CHAPTER 3
GUN
Someone grabbed his arm.
Shadow looked over his shoulder. The copilot glared at him, grinding his teeth. The man started to pull him back into the helicopter. Shadow tried to break the man's grip but it was useless.
When he was back inside the copilot shut the door with his other hand. He then slammed the dark hedgehog face down on the choper floor holding Shadow's arms behind his back.
The instant Shadow felt the sharp needle go in he went crazy. He let out an ear piercing scream and turned on the copilot.
"What the..." the man exclaimed loosening his grip.
Shadow turned around his mouth open baring his fangs. He grabbed the man's arm. The copilot shrieked as Shadow's mouth wrapped around his arm. The dark hedgehog bit down hard.
The copilot screamed and flung Shadow onto the floor. "Ow ow OW! He bit me!" the man wailed at the top of his lungs.
"How did he do that?" the pilot asked, without turning around.
"He grabbed my arm and bit me," the copilot answered.
"Well then do something with his hands so he can't grab your arm again," the pilot ordered.
"Roger," the man said.
Shadow tried to scramble away but he was grabbed again and pushed face down on the helicoptor floor. The man grabbed the hedgehog's left wrist.
Shadow struggled but it didn't work. The copliot was a lot stronger than he was and was able to pin both of Shadow's arms behind his back.
Shadow hear the clink of metal cuffs and tried to wiggle free. Even with this resistance the copliot was able to cuff the hedgehog's hands.
"Now you won't be able to cause anymore trouble," the man said.
The only answer was a soft growl that rose from Shadow's throat.
The copilot pulled Shadow upright and tried to push him back into his seat.
Shadow wouldn't give up without a fight and tried to bite the man again. The man was getting tired of this and simply shoved him back into the seat strapping him in.
"There," the coliot said panting. "the hedgehog is secure."
Shadow kicked the man's leg. The copilot howled and danced around on one foot for a moment. His eyes blazed with anger and he looked like he was going to beat Shadow senseless. Instead he grabbed the dark hedgehog by the arms and hissed. "Do that again and you're going to regret it."
Shadow headbutted him.
"You're dead!" the man shouted reaching for his gun.
"Hey, leave him alone," the pilot finally cut in, sounding very annoyed.
The copilot said. "But he keeps on..."
"I don't want to hear it," the pilot interrupted, a warning very clear in his voice.
The man sighed. "All right, but he's being such a pain."
"So are you," the pilot shot back. "So just forget it. If you harm him you're going to be in so much trouble when we get to the base."
The copilot sighed and rejoined his companion.
The rest of the ride was silent except for the sound of a soft sniffling from the seat Shadow was strapped to.
They reached the Prison Island's new location a half hour later. Shadow looked up his face wet with tears and stared out the side window. He saw a place similar to the one he had been held a short time ago. Only this one was bigger and the security looked a lot tighter.
After the pilot got the OK to land the chopper descended to the helipad and turned off. The pilot got out of his seat and headed to the back to unstrap the black hedgehog. Shadow let out a small feeble sound as if he had been hurt.
"It's all right," the pilot said trying to sound soothing. "You'll be okay."
The pilot took off his helmet and shook his head. Long black hair tumbled down. The pilot was a younge woman. She reached down to unstrap him. He tried to bite her. She reached up with one hand and gently pushed his head away, with her other hand she undid the seatbelt.
"Now," she said standing up. "We can do this next part one of two ways. You go willingly or I'll have to carry you."
He looked up at her. There was no way he was going willingly but he also didn't want the woman to touch him. "I'll walk," he said.
She seemed satisfied with his answer and helped him out of his seat and the chopper. The copilot was right behind them. Once they were on the helipad the copilot immediately began to make a big deal about his arm.
"That thing is rabid," he proclaimed to the crowd that had gathered around the helicopter. "It tried to jump out of the helicoptor on the way here and when I saved it before it fell, it bit me."
"Maybe you deserved it," someone joked.
The man stared daggers at whoever had spoken then pulled up his sleeve revieling two fang marks on his upper arm. "I 'deserved' this?" he asked.
Some of the officers stared at it in silence, others gasped, some gave Shadow dirty looks, and others clicked the safety off their guns.
Shadow felt like he was about to used for target practice.
"He probably acted that way because you are a very rough person," the pilot spoke up. "and I heard you back there with him. I bet when you pulled him back into the helicopter you hurt him and that's why he bit you."
"I did not!" the copilot argued. "He's just rabid."
"Yeah right, Alex," the lady scoffed.
"So now you're suddenly the good guy here," Alex said.
"I wasn't the one threatening him," she said.
Alex's face grew red when he realized everyone was staring at him. "Busted," Shadow said under his breath.
"Now, I'd better get going," the pilot said. "I'm tired and I'm sure he is too, " she pointed at Shadow. "I'm going to put him in his cell now and then I'm going to get some sleep."
She walked away pushing Shadow along. She led him down the hall to where a cell waited. She opened the door and then undid his cuffs. She pushed him inside.
Shadow looked back at her as she shut and locked the door. "This is only temporary," she said to him. "but it will hold you until we have the capsule ready."
He shook his head and sat down his back facing her. "Sweet dreams," she said before she left.
Shadow looked back toward the door and watched her go. This can't be happening! he thought looking around the cell, This has to be another nightmare I'll wake up from it soon. It has to be. It just has to.
