Sonic Resistance 2: Aftermath

by The Burning Writer

Taking place a month after the end of Sonic Resistance, the war to overthrow the Eggman Empire has been won. Eggman has vanished and so too has Infinite. Things are starting to return to normal as people return to their old lives, homes, and jobs. But as Badnik attacks start to grow more coordinated and more dangerous, worry begins to rise that something is brewing in the shadows.

6. The Bishop

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E-107 Theta lifted its massive feet and stomped towards the three heroes Sonic, Silver, and Whisper. The white hedgehog glanced over to Sonic as he kept himself elevated in the air with his telekinesis "S- Sonic? What do we do?"

There was obvious worry in Silver's voice, and all Sonic could say was "Move!"

Right before he quickly sped off to the right. Silver reacted almost as quickly and used his telekinesis to pick up Whisper and move themselves out of the way of the fire of one of the tank turrets mounted onto Theta's shoulders. The explosion from the attack rocked the metal chamber/arena they were in.

The Badniks that came out of holes in the ceiling continued to flow downwards, making things in here just that much more complicated than before. The Spinas that were apart of the robots that came to fight alongside with Theta came in front of Sonic, but the blue hedgehog made quick work of them by Spin Attacking through them with ease.

Elsewhere, Silver set Whisper down and landed on the ground himself. Theta looked over to Sonic, who was to its left, then to Silver and Whisper, who were to its left. But before it could do anything, Whisper hoisted up her Wispon and blasted its head with the powers from a Burst Wisp.

An explosion struck just above its right "eye" but all that was provoked out of the E-100 robot by the attack was it rearing its arm back and thrusting it down towards them.

Whisper leaded up and used the Hover Wisp power to lift herself up into the air while Silver leaped off to the side in the opposite direction. The jackhammer like arm of Theta struck the ground with enough force to make the metal groan and the room to shudder. Now off in a secluded enough space, Whisper took aim at the arm joint of Theta and fired a blast of an Asteroid Wisp at it.

Sadly, that shot would never connect as it instead struck a Spina that suddenly sped past. Whether or not it was intentional is up in the air. Sonic front flipped over an Egg Pawn and as he came back down to the ground he stuck out his leg and hit another Egg Pawn's head with the back of his heel, caving the robot's head in.

Once on the ground, he quickly ducked down to dodge a punch from another Egg Pawn. He then quickly spun around and extended one of his legs to Spin Kick the Egg Pawns around him right off balance and onto their backs. With that, he quickly jumped to the side and Spin Dashed in a circle and right through the center of the Pawns who were trying to recover from the previous attack.

Theta looked over to Sonic and pointed its left arm at him, then, a part of it split open and a cylindrical object with slits in it slid out from between the prongs of the jackhammer "hand" before electricity blasted out of it and right at Sonic. The blue hedgehog jumped back in shock "WHOA!"

He attempted to scramble away before running into another gathering of robots. Once again, he slid to a stop before glancing up to Theta and saw that the electrical weapon was still pointed at him and it was still primed for another attack. Sonic stepped back a little and clenched his hands into fists "Silver! We need to finish off the little ones so we can focus on the big guy!"

Silver, who was currently crunching a bunch of Badniks into a ball, looked over to Sonic and took on a shocked expression upon realizing what situation Sonic was in "R- Right!"

He then threw the ball at a grouping of robots before flying over to Sonic "Come at me!"

Right as a bolt of electricity struck at the spot Sonic was, the blue hedgehog leaped up in his Spin Ball and Silver grabbed him with his telekinesis and threw him right through the Egg Pawns that had blocked his path before then. With that, Silver would launch him through a group of Spinas before throwing Sonic up into the air so that the hedgehog could try to attack Theta, only for him to be smacked out of the air by the E-100 robot's jackhammer hand and right into a wall.

