"Shut up, Miles." I said for the fourth time. Tails had been bitching about not being able to go anywhere since we had all been shoved underground. "I'm hungry, man, why do we have to sit down here instead of fighting, huh?" I lashed out a fist and caught him under the chin, "Shut up! I ain't tellin' you again!" He sat down and started crying softly. I sighed irritably and walked to the other side of the sewer like room. I had been trying to find a soft spot in the room since god knows when. He was right, though, we were shoved underground, being protected from Eggman. "I'm sorry, Miles, I'm as sick of bein' down 'ere as you are, I'm lookin' for a way t' get us the hell outta here, alright? I'm sorry." Tails didn't respond for a second so I looked back. He was fast asleep. I ran to each side of the room, punching each of the walls with the side of my fist, sometimes hearing nothing, sometimes hearing a great echo that actually gave me some hope. "OOWW!" I called out because I had hit a nail.
I had given up looking for now, and was now sitting with his head in my lap. I sighed, "What would Mom do if she was here now, Miles?" I asked the softly snoring body. I sniffled thinking about our mom, she had always been a strong mind. I wrinkled my nose to the smell in the basement, the smell of throwup, no doubt. "Okay, ya know what? I'm done with this, I'm gon-" I had been cut short by gunshots upstairs, I freaked out and covered Tails up in a little ball, at this point there was more yelling upstairs. Tails was scared out of his mind, thrashing and kicking me, "Stop kicking me Miles, I'm trynig to listen!" He stopped and I recognized half of what was said, "Theyre coming out, now! We're leaving Mobius! Don't point that-" Bam! Ba-Bam! More gunshots. Then the door opened, throwing a lighter glow upon the room. "Rileon, you down here?" a familiar voice broke the choke hold on my brain. "Yeah, we're down here, Tails is here, too!" I got up as Tails looked around frantically, for some sort of proof that he wasnt dreaming.
"Knuckles? Is that you?" I asked the bright light, a darker image sizzled into focus, red fur, long thick dreadlocks. Knuckles was here alright, "Yeah, Shadow's here too, let's go." I got up and led Tails upstairs, trying to reassure him that he was awake. He had once been a big believer in miracles, but since Sonic went AWOL and turned up dead... well, let's just say that was it for him. I saw Shadow and my jaw dropped, he was huge compared to the last time I'd seen him, I mean, ripped. He tapped my shoulder and pulled me along as we ran behind the huge gym-like building and saw a huge hovering flagship, about 300 feet off the ground. "Is this-?" I began, but Shadow cut me off, "Yes, my own design, I call her 'Maria'..." Shadow grinned at me, it was kind of creepy, he had recently been in a gun fight that had rendered him 'one-eyed', so he wore an eyepatch. I nodded and grinned back anyway, grabbing the ladder with Tails on my back, I asked, "where are we going?" as I began to climb up, Shadow was right below me, saying, "A little place called earth."