Surprise, Surprise
"How much time has passed?" Sonic groaned, completely bored out of his mind, slowly waiting for Shadow to come up with a bizarre plan to finally free them.
"Two minutes..." Shadow was walking around, trying to get a good signal on a device that could help him contact with other G.U.N. officers. Getting them down here while the stairs had crumbled was another story. Shadow growled to himself, still no signal.
The azure hedgehog blinked, walking around to, but for a different reason. No way could it have been just two minutes, it seemed like an hour or maybe just a tad bit more, but two minutes!? Nope. Both hedgehogs were trapped in some sort of cave, a tunnel leading to an unknown place. Sonic was actually tempted to just run and see if it led to freedom. Sonic wanted to find a way out, Shadow thought it was a good thing to stay put and wait it out, thinking that they could find something down here.
Blue triangular ears twitched as Shadow cursed in another language, which sounded like Russian in his ears, which caused him to turn and watch the black hedgehog tying to find something. Apparently Shadow found nothing.
"What?" Sonic asked, walking up to Shadow who held up the device up to the ceiling of this cave.
"We need to find a way up," Shadow mumbled to Sonic who snickered.
"Would you like a little help?" Sonic kneeled down on one knee and cupped his hands.
Shadow glared shaking his head. He didn't need Fakers help, he already had an idea.
"Faker," Shadow crossed his arms and walked up to Sonic.
"Hm?" Sonic stood up, standing in front of the other.
"Give me your hand," Shadow ordered while outstretching his arm toward the blue hedgehog.
Sonic blinked and took a step back while putting his hands up.
"Whoa! Buddy," Sonic bit his lip, biting back an smile," I know you like me, but I didn't know you liked like me!"
"You-" Shadow breathed, holding back the words he wanted to say," The only way I would like you is when Maria comes back to life. Now, just give me your hand!"
"Uh, why?" Sonic slowly held his arm out, shocked as Shadow responded coldly.
Shadow quickly grabbed the others arm and Sonic jerked at a sudden prick that traveled across his body. The blue one tried to talk, but felt his body grow numb. He gasped as Shadow let go, the other falling down to the ground in a heap of misery.
"You had Chaos Energy," Shadow held out his hand, green flames dancing in between his fingers," That's all I needed from you."
"You needed to recharge?" Sonic mumbled standing up and narrowing his eyes," You could have asked!"
"Yes, but I need it more than you," Shadow stretched.
Shadow closed his eyes, and tried to manipulate the chaos energy inside of him, adjusting it to fuel his jet shoes. Slowly, he could feel it reach to his chaos powered jets and then a burst of flames. Sonic cheered at Shadow who hovered a few inches off the ground...
And then his shoes sputtered out and Shadow fell on his rear.
"You okay?" Sonic held back laughter. Not like Shadow fell on face or something, just Shadows power backfired on him.
"Yes," Shadow growled, glaring at Sonic, mind finding what that is?"
"Um, yeah, if I dunno, know where to look?" Sonic gave a 'duh' look toward Shadow, who just shrugged.
"We have to find a way up-" Shadow blinked, a purple chaos emerald flashing into his mind," Find a way to that emerald."
"What? Ones down here?" Sonic grinned," Alright let's go!"
"Wait, slow down for once Faker," Shadow grabbed Sonics arm and reeled him back to face him," I don't know exactly where it is and somehow, I feel this place slowly messing with me."
Sonic gave a puzzled look.
"It doesn't feel like it's down here, but yet it is."
Shadow shrugged again, letting go of Sonic.
"Do you think someone might have it?" Sonic asked," That happened to me once, I mean I can't really sense then, but I find them!"
"That's just luck," Shadow got up and walked around.
"Oh wow," Sonic scoffed.
"You're pathetic, Faker," Shadow growled.
"That's that! I'm not talking to you!" Sonic crossed his arms and turned away.
