CHAPTER 5

The Chaotix detectives scattered as the black tank sent a powerful blast at their headquarters.

The blast was enough to take out the entire front of the building.

They all took cover as pieces and rubble flew into the air.

With tears and cries of sadness, they continued to fire their weapons at the Silver Fangs.

Charmy was so devastated, he stood where he was and continued sobbing. He cried even harder as he saw Kiba take Vector's lifeless body and began to cut more deeply into his bloody neck with a combat knife.

Kiba took the knife and sawed the blade of it into the neck until the head had completely separated from the body.

After when Charmy witnessed the gruesome sight, he felt a hand tug at his arm. He turned and saw Midnight tugging at his arm.

"Come on, Charmy! We gotta get out of here! It's too dangerous!" He suddenly saw the bee jerk his arm away from his grip.

"No!" Chamry screamed while sobbing, "Just leave me alone!"

Midnight was lost for words. He knew Charmy was devastated over Vector's death, but it wasn't the time and it wasn't safe. He didn't know what to do except watch him kneel to the ground and continue to breakdown and cry. "…Charmy…" He had then heard Espio's voice coming from behind him.

"What's wrong?"

Midnight turned to the purple chameleon who ran over to them. "It's Charmy. He…" Before he could finish his words, Espio had tried to talk to Charmy. "Charmy, I know this is hard, but we can't help him now! We gotta get to a safer location!"

When another shot was fired from the tank at the building, they all practically fell to the ground from the explosion.

While Rouge was trying to take cover from the gun fires and explosions, she had ran into Tonya.

They both took cover on the ground when they saw Jessica and Zeak trying to fire at them with their guns.

While they both fired back at them, Tonya yelled over to Rouge. "Where the fuck are the cops? Don't they hear all this shit going on?"

"I'm just wondering how the fuck they got to Tech City with a tank!" She shouted as she fired back at them, "Tonya, have you seen Shadow?"

The purple cat shook her head, "No I don't know where he went."

Rouge didn't know what had happened to him after everyone started firing at each other. She had hoped that he was okay. "I'm sure he's fine." Her eyes had then caught sight of the tank that was still blasting at what was left of the Chaotix building. "Fuck the TCPD! We gotta take out that thank!"

Jessica turned to Zeak who was standing beside her as they fired their guns at Rouge and Tonya. "I think they're getting too comfortable."

With an evil smirk on his face, Zeak had thrown a small object on the ground near Tonya and Rouge.

Tonya's eyes widened in horror when she saw a small dark green grenade rolling out in front of her and Rouge. She gasped and turned to Rouge, "Move it!"

Quickly Rouge and Tonya scattered away from the grenade just in time before it had exploded.

After when Tonya fell to the ground, she called for Rouge, "Rouge! Are you okay?"

With her body laying on the ground, she rose her head up when she heard Tonya call out for her. "Yeah I'm just peachy", she answered back in a sarcastic tone.

Kiba slowly walked around and began to search for Shadow until he was suddenly tackled from behind to the ground by a black and red hedgehog. The handgun he was holding was knocked out of his hands once he hit the ground. He tried to get up but Shadow pinned his body to the ground and constantly sent multiple hard punches to the face. The more he punched him in the face, the more his nose and mouth bled. When he gathered some of his strength, he pushed Shadow off of his body and began to punch him back.

Tikal was heartbroken as she watched everyone fight and shoot at each other. She held her arms as her body shook in fright. "This isn't happening…" she murmured in a weak voice as tears streamed down her face. When she heard footsteps approaching her, she turned and saw a brown male mongoose standing across from her.

The mongoose held what it seemed to be an acupuncture needle in his hand. "You look a little weak in the knees. Maybe you should lay down and relax!"

When she saw him throw the needle at her, she was so scared she couldn't move. She shut her eyes tightly awaiting for the needle to stab her. When she didn't feel the pain of the needle piercing into her flesh, she opened her eyes and saw Ker standing in front of her holding the needle in his hand. She made a small smile in relief at the sight of the demon who had protected her. "Ker!"

The furious male demon gave the mongoose a hateful look. "How dare you! I won't allow you to hurt anymore of my friends!"

A twisted smile formed on Ace's face, "You're all so pathetic! You all deserve to die together!"

Without saying another word, Ker threw the needle back at Ace.

He had thrown the needle back at him so quickly, he didn't have time enough to move. He cried out in pain as the needle sunk into the palm of his hand.

Jessica ran over to the mongoose when she witnessed him getting hurt. "Ace! Are you okay?"

Ace painfully removed the needle from his bloody hand and threw it onto the ground. "Damn you, demon!"

Now that Jessica was with Ace, Tikal had began to worry all over again. She continued to hide behind Ker for protection.

As the tank got closer to the Chaotix building, Rouge snuck around the tank without being seen and tossed a grenade into the barrel of it.

It didn't take long for Kuroi to quickly hop out of the top of the tank and run away from it before it had exploded from the inside. Once she stood outside of the destroyed tank, she turned to the white bat woman who was pointing a handgun at her head. She made an uneasy smile at the bat. "Come on, Rouge. No hard feeling right?"

The furious bat woman pushed the barrel of the gun closer to her forehead. "You blew up our agency…" She growled in a low tone, "…Go fuck yourself." Before she pulled the trigger to the gun, a familiar male voice called out to her.

"Don't do it, Rouge."

She looked where the voice had came from and saw a male white bat slowly approaching her with a scythe in his hands. The blade of it was covered in blood. "…Sky…"

When Kuroi saw that Rouge had been distracted by Sky, she quickly took off.

