A/N: I've been busy and tired so if you guys see any mistakes or something that doesn't make sense don't be afraid to correct me. I mostly write at night so my tired brain probably missed some things. Hope ya enjoy.

"Sooo, what are they saying?" Asked Woodstock while spinning his miniguns barrel around with his hand out of boredom

"Their arguing over whether or not to negotiate with us." Mortifer answered while staring at one of the two soldiers guarding the door to the room they were in.

Not long after their fight with the KFF, the two were immediately escorted to what Mortifer assumed was the Command Center. And put inside a room and told they would have to wait there while they discussed what to do. Unbeknownst to them, Mortifer was using telekinesis to listen to their entire conversation through the wall.

"Airborne?" Mortifer asked the guard he had been staring at.

"Uh, yes sir, 106th division." The soldier replied cautiously.

"How many tours?"

"Three."

"You have my respect soldier." Mortifer said before turning his attention to the door as a very aggravated princess Sally walked in, along with a brown and black furred female Lynx wearing a black and purple sleeveless dress, along with black and white gloves, and shoes.

"Leave us." Sally ordered the soldiers and glared at Mortifer.

"If you're trying to be intimidating, you're failing miserably." Mortifer stated in a monotone voice and crossed his arms. Hearing Mortifer's spine chilling tone Woodstock stopped spinning the gun's barrel and sat upright. Whenever he talked like that it usually meant he was trying to intimidate someone. Woodstock then tried looking serious. Mortifer was always lecturing him about being "intimidating". Saying something like "First impressions are always crucial Woodstock. It gives you a tactical advantage." Woodstock had no clue why but he always followed Mortifer's orders.

"Do have any idea who I am?" Sally asked.

"Your Princess Sally, daughter of King Nigel Acorn, current leader of the Freedom Fighters." Mortifer replied coldly.

"And who are you and this robot? And are you working for Robotnik?" Sally continued to question.

"Woodstock of the 23rd Phantom Battalion, Numbers 1241997, Heavy Weapons Specialist. And this-" Woodstock was cut off when Mortifer suddenly slammed his fist into the table, leaving a massive dent. Woodstock looked at Mortifer, then his fist, then back to Mortifer. "Oh, my bad. It's classified."

"You don't need to know who we are. All you need to know is we are willing to negotiate without making a mess." Said Mortifer.

"You expect us to just, let you walk out of here with the location of Knothole?" Sally asked sarcastically as the Lynx beside her became worried.

"I expect, you to agree with our terms if you value the lives of everyone in Knothole." Mortifer replied and stood up. Opening her mouth to say something, Sally and the Lynx all of a sudden couldn't move at all. And were forced to watch as Mortifer drew his knife and walked behind them.

"I really don't have to negotiate, I could kill everyone in this village with a flick of a finger and leave without a scratch." Mortifer said while running his hand along the knife's blade. "The only reason I haven't done that is because, I'm feeling, generous you could say. So here are my conditions." The table bent under the pressure as his knife was thrown and stuck stuck deep into it. "You won't ever try to find us, and leave us alone. In return we won't attack your caches or people. That's my terms."

"He's not kidding by the way." Woodstock piped in.

"You have one hour to make your decision." Picking up Both of the girls Mortifer flung them outside the room and slammed the door shut. Seeing what happened, the two guards by the door shrugged at each other and continued standing there.

"I have identified the one called Woodstock, and possibly his companion. His name is Mortifer Mathias Messores, leader of the Phantom Battalion and a highly decorated and skilled soldier from the Overlander war. The large one is Woodstock, second in command of the Phantom Battalion and lone surviving test subject of a top secret cybernetic project." Nicole stated.

Stomping towards the door Sally growled "He thinks he can boss us around, I'll show him!" And stepped inside just as Amy arrived with Vanilla, Blackjack and Sonic.

"Nicole! Where's Sally!?" Amy questioned urgently

"She just went back in to talk with the two hedgehogs." The Lynx replied. Almost immediately after she said that, yelling was heard inside the room and seconds later, Sally skidded backwards out the door.

"Sally! Wait!" Amy yelled as she grabbed Sally's arm to stop her from going back in. "Blackjack needs to tell you something important about those two!"

"I'm getting paid to tell this information right?" Blackjack asked. After everyone stared at him in silence, he sighed "Fine, but I'm doing this for free once, and only once." As he started explaining who the two hedgehogs were, their past with Cream and her mother, and the current situation. Vanilla went inside the room to speak to Mortifer.

"Blackjack is explaining everything to them so, you shouldn't be stuck in this room for much longer." Vanilla said as she sat down.

"Did he know you were here?" Mortifer asked.

"No, not until a few minutes ago." Vanilla answered.

"Once this is over with we'll need a place to stay." Mortifer said and picked up his knife and sheathed it.

"You're welcome to stay at my house. I could put a bed in the basement for Woodstock, and you could use the spare bedroom...Woodstock are you okay?" Vanilla asked in concern as Woodstock glared at nothing in particular.

Rolling his eyes Mortifer leaned back in his chair "Woodstock, you only need to be intimidating when other people besides Vanilla, Cream, or Blackjack are here." Woodstock's glare instantly became a smile as he started spinning his minigun barrel again.

"There's no need for intimidation Mortifer, these are good friends that I trust." Vanilla stated. Raising an eyebrow Mortifer replied "You know I don't trust anyone, except a select few." Frowning at Mortifer, Vanilla sighed and waited patiently for Blackjack to finish explaining everything to everyone. After what seemed like hours of waiting to Woodstock, Blackjack finally walked through the door with a smile on his face.

"Good news, we have successfully explained everything to them about you and Woodstock. Including how you saved Cream and lost an eye because of it, so most of them somewhat trust you, More or less."

"And the bad news?" Asked Mortifer. "Some are still pretty ticked about you attacking them."

"Do they know that I never killed their sniper?"

"I made up a story about that weasel Nack, and that I heard him blabbering about being paid to act as a KFF fighter so they would quit trying to find you. But because I wasn't a hundred percent sure if he was making it up or not, I didn't inform Sally and them until now."

"You lost your eye protecting Cream?" Vanilla gasped as she started tearing up. Shooting a glare at Blackjack, Mortifer answered

"It was because I made a tactical error while protecting her, I should have known Robotnik would send his Shadowbot prototypes."

"Excuse me." Mortifer scowled as Nicole, Sally, and Amy stepped in. "But did you say you've encountered the SB-1 prototypes?" Nicole questioned

"Yeah, but we took those down easy peasy. We have Robotnik's personal ship, that we stole from his very large bedroom. And it can do really cool stuff like cloak where he can't detect us, hundreds of guns that can be controlled by an autopilot that flies the ship. Which I call BOB. It also has a really big computer where we can hack into all of Robotnik's computers and get any data we want and decrypt it in seconds. So we already knew their weakness way before they were built. We do that everytime he starts building new robots."

"Can't Robotnik detect your signals?" Sally asked.

"Yep, but I rigged the system to bounce our location randomly so it gets confusing. Trust me, when I forgot where we parked once even I couldn't track it. Ain't that right Mort…" Woodstock stopped mid sentence as Mortifer glared at him. "My bad, again."

Shoving everyone out again except Blackjack and Vanilla. Mortifer turned and said to both of them "There, now I can talk to both of you in peace."

A/N Update: I meant to put the argument between Blackjack in a later chapter. I also added a better description of Nicole.