Prologue.
As they say: "There is no way back!"
The prologue to the story "The World of Chaos: Operation Friendship"
You know, I'm worried. I strongly worried, believing that the story fails. But the fact that it has become quite well known, here on FF, I am the way, the rating was raised from "K +" to "T". This is due to the fact that threads will occur stories that are not permissible in the rating "K +", so don't be angry. Initially, I wanted to choose the "M", but then decided it will be too much.
I very much hope that you enjoy this story, guys.
And so? Let's go!
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ON AIR.
Mobius, Emerald Hill.
10 years after the incident in the space colony ARK.
It was impossible to see. The dust hung in the air like a dense wall, hovering over the rubble of huge two hundred meter tower that stood there fifteen minutes ago. It was an atmosphere of absolute silence and sadness. Sadness experienced by some creatures, whose shadows were seen through the dust. Suddenly, one of these creatures waved its hands furiously, to wave away the dust. It was a certain blue hedgehog who is well known to all. He wore a worried look on his face, along with a strong dismay in his emerald green eyes. He stared intently through the wreckage of the reinforced concrete structure. It was obvious that he was trying to find someone out there. However, he couldn't find anyone. All he could see through the wall of dust were only a few living beings, whose shadows are reflected on the dusty wall under the influence of the sun. He sighed sadly, before he squinted and continued to wander through the wreckage by looking around carefully.
Ruined concrete crunching under his sneakers as he walked slowly on this kind of the dump. Not a single word is slipped out of his mouth, and even a slight smile didn't appear on his face, even through the success of the mission that he and his friends and colleagues have accomplished three hours ago. Realizing that with simple walk there was nothing he couldn't see through the dust on the and cannot find the one he's looking for, Sonic climbed up to the highest formed pile of debris. At this point, the dust wall starts to settle to the ground slowly, clearing the vision in front of the hedgehog's eyes. After the dust finally settled down, he clearly saw the other creatures who're carefully digging in the ruins of the building. Sonic crossed his arms dramatically, and his eyes narrowed, while he was staring on how his friends were looking for at least a single sign of two team members who didn't manage to get out of the tower before it collapsed. However, it was also clear that they didn't find anything.
"Sonic?" Blaze's voice was heard. Without changing the dramatic emotion, Sonic turned himself toward her. The lavender feline with a sad face went up to him, and then she placed a right hand on his shoulder.
"They'll be fine." she said softly, "You'll see."
The blue hedgehog simply took her hand and smiled at her, "I know." he said dramatically, "I know that they'll be back. Tails always have a backup plan when he's in such a situation. Just ...", he made a pause, before he sighed sadly, by looking around the destruction area. There was nothing but thousand of debris, where everyone who took a part in this battle was digging in.
"It's just a base collapsed so quickly." Sonic said even sadder and dramatically before looking inside Blaze's golden eyes, "They didn't have much time. And I didn't have time to tell Tails about how sorry I am for what happened between us.", he then looked at his wife, "Now, I may not have the opportunity."
Blaze sighed, then she took his arm firmly, by gently gripping both her palms on it, "Honey, please don't blame yourself for what happened.", she asked him softly and gently as she tried to comfort him, "It had to happen sooner or later. He grew up with an incredibly fast speed, and it was only a matter of time before he starts to argue with you." She smiled gently, "I want to believe that they had time to jump into the portal, about which Tails managed to shout over the radio. And I believe that."
"I want to believe it, too." Sonic said still sad as his eyes rolled out a single tear, "But I… just… can't…"
Seeing tears, Blaze realized that he's not able to think positively at this very moment. She then narrowed her eyes dramatically, and led him down from this hill to the rest of their friends, with her arms hugged him around the shoulders.
"Come on." she whispered softly. Sonic didn't say anything to her in response, as he was just about to closing his eyes and trusting himself to his wife.
Meanwhile, somewhere else.
Rotor scanned the wreckage with the help of a special device, which helps to look for survivors. However, this device doesn't produce any results. He sadly shook his head, realizing that further searching is useless and looked at Shadow, who was standing next to him, by smoking in his mouth.
"Don't tell me anything, Rotor." Shadow said, knowing that the search hasn't produced any results, "I already know what you want me to say!"
Rotor sadly nodded without saying a word. They looked in the direction where Sally was. The squirrel was standing with her back to the duo in a cool pose, by placing her left foot on a stone. They couldn't see her face, but by the fact that her head was down, they can easily define what she was sad. Shaking his head and throwing a cigarette into somewhere he didn't care, the dark hedgehog went to her. Rotor sighed sadly, and then turned away from them and walked to the others.
The sad and repressed emotions were on Queen's face, with her eyes were closed, and her arms were crossed in the chest. She stroked her shoulders with both hands, trying to recover and holding her nerves down. However, it seems that it was useless. Nothing worked and the sadness never left her mind and heart. Taking a deep breath, she opened her eyes, as she frowned and looked at the endless scorched horizon.
"Sally," Shadow called her. The squirrel turned her face to him, continuing to frown. Shadow stood on her right by giving to her a peaceful look.
"I understand how you feel now, my Queen." he said quietly before looking toward the horizon, "It's not fair when the two good guys are going missing."
