~Darker Shadows, Chapter 5~


Eggman and Rouge were flying over to his base impatiently.
"So where did you say this thing was again?" Rouge sighed. Her wings were starting to hurt.
Robotnik pointed to a huge tower in the distance. "Just below that place."
Night was quickly falling, and the tower's yellow lights turned on and started zooming around the sky.
Rouge looked toward that way and decided it wouldn't take much more effort to get there. "Oh, all right," she said. Then she pulled the jewel out of her purse and admired it for a while.
Eggman started to descend to the bottom of the tower. Rouge quickly put her jewel away and followed Eggman. He landed on a platform on the bottom. Water from the ocean washed up on the platform sometimes, making it slippery.
Robotnik landed turned off his Eggmobile and Rouge landed also, dusting herself off out of habit. He climbed out and walked through an open door. Rouge followed.
Rouge looked around when they got in. "Very interesting place you have here," she commented.
"Oh yes, this has been here for a while. I'm lucky Chaos didn't destroy it," he said.
Robotnik and Rouge went in an elevator, the doors closed and they went up to level five.


Meanwhile, Knuckles was close by. He was flying toward the lit up tower.
I wonder what they're up to? He wondered.


Once the doors slid open, a long platform came into view. It wasn't outside, it was still inside the tower, and it was connected to the Egg Carrier.
"What are you planning to do with this thing, doctor?" Rouge asked.
"I really haven't figured that out yet," Robotnik answered.
"This place really is quite impressive . . ." Rouge sighed. "Too bad Shadow isn't around. I'm sure he would have liked it."
"Yes, me too. I was thinking we could get together and figure out a plan." Robotnik said.
They were now on the Egg Carrier and walking to the teleports that brought them inside the ship. Once they got there, they both stepped on it and it went down into the ship.
Rouge watched some robots working busily. "What ever it would have been, it would have been a great plan. With our minds behind it, it would have surely succeeded."
"Yes, I'm sure it would have," Robotnik sighed, and he changed the subject. "The engines still aren't at full power. The robots are working on them . . . And . . . some other features . . ."
Rouge raised an eyebrow. "Other features?"
Robotnik shrugged. "Yes, movie theaters, rooms . . ." He paused for a second and said quickly: "Robots."
They were walking up some steps, and Rouge looked around.
Rouge looked around. "Hmm, definitely needs a woman's touch. Some curtains . . . A nice display case . . . For jewels, of course."
Robotnik laughed and Rouge grinned. Robotnik opened a door and they both went inside.
Knuckles was clinging onto the ceiling, slowly and carefully following them.
"Another one?" Knuckles groaned as he heard the word 'robot.'
He let go of the ceiling and glided down to the door. He opened it and snuck inside.
Inside the door, there was a huge black robot hedgehog laying down with robots working on it frantically. There were missile launchers on its fingers, and the whole place of where the eyes were it was blue. It was the place where the operators saw through. It also had boosters on its feet.
Rouge eyes widened and she blinked a few times.
"It's . . . Just something I've been working on . . . Whatever our plan was going to be . . . Well . . . I thought this could be a part of it," Robotnik sighed. "I'm afraid I have no use for it."
"It's impressive . . . I didn't know you built robots of this size . . ." Rouge gasped.
"Oh yes, I just haven't done one in a while," Robotnik explained.
"Uh yeah, sure," Knuckles said loudly. He crossed his arms and said, "So who are you going to find?"
He was standing on a ledge with stairs on either side of it.
"Uh . . ." Eggman said quietly. He looked at Rouge and signaled her for help.
"Uh . . . Well . . . Uh . . . We were going to find . . . Um . . ." Rouge stammered.
"Uh . . . Well, it's none of your business!" Eggman said loudly.
Robotnik turned and looked at an echidna robot, and soon a huge black sheet covered the robot completely.
"I swear, you two will never learn!" Knuckles yelled.
Robotnik then looked at a hedgehog robot, and it zoomed over to Knuckles, grabbed his arms, and put them behind his back.
"Take him to the chamber!" Eggman ordered.
The robot quickly zoomed away.
"Where ever you're going, I'm going too!" Knuckles yelled, then he got pulled away. "HEY!"
"That takes care of our problem," Eggman said.
"Yes, let's go before he gets away!" Rouge shouted.


Meanwhile, back in the hospital, Amy was sitting beside Sonic in his bed. Amy looked up and across to Tails, who was sitting on the opposite side. He was half awake he was so tired.
The doctor soon came in the room and checked Sonic's charts. "Sonic's okay," he reported. Amy and Tails sighed in relief. "The gash on his head is the biggest injury he had. He can go home tomorrow."
Sonic woke up a little bit. "Wha . . . What happened?" He asked groggily.
Amy looked up at the doctor. "Thank you."
The doctor nodded at Amy then put back his charts, walking out of the room.
Amy looked back at Sonic. "Sonic?"
Tails nodded awake and looked at Sonic.
"You're at the hospital . . . Shadow knocked you out," she explained.
Sonic blinked up at them. "Why?"
"Because he believes you let him die," Amy said.
"He wants to kill you to get revenge," Tails said.
Sonic tried to sit up a little, but he moaned, he was feeling too sore.
"Lay down Sonic . . ." Tails said. "Hopefully you'll be better by tomorrow."