1x06: The Base Blow-Up

Previously on Desperate Hedgehogs...

Amy and Rouge finally were able to exit their prison cell, only to have themselves taken away by Dr. Eggman's newest robot, E-123 Omega, reasons unknown.

Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles went to search for Eggman's base, but a sand storm threatened their lives and now Sonic and Tails are split up from Knuckles, having no idea where he could be.

Shadow meanwhile retrieved a Chaos Emerald, but found out Eggman already had another one in his vault. He was finally given the chance to answer the questions, until he was interrupted.

Shadow was interrupted by Silver, who accidently escaped the hospital which turned out to be a simulation created by Dr. Eggman. Silver called Eggman Eggman Nega, the Iblis Trigger. Why did Silver call Eggman by this name? All this on this episode of Desperate Hedgehogs.

What in the world was this? All of a sudden, this strange white hedgehog that no one even knows comes barging into this secret place and calls Eggman something completely different from who he really was. At least, that's what everyone thinks he really is. But this Silver person didn't seemed to be acting, he seemed to feel like he was spouting the truth. But how could he be spouting the truth? Everything he's saying sounda absolutely ridiculous! Shadow wondered, is there more to Eggman then meets the eye?

To Silver though, he felt he finally found what he had been looking for. After this long journey, traveling to so many places he was unknown to, he FINALLY found the person that was the answer to his problems. THE person that was all he needed to fix everything he thought was wrong. THE person he needed to kill, needing the blood of. Silver was ready for this match he'd been wanting for a long time.

"Silver?" suddenly asked by a familiar voice.

Silver was very shocked to hear that voice, as he knew exactly who it was. He didn't expect him to be here of all places, but then again, maybe he was able to escape too. Silver turned around, and that green crocodile skin no doubt meant this was Vector, almost solving a whole nother question.

"Vector!" Silver said in shock. "W-where have you been?"

Vector smiled, as he always loved to explain the answers to such questions. He felt the question called for his detective skills perfectly, as detectives definitely had the skills to explain things in a cool yet informative way.

"I'll be happy to tell ya Silver!" Vector said. "You see, I suspected something was fishy with the hospital. You were still asleep so I couldn't talk to you, but Espio and Charmy, they disagreed with me. And strangely, no matter how much I told them to, they weren't going to follow me in this investigation. I was actually on my own. Not even Charmy, who usually gives into my threats, was going to go with me. So I investigated myself. Doc, there's a glitch in your little trap, because that's when I found a holographic wall, and then appeared in this base! It took me awhile to get over here though, this place is huge!"

"So that's how I escaped," Silver concluded.

"But now it's my turn," Vector suddenly said. Silver wondered what Vector was going to ask, but he had a bad feeling he knew exactly what the question was. "Silver, why did you just call that guy Eggman Nega, the Iblis Trigger? I gotta admit, that's a question even I can't answer!"

"Um....well," Silver had no idea how to answer that question. He didn't want to drag anyone else into this mess he seemed to be involved with. But now Silver was stuck, he had to either explain the whole thing to Vector, or try and come up with something just as convincing. Problem was, he wasn't very good at quick thinking. What was he to do? Vector was getting impatient.

But thankfully, Dr. Eggman grew tired of this back and forth between two creatures he didn't like very much. So he shouted, "Grr, SHUT UP!" This caught the attention of Silver, Vector, and Shadow. "LOOK, I don't know what you're supposed to be and why you think I'm whatever you're looking for, but you're tresspassing in my base. So for that, it's time to say good-bye. Shadow, finish that hedgehog off!"

Shadow nodded and then said, "With pleasure." Shadow meant that too, he was about to ask the doctor a very important question, and here was this random white hedgehog coming out of nowhere and interrupting him.

Shadow charged towards Silver, and began the fight as he tackled into Silver, making him fly into the wall, making an unstable crash.

Dark rooms meant no room for error. This is what Sonic and Tails' situation was basically. After a gigantic sand storm that came out of nowhere, Sonic and Tails found themselves inside this dark room. Had they finally made it into Eggman's base? Sonic seemed to be sure of it, it's not like there was an old shack somewhere they could visit in this part of the desert. This had to be Eggman's base.

The question was what happened to Knuckles. He was a tough guy, but if Sonic was blown by that storm, no doubt Knuckles was too, who isn't as fast as Sonic was. But maybe strength was a key factor in surviving that storm. The two could never really tell. And they had other things on their mind besides the best way to tackle sand storms.

"This has got to be Eggman's base!" Sonic concluded. "I can feel it Tails, this place feels all too familiar."

Tails nodded in agreement, and said, "Definitely. The walls feel just like they did five years ago when we were here. They're more dusty, so there's a chance Eggman might not have come here."

"Well, how else did we get in here then? We must have fallen through some kind of secret entrance or something, which egghead obviously had to build."

"Well, let's just get going Sonic, maybe we'll find Knuckles on the way."

Sonic agreed, and the two began walking off into the dark to find any signs of light, meaning that some person has been down here recently, most likely Dr. Eggman. But every turn, and every hallway had absolutely no lights on, they were just filled with dust. They kept on searching, and they kept wondering if this search was actually useless. Either way, they don't know how to actually get out, so they just continued on with their search.

But there were still many doubts, not a single sign of light had been spotted. Perhaps they were going in circles, but the both of them did not want to believe that, no matter how true it started to seem.

"Man, every hallway feels like the same thing, it's like a maze," Sonic said. "Tails, don't you have some light on your watch we could use?"

Tails' faces suddenly had a large mouth attached to it. Sonic was right, why didn't he think of this before? His watch had a flashlight, not to mention tons of other features that could've been helpful. Looks like Sonic was the one to help him this time.

"Oh darn it, why didn't I think of that?!" Tails asked in absolute frustration.

Sonic, noticing Tails anger, then said, "Hey, no worries Tails, we all forget stuff in a really dark base."

Tails sighed, he wasn't mad at Sonic in reality, he was more mad at himself, wanting to show Sonic that he had changed, and that he didn't need Sonic's help in anything. Nevertheless, Tails turned on the flashlight, and they saw all sorts of symbols that looked very familiar. Yep, this is no doubt Eggman's base the both of them thought, at least it was finally confirmed.

"LET ME GO!"

Amy was repeatately yelling that as she and Rouge were being grabbed and taken somewhere by force by this new Eggman robot named E-123 Omega. At least they were no longer stuck in that prison cell, but now they were being taken to who knows where to do who knows what. Amy was very nervous, crying to be let go. She wish she could grab a hold of her hammar, but she didn't exactly have it at the moment.

Rouge meanwhile looked very displeased. She never liked to be forced to do something. She always was the type to do things her way, and this was definitely not her way. Also, it didn't really show in her face, but Rouge did have a certain amount of fear as well. Unlike most situations, she didn't know what was going to happen next, and she was nervous about what was going to be done.

"LET ME GO! LET ME GO! LET ME GO! WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

The robot remained unaffected by Amy's loud and obnoxious voice. It was unfortunately what it was, a robot. A very silent one at that, but stronger then all of Eggman's other robots. Rouge herself tried to break free of the robot, but she couldn't get free, no matter the amount of kicks she inflicted on the robot. It just remained emotionless, continuing on its path.

"Where are you taking us?" Amy asked, after getting a little tired of worthless yelling.

Omega didn't say a thing, but the answer came when the two entered this large room that contained this gigantic fleet in it, with tons of robots working on it. Amy and Rouge stared in amazement. This fleet was even bigger then the Egg Carrier, and THAT was pretty hard to top in their eyes. This fleet was probably three times the size, it was so obviously larger.

The fleet was colored a grey and red color, with Eggman's face plastered all over the fleet and its weapons including cannons and guns. It was enormous, why in the world is Eggman letting them see this?

"Woah!" Amy said in amazement.

"I guess a month is all the doctor needs," Rouge said.

Was the doctor going to do something to the two that involved the fleet? If that was true, whatever could it be? Amy and Rouge were nervous, it was uncomfortable to see such a gigantic ship right in front of them capable of destroying large cities, including their comfty homes and museums with jewels.

Omega flew onto the ship and suddenly put Amy and Rouge against a pole. He suddenly made this glowly kind of string appear, light blue was the color, and tied Amy and Rouge to the pole. Oh my, if Eggman was going to take this fleet to the sky, he wanted the both of them to come with him for some reason.

"Let us go!" Amy shouted. "What does Eggman want from us?"

"Answer is unavailable," Omega stated.

"You mean you don't even know?" Amy asked. This is just what they needed, another mindless robot only following orders. It's too bad Eggman seemed to had learned from his lesson with Gamma. The two would just have to keep struggling to get rid of the rope, but there was something different about it that made it unbreakable, it seemed like the equivalent to steel.

Before Omega could leave the room and leave the two hanging there though, a crash was heard, and the three of them and the hentchmen working on the fleet all turned their attention to the right of the room. A hole had suddenly appeared in there, and once the smoke disappeared, a familiar red echidna appeared out of it.

"KNUCKLES!" Amy and Rouge both shouted.

"So this really is Eggman's base!" Knuckles concluded. "Amy, Rouge, it's a good thing you two are okay. I'll get you guys out of there and then we can look for Sonic and Tails!"

Omega knew no doubt that this was an intruder however, so Omega quickly charged towards Knuckles and punched him, ignitiating the match between the two powerhouses.

The battle had just begun, and both hedgehogs had their weaknesses and strengths. Silver and Shadow had never met or heard of each other up to this point, so it was interesting to immediately be on bad terms. But then again, what was Silver supposed to expect when he barges into the base and spouts such things anyway? Silver faught with no hesitation, as he had no idea who this creature was, and Shadow thought the same.

The battle gets into the air, as Silver keeps flying upwards in the large room and begins throwing object after object down at Shadow. Shadow avoids each one though, as he gets higher and higher trying to reach Silver. Silver gets nervous, this guy obviously has alot of strength, Shadow could NOT get anywhere near him.

But Shadow was about to finally charge into Silver for another attack, but Silver quickly held Shadow himself using his psychothenesis.

"Gah!" Shadow growled. "Just what is this power?"

Silver smiled, thinking that his powers must be that threatening to make someone like Shadow feel out of place. Silver answered his question, feeling a little more comfortable saying, "It's called telekinesis. You're gonna be sorry you challenged me!"

Shadow chuckled however, which got on Silver's nerves hard. Silver was about to throw Shadow into the wall as hard as he could and be done with him, but Shadow all of a sudden said two words, ending Silver's advantage.