Whisper, meanwhile, had no clue what the others were doing. She was to focused on fighting Theta, which wasn't going well. Either every attack was intercepted by a Badnik, or it just plain missed. At this point, she was fighting more out of anger of how ineffective her shots were than staying safe. She fired shot after shot wildy at Theta, but most shots missed like usual.

One of those missed shots flew right past Silver's face and the white hedgehog stopped in mid flight to not get hit "WHAO! Whisper! Be careful!"

She looked up at him with an apologetic face hidden behind her mask, but when she looked up at him, she realized something. She could attack Theta from a higher advantage point. Looking behind her, she saw a ladder leading up to some sort of observation platform. Quickly, Whisper ran up to the ladder and began to climb it as Sonic and Silver dealt with the remaining Badniks.

Once up on the platform, Whisper held up her Wispon and aimed it at the back of Theta's head. Swapping to the power of a Spike Wisp, she steadied her aim and fired. But the shot simply struck the back of Theta's head and ricocheted upwards and into the ceiling. The robot turned to face Whisper, then, in an almost split second, it fired one of its tank turrets at her and she leaped off of the platform as an explosion caused debris to fall after her.

Whisper hit the ground hard and she dropped her Wispon out of her reach. Metal crashed down around her and a few remaining Badniks began to approach her while Theta kept its attention trained on her. She desperately reached for the Wispon, but some of the metal kept her pinned and kept her reach just an inch to short to grab the Wispon.

As Theta aimed its electrical weapon at her, Sonic and Silver both realized the trouble the wolf was in. So, Sonic sped up the side of a wall and Homing Attacked into Theta's chest. As he fell back towards the ground, he cupped his hands around his mouth and yelled out "You look like a rip off of Omega and an Egg Titan!"

The E-100 robot turned its attention away from Whisper and back towards Sonic while Silver flew over to her and took out the Badniks that were surrounding her with his telekinesis. Landing on the ground in front of her, the Wisps that had come out of their capsules to try and defend Whisper thanked Silver in their alien language while Silver lifted the metal on Whisper up into the air.

As he lifted the metal off of her he said "It's okay if you prefer to work alone,"

He tossed the metal he was holding off to the side and continued "But it looks to me like you've put together quite a team."

He motioned with one hand to the Wisps as Whisper was able to stand "And I'd be proud to be a part of it."

Silver held out his hand and helped Whisper up to her feet as she smiled shyly, a little blush hidden behind the mask that was no longer covering her face, but now resting against the side of her head "...Maybe.."

The white hedgehog smiled at her before Sonic suddenly sped over "Hey, I'm glad that you two are breaking down some emotional and psychological walls together and forming a bond that will withstand the tests of time, but we still got a big problem!"

Sonic pointed to Theta and it became clear to Silver and Whisper that Sonic had taken care of the remaining Badniks while the wolf was being freed from the metal debris. Theta turned to face the heroes completely as its computer mind took note of the fact that it had no Badniks backing it up anymore. A subroutine was disabled upon that realization, another subroutine was enabled, and Theta unlocked it's full potential.

Theta widened its stance and raised its arms up a little. Another electrical weapon came out of the jackhammer hand that didn't have one, the slits in the sides of its body opened up and various weapons protruded out of them. Missile launchers, gatling guns, plasma weapons, and more electrical weapons all came out of the slits. Theta's shoulders let out a metallic groan as they spread out a little. Then, its head split in half and the two halves slid off to the side and lowered down into the spaces left open by the now widened shoulders. With the head split open, a large plasma cannon lifted up and out of the new opening, pointed directly at the trio.

Silver stepped back a little "S- Sonic, I didn't like our situation before, b- but I definitely don't like it now!"

Sonic nodded "Yeah... This is a little bit more complicated now."

Then, the large plasma cannon fired at them and they scattered. The green laser the weapon fired punctured a hole in the arena and sent metal flying all over the place. Sonic quickly regrouped with the rest and quickly said "We need to figure out some way to disable Theta's weapons, if we can't we're done for."

