Chapter 25: Attack on the Base

Back at Vanilla's house, Sonic had just left after his speedy rendition of what happened to Tails, Breeze, and Shadow. Chris was ready to jump in the X Tornado, only…the X Tornado was at Tail's workshop and they didn't have anything else nearby to fly around in.

"That's ok, Chris! Follow me, I think I may have something that could help," Amy said with a wink and flounced out of the house.

"Can I go too, Momma?" Cream asked hopefully.

"Chao, chao," Cheese agreed.

"Alright, but don't get in the way and stay out of trouble, dear," Vanilla said.

"You know I will!"

Chris, Cream, and Cheese followed Amy as she walked down the path leading away from Vanilla's house.

"So, Amy, where are we going?" Chris finally asked.

"To my house of course," Amy replied.

"What's at your house that could help us find Breeze and the others?"

"Oh, you'll see," she said as they finally reached the small pinkish house. Amy walked around to the back where there was a large garage sitting in the yard.

"I had Tails build this for me," she said indicating the garage. She pulled out a remote and hit a button, opening the garage door. Everyone looked inside while Amy smugly stood in the doorway.

"You have your own ship!" Chris exclaimed as a small space ship was revealed in the fading light.

"Yup, I used it during the Metarex wars."

"Oh, yeah, I remember. I thought it had been destroyed," Chris said thoughtfully and placed a hand on the ship's side.

"I know it's supposed to be used in space, but I'm pretty sure it should work the same here. So what are we waiting for? Let's go find our friends!" Amy said happily, fist thrust into the air.

"Just one problem, Amy. This ship can only fit two people and there's three of us, not counting Cheese," Chris pointed out.

"Chao!" Cheese complained.

"That's alright, Chris. I guess I'll just stay here," Cream said disappointedly.

"No way, Cream! You're coming with us! I'll ride on top just like Sonic does," Amy said, imagining her hero with dreamy eyes.

"Um…are you sure you won't fall off?" Chris asked.

"Of course I'm sure! What do I look like, a little girl?! If Sonic can do it, so can I!" Amy screeched.

"Alright, alright, no need to shout. I'll just fire it up and…wait a minute!" Chris exclaimed again and put his hands on his head. "I can't fly this, it's pink!"

"So?" Amy said looking at him disgustedly.

"It's a girl color," Chris ranted.

"Do you want to find Breeze, Tails, and Shadow or not?"

"Yeah, I do."

"Then fly the pink ship!"

"Ok, ok!" Chris gave in and jumped into the cockpit. Cream and Cheese piled in behind him, excited that they were included on the adventure. Chris closed the glass top and said, "You ready, Amy?"

Amy jumped on top of the ship and braced herself, "Ready!"

"Alright then, take off!"

The pink ship with the pink hedgehog standing on top shot out of the garage and soared into the sky. Chris looked around to see if anyone had seen that he was piloting the girly craft. Oh, good, no one's around. I hope Sonic and Knuckles find everyone before we do so I won't have to land this thing in front of them, but if not I guess I'll just grin and bear it.

"Oh yeah! Go Pink Rose!" Amy shouted into the wind wielding her hammer. Oh man, Chris thought and groaned. It just keeps getting worse! The ship flew on into the sunset, desperately searching for three lost companions.

Knuckles smashed his powerful fists into the thick steel that walled Eggman's secret base. He was making progress. Only a bit more and he'd have a hole large enough to slip in.

"Could you put me down! You're jolting me with every strike of that oversized hand of yours!" Bokkun whined from Knuckles' grasp.

"No," the echidna panted. "You'll just go tell Eggman that I'm here. I'm trying to be sneaky."

"Well you're not doing a very good job. I could hear this racket two thousand miles away!"

"Shut up you little pest or I'll—" his threat was cut off when a series of sirens resounded about the base. Red lights flashed brightly and Knuckles growled.

"Now look what you've done. You woke the whole base! Not that I'm surprised," Bokkun insulted him.

"Good, I need a good fight to calm me down and keep me from smashing your face in!" Knuckles hit the wall once more and then jumped into the base through the hole he had created. He hurried down the hall in search of a prison room or someplace Eggman might keep Breeze. Loud speakers repeated "intruder alert, intruder alert" over and over as sirens buzzed and whined around his head. Eggman's base was very big. Too big to do anything quick, so he decided that maybe the annoying black robot he still held might come in handy.

"Alright, Bokkun, start talking. Where's Breeze?" Knuckles said as he stopped in the hall and shook the little robot again.

"Breeze? Is that why you're here? I don't know. We don't have her," Bokkun said gasping.

"Alright, that's it! I'm sick of Eggman and his lies!" with that statement Knuckles dashed forward. He ran on looking for anything that might clue him to what was going on. This was Eggman's base and he had to have had something to do with Breeze's disappearance. After all, Knuckles had tracked that robot back here. A lighted doorway soon appeared and Knuckles came to a halt in front of it.

