Return of Gerlad's Legacy

Chapter 9: Lucy! Revenge is home!

Shadow readied himself for battle. How fitting that after thirteen of torment he would now have the chance to avenge himself.

All around him was a comp of both GUN soldiers and inactive Prower Command robots. He, himself, was the commander of this operation. He had been chosen to lead this assault.

"Shadow?" said a voice through the Bluetooth in Shadow's ear as he loaded the magazine into his newly self-designed S-32 (Shadow-32, he planned to market it). "Shadow are you there?"

Shadow put his finger up to the answer button and replied, "Yes, Robert, I hear you loud and clear. My men are ready for whatever the hell you have us out in the middle of nowhere to do. Now what is you want us to do?"

A chuckle came through the speaker, "Well Shadow, you are to take out a Black Arms ammo dump that the scum have set up on the Prison Island. They have used all the old toxic waste into energy sources for the weapon coolers. In these coolers, are weapons being recharged. If the cooling is disrupted during the recharging, a massive explosion will take place."

Shadow smirked a bit. "Did your new spy plane get you this information? Or did Umbra just seem generous today?"

"If this wasn't the most secure line on the planet," Robert answered with a bit of an edge to his voice, "you could be detained for mentioning that TOP secret piece of technology. But be it as it may, yes. The new SR-103 took inferred and x-ray pictures of the base. A well placed C-4 will knock out the cooling system. I know that you and the Delta Force agents with you will be able to take out these systems. This mission is on the clock. Good luck, Eclipse out."

Shadow looked up to the camp that surrounded him. The Delta Force unites guarded the camp and activated the Prower Command droids. "Alright, everyone," Shadow called out into the ranks, "I have been contacted by GUN command. This mission is on the clock. Activate our friends from Prower Command." He waited to continue the briefing as the droids were activated. He was actually very impressed with the design of the droids. Tails had done an excellent in designing each one with a specific function and purpose.

The young fox was nothing now like he had been when he Shadow had seen him after the apparent death of his love Cosmo. The young fox was distraught to the say the least. After she had returned, Tails had told Shadow that he had contemplated suicide more than once. Shadow had add7 his two cents to the situation. He tried to console Tails. He had felt the knife of loss at his heart more than once. Tails had screamed at Shadow to leave or he would kill him. Shadow left that night without another word. Thankfully, later that night, the seed that Shadow and Sonic had regenerated from the remains from Cosmo and Dark Oak had become Cosmo once again. Tails became the chipper fox that Shadow knew and became a GUN agent to defend his world: in other words Cosmo. Now with these battle droids, Shadow would help Tails in his in devour and himself with his own.

The droids were activated and ready. The Delta Force soldiers were restless. The Ultimate Life Form was also. "Alright," he opened, "here's the line ups. Unite 1 your with me to take the south side. Unites 2 and 4 will take the east. And lastly unites 3 and 5 will take the north. This robotic platoon will join with another to be a distraction from the west. That will draw most of the enemy forces away from the targets. They are cooling tanks for the weapon recharging chambers. Command has sent the information to your PDAs. The digital shots that command has taken will be our guide into this territory. This is a first-class priority mission. Failure is not an option. Now let's go kick some lizard ass! Hue-ah!"

The camp roared with 'oo-rahs'. The men were ready to go.

"Shadow," said another voice through Shadow's Bluetooth, "my droids have engaged the Black Arms troops. My scanners read that they have left minimal resistance guarding the cooling tanks. You're ready to take 'em out. Just like the old days."

Shadow smiled a bit from the small cliff he was standing on. The Ammo dump was right below him, only ten feet. He could visually confirm Tails' report. "Yep, can see that. They don't expect me to return. We'll have this done in no time. You get those burgers on the grill. Me and my boys are gonna be hungry when we get don with this." A laugh could be heard through the Bluetooth. He punched the hang up button on the side and turned back toward his unit. "Alright, men. Let's get this over with. As you heard, the head of Prower Command is getting us some burgers. You want 'em? Then let's blow this place to Hell!"

He jumped off the cliff and proceeded to run along the once concrete walkway now turned to some concrete/bio-tech blob. He had put a silencer on his pistol. Yeah, it cut the accuracy of the gun a little but silence was needed more right now. If a guard heard the shot, he would alert the rest of the forces and the teams would be overwhelmed with Black Arms infantry.

He shot a Black Arms in the head. It dropped dead without making a sound. He knew that the Black Arms had a hive mind link so that all the others were getting was a bullet going through one of their soldier's heads. That would come up anything new. They were fighting a battle. Their guys were going to get shot.

He and his group marched through the base. They met little resistance. A Black Hawk or two here and there. Not really anything. Placing the C-4 in the cooling tanks. Not a soul saw them. Tails' droid s did their job and did it well. Like a good soldier. Although his insides were telling him that this was going all according to the plan. Nothing went exactly to plan. That was the way of things. Nothing was free. The C-4 was placed. He put his finger up to the Bluetooth and spoke into it. "All unites, have the objectives been successfully reached?"

There was a resounding "Yes, sir."

Shadow smiled grimly to himself. This was too easy. "Good. All agents, remove yourself from the premises to the camp to watch the fireworks. All droids use the smokescreens to escape the field. We're done here."

All together, the Strike Force PHALANX had successfully placed all the C-4 inside the complex. Beer, coke, and water were passed all around. The men pestered Shadow to press the button. But he would wait for confirmation from Tails that all his people had made it out. He looked to the west to see a flash of red light. The signal. "Alright, everyone," he called out to them. They stopped their chatting. "I have just received confirmation. All of our troops have escaped. Now, are you ready for it to be the 4th of July?"

There was a resounding 'hue-ah'. He smiled a little bit. In his head after watching too many I love Lucyepisodes, he thought to himself, Lucy, Revenge is home and its best served flaming hot! He flipped out the detonator. "Let's light this candle!" He slammed his fist on to the red button. Instantly, what had once been a horrible ammo dump had turned into a massive fireball. To further make fun of the Black Arms, the men made mocking 'ooo' and 'ah' sounds. He had to let out a small chuckle. This was huge strike in the Black Arms offensive. But he still had that feeling in the pit of his stomach that this had been far too easy. The Arms wouldn't let so few soldiers guard such a valuable foothold. Something was still out there. Something was just waiting for him to screw up.