1Chapter 10

Waking

Sometimes, when I'm asleep or when my eyes are closed, I feel like I'm falling or flying or rushing to a side. I fell asleep, and dreamt about Eggman taking me... Taking me... again. Eggman... he just gets me so mad now.

I woke up, and my true horrors realized, I was again in a prison cell. I was thinking of using my hammer to get out of the cell... but I decided that I'd only use it if Eggman was threatening my life. A robot was waiting outside of my cell, and without saying a word, it grabbed my wrist, opened the cell door, and began to half drag, half lead me to Eggman. He was staring at a giant robot in his workshop. When he heard my entrance, he only nodded.

"Do you like my latest creation?" he asked.

"Wow, it's bigger than you," I said, my voice seething with anger.

He ignored this remark, and continued nodding at his creation.

"I didn't really like what you did to my android of you..." he said.

"I didn't really like the fact that you've taken such an interest in me!" I yelled, beginning to wish I could gather the courage to take out my Piko-Piko Hammer. Still, I couldn't get up the courage.

Hey, you try to take out a big hammer when there's a giant, heavily armed robot staring you in the face!

"No matter. I won't threaten you with what will happen if you get me to 10. That's already happened."
I didn't really understand.

"I'm going to kill you. But, I'm working right now, and blood splatter... you know, it's messy, I'd have to get a maid-bot in here to clean, and my maid-bots talk to much," explained Eggman.
"They talk too much like a certain pin head I know," I said, pointing at Eggman.

Eggman leered at me.

"How do you plan to kill me? I deserve to know."
Eggman snickered.

"You deserve nothing."

I got mad at Eggman... and grew increasingly angry. Without thinking, I took my Piko-Piko Hammer out. Eggman was not looking at me...

So, I smacked him in the back of the head, and ran out of the room.

I ran all around, and tripped on an uprooted tile in my way. The result? I fell... directly on top of my Piko-Piko Hammer.

To make matters worse, I heard footsteps rapidly approaching, and an alarm blaring... also, I could hear the faint but approaching sounds of a robot... and it sounded big...

I was quickly found by Eggman... and shortly afterward, I was standing on a large block of ice with a rope tied around my neck, courtesy of Eggman.

He was going to hang me... worse off, Eggman made me stand on the large block of ice barefoot. My feet were freezing, but he said that the body heat would melt the ice faster, and I'd be hanged.

We were both in the room where Sonic had first found me...

The block of ice started out about 4 foot thick. I lost all feeling and couldn't wiggle my toes... and Sonic wasn't anywhere to be found... I feel terrible, always needing saving from him.

But, as I thought hopeless thoughts, a door burst open, and Sonic was standing in front of us one second later.

The block of ice that kept me from death was now about 3 and a half feet thick.

Eggman turned and saw Sonic.
"Ah, Sonic. Just who I was waiting to see."
"Let her go!" He demanded, but all Eggman did was laugh.

"If you defeat my new robot, you can take her back. Egg Striker! Activate!"

The robot's big eyes lit up with a white light.

It looked around and locked onto Sonic. Pointing it's machine gun arm at the hedgehog, it opened fire. But, Sonic was too fast. He simply ran until the robot's machine gun began to smoke. The gun stopped firing (and hurting my ears), apparently needing to cool down from the attack. It held up it's right arm, and a rocket flew out of it's arm. Sonic stepped out of the way... and the rocket followed. As Sonic ran around, Eggman explained the rocket was hedgehog-seeking. Sonic ran past me by mistake, and the rocket rushed by. The heat melted the ice a little further...

I believe I only had about 2 and a half feet of ice left at that time. The rope around my neck was starting to tighten up on my neck... but I could still breathe... and I was still okay. Sonic grew angry, and turned to run directly at the robot. He leaped over it's head, and the missile followed... but it was lower. The robot held an arm up and the missile exploded on the robot's arm. The arm fell off, but the robot was otherwise unharmed. Sonic was still behind the machine, and it turned and swept the ground with it's rocket launching arm, smacking at Sonic and sending him careening across the floor. After it smacked Sonic, it fired a rocket at him.

No!!!

With my hands behind my back, I took my Piko-Piko Hammer out and spun on the ice, throwing the hammer and knocking the missile to a side. My hammer hit the floor, and Eggman was leering at me.

I had to stand on my toes to keep from choking.

Sonic quickly got to his feet and curled into a blue ball-- something I'd never seen him do before. He propelled himself into the exposed area where the machine gun arm used to be.

He bounced off harmlessly, and turned to see me, choking. Faster than I'd ever seen him move before, he lifted me off the block of ice and at the same time, snapped the rope that could have killed me. With that, he placed me on the floor next to my hammer. I picked up my hammer and hid it, prepared to strike once again.

The robot fired another rocket, then another, and another... all three homing in on Sonic.

He ran around, and seemed to suddenly come up with an idea. He turned to the robot and ran, jumping in front of the robot. The missile found it's way into the robot's other arm, and another hit it in the same spot. The first explosion didn't seem to faze the robot, but the second (which hit the now exposed inside of the rocket arm) caused a few sparks to fly. Sonic, while running, had his head turned to face the robot.

"Oh, I get it!" He said, smirking. The last rocket was following him, and he turned, hitting the opposite side with the missile. After that, the robot fell to it's knees, and it's totaled torso opened, revealing a timer. The timer was at 0:10 seconds... Sonic saw that, but the timer didn't start yet. He turned to Eggman, who was now hiding behind a thick glass wall... probably bomb proof. A speaker above us came alive.

"I WILL get your friend back, Sonic... and I will kill the both of you. Until then..."
He held up a small hand held device and clicked a button. The timer started to count down.

Sonic, without saying a word, picked me up and sped out of the base just as a bomb began to explode. We got out of the base quickly.

Soon, Sonic had placed me down, staring at me with tears ready to spring from his eyes.

I knew immediately why he... he wasn't sad... No, he was more frightened for me than scared.

"Sonic..." I began, but he turned away.

"We're going to have to see Tails," he said, his voice obviously quivering with fear.

I remembered what he told me...

But, it sure beats being kidnaped...

I knelt next to Sonic, and placed one arm around him, and he turned and kissed me...

One final time.

He sighed, stopping crying.

"You ready?" he asked. I kissed him on the cheek.

"Ready."

He picked me up, and we took off, on our way to Tails' house.

End of Chapter 10

UH OH! What's going to happen to Tina?!!?