Chapter 25

Fly By or Double Egg

[Time: 4:30 A.M.]

The Alarm clock went off and woke me and Aayan up; the crying proceeded to wake Amy up. I quickly turned off the alarm and stretched as Amy shot up and went over to Aayan "Oh it's okay Aayan… don't cry, that's just daddy's alarm." As soon as she picked him up she felt his diaper and said "He needs to be changed again, where did you leave the diapers at?" I rubbed my eyes and stood up as I replied "Downstairs on the coffee table."

She carried him downstairs as I turned on the light with a morning sigh and yawn. I walked over to my dresser and got out a fresh pair of navy blue uniform slacks, taking off my sweatpants as I got a pair of briefs out as well. I yawned again as I slid into my briefs and one leg of my pants "I hope today goes by quickly" I said to myself as I got in the other leg and walked to the closet.

Getting a nice pressed lighter blue uniform shirt off a clothes hanger and slid into it, buttoning the buttons before tucking it in and zipping my pants up. "Mmmm" I moaned as I woke up more with each passing second. I grabbed a pair of socks out of my dresser drawer and put them on as Amy came back up with Aayan "What time are you going to be back?" she asked as she took my comb off my dresser and tried to get rid of my bed head for me.

"Probably somewhere between two or three o'clock." She slid the comb through my quills and replied "Well I made your coffee downstairs, it should be ready by the time you get down there." I smiled as she rubbed my neck with one hand 'since she was holding Aayan' as I bent down to tie my shoes "Thank you Ames." I stood up and walked to the bathroom.

Slapping some cologne on my neck before putting my badge and nameplate on the left side of my shirt, Amy hugged me and said "I love a man in uniform." I smiled and kissed her cheek in response "I love my Amy..." I rubbed Aayans quills and continued "I also love my little Aayan." He closed his eyes and smiled.

I took my belt off the door and clamped it around my waist, snapping the belt loops to it before checking each compartment to make sure I had everything. Amy flipped my collar up as she gently placed my tie around my neck and pulled the knot up "Thank you sweetie." I said as I flipped the collar back down. I slipped my gloves on and proceeded to walk down the stairs with Amy following.

I smiled to myself as I wondered what she was up to, but decided to just keep getting ready instead of asking. I took a travel mug out of the cabinet and poured the coffee into it, taking a sip without even putting in any creamer or sugar. I quickly shook my head and poured the rest in "How do you do that Sonic… I hate coffee but I can't even imagine drinking it like that."

"I like it black… black as Eggmans Soul." She giggled and asked "have you heard anything about Eggman recently?" I thought back to what Shadow said to me in the hospital and replied "No, thankfully he's keeping his head down." She gave a quick nod as I took another sip "What are you going to do today?" I asked.

She gently rocked Aayan in her arms and responded "I'll probably give Aayan a bath and clean the house, maybe give Blaze and Rouge a call to let them know about the birth." I shook my head and replied "You should call Big too; you know how he thinks of you like a little sister." She yawned and gave another nod "I'm also going to cook something so don't worry about that alright?"

I turned the kitchen television on for a minute to check the weather and said "Don't stress yourself too much now, you hear?" She shrugged and watched me take another sip of my coffee "I won't, I feel so much better without Aayan sitting in my womb… I already feel like I lost ten pounds." I turned the TV back off and looked at her stomach "Your baby bulge is defiantly gone."

She rubbed her stomach and smiled "I know, it sort of felt funny to be back in that red dress yesterday." I looked at the clock and grabbed my coffee "Okay Ames, I got to go… catch a few more Z's if you can." She walked with me to the door as I put my hat on "Hey, blue boy… I think you're forgetting something." I raised my eyebrow and turned around just as she grabbed the back of my head and pulled me in for a passionate kiss.

I held onto my coffee as she slipped me some tongue and pinched my lower lip with her teeth. She broke away and wiped her mouth; I blinked a few times from the unexpected attack and said "Damn, I don't think I need my coffee anymore." She kissed me again more gently without tongue and responded "That's to tide you off until you get home." I smiled and opened the door just as Aayan started crying again "Take care…" I said, waving to her and softly tapping Aayans nose before I closed the door.

As always I waited to hear the lock click and walked towards the Cyclone. Bradshaw's car was still in his driveway which was unusual; he's normally at the station as early as five. I shrugged and unlocked my door, getting in and starting up the engine. I took a sip of my coffee before putting it in the cup holder, I put the car in gear and backed out just as Amy turned off the light in the bedroom and Bradshaw stepped out of his door.

I rolled the window down and said "Slow morning?" He jumped around and I laughed "Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." He locked his front door and walked to his car "Yeah, Katie might be getting sick again so I just wanted to make sure she was okay." I shook my head and replied "I'm sorry to hear that, is it just a cold?" He gave a nod and responded "Probably, she doesn't have the best immune system so she catches just about whatever floats by." He got in his car and I said "Okay, I'll see you down at the station." He waved and closed his door as I rolled the window back up.

[Time: 5:30 A.M.]

I pulled into a parking space at the station lot and turned off the car "Another day another dollar." I said to myself as I grabbed my coffee and stepped out, closing my door and locking the car. I took a sip and straitened my belt and tie as I walked towards the front door of the station.

As soon as I walked in Frank and a few other officers clapped for me "He-hey, there he is!" I smiled and looked away as they all said "Congratulations on the baby." I tipped my hat and gave them a salute "Thanks guys…" Frank gave a nod and asked "What did you and your wife name him?" I took a sip of my coffee and stood by his desk as Bradshaw walked in "We decided on Aayan a few months back and we stuck to it."

