Wednesday, February 2, 2011

1x03: The Aftereffects

Previously on Desperate Hedgehogs...

Sonic, Tails, and Rouge discovered an old friend, Shadow the Hedgehog, trapped in Eggman's old base. Their reunion unfortunately ended in one of the worst ways possible as Shadow was looking for a fight rather then catching up.

Amy, Cream, Cheese, and Knuckles went on a search for the master emerald. It's led them to Eggman's old Mystic Ruins base, but they didn't seem to find much.

Silver met Vector, and they started their search for Dr. Eggman. They also decided to go enter the Mystic Ruins base, trying to look for clues and maybe even Eggman himself.

But plans changed when Shadow activated a time bomb that sent everyone running towards the exit. Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Cream, and Cheese were able to exit. But the fates of the Chaotix and Silver are unknown. And where has Shadow taken Amy and Rouge? And what does Eggman exactly have to do with everything?


So many memories came to the minds of some people when they were to look at the Mystic Ruins base that belonged to Dr. Eggman. It was deep and hidden in the dark green forest of the ruins. But now, the base was gone, ten minutes after Shadow had unexpectedly activated a bomb that no one knew existed in the first place. But it doesn't matter, what matters now is that the base is gone, and a place that could have contained tons of clues to find Eggman was gone.

A blue hedgehog, a yellow fox, a red echidna, a peach rabbit, and an average chao stared at all the remaining pieces of the base. It had been only a minute after the bomb had truly detonated. They stared at all the destruction deep in the forest, amazed at the sight. They didn't know this would be the fate of the base until ten minutes ago, five for Knuckles, Cream, and Cheese.

“Wow, it's really gone,” said Knuckles looking out into the flames burning the remainder of the base.

“Yeah, I can't believe it,” said Sonic as he walked over to Knuckles.

“Gosh, I never thought this place would actually get destroyed,” said Tails.

Cream and Cheese took a step back and looked away from the destruction, as they couldn't bear any more of seeing such destruction. They both were crying, trying to comfort each other because they knew if they hadn't run into Sonic they would have never escaped.

They both turned around and took a look around. But Cream noticed something extremely important was missing, and this showed in her face in an instant. Cheese noticed, and knew exactly what Cream was thinking too, as his face showed the same expression. “AMY?!” screamed Cream. “W-where's Amy?”

Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles suddenly looked around, both surprised by Cream's outburst and wondering where exactly Amy was. They searched as far as their eyes could, and they couldn't find a trace of Amy anywhere.

“Now that you mention it, she's not here...,” said Knuckles, who sounded very worried.

Tails kept looking around, as he noticed there was another person missing as well. “R-Rouge is missing too!” said Tails, who also sounded very worried. “Where could they both possibly be? I'm sure they were with us before!”

Suddenly, all five of them simultaneously thought up what could've possibly happened to their friends, and this sense of horror came to their faces, as what was in their minds was probably the worst possible scenario that could ever be thought up.

“N-no, that couldn't have happened,” said Tails.

“Well to be honest, the base had exploded as soon as Cream and Cheese came out of the base,” said Knuckles. “I-I'm sorry, but it's possible guys.”

“No!” shouted Cream. “That can't be true! Amy's my best friend, she can't be..............” Cream couldn't bring herself to say that word that started with a d. She was in tears, it wasn't normal for someone under the age of thirteen to have to deal with a dead friend. Cheese cried along with Cream, and Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles just looked down at the ground.

Knuckles walked over to Cream and Cheese and tried to comfort them, as he was with Amy too, and she was very nice to Knuckles as well. Sonic and Tails looked at them, with all sorts of sad thoughts in their heads. Were Amy and Rouge really gone?

Knuckles suddenly remembered something while comforting Cream and Cheese, and then said, “H-hey, the Chaotix and this guy I didn't know entered the base right before we did. Where are they now?”

Tails shook his head in frustration and worry. Their adventures involving Eggman were always tense but, they never lost any close friends. He sighed and said, “Look, I'll call the president and ask him to send troops here to search for Amy, Rouge, and the Chaotix. Maybe some of them are still alive out there and that they'll be found.”

“That sounds like a good plan Tails,” said Sonic.

Tails took out his phone and dialed the number for the president. He took the phone to his ear and then said, “Mr. President. It's Tails. I'm here to report that Eggman's old base in the Mystic Ruins base had recently exploded because of an activated time bomb. Unfortunately, not everyone I know that was in the base has escaped, so we need to find some of these missing people immediately.”


Eyes were closed, the body that those eyes belonged to were resting in a nice bed that you could probably just lie on for the rest of your life. But, the eyes suddenly opened, and the person looked at the white setting, and the white room. The person was in some white clothes and had many appliances attached. We finally get a look at the figure, and it's none other, then Silver the Hedgehog.

“Ugh,” he moaned. “W-where am I?”

Silver saw that the room wasn't too big, his bed took up most of the place. There were many appliances hooked up to him, and he just felt very weird overall with what the appliances were doing to him. But it didn't feel bad, it felt like it was making him feel better actually.

Suddenly, a girl in a hospital like uniform came in with a clipboard. She saw that Silver was awake and was actually pretty stunned, probably not expecting him to be awake. “Oh my, you're awake,” she said.

“W-where am I?” asked Silver, who was barely awake.

“You're in the hospital,” said the girl. “And I'm the nurse assigned to checking up on you!” The nurse walked closer to Silver, seeming like she wasn't going to be leaving anytime soon. “How are you feeling?”

Silver then said, “Oh, I guess I'm fine. So I'm in the hospital then.”

The nurse nodded. “Yes, you're in great care. It's lucky that we were able to find you before something happened to you that would've been un-treatable. Now, just rest, we'll worry about other things later. What you need to do now is just relax and focus on recovery sweety.”

Silver nodded and smiled. “Thank you.”

The nurse smiled and was about to leave the room. But before that, she turned around and said, “By the way, what's your name?”

Silver then said, “Silver.” Silver's face then turned around as he stared out the window, as the nurse finally left the room and then closed the door.

But Silver was thinking about a lot of things, he couldn't even think about recovering. He had so many questions. He didn't know how hospitals worked here, and he thought a lot of things were strange. “Where am I...”


The forest fire was starting to calm down, as there were now troops everywhere trying to calm all the destruction to preserve all signs of evidence that could be used to actually find the doctor. Cream and Cheese were still crying, Knuckles was still comforting them, and Sonic and Tails were observing the entire process.

“I can't believe Shadow is back,” said Sonic.

“I know,” said Tails. “Why would he activate that bomb and try to kill us all?”

“I don't know Tails, this whole thing just reeks Eggman, and I'm not liking the smell.”

“The more reason to find him. Sonic, it's hard to realize that some of our friends might be gone, but we need to continue this search as soon as possible. The government should have everything under control here.”

Sonic nodded his head in agreement, and then said, “Sounds good Tails. It's not like we can do anything right now anyway.”

Sonic then walked over to Cream, who seemed to be trying to wrap up her crying with Cheese. He then told her, “Hey Cream, are you and Cheese gonna be okay?”

Cream sniffed trying to stop crying to answer Sonic's question. She finally said, “Um, yeah. I think we're gonna go home right now. My mom must be really worried because I forgot to tell her where we were going.”

