Sorry I've been gone a little bit guys. I've been busy with school, HC, sports, and all that other stuff.
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Here's the new chapter…
Since Sonic and Shadow couldn't move due to the cuffs around their feet, and Silver and Blaze were trapped in their containers, Rouge, Tails, Amy, and Knuckles were the ones able to slam their metal shackles against the interrogation window in the room until it broke. Normally, there would've been a guard behind the window to activate the security system to stop the prisoners, but since all the soldiers were away at their battle stations, no one was present to stop them.
After inserting their arms and cuffs into a slot, the shackles were removed by the robotic system that handled that, and the four were able to use their hands again. Tails, figuring out which buttons to push so that Silver and Blaze were free, then took on the business of removing Shadow and Sonic's cuffs. Since the cuffs were made out of a highly durable metal, they could not be broken through brute force, so after five minutes of working, both of the hedgehogs' restrainers were off.
"Nice thinking," Shadow said, nodding towards Rouge. "Let's get out of here."
Suddenly, the intercom came on.
"Unknown hedgehog coming from the east. Be advised, he has a hostage. Take precaution in shutting him down. All other units, Eggman drones are attacking the west and north wings. Termination authorized. Get the president to the safe bunker!" A soldier ordered.
"Looks like we have company," Knuckles stated, breaking down the door to their cell and the heroes ran down the long hallway.
"We can't let the president get to that bunker just yet. If he gets in there, he'll be in there until this whole conflict is over. We need to delay them so we can explain ourselves," Sonic explained.
"We can't let these guys take over this place either," Tails added. "We need to split up."
"I'll go check out his mysterious hedgehog. Blaze, you coming?" Silver asked, and the cat nodded.
The two then made the next right that came up on the heroes.
"Shadow, Knuckles, and I will assist in stopping Eggman's robots, as well as trying not to get shot at by the troops here," Rouge spoke up, then the three sped ahead of Sonic, Tails, and Amy.
"Looks like we're tracking down the president," Sonic stated. "Come on. Let's go get him."
*With Silver*
After the two heroes had made their way to the east wing of the base, Silver blew a hole through some rubble, revealing the outside world. Before him, troops and snipers had their weapons and cannons trained on the grey hedgehog, who hovered in the air holding a familiar friend.
"Sally?" Blaze asked, cocking her head. "What's she doing here?"
"Dunno. What I'm wondering is who that guy is," Silver replied. "Let's go find out."
Before the cat could stop him, the telekinetic flew up into the air before the mysterious figure. Below, frantic shouts came from the soldiers as half kept their fix on the new hedgehog, and the other half shifted their weapons over to Silver.
"And who might you be?" Silver asked, using telekinesis to rip Sally away from the figure and toss her down to the troops below.
"Can't anyone set me down nicely?" Sally called as she fell into the grasp of one of the guards.
"Nazo. And you?" Nazo stated. "You took my guest away from me. What's your name, you stupid, brave soul?"
"Silver the Hedgehog," The hero responded.
"I see. Quite an interesting little past you've got there, Silver. No matter. I need to see the president, if that's alright with you," Nazo continued.
"Well, you can't right now. He's being taken to a safer place, so y—"
"That wasn't a request," The hedgehog cut in, suddenly shooting towards Silver and pile driving him into the base below.
The hero slammed through the ceiling of the building and tumbled to a stop in another narrow hallway, which had multiple intersections in the middle of it. Outside, gunfire sounded as the troops opened fire on Nazo, however the bullets became enveloped in a red light around the attacker, and Nazo began blasting away at the soldiers below.
*With Blaze*
Blaze rushed over to the guard holding Sally and ripped her out of his hands.
"I'm taking you somewhere safer!" The pyrokinetic explained, shooting off in a fiery dash towards the only safe wing of the base, the south one.
"I can handle myself!" Sally defended.
"And might I say you're doing a great job at it so far it seems!" Blaze spat.
"I need to either speak with Sonic or the president. I don't care who, but I need to talk with one."
"Sonic it is," Blaze concluded. "He'll be easier to get to than the president. Why do you need to see him anyway?"
"I'll explain on the way," The queen replied.
*With Silver*
After the soldiers outside were defeated, Nazo hovered down to Silver, who was waiting for him below.
"You're NOT seeing the president," Silver seethed.
"Fool, I will see whoever I want to see, and no one will be able to stop me," Nazo boomed. "Especially you."