Bradshaw walked past me and up to his office "Oh well once again congrats… what's up with him?" I looked at Bradshaw as Frank pointed and replied "Who Richard, he said his daughter was feeling ill again." Frank lowered his voice and said "She seems to get sick a lot… does she have some sort of disease?" I shook my head and responded "Yes, she has cancer." His eyes widened as he replied "I-I had no clue…"

I shrugged and said "I think it's gone into remission, bless her heart… but she still gets sick often." He pursed his lips and wiped his forehead "Shit, I never knew that… I just thought he was a grumpy old bastard." I shook my head in response as I took another sip of my coffee "No… he goes through a lot of crap man. Long hours and a kid to take care of on your own will beat you down after years you know."

He gave a nod and Jerry walked in "Hey your back!" He walked over and I shook his hand "You know it, I'm not letting you run the team forever." I tipped my hat to frank one more time before I walked into the locker room with Jerry.

"So how's your wife doing?" He asked as he held the locker room door open for me "She is doing better now… I told you about the complications right?" He looked at me and shook his head no "Hmm, maybe that was Bradshaw… anyway, when she was giving birth she went into cardiac arrest." He jerked his head over to me as he opened his locker "Fuck, is she okay… Do they know what caused it?" He asked with genuine concern in his voice.

I opened my locker and sat my coffee on the shelf as I put a few extra bullets on my belt "Yeah, she's okay; however, they still don't really know what caused it. It could have just been the stress combined with the blood loss… I don't know." He put his hand on my shoulder as I placed my radio on my belt and attached it to my shoulder mike "How about the baby… I-Is he okay?" I gave a quick nod and replied "Healthy as me or her now… thank god. I don't know what I would have done if something had happened to either one of them Jerry."

He went back to fitting himself with his gear as Owen and Todd walked in, noticing I was there but waiting for me to finish my conversation. "So what's his name?" He asked as Todd and Owen listened "Little Aayan… He looks just like a tiny Cyan coloured baby Hedgehog." Todd and Owen opened their lockers and proceeded to gear up.

Todd turned to me and said "Morning commander, how's your wife?" I smiled at all the questions I'd been being asked but continued never the less "She's doing good, I was just telling Jerry that we had a beautiful baby boy named Aayan." They both clapped softly and congratulated me "That's wonderful!" I took my coffee off the shelf of my locker and took a sip "So enough about me… How did you guys do without me, no problems I presume?"

They all shook their heads no and Jerry replied "Nope, everything went smoothly." We sat around not really doing nothing for another five minutes or so until I said "Alright, let's get the day started… Jerry, you take Todd… Owen, you're with me this time." They all closed their lockers and walked with me to the stations parking garage.

We reached our cruisers and Todd said "Oh Commander, you're cruiser went kaput for some reason while you were out. We took it to the shop and they fixed it… still not sure why they didn't just give you one of the newer models?" I opened the hood to see what the problem could've been and replied "No, I've gotten used the Waku-Waku model; besides, they're usually more reliable than the current models." I saw a few of the new parts they put in and closed the hood.

"What was it doing?" I asked as me and Owen jumped in. "Just started off real shaky then the engine died completely, the mechanics said it was the drive shaft… they fixed it and put a few new parts in while they were at it." I started the engine and it came right to life with no problems at all "Seems to be running fine now." I said as Jerry and Todd got in theirs "Yeah" Owen responded "Runs as good as new."

"Okay guys, we meet back here at two; as always." They gave a nod and salute as they started up their cruiser. I pulled out of the parking space and drove out of the garage "So how are you getting used to having a baby around the house. It's a big adjustment huh?" I shook my head and responded as he turned on the in car-laptop "Defiantly, but I'm too happy to say anything bad about it… My wife on the other hand, she's been driving me a bit nutty with her mood swings."

I turned out onto the streets and continued on with my patrol route "Yeah, my wife was the same way… one minute she's bitching because I left the toilet seat up, the next she's on top of me kissing like a wild woman." I turned the CB and dashboard camera on "That's exactly how Amy is, yesterday she bitched at me for drinking a beer; and then she's crying because she yelled at me too much."

"I think it's just the transition from no longer having a baby in her stomach and getting used to having it crying all the time." He said, making me smiled as I thought about how much Aayan doesn't really cry… In fact he laughs more than he cries "That's what I thought too… I figured she'd get over it in the next few weeks." He gave a nod as he watched the streets "She will, my wife got over it around the second week of the end of her pregnancy."

He pointed to a small green car and said "Didn't use their turn signal…" I thought about it for a minute before turning just my lights on 'Seems like a waste of time but the law is the law' the car immediately pulled to a stop and I took my clipboard out of the front console "Run the license plate." I commanded as I got out and slowly walked up to the car.

The window rolled down and revealed a little old lady "Good morning mam', do you have any Idea why I pulled you over?" She pushed her glasses up and nervously replied "No Officer, I was going the speed limit." I looked over to Owen and he waved an all clear "Well you didn't use your turn signal back there when you turned."

She raised her eyebrow and responded "I didn't, I could have sworn I did?" I thought for a second and said "Go ahead and turn on your blinker for me." She did as I said and pulled the lever. I walked back and saw only the left one was lit up "That's what I thought." I said to myself before walking back to her window "Okay, you're taillight is out."

She got a bit huffy as she replied "Oh dear, I don't know when that happened; I hope I haven't been driving around town to long without it." I clicked my pen and groaned "Okay, well I'm going to let you off with a warning this time… I need you to go see a mechanic or something and get it replaced, alright?" She quickly shook her head yes and responded "Thank you Officer, I was on my way home so I'll go do that now."

I gave a nod as she rolled her window back up and I walked back to the cruiser. I opened the door and Owen asked "Did you let her go with a warning?" I sat down and replied as I closed my door and turned off the lights "Yeah, she used her signal it's just burned out." He sighed and wrote up a report on the laptop.

[Time: 9:15 A.M.]

"So he turns to me" I said as I was joking around with Owen "And says 'hey I know you.' I was expecting him to say something about being Sonic the Hedgehog" Owen smiled and kept a look out "Instead he just goes 'yeah your that cop who gave me that ticket the other day' I was just like 'really… that's all you know me as' what an asshole."

