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Chapter 15: Shadowy Sniper

"And so, my fellow citizens! We of the Guardian Units of Nations are working long and hard to keep you safe!" Veterans Day as always a big day. It was a day to honor soldiers both on the field and those deceased as Commander Abraham Tower gave a yearly speech to the citizens of Station Square. People listened carefully to the man's words as guards seemed to completely surround the area. If anyone were to sneeze, they would be on it. There seemed to be no way of touching The Commander or any of the citizens.

At least, that's what they thought.

"Fang, you're aware of how crazy this is, right?" In a building, half a mile away, we can see Fiona Fox and Fang the Sniper, the latter aiming a shot in the direction of the Guardian Unit of Nations's Commander's speech, while he adjusted the scope on his rifle. The duo were alone, without Bean or Bark.

"Not at all." Fang smirked as his sharp single fang made its cameo. The wind was perfect, his shot accurate, and his target having a speech that could last another two hours. But the sniper just needed two seconds.

"Fang, if you miss, we're going to be so fucked." The Hooligans were being payed for the assassination of the Commander, a good 15 grand as too good to pass. Which was exactly why Bean and Bark were on another job encase this one bombed. Plus, Fang could finally align a shot without Bean getting in the way.

"I'm the Sniper. I don't miss." he said cockily as he got his shot perfectly aligned with Abraham's head. He waited a few seconds, the Commander not moving a centimeter as the wind showed no signs of resistance. (Gotcha, ya bozo.)

The shot was fired.

Fang could see his bullet soar through the air at breakneck speed. He watched as the Commander's mouth moved to form words. It was almost as if the world was in slow motion. Just as the bullet was to hit, it happened.

He vanished.

The Commander disappeared!

"What the actual fuck?!"

"You missed, huh?" Fiona questioned with a smug look on her face.

"I didn't just miss! He teleported or some..." the gears in the weasel's mind slowly clicked together as he looked through his scope. He looked around the ceremony until he saw it. The variable he didn't see nor expected. The person who made this job worth 15 grand-even more.

"Shadow." Fiona flinched.

"You mean, Shadow the Hedgehog?"

"No, I mean Shadow the fluffy cat." growled the Sniper as he put his namesake on his back, "Fiona, this just got serious."

The two thieves had made their way to a nearby back alley where the building happened to be near as Fang had put his rifle away and then began to equip two pistols into his holster as well as another rifle. All of which appeared to be fog grey with the Eggman Empire Logo on them.

"Where exactly did you get those?" Fiona questioned as she and Fang hopped onto the Marvelous Queen.

"Eggman may be the lowest of the low, but damn does he make good toys." smirked the Weasel, "I've been waiting for a chance to debut these bad boys and with that hedgehog around, this is good a chance as any." Fiona saw Fang's eyes, and as truly scared. There was some sort of fire in them. His usual cool, confident, arrogance it had was now a cold, serious glare. It was almost as deadly as his guns.

"You aren't going to just go looking around for him, are you?" Fiona was far from stupid and was fully aware of Shadow's power possessed. After all, he rivaled Sonic.

"That won't be needed." Both Hooligans turned to the alleyway's exit to see the ebony figure of Shadow the Hedgehog, a Chaos Spear in his fist as he looked at the two with piercing glares, but his attention was focused on Fang, "I expected you to be around today."

"I feel so special." Fang muttered as he got ready to run the Hedgehog over, but a spear right in front of the bike made him rethink that as another spear formed in Shadow's gloved hand.

"Do you truly think you'll be escaping me a second time?" Shadow glared.

(A second time?) Fiona thought, (These two ran into each other before?) Fang scoffed as he hopped off his bike and drew his pistol, smirking.

"If you wanna do this the hard way, you just had to ask." Shadow looked unimpressed. Why would he? he's fast enough to dodge any bullet Fang could shoot with ease.

Then the gun fired.

Something was off. The bullet was much faster than any bullet fired from any gun. Shadow barely avoided getting shot, and it took a lot to not let loose any signs of pain as the bullet grazed his arm, cutting deep enough to cause blood to trickle.

"What the..."

"Surprised, huh? The good doctor makes some pretty good toys." Shadow growled at the mentioning of Eggman, "After all, who else do you think hired us to snipe the commander?"

"What are those?" Shadow questioned.

"This little thing?" Fang asked with a mock tone, "This bad boy's called 'Chaos Phantom Model 13'." the sniper introduced, "This baby can take ammunition and coat it in artificial Chaos Energy. Quite a nice little toy Eggman gave me, huh?" Shadow growled. Fang was problematic enough as it was, but the Doctor giving him new toys was almost too much to bare. "Scared yet?"

Shadow...chuckled.

"Actually, I'm impressed." Shadow smirked, "At first, I thought this wouldn't be a challenge for me."

Now then, some of you may be wondering 'what's with the rivalry between Shadow and Fang'? Well, think about it! They're both gunman, but Shadow is CLEARLY more recognized with a gun despite it being Fang's namesake. That's why I constructed a little rivalry between them. Just wanted to put that out there.