Chapter 5

Jenn's POV

I slowly opened my eyes to see Shadow staring down at me. I yawned and stretched, cuddling closer to him, "What time is it?" I asked, in a sleepy voice.

He looked down at me and grinned, "It's nine o'clock, you've been asleep for two hours." He replied, stroking my hair lovingly. Damn him and his hotness. I smiled up at him and laid my head back down,

"So I'm guessing you're not going to let me out of your sight anymore huh?" I giggled, kissing his nose.

"What do you think? The last time I did you got kidnapped in under two seconds. I'm not going to let that happen again." He replied, holding me tightly against his body.

I blushed, looking down, "Well can I at least go to the kitchen? I mean I haven't eaten in a while. I'm kinda hungry." I looked up at him, waiting for him to answer.

Shadow glared at me for a moment for even thinking of leaving, "Fine, but you're staying here got it? Now don't move." He got up and left the room, locking the door behind him. I sighed and laid back down, staring up at the ceiling, this is so boring.

He later came back carrying a tray of food, "Here you go. It's all I could find. I think the creatures invaded your house while we were gone." Shadow put it down in front of me. It was a bag of baby carrots which had one missing I noticed.

"Do you know who took the carrot?" I asked, picking the bag up and pointing out the empty space.

He stared at me for a moment and shook his head, "You know. I worry about you sometimes." He went off and locked the door again, sitting back down in his spot.

I thought for a moment, "Hey Shadow. Do you think I'd be able to join GUN? I mean, you're a GUN agent. Can't I work with you?" I smiled sweetly.

Shadow stared at me for a moment, "You're being protected by GUN agents right now. You can't really register…"

"Aw, c'mon Shadow, please?" I asked, using the puppy dog eyes for good measure.

He turned away from me, and then looked back, "Ok, fine. But I don't think they're going to appreciate this. Now we need to find a way to get there." He turned away, then looked back at me, "Here, take this." He replied, handing me the Cream costume he used to get here.

I took the costume and put it on, "Alright. It's kind of a tight fit, but I think I'll manage…" I replied, getting up off the bed and heading for the door.

James' POV

It had been an hour or two since I had got the doctor out of that small room. GUN had given the doctor and I each a room in Rouge's wing, seeing as the other two soldiers who had been in there was now, well, let's just say no longer with us. My room was at the end of the hallway, Eggman's door was left of mine, Rouge's was to the right, but the rest of the hall was mostly full of empty rooms, the only other soldier was near the other end of the building. I didn't have anything to unpack, as my stuff was all back at my shack, so my room was pretty much a plain room with a bed and dresser. I decided to go visit the doctor, he was adjusting his room and it had its own mini-lab in it for him to work with. We talked for about an hour; he had fixed everything up and was grateful for me helping out of that mess. After the talk he had told me he was going to bed and soon after I walked out the door I could hear him snoring. I turned to my door and there was a note taped to it. I picked it off and read it:

James, please come to room as soon as you can

-Rouge.

I turned to the door across from the doctor's and stepped towards it. The door had a sign on the door knob saying 'Knock First'. I quietly knocked on the door.

"Who is it?" I heard Rouge ask from inside.

"It's James" I said loud enough for her to hear me without shouting. I heard a ruffling of clothes and then I heard her reply.

