Chapter 7
Friends in Need
I was woke up bright and early in the morning by Tails, who had coffee again. "We are going to have to leave again soon, we have to stop Eggman as quick as possible." He said as he handed us the cups. "Well, this has turned into a working vacation." I said as I shook my head, "Oh, and thanks Tails." Court smiled, "Well maybe we can just stop Eggman really fast and get back to just having fun?" She said as she sipped her coffee. "Yeah, let's hope." I said as we stood up and walked out of the room with Tails. "Oh! I finished your gear by the way!" The tiredness drained out of me after hearing that. "Really!" Sweet! Where? Can we put it on now!" I quickly said with great excitement. Tails ushered us into his workshop. He led us to his desk, where two pairs of ring cuffs and two shoe attachments were sitting. "Tails, these are awesome!" I said as I picked up a cuff and looked at it. "Thank you." Court said to Tails generously, "Oh, and thank you!" I said, remembering my manners.
"Oh it's not a problem." Tails said with a smile. Me and Court quickly drank the rest of our coffee and began to examine our gear. "These are basically the same exact as last time, the upgrade included." Tails informed us. We both nodded and began to put on our gear. I felt the energy rush though me as I put the cuffs on, just like in our last adventure. They glowed a bright light when they were put on, as did the shoe attachments. I felt the energy surging through my body. "Oh yeah! That is what I'm talking about." I said as clenched my fists. "You wanna take these things for a test run?" I turned to Court. She smirked, "Let's go!" She ran passed me and out the door. "Haha!" I dashed out the door hot on Court's trail. "Woohoo!" I said as I ran through the Mystic Ruins with my arms in the air. "I love going fast!" I said. Court ran next to me, "This is awesome! I've missed this!" She said as she waved her hands in the air. "Yeah!" Court cheered as she jumped high into the air.
We ran around for a few minutes until we ran back to Tails Workshop. I knew I had to tell David, so I pulled my phone out of my pocket and dialed his number, I went immediately to a voice, "I'm sorry, but the number you have called has been disconnected, or is no longer in service, please try the number again." I looked at my phone, it hung itself up automatically. "What the?" I tried again, but I got the same thing. "Okay, this is weird." I said as I looked through my phone. "What's wrong?" Court asked me. "I don't know, David's number isn't working. I'll try Angela." I said as I dialed Angela's cell. It did the same exact thing. "What the? No way. Cassy?" I dialed Cassy's number, it did the same thing. "Oh no…" I said as I gazed at my phone. "John? Heather? Montana? Trevor?" I dialed all their numbers, but the same thing happened. "I think something is going on in Hillsboro. We have to go check." I said as I walked towards the workshop. Court followed, "What about Eggman?" I shook my head, "I think our friends need our help. We have to go back to Hillsboro." I said as we walked up the stairs and into the workshop.
"Sonic, something's going on in Hillsboro." Sonic looked at me with an eyebrow raised, "What do you mean?" I explained the phone thing, Sonic nodded, "Tails, can you take us to Green Hill, so we can get back to Hillsboro?" Sonic asked the two tailed fox. Tails thought about it, "What about Eggman?" Sonic shook his head, "They are only going to be there to check, Eggman can wait." We nodded, and we were all in the Tornado in no time. Tails took off and we set our sights on Green Hill. All I could think about was what was going on; I was scared for my friends. Maybe Eggman had gone through the portal again, maybe worse. All I could do was keep my thoughts positive, hope for the best, and stay strong. The journey to Green Hill went faster than when we first got here, but we were in a plane this time. When we reached out destination Tails landed the plane near the portal. We all quickly jumped out.
"Tails, can you stay here just incase we need you and the plane? It'd be much easier to hide here." Sonic asked Tails, "Yeah, no problem Sonic." Tails said confidently. "Alright, thanks buddy!" Sonic said to Tails, but then turned to us, "Are you guys ready?" We both nodded. "Alright, then let's go!" Sonic said as he grabbed out arms and jumped through the portal. We were spit out on the other side; I forgot the portal was in a cave, "Whoa!" I said as I freaked out about the darkness. Court laughed. "Sorry, I forgot we were in a cave." I said with a chuckle. We then began to move out of the cave, we were very quiet and quick. We moved through the woods, and into the park. "Well, so far everything seems alright." I said as I looked around. Court tapped my shoulder and pointed towards the sky. It was a light blue, but something was wrong, "That's not the sky." I said as I gazed at it. I could tell something was wrong, it was like the town had a giant force field over it. "Come on, let's go into town." Sonic said as he walked to the road in the park.
