It was getting very late at Amy's house. The party had started to die as the street lights became aglow. All of the party guests were feeling well fed and ready to call it a night. Sonic was so drunk that he was staggering all over the place. At one point, he even fell in the pool. As you can already imagine, that was a tragic turn of events for Sonic. Silver eventually fished him out with his telekinesis but not before enjoying a few good laughs with Blaze and the rest of the guests.
"Thanksss for the party, Amesss. You freakin rock, okay!" said Sonic. He was leaning hard on Amy. His breath reeked of alcohol.
"Get off me, Sonic. You're heavy," said Amy. She couldn't hold his weight. She managed to get away from him but Sonic just staggered along behind her until he finally collapsed onto the lawn.
"Could I maybe get some help here?" she said.
Knuckles, Shadow, and Tails scurried on over to where Amy and Sonic were. Shadow looked down on Sonic and shook his head.
"Sonic, you need to learn to hold your liquor. You really look like an asshole right now," said Knuckles.
"Fuck yooouuuu!" said Sonic with his head facedown into the lawn.
"Can you guys take him home for me?" asked Amy. "I'd really appreciate it. I'd do it myself but I still have to clean up around here."
"We got it," said Knuckles. He reached down, lifted Sonic up, and threw him over his shoulder.
"Thanks, guys. I owe you one," said Amy. She left and headed back to the house to help the others clean up.
"Where are his keys?" asked Tails.
Knuckles felt in Sonic's pockets but there were no keys in there.
"Hey, watch where you're grabbing. I don't play thossse gamesss," said Sonic with slurred speech. Knuckles reached around and punched Sonic directly in the stomach. "OOF! You hit like a bitch!" Kncukles punched him again, harder this time. "Agh!"
"Let's just look for his keys so we can go," said Shadow.
They fanned out to search for Sonic's keys. Knuckles went back over to the patio area to search. Shadow went inside the house to search. Tails looked over by the pool. After about ten minutes of searching, they all met out front.
"I don't see his keys anywhere," said Tails.
"Sonic always has been a tad bit reckless," Shadow.
Knuckles gave Sonic another punch to the gut out of frustration. Sonic groaned in pain. "Let's go see if he dropped them on the sidewalk."
"Wait a minute, look over there by the door," said Tails. Sonic's keys were gently lying onto the welcome mat. Tails walked over and picked them up.
"What are his keys doing on the front porch?" asked Shadow.
"I know, right. Someone could've easily came and stolen his precious car. That's an expensive car, Sonic. You need to show more concern for what happens to your belongings," said Knuckles.
Knuckles threw him into the back seat kind of rough. Tails got in on the opposite side of Sonic. Shadow got into the driver's seat and Knuckles rode shotgun. He put on his sunglasses from Sonic Adventure 2. With the blink of an eye, they were gone. Shadow turned on some heavy metal music and started jamming. Knuckles reclined his chair and started bobbing his head. Tails sat back and covered his ears. They were playing the music pretty loud, and Tails' sensitive ears couldn't handle it. He wasn't the kind of person to speak up when he was uncomfortable. Sonic was passed out across from Tails. After about twenty minutes of rock music, Knuckles turned the volume down.
"I've had enough of that. Let's change it up some," he said. Knuckles put a CD into the CD player. The "Unknown from M.E." BGM started playing. Knuckles sung along with it of course.
Here I come, rougher than the rest of them
The best of them, tougher than leather.
You can call me Knuckles; unlike Sonic I don't chuckle
I'd rather flex my muscles
"Knuckles, nobody wants to hear your mixtape," said Shadow, turning the radio off.
"Hey, what'd you do that for?" Knuckles turned it back on.
Shadow quickly turned it back off. "We've heard that like a million times. You're not that good of a rapper Knuckles. I know kids with better talent."
"Hey!"
"I'm just stating my opinion."
"Your opinion sucks ass," said Knuckles.
