Chapter 3: Prison break
Night falls across the land, the midnight hours is close at hand, predators crawl in search of blood, but one river boat determined to float in Eggman's waters. The boat that faired Shadow and Blaze upstream earlier that day has finally reach its destination, a small river banks shielded by palm trees and bushes, the black hedgehog and the lavender cat disembark the boat and walk inside the jungles all the way to recon the prison camp. Once arrive, it was already dead at night, so guards and patrols have been maximized to prevent any and all infiltration attemps from the outside. The gates were guarded by grunts of the Egg Legion, wearring their distinctive dark uniforms with red gloves. "They kept the prisoners in a small cavern up on the stairs next to the cafeteria." Blaze pointed Shadow to the rocky stairs, carved out of the moutain's side itself. Next to it is the cafeteria, a mear wooden cottage with tables and seats all made out of woods of the jungle, since the jungle's monsoon rains would degrade metals.
"I'm going in." Shadow said to Blaze, who protested his attemp to infiltrate since it would be suicidal, and his mission was to take photographs of the prisoners. "My camera is gone." Shadow simply replied to her his excuse, he then proceeds to slowly swim into the prison compound via the the small water irrigation system of the camp, he slowly snoopping around to find any live prisoners, he heard some moaning and coughing sounds, he quickly Chaos Control to where the source of the sound and found a wooden bar, inside there were prisoners, 7 human prisoners, sick, weak, their only companions are each other, rats and spiders the crawls around them. But Shadow suddenly heard another grunting sound, it was another prisoner being tied up and hand like Jesus Christ on a cross.
Shadow jumps down to the rescue, he untie the prisoner and helps him hobble to safety, but while doing so, Shadow threw a knife into a Badnik that was pointing the spotlight near them, then he threw another knife into the head of another Badnik that spotted them. By next morning, the Egg Legionaires and the Badnik has found their deads and sounds the whistle to hunt down the intruders. While then Shadow, Blaze and the live prisoner that he rescued were running to the boat. "Hey…th…thanks for saving me bro…Earl Banks…First Platoon…Force Recon. What year is this?" Earl asked the black hedgehog, "3265" Shadow replied to Earl, Earl's bearry, scarred face degenerated into shock and awe, he realized that he was imprison for 20 years on end.
Shadow brought to the boat and hide him inside the passenger cabin, before give Malik the signal to set sail downstream . But while the boat was leaving the bank only for a mere 50 meters the Egg Legion has finally saw them and call in a naval Badnik to hunt down Shadow and the prisoner. The boat was going smoothly until it stop all of a sudden, Shadow peak out of the curtain and found the reason why, Eggman's river patrol SwatBots has arrived. Malik along with his band river pirates, hold Shadow, Blaze and Earl at gunpoint. "We're sold out." Shadow said. Malik went into the cabin and slap Blaze for bribed him into risky government covert operations and not warning him.
"It's all your faults that I got caught in this mess, now Eggman's coming to finish my business! And who's to blame? You of course! You lavender pussy bitch!" While Malik was ranting his rage on Blaze, Shadow slowly reach to his knifes buckled behind him, he pulls them out and stabbed the two pirates besides him, then use one of the pirate as meat shield, Shadow grab the shotgun on the table and slaughter all of the pirates with ease. Blaze set another pirate on top of the boat on fire , forcing him to jump down in the river. Eggman's riverine Swatbots open fired their machine guns on the boat, peppering the cabin with holes and holes and led. "Jump, just go! I'll handle battery brains!" Blaze and Earl jumped into the river, leaving Shadow to grab an RPG7V2 from the weapon box, he aimed it at the Swatbot's boat and fire a direct hit on the boat's weak spot, the ensuring explosion set the metallic patrol boat ablaze but didn't sunk it. Shadow jumped into the river just when the the two boats collided into each other and blew up. On the river bank, Blaze and Earl both watched anxiously, hoping that the black hedgehog has survived the explosion. The surface of the river was shattered when a head wearring red bandana with black fur surfaces, "You made it Shadow!" Blaze was relief to see her hedgehog has survive and swam to safety on dry land.