We crossed the road and walked through the parks center field, no one was to be seen. "Something is seriously wrong." Court said with a worried tone, "I know, I can't help but worry what's going on with the giant dome above us." When we got to the road, we stayed hidden; there no cars on the road. "Oh no…" I said as I remembered David's words, "The town is under lockdown! Stupid David! He always does stuff like this!" I said as I stomped my foot. Court and Sonic looked at me with confused faces on. "David always says something that coincidentally happens later. No doubt, the town is under lockdown." I said with my arms crossed, Sonic shrugged, "Okay then, lets stay out of sight. Me and Court nodded and followed Sonic down the side of the road, we moved fast enough so no one would realize we were there. "To Timber Ridge!" I said as we ran, Sonic weaved through trees and buildings leading us to Timber Ridge. Once we were there we snuck around back and came out by David's apartment. We snuck up the stairs and I quickly knocked on the door.
"Who is it?" I heard Steve, David's dad bellowed. "Steve! It's Dylan! You gotta let me in!" Steve immediately opened the door and grabbed me. "Get in here!" He pulled me in, then grabbed Court and Sonic and threw them in too. He quickly closed and locked the door. "Where have you been!" Steve asked me. "With Sonic, I didn't expect this to happen!" I said quickly, "They have been looking all over for you and Courtney! I think you guys are in big trouble." I shook my head, "We didn't do anything though! You know what happened! You know the truth!" Steve shook his head, "The government doesn't care, son." Dina, Steve's girlfriend walked in, "He's right, they'll getcha just because of what you did, they don't want word out about how close that guy got to actually taking over. They might consider you part of it." She said in her country accent. I sat on the couch, "How can all this happen, just because we saved the world? It doesn't make sense!" I clenched my fists. David walked out of the rest room.
"Dylan!" He ran over to me, "Yeah, I know, your dad told me what's going on." I said, cutting him off from telling me what his father just said. "David, Dylan needs your help..." Steve began to say, "You need to do everything you can to help him." Sonic nodded, "David I want you to come with us, we can get you out of here." Steve nodded, "Go, David, do what you can to help them." David nodded, "Don't go and get yourselves caught out there!" Dina said with a smile. "We've got this, don't worry." I said winking. David grabbed my arm and held it up, "You got your gear back!" He said in astonishment, "Yeah, well, unfortunately Eggman is at it again, this was a pit stop on the way to get him." David understood, suddenly there was knocking on the door, "Open up! Daily inspection." A loud brute voice boomed from the other side of the front door. "One second!" Steve yelled, "Go, get out through David's window, I'll handle these guys." Steve whispered to us quickly. We nodded and ran to the window, Dina followed. We opened the window and screen and the four of us jumped out. "Get goin'!" Dina said quietly as she closed the window and blinds, "Thanks Dina." I said as I looked back with a smile.
"We gotta get to my car!" David said as he led us around the building. There were three officials scanning the place. We quickly got to David's car and got in. I jumped in the back of the two door car and pulled the seat back for Court. The men in black didn't realize a thing until the car started. "Here we go!" David said as he shot his car backwards out of the parking space and sped down the road in the apartment complex, flying off of two speed bumps. "Where to?" David quickly asked as we pulled out of Timber Ridge. I looked behind us, "Uh, David!" David looked in his mirrors to see two black cars trailing us. "Don't worry we'll lose them!" David said as he sped up. We weren't getting farther away, they were getting closer. "I don't think we are going to beat them!" I said as I watched them get closer and closer. Suddenly the car was hit, "They rear ended us!" I screamed in anger. Suddenly I saw a blue flash hit their car, causing them to swerve. "Sonic!" I heard Court say in astonishment. "Hold on!" David said as he tried to increase speed, but the black cars regained control and were still on our tail. Suddenly, the black cars slowed to a stop. "I wonder why they are stopping…" Court said as she watched out the window. "I don't know." David said as he bit his lip and watched his review mirror.
"David lookout!" I screamed as David tried to stop. The car skidded sideways to the foot of a giant robot. "Get out of the car!" I screamed as I hit Court's seat, she quickly opened the door and jumped out of the two door car. I kicked the seat up and followed out. We all stopped in our tracks when the robot boomed, "Targets identified! Capturing the boy and girl now!" I scratched my chin, "Hey! That looks like the G.U.N. ship, Big Foot!" I said as I scanned the robot up and down. "Hey it does look like that!" Court said with wide eyes. The robot then raised its guns. "Let's move!" I said as I grabbed David's arm and sped away from the shooting robot. We sped into a blocked off intersection. "Oh no, here it goes again!" Sonic said as he crossed his arms and shook his head. I looked at him, I was very confused. "David! Get to a safe place!" Sonic commanded. David nodded and then ran off to a building across the street from the bank.