It was such a childish thing to do and say, but he was actually doing it. The blue hedgehog walked everywhere, not paying attention at all to the other hedgehog. Shadow raised a brow, standing there as he wondered when Sonic would break his promise and talk. However, it was a good feeling for Sonic to be quiet and now he had time to think to himself. The red-streaked hedgehog walked over to a rock and sat down on the cool smooth surface trying to locate the emerald. It was ticking him off as it felt like something was blocking it.
Or someone...
Shadow growled to himself trying to find out what was wrong and how he was losing his energy at a fast rate.
He continued to keep his eyes closed, feeling a little of the energy around, but it was all around and he couldn't decipher which one lead to the Emerald. Ruby eyes peered out toward the tunnel. The black hedgehog stood up and ventured toward the entrance of the tunnel. Shadow notice Sonic looking toward his direction, a mixture of confusion and curiosity on his bright emerald eyes. Sonic said nothing, but followed closely behind.
"The Emerald is somewhere at the end of this tunnel," Shadow simply informed the other, even if the other would not reply.
But it amused him when Sonic struggled to not talk back.
Emerald ruby for a moment. Sonic didn't talk at all, but Shadow could guess what he was going to say.
"No," Shadow walked forward as Sonic then pouted and caught," You know, you technically talking to me."
The blue hedgehog scoffed and rolled his eyes.
Sonic spoke with his eyes, saying 'No, I'm not' and stuck his tongue out.
"Maybe not to you, but to me you are," Shadow said, slightly annoyed.
Sonic opened his mouth to say something but then look down at the ground and Shadow gladly walk ahead.
The hallway was very dark, and both hedgehogs were having a very hard time walking around. Shadow had to finally pull out the flashlight(Sonic is laughing, hah) from the bag and put it on. The light wasn't very much, but the more they walked down, the more Shadow can feel the power of the Emerald nearby. Sonic stayed close to Shadow letting his arm wrapped around the others and started a small stride with a big grin on his face. Shadow jumped and glared at Sonic, who pretended to not notice anything. The hallway was too big for the flashlight to really work and Shadow and Sonic had a hard time feeling their way around.
"How long~" Sonic whined, not even caring that he didn't want to talk to Shadow, to bored of his mind to care.
Shadow gave a quick glare for trying to concentrate on the chaos emerald. The black hedgehog knew he would have to hurry if he didn't want to just pass out, especially in front of Sonic. Both hedgehogs turned a corner and blinked.
It was a dead end.
An annoyed expression crossed Shadows face, a scowl settling in. Sonic stared, also annoyed, but not as much as the older hedgehog. Both just did there, blinking, just trying to comprehend the wall blocking them.
"I don't understand," Shadow closed his eyes and crossed his arms," The chaos emerald's straight ahead"
"Me either..." Sonic pressed his ear against cold stone and knocked on it," Sounds hollow."
Emeralds met ruby and they nodded.
They already knew what they were going to do.
"You alright for the next spin-dash?" Sonic asking, knowing his partner would think at any given moment," We can wait. Or, er, something else."
The blue hedgehog shrugged, not really knowing what to do when your energy being drained from you.
Shadow snarls toward Sonic and glared.
"I could stand up to 30 minutes," Shadow narrowed his eyes, "Give a few more minutes to that, if I'm lucky."
Sonic blinked, stepping up to Shadow and grabbing the ebony ones arm.
"Alright... "Shadow nodded, grabbing the blue hedgehogs arm as well.
They silence, waiting. Sonic stood still eying Shadow down with curiosity and worry. Shadow shook his head and scowled.
"Do not worry about me, "Shadow snarled at Sonic.
"Are you sure we should do this? "Sonic asked.
"Yes I am sure, " Shadow reassured.
"Alright, let's do this!" Sonic had a tight hold as well as Shadow.
Both turned into a tornado, easily destroying the wall into pieces. The wall stood no chance at all for both of their power. Sonic regained his balance while Shadow had a harder time.
"Are you sure, you are sure?" Sonic asked, getting a glare in return.
"I told you, I'm fine!" Shadow yet again snarled.
Sonic just shook his head and looked around. The seemed to have broken into a room that could have classified as a bedroom, a bed in the corner, a dresser over there, a big mirror on the other wall, and the reared up carpet. In front of them, a few feet away stood a door that was opened and had its handle ripped off.
