It's not everyday that tails asks me for help, since i'm usually not around for long, but today he came to me and asked for my help, something about investigating some ruins that he picked up strange energy readings, naturally i accepted and we made our way there in the tornado, it took about ten minutes for the arrival we stood in front of a barricaded cave with a sign of 'Don't Enter', tails pulled out some sort of device, the boy started to look really closely at it and i asked
"Tails why did you asked for my help ?" He kept looking at his device and answered me.
"Well, Sonic sprained his ankle while he was running, nothing too serious, Knuckles was guarding the Master Emerald" He turned to face me with a smile and answered.
"And you look like a reliable guy Silver" No one ever called me reliable before i couldn't help but smile at the compliment, especially coming from him.
"So is this the place you talked about ?" Tails walked over to the entrance and held his device higher, a beeping sound started to come out of the device.
"This has to be the place" He ducked under the barricade and entered the dark cave i followed after.
The dim lit stone cold corridors of that cave, the strongest source of light down that device tails was carrying around, the deeper we got into that cave the stronger the beeping became, i tried to break the silence and asked.
"So how deep is the Emerald ?" Tails looked around and answered.
"According to the detector the energy reading seem to stronger below, we just need to find a way down there."
"There it has to be a way down if we keep walking" I suggested as i walked ahead, until i fell down a hole a cloud of dust rose from the crash, tails rushed over the edge of the whole, i coughed and said.
"Found it" Tails worried asked as he flew down.
"Are you okay ?" he held his hand and helped me get on my feet.
"Yeah...didn't saw the hole in front of me" i chuckled a little.
"No surprise, i can barely see a thing down here but we must be getting close" Tails looked around the place.
"Then let's keep going then"
We kept walking in the dark, the only light sources were tails's device and the gentle glow in my runes, but surprisingly we seemed to have found something an entrance of some kind, the device beeping was almost deafening, tails turned the thing off, and said.
"It has to be here" I asked him
"How did they got separated again, i thought Sonic had them.
"During Sonic's last fight with Eggman, he was in a bad spot and the best choice for him was to scatter the Emeralds, he did it but his ankle got the short end of the stick, sorry for dragging you along.."
"No problem, it shouldn't be too hard to find it" With that said we entered the place it seemed like some old ruins, Tails says that it's fairly new, i couldn't the underestand engravings, the only thing i seemed like something or someone being trapped within a object.. i guess.
"Silver I found it !" Tails walked up to me holding the red Chaos Emerald.
"Told you that i would be easy, let's get out here" A rumble started to sound out, rocks fell down on us, i held down some with my powers, tails dodged it, after that dirt collapsed and covered out exit.
"T-there it has to be another way out" Tails said as he started to look around, but i heard some more rumbling, a drill bursted through the floor, making tails fall down and drop the emerald, the drill rose revealing a machine and the pilot Eggman
"Thank you for fetching my Emerald boys" He said as a claw extended form the machine and grabbed the Emerald.
"Give it back" I said as i charged forward, grasping a rock with my powers.
"What are you going to do with that stone throw it at me ?" With that said i threw the stone at him, only to be reduced to rubbles by the drill.
"Nice try, my turn" Eggman said as he charged forward with with his drill, i barely managed to dodge out of the way, Tails almost got hit but got out of the way, i ran up to him and asked.
"Any ideas on how we can take back the Emerald"I asked as Eggman started to rev up his machine again, ready to charge us, Tails stayed silent for a minute and kept staring at the machine it looked like he was thinking about something... i tried to hold the machine down with my powers but only managed to hold the drill still, Eggman seemed to be frustrated and started punching some buttons. two small vents in the machine slid open, two small motorbug-like robots pounced at me, sticking to my fur they began to shock me, the pain made me release Eggman from hold without wasting a second he charged at me, the sound of the drill spinning was deafening, with enough effort i managed to yank the things out and throw them away, i dodged out of the way, the drill grazed past my right arm, the pain wasn't too bad but it had a small amount of blood.
The machine turned around ready to charge at us again, Tails rushed to me and said.
"I have an idea, can you hold Eggman in place again ?" He said as he grabbed the destroyed motorbug's.
"That doesn't work, these things shocked me" What did he had in mind, he wanted me to get shocked again.
"Trust me on this one ok" I held the drill in place and again Eggman pressed a button more Motorbug's were released, Tails rushed past me and hurled the robots he held and threw them at one of the robots pushing them back in the vent, the Motorbug's began vibrating Eggman gulped and in no time the machine was shocked, the drill went crazy it began digging downwards the Doctor pressed buttons hastily but it kept digging down until he was deep underground, the Emerald was dropped from the claw, the Doctor went down with his machine.
Tails walked over and grabbed the Emerald, i sighed in relief and said
"All we need to do is find a way out of here"
"Can't you like, make a way out ?" He tilted his head while looking around.
"I'll try it, dirt is way too loose though" I cracked my knuckles and hoped for the best, i had to focus on the dirt that blocked our way up, with enough effort i managed to grasp a small chunk of dirt a pulled out, i repeated the process for a while until we made our way out of there.
When we got out of that mine was already nighttime, i walked Tails to his house, the lights were on and Sonic was sitting in the couch watching a T.V as soon as he noticed us he raised his hand and greeted us.
"Hey Tails, you got it ?" Tails held up the Emerald and said "Right here, had to deal with Egghead though", Sonic chuckled a bit and answered, "Typical, oh yo Silver how are ya", i greeted him and asked.
"Pretty good, how's your ankle ?" i asked as i walked over, his right leg bandaged, extended on a coffee table. "No biggie, i'll be up and running in no time." he said as he snapped his fingers.
"So do you think Eggman is ok down there", i asked tails "I bet he is, nothing can keep him down for long", i was kinda worried about him even if he is actively trying to dominate the world, such an amazing mind being used for world domination is sad. Tails interrupted me with a question "Silver can you drop by tomorrow ? We could use some help to gather the Emeralds." i smiled at him and answered "Sure thing".