Chapter 8 – Shadow Escapes!
Chaos was about to was about to go in flame on Prison Island. And with it soon. Still chained up and bolted to the ground, Shadow is glaring carefully as his fingers do the work. Although he is all cuffed up with needles that keep his hands and arms immobilized, only his two index fingers were still moving. They keep moving the key around to guarantee to be free from his cuffs.
CLICK.
Shadow's ears peak up. One more turn and I am free. He then used his right index finger to move the key slight in the direction. Once he has made the push, so does the needles. They were removed from Shadow's wrist cuffs that were touching his nerve points that kept him still for so many years. The black hedgehog lets out a breath for the first time since he was imprisoned. He has also regained the rest of his fingers and arms. With his full strength back, he used the immense power and cracks his cuffs open which cause them and needles to break into a number of pieces but not the chains around his wrist and waist. They were still bolted to the grounded pole. But his breakout does not go unnoticed.
The sound of the alarm was sounded by the guards in the lower area of the prison. And it was loud enough for the Commander and his visitor to hear. The head of the G.U.N rushed over to the edge and looks down. The toughest leader around was not alert with fear.
"OH NO!" The Commander screamed. He knew this day would come.
Charmy was not far behind as he flies up to the edge as well. "What's happening?!" he asked. But the Commander doesn't need to give him an answer. The bee looks over the edge and was now horrified of what he sees. Shadow is free from his prison. Well, technically, not free exactly. He was still chained up against the pole.
The G.U.N soldiers were now all on alert with their weapons loaded and ready to roll. They all knew that this wasn't a drill. This was real. The greatest villain of all time is just moments away from escaping this island. They were all rushing to the battle station to stop the rouge hedgehog in his tracks. Their mission: To stop Shadow from leaving Prison Island. Right now, Shadow was struggling to get on knees but it proved to be a difficult with him tied up in chains and around an indestructible pole with chains. Once he is on his own two feet, he then proceeds to rip the chains off his wrists so he can remove the one around his waist.
Far above him, the fuming Commander and the shaking Charmy were witnessing the scene. The bee couldn't believe what was happening. He was certain that the leader ensure him everything was under control with Shadow under his watch.
If the horror is trying to escape, he was not going to let it escape.
"FIRE!" he ordered. The soldiers didn't hesitate it. They fired their loaded guns and fired at the prisoner. Although more than a hundred guards were giving their all, Shadow appears to be dodging them; ever single bullets despite being all chained up.
But then, a thought came in his mind. This brings a smile to his face.
He brings out his wrists in gun range so the cuffs are showing. It took the damage and began to break. The guards didn't stop to witness this but one of them manages to see this.
"WAIT! CEASE FIRE! CEASE F—" Everyone stop but one of them didn't have time to stop firing when the last of his bullets penetrate through the cuffs; causes them to split into two. The guards could look on horror of what they have done. With his hands free, Shadow rips off the other chain with ease.
Shadow has been freed.
The black hedgehog looks up to see the guards and brings his left hand back. The soldiers quickly brought their guns at ready but Shadow was too quick for them. He whipped his hand around; unleashing electric bolts and hit directed at the guards. Most of them fall to the ground while others were tipped over the edge and fall down to their doom. The action that he performed was his devastating move: the Chaos Spear.
Shadow then looks up to see the Commander and Charmy with shock expression on their faces. The bee was the first one to panic while the leader holds his ground. "SHADOW IS FREE! I GOTTA GET OUT OF HERE AND WARN ESPIO!" Just before his flies to the exit, the Commander quickly grabs him by collar of his vest; preventing him to leave and pulls him up to his face.
"You're not going anyway, bug," he looks down to Shadow. His blood begins to boil at the sight of his prisoner no longer chained up. "And neither is he!"
Charmy struggles to try to get out of his tight grip. "Let me go!" he begged. He just wants to get out of here so he can warn the master.
The Commander looks to his right to see the guards near the elevator from before. "Stand by to disconnect the wire from the elevator to prevent that… monster from coming up. If that doesn't work, throw in a couple of grenades to do some damage," and then turned to more than a hundred soldiers on his left. "Be on guard if he comes. And when you see him, show no mercy." The guards run pass their boss and position themselves in front of the elevator's door with their weapons in hand.
