Chapter 5: Private war

10PM in Westopolist, Shadow drove his hijacked army truck to a nearest gas station he can find. He ran over the gas station's plumming equipments, spilling gases around the truck. He dismounted the truck and grab an M60 Light Machine Gun, two boxes of ammunition. Shadow threw a match stick on the fuel, creating an uncontronable flame, the flame spreads to the source of the fuel, thus, igniting the gas station along with the truck and the ammunition stored in the back compartment. The explosions ensured that sheriff Snivley and his deputies at the police station heard and feel the shock of the blast. They ran to the window and shook to see a column of smoke rises up in their town and civilians are panicking and running for shelters. "You two go check it." Snively sent out his two henchmen to the scene along with the fire brigade. Commander Towers hasn't left the town all day and now he came into Snively's office with some words of advice that Snively will surely never listen to. Snively picked up the microphone to the town's speaker system, he annonunced the first ever emergency situation to the people of Westopolist. "Attention all civilians, attention all civilians. This is an emergency broadcast. For your own safety please evacuate the streets, remain in doors and await for futher instructions from the police." Snively then picked up his M16 rifle, loaded it with a magazine, prepared himself for a payback with Shadow.

"They found Shadow's body. Infact it stole an army truck and blew up a gas station." Snively said to Towers, much to Tower's awareness about Shadow's survival on the mountain, he suspected that the hedgehog might have escaped through the mine. But Snively hoped, and self assured that Shadow won't get out of Snively's hometurf. "Snively, you and all of your men couldn't handle him before what makes you think you can handle him now ?" Towers asked a sarcastic question to Snively, who gave the experienced soldier the cold shoulder, "He trusted me, i'm the one who's closest to him as a family. That's the edge i need." Towers explained to Snively a logical reason why Snively should have let Shadow go in the first place. "Now you listen here, this is my town and this is my job. I don't care to know what your Shadow the hedgehog can do, you just stay out of my way." Snively send Towers out of his sight and faraway from the police station as he can. Then Snivley went to the roof of the station to have an over watch view of the city. While then on the streets around the station, Shadow was carrying an M60 LMG shooting up stores, cars and electric transformers and generators, cutting off electricity to the district. Shadow decided to hit the one place that will have the biggest bang, the gun shop. Where all the ammo, gun powders and weapons that will surely create a very huge blast once detonated.

He came to the front door of the gun shop and machine gunned it down, he stormed into the shop and threw all the ammo boxes on the ground, he piled up the gunpowders into a mountain of highly explosive compound, what's left of the gun powders, he traced them into a trail to the entrance and shoot the gun powder trail up. Light from the beginning of the trail the explosive finale give Shadow just enough time to ran to safety distance. The explosion was so big that the there was virtually nothing left behind to rebuilt the gunshop. Snivley watched in horror as his favorite gun shop went up in smoke and he still couldn't find Shadow. But while Snively was sticking his head up to see the explosion, Shadow has located his prey. The hedgehog swiftly infiltrated the police station and try to pin point where Snively is standing. Shadow slowly crept up into Snively's office, where right above him, Snively open fires on the hedgehog through the skylight. Shadow dodges into covers and fires the remaining bullets of his M60 on the ceiling where Snively was standing. The 7.62mm bullets were so powerful that it tears up Snively's feet causing the control freak sheriff to fell down real hard. Lying on the floor and bleeding to dead, Snively cried out to Shadow to ease him of his pain. "Come on. Go ahead you crazy hedgehog!" But before Shadow could exact his blow, Towers came between just in time to stop a bloody ending. "Shadow! It's over." He said. Outside the police station, police cruisers and army troop transports surrounded the building, more than 200 men from police and the army prepares to fire on Shadow.

"Come here and look out there, look out! There's more than 200 men out there with a lot of M16, they'll make sure you'll bleed to dead. You have no chance. This mission is over Shadow. It's over!" But Shadow shouted to his commanding officer, "Nothing is over! Nothing! You just don't turn it off. It wasn't my war, you asked me i didn't asked you. Back there we have a code of honor, you watch my back i watch yours. Back here, back here is nothing! Eversince i got back from the airport, all those hippies assholes dumb trashs on me. Calling me baby killer and all those craps! Who do they think they are to protest me ? Back there i drive a tank, i can fly a jet, a helicopter. I can choose a milion dollar equipment, but here there's no fucking jobs to keep me around!" He threw down his M60 LMG into a corner, he collapsed down to the ground and started to weep, he mourns and confess the pain the scared him for life. "I had a girl, blond hair, 12 years old. Her name w...w...was Maria Robotnik, she used to be the girl who cares about me the most. She loves me and tender me. She was the love of my life, then you GUN shows up on the Ark and killed her, you scarred me for life. Then you use me to fight her cousin, Eggman, after that you discarded like a tool." Towers sat down, offers Shadow a shoulder to cry on, and so he wept all he want.

The next morning the police finally got Shadow handcuffed and Snively into the hospital. The press, as usual, were taking every possible picture they can of Shadow as the hedgehog was being escorted to imprisonment. In Shadow's heart and mind, he knew that at least in prison, he wouldn't have to stray anywhere around the world looking for shelters or foods. In jail, he still knows where he's standing.

(Playing Dan Hill's It's a long road)

Cast

Shadow the hedgehog-Sylvester Stallone

Snively-Charlie Adler

Commander Towers-Richard Crenna

Directed by Jim Abrahams

After this story, i will write a sequel to it called "First Blood part deux", starting tomorrow, coming to a computer near you!