Previously on Desperate Hedgehogs...
Sonic and Tails finally got into Eggman's base, and have discovered themselves that Eggman was hiding out in this base. Now that they know where Eggman is, what will happen from here?
Amy and Rouge were taken away from their prison cell, only to find out that they were going to be used to prevent Sonic from stopping Eggman as he took his fleet out into the skies.
Silver escaped the hospital at last, only to find that Eggman had Shadow to defend him. Vecotr also popped up, and he wonders what Silver meant calling Eggman such ludicris things.
With the fleet taking off with Shadow, Amy, Rouge, Omega, Eggman and his hentchmen on it, what are Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Silver, and Vector now going to do? All this on this episode of Desperate Hedgehogs.
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Silver/Sonic
"Um, who are you?"
That was the question that Silver had hoped everyone would forget to ask. But he had to be realistic. How could these three NOT ask about a complete stranger like Silver? No one but the Chaotix knew he had existed up to this point. Now that he was exposed, it looked like he had to tell them if he wanted their help to stop Dr. Eggman. Silver knew the madman had to be stopped, and he wouldn't rest until he was.
"Um, my name is Silver the Hedgehog, and you can say it's my job to stop Eggman," Silver stated.
Sonic walked over to Silver and then said, "Well, I haven't seen you round these parts before. Were you hired by the government to take care of him like I was?"
Silver nodded, as he had just remembered that's exactly what he had told Vector and the others of the Chaotix. "Yes, I was."
Sonic thought it was weird actually. If Silver was hired to take care of Eggman, why didn't they have him go along with Sonic, Tails, and Rouge? "Then...why didn't the president have you just come with me, Tails, and Rouge?"
Silver didn't like the tons of questions coming from Sonic. But he didn't want anyone to feel suspicious. Vector already did, he didn't need a blue hedgehog that could actually put up a fight against him to as well. Silver had to answer any question coming. "Maybe he thought we'd both get in each other's way?" Silver asked. "We're together now though so looks like we can go after Eggman together."
Sonic nodded, he had no further questions. Silver did fight beside them afterall against Eggman's new robot. Just how suspicious can you be of the guy? "Okay then, why don't we all get to the Tornado 3 right away? It looks like this elevator on the right might take us up to the surface."
The five of them looked to the right of the room and saw the little elevator. Perhaps this is another secret entrance that Eggman used? They all entered the elevator, and they waited patiently for it to go up.
Five minutes later, they are on top of the desert next to the Tornado 3. It was covered in sand, but it was nothing that damaged it. Tails dusted some of the sand off with his tails, and it already looked useable.
"Say, aren't there only two seats in there?" Vector asked.
Tails nodded, but gave a little smile towards the four facing him. The four guys were confused. What was Tails exactly smiling about? They found out, when Tails pushed a button on the remote controller sitting on his hand, and the Tornado 3 suddenly began this large transformation. It quickly expanded and expanded, until it looked like a white military plane. It looked like it could fit 20-30 people in it, and there were tons more weapons on it this time.
"WOAH!" all four of them screamed.
"Now the Tornado 3 is kind of huge," Sonic said, laughing.
"Get in everyone, this form isn't as fast as the other forms, but it's more then enough room for us!" Tails said, sounding very proud that he was able to impress the travelers.
Everyone nodded and smiled, and all five of them quickly entered the Tornado 3, which was now an actual plane. The plane then quickly starts flying up as soon as Tails got to the control room, and all the sand that was on the plane quickly dusts off due to the fast winds suddenly being generated. The plane takes off, and begins searching for Eggman's big bad fleet.
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Silver
The inside of the plane was painted a silver color, just like Silver the Hedgehog. Although, he didn't exactly blend into the background, he was still quite noticeable. He looked out the window at the sun-setting sky. It would be dawn soon, that's for sure.
He was alone in the room, until a familiar green crocodile came walking into the room. Silver didn't know whether to be pleased or frightened by Vector's prescence. He had hoped that Vector forgot all about what he had called Eggman. But that was highly unlikely. Vector was a detective afterall, it's his job to notice the small things. Silver's thing wasn't exactly small either.
"Hey Vector," Silver said, turning around to face him.
"Silver, how you doing?" Vector asked.
Silver thought it was weird Vector didn't jump immediately into the question he was expecting. But Silver decided to just go with it. "Oh, I'm doing fine," Silver said. "You?"
Vector smiled, and then said, "I'm doing pretty good too. I hope Espio and Charmy are okay, let's hope whatever is being done to them in there goes away when they get out."
Silver nodded his head, and then said, "Yeah."
"By the way Silver, are you going to tell me why you called Eggman Eggman Nega, the Iblis Trigger?"
Silver's heart basically stopped for a second. He did not want to blow his cover in this place at all. He unfortunately did in the heat of the moment, thinking he had finally found who he had been looking for. Now though, he either had to tell Vector who he really was, or come up with some genius plan to get out of this. Silver's plan wasn't genius by any means though, as he just groaned and ignored Vector's question.