Silver looked at him "But how do we do that?!"

Before the blue hedgehog could say anything else, Theta turned to them and punched one of its electricity covered jackhammer hands at them. They all scattered again as the spikes of the jackhammer punctured the metal floor. When Sonic looked back over to the E-100 robot, he noticed that it was now stuck. Sonic was quick to yell out "Whisper! The elbow joint!"

She looked over to him in slight confusion, but then saw what he saw and was quick to aim her Wispon at it. She fired several Burst Wisp shots at the joint of the left arm, only for it to be cut short by Theta moving its other arm to blast lighting at her. Silver grabbed her with his telekinesis and moved her out of harms way as Sonic ran around the back of the robot right as it pulled itself free.

He skid to a stop next to the two as Whisper was set down by Silver. The blue hedgehog grit his teeth "I think I have an idea."

Theta turned to face them once again and it moved its arms up and to the side as it let the weapons in its sides fire at them. Silver and Whispers' eyes went wide as the white hedgehog said "You better do something quick Sonic!"

The blue hedgehog grinned a little "Silver, throw me."

Due to his panic, Silver only grabbed a small part of Sonic's body with his telekinesis before throwing him at the various guns, missiles, lasers, and electrical bolts that were being fired at the trio. Sonic quickly recovered from the lopsided toss and grabbed onto the side of a missile. He spun around on it like a pole before jumping up and landing on one above, he then leaped from missile to missile to begin approaching Theta. This all happened with the aid of his super speed so all Whisper and Silver saw was a blue streak speeding through the barrage of incoming projectiles.

Even still, Silver grabbed Whisper with his telekinesis once again to pull her and himself out of harms way. The projectiles struck the wall that was once behind them, but Theta turned to continue firing at them, forcing Silver to continue running from danger and Whisper floating alongside him. She fired a few Wispon shots at Theta while Sonic leaped off of one last missile. He flung himself high up into the air, charged up a Spin Attack, and Homing Attacked right into the side of Theta's large plasma cannon.

The robot staggered to the side from that attack, while at the sametime, Sonic kicked off of the cannon and flew towards one of the still flying missiles. He grabbed onto it, landed on the side of a wall, leaped off of it using the still active jet engine of the projectile and flew back towards Theta. As he passed the robot, Sonic aimed it and let go of the missile. It struck the side of Theta and exploded, causing the robot the stagger and pause in the firing of its smaller weaponry. That's when Sonic yelled out "Whisper! Go for that joint again!"

Silver set her down and the wolf took aim at the same joint again. She fired more Burst Wisp shots at it as Theta struggled to recover, its own weight was working against itself and making the struggle of recovering even harder. Then finally, one last Burst Wisp shot struck the joint of Theta's right elbow and it exploded right off. The arm fell to the floor and Theta staggered upright once again and turned to face Whisper as it charged up another blast from its plasma cannon.

This time, there was barely even a second to react. Sonic was just far enough away that he might not be able to make it, but Silver was close enough, he was just to panicked to react properly. Instead of using his telekinesis, he reached over and picked Whisper up before jumping away, the blast of the laser striking the floor propelling them towards Sonic.

The blue hedgehog's eyes went wide and he attempted to spread his arms out to catch them, but instead they hit him and he fell to his back. Silver groaned a little and Whisper had her hands over her face and her Wispon resting against her chest, pinned down by her elbows. When she took her hands off of her face, she realized that Silver was holding her. She began to get up as Sonic slid out from underneath Silver. Meanwhile, Theta turned its attention to them once again and fired both tank turrets at them.

Reacting almost immediately, Silver thrust his hand out and caught the bolts before throwing them back at Theta. Sonic grinned "Quick thinking Silver! Thanks!"