“Good idea Cream, tell Vanilla I said hi,” said Sonic. Cream nodded in return, and she and Cheese waved to the other three and started walking away towards wherever her house was.

Knuckles walked over to Sonic and Tails, who seemed to be beginning to take off themselves. Knuckles stops, and then said, “So um, what were you guys doing in the Mystic Ruins base anyway?”

“We were looking for some clues to Eggman's whereabouts,” said Sonic. “Obviously though, we found something a lot more interesting then that.”

Knuckles knew exactly what Sonic was referring to, proving it when he said, “Oh yeah, Shadow. You mind explaining what all that is about? I mean, he's been away for five years after all.”

“Yeah, we know about as much as you probably do Knuckles. But since he was in Eggman's base and all, who knows, maybe Eggman has something to do with this. Tails and I need to get going though, we're supposed to find that egghead sooner or later. Sucks that Rouge is um...well...”

Knuckles sighed and looked down at the ground. “I haven't seen her in forever, I wonder how she's been doing after all these years.”

“Well, she's the same as ever.”

“Well, that's good to know I guess. Um......hey guys, do you mind if I come along?”

Sonic and Tails were a bit surprised by Knuckles' comment. They thought he had other things to do like, protect the master emerald. Sonic said, “Sure Knuckles but, don't you have some giant green rock to protect?”

“Well, Vector was in charge of it, and when I got back, I found out that the master emerald was gone. I came to this base to try to ask Vector about it, and obviously, he might still be down there. So maybe if I just travel with you guys, I might find the master emerald since Eggman could always had just stolen it.”

“What else is new?” asked Sonic in a joking like way.

“Hey now, it was that idiotic crocodile that...”

“Hold up guys!” said Tails. “Of course you can come with us Knuckles. It's actually been awhile since all three of us came together like this.”

“Well, let's get started then,” said Sonic.


“Ugh...”

The eyes slowly opened up. The figure was laying down on the cold brown dusty ground. The figure sits up and sees some bars in front of her. The figure then looks behind, and sees a wall. The figure then looks to her right, and notices a white bat also laying on the ground. Yes, this figure was the pink hedgehog named Amy Rose, who was miraculously saved along with Rouge the Bat from an impending death.

“W-where am I?” she asked.

Suddenly, Rouge began to sit up, waking up thanks to Amy's loud voice. Rouge's eyes opened, as she petted her head. “Could you keep it down, I'm busy looking at my jewels...,” she said.

Amy's face showed a bit of shock, as she definitely didn't expect to be sitting there waking up to Rouge. “Rouge?” she asked.

“Amy? What in the world are you doing in my vault?” It was obvious Rouge was having a typical dream while she was asleep. Rouge annoyed Amy very much because of her thieving nature, and her dreams definitely showed what kind of person Rouge was. At least, the Rouge that she portrays.

“No Rouge, get out of dream world, because I don't know where we are,” Amy asked.

Amy was right, and Rouge realized that when she finally woke up and saw what kind of place they were in. The room they were in seemed a little small for two girls, but there were bars in front of them. They came to the conclusion that they were being trapped like prisoners, but the question is, by who?

“Wow, where the heck are we?” asked Rouge.

“Weren't we running from a time bomb before?” asked Amy.

Rouge nodded. “Yeah, we were. So, how did we end up here?”

The room seemed like part of the inside of a pyramid, as there were Egyptian like paintings all over the walls, with hieroglyphics standing right next to them. The ground looked like it was made out of bricks covered in sand, although all that could be really felt was dust. This disgusted the girls, as they were sleeping on the ground with this dust.

“Ugh, this place is gross!” said Amy.

“My clothes are covered in dust,” said Rouge.

It seemed like the Mystic Ruins base, where there was dust everywhere as if the place wasn't cleaned up in forever. But there were no machines anywhere, especially Eggman kinds. However, something about the place seemed very familiar to them both, but they couldn't put their finger on it.

Suddenly, the girls could hear footsteps coming towards them. The girls were suddenly shocked, as they didn't know anyone else was there. They stood there facing the wall in front of them so far away, blocked by the bars, waiting for the person that was walking towards them to appear. The footsteps got louder and louder, and the girls just kept on wondering who the person was. They got more and more nervous, until the figure was revealed to be the black hedgehog that had so many questions surrounding them.

“S-Shadow?” they both asked.

“Hey you two,” Shadow said. “Did you have a nice rest?”

“Shadow, where are we?” asked Amy. “What are you doing here?”

“That's not important right now,” said Shadow.

“No, it is Shadow,” Rouge suddenly said. “Where are we?

Shadow paused for a second, wondering how to answer Rouge's question. Rouge seemed pretty pissed, she obviously wasn't the kind of person that liked to not be in control. Rouge always seemed to be the person in control of the situation, but this situation was clearly not in her virtue.

“I'm sorry, you can't know that yet,” said Shadow.

“Why not?” asked Rouge.

“Look, you should be glad that you are even alive,” said Shadow.

Shadow didn't mean to say that. He wasn't supposed to tell the two prisoners much for some reason, and it showed in his face that he knew he wasn't supposed to let something like that slip.

“W-what do you mean Shadow?” asked Amy.

Shadow sighed, knowing he wasn't gonna get away with this with a lie. “Okay, the truth is, you two fell in the Mystic Ruins base and didn't seem like you two would be getting out of the base in time. So, I chaos controlled you two here. That's why you should be glad.”

“Oh wow, thanks......Shadow,” Rouge said.

Shadow nodded and began walking away from the cell. Amy's face was filled with shock, as this was the first time she had seen Shadow in such a long time. Rouge was just as surprised, as the last time she communicated with Shadow, Shadow had attacked her pushing her into a wall.

“Rouge, what's going on?” Amy asked.


A white hedgehog named Silver was finally up on his feet after a bit of rest. All the appliances that were attached to him were taken off, as Silver was finally aloud to walk across the hospital. Perhaps he would see his new friends, the Chaotix, and then get out of the hospital as soon as possible to go continue on their search for Dr. Eggman. Silver had some questions of his own though, like how he got into the hospital anyway. But first, he just needed to see his friends. So, he went all around the hospital looking for the Chaotix. It took awhile, but he finally found a room with a purple chameleon in it. He had found Espio.

Espio was sitting on the bed, not hooked up to any appliances, just meditating. It seemed like he had finish recovery just as fast as Silver had. It looked like his friends really were in this large white colored hospital. Silver walked over to Espio, wondering if Espio could sense his presence.

“Hello Silver,” Espio suddenly said, with his eyes fully closed.

Silver was a bit surprised that Espio was able to figure out he was there while keeping his eyes closed. Silver got over that quickly though, then said, “H-how did you know I was here?”

Espio got ready to say yet another one of his tips for a ninja. “If you want to defeat your opponent, you must be able to sense your opponent from miles away.”

Silver nodded, he didn't expect anything less from someone like Espio. It was pretty clear at that point Espio was the kind of guy that just liked to think of himself as this wise leader that always had great advice. “So um, are Vector and Charmy here too?” Silver asked.

“Yes, if you had asked the nurses like I did, you would have known,” Espio said, sounding a little annoyed.

“Well sorry then,” Silver said, not completely understanding why Espio sounded so annoyed.

“Look, a ninja shouldn't be interrupted during his or her meditation,” Espio said. “So please, we'll talk later, please exit through the door.”

