CHAPTER 5-1

Later Shadow and Rouge finally got to the island.

Shadow looked over to her and watched as she steered the boat directly to the island. He still didn't trust her but he was wondering why she was here, "So...why are you here anyway?"

She looked over to him and back at the island with a smirk on her face. She then steered the boat at the edge of the island making Shadow almost fall out of the boat because of the impact. She stood up and took out her grappling gun. She pulled the trigger and shot the hook out of the gun with it catching on to one of the edges above the island. She looked back at Shadow again, "Got some business to take care of. Lets leave it at that." She took her finger off the trigger and went up towards the cliff, leaving the boating without a driver.

The boat started to go out of control until Shadow grabbed the wheel and made it stop. He fell back on the seat and sighed, "Crazy bitch", he muttered. He then got out of the boat and began to walk around the island until his communicator beeped. He took it out and saw Silver on the monitor. "Silver."

"So you came this far huh?"

"Heh, I hate to break the bad news for yea but Tails is dead."

Silver raised an eyebrow, "Really? Well I was kinda suspecting that anyway."

"Where's Amy?"

"Oh you'll see her and she's still alive, but I'll never surrender her to you if that's what you're thinking."

He gritted his teeth, "I'll find her and bring her home! You won't stop me, Silver!"

He made an evil smile, "Oh but I will and soon you will see." He shut off his communicator and so did Shadow.

Shadow began to walk around the island until he heard a familiar cry.

"Shadow!"

Shadow began to look around, "Amy?" He followed her voice and soon he came to another part of the island with a searchlight and men dressed as soldiers. He looked around more and saw Amy being carried off through a door by the soldiers.

She took her fists and hit their backs as hard as she could but they never let go of her.

The soldiers went through the door and closed it behind them.

"Amy!" He shouted as he jumped over to where the soldiers were, making them hear and see him.

The soldiers turned to Shadow and began to chase after him.

He took out his handgun and began to shoot the soldiers in front of him. He saw one soldier behind him trying to hit him with a stun rod but he dodged it. He took out his handgun and shoot the soldier in his head making it fall off with a plagas taking the place of his head. "A plagas? These guys must work for Silver too." He shoot about five rounds into the plagas and it was then destroyed. Afterwards he started to shoot the rest of them until they didn't come anymore. He looked at the door that Amy was taken in and began to walk towards it until a big man came out of the door with a huge gun in his hands.

The gun the man was holding looked like a gatling gun. A huge and very powerful gun. The man walked towards Shadow and pointed his gun at him.

Shadow then ran behind an old building and waited for the powerful bullets to be launched out of the barrel of the gun.

The man pointed his gun at the building that Shadow was behind and began to shoot at it. No matter how many bullets he shot, the building was still standing and nothing went past it. He stopped shooting his gun and waited for Shadow to appear from the building.

Shadow quickly appeared from the building with his magnum in his hand. He pointed it at the man and shot him in his chest knocking him down on the ground.

The man was down for a while but he still got back up after a few seconds had passed.

Shadow then shot the man down on the ground again and this time he didn't get up for a long time. He walked up to his body and noticed that he wasn't breathing meaning that he had finally killed him. He placed his gun back in his pocket and walked through the door. Once he got through the door, he slowly walked down a small pathway but it was still outside. When he walked further, a rock had fell from a cliff above him. He quickly jumped back making the rock miss him. He angrily looked up at the cliff and saw about three men fleeing, "Figures." He continued to walk down the short pathway. Soon he found more men with crossbows in their hands. There was also flaming arrows in their weapons. He took out his handgun and tried to shoot them in the head but the bullet wouldn't go through because they were wearing bulletproof helmets. He then pointed his gun at their body and they had finally died. He then spotted a ladder. He climbed up the ladder and now he was at a higher level. He looked ahead and saw a big hill with more men on it. He reloaded his handgun and ran up the hill while shooting at the men. When he made it to the top of the hill, he looked back behind him and saw more of the soldiers still coming. He started to look around for something that could kill them easily until he found a huge wagon with barrels on it. He pointed his gun at the barrels and shot them making them explode with the wagon rolling down the hill at the ganados. He continued on and found a door. It was locked but the switch to unlock the door was right beside it. He pushed the switch and the door had unlocked. He went through the door and walked along a dark path until he spotted the merchant ahead of him. He sighed as he walked up to him, "Why am I not surprised to see you here?"

"Need anything, stranger?"

"Yeah more bullets for every gun I have", he took the money out of his pocket and gave it to the merchant. He waited for the merchant to give him what he asked for afterwards.

The crocodile placed the bullets in his hand, "Come back anytime."

Shadow continued to walk down the dark path and along the way he found more soldier ganados ahead of him. "Damn", he looked around for a door and soon he found one. He quickly ran into the building before the soldiers had shot him with one of their flaming arrows. He looked around the dark hallway he was in, "Where am I? I wonder if this is the place that they're keeping Amy." He started to walk down the dark hallway with caution. He could barely see what was in front of him. He saw a door on the left of him but it was locked and he couldn't get in. He didn't worry about that door so he walked ahead until he found another door that wasn't locked. He went in it and he saw a ganado wearing a spiked gas mask with a stun rod in his hand standing in a small part of the room.

