To the well trained ear they sounded like a deep misty voice ready to bite someone's head off so fast they wouldn't know their head was gone.

"Sonic," Espio said in his calm voice, "patience is a virtue. They wouldn't have said that if it weren't true. So, have some and you'll get through this boring spot much easier."

"ARGGGGGG!" Sonic yelled into the metal hallways. "I know the saying Espio! It just that . . . they've been in there for at least three hours. From what I hear, Tails want us to train the kids, Omega wishes to use the Shadow androids, Loveless wants to blow up the Black Comet and if this were a reality show, she would have beeped a lot of times when she described Umbra, Shadow refuses to let the children be sent into harm's way, and the President is open for anything that can prevent Umbra from taking any more ground. Moreover, it's just mass chaos in there and I'd like to see get sorted out so we can do something!"

Sonic got his wish. The steel doors blasted open and an ebony hedgehog stormed through, his face showing his rage. "YOU IMBECILES, CAN'T YOU SEE THAT IT WILL ONLY END IN ATROCITY? YOU MAY SEND YOU OWN OUT THERE BUT MY CHILDREN WILL STAY!"

The sound of Shadow yelling and cursing his fellows of the Siege Committee could be heard through the entire base, even over Cream in one of her mood swings stopped dead. No one had every heard Shadow this angry before. Calm he was dangerous, annoyed, he was deadly, angry, the world shall burn.

The Chaos energy that flowed through the fuming hedgehog started to interfere with the equipment. Radios couldn't pick up with all the power radiating from him. A small carrier-bot rolled by and it began to malfunction and then it was crushed by some unseen invisible hand. Shadow noticed nothing he had one goal in mind. One and one only.

In the main hall, laying about in a circle were the teens trying to figure a way to help the fight. Shadow could here his son and Lucas speaking above the rest.

"Guys," spoke Shade, his voice firm, "we can't sit around and do nothing! I know our parents are protective of us. They always have. But we can't let that stop us. We have our parent's abilities maybe even more. Why shouldn't we go out and fight?"

"Because," Shadow yelled out the rebelling children, "if any of you think you can fight your sadly misguided!" The small teens turned around to see the dark hedgehog standing over them with a look on his face that would make even the most ferocious beast cower in fear. "This is no game you're suggesting son. There are no extra lives or restarts, you either get GAME OVER or you win. This is serious. This is war. I know. I have seen the blood that has spilt. Many of men and women who were under me fell because I wasn't smart enough or fast enough. I saw them bleed the blood that they had just begun to let flow. And I have had to live with the same pain they endured in my own mind. Can you do it? Can any of you handle the fact that many of you might never return? There are no rules in war. No boundaries to protect you. War is Hell! You may think I'm harsh in its description. But it is true. You want to enter the war because you want feel heroic. But let me tell you something: there is an extremely fine line between being heroic and reckless. Being heroic cost lives. Being reckless will cost all of your comrades' lives. Always in war there is death. And I don't want the last few people in my life gamble away theirs by trying to be a hero!"

The Ultimate Life form stalked away. The teens' mouths stood agape. They could not believe what they had heard. Uncle Shadow had told them off. They usually never heard him do much over a single sentence a day. But it less than five minutes, he had given longest speech of his life and it had hit their hearts hard. The way he had described it had put images of their brothers, sisters, girlfriends, boyfriends, torn in a bloody mass. This picture did not set well with them especially not Lucas or Shade.

Tails had designated everyone a room. Though Shadow's speech was still on his mind, Shade decided to help anyway. He could see the risk clearer now. He would give his life for this cause. He now had even more to fight for. As he pack, he kept seeing a albino bat in his head. He silently cursed himself for allowing his stupidity to allow that he didn't kiss her. How could be such a coward? Now he would prove to himself that he could be brave.

He packed a backpack full of cloths, food, water, a dagger he had snuck from the armory, a tinder box, a GPS, a radio, a cell phone and an iPod, just in case. He had found that the GPS from this place had an exact map of every floor. He had found and elevator that let the soldiers out for battle. He had sent Lucas a text that he would. Lucas would be going with him, along with Whirl, Storm, Crystal, Emily, and for some strange reason, Uncle Sonic were all coming. Hopefully they could get out before dad, mom, or Aunt Amy found them.

He pressed the button and his door slid open. He dashed into the hall and sped his way toward his comrades' rooms. Lucas was ready and standing. The others weren't as prepared. Crystal was frantically searching her pack for anything she might have forgotten. Whirl was just listening to his iPod inside his rooms so they risked being caught for a fell five minutes before they had to hack through the lock and pull the headphones out of his ears. Storm was stuffing as much food into his pack as it could hold. He explained it them as he had a nightmare the night before in which they all died from starvation and he was determined not to let that happen. Emily was trying on a variety of mask to hide her features from Umbra. Many of them were manga based, but a couple of them were normal like a ski mask and some camouflage face paint. And lastly Uncle Sonic was nowhere to found. They pressed on without him and headed to the elevator. And, wouldn't you know it, Sonic was hiding inside the elevator waiting for them. It was time for the New Freedom Fighters to take center stage.

Hey! So how'd I do everyone? This was a bit of a difficult chapter to write. I was trying as much as I could to show to these little munchkins that war is not a play thing and shouldn't be taken lightly. As William Tecumseh Sherman said "War is Hell!" Believe it! Oh, and for the rest of the stories on my profile that I haven't been able to update on, they are not one shots and they will be updated as soon as I can. It's just school and other factors that make updating this story hard enough.

And now for the reply column.

XT-421- HA! I got you! You said specifically that your creation XT has no gender and you XT so you just contradicted yourself! Just kidding. I couldn't resist putting that in. And if you like vampires you should try the original vampire thriller: Dracula!

Koike- Thanks. I would to have those air shoes so I could out run my friends and then say that I'm really Shadow! MUHAHAHAH! All Hail Shadow!

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Until Next Time!