Guys, I'm on a roll! This story is just coming out, one chapter after another! I'm kinda surprised, but happy! Here's the new chapter, I plan on getting another uploaded either tonight or tomorrow.
"No, no, no, no, NO! Why is that bird-brain never here when we need him!" Sonic yelled, ruffling her hair with her hands and pacing. That stupid bastard!
"It would only happen to be a coincidence, I guess..." Wave responded, stacking some papers and placing them back in the cabinets they belonged to. "He's never around when I need to talk to him, or anyone for that matter."
Just then, the bird-brain busted through the door, making a trumpet sound. "Ladies! I present today's batch of coffee!"
Sonic snatched the coffee and placed it to the side, before grabbing Jet's shoulders and shaking as hard as she could. "Jet, where the hell have you been? We need your knowledge, right now! Stupid bird-brain!"
She finally let him go, and he cracked his neck a few times. "Jeez, I didn't know you missed me that much..."
"Jet, this is serious. We're presuming that the person who thrashed both of Division X's rooms left it, and it's in ancient Babylonian. You're the only one who can read it, right?" Wave asked, handing him the letter. He looked at it, before sighing and saying, "Storm could read it better than I could, but I'll try..."
"Woah, wait, did you just say Storm?" Knuckles asked. Jet nodded. "Yeah, Idunno where he is though. He just... Up and left one day, around the time we moved here."
"When was that?" Sonic asked. Something about that didn't seem right... "A few months ago, maybe a year...?"
That doesn't make any sense... Storm works with Rose... And we were stationed here last month, so how could she... Unless she was here the whole time... Thoughts swirled around in her head. It wasn't getting any easier to find her, but more and more confusing.
"Sonic? Are you alright?" Wave asked, but Jet butted in with, "You wouldn't happen to know something about him, would you?"
Sonic waved her hand in a dismissive manner. "No, I don't, I'm sorry. Anyway, what can you get from that letter?"
The group turned to a sudden yelp from the door. Shadow and Blaze stood there, equally horrified and pissed of looks. "What the hell did you people do?"
"We came back to it like this. Sorry." Sonic meekly replied. The some of the desks and chairs were still flipped, and there was still paper all over the floor. "Oh my god, you're completely incompetent! Is the weapons stash still here?" Shadow asked, glaring. Knuckles and Sonic yelped, "Oh shit!" and rushed over to the wall near the corner of the room. They pulled the panel, only find their safe in complete ruins. "No, damn it! Damn it, Damn it, Damn it! I swear, I'm gonna slit the throats of all of Rose's goons!"
Knuckles patted her back. "Sorry about the toaster. I guess if I hadn't tried to cook, this wouldn't have happened."
"No, no, it's fine. We'll just... Rebuild the safe, and the stash... And everything else while we're at it." Sonic replied sadly. "So Jet, what did you get from the letter?"
"Um... I can only read parts, but I pieced it together as best I could with Cream and Wave's help... We got, 'I'll be there...' and that's it. The words on the envelope say, 'From three..' But there has to be another letter." Jet explained, placing it on the desk. "Sorry I couldn't help more."
Before he could leave, a small, rectangular pointy thing hit him in the ear. "Ow! Damn, I just got that pierced and... Wait, this is..."
"I found you the second note. Translation please?" Sonic asked, back still to them. Blaze started shuffling papers on the floor with Knuckles, and Shadow stood by the wall. After a few minutes of conversation and reading, Jet finally said, "We got it. 'To four/million, Bring them to the gate.'"
"Bring them all to the gate at three, I'll be there so come and find me." Shadow replied. Everyone stared at him. "How did you get that so quickly?"
"It's simple. Just organize the words until they are grammatically correct. Also, four/millionths of an hour is impossible, so what else could that mean? If it was left on our door, it must mean someone wants us to find them." He said. "Honestly, I expected you to be able to figure that out as well."
"Well, excuse me, mister Smarty-pants! Sorry I didn't make the genius cut!" Sonic snapped, kicking the wall. "I'm going back to the office to check this out. Come back when you're finished cleaning." She snatched the letter on her way out the door and took quick angry strides to her office.
"Nice going, Sherlock." Blaze congratulated. "Ah, fuck you." Shadow snapped back. Wave and Cream noticed it, but Shadow seemed guilty of his actions.
A few hours later, they reported into Sonic's office. She sat at her desk, twirling a pencil in her fingers and staring at the computer monitor. "Took you long enough. I was ready to come get you myself." Shadow bit his tongue to keep from snapping back. "I figured out where the gate is: It's the exit to town, the one that if you take the road to, it leads to that stretch of nothing and then the military base."
"But that takes forty minutes to get there by foot, and that's if you're running. We've only got fifteen." Blaze said, staring at the clock.
"Well, if you speed in a car, we can get there in less than that. Besides, I sent some men to the scene, they're gonna call for both a no-show and if they do show up at all." Sonic stated. "So what are we waiting for? There's a car out front, let's go."
The intercom on her table buzzed, static on the other end. Then the sound of laughing could be heard and a scream. "Shi- Sonic... Get you... ss dow... fast..." There was more static, and then it buzzed and shut off. "You hear that, ladies? Let's go!" Knuckles yelled, pulling on her coat. She placed her revolver into it's pouch on her thigh. Shadow did the same with his pistols, placing one in each holster. Blaze snagged her rapier, and Sonic threw he bag with her twin short swords and combat shotgun over he shoulder. They ran out the door and down the hall, and then down the three flights of stairs and into the car that was already getting ready to leave.
They arrived on the scene just in the nick of time. There were overturned cars and downed men everywhere. Whoever wasn't wounded fatally were helping the injured back to the cars. No fatalities. Yet.
"What happened?" Sonic asked, running over to help a man up. "Oh, god, it was so fast I didn't see. One of car's exploded, and then most of the guys were on the ground. There was a green hared punk and this tall buff guy in grey with him."
Sonic placed him in one of the vans, where another one of the men treated to his injuries. She came back, pointing at the gate. "It was Storm. And if I'm right, Vector was here too."
Blaze gasped, and Knuckles gave Sonic a strange stare. "But I though we took care of him back in the day..."
"Yeah, I guess we didn't-"
"wait, you said Storm... I thought you didn't know anything about that." Blaze asked. Shadow glared. "Blaze, we've kinda been lying to him since he started asking about the guy. It's like, we're not trying to hurt him by saying, 'Oh, yeah, he works with Rose and hates you now!' but instead are letting him down easy by lying. It's a tool of the trade." Sonic explained. "Here, I'll tell you what: After we catch Rose, I promise I'll tell him everything."
Blaze nodded slowly, and shadow scoffed. "We don't have time for this. Get your asses in gear, we're moving."
"Tch, yeah, since when were you the boss?" Sonic muttered, but followed him anyway.
There you have it! Be on the look out for more chapters soon~
