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SURVIVE

-Chapter 9: Without Escape-

Sonic opened Shadow´s cell kicking the motor that was powering up the electrical wires.

"Admit it, Shad! You need MY help!"

"Don't call me… ugh… never mind. And if G.U.N. hadn´t taken my inhibitor rings, I would have returned to you already."

"Where are your rings?"

"I don´t know. But the commander has my Chaos Emeralds."
"You mean THESE emeralds?" Sonic handed him all the emeralds he had.

"Yes, except for the fact that, YOU´RE MISSING THE GREEN ONE?!"

"I´m not missing any emerald... Oh, shoot!"

"Well, in brief we have three problems: One, my inhibitor rings; Two, the green Chaos Emerald; Three, getting out of here." Shadow said returning him the Chaos Emeralds.

Sonic nodded. "I can look for your inhibitor rings while you look for the emerald. You have more chances to identify the fake emeralds."

"That´s fine with me."

"FREEZE!" a soldier exclaimed.

"Are you ready, Shadow?"
"Let´s do it!"
And both hedgehogs launched unto the soldier leaving him unconscious.

"There is the blue hedgehog, and he´s taking with him Project Shadow!"

"Attack!"

Two blurs flashed through the soldiers, both with main goals. The alarm was still making the floor rumble while it repeated:

"This is not a drill, repeat, this is NOT a drill!"

Sonic launched a bunch of soldiers through the air while homing attacking the robots "protecting" them. Now Sonic was having some fun after all.

"You´re too slow!"
"Chaos… Spear!" Shadow shouted as yellow thunder was created in his hand and threw it to the security beacon, making it fall on most of the guard bots.

"I have no time for this, pathetic humans!"

-O-O-O-

"Where are those inhibitor rings?!" Sonic yelled while searching the entire storage of G.U.N. There were a lot of safe files in there. Probably they had records since the First Global War, or even before that. They had even records about Michael Jackson´s death, but no inhibitor rings.

Sonic was about to call Shadow for him to find them, but he noticed a gold glow standing in his quills. He followed the glow and found Shadow´s rings inside a glass capsule.

"Everything here is about glass, geez…"
He broke the glass and took the rings, making another alarm get activated. Sonic couldn´t help but to look at the file beside the capsule: PROJECT SHADOW.

"Shadow will know what to do with this. G.U.N. doesn´t need it anymore."

Sonic got out of the STORAGE section and went to look for Shadow, hoping that he found the green emerald, when a robot landed in front of him. It didn´t let Sonic pass where he needed to go.

"Well, this feels like a Déjà vu. Okay… bring it on!"

-O-O-O-

Shadow knew exactly where he needed to go. He would need to find that stupid old man and kick him into the limits of outer space after taking the emerald with him. Once again, he kicked the door to find Abraham sitting in his comfy, black chair.

"Very impressive, Shadow. You have managed to control your energy pretty well since I removed personally your inhibitor rings…"

"SHUT UP or I´ll KILL YOU!"

"It doesn´t matter. You´re going to do it anyway, don´t you?"
"Probably, if you hand me the Chaos Emerald, it should be fine."

"My….now we can understand each other if we talk politely."

"Give me the emerald, NOW! Or I´ll have to take it by force."

"You wouldn´t hurt an old man, you brat!"

"Try me."

Shadow launched to the commander punching him in the stomach. He could barely breathe so he dropped the green emerald and the fake. Shadow grabbed the original and put it in the air.

"You deserve this, Abraham. You still don´t understand that it was not my fault that Maria died."

"Cough* And… you still don´t understand that you belong to the government, Project Shadow." The Commander said trying to stand up.

"Project Shadow doesn´t exist anymore, because there is already a final version of it. I am Shadow the Hedgehog, the Ultimate Life form! Chaos… Control!"

-O-O-O-

Shadow landed on the floor exhausted of the power he used back there. Sonic helped him to stand up after almost beating the robot that was in his way.

"Good timing, Shadow! Here you go!" Sonic gave Shadow his rings. Shadow put them on and felt the energy coming back again to his body.

"We´re out of here!"

"Chaos…Control!"

-O-O-O-

Sonic and Shadow appeared just at the border of Glyphic Canyon. Keeping distance from G.U.N. was the best thing they could do for now. At least, that´s what Sonic thought.

"Phew, just made it!" Sonic said in relief. "Finally the G.U.N. stuff is over, and we have all the emeralds!"

Shadow closed his eyes, crossing his arms.

"No, it´s not over yet."

"Huh? Wait, do you mean you´re gonna…"

Shadow disappeared before Sonic could end the sentence. He turned to see to the base. And then again, he was another time witnessing the power his arch-rival has.

-O-O-O-

The alarm was now turned off. The soldiers were all wounded and helpless on the ground; some were unconscious, others were yelping. Abraham was still lying on the ground when he thought he heard something. He approached the window, and opened his eyes wide as Shadow held a massive, red ball of negative energy in his hands and shouted:

"DEATH TO ALL WHO OPPOSE ME! CHAOS… BLAST!"

The blast destroyed all the base and most of Glyphic Canyon. Sonic just stood there astonished.

Inside the destroyed base, there were nothing but ashes and a black hedgehog who walked through the burned metal and broken glass.

"This is the end of you, and the end of my cursed past!"

Shadow returned with Sonic holding the green Chaos Emerald with his left hand.

"Now is the time."

Sonic nodded in fear. He knew what his counterpart meant by that.

"It has to be done, Sonic… or the world will live in pain forever."

"Yes, I know…"

"Ready?" Shadow asked putting the Chaos Emerald in the air.

"You ´betcha!"

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