He sped forwards and Homing Attacked Theta's chest and bounced right off. It didn't do much, but at least there was a small dent now. In addition, Theta's attention was trained on Sonic and not on Whisper or Silver. The E-100 robot used a combination of trying to stomp on a speeding Sonic and firing bolts of electricity at him while Silver and Whisper finally got back up to their feet. The white hedgehog looked over to Whisper and asked "We have to do something about that thing's weapons! Especially that plasma cannon!"

Whisper looked around and eventually saw that pile of metal rubble she had been pinned underneath before, that's when she got an idea. She pointed to the debris then up at Theta's plasma cannon, but when she looked over to Silver again she saw he wasn't exactly following. So she reached down and grabbed some rubble laying down next to her and stuck it into the barrel of her Wispon. That's when Silver figured it out. He smiled and nodded before levitating back towards the debris with Whisper following him, being sure to take that chunk of metal out of her weapon as she did.

Meanwhile, Sonic quickly skid to a stop and stood between the split "toes" of Theta's foot before vaulting over it and speeding between its legs. As he came out the other side, Theta moved its remaining arm and fired more electrical bolts at the hedgehog. While Sonic dodged the bolts of electricity, Silver yelled out "Sonic! We need you to get Theta's cannon aimed at us and charging up to fire!"

Sonic didn't question it, he just nodded before quickly leaping up and Homing Attacking Theta's body. But instead of jumping off of him to attack again, Sonic sped up the front of its body and jumped up to stand on a part of its body to look it in one of its eyes "Yo! Knock off Omega! Bet you can't hit me with that laser!"

He then jumped off of Theta and landed in front of Silver and Whisper. Either Sonic's words actually got to Theta or it was just going to do it already, because it did begin to charge up a another laser shot. Silver watched intently as it charged up, waiting for the right moment, and when he saw it about to fire, he threw a large chunk of metal at the cannon and lodged it in its barrel. When Theta tried to fire, the cannon exploded and it staggered backwards. The explosion had enough force to knock one of the tank turrets off while the other was damaged enough by shrapnel to prevent it from being used again.

Theta's metal body creaked and groaned as it staggered around, it seemed like whatever acted as the robot's "brain" wasn't anywhere near its head, as it was still functional. But the robot recovered rather quickly and aimed its on remaining arm at Silver, which only caused Sonic to yell out "Time to finish this!"

Silver nodded, closed his eyes, and held out his hand. He focused hard, he ignored all other sounds and sense. He didn't know what he was doing, but he felt like this was the right thing to do. His cyan aura surrounded his body, but this time, it was bigger. Much bigger, and brighter. Theta could barely see at this point, but everyone else could see it. Bits of rubble that laid around Silver lifted up into the air, surrounded by a cyan aura. When Theta fired bolts of electricity at Silver, the white hedgehog simply opened his eyes and extend his fingers.

His eyes glowed a bright cyan, and the electrical bolts hit an invisible field that had surrounded Silver. Except, whenever they struck the field, it became slightly visible. A clear cyan colored fore field with various intricate markings similar to the ones on his gloves and boots appeared whenever the electricity struck his protective bubble. After a point Theta realized its attacks were useless, but when it stopped that let Silver levitate off of the ground and raise both his hands up.

Bright cyan lines and other intricate markings appeared all over his body as he continued to raise his hands up. He clenched those hands into fists as he opened his mouth and began to yell. It was deep, almost primal even, completely guttural. A cyan aura surrounded Theta as Silver's scream grew louder. Steam was beginning to rise off of the hedgehog's body and Sonic stared on in shock. He didn't know what to say, he didn't know what to do. Whisper was in the same boat as Sonic, only she was completely intimidated by the sight and was hiding behind the blue hero.

Theta began to be lifted up off of the ground as Silver's aura and lines began to glow brighter. Then, suddenly, everything that was glowing on Silver's body changed to a bright gold before it all disappeared and he dropped to the ground. Theta did the same, but it landed in a much more graceful way than Silver had as the E-100 robot landed on its feet while Silver landed on his side. Sonic was still shocked by everything, but that was quickly replaced by a realization of the fact Theta was preparing to attack again. The blue hedgehog looked over to the wolf behind him "Whisper, cover Silver! Also,"

He pointed to her jacket "Do you think I could get some help from them?"