"Come in, the door's unlocked." She said sweetly. I noticed the light wasn't on and if it was it was dim, since there was no light under the door. I opened the door slowly, the light was off and I went for the light switch by the door "Don't turn it on yet" I heard her call out. I pulled my hand away, wondering how she knew I was going to hit the light. As I shut the door behind me I remembered she was a bat, so she had echolocation. I turned back around and I heard her call to me again "Make sure you lock the door behind you". I turned around again and flicked the lock shutting the door. I turned and I her a slight clicking noise. Soon there was a dim light coming from the middle of the ceiling. I could barely see now, but I could make out made me believe I still couldn't see properly and I felt my face blush worse then it ever had. If my eyes weren't lying to me, Rouge was lying in her, reading a small book, wearing a semi-see through red sleeping gown. I walked a little closer and could make out the bottom of the gown was white and fluffy. She signaled for me to sit on the foot of the bed as she put the book down on her desk. I knew I was still blushing, but was unaware if she knew. We started a short conversation about how our day had been. After about and hour I think I finally managed to stop blushing. She asked me some personal things after a while, like if I had ever had a girlfriend. Most of my answers were 'no', which I think she liked from the tone of her voice and her giggling. She signaled for me to sit beside her, some what lying on the bed. I kicked off my shoes and sat/lied down beside her. She laid her head on my chest and I felt myself blushing again. She looked up at me and kissed my cheek. I blushed and she told me to stay with her for the night. I did as she said and soon she fell asleep on my chest and I soon found myself dosing off too. I don't remember what I had dreamed of and the parts I do remember I'm not about to tell to you readers, but what I will tell you is that it was a good, long sleep.

Jenn's POV

We finally managed to get to the GUN base with ease. We walked into the reception area and walked up to the front desk. Shadow cleared his throat,

"Ahem, excuse me. I have one for recruiting." He said, motioning towards me.

The woman looked up from what she was typing, "Cream the rabbit is not of age to be a GUN agent. And you are aware of this Agent Shadow." She replied curtly, going back to her typing.

Shadow grumbled, "It's a costume. You saw me leave with it a few days ago. Now please register Jenn the Hedgehog." He replied, tapping his foot impatiently on the ground.

Her eyes bolted from the screen, "Jenn the hedgehog? Isn't she supposed to be under your protection at her house right now?" she exclaimed, staring at him.

"Well don't you think she would be safer here with armed soldiers rather than in her little shack of a house where by the way she already got abducted?" he explained, a slightly annoyed look on his face.

The receptionist nodded, "That makes sense, but why register her as a GUN agent?" she asked, looking rather confused.

"So she could be trained to protect herself just in case something happens to me. Now please kindly register her."

The receptionist nodded and then starting asking Shadow questions while I finally took the tight costume off, man it's hot in here.

After much questioning, we managed to get me registered and get me a room where all the other soldiers were located. I walked over to the area and opened my room door, with Shadow checking to make sure no one was there to sneak up on us. When the room was said to be secure I walked in, sat down on my bed and looked up at Shadow, "So, what do we do now?" I asked, waiting for him to respond.

"Well it's almost midnight, so I suggest you go to bed so you're rested. You need to start training bright and early tomorrow morning." He replied, leaving the room and closing it tightly behind him.

I stared at the area where Shadow was standing and sighed, laying down on my bed and closing my eyes, drifting off into a deep sleep only to be awakened at 5 in the morning by the sound of an alarm.

James' POV

I was startled when I heard the alarm went off. I looked down at Rouge and she was looked up at me "Don't worry, it's just the wake-up bell" she said yawning. She pulled her self up and kissed my cheek again. She walked over out of the light's reach. I heard a ruffling of clothes and she re-entered the light dressed in her purple outfit from before and stretched. I got out of the bed and put my shoes back on. Rouge unlocked the door and opened it. I walked out right after her and she used her key to lock her door behind her. We met the doctor in the hallway. He seemed a bit stunned to see us both come out of Rouge's room, but he didn't ask us anything. I guessed what he may have thought we did in there. Me and the doctor followed Rouge and she took us down another 3 floors to the basement. It was a cafeteria. She took us to the counter, where there was a small selection of food. Most of it looked like blobs of color you see in prison movies, but there were some burgers and fries that picked out. I was able to get my coffee, but it seemed rather old. Rouge took us to a table and from what I could see; it was her own table as there was only three chairs at it. The table was a triangle; I sat with the doctor to my right and Rouge to my left. Rouge was eating a small fruit salad with a glass of what looked like tomato juice. The doctor had picked out a bunch of the colored blobs, which I could now see were mashed carrots, mashed potatoes, peas and some sort of soup. He also had a small glass of orange or apple juice. I had grabbed myself a ham sandwich and a cup of coffee. We ate peacefully. After we finished, the café had filled with soldiers. I was a bit uncomfortable with all these people, but Rouge and the doctor assured me I would be fine. Rouge saw the Commander and walked over to him when she took our plates to the rack. She said something to him and he handed her a small envelope and she walked back to the table and sat back down. She cleared her throat pulling out a paper from the envelope "Alright, here's our assignment for today, I am responsible for the two of you, so you will listen to what I tell you understood?" she explained. Me and the doctor looked at each other then back at her and nodded "Good, now listen. As you know, there have been several attacks on the city. We have been given the job to break into their base on the weird Blue Island that has been located beside Angel Island. Doctor, do you still have your Egg-mobile?" she looked at the doctor. The egg-mobile was Dr.Eggman's favorite invention; it was a small egg shaped metal case with a control panel and cushion inside, with a large clear screen that the doctor could look out of from his seat. On either side was a small jet that gave the device the capability of flight. It also had billions of attachments. Eggman nodded chuckling.