Owen laughed and replied "Yeah, people forget stuff like that quicker than you think… they always remember the bad stuff longer than the good stuff." I shook my head as I stopped at a red light. "I guess so, but you think I wouldn't be old news just like that" I snapped my fingers and continued "I mean who else is going to stop Eggman if he shows up, G.U.N.?" Owen laughed again and said "Hell no, they're too busy with their heads stuck up their ass."

I laughed and the cruiser suddenly began to shake violently as a really loud noise rang through the air "What the fuck!" Me and Owen both said, looking around to see other people looking up with their cars shaking as well. I saw a few people on the sidewalks point up in the air and scream. "What's going on?" Owen responded just as a massive MD-80 aircraft flew above us, nearly scrapping the top of our cruiser before smashing into other cars and finally ramming into an overpass with an enormous explosion upon impact.

"OH MY FUCKING GOD!" I immediately jumped out and ran to the closet cars, pulling out as many people from the wreckage as I could "CODE 903, I need fire department and medical assistance down by route 20 and the cross of the off ramp from Speed highway now! I repeat code 903; a commercial airplane just crashed into the overpass of route 20 after taking out multiple vehicles… Code 903!"

Owen followed behind me as he pulled people from their cars before running back to the cruiser to grab the fire extinguisher out of the trunk and get on the CB "10-0 proceed with caution, jet fuel has begun to leak from the aircraft." Dispatch came over the radio and responded "10-4 Fire department has been notified, they're heading to your location… what's the condition of the pilot?"

I quickly ran closer to the plane which was beginning to catch fire more and more "Unable to locate." I replied as the door to the plane suddenly forced itself open. The pilot fell out onto the ground with the back of his shirt on fire "OWEN!" I yelled as I tried to put out the fire by kicking dirt on him. He screamed in agony as Owen ran with the fire extinguisher as quick as he could.

He threw it to me and I popped the pin out, spraying all of the foam on him as I got back on my radio "I NEED EMERGENCY MEDICAL ASSISTIANCE NOW!" the dispatch operator came back and replied "Remain calm, fire and medical are on their way." I gave the extinguisher to Owen as he took over "Tell them to hurry; we have people dying down here."

Owen sprayed the rest of the foam out onto the plane where the fuel was leaking in an attempt to stop any sparks that could ignite an oil fire. I pulled the Pilot to the curb as he screamed when I touched his skin "I'm so sorry!" I said as I continued to carry him "There was two of them…" He said as he coughed up blood. I gently laid him down on the curb and responded "Two of whom, two passengers inside the plane? Owen, there are two more passengers in the plane!"

He coughed up more blood as he held his head "No-no-no! Don't go in the plane, they're in there!" I couldn't understand what he was talking about but was glad when I heard sirens getting closer "It's okay, you're going to be alright…" I stood up and ran to the plane with Owen as the Pilot yelled to us "NO DON'T GO IN THERE!"

We ignored him and I jumped up into the plane before helping Owen up. It was smoking badly and I could barely see; I pulled my shirt up over my nose in an attempt to breathe as we walked around the cabin "I don't see anyone!" Owen shouted with a cough. "Me neither, but he said there were two…" a sudden laser beam struck Owen in the shoulder and he fell to the ground.

I pulled my gun and yelled over the roar of the clanking engine "Cease fire, S.S.P.D we're here to help!" another energy beam shot through the smoke and barely missed me as I jumped behind a row of seats, pulling Owen next to me "11-99" I said into my shoulder mike "Possible enemy presence inside the downed aircraft… unable to see the target." The operator came over and replied "10-4 is it 11-6?" I pulled my gun and fired a shot towards the direction the laser came.

"10-4 it's laser weaponry." Owen pulled his gun as well as soon as another beam shot towards his leg, barely missing it by centimeters "Commander, I can't feel my arm." I took his gun from him and stood up, quickly firing both at the same time; relaxing for a moment as I heard a thud. "10-00, Officer down!" another beam rang through the smoke and grazed my cheek "Bitch!" I yelled as I returned fire.

A few street cops came to the door and shouted to me "What's the situation?" they ducked and drew their pistols as multiple beams came through the smoke, catching the seats in front of me on fire. "I don't know" I yelled back as one of them climbed up and gave me supporting fire. "I thought they were passengers but I can't see them." I pulled Owen to the door and the other officer that was till outside dragged him out as he cried in pain "I can't feel my arm!"

My eye twitched as my adrenaline surged through my body and I jumped the seats, not paying any attention to the flames that were building up. I could see a pair of glowing red eyes surrounded by multiple blue ones; I took aim and fired at the red eyes, striking a blue one instead. It fell to the ground and flickered out a few more police officers climbed up into the plane and proceeded to give me support.

One of the pair of blue eyes got closer and revealed an Egg Pawn "Shit!" I yelled as it charged towards the other cops with its shoulder spike. I stuck out my leg and managed to trip it before it stood back up and turned towards me. I dodged a beam of energy from the smoke and held my pistol up to the Egg Pawns eye. Smiling as it clenched its fist in rage.

I pulled the trigger and blew the circuitry out the back of its head, watching it fall to the ground as it malfunctioned and stopped moving. "Code 10" One of the officers said into their mikes "Confirming enemy as Robotniks Machines." The Egg Pawn flew up and stabbed me in the leg "SON OF A BITCH!" I cursed as the officers proceeded to empty their entire clips into the robot.

It fell to the ground in a heaping mass of bullet holed junk and blew up "FUCK!" I screamed as I pulled the spike out of my leg "I need some support over here!" I bent down as they moved closer and continued to fire into the smoke. I ripped my tie off my neck and wrapped around my leg, using it as a makeshift Tourniquet to stop the bleeding. A ball of energy shot through the smoke and hovered between the pack of officers before exploding, taking down two of them "Mother fucker!" a few of the officers yelled.