But Vector picked this up and got a little upset over it. "Silver, you can't expect me to ignore what you said," he began to say. "I'm a detective, and if you say something like that, I'm gonna be walking all over it."
Silver was a little pissed that Vector was doing what he was doing. Vector would be smart to not get involved. But Silver held back and said, "There's nothing to talk about Vector."
Vector couldn't settle with that and didn't notice the warning. He said, "No. There is something to talk about here Silver. Silver, you obviously don't know how things work around here. When you do something strange and don't say a thing about it, you're going to be labeled suspicious. Now I DEMAND you tell me what is going on here Silver. You hired me to help you on your little mission, and I need to know exactly why you need me to do this!"
Silver had enough. He turned around with fire in his eyes and shouted angirly to Vector, "Have you forgotten the current situation?! You need MY help Vector to get your dumb teammates out of Eggman's trap. And did you know your teammates basically forced me to take your help? I didn't want your help and I still don't want your help! But I was nice enough to accept it and I'll make sure you get paid for your services. But, you need MY help to save Espio and Charmy. And if you're going to keep questioning me like this, then you're on your own! So, you're either going to drop this now, or I'll throw you out of the freakin' plane!"
That came out alot more harsh then he had originally intended. But at least Vector got the message, as he just growled and nodded. Vector wasn't going into that fleet himself, but he definitely wasn't happy about Silver being in control.
To break the awkward silence though, Knuckles had suddenly walked into the room. Vector was now officially scared of the echidna, as he knew Knuckles blamed him for the Master Emerald being stolen. He didn't know what to expect, Vector couldn't jump off the plane.
"Hello Vector, Silver," Knuckles said suprisingly calm.
"Hey," Vector and Silver both said in return.
"Say um Silver, could you give Vector and I a moment to chat?" Knuckles asked.
Vector's nerves had just sky-rocketted. Silver nodded and quickly walked out of the room to the back on the silver plane. It was just Knuckles and Vector now, a confrontation that was long overdue to the echidna.
"Okay Vector, I have something to ask ya," Knuckles said.
"L-listen Knuckles, I'm sorry the Master Emerald got stolen!" Vector desperately cried. "It wasn't my fault though! This figure covered in a black coat came over to Angel Island right before you returned and stole the Master Emerald! It was way too fast for me to catch, the Master Emerald was gone before I knew it! I'm really sorry Knuckles, please don't do anything to me that'll hurt too much!"
Knuckles had listened to Vector's story very carefully. He then said, "Thanks Vector."
Vector was definitely taken aback by Knuckles' comment. Thanks? Maybe the echidna just happened to be in a good mood. Vector though, being a natural detective, preferred some specifics. "Thanks?" he asked.
"I finally have some clue on who would take the Master Emerald," Knuckles said. "Vector, we go way back, so I trust ya if you say there wasn't anything you can do. Likewise, I'm realizing now you may be big but you probably couldn't even stop a rat from stealing the Master Emerald."
"That's right...hey!" Vector hated being made fun of. Vector could fight, if he had taken the time to. He had the strength, his body was in pretty good shape. But, Vector thought his priorities were in taking as many jobs as possible to gain more rings, whether he could handle them or not.
But the clue wasn't much to Knuckles. Anyone could've came to Angel Island in a black cloak and steal the Master Emerald. Vector didn't say it shattered the Master Emerald though, so it most likely wasn't its intention to shatter it. But he questioned then whether going to Eggman was the right thing to do now. Why would Eggman dress his robots in a black cloak? That wasn't very Eggman like.
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Sonic
The main control room had lights everywhere, and was obviously at the front of the plane. It was still mainly silver colored, but there were lights all over the controls, most of them probably buttons. Tails was driving the plane to the best of his ability, trying to get to Eggman's most recently unvieled fleet.
Sonic stood a little far behind him, taking in all the sights that this once 8 year old kid was able to build by himself. Maybe he had robots like Eggman did, but this was still pretty impressive to Sonic. Tails really did get that much smarter.
"Wow Tails, I never thought you could build something like this!" Sonic said.
Tails smiled, almost appreciating that comment from Sonic. "Oh, it was nothing really," Tails said. "I just gave my robots some plans, and we worked together to make this plane. Likewise, it's definitely not as big as that fleet from Eggman, but I'm sure we can still substain enough damage to infiltrate it."
"Well, I never thought I'd ever be impressed by ya again buddy," Sonic said. "But I gotta hand it to ya, you really outdid yourself this time!"
Tails turned around and saw that Sonic had given him a thumbs up. Tails slowly smiled, and nodded. Tails turned back to continue controlling the plane. Tails thought it was finally beginning to feel like old times. Impressing Sonic always had made him feel good inside. He looked up to him alot before, and a part of him still did to this very day.
