(Renamed) Life After: Sonic Crew

Disclaimer: Ya'll know the drill blah, blah don't own them!

A/N: Lots of postponements on this chapter sorry I've got 19 in the works right now too.

This one is a little strong on blood, and death scene (I don't mean lots of description of the scenes but not for; very squeamish people.

Chapter 18 – Nightmare Projects

Military Base

"Alright clam down." Sonic said, he looked at the short penguin again, the gun firing off he noticed that it took him about three seconds to cock it again.

One, two, three—WHAM Hunter was on the ground out cold…"Well that was something smart you did…for once…" Knuckles commented "Hey! What do you mean for once!"

"Common, clocks ticking." Knuckles said as he ran down the steps near by.

Else where

"Damn it where's fucking exit!" Shadow said, he walked on his leg still bleeding. He decided to find a way to fix his wound, he ran in a bathroom he took the toilet paper and rolled it around his wound.

He let out a sigh as the thought of his life with Cindy and Samantha's being like this if he did get married…(In other words dumbasses he's having second thoughts about getting married.)

The door open and he heard Light's voice, "Hurry the hell up with stasis report!" He crouched on the bathroom toilet seat. "What the hell, I'm reduced to hiding on the fucking toilet seat!" He whispered to himself, he was in the last toilet stall to the right with the door partly open to relieve suspicion. The door opened again but this time he heard a low humming sound almost like…Next he heard punches being thrown and last he heard a loud explosion.

He peaked out and saw the remains of the robot Eggman had built it was the one made to look like shadow, he saw Light looking over the body without a scratch on him "Pathetic! And by the way I know you're hiding over there Shadow, for the so called 'ultimate life form' you're pretty stupid, you left a trail of blood all the way here!"

"What do you want from me!" Shadow asked coming out of the stall, "You're immortality! I've read our blue prints both mine and you're are exactly the same! But why do I age? You can heal whenever you want! But why can't I? Not only am I the built the same as you but I have advance combat skills and other things! Why do you have the advantage of eternal life?" Light was frustrated "What do you mean you age? Weren't you just created? I can't heal myself either." Shadow asked out of order.

"Shadow how could you be so stupid? I've been a project under wraps for more than four years! You have no idea what its like to be in hiding for so long! To be referred to only as a project, you're not even a living thing you're just a project! It drives you to a breaking point where you're just like 'Fuck it, I quit' But if I find out what makes your secret work I can finally ditch this shit and live my own life! You can heal you're self its just that you're emotions are messing with you're mind, but you wont have to worry because as soon as find your secret I'll end your life for you so you don't have to witness all your friends die…"

He disappeared in thin air and appeared behind him, one hit to the back of the head knocked Shadow out.

Military Stasis Cells

Shadow awoke in his liquid filled stasis cell…again. "Motherfucker…Ahh!" Shadow grabbed the back of his head in pain. He looked for light in all over where his vision would let him. An old short man with a steel cane approached the cell "Good thing we have more than one set of these, the other one was destroyed in a break in explosion." The old man said.

"You start the diagnostics." He ordered a man in a white coat; Light walked in and took a hard look at the man. "Professor Herman…" He said in a low growl-like voice. "Shut up and stop your whining; get in the cell and put on the mask." He said sharply, Light only made low growl sound and did as told.

"Who's the grumpy old dude?" Shadow said to Light through his mask radio. "Who the fuck you think! My creator!" Light said, Herman walked over to a desk with other workers, and view some sheets with a figure on it. "Doesn't sound like you get along with him very much…" Shadow said calmly "Shut the fuck up and mind your own business." Light responded harshly.

Herman chuckled "You thought I'd never figure it out, did you Gerald?" He said to himself, Shadow's hearing picked it up "What! What did you say?" He yelled, there was a certain rage in him now; that comment triggered something in him, and he knew why but couldn't understand why it happened. "(Sigh) Shadow when will you learn you can't get away from me, I will always know where you are, you can't live a normal life! You're not normal, your nothing but a weapon just like Light, only for our uses and our eyes only." Herman chuckled, Shadow flipped him off, "Are we ready to start?" He asked another scientist, "Um we may have a problem, Professor Herman, can you come here and look at this." Herman groaned and walked over to help the others.

