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Using the drop ship's door, Amy laid out the map and began designating a route to get to the G.U.N base. While she was doing that the rest of the teens walked around exploring, and kicking back to relax. Someone walked up from behind Amy, and she felt their looming presence behind her. It was Silver.

"We got problems. The communication system is dead. I went to the roof and a dozen panels are missing. The heat fried the wires."

"Well, all that matters right now is getting to the base." She pointed to the map. "See look." Her finger pointed to a red dot marked on the map. "This is us." She drew a line with a pen to the G.U.N base. "This is where we need to get to if we want to survive.

"Wow, a map. Lame," another voice, piped in from behind them. It was Rouge as she stood besides her brother with a smug grin on her face.

"We're just trying to figure out where we are," Silver said defensively.

"We're on the ground. Is that not good enough for you?" Shadow said pompously.

Silver's brows furrowed. "We need to find the G.U.N base. You heard my father's message. That has to be our first priority."

Rouge put a hand on her right hip and glared at him. "Screw your father." Silver remained silent and just stared back coldly. Rouge picked up on his irritation by her comment. "What, you think you're in charge here? She glanced at Amy. "You and little princess?" she leered.

Amy wasn't bothered by her remark. "Do you think we care who's in charge? We need to get to the base, not because the chancellor said so, but because the longer we wait, the hungrier we'll get," she argued.

"How long do you think we'll last without those supplies?" Silver added.

Amy pulled out the map. "We're looking at a 20 mile trek, okay? So if we want to get there before dark, we need to leave now." From the commotion more teens began to circle around them.

"I got a better idea," Shadow interrupted. "You two go," he said pointing at them. "Find it for us. Let the privileged do the hard work for a change," he argued.

"Yeah," some of the other teens said in unison and agreement.

Silver sighed in frustration. "You're not listening. We all need to go!" Someone came up from behind Silver and shoved him. Silver stumbled forward a bit before looking back to see who had pushed him.

Scourge stepped out from behind him, shoving past him. "Look at this, everybody - the chancellor of earth," he cracked. People laughed again.

"You think that's funny?" Silver said while glaring back.

He nodded while smirking. "Yeah, I do actually." Scourge lunged and shoved him back. Silver fell onto his back while twisting his ankle from the shove.

"Silver!" Amy shouted while trying to intervene. Drago, a grey wolf and Sleuth, a brown dog grabbed her and held her back. "Hey!" she said while struggling to break free.

The group of teens circled the two hedgehogs as they egged on Scourge to fight. "Get him!" they shouted.

Silver staggered to his feet slowly but noticed his ankle was hurt from his fall. He held his fist up in a fighting stance as Scourge smiled darkly. He would still fight if he had to. "What you gonna do, huh?" Scourge pretended to do some quick swings but retracted back making Silver flinch.

"Come on! Come on!" the teens shouted. They wanted to see a fight go down.

Sonic was sitting on top of the drop ship watching the dispute go on, until he became annoyed with it. He jumped, dropping down in between the two hedgehogs. Scourge stepped back surprised by the intervention. "He's got one good leg. How about you wait until it's a fair fight?" Sonic retorted.

Scourge shrugged coolly and looked over Sonic's shoulder towards Silver. "Guess you get to live another day." He laughed before walking off with his crew.

All the other prisoners dispersed as the entertainment for the day had ended. Amy helped Silver sit as she examined his hurt ankle. Sonic casually walked over to the two. "So, G.U.N facility. When do we leave?" he asked casually.

Amy stood up. "Right now." She looked down at Silver. "We'll be back tomorrow with food."

"How are you two going to carry enough food for a hundred people?" he quieried.

Sonic looked over to two boys standing nearby. It was Tails and Mighty. He put a hand on each one of their shoulders and dragged them over. "Easy, there will be four of us. Can we go now?" he asked impatiently.

"Sounds like a party. Make it five," another female voice said. Everyone looked and saw Rouge strutting her way over.