"Even GUN couldn't keep that magnificent invention out of my possession!" he assured her. Rouge smirked nodding.

"Why am I not surprised?" she joked "James, you can use Chaos Control without emeralds right?" I nodded. "Good, here's the plan. Eggman, I need you to use the walker attachment on your egg-mobile and use it to blast through the front lines of the island, then, when the aliens come out to attack, get air-born and bombard them from above until James and I get a chance to sneak in with your Mini-Eggman TV." The Mini-Eggman TV, the MET, is a small floating metal egg with a TV screen on it that allows the doctor to keep an eye on a certain area or follow people without putting himself in any real danger. "We have been given the code name Team Dark, so if GUN asks for Team Dark, you know it's us, understand?" the doctor and I nodded. Rouge got up and the doctor and I did the same. We headed back to our rooms to prepare.

It took me a few minutes to choose what to bring. I had stored a few things in my belt and also took the blaster pistol that GUN had given me. I came out of my room and saw Rouge waiting. Eggman was going to meet us on the roof. Rouge and I took the elevator. In the small box she held me close to her until we got to the roof and she kissed my cheek again before we got off. I felt the blush cover my face again as I walked out. The roof was a normal city building roof, but I didn't see Eggman anywhere. Then, suddenly, I heard him laughing from behind us. I turned and saw the doctor in his egg-mobile float up and land with a set of two metallic legs just in front of us. The small MET flew out and hovered beside me. "I'll wait for you guys back on Angel Island after you're done your invasion, so you have an easy escape route" Eggman explained. Rouge and I nodded and hopped onto the sides of his vehicle. He folded the legs under the machine and the MET floated up and landed on the seat beside him. We flew up and floated off towards Angel Island.

Jenn's POV

I don't know what the heck that alarm is for, but it's hurting my ears like mad. I quickly got dressed ran out, bumping into Shadow,

"Whoa, what's the emergency?" he exclaimed, holding my arms to keep me from falling backwards.

"I just want to know what that alarm is about…it hurts my ears…" I whined, holding one of my ears with my free hand. "It sounds like there's an emergency or something."

He chuckled, "It's just the wake up bell. Get used to it, your going to hear it every morning at 5 am sharp. So be ready. C'mon." he motioned me to follow him, unaware where I was going, although I did manage to catch a glimpse of James going towards some area in the base.

I found out we were heading for the cafeteria to get some food. Well if you want to call it 'food'. It was kinda gross looking and blobby, and gross. Let's just say I choose an apple instead of eating it. God knows what it was and I wasn't about to find out.

I sat down beside Shadow and watched James from across the cafeteria sitting with Rouge and some bald guy with a big orange mustache. Odd. I'm assuming he's one of James' friends, if he even has friends. I saw Shadow stare at me while I was eating, with a zoned out look on his face,

"Uh Shadow? What are you looking at?" I asked, tilting my head to the side. "Shadow? Shadow? My face is up here Shadow!" I waved my hand in front of his face.

He shook his head and snapped out of it, "Oh, sorry. I was thinking about something. After this we need to start working on training you. You need to be able to protect yourself if ever something happens to me." He replied, touching my hand gently.

