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Married: Chapter 6: The mission part 3

Shadow and Rouge watched the group of criminals in front of them. Neither one of the two dared to move, for they knew that the wrong move could mean their end.

"Get up, both of you!" The mobian, who was apparently the leader of the gang, ordered.

The two team members of Team Dark slowly got up on their feet. Shadow wobbled a little as he was getting a bit dizzy because of the blood he was losing. The fur on his left shoulder was drenched in blood. Thin lines of the crimson liquid ran down his arm. His gloves became red. A small puddle had already formed beneath him.

Two thugs walked up behind them, their guns pointing at their backs as they were well aware of who these two mobians were.

"You two, get a move on!" One of the two ordered, pushing the barrel of the gun against the female bat's back.

Rouge was about to make a comment about the gun being pushed into her back, but she figured that wouldn't be such a good idea and instead began to walk.

The newlyweds followed them and allowed those thugs to take them to where ever they wanted them to go. They weren't in the position to fight back, after all. Shadow couldn't use Chaos Control anymore. The pain was distracting him too much, making him unable to concentrate.

It was only momentarily, but who knew what could go wrong in such a short amount of time?

But even if the hedgehog could use his powers, they were still greatly outnumbered. They had to think his through. They needed to hatch an escape plan. And they needed it quickly. These guys weren't exactly known to be friendly hosts.

They were lead to this room. Stuff in boxes were stacked all over the place. This must be the storage.

The two mobians were pushed inside. The door locked tight behind them. They heard the voice of the leader yell at two thugs, demanding that they stay here and guard the door. That is exactly what those two did as the others went back to whatever the hell it is that they were doing before their alarm was triggered.

"Sit down." Rouge ordered husband. Shadow did as he was told and used a crate as a temporary seat while Rouge began to dig into the crates in search of something they could use for his wound.

"Aha! This could be of some use to us!" The bat stated as she opened a crate to find it full with medicine, bandages and all sorts of other small medical equipment.

She bent down and started searching for anything she could use to care for the injury. Eventually she found a bandage, some paper towels and a pair forceps. She knew this was probably stolen goods and it wouldn't be the brightest idea to use them, but she could care less about this. She cared more about making sure her mate would be alright.

Shadow looked at the deep wound in his shoulder. Even though he felt a bit groggy because of the blood loss, it wasn't like this could have any bad consequences for him. To him it was nothing more than annoying that his good arm was shot. He disliked the fact that his arm felt so numb and he wondered how long it would take before the limp would start functioning normally again.

"How are you feeling?" Rouge asked and sat down on the wooden box next to him and placed the items down.

"I'm just fine, don't worry." Shadow answered, reassuring her that he was going to make it with or without her help.

The mobian bat shifted her eyes from his to the wound below. She took the paper towels and cleaned the wound of any blood or filth. The effort was in vain. Blood almost immediately stained ebony fur again.

"This might hurt a little, but there was no anestethic, so we'll have to do without it." Rouge said as she took the forceps.

Shadow winced as he felt Rouge prodding in his wound with the forceps, trying to get the bullet out. He winced and grimaced as she digged around in his wound until she bumped into something. Knowing it was the object she had been searching for, Rouge took hold of it with the forceps and pulled it out. Shadow was relieved when the bullet was finally out and the pain began to numb.

"Thank you, that thing in my shoulder was annoying." He said while he took the paper towels from Rouge's lap and wiped away all the blood that had stained his ebony pelt again.

"You're welcome, but it still needs to be taken care off properly when we get back." The white bat said as she took the bandage and wrapped the wound as good as she could with the injury being in an inconvenient spot on his body.

"I guess." Shadow muttered.

Once Rouge was done taking care of her mate's injury, she pushed the remaining stuff away and moved to sit closer to him. It was silent for a while before she decided to start up another conversation.

"So what's the plan?" She asked and looked back up to him.

Shadow seemed to be deep in thought, trying to come up with something that could get them out of here. But that wasn't something he could come up with in an instant.

"There is no plan. Atleast, not yet." He said and pushed himself up from the crate. He began to look around, searching for anything that might help them escape. Like a weapon, a back door they didn't guard, a window. As the hedgehog looked around, he found one of the things that he had been looking for.

Weaponry.

In the back of a storage were a bunch of stacked boxes. Some of the boxes closed while others were already open. Out off one of the open boxes protruded the barrel of a gun. Knowing that it could be quite usefull to them, Shadow approached that stack and began to climb to reach the upper box.

As he climbed up on a stack of boxes, he could hear the heels of Rouge's shoes click against the metal floor as she approached the stack and looked up to him. She watched him as he reached the box he had been going for and tore the remains of the lid off.

"Did you find something?" Rouge asked as she watched Shadow bent down to grab something from the crate. He pulled a regular pistol out of it and pushed ammunition into it's bottom.

"Yeah, something that could be quite useful on our way out of here." He answered and pulled out another one and loaded that one with bullets aswell. He took one more ammunition for each gun before jumping back down.

Rouge watched him as he stood back up straight and handed her one of the guns. She took it and the ammunition when they were presented to her.

This wasn't the first time she had held a gun. Just like Shadow, she was no stranger to using these kind of firearms. But even if they knew how to handly a gun, neither one of the two actually used it all that often. They preferred to use their body instead of weaponry.

"So what's the plan." Rouge asked.

"I have none. Yet." The other answered. She looked at him with a light glint of surprise present in her expression. When Shadow had spotted and taken those guns, she was certain that he had come up with a plan by now.

"Hey, I'm working on it!" Shadow stated when he noticed her stumped look.

The hedgehog walked over to the locked door and pressed his ear against it. He tried listening for any activity that could come from the other side of the door.

"Rouge, can you keep an eye on this door?" He asked. The bat nodded and took his place at the door. Shadow took a few steps away and looked around.

There had to be some way to escape. A whole in the wall? Another ventilation shaft? An unguarded back door, perhaps? Shadow had a hard time finding them by just looking around. All of these boxes were standing in the way. But moving them all wouldn't be a solution either. That would take way too much time. Not to mention that those guards outside the door would hear all of the rummaging.

He crossed his arms in front of his chest and mentally sighed at this light inconvenience.

"Shadow!" Rouge called for him. The said hedgehog turned slightly to her and watched her from over his shoulder.

"Someone's coming!"