CHAPTER 5

SHADOW'S REVENGE

The next night Shadow was staring out of the living room window looking at the bright full moon.

Rouge came downstairs yawing in tiredness. She noticed Shadow and decided to stand beside him enjoying the moon with him. "Are you looking at the moon?"

"Yes." He said with his arms crossed.

"You seemed very interested in the moon."

"Well I haven't seen the moon very much. I've spent so much time in my cell back at the facility I haven't seen nothing in my cell but the moonlight shining through the opening of the wall."

"The moon is very beautiful. I'm just glad you had a chance to see it."

Shadow stared at the happy bat and she stared back. Then Shadow stared outside again. Once he did his eyes widened. "Get down!" He shoved Rouge down on the floor, when a brick broke through the window.

Shadow glanced through the window again, but before he knew it a GUN truck was already speeding along the road. He was about to go after them, but he wondered if there was a note on the brick they threw. He picked up the brick and saw a piece of paper in the back of it. He took the rubber band off of it and read the note.

Rouge got up from the floor, "Shadow, what happened?" Then she noticed her window was destroyed. "Hey, what happened to my window!"

"No way."

"Huh?" She looked at Shadow reading the note. "What does it say?"

"They want me to meet them at Downhill Street."

"Why?"

"For a challenge I suppose. You must stay here."

"But, what if you get hurt?"

"I'll be fine, I'm the ultimate weapon."

"But..."

"I said no! This is my battle not yours. So stay out of it!" He yelled, he was deeply upset because she wouldn't listen.

Rouge crossed her arms, "Fine."

Shadow nodded and left. Rouge still wanted to see what her father was up to.

Once Shadow reached Downhill Street he was immediately suspicious. Everything was pitch black, but he could still see because of his night vision. He then saw a huge tank in front of him. He was right in the aim of it, but he didn't dare to move out of the way.

Then a bright light shown on Shadow. The light was so bright it made Shadow cover his eyes with his hands , until he got use to the brightness.

"Experiment 301."

Shadow recognized that voice anywhere, when he looked on top of the tank he saw General Bat with a megaphone.

"Surrender now or die."

"You can't kill me, I am the ultimate weapon. You will never win against me."

"We'll see." General Bat got from the tank and left the battling to his men. Once he got out of range, the tank charged at Shadow with heavy amounts of power. The blast from the barrel aimed straight at Shadow and yet Shadow seemed calm.

Once the blast made impact Shadow somehow blocked the shot with the movement of his eyes. Some kind of telekinesis, very powerful. Shadow didn't take any damage from the hit at all.

"Impossible!" General Bat wasn't suppose to be amazed, but he was anyway.

Knuckles was standing beside him, 'The experiment is stronger than expected. I hope he hasn't harmed Rouge in anyway. Wait a minute will that explain why she isn't here? And the one thing I can't figure out is why did she save him from that gunshot that I tried to make on him? I just hope I didn't kill her, if I did General Bat will want to use me as an experiment next.'

The battle between GUN and Shadow was still on. Shadow was dodging those blasts like he was playing with them. He was finally getting sick of it, "Time to end this." He jumped up at the tank and made a very powerful punch in the front of it. It was so powerful the tank's armor was severely cracked. "Now for the final blow." Shadow held out his hand at the tank focusing all of his energy ready to take out the tank.

Knuckles was wondering what he was about to do, he knew it would be something bad, "General, what is he gonna do?"

"A very powerful attack his most powerful attack of all." The general replied.

Knuckles' eyes widened then he continued looking at the intense battle.

When all of the energy built up in him, he was ready to launch his attack. A red light came from his hand. "Chaos Blast!" A huge amount of energy came from his hand and shot at the tank. He watched as the tank in front of him blew to pieces.

When that was over Shadow faced General Bat and Knuckles.

They knew they were his next target. Shadow began to walk over to them.

General Bat walked up to him as well.

"Sir, no!" Knuckles begged, but General Bat didn't return back to him.

Once Shadow and General Bat got close to each other, they knew someone had to die.

"Well this is it, monster. You practically wiped out my whole army of men apart of my organization. All that's left to kill now is me, Knuckles, and my daughter."

"You know pulling off that attack really took some out of me, I need to recharge myself...with your blood of course."

"You want my blood huh? Well you'll have to kill me to get to it."

"Consider it done." Shadow punched General Bat hard in the stomach.

That slowed him down. He was planing to draw his gun from his holster, but Shadow had attacked too early for him to do it. General Bat fell to the ground helpless.

"Look at your pathetic attempt. You disgust me, general."

"Are you gonna talk or finish me."

Shadow kicked the bat in his side painfully, "Silence and prepare for your last words that is if your not too paralyzed to tell me."

"Yes, I have something to say. Tell Rouge, I'll love her forever."

Then Shadow thought back to what Rouge said, 'I love my father.' Shadow quickly shook out of the flashback. "Is that your only regard?"

"...Yes..."

"I've been waiting too long for this. Now I can lay my past nightmares to rest." Shadow's fangs were drooling over the general's warm-blooded neck.

"No, sir!" Knuckles yelled from the side of the street.

Before Shadow could bite into his neck, Rouge came running shaking him and begging him to stop. "No Shadow, you can't kill him! You can't kill my father!"

Shadow turned to Rouge still having a firm grip on General Bat. "I will and I won't allow you to stop me."

"Then just listen then. You can't kill my father because I deeply care for him. He's the only one I have in this world that I can love as my family. My mother died right after when I was born. You see she had an illness when she was pregnant and the doctor said she would die right after giving birth to me. I never really known my mother." Rouge's throat was starting to hurt because she was on the verge of crying. "My father was the only person I grew up with and he's the only one who's cared about me. Just please don't kill the only one who matters to me." She couldn't hold back her tears anymore and started sobbing softly.

Shadow's grip on General Bat eased up, soon he let go.

General Bat quickly ran over to Knuckles and whispered something in his ear, but Shadow didn't care he just didn't want to see Rouge crying.

Shadow's hand almost reached Rouge's shoulder, "Rouge I..."

Then a bright light from the sky showed and shone on Shadow and Rouge. It was a GUN helicopter, it also looked fully armed. It immediately fired at Shadow and Rouge.

When the missile made impact on them and the smoke cleared from the blast Shadow and Rouge made it unharmed because of Shadow's telekinesis power. Shadow was furious so he once again used his telekinesis power on the helicopter's engine. The engine exploded and the helicopter made impact in front of them further away. There it was burning with a bright flare. Shadow held Rouge close to him when the missile hit now that the helicopter was taken care of he let her go. Shadow looked over at the sidewalk where General Bat and Knuckles were standing, but he didn't see them. He focused on Rouge, "Rouge, are you okay?"

Rouge said nothing she was in complete silence with her eyes wide open her heart was filled with sorrow.

"Rouge?"

"...Let's just go home..." She slowly led the way and Shadow walked behind her.

Later at the GUN facility General Bat and Knuckles were in a room talking about how they could defeat Shadow and what the general just did.

"Sir, how could you do that. Of course destroying the experiment is important, but risking your own daughter's life!"

"Calm down commander, I knew the experiment would save her. I don't know why, but I just knew he would."

"And what if he didn't save her?"

"Now commander let's not think like that. Besides I only used that chopper to escape from 301. I have another plan up my sleeve, but it's gonna involve you."

Knuckles' eyes widened, he hoped the mission wasn't too dangerous.