Shadow jogged over stopping her. "Hey, what the hell are you doing?"

"Going for a walk," she said crossing her arms. She was already growing tired of Shadow's overprotecting nature.

Amy looked and noticed Sonic's bracelet looked slightly damaged. "Hey, were you trying to take this off?" She grabbed his wrist and examined it.

He smiled confidently. "Yeah, so?"

"This wristband transmits your vital signs to the ark. Take it off, and they'll think you're dead." An idea sprung into Shadow's head from that mention. Maybe that information could come in handy for him later down the line.

"Should I be caring?" Sonic asked facetiously.

She raised a brow. "Well, I don't know. Do you want the people you love to think you're dead?" she asked straight. "Do you want them to follow you down here in two months? Because they won't if they think we're dying."

Sonic retracted his arm. Maybe she was right. "Alright, let's go then."

The four walked off and Rouge remained behind with Shadow. She looked to him with puppy eyes. Shadow groaned rolling his eyes in defeat. He needed to give her some independence. "Go."

She kissed the side of his cheek. "Mwah!" He smiled and watched as she caught up with the others.

"Amy, wait!" Silver called as he sat on the ground.

Amy turned and walked back over to him. "You shouldn't have come here, Silver." He frowned and watched her walk off with the others.


Back at the Ark, Abby watched the vital signs for the one hundred. A female pigeon scientist approached the hedgehog. "Hey Abbey, how's Amy doing?"

Abby looked away from typing on her keyboard. "Her vital signs are strong," she said looking at the picture of Amy with her data besides it. A phone rang besides her and she answered. "This is Dr. Rose." Her face became laced with dread as she listened to the other end. "I'm on my way," she said before hanging up.

Abby began walking towards the exit. She looked over to a red rabbit. "Jackson, put it out there. We need blood – A negative. And a lot of it—and then get your ass to the O.R."

"Yes, ma'am," he replied.

The female pigeon rushed by Abby's side. "What's wrong?"

She stopped in the hallway. "The chancellor has been shot."


Amy, Sonic, Tails, Mighty, and Rouge walked between some moss covered fallen trees. Purple flowers blossomed all over the moss. Amy stopped when she realized the rest of the group was enjoying the scenery a bit too much. "Can you guys hurry up?"

"Come on, Ames. How do you block all this out?" he said while gesturing his hands to the scenery around them.

"We have a mission to do," she retorted before hopping over a log.

The rest of the group exchanged looks. Rouge rolled her eyes. "Someone needs to slip her a chill pill," she muttered under her breath.


Back on the ark, a brown coyote in guard's clothes approached councilor Kane. "We I.D'd the shooter, sir."

Councilor Kane was intrigued to know who it was. "Tell me, Antoine. "

Antoine pulled out a tablet and swiped through some pictures. He stopped on a picture of Shadow with all of his records. "This is him, sir. His name is Shadow. He is the only person on the ark who is unaccounted for."

Kane stared at the picture not recognizing him. "Who is he?"

"We're still working up a profile, but his motive for going to Mobius is clear." Antoine tapped the family profile tab and it opened up another set of pictures.

"His sister. I remember now," Kane said while staring at the photo of Rouge. "Her mother kept her hidden for almost 16 years. Nearly a record," he recalled.

"What should I do now, sir?" Antoine asked.

"Find who helped this hedgehog get on the drop ship, because he sure as hell didn't do it by himself." He handed the tablet back to the coyote. "Seems we have a traitor in our midst, commander, and the one hundred have an assassin in theirs."


Back at camp Silver dropped some sticks he had collected near the drop ship. He was still hobbling on one leg, but he wanted to help around camp.

"Find any water yet?" a familiar voice said from behind him.

He turned and saw Scourge and Drago standing nearby. Scourge had a makeshift knife that was some metal from a part of the drop ship. He held it in his hands while wiping under the brim of his nose nonchalantly. "You know, my father begged for mercy in the airlock chamber when your father floated him."

