Wow thanks everyone,wasnt really expecting so much love already! Here's another chapter!
The site didn't seem much to Shadow, just rubble with the annoying hedgehog picking at almost *everything*. The only thing the blue hedgehog hadn't touched was *him*, but Sonic knew better and he wanted to live another day, anyway. The dark hedgehog turned a corner, pretty shocked to see a stairwell leading down into a basement. Well, maybe? Shadow walked a couple of steps down, using his chaos energy as a light, seeing if he can catch what was down there and how down the basement was. The red eyes couldn't see even with his heightened senses. Shadow growled ready to take another step down, curiosity taking a hold on him.
"That is a *looong* way down," A whistle echoed throughout the walls.
"Faker," Shadow growled making his chaos energy much brighter, finally noticing a couple of torches and lighting them up before facing Sonic," Watch your step."
Sonic felt weird when Shadow had told him to watch it, it just didn't settle on the speedy prankster. Usually he would say watch it to other people, not to Shadow through, since the elder hedgehog knew what he was doing. Emerald eyes catch the scratching on the walls once Shadow lit up about half the stairs, at least that's what Sonic thinks. The scratches looked like claws, like a poor animal had been dragged down against there will. Sonic walked closer to the wall and traces the marks. One look at Shadow showed that the black hedgehog noticed the marks as well.
"What are these marks?" Sonic asked," scared of knowing the answer.
He swore he has seen these marks before.
"It's scratches," Shadow answered," Probably from a bear or something, this place is pretty close to the forest."
Sonic couldn't quite believe that.
"Okay," Sonic jumped down the stairs, bounding up close to Shadow, who glared," What's next Mr. Grumpy?"
"We see what's down there," Shadow started to go deeper down, some things clicking into place, stairs creaking and moaning as they stepped on them.
His ear twitched when he heard Sonic gulp. Sonic quickly caught up to Shadow since he was quite blind without the light around. The torches burned out rather quickly since the chaos energy was not normal fire, burning the wood to ashes, leaving the chaos energy in Shadows hand the only light source.
"Uh, why?" Sonic asked.
"Didn't the guy say he was in a dungeon?" Shadow informed, holding his hand out more," This could be it."
Sonic nodded slowly, walking straight beside Shadow.
"Okay..."
"Don't worry, they probably moved the body," Shadow shrugged as if he didn't care about what lied ahead.
"That's reassuring," Sonic said sarcastically said back, jumping down a couple of more stairs, making Shadow growl at the hedgehogs stupidity.
"Faker, you want to break your legs?" Shadow walked a few more steps and stopped near a hole in the stairs," Or fall to your death?"
Sonic tensed up when he had heard 'break' and 'legs'. No, he would never break his legs. If he ever did that...he…he wouldn't be able to run...and if he couldn't run...?
Would he still be a hero then?
He didn't want to think about it.
"Please," Sonic played over his queasiness from that question and gave a smile toward the other hedgehog," I can survive the fall."
"What about your legs? Would you survive if you ever broke your legs?" Shadow raised a brow, jumping over the hole, whereas Sonic was just walking everywhere, shaking off his own fears of breaking his legs.
"Hey! We're near the bottom! Finally!" Sonic grinned, obviously avoiding the question.
Sonic jumped the last few steps and examined the door.
One thing here, G.U.N. officers wear uniforms, even if others(mostly male hedgehogs) don't wear clothes, they have to. The clothes usually match the hedgehogs color of fur(like Shadow's jacket is black with red rimming corners) but G.U.N.(human) just wear gray uniforms with yellow rimming each corner. Sonic wore the uniform(of course) with blue rimming each corner and the big blue 'G' on both of the sleeves near the his shoulder.
I bring this up because Shadow just caught is jacket on a stray twig stuck in the wall. And hung there as the floor collapsed underneath him. Sonic couldn't react fast enough as Shadows jacket ripped and he fell. Mixed feelings coursed through his mind as he kneeled down and blinked.
Of course he felt stupid as Shadow came back up(without a jacket) with his rocket shoes blaring.
"There goes our way," Sonic mumbled sadly as the rest of the stairs crumble and fell away.
"We can always Chaos Control back up," Shadow shrugged, landing next to Sonic, extinguishing the blazing beneath his feet.
"Alright," Sonic twirled around, not paying attention to the complete relief when Shadow came flying out(in a badass way, mind you) and butterflies raced in his stomach," Let's see abou-"
Shadow twisted the knob and the door slowly creaked open. The ebony one yet again growled at the younger ones stupidity.
"Or you could do that," Sonic muttered as he walked through the door with Shadow.
They were greeted by a cell looking with many of the bars broke and rusted with this red liquid dripping from ceiling and pooling down at the ground. Which Sonic didn't want to know what the thing was and hoped to God that it wasn't what he thought it was. The same scratch marks from the stairwell decorated the walls in the small room. This room was real small and only a desk and a chair was in a corner, being the only furniture present. Scattered around were papers with a foreign language written on all of them, with maps with red marker(always red, huh?) and red arrows pointing everywhere.
"Whoa," Sonic whistled with amazement.
"This..."Shadow mumbled to himself," seems familiar somehow..."
Sonic caught what the Shadow was saying and snickered. The azure hedgehog walked around grabbing a couple of stray papers and tried to find out what language it might be. He grabbed a couple of more and shoved it into Shadows face. The elder hedgehog growled and quickly snatched the papers away.