Silver sighed and understood. Espio wasn't the nicest person to him so far, but he wasn't going to start anything, there wasn't any real big reason to go off on him. So Silver just exited the room, and continued walking around the hospital to find the two other Chaotix members.

Silver walked up a floor, looking at the names at each of the doors he was passing. This definitely seemed like a big hospital that could hold tons and tons of patients. But, his search finally paid off, when he spotted Charmy's name on a door. He opened up the door, and walked inside, to see Charmy playing video games in front of the TV in his room.

“Ch-Charmy?” asked Silver.

“Yahoo!” shouted Charmy, who seemed to be completely forgetting that he was in the hospital. He may be part of a detective agency, but he was still a kid. A little more mature then he was five years ago, but still pretty childish being a pre-teen. “Hey Silver!”

Silver felt like a babysitter, seeing someone as childish as Charmy having the time of his life. But it was the least of Silver's worries. He just wanted to see if Charmy was okay. “Hey Charmy,” Silver said. “You've recovered too?”

“Yeah, but this is the coolest hospital ever!” Charmy said, while still keeping his eyes on the TV. “I never heard of a hospital with video games before, we don't have any of these games back at the detective house!”

Silver walked over to Charmy, and saw the game cover sitting right next to him on the bed. Silver didn't bother to see what the game was however, his eyes was just on the television screen. The game seemed a little bit....mature for Charmy. He saw it was some FPS shooter, with lots of blood in it. Silver wasn't concerned however, he barely knew Charmy.

“I didn't know hospitals had video games for patients,” Silver said.

“Well, I guess this one did!” Charmy said in happiness, still playing his video game.

Silver still wondered how they had gotten to this hospital, he forgot what had happened back at the Mystic Ruins base. But, maybe Charmy knew. He was a kid, but he might have a good memory. “Hey Charmy, do you remember how we all got here?” he asked.

Charmy shook his head while playing his video game. “Nope, but who cares!” he said.

Silver nodded, and exited the room. But he started getting these suspicions, as he had started to figure out, something wasn't right about this whole situation. How had he gotten here in the first place? The last thing he remembered was running away from something. Maybe, the leader would have some answers. Silver set off to look for Vector's room.


Ah, the classic trio that used to fight against Eggman. Well, at least the majority did. For a bit, the red echidna of the trio was fighting with Eggman, but he had obviously eventually come to his senses. Knuckles still saw Sonic as a threat in some ways skill wise, but they were no doubt on the same team now. These three haven't seen each other in a long time, so it seemed like quite the reunion. Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles were out of the Mystic Ruins forest, pretty close to the train station.

The three were walking, just coming out of the forest from the cave that was the entrance into it. Mystic Ruins was still the same place it was five years ago. Thankfully, Perfect Chaos' damage was only limited to Station Square, which the Mystic Ruins was actually far from. So the Mystic Ruins really didn't have much to worry about.

Knuckles thought about what had happened to the Chaotix. He hoped that they were okay, and that they would turn up sometime soon, as he needed answers from Vector soon. He needed to know what had happened to the master emerald. He hoped this reunion with Sonic and Tails would lead him somewhere.

Knuckles was thinking so much though, he forgot where the three of them were going. So he asked, “Um guys, where are we headed off to again?”

Sonic chuckled, as he was pretty sure Knuckles had heard before. “Knuckles, we're heading off to Tails' lab to see if he could possibly find Eggman,” said Sonic. “But I'm not sure if there's anything on the internet that can help us ya know.”

Tails then said sounding annoyed, “Well Sonic, if you were listening as well, you would know that I suggested going to the lab because maybe we could find other locations Eggman could be hiding out at. You know, more clues?”

Sonic nodded. “That's right,” he said. “Gee, I hope Amy, Rouge, and the Chaotix are okay. I mean, that bomb was pretty intense and all but, they can't be gone, can they?” Sonic's voice definitely had shown a sign of worry, which you didn't hear in him most of the time. When Sonic was worried, he was definitely worried.

Knuckles sighed. “Well, we can't just sit around and pause our lives for them, we have to solve the questions that are out there,” Knuckles said.

“You're right Knuckles, I didn't expect to hear such wisdom out of ya.”

“What's that supposed to mean??”

“Ah nothin' just messin' with ya Knuckles, it's been five years after all, right?”

“Well unfortunately, it looks like you haven't changed.”

Sonic loved to play around with Knuckles, as Sonic always thought he was one step ahead of the echidna, no matter how much Knuckles tried. They've come a long way to be friends now, and despite some minor things like Knuckles being tricked to battle Sonic again by Eggman when Chaos was around, their friendship remained intact. Although, they both hadn't spoken in five years, the trio didn't have any contact with each other in five years.

The three walked up the stairs to Tails' lab, which seems to have gotten the upgrade. It was about ten times the size of the lab that was there five years ago. It probably wasn't the biggest lab out there, but it was pretty big for only one scientist. The three entered the lab to be met with hundreds of inventions and a big monitor all the way in the back.

Sonic, amazed at the sight, said, “Tails.....this is your lab?”

Tails nodded, and felt a little proud that Sonic and Knuckles were amazed at the sight. “Yep, I've been pretty busy these past five years,” he said. Tails flew to the computer at the back, with Sonic and Knuckles quickly following.

Tails had reached the computer, and began typing on the keyboard in front of the huge monitor screen, looking like he was getting started on his work. “Hey guys, this might take awhile so you can look around, or wait outside if you want,” he said.

Sonic nodded and smirked, and went to exit the lab, giving Knuckles a gesture to come with him. Knuckles noticed the gesture, and followed Sonic out.

Sonic walked to the side of the lab, and stopped there, waiting for Knuckles. Knuckles came, wondering what Sonic could possibly want.

“So Knuckles, you do realize it's been five years since we've last seen each other right?” asked Sonic.

Knuckles nodded, saying, “I would've visited, but I had to be guarding the master emerald. Whenever I let someone else guard it, it seems like they fail on the job, and that's really annoying too!”

Sonic chucked at Knuckles, who still seemed to be pretty pissed that Vector lost the master emerald. And since Vector could possibly be dead, Knuckles might not be able to get a clue to where Vector may be.

“So Sonic, why haven't you visited me yourself?” asked Knuckles.

Sonic hesitated to answer for a bit, as he honestly didn't want to answer the question at the moment. But he began to answer it, by saying, “Well, to be honest Knuckles, I haven't really had contact with anyone during these past five years.”

Knuckles was actually a bit surprised at Sonic's comment. He thought of all people, Sonic would be the one to keep in close contact with everyone. But, it looks like that wasn't the case. Maybe Sonic had a similar reason to Knuckles on isolating himself from everyone. “Why Sonic?” he asked.

Sonic was about to answer Knuckles' question, but before he did, he got lucky, and noticed something sparkling in a bush right next to Tails' lab. “Hey Knuckles, look!” he said.

Sonic and Knuckles walked over to the sparkling bush, wondering what could possibly be in it. Sonic reached into the bush carefully, not sure what to expect to be touching in there. But Sonic's face showed a sense of shock, when he took out a green sparkling shard. “Knuckles, is this what I think it is?” asked Sonic.

Knuckles' face showed nothing but shock, as he also knew exactly what that jewel is, and what it means for him. This was a missing piece of the master emerald. There was no doubt about it, because Knuckles could feel the familiar energy.


