Chapter 4 – Shadow the Hedgehog

Far away from Station Square, there lies a huge prison that it is built to keep the meanest criminals in float on a small island. The prison is three stories of iron and metal. That has no windows but only one door, locked, bolted and sealed tight. A group of solider in armour called GUN, patrol the perimeter, 24/7. The G.U.N. soldiers's uniform is updated with ballistic combat helmets that has solid white visors concealing their identities and wears the usual dark blue uniform with a ballistic vest. They are on their usual partol; looking out for any visitors or, mostly, intruders. And today, they are about to have one visitor.

In the distance, Charmy, the palace bee was flying like crazy to the entrance of the fortress to deliver the message to the G.U.N. Commander from Espio. He has been flying non-stop for hours since he has left Station Square. As he continued to fly, the two guards at the main door spot him in the distance. Charmy comes to a stop but as soon as he sets foot on the cold, metal ground, he slips and lands face first on the ground. He gets up and runs all the way to the door. The guards who are guarding there, took their guns and pointed at Charmy causing him to do a girly scream.

"WAIT WAIT WAIT! I bring a message...from Master Espio," he answer, shivering either from the cold or the shock that he endured.

The two guards looked surprised. They knew that a message from Espio is very important. They opened up the door to let Charmy in as he walked past the guards.

"WHAT?!" That yell was coming from the leader of GUN as he continues to read the message. He was a tall man with grey hair and Caucasian skin. The one unique thing about him is that he has green colour eye on his left while his right eye is blue. He is wearing his military uniform with white gloves and black shoes. He also has the prison keys attach to his belt. No-one knows what his real name is but he goes by the name Commander. "Double the guards! Extra precautions?! Your prison may not be adequate!" he barked, scrunching up the letter that Charmy gave to him. The leader of the GUN glares at bee who now wetting himself thanks to his temper.

Charmy tries to move back but his path was blocked by the same guards that let him in plus two more. The Commander grabs Charmy by the collar of his vest and brings him right up to his face. "You doubt my prison's security, parasite?"

"A-a-absolutely not. I think your prison is fine to me," Charmy shakily answer whilst trying so hard to keep a straight face. "But Master Espio does. Give me a break, will ya? I'm just a messager bee."

The Commander smiles at the bee. "Oh, I'll give you a message for your Master Espio, alright," he smug as he lets go of Charmy's vest. The poor bug stands up and fixes up his vest. The Commander then turns away from him and begins to walk away. "Follow me."

Although surprised by his temper, Charmy hesitate at first to follow him but decided to go because the Commander was going to prove to the message bee that he has got nothing to worry about in this unbreakable death trap.

"Escape from Prison Island is impossible, my friend" he said as they continued to walk the bridge that leads to the elevator. Charmy looks over the edge of the bridge and was awed by this huge metal prison. "Wow…" he continues to look around to see a bottom-less pit from where he was standing. He never how deep this prison can go. On the outside, it was a three story building but once inside, it was deeper than ever. The Commander than slaps on the bee's back a bit too hard that nearly sends him flying over the edge. This caused Charmy to yelp as the Commander gives out a mightily laugh.

"Impressive, isn't it?" he mocked as Charmy continues to look over the edge after his regain his balance. The bee couldn't help be right. It was impressive. It did look like this prison was made to be inescapable.

"Yes, it's impressive. It's VERY impressive. More like awesome to me," he admit. He decided to fly all the way instead of walking. Charmy continued to follow the Commander. As they were approaching the elevator, that is when Charmy looks up to see a number of G.U.N soldiers looking down on the bee with their weapons at ready.

The Commander continued to mock the glories of his prison. "There is only one way in and one way out, my friend. One thousands soldiers at my command and only one prisoner." They arrived at the doors of the elevator. he said as they got to the gate that leads to the elevator.

"Yeah, excerpt that prisoner is Shadow" Charmy points out the obvious as he got on the elevator with the Commander. The Commander turned to two guards who are near the switch that controls the machine.