Silver walked away ignoring the two. He knew they were trying to get a rise out of him. Shadow walked over watching the silver hedgehog disappear around the side of the drop ship. He looked to Scourge, as he had a plan in mind. "If you're going to kill someone, it's probably best not to announce it," he advised.

Scourge shoved his hands into his jacket pockets. "You're not really a member of the guard, are you?" he said staring at his guard wear.

He shook his head. "No. The real guard will be here soon though, unless we stop it." Drago and Scourge exchanged looks. Shadow saw they doubted his word. "You don't actually think they're going to forgive your crimes? Even if they do, then what? Guys like us, are going to suddenly become model citizens?"

"You got a point, stripes?" Scourge spat impatiently.

"No, a question," he hinted with composure.

"We're listening then."

"They locked you up, then dumped you down here like lab rats to die. So why are you helping them?" he asked.

"The hell we are," Drago scoffed.

Shadow looked to their bracelets. "You're wearing those bracelets, aren't you," he pointed. Both Scourge and Drago looked down at them. "Right now, those things are telling them whether or not it's safe to follow us down."

"You said we could stop it. How?" Scourge asked getting his point.

"Take them off. The ark will think you're dead- that it's not safe to follow. Get it?"

Scourge nodded with a smirk. "You're pretty smart, stripes. I'll give yah that. But if we do this, then what's in it for us?"

Shadow smirked. "Someone has got to help me run things."


In the monitor room on the ark loud alarms went off signaling something wrong. Jackson looked to the screen and noticed Scourge and Drago's pictures flared red and their heart rate flat lined. "Shit, what the hell?"

Abby had re-entered the room when she heard the alarms going off. "What's going on?"

"Two boys just died according to the bands." He tapped their pictures on his tablet looking at their vitals moments before their death. "It makes no sense though, they were fine just a minute ago."

"Maybe the bands aren't transmitting well," Abby said trying to come up with a reason.

"I'll work on it and see if I can find any bugs. How's the chancellor doing?"

"He's stabilized. We saved his life, but barely."


With Amy's group, the five walked down a steep incline together with tall trees surrounding them. It had been at least thirty minutes in their travel.

"You know what I'd like to know?" Sonic asked breaking the silence of the journey.

"What, Sonic?" Amy asked uninterested while leading the way down.

"Why send us down today after 97 years? What changed?" he questioned.

"Who cares?" Rouge replied. "I'm just glad they did!" She flew past Sonic and landed in front of him. "I woke up rotting in a cell, and now I'm flying through a forest," she said doing a twirl in the air.

"Maybe they found something on the satellite," Tails deduced as they passed Rouge flapping her wings in mid air. "Or, you know, like an old weather satellite, or"

"-It wasn't a satellite. The ark is dying," Amy interrupted. The group froze in place and stared at her shocking information. "At the current population level, there's only three months left of life support, maybe four now that we're gone," she said walking past them.

Sonic caught up to her and jogged by her side. "So, that was the secret they locked you up for? That's why you were in solitary?"

"My father was the engineer who discovered the flaw. He thought the people had a right to know. The council disagreed, my mother disagreed, and he was floated for it."

"Who turned your dad in?" Tails asked from behind.

She looked away with a hurt expression. "Silver." Most of them weren't surprised. Silver was the chancellor's son after all.

"They're going to kill more people aren't they?" Mighty inquired walking up next to her left.

"I wouldn't be surprised if they did," Amy replied.

"We have to warn them," Sonic said.

She looked to Sonic. "…That's what my father said." She continued walking but bumped into Mighty who was staring off ahead.

"Damn..."

Tails, Amy, and Sonic looked around Mighty to see what he was staring at. Rouge was standing on a rocky edge near a river getting undressed. She unzipped her form-fitting jump suit, sliding it down, leaving her only in her bra and bikini underwear. All of the guys enjoyed the strip tease as they checked her out. Amy's mouth dropped as she watched Rouge walk over to the edge of the rocks. "Rouge, what the hell are you doing?"