Amy hated being trapped. She felt useless in that kind of state, and she hated being useless, as she was so sick of being looked at as useless so much in the past. Amy was older now, and she wanted to show that she was capable of being just as heroic as someone like Sonic. She couldn't however, if she was stuck in a cage.

Amy was smashing the bars with her hammer, trying to find a way out of such a confined room. She was pretty loud, and basically in emotional rage. “We've got to get out of here!” Amy screamed.

“Calm down sweety!” Rouge said sounding very annoyed. Rouge had to put up with Amy's loud hammer for awhile now right after Shadow left them. Rouge was very fed up, and could kick Amy into the wall a dozen times from the built up annoyance levels in her.

Amy finally stopped, breathing in and out. Amy tried to regain her energy, but she was in a state where she could actually pass out. “B-but, we have to get out of here!” she cried in desperation.

“I know, I want to get out of here as much as you do,” Rouge said. “But you have to calm down, and think with me of a way to get out of here!”

Amy sat down listening to Rouge. She was right, she wasn't going to smash her way out of this situation. She had to think of something, and to do that, she has to work with someone she really despised. “B-but, I'm so confused Rouge,” she said. “I mean, why would Shadow save us, and then trap us in here? More importantly, how in the world did Shadow survive that fall to Earth? For five years, I thought he was dead! And just where are we?”

Rouge didn't answer for a bit, as she was thinking of an answer to Amy's numerous questions. Rouge unfortunately didn't have any answers, she was just as confused about the situation as Amy was. So Rouge unfortunately said, “I know just about as much as you do. Believe me, I'm still shocked from that first time I saw the guy.”

Amy sighed, she wanted answers now. And she didn't like not being able to do anything about it. “Are we ever going to get out and figure all of this out?” she asked.

“I don't know, but we need to just calm down, and think of something,” Rouge said.

Amy nodded, and moved closer to Rouge, and they both started chatting with each other, trying to figure out any possible way to get out of this prison cell.


Back with Silver, he was still looking around for Vector. He had found Charmy and Espio, who were basically completely useless in his quest to look for answers. They seemed to be busy in their own matters. Didn't they know they were technically working for him? Silver didn't care at the moment though. He'd probably need the leader to get them back on track.

Silver felt like he was walking for hours though. He kept looking at every single room in this huge hospital, but none of the doors had Vector's name on it. Silver was running out of rooms to look at, he was starting to get worried that he wasn't going to find Vector. He had to find Vector, he had to get out of this hospital, he had to do what he came to this place for.

“Where could he be?” he asked.

Silver stopped however at the top floor, when he finally found a door that directly said Vector the Crocodile on it. Silver, being as impatient as he was, quickly opened the door, shouting, “Vector! Finally...”

But once Silver entered the room, he noticed that Vector wasn't there. Silver's face was filled with disappointment. Where could the green crocodile had run off to? Silver quickly exited the room, and kept looking for Vector, unfortunately just figuring out his search was nowhere near over.

Vector wasn't in the cafeteria eating food, he wasn't in some special room getting tests done, Silver couldn't seem to find the guy anywhere. Silver sighed at this annoying search. He had just returned to Vector's room after another long search, and Vector still was nowhere to be found in his room. Silver closed the door behind him, ready to continue the search.

But Silver looked at the name tag right next to the door, and he realized something he was quite surprised about. Vector's name......wasn't on there anymore. This room was no longer holding Vector as a patient.

“That's strange,” Silver said.


Shadow the hedgehog. A name that rings a lot of questions to minds of quite a few people at the moment. Most people will say this person is dead. But it turns out, this person is still alive. At least, that's what it looks like to the eye. Anyway, this hedgehog hasn't answered any questions, as he felt there really was no need to answer any.

He walked, he was going to go pay Amy and Rouge a second visit, but he had decided against that. He was recently called to the main room of wherever the place was. It seemed like the inside of an Egyptian pyramid, except, there was this strange feeling to it.

Shadow kept walking, noticing all the paintings on the walls around him. Wondering if he had ever been here before. He wondered why he even came to this place anyway. He wondered why he had saved those two girls. What was the importance of them? Why did he feel the need to save a girl he attacked a few minutes ago?

Despite the questions surrounding him, Shadow had some questions himself. He seemed to be suffering from amnesia. Well, slight amnesia at least. Shadow entered the room he was summoned to at last, as he wondered why he was there.

“You wanted to see me?” Shadow asked.

Shadow was looking at a chair. It was obviously some kind of man was sitting in it. The man chuckled, and slowly turned his chair around to face Shadow, which he had summoned. He finally turned around, and reveals that with the instantly recognizable mustache, it was no doubt the other person many questions surrounded as well. Dr. Eggman had summoned Shadow.

“Do you remember this place Shadow?” Eggman asked.

Shadow looked one more time at the room he was in. He suddenly had yet another flashback in his head, this time, of him talking to the doctor in this control room. How Eggman was telling him the end was near, and that he was going to go break the news to the heroes. Shadow nodded. “Yes, this is your base,” Shadow said.

Eggman chuckled, and grinned. “Well Shadow, I have a mission for you,” Eggman said.

“What is your mission then my master?” Shadow asked. Shadow had called Eggman his master when he was first awakened by him. Eggman was pleased he was being called that again. Very pleased.

“I need the chaos emeralds Shadow,” Eggman said. “And only you can help me get them.”

Shadow nodded, remembering exactly what the chaos emerald were. “And you will reveal to me answers to all of my questions? You will tell me who I am?”

Eggman nodded. “Of course Shadow, I care about you,” Eggman said.

“Good, then I'll be happy to help,” Shadow said, sealing the deal.


Whoever stole the master emerald, why did they let the master emerald shatter into pieces? Did they do it on purpose, or by accident? Will Amy and Rouge be able to escape their prison cell? Where in the world could Vector be? And why does Eggman need Shadow to collect the chaos emeralds? All this, on the next Desperate Hedgehogs.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

1x02: An Old Base

Previously on Desperate Hedgehogs:

Everyone halted their current activities when it was discovered that the mad scientist, Dr. Eggman, had escaped prison. Amy Rose saw it as an opportunity to finally get the love of her life by going on her own mission to catch the doctor, but she found something unusual which was the disappearance of the master emerald.

Meanwhile, a mysterious white hedgehog has appeared in the area, which the Chaotix are assisting, whether he wants them to or not. But just who is this hedgehog, and what does he want with Dr. Eggman?

And Sonic finally gets going on another adventure, receiving a request from the president to go search and defeat Eggman. But when he and his partners explore Eggman's old Mystic Ruins base, they discover their old friend, Shadow the Hedgehog, who was assumed to be dead...


Shock was all three of the people in the room could feel. Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles Tails Prower, and Rouge the Bat came into the abandoned Mystic Ruins base of Dr. Eggman to look for the mad scientist himself, who had recently escaped from the GUN prison. But what they found instead, was an old friend that they thought had left planet Earth five years ago after a long hard battle against his prototype. But that wasn't the case, as the very same creature just opened his eyes in the capsule he was trapped in.

When his eyes opened, the three were just left speechless. They didn't know what to expect from the old friend, but they got their answer, when Shadow broke out, destroying the capsule he was trapped in, releasing the liquid his body was apparently swimming in. Shadow landed on the ground, and slowly approached the three, who almost began to walk away.

