Shadow's Christmas Carol

Chapter 4

Silver woke up to a panicked chao tackling his face.

"AAAH!"

"Chao chao chao!"

Silver woke up enough to recognize the chao frantically tugging at him and pointing back into the mall.

"Cheese? What is it? Did you lose Cream?"

Cheese tugged on him even harder, almost lifting him off the floor. "Chao chao!"

"Okay! Calm down, we'll find her."

When Silver walked out the office with Cheese, he immediately noticed how quiet it was.

"Where did everybody go? It's not closing time yet."

Just then Silver spotted a hedgehog walking around. He ran up to him, yelling to get his attention. "Hey you! Do you know what's going on? Wait, you're that Scourge guy Sonic told me about!"

"A security guard? Seriously? I thought they were going to send a real hero." Scourge smirked at Silver. "Don't bother trying to stop me. I can signal my team to hurt the hostages at any time."

Silver gaped at him. "Hostages!?"

"Yeah, a little girl, a cute blonde, and a hot purple kitty."

Silver gasped, "you have princess Blaze!?"

Scourge's eyes lit up. "A princess? In that case, I'll be sure to ransom her, after I'm finished with her of course."

Silver growled at Scourge, "Don't you dare touch her!"

Scourge grinned devilishly. "Just what do you plan to do about it? You're just a loser security guard and I have hostages. Why don't you just get out of here before someone gets hurt?" Scourge turned and walked away, leaving a discouraged Silver.

Silver and Cheese retreated back to the security office. Silver was trying to think of a plan.

"I know, I'll call for help." He picked up the phone and dialed Sonic's number.

After a minute, Sonic's groggy voice came over the phone, "Hello?"

"Sonic! I need your help! The mall has been taken over by Scourge!"

"I'll be right t-"

Sonic's voice cut off as the phone was taken away from him.

A new voice came on the phone, "This is Dr. Quack. Sonic has been injured and can't leave the hospital. You're going to have to call someone else for help."

Dr. Quack hung up and Silver tried to think of someone else to call. He ended up calling the Chaotix.

Meanwhile, the Chaotix were interrogating Eggman in his not-so-secret base.

"Confess Eggman!" Vector boomed, "we know it was you that caused Sonic get run over and have to go to the hospital!"

"I already told you, I don't know what you're talking about!" Eggman yelled back.

Just then, Vector's cell phone started vibrating. "You boys keep grilling Eggman, I'll take this."

Vector walked a few steps away and answered his phone, "Chaotix Detective Agency, how may we help you?"

"Vector, this is Silver. Listen, the mall's been taken over by Scourge and he has hostages."

"We'll be right there Silver!" Vector hung up the phone and turned to his team. "Alright boys, we're going to the mall!"

"Yay! We're going to the mall," cheered Charmy.

"The mall?" asked Espio, "But what about Eggman?"

"Forget Eggman, this is an emergency!"

So the Chaotix took off and left Eggman alone.

"So Sonic's in the hospital huh?" he mused to himself, "Interesting."