A/N: Sorry! I've written loads of Author's Notes but none have displayed themselves. I know why now - I'd written them in italics and I'm writing the story and uploading it from WordPad (the website doesn't support italic and bold characters from Wordpad) But now you can read them :) Hope you're enjoying the story so far!
Chapter Ten: City Attack
Silver lifts the rubble out of their way effortlessly. He piles it up against a half collapsed building and gestures the people trapped on the upper floors to climb down using the rubble ramp he'd made. The people nervously start out on the rocks and rubble and soon they are streaming down the ramp, tears streaming down their face as they thank Silver for his help.
"You're a good person." an elderly woman says to Silver, rubbing his cheek.
"I am honoured I could help." Silver replies.
Blaze flies towards them, arms piled high with food. She spreads it out among the humans, then lights fires in the underpass they're in.
"Eat up guys!" Blaze cheers, smiling as she passes around the food. They rain thanks down upon Silver and Blaze as they take their leave. They fly up the street.
"Now to start the attack." Silver says. Blaze nods and hurls a fire blast at a large robot patrolling the streets below. Silver trips it over with his telekinesis and between the two, destroy it in a few seconds. More robots quickly come to the aid of their destroyed comrade, and Silver and Blaze get to work. Blaze claps her hands around one small robot, producing such heat that it melts in her hands. She kicks another flying miles away and dodges an attack by a third. Before she can do anything, Silver grabs it and smashes it against the floor with his telekinesis.
"I wonder how the others are getting on?" Blaze asks as she avoids a missile from a large robot on the ground.
"Quake and Espio will be fine." Silver replies, throwing a robot into a building and watching it explode.
"The others though...they aren't used to this world. They might get into trouble."
"Stop being such a worry-wart." Blaze laughs, throwing fireballs at the large robot on the ground, "They'll be fine. if they need us, they'll call."
They dance around the robots attacks and Silver drags them all into a ball that crushes itself inwards. The broken pieces of metal drop, useless to the ground.
A tank draws up to them and fires it's powerful cannon. The cannonball misses Silver and Blaze, and a large chunk of the building next to them collapses downwards, burying the ruined robots beneath them. Silver uses telekinesis to bend half the cannon upward while Blaze hurls a huge fireball at it.
It fires bullets at them, which they fly around to avoid. Silver deflects some back at the tank, but the armor is so thick the bullets bounce off harmlessly.
"I'm getting tired of this." Silver remarks and lifts the entire tank into the air. He elevates it twenty storeys into the sky, then flips it upside down and drops it. A few seconds later, the tank explodes as it makes contact with the concrete below them.
An alarm sounds behind them and they hear robots and infantry making their way towards them.
"Now might be a good time to get out of here." Blaze comments.
"Maybe. But aren't we here to bring down G.U.N.'s forces, not just run away when the going gets tough!" Silver replies. Blaze nods.
A moment later they're surrounded with all sorts of G.U.N. agents. A commander leading the squadron laughs and yells at Silver and Blaze, his voice technologically magnified, as though he is speaking through a megaphone.
"If it isn't Blaze and Silver!" the Commander laughs, "Looks like we finally got you. I know of your powers but they surely aren't strong enough to defeat all of us? We're packed tight all around you, so there's no escape."
"This is madness!" Silver bellows back at the Commander, "You're killing people when you claim to be saving them! Collapsed buildings, the city on fire, how is that helping people, how is that keeping them safe?"
A gunshot pierces Silver's words, silencing him.
"That's enough out of you, hedgehog." The Commander retorts, although Silver now sees some of the soldiers looking doubtful.
"We do what we're ordered to do. The city wouldn't be in ruins if it weren't for you! You're the reason we're in this mess!" the Commander barks at Silver.
"You're just trigger happy nut-cases who love any excuse to use those weapons of yours!" Silver roars back, "It's nothing to do with safety any-more, the only ones you're keeping safe are yourselves! Everyone else has to starve and hide in the ruins of this city or be gunned down for no reason by your soldiers or your robots because you deem them a threat for absolutely no reason!"
"You're savages!" Blaze adds, speaking to the Commander for the first time, "You've lost the respect for life you once had."
The Commander calls to his soldiers to open fire and they do so without question. Bullets and rockets and energy bolts rain down on Silver and Blaze. Silver surrounds them in a psychic shield wile Blaze shoots blasts of fire in various directions. A bullet zips passed Silver, narrowly missing his arm. They can hear the Commander shouting at his soldiers to attack again and again. Silver strains from within the shield and Blaze knows he won't be able to keep it up much longer.
She creates a ring of fire then sends it downwards. It grows in size and circumference as it descends and soon engulfs the Commander and a lot of his robots and infantry. The Commander's armour is extremely technological though and Blaze knows he'll survive the attack. The gunfire reduces a lot as soldiers are defeated by the fire. Silver takes a deep breath, then lowers the shield with a quick warning to Blaze. A missile is fired at him which he deflects skywards. He hears the explosion as it gets too high.
Soon Silver and Blaze have taken out most of the Commander's forces, and he starts yelling at them to retreat. Although the two are outnumbered, their combination of skill and abilities allow them to defeat most of their opponents with ease. they start chasing the Commander and what remained of the force down the street now, throwing cars, chunks of masonry and fire at them, yelling at the Commander to get out of town.
The army flee. Silver and Blaze take out most of them, leaving a few with the Commander to escape. Without looking at one another, Blaze and Silver high five each other, then fly back to the cliff where everyone split up.