Fleetway's Torment

Outcast

(Nobody Pov:) Scourge awakens in a cave. He raises his left hand to touch his head which has a bandage on it, his right arm is in a cast. Looking down at his legs, he notices there is a bandage on his left leg.

After a moment he stands up, before noticing footsteps approaching him. Scourge hides behind a rock and is about to attack them, he peeks his head around the corner and sees the same black hedgehog he had saw from before he fell unconcious just now they wore a brown poncho.

(Scourge Pov:) That can't be Shadow can it? I get up from behind the rock and look at him.

'That you, Shadow?' After a few seconds I decide to comment on his sorry ass (not his actual ass :|) 'Ya look like shit' Shadow grunts in irritation and looks away.

'What happened to ya Shadow?' Shadow sighs. 'Come on, say something.'

Shadow takes another sigh before finally talking, he sounded like he hadn't talked for a while.

'When you and Mephiles ran off to get to Silver and Manic, I stayed and faced down Sonic. I thought maybe I could talk to him or to get the entity within him out but...' Shadow pauses and I can tell that is intensional. 'he killed me but then brought me back to life as a servant... I was loyal to him and did whatever he wanted as my mind was changed to accept him as....'

Shadow takes a very long pause and has a very frustrated look on his face as he says the next words with distain 'a master...' I look down at the ground, feeling awful for Shadow. 'Sorry to hear that-'
'I don't need your sympathy, after that event, while you, Fleetway, Mephiles and Silver were dealing with Eggman, Exe had sent me on numerous tasks like cleaning his sanctum and killing people from other dimensions. Never Mobius though..'

So he calls that place his Sanctum... and he has used Shadow as a little errand boy? I'd laugh if this was the right time for that. 'So what types of people did you kill?'
'Any. Exe had a specific reason to kill any of them. Whether that be, Too Innocent, Too Annoying or Too Worthless, I'd have to kill them'

'So why didn't you fight back?'
'Because I couldn't...I barely had a hold of my memories and I was just a slave that was completly loyal'
'So that's why you didn't help Fleetway...'

There is a long silence before Shadow replies. 'Yes. If I could have stopped him I would but I couldn't. For 6 months I had to listen to his suffering and Exe's laughing. He enjoyed making him suffer, making his mind shatter. From what he told me or what I briefly over heard, he wanted Fleetway to be back in his original crazed self before he wanted to be a better person...'

I begin to get a little teary eyed from this information, he just wanted to be accepted as a normal person but fate had always chose to go against him. First with Eggman and now with Exe. His whole achievement was worthless now.

'Well...if you were Exe's puppet then..why are you here?'
'He cast me out. It was around 4 days ago.' (Yep, all these chapters have been across 4 days so far. I'll explain under the end)

'Why'd he do that?'
'I saw your brother exploring the sanctum alone. Normally he was in chains or with Exe so I had assumed he had broken free somehow so I then began to corrupt Fleetway to make him like me...'
'But Exe caught on?'
'That he did. Right before I managed to turn Fleetway, Exe picked me up by the neck and began to choke me. He was infuriated that I hurt Fleetway ..so he mutilated and hurt me even further. Then once he had enough of that he cast me out here'

I look at Shadow's poncho, now understanding why he wears it.

'So how did you get your thoughts back then Shadow?' This is a question that had been lingering on my mind.
'Well, after being out here for two days, I had almost died and bled out from my wounds when I saw this, mysterious being offer me a gift of food. With little other choice, my hunger and just my sheer confusion, i ate the food and I felt myself returning. My memories, some of my power which I had forgotten, all of it.'