Chapter Ten: Hedgehog Warfare
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U.S. Military Base, Vietnam Jungle, 8:00 pm
With the night blanketed across the sky, sonic was hiding behind a bush. He saw a gate, a hummer drove up to it and stopped. The door opened horizontally and the hummer drove in. Sonic quickly slipped through just before it closed. Sonic saw a stack of crates and jumped behind them, sonic looked around the crates and saw soldiers patrolling the grounds. Sonic also noticed there was another door at the other end of the base.
He looked closely as it opened and the hummer continued to drive on in a dirt path. "Where's it headed?'' he said quietly. Sonic quickly ran behind a barracks then ran straight to the other side of the base. Sonic stopped at the other side and jumped over the wall, just missing a spotlight shining where he just was. Sonic got on the dirt path and followed it, he saw another concrete wall ahead, except it had no gate, just one opening. There was a three story rectangular structure, it had a US flag waving above it. "This must be the headquarters.'' sonic whispered. He noticed the hummer he saw earlier, walking up to the door was General Richards holding the briefcase of the chaos emeralds.
"I gotta' get those emeralds.'' he said before sprinting towards the building. He jumped on top of the structure, he saw an air vent. He grabbed hold of it and ripped the vent sheet off. Sonic jumped in, he slid down it until he stopped at the bottom. He started crawling through the long lasting vent, he looked down in each vent sheet until he found where Richards was. Sonic stopped at an intersection of pathways. He looked through the vent sheet, there was a room with a round table inside. There were other uniformed officers and generals talking to each other. A door opened then closed, general Richards walked in. Sonic narrowed his eyes, "This might be interesting.'' he said to himself. Richards placed his briefcase on the table, the conversation between the others stopped and they all looked to the general.
"Gentlemen, I have received these emeralds for our uses and to keep them out of any of our threats.'' he began "How can you be certain that anyone won't come to find them?'' asked a gray haired general "I thought someone may ask that, this is a secure facility, it can not be detected by Eggman or any other person seeking the emeralds.'' Richards answered "What of Eggman? He hasn't been seen for months.'' a black haired officer asked "Our radar monitors haven't detected him anywhere.'' Richards said "That may be, but his carnage devouring robots have costed the government millions!'' an official stated "The circumstances in the past few days were indeed threatening, but our forces have now been searching for Eggman and his whereabouts.'' Richards explained "And what about Sonic? Will he try anything?'' asked an officer "The hedgehog is strong and quick, but luckily, he does not know we have the emeralds.'' Richards assured. Sonic narrowed his eyes, "Time to crash this party.'' he whispered. Sonic kicked down on the vent making it slam onto the table, sonic jumped through the hole and landed on the table.
They all flinched and some got out of their chairs, Richards was wearing a shocked face, but quickly substituted with an angry one. "How'd you get here?'' he demanded "Hitched a ride on a chopper that was following you.'' sonic answered. "Now hand over the chaos emeralds.'' sonic told him "Ha! I'll never make a deal with you.'' he replied. Sonic the reached and grabbed him by the neck and brought him to his face. "You'd better because your life depends on it.'' sonic threatened. Richards, reached and pressed a button under the table. Five soldiers with M14 carbines came to the door. The officers and generals ducked, sonic turned around and let go of Richards. The soldiers opened fire, sonic jumped up to the door, he grabbed one of the soldiers guns and smacked two of them with it. Sonic gave one an uppercut, he grabbed one and slammed him against a wall. All the officers and generals made their way out of the room and down the hall. Richards grabbed the briefcase and ran as fast as he can. Sonic noticed he was running, sonic tossed the soldier he was holding to the ground and chased after him. Richards took a left down a hall, he ran to the control center in at the entrance. "Cut the power to the building, and get all the troops you can get, go in there and kill that hedgehog!'' he told a solider at the desk. "Code red we have an intruder at headquarters, all available units come and engage.'' he said over the intercom leading out to the base.
Sonic was walking aimlessly throughout hallway after hallway. "Where did he go?'' he thought to himself. Troops outside went to the control box, one soldier opened it and switched all power to the headquarters off. The lights in the hallway he was walking in suddenly turned pitch black. About fifteen soldiers made their way inside the building. Groups of five each went separate ways throughout the building. Sonic listened closely, he saw flashlights up ahead of him. Sonic took one look at his transformation device.