"CHAOS........BLAST!" Shadow screamed.

The red aura suddenly surrounded Shadow, and once Silver's body touched it, Silver let go of his control of Shadow and suddenly crashed into the ground. Impossible, who in the world would have the power to break through his control like that? This hedgehog was definitely no joke, Silver had to be on his guard.

"Shadow you idiot!" Eggman yelled in anger. "Don't do that again or you're going to destroy this base!"

Shadow looked arround him and he suddenly saw that he may have ruined a few of the doctor's machines. Shadow had to make sure not to use that attack again, the last thing he wanted to do was upset what could be the solution to all of his problems.

Shadow suddenly landed on ground just in time for Silver to recover. And the two soon went into hand to hand combat, as they both began throwing rapid punches and kicks at each other. The both of them didn't seem to be able to lay even a sratch on each other though, they seemed to actually match melee wise.

While Silver was attacking, he glanced an eye at Vector, who just seemed to be standing in the background watching. Isn't this guy twice the size of him? Why isn't he helping? You would think Vector was the brute force of the group, but he actually looked quite scared.

"Um Vector, aren't you going to help me out?" Silver asked.

Vector looked at Silver and Shadow fighting nervously, so he answered Silver's question nervously. "Um, no offense Silver, but I'm not the one in the group that's there to fight the ultimate life form! Espio's the guy you're looking for!"

Silver kept looking at Vector in disappointment whenever he could, but this caused Shadow to gain the upper hand for a bit, and he finally hit Silver. Silver got hit pretty hard, but this didn't completely knock him down thankfully. Silver got control of Shadow yet again with his telekinesis, and he was prepared to not waste anytime and really attack this time.

Silver kept pushing Shadow into walls, machines, and the ground. Eggman stared in horror at all the destruction happening in his room. This place was obviously not meant for a match as intense as this. Shadow was too weak by all the pain to use Chaos Blast again, so he just kept getting hit, and hit, and hit, and there seemed to be no end to it.

Finally though, after much damage, Silver let go of Shadow, and Shadow was left to stay on the ground looking pretty pathetic. Silver had powers that Shadow couldn't 100% overcome, and that was a problem.

"Had enoguh?" Silver asked.

Shadow slowly looked up at Silver then to tried to answer the question, with fire raging in his eyes.

The flashlight was really helping out Sonic and Tails, as the places they were encountering kept becoming more and more different. It looks like they were actually getting somewhere in the base. But there were still no lights. If Eggman was here, they were in an unused part of the base. Perhaps it was unused for a reason...

"How much longer is it going to take to find a room actually being used here?" Sonic asked.

Tails thought about Sonic's question. It really did feel like they were walking around for a long time. But in reality, this place was huge, and at walking speed, they weren't going to explore it very fast. "Just be patient, we'll find something," Tails said.

Sonic sighed though, he wasn't used to having to wait since his legs could get him anywhere so fast that he never had to wait. "But this is taking FOREVER. Tails, how about we split up?"

Tails knew exactly what to say to Sonic to answer that question, and his face basically showed the answer. "Sonic, that's a horrible idea! Just look at what happened to Knuckles! Unless you want to get lost, you need my help, okay?"

"Ok ok Tails." Sonic was a little startled at Tails' comment. It seemed like anything Sonic would say would get on Tails' nerves. Tails certainly had changed. He was a teenager now, so maybe things were just a little more complicated. Still, Sonic couldn't help but feel there was a bigger reason other than Tails was a teenager.

"Um Tails, did I do something wrong?" Sonic asked.

Tails always wished Sonic would never ask that question. Tails didn't want to answer, he wanted to look like he didn't much care about what he was thinking about. But he knew that was a blatant lie deep down, and he hated it. But, Tails would continue to try to look like he didn't much care. "Why would you ask that?" Tails asked.

Sonic knew when Tails was trying to hide something, and Tails wasn't doing a good job of hiding it this time like always. It may have been five years, but he still knows his friend. "Because Tails, you've kind of been giving me the cold shoulder ever since we talked to each other back in the Mystic Ruins," Sonic explained.

Tails sighed, and just kept walking on, trying to avoid Sonic's question. But Sonic wasn't going to go down without a fight, he wanted answers now. He was sick of wondering what could've happened to make Tails act like this.

"Tails? Say something, please."

Tails decided to respond this time to shut Sonic up by saying, "Look Sonic, nothing is going on, okay? Let's just get back to looking for Egg..."

Suddenly the two heard a crashing sound in front of them. There was basically a pile of rocks in front of them, but they heard some sort of sound on the other side of them. It sounded like some kind of fight. Sonic and Tails knew they had to get to the other side of those rocks.

Sonic spin dashed his way through the rocks and broke them all apart. At the other side of them, there was finally some light, and the sound only got louder. It was true, Dr. Eggman was in this base. Well, at least SOMEONE was in this base.

Power robot versus power echidna. They both had incredible strength. It was just a matter of whether the more advanced one in tenchnology or the one with more natural power was going to win. Omega was currently shooting as many bullets as he could at Knuckles, as Knuckles continued to glide avoiding each bullet.

Omega suddenly began to shoot minature rockets at Knuckles. They were faster and were getting much closer to Knuckles. Knuckles was a little nervous. He knew he wasn't as fast as Sonic. He was also getting sick of playing defense. Time to try offense. Knuckles began to glide towards Omega and then crashed into him.

Omega and Knuckles began to go into hand to hand combat. Knuckles found it difficult to make even a dent on Omega's steel armor however. Never had he see an Eggman robot as tough as Omega was. Looks like Eggman decided to put quality over quantity this time.

Omega didn't fight back. He just kept blocking punch after punch and kick after kick. It was as if he thought tiring out the echidna would be the answer to defeating him. Knuckles seemed to be a pretty aggressive person, maybe he should take advantage of it.

Amy could only stare at the two in horror, hoping that Knuckles would live up to his image of being this power fighter and save them. Her and Rouge were definitely not in the mood to travel in the air along with Eggman. All the hentchmen just stared along with the two, even though they definitely had to work on the fleet.

"Kncukles, don't give up!" Amy shouted. "It's just an Eggman robot!"

Knuckles didn't think Amy's words were all that encouraging. This wasn't just an Eggman robot, it was a real powerhouse. Just what was Eggman thinking when he made this robot? The only thing weak about it was its speed, but it made up for it with its powerful projectiles. "Amy, maybe if you were fighting this robot yourself, you'd agree with me when I say this ain't no ordinary robot!"

Amy didn't like Knuckles' response to her comment. If it was Sonic, he'd appreciate it she thought. Oh well, Knuckles was an idiot anyway. If he wanted to fight with absolutely no support, she was fine with it. But she sighed, she didn't know what else to do being tied to a pole against her will.

"Rouge, don't you have some GUN thing you can use to get us out of here?" Amy asked.

Rouge shook her head in disappointment, then said, "Sorry gal, nothing I have can cut through this rope. I don't even have that much, I think Shadow may have went through my pockets while I was asleep."

"Or maybe you were too busy focuing on jewels to realize you forgot to bring some key items!" Amy complained.

"Wow, you sure aren't a little miss sunshine like you were five years ago," Rouge said.

Meanwhile, Knuckles and Omega continued to fight. None of them could really lay any damage on each other. Omega was too strong to damage, and Knuckles was too fast for Omega to attack. It seemed pointless for awhile. No one was winning, no one was losing. Suddenly however, the both of them just stopped, as everyone in the room began hearing a rumbling kind of noise. It seemed like massive amounts of energy was suddenly being exerted, but where?

"CHAOS..."

What was that voice? The person who shouted it was nowhere to be found in the room, and he sounded very angry as well. But before everyone could think about it a little longer, the mysterious person then shouted,

"BLAST!!!!"

Suddenly, the wall on the left side of the room collapsed. As the dust was diffusing into the new rooms, and the stones that used to make the wall fell, it was revealed who the attacker of the wall was on the other side. It was none other then Shadow the Hedgehog, and Silver the Hedgehog laid next to him, very weak from the attack.

"S-Shadow!" Knuckles shouted. "You really are alive!"

Amy and Rouge stare at the destruction of the wall, as they spot the likes of Shadow, Silver, Eggman, and Vector on the other side.

"Vector?" Amy asked.

"Oh, hey you guys!" Vector said. Vector suddenly noticed Knuckles however, and suddenly felt this uncomfortable sensation inside his stomach. It was Knuckles' chance to finally get him, and there was nowhere to run. Knuckles looked at Vector with anger in his eyes. Finally, a chance to finally get a clue as to where the Master Emerald was. "Um Knuckles, I cam explain!"

But before Knuckles could get to Eggman, two figures decided to join the chaos, and Sonic and Tails suddenly appeared in the room with the fleet, as they looked at all of the confusing mess that was in front of them. Noticing everyone, including those they thought were dead.

"Wow, this looks like quite the party!" Sonic said. "We've finally found you Eggman! You're coming with us!"

"No, Eggman first has to tell me where the Master Emerald is!" Knuckles said.

"Wait, he is not what you think he is!" Silver shouted. "I have some unfinished business to take care of with him!"

"SILENCE!!!!!!!!" Eggman shouted. So many people apparantly wanted something with the doctor. He was getting annoyed with his name being tossed around everywhere. While he loved being the center of attention, these were all pests to him. People he didn't want attention from. "I'm not going anywhere with any of you, but I'll be sure to put you all into the dumps! E-500 Reptar, go!"

And suddenly, a giant prehistoric dinosaur like robot dropped onto the scene right behind Eggman, surprising everyone. How did Eggman make so many things in such a short period of time? Eggman got onto his eggpod and flew to the top of the machine, then inserted himself into it. "Shadow, Omega, let's finish this!"

It was an epic fight indeed that was to happen. It was Shadow, Omega, and Eggman's giant robot, against Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Silver.

The robot was as large as you would imagine a dinosaur would be. But this dinosaur in particular had lazer guns and missles. Not to mention tons more brute force then a regular dinosaur. Shadow and Omega looked just as ready to fight the crew. They could take em, no problem. At least, they hoped they could.

Shadow charged towards Knuckles in his ball form. Knuckles grabbed onto Shadow though and tried to hold him back from attacking him. But Shadow was strong, and with Knuckles still in utter shock seeing Shadow, Shadow broke though and hurled into Knuckles. Knuckles quickly got up, and went in for a punch. And then the two went into hand to hand combat.