Sonic thought it was nice to finally see Tails smiling again. Looks like whatever tension there was between them, Sonic was doing something right as it finally started to go away on this adventure. But still, Sonic wanted to talk about whatever tension there could be. It was way too noticeable before, and it left a deep hole inside him that needed to be filled. Maybe some small talk could improve their relationship a little more.
"So Tails, was there anything significant that happened to ya these past five years?" Sonic asked.
Tails thought Sonic would have never asked. Tails thought it was a better time then ever to try to impress Sonic even more, tell him what he had been missing out on. Make him feel bad for missing all of his life changing moments.
"Well, where do I start?" Tails asked. "Well, shortly after the events of the Space Colony Ark, the president had offered me a job in the technology and engineering field as an intern. He said I was the youngest person he had offered the job to, being only eight years old. I happily accepted the job, as I knew I could learn a ton of stuff from the job.
"So I got started. At first, I was just doing useless things like getting coffee for people that were ranked higher and making sure they attend certain meetings. But then there was this one meeting I was asked to come to to bring coffee into from the kitchen. It was about 2 months into the job. They were actually discussing ways to conserve energy in today's vehicles. I've actually been beginning plans to make a Tornado 3 at this time, but it was very very early in its stages. But I actually had the perfect idea that really contributed to the meeting.
"I was nervous about just going to the table and saying my ideas as an intern. And I didn't think they'd take me very seriously being an 8 year old. But I presented them my idea, and they all absolutely loved it! So, ever since then, I would keep trying to contribute to the meetings and they loved most of my ideas. I eventually was able to climb up to vice president of the establishment! Alot of today's accomplishments in technology is really thanks to me!"
Before Tails could continue on with his story though, he had looked out the window and realized that they had finally reached their target destination. Eggman's fleet was right in front of them.
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Shadow
This is it. This was the moment he had been waiting for. Finally, it was time to come out of the shadows, and show the world that it would be useless to stand up against him. Dr. Eggman knew that this was a time of only celebration, as he flew above the city with his new fleet, hoping to make the crowd feel nothing but absolute shock and fear.
Eggman sat in the control room, looking happier than ever. He couldn't believe after a month of hiding and staying undercover, he could finally show the world why he was the greatest villian in the world. He always seemed to love having all the attention, it made him feel like he was making quite the impact. Whether it was good or bad attention.
Shadow and Omega stood behind the doctor as he was guiding the ship to the top of Station Square. They would look out the windows a bit, and see the faces of the people who realize they were suddenly under something blocking out all the light. They all looked very frightened, some dropped their bags from the market and didn't even notice their apples rolling into the sewers.
"Oh ho ho ho!" Eggman laughed. "This is it you two! I am going to announce to the public just exactly who they're messing with!" Shadow and Omega nodded, knowing exactly what Eggman was going to do.
A microphone suddenly came up from the controls in front of Eggman. Eggman stood up, took the microphone out of its stand, and began speaking to Station Square.
"Citizens of Station Square!" Eggman began to say. "If you are listening to this, then you have now realized that the notorious Dr. Eggman is back! This is a warning to you all that if you do not surrender to the Eggman Empire, I will force you all to fall under my control, and you'll be forced to adore me like no other! After five long years being stuck in that prison, I'm back and this time, I WILL not fail! Muh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
Eggman then smashed the switch right next to the mike stand with his right hand, and suddenly all sorts of bombs began to drop onto the city. People began screaming running for their lives as one bomb after another detonated in the city. None of these bombs made a giant explosion, but they certainly were injuring people.
Eggman put down his mic, and let out another one of his famous evil laughs. "I'm back baby, and I'm not going away for another five whole years!" He declared.
"That was a wonderful speech my master," Shadow said. It really was what Shadow thought too, he actually seemed a little happy for Eggman. But now maybe was the time to finally get some answers out of him.
"Why thank you Shadow," Eggman said. "With you two on my side and this giant fleet, nothing is going to stop us from complete world domination!"
Shadow nodded. But he knew he couldn't wait another minute. It was time to ask Eggman for some more answers. He seemed trustworthy enough to Shadow, and he was the only one he felt comfortable sharing his thoughts to. "Master, would you allow me to ask you a few more questions?"
Eggman turned around in his chair and nodded. "Why, of course Shadow, what would you like to know?"
Shadow walked up to the doctor and began to ask. "What was I doing in that capsule before? Why was I in there?"
Eggman smiled, then said, "Well Shadow, it's simple. Five years ago, one of my robots had found you while I was in prison. He was my assisstant. E-200. I had been working on him for awhile, but he apparently was able to release himself as he got out and saved you while I was in prison. He put you in that capsule to heal your body, which had taken up a ton of damage. When I escaped the prison, E-200 told me all about you, before he collapsed due to the lack of matienance. But that's it really. You were saved by one of my creations!"
A ton of damage? That sounded strange. What could have happened to him five years ago? "Damage? What damaged me?"
