Love Struck
Chapter 72 - Fire
Ghost's POV
"SHADOW!" I screamed as I heard a loud crush from his end before losing contact.
I stood there in the cold rain and mud with my daughter staring at me with her drenched covered fur.
"Daddy?" She said to me as I thought.
I immediately looked down and stared into her eyes.
I had no choice.
I turned as fast as I could and made a break for the exit.
My daughter gripped my armor as best as she could as we hopped the last fence to get out of the base.
Shadow's POV
I stood up and slowly took my duffle bag off my back and rested it on the table.
I lowered the microphone and unzipped what I had packed separately from Ghost.
I laid it all out as I relaxed.
Five C4 charges, ten grenades, five AT-Mines, and a detonator.
I smiled at the sight and then took one of the charges.
Slowly I approached the main console and placed it underneath the table.
"Beep! Beep! Beep! BEEP!"
I armed it with the three digit pass code and turned back towards the table. Slowly I took out some wire and wrapped three grenades in bouquet. I then attached it to the door of the room and laid I trip wire on the floor just in case.
Once that was done I took one of the mines and placed it on the floor under one of the carpets. Next I armed it and took everything that was on the table and placed it back in the bag.
I then took the microphone and transferred the signal over to the command headset which I put on my head.
Once that was done I jumped back up into the vents.
Ghost's POV
I ran as fast as I could and I could bet I was a good five minuets out from the boarder.
Midnight held me tightly as my ear went off.
"Ghost! Shadow! Come in!" Ordered Jake.
I immediately went for it.
"Ghost here! What!?" I asked.
In the back I heard some familiar voices.
"Are you two ok?!" Asked Jake.
I hesitated not knowing.
"Ghost!?" Shouted Jake.
"I'm almost at the boarder!" I replied.
"Ghost do you have her!?" Asked Dove.
"What are you doing at the boarder!?" I asked her.
"She's not Ghost we have the signal patched into the capital! Everyone can hear you!?" Replied Jake.
"Why!?" I asked.
"Everyone was worried!" Replied Jake.
"Great make this harder!" I stated.
"What!?" Shouted Jake.
I hesitated.
"Ghost what's wrong!?" Asked Amy.
I hesitated again.
"Just come back both of you!" Shouted Jake.
"I will, but Shadow is still in the base!" I replied.
"WHAT!?" Shouted the three of them.
I hesitated.
"What the fuck it he doing in there still!?" Asked Jake.
"He destroyed his earpiece when I asked!" I replied.
"You have to get him Ghost!" Shouted Amy.
"It's too late! What ever he is doing he has to do alone! If I go back I'm dead! And Shadow turned on the fences so I can't get back in even if I tried!" I stated.
"This doesn't make any sense!" Replied Dove.
I saw the boarder up ahead and I heard Jake.
"We see you! "
"Open up!" I replied.
The gate opened and I jogged in with Midnight in my arms.
Immediately I was taken into the tent where everyone stood waiting.
I held Midnight tight as a medic looked at us.
Jake slowly stopped in front of me.
"What do we do now?" He asked.
"I guess we just…!" I was cut off by the sound system.
"G.U.N?" He said.
Everyone stared at it in shock as we listened.
Shadow's POV
Control room, done. Barracks, done, mess hall, done. Officer quarters, done.
I jumped down into the last room. My room, and began to place the charges as I did for the others.
I knew Ghost was gone by now and I had all the time in the world to finish up. I slowly placed the C4 charge and then the remaining grenades and then the mine. Once it was done I approached my old bed and went into my footlocker where I kept something special.
I slowly pulled out my gold chain and read it in my hands.
"With you forever. Maria."
I smiled and put it around my neck then left by getting back into the vents.
As I crawled for my exit on the roof I turned on the headset.
"G.U.N?" I started as my voice swam through every speaker.
Dark's POV
"G.U.N?" My eyes widened in shock as I heard that voice.
The fire just got out and everyone listened as he continued.
"I hope you know what you have done." He stated.
My heart thumped in shock as I stared at the speaker.
"Could that be…!" I was cut off.
"You have killed me and my brother inside and out." He stopped.