Knuckles and Shadow went back and forward like that for about a minute. In the meantime, Tails discovered a distant glow emulating from under Knuckles' seat. Curiously, he reached down and picked up a chrome-handled .9mm.
"Hey, since when does Sonic own a gun?" asked Tails.
Shadow and Knuckles stopped arguing and paid attention to the back seat.
"Huh?" they both said in unison.
"Let me see that," said Shadow.
Tails handed the gun to Knuckles who, in turn, handed it to Shadow.
"It's definitely real," said Knuckles. "But I didn't think Sonic was the type of carry a gun. He'd much rather duke it out with his fists than pull a gun."
"Maybe you don't know Sonic as well as you think," said Shadow. "Maybe he's trying to be an expert marksman like myself." Shadow examined the gun further. He opened the chamber and took out the clip. "It looks like it's been fired a few times as well."
"No, Sonic's not the type of person who needs a weapon to fight. He's better than that. Guns kill people. I hate them. My parents were killed by guns, which is why I've been an orphan for as long as I can remember," said Tails. You could see a tear surfacing Tails' face. He was disappointed in his hero.
"Huh?" said Sonic softly. He was only half conscious.
"What difference does it make whether or not Sonic's used the gun? Sonic's a grown man. He's the one who has to live with the consequences of his actions. Not us," said Knuckles.
Sonic leaned forward and put his head into the back of Shadow's seat. "Guys, you might wanna pull over," said Sonic hoarsely. "I think I might have to-"
Sonic leaned forward and started vomiting everywhere. Some of the regurgitation went over the seat and landed on Shadow's shoulder. This caused him to swerve real hard in pure disgust as well as shock. The guys all yelled in fear as Sonic continued to vomit while Shadow swerved. Shadow swerved through traffic into the nearby convenience store parking lot, cutting off three cars to do so. Shadow nearly caused an accident in the process.
"Phew!" said Shadow, rubbing his head.
"Sonic what the hell, man?" said Knuckles frantically. "You ought to be glad we're in your car because if we were in mine, I'd have to kick your ass right now."
"I'm still going to kick his ass," said Shadow. "The bastard threw up on me." He turned back to face Sonic. "Tomorrow when you're sober, I'm going to knock you back unconscious, Sonic. You got that?"
"You ain't got the balls to kick my ass," said Sonic.
"Keep talking and you won't make it to tomorrow morning," said Shadow.
"Okay, everybody calm down. Let's just get cleaned up so we can get out of here," said Tails.
"Just take me back to Amy's and I'll crash on the couch," said Sonic. He was back to his original position amidst his own fluids.
"That's it. I'm kicking his ass now," said Shadow.
Before Shadow could get out of the car, several flashing red and blue lights surrounded the group. They weren't regular cops, however. They were G.U.N. Special Forces. There were several officers in heavy armor and heavily armored vehicles. There were also some G.U.N. robots© in the mix as well. A couple officers in the lead vehicle exited and approached the quartet. They carried assault rifles.
"Step out of the vehicle now!" yelled one of the officers.
"What does G.U.N. want with us?" asked Tails.
Shadow reached into his pocket and pulled out his wallet. He let down his windows and flashed his badge.
"G.U.N. Special Agent Shadow the Hedgehog. Now, tell me what's the problem," said Shadow calmly.
"We're well aware of who you are, Shadow, but it doesn't matter. You're all under arrest," said the officer.
"On what charges?"
"The murder of Twilight the Hedgehog and human, Rocky Valentine," said the officer.
"Shadow, what's he talking about?" asked Tails.
"I wish I knew," said Shadow.
"Step away from the vehicle with your hands in the air!" yelled the officer.
"Can we talk about this?" asked Sonic. He was now alert to the situation. His seemed to have sobered up some after puking all over the place.
"STEP AWAY FROM THE VEHICLE!"
The G.U.N. agents all raised their weapons.
"This is insanity. We can't go to jail on some bogus charge like this. Who the hell is Twilight?" asked Knuckles.
"We're not," said Shadow.
"CHAOS SPEAR!"