"Un un un, that's enough for now Shadow," Eggman said. "Once you bring me another Chaos Emerald, I will be glad to answer some more questions."
Shadow sighed, just when he was finally getting some answers, he was told to find yet another Chaos Emerald.
Shadow didn't have time to wallow though, as the alarm system suddenly turned on. It only ever did this if an intruder was approaching, or if something else was terribly wrong with the system. Eggman took a look at the screen in front of him, only to find this white plane coming closer and closer to the fleet.
"Gah!" Eggman yelped. "That has to be Sonic and his friends! Omega, go take control of the laser cannons. Shadow, you go downstairs and order my hentchmen to get ready! Omega, we're going to blast that plane into bits!"
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Amy
Remember in the last episode when a certain pink hedgehog and a white bat were taken onto Eggman's fleet? Well, they certainly were not in the same area as they were before. Infact, they were basically in an even worst situation, and here is why.
Amy and Rouge were still tied up, but this time, their feet weren't even on the ground. And this time, they were no longer against the pole. The room was quite large in itself, colored red, and the temperature felt like one hundred degrees to the girls. But why is this you ask? The girls were tied up in the air, and under them was gigantic pot of lava.
"I can't believe that stupid robot tied us up here!" Amy complained.
Rouge laughed, Amy sounded pretty scared. While she actually wasn't. "Oh, don't be such a baby," Rouge said.
"Well, you can fly so you have no idea how I'm feeling!" Amy shouted. "I hate how Eggman is basically going to use us to scare Sonic into following his orders."
"Don't worry honey, Sonic would never bow down to the doctor. If he actually does come to save us, he'll find some way to trick that eggy. The guy knows him better then even me, who spent a good amount of time with him."
Rouge did have a point. Eggman has finally been discovered, and there was no doubt Sonic was going to do whatever it took to stop him. Still, being on top of a bowl of lava was enough to scare Amy tons. She did not want to be anywhere near that life-threatening material. Amy didn't trust Rouge either, so she didn't trust that Rouge would save her. Despite the fact Rouge has been working for an organization whose job is to save lives.
"Well, can you at least promise to save me if Eggman does drop us?" Amy asked.
"Sure, if you were to give me your Chaos Emerald," Rouge said.
Amy sighed, that was the typical answer she expected. But then, she realized something strange about what Rouge had just said. "Wait, how do you know I have a Chaos Emerald? It's not with me, it's actually in my house right now."
"You really think I'm dumb don't ya?" Amy nodded her head to answer her question, still looking quite annoyed.
"Well little miss sunshine, part of my job at GUN is to keep track of the Chaos Emeralds, so I'm supposed to know where each emerald is at all times. However, one emerald has gone missing ever since Eggman escaped from prison, and the other just went somewhere. I have absolutely no idea where those two emeralds are. I've seen you holding that emerald a few times these past few months, what have you been doing with that red emerald Amy? It's not like you're good enough to use its powers."
"None of your business!" Amy said angirly. "So, you've been spying on me?"
Rouge nodded to respond. Amy then turned her head away from Rouge, pissed that this girl was not only a thieve, but also spyed at times when she thought she was alone.
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Sonic/Silver
"Brace yourselves everyone! It's gonna be a rocky landing!" Tails screamed.
They were about to penetrate the fleet. Everyone was in the main control room looking out at the fleet in front of them. They could see the people running away from the bombs if they were to look down. It was grade A destruction, but it wasn't going to stop these heroes.
"W-watch out!" Sonic shouted.
All five of them suddenly had spotted a rocket coming towards their plane from the fleet. Tails flew west, and avoided the rocket. But more of them kept coming, so Tails kept moving west to east, east to west even more.
Everyone but Tails began to feel a little dizzy from all the moving around, even Sonic. He could run fast, but he wasn't used to being upside up one second, and upside down the next second. Maybe in loops, but those only took a few seconds. It was obviously Tails flew this thing many times before, being all used to it and all.
"H-hey Tails, t-think you can stop trying to make us throw up?" Knuckles asked.
"Woahhhhhh, it feels like the room is being sucked into a black hole!" Silver cried.
"I better get paid ALOT for this!" Vector complained.
"Quit complaining you guys, if I weren't doing this, we'd be falling to our deaths into Station Square!" Tails cried.
Suddenly, robot after robot came flying from the ship heading towards the plane. They began to start shooting bullets at the plane, causing Tails to have to move faster even more. But he still kept progressing, and he even destroyed some of the robots himself using some of the planes own weapons.
"Are you guys ready?" Tails asked.
"So we just jump out once we're over the fleet and charge in?" Silver asked, just making sure he had understood the plan the first time. Tails nodded to him in return, so Silver felt more assured now without a doubt. It was almost time to finally get his job done.
"Remember guys, it's crucial you get out," Tails said. "I will be transforming this plane into its battle form and I can't say you'll feel very comfortable if you stay in here."
