A/n: Alright, so I came up with this idea a while ago, but it underwent some revisions, and with school and videogames distracting me, it took a bit longer than intended, but, I hope you enjoy the final product! I hope to have the first chapter out by the end of Christmas Break, but no promises (I learned the hard way making promises about deadlines is not a good idea). And yes, the title is a Linkin Park reference.

Shadow ran as fast as he could, which, although fast, wasn't as fast as it used to be. It had been several years since the gang went their separate ways, and a year and a half since his rocket shoes had been destroyed on a mission for GUN. Although he stayed in shape and continued to go on missions, his speed had slowly dropped, so now he was no longer super fast, but still faster than a common person, with a speed slightly faster than that of an olympic runner. And it was this speed that kept him alive as he fled from a pair of GUN agents. Passing by a building, he caught sight of the Eiffel Tower in the distance.

"There's my heading…" he muttered, turning left down an alleyway. Throwing a trashcan down behind him, he heard one of the agents trip over it, grinning as he turned right. He sprinted and took the only direction he could, right again. As he rounded the corner he skidded to a halt and swore at the sight of a wall only a few feet in front of him, too tall to climb or jump and with the other agent behind him… No way out. Shadow whipped around just in time to see the agent appear from around the corner, Beretta raised and aimed at Shadow's fluffy chest fur, sticking out from the top of his flannel shirt, where the first few buttons were undone.

"Stop! Shadow Robotnik the Hedgehog, you are under arrest!" the agent told him, causing the Ultimate Lifeform to flinch at the mention of the last name GUN had given him.

"Wait! Mulder! I was framed!" Shadow replied, holding his hands up. Mulder, a white fox with red tipped ears and a red tipped tail, held his fire, but kept the barrel of his nine millimeter pointed at Shadow's chest. His eyebrows moved together and his forehead wrinkled in thought as the agent thought.

"How do I know you're not lying?" Mulder asked, glaring at the ebony hedgehog, "They had you on tape!"

"I don't know, they got someone who looked like me, or something! I didn't attack that station!" Shadow exclaimed, backing against the wall.

"Shadow, they have eyewitnesses stating it was you, your voice, your DNA there! How do I know it wasn't you against that evidence?" Mulder said angrily.

"I don't know, Mulder… I don't know." Shadow said, lowering his hands and putting them out in front of him, to be handcuffed. "Take me in, then. I know I face death, but with evidence like that…" Mulder sighed, taking his finger off the trigger and slowly lowering the GUN.

"Alright, Shadow… I believe you. I don't know why, but I do." the older agent informed him, before raising the gun in and shooting Shadow, close to his kidney. The Ultimate Lifeform doubled over, a shocked look on his face and his hands on the wound. The bullet fortunately did not go far in, but it still hurt. As Shadow looked up at Mulder, the white fox raised his fist… And punched himself in the face, hard enough to cause a black eye. Shadow gave him a questioning look, to which the GUN agent grinned.

"I told you, I believe you. I don't know why, but I do." He told him, lowering the gun again, "But, I plan to keep my kids fed, and thus my job, so we gotta make this look believable." he said, before tossing Shadow his Beretta.

"So… I knocked you out and took your gun, but not before you got a bullet in me?" Shadow asked him, clicking the safety on the nine millimeter.

"Pretty much." Mulder replied, a hand holding his eye. Shadow nodded in reply.

"Thanks Mulder. Although, I wouldn't have actually hit you, man." the ebony hedgehog informed him. The white fox smiled in return.

"I know, kid. It was mentioned in your psych profile they gave me after the attack on the Space Station to hunt you down. Along with PTSD, I noticed." Mulder informed him, stepping aside to allow the Ultimate Lifeform passage back down the alley.

"Yeah… Thanks for the help, Mulder." Shadow said, setting off at a brisk walk back down the alley.

"No problem, kid… Good luck." Mulder replied, before preparing his radio to give a fake report. Shadow quickly ran down the alley, booking it across the intersection to the other side. This time around his luck was better, as he found an opening to another street at the far end, as opposed to another wall. He quickly started running for the Eiffel Tower again. However, life still didn't want things to be easy for him, as a patrol of soldiers rounded the corner and spotted him, raising their rifles.

"S***!" Shadow yelled, diving running through the door of the clothing store to his left. The soldiers quickly gave chase, dashing for the door. Man, the new Commander is already sending his private army after me? He really is replacing agents in the field! Shadow thought as he ran between the racks of clothes, dodging civilians and mannequins as the soldiers attempted to find a good shot, but couldn't as too many civilians in the way.

Shadow ran for his life, running up a set of escalators two at a time. He began to pant as the running combined with the pain from his wound started to make him hurt.

