The Bet10

Rouge swerved to try and lose the piliot,but to no luck.She couldn't head home,that was suicide.She remembered where she had first hidden from the other officers,why not repeat that.She headed towards the park at top speed and spiraled into the lake.No,she wouldn't be able to stay down there for long,and they knew that,for they stayed above where she had dived.Perhaps with the right amount of power she could do her spinning kick up and break the engine,what did she have to lose?Nothing but her life.She pushed off the floor of the lake and went ahead with her plan.It worked perfectly,the engine died and both the piliot and the president sailed into the water.She flew home immediately,and slammed the door behind him.

"Shadow!Shadow!"she called out,she should get him out of here quickly.She heard movment in his room,as though he were sleeping and had gotten up.She ran to his door and threw it open,finding nothing but a messed bed and clothes on the floor.Turning quickly she found herself running all around her house screaming out his name,where was he?

"SHADOW!" no answer from him,in fact she would have felt a little better if something answered her.Slumping down to the ground,she was back in her living room.Her eyes drifted to the floor,her ears motioned downward.A thousand fists pounded on her front door,the military had found her home.But still she did not move,she couldn't leave unless she knew where Shadow was. She felt like she yet again a little girl,when she though her parents had abandoned her,crying on the floor of the kitchen till they came home.Her baby-sitter had never showed that night,and the royalty of the Bat Kingdom had come pounding at her door that one night.Flash backs were reflecting in her eyes.Little did she know she really had begun to cry,for the crystal like tears had fallen and slid down her arm. More pounding,the sound of the hinges groaning,they wouldn't be able to take much more of this.Looking up to the door,ready for whatever may come first,either humans or dynamite,she saw a bright light.But this light was around her,not at the door. She noticed she was standing now...no...she was being held up,but things were indeed bright everywhere. They then started to blur and fade until the door,the pounding,the military,were no more. Now instead of her home,technology was were churning,their modems humming loudly.Weird creatures were suspended in tiny cages,and capsuls were in every corner of the room. Spinning around,Rouge came face to face with Shadow,who was now releasing her,so that she would have to stand on her own.

"Wh...where are we?"

"You can call it...ARK. Its my hospital"Shadow shrugged,tapping one of the cages lightly.

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The door to Club Rouge burst down,wood splinters flying everywhere.One of the soldiers held up a radio and replied into it,"sir there's nothing here".

"Impossible! How could she disappear from underneath my radar!" President Smith shouted back into the reciever. He was in a limo now,a towel drapped around him. Eggman sat in front of him,his hands neatly and calmly folded in his lap. Bringing out a labtop,he began locking on Shadow's signal of power.He laughed lightly,making Smith look up at him.

"She's not even on this earth anymore".

"WHAT!"

"Relax...she's just at the Central control tower or the Space Colony ARK.You remember that place don't you Smith?" Smith nodded darkly,he remembered clearly.He had been there once,a few some odd years back.He had been there on a check up on the good doctor and saw him making a deal with some alien creature who had satanic horns and was red and black.

Flashback

" Listen Dr.Robotnik...I'm in need of an heir to my throne.And you want to create the ultimate lifeform. So let us help eachother out shall we? I will give you the componets to make this ultimate lifeform...in return,you give him to me to be my heir to my kingdom of the 'Black Arms Planet'.He will have immense power,and will retrieve for me the chaos emerald.Do we have a deal?"

"Whats in it for me?I'm basically not getting anything"Robotnik had folded his arms.

"You'll be the scientist everyone remembers as creating the ultimate being...and I'll let you live if you do" the satanic creature said darkly.

"Fair trade".Smith hadn't given them much time to negoitate some more before he called G.U.N forces,but Robotniks had gotten away in their capsuls,with all the ingredients to make Shadow.And what was better,they actually got to keep him.

end flashback

-+-+

"So...what do you propose we do to get them back on our turf to hunt them down" Smith asked,leaning back on the leather interior.Eggman smiled cruelly,and rubbed his hands together.