Sally shook her head as she disapproved his words, before turning her face towards the horizon again, "You're the master of soothing words!" she said, sadly and sarcastically, and with her voice trembled, "Have you ever thought to do a psychology?"
On her angry sarcasm, Shadow rolled his eyes and sighed in exasperation. Frowning, he looked back at the squirrel. Sally looked at him straight in the eyes by frowning slightly, as she totally displeased with his words.
"We don't need to indulge in melancholy, Sally.", he said quietly and calmly, "Moreover, we can't help them today. Miles and Silver are now on their own. And you should understand it yourself!"
On Sally's face appeared sad emotion, "I understand, Shadow!" she said sadly, "But it's very hard not to think about it. They were just there for a thirty minutes ago, and now they both are gone.", she sighed again as a tears rolled down on her eyes, "I know it's silly, but I want to believe that they're managed to get out of there and now they're on the way to come back."
"They'll be back, Sally." Shadow said, trying to lift her mood as he placed his right hand on her shoulder, "I don't know when, but I do know they will."
The squirrel couldn't help but smile at his words, then opened her eyes and looked at him. Shadow patted her shoulder and winked at her before he went to the others. Watching him go, Queen of Mobotropolis continued to smile, as she was glad him helping her mood to rise up slightly, and then she followed him to the rest of the group.
One Hour Later.
When the search was finally over, a group of soldiers, among them was Espio, Vector, Sonia, Rouge, Manic, Bunny, Charmy, Cream, Marine, Jet, Fang, Big, Mighty, and many others, gathered on the area which was free from the debris and had heated discussions about the search results. The faces of many of them were sad because the two missing were friends with many of them. Especially Espio, Sonia, and Manic were sad as they stood at a short distance from the group, being as one of the leaders. Sonia leans on her bike, and talking to her mother on the phone as her eyes were narrowed and filled with fluid. Perhaps she was ready to cry now. However, the Apothos heiress didn't let her emotions to take a control over her mind. Espio and Maniс (especially Espio) was watching her closely for she doesn't drowned in tears, and to prevent her nervous breakdown, if it happens.
"Y-yes ... Mom." Sonya said with a trembling voice, "We had finally won, but not all of us were able to escape…" She shook her head, "S-Silver and Tails… they …" she sighed sadly, "… they couldn't make it …" She nodded, "Yes, I'm fine, Mom. And Sonic ...", She looked around, trying to find her brother, but didn't find, "... Sonic hasn't come yet." She nodded, "Yes, I'll tell him to call you. I will… Bye... ", After she said goodbye to her mother, she took off her phone, then closed her eyes tightly and grabbed both of her hands on the shoulders. She began to cry softly as tears flowed from her eyes. She still could not hold back the emotions flow. Espio sighed sadly before he wrapped to her and put his arm around her shoulders. Sonia could not resist and simply rested her head on his shoulder, continuing her quiet weeping.
"Calm down." Espio called her, "We don't know anything yet."
"He's right, sis." Manic agreed with him, as he sat to her tight, and put his hand on her shoulder, "This search has not given any kind of results."
Sonia opened one eye, before taking a look at her brother, "And what if all of these searches were in vain, and both of them died?" She whimpered as her body trembled feeling a lot of stress, "When I told Silver, that I no longer want to see him, I was just joking, and I didn't want it to happen in reality. Why the irony is such a bitchy whore?" she closed her eyes again, then leaned against Espio even tighter. The chameleon was only about to sigh helplessly, not knowing how to cheer up his girlfriend, and how to interrupt her nervous breakdown. He wrapped his arms around her, rightly understanding that this was the only thing he could do.
"Sonia, please. With the grief we only harm ourselves." he called to her gently, trying to interrupt her sobs.
"Sonia.", Manic called as he gently shook her, trying to bring her to life, "Listen, don't worry so much. There's always someone who is much worse than you."
Reluctantly, but Sonia tried to recover, and put a lot of effort to stop sobbing. She then opened her green eyes, glancing at her brother.
"Who do you mean?" she asked almost in a whisper.
Manic grinned back at her, and then he opened his mouth to answer. However, he immediately interrupted himself, as something caught his eye. He saw Blaze practically carries grieving and depressed Sonic on her shoulders with her arms still hugging him. While the 'Blue Blur' was still walking on his own two feet, but it's clear difficulties for him to go. Manic, seeing how his brother feels bad, let out a sad sigh, and he then rose to his feet and went to him.
"Our brother." he said sadly, much to Sonia made her eyes wide, and then looked after Manic. Seeing, Sonic's state, she shot a sad face, and then she looked at her boyfriend who was hugging her.
"Espio ..." she started to speaking.
"I see it." Espio replied, and then let her go, and stood up with her, "Let's go help him."
Manic walked right up to Sonic and Blaze, with care staring at his brother as his footsteps was given hard for him.
"Blaze, let me help you." He offered his help.
"It's fine, Manic." Blaze said, as she stopped, still hugging her husband, "I can handle it."
Sonia then ran close to her brother, "Blaze, what happened to him?" she spoke as she placed her right hand on Sonic's forehead.
"He's just depressed, Sonia." Blaze said softly as her eyes were fixed on the Sonic, "Honey, can you sit down?"