“S-Shadow?” asked Sonic.

“Who has awakened me from my rest?” asked Shadow. “Who are you?” Shadow then pointed to Sonic. “And why do you look like me?”

“Shadow, don't you remember us?” asked Sonic. Sonic was pretty surprised at Shadow's immediate amnesia, but then again, he didn't really know what to expect from someone that was thought to be dead for five whole years.

Shadow shook his head. “No, I don't. I think I would remember someone like you that looked a lot like me.” Suddenly, Shadow received a nudge inside his head that only he seemed to hear. He covered his ears trying to make the sound not as loud, which made Sonic, Tails, and Rouge look at him weirdly as they couldn't hear anything. “Ugh!” Shadow screamed.

“Shadow what's wrong?” asked Sonic. Sonic was worried, as he didn't know what to expect next from this surprising creature. In fact, Sonic wondered if this was the real Shadow at all. It would take a miracle to survive something like that.

Shadow suddenly stopped hearing the nudge in his head, and he slowly looked up at the three just staring at him. He suddenly knew exactly what he was gonna do next, which was, “Intruders, you're not supposed to be here,” said Shadow. “Now, either leave now or face my wrath!”

All three of the people staring at Shadow gasped, as the thing they were least expecting was a brutal beating from the ultimate life form. “Shadow, I don't want to fight you!” said Sonic.

“Well that's too bad,” said Shadow.

Suddenly, Shadow jumped towards Sonic, kicking him in the stomach pushing him all the way into the wall. Sonic crashes into the wall, and slowly falls to the ground. Shocked faces on Rouge and Tails, they tried their best to stay out of the hedgehog versus hedgehog fight. Sonic slowly got up, barely bruised by the attack. It would take a lot more to defeat someone like Sonic.

“Alright Shadow, if this is how you want our reunion to go, I have no problems with that!” exclaimed Sonic.

Sonic then charged at Shadow, a little angry for being attacked by someone he considered a friend. But he had to assume that this was no longer the Shadow he remembered, in hopes of being able to beat him and then be able to get answers out of him. Sonic began rapidly punching Shadow, with Shadow blocking almost all the attacks. Shadow jumped backwards to avoid anymore punches. Sonic was getting ready to spin dash into Shadow, but Shadow threw a chaos spear at Sonic after screaming those words, knocking Sonic out of his ball form throwing him backwards.

Sonic quickly got up and began circling around Shadow. Shadow was a bit confused by this, but then realized what Sonic was doing when Shadow was flung into the air by the bluest of all tornadoes. Sonic then jumped up to where Shadow was and began repeatably spinning into him in his ball form left and right, and then finishing it off with a slam dunk towards the ground. But Shadow quickly recovered, and landed on the ground slowly. Shadow chaos controlled himself away, leaving Sonic wondering where he was. But Shadow appeared right behind him, and quickly began punching him rapidly.

But Sonic was one step ahead and jumped away. The two suddenly got into their ball forms, and began hitting each other like pinballs, each trying to hit harder then the other trying to get each other out of their ball forms and then finishing them off with a final blow. But nothing budged them, and this fight seemed like it'd be taking awhile between two evenly matched hedgehogs.


While the two hedgehogs fight, near the Mystic Ruins forest, lied a floating island. Or should I say, once a floating island? Angel Island has stopped floating, and is now floating on top of the ocean, due to the master emerald being taken away from a red echidna. He didn't know what had happened, he just knew it happened while he was being taken out by Amy Rose, who was really taking him out to get his help on her in her quest to win Sonic's love after so many years of trying to pursue it. Knuckles, the red echidna, was not very happy hearing Amy's true motives, and he certainly wasn't happy when he found out that Vector let the master emerald slip away.

Everyone was surprised from the sudden collapse of the island, and they all laid on the island resting. Trying to recover from the sudden amounts of water that had entered their bodies. Everything on the island was soaking wet from plunging into the ocean, and the same could be basically said for the people on the island.

Amy Rose suddenly opened her eyes though, and slowly got up, coughing out all the water that was in her mouth. She stared at her surroundings seeing how everyone was all shaken up by the sudden crash. “Oh my,” she said. “So that's what happens whenever the master emerald goes missing?”

Knuckles suddenly got up, and quickly ran to the spot where the master emerald was supposed to be sitting. He fell to his knees, and hit the ground with his hand, expressing his anger for ever leaving the master emerald in the hands of such an irresponsible crocodile. “Ugh, I shouldn't have ever left this island!” cried Knuckles.

Vector suddenly woke, seeing a very angry Knuckles right in front of him. He quickly got up and got away from Knuckles as quickly as he could. He went to Amy, and then asked, “So um, I'm still getting paid right?”

Amy sighed, but surprisingly actually gave Vector some rings. This angered Knuckles, who quickly came running towards the two immediately.

“HEY, what are you doing giving this idiot money?!” exclaimed Knuckles.

“Well, I kinda promised him anyway, I mean, he did try his best,” said Amy.

“Hey Knuckles, um, we're still friends right?” Vector said, sweating as much as a crocodile could.

Knuckles' eyes made him look like he was in absolute rage. Vector took that as a sign and quickly ran to the edge of the island and jumped off into the ocean. What? Crocodiles can swim.....or are those alligators? Knuckles sighed, not knowing how he was going to live with himself after five years of perfect guarding.

Cream suddenly slowly got up, along with her pet chao Cheese. They looked around at the wet island, and sighed at everything they were seeing. “Wow, this island looks really sad now,” Cream said.

“I can't believe I even thought about leaving this island, no idiot but me seems to have the ability to keep this emerald in one place!” said a frustrated Knuckles.

Amy looked pretty sad, she did feel pretty guilty. “Hey Knuckles, I know you think this is all my fault,” said Amy.

Knuckles shook his head. “No, this is strictly my fault. I should never had went with you guys, as a guardian of the most powerful object in the universe, I should have known better.”

Amy looked pretty angry all of a sudden, which was a surprising change to Knuckles, who started to look a little scared. “Now you listen here Knuckles! It doesn't take a genius to know that spending your entire life on an island by yourself is a horrible thing to do to yourself! Stop blaming yourself for a natural craving, and instead, let's get going and try to figure out who stole the freakin' emerald!”

Knuckles, Cream, and Cheese were all very surprised at Amy's outburst. I guess she was getting tired of feeling guilty, and was maybe looking for a way to ease the guilt off of her shoulders. However, Knuckles was in agreement that it was time to actually stop wasting time, and really time to find that master emerald.

“Ugh, I wish that Vector told us how the master emerald went missing,” said Knuckles.

“Maybe if you didn't look like you were about to attack him, he would've explained why the master emerald was stolen,” said a very smart ass like Cream.

“What was that?!” asked a very annoyed Knuckles.

Cream looked very scared suddenly. She may be a nice rabbit, but she also was not very bright. She unfortunately gets on Knuckles' nerves even when she doesn't mean to.

Amy tried to calm the sudden tension. Cream's truthful yet innocent comments can get her into a lot of trouble, that much Amy knew from experience. “Well then, why don't we go try to find Vector and see if we can get an answer out of him?” asked Amy.

