"One of us...is the bomb?"
"That's impossible, how could a person be a bomb!?" Tails was panicking. He was desperately searching around the room for more, but again, there was nothing.
"It could just be symbolic," Amy suggested, trying to calm down the hysterical Tails.
"Or this could be the bomb." Knuckles reached for his neck, trying once more to take the thing off. It didn't work.
"Either way, someone is going to be sitting on that chair." Sonic pointed towards it.
"So that's what we're going to do?" Amy asked, taking a step forward. "We find whoever is the bomb, and then set them down on the electrocution chair? They might die!"
"The blast radius might be small," Knuckles suggested.
"If the bomb is inside us then we'll die anyway!"
"We're all going to die anyway…"
"It might be symbolic like Amy said earlier…"
"So we're going to set someone down on an electrocution chair?!"
Sonic clapped his hands together to grab everyone's attention.
"Good grief, guys. Everyone is too tense right now. Let's get a couple things straight."
Sonic, who was the furthest away from the chair, pointed at it. "First things first, that chair has the number 22000V written on it."
"You can see that from there?"
"If you get electrocuted, you will die. I don't think there's any way around that."
An air of silence poisoned the room.
"Do...you know who the bomb is, Sonic?" Tails asked, having cautious hope on this.
"How could I?" Sonic shrugged and sat down on the floor.
"Come on guys, sit down with me. we're going to have to have a talk about this."
It wasn't that simple.
Tails and Shadow kept looking around the room a bit more, even inspecting the chair to see if there was anything they could do to alter it.
The rest of them sat down with Sonic, watching the others toy with the chair.
The technology was nothing like Tails had ever seen, and there were only 30 minutes left on the clock. Not enough time for Tails to do anything meaningful.
Everyone sat down in a circle.
"We don't have all the time in the world, guys." Sonic pointed out, just as Tails sat next to him. He was seated between Tails and Amy, and Silver was sitting directly across from him.
"Who do you think it is, Shadow?"
"What?" Shadow was caught off guard by the question. "How am I supposed to answer that?
"I'm telling you, Shad. We don't have all the time in the world. We're going off of nothing right now, so we might as well point fingers."
"Sonic."
Everyone turned their heads to Silver, who just pointed that out.
"I think Sonic is suspicious."
"What? Are you saying that Sonic is the bomb?" Shadow demanded, frowning at Silver.
"I don't know. But all I know is that Sonic has been acting strangely lately."
"Me, huh? That's just as likely as anyone else here, so let's put it to a vote, why don't we?"
"...what?"
"If you think I'm a bomb, raise your hand."
Only one hand was raised, and that belonged to Sonic.
"What? No one? I thought at the very least you would raise your hand, Silver."
"Because I'm not sure…"
"Then why did you even bring it up?"
Silver didn't say anything. Nobody said anything.
"Alright then, I think it's...Amy."
What?
"No, I-"
"She's been weird, don't you think? And where did she get that dead chao?"
"She got it from-"
"What do you think, Knuckles?"
Knuckles didn't say anything. He was just in shock at what Sonic was suggesting.
"This is insane!" Shadow protested, slamming his hand against the ground.
"I was asking Knuckles," Sonic answered, his smile not leaving his face.
Knuckles looked around, but not a word left his mouth
"I'll take that as a yes. 2:1. Silver, do you think Amy is the bomb? Answer in 10 seconds."
Silver didn't answer in 10 seconds.
"3:1"
"Are you trying to kill her you lunatics?" Shadow yelled, getting up from the floor.
"3:2 then," Sonic answered, getting up as well.
"We don't have time. We need to choose."
Is everyone going to die
Or is just a few of us going to live
I want to save as much as I can
Even if that means some of us have to die
It doesn't matter who is being seated under the guillotine
It could have been anyone
So no pressure, okay?
It's time to choose, Tails.
"..."
"Not answering, huh?"
Sonic grabbed Amy by the neck and pressed his knife against her throat. "What if I do this?"
"What if Amy isn't the bomb? Are you all just going to stay silent and do nothing then?" Sonic took steps backwards towards the electric chair, dragging Amy along with him.
"It's your time to choose, Tails."
5
Sonic took another step back
4
Tails gritted his teeth
3
Amy's tears fell onto the dead chao
2
Sonic was at the chair now
1
"Stop this, Sonic!"
ZAP
The burnt remains of the chao's corpse was now resting in front of a very shocked Amy and a confident Sonic.
"Bomb removed successfully. Everyone, move towards the next room." The voice above announced.
"See, I knew that dead chao was suspicious. I'm glad I got lucky, it was just a hunch, you know?"
Everyone just stared in horror, no one daring to speak about what just happened.
"What?" Sonic asked.