Back on the platform, Shadow was proceeding to the elevator; making his way to the exit. Just when he was about to conjure up another Chaos Spear to break down the door, one of the guards who survived the previous deadly attack from the hedgehog, aims his gun at the prisoner and fires. Shadow sense it comes and performs a high-jump; avoiding the shots. While in the air, Shadow projects the Chaos Spear and aims at him. The guard didn't have time move out of the way and got hit instead.
With the guard down and out, Shadow curls up in a ball and spins dash through wall and into the elevator shaft. Charmy was now wetting his pants after witnessing it. Shadow was coming this way. "He's coming up!" he shrieked.
Still, the Commander remains focus and determine. "He won't get far." He turns to the two guards from before. He gives them the signal to cut the wire and throw the bombs in. If Shadow somehow succeeds through both of them, it's all up to his guards to finish the job.
The guards have manually opened the door. Once they have the doors opened, another soldier aims his firearm at the wire; the only connection of the moving elevator. He unleashed a barrel of bullets at the wire while the two guards activate grenades and throw them into the shaft. The wire begins to lose its support and was cut off. A second later, the grenades went off. The entire shaft blows up in flames and the ground was shaking from the explosion impact. 10 seconds has passed and everything was still quiet. One of the soldier decide to peek inside the shaft while his gun at ready. He noticed that Shadow was nowhere to be seen.
The guard he turns back to his comrades and gives them the thumbs up. They all breathe a sigh of relief. Shadow did not survive the blast.
The two guards gave each other a fist bump. But it was a little too soon to be celebrates. Once they had their eyes away from the elevator, something chop the third guard on the neck; knocking him out. The two soldiers couldn't believe what they are seeing.
It was Shadow!
He had somehow survived the blast.
Shadow advances on the two guards and does a split kick between them; sending them over the edge. Right behind the two guards, the rest loaded their weapons and went nuts on shooting their target. Being a very experience Kung Fu fighter, Shadow had no problem. She speeds up the first batch and disarms them with a number of fast kicks and roundhouse punches to the faces. A number of gunshots went off, hoping to hit the runaway hedgehog. Even with the best weapon known to mankind that G.U.N have experience, they were still no match Shadow and his martial art techniques.
During the brawl, one soldier was about to shoot Shadow from behind. Once he hits the trigger, releasing a barrage of bullets, instead of hitting Shadow, it mortally wounded one of his own men. Shadow manages to dodges the aim before as the injured soldier collapses onto the hard ground as blood was pouring out of his armour. He also grabbed a gun out of a soldier's hand and used it as a battling axe; whacking, clubbing and bashing every signal guard surrounding him. Shadow continued to fight like any experience warrior that he is.
After elbowing the last guard in the shoulder; earning a loud crunch on the shoulder and falls to the ground like a sack of potatoes, Shadow was the only one still standing. He has dispatched the entire army; without breaking a sweat.
But the fight was not over.
Shadow turns his attention to his next target. Standing right in front of the exit, the only way out of this prison was already expecting him to be here if he manages to overwhelm a huge number of soldiers.
Standing there was the furious Commander, the frightened Charmy in the leader's grasp and probably the last hundred still standing soldiers in the place. They all aimed their weapons at the hedgehog. The leader lets out a threateningly growl, Shadow does a snarl at him while Charmy lets out a squeaky eep. The hedgehog takes his stand before he prepares to bulldoze them all.
"We're dead. Very dead, I tell ya," Charmy whined. He knew this was it. If he doesn't survive this, he would never be able to send a warning about Shadow's return, thus, Station Square would be in trouble.
As for the Commander, he was not done. He still has got one last trick up his sleeve. He knows it was their last resort but what choice do they have. He was going to ensure that this plan that Shadow will not escape this one.
He chuckles; keeping his eye on Shadow. "Not yet we're not," he said. From the palm of his hand was a small remote with a big red button on the top. Their last resort. To blow up the bridge between the exit and the elevator. If the bridge is disconnected, Shadow will fall to his doom. The leader was sure of this. He then hits the switch.