I smiled, taking his hand, "Don't worry about me Shadow. I think I can pretty much defend myself. You don't need to train me or anything. Unless I need to go through this training to be a GUN soldier…" I tilted my head, looking at him.

Shadow cracked a smile, "It's mandatory for a new GUN soldier to go through the training. If you don't then you won't know how to use a gun. That's the most important weapon you'll use." He replied, leaning his head on his hand.

I bit my lip, "So I'm going to use a gun? Do I get to wear a uniform too? I saw James wearing a cool uniform…"

He laughed quietly, "Yes you get to use a gun and you get to wear a uniform. Now come on, we need to get you geared up for training." Shadow got up, heading towards the door, expecting me to follow.

I got up and headed towards the door with him, wondering what kind of uniform I have to wear and what gun I get to use.

We finally got to the area that was in a room with high tech security. I went in and looked around at all the guns and weapons there were. I walked over to a case full of rifles and shotguns. Shadow came over and covered the cabinet,

"Those are for more 'experienced' GUN soldiers. This here is your weapon." He handed me a small hand gun the size of my fist,

"Okay then. Why do I get this puny gone and you get this bigger one? I don't think that's very fair" I pouted.

"Our guns are exactly the same and I'm an EXPERIENCED agent." He took my gun and compared it, "See? Exactly the same, ok?" he handed it back to me.

I looked down at it, "But yours is black and red…mines only black…" I looked up at him, a sad look on my face.

Shadow sighed and took my gun, giving me here, "You can have my gun if it means that much to you. Now pick your outfit and lets get to training." He turned and left the room.

I looked through all the outfits and decided on a pair of camo pants and a red tank top. I slipped them on and took off after Shadow to begin my training.

James' POV

It was about 12 o'clock when we arrived at Angel Island. Eggman lowered us down. We jumped off his vehicle and backed up, the MET floated over to us. We nodded to Eggman. "Don't go and die on me now" I said humorously.

Eggman chuckled "Same to you old friend" he said as he leaped to the other island. Rouge and I hoped over to the other Island, hiding behind anything we could, keeping out of sight. We heard the explosions from Eggman's missiles and saw the blue aliens all run after him. When we saw our chance, Rouge and I took the MET and snuck into the doorway. I saw Eggman fly back to Angel Island after he spotted us getting in. That's when the MET kicked in, "Alright, I've done my part out here, let's get going." Rouge and I started down the hallway. The MET floated at about head level from to us. Rouge signaled for me to lean against the wall and I did. She looked around the corner then signaled for me to follow. I kept up with her and she stopped me time-to-time to let aliens go past. We kept out of sight to keep the aliens from finding us. Soon we go to a large room in what I assumed was the centre of the base. It looked like a giant altar. Rouge looked around and pointed out three massive creatures that looked like the ones from the ship we were on. The MET spoke up "Alright, I'll distract these meat heads while you two sneak past to the main power source." Rouge and I nodded as the MET flew out into view. The MET flew around in a figure eight grabbing the attention of the massive creatures. They all chased it down the hallway. Rouge and I stepped out of the shadows and crept over to a large metallic pillar in the centre of the room. It had several slots on it, four of the slots were empty and the other three were holding Chaos Emeralds. Rouge looked around the pillar and seemed to stop to read something. She was stunned at what she read.

"What is it?" I asked her, peaking around.

"Grab the emeralds, and get them out of here now" she said frantically. She turned to look at me "What are you doing? Grab the emeralds!" she boomed at me. Without further question I grabbed the emeralds and turned to see the MET flying back to us quickly.

"THE ALIENS ARE COMING!! HURRY UP!!" it boomed. Rouge jumped up and grabbed the MET and then reached out to me. I grabbed her arm and my eyes glowed blue as I activated the Chaos Emeralds.

"Chaos… CONTROL!!" I said as we vanished in a blue flash from the Blue Island. We reappeared near Eggman on Angel Island. The MET floated back into Eggman's walker and her looked over at us.

"Rouge, did you guys find the emeralds and find out why those aliens needed them?" the doctor asked as we boarded his egg-mobile.