Everyone knew exactly what Tails meant. When the plane is in battle mode, it most likely is alot smaller than it is in the form of a plane. No one wanted to die aboard a plane because it decided to shrink everything but the living being itself. All four of them got to the spot where they would be released, and were preparing for a landing on the fleet. Vector especially, as he actually was sitting on Silver's back. Silver thought the crocodile was very heavy.
The plane gets closer to the fleet. 6 feet from the ground, a hole on the floor of the plane finally opens, and all four of them jump out of the plane, and charge into the fleet, smashing all robots and weapons in their way. Tails follows them shortly, as his plane shortly changes into its battle form, which looked similar to the mech he used five years ago with the Tornado 2. But much more intimidating in looks.
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Shadow
Shadow nods in the dark blue room as all the hentchmen began to head to the upper floor to try and halt the intruders. Shadow wondered if he should go and join them. Maybe he would do it in a little bit. But right now, he just wanted to prepare himself for a bit before going out there and encountering those people again.
He wondered if he was making the right decision trusting the doctor. The doctor seemed like a very devious person, and he could definitely see why the doctor may seem untrustworthy to many people. He seemed to be hated by the majority of the world actually, if he felt no guilt to just bomb the city like that.
But, the doctor saved his life if what he said is true. Sure, it was a robot, but the doctor invented the robot, and the doctor's materials were used to heal him to health. Besides, Shadow didn't feel comfortable putting trust into anyone else. He was often a loner, it took alot for him to give all his trust to someone.
He remembers his awakening like it happened five minutes ago. It was strange seeing that hedgehog, fox, and bat in front of him. They seemed to be very shocked that he was infront of them for whatever reason. He also remembered, there was just something that triggered him to attack them. He wasn't even going to initially attack them at first. But something told him to do it, something in his head made him do it. And he just didn't know what.
There was a monitor near Shadow. Shadow thought it would be interesting to maybe just browse through some of Eggman's files. He wasn't intentionally wanting to sniff around, just curious about some of the doctor's plans.
Why was Dr. Eggman making him work for his memory? Why did he want the Chaos Emeralds? And why didn't this make him trust him any less? Dr. Eggman made it clear that he was not a very trustworthy person, but for some reason, this had the opposite effect on Shadow. Eggman acts exactly like who he is, and in a way, that kinda is trustworthy if Eggman sticks to who he is.
Shadow felt like his trust towards Eggman was justified enough. There were more reasons to trust him then to betray him. But suddenly, Shadow would be getting even more confused by the doctor. As he did enough snooping on the monitor to find out a very questionable text document. It was titled, "The Shadow Project."
Shadow immediately tried to open the file, but it was unfortunately password protected. Shadow smashed his hand on the keyboard. He had no idea what the password could be and he certainly was not a professional computer hacker.
Suddenly though, he heard a voice through the intercom. "Shadow, head up to the arena room immediately, where Amy and Rouge are located!" Eggman said through it. "We're going to make sure Sonic and his friends know it was a big mistake to come here!"
Yeah, I'm coming is what Shadow thought. But he wasn't getting that file out of his head anytime soon.
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Sonic/Amy/Shadow
Where had Silver and Vector gone? Sonic thought maybe they had other things to tend to. It doesn't matter, if Vector trusted that hedgehog, it was good enough to Sonic. Besides, he had other things to take care of. Like stopping Eggman's rampage on Station Square, and saving Amy and Rouge. Wow, he just realized he hadn't seen Amy in a few weeks, definitely a new record. He wondered what she had been up to to cause such a long time away from him. Even after five years of total rejection, Amy still loved Sonic.
Sonic, along with Tails and Knuckles, were now inside the super fleet. It was as dark and grim as it could get. Tons of robots stood in their way, but the three of them were blasting through, even Tails in his mech. This Tornado 3 version seemed to be able to keep up with Sonic and Knuckles.
Hmm, a figure in a black cloak. It definitely seemed strange to Knuckles. But maybe he could punch an answer out of Eggman this time around if he got the chance. He now thought his time was better spent looking for the Master Emerald pieces though. Nonetheless though, he was already here, he might as well help.
Finally, after rounds of robots, the trio came into this giant red arena like room, which felt ten times hotter than the previous room. All three of them stopped in their tracks, surprised by the heat.
"Woah!" Sonic said. "This room sure is toasty!"
"Sonic!" screamed a very familiar voice to Sonic.
All three of them looked up to see who had screamed Sonic's name. They figured out who it was immediately when they saw her face, as the voice came from Amy Rose, with Rouge the Bat tied up next to her.
"Amy! Rouge!" Tails said.
"Are you two tied up above a pot of lava?" Knuckles asked, hearing sounds of lava very close to his ears.
"Wow, it must've took all of your strength to figure that out," Rouge said, smiling.
Knuckles looked at Rouge annoyed. The bat girl had always been annoying to Knuckles, even after five years of mostly isolation. Sometimes, she would come and steal the Master Emerald, but those visits became more and more rare as time progressed.
