A/N - So, I've been pretty busy lately. A while ago, we watched Inside Out. I feel like I need to write something for that soon, so I might not update my other stories as often. You guys can wait, right?
When we left off in Devastation, Silver and Blaze had founded a base on top of a skyscraper, and they had found the two fighters, Shadow and Espio.
Silver looked on in wonder, as Shadow and Espio lowered their weapons. He felt Blaze tense up behind him, loading her gun in case the two were zombies in disguise. They had been lucky and not seen any zombies so far, however the danger was that the zombies were bound to come out in a hoard at night.
"Alright. We'll take you to our found survivors." Shadow told the two in an annoyed tone. "Oh, and Silver? Just because we're twins doesn't mean that I trust you." It was true. Silver and Shadow were twins, not identical, but still twins. Shadow, however, was the eldest... by 2 minutes.
Shadow led the others down the broken street, with Espio pulling out a few ninja stars, just in case. Silver watched the cracked buildings whip by, noticing the moving shadows of the sun's light, slowly getting larger as the sun went down. 'I hope Amy and Sonic are ok...' He thought to himself.
It was nearly dusk when they stopped in front of the woods. Silver recalled vaguely hearing that zombies hate the woods; it had something to do with the wildlife. Zombies for some reason hate plants, and try to go anywhere but near them. Shadow and Espio were smart, and used that to their advantage.
The trees thickened around the quartet, and Blaze felt herself getting claustrophobic. The trees were coming closer, and closer to her face, and then they were in a clearing. She saw several small sleeping bags set up around an empty fire pit, all arranged in a circle with the fire pit in the center. Blaze saw some movement from 2 of the sleeping bags, and realized that 4 of the bags had mobians in them.
One of the bags, a light blue one, opened to reveal Maria, who spoke in a soft voice that rivaled a whisper. "Shadow... did, did you bring water?"
Shadow pulled a water bottle out of his sidebag, which appeared to be where he had been storing his guns. He bent over carefully over the tan hedgehog, and dropped some of the water into her mouth. Blaze took a close look at Maria's head; she appeared to be sweating, and her face was red underneath her fur.
Another bag opened to reveal Knuckles. He pulled a wrapped up arm out of the bag, and weakly pushed himself out.
"Is it my shift yet?" He asked the black and red hedgehog. Shadow shook his head, and helped unzip the third and fourth bags. They opened to reveal Rouge, and Tikal. Rouge had a few scratches on her head, and a large red scar running down the side of her arm. Tikal showed almost the exact symptoms as Maria, except she had a few long scratches running down her arms. Espio looked sadly at the two, and then turned around to speak.
"We had found Maria and Tikal at the medical center, trapped under a rock, next to some radioactive substances, and Rouge and Knuckles were found fighting a thick hoard of zombies last night. We were the only fighters still conscious." He told them with a hint of sadness in his voice. But Espio never showed emotion... What was going on?
Rouge pushed herself up to reveal long scratches at her legs, and a few red welts on her knees. "Don't worry, sugar, I'm fine!" She told Blaze cheerfully. Blaze could sense that she wasn't telling the exact truth though. She never doubted Rouge' s judgement, and Rouge usually had a good reason for everything she said, but Blaze felt a bit sceptical about this lie. Everyone was acting different, but all in their own way, and Blaze was determined to bring this all back to normal. The way to so that would be to stop the zombie invasion.
A/N - Ok, so as of now we have a forum. Go check it out, it's called Sonic the Hedgehog - Everyone plays! We haven't got any players yet though, so we'd appreciate it of you would join. Belleroo9 will play Espio and Tikal, and Billboo will play Shadow and Maria. You can decide which character you want to play, depending on which ones are available. There is a reference to Plants vs Zombies in there, and shout out to the first person to find it and copy and paste it into their review!