A/N: Well here's the next chapter. Things get a little graphic, hope it's good at least. I'm not sure how I'm gonna do with my new graphic approaches, so let me know what you think. Leave me a review, thanks. :)
Chapter 8
Several days had past and Rouge was finally fully recovered for the most part. Amy however was still determined as ever to figure out a solution to their newest and deadliest problem. "How long has she been doing that?" Wave asked as she walked up to Jet's side. The two were looking at Amy. She was sitting at the edge of the camp. She had a sharp twig in her hand and was scratching something in the dirt, but every time it looked like she might be done she scribbled it out and started over again.
"For a while now." Jet answered. "She must be racking her brain trying to find an answer."
"You look like you're a little stressed." A yellow squirrel was kneeling down by Amy. He had metal bands linking up his arms and very large leg shields over his tattered green jeans. He also had a small piece of a chest plate just over the left upper section of his chest.
"Stress doesn't even begin to cover it Ray." Ray was the tech of South Sector.
"Any interesting ideas?" He asked looking down at her scribbles in the dirt.
"No matter what I think of there's always the same problem." She huffed.
Being the tech of the group, Ray was able to realize this problem easily. "It's because of all the species jumping in together isn't it."
She nodded. "Yes," She began drawing the different species in the dirt. "Even if my sector was at its full fighting capacity I don't know how we would handle all of these. Sledge bots are our specialty, and we could probably even handle some Shredders. But to take all them on, plus turbo bots and drill bots. We haven't had enough experience with those to even know where to begin attacking such a large number of them." She had finished drawing each type of bot.
"Yes, that is the biggest problem." Ray nodded. "We were doing just fine against the Shredder bots and even the Sledge bots, but those turbo bots...we could barely take down one let alone all ten of the ones that attacked our base." He looked at her as she stared hard at the dirt pictures. "Honestly it makes me feel a little weak."
"Weak?" She questioned looking up at him.
"Well yeah," He sat down. "If it had been North Sector fighting, they could of taken down those turbo bots without a second thought." He leaned back a bit.
"But Turbo bots are mainly in the North, so of course they would be better at it." She looked back down. "They're good at beating Turbo bots like you're good at getting Shredder bots. Each sector can beat their native bots the easiest." Suddenly Amy's eyes widened. "That's it!"
Ray almost fell over at her sudden outburst. "What are you talking about?" He asked sitting back up and rubbing his head.
"Each of the five sectors has a native robot species that they can defeat with ease." She was drawing a letter over each type of robot. She drew an S over the Shredder bot, a C over the Sledge bot, an N over the Turbo bot, a W over the Drill bot and finally an E over the Spike bot.
"Right." He nodded watching her draw.
"Well if all five of the sectors unite, we could take on any swarm." She finished her drawing.
"What?" He said amazed.
"Well think about it. The giant swarms that are forming are made up of all kinds of robots, not just the native species of the sectors they are attacking. It only makes sense that the sectors could defeat them if they teamed up. After all with all our expertise in one group we would stand a pretty good chance at winning." She looked up from her drawing. "If nothing else, it would at least even the odds."
"So Ray do you have faith in this plan?" Jet asked. He was sitting at the head of the meeting. Amy had told him about her plan and he had called all his members together to discuss it.
Ray looked as if he were in thought, before lifting his head to face his leader. "Yes I do." He nodded.
"But we've always protected South Sector!" Fiona interjected. "How can we leave our sector defenseless and just run off to help some other sector?"
Amy was angered by Fiona's remark. She was making Amy sound like she didn't care about anyone's sector but her own. "If we don't do something it won't matter whether you're in North, South, East, West, or Central there won't be any sectors left to protect."
Jet looked from Fiona to Ray again. "You're our best strategist, what do you say?"
Ray folded his arms. "I think it's a good plan." He had given it some real thought and he'd come to the same conclusion as Amy. "If we try this we might be able to defeat these robots for good." He turned to Fiona. "And at worst it will even the playing field so that we will stand a chance."
Jet nodded in agreement. "If our assumptions are correct, then what happened to our base is sure to befall the other four sectors as well." The red of the group nodded in agreement. "We will take what we can and head for the closest sector."
"But that's...East Sector." Cosmic pointed out.
Amy looked at Jet. "I'm guessing you've never received any transmissions from East Sector either."
He nodded. "We've nerve received any form of communication from them."
Wave stood beside Jet. "They are still the closest sector to us."
"Why bother with East Sector." Storm asked. "To our knowledge, no other sector as ever heard from them either. Perhaps they can't help us."
"But we will need all the help we can get." Amy pointed out. "And besides they could be the only ones with the right knowledge to easily take out Spike bots." Amy assumed this was true as Spike bots mostly stayed in the East, and were the one of the rarest bots to see outside of their prospective sector.
