Chapter 3

Sef still had Cid at gun point when the backup unit came in.

"Get up and show me your face. I want to know who the badass is."

Cid complied and turned around and looked at Sef. A small grin appeared on his face as he looked at the snow fox.

"Been awhile hasn't it, Sef Highwind?"

Sef was shocked, "C.. Cid Valentine?"

There was a moment of bref silence. Sef then begain to laugh almost as if the whole slue of events was nothing but a joke.

"Oh, this is great. Troops move out. I'm going to give the commander a call. Cid give me a minuet." Sef took out his cell phone again and gave Hollender a quick call.

"Hollender, this is Sef."

"Sef," Hollender replied as if he was relived," did you catch him yet?"

Sef smiled and laughed," Commander I told you the gate guy was too green. He still doesn't have the proper clearance yet!"

"God Damn it Sef Highwind, what the hell are you talking about?"

"The so called "badass" that you want me to get, is non other than Cid Valentine!"

"Put him on!"

Sef looked at Cid and shrugged.

"He wants to talk to you," Sef told Cid as he threw the phone at him. Without looking at the phone, Cid caught it with his right hand and placed the receiver near his ear.

"Hollender, what do I owe the pleasure of speaking to you."

"Still a smart ass hun?"

"What can I say, I've always been a smart ass, especially towards you."

Cid changed his posture. He was relaxed, but now he was in a stiff position. It was as if he was ready for a fight. Cid even went as far as placing his sunglasses back on over his eyes.

"Look Cid," Hollender started," I give you one more chance. Come and work for G.U.N. With your skill and fighting style we'll be able to…"

"NO! I'm never working for a government organization again!"

To Sef it seemed like Cid's body was on fire.

"Cid I know about The Organization, but the past is past!"

"Listen to me Hollender! We may have worked together in the past, but my feelings towards any government organization still remains. You speak of hope for the people, but all I've seen is persecution, death, and most of all betrayal. It's a wonder Shadow still works with you."

Shadow the Hedgehog, he was the one example of G.U.N's dark side, and unfortunately the public doesn't know the true connection between G.U.N and Shadow. Shadow the Hedgehog, the world's ultimate life form. Fifty years ago, shadow was created on the Space Colony Arc. Arc was funded by the government and created Professor Gerald Robotnic, Dr. Eggman's grandfather. The Arc, as told to the public, was a space station created for the purpose of normal scientific investigations. However, the truth was far from the deception fed to the public. The Arc's true function was for research for weapons of mass destruction. These weapons included the artificial Chaos model, beings made to look like Chaos, the God of destruction, who was made of water and could morph by using the Chaos Emeralds; the Biolizzard, the first attempt at the ultimate life form; and the weapon that could destroy an entire planet if one could attain all 7 Chaos emeralds, The Eclipse Cannon. The Eclipse Cannon was the one reason that G.U.N wanted the Arc gone. With presidential permission, G.U.N sent a small army to the Arc. It was that day that the professor was gone, but his daughter Maria and Shadow, the professor's successful ultimate life form experiment, where on the Arc that faithful day. When the G.U.N solders arrived on the Arc, they began to kill the scientist on board. Maria and Shadow managed to stay hidden but not for long. Soon one solder found them and called to the group that there was an experiment left and a child. Shadow took Maria's hand and made a run to the escape capsules. By the time they made it to the capsules a shot was fired. Maria was punctured in the abdomen. She saw Shadow trying to approach her, but she knew that he was next. So she sealed him in a escape capsule to avoid him getting injured for her safety. After a final speech and promise between the two, she jettisoned the capsule to earth. Soon Shadow was captured and placed in a stasis tube and hidden in the depths of the military base Prison Island. Dr. Eggman soon released him, and Eggman used Shadow to gather all the Chaos Emeralds, even though the efforts of Sonic and friends were useless. Once the last emerald was in place the Arc began a 24-hour crash course towards earth. With the help of Shadow, who finally remembered Maria's promise, Sonic was able to stop the Biolizzard and save the earth. Shadow than used the last of his powers to transport the Arc into the orbit of earth. Shadow fell to his death, but was rescued by Eggman a few days after the Arc incident. Shadow was made into clones, and then Shadow was saved by Rouge. Then the whole Metal Madness incident occurred, but that's a story for another time. Shadow then joined G.U.N, but yet G.U.N still doesn't trust Shadow quite yet.

Hollender was furious by the comments the Cid had just made to him.

"Put Sef back on the line!"

Cid threw the phone back at Sef, who jumbled with the phone to avoid dropping it.

"Sef I want you and Cid to come back to base." With that Hollender hung up.

Sef took a quick glance towards Cid.

"So," Sef began," Who knows, maybe I'll be your contractor again?"

"Ya," Cid laughed back," who knows."