Omega started to shoot as many bullets as he could at Silver. But Silver actually took control of all the bullets with his telekinesis, and threw them back at Omega. Omega's armor was damaged a bit, but it was minor. Omega knew he had to get Silver to let his guard down somehow. So Omega flew to the skies, and tried to confuse the hedgehog by moving around as fast as he could. Silver flew up too, to try to get a good look at where Omega was.

So Sonic and Tails were left with the big Eggman himself. Sonic and Tails nodded at each other, they knew that to do. Tails flew to the top and then flew around Eggman to try and distract the guy. Eggman kept trying to grab Tails, but in the air, Tails was a bit fast for Eggman's robot to catch.

Meanwhile, Sonic began running up to the robot and began to try and spin his way through the stomach. But the material the robot was made of was pretty tough. And without a Chaos Emerald, it was hard to break through it. Eggman saw Sonic trying to attack him, and Eggman grabbed Sonic and threw him into Tails.

Omega continued flying around Silver, and Silver could not get a proper reading on where Omega was. Until Omega snuck up behind Silver and punched him in the back, causing him to fall and lose control of his pwoers for a second. But before Silver could fall to the ground, Sonic and Tails crashed into him.

Knuckles was repeatately getting beat up by Shadow. Knuckles was unfortunately no match for the ultimate life form. But Knuckles kept trying to attack, he was not the type to just give up despite the hopelessness. He was a fighter, so he would keep on fighting.

But Knuckles unfortunately had to stop fighting, when Sonic, Tails, and Silver crashed into Knuckles and they all crashed into a wall, all four of them lying on the floor helpless. Vector, Amy, and Rouge stare in despair. Had they lost the fight?

"Oh ho ho ho!" Eggman laughed. "I still got it after five whole years! You all better not do a thing to deter my plans, or else your girls are going to get it!"

So that's why Eggman is taking Amy and Rouge along with him. He was going to use them to his advantage. Amy didn't like it one bit. She was not going to be the reason Sonic loses this fight. Amy suddenly began struggling more then ever to get out, but it was still useless.

"Grr, you won't get away with this Eggman!" Amy shouted.

But Eggman knew he could. He knew the cards were in his hands, and all he had to do was make the right moves and he would win. "Alright, while you all rest up here, I'm taking off on my brand new fleet, and all of you will be able to witness my official return, as I announce to the world that they are all doomed. OH HO HO HO HO HO HO! Shadow, Omega, let's go immediately!"

Shadow and Omega nodded, and they, along with Eggman, quickly got onto the new fleet. All of Eggman's hentchmen then followed. Eggman quickly ran into the control room to get things started.

The four fighters tried to get up, seeing the faces of Amy and Rouge made them feel absolute despair. They had to save the two now, so Eggman didn't have an advantage. Then they all could attack full force. They slowly got up, and tried to hurry to the two of them.

But Eggman was already a step ahead, as the fleet finally started up and began to fly. The four fighters tried to run to the ship and jump onto it, but they were still beat from the beatings they were given. Unfortunately, the fleet was now too high to reach for them, and it finally took off into the sky, leaving the captives on board.

"Amy! Rouge!" Sonic screamed.

"They're gone," Silver said. "Now who knows what he's going to do next!"

"If we get back to the Tornado 3 outside of the base, we can quickly catch up to Eggman and launched an attack on his fleet," Tails said.

Sonic nodded in agreement, then said, "Okay Tails, let's get going then!"

"Espio and Charmy are still trapped in that virtual reality program Silver," Vector reminded. "We need to get on that ship and save them!"

Silver nodded in agreement, and then said, "Okay Vector, I'll help you."

Knuckles had a question in mind that he thought everyone had forgotten due to all of the excitement. They had finally found Eggman, and also found where he was staying. But now a new question has risen up. Knuckles faces Silver, and then askes, "Um, who are you?"

Eggman's base has finally been discovered, but now what will happen once the public sees Eggman's fleet in the sky? What will become of all four of the hedgehogs now? Find out on the next Desperate Hedgehogs!

1x05: Meeting at the Base

Previously on Desperate Hedgehogs...

Amy and Rouge continued to stay stuck in the little prison cell. But they had actually discovered by the end that they were in Doctor Eggman's other base in the desert, despite the assumption that it was buried under the sand in a sand storm 3 years ago.

Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles reach the desert to look for Eggman, but something seems to be off about the trio, and Knuckles seemed to be getting an idea of what it could be.

Shadow found a Chaos Emerald along with Omega, and is now returning to the base to give it to Eggman, in hopes that he gets some answers. But will observing Cream crying about Amy change Amy and Rouge's fate?

Silver discovered the truth about the hospital, nearly being poisoned in a weak attempt. How will he try to convince Espio and Charmy that they must leave the hospital? And where exactly is Vector?

Silver knew he was used to hearing shocking things, but he still did not expect to hear his new friends, Espio and Charmy, to actually even consider staying in this evil trap disguised as a hospital. Silver had to convince them somehow that that was the wrong decision. More importantly, they were supposed to be helping him on a mission.

Espio and Charmy looked like they meant every word they had just said, which just amazed Silver even more. Why would anyone ever want to live in a hospital forever? More imporantly, what makes them think they can even do that?

"What do you mean you wanna stay here forever?" Silver asked very angerily.

Espio suddenly stopped meditating, too bothered by Silver's suddenly loud voice. He got off the bed and walked a little bit closer to Silver, and this time spoke with his eyes open. "Your loud voice is unecessary. Please be gone and let me get back to my meditating."

Silver didn't care what Espio said, he was going to get it through their thick heads that this hospital is not what it seems. "No, I've never heard anything more ridiculous in my life! Why would you even think of staying at a hospital forever? Not only would it cost you tons of money, but also, you're around tons of patients everyday that are literally dying. And what makes you even think you can do that?!"

Espio sighed, thinking Silver was being pretty ignorant. He then replied though by saying, "The ideas of staying here forever occured to me and Charmy after that treated us and fully recovered us. This hospital is like paradise Silver. If we were to stay out there, we would've lost our house within' weeks. The nurse even said we could stay here forever free of charge."

Silver shook his head in disgust, he couldn't believe what he was hearing. "Don't you think that's odd? Why would a hospital ever let you stay here forever, free of charge at that?! And do you guys even know what happened to Vector?! Does that NOT arouse any type of suspicion?"

Charmy suddenly paused his video game, and flew up to Espio's side, looking like he had something to say about what Silver had just said. "I don't care where Vector is, he's a jerk anyway," Charmy said. "Always treating me like I'm some six year old, but I'm alot older now!"

Espio was sick of this conversation, so he decided to say, "Silver, if you don't leave now, we will call hospital security and force you to leave."

Silver couldn't believe his ears. These two had a job to do, and it was to help him find Eggman. And they couldn't do that if they were stuck in a hospital. Blah, who needs them anyway? Silver will just go find the doctor himself. So Silver was about to exit the room, actually thinking he at least did not have to pay them. But suddenly, the alarm began to sound. And red lights were flashing everywhere.

"EMERGENCY! PATIENT 103 MISSING!"

Uh oh, that was the number on his door, looks like they found out he had escaped.

The desert was as hot as ever. No one in their right mind would ever make their home here. Well, except Eggman of course, who has a base right under it that was at least five years old. But it wasn't used for five years ever since he was trapped in prison, but he was back, and started to get the base back into shape one month ago.

But recently, a black hedgehog was awakened, and he immediately came to the doctor's base to help in his operations. Dr. Eggman never seemed too shocked that Shadow came, as if he expected Shadow to come to him. Shadow doesn't know why he knew he had to come to the doctor, but with nowhere else to really go to, he's forced to basically just do what the doctor says to see if it gets him anywhere. Shadow is very hesitant on trusting anyone at the moment.

He and Omega were walking in the desert, getting back to Eggman's base to turn the emerald in to him. Yes, they had found a Chaos Emerald, which will fulfill Eggman's request. They both didn't know exactly what Eggman was up to, but if the Chaos Emeralds are involved, it was obviously going to be something big.

"We should be very close to the base," Shadow said.

The two continued walking in the desert, the sand slowly seeping into Shadow's shoes when he began to sink into the sand. Shadow could go fast, but he wasn't in the mood to leave Omega behind. He thought it was a better idea to stay with Omega, incase he ran into any trouble. Omega was holding the Chaos Emerald after all. But it was inside his steel armor body.

Shadow suddenly heard something though that was ahead of them. There wasn't supposed to be anyone in this area, except underground of course where the base was. But no, someone was here on top of the base. And Shadow knew this base could not be discovered.

"Stop," Shadow said as he held Omega back. "Omega, someone is there. Can you zoom in and see who it is?"

Omega nodded, and changed to goggle mode. He began to zoom in to what was ahead of him. He kept zooming in more and more, until finally, he saw three figures looking around the area. "Subjects are named, Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles Prower, and Knuckles the Echidna," Omega reported.

Shadow somehow knew that hedgehog wasn't going to be out of his life forever. But it was already so soon that they could've encountered each other again. He knew Eggman did not want anyone snooping around, and knowing that hedgehog was already snooping in the Mystic Ruins base, Shadow knew it was not gonna be good if Sonic found his way into the doctor's real base.

"Omega, we need to contact Dr. Eggman NOW," Shadow said sternly.

Omega nodded and quickly changed his right hand into a speaker of some sorts. A few seconds later, Eggman voice could be heard, who said, "Shadow, Omega, what is it?"

"Master, there seems to be a few unwanted intruders above the base," said Shadow. "Omega says they're Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles Prower, and Knuckles the Echidna."

"Blah," Eggman said in annoyance. "Use the other entrance that's further away from them, I'll take care of those pesky rats! By the way, have you two retrieved the Chaos Emerald?"

Shadow nodded, then said, "Yes, we have."

"Good good," Eggman said in his devil like manner.

In another area in the desert, three people were beginning their search to find Dr. Eggman. Two of them were asked to take him back to prison by the president, while the other was looking for the Master Emerald. Yep, they were none other then Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles.

They all suddenly split up, but were still pretty close to each other at the same time. Though as time would progress, they got further and further away from each other. They wanted to find any traces of the base they were inside of five years ago when Eggman was that close to blowing up the planet with that monstrosity called the Eclipse Cannon. But thankfully, the weapon is locked away in the Ark, heavily guarded by many machines. It was unfortunately too large to destroy, that only a weapon as large as it can destroy it. But then, what could they do with the new weapon then?

