Chapter 6: Rescue and wish to life

Eggman's prison camp was still on high alert, guards and sentries were patrolling the ground and jungles around it to make sure no further infiltration attempts were made. But they forgot to check the sky, as a helicopter was flying out of the horizon, on both sides were rocket pods and gatling guns, Shadow was at the cockpit, flying straight in, he swoop down low and open fires on the huts, the guards and the badniks. He flew over the camp and turn around to do some more damages, he once open up another volley of rockets on the guards and set the huts around them a blaze. The prisoners were watching it with full shock and awe, they cheers and urges Shadow to keep on fighting the guards. Shadow set his helicopter down on the ground, he hop off the chopper with a detached M60 machine gun, he mows down all the stragglers around him, he dash up to the cave where the prisoners were being held and shoot up the lock, "Come on, let's go! Get to the chopper!" Shadow led the prisoners running down the steps into the helo, some of them haven't seen sun lights for a long time, others were still getting through the jungles malaria and sickness. "Let's go! Let's move it!" Shadow hop into the cockpit again and raise the helicopter's altitude up above the jungle canopy then fly into direction of his Special Operation base.

The POWs on board were glad to be free from their captors, all of them couldn't wait to get home to their wives and children. But suddenly behind them, Eggman was afterring them in his very own gunship named "The flying egg". "You're not going anywhere you nasty little pin cushion! I'll blast you out of the sky!" Eggman fires his rockets in desperate attempts to shoot down Shadow, but unguided rockets are bound to hit the dirt instead. Eggman decided to opted for precision instead with his nose canons, he fires his three barrels 20mm nose canons at Shadow's helicopter, on the side of Eggman's helicopter were door gunners, but Earl quickly grab on to the Huey's gatling gun on the side of the helicopter and fires on Eggman's door gunners. "Damn it!" Eggman cursed at his losses, and so he decided to slow down a bit, then fires his AA missiles at Shadow, but when Shadow's helicopter was flying over a high gorge, the missiles hit the earth near the helicopter and explodes. Eggman flew in through the smoke and soon found Shadow lying in his chopper, the Huey was having a serious engine damage, assuming that he had won Eggman gently reach up to the red button to fire on Shadow. But Shadow quickly open his eyes with a M72 LAW on his hand, he fires at Eggman's helicopter and destroy both the fat dictator and his ride.

Shadow along with the POWs, gave a sigh of relief, knowing that their captor is dead for sure, Shadow mustered up all the remaining power of his helicopter to fly back to base. "Mako to base. I got the POWs, need immediate medical attention, coming in hot. Out." Over the horizon soon appear the GUN special forces base, the ground crew were rushing along the run way to prepare for Shadow's landing, before their eyes, the smoking Huey was descending with frightening speed, but their fears were swept away when Shadow landed the helicopter and shut the engine down. The black hedgehog jump out of the chopper with his M60 machine gun while the prisoners were being tented to by medical personnel. "Glad you made it!" Josh said to Shadow, only to get Shadow kick into his crotch and then bashed by the M60's stock into the face. Shadow walks into the hanger where there was no one working, but most of all Maddock wasn't there. He fires all the ammo of his machine gun at the computers and equipments around the hanger and point its barrel up on the ceiling and shouted "Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!" he exhausted the machine gun of its ammo and threw it away like used tissues.

He soon found Maddock in his office, who's now terrified to see Shadow again, "Shadow, this wasn't meant to be like this. It was suppose to be just another assignment. I didn't make the order, i took it just like you do!" Maddock tried to reason with the black hedgehog, who now holds a knife in his hand and pin Maddock on the table, Shadow stamped the knife near Maddock's right ear, and gave him a clear warning. "You know where they are. You know there are more of them. Find them, or i'll find you." Maddock was completely speechless, the emotions that a wash was too extreme for him to handle. While then Shadow left the hanger and walk away with Towers talking by his side. "You can't keep running Shadow, you're free. Come back with us." Towers asked if Shadow would want to come back to Special Forces, the place where he felt like home. "Go where? My friends are all dead. There's nothing left for me." Shadow replied in miseries toward Towers. "The war and everything were bad but don't blame your country for it."

"Hey, i died for it." Towers then realized what was Shadow asking for from life. "And what is it you want?" Shadow then gave Towers a clear straight answer about what he wants. "I want, what they want. And every other guys who came over here and spilled his guts and gave everything he had. Wants, for our country to love us, as much as we love it! That's what i want!" Shadow's wish will always have a profound impact on Towers, it was all a soldier could ever wanted, they want to be love, to be welcome home as hero no matter the outcome of a war. "And how are you going to live?" Towers asked his old friend, concerning for Shadow's well being. The black hedgehog replied "Day by day." and walks away into the sunset, living what's left of his life in Thailand.

(Playing Frank Stallone's Peace in our life)


Cast and Crew

Director-Jim Abraham

Story board-Grishka

Script-Grishka

Based on the character by David Morrell

Characters in order of appearance

Shadow the hedgehog-Sylvester Stallone

Blaze-Julia Nickson

Commander Abraham Towers-Richard Crenna

Marshal Maddock-Charles Napier

Eggman-Mike Pollock