"Are you sure we should be doing this Shadow?" Alex asked. Two nights before, while Shadow and Serena had been at Jordan's house, they had been surprised to find Yassen Gregorovich had snuck into the house. He'd knocked out Shadow, and had managed to take Serena and Jordan. Now, Shadow and Alex had found out where they were being held, and were now trying to break in. The big problems in this plan were one; this was Scorpia's main stronghold. Two; this was where most of their security robots were made, and three; the place was said to be impenetrable. "Yassen came back from the grave and took Jordan for a reason, and you know why Serena was taken. No matter what, we're getting in there and we're going to save them," Shadow said, getting last minute practice with his flame powers. His plan was simple. Use his powers to crush the army of guard robots, using fire to level them to scrap, jump over the wall, and search for Serena and Jordan. Alex was armed with gadgets, and despite Shadow's disagreements, the K-Unit were standing by as back up.
As they moved closer to one of the base gates, an endless sea of security robots were standing guard, all of them armed with machine guns and small missiles. It looked like nothing would get past them, human or transport, but could they hold back a "human dragon". As Shadow moved out of the trees, all robots aimed right at him, weapons loaded. It didn't matter, for, using his air shoes, he leapt right into the heart of the army, his hand surrounded by electrical energy. The second he landed, lightning arced out, almost disintegrating all nearby robots and the gates. He ran inside, freezing the ground in front of him, along with all Scorpia guards. "What, is this all you've got?!" he yelled in overconfidence and anger. Alex followed close behind, moving through the sea of frozen guards.
"So, this is how you repay us? After we take you in, train you, prepare you for life, and you help an MI6 agent escape. You may be young Serena, but that doesn't lessen the punishment for betrayal," a senior agent said to a defenceless Serena. Her hands were tied behind her back, and she had bad cuts and bruises from a beating, yet she still managed to spit out, "I guess you really think you helped me, after you killed my parents and took me from my only friend, making me betray him and all his friends? Yeah, I think I gave you what you what you deserved." "You always did have a problem with authority, but I guess that should have been expected. I think you should enjoy your last hour alive with a little television," he said, turning on a TV which showed a picture of Jordan backed against a wall, guns pointed at her. "Why you sick creeps! What has she ever done to you?" Serena yelled, struggling to free herself. At that moment, a flash of movement caught her attention, and she watched while something, or someone, stood between the guns and Jordan, a sonic blast coming from the figure's hands. She smiled while the agent's face turned from pleasure to shock.
"Took you two long enough!" Jordan yelled as she, Shadow and Alex dodged gunfire and took cover behind some metal crates. "Well there were the thousands of robots and the thousands of guards...." Shadow said, interrupted as more gunfire echoed through the building, ".....and there they are now," he said, trying to be heard over the gunfire, when he fell to the floor, gasping for breath. "Are you alright?" Alex shouted, kneeling beside him. "I feel....Serena's pain. She's so close to death, and I can't do anything about it!" he said, feeling his anger boil. His eyes burned with electricity, his hands surrounded with green energy, his feet surrounded by blue energy, while his body burned like flames. He felt Serena take another hit, his body tensing. "Stay close to me!" he shouted, starting to rise into the air. As he did so, all guns pointed at him, their bullets doing nothing to him. The energy around him grew stronger, an hourglass like shape forming, reaching up miles into the sky. The funnel narrowed, then, as Shadow felt Serena take another hit, he unleashed all his energy, engulfing the compound in chaos and destruction as the elements tore the place apart.
"What in the world just happened!?" the Scorpia agent shouted, seeing the destruction of the base. He couldn't make out anything, no buildings, men or robots had survived. He went to the door, about to go outside, when he realised that the ground outside was alit with flames. He then saw something that made his blood boil; the fact that Shadow, Jordan and Alex had survived, and were coming towards where Serena was held. He grabbed Serena, forcing her to her feet and dragging her outside. As he stepped out, he pulled out a handgun, pointing it at Serena's head. He saw Shadow tense, his anger boiling again. "If you try anything, your girlfriend here dies!" the agent shouted, his finger tightening on the trigger. He kept his eyes on Shadow, not seeing anything behind him. As he stepped towards them, a shot fired, hitting the Scorpia agent in the back of the head. Everyone looked to see the K-Unit emerge from what used to be a Scorpia warehouse. "Any reason you nearly burned us all to a crisp?" Wolf asked through gritted teeth. "Like I could control it," Shadow said, untying Serena. Before anyone could say anything, something flew overhead, a large Scorpia drone. As they looked up, they could see the sky full of them.
"Get out of here! We'll handle this," Serena shouted, her body surrounded by blood red energy. Shadow was also burning like fire, hovering slightly above the ground. Before anyone could stop them, they dashed into the air, causing drones to explode or fall to the ground. "We need to get out of here, let's move!" Wolf shouted, the K-Unit starting to retreat. "Cub, come on, we can't stay here!" Wolf shouted to Alex, who hadn't moved at all. "Someone needs to stay and help them," Alex said, with Jordan not moving either. Wolf nodded, following the rest of his men. As the sky burned of drones exploding, one of them flew towards Alex and Jordan, threatening to land on top of them. As sudden as a flash of lightning, Shadow and Serena appeared between them, a blinding light emanating from them. As more drones flew down, the light disappeared, along with the four teens.
As they woke up, Shadow looked around, seeing Serena, Alex and Jordan lying around him. They were starting to awaken, not sure where they were. They got up weakly, looking around. "Impossible," Serena said, looking toward a street where everyone seemed to be on a motorcycle. "Where are we?" Jordan asked, watching as people seemed to stare at them. "I know where we are, but I doubt you'll all believe me," Serena said, her voice showing she doubted the answer as well. "So.....where the heck are we?" Alex asked, looking at Serena with confusion. "I know it sounds impossible but, we're in the capital of Vietnam," she said, making everyone jump back. "But that's halfway around the globe! How did we get from the middle of France to Vietnam?" Shadow shouted, earning himself a lot of people staring at him. "I don't know, but at least we're far away from Scorpia......I hope," Serena said, looking into the vast number of people in front of her.