Sonic was the fastest out of the three, looking around everywhere for any kind of sign that could lead the three into the base. They knew that the base was somewhere here. The question was where, and if it was still accessible. He was running and running, not really looking where he was going, until he bumped into Tails, as they both fell to the ground.

"Ow...," Tails moaned.

Sonic got up and dusted the dust that on him off. He reached out to Tails as a gesture for Tails to grab Sonic's hand so he can pull him up. But Tails ignored the gesture and just got up himself. Sonic was a bit put off by Tails sudden independence. But he sighed and just tried to get over it. "Hey, sorry buddy," Sonic said.

"It's fine," Tails said, as he was about to keep moving.

But Sonic wasn't done with Tails yet, as he ran up to him and walked along with him. Sonic then asked, "So Tails, what's up?"

"Nothing," Tails said.

Sonic was a bit annoyed by Tails' rudeness, but he wasn't going to start drama anytime soon. He was just going to try and ease the sudden tension there was. "Okay then," he said.

The two just kept walking around in silent. They both didn't know where Knuckles was, but they know if they wanted to contact him, they could get back to the Tornado 3 and wait for him up there. It's been awhile now and so far, there was nothing. Not a symbol, not a hole, nothing but hills of sand.

But, that wasn't the case for long, as all so suddenly, the wind speeds seemed to increase are seconds passed. And more and more of the sand seem to be flying along with the wind.

"Ugh, is it another sand storm?" asked Sonic. "It's getting worst." Sonic was having a hard time navigating through nearly sand storm like weather now, but he was able to manage it. Tails however wasn't as strong and he began screaming as the sand storm began to carry him.

"Tails!"

"Sonic, help!"

Sonic ran up to Tails and grabbed onto his feet, but the storm only carried the both of them, as Sonic could not drag down Tails. The storm got worst, to the point where all they could see was sand, with have of it crashing into their eyes. There was too much sand to do anything, all they could do was just let the winds take them to wherever they were headed.

Still stuck in the prison cell, at least they had finally found out where they were. Amy and Rouge finally discovered that this was the old Eggman base thought to had been buried in the sand. They thought of how stupid it was that none of the familiar surroundings made them realize this. They had to find Eggman's well known head symbol to discover this.

"Oh my gosh, this means we're in the desert!" Amy said.

"So THIS is where Eggman is," Rouge said. "Looks like the president is going to have to pay me with some more jewels," Rouge said happily.

Amy was yet agin annoyed by Rouge. Gosh, she had to get out of here now to retain a more stable mind. She was certainly on the edge of absolute insanity. "We've just found out that we're inside EGGMAN'S base, and all you can think about is your precious jewels."

"Hey honey, why don't you stop judging me and maybe judge yourself for a change?" Rouge asked. "Anyway, if the doctor comes here, I know him, I can maybe sweet talk him into letting us out. I've tricked him before after all."

Amy laughed a bit at Rouge's comment, thinking of how ridiculous her plan sounded. "Hah, I'm sure he didn't forget the fact that you were a GUN aganet," she said. Eggman was a very smart person, with an IQ of 300. Amy was pretty sure Eggman would not fall for Rouge's stupid plan, as the doctor could only be tricked once until he learns from his mistakes and never makes it again.

Rouge smiled. "Well maybe the doctor has the hots for me."

"Okay, I can't listen to any more of this!"

Rouge laughed at how easy it was to raise the temper of Amy. She felt like it was a beautiful ability. But then again, Amy did kind of have a temper. "Oh hush down, I'm only kidding."

Suddenly though, the girls heard footsteps coming closer to their cage.

"Someone's coming!" Amy said.

The two waited for the figure to arrive at their cell. Amy was expecting Shadow, as he was the only one that seemed to ever come here. She'd be surprised if it wasn't, as maybe Eggman wouldn't want them to figure out this was his base. But the girls already figured it out, maybe it could be an advantage to them whenever Shadow came.

However, their possible advantage was proven to be false, when instead of the black hedgehog they were ever so shocked to see everytime, it was the villian that they were even more shocked to see. With his red coat made just to fit his belly, it was definitely doctor...

"Eggman!" they both exclaimed.

Eggman faced the cage with a grin on his face, and then E-123 Omega slowly followed the doctor behind him.

"Hello ladies, I guess you know where we are now!" Eggman said, following that comment with quite the evil laugh.

The hospital colors suddenly went from white to red. The red light was pretty bright, and the sound was irritatingly loud. Why did they have this much trouble over a missing patient? This just engulfed Silver's suspicions even more, as he was running looking for an exit, leaving behind Espio and Charmy.

He didn't know why he had felt bad leaving them there. He shouldn't feel any obligation to make sure they are safe. Nevertheless, Silver himself was in the most trouble. He didn't know what they would do if they caught him. Maybe inject him with that poison again? Or something even worst. Silver didn't want to think about it, so he just kept running.

"How am I going to get out of here?" Silver asked. "This place is huge! If I take the front door, I'll surely be noticed. If they were willing to poison me, what else are they capable of?"

Silver wondered if he could jump out of a window, but most of the rooms didn't have windows. Infact, he couldn't remember seeing a single window, as strange as it sounded. Not even the main floor had a window, and the door wasn't transparant. So really, Silver didn't feel like he saw any signs of outside civilization during his entire stay.

All of a sudden however, Silver heard something coming closer and closer to him. He kept on running, but the sound just got louder and it felt like it was getting even closer. Silver finally stopped and turned around, and saw that it was a bullet. Silver had great powers though, and stopped the bullet with his telekinesis.

"What in the world..."

Silver looked ahead and saw the one who shot the bullet was actually some blue like robot. It kind of looked like a hedgehog, but it was much taller and more strong looking then most hedgehogs. And behind it, were a few more robots that looked exactly like it.

Silver was astonished. Why were there robots in a hospital? And why were they trying to actually KILL the missing patient. He wish Espio and Charmy saw this, maybe it would've knocked some sense into their skulls.

Silver threw the bullet and destroyed the robot that threw it. But the other robots began to blast towards Silver, and Silver was forced to use some more of his powers and began flying away, which was much faster then running. His legs were a bit wiped out at this point, but it was good that his powers were coming back.

Silver was much faster flying, almost reaching the speed of the light, which was what the infamous Sonic the Hedgehog could do. The hallways seemed endless though, as when he reached the end of one, there was another one on the left or right. The robots just kept on his tail, he couldn't lose them in such a narrow hallway.

As Silver flew, he tried to throw some stuff he came by back at the robots. It was difficult to basically throw blindly, but it did eventually stop some robots. He looked behind for a bit for a better view, and kept throwing more items at the robots, until they were all eventually down.

Silver was happy about how easy it was to get rid of the robots. His powers definitely were there for him. When Silver turned his head back to the front though, he sees a wall in front of him. He tries to slow down, but he can't as the laws of physics simply wouldn't let him. He was about to make a very deadly crash.

However, there was no crash. Because, it wasn't really a wall, as Silver fell right through the holographic image.

Inside the desert base of Dr. Eggman, there was a black hedgehog named Shadow who was walking with a Chaos Emerald in his hands. Omega was asked to go with Dr. Eggman to assist him in something. He didn't know what it was, but he didn't much care. So Omega gave Shadow the emerald, and now he was gonna have to put it back himself.

"I wonder if I'm going the right way," Shadow said.

Shadow thought this base was huge, as the instructions Omega gave him to get to the vault were a tad bit confusing. But Shadow thought he was going the right way. Well, he hoped he was. If he was going the wrong way, he might be lost in this base for a long time. He was not going to get lost in what he'd basically call his home, for now.

Just what exactly did Dr. Eggman want with these emeralds anyway? Shadow could feel the large amounts of energy coming from the Chaos Emerald. Whatever, as long as he got some answers to his questions, he would be fine.

He wondered what he was going to do to those two girls that he saved while he walked. It seemed pretty useless to keep them alive. Why not get rid of them and be done with them since they weren't going to answer any of his questions? Besides, he couldn't reach their deal and let them go, Dr. Eggman had strict orders not to. The last thing Shadow wanted to do right now was upset what could be the source of his answers.

But there always was the possibility of being tricked. This man did seem familiar, but is there more to him then he remembers? He somehow feels....connected to Dr. Eggman, and he didn't know why. Did he spend alot of time with him before all this? Was he his best friend? Shadow didn't know, and it upset him.

"I think this is it," Shadow said.

Yes, it was it. Shadow finally reached the heavily protected vault room. He entered through the door, with two robots guarding the room side by side at the door.

The room seemed kind of small, but it seemed specifically designed to house Chaos Emeralds, as the space in front of him fit a Chaos Emerald perfectly. Shadow immediately inserted the Chaos Emerald. The Chaos Emerald seeps inside, his task was complete.

"Two Chaos Emeralds now stored in Chaos Emerald vault," the computer said.

"Huh?" asked Shadow.

There were two emeralds now. Did Dr. Eggman get his hands of another emerald while he and Omega were hunting for one. He was sure it wasn't a big deal, he would go and ask the doctor, he probably found it not too long ago. Shadow exits the room and heads for the doctor.

The sand storm was major. It was strange though, because Tails did look at the forecast and saw that nothing was said about a major sand storm in this area. Then again, who would take their time to really be accurate about their forecasts in an area not many people go to? Still, it was a forecast, it should've been accurate enough to predict something like this.

Sonic and Tails kept flying around in the sand storm. They weren't aware of where Knuckles had gone off to, but they were pretty sure he was caught in the same storm. The question was where they would all end up after the storm.

Tails was worried about his Tornado 3. He made it pretty strong, but he was worried it would get dmanaged in this sand storm a bit. Who knows how much longer this storm was going to last? Obviously though, it wasn't the main thing on Tails' mind. The main thing on his mind was actually his own life.

Sonic was with Tails, as they held each other's hands as hard as they could. They thought maybe together, they could try to fight the storm. But it seemed useless. The storm felt like a tornado of sand, and they were basically useless in trying to fight it. Not even Sonic's speed could get them out of this, as he had to reach the ground first in order to make use of his speed.

"Just hang on!" Sonic shouted, fighting the loud noises called wind.

They both kept on screaming that felt pretty endless. Will this storm calm down fast? Sonic and Tails hoped so, as they slowly got so caught up in the storm, that they eventually got exhausted, and drifted into a sleep as the storm continued to carry them.

Later on, the two were lying down at an unfamiliar place. It was pretty dark, and there was alot of sand on the ground. It was a strange place to find, but something about it will seem familiar to them.