On the inside, Amy was jumping for joy. Finally, her ticket out of here was here, and even better was that it was Sonic. Whenever Sonic saved her, she always couldn't help but feel sparks were flying.
It was too bad those feelings quickly evaporated with fear replacing them, as Amy and Rouge were suddenly lowered closer to the lava. They both screamed thinking they were pluging towards death.
"Not so fast Sonic!" screamed a familiar menace to everyone in the room. All five of them turned their bodies and heads around, and saw that it was Dr. Eggman who spouted such words, sitting in his pod along with Shadow and Omega, who stood right behind him.
"Eggman!" All five of them shouted.
"One more step and the girls get to swim in a sizzling pool of lava!" Eggman shouted. He then followed it up with another very evil laugh.
"You're an idiot you know that?" Amy asked sounding very angry about the possibility Sonic will have to follow Eggman's orders all because of her and Rouge.
"If I were so dumb, why do I hold the power to end your life?" Eggman asked with a devious smile.
Amy couldn't help it. The fact that Eggman could end her life scared her to death. Rouge actually felt the same way, as her boots were a feet or two away from the lava.
Sonic was both frustrated and excited by the current situation. He didn't know what to do to save Amy and Rouge and defeat Eggman. But at the same time, he hadn't felt this much excitement in such a long time. He loved that he had a purpose again to stop Eggman's plans. But at the same time, he had to save Amy and Rouge one way or another.
He wasn't really going to kill them, was he? This was the question Shadow was asking himself. He had saved those two for a reason, so maybe they just had to stay alive. There was just something about those two that sparked something in his mind. But if Eggman decided to get rid of those two, there was nothing he could do.
"What do you want Eggman?" Sonic asked.
"If you give me what I need, I'll spare those two just for you," Eggman said.
"Well, what is it?"
"Your Chaos Emerald."
Sonic's eyes opened up all of a sudden. Chaos Emerald? He doesn't remember having a Chaos Emerald. "I'm sorry to disappoint ya egghead, but we have no Chaos Emerald!" Sonic then followed that sentence with a small chuckle.
"You don't." Eggman suddenly looked over at Tails in the background, causing a domino effect with everyone's eyes doing the same thing.
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Silver
Meanwhile in another area of the fleet, Silver and Vector were looking for something. Something that could get the other two Chaotix members out of the Virtual Reality program. They hope that they made the right decision coming to the fleet instead of just staying and looking in the base.
The two of them weren't talking much while they were running. The status of their relationship was pretty clear at this point after Silver's outburst. It was pretty awkward, hopefully Espio and Charmy could ease the tensions once they were reunited with them. But it was hard to tell, Vector was now extremely suspicious of Silver. It was natural with him being a detective and all.
Silver didn't actually mean to be so harsh. At the beginning of all this, he actually seemed pretty calm to the Chaotix. But as he got closer to finding Eggman, he seemed to get more and more aggressive. He also just didn't know what else to do to shut Vector up. He could not let anyone know who he really was, and Vector was no exception. Besides, what's important to him was to stop Dr. Eggman, which he was so close to doing at this point.
He didn't know why he was helping Vector. He already knew something was up with him. Why didn't he just go off and do his own thing and leave him by himself? Then again, there was just this part of Silver that felt bad for Vector. He couldn't blame him for wanting to know more about him. The least he could do was help his friends since he dragged them into this mess too. Maybe he'd tell them who he really was eventually. But he didn't have time to think about it. He just had to find and kill Dr. Eggman.
Suddenly, the two had entered a room which seemed to be a dead end. But it looked a bit suspicious, as there was this giant monitor at the end, with tall tubes all around the room. Strange room indeed, but maybe it was what they were looking for.
Silver walked over to the monitor and clicked on the button that looked like the on switch to the monitor. Silver was actually correct, as the monitor immediately turned on. Silver and Vector's mouths then widened, as they saw Espio and Charmy running from the robots.
"This is the room that connects to the simulation!" Vector concluded.
"Well, do you think you can figure out how to take them out?" Silver asked.
Vector nodded. "Of course, I'm actually a pretty smart croc, this will be no problem!"
Vector immediately then got to work, typing on the computer like a madman. Espio may be clever, but he felt he was the real brains of the group. He lead the team afterall, so logically, he's obviously the smartest of the bunch. He didn't seem to show any signs of trouble at all, he was working the computer like a whiz.
Espio and Charmy were still running from robots on the screen. They looked very scared and confused. Could they had started figuring out it was all a simulation too? Or was there some kind of glitch in the system? It didn't matter, Vector just had to get them out of there.
"This should do it!" Vector said. Vector then slammed his fist on the big red button, and two tubes suddenly began to light up. Vector and Silver shifted their attention towards the tubes. The lights inside them kept on going, moving around like little pinballs going at 200 mph. But then the lights disappeared, and Espio and Charmy suddenly appeared.