"It's okay, Blaze." Sonic said quietly and wearily as he opened his eyes and met with her golden eyes, "You can let me go."
Blaze nodded, "Good." she said, then slowly let go of him, trying to act as gently as possible. Sonic stood up, then he opened his eyes to see Espio, Sonia, and Manic, who looked back at him with concern and anxiety.
"Bro ..." Manic decided to speak, but was stopped by Sonic who stretched out his left hand, as if saying that he's okay.
"Let's finish this." Sonic said as he headed to a group of his fighters. Blaze, Manic, Espio and Sonia left standing in the same place, looking at the Sonic, which has come to rest, and prepared to call them.
"I can imagine how he feels now." Espio remarked, "You're sure he'll be okay?"
"Yes, Espio." Blaze said, "Trust me.", She then went to the others, not wanting to raise this question anymore. Sonia, Espio and Manic were still standing in the same place, before they followed Sonic.
The blue hedgehog, as he only came up to his team, he stopped at one short moment to make a short pause and finally recovering his life energy. He took a deep breath to his lungs scored the maximum possible amount of air, and then he frowned as he was now ready for speech.
"Guys!" he called loudly, prompting everyone else to shut up and wrap their attention on him. Sonic raised his left eyebrow, no longer hiding behind the mask of a stupid clown and portrayed a deadly seriousness on his face.
"Okay, guys!" Sonic began calmly and loudly, "Let's sum up!" He crossed his arms and arched his eyebrows, "Robots are destroyed - one! Tails and Silver disappeared - two! They're not dead because we would have found their lumps - three! And for today the celebration is canceled - four!"
The last words caused a discontent and angry roars around all the team members. They began to exchanging glances and sharing discontented words.
"Oh, great!" Vector growled, talking with Fang, "This is what I was afraid of!"
"Me too." Fang agreed, "I hope that I at least will take my money back."
"I was hoping that I will sing karaoke tonight." Marine said resentfully, speaking with Cream, "And now everything breaks off."
Cream simply sighed in response, before she shook her head, "Yeah." she said, annoyed, "I also had a lot of plans for this party."
"Come on, girls!" Charmy spoke, drawing the attention of the girls, "As if this is the last party in your life. Now we can easily say that we won, so those parties will be more than enough in future."
Jet, who was standing next to a Charmy, widened his eyes at these words. He then narrowed his eyes before he turned to the bee-guy.
"Maybe you're right, dude!" he said with irritation, "However, agree that canceling the victory celebration because of missing two is very stupid!"
It was enough to Blaze and Sonic stared at them in complete shock. The cat-girl suddenly glared at them.
"I didn't understand!" she shouted angrily, causing everyone to shut up again, "Two of ours are missing and nobody knows where, and you're worried because today we're not going to drink?!" she widened her eyes "Are you f...cking serious?!"
"Blaze, it's just unfair!" Rouge spoke, also angrily, causing Sonic to turn to her, "After all that has happened, we have the right to relax!"
"Admit it, zat would be disrespectful to celebrate without two of ours, who didn't come back!" Antoine told her disapprovingly with furrowed brows. But Rouge just frowned at him in response. She crossed her arms.
"And you think it would be respectful to mourn for them, without knowing whether they are alive or not?" she asked disapprovingly, "Did you forgot, we didn't found any bodies in here?"
"It's not what I meant." Antoine protested, "I just think it disrespectful when two of our friends disappear into nowhere, and we, instead of looking for zem, just go to celebrate."
Rouge rolled her eyes at his words, particularly tired of his "sense of honor and duty." She then shook her head violently, before she frowned again and looked at Antoine. She put her hands on her waist.
"Alright. Let's start to look for them." she spoke with tired voice, "Where do you propose to start? Green Hill? Babylon? New Mobotropolis? Or maybe United Federation? Or Metropolis?" She widened her eyes, "Or another thousand of places where this portal could throw them up." she spread her arms to the side "The list can go on, Antoine, and Mobius is not limit."
Antoine's eyes half closed before he took off his communication device that was attached to his ear. He then showed it to Rouge. The bat questioningly arched an eyebrow at his actions, not quite knowing what he's doing. Next, the coyote did, was throwing the "Bluetooth" on the ground causing it to broke into pieces. It was enough to all who saw it became confused. Bunnie blinked several times, observing the behavior of her husband, and then she came up to him, by arching her eyebrows questioningly, and stood next to Rouge.
"Honey!" she said, puzzled, "May I ask why you did it?"
Without superfluous words and phrases, Antoine turned to Rotor, who stood next to the "Babylon Rogues".
"Rotor." he said, "Can you keep track of my signal?"
At these words, Rotor's eyes widened so widely that they occupied the whole area of the face. He then closed his eyes tightly and made an epic facepalm.
"I'm a stupid dumbass!", he said before his hand slid down over his face, and then he pulled out his computer, "I completely forgot!", the walrus spoke by typing his fingers on the keyboard, "The communication devices may be damaged, but their sensors not." he finished, then showed the computer to Rouge and Bunnie, "Their sensors will work for some time so it can be traced."