The red eyes moved closer until it exposed itself as an EggRobo 'That's the one that's been doing the shooting' It didn't see me and as it flew by the row of seats I was behind towards the group of officers. I jumped on its back and grabbed it's cannon "You aren't going nowhere you rust bucket!" I slammed my hand into the back of its head as it opened up to shoot a missile.

I reached in and removed the missile, continuing in deeper until I reached wiring. I wildly ripped the cords out through its exposed missile barrel and forced it to fling about in a faulty manner. Its cannon shot about without control and I grabbed it; turning it on its self and it blew its own head off, falling to the ground next to the Egg Pawn.

Another Egg Pawn jumped me from behind and grabbed my neck, exposing its blade as it tried to slit my throat. I quickly bashed my head into it and grabbed the blade with my bare hand, ripping through the glove into my flesh as I broke its arm off. Smacking it with his own arm a few times before shoving the blade into his eye socket. I pointed my gun towards him but he punched it out of my hand and twisted my arm in the same way I did to his.

My shoulder popped and I screamed. It picked me up by the throat and threw me against the wall, relocating my shoulder back into place; much to his dismay. It turned off for a second before restarting and I took this as my chance, I grabbed him by his other arm and kicked him back into the last to Egg Pawns. He stumbled backwards and fell on top of the others, knocking them to the ground briefly before they threw him back at me.

The other Police officers shot back but where mostly busy as they helped pull their fallen comrades out of the cabin. I jumped up and kicked it right in the face, smashing it to pieces as it too fell to the ground. The other Egg Pawns looked at each other and the first walked to me, slowly holding its hand above its head 'What is this' I said to myself as I grabbed my gun off the floor and took aim.

The last Egg Pawn used its blade to cut into the floor board as the other continued walking to me "You're going to really disappoint your master if you surrender." I said to it as it pushed a few buttons on its wrist. A loud click was heard and a message began "Sonic" Eggmans voice said "You should have taken my offer… how did you like my new E-series H.U.M.A.N.? I heard he gave the Mayor a good thrashing Ha-ha-ha… it took a lot of time to build him you know, it's sad that he couldn't do what he was commissioned for."

The message stopped for a minute and I looked back to see all of the Officers were listening with their guns aimed straight at the Egg Pawn. The message suddenly continued as Eggmans voice came back with a slightly different pitch "Yes a Shame, however we got what we needed… we know the coordinates of G.U.N.'s shitty little secret base. I got to say my robots have flown over that place plenty of times; honestly, I thought it was just a garbage dump He-He-He…" I listened closely to the message as two voices came over and said at the same time "I hope this message distracted you long enough though!"

My eyes widened as I looked behind the Egg Pawn to see the other taking a bomb out of the floor board. I immediately shoved the first Egg Pawn back and yelled to the other Officers "BOMB… it's a Bomb everyone out hurry!" They scrambled out as I did the same. Jumping out the door as everyone ran for cover yelling "BOMB!" I slid behind an Ambulance just as the plane shattered to pieces from the explosion.

Parts fell from the sky and landed everywhere on fire, burning through metal and raging like an inferno "10-80" I said into my shoulder mike as I panted "10-80, I need the entire fire department out here… we just had an Baker go off in the down plane." The fire engines that were already on the scene ensued with their hoses as they tried to put out what they could "10-4" The operator said "Is there a possibility of any more Bakers?"

A paramedic from the Ambulance I was behind got out of the back and noticed the tie around my leg "Negative, only one… It would have detonated in the first blast." He pulled me up and helped me sit on the back as he untied the tie and cut off my pants leg from the knee down. "What happened?" a voice from behind me said, I turned to see Owen on the stretcher with another paramedic tending to his shoulder wound.

I tried to stand up but the medic held me down as he poured some alcohol on the wound to sterilize it. I winced and replied "I'll tell you what happened; Eggman sent more of his fucking robots to cause a ruckus… How's the Pilot doing, is he stable… what about you, are you going to be okay?" He shook his head and coughed as the paramedics placed an oxygen mask over both of our faces "What is this for?" I asked as the medic that was tending to my leg removed a shard of metal from my leg and stitched the wound close.

"Smoke inhalation." He replied as he took a tube out of the overhead and squeezed a gelatinous glob of gunk out onto the wound. It stung like hell and I nearly kicked him "What is that Shit?" I asked as he smacked my hand way from the wound, placing a gauze bandage tightly around my leg "It's called Nexagon, it's a new healing ointment the will help the cells close the wound ten times faster." I leaned back against the wall of the ambulance and said "Where was that stuff when I got shot in the kneecap?"

He laughed and took the oxygen mask off, letting me cough up the mucus from the smoke "It's been an experimental for about ten year; they just released it last month." I closed my eyes and thanked him. He noticed me close my eyes and asked "You don't feel like you're going to pass out do you?" I shook my head no and took off my hat "I'm just tired from fighting… makes me feel old that I can't do it all day like I used to." He laughed and jumped out to tend to someone else.

Owen coughed and I looked over to him "How's your shoulder?" He gave a slow wave with the arm the wound was on and responded "I can move it again… I thought for a minute there it was dead." The other medic told him to stop moving it as he said "That's normal after you first get hit by a laser beam, your muscles tighten up to the point where you can move the afflicted area."

I stood up and limped over to him "good, that means you won't lose your arm." Owen laughed and replied "Thank God!" I smiled and rested my hand on his other shoulder "What about the Pilot?" The medic answered for him "He's already been taken to the hospital, he's in serious condition with most of his back is just a large second degree burn… he is very lucky you had a fire extinguisher on hand, it could've turned into a third or fourth degree burn or worse."

I sat back in the medics chair and rubbed my eyes, placing my hat back on my head I replied "I want to know how those robots got in his plane." Owen coughed again and the medic turned up his oxygen "I want to know why he said there was two, there was defiantly more than two robots Commander."

A few news vans rolled up and got out with their cameras "Dammit" I said as they started getting in the way of the incoming fire fighters "The press is here to get in everyone's way." I said to Owen as he moved his head to see what was going on "Commander, you're going to have to give them information until Bradshaw arrives." I sighed and jumped down, feeling the sting in my leg as I hit the ground.