"She's right, even if we don't communicate with the East Sector, they have just as much right to survival as the rest of us." Wave agreed with Jet.
~~West Sector~~
"Honey, Is it done yet? Is it done yet?" A little bumble bee was hovering over the shoulder of a yellow cat.
"No Charmy!" Honey slammed her fist down on the table. She had on a red dress and heels. She had some light chainmail like material under her dress and some metal bonds on her wrists. She was generally a very sweet girl, but she also sported a hot temper when pressed.
"Awwww..." The little bee sighed. He had on a helmet and the same kind of metal clamps on his wrists. "I wanna test it out first!" He was talking about the new gear Honey was working on.
"I told you, as soon as it's done you'll be the first one to give it a try, now will you please quiet down!" She elbowed him to the ground playfully.
Someone chuckled from the door. "It's so funny." The two looked up to see who was laughing at them. Tikal was standing there smiling. "Usually you wouldn't think a Tech would be so violent."
Honey sat up, but she still had all her weight on Charmy so he couldn't get away. "I can't help it, he's been bugging me since this morning."
Tikal giggled. "I'm just giving you grief Honey." She sat down in a chair. Tikal, although she could take things very seriously when need be, she had mostly remained untouched by the destruction of the world. Her attire hadn't really changed all that much. Her team mates had insisted that she wear some kind of armor. The white wraps around her dreadlocks were now metal, she wore some strong boots, and she had a small chest plate as well and wore the same metal clasp around wrist as the others. It seem that the entire West Sector dawned a pair of these metal wrist bands.
Honey got up at last and sat down next to Tikal. "So, how were Vector and Espio?" She asked.
"They're doing just fine." She smiled. "There really wasn't much for me to do. Most of their wounds were already healed up by the time they got back."
"Well that's good to hear." Honey said as she ran her hand through her black hair, she had a smooth smile on her lips. "I bet they're receiving visitors."
Tikal rested her head in her palm. "Yes, Mina is definitely with Espio." She looked up at her in a cute friendly manner. "Don't you think you should go see Vector?"
Honey just tossed her hair over her shoulder. "If he wants to see me, then he'll have to find me. Besides me and Vector don't have that kind of relationship."
"But you flirt with him all the time." Tikal blinked.
"Ha! I'll get you yet." A yellow mongoose aimed another punch at Espio. She had long purple hair and she had black and silver armor on her legs and arms. She huffed as she landed on the other side and turned quickly to see Espio turning to face her.
"You've gotten faster while I was way." He whipped the sweat from his brow.
She grinned. "I hope you didn't think I'd get slower." She began to approach him.
"Honestly I was expecting a different kind of welcome for my return." He smiled as he looked down at her.
"Maybe something like this?" She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him. He blushed deeply and closed his eyes returning the kiss. When she finally relented she looked up at him. "That meet your expectations?"
He smiled pushing a strand of her purple hair out of her face. "It was a lot closer." He leaned in and kissed her again. This time she blushed as she fell back against the wall and felt his warm touch as his hands ran up her body.
"Espio." She blushed as he slipped his fingers between hers and pined one arm over her head while his other hand ran down her side stopping at her hip. He kissed her lips and then down her neck. "E-Espio, you're embarrassing me." Her cheek was pressed up against the wall as he pushed into her neck sucking and leaving a hicky where his lips had just been.
"Doesn't it feel good?" He asked as he moved a little further down her body.
"Ah," She blushed as she felt him slide his hand under her black tank top. "Um, ah..." she sighed when he began to gently touch her chest. "It-It feels good." She blushed looking down at him.
He returned her glance with a kiss. "You want a little more?" He asked as he held her up on one knee and her back still against the wall.
"Um," She blushed as she felt his knee between her legs. She felt him pin her other hand above her head next to the first. "Ah Espio." She blushed and moaned a little.
"I can't go on, if you don't ask me too." He said pressing his forehead against hers. He pressed his knee up a little higher making her gasp. "So, do you want me to go on?"
"Espio!" There came a frantic beating at the door. It was Honey's voice. "Mina!"
"Not now Honey." Espio said in what was almost a growl. He was obviously annoyed at the interruption.
"We're under attack!" The cat screeched.
"What?" He turned quickly to the door as did Mina. They both ran out into the hall. "How many are there?" Espio and Mina were following Honey towards the main entrance of the base. "Ten? Fifteen?" He was guessing the usual number of attacking bots.
"It's nothing like before." Honey warned as they ran. "There's over fifty of them!"
"What?" Mina interjected. "Fifty!"
"That's not even the worse part." Honey frowned as the three burst through the exit and were suddenly entering the fray that was going on above.
Espio and Mina's eyes grew wide as they looked around. The rest of West Sector was already fighting as hard as they could. Surrounding them were not only the Drill bots of the south but Sledge bots and even some Spike bots were among them.
"Heaven help us..."
