Chapter 2
The Mission
It was 10:35 a.m. I came to Tails' workshop, about five minutes late. I overslept
that morning because I had trouble sleeping. I looked and felt so tired. My eyes were blood shot, I had a
very bad headache and I began to have these cramps. I opened the door and saw everyone inside the
house. They stared at me when I came in.
"You're late," said Sonic.
"Yeah, I know," I said in a cranky way.
"Dude," said Silver, "you look horrible! What happened?"
"I didn't get that much sleep last night."
"Why?"
I sat down near Tails and sighed. "I don't want to talk about it."
"We'll worry about him later," said Sonic. "In the meantime, let's talk about our
what we need for the mission. For communications, we need communication watches or radio phones.
Infer-red scopes so we won't sound off the alarm and some other weapons to block the security cameras.
We might need some extra fuel for our plane and we'll need some supplies, just in case. Any questions?"
Everyone went silent.
"Are you sure this will work, hedgehog?" Shadow broke off the silence.
"Of course. What could go wrong?"
"We might get lost, caught, or even killed."
"Don't worry. I'll make sure this'll turn out okay. Let's go."
As everyone left, Sonic looked at me. "You feeling okay, Knux? You don't look so
well."
"Not really," I replied.
"Want to talk about it?"
"No thanks."
"Okay." We left to join the others on the X-Tornado.
After we arrived at the main ship of the fleet, we got out and Sonic handed us
each either a communication watch or a radio phone.
"Okay, guys," he said, "let's get going." The first team was sent out. They saw a
bunch of robots pacing near the entrance.
"Chaos Control," Shadow whispered. When he said those words, the robots
froze because he stopped time. Then, Silver, Blaze, and Tails fought them, one robot at a time.
After they were destroyed, Shadow turned on his communication watch. "Team
#1 to Team #2, the robots have been destroyed, so you can get inside."
"Understood, over and out," said Sonic, holding his radio phone. We snuck into
the base as quietly as we could. It was filled with a lot of security cameras and infer-red lasers, but,
fortunately, we had infer-red scopes so we wouldn't get caught.
When we were crawling through a small tunnel, I got annoyed because Rouge was
behind me. "You're stepping on my legs," I complained.
"No, I'm not," Rouge said. "You're just annoyed because we're on the same team."
"Don't even think about it, you bat thief."
"Take that back!"
"Guys, shut up," Sonic whispered. "Do you want Eggman to hear us?!"
Rouge and I sighed. "No," we both said at the same time.
"Then keep it down." After we got out of the tunnel, we realized that we made it
to the secret chamber. "There it is." Sonic pointed to the case. It had three Chaos Emeralds inside.
"We've got to get them out of there," said Rouge.
"Yeah, but the case is surrounded by infer-red lasers," I said.
Amy took out her Piko, Piko Hammer. "I'll smash that case," she said.
"Amy, wait!" Sonic called out, knowing that it was a trap. But it was too late, she
Already smashed it opened and the alarm went off. "Crude!"
"We've been spotted," said Sonic. "Quick, grab the emeralds!"
Just as Amy was about to grab the gems, a huge robot grabbed her. "Let go of
me, you creep!"
"Get away from her!" Sonic tried to use his spin-dash attack on the robot, but it
just knocked him back. Suddenly, another one grabbed Sonic.
"I'll rescue those two," I said to Rouge. "You get the emeralds."
"All right," said Rouge. "Be careful." As Rouge left to get the emeralds, I tried to
fight every single robot. Some were easy to beat and some weren't. I punched through the robots that
captured Sonic and Amy. After they were freed, they joined my battle.
"I got the Chaos Emeralds!" Rouge cried out. Suddenly, a very huge robot, bigger
than the other one, stood behind her. She looked at it nervously as she saw a timer appear on the robot's
chest.
"What's with the timer?" asked Amy.
"Oh gosh," I said, "it's going to blow! RUN!"
As we ran for the exit, Sonic turned on his radio phone. "Team #2 to Team #1,
we've got a huge problem."
"What's up Team #2?" Tails asked.
"This ship's going to blow and we've got to get out of here!"
"Why didn't you say so, the X-Tornado's ready to go." A few seconds later, Rouge,
Amy, Sonic and I went through the exit, jumped on the X-Tornado, and escaped the fleet before it
exploded. We made it back at Tails' Workshop about an hour later.