Sonic slowly opened his, and sees his surroundings. It was too dark to really see anything, but he definitely saw they were no longer outside. He sits up, and tries to get all the sand out of his head. He looks to the right of him, and sees Tails right next to him.

"Hey Tails, wake up," Sonic said.

"Ugh," Tails moaned.

Tails got up himself, and noticed that they were no longer outside where the sand storm was raging at its worst. He was still a little dizzy from the storm, but he knocked that feeling out once he got the sand out of his head.

"Where are we?" Tails asked.

"I don't know," Sonic said. "But I have a feeling it might be just the place we were looking for."

Sonic was pretty sure that this was Eggman's base. If Eggman wasn't here, it'd make sense there were no lights on in this room. It would mean that this base really wasn't inhabited for five years. But then again, it was a huge place, Eggman could be somewhere around here.

"H-hey, where's Knuckles?" Tails asked.

Sonic and Tails looked around, and realized they were all alone, with a familiar red echidna out of their sight.

"I don't know...," Sonic said.

It turns out Amy and Rouge didn't really have to figure out where they were, because Eggman had decided to come visit them and tell them himself that they were in his base. But Amy and Rouge did also figure out this was the base buried by a sand storm 3 years ago.

"You could say so doc," Rouge said with a smile.

"Eggman, you let us go right now or I'm gonna pound your head!" Amy shouted in anger.

Eggman let out another evil laugh. He was obviously having fun seeing Amy being as desperate as she is. "Oh, you two are just lovely prisoners," Eggman said. "Rouge, the backstabber working for the president. And Amy, the annoying idiot that follows her hero around like an insect."

"What?!" Amy cried in anger. "Now you listen to me you fathead, once Sonic comes and gets me out of this prison, you're going to be sorry!" Amy didn't like seeing Eggman's face one bit. It's just all the destruction he had caused and how he always seems to treat her like a pinata that pisses her off. She wasn't what she was five years ago, she was nearing eighteen. But these old people she hated before are bringing back her habits of acting pretty childish.

"Well Amy, it doesn't seem like you've changed a bit, that's kind of sad," Eggman said.

"You didn't really change either," Amy said.

Rouge sighed at how Amy's words weren't helping the situation at all. Rouge could get she hated the guy but come on, that's not going to get her anywhere. "So doc, what do ya want?" Rouge asked. "Why did you decide to come clean about this place now?"

Eggman smiled, and then said, "I actually have something that I'm going to need you girls for. The reason that I've kept you alive is now about to be revealed."

"Well whatever it is, we're not going to do it!" Amy said. The last thing Amy wanted to do was help an evil dictator. If Eggman thought he was going to make her do anything, then he had another thing coming.

"Oh, I don't think you really have a choice you little brat," Eggman said. "You're my prisoners. So as prisoners, you're going to have to do what I say. But don't worry, you won't have to do a thing for this. Infact, you could fall asleep if you wanted to throughout all of this."

"What could you possibly be referring to doctor?" Rouge asked.

"Mm hm hm hm," Eggman quietly said. "Omega, take them away!"

"What?" Amy and Rouge both asked in shock simultaneously.

Omega nodded, and slowly opened the cage and grabbed hold of both Amy and Rouge. Both of them tried to get out of Omega's huge hands, but they could not, as this robot was alot stronger then alot of previous Eggman creations. It didn't even look like a bandik, it looked like GUN and Eggman came together to create this super weapon. They both struggled, but their efforts were proven futile, as Amy and Rouge got further and further from their cage.

In the main computer room, there was this huge computer there to fit in what seemed like a pretty huge room full of all sorts of inventions. Eggman spent the most time in this room, working on whatever devilious scheme he had in his head. While Omega took Amy and Rouge to wherever they were headed, Eggman went back to this main room, and sat at the chair in front of the giant monitor.

But he wouldn't be staring at the screen for long, as the strange black hedgehog Shadow suddenly entered the room, who was ready to get a few questions answered from the doctor himself.

"My my, if it isn't Shadow," Eggman said. "I assume that nothing went wrong with putting the Chaos Emerald where it belonged."

Shadow shook his head, and then said, "No, there was no trouble. The Chaos Emerald is now safe. But...master, why was there a Chaos Emerald already in there?"

Eggman grinned from hearing what Shadow had to say. "Wow Shadow, that wasn't the first question I was expecting from you! I'll be glad to tell you.

"You see Shadow, when I escaped the prison, I knew I had to get somewhere fast. The first place that came into my mind was this place of course, as the Mystic Ruins one was out in the open. Little did I know that the base was buried by a sand storm. But that was even better! Not only did I have a pre-made base, but it was also hidden from civilization! So all I really had to do was find it.

"However, I wasn't about to go and search for eternity in a desert. So instead, I found a little shack in the country to stay at and work on something that'll find my base in no time. And that my friend, is how Omega was built. But there was something missing that would've made my greatest robot creation complete. That's when I went and found a Chaos Emerald. And after powering Omega with that, he was an unstoppable force and we found my base just like that!

"So, anything else you would like to ask?"

Shadow thought of the millions of questions he had. Like what he was doing in that capsule back in the Mystic Ruins. Why he somehow knew to come to this base? When Eggman saw him it was as if Eggman had expected him to come. Just what did Eggman know about him?

"I...," Shadow began to say.

"I FOUND YOU!" shouted an unfamiliar voice.

Eggman and Shadow turned to where the voice was coming from, and they saw a white hedgehog who looked very angry, ready to slaughter the both of them at sight. It was Silver the Hedgehog, how did he get from the hospital to here?

"Who are you?" Shadow asked.

"I'm Silver the Hedgehog," Silver said.

"Oh, it's you," Eggman said. "How in the world did you escape my trap anyway? It's full proof to keep idiots like you inside forever!"

Silver suddenly figured out that the hospital was nothing but a trap, and it seemed like Eggman was the one responsible for it all. Silver's eyes were raging with anger, as if there was fire inside of them. He felt like he knew exactly what was going on, and he didn't like it.

"You're going to pay for what you had done you monster!" Silver shouted.

"What in the world are you talking about?" Eggman asked. "Excuse me if I found it rude you were snooping around in a place you were not supposed to snoop in in the first place! You should be lucky that I teleported you into my virtual reality trap instead of letting you rot in my Mystic Ruins base right after the bomb detonated. You weren't a bad guinea pig though, the problem was you escaped it. I don't know who you are and what you want with me, but you certainly aren't going to stand in my way!"

Silver was absolutely disgusted, as it seemed like he felt that this Eggman person should know exactly who he was. He didn't like liars, and he was ready to let his rage out and kill the egg shaped human right there.

"Don't play dumb with me you creep!" Silver shouted. "I've finally found you after a long search across time zones and universes! It ends today..........Eggman NEGA, the IBLIS TRIGGER!"

What will happen to Amy and Rouge? What is Omega going to be doing with the two? And what will happen once Sonic and Tails get into the action in the desert base? And where has Knuckles wounded up? What exactly is the true story to Shadow's return, and what exactly does Eggman know about it? And why has Silver called Dr. Eggman Eggman Nega, the Iblis Trigger? All of this, on the next episode of Desperate Hedgehogs!

1x04: Four Searches

Previously on Desperate Hedgehogs...

Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles had decided to stop worrying about Amy, Rouge, and the Chaotix and just continue pursuing what they needed to do. Sonic and Tails finding Eggman, and Knuckles finding the master emerald. Knuckles particularly gets a breakthrough in his search, when he finds a shattered piece of the Master Emerald.

Silver and the Chaotix have found themselves in this strange hospital after the bomb detonated. Well, at least most of the Chaotix, as Silver discovered at the end that Vector was no longer a patient.

Amy and Rouge find themselves prisoners after nearly dying in the Mystic Ruins base, due to an unexpected rescue from a hedgehog that all sorts of questions surrounded. Now the girls have to figure out the situation though and find a way out.

And lastly, Shadow was revealed to yet again, be taking orders from Dr. Eggman. Why he is taking orders though is unknown, but Dr. Eggman is after the chaos emeralds, and it isn't yet known why...

Shadow the Hedgehog. Often called the anti-hero of the heroic Sonic the Hedgehog. And with good reason too. He had manipulated the evil genius Dr. Eggman into nearly destroying all mankind. But frankly, he didn't seem to be a villian either, since by the end, he had made a dramtic turn around and helped Sonic in his quest to stop the Space Colony Ark. It was a happy ending for everyone, except for Shadow himself, who was at least thought to be dead.

But now this black hedgehog was standing in front of Dr. Eggman, the mad scientist he was able to trick so easily. It's surprising yet not surprising that these two weren't fighting as soon as they reunited. Eggman hates to be made of fool of, but Shadow was also his only connection to his family's past. Dr. Eggman looked up to Professor Gerald very much, even after finding out he was a madman.

The two were in the control room of Eggman's once abandoned base in the desert. But after Eggman had escaped the authorities, the base had finally gotten back into action, and everything was still working perfectly, for the most part at least. You may think the doctor has an artistic side to him, seeing shapes of his face all around the base. Or maybe you'd call that very self-absorbed.

Eggman had just told Shadow he wanted the Chaos Emeralds, and Shadow accepted without any hesitation. Why exactly these two were working together is still unknown, but it seems like Shadow wants something from Dr. Eggman.

"Good Shadow, you can get started right away," Eggman said with a grin.

Shadow nodded, and was about to leave the room to get going. But before he did, he asked, "Master, why did I feel the need to rescue those two strangers?"

Eggman didn't exactly know how to answer that question, but with his large IQ, he was quick to find one and then said, "Un un un, first get me one Chaos Emerald and I'll start answering some questions!"

Shadow was a little annoyed that the doctor refused to answer his question, but he knew he had no choice, he needed answers to the current situation, and it seemed like only the doctor knew what those answers were. "You're right, sorry, but um, do you have an idea where the first Chaos Emerald is?" Shadow asked.

Eggman's smile was more obvious then ever. "I'm glad you asked. I've been working on something that will be able to assist you in finding the Chaos Emeralds. E-123 Omega, report here at once!"

Suddenly, a robot came entering the door behind Shadow. It was a pretty big robot, colored black and red just like Gamma was. But this robot looked much stronger, nothing about the robot looked very cute at all. "At your service, Dr. Eggman," he said.

"It's time for your first mission to begin Omega," said Eggman. "I've been working on you for far too long, so it's time to see you be put to good use. You contain an emerald radar inside of you, I want you to go with Shadow and find me a Chaos Emerald. Failure is not an option, they're key to my plan!"