Rouge looked over her shoulder at the rest of the group and ignored Amy's question. She jumped in the air and dove into the waters below making a splash. The rest of the group ran over to the edge to see if she was okay.

"Rouge, none of us know how to swim!" Tails shouted as they stood from the rocky shoreline.

Rouge had her eyes peeping up over the water as she stared at them seductively. She raised her head above the water and smirked. "I know, but we can stand," she said as she raised her chest above the water. The water wasn't that deep. She laughed playfully and smiled at the others.

Amy looked down at her map. "Wait, there's not suppose to be a river here…"

"Well, there is, so take off your damn clothes," Sonic grinned flirtatiously.

Amy rolled her eyes at Sonic's comment. Mighty began to take his jacket off when he noticed something in the water approaching Rouge from behind. His eyes widened. "Rouge, get out of the water!" he shouted.

Rouge looked behind her from the sound of panic in Mighty's voice. When she looked back something big was grazing the top of the water as it made it's way towards her. Its body resembled much of a large snake like creature, as it slithered towards her from under the surface.

"Rouge, get out of the water now!" Amy shouted anxiously also seeing the creature.

Before Rouge had enough time to get away she screamed as the creature grabbed her leg, and dragged her under the water. "Rouge!" Mighty bellowed.

The creature dragged her further from the shoreline as Rouge flailed her arms in the water making it splash. "Aaah!"

It suddenly dove deeper under the water disabling her to breathe. Mighty watched in horror. "No…" Everyone watched as the water was very still. They looked everywhere trying to locate her.

Suddenly in the middle of the water, Rouge popped back up to the surface and splashed the water while she screamed. "There!" Tails pointed.

"Help me!" Rouge cried. The creature still had her in its grasp.

"What the hell is that thing?" Sonic shouted while watching it drag her all over the river frantically.

"I don't know!" Tails said as they followed the side of the shoreline to keep up with her.

"We need to get it away from her." Amy did some quick thinking. She looked at a large rock sitting on the rocky edge. "If we distract it, maybe it'll let her go. Help me, Sonic!" she said while trying to shove a large rock off the edge.

Mighty kept his eyes fixated on Rouge in a moment to help grab her. Sonic and Amy shoved the rock letting it make a loud splash into the water. The snake like creature released its hold on Rouge, and slithered towards the splash at the other end.

"It worked!" Tails said happily.

Mighty hopped off the rock they were standing on and made his way closer to Rouge by running down the shoreline. "Rouge, get to the shoreline, now!"

Rouge was exhausted and tried to dog paddle to the shoreline. Mighty could see she was tired and dove in after to help. He swam over to her. "I've got you." He put his arm around her and used his other arm to paddle to the shore.

Tails watched as the snake creature near them, turned around and headed straight towards Mighty and Rouge. "It's coming back!" he warned.

Mighty and Rouge were very close to the shoreline at this point. Mighty helped get Rouge up onto the shore before himself. Rouge was gasping for breath still, but managed to pull herself onto the shore. Mighty quickly dragged himself onto the shore seconds before the creature swam past them.

Amy, Sonic, and Tails ran over and helped the two get further from the water. Amy got on her knees and examined the bite mark on Rouge's leg. It surprisingly wasn't too bad. Without asking any questions Amy ripped a tear in Mighty's shirt to use as a makeshift bandage for Rouge.

Rouge reached out and hugged Mighty. "Thank you, thank you," she said with gratitude.

Amy wrapped her leg. "You're going to be okay," she whispered.

Sonic patted Mighty's shoulder. "Good job, Might. You saved the girl."

Mighty smiled sheepishly as he received a kiss on the cheek from Rouge. "Thanks…" he blushed.


Back at camp, night had fallen. Silver came out of the drop ship to cheering and laughter. He limped his way over to a campfire where the rest of the teen prisoners surrounded. Silver pushed past people to see why everyone seemed so excited. When he got up front, he saw Scourge and Drago sitting by the fire.

"Fiona, baby, you're next," Scourge said as a red fox approached the two males.