Bunnie and Rouge looked at each other by exchanging a confused glances before they returned their eyes at the computer screen. On the screen could be seen as Mobius map shows where Antoine is. They blinked several times before turning to him. The coyote winked at the girls, by smirking smugly, with his arms crossed in the chest. They couldn't help, but smirked in response, as they realized what he meant, then they looked back at Rotor, who was searching for Silver and Tails' communication sensors. After he finished the scanning, he made his eyes wide again. It was enough to Sonic frowned and walked to him.
"Any results?" the hedgehog asked worryingly, waiting for good news. Rotor sighed sadly, before his sad emotion looked at Sonic, causing the blue hedgehog's face to become worrying again. But the walrus suddenly grinned devilishly.
"I don't know, where they are, Sonic." he spoke jokingly, "But definitely not on Mobius."
That was enough to cause cheers and shouts of joy from every single team member who was here. Only Sonic went shocked, realizing now that his walrus friend was just about to joking on him. Suddenly, he grinned ominously before he walked right up to the walrus and strongly shoved him in the shoulder, "You're an asshole!" he said jokingly, provoking a malicious laughter from Rotor. Sonic then sighed in relief as he closed his eyes by stretching his head up. That was until he felt someone gently took and squeezed his hand. He opened eyes, and looked at Blaze. The lavender feline just smiled and winked at him, by continuing to hold his hand, as if trying to say 'What did I tell you?'. But Sonic just smiled back at her with arching eyebrows.
Sonia is also relieved. She smiled wearily, with Espio next to her, by looking her colleagues. But then something clicked in her mind, and the smile faded from her face, when she noticed that something was wrong here. She then rose from her bike, and her eyes began to look for another member of the team she didn't see.
"Hey, what's going on here?" Sally's voice was heard. Screams and shouts subsided, before everyone who the team members turned their gazes to Queen of Mobotropolis who went down from a pile of rubble in the dark hedgehog's company on her right.
Sonic's grin became wider, as soon as his ex came close, "Sal. Good news." he said sarcastically, "Rotor was able to scan the sensors that were in Silva's and Tails' radios."
Sally and Shadow arched their eyebrows questioningly before they exchanged glances. They looked back at Sonic with questioning looks on their faces.
"And?" Shadow spoke.
"They're not here. I mean maybe not even on Mobius. So we can relax a little." Sonic spoke again by continuing grinning. It was enough to Sally sighed in relief. She smirked back at Sonic before she opened her mouth for speaking.
"Ehm, guys?" Sonia's voice sounded, causing the entire team turning to her. Sonia stood next to her bike with a puzzled look on her face and with her arms crossed in breasts area.
"Don't you noticed there is still someone missing?" Sonia asked, puzzled, then looked around, "Where's Knuckles?"
All members of the team started to look around, trying to find certain red echidna, which, as it turned out, also, no one knows where. Sonic suddenly frowned, then turned to Rotor.
"Rotor, can make your trick again?" he asked tiredly.
Unknown location. Somewhere in the forest.
Somewhere in the forest, filled with curves and odd form trees, under a pile of broken branches in a small crater, an orange body was lying. His eyes were shut tight and his body covered by a few bruises and abrasions. Apparently, this orange ... Uhm ... someone had a high fall. He seemed to be asleep. In hell. Or not. Unknown. Suddenly, he groaned, then gently stirred. It opened its sky-blue eyes, then frowned and looked ahead. He then ran his eyes around the area where he found himself. He tried to figure out about where he was, but all he saw were and odd shaped trees, and bushes. He then looked on the ground and frowned himself deeply.
"What the hell?" he asked himself with deep male's voice, then closed his eyes, trying to remember, what happened.
Flashback
"The way is clear, boys!" female voice could be heard on the radio set, "Do your best!"
Behind the rocks that lay near the big and large fortress, three figures were hiding. They all have the stern expressions on their faces and their gazes fixed on the fortress door. These three were: the orange fox, the red echidna, and the silvery-white hedgehog. They all wore the black uniform which reminded SWAT uniform on its design. They clearly heard Blaze's words about the clear way and that means that they can start.
"We got you, Blaze!" The fox said in a severe tone, like a real badass. Next, the three rose to their feet, then walked out from behind the rocks to the main door. They approached closely, then stopped in front of the door in the coolest poses, which you can only imagine. With stern faces, and feeling the wind purged them in the cheeks on the right side, causing the fluttering of their hair, the trio looked at the door, enjoying their personal moment of truth and glory.
"Here it is!" Tails spoke with a hint of coolness in his voice, "Moment of truth!"
"After twenty years of war, we finally put an end to it!" Silver picked up his thought with awesomeness in his voice.
"And this means that after that, all of us will go to the beach, and celebrate our success for the whole f..cking year!" Knuckles said, picking up the thoughts of Silver and Tails.
"Good point, Knuckles!" Miles agreed with him and then turned his head to Silver while continuing to smirk.
"Silva!" he called.
Music start: Red – Breathe Into Me
Without changing the expression of coolness and continuing to grin, Silver turned to Tails before saying.
"I got it!"