Shadow released his attack on the agents blocking their path. It pierced their armor and knocked them back as well as their armored car. A couple of robots were scrapped too. After the path was clear, Shadow put the car in drive and jetted out of there. Machine gun fire trailed them in the distance.
"Shadow, are you insane? What was that all about?" asked Sonic.
"I made a simple choice. It was either go to jail or fight my way out," said Shadow.
"I'm not down with going to prison especially when I'm innocent," said Knuckles.
The G.U.N. armored cars chased them through the streets. Many of the agents were firing at the car from the vehicles as they were all weaving through heavy traffic.
"Oh man. I hope my insurance covers bullet holes, said Sonic.
Suddenly, they were rammed hard in the rear. It forced Sonic and Tails to be forced into the front seats and Shadow and Knuckles went hurling into the dashboard. The next bullet sent through the window shattered the back window glass completely.
"That's it. I'm not about to sit idly by while I get shot at and not shoot back," said Shadow. Shadow reassembled the gun in the car. Then he looked back and fired through the broken glass window in the back. Sonic and Tails ducked in their seats to avoid being shot.
"Watch it, man," said Sonic
"Suspects are returning fire. I repeat, suspects ARE returning fire. En route to intercept and neutralize," said one of the agents.
Shadow kept firing. He wasn't watching the road, however, and was swerving an awful lot. Knuckles turned around and saw that they were heading straight for an 18-wheeler.
"OH SHIT! SHADOW LOOK OUT!" Knuckles screamed out.
Shadow turned around and saw the headlights of the truck staring him down. He swerved as hard as he could into the opposite lane, where he had to avoid two more oncoming cars who swerved out of Shadow's way into their opposite lanes of traffic. A total of five cars crashed, two being sent flipping. The guys all screamed at the top of their lungs as their death defying stunt took place. Most of the G.U.N. vehicles were lodged deep into the pileup.
"Ok. I surprised myself on that one," said Shadow.
One of the aero drones dropped into vicinity fired a missile. It was coming up fast from behind.
"We've got more company, guys," said Knuckles.
"Quick, activate the nitrous," said Sonic.
"Where's that?" asked Shadow.
"It's the one marked 'Nitrous'," said Sonic.
Shadow let out a low growl as he saw the pressed the nitrous switch on the left side of the steering wheel. The car jetted at sonic speed down the highway just before the missile impacted the car. Shadow gracefully weaved through traffic, putting distance between them and the missile. Before the missile could catch up, it picked up a street light's signal and slammed into it, exploding on contact. The guys weren't out of the woods yet. A G.U.N. helicopter was coming up fast from behind. It easily caught up to the blue Phantom. A G.U.N. agent leaned out of the helicopter with a weird gun. It was an electronic system disabler arrow. The agent fired the arrow. Direct impact into the back taillight of the car. As electricity shot from the arrow, the car began to lose power. The battery was being drained.
"Hey, what gives!" said Shadow.
The car began to slow down. It slowly descended until the speedometer reached zero. There were stopped dead in the middle of the street. The sound of sirens could be heard in the distance. They were coming. They all exited the vehicle. Sonic went back and discovered the ESD arrow lodged into the back. He grabbed it and yanked it out.
"Just great," said Sonic.
"We gotta get out of here," said Knuckles.
"No, I'm tired of running. We fight," said Shadow.
"As much as I love a good scrap, I'm really in no condition to put up a good fight," said Sonic.
"My vote is with Knuckles. We stand a better chance if we run," said Tails.
As they were discussing their game plan, the helicopter came dashing through the air. The armored vehicles weren't far behind.
"There's no time for negotiation now. We have no choice but to fight," said Shadow.
"Right," said Knuckles.
Knuckles went over to the nearby stop sign and yanked it out the ground. Then, he threw a spiral and it landed through the windshield of the lead car. It spun out of control and crashed into a building to the left side of the street.
"Put your hands up," yelled a G.U.N. agent from the loudspeaker on one of the trailing cars.
