Part 11: Out of Options
Tails continued leading the two through the hallway. At the end of the hallway was a door, which the fox proceeded to lead them through and down some stairs into a wide open room. The room looked like Dexter's laboratory, but was much bigger.
"Well guys, welcome to my lab! Every invention I've ever made or never finished, blueprints for scrapped inventions or new ones, basically it's all right here!" exclaimed Tails, as he led them through various hallways and areas.
"So Tails, where are we headed?" said Sonic. The hedgehog was currently glancing around the room, admiring all of the inventions.
"Well Sonic, we're headed towards the hangar where I keep the Tornado when I'm not using It." informed Tails. The room was divided into multiple sections called sectors. There were some doors leading to different sectors, and other areas. They were headed towards a door on the right side of the room labeled, Sector 5- Hangar, in big bold letters. The fox casually tried the knob, and upon realizing it to be locked, pulled out a key ring with various keys attached to it and grabbed the one with the same name as the door and stuck it into the keyhole. He turned the knob and a click was heard as the door unlocked, and the two- tailed genius swung the door open wide and strolled into the room, as the two hedgehogs followed. The room was full of Tails' many planes that he had made, four in all, to be exact. There was the Tornado, Tornado II, Tornado III, and the X- Tornado or Tornado for short. Tails continued past the X- Tornado towards a work desk at the end of the room, and sat down in the chair in front of it.
Sonic and Shock followed him to see what he was doing.
"Hey Tails, what are you doing?" wondered Shock.
"I need to study these computer chips so that I can make an engine to support their power. Since these are no ordinary computer chips, I'll have to make a special engine for them. But first, I'll have to run some tests so that I can make a blueprint for the engine and make sure I have all the parts that I need to build it. I know that this will take a long time, most likely a few hours at the most. You two get bored very easily and I don't expect you to stay here the whole time. Feel free to explore the lab if you want to, just don't touch anything, and no running since there is plenty of breakable things in here." said Tails.
"But what if we get lost? I mean this is a pretty big place, and I don't even remember the way out!" exclaimed Sonic.
"Fine, I'll draw you a map so you won't get lost." said Tails.
The genius quickly drew up a schematic of the whole lab with landmarks to be on the lookout for, and handed it to the hedgehog.
"Here, now will you leave me alone? I can't do what I need to do if you keep bothering me." complained Tails.
The blue blur looked the map over, and made a face.
"Can you put it in English, Tails?" said Sonic, who never understood the fox's techno-babble.
"Ok."said Tails, taking the map back and rewriting the directions, "There. Are you happy?"
"Yep, thanks Tails!" replied Sonic.
"You're welcome. Now can you please let me work in peace?" sighed Tails.
"Sure thing, buddy!" said Sonic. Sonic and Shock walked out of the hangar and back into the main lab, closing the door behind them.
"Thank goodness they're gone! I thought they would never leave. Ok, now I can begin!" thought Tails. Then he said aloud, "Alright, let's get started!" The mobian cracked his knuckles and got to work.
"So Sonic, where do we go from here?" asked Shock, who was in the lead while Sonic was holding the map.
"Um, it says here to get back to Sector 0 or the main lobby, we need to make a left on the next turn." read Sonic.
"That seems easy enough. I think I see the next turn up ahead!" said Shock. They continued on, taking a left at the next corner which led to the main lobby exit where they had started. Sonic put the map in his pocket, and they opened the door leading to the lab and left the room. The hedgehogs walked up the stairs and out of the basement into the hallway leading to the living room, where they walked out of the front door onto the dark cobblestone street. It was now night time and the only light outside was coming from the many street lamps littering the sidewalks throughout the city.
"Wow, we were in there longer than I thought!" exclaimed Sonic, "Now that we're out, what is there to do in this place?"
"Well we can break into Eggman's base and aggravate him." offered Shock.
"Yeah! It'll be just like old times." said Sonic, enthusiastically, "Lead the way!" The two sped off out of the alley and into the streets, with no idea that they were being watched. Eggman had installed security cameras in each streetlight so that he could monitor everything around the city.
"So, the two hedgehogs think they can surprise me, do they? Well, I'll surprise THEM by being ready!" said the evil doctor, "They have no other options, but to come to my base! I knew they couldn't resist!"
Well there you have it! I hope you enjoyed, and until next time, what could the evil doctor have in store for the two hedgehogs? Read the next chapter to find out!
See ya,
Tailsfan