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If you're reading this now then we are dead and you're possibly our last hope. Our world has fallen victim to war, countries have turned against countries and thousands of innocent souls die every hour. Our sons, fathers, brothers blood is spilled. The only hope we had was to go into hiding right where you're standing. However, I know our enemy is closing in by the minute and that we don't have long left. The information I'm about to give you is vital to end the war. There is one person out there, goes by the name of Yuri. He's the one who commands all the units attacking us and a real nasty piece of work. A way of summing him up is saying he has no sense of mercy nor right and wrong. By taking him out, the war would be over, and we could all live in peace. If you are reading this, then I beg of you, find Yuri and kill him. He moves around from place to place, but, he seems revisits the ancient ruins a lot. I'm guessing that's where he sets up shop and keeps his supplies. When you find him, do me a favour; fire as many rounds on the bastard as you like.
Present day- 13th March 2073.
"Get to the building! Move!" Commander Price yelled. Bullets were flying all over the place, grenades exploded but ten meters away from the soldiers and enemy tanks were speeding towards them. Obeying their orders, the soldiers ran into the building Commander Price had ordered them to go to. Once inside, they closed the door, locked it and then barricaded it just to be safe. After the entrance was sealed, all the soldiers ran up the stairs and took their positions, ready to shoot at anything that came through the door. Something hit against it, but, the door didn't open. There was a long pause, then the rumbling sound of an engine and caterpillar tracks riding over cars and bodies.
"Get back! Now!" Price yelled. Not hesitating for a second, the soldiers got up and quickly walked backwards, just as a tank burst through the door. The soldiers opened fire, all off them aiming for the enemy soldiers that had run through the gap the tank had created, while Price went for the tank.
"Hedgehog, shoot that tank!" Price yelled and shot the shooter on top of the tank. Sonic looked over at Price, then nodded. He removed the missile launcher from his back and then aimed it at the tank.
"Sonic! Look out!" A voice yelled. Sonic looked up to see a grenade heading towards him. He rolled out the way and jumped behind a desk just as the grenade exploded. The sound of pain filled yells echoed in the air. When Sonic got up, he could barely see a thing. Smoke surrounded him.
"Hedgehog! Take out the tank!" Price yelled through the smoke. Sonic looked around and soon found the missile launcher. He picked it up and aimed for the tank. Once he had locked onto the target, he pulled the trigger and within a few seconds, the tank exploded. The resulting blast caused the ceiling above the tank to collapse on top of it and many of the enemy soldiers that had been around it. Sonic got up and looked around. Some of the people he knew, some of the soldiers he'd fought with, the ones that had been his friends, were lying dead on the floor in puddles of blood.
"Sonic! The building's gonna collapse, let's get out of here!" A voice snapped. Sonic turned to see his good friend, Knuckles, standing near him. Sonic quickly ran forwards and towards the window. As both Sonic and Knuckles ran, the ceiling started to collapse behind them. They reached the window and jumped out just in time. On their way down, they fell through many planks of wood that had been used for makeshift roofs. Sonic landed on the floor with a loud thump, the sound of his ribs hitting the concrete echoed through the air. Knuckles landed a few seconds after, however, his landing was much more painful and uncomfortable. He had fallen through the roof, landed on a stone kitchen surface on his back and then fell off it and onto the floor, again, on his back. He groaned in pain, his hand resting on the most painful part of his back.
"You alright Knux?" Sonic asked his friend as he slowly got up.
"Yeah, I fall out of windows daily. You get used to it after a while." Knuckles groaned as he hauled himself to his feet. The two then picked up their guns and left the house they had fell through. Because of the building collapsing, they'd been separated from the others. They were vulnerable, they were an easy target. When they both realised this, they both sighed with irritation.