"The chaos emerald is straight ahead," Shadow nodded toward the door, noticing some sparks that shit out from wires that swung loosely for the ceiling.
Did I say that this place is really, and I mean really, absolutely destroyed? No? Well, now you know.
Wishing Sonic could be replaced with someone else, Shadow walked through the door, pushing it out of the way as he needed to get closer to the energy of the Emerald. Sonic lingered behind, taking notice of more notes that had writing in English. He picked one up, examining it before calling for Shadow. Who ever happened to write this didn't care for neatness. There were hardly any words he could read. It was torn and looked old, like it could have been here for a while.
"What?" Shadows voice made Sonic jump and he ended up almost dropping the paper.
"Look," Sonic showed the paper and handed it to him.
Shadows brow raised as he scanned the paper.
"'Sorry I tried to duplicate the project'?" Shadow read off the paper, or tried to," 'We tried to hide it, but they found us.' What? I-what's this about?"
"I dunno," Sonic grabbed another one," August 28th, 1981? Wow, this place is pretty old."
"August 28th...?" Shadow froze, he slowly walked backward," The papers to ripped and burned to read."
Sonic found a paper with just sketches on them, showing Shadow.
"Is someone trying to copy what the Professor did?" Sonic asked, looking at another paper," Looks like it was shut down though..."
"I doubt they could," Shadow dropped the papers down, watching them flutter to the ground," Professors design would be to hard to copy. He made this body with a lot of work."
"Yes, because no one could ever recreate a hot body like yours~" Sonic teased," No one~"
Sonic blushed after he realized what he said.
"Um..."
"I meant my powers, but creating a body that could think and hold emotions would be hard as well," Shadow raised a brow, and walked slowly toward the door and looked at the other tiny room that was bare.
"Yeah, " Sonic shrugged and entered the other door and stood waiting for Shadow to come.
Shadow closed his eyes, a small almost-there smile crossing his face.
He could notice the discomfort of the other as they ventured further, not caring for the other papers, already keeping some to show to G.U.N. later. Sonic had stated to hum, being bored. More notes were scattered more and more around each room.
Shadow stared at the burned papers, wondering why anyone would try to do anything like that. The black hedgehog walked up to another door(wow, doors, so interesting) and opened it. He didn't go in there exactly, just standing by the entrance of the door. It would have shocked Shadow that the room was made for a laboratory with a tube looking like the same exact thing that he was made in. But a glowing purple Emerald floated above the floor in the center of the room. That was the thing that caught his eye and Shadow slowly walked up to it and snatched the Chaos Emerald off the floor.
"Found it, Faker," Shadow held it above his head, feeling its power.
"The chaos emerald?" Sonic asked running through the door, holding a lot more papers,"Oh, sweet, can we go now?"
Shadow nodded, holding up the chaos emerald.
"Chaos Control!" Shadow shouted, a flashing light blinding Sonic.
Shadows eyes widened ever so little at hearing this mechanical laughter fill his ears.
"Have fun Shadow, you'll be next, eventually."
One look at the blue hedgehog, told Shadow that he was the only one who had heard it.
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...
The G.U.N. commander scanned over the papers held in front of him.
"Project?" The commander spoke," Never head of it. There were scientists who have worked over at a field that had been destroyed, but that was years ago."
All Shadow did was nod.
He was the only here at the moment, Sonic being escorted somewhere else. An officer had spoke to Sonic and Shadow had watched his eyes grow wide. Whatever the officer said got the hedgehog happy, as he grinned and ran. Shadow returned his thought back to the conversation.
"Seems classified," Shadow crossed his arms and scowled." I hope they didn't do anything stupid."
But judging by the damage, they did, Shadow thought.
"Alright, we will talk later about this, dismiss." The commander nodded, eyes glued on the paper.
Shadow turned walking straight toward the door, not wanting to be in that room any longer.
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...