"Yes and it's a good thing we got the emeralds back. They're copying you're grandfather's work." She said plainly. Eggman's grandfather was Gerald Robotnik that I knew; he was one of the greatest scientific minds of his age and had created the ultimate life form and ultimate weapon. What that weapon was, I had never found out.

"What do you mean? Are they making another Shadow?" he asked looking confused. Rouge shook her head and then Eggman seemed to think for a moment. After a moment he looked stunned "You don't mean?" Rouge nodded at him. Eggman looked at her as if she was insane. I looked at her and then back at the doctor.

"What is it?" I asked confused. Eggman looked at me and cleared his throat.

"James, I have told you my grandfather had made many great things and he had made the ultimate weapon, but did I ever tell you what it was?" he asked calmly. I shook me head. Eggman took a deep breathe "Have you heard of the Eclipse Cannon?" he asked bluntly. Again I shook my head. He sighed "The Eclipse Cannon is a weapon that has the power to destroy an entire planet and pierce stars" he explained. I blinked taking in this information.

"Those aliens are trying to recreate their own version of it, that's why they need the emeralds" Rouge said out loud. I looked at her and then I figured it out. These aliens were going to destroy this planet. We floated up and headed back to GUN. None of us said anything as we returned to the GUN HQ to tell the Commander this horrifying news.

???'s POV

I tapped my fingers on the desk in front of me, having received information from my minions that someone infiltrated my base and stole the emeralds from their place. Growling I took a vase and through it at the wall,

"You creatures are USELESS!!!" I boomed, getting up and going to them, grabbing one by the throat, well, attempting to. I glared and motioned him to lower his head. He looked at me then lowered his head, allowing me to grab his neck, "You listen to me and you listen to me good. You better go find who did this or you won't live to see the next century. And don't forget the GIRL!"

He looked at me and shrugged. I snarled and pointed at the door, "GET GOING!" The creature shrugged and turned towards the door, heading out. Sighing, I sat back on my chair, tapping my fingers on the desk again, "I need new minions…" I turned to the picture sitting on my desk and picked it up, "You're going to be mine Jenn…and when I get you I'll make sure you never see the light of day again." I crushed the frame in my hand, cackling maniacally.

Jenn's POV

I panted, falling to my knees and holding my chest, heaving. Shadow stood over me, shaking his head,

"You only ran one lap. C'mon get up and keep going. You can do better than this." He explained, crossing his arms over his chest.

I glared up at him, "Only one lap?!?! I ran around the whole city! Screw you! Let's see you do that!"

"If I run five laps around the city, will you promise to run that many laps too?" he raised a brow, tapping his foot on the ground.

"ARE YOU NUTS?! I can't run around the city five times! What do I look like an android?" I glared, holding my chest.

He huffed, "Your weakness disgusts me. Now get up and get running before I pop a cap in your ass." Shadow glared, pushing me with his foot.

I stared up at him and gave him the finger. Then I waved it off and gave him alright symbol and got up, "Alright, I'll do it on one condition. The condition is you run with me without your jet shoes ok?" I smiled, lifting myself of the ground.

He raised a brow at me and sighed, "Alright then" he bent down and took his shoes off and putting them down on the ground, "Ok let's go…" he took off running, me at his heels, trying to keep up.

After 2 laps I collapsed onto my back, staring up at the clear blue sky. Shadow laid down beside me huffing and puffing,

"Well I guess you win this round. I won't be so gentle next time." He turned over to me and smirked, "Now that you completed your 'training' I think you're ready for your first assignment."

"Wait. Did I really have to do this 'mandatory' training or was this only to distract me?" I glared, jabbing him in the side.

He looked away from me whistling, "Well, not really. I was just suppose to distract you so they could find a mission for you that even a two year old can complete…wait I wasn't suppose to tell you that." He quickly added, "you didn't hear anything" he got up and booted it.

I steamed, getting up and running after him; "WHY YOU LITTLE!! I'M GOING TO GET YOU FOR THAT!!!" I pulled out a hammer out of nowhere and started chasing him with it.

All you could hear in the distance was me yelling at Shadow and a GUN soldier asking another,

"Hey wait. Who gave her a hammer?"