The hero lunged at his assailant with his hands encased in a blue light. Silver threw two punches at Nazo's head. They both hit their mark, but the villain didn't even flinch. The attacker still looked at Silver with dark amusement with every punch he received; his eyelids were lowered slightly and a smirk was plastered on his face. After a few minutes, Silver attempted to kick Nazo in the chest, but the villain caught his leg and launched him into a wall, sending the hero tumbling through three more before rolling to a stop.
Nazo began to slowly walk towards Silver with the same dark grin on his face. The hero summoned a shield of telekinetic energy on one of the walls, which blocked the hedgehog from moving any closer. The attacker just laughed and placed his hands on the shield. His palm began to glow red, and the shield shattered suddenly. Silver began to launch balls of energy at Nazo but the assailant would just catch them, rotate them slightly and throw them right back into Silver with ease.
"Die!" Nazo roared sharply, summoning a large red orb in his hand and throwing it at Silver.
The hedgehog felt his mind wrap around the crimson ball and whirled it back around, slamming it into Nazo. A large explosion went off once the orb hit, and the area around the two was blasted backwards. Silver flipped in the air as he was launched back, but regained his composure and hovered steadily in air.
Did I do it? He thought.
Smoke filled the hall they were in. Roof boards were missing, and a few lights had been obliterated. However, to Silver's surprise, there were many functioning lights that lit the area he was in.
I think I won! The hero thought excitedly.
However, that excitement turned to shock when a pair of glowing red eyes pierced through the smoke.
Then, the power went out, and everything went black.
*With Rouge, Knuckles, and Shadow, in the north wing, two minutes earlier*
"These robots are tougher than I remember!" Knuckles growled as he punched a hole through the body of a droid.
"Eggman has upgraded the strength and durability of these drones. They're improved," Shadow added, leaping on top of a robot's head and firing bullets into the heads of other droids. "It seems like the army is giving us a break for now, but after this is over, they'll try to arrest us again."
"Well, we won't let that happen then, won't we?" The bat called as she twisted a drones head around and made it start shooting its robot brethren. "Heads up! They're gonna try to cut the power supply to this place! Everything will be down if that happens!"
"I got it!" Knuckles called as he sped towards more robots.
However, once he leaped in the air to take another down, that robot quickly spun around, slamming its arms into the hero and sending him flying into the wall near the power supply. The drone then flew over to Knuckles and picked him up in the air.
"Let me go, Bolt Brain!" The echidna seethed, struggling against the grasp of the robot and banging on its arm.
The droid rapidly began to slam the hero into the power supply. Sparks flew out of the large electric cube, and Knuckles began to get electrocuted. Shouting in pain, the Guardian of the Master Emerald fought against the robot more before Shadow put a bullet through the drone's head.
Knuckles fell to the ground, gasping for air and groaning in agony.
"The power supply is fried. The base has gone dark," The dark hero remarked. "We might be in trouble now."
*With Sonic, Tails, and Amy, in an elevator heading down towards the president's bunker, real time*
"Aaaaaand the powers gone out. Fantastic," Sonic groaned as he turned to Tails. "You think you can remember how to get us out of this thing?"
"There might be something in here that can allow us to escape. A fire hatch for emergencies, maybe," The fox stated, looking around. "It's hard to find in the dark, though."
As the heroes began feeling around for the latch, and Sonic placed his hand on something that had some life to it.
"Hey Tails, I think I found something," The Blue Blur stated. "It feels like something is slightly pounding in there.
"That's my heart, Sonic," Amy said, who was right in front of the hero. "Please stop feeling my heartbeat and search for an exit. I can't believe I just said that."
"Oh…er…yeah," Sonic sputtered, continuing to look around. "There has to be an e—"
The Fastest Thing Alive was cut off by a loud explosion from above, and the elevator dropped down slightly and halted, stuck.
"What was that?" Amy asked, fright in her voice.
"I think we may be in trouble," Tails replied. "The elevator cord has been cut. Right now, the edges of the elevator have dug into the sides of the shaft, preventing us from falling to our death. Don't know how long that'll last, though."
Another large explosion went off, and with that, the elevator became unstuck and the backup cord snapped, sending it into a straight down free fall.
Amy screamed as she clung to the side of the wall.
"We have to get out of here! Look for an exit faster!" Tails shouted in panic, punching and kicking at any part of the elevator.
"I think I found something!" Sonic exclaimed. "A fire exit in the ceiling of this thing!"
After trying to push it out, Sonic widened his eyes and turned to the pitch blackness in the room again, where his friends somewhere resided.
"It's stuck!" He yelled.
"OF COURSE IT IS! HEROES NEVER CATCH A BREAK, REMEMBER?" Amy shouted.
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