14 Months Chapter 14

Shadow and Silver had been running for what seemed to be 20 minutes to Eggman's Base, judging from a faraway distance when they were staring at the view and having a tough time with Sonic ignoring them. They turned up outside and stopped for a few seconds to catch their breaths, unlike Shadow, Silver was the one almost out of breath. The two hedgehogs then walked inside the base to find Eggman and hopefully get some answers. They weren't walking for long as they found Eggman doing almost nothing. Eggman looked over and saw Shadow and Silver standing there walking for him to recognise them.

"Oh, Shadow and Silver. What are you doing here?"

"We're here to demand you to tell us what happened 14 months ago." Shadow yelled while walking over to Eggman with Silver not far behind.

"Mainly he's the one threatening you to do so." Silver added in.

"Then what are you doing here?" Eggman asked Silver.

"To keep Shadow under control in case he gets too aggressive and maybe violent." Silver explained to Eggman for a warning.

"Okay…" Eggman slowly replied.

This was not a first at all, in fact, this has happened too many times. Shadow will get whatever he wants by forcing his rivals, enemies and even his friends to spill out any piece of information to find out all he really needs. So frankly Shadow was just being normal with some anger coming out.

"Anyway back to my question here. Why did you kidnap Sonic and not tell us anything about it?" Shadow asked again and being more irritated at the same time as nothing is getting solved at all.

"Surely you would've recognised his disappearance. It was another daily routine and I didn't know it was going to last 14 months for something to happen." Eggman explained to the two hedgehogs.

"Then why didn't you tell us?" Silver asked him.

"It's like I said yesterday, my plan was going to begin when you were in plain sight in my base. I just wanted to wait for the right moment when you figured out Sonic not being anywhere with you. Sonic had faith in you guys hoping to be rescued but after being here for so long he stopped believing that you were all on your way."

For once, Eggman was right about situations like this one. Clearly they already knew that they completely messed up. Surely someone would've had a complete weird and an unexpected feeling inside of them to tell something was wrong, even a warning would be recognised for them as well.

"Did you even let Sonic out of his cell even once?" Silver asked again but now he was getting angry.

"No, and I looked after him with food and water!" Eggman added in as he was keeping an eye on Sonic's needs with the food and water or otherwise it would've been his fault for letting him die without any food to keep him alive.

"Didn't look like it in Sonic's diary entries." Silver added in as well as remembering the whole diary entries which was completely stuck in his head and wasn't doing anything to get it out.

"I ran out of supplies! It takes time to buy food when I'm busy and how come you're yelling at me and not Shadow?"

Silver and Eggman looked at Shadow who was looking away from them and Silver knew something was bugging him. It was probably what Eggman had explained to them.

"Shadow? Are you alright?" Silver asked softly.

"No. I know everything I needed to know but I didn't know it was going to turn out like this. I better go and see him." Shadow told them as he started to head his way out of the base when Eggman's hand touched his left shoulder, making Shadow face his head towards Eggman's.

"Face it Shadow he won't forgive you. I'm going over there later on and I'll try talking to him." Eggman told them as he was going there thanks to Sonic's offer in his letter but he didn't want to tell them why he was going but he knew either Shadow or Silver will ask that question.

"Why are you going there?" Shadow asked.

"I knew they were going to ask that!" Eggman told himself but luckily he was whispering that and for the two hedgehogs, they didn't hear him say that which was also a relief for him.

"He's helping Sonic, remember? We better explain all of this to the others." Silver told him.

Shadow had no other choice. There was nothing he could do just yet and finding the right moment to talk to Sonic alone and trying to apologize was going to be tougher than he thought it would be, so there was no other options but explaining to Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Rouge and Blaze everything they heard from Eggman.

"You're right." Shadow softly said.

"Thanks for the information Eggman." Silver thanked him and it was quite unusual for him doing so.

"No problem. I'll see you all when I get anything out of Sonic."

"Sure." Silver only said.

Shadow and Silver then left Eggman's Base in search for the other's location. Since they found out everything they needed to know from Eggman so far until he talks to Sonic, they can figure out a better way to try apologizing to him either together, a small group or individually. Shadow and Silver didn't want the bond they created to break like how Tails doesn't want their Unbreakable Bond to break apart. Nothing made sense to what really happened to Sonic until they found out almost everything in his diary but now everything was clear to them and they can try fixing their mistakes. They only hoped this wouldn't go on forever because no one wanted to see a friend like Sonic yell at them and then decide to disown their friendship. Their only problem now was to find where Tails and the others would be. They both thought that they would be at Tails' Workshop so they then ran over there as fast as they could to deliver the information and make everything turn back to normal, hopefully.