CHAPTER 5-4
When Shadow walked further, he was interrupted when his communicator beeped. He took it out and saw Silver on the monitor trying to look sad.
"Oh so sorry, Shadow. I know it must have been sad to kill Espio like that."
Shadow was silent for a moment, "No, you're the one that's going to be sad", he said in an angry tone.
"He wanted our power so I gave it to him."
"This isn't over, Silver. Not by a long shot."
He shook his head slightly, "No, Shadow. I'm afraid it is all over. Well...for you anyway." He shut off his communicator and Shadow did the same.
He walked up to a large field while kicking the dirt around on the ground, "Asshole." He was about to walk further, until he saw a swarm of soldiers ahead of him. He hid behind a wooden board and took out his handgun, "Damn! These guys just don't quit." Then a light from the night sky shone on him, he even heard a helicopter noise. The radio from his pocket beeped. He took it out and placed the receiver in his ear.
"Hey what's up? The name's Mike", a voice said from the radio.
"Heh, it's about time."
"Sorry I'm late, I got caught in traffic. Now lets take out these fuckers shall we."
"Yeah, lets do it." As Shadow headed for the ganados, the helicopter began to shoot at some of them with the gun on the side of it. He shot some of them, but the helicopter's guns seemed a lot more powerful which made him shoot more. Soon after they killed all the ganados, they came to a different area with a cliff near them and to make matters worse more ganados were waiting for them. Shadow leaned against a very old and huge support beam that was barely standing from the ground just like the rest of them. He looked at the ganados walking towards him, "Shit." He pointed his handgun at them and began to shoot them until Mike's voice had came from the radio.
"Don't bother, Shadow. I got this." Mike pulled the trigger to the guns on the helicopter and shot at them trying to get every one.
Many of the ganados fell to the ground dead with their blood still flying in the air afterwards.
Mike stopped shooting them and had his eyes on the last one standing.
The last soldier stood there in relief that he was the only one that never got shot. Then in front of him, a huge support beam had fell on top of him crushing his bones killing him.
Shadow talked into the receiver, "Great shooting. After when this is over, drinks are on me."
"Heh, I know a pretty good bar."
Then not far from him, Shadow heard a strange loud noise. He turned and saw Silver with one of the soldier ganados holding a rocket launcher in his hands from above him. He looked back at the helicopter and watched it get shot down by the powerful impact of the rocket.
The helicopter fell from the sky and landed on the shore of the island.
He ran over to the cliff and saw fire surrounding the severely damaged helicopter. He looked down at the cockpit of it and didn't see Mike. He figured his body must have exploded along with the helicopter. He angrily looked back at Silver walking away with the soldier ganado by his side. He gritted his teeth, "Silver, you're next I swear it." Then his communicator beeped. He took it out and saw Silver on the monitor with am evil smile on his face.
"So much for your ticket home huh?"
"Fuck you asshole!"
"Sorry Shadow, I'm just not comfortable with the government around. I really had no choice. Well anyway, I just wanted to let you know that the parasite inside of your body is growing rapidly. If this continues then you will soon be under my complete control."
"Get over yourself, snow white cause that ain't happening."
His smile faded a bit, "You'll see soon enough." He shut his communicator off and so did Shadow.
He then had his attention on a door near an old building. He walked through the door and found a ladder leading down to another area. He jumped down and found Rouge looking around the room.
The room had nothing much to it, the ceiling was acting like it was about to fall apart and there was only one light hanging from the ceiling.
He looked over to the white bat and then he held his sides like he was in pain.
Rouge looked over to Shadow with worry, "Shadow, are you okay?"
His pain then went away and stepped away from Rouge a bit, "Yeah, I'm fine", he said in an exhausted voice. Then his pain had came back to him and this time it was a lot worse.
Rouge got even more concerned with him, "Shadow!"
His pain had strangely stopped again. He looked over to Rouge with his eyes glowing.
Rouge had knew something was wrong with him when he started to walk over to her in a strange way.
Shadow then grabbed her neck and tried to suffocate her.
She tried her best to get him off her, but he had a pretty strong grip around her neck. She then grabbed a small pocket knife out of her garter and stabbed it in his leg.
Shadow yelled as the knife was stabbed deep in his flesh. He was clearly now out of the parasite's control for now.
Rouge still didn't want Shadow near her at the moment so she kicked him off her with her knee.
Shadow fell to the ground and quickly got back up facing Rouge, "I-I'm sorry, Rouge."
Rouge placed her hand around her neck trying to breathe. It was a relief that she didn't die from him. She took her hand from her neck and looked over to Shadow taking some kind of pills. She had no idea what they were for, but she had an idea that it helped to reduce the parasite from spreading any faster in his body. "Shadow, you have to get that parasite out of your body."
He placed the bottle of pills back in his pocket and looked over to Rouge, "I know, but first I have to save Amy."
Rouge was a little jealous of Shadow talking about Amy a lot. She was wondering if he had any feelings about her. She then took her mind off the subject and walked towards a door that was in the room, "Lets spilt up", she then walked out the door.
After when she left, he went out the same door and found himself in a dark hallway while hearing a strange and familiar breathing noise. He took out his rifle and reloaded it, "It's gotta be those things again." He walked down the dark hallway slowly while looking at the small jail cells on each side. Ahead of him, he finally saw the monster with huge fangs appearing from his mouth walking up to him. Shadow pointed the rifle at the monster's body and looked through the scope. He saw the monster's weak spots and shot at them until the monster finally collapsed to the floor with its insides exploding from his body. Afterwards Shadow found another door in front of him. He went through the door and ended up in a huge room with many ganados standing around in different places ready to attack him. He took out his handgun and began to shoot the soldiers from the higher places.
