Chapter 9
Revelations
Rouge was awoken by a scuffling in their room. She opens her eyes to see a soldier standing above her with a cloth in his hand. Rouge started to scream when the soldier shoved the cloth onto her face. She put up a struggle but she felt herself falling into the blackness of unconsciousness. She looked over to Shadow and saw him being assaulted in the same manner. He was succumbing to the chlorophyll on the cloth same as her. Her last thought was of Dusk and if he could escape.
Rouge awoke unable to move. She was in some kind of contraption that kept the person in it from moving. She was, however, able to look around. She turned to her left and saw Shadow, who was still unconscious. On her right she saw Sonic, Amy, Rosy, Tails and the others all in the same machine as her. They were all starting to stir.
"Good you are all awake." Rouge heard Eggman's voice. "Just in time to see this."
A screen came down from the ceiling, turning on and showing what looked like a helmet cam of a soldier.
"Sir we are ready to begin destruction of the boy." Rouge went cold Dusk!
"So now you're using Mobians to carry out your plans Egg-butt!" She heard Sonic yell "You're pathetic."
"Shut up" and Eggman threw a switch and an electric bolt shocks Sonic into silence.
"Sonic" Amy yells.
"You won't get away with this!" Shadow yells
"I will after this. You're a go Captain."
"Alright. GO GO GO!" the soldiers bust into Dusk's room and start shooting up the bed. To everyone's horror blood starts to splatter from the shots onto the wall behind the bed.
"Oh my God!" Sonic yells
Rosy starts crying.
"Cease fire!"
"Get the body. I want the body."
The Captain goes up to the bed and pulls back the covers to reveal, a bunch of blood bags, empty and all shot up.
(Start playing Nickelback's- Little Friend at this time)
"Target not down. Target not down. Weapons hot!"
"Where is he?"
The soldier looks around. Then slowly looks up. Just as a black and white body holding a combat knife lands on him.
"AHHHHH!" Dusk stabs his knife through the guy's face, tearing it apart. The camera goes out.
Cue the view from another soldier shows the knife flying through the air and imbedding itself in a minx's chest. The minx spun around, firing his weapon killing three other soldiers.
Dusk engaged another soldier in a knife fight. The engagment lasted about 3 secoonds as Dusk slashed the sword up and made cut line up the merc's chest and face. Dusk dissapeared
The captain was now by himself. They could all hear him breathing hard. All of a sudden they heard a grunt and the view was lifted up in the air and turned around looking at Dusk's face
"Come one man don't hurt me please" the mercenary captain pleaded.
Dusk face was harder than they had ever seen it. "You tried to kill me. Why shouldn't I hurt you?"
"No! Please."
Dusk goes over to the window and shove the guy's head through it, breaking the window.
"NOOO!" the merc screamed hanging out a 10 story window.
"TELL ME. WHO DO YOU WORK FOR!"
He pulled the soldier back in and banged his head into the wall.
"WHO, DARN IT, WHO!"
"Eg-," the soldier coughed "Eggman"
Dusk paused.
He sets the mercenary down.
"Thank you sir. You have been very helpful."
Dusk swipes a knife through the camera's view.
The merc falls over with blood covering the floor.
Dusk had cut his throat
(Turn off the music now)
A minute passed silently.
Then the camera was picked up and they heard a voice on the other side.
"You made a mistake Eggman, you pissed me off." Dusk said picking up one of the rifles the soldiers dropped "Now you're going to pay. Now I'm coming to kick your ass". Cocking the firearm.
He goes over to the closet and grabs his huge sword.
Then he goes into Shadow's room and takes the grey emerald out of his sock drawer.
"Hey how did you know where that was?" Shadow asked
"It is kind of obvious." Rouge said.
Shadow glared at her
"I'm on my way, guys" Dusk said.
"That is what you think, boy."
He goes over to his dashboard where another soldier was working.
"You there I want you to activate the missile systems and attack the building. I want it leveled ASAP."
"But sir we still have men inside." The soldier said concerned for his friends.
"I don't care. Do it!"