"What do you want, Faker?" Shadow scanned over the papers.
"Do you know what language it is?" Sonic asked softly.
Shadow stayed quiet, familiarity making its way into his mind.
"No," the red streaked one said slowly," but we could take this to back to see if any other people of G.U.N. does."
"Alright," Sonic shrugged and watched as Shadow folded the papers in half and put them in his pocket," Anything else we should do?"
Sonic looked around, wondering what else they should take. Shadow did the same, but moved things and picked things up. The ebony hedgehog blinked, feeling like he was missing something that they shouldn't miss.
"Hey," Sonic jumped up and moved the desk away from the wall and reveals a hole that they could crawl through or slide," We should go into it."
"Sure, go get yourself killed," Shadow said with such seriousness it actually scared the younger hedgehog," That would amuse me."
"What?" Sonic blinks, hoping Shadow was just kidding.
"Oh, you heard me," The elder hedgehog smirked, thinking that this wasn't so much of a bad idea with him freaking out his rival.
"Okay, wow," Sonic leaned against the desk that he has moved and glared at Shadow," I was just thinking that we could be able to find more evidence to help other people and, you know, *save* them?"
The darker one shrugged.
"Last I checked, you do that," was the only response out of him before he walked up to the squarish hole.
"I wonder where it leads to," Sonic leaned against Shadow, and the elder one had to stifle an exclamation at the touch, sending a high voltage throughout his body.
Without thinking, Shadow stood up and blankly stared at the blue hedgehog. Since Sonic was leaning on him, he stumbled and fell in his rear he the other stood up.
"Hey, warning!" Sonic scoffed, standing up and brushing himself off.
Shadow could still feel that touch, that tingle, but ignored it. He went back to crouching in front of the hole. He too, wondered where it lead to. It seemed like a garbage disposal, leading straight down to who knows where.
Maybe dead bodies?
Again, who knows?
Sonic glanced at Shadow, confused at why the other stood up abruptly as soon as he had touched him. His thoughts traveled again making the black hedgehog why he wasn't paying attention to him.
"Sonic?" Shadow finally snapped, getting up from his crouching position to shake Sonic out of thought," Sonic! Stop thinking about whatever it is or I'll shove you into this hole."
"What?" Sonic growled, but stopped himself when he saw the others eyes, once again losing himself for a while before looking at his shoes.
"We should just go down there," Shadow said,"I could just Chaos Control us out of there anyway."
The blue hedgehog nodded, briefly, before readying himself to jump.
" No, we have to make sure we are together,"Shadow grabbed a peach arm,"On 3."
"Okay," Sonic waited for the other one to count.
"3," Shadow said and jumped down the chute and couldn't help the smirk that crossed his tan lips as Sonic let a yelp produce from his throat.
"You bastard," Sonic screamed out,"Do it right you-"
"Shut it," Shadow did like to make the other uncomfortable, but not himself, but he has to suppress a gasp as Sonic wrapped his arms around Sonics fluffy chest, making Shadow have a bit of a flashback, as the high voltage coursed through his body again.
One time Maria had told him never to stick his hand in an outlet, but Shadow grew curious and did it, getting electrocuted. His younger brother laughed at him, but Shade could stand it since he was an electricity type, being able to manipulate it to his will.
This time he felt like he asked his brother to electrocute him for the fun of it.
"On second thought, this is fun," Sonic cheered all the way down, and when they reached the bottom, Sonic said," Can we go again please?"
"You are so *childish*, Faker," Shadow growled," Now, *let go*!"
"Hmm?" Oh, sorry," Sonic quickly let go, but to Shadow it felt just a bit to slow," Anyway, where are we now?"
"We are probably where everyone would hide dead bodies," Shadow frowned," Or where people kill, this place is old."
"Yeah, thanks for the lovely images," Sonic sarcastically said and almost pushed Shadow, but held himself in check," Can we hurry up and leave, this place stinks!"
Sonic waved his hand in front of his face. Shadow raised a brow at Sonics expression before looking around. It did stink, really bad actually, and Shadow felt like they should just already leave. However, this place felt familiar to him, like he has been here before.
"What the hell," Shadow hissed to himself, Sonic jumping up as Shadow suddenly crumpled to the ground,"Argh! C-crap!"
"Shadow! Everything alright?" Sonic kneeled in front of Shadow and watched with worry and terror in his emerald eyes.
"Y-yes, actually, I-I'm perfectly f-fine," Shadow stuttered," W-why would t-this place just drain my energy?"
"Wh-what?" Sonic stood up,"Wait, that means you can't Chaos Control us out of here! Why is it always the pretty ones getting stuck in a really smelly place?"
"Faker," Shadow warned, glaring, his ruby eyes looking into the cheerful one soul.
"Hm?" Sonic leaned against a wall watching Shadow stand up and walk around.
The dark hedgehog stumbled a bit on a couple of steps before he sighed in frustration and sat down on a smooth rock. Both were silent, looking at each other, both knowing what had happened, one not liking it and knowing he was rendered helpless until he could get his powers back while the other simply didn't like what was happening.
"We are trapped, aren't we?" Sonic asked.
"Shut it so I could think, hedgehog," Shadow growled, staring at the floor.
"I take that as a 'Yes, we are'."
"Shut it."
Sonic let a small laugh loose.