The soldiers fell to the floor and died. The rest of them walked up to Shadow with crossbows, stun rods, and flails in their hands.
Shadow smiled feeling assured that this would be easy. He started to point his handgun at them and began to shoot them all, until he could find a door that would lead him out of the room. When he finally found the door, he quickly went through it before they had called more of them to attack him. He walked down a short hallway until he saw another door in front of him, but this time it was guarded by two huge ganados wearing armor and clubs with spikes around it in their hands. "Great these guys again." As they started to approach him, he took out his magnum and shot them in their heads with ease.
The two huge ganados fell to the floor and melted.
Now that the door was unguarded, Shadow could go through it. He went through the door and he was now in some kind of huge room with a lot of machines in it. Ahead of him, he saw a pink hedgehog standing in a small capsule unconscious. He gasped, "Amy!" He ran up to her, but a white hedgehog had walked up to the capsule before he could. "Silver, get out my way!"
He laughed deeply, "I don't think so. If you want her, you'll have to kill me first."
"Heh, something I wanted to do ever since I met you." He took out his handgun and shot him with it. Even though the bullets had sunk into his flesh, he saw no blood or any signs of pain on Silver. "What the-"
The hedgehog had stood there with his body shaking a bit.
Before Shadow knew it, he saw the bullets that he shot into Silver fall onto the floor, "I don't believe it."
He laughed again, "Now my turn." He held his hand up at Shadow and clenched it into a fist.
Shadow then dropped his gun to the floor and fell to his knees yelling in pain.
Silver laughed as he was showing his signs of agony, "You can't resist my power, Shadow. You can't escape it."
On the second floor of the room, Rouge was looking at the fight take place and saw Shadow practically dying in front of her eyes, "Shadow, no!" She took out her machine gun, pointed it at Silver's back, and began to shoot him.
Silver immediately took his mind away from Shadow and looked over to Rouge shooting at him. He smiled letting her know that her gun was no match for his incredible power. He began to approach her while she kept shooting at him.
Shadow tried to get off the floor quick and took advantage of Rouge's distraction. He picked his gun off the floor, ran over to Amy, and opened the capsule she was in.
The capsule had opened and Amy had fell into Shadow's arms slowly waking up. "Sh-Shadow..."she said in a soft voice.
He didn't bother for her to walk because he had knew that she would be walking pretty slow, so he carried her. "It's all right, Amy. You'll be fine."
Silver turned away from Rouge and saw Shadow carrying Amy out the room, "No!" He rose his hand towards Shadow once again trying to control him.
Shadow tried his best to resist the pain, but it was getting worse and worse by the moment.
Rouge had to stop him from controlling Shadow. She glanced around the room looking for something to stop him with until she spotted a red barrel that probably contained gas in it. She shot at it and then the barrel had exploded immediately making everything else explode in the room.
Silver took his mind off Shadow making him have the strength to carry Amy again.
They both ran out the door in the room before they had died in the explosion and came into another short hallway.
Shadow set Amy on the floor thinking that she could stand on her own now. His legs felt weak and wanted to collapse to the floor, but he didn't. He leaned against the wall panting heavily.
Amy slowly looked over to Shadow trying to get himself together, "Shadow, are you okay?"
He shook his head slightly, "Not really."
She smiled and ran over to him hugging him, "Thanks for saving me, Shadow."
He weakly pushed her away from him, "You can't thank me yet. I still gotta get you home remember?"
She nodded and watched Shadow take his body away from the wall, "Lets continue." He walked down the hallway towards another door.
"Right", she followed him down the hallway towards the door.
They went through the door and was outside of the building, but saw another door leading to another part of the building. They went into the door and ended up in a room with a strange machine in it.
Amy stared at it with curiosity, "What is that?"
Shadow walked over to the controls and turned the machine on, "It looks like this machine can take the parasites out of our bodies."
"Really?" Amy asked excitedly.
Shadow walked over to the machine and faced her, "Only one way to find out."
She was afraid that Shadow would die from the machine. It didn't look very safe, "Shadow."
He got in the machine and turned to her, "I'll be fine. Just operate it."
She slowly nodded and started to operate the strange machine. The tools on the machine pointed towards Shadow's chest and then a weird light had sunk into him making him move around in pain a bit. She looked away from Shadow and saw on the monitor that the parasite in his body was moving around. She looked away from the monitor and back at Shadow hoping that he wouldn't die from getting the parasite removed from him. She looked back at the monitor and saw the parasite explode into millions of pieces. Afterwards the machine stopped and Shadow had got out of the machine panting a bit.
He walked up to her slowly still a little hurt from the battle with Silver and the machine. He tried to smile at her, "That wasn't so bad."
"Shadow, I'm scared. What if I die?"
He placed his hand on her shoulder, "Look, if you don't get that parasite out of your body you will die."
Amy looked to the floor a bit then faced Shadow again.
"Just do me a favor and get in the machine...for me. You won't die I promise."
She smiled a bit and decided to get in the machine.
Shadow then started to operate the machine. Once he did, Amy started to move around and groan in pain. Shadow stressfully watched as it happened. He hated seeing her like that, but it was the only way to get the parasite out of her body. 'Hang on, Amy. Almost done.' He looked on the monitor and saw the parasite shatter into pieces. When the machine stopped, Shadow ran over to her and wondered if she would be all right. "You okay."
She had a faint smile on her lips, "Never better."
Shadow then made a smirk, "Now that those things are out of our bodies, I got some unfinished business with the jerk that planted the parasites in our bodies in the first place."
N/A: Sorry another busy week. School shopping is a drag.