O my gosh I'm so friggin' tired but I finally has Chappy 7 up. YAY!

by the way

I don't own Sonic


Love & War

Chapter 7: The Caged Songbird

The sand swirled above the ground under the moonlit night but it wasn't silent to night. Gunshots, explosion and laser fire could be heard in the distance. The night sky was lit up by the war beneath it. And yet the loudest thing that can be heard was screaming but the screaming didn't come from the battlefield. No… they where coming from a camp a couple of miles away from the battle.

Shadow arms were numb; his arms on some kind of torture device hanged him. The restraints were somewhat not of this world mainly because they looked like an alien made them. The restraint engulfed his entire fore arm; his hand included. The foot restraints ate his leg, stopping at the knee. His shirt had been removed and his chest was covered in freshly cut wounds and bruises.

His head hung low as he gasped for air. A Human EFR soldier stood in front of him he held a staff with a spearhead on the end but the spearhead was electrified making the pain of the blade even worse. The soldier grabbed him by his hair and held him up yelling. "WHERE IS IT!"? Shadow spat in his face. The soldier threw his head back down and stabbed him in the shoulder with the spear.

Shadow threw his head back… screaming in pain. "G-g go… go to hell." He said with all of his might. "Take him away." The soldier said. Two other human soldiers started to unlatched the restraints on his arms and legs.

Shadow fell to the floor and the soldiers grabbed him by his arms and shackled him with handcuffs. They forced him up by his arms and dragged him out of the tent. One soldier loosened his grip and watched as Shadow fell to the ground.

Shadow stood back up and continued to walk with both soldiers behind him. "Move." Said one of the solders and hit Shadow with the butt of his gun. Shadow stumbled forward towards a huge truck. He was yanked up a small latter on the side of the truck. Inside Shadow saw only three seats; the driver's seat and two seats on both sides of a door behind the drivers seat.

There were two more human soldiers sitting in the two seats on either side of the door. One soldier stood up and typed some on the keypad on the side of the door. It slid open and Shadow was thrown inside like a piece of meat. One of the soldiers walked up to Shadow and unshackled him; the soldier turned and left the room.

The door slid shut.

Shadow looked around the dark room. The room was about ten by fifteen feet. There were no windows. A dim light sat in the center of the ceiling but it wasn't bright enough to light up the entire room. There was a vent in the back/right corner of the room and under the vent a camera. There was a single door in the back/left corner on it was the words 'restroom' and it seemed he was the only person in the room.

But the ringing in his head stopped and his hearing returned to its normal state.

He heard crying, sobbing in the right corner of the room. He slowly turned his aching head to the direction of the crying. A girl sat in the corner. Her face was buried in her knees; her flowing, lavender hair fell over her face and legs. Shadow didn't know her age but he guessed she was between the ages of 20 and 25. She was a small girl he could tell from here that he was taller than her. She was thin, she wore a small, like him, her shirt was torn of and scars littered her perfect body. The only thing that covered her breasts was an old, tattered blue bra. She didn't seem to notice him; maybe she was too busy crying.

"Hey, stop your crying… its getting on my nerves." Shadow said. The girl gasped and looked up to see who else was in the dark. She noticed Shadow; sprawled out in the middle of the floor like an old piece of clothing.

"Oh god." She walked up to him and kneeled next to him. She turned him over. He flinched as the girl slowly turned him over. She examined his wounds. They were deeper than hers and his bruises were bigger. They beat him with an inch of his life. Shadow finally got to see her facial features.

Her skin was paler than his show that she hasn't been in the sun for a while. She's obviously not from the desert regions of Mobius. Shadow thought. She had a greenish-blue eye color. She also had several earrings on both ears and she is incredibly beautiful. Shadow couldn't stop him self from blushing but she didn't notice.

Shadow vision started to blur, "I-I… I think I lost more blood than I thought." Shadow said. "You're still losing blood." The girl exclaimed looking at the pool of blood she was sitting in. The girl looked around for something she could use as a bandage. There was a small twin bed on the left side of the room; on it was a couple sheets. She dashed towards the bed, grabbed the sheets and began to tear them in small pieces. She then dashed towards Shadow, "you're going to need to sit up." She said.

Shadow pulled him self into a sitting position, cringing at every ache. The girl gently wrapped the sheets around Shadow's abdomen, shoulders and arms. He flinched when she pulled the bandages too tight. "Sorry." She said nervously. Shadow stared at her.

"Your helping me and I don't even know your name." Shadow said. "Oh right, my name is Mina, and who are you?" Mina said extending her hand out to Shadow. Shadow took it and said, "my name's Shadow." Mina gasped. "As in the War Hero Shadow, the Hero of Knothole." Knothole, that's east of the desert, the forest region. Shadow thought. "Yes that's me, I have been in Knothole for a while how is it there?" Minas face saddened. "Knothole… was over run. Its now… EFR territory." Shadow put his hand on her shoulder, "I'm Sorry."

Mina looked down to see that they were still holding hands; she started blushing wildly. She turned her head so that Shadow couldn't see her blush.