"Espio! Charmy!" Vector said, as he ran to the tubes and opened them up, letting Espio and Charmy exit.
"What, where are we?" Charmy asked. "Where have you two been?"
"Now's not the time for questions guys, Eggman is here," Silver began to say. "Let's go and take care of this now!"
"Well, maybe an explanation would be kind of nice you know," Espio said.
Suddenly though, all the tubes began to light up. All four of them were shocked. What else could be coming in here from that virtual world? The answer came shortly, as robots from the hospital had suddenly appeared in those tubes. The four of them knew they had to leave immediately.
"Espio, we can answer your questions later, but we better get out of here now!" Silver shouted. The Chaotix agreed, and they all quickly exited the room, with robots following them.
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Sonic/Shadow/Amy/Silver
Eggman looked at Tails, as if expecting Tails to know exactly what he meant by the look. Tails unfortunately, did know what Eggman meant. But Tails debated whether to lie to Eggman and his friends, or just admit he has a Chaos Emerald. Tails was never the best liar in the world, and he always felt uncomfortable doing it. He preferred just staying in the background when they had to lie. But now he was the one that had to do it.
Tails just decided to go with his gut feeling. "Why are you looking at me?" Tails asked.
"Oh Tails, there's no need to lie in front of me!" Eggman said. "My fleet sensed some very powerful chaos energy in here, and I know that if you had an emerald, you'd power your contraption with it!"
"Contraption?!" Tails seemed to had gotten a temper these past five years to Sonic. Maybe you got more defensive as you got older was what Sonic thought.
"So, what's it going to be Tails? The Chaos Emerald, or your friends?"
Rouge and Amy were suddenly lowered down to the lava a feet more, causing even more screams from them. Tails just didn't know. Eggman could be very dangerous with a Chaos Emerald, but he knew he had to make sure Amy and Rouge were safe, or he would never forgive himself. He just...didn't know.
"I-I'll......"
Eggman looked at Tails very intensely, still keeping up that smile. But he then looked up to Amy and Rouge for a second and realized something was very strange about the image. "They're gone!" Eggman shouted.
Everyone turned to where Amy and Rouge originally were, and saw that the two were no longer suspended above the pot of lava. Eggman looked very worried all of a sudden. Who could've saved them when these three weren't moving an inch of their body? Shadow and Omega were on guard now, knowing something fishy had just happened.
Suddenly, a robot flew over the three heroes, looking to had been just tossed, then hitting Eggman's pod. There was also a green glow on the robot.
"Silver?" Sonic asked.
Silver was behind Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles, along with the Chaotix, Amy, and Rouge. Silver, Amy, and Rouge looked downright pissed, while the Chaotix looked ready as ever to fight.
"Grr, egg pawns, Shadow, and Omega, attack!" Eggman shouted, as he quickly tried to escape the scene.
"Sonic, Tails, go after Eggman, we'll take care of everything here!" Rouge shouted.
Sonic and Tails nodded in agreement, and quickly moved forward to where Eggman was going. But unnoticed by everyone as the fights between good and evil had begun, Silver had gone and followed the two a little later. Eggman was his, he kept on thinking that in his head.
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Sonic/Silver
Eggman kept on going as fast as he could in the hallways, but Sonic was just alot faster, as Sonic jumped and kicked Eggman's pod to the ground. Eggman tried to get his pod up, but Sonic was already standing on it. Tails couldn't keep up, but he was almost there.
"No, it will not end like this!" Eggman shouted.
"Guess again egghead," Sonic said, feeling very accomplished. "You're going to jail again eggy, and this time forever!"
"Oh, but is that what you REALLY want Sonic?" Eggman strangely asked.
Sonic was confused by Eggman's question. He wondered what Eggman had exactly meant by that. He wanted some answers before taking him to jail for good. "What do you mean?"
Eggman smiled, as he looked up to Sonic from his damaged pod. "My robot, E-200, told me how you faded from the public's eye once I went to jail. There were news articles everywhere on the internet on how you basically threw your life away when I went away, because without me, your life served no purpose. You were just another normal hedgehog no one gave a damn about. But now I'm finally free, and you want to take away the chance to be something important again? Your logic makes no sense my friend."
Sonic was absolutely shocked. Eggman was an evil person, but he never seemed to be so manipulative that Eggman would attempt to manipulate Sonic. But...Sonic thought about it. What happens from here on if Eggman were to go to jail? He would go back to the way it was, feeling useless, like he had no place in the world. Ever since Eggman had came back, he's felt alot better about himself. Did Eggman have a point? "Y-you..."
"No need to say anything my adversary."
"Sonic!" Tails screamed as his mech came running into the hallway. "What are you waiting for Sonic? Cuff him with the handcuffs!"
But Sonic didn't listen to Tails, he just stood there, and looked at Eggman's face, wondering if there was any truth to Eggman's words. His mind was racing right now. Two choices, both racing to the center of his brain to choose what Sonic should do. But the longer he waited, the less choice he had.