"Their friends are still down here...and I do hate his best friend quite badly.So...its like killing four birds with one stone. Capture Amy,which drags Sonic down into my grasp.Hold him there drags Shadow...and where Shadow goes..."

"Rouge will follow" Smith finished,"But what about their enchidna friends?"

"They'll never get here in time.They took a vacation somewhere,both of them.It will be to late for them to take any action" Eggman's belly jiggled as he laughed evilly.

"This place...is where you were born? But I thought the Robotniks had escaped this place and created you on Earth"Rouge pondered as she followed Shadow into the depths of Ark.

"Not many people know that the good doctor didn't have everything on his Earth home.So he and Maria transported themselves here with transporters they had snuck with them,and created me here.Ark is the only place that had the correct technology".

"I'm pretty sure no one knows that fact"Rouge replied.

"Well...your boss does"he said darkly.

"You really think I chose that job by choice Shadow?"

"Then what was your reason? We've got awhile to spend here".

"I was blackmailed by threats,and yes,G.U.N killed my family to.If I turn you in...I gain my freedom".Shadow stopped and turned around to loook at her,stunned.

"Then why do you choose to suffer instead of gain something of value?"

"Because I swore to myself that I was not going to lose another person that I care about...we should keep walking"Rouge said quietly,pointing her eyes in the direction of another hallway. A loud jingle of 'chop suey' came from the pocket of Shadow's pants. Caller I.D Bluedude

"Yeah?" Shadow answered,what could be Sonic's problem now?

"Shadow...where are you?"Sonic spoke in a whisper,but why was he whispering? School should have been over with at least an hour ago.

"Why?"

"Cause...I really need to know,just exactly where".

-+-+

"Sonic held his phone close to his ear with his right hand,his left was above his head.Five military guns were pointed at his head by soldiers,Eggman stood in front of Sonic,holding an unconscious Amy.

"Is Everything alright?"Shadow asked on the other line.Sonic swallowed hard,it was either turn in his best friend...or lose his love life.Which if he really had a better choice,he'd choose to kick Eggman's ass. He only had one shot at this,and if he missed,these gunmen wouldn't.

"Shadow..."

"..." Shadow could sense something was wrong,every quill on him stood on rigid end.

"Shadow...don't come back".There was a series of,'You were not to say that'.And right on loud speaker gunfire erupted from the reciever,then dial tone.Shadow's hand was shaking as the phone slid from his grasp.Rouge's eyes were wide with fear and disbelief.

"It...it was a warning,meant to be a trap...Sonic...he...he was probably...held to gun point...to say something. Instead...he pleaded you...to stay away"Rouge's voice shook uneasily," the ultimate sacrifice...the best friend...don't you see Shadow? Everything is connected...where are you going?"

"Earth" Shadow sped towards a capsul.

"But Sonic warned you not to return!"

"My best friend's in trouble!"

"And if you leave you've left him to die in vain!" Rouge screamed back at him.Shadow stopped,his eyes dark,but his back was to her.

"You have no idea...just how much he'll put up a fight...he's still alive...I can feel it. You see...we are connected...I made this connection in kindergarden. And only I will know when he's dead...stay here".

"Stay her! Its you their after,not me!"

"They have as much as a reason to hunt you down as they do I"Shadow leaped into the nearest capsul and pressed the coordinates of Earth and where Sonic should be according to his own small signal.But before Shadow could close the top of the capsul,Rouge jumped in beside him,and then the top closed.

"What are you doing! I told you to stay here!"

"Well then your starting to rub off on me,cause I'm not going to listen".

"Oh,what an odd relationship we start off with".

"Re...relationship?" Rouge's cheeks turned bright red,they had a relationship?

A/N: I have updated,and am trying to get to all my stories,thanks to this long weekend. I hope you've enjoyed the chapter.Review please?