Omega nodded by bowing down, as he didn't actually have a head. His head seemed to be the same thing as his tummy, if that makes any sense at all. "Mission recieved, will begin progress immediately," he said.

"Good, Omega, wait outside the base for Shadow, when he comes, begin your search immediately," said Eggman.

Omega heard the message loud and clear and immediately exited the room, as Shadow watched his legs taking each step they took. The robot did seem intimidating, but it was a robot, robots don't have minds of their own, he would be fine with it.

"So Shadow, when you're ready, head outside and join Omega and begin the search," said Eggman.

Shadow nodded, and walked out of the room leaving Eggman to his doings. Shadow wasn't just ready to go on such a journey though. He first had something that was on his mind before he entered Eggman's control room that he had to take care of.

In another part of the base, there were two prisoners, both female, just letting time go by as they were stuck in a very small and dark prison cell. It sucked being stuck in a place with no way out, especially to these two girls, who absolutely needed all the fresh air they could get. These are two girls they don't belong in cages at all, Amy and Rouge.

The two were sitiing with their legs crossed, trying to think of ways to get out of the cell, after Amy's little tantrum that was with slamming the metal bars with her hammer. She was a wild girl, wild girls didn't like to be trapped. Unless of course, they're saved by their favorite blue hero.

"Maybe Sonic will come save us," said Amy, souding a little more hopeful now that Sonic had returned to her mind.

"Oh please, they probably think we're dead," Rouge said, sounding very annoyed at hearing Sonic's name.

"Don't say that!" Amy shouted in a very angry tone.

"It's not far from the truth though," said Rouge. "I mean, if Shadow is telling the truth and he saved us from that bomb, they probably can only assume that we didn't make it out in time."

Amy was about to shout something insulting, but she thought about Rouge's words, and then sighed. Rouge was right, they probably think that they were dead, if her and Rouge were ever going to get out, they had to do it themselves, or maybe ask Shadow a million times. "I just wish we knew where we were," Amy said.

Nope, Rouge and Amy still couldn't figure out that they were at a base they were standing in five years ago. But it had been five years, they didn't really feel the need to keep this base in their heads. But they had to figure it out eventually, they definitely were there before.

Suddenly, the girls could hear footsteps coming towards their cell again. They didn't sound too different from the ones they heard before with Shadow, and since Shadow was the only person they knew was in this base, they could only assume it was him again.

And they were right, as Shadow was finally seeable in their eyes, and he then stood in front of the cell, just looking at the two people he had saved from an inevitable death.

"Hey," said Shadow.

"Shadow...," Amy said.

"How are you two doing at the moment?"

"Not bad, except that we're kinda trapped," said Rouge sounding very annoyed.

Shadow chuckled surprisingly, and he didn't really know why, but Rouge's attitude seemed familiar. "Can you two answer some questions for me?" he asked.

Amy and Rouge were a bit surprised at Shadow's question. Rouge quickly answered though when she said, "Maybe if you tell us where we are, and let us go."

"Well.....then nevermind," said Shadow. Shadow then started to walk away from the cell, leaving Rouge looking pretty annoyed.

But Amy had a different plan, as she ran to the bars and grabbed them with her hands and tried to put her head through the space between two of them. She then shouted, "Shadow, wait!"

Shadow stopped, and turned around to Amy, who's head was outcide of the cell.

"Shadow please, don't you remember us?" asked Amy. Amy sounded desperate, as if she thought this was the only way to get out of the base, which seemed to be true in their minds. "Don't you remember? I told you something that made you change your mind about mankind, and then you went and saved the world with Sonic! Why are you trapping us here now? I thought we were your friends."

Shadow's face suddenly had shown a ton of confusion. He remembered getting that flashback of Amy telling him something very important. Did he save these two girls because he knew they had answers to his question? It was too bad they weren't going to answer any unless he let them escape. Shadow shrugged Amy's comment off his shoulders then, and just exited the room like he had planned, leaving Amy falling to the ground with her head down.

It was a very strange hospital indeed. When Silver the Hedgehog entered the room of the Chaotix Detective Agency leader, he came out and saw that his name was no longer next to the door. He didn't hear anyone coming to take the name off, so unless they were tip-toeing the name seemed to have vanished. Silver kept looking at the now empty name-tag, wondering if Vector's name was still there somewhere.

But, Vector's name wasn't there, Vector was no longer assigned to this room. Was Vector assigned to a different room? Silver didn't know, but he knew that something fishy was no doubt going on. He didn't know exactly what it was, but he didn't like that this was pausing his mission to find Eggman.

"Maybe he checked out or something," Silver said. "Maybe I'll go ask that nurse." Silver was referring to the nice nurse that was talking to him when he had first woken up. Silver thought he might find her somewhere on the first floor, so he quickly got to the stairs and began running down.

He finally reaches the first floor, and sees the counter near the front door, and the nurse was over there doing some paperwork. Silver walked over to the nurse, and then said, "Hey there."

The nurse looked up to see Silver's face. His eyes looking for her eyes. The nurse smiled, and then said, "Oh, hey Silver! It's good to see you on your feet hun!"

Silver nodded smiling back. There was something about the nurse that was really sweet, that made you feel like she was really on your side no matter what. Silver immediately said, "Thank you. I'm feeling pretty good at the moment. Hey um, do you know where Vector the Crocodile may be? He's a patient here but I can't seem to find him anywhere."

The nurse looked at Silver pretty weirdly, as if she was a bit weirded out by what Silver had asked. She quickly responded though by saying, "I'm sorry Silver, but there's no one named Vector in this hospital."

Silver's face suddenly showed a sense of confusion. He knew if he, Espio, and Charmy were in this hospital, Vector had to be in this hospital too. "But, I saw a door with his name on it before, but then later on, the name tag changed and there was no name on it. Did Vector check out or something?"

The nurse's face continued to show a sense of weirded outness. It's as if she thought Silver was spouting out something crazy. "Silver are you okay? There was never someone named Vector the Crocodile checked into this hospital."

"What? B-but, I saw the nametag on the door, his name was on it! Vector the Crocodile was in this hospital not too long ago." Silver seemed to be a little frustrated at this point. Was his mind playing tricks with him, or was there something even stranger going on?

The nurse's face suddenly had shown much worry, as if she thought there was something wrong with the person she was speaking to. She confirmed this when she said, "Oh my, these must be some side effects," she said. "We must take you back to your room immediately and do a check up."

"Oh um, no thanks, I actually just wanted to check out," Silver said, who didn't seem to know what he was saying due to such a surprising comment.

"NO!" shouted the nurse. "You aren't going anywhere until we get you checked up!"

Silver was immensely shocked by how such a nice and pretty nurse turned so aggressive so soon. Was this really some side effect to whatever damage was dealt to him, or was something even bigger going on?

Everyone in this universe had at least heard of the Master Emerald. Its great powers that could completely help or destroy the universe. But the power is not easily accessible. At least, the full potential isn't. No, if you really wanted control of that unlimited energy that could completely stop the Chaos Emeralds from doung anything, you had to be one echidna, which was Knuckles.

Unfortunately, since Knuckles was the only one that was able to really use the Master Emerald's energy to its full potential, he's a popular person to try to trick into giving information. Luckily he had never given such information, and the secret to really harnessing the Master Emerald's power is still a secret.

So, people may take an alternative to reaching true power, which is to steal the Master Emerald so that it could not stop the Chaos Emeralds, which on the other hand was very easy to absorb power from. Sometimes, even shattering the emerald. This is all Knuckles could think of, when he found a missing piece of the Master Emerald.

He stood in front of the bush outside Tails' lab in the Mystic Ruins with Sonic, and they both stared at the Master Emerald piece, which Knuckles was now holding. Knuckles at least knew what the state of the Master Emerald was, but who did it, and why?

"There's no doubt about it, this is a piece of the Master Emerald," Knuckles said.

"Now why would someone go and steal the emerald, then shatter it?" asked Sonic,

"Beats me," said Knuckles. "Whoever did this though is going to meet my fist!"

Sonic chuckled, always seeming to laugh whenever Knuckles showed his anger. The Master Emerald was usually a good place to start if you wanted to piss the echidna off. "Why is that your answer to everything?" asked Sonic.

Knuckles was in rage, and didn't really appreciate Sonic's smart comment. "This isn't a joke you idiot!" Knuckles said. "Someone has the nerve to not only steal the Master Emerald, but smash it into pieces as well! I must find the colprit as soon as possible!"

Suddenly, the two heard something coming up behind them, and they saw that it was Tails, who had just exited the lab, looking like he was wondering what all the commotion was about. "You guys are really loud, what are you talking about?" Tails asked.

"Guess what we found Tails," Sonic said, as Knuckles showed Tails the Master Emerald piece.

Tails' eyes lit up, as he definitely didn't expect to see a master emerald piece sitting there right next to his lab. "Woah, is that what I think it is?" he asked.

Knuckles nodded, then said, "Yes, it's a missing piece of the Master Emerald. Whoever stole it shattered the Master Emerald for whatever reason!"

"Whoever did this, why would they waste their time to steal the darn thing and then just break it?" asked Sonic. "I guess though, they could just be really clumsy."

"Well, it's kinda scary that a thief might've been near my lab while we were gone," said Tails. "I mean, what if they stole anything I made as well?" Tails' face suddenly showed alot of worry, you could say he was the type of guy that could get very attached to things he created, kind of like a father and son relationship.

"Heh heh heh," said Sonic. "Don't worry Tails, I'm sure with your mind you'd just be able to make it again."

Tails turned around and faced Sonic actually looking very stern, then said, "It's not as simple as you think, you have no idea what I've been inventing these past five years Sonic."

Sonic was taken a bit by surprise, as Tails would usually always laugh at his little jokes. At least, that's what the Tails he knew five years ago would do. Sonic shrugged the comment off though, and then just said, "So, not only do we have Eggman on our minds, but we also have some guy that cared about the Master Emerald enough to want to steal it. And for what we know, they could've shattered it on purpose or by accident. Sounds like another adventure guys!"

Knuckles was pretty annoyed by Sonic's laid back attitude, like he always was. He showed it by saying, "This isn't all fun and games Sonic. If someone wanted the Master Emerald it's because they know it has enough power to stop the Chaos Emeralds. And if they wanted to shatter it, it's because they plan to use the Chaos Emeralds and don't want the Master Emerald to get in the way. Maybe Eggman is the one that did this, the person you two happen to be looking for as well."

