CHAPTER 5-2

As Shadow and Amy was about to leave the room, a mysterious paper airplane had came through a small window and settled on the floor.

"What's this?" Shadow picked the paper up and started to read it. After he read it, he looked over to Amy with a small blush, "According to this we have to escape through the waste disposal vent."

Amy made a wide smile when she saw Shadow blushing, "Yeah, I bet it does, but that's not all the note says huh?"

Shadow quickly tore the paper into pieces before Amy could grab it and see what it had on it.

"Oh come on, Shadow! No fair! I wanted to see what was on it."

He let the small pieces of paper fall on the floor, "It was nothing okay. Lets just go."

Amy crossed her arms and started to follow Shadow out the room, "Fine."

Shadow was still blushing a bit because he was still thinking about the red lip mark that he saw on the paper. Without a doubt, he knew it was Rouge who did it.

When they were walking down the dark hallway, some ganados were standing near the next door supposedly guarding it.

Shadow reloaded his handgun and started to shoot at the ganados heads. Some shots had killed them with one bullet and some of them didn't because of the plagas on their heads.

Afterwards they made it to the waste disposal vent that was in the room with the wastebins in it. They both walked over to the deep hole that led to the next area.

Amy held her nose, "It stinks."

"Sure does", he looked over to her with a smile.

Amy shook her head, "No! No way, Shadow!"

He grabbed her hand, "Way." He and Amy jumped down the deep hole and fell on a pile of trash, but they were never hurt it seemed. Shadow got up from the pile of garbage and faced Amy looking pissed at him.

She was laying in the trash with her arms crossed, glaring at Shadow, "Are you out of your mind?"

"I knew you'd be fine if you landed on your ass."

She blushed in anger, "Why you..."

He held out his hand for her to take it.

She took his hand and noticed that her other hand was set on some kind of creature with spikes all over its body, but the creature wasn't moving. She slowly took her hand away from it, "Ugh, what the-"

Shadow quickly helped her up knowing that the creature wouldn't stay unconscious for long, "Hurry!"

They both came to a gate but it was locked.

Shadow spotted a lever on the side of the gate and pulled it down making the gate rise.

When the gate had rose, the creature that was laying in the pile of trash stood up and turned to Shadow and Amy.

Amy screamed, "What is that thing!"

"Long story", Shadow said as he took out his rifle and led Amy towards a new area. Before they could both continue, Shadow noticed that there was water in the way and they couldn't cross it without putting something in the water. He spotted a huge, heavy looking, red crate thinking that the crate was their only way of crossing. He looked back at the creature approaching them, 'I can't move that thing in the water with that ugly fucker on our tails.' He looked over to Amy, "Amy, get behind me."

She nodded and got behind him.

Shadow pointed his rifle at the creature and looked through the scope. He saw the three parasites and quickly shot at them killing the creature.

Soon the creature's insides had bursted and its fluids scattered all on the floor.

Amy's faced turned a pale green after seeing the way the creature had died, "I'm going to be sick."

Shadow took his mind off the dead body and walked over to the red crate, trying to push it into the water but it wouldn't budge.

Amy placed her hands on her hips as Shadow tried to move the heavy crate, "Pathetic, Shadow. Just pathetic."

He looked over to her in annoyance, "What's your problem?"

"Why can't you just ask me to help you. I mean its better than moving that heavy thing all by yourself."

"Fine. Amy could you please get your ass over here and help me move this?"

Amy sighed and crossed her arms as she walked over to him to help him, "That wasn't the way I wanted you to put it."

They both started to push the crate together and then the crate started to move. Soon they both pushed the crate into the water.

"We did it, Shadow", Amy said.

They both walked across the crate and was now on the other side. Ahead of them, they saw another creature with spikes around its body.

Shadow pointed his rifle at the creature and shot it in its weak spots.

The creature had died and the next door was unguarded.

They both ran over to the door, but it had another huge red crate in front of it.

Shadow and Amy pushed the crate out of the way and went through the door. When they went through the door, they saw more ganados in front of them down a short passage.

He took out his handgun, "I guess they were expecting us." He began to shoot most of them just to clear them out of the way.

They soon came into the next room and saw more ganados waiting for them in the next room. As they approached closer, Amy pointed at a pile of rocks noticing a door behind them, "Shadow, look. There's a door over there."

"Yeah but how are we suppose to get to it?"

Amy looked around and saw a lever in a small building being guarded by ganados. She looked up at the ceiling a saw a huge wrecking ball. She turned to Shadow, "Shadow, I have an idea. I need to get over to that lever over there." She pointed at the small building ahead of them.

Shadow took her hand and led her over to the small building while shooting at the ganados ahead of them with his handgun.

Once they got in there, Amy started to operate the lever which sent the wreaking ball crashing into the rocks that was in the way of the door while Shadow was watching out for any ganados that would appear and would try to hurt or take Amy away. Soon the wreaking ball smashed the rocks into pieces. Now they could both go through the door. They quickly went into the door before any other ganados came. They now found themselves in a dim long hallway. Both of them heard a familiar heavy breathing noise coming from ahead of them.