She laid her right arm across a rock and Drago held her arm down. Scourge used his knife to pry underneath the wristband and break it off. Fiona hissed a little, as it broke free from her wrist. Everyone cheered as Scourge held up the broken wristband for all to see. Fiona rubbed her wrist tenderly as she watched Scourge throw it into the fire.

Shadow stepped out from behind Scourge and Drago. "Who's next?" he asked to the crowd.

"What the hell are you doing?" Silver snapped as he approached Shadow.

The ebony hedgehog looked his way. "Liberating ourselves, what does it look like?" he quipped in annoyance.

"It looks like you're trying to get us all killed. The communication system is dead. These wristbands are all we got. Take them off, and the ark will think we're dying."

"That's the point, chancellor," he cracked. "We can take care of ourselves, can't we?" he asked to the crowd.

"Yeah!" everyone cheered.

"You think this is a game?" he said in disbelief at the naivety of the group. "Those aren't just our friends and our parents up there. They're our farmers, doctors, engineers," he argued. He pointed to Shadow as he spoke to the rest of the group. "I don't care what he tells you. We won't survive here on our own. Besides, why wouldn't you want the rest of our people to come down?" he asked looking to Shadow.

Shadow smirked. "My people are already down here." He pointed up to the sky. "Those people locked my people up. Those people killed my mother for the crime of having a second child." Shadow walked up close to Silver and glared at him. "Your father did that."

Silver remained calm as he stared back at the hedgehog. He wasn't scared of his intimidation tactics. "My father didn't write the laws," he defended.

"No. He enforced them, but not anymore, not here." Shadow turned to the crowd. "Here there are no laws. Here we do what the hell we want, whenever the hell we want."

People cheered and clapped in agreement with Shadow. Silver looked around and knew he wasn't supported with his reasoning.

"If you want to try to stop me, then you're going to have to kill me. You know why?"

"Whatever the hell we want!" Scourge shouted.

Shadow pointed to Scourge. "That's right."

Everyone began to chant. "Whatever the hell we want!" Silver stared at everyone throwing their fist into the air while they continued to chant. A loud boom rumbled and everyone looked up into the sky. It was starting to rain.

Silver looked to the sky as it continued to rain down on them. "We need to collect this."

Shadow turned away from him. "Whatever the hell you want," he said smugly.

Silver walked away from the crowd. He knew he couldn't get through to these people.


"I couldn't find any reason for malfunction of the bracelets. Do you think it could be radiation going into affect?" Jackson said.

"I'm not sure. Everyone else seems to be fine."

Jackson looked back to the screens. "Abby, look at the plasma osmolality. It's going up across the board."

Abby grabbed Jackson's hand excitedly. "They found water."


In the middle of the forest Amy awoke to the sounds of owls and other nocturnal creatures hooting and chirping through the night. She sat up and noticed a faint greenish blue glow emitting from around their sleeping spot. Along the trees of the forest were shrooms that emitted a beautiful glow. She looked behind her to see if the others were awake. Rouge, Mighty and Tails were cuddled up together as they slept.

Amy got up and walked around noticing the beautiful plants around her. She came to a rock with moss that glowed the same along with some purple flowers. She admired the beauty of it. If only she could draw it.

"Pretty cool, huh?" Sonic said from behind her.

She jumped slightly and turned to face him. "What are you doing up?"

He held up a large leaf he had cupped into a makeshift bowl. "Went to get some water. Want some?" he said handing it over to her.

She took it and took a sip of it. He watched and smiled. "Think we're all going to grow two heads now?" he joked. Amy laughed a little only making Sonic smile more. "What do you know? She can laugh."

She smiled at him. "Come on, we should get some sleep."


Back at the other camp Silver was sleeping up against the side of the drop ship when someone snuck up while he slept. A hand covered his mouth so he wouldn't scream. Silver immediately awoke and struggled against whoever was trying to silence him.