Whisper nodded and opened up her jacket so the Wisps could come out of their capsules. Sonic ran off towards Theta with the Wisps following him and while Whisper ran over to Silver. She quickly knelt down next to the still unconscious hedgehog and did make sure he was still breathing. He was. Elsewhere, Sonic sped past Theta's left side as the robot used one of its remaining electrical weapons to try and shock him. Continuing to speed around, Sonic glanced around to all of the Wisps "Alright guys, how does helping me activate my Color Power Form sound?"

The Wisps all babbled a "yes" in their language and Sonic smiled "Nice."

He then took a sharp turn and speed in between Theta's legs, heading right for the wall in front of them. Jumping upwards, the Wisps would all fly towards Sonic and right as he hit the wall and jumped off of it, they fuzed with him and Sonic curled up into a Spin Ball. His fur turned bright white and a rainbow aura surrounded him as he blasted forwards in a Hyper-Go-On Energy enhanced Homing Attack that burst right through Theta's chest and came out its back, completely destroying the robot's power core. Sonic landed on the ground and the Wisps left his body while Theta fell over, seemingly on top of Sonic. Whisper had watched all of that and quickly stood up when she saw Theta fall over.

But then, Sonic leaped up through the hole in Theta's body and landed not far from Whisper and the Wisps flew over to her just as quickly. Exhausted by the fight, the Wisps went into their capsules and Sonic said with a smile "That was pretty fun!"

He looked over to Silver "Is he doing good though?"

Whisper looked over to him as well and crossed her arms over her chest "Don't know."

Just then, Silver shot upright and gasped "WHAO!"

Sonic blinked a few times in surprise "...Had a good nap dude?"

Silver grunted a little as he brought a hand up to his head "I feel like my head rammed into a steel wall and my brain exploded when I did."

The blue hedgehog extended his hand "Sounds about right, a bunch of weird lines appeared all over you and you were actually able to pick Theta up off of the ground maybe... A foot or two."

Silver grabbed Sonic's hand and the blue hedgehog helped him up to his feet as Silver said "I don't remember any of that."

Once the white hedgehog was up on his feet Sonic gave him a pat on his shoulder and said "Well, we can worry about that later. Right now, we gotta find Bishop."

"But how?"

Whisper then looked off to the side of the room and pointed to the hole the first blast of Theta's, now destroyed, plasma cannon "There."

They both looked over to the hole and saw it was yet another elevator shaft "Well, guess we're dropping down again."

Silver sighed a little and they all began to approach the hole. Sonic jumped down first, then Silver picked up Whisper with his telekinesis and they both levitated down wards. At the bottom they found a metal hallway with a long red carpet leading to a set of wooden double doors with gold handels. Sonic put his hands on his hips "Well, this was definitely one of Eggman's bases."

They then began to approach the door, small light fixtures on the walls illuminating the path. They all walked hesitantly and cautiously towards the door, and once they stood in front of it the group looked amongst each other, silently contemplating their options. They've come so far, turning back now could be dangerous and one of the worst decisions they could make. Sonic took in a deep breath and motioned to the door. He took hold of one of the gold door knobs and Silver grabbed the other as Whisper got down onto one knee, pulled her mask over her face, and aimed her Whispon at the door.

With that, the two hedgehogs opened the door and Whisper quickly scanned the room it lead to with the built in scope eyepieces in her mask. Nothing jumped out to attack them, there was no traps, nothing. Sonic and Silver peered into the room and they were met by the bright blue light that bathed the almost circular room from the large screen that sat in front of a leather chair and over a computer like control panel. The three entered into the room just as cautiously as they had approached the doors, and as they did the voice of Bishop came from the chair in front of them "I shouldn't be surprised you defeated Theta, but yet, I am."

