Part VII: Me Lassie Takes Me Everywhere
"Thanks you, Lass." Sonic said as his nurse from the other day helped him to the exterior of the tent. They had become fast friends, and learned that her name was Vienna, but they opted to use his nickname for her, either, "Lass," or, "Lassie," when the other Irish soldiers weren't around.
"I will be back, Olgilvie. I need to attend to another patient."
"Okay, I'll see you later, Lass!" he called to his retreating friend. He laid back in the grass, enjoying the Sun's warm beams of light that hit his tan muzzle. The only thing that wasn't very peaceful about this, was the bombs, gunshots, and fighting going on in the distance. He twitched his ear as the grass behind him rustled. He glanced up to find his nurse supporting Silver on her shoulder.
"Olgilvie, your friend wants to speak with you." Vienna helped Silver to sit down, near Olgilvie.
Silver and Olgilvie sat for several minutes in harsh silence before Olgilvie said to him in Scottish, "What do ye want?"
"Olgilvie, I'm sorry-"
"You should've thought about that the other day! Me spending me time looking for you for nothing…I should just leave ye here, but I won't." he pointed to the guards by the entrance of the camp, "See there? We's must leave before the morrow. Our platoon doesn't leave until the day after tomorrow, and it rains harshly at nightfall, for the bugs bite harder than horseflies. So we must leave tonight!"
"Aye, but what about your lassie here?" he gestured to the orange hedgehog, Vienna, "Is she coming too?"
"Yes, Vienna is coming. I can't leave her here. She helped protect me. Besides, she was born in Scotland, our homeland, and was captured when the war began, so she's one of us!" he pulled Vienna toward him.
"Ah, it's good to meet a fellow countryman."
"Now, here's what we needs must do…"
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Darkness filled the night sky. Olgilvie walked about the camp with the other Irish soldiers thinking him to be Irish, "What be you doing at this hour?"
"I needs must stretch my leg. My nurse tells me so."
"Alright. Go on."
He gave a nod and continued around the camp. The guards weren't supposed to change positions until a half an hour from now, and it took roughly five minutes for them to get to their stations. This would give Olgilvie, Silver, and Vienna enough time to make a break for it.
Sonic approached the medical tent, and, turning to the head nurse, said, "The sergeant wants a word with the Scotsman named Tsurumi."
"The Scottsman?"
"Yes."
"You may retrieve him." then added on bitterly, "Maybe they'll execute him."
Holding back a nasty remark and offended expression, Sonic merely snarled, "Maybe."
Next, he walked sternly over to Silver and began in Scottish, "Aye, Tsurumi is your name, eh?"
"Yes, Tsurumi."
"Our sergeant wants to see you." he pulled him up roughly, and almost dragged him out of the medical tent, calling to Vienna, "The sergeant wants to see you too. Now come, ye old naught!" he demanded, and immediately, Vienna followed. All of their hearts pounded as they made their way towards freedom.
"Quick! This way!" whispered the cobalt one just loud enough so the others could hear.
"Halt!" cried a soldier, "Where're you going?"
"Ah…orders are we take this nurse, a traitor, and this Scott, to be executed." he pushed them roughly forward.
"Execution is not done until morning." his said as a matter-of-factly.
"Yes, but they're causing much trouble-"
"I see." he glanced out the entrance. Nothing but the thick forest, "But why out this way?"
"Ah, I have a soft heart and tay can't—er…" he slipped into a faint Scottish accent, Irish! Irish accent! he cried within his mind, as he returned to an Irish accent in a moment's notice, "I can't let the other soldiers hear their cries of pain, nor let them die in humiliation. Nor can I bare their cries."
He looked at him suspiciously, "If you say you have a heart, then I shall come with you to spare you of their cries of mercy."
"Ah, no," he went into a slight state of panic-he couldn't let this man go with them! They were almost free! "-I shall do it! I was given the orders, and it be me own responsibility."