"Take us down," he order them. The guards did just as they told and flipped the switch causing the elevator to lower. During the ride, the elevator begins to shook which was enough to scare the bee out of his wits as the Commander just laughs.

After a long ride, the elevator finally reached the bottom. Charmy and the Commander stepped out of the elevator and walked up to a huge metal door which it was similar to the main door but smaller. After the main locks were released, the door opens up to reveal the one thing that the world has feared years ago.

"Whoa…" That was the only thing that came out of Charmy's mouth when he saw who was in the centre of the room. The figure has black fur with red stripes on each of his quill and down on his arms. He is wearing a black Chinese vest with dark gold pants and a grey sash around his waist. He was also wearing white gloves, two gold rings around his wrist and black, red and yellow jet shoes The creature was all chained up against up post that is bolted to the ground and was kneeling on his knees but he barely shows any signs of life thanks to a belt/choker chain that not only holds his hands together which are tied behind him but there are also needles that keep him immobilize for years.

"Behold,…. Shadow the Hedgehog," announce the Commander. Charmy couldn't believe what he was witnessing. He has heard many rumours about this warrior and the destruction that he caused years ago but that was before he started working as the message bee at the palace. He continued to stare at him with awe before taking a couple steps back.

"I'm um… I'm just gonna wait right here," he said to the Commander, forcing a smile on his face.

"There is nothing to worry about. It's perfectly safe, my friend," he assured the bee, shoving the bee ahead of him.

"Hey!" yelped Charmy as he felled forward on the metal bridge that was extended to reach the separate platform but the beestands up really quickly. The Commander walked past him, towards the chained-up prisoner.

"Men, ready your weapons at my command!" The Commander ordered his troops as he walks right up to the prisoner.

"W-w-weapons?!" Charmy uttered. He looks up to see the guards who are nearby or right above him, pointing their guns at Shadow. The Commander has also heard the news from Station Square

"Hey tough guy, did you hear? Eggman is finally going to give someone the Dragon Scroll and it's NOT gonna be you?" The Commander mocked to Shadow as he walks right around him. Charmy couldn't believe what he was saying.

"What are you doing?! Don't get him mad!" Charmy begged to the Commander.

"Well, what's he gonna do about it? Thanks to this belt, I've got him completely immobilized." He said as he pulled out an electric taser from his belt. He turned on the taser and zapped Shadow's left shoulder. As it made contact, Charmy flinch at this but Shadow does not react. Once the taser was removed from Shadow's side, the smoke was emitting and the two visitors can actually smell the burning fur and flesh. The Commander gives out another laugh and brought his face close to Shadow's ear.

"Awww. Did I hurt the big bad scary hog? Awww," The Commander mocks the prisoner. Since the prisoner was still secured and guarded, Charmy guess he got nothing to hang around for.

"Okay, I think I've seen enough," Charmy spoked up while walking back. "I'm gonna tell Espio that he got nothing to worry about." He and the Commander then walk back to the elevator.

"No, he doesn't," said the Commander as he walk beside the bee.

"Okay, I'll tell him that. Can we please go now?" Charmy asked as they got into the elevator. The doors closed up behind them and the metal bridge slowly disconnected the platform and reverted back into the wall.

But once the metal ramp is gone and the elevator goes up, all was now silent. That is until a pair of bloodcurdling eyes suddenly opened, furiously. His eyes moved to the right and feel what was in his finger. It was the keys! Shadow must have grabbed the keys from the Commander's belt while he was not looking. sees the keys next to him. He secretly wrapped his hand around the keys to avoid the guards' suspicion and begins to unlock the capsule.

Author's Notes: Finally! We have introduce Shadow into the story, as well as the Commander and the GUN but they'll appear later when Shadow makes his escape so yeah. You guys would also know the relationship between Shadow and the Commander in the game Shadow the Hedgehog where the Commander has issues against Shadow if you guys remember. Next chapter, Sonic's first day of being the Dragon Warrior is being updated as we speak and see how that turns out to be. Anyway, hope you'll like that and review. See Ya!

Until we meet again,

TheDragonLord2912

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