A few moments past and Shadow noticed Herman getting confused and madder, "What this cant be, where is it! It should be right there, run it again." Herman walked over to Shadow's Cell "Hmm, tell me in the past few hours have you felt a shocking or zapping sensation?" He asked in a quiet and smooth voice, "Fuck you." Shadow responded harshly, Herman frowned and look at his team, the one working the desk shook his head, "Now, I'm going to ask you one more time, did you or did you not?" He tapped the glass with his cane.

"Maybe I did, what difference does it make?" Shadow responded, Herman knew he did, "Arrggh! No! No!" He hit the glass with his cane breaking the cell glass, letting him out.

Shadow took off the mask and kicked one guard near the door down and ran out the door, another guard drew a S.M.G. (Small Machine Gun) and start following him "No! Let him go…he's useless, besides he won't make it far, he'll need us sooner or later. And when he needs us we'll kick him down and make him work for our help…" Herman said in a cold voice, "Gerald, you've won this time, but I'll figure your secret sooner or later…let Light out!" Herman walked off.

Light's cell drains, he got out and went through a door and stood and looked over a balcony, "Least I'm not one of them…" He surveyed many cells in a huge hanger area, growling, roaring and screaming could be heard, Light walked away with his down, now he could never finish what he planned from the beginning…

Military Facility Halls

Shadow kept out the guard's vision path, he wait for his moment to sprint for the closest door, but all of sudden he heard shots being fired behind him, "They're over here!" One guard yelled, five others came out of one door near him, and drew their weapons and began to fire around the corner.

Shadow crept over to the end of the hall; he had to see what was up. He peaked around the corner and saw guards and a few soldiers, swatting and hiding behind steel barricades, over all the commotion he heard an argument at the other end of the hall, "Great job dumass, now the whole fucking building knows we're here!" He couldn't make out the voices clearly though, "Well how the fuck was I supposed to know people are watching through the cameras at all times? And besides all I did was flip it off, it not like anyone cares…" Shadow almost sweat dropped; that was Sonic and he was guessing Tails was with him.

Either way he couldn't let Sonic die, he went for the closest guards, and kick on the side of the knee. Both of them fell in pain, scream, for some reason Shadow felt like he had done this before, he grabbed the closest pistol and aim it at closest soldier's head.

Army ranger John Luz began to sweat as he saw the red laser aim right at his forehead. "Put it down it down…now!" Shadow said in a stiff voice, he put his SMG down and kick it off to the side, where it hit a barricade's corner.

"What happened? How come they're not shooting any more." Knuckles asked, Sonic shrugged and peaked he head slight, and I mean slightly…

"I think I see Shadow over there!" He said, "Common let's get the hell outta of here!" Knuckles shouted at Shadow who ordered the ranger and the rest of the guards to 'get the fuck outta my face'.

"What are you guys doing here?" He asked them, "Saving your ass and risking mine!" Sonic said frustrated, "Forget it lets get out of here before its too late!" Knuckles said walking towards the way they came through, "Shadow what was up with you and the gun, never seen you act like that before." Sonic asked him, Shadow looked down and shrugged, he couldn't explain it.

As they were about to turn the next corner, a blue light began to flash and another alarm began to sound with a female voice speaking "Warning, breach in sector 6, code omega, repeat code omega." The three looked at each other and ran around the next corner only to come face to face with the some that the devil could have rejected from hell.

"What the fuck is that?" Sonic said screaming, it let out a low growl, Knuckles got a good look at it, it was hunch a bit, it stood like a giant over them, drooling, it had a second set of loose jaws that surrounded another set the was connect to it's thick neck, it had two mighty arms, and six claws on each hand, it was brown with, black on it's head, he eyes glowed red, his head had a long extension to it, it had three spikes on it.

It turned around and walked in the direction they were heading, they saw it's tail, it had a two spike bones at the end of it, it swung side to side as it walked; cracking the walls as it hit it. "What the hell was that about?" Shadow said, they decided to go the other way…very bad idea.