Tails suddenly remembered another reason why he had come out to chat with the two guys. He had something to tell them, which was, "Oh, that reminds me guys, get into my lab, I just remembered something incredibly important that could lead us to Eggman!"

Tails then began to run into his lab, and Sonic and Knuckles followed shortly.

It seemed like Amy and Rouge didn't have very good luck for awhile, considering the fact that not only were they stuck in prison in a place they just could not recognize, but they could not even get any answers from someone they had considered a hero before. But then again, it was Shadow, no one but Eggman seemed to had known enough about the black hedgehog.

Amy and Rouge were both lying on the floor, trying to think of ways to turn their luck around, which would be by actually getting out of prison and out into the free open world so that they could figure out this mess. But so far, they had come up with nothing, and it felt like forever since Shadow had last visited them.

"Rouge, thought of anything yet?" Amy asked, sounding very tired and lazy actually.

Rouge sighed, sounding just as tired and lazy as Amy, then said, "Nothing yet. And I'm getting bored feeling like we're being trapped here for eternity. Aren't we at least supposed to get something to eat? My ideal way to die isn't starvation."

"I can't believe you're thinking about food at a time like this," Amy said sounding annoyed. "But then again, you are very self-absorbed."

"Wow, since when did little miss sunshine use words like that?" asked Rouge, sounding pretty mocking like actually.

Amy yelped a big fat ha to Rouge, as she knew exactly what to say in response. "It's called growing up Rouge, which is something maybe someone like you should consider."

Rouge girnned, thinking Amy's comment as quite amateurish at trying to be a decent insult. She responds by saying, "Says the one that can't let go of a crush on a guy that's probably not going to settle down for anyone."

That comment really hit Amy deep in her heart. She didn't like to be called a child just because of her enormous crush that she knew she couldn't let go of yet. Even after five years of total rejection, she still loved that blue hedgehog as if he were her true soul mate. Fire raged in her eyes, she faced Rouge, and then shouted, "Who do you think you are?! Love is something that cannot be helped, it isn't some childish thing! Then again, you probably don't know anything about it knowing your lying nature."

Rouge then said, "Believe me honey, I do," knowing exactly what she was referring to. "Why are you being so defensive? Face it Amy, your little crush on Sonic is kinda hopeless if he's ignored ya for five years."

"Well you don't know that!" Amy shouted. She sighed and laid back on the ground. "Gosh, staying in this cell with you is making me go insane."

"I think I can see that," Rouge said. "Don't worry, it's all making me pretty cranky myself, we've got to find a way out of here." Rouge was right, who knows what will become of Amy and Rouge the longer they are to stay in such a confined area.

That must've sucked. Feeling like you were in tip top shape, only to be told that your feelings were wrong and then rushed back into the room to do extreme testing. Silver knew there was nothing wrong with him though, and these tests that were being performed felt very weird to him. He just felt this certain sense of sleepiness as whatever that was being inserted into him kept going in.

Silver had a bad feeling about this now. He was getting more and more sleepy. And there didn't seem to be a way to fight it. He stared at the nurse, who seemed to be staring at him with much worry. But to Silver, there seemed to be something odd about her face. It just seemed, well, you could say Silver never thought someone like her could even show worry, let alone so much of it. How long had she known Silver now? About an hour at this point? There just seemed to be something...odd about her.

However, Silver had no time to think about it all, as he couldn't help his eye lids close. He tried to resist, and it actually seemed like he might've been able to stay awake for a little while.

But then the nurse said, "Don't worry sweety, you're safe with me, please let us help you."

Help you, help you, help you, help you, help you. The words kept repeating themselves in Silver's head. He couldn't control himself at this point, his eye lids finally closed, and he appeared to finally be giving into whatever was being inserted into him.

"Yes yes, rest, that's what you need, rest," said the nurse. She then slowly walked out of the room, and then closed the door behind her.

If something was going on, then Silver had basically failed to try to resist whatever it was, and now he seemed to be sound asleep. All hope was lost, Silver had fallen into whatever clutches he had fallen into.

At least, that's what they thought.

Silver's eyes opened, and took out all the appliances hooked up to him. He seemed pretty tired, but not tired enough to have actually fallen asleep like what was thought. He slowly got off his bed, trying to gain his balance. He almost fell to the ground, the stuff inserted into him was pretty effective, but it couldn't get Silver completely, as he was awake, barely.

"I-I know what this is," Silver said slowly. "And it isn't any good."

Silver seemed more convinced then ever that this hospital wasn't exactly a hospital. Something about what was injected into him seems to have led him to this conclusion. He had to tell Espio and Charmy. He had to get out of this place. He had to find out what they had done with Vector. He had to be the hero. The Chaotix were going to pay him when this was all done.

He slowly walked up to the door, and slowly opened it, hoping no one would hear or see the door opening. He slowly put his head out the door, to see if anyone was in the hallway. He looked to the left, nothing there. He looked to the right, nothing there.

"I've got...to tell Espio and Charmy," Silver said. He slowly exited the door and began walking, well, barely walking.

Tails' lab was still a shocking sight to Sonic and Knuckles. But then again, it definitely was the first time they saw the lab be as huge as that. It definitely wasn't the lab they knew before during their days battling Chaos. They could only assume that the more years that past, the smarter that Tails gets.

Tails was standing in front of his computer. He seemed to be trying to get something up to show Sonic and Knuckles. Sonic and Knuckles were waiting, wondering what Tails' important news was.

"Okay guys, let me ask you something," Tails began to say. "Do you guys remember another one of Eggman's old bases we hadn't investigated yet?"

Sonic and Knuckles were thinking, Eggman had the ability to create massive bases in such a short time. It wouldn't be a surprise if they forgot about a base that Eggman could possibly be hiding in. But, nothing really came into their minds, so they both shook your heads.

"Oh, I don't blame you guys for forgetting, we only actually were at this certain base for a short time," Tails said. "But it's the most recent one we saw! Eggman's base in the desert, when he was working with Shadow!"

Sonic and Knuckles suddenly remembered exactly what that place was. How could all three of them forget about such a base? Especially since it was the most recent one. But then, they remembered why they didn't even consider the base, why they didn't even remember it.

"Tails, didn't that base get engulfed during some desert storm three years ago?" asked Sonic.

Tails nodded. "Yes, that's why we all didn't remember it," Tails said. "The base was reported to be buried in the sand, and it was impossible to find, as searching through sand is very hard, even with the technology we have today. But guys, this is Eggman we're talking about. He may have possibly found a way to get back into the base. It's our only clue left."

Sonic smiled, pretty happy about what Tails had discovered. He gave him a thumbs up, and then said, "Nice work Tails! It'll be tough trying to search through such a large desert though, it actually kinda slows me down running on sand."

Tails wasn't very into the idea of searching endlessly through the desert himself. What their task was was basically digging up an entire desert in search for this base that was a very small part of the entire desert. But Tails, being the genius he was, had a solution. "That's why we're lucky that I found the exact coordinates of where the base was on the computer. All we gotta do is basically get to these coordinates and really just start digging."

Sonic faced Knuckles and then said, "Well, it's a good thing we got ourselves quite the digger here!"

"What, me?" asked Knuckles.

"Alright guys, let's get going, I'll fly us over to the spot on the Tornado 3," Tails said.

As Tails was walking over into a different room, it suddenly occured to Sonic. Tornado 3? Did Tails really make another plane? He wondered what it looked like, and what it could do. Was it as fast as him? Sonic would soon find out, as Tails gave them a hand gesture a little later to come into the room and get onto the plane.

Sonic and Knuckles entered the ginormous room. But it was actually pretty dark, none of the lights were on. So they couldn't see a thing. This was unusual, but maybe Tails wanted to surprise them that much more.

"Hey Tails, can you turn the lights on in here?" Sonic asked.

"Sure," Tails said, with the lights immediately going on right after.

The Tornado 3 was huge, very huge. It wasn't as huge as let's say, the Egg Carrier, but it was still pretty freakin' huge. It was painted white, with the words Tonado 3 nicely painted on top of the white. The shape of the plane seemed alot more complex, and there were all sorts of guns on the plane as well. It had two seats inside of it, which was one extra seat then the previous Tornado.

Sonic and Knuckles really had no idea Tails' abilities in technology have gotten this advance. They knew he was a genius, but he never actually made anything that would absolutely amaze them. This reunion seriously brought lots of surprises.

"Woah!" Sonic said.

"Impressed guys?" asked Tails. "Let's get going!"

Tails and Knuckles hopped into the plane seats, while Sonic took his usual spot on the outside. Although, it seemed a little more uncomfortable, as it didn't seem like Tails made this plane with Sonic riding on it in mind, strangely.

Slowly, the garage door in front of the plane opened. The plane's engine turned on, and fire started blasting out from behind, as the plane got ready to take off. As Tails shouted, "here we go", the plane flies out of the lab, and heads for the desert.

A Chaos Emerald was no ordinary object. It contained huge amounts of power, that only so few could actually absorb and control. Chaos Emeralds were not to be played with, especially in the wrong hands. Dr. Eggman certainly didn't think he had the wrong hands, as he had ordered Shadow and his newest robot Omega to retrieve them. But many people in the world would obviously disagree, Dr. Eggman didn't care.

Shadow and Omega were walking around in the shadows in the sub-urban area of Station Square. Omega's radar had led them to this area first. They both hadn't exactly been to this area. But Omega's radar had come in handy, so all they were doing is just following the radar.

The both of them were pretty silent on the trip so far, but Shadow wondered if Omega would be able to answer any of his questions himself. Omega was a robot of Eggman's afterall, maybe Omega had some of Eggman's memories. But he couldn't just outright ask a stranger he guessed. But what did he have to lose.

"That emerald radar is really useful," Shadow said, trying to break the ice. "Do you know how Eggman built it?"

Omega faced Shadow as they were both walking, and then said, "Information unavailable."

Shadow knew Omega was a robot, but it just seemed very weird how he talked like one so much. Did this robot have no mind like all of Eggman's robots did? Omega must be a very powerful robot if he can be mindless but can find the Chaos Emeralds. Or perhaps Eggman made Shadow go with Omega because he knew Omega could not do it alone. Although, Omega seemed to be doing pretty well so far.

"So, what do you think of the doctor?" Shadow asked.

Omega ignored Shadow's question, making Shadow believe even more that Omega was just a mindless robot. Shadow didn't think he'd get anything out of him, so he just kept his mouth shut for the rest of the trip.