"I insist I should at least take some of the guilt for these executions."
"I cannot. It is my responsibility." his words bit at the guard, indicating his authority, "Not yours."
"Well, if you insist, sir, go on." he reluctantly opened the gate, letting them through.
"Thank you, soldier." Olgilvie saluted the man before exiting the camp.
They were home-free.
"Yes, we did it!" Silver cried once they were out of eat shot of the camp.
"Not too loud! There might be some around. We're not completely out of the woods yet, Silver."
"Aye, I know that."
"Then let's get going. We have a long trek ahead of us."
"Alright, let's go."
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The trio travelled the entire night, making their way up and over the valley Sonic had originally come through to the Irish camp. It was not long before they had gone not more than ten miles before they could hear the sounds of marching footsteps and an occasional gunshot coming from the camp.
"You think they discovered our escape?" Silver's ears pricked up, listening for any other sounds coming from the other side of the valley.
"I wouldn't doubt it. Those Irish are good trackers, and if that last soldier we met before we left the camp caught my Scottish accent, we're in trouble."
"Bite your tongue, Olgilvie!"
"Why's that Vienna?"
"There's the Irish cresting that hill!" she pointed to the opposite side of the valley they stood on where a line of Irish soldiers climbed down one of the cliffs and down to the bottom of the valley.
"Aye, not now! Let's go! We can't let them catch up with us or we'll be dead!" Olgilvie lifted his white friend up to carry him piggy-back, then started running a little ways into the forest, "Vienna, come on! We've only to fare four more miles and we'll be back at our camp, we have."
In response, Vienna started after her friends, helping to support the ivory one whenever needed.
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"Quick now, through here!" the cobalt hedgehog glanced up at the silver on his back, hoping to see if the other was still well. During the last hour or two of racing through the forest, Silver had started to catch some sort of stomach virus, which slowed the trio down whenever Silver was not feeling well, "You okay, Silver?"
"A little, I might say, Sonic." he answered quietly, laying his head back down on the other's head, "Keep going—don't mind me."
"You sure, lad?"
"I am."
Another twenty minutes, and the trio had burst into the Scottish camp, all falling to their knees, trembling for want of food and water, but mostly Silver, since he had been ill.
"Sergeant Robotnik! Sergeant!" Olgilvie called through the quiet camp. He looked about them—their camp was deserted. Not a single living soul could be found—no, not one!
"Oh, may God have mercy on us! The Irish have scoured o'er our camp, and have taken us for everything we've got!"
"Don't talk that way, Olgilvie! We musn't think in that way at all! Remember what Shadow always said? "A cowardly boy will remain a nuisance until the army makes him into a valiant and honest leader." " he reassured his friend, "And I believe that you are that leader that Shadow always spoke about, Sonic."
A/N: Song lyrics are the rest of the story. So read on, dear reader, read on!
"Wandering back to that garden green,
Her heart's so full of the man she'd seen.
Oh, for a sign to tell her where or when…
Just to find him once again
For there deep in the guarded wood,
In the distance a young man stood,
And as he turned as if by print had planned,
She saw roses in his hands."
"And she was a fair and tender creature,
And he was kind and strong of heart.
And neither one did know
Each had touched the other's soul
They held onto that enchanted night."
XXX
A/N: My favourite part is when Olgilvie and Silver meet in the Irish camp—I LOVE voicing the characters and practising my Irish and Scottish accents (even though I have a mixture of a British, Irish, AND Scottish accents when I do so…that's what cha get when all three nationalities are in ye)…I especially like how you can see the pure bitterness between the two because Silver mistook Olgilvie for becoming an Irish soldier, and Silver's reaction when he learns that he is only using his Irish language and such as a cover-up to find Silver.
I know it ended a little abruptly, but I really had no more ideas for this :( I used up my brain power! o.o
Anywho, thanks for reading!
~Andi Rose