Amy grabbed Shadow by his arm, "Shadow, I heard that noise before and I don't like it."

"It's those things again", he and Amy slowly walked down the hallway until they ran into the creature with spikes around his body.

The creature walked towards them slowly while it was breathing heavily with agony.

Shadow took out his rifle and shot at the creature's weak points.

Its fluids exploded from its body and it then died a very painful death.

Soon Shadow and Amy came to a door with two switches on the side of the door.

'Two switches?' Shadow thought. He looked over to Amy, "Amy, take that switch over there."

She nodded and walked over to one of the switches while Shadow took the other.

They both noticed a green light above the door. When the green light turned red, they both pulled the levers down making the door unlock. They went into the door and saw a bulldozer.

Amy got in the driver's seat and looked back at Shadow getting on the back of it, "Leave it to me, Shadow."

"Yeah right", he muttered as Amy used the blade of the bulldozer to break down the wall in front of them.

Amy started to drive the bulldozer down a tunnel.

Everything seemed to go smoothly until they both heard voices from behind them.

Amy glanced at the back of the bulldozer and saw the ganados chasing them, "Shadow, behind us!"

Shadow spun around, took out his handgun, and started to shoot them before they jumped aboard the machine along with them.

The ganados started to back off for a moment making Shadow think they gave up.

Then a huge truck came from behind them acting like it was going to run into them.

"We're going to die!" Amy screamed.

Shadow took out his rifle and shot at the man that was driving the truck making the truck stop. He looked back at Amy noticing she was shaking a bit, "Amy, calm down. Nothing's going to happen to you. Just relax and concentrate on where you're going."

Amy tried to calm down and continued to operate the bulldozer.

Shadow looked behind him and saw more ganados coming. He took his handgun and shot at them, killing them all.

Afterwards the truck started back up and started to run into them again.

Shadow took his rifle and looked into the scope focusing on the new driver that took over the truck. He shot at his head and then the truck had hit the support beam to the tunnel.

The bulldozer had came into a room which had seemed that there was no where left to go.

Shadow walked up to her, "Now what?"

Amy pointed to a lever above them, "There's a lever up there. I'm leaving it to you."

"All right. Amy, stay here and just scream if you're in trouble."

She nodded and watched Shadow make his way towards the lever with him fighting some ganados while he was up there.

Shadow made it to the switch but before he could pull it down, he heard a scream from Amy.

"Shadow!"

Shadow looked down at her and saw a man approaching behind her with a stun rod in his hand. He pointed his handgun at his chest and shot him down. He quickly reloaded his gun and pulled the lever down making the platform that the bulldozer was on move towards the top. He jumped on the back of the bulldozer and waited for Amy to break the walls down that was in front of them. Once she broke them down, they went down another path and soon enough more ganados came.

The ganados dropped from the ceiling and chased them from the back.

Amy screamed as one dropped from behind her with a stun rod in his hand.

Shadow quickly spun around and shot him. He walked over to Amy to protect her from any more ganados that had dropped from the ceiling. He continued to shoot the rest of them until they stopped coming for some reason. He then heard another scream from Amy. He looked in front of them and saw a huge truck coming at them.

Amy pointed at it, "It's coming right at us!"

Shadow took his rifle and pointed it at the man who was driving it and shot him in the head making the truck go out of control. The truck was still coming at them so Amy steered the bulldozer over to the wall and crashed into it.

After the crash, Shadow got off the floor unharmed and found Amy laying on the floor. She looked okay, but she had a hard time getting off the floor. Shadow ran over to her and helped her up, "You okay?"

She nodded, "Yeah."

He spotted a door ahead of them so he and Amy went through it.

Then they were both in a dark room with a merchant standing in the corner of the room. They approached the merchant.

Shadow took out money and gave it to the crocodile, "I just need more bullets."

The crocodile gave him the bullets, "Come back anytime."

There was another door ahead of them but before Shadow went through it, he saw money laying on a cabinet near it. He took the money and led Amy out the door. Then they both came into another room with little light coming through the ceiling. Ahead of them they saw a white hedgehog.

Silver glared at Shadow, "No more games, Hedgehog." He looked over to Amy and stared into her eyes, "You belong to me now, Amy."

Amy's head tilted to the floor and she looked up at Silver with red eyes.

"Come to me."

Shadow knew that Silver was controlling her with the parasite in her body somehow. He began to run up to Silver to stop him but Silver looked over to him and clenched his fist. Shadow then kneeled to the floor holding his sides like he was in pain. He was being controlled by the parasite in his body as well. He saw Amy walk past him and towards Silver. "A-Am...y", he groaned in pain. He took out a small tracking device and threw it onto the back of her dress while Silver wasn't looking. Shadow then fell to the floor still holding his sides while he watched Amy take Silver's hand.

They both walked out the room. Now with Silver gone, Shadow didn't feel pain anymore. He stood from the floor and looked at the door that Silver took Amy, "It-it's already begun."