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Chapter 12
The last remaining robot exploded. Shadow smirked and swirled his gun in his fingers.
"I could get used to this…" he thought.
He turned around and went back to Sonic.
"That's not like you Sonic, hiding from a fight I mean." Shadow said to Sonic, who was backed against the furthest wall in the dark. He slowly walked forward.
Shadow could then see Sonic's wounds and gasped slightly.
"Yeah well…I've learnt that those things mean pain." Sonic replied quietly.
He peered around the corner and saw the remains of the robots. He blinked and turned to Shadow.
"You beat them all on your own?" he said, rather flabbergasted.
Shadow nodded.
"Come on. We have to get out of here." He said and walked to the hole in the air duct, looking up at it.
Sonic confusedly followed.
"Is this all a dream? I've been hoping something like this would happen for so long…I shouldn't of givin up so easily, should I?" Sonic said.
"I thought this was a dream too, Sonic. But this is pretty much real." Shadow replied.
"It's more like a nightmare…" he added quietly.
Shadow jumped up into the hole in the duct and held out his hand.
"Jump Sonic!" Shadow called and Sonic did so.
Sonic caught hold of Shadow's hand and Shadow pulled him up into the duct.
"Will you be well enough to follow me. We have to move quickly." Shadow asked.
"I should be fine." Sonic said. "But I haven't properly stretched my legs in such a long time…I don't know if I can run like I used to."
"We'll see but for now just crawl." Shadow said and the two hedgehogs began to crawl as fast as they could.
…
Ray had a horrible feeling in his head. He slowly opened his eyes and went to put his hand to the pain. Only he found that he couldn't.
He blinked and his vision went into focus.
He was kneeling on the floor, his arms attached to the ceiling with strong chains. The room he was in was small and the only light was coming through a small window near the ceiling.
Ray tried to stand up but the length of the chains restricted him from doing so. He struggled and pulled at the chains but soon found that they hurt his back. He gave up, gasping for breath.
Then he blinked.
"Hey…where's my wrist watch?" he yelled, his voice echoing the room.
"Don't worry. You won't need it anymore." Eggman's voice projected through the speakers.
An evil laugh filled the room and Ray scowled.
"You'll soon be one my side, hedgehog. There's no way you'll be able to resist."
"Fuck you Egg Head! I'll never join you!" Ray yelled back.
"Oh but I think you will…"
Ray gasped as a huge hidden screen, in front of him, switched on. It was a plain green colour. Then strange waves began to come in view. Ray tried to look away but, somehow the waves became appealing to him. They seemed to reach out a swirl around his head. His eyelids began to flicker and his head became heavy and moved inward. He could hear a voice call out to him…all other noise was blocked out.
"From now on, you will only answer to Eggman…you'll forget everyone else in your life…Eggman is your one priority now…" the voice said. It sounded sweet and melancholy. It stuck in Ray's brain and cleared out all his other memories.
"…I shall…" Ray said blankly.
…
Shadow and Sonic jumped out of the air duct and were now outside.
Since Sonic found it hard to run again, both because of being isolated for 15 years and his injuries, Shadow put Sonic's arm around his shoulder and half carried him as he ran.
Avoiding various bullets shooting at them, Shadow sped through the grounds. They were fast approaching the wire fencing.
"Hold on Sonic!" Shadow shouted and began to speed up.
He ran and, at the last moment, leapt up and over the fence. As he landed on the rocky ground, Shadow skidded slightly but didn't stop. He carried on running.
Seeing that Ray wasn't at the rocks, just ahead of them, Shadow continued to run through to the forest.
…
Eggman laughed as he saw his new slave fall under the spell. Ray's wrist watch lay on a table, just by Eggman's hand. It suddenly began to bleep and shake. Eggman blinked and picked up the watch.
"Ray…Ray can you hear me?" came a voice from it.
…
When Shadow had reached a deep part of the forest he stopped and Sonic took his arm from around his friend's shoulder. He was still a bit shocked about the aspect of being free, let alone actually escaping Eggman's lair. He stared at his surroundings.
Shadow, meanwhile was fiddling with his communicator.
"Ray…Ray can your hear me?" he said into it.
What replied was a shock to the two hedgehogs. Eggman's evil laughter.
"You fools! You really think you can escape that easily huh?"
"Eggman! Where's my son, you bastard!"
"He's here with me…he's part of my team now, hedgehog!"
Shadow growled.
"I'm glad to know that you've finally made it out of the space time continuum, Shadow. How was the trip?" Eggman sneered.
"You'll pay for this Eggman!" Shadow yelled and switched off the communicator.
He sighed, clenching his fists.
"Ray, I'm so sorry…" he said to himself.
"I'm sorry Shadow." Sonic said.
"Don't worry about it. At least we know Ray isn't dead. Come on. We better get back to base and tell Tails what's happened."