CHAPTER 3-3

After when Rouge left, Shadow stood there puzzled, "Why is Rouge here? What is she after? I guess I'll figure it out sooner or later." He then began to look around the room but he didn't find much so he found another door in the room and went through it. Then Shadow found himself in a dinning room. He never found much in there either but he did see another room but a gate was over it. He couldn't go through. "How do I get in?" He began to check around the dinning room until he saw a long narrow hallway with a picture of wine and bread set on a table, but he couldn't get to the picture because a counter was in the way. He looked at the picture long and hard, "I wonder if that picture has to do with anything." He took out his rifle and pointed it at the bread and shot at it, but nothing happened. He shot the wine bottle and the wine had spilled from the picture. Then the gate over the room had risen and the room was now open. He went into the room and only one thing was in there and that was a red chest on a stand. He began to walk over to it then all of a sudden a giant cage was released down on where he was standing and a bunch of ganados in black robes came through the doors and jumped down from above him and into the cage. Then the man with the long metal claws jumped down as well and confronted Shadow. He quickly took out his magnum and shot the man to back away from him and began to shoot the rest of the ganados as well. Once he took out most of the ganados with his magnum, he now had to worry about the man with claws. He barely had anywhere to run because he was still in the cage. He could probably break out but that would draw the blind man towards him. He faced the man again and shot him in his chest. All the shot did was hurt him. When the man had his back turned, Shadow saw the plagas on his back and shot it making the man yell in pain and fall to the floor dead. He looked down at the dead man, "How many of those things are there?" He walked towards the chest and opened it seeing gold coins in the bottom of the chest. He took the money and placed it in his pocket. He saw another door in the corner of the room, so he took his gun and shot the door to the cage down and went into the door. The next door was a room full of ganados. Shadow was on the second floor. As he looked down, the ganados spotted him as well from below.

The ganados pointed and shouted while they started to approach him. There was a ladder to the second floor so they could just climb up and get to him.

Shadow reloaded his handgun and shot the ganados down from the ladder. After when he killed them, he jumped down and saw a lever near a gate to the other side of the room with more ganados waiting for him. "I wonder what this switch is for." He pulled the lever down then the center of the floor opened up and another pathway arose from the floor. Afterwards Shadow climbed up the ladder and ran over to the other side using the floor, but other ganados were in front of him and behind him. He took out his magnum and reloaded it. In front of him were ganados with shields in front of them. Shadow took his gun and shot at the shields breaking them into pieces. He then shot the ganados off and fell on the floor. Then when Shadow was about to kill the ones behind him, one grabbed him around the neck. He took his elbow and hit him in the face with it knocking his head off with blood flying in the air. When Shadow faced the ganado again, he had a plagas on his head except this time it was different. The plagas had about four feet on it and was trying to crawl around. He took his gun and shot the plagas off of the body. Even though the body was dead, the plagas was on the floor crawling around. Shadow took out his machine pistol and shot at the plagas until it fell on the floor dead and melted on the floor. Shadow quickly ran over to the next door and ended up on the other side with more ganados waiting for him. He jumped off the second floor and started to shoot the rest of the ganados with his machine pistol. Afterwards he spotted another door on the top floor. He went up to the top floor and went through the door. He was now in a narrow hallway with a green crocodile standing at the end of the hallway with another door beside him.

"Hello, stranger", the crocodile said. "Want to buy something?"

Shadow took out the gold coins from his pocket and handed it to the merchant, "I just need more ammo."

The merchant searched through his cloak and found ammunition and gave it to Shadow. "Come back soon, stranger."

Shadow took the bullets and went through the next door. While he was walking around the second floor he was on, Sonic had came from behind him.

"Shadow!" He shouted.

Shadow turned and faced Sonic.

Sonic held a tube and some kind of liquid was in it in the air, "I got it!"

Shadow smiled a bit until he saw Sonic's face filled with pain, "...Sonic."

Sonic stood there with something sharp going through his stomach. Then the sharp point just went in deeper with blood arising from Sonic's insides. Soon his grip on the plasma sample had slipped through his hands and was caught in the hand of Silver.

Shadow gritted his teeth in anger, "Silver."

Silver stared at the plasma sample, "Now that I have the sample. You serve me no purpose, traitor." The sharp point had left Sonic's flesh and had went under Silver's robe.

Sonic fell to the floor with blood gushing from his insides.

Shadow ran towards him and turned him over on his back, "Sonic!" Sonic was still alive but for a short time. Shadow looked over to Silver with a glare.

Silver looked back at him, "Humph, Tails should take of you next." He walked out of the door with the plasma sample in his hand.

Shadow was about to go after him but he decided to stay with Sonic. He looked at his wound and knew it was serious. "Damn it! Stay with me, Sonic!"

The blue hedgehog coughed up some blood and faced Shadow, "I was a researcher hired by Silver. He...found out what I was up to." He began to cough up more blood.

"Don't talk."

"Shad...ow", he placed a bottle full of pills in Shadow's hand.

He looked at it, "Pills?"

"It'll stop the parasites for a short time if it gets out of hand."

"Sonic, you can't die. I need you."

"Shadow, you have to stop Silver and get back the sample. It's...too late for me." Sonic rested his head on the bloody floor and closed his eyes.

Shadow gasped and was full of tears knowing that Sonic had died, "Sonic! Sonic!"