He returned his frowning look back at the door, then took a few steps toward her and got into a fighting stance. He began to focus his energy and a bright blue light surrounded his body. His eyes were completely painted in bright blue, and his golden pupils have disappeared. Moments later, he completely focused on the goals and fiercely bared teeth. He threw the energy wave at the steel door. The energy wave hit the door hard, thus knocking it out to hell. Once this happened, Silva immediately stopped shining, then straightened up and shot a questioning look towards the newly formed passage. Suddenly, he smirked, then crossed his arms, nodded to himself, and turned to the guys. Tails and Knuckles wore a shocked looks on their faces, not really believing that Silva actually did it. But a moment later, they arched their eyebrows, then furiously shook their heads and looked at the silver-white hedgehog.
But Silver gave them, even more, wider grin, "It seems that someone owes me something." he said smugly, causing irritated look from Knuckles. And a questioning look from Tails, as the fox looked first at Knuckles. Then at Silver. Then he frowned.
"Don't be distracted, guys!" he said grimly. Two just frowned at him and nodded. Miles nodded back, then glanced at the doorway "Come on!"
After these words, Miles, Silver, and Knuckles rushed inside the base. As they ran inside, Tails immediately pulled his trademark arm cannon in the left hand. In his right hand, he held the laptop, on which was radar, indicating where to go. He glanced at the radar.
"Okay!" he muttered, "Running up the first wall!" He narrowed his eyes, "Then turning to the right!"
He raised his eyes and looked ahead. Right in front of trio appeared a wall.
"This wall?" Silver asked Tails, turning to his right.
Fox grinned before speaking, "Yes!" he answered with a groan, "From this one, we need turn to the right!"
As soon as the three ran to the wall, they wasted no time in vain, rushed right down the corridor. Through the poorly lit corridors, with all the speed with which only mobians able to escape. Running up to the next turn, the first Miles turned left. Silver and Knuckles ran after him, knowing that he wouldn't always be able to tell them about where to go all the time.
"We are inside!" Silver shouted on his radio, "We are now heading to the control room!"
*Flash*
The trio of fighters continued to run along the corridors, in the direction of their goal. Control room, where there was a computer with the help of which they'll put the end of war. However, they ran for a long time. At this point, on the face of Knuckles appeared irritated expression, which made it clear that he is not happy.
"How much more we need to run?!" echidna shouted angrily.
"A little bit, Knuckles!" Tails shouted back, as soon as they ran to turn, "Now to the right!"
As soon as the trio ran up to the turn, they immediately turned to the right. After the turning appeared a steel door leading into the control room. As the three ran to the door, they all stopped, grinning, and then Tails put a computer in his bag. He pulled his arm cannon in his left hand, then pointed it at the door.
"Everyone gets back!" fox growled. Silver and Knuckles took two steps back.
Without wasting time in vain, Tails made a shot. The doors were blown to hell. All three of them used their arms to cover themselves from the wreckage to prevent damage. Once they looked at the door again, they saw a huge hole that was formed there. Enough to Miles smiled in satisfaction, then hung up the arm cannon on the belt.
"That's it!" fox said, crossing his arms, "Well, guys, I don't know what awaits us inside, but if we're there waiting for another group of robots, which will open fire on us once we enter inside, I will say this!" he glared "If any of you have touch anything in my workshop if I'll die in here ..." Knuckles' and Silver's eyes widened as soon as he said it, "... I will rise from the dead and tear off your heads to hell!"
"Yo, Tails!" Marine's voice was heard on the radio "Calm down!"
Miles entered the room, still angry and in a state of excitement. Silver and Knuckles just continued to look at his side trying to wrap their heads at Tails' words with puzzled looks on their faces, then exchanged glances. Then sighed, half-eyed and turned back to the hole in the door. After the moment, they entered inside.
"Dude!" Charmy's voice was the on the radio, "What makes you think that someone would get into the room where the chopper is the safest place!"
Miles stopped in the middle of the room and began to scan it. The most typical control room with high ceilings, steel walls, as well as a bunch of computers here and there. He shook his head, then headed toward the host computer, on which stood a huge screen. He abruptly jumped into a chair, then took out his laptop with wires placed on the dashboard. He took a few wires, then connect it to the main computer. Nodding in a settlement, the fox looked at the screen. Message appeared on the screen, which says:
"New Hardware Found!"
Grinning wider, fox began shaman with both computers, typing something on the keyboard. At first, on one computer, then on the other. Depending on what he needed to do. Silver and Knuckles, who continued to stand in the center of the room, just stared questioningly at what Tails was doing out there. However, these two are not more attracted to what he's doing but his face. On his face, there was the expression of a mad scientist, who is going to take over the world. Unable to find the words that could be said in the distance, the two simply walked to the chair where Miles sat and stood on either side of him, staring questioningly at the screen.
On the screen continued to flash many files and windows that have changed with great speed, one after another. They then opened, then closed. Opens and closes. Opens and closes. After two minutes of silence and blank stares, Knuckles shook his head, then looked at Tails.
"How much longer?" he asked nervously, as the fox continued to work in a mad genius mode.
"Just a little bit, Knuckles!" Fox answered with an ominous voice, continuing to look at the screen, "Just a little bit!"
*Flash*
Tails kept poking at the keyboard with incredible speed and with the look of a mad scientist. He muttered something under his breath and deeply panting with excitement. Knuckles and Silver stood at a considerable distance from it, as they don't particularly like his expression.