I slowly walked towards them and held my hand up as they pointed their cameras at me "Alright you people are going to have to back your vans out of the area… you're in the way of fire engines." The reporters ignored me and held a microphone up to my face "Sonic, is it true you were the first to arrive on the scene?" I snatched the microphone away from her and threw it a few feet behind their van "I said you are going to have to back up… you are interfering with a crime scene, if you don't comply you will be placed under arrest."

A few other cops joined me and pushed them back as a car that was on fire exploded. A flaming tire smashed through one of the news vans windshields and the cameramen stayed focused on the plane. I took out my baton and flung it out as I sneered at them in response "I SAID GET BACK NOW!" they put their hands up and got in their vans 'except the one that now had a flaming tire in it' backing away from the scene.

I retracted my baton and put it back in its holder as I slowly walked toward them with the other Officers. As soon as they were back far enough the Officers with me put up caution tape to keep them out "Will you answer our questions now?" the reporter said as I gave her microphone back to her "Yes, I'll answer a few." I crossed my arms and stayed behind the tape as the cameras pointed towards me and the reporter held the microphone back up to me.

"Where you the first to arrive on the scene?" I scratched my head as one of the cameras zoomed in on my wounded leg "That's correct… Me and my partner were on our routine patrol when we suddenly felt this rumble in the car followed by a loud roaring sound." She interrupted me and said "So you actually saw it happen?" I sighed 'I hate the press so much' and replied "Yes, when it came down it actually scrapped the top of our cruiser before hitting the other cars and smashing into the overpass."

She shook her head and asked "Where there any passengers aboard the aircraft at the time." The cameras focused on the fire trucks that drove in and blasted the plane with water "Thankfully no… the only person on board was the pilot." One of the fire fighters ran by talking on his radio "Yeah, we're going to need water cannons down here… it's too much for the hoses to handle."

"And where is the pilot at this moment?" She asked as she continued to shove the microphone in my face "He's been taken to the hospital for second degree burns… at the moment I do not know what caused the crash or if he knows." It was like she was reading off a list as she asked "Is he conscious?" I shrugged and replied "I don't know, I haven't seen him since we removed him from the plane."

Jerry and Todd finally rolled up and got out as the reporter asked "Is it true that there was a gunfight inside the plane?" I shook my hands as Jerry walked up beside me "I can't disclose that information at this time." She didn't even flinch as she just went onto the next question "Is it true the enemy was Dr. Robotniks Machines?" I turned to Jerry as he asked for an update "I-I'm sorry, I can't disclose that information at this time…" I walked away with Jerry as the report kept trying to get more information "Wait… how did you injure your leg, what was the second explosion, how did so many Officers get injured, was this a terrorist attack?" Todd kept them back as he said "More information will be revealed as it comes to the light."

I limped for a second and Jerry looked at my leg "Are you okay Commander… I heard your distress call over the CB but I was clear on the other side of town." He opened the door to my cruiser and I sat down in the driver's seat, wiping the sweat off my forehead "I'm okay…" He leaned up against the cruiser and responded "What the hell happened?" I pointed to the plane and said "Exactly what looks like happened… the plane crashed."

He raised an eyebrow at my confusing answer and asked again "I mean what caused it to go down?" I sighed and leaned back in the seat as I turned the engine on "Robotnik." He narrowed his eyes and clenched his fists "That fat bastard shot a plane down?" I shrugged and responded "I don't think so; he loaded the plane up with some of his robot lackeys and sent it towards the city… either it was luck of the draw or he set the autopilot towards me."

He looked at the top of the cruiser and his eyes shot open "Damn that was a close call Commander, there is literally scape marks on the top of the car." I closed my eyes and put my head in my hands "So I take it your leg was injured by one of the robots? How many were in there?" I rubbed my leg and replied "Four Egg Pawns and an EggRobo." Todd walked over and said "Where's Owen?" Jerry realized he wasn't with me and looked around "He's in the back of the Ambulance" I replied as I pointed "He got hit in the shoulder by the EggRobo's energy beam."

Jerry gave me a quick pat on the back and walked with Todd over to the ambulance, leaving me alone with my thoughts. 'Airplanes Eggman… really' I thought as I turned the air conditioner on and put my face by the vent 'Why did his voice sound weird?' I recalled what the message said "Yes a Shame, however we got what we needed… we know the coordinates of G.U.N.'s shitty little secret base" I pinched the bridge of my nose as I thought about who the 'We' could've been "Who would Eggman team up with?" I said aloud as I rubbed my eyes.

My cellphone suddenly rang and I took it out of the case and answered without looking "Hello?" Amy's voice rang through the earpiece and I held the phone away from my ear "Sonic! Are you okay? I was watching the news and I saw that plane went down… then I saw you, baby what happened to your leg… are you o…" I laughed at her fast talking and replied "Yes babe, I'm fine… it's just a scratch; how's Aayan doing?"

She sighed and said "He's sleeping in his cradle beside me… Sonic that bandage on your leg looked serious; are you sure you're okay?" I put the car in drive and pulled up next to the ambulance with Owen and the others "Yeah honey… I'm fine; I'll tell you more about it when I get home alright?" She waited for a second and replied "Okay, just please be careful… for me and Aayan." I smiled and responded "I will babe, you know it. I love you and I'll see you in a few hours."

She sighed again and replied "Okay, I love you too." I said bye and hung up as Todd came out of the ambulance and opened the passenger door "Commander, I just got off the phone with Bradshaw… He wants you to head back to the station and debrief him on the situation." I gave a nod and he continued "We're going to stay with Owen and help out the firefighters." I shook my head and yelled to Jerry. He came over to my window and I said "I want you to go around the radius and make sure there are no pieces of the robots lying about… I don't want the public to see them." He gave a salute and I drove off onto the grass to get by all the cars.

[Time: 10:45 A.M.]