I looked back towards the robot, which had lifted off of the ground and was approaching us. "Let's take this thing down!" Sonic said as he pointed at it. Me and Court nodded, I then cracked my knuckles. The robot flew over us, and shot a machine gun at us. We all easily avoided them; Sonic retaliated by jumping and slamming into the side of the robot. The robot wobbled, but then carried on to landing. "Now's our chance!" I said as I sped up to it, and jumped, Court followed. I reached my hand back and it met Court's, "Take this!" I screamed as I used my momentum to swing Court over my head and have her feet slam into the cockpit of the robot. "Ah! Suspects are stronger than they appear! Switching to Full-Force Battle Mode!" The man controlling the machine boomed. "That's not going to help you!" Court said with a snicker. The robot landed, and then began to shoot missiles at us. The three of us quickly avoided the missiles. The man in the cockpit seemed to be getting angry. "Switch to Homing Missiles!" He yelled, I shook my head, "Probably not the best idea to yell out what you are going to do, we all know how this is going to end!" The missiles fired at us, we ran towards them and they made a loop back around to us. We then all slid under the robot and came out behind it. The robot began to turn so it could see us, but was slammed by several missiles. "Ah! No! I'm losing control!" The three of us gave a quick smile.
We all jumped in the air and smashed into the robot, one by one. "Suspects! Too strong! Cannot complete mission!" The man said weakly as the robot fell down and caught fire. I jumped in the air, "Haha! That's what you get for messing with us!" Court did a little dance and said, "Too weak!" Sonic did a head spin and laughed. I noticed the black cars driving up towards us again. Suddenly David's car skidded to a stop by us, "Get to the park, now!" David said and then immediately sped down the street towards the park. "Let's go!" Sonic said as he grabbed our hands and dashed down the road and returned to the park. When we got there to our surprise David had found some friends. "Dylan!" Cassy said as she grabbed me and gave me a hug, "Ohhh I missed you." She said as she squeezed me. "Thanks… Cassy, missed you too!" I said as I gasped for air, I looked behind Cassy and saw Angela. "Good thing you showed up." She said as she took a breath of relief. I gave her a quick hug also.
"Where did you guys come from?" I asked Cassy and Angela, "I found them when you were fighting the robot." David said, "We were at my apartment." Cassy said, "Yeah, David ran in and said you guys needed help, but you had it." Angela said with a smile, "We didn't know what was going on, so we just decided to come along!" Cassy said with wide eyes and a smile. Sonic laughed, "That's perfectly fine!" he said with a thumb up. "We need to get back to Sonic's world." Court said as she tapped me on the shoulder. I closed my eyes and bit my lip. "As much as I wish I could help the others, your right." I said as I shook my head. "What are we going to do about your car?" Cassy asked David. "We could bring it back with us." Sonic suggested. David smiled and shrugged, "Alright that's fine." Sonic nodded and gave a thumbs up. David then got in the car, as did Cassy and Angela. Sonic, Court, and myself all walked in front of David's car and lead it to the portal. When we got there, the three of us jumped in. "That's always so fun!" I said with excitement as we popped out the portal. We then moved out of the way, expecting David's car to come through.
"And David is where?" I said as I watched the portal. Suddenly David's car flew out of the portal. "Whoa!" I said as the Dodge Shadow made a loud noise as it landed. "That was awesome! I wanna do it again!" Cassy said as she laughed. Angela got out of the front seat and was cracking up laughing. David hopped out and his eyes were huge, "That was so cool." David said in astonishment. I laughed, "It was fun our first time too." Court said with a smile. Suddenly Tails flew down to us, "There you guys are! Was everything okay?" Tails asked us as he landed. Sonic shook his head, "The whole town was under lockdown." He said with his eyes closed. Tails looked down, "Oh." I scratched my head, "Yeah, we've got some major problems now." Cassy, David, and Angela walked over to the group, "Hillsboro being under lockdown isn't that big of a deal, once they can't find you again, they will think you made it out, and they will eventually give up." Cassy said confidently. "It's just nothing but pure hell there right now." Angela added on. Tails shrugged, "Well it's not much better here, Eggman is at it again." The three of them exhaled and shook their heads, "Again? What is this dude's problem?" Cassy said as she clenched her fists. I shrugged, "We don't know what's going on, again. I hope we figure it out a lot faster than last time." I said as I thought back to the last adventure. We were pretty clueless through the entire thing.
"Okay, well, I say we go back to the workshop, we can figure it out from there." Tails said as he walked back to his plane. David, Angela, and Cassy then got in David's car. "Uh-oh." David said as his car wouldn't start. "Ohh neow…" Cassy said. Tails looked over at the car, "I guess something happened when we flew through the portal…" David said out the window. Tails nodded, "Don't worry, I'll carry you there, it'd be easier anyways." Tails said as he jumped into the plane, me, Sonic, and Court all hopped in after him. "Hey! Don't leave us!" I heard Cassy yell as the cockpit closed. We all just laughed. The Tornado then lifted into the air, Tails must have given the Tornado the ability to hover. The Tornado then hovered over David's car, and then Tails hit a few buttons. "Engage Tractor Beam!" Tails said as he pressed a big button. Suddenly a bright light lit up beneath us. "Okay, time to get back to the workshop!" Tails said as the Tornado flew through the sky.