On the side of the bridge, a number of rigged-up explosive went off like the grenades from before. The effect of the explosives causes the bridge to break into a huge amount of pieces and Shadow was right in the middle of this. He begins to leap across the crumbling debris; moving his way to the exit and hoping to finish off the Commander and his troops. As the bridge begins to fall, the hedgehog then takes a massive leap. The troops and Charmy gasps when he came but when he was a feet away, he didn't grip on to the side of the ledge and falls down along with the debris.
He falls onto a piece of the broken bridge and looks up to see everyone witnessing his demises. Especially, the Commander. He lets out a manically laugh. "Sayonara, Shadow the Hedgehog!" he hysterically cries out in pleasure. He knew that this was going to work. He promises to Master Espio that with his life he would keep Shadow imprisons and he did. Once this is over, he can't wait to send a message to Espio telling him that Shadow has officially taken a deep nap.
Unfortunately, Shadow was not through yet.
Far above him he sees a fuse still burning down to the last group of explosives rigged up on the ceiling. With all his might, he leaps off from his platform and runs across the raining rubble. As he got to the last one, he makes one giant leap towards the ceiling and manages to grab hold of the ledge where the dynamite was strapped on.
Right below him, everyone was frightened that Shadow survived his death trap. The black hedgehog continued to climb the ledge. He grabs hold of the explosives and he begins to free-fall towards the army… with the TNT in hand.
Still in the Commander's grasp, Charmy looks up to the leader. "Can we run now?" he asked.
For the first time, the Commander was speechless and now terrified but he utter one thing to the bee. "Yes."
The last thing that he saw was the smirk on Shadow's face before he threw the explosions at them and the place went up in flames.
Literally.
The main door was blasted open as it sends a number of guards flying through the front entrance. A few guards went into the ocean. Many who were in the front row took massive damage from the blast and were either out cold. Or worse. The others were fortunate to be alive since they didn't take up much damage. Still battled and busied but they live another day. Including a certain bee.
Although he was in the front row with the Commander, he proved to be ok. He puffed out a bit of smoke out of him and looks around. He sees number of soldiers all lying around, all injured and defeated. Mostly injured but still defeated.
He was then startled by an object that felled in front of him. It was the Commander's Taser gun. Probably the last thing own by the toughest leader in all of Mobius. And now, he was gone.
He didn't have time to escape if someone hadn't grabbed him by the collar. He was hoping it the Commander who escape death. But to his horror, it wasn't.
Shadow the Hedgehog stares at the terrified bee for a moment. He takes a good look at Charmy's clothing and recognise straight away.
A royal message. From the Jade Tower.
He lets out a sign. "I'm glad Espio sent you," Shadow said. He raised his hand which Charmy flinches. With a creepy tenderness, Shadow pats the bee's head. "And here I thought I was forgotten." He retracts his hand back to his side as he leans closer to Charmy. "Fly back there and tell them…the real Dragon Warrior is coming home."
With that message, Charmy nods in terror. Shadow then throws the bee in the air that gain his wings despite being too shock from he has experience and flies away. Shadow continues to watch the bee in the distance as lightning strikes the sky on this devastating night.
It is time to come home...
Author's Notes: Wow! Talk about one Prison Breakout. You know to me, it was pretty hard coming up some way for Shadow to escape his hold on Prison Island. I didn't want to copy off from the movie. Making it a bit different, that's all.
Also, I wanted to dedicated this scene this the late actor, Michael Clark Duncan, who voice Commander Vachir in Kung Fu Panda. That guy played amazingly well as a tough commander and I thought using the Commander from Sonic the Hedgehog would fit in well for this FanFic. We are just glad to known him and love him before he left us in 2012. MCD, this one is for you.
Alright, next chapter will probably be a long one about Sonic training with the Furious Five and learning the origin of both Espio and Shadow and the connection between them. And like this chapter, the origin will be a whole lot different.
So, you guys know what to do. Review, comment or PM me, I don't care which one. I'll be uploading on Sunday nights at 8:30 from now on. Either that, enjoy!
Until we meet again,
TheDragonLord2912
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