It was Shadow. He held a gun in his hand and shushed the silver hedgehog. "Shh." He removed his hand from his mouth and instructed him to get up. Silver did as ordered and stood.

Shadow forced Silver by gunpoint to go out to clearing far from the campsite. "That's far enough." Silver stopped in his tracks and turned around. He figured Shadow was going to kill him. "I don't want to shoot you, Silver—hell, I actually like you – but I do need them to think you're dead."

"Why? Why are you doing this, for real, not some crap about getting to do what you want to do?"

"I have my reasons," he stated simply. "I also have a gun, so I ask the questions, and the question is why aren't you helping me? Your dad banished you, and yet here you are, still doing his bidding following the rules. Aren't you tired of always doing what's expected of you?" he asked curiously.

Silver crossed his arms. "What's your point, Shadow?"

"Stand up to your father. Take that wristband off," he said pointing to it.

Silver put his hand over it protectively. "That's not going to happen. Is that clear enough for you?"

Shadow looked annoyed. "Yeah, it is." He cocked the gun. "I'm sorry it had to be this way."

Silver watched as Shadow put the gun behind his back and tucked it into the back of his pants. Silver was confused wasn't Shadow going to shoot him? Then out of nowhere Scourge and Drago popped out from behind and grabbed him. They forced him down and held out his right arm with the wristband. "Get the hell off of me!" he shouted.

Drago held him down while Scourge pulled out his knife. "Do it, man!"

Shadow stood off to the side and watched calmly, as Scourge forced the wristband off of Silver. "No!" Silver bawled.


The next morning Amy, Sonic, Tails, Mighty, and Rouge went back to the rocky ledge where the river was. They needed to get over to the other side, but because of yesterday's experience they were forced to find another way of getting across. Mighty found a long vine they could use to swing across. It was fairly thick and quite sturdy. Tails held onto the vine as he looked across hesitantly.

"You're the one that wanted to go first. Now quit stalling," Amy chuckled while watching the kitsune.

Sonic stood besides Tails and smiled. "You can do it, pal," he encouraged.

Tails took a deep breath before looking to his friends. "See you guys on the other side." He let go and held on, swinging across the river and then letting go as he neared the other side. Tails landed on some soft patchy grass. He rolled onto his side grunting slightly, but then got to his feet. He held his arms up in the air. "Yeah, I did it!"

The rest of the group cheered him on from the other side. "Yeah, Tails!"

From some bushes someone watched as Sonic, Amy, Rouge, and Mighty cheered on their friend. They looked over to Tails jumping up and down in excitement.

Sonic whistled over to Amy signaling for her to come. She climbed up some rocks and Sonic handed her the rope vine. "Let's go, princess. You're up."

She gave him a look from his ludicrous nickname he had given her. She grabbed onto the rope and could hear Tails encouraging her to swing over. "Come on, Amy, you got this!"

Sonic looked down at Amy. "Like I said to Tails, you can do this."

While Tails waited on the other side he found a rusted, slightly deteriorated metal sign. He picked it up and it read: "G.U.N Base." He held it up showing the others his finding. "We did it guys!" The others smiled as they were now very close to getting their food, supplies and other necessities. "Yeaah!" he shouted.

Then out of nowhere a spear came flying out and impaled Tails through the chest pinning him against a tree. Everyone looked on in shock, not expecting that to happen. Amy grabbed onto Sonic and stared at Tails staying still on the other side. "T-tails?" she asked with a shaky voice.

Mighty's mouth dropped as he looked over to his friend. Was he dead? "Tails!"

Sonic grabbed onto Amy. "Come on!" Amy fought to go over and help their fallen friend. "No, Tails!"

"Amy, we need to go!" he shouted while practically dragging her.

Rouge grabbed Mighty. "Oh god…" They ducked down behind some rocks as they looked behind them in the trees, bushes, and tall grass. They heard rustling as something ran around out of sight.

Amy looked around with panic on her face. "We're not alone…"


AN: Uh oh, who else is on this planet? Leave your reviews, questions or comments. :)