Military Base, Hallway – 100 ft from exit

"A monster, that's was I'm telling you." Knuckles said into a small communication piece, "Well I don't know what to tell you, I heard of experiments on animals with new armor and stuff like that but not this—" Rouge responded, Knuckles couldn't hear the rest of her signal faded, "Shit, signals gone." Knuckles said, the others only continued.

The three heroes kept walking with caution, the alarms were silent; all they did was flash and the warning sounded once in a while, they turned another corner, and open the door marked; Rear Gates. As soon as the door was open the three of them felt their stomachs churn, Sonic couldn't hold it in and threw up, and again when he saw that he threw up on a body…a cut up body…

"Oh my stomach…man are we in a military base or a slaughter house? (Vomits)" He asked surveying an underground like room filled with dead bodies; soldiers, lab workers, and some of them in white spy suits, kind of like Rouges, all of them dead, and covered in blood; some of the blood was streaked all on the walls, the cement pillars had cracks covered in deep red blood, bodies were sat up on them, others stacked, and few of them like they were thrown over there, all of them had stab wounds or cut off body parts…

Shadow was very shocked, he didn't to phased much by the sight, his stomach felt weird but not much else, Knuckles kept to himself and show a sad-like face, "Common let move on, they're all gone…" He said quietly, the all moved on, Sonic still queasy had a hard time moving into the next part of the rooms, the moved with caution, crouched and quietly.

Knuckles peaked around the next corner, he never witness such brutally as this, something he couldn't tell what it was but it had a human like-shape, it's body was simple, tightly built body with a blue shade to the whole body, it didn't have a face though, Knuckles wondered why and how could it live without eyes, nose, mouth or anything else? It had a three foot sword in one hand, and it had in the other a black glove that covered half way up to its elbow, on its arm; a long thick metal, rope-like thing, it had spiked bladed ridges that stuck out.

It currently had a white (Spy suit) soldier wrapped around in it, bladed parts cut through what the soldier was wearing; blood dripped down from each of the cut wounds on the body, the soldier was still alive; he turned his head and saw Knuckles, "Heell—Heellp mee…" Knuckles couldn't see his face; the soldier was wear a white ski mask over his head, small night vision goggles covered his eyes. The thing drew its sword and put it in front of the soldier's face.

Knuckles jumped at full speed, he couldn't let the soldier die; he always protected people, even if they tried to kill him. He grabbed the things arm, and pulled it back, He looked up at the thing, "Let him go, now!" He growled, the thing didn't move, the bladed metal rope loosened and the soldier fell, he let out a groan and slowly crawled towards Shadow and Sonic who were fiercely ready to help their friend, "Let go…" The thing said in an echoed voice. Knuckles let it go with a shocked face and went into a fighting position, the thing didn't move still…before they knew it, it disappeared in teleport like move.

The soldier laid up against the wall, his clothes covered in red lines of blood, he kept groaning, his left arm had been shattered in the fight he had with the thing, it was completely bloody. "What is going on here?" Shadow asked the soldier, he only asked for a moment to breathe, "(Pants) I'm part of a (Pants) control force, my unit was order neutralize a few things that broke (Pants) loose, then that guy, (Pants) Nightmare Project CNS-1 killed my unit and (Grunts) our evacuees, he tried (Pants) to get exit info from me, (Pants) but I couldn't let him get out, (Breathes deeply) I don't know why he didn't attack you." Knuckles took a knee; the soldier wasn't telling everything he knew, "What was that thing?" He asked in a hard tone, "(Pants) I don't know much but (Pants) it was a Nightmare Project (Pants) top secret weapon unit experiments, (Breathes deeply) there are seven completed ones, and I don't know how many other lesser ones there are. (Coughs)"

Shadow looked at the soldier with questionable face "Why are you telling us this without any resistance, isn't this top secret; like keep your mouth shut things?" The soldier nodded slowly, "(Pants) Yea but there are two out comes for me, (Pants) either I die here and now when that thing comes back for me (Breathes deeply) or I ask you guys a big favor…" The three looked at each other; then the soldier raised his right hand and removed his goggles, and look at each one of them.