The five soldiers pointed their M14s and M60s down the hallway, but no sonic. They continued walking down the hall, a startling snarl made them stop. They didn't notice a hole in the ceiling, his large hand of his WereSonic form, reached down to a soldiers head. He grabbed him, the soldier started firing his gun into the ceiling. The four other frightened soldiers tried to pull him down, but sonic pulled him into the ceiling. They aimed their guns at the hole, the soldiers body dropped in front of them, across his chest were four large gashes made by Sonic's claws.
Sonic smashed through the ceiling in front of them, he let out a thundering roar, the soldiers turned the other way and ran. Sonic ran menacingly after them. Two soldiers ran backwards and fired at sonic with their M60s. Sonic jumped onto the wall and lunged at both soldiers. He close lined both of them, he grabbed both and smashed them into opposite sides of the hall. He dropped their motionless bodies and continued chasing after the others. The two soldiers came to a dead end, Sonic turned the corner and marched towards them. Sonic screeched his claws against the wall and showed it to the two soldiers. One of them slowly reached for a grenade, he pulled the pin and threw it at Sonic's feet.
The floor beneath sonic exploded leaving him to fall in. "Let's go!'' one soldier said. The two jumped over the hole and turned left down a hall. The rest of the squad were there waiting for them. "Thank god you guys made it, that thing is somewhere on the bottom floor and-'' the soldier was interrupted when Sonic's hands crashed up through the floor and grabbed the two soldiers and brought them down into the hole. The soldiers ran to the hole and opened fire, but sonic wasn't there. "Where'd it go?'' one soldier said. They didn't know that lumbering behind them was Sonic. Sonic swung his large arm and slammed about five against the wall. He grabbed two and threw them into a wall. Sonic kicked one in the stomach making him fall into the hole. Sonic felt bullets hit him in the back, he turned around growling.
Two soldiers started running, but a dead end and a single window waited for them at the end of the hall. Sonic marched up to them and grabbed both their guns. He crushed them in his grip then tossed them aside. Outside, Richards was in a hummer desperately trying to start it.
"Damn thing! Start already!'' he exclaimed. Suddenly the body of a soldier smashed onto his hood, along with another that landed on top of the hummer. Sonic started beating against the wall eager to get his claws on the general. Two M1A1 Abrams tanks came from behind, along with twenty soldiers all armed with M60s. Richards stepped out of the hummer and walked backwards to the soldiers, keeping a firm grip on the briefcase with the seven chaos emeralds. Sonic kicked a wall of concrete out of its spot making it crush the hummer below. Sonic stood in the hall, he let out a loud roar that echoed across the jungle.
"OPEN FIRE!!'' Richards yelled. One Abrams tank fired a round at sonic, he jumped forwards heading for the tank. Sonic heaved his fists back, he smashed them both into the tank. He started repeatedly smashed it leaving a large dent in it. Sonic jumped to its left side and flipped it over on its side. Sonic was hit by numerous bullets making his fur coated with blood. Sonic jumped towards a hummer, he picked it up and tossed it at a group of soldiers. It bounced at them, nearly flattening them. It rolled to the second tank , but it fired a round turning it into a ball of fire.
Once it cleared sonic did a front flip through the fire, once he was upside down over the tank's barrel he grabbed it with both hands and lunged it forwards. The tank smashed onto a stockpile of explosives. A ball of fire lifted into the air, sonic let out a threatening roar. The soldiers took steps back and opened fire, sonic took more bullets to his skin. He ran on all fours straight at the group, he rammed through about five soldiers throwing them in the air and ended up smacking back into the ground. Sonic saw general Richards running to the entrance of the base. Sonic chased after him, Richards ran down the dirt path with the angry WereSonic running after him.
Richards saw a tank ahead of him, he ran past it. Sonic didn't see it coming, the tank fired a round right in front of sonic throwing him back onto the dirt. Sonic rolled over to the left and ran at the tank again, he dodged to the right missing another tank shot. Sonic pushed the tank up, he then shoved it over on its main turret. Sonic jumped over it and continued the chase. Richards came to the other base with the door opened for him. He ran through it, waiting for sonic were five Abrams tanks with about twenty soldiers around each one.
