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(A/N: I had very bad writers block on this chapter. -Cringes- Hopefully the next one will be a hell of a lot longer and better. Lol. Only three more chapters left... I'm gonna miss writing this story)
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Chapter Eighteen
(Silhouette belongs to Seastone130 and Draith belongs to Draith500)
Amy tried to catch a glimpse of who spoke to her, but she couldn't see anything but those shiny eyes. Moving closer to the bars, she could see the faint outline of a hedgehog. Amy dare not reach out to the hedgehog, just in-case it was a trap. Her emerald orbs studying the creature on the opposite side of the bars. She shrieked when a black furred hand came through the bars reaching towards her; studying the hand she knew the other animal was female. Amy knew females could be as dangerous as males, so she kept her distance. Struggling, she wrenched her eyes away from the arm and made herself look elsewhere. A low sigh came from the other hedgehog and Amy saw the hand disappear out of her cage
"Who are you?" She asked fearfully. A light chuckle fell into the silence
"It's Silhouette" The voice sounded vaguely upset that the pink hedgehog didn't recognise them. Amy's eyes widened as she crawled closer to the hedgehog she had spoken too at the lake
"What happened to you?" Amy asked, drowning her words in worry. Silhouette leant closer to the cage and Amy could see how unhealthy the other hedgehog looked.
"I was caught and experimented on," A light sob escaped the black hedgehog before she brought her other arm forward. Metal gleamed in the existing light; Amy let a gasp escape her lips "I'm half machine"
"I'm so sorry!" Amy sobbed with her, feeling nothing but pity for the other female. Silhouette shook her head, as her face came into view, metal plates were placed around her face and she had a smile etched on her lips
"You shouldn't be, it wasn't you," The metal on her face made her smile distort into a macabre smirk "But I will not let the same thing happen to you"
"Shadow is coming for me" Amy stated, confidence in her dark hero. Silhouette's smile widened
"I heard. The only thing is Amy..." She trailed off and gave the rose hedgehog a sad look "I wasn't the only one to be experimented on" The pink one gave the other female a confused look. But the only other person to have known... Amy's eyes widened
"Draith"
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Shadow cursed as more robots ran at him, he wasn't in the mood. All he wanted was his rose hedgehog back, safe in his arms. Pushing one robot's head into the wall whilst kicking another away, Shadow casually left a trail of destruction, caused by the unrelenting army's of robots. He supposed he could just ignore them, but revenge seeped through his veins; he could still distinctly recall Amy's blood on the floor of his home. Anger raged through his body, and chaos energy crackled from his body. Shadow slowly walked past the robot's the sparks of energy flying off of him, destroying the robots with just one simple lash. He wrenched open a door on his left, seeing if his target was in the room. Upon seeing nothing but a machine assembly line he carried on down the hall. Still droves of robots ran at him, intent on annihilating the trespasser. Shadow disposed of them at his leisure, still keeping an ear out for his angel's voice. He stopped when he saw a figure up ahead, the figures leather jacket shone from the electric lights overhead. Shadow tentively approached the silhouette, knowing that things in Eggman's bases were not as they seemed. About ten meters away from the figure, it turned showing one shining red eye. Shadow glanced at it confused, when grey fur shimmered in the light Shadow's ruby eyes narrowed; he'd recognised that fur colour. Growling at the other hedgehog, Shadow then gave the other hedgehog a cocky smirk
"Draith," he said mockingly "I see you've upgraded," Draith's un-robotized eye narrowed "Or promoted. I knew I couldn't trust you"
"Shadow. I should have known you'd have come for her" Draith commented still smirking at the fuming crimson tainted hedgehog
"You know where she is?" Shadow growled "Tell me" Draith shook his finger at the onyx hedgehog and tutted
"Now now. That would be telling," He mocked, sending a wave of rage through Shadow. "Guessing would be so much better. Besides she's probably half robot by now" Shadow had had enough, he charged at the grey hedgehog, intent on doing some damage to the other male. Draith sidestepped the furious hedgehog and send a rapid knee to Shadow's gut. Cursing, the onyx male fell to the floor clutching his stomach. Glaring at the ground, Shadow rose to his feet, dusting himself off as he settled his glare on the gothic hedgehog in front of him; he was so close to her, he would not fail now. Shadow didn't believe Amy was a robot, she didn't have any in-particular power and she couldn't use chaos energy. Unless Eggman was after Sonic or himself. Shadow took a quick guess at Eggman was really after the blue faker. The onyx hedgehog smirked at the robotic hedgehog, who smirked back.