The walking in silence wouldn't last much longer though, as the two finally stumbled upon what they had been looking for. A Chaos Emerald was right in front of them. It was laying on the bush trying to blend in with the surroundings with its green color. But the emerald was far too shiny to not notice. Quite a strange place for an emerald to be at actually, where there were so many people, but it looked like no one seemed to come to this spot very much anyway.

"That's a Chaos Emerald," Shadow said.

Omega nodded in agreement, and took the emerald and put it inside himself. Omega then said, "Now, let us report back to the base to store this emerald."

Shadow nodded, and Omega began to walk back the direction they came from. But before Shadow followed his footsteps, he heard something strange. It was a cry. It didn't sound like tears of joy at all, but tears of pain. Shadow quickly turned around to see what the commotion was. He knew the way back to the base, he'd catch up to Omega later. He ran up to the bush in front of him and hid in it to observe who was making such sad sounds.

What he saw with his eyes was a young orange rabbit and her pet chao crying into their mother's tummy. The orange rabbit's face was in her mother's as her mother tried to comfort her, and the pet chao too. Yep, it was Cream the Rabbit and her pet chao Cheese, along with Vanilla, their guardian. Shadow had never met these three before, yet the crying was enough to get his attention. He listened in.

"Oh, it's okay dear," said Vanilla. "I know Amy was a great friend to you two, I'm sure she's out there somewhere."

"B-but, you didn't see the bomb mom," said Cream, who was still trying to fight her tears enough to speak. "It was just so huge, and if Amy didn't escape the base, it really is likely that she's dead."

"Oh stop it Cream. I'm sure the bomb was pretty big, but remember, Amy is a fighter. She's taught you to be tougher then you were before. If she can do that, I'm sure she's out there somewhere just trying to get to you as soon as possible."

Cream's tears seemed to lesson, her mother really was encouraging. "Y-you think so mom?"

"I know so."

Shadow knew that Vanilla was right. Amy Rose was still alive. If only he could tell them, and stop the crying. But he mustn't show himself. The doctor told him that the best thing to do was to remain undercover, and with no one else to trust, Shadow agreed already.

Amy and Rouge haven't really talked to each other much after their little verbal fight. They just needed some space. It was too bad that they wouldn't be getting any anytime soon. The two were stuck with each other for who knows how long, and there's only so much they can take.

Amy suddenly thought of someone she hadn't thought about since she had woken up in here. And that was her best friend in the whole wide world, Cream, with her pet chao Cheese. She knew that the two of them wouldn't take her missing very well, and now a sense of worry struck her head.

"I hope Cream and Cheese are okay," she said. "They must be really sad that I'm missing."

Rouge heard what Amy's supposedly self comment was, then she asked, "What is it now?"

Amy was still mad at Rouge. Amy did still feel very negative feelings towards her, and she was determined eternal life with her in prison wasn't going to change that. "I'm just worrying about my friends, nothing of your concern," Amy said.

Amy was feeling more and more worried about Cream as the seconds past. She knew that Cream wasn't the strongest person in the world, but Amy did help her grow stronger as the years have passed since they first met accidently. Amy thought of how she told Cream everything, and how Cream told her everything, and how cute Cream's chao was. Cream, is she okay?

Amy couldn't stand it, she felt like she was responsible to make sure Cream was alright. She didn't want to be the cause of Cream pausing her life. Amy needed to get out now. "Oh my gosh, I need to get out of here!" Amy shouted.

Rouge was a bit startled by Amy's outburst, thinking that she was done with that phase. Apparently though, there was no end to Amy tantrums. Rouge had to get out now too, she couldn't stand another Amy tantrum. "Shut it!" shouted Rouge. "Gosh, not another of your tantrums please. I was having this perfect daydream about my jewels back home if you don't mind."

Amy then turned to Rouge and said, "Don't you have anyone you actually care about besides your precious jewels? At least I have a living being I need to be there for."

"Oh believe me Amy, there's more to me then jewels," Rouge surprisingly said.

"Hmm, how so?" Amy asked.

"That's strictly confidential," Rouge said with a giggle at the end.

"Hmph, you're such a terrible liar," Amy said, coming to the conclusion Rouge was lying about having someone to care about.

"Believe what you want to believe," Rouge said. Rouge laid back at the ground and was about to close her eyes and do some more daydreaming. But before she closed her eyes, she noticed something on the cieling she hadn't noticed before. She suddenly stood back up, and tried to get a better look at the ceiling, but it was just too dark to see it clearly.

"What are you doing?" Amy asked, since Rouge wasn't the type to do something so random.

"The ceiling," Rouge said. "There's something on it, but I can't see it."

"Well, you can climb can't ya? Go climb up there and get a closer look."

Amy actually gave a great idea thoguht Rouge, so Rouge flew up to the ceiling and stuck onto it. She realized that what she was looking at, most of it was covered in this unusual material. Rouge had her gloves on, so she wasn't afraid of anything disgusting. She started tearing the material off.

"Ew, what do you think you're doing?" Amy meanwhile was not fond of the stuff falling off the ceiling. She was wearing a sleeveless dress and the disgusting material was getting on her arms. Amy brushed it all off and tried to find a safe spot in the cell.

Rouge was almost finished though. She finally took all the material off to reveal what Rouge wanted to see. Rouge's eyes suddenly opened up, as she suddenly found a piece of information that could really benefit them both.

"Why didn't I realize this before?" asked Rouge.

"What?" asked Amy, who then looked up at the ceiling herself. Then, Amy's eyes opened up just as wide, as she knew exactly what Rouge was talking about. Rouge was right, why didn't they realize this before? The ceiling had a picture of an Eggman symbol. This was the old Eggman base that was thought to have been buried by a sand storm.

The desert was a very hot place. Staying out here for too long would probably be a pretty bad thing, unless you were in an area that was air-conditioned 24/7. Nothing was going to bring down these three though, Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles, who all had a goal in their mind coming into this area, which was to find Dr. Eggman. Sonic and Tails were asked to bring the doctor back to prison, and Knuckles just had a strong feeling Eggman was responsible for the Master Emerald being shattered.

The plane was flying pretty fast. It wasn't Super Sonic fast, but it was pretty fast. It definitely beat running on the sand. Tails' piloting skills seemed to have definitely improved since Sonic last saw him flew. He was basically starstruck at everytime Tails had been doing so far. Who knew the fox had grown up so much?

"We're here," Tails suddenly said interrupting Sonic's thoughts. The plane landed smoothly on the sand. There weren't any ancient ruins or cities anywhere near where they were. It was just an endless area of sand. Nothing else but sand, and the unbearable heat. But the three were going to find that Eggman even if it's the last thing they do.

The three of them got out of the plane, and looked around at all the sand. It was such an enormous place, they had no idea how they were going to find that base.

"I hope you guys aren't expecting me to dig all this sand up," Knuckles said, which he had every right to say seeing all that sand.

"Don't worry Knuckles, I'm sure if we all just dig into this sand we'll find something!" Sonic said.

"No, that's a horrible idea Sonic," Tails said. "With all that sand getting into your body, you'll probably die out here," Tails said sounding very annoyed. "Don't you know that? What we're going to do is try to find a secret entrance to the base. If Eggman truly is here, all we have to do is find a secret entrance."

"Well, sure Tails," Sonic said, a little surprised by Tails' disagreement.

Tails nodded and said, "Good. I'm going to go get this scanner I took with us in the plane, you two just start walking around here and see if you can find anything without killing yourselves." Tails then ran back towards the plane, while Sonic and Knuckles began to explore.

"Geez, did you two get in a fight or something?" Knuckles asked, noticing Tails' attitude.

"Huh, what do ya mean?" asked Sonic.

"Like, last time I was with you guys, you two were totally in-sync. What happened?"

Sonic unfortunately didn't know the answer to the question. But he didn't think there was much of a problem himself. He just thought that Tails well, grew up was all. Grew up into more of a jerk that didn't laugh at any of his jerks, but grew up. "Eh, I think you're over analyzing things Knuckles," Sonic said, even though he knew that was a blatant lie.

He could barely stand, and he certainly didn't want to get caught by that nurse, but he had to see his new friends. He had to find out what was really going on. This substance that was inserted into Silver was something very bad, he knew it. He knew that it was no way something that was supposed to help you heal. He knew that it was a poison, to try to put you to sleep for life. He knew the effects may last for a long time with only a little of it inside him, but he was able to walk, he had to do something. He had to get out of this hospital.

He slowly walked up the stairs, trying to reach the floor Espio was on. Silver couldn't believe how slow he was going. He couldn't believe it had become such a struggle to get up these stairs. He wish he could just use his powers and fly to the next floor, but he felt like his powers were wiped out. That poison really did it for him.

But eventually, he finally made it up a floor, and didn't waste anytime to get to Espio's door. No one was around thankfully, so he entered the room, and saw both Espio and Charmy there. Espio was still meditating, and Charmy was playing video games.

"There you guys are," Silver said slowly.

"Hi Silver!" Charmy said while still keeping his eyes on the TV. "What's up?"

"Can't you two leave a chameleon at peace?" asked Espio. "Meditating would be much easier if you both were to leave the room."

"W-we have to get out," Silver suddenly said. "We have to leave this place NOW."

"Why?" asked Charmy. "This place rocks Silver! I can't get these video games anywhere else!"

"And the peace I've been able to obtain in here, it actually is a great place to train as a ninja for me," Espio said.

Silver wished he didn't have to convince them to leave the place, as he was pretty tired. But it looked like he had to try his best. It seemed strange they didn't notice how tired he was. "G-guys, have you seen Vector at all?"

"Not really," Charmy said. "And who cares?"

Silver's ears didn't fool him. Silver did not expect Charmy to say that at all about his leader, who he had probably spent alot of time with. "What do you mean you don't care?" Silver asked, with a little more energy due to the shock.

"Like yeah, who cares Silver?" Charmy asked. "Infact, let's stay at this hospital forever! It's free and fun!"

Espio grinned while his eyes still stayed shut. He then said, "I actually agree. I've never actually been to such an amazing facility before. I don't see the harm in staying."

"WHAT?!" shouted Silver. Both of their comments woke Silver right up, as not only were they not suspicious about anything this hospital is doing, but they actually were suggesting to stay at the hospital forever. At least Silver was now finally awake, but things just got even stranger.

Questions are still there to answer, not to mention some new ones as well. What's Eggman's plans with the Chaos Emeralds? What will Amy and Rouge do now that they know exactly where they are? Will Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles find the base? And what will Silver do now that he knows what the hospital truly is? All this on the next episode of Desperate Hedgehogs.