The ganado came closer to him about to hit him with the rod until Shadow shot it out of his hand with his handgun.

It was obvious that the gas mask wasn't bulletproof so he pointed the gun at his head and the bullet went straight through the gas mask to his head, killing him. He went to the next part of the room and the room was full of rotten meat. The room even carried a horrible scent because of the meat. He studied the meat and saw the juices of the meat dripping on the floor making it wet filthy looking. He walked around the room with his handgun still in his hand. When he walked past a industrial oven, something just ran out of the oven and it was on fire. Shadow was just surprised by it and shot it until it fell on the dirty wet floor. He held his hand to his chest feeling his heart beating at a fast rate, "What the fuck was that thing?" He looked down at it and saw that it was one of the soldier ganados. He looked back in the oven he was in, "What was he doing in there?" He took his mind off the dead man and walked down a different hallway as he got deeper in the hallway, he heard Amy's voice once again.

"Shadow! Help me, Shadow!"

He started to look around, "Amy?" He heard Amy's voice coming from a door near him. He was about to go into the door until a huge man wearing a ton of armor around his body appeared in front of him holding a club with spikes all around it in his hand. He pointed his handgun at his head and started to shoot him while the huge man was walking up to him, but soon he noticed the gun wasn't working that much on him when he began to run towards him.

The man swung his club at Shadow, but instead he hit huge wooden crates because Shadow dodged it.

Shadow took out his magnum and shot at the man's head which was the only part of his body that was unprotected.

The man's head fell off and his body fell to the floor with it.

Afterwards Shadow quickly ran into the door where he heard Amy's voice. The room was filled with pictures of Amy. The pictures were hanging all over the walls. He then looked over to the monitors and saw one of the monitors on showing Amy banging her fists on a door in a small room. "Amy."

"Help me, Shadow!" She screamed. She kept hitting on the door until she saw a man standing beside her looking into her eyes. She slowly stepped away from him, but the man had pushed her on the floor. She screamed as she fell on the floor.

The man that pushed her saw a camera pointing at him with a red light on it. He knew that the camera was recording their every move. He looked over to the man standing over in the corner of the room and said something to him.

The man that was in the corner operated the switches to the camera making it cut off.

Shadow now couldn't see what they were doing with Amy anymore. He hoped that they weren't hurting her too badly. "Don't worry, Amy", he muttered. "I'm coming." He spotted another door in the room, so he went in it and the first thing he saw in the room was some kind of creature laying on an operating table. He could only look at the creature through the glass so he couldn't see a good view of the creature. He ignored the creature and saw another door in the room but it was locked. He saw a panel beside it, "Maybe this opens the door. Though I have no clue how to operate it. I should just guess and I'll hopefully get it right." He started to press buttons on it and soon the door had unlocked. He went in the door and the first thing he saw was a man laying on a bed with a crawling type of plagas on his back, but the plagas wasn't moving nor was the man. "What kind of things were they doing with the plagas?" He walked over to the other side of the room and saw a dead man sitting on the floor with fresh blood setting around him. He also saw a some kind of card in his hands. He took the card out of his hands and looked at the label on it. It read, 'Freezer Card Key.' "I guess this must go to a freezer." He then heard something crashing down on the floor outside of the door. He ran out the room and saw the creature that was laying on the operating table walking towards him with huge sharp fangs appearing from its mouth. He took out his handgun and started to shoot it anywhere in its body including its head and nothing worked. "What?" He took out his magnum and started to shoot it with that and even when its blood and insides bursted from its body, it was still coming.

The creature walked up to Shadow trying to grab him, but he ran over to the exit and ran out the room heading for the next door.

When he got to the next door, it felt cold. He figured it was the door that required the freezer key card. He took out the card and placed it in a small card slot. As he did it, he thought about the creature that he just faced, 'What happened? That fucker should have died...and with my most powerful weapon I had. What will I do if I run into that thing again? I don't even know how to stop it.' Once the door had unlocked, he went into the door and saw more of the creatures hanging from hooks on the ceiling. This time there was different kinds of creatures. He saw only one creature that resembled the one he saw. "Damn it. I got a bad feeling about this." He nervously walked around the room looking around. He walked into a different part of the room and saw a some kind of scope to a rifle in a glass storage. There was a valve on it to open it but it was frozen and it wouldn't turn. "There's got to be a switch somewhere around here." He started to walk around the room more, until he found a switch in another part of the room. He pushed the switch and the coldness in the room had faded. He went back to the valve and now he could finally turn it. He turned the valve and took the scope. He studied it wondering what it was for, "It goes to a rifle but what does it do?" He took out his rifle and placed the scope on it. He then started to look around the room one last time before he left and he found some kind of machine that could somehow rewrite cards. He took out the freezer card he still had and placed it in the machine. In a few seconds later, the machine had stopped. He took the card out of the machine and stared at the new label it had on it. It now read, 'Waste Disposal Card Key.' He stopped looking at it when he heard the door locking itself and the creature with the huge fangs dropped to the floor.