"Why don't you just give up?" Shadow stated folding his arms, making the other hedgehog laugh in amusement. Shadow rushed forward with his fist out and as expected Draith feinted to the left; Shadow lashed out with his leg and caught the other hedgehog in the chest sending him crashing to the floor. The cerise eyed hedgehog jumped up to where Draith was getting up, he sent a powerful uppercut to the robot sending his head crashing into the wall. Shadow rammed his arm against the gothic hedgehog's windpipe. Draith's hands flew to Shadow's arm where he tried to release the pressure. "Tell me where Amy is," He pushed down harder on the windpipe, making the hedgehog under his vice like grip grunt in pain "Or you die now" Draith sighed and dropped his hands from trying to pry Shadow's arm off of his windpipe. The onyx hedgehog switched to holding the other male's neck in his hand so he could talk.
"She's just down the hall. Silhouette is with her," Shadow nodded and dropped the cyber-hog. "Just don't expect much" Shadow delivered a swift kick to the robot, a smirk of satisfaction appeared on his face as he raced off down the hall.
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Tails glanced around the base, smoke filled the entirety of the big hanger, and the darkness of the room didn't stop the smoke from being visible. Shadow had definitely been here, the atmosphere had a strong scent of burning rubber and hot metal. He looked at his friend who was looking for a light switch. Tails had to keep himself from hitting his head with his hand. He personally didn't think this place would have any kind of power supply anymore. Maybe some minor battery somewhere keeping the security running. Tails' eyes widened, where were the security bots? He instantly made his eyes travel to the parts of the room he could see, trying to catch a glimpse of anything moving in the darkness. The fox' tails wrapped around himself protectively. He watched the silhouette of his best friend stroking the walls for any kind of switch. It then dawned on the genius that if there was a switch on the wall it was more than likely a trap.
"Sonic!" Tails called into the darkness, the silhouette stopped and faced him
"What bud?" Sonic's voice echoed throughout the base. Tails couldn't be sure of where it was coming from
"I don't think searching for a switch is a good idea"
"Why?" Sonic's voice carried the weight of the confusion he was feeling and Tails pinched the bridge of his nose in annoyance
"Because it might be a trap," Sonic's small sound of realisation was enough reassurance from the small fox. He made his way over to the small fox and gave him a smile, Tails responded with one of his own before he saw more smoke enter the hanger. "Shall we follow the smoke?" Sonic looked at where his best friend was staring and nodded. The two friends approached the room cautiously, not sure of what was burning to make so much smoke. The blue hero peered around the corner of the doorway, only to look at the destruction in confusion. Surely if Shadow had passed through here, the computer wouldn't be intact. Sonic walked up to the flashing screen, there was a red dot moving pretty quickly on the map on the screen. The blue blur knew it was Shadow, just by how fast it was moving. Tails had moved up beside his best friend, he studied the map then looked at the destruction and mangled metal on the floor.
"That's Shadow" Sonic's voice cut through the fox' study of the room. He nodded at the hero, continuing his survey of the room. His blue eyes came across an open hatch
"Sonic look!" Tails shouted in excitement, the hedgehog looked to where his friend was pointing and walked up to the open shaft. More smoke drifted up and Sonic gave Tails a thumbs up. Tails stared at the pile of twisted metal. "What do you think it was?"
"Beats me. It was probably a security robot. No match for Shadow" Sonic stated dismissively. Tails looked down the shaft
"How are we going to get down there?"
"Jump of course" He smirked jumping down the dark tunnel. Tails gulped before following his best friend.
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I'm SO sorry this is so short, it's just that the next chapter is gonna be one massive fight scene. -apologetic smile- Next Time: Shadow finds Amy and Sonic finally catches up with the dark hedgehog.