The male bat arched an eyebrow when he saw her point her handgun at him. "Come now, little sister. You wouldn't kill your only brother would you?"

Rouge had looked at him with her heart broken over what he and the rest of his teammates were doing. She shook her head slowly, "How…how could you do this?"

Sky stood there with an evil smirk on his face while flashing his fangs.

Shadow and Kiba were still on the ground continuing to beat up each other.

Shadow kicked Kiba off of his body and got on top of him with his blood running off of his face and dripping onto Kiba's. He took one hand and grabbed Kiba tightly around his neck trying to suffocate him.

When Kiba tried to get out of his grip, he saw Shadow raising his free hand which had a green aura around it.

"I should've done this from the start!" When he placed his glowing hand on top of Kiba's face, he watched as Kiba's flesh burned from the touch of his Chaos powers. "Damn you! I want you to suffer! I want you to pay!"

Kiba yelled and screamed from the burn, he fought and fought until he knocked Shadow off of his body by stabbing him in the stomach with his combat knife. He quickly got off of the ground while holding his searing face. He winced and yelled in pain as his face burned. "My face!"

While Shadow was on the ground holding his bleeding side, he looked up at Kiba who hatefully looked at him with one side of his face severely burned.

"You half demon shit!" Kiba approached Shadow and started to repeatedly kick him in his side.

More and more blood arose from his mouth as Kiba continued to kick him. When he had stopped kicking him, he saw Kiba kneeling down to him and roughly grabbed him around his neck. His eyes weakly spotted a shiny and sharp object Kiba had held in his other hand. Shadow tried to pull away but he was too weak after fighting with him. He could feel the point of the knife he held being touched against the side of his head.

"First I'll stab you right through your head and into your brain", Kiba had growled in an exhausted tone. "Then I'll cut off your fucking head and put it on a stick right next to Vector's."

Shadow tightly shut his eyes waiting for Kiba to kill him until they both heard multiple police sirens. Shadow gasped for air when Kiba released his grip from around his neck.

When Kiba saw the flashing red and blue lights, he decided it was best to leave.

Blood spewed from Shadow's mouth as he laid there weak on the ground.

The rest of the Chaotix and Silver Fangs also heard the police coming.

All of the Silver Fangs decided to retreat and find Kiba.

While Rouge and Sky stood across from each other exchanging cold glares, they heard the police sirens as well.

Sky made a sympathetic yet sarcastic expression. "Sorry little sister, but this is my cue to get out of here."

"…Why?" She spoke in a hurtful tone, "Why are you doing this to us? To me?"

"Because I serve Kiba and I will follow him into the darkness if I must to remain by his side."

Before Rouge could say anything else to him, she felt a strong unseen force. She turned to Sky and saw him fading into an aura of darkness. She looked around and noticed the rest of the Silver Fangs had done the same. "What's happening?" She thought it was best to find Shadow as soon as possible. "…Shadow." She had then ran off to go look for him.

Shadow coughed up more blood as he slowly got off of the ground and glared at the Kiba who had given him the same look back.

"I sold my soul to the devil himself just to become stronger. This little war isn't over between us, Shadow. We will meet again…"

Shadow watched as Kiba faded into a strange black aura.

When police cars, swat cars, and ambulances had finally arrived, it was too late. All of the Silver Fangs had vanished.

Just by seeing the police arriving, Shadow wanted to collapse back onto the ground because his body was so damaged and weak.

A yellow fox woman had rushed out of one of the police cars. She had brown hair that she had held up with a hairclip. Her outfit consisted of a brown blazer with a white collared shirt underneath, a brown mini skirt and black high heeled shoes. She caught sight of a bloody and beaten black hedgehog who was barely standing. "Oh my God! Shadow!" She shouted as she ran over to him. "What happened to you?" When she tried to reach out to him, Shadow acted like she wasn't there and walked over to Vector's lifeless body that laid on the ground.

The confused fox woman stopped in her tracks when she saw Shadow walk pass her like she wasn't even there. She then saw Espio ran over to her.

"Sarah Wish?" Espio had spoke in a relieved tone.

She turned to the exhausted looking chameleon, "Espio? What the hell happened?"

Espio sighed heavily and didn't know where exactly to begin. When he saw Sarah staring at the destroyed building in distraught, he stared at the horrific sight as well.

When Shadow approached Vector's body, he saw Charmy kneeling beside it and laying his head on his chest. He heard the bee sobbing loudly.

His face was covered in some of Vector's blood as he rested his head on his body. "Vector!" He sobbed, "You can't die! You can't!"

Just looking at how Charmy cried broke Shadow's heart. When he thought he could no longer watch him cry anymore, he walked over to the front of what was once the building of their detective agency.

The building was completely destroyed. Rubble was all over the ground and black smoke was coming from the top of the roof.

Shadow fell to his knees in disbelief over everything that had happened.

Rouge who was standing behind him, watched him stare at the destroyed building.

Shadow placed a hand to his forehead and began to quietly sob.

Rouge's heart raced when she saw him pick up a handgun from the ground and slowly raised it to the side of his head. "Shadow!" She ran over to him and knocked the gun out of his hand. "Shadow, no!"

When she embraced him from behind, his sobs had gotten louder. "It's my fault! It's all my fault!"

Tears streamed down Rouge's face while she embraced him, "Shadow! It's not your fault!" She rested her head on his back and began to sob as well. "It's not your fault okay? It's not your fault…"

The rest of the detectives watched as Shadow and Rouge both broke down in front of their destroyed headquarters.

In The Next Chapter…

Espio: Vector's funeral is tomorrow.

Tonya: Is Shadow going?

Rouge:…I don't know…

Ker: We all need to be together…for Vector…