CHAPTER 2 – Where to Begin?
"OK Jackal Squad, let's raid this base! Eggman's base sure has a hefty bounty fur us to take!" A voice says out loud while Zin follows inside a giant building in the city. "Look at all this here. We are going to be rich!" The voice says again. Zin looks up at whose voice it was. He sees the leader of this group is a black and white jackal with sharp claws. He sees a white mark around his right eye and long white hair on the back of his head. He holds a red sword in his hand. "Come on soldier, get in there and help us with all this technology here" The jackal says looking towards Zin. He nods to the leader and goes in to help out. All of a sudden they here an alarm blare. "We have been spotted. Let's show Eggman's guards who is weak!" The leader says holding out his red sword ready to fight. Zin gets out a small steel sword ready to fight also.
It has been a couple of days since Zin, C.K and Tek have hidden under the yellow rabbit's basement. Tek had managed to repair his computer and looks at both black wolves. "OK Zin I managed to finish fixing this computer, now we can see what the cameras can see" Tek says then looks back to his computer to show on the screen what the cameras are showing. "Look Tek, I am going to go out to find anyone still in the city" Zin says getting up going to the stairway. "What?!" Tek says looking at Zin surprised. "Look Tek, we can't just sit here and do nothing. Besides it's been some time since we saw Sonic defeated. It is not likely Eggman and his robots are still in the city. Do me a favour and watch C.K for me, don't let him walk out of here" The black wolf says opening the door and walks out closing it behind him before either Tek or C.K could respond.
"Man your brother can be a bit stubborn at times but I know he is right, we can't defeat Eggman with just the three of us" Tek says with a sigh looking at C.K. C.K nods at Tek then looks at the monitor "Hey look Zin is on camera. Go for it big brother!" C.K says out loud clapping in excitement. Zin walked away from where the camera was pointing at him. The wolf looks to his left and right to see if there were Eggman robots around the area. It appears to be just as many robots around. He quickly runs to the alleyway he went with C.K and ran to the other side and once again looked for anymore robots. He could see there were a lot around the area. He stands there waiting thinking why isn't any of Sonic's friends around. Did Eggman capture his friends to? He runs out of the ally to start searching for anyone in the city but at the same time try to not be detected by Eggman's robots. He kept walking around the city while occasionally keeping hidden from robots that were around. While he is still searching he comes across a building where he finds on the ground a red sword. He picks it up and soon something hits him inside his head. He's looking at it mumbling to himself. "This sword. Why is this something I know about? I've seen this before but when and where?" He holds onto the sword looking behind him and sees even more robots. He runs down the street but he then sees some movement, something that isn't a robot. He runs the direction he sees the movement and he sees someone running down the street heading towards one of the robots. "Hey wait!" Zin says giving chase to try stop the person in time. The person turns around and Zin immediately is able to tell who this person was. "Woa?" Zin reacts surprised seeing the white eagle with a black T-shirt and black trousers along with red shoes.
Zin manages to catch up to Woa grabbing her arm while the robots sees them both and aim their weapons at them. "Run!" Zin says loudly running keeping hold of the eagle's arm as he can hear their weapons firing, seeing missed shots ahead of him while running until he reaches the alley where he came out from earlier. He pulls Woa next to him to keep as quiet as possible eventually seeing the robots who he encountered move past them thinking they can't find him or Woa. "OK looks like we lost them now" Zin says looking at the eagle. "Thanks Zin for getting me out of there but how did you manage to do that?" She asks looking surprised by how Zin got her away from the robots. "I'll explain later but right now wait here, if any robots show up here go down the ally that you'll find down there" He says before walking out of the ally still holding onto the red sword. Once again he manages to keep himself hidden so the robots can't find him. After some time he comes across someone trying to fight one of the robots.
