At the Super 64 crash site, a bunch of echidnas ran to it from all four corners. They shot their AK-47's rapidly at it. Amy, still in the cockpit, felt the bullets shooting toward her!
AMY: Fuck!
She reached in the cockpit and pulled out an MP-5 submachine gun. She chocked it up and set the selector switch to "3-Round Burst."
AMY: Shit.
A few echidnas ran toward her. She held the MP-5 single-handedly and shot an echidna.
NOT TOO FAR AWAY
Sonia and Lupe's Super 62 Black Hawk have a soft touch down in a vacant area. Once on the ground, Athair Echidna and Ari Ram ran out and began running toward the crash site.
SONIA: *in radio* C-2, Athair and Ari are on the deck. Over.
ROTOR: *from radio* Roger.
AT THE CRASH
Amy killed three more echidnas running toward her. She shot from the Black Hawk out the windows and to the crowd of echidnas outside.
An echidna fired from a different angle. She turned and tried to shot at that echidna but missed.
More echidnas came running to her. She shot and killed them. Then her MP-5 clicked. She quickly removed the magazine and began putting a new one in.
The echidna from that different angle began running to Amy to kill her. Suddenly, he was shot in the back by Ari Ram!
Ari Ram is armed with an M-4 Carbine with a 4x scope, laser designator, and silencer. Athair Echidna is armed with an M40A1 with 4x scope.
Athair and Ari ran to the cockpit where Amy Rose is still firing. Ari tapped the cockpit glass to get Amy's attention.
ARI: Friendlies!
Ari fired on more echidnas. Athair noticed that Chaos 0 is dead.
AMY: God, it's good to see you.
ARI: It's good to see you. How bad?
AMY: My leg's broken and my back feels kind of weird.
ARI: We've got to get you out of here, buddy.
Ari grabbed a hold of Amy and began pulling her out of the cockpit.
ARI: I'm pulling her out. Cover.
Athair looked through his scope and killed two echidnas.
AMY: Wait, I-- *screams in pain*
Ari carried Amy into the building next the Black Hawk. They entered through the huge hole the Black Hawk made. Athair killed more echidnas. He then helped Ari with Amy.
ARI: I'm putting you down.
They made her sit up to lean her back against a wall.
ATHAIR: *in headset radio* C-2, we're at the 64 crash site, securing perimeter.
ROTOR: *from radio* Roger that.
ATHAIR: You all right?
AMY: Yeah, I'm good.
Athair chocked up Amy's MP-5 and handed it to her. Ari ran back outside.
ATHAIR: You're locked and loaded. Any dels come around these corners, you watch our backs.
Athair began running back out, but Amy called him making him stop.
AMY: Hey, where's the rescue squad?
ATHAIR: We're it.
Athair ran out to secure the crashed Black Hawk's perimeter. Amy just sat there worried. She quickly saw an echidna running down the hall parallel next to her, but she quickly shot it in the back and killed it.
EXT. OLYMPIC HOTEL
The humvees and trucks stopped right outside the Olympic hotel and have the target building in sight. They are all in the same place as before, when the mission first started.
KNUCKLES: All right, stop, stop, stop, Metal. Stop.
They stopped.
KNUCKLES: Son of a bitch. *in radio* Romeo 64, we're right back where we started. I'm running low on ammo, I got many wounded including me, vehicles that are barely running.
ROTOR: *from radio* Okay, Bobby, I need a no-b.s. assessment here. Can you get to the crash site?
Knuckles paused to think. Metal-Sonic, with most of his eye sockets damaged and dripping oil, turned his head toward Knuckles.
METAL-SONIC: Colonel, I can't see shit.
Knuckles noticed Metal-Sonic is too wounded to go on. He then looked back in his humvee to see the dead Paladin, Mildred Rabbit, Katela the Huntress, and Rocket the Sloth. Only Knuckles and Metal-Sonic are alive in that humvee. Plus, they have Bunnie Rabbot, Rosemary Prower, and Metal-Knuckles dead. There is no way in hell they could go on like that!
KNUCKLES: *in radio* Negative. With the amount of wounded we have we'd do more harm than good. We need to come back to base, rearm and regroup and then we can go back out.
INT. C-2
ROTOR: *in radio* Roger.
INT. JOC
Max heard the entire conversation from the speakers.