"Do you even know what this moment might mean?" the fox asked with psychopathic voice. Silver and Knuckles looked at each other with a fearful expressions and gulped nervously. They looked back at Miles, who continued to poke the keys. Suddenly, their attention was attracted by strange noises. Noises steel joints that tend to mean only one. They both glared at the hole in the door. They seem realized what it could mean.
Through the door hole twenty humanoid robots, immediately rushed in. They began to surround the trio, becoming a position of the arc to avoid the possibility of escaping. Knuckles and Silver immediately got into a fighting position.
"Tails, are you finished it yet?" Knuckles asked with a harsh growl.
"Almost done!" Miles said, without lifting his hands off the keyboard and continuing to look at the screen, "Fifteen more seconds!"
Robots have extended hands and targeted the trio. Enough to Silver glared even harder.
"Tails, we have no these fifteen seconds!" he shouted furiously "Finish with it quick!"
"I'm trying!" the fox yelled, "I'm trying!"
*Flash*
Weapons out of the hands of robots from made long high-pitch squeak, that was a signal to the fact that the shots are following. Enough to Silver and Knuckles particularly nervous. Barely moments like robots opened heavy fire on our triplet. But the silver-white hedgehog created a psychokinetic shield that shielded them from the lasers.
"Tails!" he cried.
Fox did not answer him, still staring at the screen and poke at the keyboard.
"Come on!" he muttered, "Come on! Come on!"
Success. On the screen there was a message stating:
"Warning! Sights and weapons of combat units are damaged! Recommended to reboot the system!"
With this message, the heavy fire stopped. However, the robots just continued to aim at the trio.
*Flash*
Tails with a shocked face staring at the screen, not believing that he had succeeded. He actually managed to disable the weapon. He blinked a few times, once began to recover, and then raised his hands to the sky before shouting:
"YES!" he shouted so loudly that the room almost trembled. Hearing him shouting, Silver and Knuckles looked at him back over their shoulders.
"Tails!" echidna called, "You ..."
"YES!" Fox shouted again "YES!" He jumped up from his chair, and then jumped on him and stood right foot on the dashboard and pointed at the screen, "Eat this!"
After he finished his own small celebration, he looked around at the others to see them staring at him questioningly. He then jumped to the floor and went to Silver and Knuckles. Tails pulled out his arm canon, attached it to the left hand, then activated the weapon. After he came close to the two of his collegues, he stood next to Silver and his eyes fixed on the robots. Thus he tried to be sure that Eggman's combat units are now deprived of their weapons, and all he saw were the robots who's hands are aimed at the three and but didn't perfomning any shots. Tails smirked himself seeing this and then he looked at Knuckles and nodded at him. Knuckles smirked at his fox-buddy in response, before he returned his eyes at the robots and cracked his fists.
"It's time to warm up!" Knuckles announced.
"Yes, indeed." Silver agreed, then turned to Miles, "How much do you take on this time?"
"Not much.", the fox answered, "I am very tired and need a break, so I would like to leave the biggest part for you guys!"
"As you wish!" Knuckles said with a joking tone, then locked eyes with Silver "Da Silva, Prepare to remove the shield!"
The silvery-white hedgehog nodded, with his eyes still looking at the eggbots. The Steel Soldiers moved into melee mode and hid their now useless weapons back into the arms pockets. About ten seconds Knuckles, Silver and Tails were separated from their opponents by a psychokinetic shield controlled by a silvery-white hedgehog. However, after a few moments, the shield has disappeared and Silver, Tails and Knuckles with fierce cries of "AAAAAAAAA!" rushed at the robots to start a bloodbath.
*Flash*
Our trio with happy faces and laughter poured the champagne in the glasses. On the floor, you could see a pile of scrap metal, which was a fighting killing machine just a few minutes ago.
"And I told you that we should take it with us." Silver gleefully announced, "Now you owe me in a triple."
Knuckles turned to him, grinning.
"Silva." he said happily, "After all that, I'll give you a debt tenfold."
Miles shook his head in their remarks, then he finished pouring a champagne and put the bottle on the dashboard. He raised his glass, then turned to the others.
"Congratulations on winning, guys!" he said triumphantly. Silver and Knuckles shouted "Yeah!" before they clinked their glasses, then with one gulp they drank the contents.
*Flash*
Miles sits in front of a computer, with his legs up on the keyboard and looking at the screen. He was still holding a glass of champagne on his right hand. A smug grin was on his lips. He knew that it was a huge success. One hundred percent success. Now, he will take a needed sleep and rest. Taking a sip, the fox looked at the others who stood next to Eggman's controll board and leaning their butts on the table, with their legs crossed. They were having a talk about who of them was the coolest and gave each other some obvious arguments, but from the side it looked like they were just drinking. Silver was holding a bottle of champagne in his right hand. Shaking his head at their behavior, Miles looked back at the screen and threw his head up. He took a deep breath of relief as he closed his eyes.
"Shadow to Miles!" he suddenly heard Shadow's furious voice, causing him to open his eyes wide, "You left the tower, I hope!"
After hearing his words, the fox shook his head, and then he raised his head up and looked at the screen.
"Yes, Shadow." he said, "We're here already, celebrating our success and waiting for your slow asses."