Zin runs over seeing a tall dark red cat wearing a backpack and white trainers trying to punch the robot but it pins her to the wall of a building with the arm pressing against her throat. The dark cat snarls with her fists clinched "Let go of me you stupid machine!" She shouts trying to punch the robot but it doesn't seem to do much damage to it. "Hang on" Zin says quietly getting out the sword out and charges to the girl and the robot. He gets behind the robot and hits the robot with the sword. He sees he has made a big dent to the robot's armour and sees it turn towards him while hearing a thud which must mean it let go of the girl. Zin sees the robot point the weapons at him, he quickly runs around it grabbing the dark red cat's arm. "Come on!" Zin says running keeping hold. "Wait! How did you-?!" She says sounding surprised while Zin could hear the machine firing it's weapons at them both. Zin manages to run back to the ally but pushes her inside the ally but sees Woa is no longer there. "Stay there!" Zin says giving her a serious look to which the dark red cat narrowed her eyes at him. "No way! I want to knock this heap of junk to!" She snapped back walking back out the ally and stand next to it. Zin gnashes his teeth "Fine" He says feeling a bit annoyed by her not wanting to follow his lead. "Just let me show you I can take this thing out!" She snarls charging at the robot. Zin reacts surprised by her but charges also having his red sword ready to try destroy the robot. The cat jumps towards the robot and puts out her fist while Zin moves his sword to his right side. The robot swings it's arm and hits the cat sending her flying to a nearby building while Zin manages to dodge the arm and swings the sword hitting the robot's body making another big dent. Zin quickly backs off getting in front of where the girl is on the ground. "Hey I got this kid" Zin hears her say seeing the dark red cat get back up. "OK then, I'll attack first then you make your next move then" Zin says charging after the robot again while the robot aims it's weapon at Zin. Seeing the weapon aimed at him he positions the sword in front of him to try use it as a way to protect himself. Zin is waiting for shots to be fired but he suddenly sees the robot be knocked over. He looks to his left and sees the dark red cat stand with a smirk on her face "Heh thanks for distracting it for me" She says looking at Zin. "It helps that I found someone who can take on these machines" He says then looks at the robot to see if it would get back up but it seems to be destroyed. "Guess you managed to knock it out alright" He adds feeling surprised that she managed to pull off a knock-out with her fists. Zin then sees the girl start to walk away from him.
"Hey wait" He says which the dark red cat turned her head looking at him. "What is it?" She asks folding her arms looking at him. "Look I am trying to get a team to try fight back all these robots that are starting to appear in the city" Zin says feeling like he should try to get her convinced to join in. "A team huh? Well I guess I am not going to be able to do this alone so I guess" She says with a sigh. "OK so what now?" The girl says walking back to him. "Well we have a place we can hide in right now. I know it's not much but it's going to have to do right now" Zin says as he walks through the ally to lead her to Tek's basement. "So what is your name by the way?" He hears her ask him. "It's Zin though some people call me Zed at times" He says with a small sigh since he doesn't like being called Zed cause it bugs him. "Zin? Huh odd name you got. Name is Sabre" She says back to Zin while they make their way to the ally to Tek's basement. When they reach the door Zin sees Woa which makes him feel relieved that she had listened to him. Woa sees them and looks a bit surprised "Sabre? Your alive?" She says while Sabre walks past Zin with her eyes narrowed looking displeased to see Woa. "You. Don't tell me your here to help us" She says while opening the door. "Wait what is the problem here?" Zin says looking at both of them feeling really annoyed because he knows they cannot afford to fall out right now. "Woa? She used to be my friend until she-" She says ending mid-sentence with a small snarl walking inside. Zin looks at Woa who is looking confused. Woa looks at Zin shrugging a little walking inside with Zin following her. "Hey buddy you're alive. I'm glad you OK. I see you found a couple of people, cool" He hears Tek says while C.K says excitedly "Hooray Zin your alive! Woa?! Your joining the team?! Yay!" He says as Zin could see him jumping up and down. "Yeah we are very lucky we survived the attacks that Doctor Eggman has carried out in this city. Most of the civilians evacuated from the city but sadly not everyone was able to. Me and Sabre were just two of those but at least Eggman didn't catch us or those robots well get us" Woa says with a small sigh looking saddened. "But why didn't Sonic stop Eggman this time? Did Eggman actually defeat the famous hedgehog? Because that is just hard to believe" Sabre then says with her eyes narrowed and her fists clenched like she is ready to punch someone. "I'm afraid Eggman did. Me and Zin witnessed it however we never saw how he managed to or anything" Tek says in response where Zin nods trying to think about what to do now since he knows that's the only people he will find in the city. But what he keeps thinking in his head is about why is this sword he found in his hand so familiar. He can remember it belonging to someone but who? When did he see and where did he see it be used by the person who had it?
END OF CHAPTER 2