Eggman mumbled under his breath as he sent destroyer robots out to look for the intruder. He had no idea who it was that had broken into his base, but he had a sneaking suspicion it had something to do with Sonic. He flipped another switch and grumbled into a speaker to his robots, "Hurry up! Find that intruder and bring him here!"

Eggman sat back and groaned. Why had he sent Decoe and Bocoe away? Now he had to do all of the tiresome deploying and recalling of his robotic troops instead of sitting above them in his chair and coming up with evil plots. This was getting annoying. Wait! He knew what to do now!

"I'll deploy my newest robot to go find the intruder and then Breeze—ahhhhhh!" Eggman screamed as he was cut off from his evil musings by a loud noise and smoke as his office door was suddenly busted open and flung towards him. Eggman ducked and jumped out of the way, which he could do amazingly fast for someone of so much weight. He looked up, glaring at the person who had ruined his thinking, and sneering with his straight teeth. Knuckles stood in the doorway, clearing smoke slowly dissolving around him.

"How's it been, Eggman?"

"Not too bad, Knuckles…until you went and broke my door down. Didn't you meet any of my search robots on your way here?"

"No, they must be a little slow," Knuckles answered and slowly advanced forward.

"Slow? I knew it! I should have scrapped those useless machines along time ago and came up with new ones!" Eggman said to himself.

"Hey! Pay attention to me! That's why I came here. Now where's Breeze?!" Knuckles shouted and thrust his fist forward.

"Breeze…?" Eggman said confused.

"Arrrrrrrgh!" Knuckles raised his fist.

"Oh! Breeze!" Eggman said hastily, backing away with warding hands before him. He backed into his computer desktop and put his hands near the controls behind his back. "You can have her if you want her, Knuckles. I've decided to let her go. It was too evil to keep such a little thing cooped up here at my base. She's through that door," he continued and pointed at a door to the side of the room.

"Thank you, Eggman. Sometimes you're not as evil as we all believe," Knuckles said and dropped Bokkun roughly to the floor as he walked towards the door.

"Doctor, what are you doing? We don't have Breeze," Bokkun said as he rushed over to the doctor.

"Shhh, I know that…but Knucklehead there doesn't. Hahahahaha, it's time to spring my trap!" Eggman laughed and pushed a button on the control panel when Knuckles had a hand on the door.

"Waaaaaaaa!" Knuckles cried as the door swung open and he fell inside a dark room. He couldn't see a thing, but he could hear Eggman's voice jeering at him through the wall.

"You fell for my tricks again, Knuckles! I don't have Breeze, but I do have someone else for you to meet!"

A loud metallic sound resounded in the dark room with Knuckles and he frantically looked around. All was pitch black.

"It's a new robot I created that can find things in almost any condition…even in the dark. Once it's done with you I'll send it after Breeze!" Eggman yelled excitedly.

"Eggman! Let me out of here!" Knuckles pounded on the door.

"A futile request my red friend. Goodbye Knuckles."

The sound of footsteps approached him and Knuckles suddenly found himself flung against the hard metal walls of the room. The robot must have found him! How could he fight what he couldn't see? How could the robot see him? He stood and braced himself, listening. He heard the mechanical arms and tried to move, but he wasn't as fast as Sonic. The robot slammed him again. I'll never give up no matter how hard you try, robot!

Knuckles stood back up and prepared himself for another attack, it never came. Up above him the ceiling blew in and a hole revealed the night sky full of twinkling stars. Knuckles could see the massive hulk of the robot as moonlight flooded in and he jumped forward and slammed his own fist into the mechanical foot. The robot jumped back as it's foot was smashed clean off by Knuckles' powerful fists and it fell back with a crash.

A dark shaped swooped into the newly created hole and with a swoosh of wings flew over Knuckles' head. He lifted his head up to see who it was, but was suddenly jerked up into the sky and found himself moving towards the gaping hole in the ceiling and then out into the open air.

"Noooooooo! I wanted to pummel that echidna! How did he get away!? Oh, well that's not important. Bokkun, go in there and get my Eggseeker. I guess I'll just have to make repairs and send it out after Breeze," Eggman yelled at the black messenger robot.

"Yes, Doctor!"

"Hmmmm, they think they're too smart for me. Well I'll show them all. They'll be singing a different tune once they see I have captured Breeze again!"

Hello again! I finally got another chapter up. I've recently been watching the old Sonic the Hedgehog SatAM. It's too bad they canceled that show, but I'm more of a SonicxAmy fan than a SonicxSally. I know this chapter has too much Knuckles in it, but not to worry. Next one is going to be a lot of Breeze, Tails, and Shadow! I just have to fill in the details about what's happening around them with the other characters.