This chapter should've been up a long time ago, but i started school this week and that may cause my chapters to take even longer to come.

Anyway, i would like to thank; 'Krispina The Derp' and 'Arlene' for reviewing. ^^

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Married: Chapter 5: The mission part 1

"So what's the plan?" Rouge asked her ebony partner, taking her eyes off the computer and resting them on the mobian in front of her.

"We could just burst into the room, but we don't know how many other armed people are in here. Bursting into the room would be a stupid idea. The best course of action would be to wait until they leave. That way we can get all the information that we need and leave unnoticed." Shadow whispered over to her, explaining the plan while also making sure that the three criminals in the room below them couldn't hear them.

Rouge nodded to show him that she understood the plan and looked back down through the ventilation grid. The three of them were still in the room. Now all the newlyweds needed to do was to wait until they left.

Two hours later, the two mobians were still waiting in the ventilation shaft. Rouge was lying flat on her belly with her head propped up with her arms as she kept watching through the grid. Shadow was lying flat on his belly aswell, only he was drawing with his finger in the dust that had gather in the ventilation shaft over the years.

Both of them seemed bored out of their minds. Although Shadow didn't seem as bothered by his boredom as Rouge. He was able to keep himself amused by drawing meaningless doodles in the dust.

After what seemed like an eternity, they finally heard something else other than the constant ticking of fingers on the keyboard. Both Shadow and Rouge looked through the grid to see what was going on.

The mobian that was sitting in front of the computer stood up from his chair and walked out through the door. His two bodyguards followed him, muttering something to eachother as they left. They were in luck. This meant that they could finally get down and take what they came for.

Shadow sat up on his knees and took the grid out, placing it behind him. Rouge jumped out of the ventilation shaft and landed gracefully on the cold floor. Shadow jumped out aswell, but landed with less grace than his partner.

"I will try to hack into the computer. You keep a look out and make sure that no one is coming." Rouge said as she ran over to the computer and sat down on the chair. Her slender fingers immediatly began typing away on the keyboard.

"Affirmative." Shadow whispered back to her and walked towards the door. He placed his ear against it and listened for any movement outside this door. His hearing may not be as good as his wife's, but he could still hear better than most mobians.

There wasn't really any sound in the hallway that seemed out of the ordinairy. There were just footsteps walking up and down the hallway.

As Shadow was listening for anyone that could be approaching, Rouge was trying her best to hack into the computer. With her skills, it didn't take long before she cracked the password and got into the system.

"I'm in!" She let her partner know. At the same time she started her search for the missing files. The faster she got them, the sooner they would be out of here.

She passed several files and searched through several more, but she couldn't find what they had come for. The clicking of the mouse and the typing on the keyboard sped up a little as Rouge didn't want to waste anymore time on trying to find their target. Every second longer they spend in that room could mean the inevitable fate of being caught.

Shadow's ear, which had been pressed against the door, began to twitch as he began to hear a sound in the hallways.

Footsteps.

The ones he had been hearing this whole time sounded distant, but these sounded like they were heading straight towards this room.

"Rouge, hurry up! Someone is coming!" The hedgehog warned her before going right back to trying to listen to the footsteps and follow their every move. The white bat, heeding her husband's warning, tried to work faster. As she passed more and more files, the footsteps walked closer.

"Hurry!" Shadow practically ordered her, even though he didn't mean to sound so harsh.

"I'm trying my best!" She snapped back at him. Both hoped that these walls were soundproof. otherwise those criminals would've deffinetly heard them.

And they had.

Shadow heard the calm steps starting to go faster as their owner's broke into a run. He took the door knob and braced himself in case someone would try and burst through the door. If he were to keep them from entering, he could buy Rouge some more time to get what they came for and escape with it.

Just like he thought, someone tried opening the door. Someone tried to turn the knob, but Shadow's tight grip made it a bit difficult. When the person on the other side of the door figured out that it couldn't open the door like this, it resorted to trying to burst in through the door. Shadow had already seen this coming and prepared his body for impact.

"Rouge, are you almost done?!" The hedgehog asked, grunting when he felt the door being slammed against his shoulder. He was tempted to pull away and rub the spot that got hit. The door was sure to leave a bruise on him.

"Got it!" Rouge stated and inserted the USB-stick. She quickly downloaded the file and wiped all evidence of it's excistence from the system and pulled it back out to hide it away for safekeeping.

Not wanting to waste anymore time, Shadow pushed himself away from the door and grabbed a hold of Rouge's arm. He was about to mutter the famous words 'Chaos Control', but couldn't evne utter a word when the door swung open and a gunshot resonated through the room.

Rouge's eyes widened as Shadow screamed in pain stumbled backwards, losing his footing and falling to the ground.

"Shadow!" The snow white bat yelled and went to her knees next to him. Shadow held his shoulder as that was the place where he had been hit. She looked at the wound. It didn't look like the bullet went all the way through, meaning that it still had to be in his shoulder and would need to be removed once they got out of here.

The sound of a hammer pulling back was heard. The female mobian looked up and suddenly saw the gun pointed at her face. She didn't dare to move. If she did, she was certain that her life would end before she would even notice the trigger being pulled.

Shadow, who had been in shock ever since he had been shot, snapped out of it and looked at the gun that was pointed at his wife. Forgetting the pain in his shoulder, he used that arm to push himself up and grab the gun, accidently knocking Rouge over aswell.

The mobian criminal barely had the chance to react when Shadow took the gun and tore it out of his hand. Another shot was fired when he lost his grip on it, but fortunatly no one was hurt. The hedgehog took the gun properly in his hand and pointed it at the criminal. He wasn't used to using his right hand like this, but with his left shoulder being hit, that limb was no use now.

But even with that gun in his possession, the chance of getting out of here dwindled as more armed mobians and humans arrived. Shadow lowered the gun as it would be useless with so many foes. As the two watched the group holding their firearms pointed at them, both of them knew they were in trouble.