Then the door slide open and two human soldiers stepped through the doorway. A third person stood in the doorway, and Shadow knew him oh too well. He dressed just like Shadow, with a black cloak and everything, he even had Shadows hair, but the highlights in his hair were grey instead of red. His eyes were also a unnatural green with beast-like slit instead of a pupil. A metal slate replaced his mouth and two large screws were going into either side of his jaw. If looks could kill; this man in the door way would be a mass murderer. He stood there, glaring at Shadow; yet Shadow returned the same glare. "Mephiles, you bastard." Shadow said not breaking his end of the glare. Mina just stared at Shadow then at Mephiles. (Hey a quick side note from Zafty here…um… if anyone does know how to spell Meffies name please tell me and I'll try to get it repaired as fast as I can) Mephiles just strolled calmly into the dungeon-like room; his stare quickly went to Mina then to Shadow. Mina didn't see his mouth move or the metal slate move up and down but she was sure she heard Mephiles' voice coming from behind her. "It's nice to see you too, Shadow." Mephiles said, his voice was deeper than Shadows, he gave off a threatening aura around him, and Mina started to tremble. "But unfortunately I'm not here to just chat with you." Mephiles continued. "Come, let's make this less like an interrogation." Mephiles said gesturing towards the open door. Both the soldiers walked up to Shadow and pulled him to his feet and yanked him through the open door.

-System activated-

-All functions are online and stable-

=WARNING=

=WARNING=

-Virus detected-

-Adding anti-virus-

-Anti-virus non-respondent-

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-Affirmative, new orders received-

-Orders: destroy all Eggman machinery-

Omegas eyes shot wide open and glowed once again. His eyes scanned the area; he was lying in the same spot where that sniper shot him in the head. He looked at his right arm; the damage done earlier that day was fully repaired except for the perfect circle in the prosthetic skin.

He sighed, being part machine does that to a man…wait, am I…thinking? He quickly sat up and put his hand on his head. I-I am thinking.

Eggman no longer had Control on one of his most dangerous creations; E-123 Omega, a cyborg with new RN nano technology, for those who don't know what that is, RN nano tech means Omega can make any weapon, any gadget, any thing that can use electricity out of nothing.

He heard gunfire in the distance. The battle is long gone from here. Omega thought to him self. Omega scanned the area once more; there were several heat signatures right in front of him. He changed his vision sensory to night.

A big white flash blinded him slightly and every thing faded back into focus. He saw three GAM soldiers huddled around a fire with tents up. One of the soldiers noticed Omega's glowing red eyes. "Wh-who's there?" the soldier said, slight fear could be heard in his voice as he lifted his gun.

Omegas scanners locked onto the soldier facing him. He lifted his hands into the air and walked into the light of the fire. The soldier saw Omega's arms were above his head and lowered his gun. "You're surrendering?" the soldier raised an eyebrow.

"Affirmative." Omega said in his robotic voice. I can think freely but I still have that stupid Microsoft Sam voice. He thought. The soldier turned to the other, "what do we do when we take POW's?"

The other soldier merely shrugged his shoulders and looked back at Omega. "I wish to speak with your leader." Omega said. The soldiers looked and each other and then back to Omega. "I guess…we take him Silver." Said one of the soldiers.

Omega found himself chained to a table, sitting in front of a Silver haired young man. Omega knew he break the restraints easily but that would only tick off the psychic in front of him.

Silver paced the room only to occasionally stop to stare at the clock and then start pacing again. This machine has been chained to this table for three days, and three days his soldiers stood the continues attacks by Eggmans army.

Omega has told him everything he knew, which isn't much, all Omega could remember was: his name, what happened to him, and how he is able to think unlike other machines.

"Where is he?" Silver said to himself. That's when there was a soft buzz and a feminine voice filled the room.

"Silver, your guest is here." Silver walked over to the door and grabbed the knob, he turned to face Omega, "wait here." Silver said pointing to the ground.

"Affirmative." Replied Omega.

Silver exited the room to find a small, young man sitting on the other side. He had short, spiky blonde hair. He wore a orange jump suit that had the sleeves tied around his waist in a way that made it look like he had two tails; he wore a white under shirt that was covered in oil. He had goggles on his head and black smudges on his face. In his hand was huge wrench and in the other a tool box. He was around 17 maybe 18 years of age. Sitting next to him was a young girl; around 15 or 16. She wore a nice, white lab coat. Her was pulled in to pig tails on either side of her head; her hair was slightly darker than her companion. She wore an orange skirt under her lab coat and a tight fit orange Polo shirt. She was actuality quite cute. The young mechanic stood and extended his hand towards Silver. "Silver, it's been a while." He said

Silver took his hand an shook it, "Miles, its good to see you."

"Please call me Tails." Tails said.

"Right." Silver turned to the girl who was sitting in the seat next to Tails. "And who is this?" the girl stood up and introduced her self.

"My name is Cream, I'm Professor Prowler's assistant." Cream said.

"Cream, how many times do I have to tell you? Stop calling me professor, I'm a mechanic not a physicist." Tails said scratching the back of his head.