"Guess we've got to make our way to the safe house." Sonic sighed. The two of them cocked their guns and then slowly, quietly, made their way through the streets. Luckily, the streets they took had already been wrecked, so there was little chance of them running into any hostile forces. When they were but a few hundred meters from the safe house, they spotted a car parked outside an abandoned building. Sonic and Knuckles took cover behind some cars that were resting on their sides, most likely because of a previous explosion. Sonic and Knuckles then listened out for voices.
"Yuri, the package has been successfully retrieved and is now on the way to the target location. What would you like us to do next?" A voice asked.
"Yuri?" Sonic gasped, keeping his voice as quiet as possible.
"We head to New York, that's where the President and his daughter will be staying. Once we have him, we have the codes to all of America's missiles." The voice of Yuri stated. Sonic turned to look at Knuckles who had his hand raised, a signal to Sonic to wait, not to attack just yet.
"What makes you think the president will give us the codes? He's as stubborn as his father was. How are you going to make him give us the codes?" The first voice asked.
"Every man has his price, the President's daughter is his." The voice of Yuri chuckled. Knuckles nodded to Sonic who stood up and took a shot at Yuri. The bullet missed by a few millimetres and hit the wall of a nearby building. Yuri turned to look at Sonic, then pulled out a pistol and shot rapidly at the hedgehog. Not wanting to get a bullet lodged in him, Sonic quickly ducked back behind the car and then reloaded. While Sonic reloaded, Knuckles stood up and shot at Yuri. One of the bullets hit Yuri in the shoulder. Yuri yelled out in pain and fell to his knees. The man who had been talking to him quickly helped Yuri up and into the car, took several shots at Knuckles, who narrowly managed to dodge the bullets fired at him, then the man got in the car with Yuri and drove away. Knuckles groaned with irritation and threw his gun to the ground. Sonic stood up and just caught sight of the car turning a corner. He turned to Knuckles who had an angered look about him.
"We had him! We had the bastard!" Knuckles snapped.
"Don't worry Knux, we'll get him. It's just a matter of time." Sonic sighed.
"I just hope that it's soon. Come on, we'd better get to the safe house before the enemy starts doing their rounds." Knuckles said and then picked up his gun. The two walked towards the safe house and when they got there went inside. None of their fellow soldiers were in there, so they settled down for the night, keeping their weapons besides them for the whole time. Neither of them slept, the sound of explosions, screams and gun shots were one of the reasons they couldn't sleep, but, the main reason was because they were both missing their families. Sonic missed his mother and his father, he also missed his two siblings Manic and Sonia. He knew Manic was fighting in the war, but, he wasn't exactly sure where his parents or Sonia were. The last time he'd been informed of their location was three months ago when they were in a refugee camp. Knuckles on the other hand, knew exactly where his family was. He knew they were safe, but, he was stilled concerned for them. Even his step-father Wynmacher, who was the father of Knuckles' step-brother Mace. The person he missed most though, was his mother, Lara-Le. She had asked him not to go, to stay with her and Wynmacher, to be safe, but, he'd refused. He'd wanted to protect his country.
"Knuckles? Can I ask you a favour?" Sonic asked after several hours of silence.
"Of course." Knuckles stated and sat up from his single camp bed to look at Sonic, who was lying on his back staring up at the ceiling and made no sign nor effort to sit up.
"If I die and you make it, will you tell my family I love them?" Sonic asked.
"Don't pull this shit on me, man." Knuckles sighed, resting his head in his hands.
"I'm serious! Look around Knuckles! This war isn't going to end for years! Our enemy gets stronger everyday! Our forces our getting smaller, our friends are dying! It's only a matter of time before one or both of us are gonna get killed." Sonic sighed, sitting up and staring straight at Knuckles.
"Let's get one thing straight, you're the blue blur, the fastest thing alive! There's no way you're not going home to your family. So stop all this negative shit, alright?" Knuckles smiled.
"Just promise me Knux, please." Sonic begged, his eyes slightly filling with tears.
"Alright, I promise. Will you do the same for me?" Knuckles asked, becoming more serious. Sonic nodded and then laid back down on his bed, trying to ignore the screaming coming from outside.