"CHAOS SPEAR!"
Shadow's attack pierced down the middle of the highway, forcing some cars to go left and some to go right. One car crashed but the rest parked without any harm and agents exited each vehicle with their assault rifles cocked.
"Don't move," said an agent.
Knuckles punched the ground, which caused a small tremor to emulate in the vicinity. The G.U.N. soldiers found it hard to keep their footing. Tails used this opportunity to take to the air. Before Tails could react, however, an aero drone fired a taser from its compartment. It was a direct hit into Tails' side. It sent 2000 volts directly through Tails' fur. He fell from the sky instantly. His fur was singed. He landed on top of one of the vehicles, unconscious. The agents proceeded to arrest him.
"Tails, no!" said Sonic.
He turned into a spinball and spun into the crowd surrounding Tails, knocking them all back a considerable distance. He quickly came out of the spinball and started to throw up. He wasn't fully sober and in no shape to fight at all. The world was spinning around him. He didn't see one of the agents sneak up with a Riot Shield and sock him upside his head. He fell to the ground with a thud almost as quickly as Tails did. He, too was out of the fight. G.U.N. agents proceeded to apprehend both Sonic and Tails.
Knuckles had been chased into an alley by a couple of robot drones. He was up against the wall with three robots closing in. Knuckles was backed against the wall.
"Aww geez! You guys got me," he said as he raised his hands to surrender. One of the robots approached Knuckles in order to apprehend him. As soon as the robot was in range, Knuckles grabbed its left arm and pulled it off effortlessly. He then used took hold of its other arm and seized control of its blaster. He used the blaster to blast the other two enemy robot drones. The blasts pierced their armor plating. It caused them to shut down and explode instantly. Knuckles then pointed the robot's blaster at itself and took his shot. Knuckles blasted its head off with its own blaster.
The helicopter soon came into distance. Knuckles turned to face the helicopter. The same G.U.N. agent leaned out the chopper. This time, he had a rocket launcher. The helicopter shined a blinding light into Knuckles' face; so Knuckles never saw the launcher. He fired the launcher at Knuckles. Knuckles noticed that a rocket was heading his way just a little too late. It smashed into the building surrounding Knuckles. It caused rubble and debris to pour down in a cloud. Knuckles still could not see, and the rubble fell on top of him. A piece of the building hit him on the head and he went down and got buried deep into the pile of rubble. He never resurfaced.
Shadow was faring much better than the rest of them. He was using his chaos control technique combined with his natural speed to beat the agents. He kept appearing, disappearing, and reappearing. As he reappeared, he took down G.U.N. agents with a series of punches and kicks. He took their guns and broke them in their faces. He kept one of them, however, and started shooting back wildly. Some agents hid behind riot shields while others ran for cover behind the cars. Before long, Shadow started to glow red.
"DEATH TO ALL WHO OPPOSE ME!" said Shadow.
"CHAOS BLAST!"
The fiery explosion knocked all of the nearby G.U.N. vehicles flying into he buildings and street signs. Some of the agents were roasted to a crisp as well. A couple dead bodies were among the carnage. The entire street was covered with destruction. Blood was falling out of the sky.
"He's unstoppable!" said one of the agents. "Fall back! Fall back!"
Shadow walked a little closer to the downed agents and released another one.
"CHAOS BLA-"
From out of nowhere it seemed, a dart had made its way to Shadow's neck. When Shadow realized what it was, he quickly pulled the dart out of his neck. It wasn't just any regular dart, though. The dart was loaded with tranquilizer. One of the severely burned agents managed to get a shot off before bleeding to death. The tranquilizer was starting to kick in. Shadow could feel his eyes getting heavier and heavier. He reverted back to his original color as he wondered around in circles trying to fight the sleep.
"No, it can't end like this," said Shadow. He fell to his knees. "I must keep going. I must-"
Shadow fell to the ground face first. He was out cold. They had lost. Without much further hesitation, the remaining agents rounded up the four guys and hauled them off.