"It can't be. If it was him he wouldn't have said that his brother was killed. It can't be Shadow. Can it?" I asked myself.
"DARK!" Screamed the commander as he came at me.
"Yes sir!?" I replied.
"Where the fuck is that coming from!?" Asked the commander.
"Sir I think it is the control room!" Stated one of the soldiers.
"All of you follow me!" Ordered the commander as we ran for the base.
Shadow's POV
I got to the roof and continued.
"My family and me have been put through this war long enough. I want to let you all know right now who it is you are fucking with." I stopped and climbed down the continued.
"The leader of the rebellion is dead! I killed him! And now I want to let you all know I am the one who will end this war! It might not be today! It might not be tomorrow!" I stopped as I approached the gate.
Ghost's POV
We all listened in shock as Shadow spoke to Afghanistan.
"But it will end and it will be by my hand! You hear that Commander Jorge Lehigh!?" He asked.
"What's he doing?" Asked Jake.
"I don't know." I replied.
"For years you prided yourself in protecting your base, but today two men have taken it by surprise. My partner who you sent that black ops trooper to kill came back from the dead and took back his baby girl. I'm sure you will find bodies on the way. Me on the other hand. I walked right in and shut down your defenses." Stated Shadow.
"That's not all I did!" Stated Shadow.
Dark's POV
As he spoke we ran and our men shouted.
"It's true sir!" The nurses are dead and the kid is gone!
"I don't give a fuck! Get that door open!" Ordered the commander as we stopped in front of the control that was locked.
I immediately charged the door and as I knocked it down I barely missed a tripwire set up on the floor.
As I missed I screamed.
"Don't enter!"
Everyone stopped as I stared at the grenades.
"This base is done!" Shouted the voice.
Everyone panicked.
"You'll find Commander! Every room in this base is rigged to blow! I'm still in the base! You can stop me if you can find me! But you have ten seconds to ether do that or GET THE FUCK OUT!" He screamed.
Everyone looked at the commander and we heard a beeping.
Everyone then saw the charges and the commander screamed.
"GET OUT OF HERE!"
Everyone ran for their lives.
Ghost's POV
"NO!" I screamed as I left the tent.
I ran out the boarder and listened as he counted.
"TEN!"
"Ghost!" Screamed Jake.
"NINE!" I ran as fast as I could with them behind me.
"EIGHT!"
Amy's POV
I ran as fast as I could to the roof and I bashed through he door with Dove behind me.
I stopped at the edge as Shadow counted.
"SEVEN!"
I began to cry.
"SIX!"
Dove grabbed me as I screamed.
"SHADOW!"
"FIVE!"
Dark's POV
We ran through he halls as fast as we could and we couldn't see the exit yet.
"FOUR!"
"RUN! GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY!" Screamed the commander as we pushed by everyone who was trying to get out like us.
"THREE!"
We approached the exit and we were not going to make it in time.
"TWO!"
"GO!" Screamed the commander.
Shadow's POV
I sat down in the mud and waited.
"ONE!"
I grabbed the detonator and clutched it tightly.
I let a small smile and a gentle tear roll down my face as I squeezed.
"BOOM!"
Ghost's POV
I stopped in my tracks as the base could be seen miles away from the explosion.
I immediately fell to my knees in tears as I watched it burn.
"SHADOW!" I screamed in tears of sadness.
Jake and his men stopped behind me as I cried into the mud.
Amy's POV
"SHADOW!" I screamed as the base blew before my eyes.
The explosion was huge. It's as if you could feel the blast from here.
I fell down in tears as if I was broken and Dove held me in her arms the same way I was.
"SHADOW!" I screamed again through my tears as everyone stared at the overhead fire.
Shadow's POV
"AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Normal POV
Flames engulfed everything in the area sending the lightest thing miles off into the storm.
The lone hedgehog who sat down in the mud was sent through the flames and through the electric fence and out towards the street which was a good hundred feet from the base itself.
The flames spread onto his cloths and he laid there still as his now scorched black skin was being burned off beyond repair.
He didn't move nor did anything else as the fire burn all who were in it's way.
The rain poured but it wasn't much to kill the fire that burned in everyone's souls.