I pulled into the station garage and parked, turning off the engine as I sat for a moment "I really don't feel as young as I used to be." I took a bottle of Advil out from under my seat and popped one in. "Ugh, I just want this day to be over so I can go home." I looked at the time on my cellphone and moaned "unfortunately that doesn't seem to be happening." I slowly opened the door and got out, feeling the pain in my leg as I stood.

I closed the door and limped to the station. As soon as I opened the door Frank jumped up and walked over to me "Damn Sonic, are you okay… do you need me to help you?" I waved him off and continued limping to the stairs "I'm okay, where's Bradshaw?" he sat back down and replied "In his office, I'll let him know you're coming." He picked up the phone and I walked up the stairs, trying to do it normally since I didn't want to look weak.

I got up to his office and knocked on the door "Come in." He said as I opened the door "Oh Sonic, come have a seat... rest your leg" I closed the door and walked over the chairs in front of his desk, sitting down in the closest one "Okay let's cut right to the chase… what the fuck… happened?" I rubbed my leg and replied "Well me and Owen were doing our patrol as usual and suddenly this commercial plane just scrapped the top of our cruiser and smashed into other cars before hitting the overpass."

He wrote on some paper as he listened "So me and Owen jump out and of course start pulling people from their cars… It was a cluster fuck Richard, that plane totaled so much stuff." He looked up at me and raised his eyebrow "Are you okay?" I shook my head and closed my eyes for a minute "Yeah, I just used up all my adrenaline… anyway, the pilot jumped out on fire and we had to use our cruisers extinguisher to put him out."

"I heard about him being transferred to the hospital for his burns… did he say anything about what caused it?" I shook my head no and replied "Nope, he just kept saying there were two of them…" He wrote that down on paper and asked "Two of whom, two passengers?" I continued rubbing my leg as the pain started to go away from the Nexagon and Advil "That's what I thought to; but as soon as me and Owen climbed up into the cabin of the Aircraft we were opened fire upon."

He motioned for me to keep going as he wrote down everything I said "Owen got hit in the shoulder and a few other officers dragged him out as I kept fighting." He stopped and looked up at me "I heard it was energy weapons." I shook my head and responded "Yeah, after a few blind shots an Egg Pawn revealed itself and charged at the other officers who were covering me."

He narrowed his eyes in confusion and said "Egg Pawn?" I shook my head and drew him a crude picture "Yeah, they're like Eggmans most mass produced model; I think there actual model number is E-1001 or something." He took the picture and shook his head "Yep, E-1001… orange bastards that can take a beating."

I thought about how many bullets the first one took and replied "Tell me about it… Anyway, I managed to subdue it before it got to the officers and thought it was dead." He went back to writing as I continued "I guess I was wrong because the next thing I knew his arm blade was in my leg." He made a face and said "Ouch, did you get medical treatment?" I shrugged and said "At the time no… the other officers shot the hell out of him until he stopped moving and I used my tie as a tourniquet."

He moaned and said "Did you at least get treatment afterward?" I wondered why he was so concerned and replied "Yes, the paramedics removed the shard a metal that apparently broke off in my leg and stitched it up… they also put some new medical gel on it called Nexagon… stopped the pain for the most part immediately." He gave a nod and responded "Yeah they just released that stuff to the hospitals about a month ago; from what I heard it works like a charm."

I shook my head vigorously and replied "Yep, it has my thanks… on with what happened in the plane." He picked up another sheet of paper and started writing "I made the tourniquet with my tie and went back to shooting through the smoke… All I could see where their glowing eyes so it was difficult to get a hit off them..." His phone rang and he quickly picked up making me stop in mid-sentence "Hello… Alright darlin' just lay down and I'll be home soon… I love you but daddy's doing some important stuff right now… Okay, you rest up." He hung up and turned back to me as he took a cigarette out of his front pocket and lit it with the one he already had in his mouth.

"Sorry about that, Katie just got sent home from the school nurse." He stuck the cigarette in his mouth and smashed the old one in the ashtray. "That's alright fatherly duties come first." He smiled and gave a nod "Go ahead with what happened in the plane." I coughed as his smoke drifted over to me and went up my nostrils 'I've smelled enough smoke for one day' He held the cigarette away as I continued "I shot at them and another set of eyes came closer revealing and EggRobo."

He took a puff and said "EggRobo, those are the flying ones right?" I leaned back in the chair and replied "Yes, that was the one who was doing all of the shooting. It must've been able to see through the smoke because it got a lot more shots than we did." He shook his head in response and said "Probably some form of thermal vision."

"So I grab it and yank out its circuitry and force it to shoot itself with its own cannon." I continued as he wrote that down "about that time another Egg Pawn grabs me from behind and tries to stab me in the throat with its blade." Bradshaw looked up to my throat and saw the mark it had left from the attempt "I managed to free myself and rip its arm off… I shoved the blade in its eye socket and kicked it back towards the last two Pawns."

He stopped writing and asked "How many of these robots were there exactly?" I thought for a second and replied "A total of five… the one EggRobo and four Egg Pawns. At least that's all I could see." He gave a nod and motioned for me to continue. "One of the other Pawns suddenly sticks his hands up in sign of surrender." He raised his eyebrow and quickly wrote that down "Machines don't surrender." I shook my head and responded "I thought the same thing… It walks up and plays this message from Eggman."

"What did the message say?" He asked as he took another puff of his cigarette "It said how he was disappointed I didn't join him and how the robot he sent to the mayor's office had let him down as well… He called it his new model E- Series H.U.M.A.N." Bradshaw scratched his arms and let me continue "I don't know what that stands for but he said it had done another thing for him by locating G.U.N.'s secret base."

His eyes widened and he asked "Wait what? How is that possible… the machine-man was destroyed in the blast?" I sighed and thought back to what Shadow said in the hospital "He was… Do you remember when I got in that scuffle in the hospital with that black hedgehog?" He narrowed his eyes and replied "The one from G.U.N. right… is there something you need to tell me Sonic?"