Knuckles nodded, and started flying off the island and towards solid ground near ahead of him. Amy and Cream quickly followed, with Amy grabbing onto Cream, and Cheese followed closely behind. Before Cream let Amy grab her legs though, she said, “I thought we were gonna go shopping today.”


Speaking of Vector, he was suddenly swimming on a river in the Mystic Ruins forest. He must've swam a pretty long way at this point, but Vector was no doubt a good swimmer, so he probably didn't have a hard time to get to where he as. He finally did get out of the river though, and was finally standing on solid ground.

Vector was coughing out the water he had gotten from jumping into the water in the first place. He knew Knuckles for a long time, since the days he actually was a part of the Chaotix team, so he knew all about Knuckles' temper, and he wasn't going to be a victim of it like he was in the past. Vector knew the rivers really well, so he was pretty sure he was close to the Chaotix Detective house.

Meanwhile at the Chaotix house, we have Silver, Espio, and Charmy just about to go on a little quest to help Silver in his search for Dr. Eggman. But there was one thing Silver didn't quite understand, which was revealed when he said, “So, why aren't we going yet? We're wasting time!”

Espio turned to Silver, a little annoyed by Silver's impatience. He then said, “Patience is key if you really want something. Maybe as a government agent, you should know that.”

Silver wasn't what Espio and Charmy thought he was at all, so he obviously wouldn't know how to be patient, like government agents of this area seem to need to have. Silver just sighed and continued waiting, although he forgot what they were waiting for in the first place. Silver decided not to ask though, he wasn't really the person that felt comfortable saying just about anything.

“There he is!” Charmy suddenly said.

In the direction all three of them were looking came Vector, who had recently swam all the way from Angel Island. Silver remembered why they were waiting now. Apparently, he was waiting for the leader to come back, who is going to be guiding them in their recently acquired mission.

“WELCOME HOME VECTOR!” shouted Charmy.

“Shut up Charmy!” said a very annoyed Vector. “I just had to swim all the way here from Angel Island so don't do anything stupid! Anyway, what was the big emergency?” Vector then noticed the presence of Silver. Quite curious about the person he's never seen before, Vector asked, “And who might this be?”

Silver was about to answer Vector's question, but Espio went and did it before he got the chance to when he said, “This is Silver, and he has a mission for us. And he says he'll be paying us as well.”

Silver actually wasn't sure how he was going to pay the Chaotix, as he really didn't have any rings on him. Maybe he could find some while on his search with them for Eggman, or maybe he'd try to lose them during the journey. Either way, the Chaotix weren't going to leave his side at all, as proven with the desperateness Charmy had shown before. So Silver was gonna be stuck with money hungry detectives either way.

Suddenly, Vector stared into the sky as if he had money signs in his eyes. With his obtained money through Amy and this white hedgehog's money adding to it, their lives were bound to finally be saved. Maybe they could afford a mansion. Vector snapped out of it quickly though, and headed straight to the mission to try to get his money quickly. “So then, what's the mission?” asked Vector.

“Silver is apparently a government agent who's been assigned to track down Dr. Eggman,” said Espio.

“Oh yeah, I've heard about that,” said Vector.

“Well then why didn't you tell us about it?” asked Espio. “Charmy and I literally just found out now!”

“Well, it never really concerned us did it?” Vector then turned to Silver. “Until now that is. Okay Silver, we'll be happy to help you complete your mission! First, we should think of areas Dr. Eggman could possibly be hiding at. I mean, he's only been out for a month, so he couldn't have made an entirely new base in some location we don't know. No, it's gotta be something already built that would work fine for Eggman.”

Charmy, actually using his mind to think up a possible answer, said, “What about Eggman's old base right here in the Mystic Ruins?”

“C-Charmy, that's a brilliant idea!” said Vector. He was pretty shocked by how sometimes Charmy wasn't a complete idiot, though people can suppose that's just part of Charmy's charm. No pun intended. “Alright then, let's head to the old Mystic Ruins base and see if we can find any clues or even Eggman in there!”

“Sounds good to me,” said Silver. Everyone else nodded, and they all started to head for the old base that was at its peak during the era with Chaos. Now though, it didn't seem to hold much use, at least, that's what the cover makes it look like...


Meanwhile inside the old Mysitc Ruins base, two old rivals were battling it out yet again after so many years of separation. Sonic and Shadow the hedgehogs, were having their reunion with quite the battle. The battle scene now seemed more torn up, as there were even more broken machines everywhere. Tails and Rouge still stood back, just watching the two rivals battle it out. Though, they were still pretty confused on why Shadow was exactly fighting Sonic, they wouldn't dare interrupt the fight.

Shadow suddenly landed on the ground, and seemed to be resting for a bit. “Hmph, not bad hedgehog,” said Shadow. “But whoever you are, I'm just getting warmed up.”

Sonic then finally landed, and was resting as well. “Shadow, does the name Sonic sound familiar?” he asked.

Shadow paused for a second, trying to answer his rival's question. Shadow was thinking hard for a bit, when suddenly, his mind portrayed sudden flashbacks of him and Sonic in the middle of the city at night, where he stood in front of him, holding a chaos emerald. Shadow quickly ended the flashback, afraid of what was to come from it. He then answered Sonic by saying, “Doesn't ring a bell rat!”

Shadow then suddenly charged at Sonic throwing many punches at his face and then finally kicking him up towards the ceiling. Sonic crashes into the ceiling and slowly falls to the ground, until Shadow interrupts and kicks him into a wall. Shadow was suddenly becoming more aggressive.

Sonic noticed to sudden increase in Shadow's power. He didn't know why Shadow was suddenly attacking him so much harder, but Sonic knew it meant it was time to get down to business. Sonic jumped up and started charging for a spin dash. At least, that's what it looked like. But in reality, he was charging for a light speed attack.

Shadow had a bad feeling about what Sonic was up to, and began to charge at him getting to throw in some more punches, but Sonic finished charging up his attack, and all of a sudden was a ball bouncing around the room, attacking Shadow left and right. Shadow was knocked all over the place, and it seemed like it wouldn't be stopping anytime soon.

However, Sonic's attack finally wore off, leaving Shadow lying on the floor. “Grr,” moaned Shadow.

Sonic began to walk up slowly to the injured Shadow, thinking it was safe to go and talk to him now. But Sonic was wrong, as Shadow suddenly got up, and kicked Sonic in his stomach, making him fly all the way into the wall.

Shadow jumped and dashed to where Sonic was trying to recover. “This battle ends now!” exclaimed Shadow.

Sonic got up, and then said, “I agree!”

Both Sonic and Shadow suddenly used chaos control simultaneously, and began attacking each other. Trying to outsmart the other by appearing in a place so unexpected and attacking them. But Sonic and Shadow kept appearing in the same spots, and they kept punching each other until they teleported to another spot. One just couldn't seem to be able to surprise the other, and this was really annoying the both of them.

But suddenly, Rouge the Bat came between the two, having enough of the useless battle, shouting, “STOP!”

Sonic and Shadow suddenly stopped, temporarily pausing their battle.


Meanwhile outside the Mystic Ruins base just right at the entrance to it, there came Silver, Espio, Charmy, and Vector. They've all finally found the base, and were about to begin searching for clues. The forest was right behind them, it was a lot more open in this area. Silver then asked, “So, is this the base you guys are talking about?”