Sonic and Silver began to split off to approach either side of the chair while the blue hedgehog said "If you worship Egghead the way you do then you probably shouldn't be surprised."

"Maybe you're right, either way, I must commend you on the fight. It was truly something."

The blue hedgehog looked over to Silver as they slowly began to approach the front of the chair "Uh.. Thanks."

Then, they stepped forwards and turned to face the front of this chair, only to find that no one was sitting in it, instead, a speaker was "Sorry about that, I know I can't take the three of you on without the element of surprise."

Before Sonic could even realize what he meant, they all heard the sound of an energy weapon being fired at the blue hedgehog. Luckily, Silver thrust his hand out and used his telekinesis to catch the plasma bolt in mid air, just inches away from Sonic's head. The blue hedgehog and Whisper both turned to face the side of the room that shot had come from and they saw a yellow furred thylacine with a metal jaw, wearing a black formal suit, and holding a plasma gun with one of his hands standing in the shadows of this poorly lit room. Whisper grit her teeth "Bishop."

The Bishop himself shrugged "That is indeed the title I was given when I joined The Remnants, but it is hardly my real name."

Sonic stepped away from the still lingering plasma bolt "Then what is?"

The thylacine chuckled a little "My birth name is Hugo Lovallo. During the war I was called 'The Maw' due to this little cybernetic of mine. What you wish to call me is up to you."

When he mentioned his cybernetic he motioned to his jaw. But before anyone could say or do anything else Hugo quickly said "Now then, enough about me, let's kill you."

He then immediately raised his gun up and started firing at the three. Sonic quickly jumped down to the ground, Silver also jumped out of the way and let the plasma bolt he was holding fly into a wall, and Whisper ran behind the control console that curved like a "U" around the leather chair. Sonic was quick to regain his bearings before grinning and spreading towards Hugo, but the thylacine was prepared, because when Sonic ran towards him he ducked under the hedgehog's attack and quickly ran forwards to vault over the side of the consol Sonic had been hiding behind.

Silver was shocked to see Hugo now practically in front of him, but he was quick to react before the thylacine could do anything. He lifted Hugo up with his telekinesis and threw him over to Whisper. When the thylacine landed in front of the wolf he dropped his gun and Whisper quickly stood up and transformed her Whispon into a hammer thanks to the powers of the Cube Wisp. Charging forwards, she swinged the hammer at him with all her might over and over again. Hugo barely avoided being struck by her attacks, but never enough that he could counter attack.

Blind fury powered her swings, and shock kept the other two from intervening. Quite honestly, it was shocking to see this silent and calculating wolf swing wildly at a man who was struggling to stay safe. But that all came to an end when Hugo was backed up into a wall and Whisper raised her hammer up ready to bring it down on top of the thylacine's head. That's when she decided to do something new. She opened her eyes and stared at him with her bright, practically piercing, blue eyes and stared directly into his wide open and shocked purple eyes. But before she could bring that hammer down, Silver used his telekinesis to pull it out of her hands and return it to a Whispon while Sonic rushed over to her side and said "Whisper! What do you think you're doing?!"

She looked at him, anger still boiling behind her eyes "Helping."

Sonic shook his head "That's not how you help, that's not how a hero acts! Whisper, a good hero doesn't kill, they try to give the villain a chance to change."

But he could tell, this wasn't directed to Hugo personally. This was directed towards Eggman. Just for a moment, Sonic was forced to remember all the evil Eggman did during his time as dictator of the world. The pain people suffered. He forced many into slavery, he turned others into robots, others disappeared for various experiments, some lost their family to Infinite or the Egg Generals, more lost loved ones to the Badnik hoards, and far to many races of Mobians were wiped off the face of the planet by Infinite or Eggman personally. Sonic had friends who suffered those fates. Bunnie Rabbot was turned into a robot when she was captured by Eggman after the first attempt at attack Metropolis Zone, Nicole the Lynx was forced to become an AI right alongside Bunnie when Gadget the Wolf couldn't save the lynx's body, and Sally Acorn's entire race, except for her and her brother, was completely eradicated by Infinite.