"You three idiots! Get out of there!" Shadow yelled on his radio once again, causing questioning glance from Tails. He then frowned, then took a normal position in his chair.
"Shadow, what happened?" he asked curiously.
"The base explodes, you idiot!" the dark hedgehog shouted on the radio again, on what Tails wide eyes, "You need to get the f..ck out of there now if you want to stay alive!"
He yelled so loudly that Silva and Knuckles interrupted their conversation, and turned to the fox. They frowned, then went up to him to find out what was wrong.
"Tails, what is it?" Knuckles said as soon as he and Silver reached the computer board.
"Shadow says that the base explode." the fox said, puzzled and skeptical, and then he frowned and looked at Knuckles, "But if it exploded, we would be dead already."
"Or at least we could feel the shaking." Silver agreed, also unhappy, thus caused the two of his battle friends turn their eys at him, "When something explodes, shaking always goes."
Miles nodded at him, "Exactly!" he said sternly. Suddenly, the room started to shake. That was enough for all three eyes widened in shock and fear, and they began to look around the room.
"Like this?" Knuckles asked nervously and in a trembling voice.
Miles quickly rose from his chair, then started scanning room with a nervous look. As soon as the explosion occurred next to them, all three rushed toward the exit, shouting with fear, like idiots.
*Flash*
Knuckles, Silver, and Tails scatting through the dark corridors, by trying to escape the sudden destruction of the base.
"Sudden destruction is sudden!" Knuckles yelled, running with full force.
Tails glanced back, for trying to find out if they were able to escape from sudden destruction. It is useless. The fire and explosions continued to pursue them as if they were waiting specifically. He growled furiously, then looked forward.
"How I hate surprises!" he yelled, a moment before something exploded at the center of the corridow, and throwing the trio in a different directions.
*Flash*
Tails with groans rose to his feet and looked around. He fiercely frowned and bared his teeth, then put his hand to his ear.
"Knuckles! Silva!" he shouted, "Can you hear me?"
"I am here, Tails!" Silver called right behind fox. Tails turned to him. Silver instantly ran up to him.
"It seems that on this way we cut off!" he said as he pointed his right-hand finger on the blockage. Tails growled, then scanned the area searching for red echidna.
"Knuckles!" he yelled.
"I'm behind the blockage!" Knuckles responded on radio, "Sorry, it seems that I can not clear it!"
Silver and Tails glared at his words, then glanced at each other. Suddenly, they widened their eyes as the two remembered about one thing that might help them.
"The portal!" they shouted in a union, then ran back towards the control room.
"Knuckles, get out of here!" Tails shouted into his mic, "We'll find another way!"
*Flash*
Silver and Tails stood near the portal. The orange fox nervously tried to run the portal for they could escape outside. And yes. The base is still continued to self-destruct. It was enough to Silver growled irritably. He glanced at Tails.
"It might seem that it's waiting for us to run away!" he said with a growl.
Tails just continued to do what he did all the time. Typing on the keyboard and turning on the portal on.
"And do you prefer us killed instantly? Say thank you, that we're still alive!" the fox growled, then he finished his cast with a computer and put his hand on the radio, "Sonic! We'll go through the portal using the latest coordinates of the launch!"
"I Got it, old pal! Good luck!" the blue hedgehog shouted at him back on the radio.
"Be careful, boys!" Sally's voice was heard on the radio.
Suddenly, behind them, explosions began to rattle. The two made their eyes wide, then looked at each other. Suddenly in front of them, a bright light shone. The two arched an eyebrow, then glanced at the portal. It was opened. Inside they could saw some kind of forest. Dark forest.
"What the..."
*EXPLOSION*
Intense blast wave tossed them inside the opened dimension door, and the two with screaming "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" flew into nowhere.
Flashback ends
Tails reopened his sky-blue eyes, once he remembered everything that happened to him. Operation. The control room. Computer. Robots. Champagne. Explosion. And the portal. He frowned.
"Ugh!" he growled in irritation, "Worst plan of all times!", He growled again and closed his eyes. He started to rise to his feet, causing the branches to fall down from his body. He took a sitting position, hiding in the shadows which came from the tree leaves. Opening his eyes, the fox began to look around, trying to figure out where he is. But all he could see at the moment is the trees that had a strange shape and their branches grow up in a strange direction. Behind these trees, he saw nothing but darkness. He frowned, then looked up. The sun shone through the branches and leaves, hitting the fox's eyes. Branches slightly staggered on the wind. Miles managed to smile weakly, watching this picture, then growled again, as he felt that he had a terrible headache. He closed his eyes tightly.
"Oh, fuuuuuuuuuu..." he growled painfully, "Not again!", He shook his head to shake off the pain, then opened his eyes again. He looked around trying to find his companion.
"Silva!" he called out, "Are you here?"
"Ow! Bloody hell!" was heard the voice of his silver-white friend, causing smile and sigh of relief from Tails, "My head is about to explode into pieces! Tails, I'll kill you when we get home!"
Tails easily laughed at his remark, as he said, then looked around again, "Do not be angry, my friend!" he said calmly and loudly, "We had no choice anyway!"