The soldier, who everyone sees is a bat, stands up defiantly "No!"
Eggman draws a gun and shoots the bat.
Rouge screams.
"Well I guess I'll do it myself." Eggman says.
He presses the button.
They all see missiles firing
"Dusk get out of there NOW!" Rouge screamed
He must have heard either their screaming or the missiles because he started bolting for a window at the end of the hallway. He was almost there when he stopped and looked out the window and saw the missiles. He echoed the word his father said many years ago.
"Crap"
The building erupted into a gigantic fireball. The entire top half of the building was completely blown off. After the initial explosion, the bottom half of the building collapsed.
No one could speak. Sonic had a shocked look on his face. Shadow a confused one. Rouge was barely holding back tears. Rosy wasn't even trying; she was bawling her eyes out. Eggman turns around with a triumphant smile on his face.
"I finally did it. He is dead." Eggman turned to leave
"Why?" Shadow asked. "Why did you destroy your own creation?"
"My creation? Ha, I do not claim that boy. He was too much like his father for his own good."
Shadow's face turned from confusion to anger.
"That thing was not my son! The only way that it was related to me was by our DNA nothing more!'
Rouge wanted to slap Shadow for saying such things.
"Shadow Shadow Shadow. As naïve as ever. You believe everything you hear, even if the boy said it himself."
"What are you talking about?" Shadow asked.
"I will start at the beginning. 16 years ago I decided that I had a problem. It wasn't Sonic. It was you, Shadow. You were too strong. You could easily have disrupted any plans that I had in store. So I decided to create a solution. A sort of Counter-Shadow if you will. What better to use than your DNA. Then I saw you and Miss Rouge get together. I thought why not use her's as well. With her skill set coupled with your strength, I would have a powerful creation capable of standing up to not just Shadow but the entire "Sonic Team". The next problem I faced was actually getting the DNA. I decide on attracting Rouge to a place where I could get a blood sample. Do you remember what happened with little robot sapphire, Rouge?" He asked with a laugh.
I knew had had something to do with that. Rouge thought
"And have you ever wondered why Kunoi left you alone after scratching you, Shadow?"
Shadow just looked away
"Anyway. When I obtained the DNA from both you and Rouge, I found something interesting. I found Gamete cells. Those of you who do not know what those are, yes I'm looking at you Sonic, gamete cells a basically the scientific term for reproductive cells. I had never seen such a thing. Reproductive cells in blood? Amazing. I had an idea instead gene splicing and extracting DNA which would take at least a year. I had figured out how to create female reproductive cells from DNA but not male. Why not just make the female and take the male and combine. The test was successful and I had an embryo. I placed it in an artificial womb. 9 months later, a baby hedgebat was born."
Shadow sat there speechless
"You see Shadow. I didn't create a clone. I simply brought together sooner what would have anyway later." Eggaman chuckled. "I made a testube baby"
Shadow suddenly felt ashamed. All of the times he had denied that such a thing existed. His pushing away and mistreatment of a kid who just wanted to prove himself to him.
"I see the shame in your eyes Shadow. Too bad he is dead. You can't beg for his forgiveness. I will give you all all a few moments to mourn." With that Eggman walks out.
Rouge couldn't hold her tears anymore. She started sobbing. She sobbed for the son she would never get to know. She sobbed for Shadow who felt the same way as her. And she sobbed for the love that was lost between Dusk and the girl a few places from her. She looked at the flaming rubble on the screen.
Dusk the Hedgebat, her son and the only person who could save them was dead.
(A.N)Oh no. Dusk is dead. What will they do!? Find out next chapter
Speaking of Dusk
Challange:
To all of my readers that are artist's. I want you to do something for me.
I want you to draw Dusk.
Here is the terms of the challenge
-Must be hand drawn either on paper or on a computer.
-Must be sent to my twitter pasge when completed(Dusk the Hedgebat)
Also I have a prize for the best one:
The one I like the most will be put as my profile picture and there name will be shouted out to on the next chapter.
All entries must be in by this Friday January 28th 2013.
Now into the shadows I go
Dth
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