Whisper had to have suffered like them. Sonic closed his eyes and sighed a little before saying "Sometimes villains can't change, like Eggman. But... Would killing him, or people like him, make the world a better place? Would it make your life better knowing you killed someone, even if they deserved it?.. Personally, I don't think so."

Whisper looked over to Hugo, who was still standing against the wall in shock, and Sonic said "We don't know his connection to Eggman. For all we know, he could just be some nut job trying to continue Egghead's work. I can't pretend to not know what it's like to want revenge, I've been like there before. But it's never a good thing."

Looking over to Sonic once again, Whisper opened her mouth to say something but then closed it. She looked back over to Hugo, then looked away from the both of them and closed her eyes once again. She reached a hand up to her mask and said "Alright."

Before pulling it back over her face and walking away. Hugo, meanwhile, let out a sigh of relief "Thank God!"

Sonic looked over to him "Don't push your luck."

With a swift jab, Sonic knocked Hugo out cold and caught him before his face met with the metal floor. Gently, Sonic set him down and walked over to Silver, who had now occupied his time by looking through the various files Hugo had stored in the place's system. As he did, Sonic glanced over his shoulder and at Whisper who was now leaving the room. He couldn't help but ask himself silently "What did Eggman do to you?"

Silver, meanwhile, looked through file after file and said to himself "Alright, this place still uses the Eggnet. Most of this stuff is from during the war, prisoner logs, various war updates sent to every branch of the Eggman Empire, some unused designs for a 'Metal Sonic 3.0' and 'Metallix'... Something called 'Project Lyric' and the last war update before we took down Eggman... Then nothing for a long period of time... Except for this one thing just called File 0.5."

He then opened up said file and read through it. It was about some sort of reconnaissance "The Rook" and "The Queen" was over looking, involving mercenaries and explorers. It seemed to have been conducted somewhere in central Chun-Nan. But then, something caught his eye "That can't be right.."

Sonic, who had been spacing out and not even watching Silver at that point, regained focus and looked over to the screen Silver was looking at "Wha-"

Then, suddenly, Silver yelled out "OH CRAP!"

It was loud enough even Whisper, all the way out in the hallway, heard him and turned to face the hedgehogs. Sonic looked at Silver with shock and confusion "Dude, what's up?"

Silver looked at Sonic with fear "When I accessed File 0.5 a dead man switch activated! This entire place is about to blow sky high!"

That's when Sonic understood "Crap!"

"That's what I said!"

Sonic began to back up as he continued "Silver, pick up Hugo and Whisper, we need to get out of here fast!"

The white hedgehog nodded and quickly used his telekinesis to pick the other two up as Sonic sped out of the room. Silver followed after Sonic just as quickly as Sonic lead them through the arena they had fought Theta in. But then he realized something "That wall! It's blocking the way we came in!"

Silver grit his teeth "Leave that to me!"

He strained himself and let out a blast of telekinetic energy right at the wall. That blast cut a hole through the metal and allowed them to slip right through and up a flight of metal stairs they hadn't noticed before now. Speeding upwards, the ground shuddered as the base's self destruction began to take effect. After a minute or so they came to the stop of the stairs and sped down a long hallway, deactivated Badniks littering their surroundings as they went. After a point they took a sharp turn as the base shuddered once again, this time though, the sound of the lower areas of the structure caving in could be heard as explosions rocked the rest of the base. Getting faster now, Sonic and Silver pressed forwards.