"Why did I just have to run in the biggest friggin' clothing store on earth?" Shadow asked, still going up the escalators. Finally he reached the top floor and took off down the aisle, grabbing shirts off of their hangars as he did. He also managed to grab a rather nice suit as he ran as well, before hiding in a janitor's closet. Acting quickly, he yanked off his shoe and slid the bottom of it off, revealing, amongst other tools, a switchblade. He took the shirts he had grabbed and cut them into strips, folding and wrapping some into a pad and tying the rest together to tie the pad to his wound.

"Gotta get off these bloody clothes…" He muttered to himself as he took off his bloodstained shirt and jeans and put the suit on. "This should avoid suspicion, at least at a distance… If I avoid the soldiers." The black hedgehog put the knife back in his shoe and put the shoes on, then opened the door an inch, peeking around. He noticed a single soldier standing nearby, but he wasn't paying attention. Shadow snuck up behind him and grabbed him from behind, yanking him to the ground and choking him unconscious. Grabbing his P226 and putting it in the back of the waistband of his pants, next to the Beretta, he briskly strolled back towards the escalators, noting that there were almost no more civilians there.

Setting off down the escalators, which had fortunately been stopped, he made it two floors down before it hit the fan. Noticing a pair of soldiers heading up the escalators, he quickly jumped off and hid behind the wall separating the escalators from that level. After the two guards passed on their way up, having failed to notice him, Shadow realized he was in plain sight for any guards that might be there with him. Ducking behind a set of mannequins, he pulled the Beretta out of his waistband and looked at the area around him. On the other side of the mannequins was a pair of soldiers talking, both with their backs turned, and one guard who was looking around… And just so happened to see Shadow peeking between the mannequins at him. The Ultimate Lifeform's eyes widened and he ducked down as the soldier shouldered his shotgun and fired, causing the chest of the mannequin directly over Shadow to explode in a shower of plastic and cloth.

"S***." He muttered under his breath, hunkering down behind the table as the legs of a mannequin to his left shattered in a hail of mannequin and buckshot. The black hedgehog flinched as the staccato crackle of SMG fire joined that of the shotgun blasts, taking the mannequins apart as the wall in front of him was taken to pieces as well. A light lit up in his ruby eyes as an idea formed. He flicked the safety on his Beretta off, waiting for the silence of a reload before raising the handgun over his shoulder, firing rapidly as he ran at the wall, curling into a ball as he collided with it, smashing through to the other side. He turned around and emptied the last three bullets into the soldier with the shotgun, with the last round piercing his body armor.

"Learn to shoot lower next time, rookies…" He said to himself, throwing the his 9mm over the side as he ran down the escalator. He kept running as the other two soldiers kept firing at him, jumping off the side once he reached the second floor. After landing on the floor, he ran for the front entrance. Fate, however, would not let this happen, as four more soldiers appeared from the back of the store, with the two form earlier supporting them from the second floor. Shadow quickly ducked behind the checkout desk, thanking Starclan, Arceus, and various other references he had heard different friends and coworkers make over the years at the fact that the desk was bulletproof, with a bulletproof screen due to the wealth of the store. As he hid, he heard the faint sound of Linkin Park's A Light That Never Comes. The Ultimate Lifeform looked around, before finding an old Razr ringing on the countertop. Noticing the small screen on it said "Pick up Shadow," he grabbed it and flipped it open.

"Hello?!" he asked urgently, pulling the P226 out.

"So, how'd you like the show earlier, Shadow?" a voice asked, sounding somewhat rough and strained.

"Who the hell is this?" Shadow questioned, "Are you the SOB that framed me for the attack on that Space Station?" The hedgehog only got a laugh in reply.

"My, my, you really are angry." The voice informed him mockingly as Shadow ducked, the bulletproof screen shattering over his head. "Let's just say, I'm a Doctor, and I would like to play a game."

"Alright, 'Doctor,' you obviously like movies…" Shadow muttered, taking a few shots at the soldiers.

"Actually, you little s***, that was unintentional." The Doctor snarled. "And anyway, I just called to inform you that little event at the station was my only present for you, and this next one isn't that last either."

"Next one!?" Shadow yelled, eyes widening in shock.

"Yes… Let's just say, your clock is ticking down... You might want to find some cover." The Doctor informed him, before laughing and hanging up.

"Oh, S***!" Shadow yelled, before jumping to his feet and running for the door. Bullets whizzed around his head as he ran. However, several feet from the door, the world suddenly turned white as The Doctor's bomb planted in the back of the store went off, propelling The Ultimate Lifeform through the front door in a shower of glass and fire. He was thrown across the street and through the large front window of the cafe across the street. As he heard the screams and sirens, the black hedgehog was thankful that unconsciousness overcame him.

A/n: Disclaimer: I don't own anything except Mulder! And if anyone is wondering, this takes place at a later time in the game universe, but features characters from the comics! And Constructive Criticism is accepted! Read and Review! Please.