Hi there! It is 3:00 in the afternoon this time, so I got all afternoon to write this chapter ;) Let's see what it comes out to be shall we? ^^

Without words

Chapter 2:

Sonic could not believe it; he almost wanted to pinch himself to make sure this wasn't a dream. He opened his mouth again in attempts to say something, anything that would prove himself wrong. But it was no use, no matter what he tried to say all that came from his mouth was complete silence. Hearing a small snicker from behind him, he turned around to face Eggman, when he did, he paused. The evil doctor looked like he was trying so hard to contain his laughter. When Sonic made eye contact with him, the doctor lost it. Dr. Eggman burst out into a fit of laughter at the blue hedgehog's predicament. Sonic, knowing he was laughing at him, gave Eggman a nasty glare.

"I'm sorry" the doctor sneered unsympathetically, "But it's just funny. I was not expecting this battle to turn out with you becoming a mute." He went into another fit of laughter before continuing, "I mean, all I wanted was a wish to rule the world and I ended up… with you…..becoming…silent…oh no." Sonic stifled a silent chuckle on his side this time, "Way it go Egghead. You wasted your wish to rule the world." He thought, although he deeply wished he could say it.

"Well no matter." The doctor implied brushing off his coat. "I may have made a minor miscalculation on my part, but that is something that can be fixed by me preventing it from happening again!"

Before Sonic could react, the doctor took out a small explosive from his belt and threw it at one of the pillars that stood tall in the chamber.

"Say goodbye Sonic! Oh wait! You can't!" Eggman said laughing evilly while the chamber was beginning to rock and crumble. He quickly hopped into his hovercraft and disappeared, flying to the nearest opening, his evil laughs still being heard throughout the place, even with all the noise from the chamber walls about to give way.

Sonic didn't have much time to react, but he didn't need that much time, he was the fastest thing alive. He turned around, and sped off just as a giant piece of the chamber ceiling fell where he was standing a second ago; jumping from broken pieces to broken pieces he swiftly made his way around any obstacle and made sure not to run into anything. Briefly looking up, he saw a quick glimpse of sunlight. That was his exit; he had to go up in order not to get crushed by the ever-falling chamber of doom.

Jumping off of falling Rocks, and spindashing his way through some of them, he quickly made his way up, up, and up. After what seemed like forever of dodging rocks and jumping to the next height, he took one last jump before finally making it out into the welcoming outside world above. He landed on soft ground, very soon after he landed, the entire section of a cliff where the underground cliff chamber once was broke off from the rest of the Earth, and fell deep down into what seemed like a bottomless pit of a gorge just a few feet where Sonic landed. Sonic's eyes widened while watching the last of the cliff fall. Realizing that he didn't have enough time to get the Solovo Stone from that deathtrap of a chamber, and after seeing it go down into the endless gorge, he then knew there was no going back to retrieve it. There was nothing he could do.

But he wasn't that quick to give up, maybe Tails can help him find someway to get his voice back.

"Oh no, Tails." He thought. "How am I going to be able to tell him the situation if I can't even talk?" He also admitted to himself that he did not really want to see any of his friends right now, not when he's like this. They always looked up to him as being a hero who never really screwed up on things and always made things right. No, he was the too proud type to seek help for a problem like this unless it's a dire emergency.

"Looks like I will have to look for a solution myself, but where to start?" he thought.

Town, the town nearby would probably be a good place. So he began his short journey to the nearest town.

Arriving in a matter of minutes, he walked around the bustling streets of the quaint little town, food vendors selling hotdogs, children playing in a nearby park, and local restaurants with outside umbrella tables, it was actually quite nice. But Sonic didn't have time to enjoy the scenery, he was on a mission. "Probably the best place to start is the library." He concluded. He walked about five blocks and still couldn't find a map or library anywhere. He was now faced with a dilemma, he needed to find a Library in order to do some research, but in order to find it, he would have to ask for directions, which he couldn't. He finally decided to give it a shot instead of wandering aimlessly around an unfamiliar town. He spotted a middle-aged man sitting at a bus stop, waiting for the next bus to arrive, he must know the layout of this place.

Sonic tapped the man on the shoulder getting his attention. Sonic made gestures like "I don't know" and put his hands together, opening and closing them like a book.

The man stared for a second, "You don't know a book?" he asked confused.

Sonic shook his head, trying to think of a new gesture. He pointed around town and again made the "I don't know" and book gestures.

The man was still confused. "You don't know where your book is?" he asked again.

Sonic literally face palmed this time and shook his head no. when he was about to try again, the bus arrived.

"Sorry fella, my bus is here. I hope you find your book!" he said getting up to board the bus.

The bus left Sonic behind in a cloud of smoke. Distraught, he sat down on the bench and sighed. "This is going to be harder than I thought."



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