I wiped my forehead and responded "Y-yeah… he told me the pieces they recovered from the wreckage activated some sort of transceiver that sent a signal to an unknown location." He grunted and said "Let me guess, the Egg carrier." I shrugged and replied "Your best guess is as good as mine, but probably." He sighed and told me to continue with the airplane.

"I think Eggman has teamed up with somebody… I heard two distinct voices on the message, it sounded like him; but at the very end they both spoke at the same time so I know there was someone else talking." He was confused by that as he said "what do you mean, like a mechanical version of him?" I pursed my lips in thought and shook my head "No, it was almost like there was two of him." I thought back to the different laughs… the 'Ha-ha and He-he'.

"Anyway the message ended saying 'I hope this distracted you long enough' and I noticed the Egg Pawn behind the one playing the message had taken a bomb out of the floor board… I shouted for everyone to get out and the plane exploded." He ran his hand down his face and replied "Son-of-a-bitch… Eggman is getting worse and worse by the passing years."

I shook my head and he took a puff off his cigarette "Okay, well go wash yourself up and take the rest of the day off to let your leg heal." I stood up and gave him a salute "Thank you Richard, I appreciate that…" He waved me off and went back to his paper work as I walked to the door "Oh" He said as I opened the door "If I ever… ever, find out that you're holding back information regarding any police case without my consent… you won't be working here anymore."

I raised my eyebrow in concern and turned around "Sir?" He looked up and gave me the eye "I'm your friend Sonic, but above all I'm your boss… I have a precinct to run and I need as much information as I can get to keep my Officers sharp, do you understand me?" I gave a quick nod and he yelled "Now get out of my office!" I put my hands up and back out, closing the door before walking down the stairs.

I walked to the locker room and opened my locker, unplugging my radio from my shoulder mike and placing it back in its charger. My leg didn't hurt anymore but it still reminded me I'd been stabbed with every step I took. I washed my face off in the sink and closed my locker as I walked out "Alright Frank… I'm going to take an early one." He stood up and shook my hand "Hey, sorry you had so much trouble on your first day back… get some rest and let that leg heal up." We gave each other a sloppy salute and I left the station

[Time: 12:00 N]

I pulled into my driveway and parked, turning off the engine as I sighed "I feel like I could go to sleep already." I got out and walked over to the mailbox, opening it and taking out the mail "Imagine that… A bill." I stood there for a second and thought about the things Bradshaw said to me 'man he was pissed, I don't really know why either… I've told him everything…' I decided to check on Katie to stay on his good side.

I walked across the street and gently knocked on Bradshaw's door. After a minute I saw the curtains on the window move before the door opened "Hey Katie… I heard from your dad that you weren't feeling good, I was just checking on you to see if you needed anything?" She smiled and coughed "Thank you Mr. Hedgehog, but I think I just need to lay down."

"Okay, well I'll be just across the street if you need anything alright?" She rubbed her eyes and looked down at my leg "Oh are you okay?" I ruffled her hair and replied "Yeah don't worry about me… go get some rest." She smiled and closed the door as I walked back to my house.

I put the key to the lock and Amy opened it before I could even turn it "Sonic!" She pulled me in and pushed me up against the wall, kissing my neck as she closed the door "Are you okay?" I wrapped my arms around her and kissed her on the lips "I'm fine babe… don't worry." She rubbed herself up against me and licked my face "But I was worried, what happened?"

I caressed her back as she smashed her lips up against mine, not letting me answer her question as we made out for a good minute. I slid my tongue along her teeth as she unbuttoned the top button of my shirt "Exactly what you saw on the news." She held my head as our tongues met outside our mouths and twisted around each other's "But Sonic, you were covering things up… you didn't answer when the reporter talked about Eggman being the cause of the plane crash." She must've been horny because the way she sucked on my tongue was starting to get me off.

Aayan suddenly cried from his cradle across the room breaking us out of our moment "Come on babe" I said to her "I need to sit down, plus I'd like to see my son." She smiled and helped me over to the couch, despite how I said I could walk on my own. I sat down and gently picked up Aayan "Hey buddy, did you have a good day with your mommy?" He stopped crying and curled up in a ball "Where'd you go?" I asked playfully as he cooed and hid himself from me.

"He wasn't too bad today, mostly slept but I probably need to go ahead and breastfeed him." I smiled and tickled his feet, making him come out of his ball form. As I gave him to her she noticed the slice on my hand the paramedics missed. "Sonikku… you really need to tell me what happened." I sighed and started taking my shoes off as she held Aayan up to her breast, pulling the strap down to allow him access to her teat.

"It was Eggman." She sat down next to me as Aayan nursed on her "What do you mean? Did he shoot the plane down?" I took both shoes off and tossed them aside "No, at least I don't think so… he loaded the plane up with his robots and set the coordinates for me." She looked a bit confused so I tried to explain "Either he set the autopilot to somehow seek me out or one of his Egg Pawns was controlling it."

She rubbed my leg gently were the wound was and asked "He loaded the plane with Egg Pawns?" I gave a nod as I put my hat on the table and stood back up, walking upstairs to the bedroom as she followed "Four Egg Pawns and an EggRobo." I opened the bedroom door and took off my belt, putting it inside my dresser this time so it wouldn't be out in the open.

"Was the Pilot there or was it just manned by the robots?" I took off my badge and nameplate and placed them on top of the dresser before sliding my shirt off, tossing it in the bathroom missing the hamper as I replied "He was there but they took him to the hospital to treat his burns… If me and Owen hadn't used the fire extinguisher to put him out he would've died."

I took my pants off and chucked them in the garbage since they were ruined from where the paramedics cut the leg off. I slowly removed the gauze as Amy watched and peeled the bandage off, taking a look at the wound "What happened to your leg?" It looked a lot better than it did at the start, the Nexagon really worked well. It had closed up but was still really red "One of the Egg Pawns stabbed me."

