Chapter 3: Taken Captive

"Sonic." Amy feel annoyed.

"Hey Amy!" Tails shouted as he come out of the door with everyone one else to look for Sonic but Sonic have already come back.

"Sonic? You back. Finally! We all almost go and look for you." Tails said.

"Sorry about it." Sonic replied.

Sonic and the others went into the Tails's Workshop and started preparing all the things they needed for this trip. Amy, Cream and Cosmo get the food ready while Sonic and the rest packed up the bag they have to take. After an hour, they are done with the packing. They put all the stuffs in the X-Tornado and headed for Ice Palace. On the X-tornado, Cosmo is still thinking about the dream she had last night. Without paying much attention except for thinking about the dream, Cosmo does not even realised that Tails have called her many times.

"Cosmo...Cosmo...Cosmo?" Tails called out to her many times but with no reply.

Tails turned his head back while driving and called Cosmo as loud as he can again. Cosmo suddenly came out of the dream in a confuse.

"Who calling me?" Cosmo said.

"Cosmo, are you ok?" Tails asked her.

"Tails...? I'm fine. LOOK OUT, Tails!" Cosmo shouted.

Tails turned back his head to the front and saw that they were going to banged to a wall just a few centermeter ahead. Tails tried to pull to a stop but it too late. They have crushed into the wall and lost out of control. Amy and the others went screaming loudly as they are falling.

Sonic and Shadow was both the first to dropped to the ground as they were outside of the X-Tornado and as the wind was too big, they can't hold much long and let go of their hand. The X-Tornado crush fast to the ground as Tails and the others fainted with injuried all over.

Eggman just happened to see the X-Tornado coming down and he think that this was the right time to captured Sonic and the others so he went forwards to them to make sure Sonic and the others have already fainted before a attack suddenly blown him away. After making sure of that, he immediately contact decob and becob to send roboots here to carry them to his base. All the robots arrived in a few minutes and Eggman ordered the robots to carry Sonic and his friends to his base. The robots take his order and send them to his base.

After a few days...

Sonic came around. He slowly opened his eyes. He felt excruciating pain shoot into his legs and arms and bruise is all over him. He looked down and realized why; he was chained to the wall. "Where am I? What am I doing here?" he mumbled sleepily.

"Hehehe" A chuckling sound came from the shadows behind him. The noise seemed to bounce off the walls and come at him from all angles.

Sonic focused his eyes, trying to see the owner of the sound. "Who are you?!" He demanded, his eyes searching the tiny room. "You can't hide from me forever!" Sonic snarled.

When no other sound would reach his ears, he sighed impatiently. "Fine! Stay out of sight! See if I care. I happen to like being here, all by myself. What I would really hate is if you were blasting music in my ears!" He lied, hoping he would at least get a response.

Still, there was silence.

Sonic groaned and tried one more time. "At least you didn't take away my shoe, because I have things in there that would help me escape and get AWAY!!!" Sonic screamed at the wall. Although having his shoes taken away would have been bad because he couldn't run very fast without protection for his feet, there wasn't really anything inside of them.

Sonic waited. Nothing. He growled in anger. Before he could lie some more, behind him came another low chuckle, like the first.

Sonic whipped his head around. "Who are you? Come out here so I can look at you! Why are you hiding?!"

The chuckle grew louder, "But I have nothing to hide" Eggman said as he came out from the shadows. He moved so he stood right in front of Sonic, still chuckling.

As soon as Sonic looked at him, he smiled; not an evil smile but a smile two friends would share. "You see! I saved you after the crush of the X-Tornado." Eggman stopped and doubled over in laughter.

Sonic glared at him, "What are you talking about?!"

Eggman stood up; his shoulders still shaking, and a huge smile on his face. "Don't tell me you forget what had happened days ago, Sonic the hedgehog?" He added when he saw the puzzled look on Sonics face. Sonic try to refresh what had happened on that day and he started to remembered.

Sonic looked at a loss for words, the expression on his face wouldn't of been more shocked if Eggman had said "You took me here after I fainted!"

Eggman looked fiendishly pleased. "That right."

The surprise on Sonic's face turned to anger. "How can you do this!" He growled.

Eggman laughed, a lud booming sould that bounced off the walls, "What are you going to do? If I remember correctly, you're chained to a wall, and I have the emeralds! But if you behave, I MIGHT let you live, but you must be good."

"You took the chaos emerald away from me." Sonic snarled.

Eggman smiled sweetly as if Sonic had just called him his best friend, "Didn't anyone ever teach you any manners? Oh wait, I forgot, even your parents didn't want you! Silly me! And always remember you idiot, I could have killed you at any time, but I haven't, yet"

Sonic growled, showing off his sharp white teeth.

Eggman quickly moved his right hand out of biting range. By all means, he was NOT afraid of Sonic, but he had learned the hard( and painful) way Sonic was a deadly fighter when provoked.

"Oh well", Eggman said as he turned away and pressed a button on the wall. "I guess I will just have to teach you a few manners. After all, you've been in my house for quite a while and I haven't been able to show you my hospitality"

Sonic rolled his eyes. "Over my dead body!" He coated his words in poison and spat them at Eggman.

"Funny you should mention that, because that's just what I had in mind."

Sonic's eyeridges raised in confusion. "I beg your pardon?" He said slowly, as if speaking to a moron.

Eggman smirked. "Yes. You see, your friends aren't coming to save you. You are all alone.

Sonic rolled his eyes, Eggman could be so dense sometimes! "Dont you know anything, you moron? Tails will come! I know that."

Eggman turned away. My dear Sonic! That is where you are wrong. Like always." He added under his breath and then started to leave. "Oh well, you will be finding this out for yourself soon. Maybe in a few months, when you are still here, and no one has come to save you≈not even start to wonder where you are≈youll find everything I said was right."

Sonic narrowed his eyes in suspicion. "And you know this how? How do you know that they not going to wonder where I am? That they won't wonder where I went and they won't trace it to you and go look for me and find me here? Tell me how you know this, you dumb, dirty rotten, sick" His fury blinded him and cut off his words. He shook the chains as hard as he could, fire burning in his emerald green eyes.

Eggman waited for Sonic to calm down before he reached out and took Sonic's chin in his hands (while keeping them out of biting range). When they were eye to eye, he spoke softly, I know, because they are also being closed up in one of my jail too."

End of Chapter 3.