Vector nodded, and then said, “Yep, this here's the old entrance to the Mystic Ruins base of Dr. Eggman. It may seem like a predictable place for someone like Eggman to hide in, but there's really no other place we can really think of.”

Silver nodded then, but as he observed the base, he then commented on it by saying, “Geez, this place looks really busted though.”

“Maybe it's a different story inside,” Espio suggested.

Charmy then ran to the front of the group and then said, “Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go and kick some eggs!”

Vector was yet again annoyed by Charmy's behavior, so he showed it by saying, “Charmy, get back to the back of the group! I'm leading this mission!”

Charmy looked down in disappointment, and was secretly scolding Vector in his mind, but Charmy never outright complained, even though he knew exactly what to say if he was to do so. But another day, another time for that to happen Charmy thought, as he knew the group needed some money bad.

So the group finally entered the base, only to find Espio's suggestion to be wrong. The base was a complete and utter mess, full of dust and broken robots and rusting paint. It really did not look like the ideal base for a mad scientist. If Eggman was hiding here, you'd think he'd renovate the base a little.

“Well, it doesn't look like anyone's been here for awhile,” said Silver.

“Well, there still has to be some kind of clues at least to Eggman's whereabouts!” said Vector. “And besides, he's only been out for a month, maybe making a decent place was at the bottom of his list.”

Everyone else nodded in agreement, and began to search through the base. They were a bit surprised that the lights were on, but then they were thinking it probably was a motion sensing light that turns on whenever someone was in the base.

They continued walking, but then walking, was replaced with falling. This is because suddenly, the group stepped on something that was revealed to be a hole in disguise, and suddenly began falling to their doom. Before all four of them actually crashed into the ground though, Silver and Charmy flew with their natural flying abilities, leaving Espio and Vector with a very unpleasant crash towards the ground.

“What was that all about?” asked Silver.

“It seems to me that the doctor had some booby traps implemented into the base,” confirmed Espio.

“Don't worry, I can fly us out of here,” said Silver. “It's time to show you guys some of my powers.” Silver then suddenly picked up the entire Chaotix using his telekinesis, and began to fly towards the surface. The Chaotix were actually quite stunned at this power, as they didn't know anyone else that had such abilities. But unfortunately, before Silver was able to save the day, the hole they fell through suddenly closed, and all four of them crashed into it, and fell to the ground yet again.

“NO!” cried Silver. Yep, the four of them were stuck.


A few minutes before, as that group was entering the base, another group of four was trying to find Vector. It was none other then Amy, Cream, Cheese, and Knuckles. The four of them came to the entrance to the Mystic Ruins base right after the Chaotix and Silver entered it.

“I could've sworn I saw Vector go through that door with three others,” said Knuckles.

This confused the group, as they wondered why in the world Vector would go visit Eggman's old base. Amy expressed her confusion when she said, “Why would he go through that door? This is Eggman's old base.”

“I don't know, maybe there's some case they have to solve or something,” said Knuckles. “Eggman definitely seems to be a big name at the moment.”

Amy suddenly came up with a possibility on the master emerald's disappearance. But it was a rather predictable one, as there's really only one person that would want the master emerald excluding Rouge. “What if Eggman stole the master emerald?”

Knuckles then turned around to Amy, and then nodded in agreement. “It seems very possible, we better go ask Vector just to be sure though.”

Knuckles then started to head into the base, and then Amy was about to follow. But before Amy went in, she saw that Cream was just staring at the base. Amy walked over back to Cream, and then told her, “Come on Cream, let's go!”

Cream looked very scared and worried, along with Cheese. Cream then said, “This place looks scary Amy. This is the place where Eggman did all those bad things back then.”

“Aww come on Cream, it'll be fun!” Amy then suddenly grabbed Cream and dragged her into the base, Cheese then quickly followed, not wanting to be apart from his owner.

Knuckles stood in the base waiting for Amy and Cream and Cheese to follow. They finally came in, with Knuckles saying, “It took you long enough. They shouldn't be that far ahead so let's get going.”

“This place looks really disgusting,” said Cream.

“It probably means there'll be nothing to scare you then Cream, because all this junk doesn't look like it works,” said Amy.

Cream was a little cheered up because Amy did make a good point. So all four of them started walking through the base, wondering where Vector had gone. But then suddenly they heard a few screams as if they were plunging down to their death. The four were confused though, as they couldn't quite make out the sound.

“Do you think that was Vector?” asked Knuckles.

“Could be,” said Amy. The four then began going faster, trying to go in the direction where the sound was coming from.


Back in the room where the two hedgehogs were battling, Rouge the Bat suddenly had stopped the battle from going on any further. “Shadow, why are you fighting Sonic?” asked Rouge.

“That's none of your business!” said Shadow. “And who in the world are you?”

“What Shadow? You don't remember me?” Rouge then smirked and her personality was starting to return to its regular flirty state. “Remember Shadow? I was the one in your group back then that really was a government spy? Even though, I did give you all the chaos emeralds.”

Shadow suddenly had another flashback, which contained that precious scene aboard the ark when he had discovered that Rouge was a government spy. He seemed to be quite furious at the bat, remembering how betrayed he had felt towards the bat. And also how confused he had felt with the bat's words, when she had suggested that he wasn't the real Shadow.

Shadow immediately escaped the flashback however, and rage had appeared in his eyes. He attacked Rouge and kicked her into a wall, quite angry at her from the flashback. “Shut up!” he cried. “This has gone on long enough!”

“Oh, so you do remember me?” Rouge concluded as she was slowly recovering from the attack. “It's nice to see you do Shadow.”

“Uh Rouge, I think you should be quiet,” Tails suggested, very scared of what Shadow was going to do next.

“The fox boy has the right idea,” said Shadow. “However, it's a little too late for that. It was fun fighting you...Sonic, but I feel it's time to end this awakening of myself.” Shadow suddenly dashed to something in the room, and pressed a button on it, which caused this sudden beeping noise, and the time on it to start moving backwards. It started at ten, then went to nine fifty nine, then nine fifty eight, and continued on.

“In less then ten minutes, you all will be brought down along with the base, when the bomb detonates!” cried Shadow.

Sonic, Tails, and Rouge all had shocked looks on their faces. The last time a bomb like that was dropped was five years ago on Prison Island. Guess Shadow wanted a second round of that excitement. Before the three could scold Shadow for doing that, he chaos controlled out of the area, probably trying to get out of the area quickly.

“We need to get out of here and fast!” shouted Tails.

“I'm way ahead of ya Tails!” shouted Sonic. “Try to catch up ya two!” Sonic then ran out of the room, leaving Rouge and Tails behind.

“Well, he's definitely kept his attitude for these past five years,” said Rouge, as she started to take off and then left the room.

Tails then quickly followed, but he thought about Rouge's comment, and agreed with it too in his mind.


5 minutes left.

Amy, Cream, Cheese, and Knuckles were still trying to find where that sound they had heard was coming from. Part of it did sound a little like Vector, but it was hard to make out. Knuckles was in the lead, but he suddenly stopped walking, causing the other three to stop their movement as well.

“Ugh, I'm starting to think we're going the wrong way,” said Knuckles. “We've been walking for who knows how long and we still can't find them!”

The other three actually felt the same, as it did felt like they were walking aimlessly looking for this random sound that might be Vector, but it also might not be. Everyone was getting tired of walking around, because it seemed like it was going nowhere.