The creature stood from the floor and started to walk over to Shadow.

Shadow stepped back from the creature not knowing what to do. He couldn't go any further when his back met the door that was locked. He looked down at his rifle and wondered if that could defeat the creature. He pointed his gun at the creature and looked through the scope. He saw the creature's insides and saw three organisms inside of its body. His eyes widened, "My god. Are those the parasites? I can see them." He zoomed in on one and shot it making the creature step back some. He shot the next one and the creature started to move slower than it was at first. He shot the last one that was at the side of his head. He lowered his rifle and watched as the creature stopped walking towards him. Soon its insides exploded from its body and the body fluids splattered all over the floor and some got on Shadow as well. Shadow flung some of the juices off his body, "That's nasty." He heard the door unlock from behind him so he went out of the door and headed towards the door that needed the new card key he had. Soon he came to a door that had a bad smell flowing from the inside. "This must be that waste disposal door." He placed the card key in the card slot and waited for the door to become unlocked. As soon as it was unlocked, he went into the room and saw a control room. He looked through the glass of the room and saw ganados standing on the bottom floor looking around with weapons in their hands. They were all standing beside three big wastebins. He looked down at the control panels and saw two levers. He started to move them a bit and in the next room, he noticed that a huge machine like claw was moving. He started to get used to the controls in no time. He looked at the ganados and at a huge deep hole beside them. He smirked, "I wonder..." He adjusted the claw at a ganado that was just standing there. He made the claw pick the man up and let him drop into the huge deep hole that was beside them.

The other ganados knew what was happening, so they all started to hide behind wastebins.

Even though they were hiding behind the wastebins, Shadow could still pick them up with the mechanical claw. He started to pick the rest of the men up and throw them into the huge hole. Then he had to stop because someone had shut it off. "That's too bad and I was having so much fun."

The ganados started to run up to the control room with their crossbows in their hands.

Shadow confronted them with his handgun and shot them easily. After when he killed them all, he went to the bottom floor and saw the huge hole that he had thrown most of the ganados in. He looked down the hole while holding his node because it stunk so much. 'Could this lead to the lower levels?' He took his mind away from the hole and went through the next door. In the next room there was really nothing useful in there. There was no ganados so he just continued on to the next room. Once he got there he heard Amy's voice again.

"Shadow!" She screamed.

Shadow quickly ran down the short hallway and saw two huge men wearing armor on their bodies holding clubs with spikes all around it in their hands.

The two men and Amy saw Shadow standing there. They both approached Shadow while they had their weapons raised in the air.

Shadow quickly reloaded his magnum and shot both of their heads off their bodies. He watched as they melted into the floor then he had his attention on Amy. He smiled warmly at her and ran over to the door she was being held in. "Amy, are you okay? Did they hurt you? Cause if they did..."

"Shadow, I'm fine. Just get me out of here."

Shadow pulled on the handle to the door but it wouldn't open, "Damn, it stuck."

"It's not stuck. You need a card to open the door."

"Well that just makes things a lot more complicated."

"Shadow..." she said in a scared voice.

"Don't worry, Amy. I'll get you out of here. Just stay put and I'll come back for you."

She nodded slowly, "Please hurry."

Shadow went through the next door and now he was in a room with some ganados in it with X-rays showing some kind of weird bones. He didn't worry about the X-rays yet. He focused on the ganados in front of him.

The ganados were coming towards him with stun rods in their hands.

Shadow shot them with his handgun and soon they were all dead. Afterwards he looked at the X-rays again, "Are these showing the parasites?" He then left them and went down the stairs heading for the next door. He was now down a short hallway and nothing was very useful. He went through the next door and he was now in a lab room. He started to explore around the room a bit. While he was looking around, he spotted a monitor above him. He looked at the monitor and saw a come kind of creature approaching the room he was in. He took out his rifle, "Great, him again." He studied the creature on the monitor again and noticed something different about the creature this time. "Wait a minute, that's not the same creature I faced before." He heard the door open behind him. He turned around and saw the hideous creature approaching him.

The creature was not like the other one. This one had no eyes and his whole body was covered in spikes.

Shadow studied the creature and noticed that it had a card hanging from its side. 'That's the card I need to free Amy.' He pointed his rifle at the creature's body and looked through the scope. This creature really wasn't that different from the other. He had the same weak points like the other one. He shot the creature where the parasites were at. Soon the creature fell back a bit and his body exploded into pieces with his insides all over the floor. "I'll never get use to that." He walked over to the last remains of the creature and picked up the card from the creature's guts. He then decided to go back to Amy. He left the room and headed back to where Amy was being held. When he got to the door she was in, he placed the card in the card slot and the door had finally opened. He walked back into the room and saw Amy sitting on the floor with her head on her knees. "Amy."

She looked up at the black hedgehog in happiness, "Shadow." She got off the floor and walked up to him.

He smiled a bit, "Lets get out of here."