I Will Not Bow

Captured

Two boys in protective gear brought a black haired boy to their ruler. The boy fell to his knees and picked his head up.

"Nice to see you again Shadow..." A recognizable voice said. The boy picked his head up.

"Eggman..." He said. The round man smirked at the sight of the ultimate life form down on his knees.

"Here to surrender to me Shadow?" He asked.

"If you think I'd surrender to a filth like you, I'm better off dead..." Shadow said.

Eggman took Shadow by the neck. "Join me Shadow, we will become rich and powerful!"

"Go to hell..." Shadow groaned as he struggled to breathe. Eggman let his neck go. Shadow put a hand around his throat, panting. "You've lied to me once...the possibilities of you doing it again are incredibly possible." Shadow groaned.

"Shadow, if you join me...you will be appreciated by many people. They will respect you and no longer fear you-"

"No... I will not bow, I will not break... I will shut the world away. I will not fall, I will not fake... I will take your breath away. I'll survive every night. I have lost the will to change. I will not be a proud cold blooded fake. I will shut the world away... If you think I will serve you, just to be used as a weapon of mass destruction, man are you wrong. I'd rather rot in a cell in this base than work for you." Shadow replied now on his feet. He walked out of the room.

"Should we go get him?" Asked one of the two boys that brought Shadow.

"No... Let him go, he will change his mind after he sees what is done because of him... Knuckles, go fetch Sonic. I have a task for you two." Eggman said. Knuckles bowed.

"As you desire master..." He said before walking out.

Shadow's POV

I walked out of that disgusting place to see people leaving in shacks and sleeping on carton pieces. They all stared at me as I walked by. I threw a bag out of my satchel to a man. He opened it and started giving people the food that came in. I smiled at them.

I wasn't the best dressed all I wore was a collar around my neck that had spikes, and wore a long scarf with holes at the ends; it blew with the wind, the scarf covered from my chin to my nose. I wore combat boots. I wore black fingerless gloves with spikes on the knuckles and a sleeve on his right elbow. I wore a black short sleeve shirt with a skull on it and wore dark black jeans.

That was it. I didn't have much, but whatever I found, I kept...if it could be used for something. I came across some rope, I looked around for anyone looking around for it, after no one was around...I stuffed it in my satchel. I came across the concrete wall that separated this poor place from the outside wall. I put a hand on the cold wall and sighed, resting my forehead on it.

I just wish all these people could see what I've seen. I made sure on one was looking, before punching the wall lightly. That punch made stones come from inside the wall, after that a door opened. I climbed up the wall and into the door. I closed it, everything would disappear on the other side.

So, here we are. This is my home, the wilderness. I loved the green grass compared to the dirt in Möbius. Trees and birds were here, along with other critters. I threw seeds out of my satchel for the animals. The wind pushed me many different directions, she liked to play with me.

I walked to a lake with a waterfall. I walked along the side of the cannon that formed the water fall and into a cave. It was dark, I pulled a string and Christmas lights along with light bulbs that hung from the top of the cave like paper airplanes tied with string to the ceiling of a house lit up. Music started playing from old records. I hummed.

I took the things out of my satchel two hooks, a bundle of rope, a puzzle cube, and another lightbulb. I put the lightbulb in a drawer that I used for lightbulbs. The hooks were placed in a small box full of other hooks. The rope went over one of my shoulders and across my body like my satchel and the cube...well that I'll keep in my satchel.

I leaned on one of the cave walls and stomped my foot on it. An apple from from the shelf on top of my head, I took a bite.

I started at the beauty of this place. It's such a pain that I have no one to show it to, I...I get so lonely, honestly I think I'm starting to talk to the walls. I had frames of people that I knew before all this happened, I'd talk to them. I had to snap out of it before I began to become crazy.

Man and speaking of the beauty of this place, you should see the stars out here. Nothing but stars for miles and miles of sky. Over at Möbius you can't see them, since the factories bring out a lot of smoke covering the sky. I wanted someone here with me yet, if I brought them...I don't know if they'd tell anyone.

I just had to keep my mouth shut. I threw the apple core in the compost pile, let the bugs have their piece of paradise.