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Chapter Fifteen
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Shadow stood in front of the newly opened doors, glaring into the base's darkness. The only thing Shadow wanted to do was find Amy and rescue her from whatever had captured her. Shadow had expected to see some kind of security robots racing at him, but the base was silent. Deadly silent. As he entered the building an eerie mechanic whir filled the air. Shadow frowned and carried on walking into the darkness; trying to ignore the strange sound. He wasn't scared; but he felt uneasy walking through the derelict base. He strained his ears to hear even a squeak above the mysterious mechanic sound. As he kept walking he noticed that the further into the darkness he got, the louder the sound was getting, the black hedgehog didn't know if the sound was being made by something that was stalking him or if he was getting close to the source of the noise. Shadow walked quietly to where he thought the sound was; not caring about the different passageways either side of him. He needed to find clues that lead to Amy and if this entity that was making that horrible whir knew where his rose was; he needed to talk or decipher it, at all costs.
As Shadow slowly entered the room where the noise was louder than any of the others, he recoiled at the strong smell of oil and burning chemicals. His ruby eyes scanned the room, looking for the source of the whir. Shadow walked up to the console and began typing in various codes he had picked up when he 'worked for' Eggman. After pressing submit key, alarms went off throughout the base. Shadow cursed under his breath and submitted the only cancel code he knew; when that didn't work he brought his fist crashing down on the console in anger. A smirk of satisfaction crossed his lips when the alarm died with a distorted beep
"Identify Yourself" A mechanic voice stopped Shadow's fingers from descending back onto the control panel. He scanned his crimson eyes to his left to see robotic eyes staring back at him
"Shadow the Hedgehog" Shadow introduced himself with a smirk "You are?"
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Amy desperately tried to find a way out of the cage she was trapped in. No one had come to see her or even dressed her wounds. She knew if they weren't dressed soon, she'd get an infection from the dirty floor. Amy sighed and led back on the bars, at least she had time to think about things that had just happened and what the situation was between Shadow and herself. She thought back to that day he had confronted her about her seeing his memories. She didn't know why she had seen this particular gruesome memory and why it was only the one of Maria's final breath, although she knew nothing of it before she dreamt it. Amy wrapped her arms around herself; that dream still sent shivers down her spine. Amy knew she cared for the onyx hedgehog, cared for him deeply. The infatuation she had for Sonic was weak compared to this. What she felt for Shadow was something more powerful than she could imagine, she couldn't believe she thought she had loved the blue hero. She felt more for Shadow than she had ever felt for Sonic. Which is more likely to be the reason why she had asked him to stay with her, living alone had its perks, but it had twice as many downfalls. Before she had asked Shadow to stay with her, she was lonely, she often stayed with Cream, Vanilla and Cheese to keep that loneliness at bay, but with Shadow; with Shadow it killed the loneliness completely. Amy wasn't one to talk to people about what she felt after Sonic, because everyone still assumed she was still after Sonic; Vanilla had mentioned it on many an occasion. Amy sighed, maybe having time to think wasn't a good thing after all.
Amy's mind went over the warning both Draith and Silhouette had mentioned to her. They were being serious. Amy tried to put her head in her hands, but the pain from her shoulders made it nearly impossible. A tear rolled down her cheek, not from the pain, but from the loneliness and the clutching fear of claustrophobia. She thought of Shadow and his beautiful ruby eyes and the kiss he'd given her. Maybe Shadow was coming to get her? She could only hope. Amy jumped when she heard something drop from behind her, she twisted around, ignoring the pain in her shoulders and stared into the darkness.
"Who's there?" She called into the eloping darkness. Something rattled in the dark and Amy scurried back near the bars away from the sound. She was petrified, but she was damned well not going to show it. Amy watched the darkness for any movement of shadows, training her emerald eyes to the shadows. She squealed when hands shot out of the bars behind her and covered her mouth and held her securely to the bars.
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Sonic yawned. He was getting bored of looking for both Shadow and Amy. The blue hedgehog had forgotten about trying to talk to Shadow about the dead human in his flat, mostly because Shadow must have had a good reason to kill him in the first place. Sonic genuinely thought that this was a one off, and Shadow had let his emotions run wild. The blue hedgehog knew that there was something going on between the pink and black hedgehogs but he wasn't sure what was going on. He had noticed that Amy had become very attached to Shadow and Shadow seemed to have a soft spot for Amy. Sonic could see that there was chemistry between them both. He sighed and looked at Tails, who was currently asking a passer-by if they had seen a black and red hedgehog. Sonic didn't know why Tails bothered asking; Shadow was too fast to be seen by a human.
"Why yes!" Sonic's ears picked up the old man's response. "He was heading north" Tails smiled at the man
"Thank you sir" Tails said nicely, before turning his head to Sonic with a sly grin.
"North it is" Sonic said, ignoring Tails' smugness. He sped north, new hope and adrenalin running through his veins.
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Shadow grinned as the robot beeped a few times trying to process his name. If it was an Eggman robot it would surely attack him as soon as it had fully comprehended what it was facing. Suddenly the robot came from the dark corner it had stood in and revealed itself to the onyx hedgehog. A smirk overcame the grin on Shadow's face, it was an old E-series robot, and it looked exactly like Gamma.
"Shadow the Hedgehog?" the E-series' robotic voice filled the quiet room. Shadow couldn't help but roll his eyes.
"Yes. I am The Ultimate Lifeform" Shadow said folding his arms. The Gamma look-alike emitted a few beeps and Shadow realised how old the machine was. Eggman's new e-series robots could process information in under a second, this one was very slow.
"Name does not exist in my database. Only slight match was Sonic the Hedgehog" Shadow scowled and his smirk vanished.
"I am more powerful than that blue faker" He spat at the machine.
"More powerful? Then I shall have to kill you then Sonic. Those are my orders from Doctor Eggman" The machine rose its hand and Shadow rolled his eyes at the size of the gun it had, Eggman had obviously been drunk when he invented this e-series. The robot fired at Shadow and the hedgehog just sidestepped away. With a yawn he ran towards the machine, jumped and sent a roundhouse kick to the robot's head. The machine slowly ducked and Shadow dropped down in front of it. A small smirk appeared on his face as he gathered up some energy.
"Chaos Blast!" He yelled, jumping up and throwing his arms out, emitting a wall of red energy. Shadow dropped back to the floor, eyes closed and smirk on his face. When he opened his ruby eyes his smirk disappeared, his chaos blast had done not a single thread of damage to the robot. This was going to be far more difficult than he first thought.
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Heh. Poor Amy! Next time: Shadow victorious?