He had brown eyes, and seem to have tan colored skin, his eyes were dry, like he didn't care what happened. They couldn't leave him, no one should ever die like that, ever "Don't worry man, we'll get you out here, just one more thing…" Sonic said, the soldier nodded again, "Whats a code omega?" Sonic asked, "It means (Pants) evacuate all personal and set core meltdown with in one hour of alert, (Pants) it's been twenty since then…" Knuckles and Sonic pick the soldier up slowly and had him on their back, his feet dragged behind them. Shadow lead the way, the soldier said softy "Thanks…" Sonic smirked "No problem man. Just relax and enjoy the ride."

36 minutes later – Military Base; Rear gates within sight

The four of them had made their way to the gates with relative ease, no trouble either, the soldier told them that the gates were always close, but when they saw them they were broken open, "Common ignore it right now, let's get out of here." The soldier said, he was able to breathe easier now, the position he was in, caused his bleeding to slow and eased him more, they were in the clear when another creature shook the ground causing the four to fall to the floor.

They all turned around and look behind, it walked on four legs, it had one thick white claw spike at the end of each hand, it had a mouth like the first one they ever saw, loose jaws; surrounding another pair attached to its head and neck, this one didn't drool though, it's body was ruff and red with a light orange on it, it's body was thick and long, kind of like a snake, but not as long. Two legs at the end of it, and two I the front, it's shin areas looked wide and strong as if it had armor on it, "That's Nightmare Project – LS-9." The soldier grunted as he got up and held his arm, his knee was weak, so he kept bending one knee as he stood up.

The thing stared at them, the soldier began to speak, "Don't let him get underground if he does, we might as well write our wills, it takes time for him to go under, so get him when he tries." "What the hell are you thinking, that we're gonna attack it? You must be crazy!" Sonic said, Knuckles looked at it, he noticed something on top of the building, a dark figure.

It launched into the air, and dropped in front of them, it shook the ground heavily; knocking them down off their feet. It was the one with the tail, that stood on two feet, a small swish sound made their fears continue…CNS-1 had return, the three stood next to each other, the two legged one growled and purred lower roars at LS-9, it let out a "Y-e-a-h." like-echoed response, "What the fuck? Did that thing just talk?" Shadow said with shocked voice.

Before they could react, CNS-1 teleported and appeared behind Sonic and slide his blade under his neck, only away by millimeters the blade made Sonic sweat… "(Echoed Voice) don't…move…" It said, Knuckles and Shadow were focused on Sonic and didn't see LS-9 burrow underground "Shit! He's under, guys don—" The soldier was cut off, when a long brown colored spike shot up through the ground and pierced from behind; through his left side, it suspended him in the air. "Oh… (Grunts) go for (Coughs) high ground…" He vomited blood into his mask that seeped through and pour in little streams onto the floor, the spike receded under quickly; the soldier dropped on his knees and slumped over backwards. Knuckles moved quickly, and went for a near by tree, he heard rumbling underneath him, he stopped, as soon as he did, three spikes shot up and were an inch or so away from his face…

The other project began to move slowly towards Shadow, "Fucker, bring it!" He said taunting it, the creature's eyes glowed a bright yellow, it held its hand in a fist, Shadow was then consumed in and rock and iron barrier, it shove its hand straight through the dome and grabbed Shadow by his skinny, short neck, and gripped it, it's claws cut into his neck briefly before kicked it in its face, making it lose it's grip.

Sonic still a blade to his neck, he began to think of a plan, he move slightly and felt the blades edge touch his lower chin, he move his leg forwards, kicked backwards with his strength…nothing happened, Sonic had hit in between CNS-1's legs, Sonic realized it had nothing there, "(Echoed) Very…funny…" It said with a hard tone…

"Guys we're gonna need a new plan…any ideas?" Sonic said dully.

End Chapter 18

Well, told you people I was still updating this shit! Next chapter – continuing the fight, and ending it.

Till chapter 19, peace bitches!