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"They live in a tower?" Sonic asked, the rest of the Sonic Heroes looking just as shocked, everyone in Tails', said fox nodding.
"For some reason I'm not surprised though." Eclipse stated, the Sonic Heroes nodding in agreement.
"Yeah. It's weird...but it feels like they belong there or something...perhaps because Andrea is a princess and all." Sonic added, nodding slightly. A sudden, very familiar, beeping brought everyone's attention to Eclipse. She looked down at her wrist communicator, suddenly realising that she had forgotten to turn it off before coming to Tails' today.
"Oh geez, I totally forgot...I have to get going. I'll be back in a while." Eclipse said, running quickly out of the house before disappearing, not able to come up with a valid excuse in her semi-panicked state.
She reappeared on top of her house, putting up her armour quickly.
"Hello?" Eclipse asked in the familiar voice.
"Hey Shadow. We have to infiltrate Eggman's new base. I'll send you the location and meet you there in an hour." Rouge said.
"Roger." Eclipse said simply, waiting for the location to be transmitted before the cut off the communication. Eclipse looked at the location, realising it was maybe 15 minutes away at top speed. "Might as well run there." She muttered to herself, jumping off of the roof and starting to run at top speed, absently noting that she was moving faster than usual.
Alexiss answered the door almost before Rouge had even knocked. "'Ello Miss Rouge." Alexiss said formally.
"Hey Alexiss. I know you and Andrea are probably busy but I need to talk to her." Rouge explained, Alexiss nodding and opening the door for Rouge to enter. The mix-breed closed the door behind the bat before leading her to the young princess.
"Who is it?" Andrea asked when Alexiss entered a chamber with Rouge.
"Miss Rouge, your 'Ighness." Alexiss replied calmly.
"Princess Andrea...I request to borrow your knight. I have the feeling Shadow and I will be needing her for our infiltration in an hour." Rouge explained to the red princess. Andrea looked thoughtful at this, clearly not sure if she should indulge the request or not.
"...I accept your request." Andrea said, looking at Rouge in a way that told her Alexiss being hurt on this mission would not be taken lightly.
"Thank you Princess Andrea." Rouge said, looking at Alexiss.
"I will return as soon as I can, your 'Ighness." Alexiss assured the princess before leaving with Rouge.
Rouge flew as quietly as possible towards Eggman's base, Alexiss flying just as silently beside her.
Shadow's been acting really weird lately...well not weird, just...happier? Yeah, I think that's it. He's happier. He has been since...around the time Eclipse showed up actually. I'll have to ask him if he has a girlfriend or something. Rouge thought, smiling slightly at the thought of Shadow having a girlfriend, having no idea how wrong she was.
After landing at the base Alexiss and Rouge met with Shadow, out of the corner of her eye Alexiss saw a look of shock on Shadow's face upon seeing her before it quickly disappeared, as if never there to begin with.
"Who is she?" He asked Rouge angrily, acting as if Alexiss wasn't standing directly in front of him.
"She's a friend of mine. I thought it'd be a good idea to bring her along, in case something goes wrong. She's a good fighter, according to Eclipse." Rouge explained.
"...Fine." Shadow said simply, turning and looking at the building. Rouge pulled out a map of it, pointing to the place they were at.
"We're here, and the place we need to get to is...right here." Rouge said, pointing to a place 5 floors lower then where they currently were. "They're probably be a lot of security, so we have to be careful." Rouge warned.
"Right." Alexiss said simply, nodding.
"Alright, Shadow and I will go this way, and you will go that way. We'll meet up here and go to our objective from there." Rouge ordered, the fox-girl nodding again.
"Let's go." Shadow said simply, walking carefully into the building with Rouge following close behind. Alexiss took to the sky once more, flying quickly over the building.
Alexiss quickly flew into the back entrance of the base, expertly dodging the security and cameras. It didn't take long for her to meet where Rouge had specified.
"Alright, let's go." Rouge said, taking the lead, Shadow, Alexiss and Ana following close behind, in that order.
Too much tek-no-low-gee 'ere... Alexiss thought angrily, though she didn't show this for fear of drawing Rouge or Shadow's attention even if they were in front of her.
The group ran as quickly as they could out of the base, having gotten the information from the master computer, which was their mission. They quickly made it out, Alexiss taking to the sky as she felt more comfortable this way, since they were faster when flying. An explosion from a few feet in front of the group stopping them instantly. From the explosion came an E-1007 Heavy Egg Hammer, causing Alexiss and Rouge to gulp slightly.
"Tis not good..." Alexiss muttered, still angry with the large amount of 'tek-no-low-gee' around the base, even angrier that she now had to fight a 'row-boat' as she called it. Rouge nodded in agreement with Alexiss statement. Not only was the thing armoured, but it's armour was armoured! It was impossible to hurt the thing! "We fight! For our mission and kingdom we fight!" Alexiss said determinedly, summoning her tonfas. Rouge getting in a fighting position, not bothering to correct the girl, who had mistakenly called where they were a kingdom rather than a country.
"Try this row-boat!" Alexiss yelled, jumping up incredibly high until she was over the robot's head, slamming her tonfas down on its head with all her strength. It was just as she'd thought, the head wasn't armoured at all. The bot's body slowly cracked inside it's armour, before breaking in half along with it's armour. "Too easy." Alexiss said simply as she landed, looking around cautiously. Her cautiousness was proven to be well placed, as a beam shot towards Rouge. "Miss Rouge! Look out!" Alexiss yelled, Rouge turning to see what was headed towards her, only to freeze up when she saw it. Just as the beam was about to hit Rouge Shadow appeared in front of her, taking the hit for her.
"Shadow!" Rouge yelled in worry and shock. When the beam finally stopped Shadow was still standing, seemingly perfectly fine except he was huffing and puffing.
"Chaos...Spear!" Shadow yelled, sending in the direction that the beam had come from. The explosion from a little ways out of sight told the group that Shadow had hit his mark.
Suddenly Shadow's body began to tremble violently, his breathing getting more laboured.
"Mr. Shadow? Are you healthy?" Alexiss asked in worry. Before he could answer pieces of his skin and fur began to fall off his body. After a few seconds Eclipse was in Shadow's place, her body still trembling and she didn't seem to realise that her armour was gone.
"Eclipse?" Rouge yelled in shock, causing the female hedgehog to turn slowly to her, smiling apologetically.
"Sorry I...didn't tell you...Please...don't tell..." Eclipse said, before everything suddenly went black, and she heard everyone calling her name before she felt herself slam into the cold ground and all senses stopped working.
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