Shadow and Espio
By Streak The Chameleon
Chapter 4: Problems
I do not own any of the Sonic characters. Sega does.
Thanks to shadow-spawn180, JudasFm, and Aisukazemisa (what a name…) for the reviews!
"Agggg!" Espio hurtled out of bed, running through the headquarters trying to dodge the random items flying at him from the shadows. A dagger had just missed him.
He went to the door. Locked. He went to the windows. Locked. "Only one thing to do…" he said, as he threw a shurikan at a window and jumped through.
He ran to Shadow's apartment.
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Shadow, however, was having some problems of his own.
"What do you mean it not about the robbery?" Shadow asked Amy.
She sighed. "You just don't get it, do you Shadow? Fine. I'll explain everything." She paused. "GUN has put a bounty on you and Espio's heads."
"A bounty?"
"Yes. Whoever captures you and Espio alive will receive a large sum of money. Very large. So everybody's on you."
Shadow paused. Then he burst out laughing.
Amy cocked an eyebrow. "What's so funny?"
"Amy, Amy, Amy. Even if you got everybody on your side, you still wouldn't catch me."
"And why not?"
"Because I have this." He pulled out a chaos emerald. "Even if you corner me, all I have to is use Chaos Control. I could warp to any place in the world! The ARK, even! And I'll keep doing it. Eventually, GUN will give up, and everything will go back to normal. That's all I'm going to say. As for now, goodbye! CHAOS CONTROL!"
Shadow disappeared in a flash of light.
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Streak sat in the cave, waiting for the girl to bring some food.
"I don't know if I can trust her," he thought, "but I have to hope she won't betray me."
He groaned. His leg still hurt. "F-ing echidnas."
Tikal's voice drifted down the cave. "What did you say?"
He smirked. "Nothing…"
Something was strange about the girl. He was sure of it. The girl had almost a transparent look to her. Weirder still, it was like she could hear her every word.
"Food's ready!" Tikal walked to him and put down some soup. Streak quickly ate it.
"You sure are hungry, aren't you? Where do you come from?"
Streak nodded and smiled. "Out… out of town."
"I see."
Streak was beginning to feel uneasy around the girl. It was time to go. "Can I… take a little walk?"
"Sure."
He walked outside, leaving Tikal in the cave. He looked around slowly, and jogged off as fast as his broken leg would take him.
He went around a bend, and almost collided with Tikal.
"Going somewhere?"
Streak gasped. How did the girl get to him so fast? Now she was really scaring him. This girl wasn't regular… wasn't normal. He had to get out of here.
He quickly turned around and sprinted in the other direction. He passed another bend, and almost yelled when he saw Tikal blocking the way he was going. Nobody, not even Shadow, can go that fast. As a last resort, he turned invisible, and slowly walked another direction, not making a sound.
"I can see you, you know."
He jumped. How could she see him? He stood his ground, shaking a little.
"Who… what are you?"
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Shadow had warped back to his apartment, and sat, exhausted, in his chair.
GUN had put a bounty on him? And Espio? It was too much.
Knock! Knock!
He picked up his pistol. Christ, what now?
"Come in."
Espio burst through the door. He saw Shadow. "Thank God! Has the world gone mad?"
Shadow nodded. "Yes…"
"What?"
Shadow explained to him about GUN, Amy, and the bounty.
Espio looked dumbstruck. "So that explains it…"
He told Shadow about his fun little time in the Chaotix headquarters.
Shadow nodded. "Right. There's only one place to go: ARK."
"ARK? How are we going to get there?"
Shadow flipped the Chaos emerald in his hand.
"Oh. But first, I need to call Streak." He flipped open his cell phone and dialed the number.