MAX: *in radio* C-2, bring them back. Get them out of there.
INT. C-2
ROTOR: *in radio* Roger. Return to base.
AT THE CONVOY
KNUCKLES: *to Metal-Sonic* We're going home!
Metal-Sonic began driving out.
KNUCKLES: Go. Left.
The convoy began driving back.
4:54 PM
AT CRASH SITE ONE
INT. BUILDING
Shadow's Chalk are inside of the ruble buildings. The Rangers inside are Shadow, Griff, Cyrus, Hawking, Trevor, Mighty, and Aleena. Everything is all quiet and the sun is beginning to set. The clouds have already started to fade from being pink.
KNUCKLES: *from radio* Roger that. Understand. Convoy returning to base.
Mighty angrily threw his canteen across the room. Shadow looked at him.
SHADOW: What's up?
MIGHTY: They're sending them back. The convoy is headed back to base camp.
ALEENA: *sarcastic* Oh, now that makes sense, don't it? *serious* We need to exfil the wounded now and get the hell out of here before it's too late!
HAWKING: If Colonel Knuckles went back to base, then he had a pretty good reason. It changes nothing.
SHADOW: All right, listen up. We're going to hold the perimeter and we're going to hold the strongpoint. Hoo-ah?
ALL: Hoo-ah!
SHADOW: Conserve your ammo. Only shoot at what you can hit. The convoy is going to come. We're going to get home.
AT CRASH SITE TWO
Athair and Ari use their sniper rifles to kill every echidna that comes by! Ari is inside the Black Hawk while Athair is behind some bricks close to the door of the Black Hawk. Over a hundred dead bodies of echidnas lay in the streets as hundreds more run toward the crashed helicopter.
Ari ran out of bullets.
ARI: Loading!
Ari loaded a new magazine in his sniper rifle. Athair shot and killed more and more echidnas. Ari killed more. Athair used an M-16A2 to kill five more while Ari killed seven more!
Ari used his handgun to kill two pre-teen echidnas running to him!
Athair ran out of bullets.
ATHAIR: Loading!
ARI: Athair, I need a pistol mag!
Athair handed Ari a pistol magazine. Ari took it and loaded it in his barrette. He shot three other echidnas with his handgun. He used the sniper rifle to kill more.
Athair shot more and ran out of bullets.
ATHAIR: Loading!
Ari shot and ran out of bullets in his sniper rifle. He removed the magazine and loaded a new one.
ARI: Athair, last mag!
Those were Ari's last words! An echidna fired his AK-47 and the bullet shot through Ari's forehead! Ari flung backward and he laid on the ground dead!
ATHAIR: Ari!
Athair shot the echidna that killed Ari. He ran inside the Black Hawk and felt Ari's neck, no pulse.
ATHAIR: Fuck!
INT. BUILDING
Amy is still inside, sitting down and leaning her back against the wall. She shot another running echidna. Then two more. There are about ten dead echidna bodies around Amy that she killed.
EXT. BLACK HAWK
Athair took Ari's sniper rifle and began running outside. He shot more echidnas and he ran inside the building to Amy. He handed Amy Ari's sniper rifle. Amy could see a sad look on Athair's face.
ATHAIR: Ari's gone, girl. I'll be outside. Good luck.
Athair ran back outside. Amy couldn't believe what was happening! She angrily took the flight helmet off of her head and threw it to the ground. She saw another echidna running by her, so she shot it with her MP-5.
Athair shot and killed two more echidnas.
Outside, thousands and thousands of echidnas ran to the crash site.
INT. JOC
Max Acorn couldn't believe all of this was happening! He spoke to Elias who is sitting down.
MAX: We need the 10th Mountain in there. Everything they've got. Downundas, Floating Islanders, I want their tanks and APCs.
ELIAS: They still don't know we've gone in.
Max removed his sunglasses from his face angrily. He leaned down to Elias.
MAX: Look, we have stirred up a hornet's nest here. We're fighting the entire city. I want every vehicle possible that's got 4 wheels and armor. Get it, get everything.
Max and Elias looked on a map on the wall of the Floating Island.
MAX: Now, once they've assembled, we're going to move our furries out of the hostile area and back to the Downunda Stadium, the safe zone. Now, let's go.
ELIAS: Roger that, boss.
Elias quickly left. Max just stared at the map and sighed.