"And what about your hand?" I looked at it to see a good slash where the knife cut into the skin, running it under the water from the sink as I responded "Same thing… pretty small price to pay considering it was trying to slit my throat." She walked up behind me and put one arm around me as she held Aayan with the other "I don't like this job Sonic, it's too dangerous… what would I have done if one of those Egg Pawns succeeded?"

I turned off the faucet and wrapped my hand with some more gauze I had in the medicine cabinet "I know baby, but if I wasn't there those Egg Pawns would have decimated the Police that were on scene… The EggRobo alone managed to shoot Owen in the shoulder and injure three others before I could take it down." She rubbed my back as I looked at myself in the mirror "Is he going to be okay?"

I turned around and sighed "Thankfully yes, I just wish I'd been quicker… maybe then he wouldn't have gotten hurt at all." She kissed my jaw and said "Now don't go blaming yourself… I saw how much that plane was smoking; I'm surprised you were able to see at all." I smiled at Aayan as Amy kept looking down at my leg "Your leg sure looks better… he must not have got you too bad."

I used some more of the gauze to keep it concealed "No, it was pretty deep; the paramedics put something call Nexagon on it and it closed up in a matter of hours." She shook her head and replied "I've heard of that, I read an article in a magazine about that last year… I didn't know they started using it." I walked out of the bathroom and put the sweatpants I wore yesterday back on "They said they'd just started using it everywhere."

She giggled and said "I bet you wish they'd have used that on you when you got shot in the knee?" I laughed and sat down on the bed "That's the exact same thing I said." She came up and laid down beside me, continuing to nurse Aayan. I smiled when she cuddled up next to me and turned on the TV, but got serious when she asked me what Bradshaw thought about all of this.

"I don't know… right now he seems to be pissed off at me." She raised her eyebrow and replied "Why would he be mad, you're a hero for saving all those people who were trapped in their cars." I briefly thought back to the carnage the plane created upon impact and said "I know, but he thinks I've been holding back information from him." Aayan let go of her boob and she held him up to her shoulder while she gave him a few gentle pats on the back "Did you?" She asked as I pulled her strap back up for her.

"Not on any police case… but, well… Shadow let me in on a secret about that machine-man Eggman sent to the mayors." She listened closely to what I said as I continued "He told me that the parts they recovered from the wreckage had transmitted some sort of signal to Eggman while they were attempting to reverse engineer what they could." She shook her head as Aayan burped "Sounds like they got too full of themselves and just wanted to copy whatever Eggman uses to make it for themselves."

Aayan rolled off her shoulder into the middle of us and laughed "You're being energetic today!" I said to him as he giggled and pulled himself up on top of me. Amy smiled and replied "He's saying 'daddy hold me!' he has been awake more today." I picked him up and held him on my chest as he cooed and grabbed my fur "Yeah, he's getting used to the outside world." He pulled himself up to my neck and curled up under my chin.

"So" Amy said as I soothingly stoked Aayan's back "What else did Shadow say to you?" I sighed as I wanted to relax but reluctantly replied anyway "He just talked about how Eggmans getting more desperate and his machines are getting deadlier… It makes sense actually with the robots in the airplane and the message he played." She draped her leg across mine and asked "What message?"

I didn't go into detail especially since I didn't want her to know about the bomb "He just talked about how he was disappointed I didn't join him and how he knows where G.U.N.'s secret base is now…" I thought back to the other voice that came over as it played; looking down at Aayan as he slept peacefully snuggled in my fur, breathing at the same time I did.

"Sonic?" Amy asked as she placed her hand on my abs "Is there something else?" I clenched my teeth and said "There was somebody with Eggman… I heard two voices on the message. It was strange, it sounded like him but it wasn't" She narrowed her eyes and responded "You mean like a doppelgänger or him from the past? Maybe he's trying to do that time thing again." I shook my head and pricked myself on one of Aayans back quills "Oww… No, I can't really describe it…"

"But enough about my day, I don't want to talk about it anymore… What did you do today?" She smiled and rubbed my stomach "Not much, I tried to call Blaze but I guess she's busy. I did get into contact with Rouge and Big, both of them are as excited as can be… Rouge wanted to come over but I told her some other time since all this commotion would have probably left you tired."

I chuckled and replied "That is sweet of you babe, but if you want to have a friend over go ahead; don't let me stop you." She smiled and ran her finger down my chest "I'm okay… I told her we'd go out together sometime this week. Hey, what happened with Knuckles taking you out to that new club?" I laughed and said "I don't think I'll be doing much clubbing anymore…"

She shrugged and replied "Why not? Just because we have Aayan to take care of doesn't mean you can't do something for yourself every now and then." I pulled her closer to me and turned the television down a tad "You make it sound like I need a break?" She smiled and said "You kind of do Sonic; all you do lately is work… I mean I'm not trying to say you don't spend any time with me… but you don't get any time to yourself. Besides, you need to do something to make up for your birthday."

I ran my hand down her quills and said "What do you mean; it was the best birthday of my life, my own son was born." She grinned and leaned up to kiss me "So you don't feel like your birthday was ruined?" I raised my eyebrow and kissed her back, keeping Aayan held down so he didn't fall "Ruined… have you been under a rock?" She giggled and kissed me one more time before lying back down.

"I'm happy that you feel that way but I still want you to go out and do something… do it this this weekend when I get Rouge and Blaze over, that way you won't have to listen to a bunch of girls giggling and talking about shoes." I laughed and playfully waved my hands "Okay-okay, you convinced me…" I held onto Aayan as I leaned up against the bed board.

"So what are you making for dinner tonight babe?" I asked as she held onto Aayan with me "Lasagna, unless you want something else." I shook my head no and replied "That's fine by me… I think I'm just going to take a little nap with Aayan, alright." She smiled and kissed my forehead "Anything for my Sonikku and little Aayan." I turned off the television and turned over, softly holding Aayan up to my chest as I closed my eyes; tired from the day's events.