“It doesn't even look like there's anything useful in this base either to help us find the master emerald,” said Amy. “Maybe we should wait for Vector to finish whatever he's doing here and return to his house, and then we can ask him there.”

The other three nodded in agreement, so they were about to exit the base, wherever the exit was. But all of a sudden, the base started to rumble, causing the group to almost lose their balance. It was as if an earthquake was forming under the base.

“W-what's going on?” asked Cream. “Is it an earthquake?”

“I-I don't know,” said Amy.

Suddenly though, three beings ran into the group, one looking like a blue hedgehog, another a yellow fox, and the other a white bat. They all started at each other, surprised at each other's presence.

“Amy, Cream, Knuckles, Cheese?” asked Sonic in confusion of what these guys were doing here.

“Sonic!” said Amy happily. “It's so good to see y-you woah!” Amy said woah because the ground was beginning to shake even more. All of them were starting to get sick of the shaking, as it kept them on their toes, which is something they hadn't experienced in awhile.

“What are you guys doing here?” asked Sonic.

“Sonic, isn't this fate? I mean, you and me running into each other like this!” exclaimed Amy.

“S-Sonic,” said Knuckles as the rumbling was getting worst. “D-do you know why the place feels like it's in the middle of an earthquake?”

“Ugh, S-Shadow activated a bomb and this place is going to blow very soon! It must be already starting the process!”

“SHADOW?! BOMB?!” exclaimed Amy, Cream, and Knuckles. While Cheese just went chao, like all chao do.

“No time to explain!” said Sonic. “We gotta get out of here and fast!”

Everyone nodded in agreement, and started running towards the exit as fast as they could, with the limited amount of time they have left until the bomb detonates.


2 minutes left.

Deep deep deep under the base, were four recent prisoners to the base. Silver was at the top trying to break open the thing that was locking them up in the area. But it was no use, it just didn't seem to budge, no matter what powers he used on it. He tried to move it, destroy it, nothing seemed to work. Silver suddenly came down to the Chaotix, who were just chatting actually.

“I'm sorry guys, I can't seem to get it to open,” said Silver. “Do any of you guys have any ideas?”

“Don't worry, one of us will think of something eventually,” said Espio. “In the meantime, you should just relax and try to think of something yourself. Remember, patience is virtue.”

“But you don't know what's gonna happen if we stay down here too long!” complained Silver. “You guys are here to help me right?” The Chaotix all nodded their heads in agreement. “Well then, I REALLY need your help this time. So if you can try to speed the process up, then try to seem more dedicated to actually trying to get us out of here!”

Espio went tsk tsk tsk at Silver's comment, and the Chaotix continued on with their casual like chats, only bringing up a way to get out from time to time. This angered Silver, who just flew all the way to the top and kept on attacking the thing that sealed them from the outside world.

Suddenly though, the area they were stuck in began to rumble, like an earthquake. It was very very noticeable, and the Chaotix found themselves being thrown everywhere due to the rumbling.

Silver quickly flew down to the Chaotix and got them all up on their feet. “See?” he said. “This is what I mean! We HAVE to find a way out of here NOW!”

“Vector, have you thought of anything yet?” asked Espio.

“Hold on guys, it's hard to think under pressure!” complained Vector.

“It's also hard to t-think when it feels like you're on a roller coaster!” said Charmy.

Vector kept on thinking, as he looked at the thing on the top that sealed them from safety. He kept on thinking, and then finally, he came up with something when he remembered a crucial fact that could get them out. “Espio!” he shouted. “Remember that move you were trying to pull of f last week with making objects invisible?”

Espio nodded his head to the answer. “But I still haven't been able to fully do it yet, and even if I could, it'd be only for a few seconds,” he said.

“Well now's the time to master it then!” exclaimed Silver.

Espio nodded, and was carried up to the top by Silver who was flying as fast as he could. Charmy then followed carrying Vector.

1 minute left.

Silver then threw Espio towards the hard surface, and Espio quickly grabbed onto the ceiling. Espio concentrated hard on the ceiling, trying his best to make his powers work. He was struggling and struggling, seeming to not be able to pull off the valuable move.

30 seconds left.

Silver, Charmy, and Vector were sweating, as they knew the rumbling was getting worst and worst and that could only mean worst things were coming. Espio was probably sweating the most, trying to make his power work. But it just seemed hopeless, he was ridiculously out of breath, transferring all of his energy towards the ceiling.

But, by luck, the ceiling suddenly became transparent. Silver, Charmy, and Vector looked relieved, but didn't waste time and quickly jumped through the new hole. Espio them quickly dashed to surface, where he was finally able to catch his breath.

Vector walked over to Espio and patted his back. “You did good pal,” he said.

Espio smiled in response to Vector's comment. But then they all turned around and saw a bright flash of light heading right towards them. All four of them began to try to out run the light, but the light was just too fast, and they all became covered by it...


10 seconds left.

The base was really starting to rumble now, and it was really starting to crumble too, with all sorts of things falling to the ground from the ceiling. But this didn't stop the seven running from impending doom. Sonic the Hedgehog headed through the door, followed by Tails, Knuckles, then Cream and Cheese. Amy was about to get through the door, but Rouge, who was right behind her, suddenly tripped and fell on Amy. They both were lying on the ground, with only a few seconds left to get up and escape. But both of them were too slow, and the explosion was getting closer and closer.

Suddenly, Shadow appeared out of nowhere, with only five precious seconds left on the clock. “Ugh, it looks like I'll have to chaos control again. CHAOS...” but before Shadow said the second word, he noticed Rouge and Amy in front of him, lying helpless getting ready to be taken by the bomb. Shadow suddenly had these flashbacks of Amy, who was telling him something on the Ark, that seemed to mean a lot to him. Then he had a flashback of Rouge, who was talking to him on the ark, but she didn't seem to have pissed him off at all.

Shadow didn't know why, but he knew he had to disobey what his current thoughts said. As the timer on the bomb reached 0:00, Shadow skates to the two ladies. Touching both of them, Shadow then screams, “CHAOS CONTROL!” He, and Amy and Rouge then suddenly disappeared, right before the floor they were on exploded.


It was about time the Mystic Ruins was finally erased from existence. Nothing but bad memories seemed to come from the base. And even for someone like Dr. Eggman, the base seemed utterly useless now due to the lack of maintenance for five years.

This person was watching the base explode in front of his monitor. All the destruction he witnessed, he just sat still and stayed speechless in the dark room. But if you looked closely at the person's eye, you could see a tear escape his eyes as he watched the destruction behind the glasses.

“I'm gonna miss that beauty,” he said. “But I had to do it, there was too much evidence in there.”

The monitor then showed a picture of Shadow. The person then began to grin, saying, “He did exactly what he was supposed to do, that's all that matters.”

The room suddenly seemed to grow a little brighter, until you could fully see the person's face. The face was so popular, yet so controversial. Everyone hated his guts, but he didn't care. He let out an evil laugh he hadn't been able to laugh like a long time, because he was Dr. Eggman, ready to enslave the world.


What will become of Silver, the Chaotix, Shadow, Rouge, and Amy? Where will Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Cream, and Cheese go from here? And where is Dr. Eggman now? All this, on the next episode of Desperate Hedgehogs.