But he knew better. He was awake and this was real. He just had to accept it. I'm never going to get out of here, he thought. I'm going to be put back in that capsule and forgotten about. He rested his head on his knees. And it's all my fault! I should have been more careful but I wasn't. It's all my fault! All my fault!
He tried to hold back his tears but they came out anyway. He cried until he fell asleep too exausted to cry anymore.
From a perch, high above the building Shadow was being held in, the creature, a purple female hedgehog with blue bat wings, stared down at the place intently. "I know you're down there," she whispered a slight grin on her pretty face. "and when I find you you're coming with me back to my master's."
She let her wings spread all the way out. "Well I'd better get started.," she said. "With a place this big it's going to take me awhile before I find him, but I'm sure it won't take me too long if I don't give up."
She began to glide down toward the building growing more confident as she went. "This should be easy."
Shadow's breath was labored as he lay on the floor of his cell in an unpeaceful sleep. Just like the nights before he was having a nightmare. Only this one was different. This time he wasn't trying to be killed by anyone but it felt like he was dying anyway.
Something was holding him close. So close he could feel air from its breath blowing on his face. It was hot and wet. But then he realized so was he.
"You're mine now," the dark creature with the red eyes said. "And I'll never let you go."
The thing pulled his face even closer. Shadow tried to wiggle free, tried to get away but he couldn't. He knew what it was going to do. He put his arms between his body and the thing's and tried to push away. He got some distance but couldn't escape. Suddenly he heard a voice saying something from a distance. A gruff voice that seemed to be saying. "Wake up, wake up!"
The thing faded away and he slowly drifted back to reality.
Shadow slowly opened his eyes. He saw the gray ceiling of his cell and remembered with a sinking heart he was at the GUN base.
The black hedgehog sat up and looked around. He saw a fat man standing outside of his cell holding something. Shadow knew what it was and didn't want it. He didn't want anything from these people. He looked away from the man hoping he's get the hint and go away.
The man didn't and Shadow could sense the man's eyes boring into his back. The man said gruffly. "Get over here and get this!"
Shadow continued to ignore the man.
"You'll get it one way or another," the man said.
Shadow turned just in time to see the guy hurl the bowl at him. Shadow ducked and it hit the wall making a huge mess. He looked back at the man. "I hope you're not thinking I'm going to eat it after you did that are you?" Shadow said calmly.
"Yes, actually I do," the man said smiling snippily.
Shadow was tempted to throw some of it back in the man's face but he resisted. He decided to go back to ignoring the man until he walked away.
When he did Shadow cleaned the stuff off the floor and kicked it out of the cell. No way was he even going to have that junk anywhere near him and no matter what he wasn't going to eat anything. Nothing. He'd rather starve.
Shadow walked over to the bars and looked out. No one was in the room and there was no way of escaping. I wish I could use Chaos Control, he thought, but I'm too upset and I don't think it will work in here.
All during the day people came and went into the room some with food he didn't take and some just to taunt him like bad joker copilot Alex. That guy seemed to get a kick out of making Shadow's life miserable.
The man kept on throwing nasty remarks at Shadow who tried his best to ignore them. This just caused the guy to become more insulting and his remarks got worse.
"I guess the ultimate life form is ignorant and can't answer," Alex said.
Shadow looked at the man. The black hedgehog was beginning to loose his temper but somehow held it in.
"I'm not ignorant," he said calmly. "I just don't want to talk to someone who looks and acts like you."
"So the little hedgy has an attitude," the man sneered. "Too bad that won't help you get off any easier."
"Just leave me alone," Shadow said. "I'm not in any mood to be bothered."
"What do you think you're going to do if I don't?" Alex asked snippily. "Bite me again?"
Shadow only stared at him a moment longer then looked away. The man could say all he wanted but the hedgehog wasn't going to let it bother him.
"Fine then," the man said. "So long."
Shadow listened to the man's footsteps as he began to leave. Suddenly they stopped. The next thing Shadow knew someone threw a bucket of cold ice water on him.
Shadow gasped at the cold and looked outside his cell. Alex stood by the door with a huge nasty grin on his face and holding an empty bucket of water. "Have a nice day," he said sarcasticly as he left.
When he left he also shut the light off leaving Shadow in darkness.
Shadow felt cold not only because of the water but also because he was lonely. For some reason he missed Rouge and his safe little world. He curled up into a little ball on the floor and tried to think of away to get out of this place but nothing came.
The female hedgehog jumped down from her perch and looked down the corridor. She could sense Shadow was very close but she didn't know where. She looked up at a clock on the wall. 6:00 p.m. "Maybe this will take me longer than I thought," she said to herself.
She noticed a camera was focused on her. She reached behind her back and pulled something out that she threw at the camera making it short circuit. A door opened to her right .
A grin came to her face. Perfect, I knew I'd get in there one way or another, she thought, now to get going. I mustn't waste anymore time. She ran down the hall at a high speed. Now to find that black hedgehog.
Authors note: Okay this isn't one of my all time great chapters but it's okay I think. I had to do a lot of chopping and editing before it made any real sense. I'm satisfied with it now. I hope it's okay. The next one will be better and you'll finally get to find out who the purple hedgehog is. Wouldn't that be great? Anyway, I also had to relocate GUN because the old Prison Island got blown up in SA2B. I hope this is okay. I also don't know if Shadow eats or not so I took a guess. I hope you don't mind that either or the fact that he's slightly out of character a result of his nightmares. Oops I'm babbling I think I'll go and start chapter 4 now. Bye.