Sonic grinned and poked Shadow. The blue hedgehog was having fun teasing Shadow. Both hedgehogs were walking to the commander to tell them what they found out and what happened. Shadow walked in ahead and waited. But before Sonic could walk in, a G.U.N. officer tapped his shoulder. Sonic turned to the women and frowned. He doesn't exactly like G.U.N. officers.
"What?" Sonic asked, emerald eyes blazing.
"Sonic we know we said in a week," She pulled the hedgehog away," But the commander said you've been good. You still have to work here, or we will do a lot more worse things than take him away."
Confusion washed over his face, bride things started clicking into place. And then a grin broke out.
"Where!?" Sonic jumped up, to excited to care what he did. He so badly wanted to see his little brother again.
"The courtyard, i-" The officer gasped as Sonic took off full speed.
Sonics mind was wired on the thought of seeing Tails again. He couldn't wait to talk to him. However, G.U.N. better have made sure not to harm him, or they would be the ones in trouble. As soon as he enters the yard, he slid to a stop and wrapped his arms around a much smaller frame.
"Tails!" Sonic cried out, tightening his grip.
"Hey, um, you're choking me," Tails croaked out.
Tails seemed fine, his fur was matted and dirty, but he seemed fine. Sonic had greatly missed Tails and Tails, the same.
"Are you okay?" Sonic asked quietly," They didn't do anything bad?"
Tails shook his head.
"Why would they do that?" Tails asked silently.
Sonic shook his head and caught a glimpse of Shadow.
"Can we go please?" Sonic stood up," Tell me we can go!"
Shadow nodded and disappeared in a flash of light. Sonic grinned bigger than the others.
"C'mon, let's go!" Sonic waved goodbye at the officers standing nearby a lot more happier than before.
Tails nodded, smiled and spun his namesakes.
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(A week later)
"Shadz!" Sonic yelled out," Over here!"
The blue one waved his arms around and poignant over to a whole. You know the murder of all those people? Yeah, they are still working on it. Right now, they were on a Nother mission trying to find out what was killing innocent people. Their place was in amiddle of a rain forest with brooms of an castle( an old village as well) and they were left alone. Nothing was on the outside really, but when you go inside a house you could absolutely see there was a struggle. The same claw marks decorated the walls all around. Whoever it was, knew what they were doing, but kept those call marks everywhere.
It sucked because how could you find someone when they seem to have claws for hands.
Shadow and Sonic easily walked together around the so-called town. Both of them rarely talked on such missions, usually just looking at each other. They were actually good partners, really good partners. The commander always teamed them up together, which got on Shadows nerves. A lot.
That wasn't really good either...
"Shadow," Sonic muttered," Who do you think did such a thing?"
"A monster," Shadow answered," That or a mastermind, but monster fits a lot better."
"Who could ever do such a thing?" Sonic asked himself," Sick person."
Shadow, who agreed silently, still wondered about that voice he had heard a week ago. Sonic was easy going again, and a lot more cheerful. However, Sonic wanted to hang out with the ebony one a lot more. Not just a race either, actual hanging out. Once he agreed, but only once, he regretted it because Sonic solely annoyed him, but then again these weird feelings just coursed around and made his heart flutter. It made him feel different.
Annoyance and...something else.
Just what did the blue hedgehog make him feel?
"There's nothing!" Shadow growled wanting to distract himself.
"Yup, nothing!" Sonic sighed, pinning his ears down.
A beeping sound was heard and Sonics had snapped up. Both of them looked at Shadows wrist, where the communicator was. Shadow sighed, not wanting to answer. He stared at Sonics eyes, telling him to ignore it for now.
Sonic shook his head and quickly grabbed Shadows arm.
"Hey!" Sonic said, sticking his tongue at Shadow," Sonic and Shads here!"
"Oh, I'm going to kill you, Faker!" Shadow hissed quietly.
"Agent Rouge needs help, she got trapped and she had found a chaos emerald." A voice said.
"Where?" Sonic asked ignoring the glare from the other.
"Where you were a week ago, where you two had gotten stuck. Rendezvous at our base. We expect you back by sundown."