Taking a few more sharp turns as the base's condition worsened, Sonic and Silver eventually found themselves racing towards the exit of the base as bits of the roof came off and explosions grew louder. Standing in front of the sealed metal door was Hershey, and she looked at the approaching heroes with shock and fear "Guys! The thing's stuck!"

Silver flew forwards, picked Sonic and Hershey up, brought everyone closer to him, surrounded everyone with a telekinetic sphere, and hit the door with enough speed and force to bust a hole in it, allowing them outside. The sphere failed immediately after, and just as quickly the base exploded into a massive inferno that sent metal debris all over the place. Sonic tumbled across the ground and so to did Whisper and Silver, while at the same time Hershey fell back first into the dirt and Hugo went face first himself. After a moment of tumbling, Sonic came to a stop and sat up before Whisper and Silver tumbled into him and they all found themselves in a pile of limbs and discomfort. Once again, Whisper had found herself in Silver's lap.

But then, a shadow covered the group as a large chunk of metal came flying down towards them. Reacting fast, Silver raised his hands up and caught the metal with his telekinesis before tossing it away. Now that they were safe, Silver let out a large breath sigh of relief and covered his face with his hands "I thought I was done with exploding Eggman bases!"

Sonic chuckled a little "Sorry, that's not how it works.. Sadly."

He then sort of shoved the two off of him, even though Whisper was already beginning to stand up. At that sametime, Hershey came walking over "That.. Was something."

The blue hedgehog shrugged and dusted himself up as he stood upright "All in a day's work for me, how are you doing?"

She reached over and rubbed the back of one of her shoulders as she said "Sore. But glad to be out of there and alive."

Then, Hugo groaned a little and took his face out of the dirt "I understand that I'm now the Eggman Recovery Effort's prisoner, but does that mean I must be treated like this?"

Sonic just rolled his eyes before turning to Silver, who was now lying on the ground taking in deep breaths and blowing them out "You okay man? You've done a lot recently."

Silver nodded as best he could given his position "Yeah.. Tired is all."

He then stood up and dusted himself off too "But I can rest once we get back to the ERE.."

Silver turned to look at Whisper and hesitantly asked "So... I know that you do stuff solo and all.. But... After that talk we had during the Theta fight, I was wondering.. Would you want to come work with the ERE... With me?"

The wolf finally got to remove her mask from her face and nodded a little "Yes."

Silver smiled and Sonic did as well. But that moment was cut short when Silver realized what had to be done "Ugh.. Alright, everyone in close."

Even if Hugo didn't want to get close, Silver didn't give him a choice, because he used his telekinesis to drag him over. Then, the white hedgehog concentrated before using his powers to teleport them all to the ERE's headquarters. Instantaneously appearing in the lobby of the building, Silver staggered backwards a little as he was hit by even worse exhaustion. The bright cyan flash of light that came with their teleportation caught the eye of a pink hedgehog that was walking by. Amy ran over and asked "Sonic? Silver? Are you to okay?"

Sonic nodded "Yeah.. Silver's just tired... Uh, we found Hershey and brought you a new recruit."

Whisper then nudged Sonic a little and he remembered "Oh, and we've captured that Bishop guy."

Amy blinked a few times in shock "I... Okay.."

Looking over to Hugo she asked "Are you-"

He quickly raised his hand "Yes, I am Bishop. Call me Hugo or Maw, I could care less at this point."

Sonic brought a hand up to the side of his mouth and leaned over to Amy "He's just mad cuz we beat everything he threw at us."

Hugo just rolled his eyes as ERE officials came walking over to handcuff him and to lead Hershey away. Sonic watched that happen before saying "Also, I think Silver found something in that place's files."

Silver nodded, still tired but holding in there "Yeah... I found this file that seemed to be about some sort of recon mission in Chun-Nan, it was definitely something the ERE should look into. But then it became an even bigger deal, because I then saw that the recon mission was being conducted to find some city called 'Shanri Xa' by a Rook and a Queen, they found it. And in it, according to the file... Was Eggman."