Richards walked and stopped in front of the group. The horizontal doors closed, two apache helicopters then arrived with spotlights shining at the doors. Suddenly the door started to have dents forming in, fairly large ones. The doors slammed to the ground, sonic jumped through and let out a loud roar. Richards was given a megaphone by one of the soldiers. "Listen up Sonic! You either surrender now or die where you stand!'' Richards shouted into the device. Sonic was breathing heavily where he stood, he looked at the spotlights shining on him. He looked back at the general and growled. Sonic stepped forward, the soldiers put their guns up. "Stand down Sonic or else!'' Richards warned him. Sonic only stood still making small snarls. "If you won't listen to me then maybe you'll listen to someone else.'' Richards said. Sonic's expression still didn't change, Richards stepped off to the left. Sonic widened his eyes at who he saw walking through the crowd of soldiers. It was Brandy.
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Somewhere Underground Vietnam, 9:30 pm
Mecha WereSonic was sitting on a reclined hospital bed, his arm was just almost finished being repaired. A door opened, Mecha stepped off the bed. "I see your arm is now back.'' the man said "Yes master, indeed, more efficient and made of stronger titanium.'' commented looking at it. "Did you deliver the message?'' he asked "Yes, Sonic doesn't suspect a thing, he's at the military base.'' Mecha answered. "Good, good, our plan is working, soon we will have his transformation device, and with it we will rule the world!'' the person in the shadows chanted "What about the other heroes?'' asked Mecha "The other heroes?'' he responded and walked out of the shadows, revealing Dr. Eggman. "The other heroes are nothing.'' he smirked "Shall I prepare the armies?'' Mecha asked "Yes send them to the cities I told you about.'' Eggman answered "Yes master.'' Mecha nodded and walked out of the room. Eggman walked to one of the computer consoles and pressed one button. "Don't worry Sonic, you'll be given a chance.'' Eggman laughed and looked at the computer screen. It had parts of armor dark black armor showed across the screen.
Back above ground at the military base, sonic stood shocked to see brandy standing before him. She walked forwards to him and clasped her hands. Sonic took a step back and started growling. She stopped and looked up into his dark green eyes. She put one hand on his cheek and rubbed it. Sonic stopped his growling, he grabbed her arm gently and shut his eyes. She then hugged him, sonic put one arm around her waist. "Bring him here miss.'' Richards interrupted. "Why!?'' she turned around and exclaimed "He's a threat, that's why!'' Richards shouted back "No I'll never let you have him.'' she stood defensively in front of Sonic. "Have it your way, aim your weapons!'' he yelled to his soldiers. They lifted their weapons and aimed at the pair. "NO!!'' brandy cried and embraced sonic. She buried her face into his fur, sonic kept an angry face at the general. Sonic then lifted brandy's chin so she was looking up at him.
Sonic rubber the tears off her cheeks. Sonic separated from the hug and walked past her towards the general. "No please don't do it Sonic!'' she ran after him and grabbed his hand. Sonic took one look at her tear strained face, he looked at her, then back at the soldiers awaiting him. Sonic turned fully to the enemies in front of him, he closed his eyes. He took his hand out of hers, sonic took two steps forward. He hesitated for a minute, suddenly he jumped up at the right apache.
He punched into the pilot's seat, it spun out of control and slammed to the ground in a ball of fire. Sonic leaped off it, he saw the other helicopter aiming at him, sonic jumped up at it, the apache quickly reacted by firing a lone missile straight at his chest. Sonic was thrown back to the ground in a quick second. About fifteen soldiers surrounded him, brandy ran to his motionless body. She pushed her way through the crowd until she was next to his body. She fell to her knees and lay her head and arms on him. Richards stood behind her, "Lock him up! Take her with him too!'' the general yelled over the sound of the helicopter.
Two soldiers grabbed brandy by her arms and took her away. Sonic was wrapped in steel wires and put on a large stretcher. Now with Sonic and Brandy captured, how will the fainted pair be able to escape? Eggman has showed himself, what is he planning? How will the other heroes be able to help their allies and will they find a way to save Omega? More to come in this thrilling action packed adventure.