"Sonic! What are you doing?! Cuff him already!!!!!" Tails screamed in anger and frustration, seeing Eggman prepare for an attack.
"I..............I................I can't!" Sonic finally admitted.
"What?!!!" Tails screamed.
Eggman suddenly shot a rocket at both Sonic and Tails, and they both fell back, as his pod got back into the air and was preparing to finish his exit. What did I just do? Sonic thought. He really had just let the biggest threat to world peace escape. Something that Sonic had previously stood for. But now that it was five years later, had he really changed that much? Did he really grow to be that selfish?
But all of a sudden, Sonic and Tails saw Silver fly straight past them at a fast speed. Eggman stopped and turned around, and saw that Silver was charging right at him. Eggman screamed, as he knew he wasn't going to convince Silver to let him go. Silver punched Eggman's pod into the ground. Eggman and his pod were now on the ground, waiting for Silver's wrath.
"This ends....TODAY!" Silver shouted.
Silver took out a part of the floor, which looked to be made out of metal. He then used his powers and morphed it into a ball. He screamed, as he threw the rock onto Eggman's pod, as Eggman screamed for his life like he never did before. Eggman was dead, finally dead. Everyone could rest at last, we were all a step closer to world peace. Sonic and Tails just stared, shocked out of their minds.
But as the smoke from the attack cleared, the pod appeared to be heavily damaged, but Eggman on the other hand, was scar free! Still looking very scared! His image suddenly began to turn into this holographic like image, slowly disappearing along with the smoke a few seconds later. Silver was absolutely baffled.
"THIS IS A FREAKING HOLOGRAM!!!!!!!" Silver shouted in anger.
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Sonic/Shadow/Amy/Silver
Amy smashed robot after robot. None of the robots seemed to be very challenging to destroy, not with her trusty hammar. No one knew where she kept her hammars, but she was able to take it out whenever she had to. She was a fighter at heart, and she seemed to have improved since the last time she had to fight. She took care of each robot like it was trash.
Shadow and Omega fought whoever they could. No one could even lay an inch on them. Not Knuckles, not Rouge, not Amy, not Espio, not Charmy, not Vector, no one. They were the only reason all of them were actually got a little tired. The robots really only seemed to be distractions from Shadow and Omega.
But suddenly, the fleet began to rumble, causing everyone to pause their fights in the hot boiling lava room. It felt like an intense earthquake, but they were in the air!
"What's going on?!" Amy asked.
"Omega, it's time!" Shadow shouted. Omega nodded, and Shadow suddenly took out two Chaos Emeralds that were from the desert base as Omega stood close to him. "It's been fun, but we need to leave this destined to fall fleet everyone. CHAOS..."
"No!" Rouge shouted, as she quickly ran over to Shadow and Omega and grabbed onto them right before Shadow finished off by saying, "CONTROL!!!!" And at that second, Shadow, Rouge, and Omega all disappeared.
"Rouge!" Amy shouted.
"What the hell was she thinking?!" Knuckles asked.
Suddenly, the rumbling got even worst, as everyone began to slightly lose their balance.
"What's going on?!" Charmy asked.
"The fleet must be experiencing some kind of malfunction!" Espio concluded.
"BLAHHHHH, I'M GONNA THROW UP!" Vector shouted.
Suddenly, Sonic, Tails, and Silver came running from the hallways and into the red room, all barely keeping their balance.
"W-what's going on?!" Silver asked.
"If I'm correct, then this is the end of this fleet, as its new destination is crashing into Station Square!!!" Tails shouted.
Everyone knew it then, this fleet was crashing into Station Square, and there was absolutely nothing they could do about it. They all tried to run to escape from the fleet. It was better then staying in a room with lava when the fleet crashes. But either way, it was going to be a bumpy landing. The fleet is crashing into Station Square.
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Conclusion
It was approaching nightime in Station Square, and the past hour felt like nothing but a horrid nightmare. Tons of Station Square buildings had been heavily damaged. People were still looking for shelter, as their original home was probably damaged by the bombs. But now, there was no use in hiding from a fleet half the size of the city. It came closer, and closer, and closer to the ground.
It touches the ground, and a gigantic explosion happens, wrecking the entire city filling it with fires and smoke. The fleet must've also been some kind of bomb, considering the mass destruction it had then caused. It turned a dark blue night into a red night. The city was now nothing but ruins, some almost unfixable...
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The fleet was a giant bomb in reality, and Station Square experienced its full wrath. What will Tails think of Sonic seeing him actually let Eggman go? Where does Knuckles go from here knowing that Eggman is probably not behind the Master Emerald being shattered? What has Amy exactly been doing with a Chaos Emerald? Where are Shadow, Rouge, Omega, and Eggman now? Where will Silver and Vector go from here, and will Espio and Charmy know what Vector heard Silver said? What will be the effect on the explosion on everyone? All this on the next episode of Desperate Hedgehogs!
