Sorry for not updating in a while, I got delayed badly.


Chapter 4: Stuck

The helicopter slammed into the ground, on a street to be more precise and skidded into a building. Hard. The rotors broke off as soon as the heli hit the ground and were sent flying hundreds of feet in the air. The front of the cockpit was smashed in by a steel beam in the building. On the sides of the helicopter, the chain guns were ripped out of hulk and became a tangled mess on the floor. Their users were unconscious beside them, Shadow being partially underneath some of the wreckage. Small flames covered the totalled chopper, but as far as anyone could tell, the gas tank hadn't ruptured, so an explosion was out of the question. Inside the body of the helicopter, two hedgehogs arose, concussed, but beyond that good to go.

"Oh shit, what the h-" Sonic puked as he utter those lines. "Fuck!"

"Are you OK?" Asked Amy.

"Yeah just dizzy, is anyone else alive?" Countered Sonic.

"Yeah I am," pointed out Rouge, "I'm pretty sure Knuckles and Shadow are just unconscious."

"Let's get out of this wreck," said Amy. "I'll grab some equipment, you two drag away Shadow and Knux." Ordered Amy. Sonic dragged Shadow and Rouge took Knuckles, but as soon as she grabbed him he came to.

"What the hell happened?" Asked the confused echidna.

"We crashed we are evacuating our heli." Answered Rouge.

"I'll help," suggested Knuckles, "is Tails still in there?"

"Yeah – oh shit! We gotta get him out of there! Same with Hunter!" Exclaimed Sonic. Knuckles went up to the cockpit, smashed in the window, and grabbed Tails from his seat. He was unconscious. That's when Knuckles noticed the steel beam in the place where Sgt. Hunter should have been.

"Guys, Hunter's dead. We can save Tails, but Sarge is for sure dead."

"Crap, now what do we do?" asked Amy.

"We recover first, I think we should stay in this building and hold out until we recuperate. Then we can use the radio to see what command wants." suggested the guardian. "Let's go to a middle floor in this building. We can see the entire road, and also stay covered from the air. We need to take shifts too. Two people work the radio and tend to the wounded, the other two watch the road."

"Good idea Knux. How did you come up with all that?" Questioned Rouge, slightly impressed by his tactics.

"I just make this up as I go along, and hope it works."

"Well keep it up knucklehead"

So everybody unloaded the chopper. They took the medkits, radios, everybody's equipment and a week's worth of food and water. The soldiers got to the 12th floor and set up camp there. They laid Tails and Shadow down on some blankets and checked their vital signs. The two were breathing, and had pulse, which was good. Sonic called command, and command told them to stay put until a front could be made at the city. Knuckles put on a ghillie suit and aimed his rifle outside the window, waiting on some intruders. It was then when he saw some of the city. The buildings were just shells, most now rubble, as small fires were raging everywhere. The bombardment of 3 months had really taken it's toll on the city. Rouge noted this too, and kept her eyes on the road with Knuckles.

"We've got an enemy patrol coming dangerously close to our building. Let's take them out. Put on a suppressor." Ordered Knuckles. There was a five man patrol a hundred feet away, snooping around the perimeter of their building. Knuckles and Rouge took aim.

"On three. One, two, three!"

Knuckles picked off the man behind the others with a head shot. Then the guy in front of him. Rouge emptied her clip into the other three.

"Holy shit!" Knuckles just stood by the window stunned. He just killed two people. Hadn't he stood against killing? Hadn't everyone? Killing a mindless robot was nothing but a person? "I just ended two peoples' lives. And nobody gives a flying fuck" Thought Knuckles over and over until he convinced himself that killing two people for the good of the world was a good thing. Was it for the good of the world though? "What the fuck are we doing?" he thought out loud.

"I have no idea, this is fucked." replied Rouge.

It was silent for a bit Tails broke the silence by coming to.

"AAHH SWEET JESUS NO!" He yelled writhing on the floor. Sonic kneeled beside him.

"Calm down Tails you just got up" he calmly said to reassure the shaky fox.

"I had a dream where we were sent off to war and I crashed a helicopter."

"It's all real Tails, you just passed out from shock or something, Sarge is dead." Amy said, jumping into the conversation.

Tails puked. "Oh my god this isn't happening. This can't be happening!"

It took hours for Tails to get a grip. While Sonic and Amy tried to calm him down, Knuckles and Rouge kept watch on the road, in case anybody found the missing patrol group. Shadow stayed unconscious. It was amazing how he was alive seeing that part of the heli collapsed on him. As night fell, Amy and Sonic shifted with Knuckles and Rouge for watching the road. Being up all day took a toll on them. Knuckles made himself comfy where Shadow the radio were. Rouge decided to sit beside him. He was mumbling something, and if you looked into his eyes you could see a kind of deadness.

She broke the silence between them "Hey Knuckles?"

"Yeah?"

"What are you thinking about?" She asked.

"How fucked up this is. I used to stand for not killing any creature, no matter who. But now I stand for nothing. I killed people. They used to call me a hero, but now after this I can't call myself that anymore. I'm a murderer" He answered.

"Wow Knuckles that's deep. I agree with you. Even though I was nothing before, I feel that now I'm just a cold hearted killer."

"Well, it's not a complete loss. Hell, we're getting along now. If I can pull just one good thing like that out of this god-awful mess, then maybe I can be happy later in my life."

"Ya it's nice to finally get along with you. I used to think you were such an asshole until you started being nice to me."

"And I used to think were just a selfish thief until I saw you could change. You know what? We should just start over after this. I'll take you out or something"

"I would love that Knuckles. Oh and I never thanked you for saving my life on ARK. I owe you."

"You owe me nothing. Consider it an act of kindness."

"Well thanks anyways."

Getting along was kind of a new experience for them, and they didn't get why they were being so open to each other. Maybe they finally cracked.

They both sighed and tried to fall asleep, thinking about eachother.


Ugh, I hated that chapter. Oh well, just R&R please, and you can help me help you make this story more enjoyable. For some reason everybody's puking now too.