"Okay! You're right!" Silver replied, "If I had a choice between death by the explosion and the hellish pain! Obviously, I would choose a pain!"
These words were enough to Miles chuckled again, he then shook his head and took a deep breath. Suddenly, his head got more pain. He growled, then put his hand to his head and started rubbing it, hoping it will help. But something was wrong. He didn't felt his fingers. No one. He abruptly opened his eyes wide, then looked at his right hand. He opened his mouth wide, as he noticed that instead of hand, he a had hoof. He nervously shook his head, then raised his left hand and looked at it. Same. Instead of hand, he had a hoof.
"What the ..." Miles murmured, then he looked at his feet. Guess what he saw down there. Realizing he was in deep shit, Miles began breathing heavily and nervously. He scanned the territory of woods, trying to find some reflective surface. Barely a moment, he found what he needs. The crystal-clear lake, from which you could see the reflection of the trees. The fox jumped to his feet, then ... fell down. His face, torso, and other body met with the ground with a crash loud enough. He closed his eyes and bared his teeth, trying to hold back the cries of pain, but then he opened his eyes again and looked somewhere.
"Ouch!" he growled, then glanced at his forelegs. Slowly, he decided to climb the four legs, as he walked once during his infancy. Then he tried to walk on all fours like his ancestors did thousands of years ago. With some difficulty, but after a few steps, he turned to find a balance. He nodded to himself, then looked at the lake and ran there.
At this point, the orange stallion ran out of shadows. The pegasus. With a light orange mane and tail, and a pair of wings on his back. As he reached the lake, he stopped a meter away from it. On his face, you could read anxiety. Anxiety before what he could see in the reflection. He swallowed deeply, then with a frightened face, slowly and carefully, step by step, he walked right up to the lake. Understanding he has nowhere else to go, Miles carefully looked at himself in the lake. Seeing the reflection caused him to open his eyes wide and to drop his jaw.
"Oh, gods!" Silver's angry voice sounded on the distance, "Tails are we fell down? Because it seems that a portal opened in the sky and we flew down for at least fifty meters!"
The previously described Pegasus was looking at Miles from the water reflection with exactly the same facial expression, that our Mobian hero had at the moment. Miles blinked a few times. He then drew himself up to his full height. He slowly began to turn his head to his back, to make sure the reflection doesn't lie. Finishing with turning, he saw a pair of wings on his back and a long, fluffy and bright orange tail on his ass. It was enough to pupils of our newfound Pegasus narrowed to such an extent that they can not be even see. His wings then opened widely, thus prompting him to raise his left eyebrow in a question.
Silver was wandering among the trees, and growled with irritation, heading towards the lake,
"Oh, shit!" the hedgehog growled, "I don't feel my hands or legs! F..ck! Tails, what do you think happened to us?!"
Tails's left eyes twitched in irritation while he was staring at his wings and tried to understand why they opened sharply. He began to blinking rapidly and dramatically as soon as his brain began to reload. After fifteen seconds, he rebooted. During this time he blinked three hundred and thirty times. After he more or less recovered, his pupils returned to normal, he raised an eyebrow questioningly and growled with irritation.
"What the f..ck?!" he asked irritably and with a growl.
Suddenly, his attention was attracted by the noise of rustling leaves. He looked at the trees, and frowned. Seeing something headed in Tails's direction, he headed in there, noticing one more figure, which is directed at him. But only to stop on a halfway as his eyes turned wide again. His jaws dropped to the ground, and then he froze in shock by seeing the scary picture in front of him.
Silver, continuing to growl in irritation, has finally come out of the trees and bushes, and then he slowly opened his eyes. He then looked to his right and frowned.
"It's not like one of those places where we were." he said irritably, then looked left, "But to be honest, even Spagonia looks nicer." He looked in front of him, "Where do you think we're in..."
Silver couldn't finish his thoughts, as he noticed an orange pegasus, who looks at him with a shocked face and with his wings were wide open. Shaking his head, Silver frowned, then walked out of the shadows to the sun area. At this point, there was a silver-white unicorn went out to the light, with a long white mane and tail. On his forehead was visible a long horn. The unicorn/hedgehog stopped his gait, then arched his eyebrows in disbelief.
"And who are you?" he asked sternly.
Miles blinked twice, as he recognized Silver in that unicorn, and then took a deep breath.
"Silver!" he whispered frightened.
Hearing a familiar Silver's eyes turned wide as he recognized a certain fox in this pegasus.
"Tails?" he asked quietly, and with surprise and shock, "Dude! Is that you?"
Tails then slightly backed away, obviously not happy with this coincidence. He just couldn't believe his eyes at what he have just seen. And he's still don't believe. But alas. He couldn't unsee it.
"Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh …" he squealed quietly, "Silva!" he stopped and froze, "You're a unicorn!"
Silver dropped his jaws and looked at himself. As soon as he realized Tails was right, he glanced back at his friend.
"And you're the pegasus!" he said with a strong hint of fear in his voice. The two stared at each other in silence and complete shock, not even moving.
Above the forest.
Over the big-big forest, there was a quiet day. The sun was shining. Birds chirped. There were a peace and quiet.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" over the forest flew two incredibly loud men's screaming which broke all the peace and tranquility that reigned in the forest.