"But you are a physicist, and a mechanic and a neural scientist and a rocket scientist and an engineer and a-" Tails cut her off before she could continue.

"Anyway, I got your message. I didn't believe it at first but A Robot who can think? I didn't think it was possible." Tails said.

"I didn't think it was possible either but I can read his mind… I didn't even know droids like him could have a mind." Silver said.

"Interesting, can you ask him how to get into Robotropolis?" (Side note: I don't think I spelled that correctly)

"Yes but he can't even remember when he was created; the only things I got out of him was His unit number and name, what happened to him, and his recent assignment." Silver said.

"And those would be?" Tails said making a hand gesture.

"His unit number is E-123, his name is Omega. The last thing he remember was getting shot in the head and his most recent assignment was to eliminate all of Eggman's creations and Eggman him self." Silver said.

"Ah, so he's the enemy of our enemy. Let me see him." Tails said with interest.

"I didn't think of him that way, he's over here" Silver said. He opened the door to reveal Omega sitting behind the table. Tails walked into the room with Cream close behind him. He placed his toolbox on the table and walked over to the android sitting in the chair. "Could you stand up for me?" Tails asked

"Affirmative." Omega obliged and stood up. Tails strained his neck looking up at the towering, armored mechanical soldier.

"Uh… could you turn around?" Tails made a hand gesture.

"Affirmative." Omega did as Tails asked.

Omega turned around and Tails spotted a small backpack on his back. Like Omega the pack was covered in scratched, dinged armor. Under the pack where two jets and hand sized screen and on the screen were letters that read: please register new user.

Tails placed his hand on the screen. The screen turned green and Omega jolted up right and said "New user registered: Miles 'Tails' Prowler." Omega said. Once Tails removed his hand Omegas Jetpack shook and slowly moved upward. Underneath the pack was more armor but the armor moved revealing what it was guarding. Tails stared at Omega's complex system but what caught his eye was a glass cylinder. It was roughly the size of a human fore arm and the diameter was about that of a coffee mug. In side the cylinder were two cones facing inward towards each other. On either side of the cylinder were two holes. Poking through the holes were two more cones that were also facing inward towards each other. Between the four points of the cones was a red electric volt. It came from the cone at the top of the cylinder and split into two volts to touch the two points of the cones coming through the holes and ending at the cone on the bottom of the cylinder. "A Flaux (flaw-x) Nuclear Power core." Tails whispered to himself.

"A what?" Silver said

"I've only seen this once but it's a power core that uses nuclear energy but doesn't give off any byproducts." Tails said.

"So it's just liked any other nuclear power core." Silver said.

"Not exactly, A regular nuclear core would give off nuclear waste but a Flux core uses up all of it, the waste everything." Cream said.

"But this power cores different, it has a red volt instead of a blue one." Tails said

"I guess I'll have to find that out later." Tails pressed his palm back on the screen and the armor concealed the power core and the jet pack returned to its rightful place.

"Do you have a socket were I can plug my PDA into?" Tails asked. Omega pointed to the back of his neck. There was a small, circular socket fixed into his neck.

Tails pulled a long cord out of his toolbox and plugged one end into the Socket and the other into his PDA. His PDA lit up ad showed several 0's and 1's. "Alright I'm in his mainframe, I'll see if I could get any data outta him." Tails said as the 0's and 1's ended.

As he was entering the menu the screen on his PDA lit up with big red letters saying: warning virus.

"Crap virus!' Tails yelled.

His PDA sparked before sizzling and finally dieing in his hands. Omega reached up grabbed the cord and yanked out of his neck and turned to face Tails.

"What happened?" Omega said.

"Well my PDA died, and you have a virus but for some reason your still functioning." Tails said throwing his PDA in the trash bin next to the door.

"How can that be possible I don't remember encountering any computer virus." Omega said.

"Well have to find out then won't we." Tails said smirking.

The door slid open and Shadow was thrown in side his cell, Mina quickly rushed to his aid as he hit the ground. He was covered in more wounds and the ones she tended to reopened.

Mephiles stomped into the room and threw a large white brief case at Mina's feet. Mina looked at the brief case in the middle of the case was a large red cross and that cross were the words 'med kit.' She glanced at Mephiles and then at the med kit.

"I want him top physical shape for round two of his interrogation." Mephiles said. His voice was load and harsh.

That's nice. Mine thought, Fix up your prisoners just to torture them again. Mina grabbed the med kit, and opened it, everything she needed was in there, bandages, rubbing alcohol, and a sewing kit.

She herd the door slid shut but didn't mind looking. She was too busy tending to Shadow.

He regained consciousness two hours after she fixed him up. He was dazed and confused, the dull light in the middle of the room seemed like a thousand suns.

I guess I know what a hangover feels like now. He thought to him self.

He felt someone lying on his chest and looked down at a sleeping Mina. She was out cold and cuddled up next to him for warmth.

Guess she's the cuddle type. He thought but he didn't move her.


YAY! Its done, well the story isn't but this chappy is! now its one o clock in the friggin morning I'm gunna go to sleep before I pass out