CHAPTER 4

WE MEET AGAIN

Shadow yelled in pain, "God damn it, bat that hurts!"

"Keep still and it won't hurt as much." Rouge was putting an alcoholic substance on Shadow's wound with a rag.

Shadow was still moving around not trusting her advice, he yelled once more.

Appex chuckled sitting on the second couch in the room with his arms crossed watching Shadow getting tortured, "So this is the ultimate weapon? Crying over a little hurt arm."

"Hey spiky, this hurts more than you think it does, so why don't you just shut the-" He yelled again when Rouge gave more pressure on his injury. "Damn, woman! What's your malfunction!"

"I'm just trying to help okay." She finally set down the rag that absorbed most of the blood and she began to gauze the wound.

Shadow seemed to calm down then, "Appex, what made you come over here anyway? It wasn't your problem, so why bother getting involved?"

"I had to do something, General Bat knew I let you go after witnessing a murder on the news. The victim had suffered from blood loss and two bite marks was found on his neck, so he assumed it was 30-I mean Shadow."

"Oh, that's what happened?" Rouge had said after when she finished bandaging Shadow.

Appex nodded, "Yeah, that's what happened."

Shadow turned to Rouge, "Rouge, you were crying the other night, why?"

"Well I'm still not use to you killing people yet that's all."

Shadow looked down, "Sorry, if I made you upset.

"It's not your fault, I need to get used to it. You have nothing to worry about. Just enjoy your...meals."

Shadow smiled faintly, "If you says so."

Later on the streets of Central City Lara was riding her motorcycle looking for a rematch against Shadow. 'Where is he? Where is that damn trouble maker?' She then spotted a tall white bat leaning against a lamppost holding his arm. He seemed wounded. 'Isn't that General Bat? What is he doing out so late?' She rode over to him and parked her motorcycle near the sidewalk.

General Bat looked up to her admiring the weaponry she had attached to her uniform, "Lara-Su? What are you doing out so late?"

"I was gonna ask you the same thing." She gazed at his heavy bleeding arm, "What happened to your arm?"

"I went to find Experiment 301 and he...bit me."

"Shadow of course. So judging by the way you look, you lost the battle. What weapon did you have with you while you were in combat?"

"A combat knife."

"A what? General, are you crazy you know that he's the ultimate weapon right?"

"Yes, but I drained the powerful blood out of him, he was so weak he could hardly move the last time I saw him, but one of my men betrayed me and gave him some of his blood back."

"And he's still beating the shit out of you?"

General Bat nodded slightly.

"Don't worry general, I'm on your side. I want to take revenge for my father. I'll kill him for you."

"I'd doubt that you can."

"I got the right weapons besides I want another match against the fucker." She put on a smirk feeling confident.

Back at Rouge's house they were all talking about Shadow's past at the facility.

"Appex, I have to ask you something." Shadow was begging to know the answer.

"What is it?"

"There's this girl from my dreams, she's a human and she works at the facility. She has blue eyes and big glasses. Do you know her?"

"Yeah, you mean Savya."

"Savya?"

"Yeah the girl who's been taking care of you since you were bought at the military. I swear she'd know more about you than General Bat does."

"So she knows more about my..."

Then a brick busted through the window, luckily it didn't hurt anyone.

"Not again!" Rouge had said witnessing her window being broken for the second time.

They all looked out of the window and saw a red female echidna on a motorcycle.

Shadow gasped, "It's her!"

"Hey hedgehog, come out and fight like the weapon that you are." She was tempting him.

"Lead the way, girl." Shadow thought the window was done for anyway so he finished breaking the window by jumping through it.

Lara rode onto the streets luring Shadow into a battle area.

"Shadow, what the hell's wrong with you! That's my window, damn it!" Rouge was getting frustrated.

"Worry about your damn window later, we gotta follow them."

"Right."

They both started running after them.

Lara led Shadow in a certain part of the street. She got off her motorcycle facing Shadow with two machine guns in both hands. "Time to end this."

"Lets just get this over with."

Lara started shooting Shadow with her two guns.

Shadow dodged every single one until she ran out of bullets.

She threw them on the ground when they were empty. Then she took out a sword from the back of her. The sword had an electrical field going through it.

Shadow's eyes widened, "Shit..."

Lara ran at him swinging her sword at him.

Shadow evaded every swing, he witnessed the power of the sword by seeing her slice a lamppost in half. 'What is she trying to do, beat the shit out of me with that electric sword?' Shadow stopped running away and faced her by kicking the sword out of her hand.

The sword slid across the road.

Appex and Rouge finally reached them and saw them fighting.

Lara took out a dagger.

"Damn woman, how many weapons do you have?"

Lara smirked and jumped over to Rouge and held the dagger to her neck threatening to kill her.

Appex and Shadow couldn't move or Rouge would be done for.

Shadow gritted his teeth, "Leave her out of this. This is between you and me."

"My demands are simple, surrender and die for me. That's all I want."

"Don't do it, Shadow!" The dagger had gotten closer to her neck.

'I have to save her or I'm sunk.' He had to think for a few moments. He walked up to her, "I surrender, just let her go."

Lara smiled, "That's more like it." She threw Rouge at Appex.

Appex had caught her, "Are you okay?"

Rouge nodded, "Yeah, fine."

Shadow kneeled on the ground waiting for Lara's move.

Lara walked up to him, "Why do you even care for the girl?"

"I have feelings."

A bit of laughter slipped her mouth, "As I've heard, time to die." She raised the dagger ready to make impact.

Then as she was ready to strike, Shadow took his leg and kicked her in her ankle causing her to fall. She took her arm trying to protect herself against Shadow's biting, but it didn't help.

Shadow bit her in the arm with anger.

Lara yelled in pain as he bit deeper. When she couldn't take much more she took out a pistol and shot him in the chest with it.

Shadow fell to the ground with his chest bleeding.

She quickly got from the ground holding her blood dripping arm, "As I said before, I'll be back to finish you." She got on her motorcycle and rode away.

"She's getting away." Rouge didn't want her to get away for what she had done to her.

Appex ran to Shadow and helped him up, "Helping Shadow is way more important right now."

Rouge nodded, "Right."

When they got to Rouge's house, Rouge had bandaged him once again. When she was finished she let Shadow rest in her bedroom alone with Appex.

Appex was about to leave him alone as well, but Shadow called him back.

"Appex, tell me is this girl still at the military?"

"Yep, sure is."

"And she can tell me what happened to my past while I was there and why I was bought there in the first place?"

"Probably their's only one way to find out and that's to ask her. Well I'm gonna leave you alone now, you need plenty of rest."

Shadow nodded as he left the room.

As Appex came downstairs he saw Rouge going up the stairs with a glass of water in her hand. He didn't bother asking, it was too obvious.

Rouge came into the bedroom, but when she got in there she didn't see Shadow anywhere all she saw was the window open. She dropped the glass of water on the floor, "Shadow!"