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Rouge awoke to find herself lying in a tree, her right breast hurt like hell, as did her spine. Her clothes were torn up, and she was tangled in a clump of vines, causing her to scratch herself whenever she moved.

"Rouge! Rouge!" some one called. "I'm over here!!!! Get me out of this tree!" and, as if the tree was listening, Rouge heard a loud 'CRACK' and fell to the ground. "Shit" she muttered to herself.

"You're pretty beat up, it's a miracle you survived." Amy said as she walked through the door to Rouge and Knuckles' room. "Yeah, well, I've been through worse" Rouge replied. She sat up in her bed and pulled off her shirt, revealing a large bruise on her right breast, along with several cuts and scratches. Her spine was sore and it stung every time she moved, but she was alive. After finding Rouge, everyone had gone back to the condo. Sonic and the others were in the white house meeting room while Amy was patching Rouge up. She carried a large roll of gauze, some rubbing alcohol, and some medical tape.

"Lift your arms" Amy said, Rouge did so, wincing. Amy calmly soaked a rag in the rubbing alcohol and began applying it to Rouge's cuts and scratches. "Ow, fuck that hurts" Rouge said. "Hold still," Amy replied. She finished with the alcohol and began wrapping Rouge in gauze. "I'll have to wrap you're whole chest and arms, you've got so many cuts." She said. "So Doc, how long am I out of action for?" Rouge asked sarcastically. "Ha ha" Amy said, pulling the bandages tighter, causing Rouge to wince. "You'll be fine, just take it easy a little" she paused, then added "in AND out of bed." "Whatever" Rouge said. "You know that I'm talking about" Amy said. "No, I don't." Amy smirked, "Oh KNUCKLES harder! HARDER! Oh god yes! Yes, yes!!!" "Shut up" Rouge said, "I bet you guys aren't any better." "Me and Sonic? At least we don't wake up the whole damn house" Amy shot back. "Yeah, yeah, get out of here while I put my clothes on" Rouge said as Amy finished taping down the bandages. She got up and left Rouge to put her shirt back on and find some clean fatigues.

"Jesus Rouge, you look awful," Sonic said as she and Amy entered the white house war room. "It's not as bad as it looks" Rouge replied, taking her seat at the table. "So what's happening?" She asked. "The President's been kidnapped, that's what" replied a voice. The vice president stepped from the shadows, sending all six members of the Delta Special Forces to attention. "At ease" he said, taking his seat. "The first thing I want to know is: why the HELL wasn't their a guard at his door???" "The President told us to take the night off, I insisted he let us put a guard at his door but he was very stubborn about it." Sonic replied quickly. The VP sighed; the President was stubborn fool at times. "Well, what have we got so far?" he asked. "Well, judging from the neural implant in his brain, he's somewhere in the Caribbean Islands." Tails said, pulling up a large hologram of Earth in the center of the table. He out lined and zoomed in on the Caribbean's. "Funny thing is, he's out in the middle of the ocean, probably on a boat."

At that moment, the hologram disappeared and a man appeared. He had crew cut blonde hair, a rough face, and deep blue eyes. "You!" Rouge exclaimed. "Ah yes, the girl, you're still alive I see." The man said. "Can't get rid of me that easy" Rouge replied. "Listen you" Sonic said, jumping onto the table and looking the man in the eyes "Tell us where the President is, and MAYBE we won't kill you." "I wouldn't be so cocky, you forget who my hostage is." The man disappeared and the President appeared. He was bruised, gagged, and tied to a chair. His shoulder hung at a strange angle, most likely dislocated. He was barely conscious, muttering something about someone named Mary Ann. The picture changed back to that of the man. "Now, I've got a few things I'd like.that is.if you want him back alive." Sonic shot a glance at Tails, who gave him a nod. "I'm listening," He replied. "I want the arming codes for America's nuclear missiles." The man said. Sonic frowned; America's missile systems were controlled by two keys, along with a set of codes. The codes had to be typed in to two separate terminals, and then the keys had to be turned at exactly the same time. This would allow the missiles to be armed and the coordinates loaded. But the terminals that the missiles could be armed from were right their in the war room.

"What do you want with those?" Sonic asked, "and who are you?" "Oh, I'm sorry, my name is Ivan Borschkov, leader of the Russian Imperial Army." "The Russian Imperial Army? I thought it was the Robotnik Imperial Army." Sonic asked in surprise. "It's probably a coincidence, Sonic" Tails put in. "What ever" Sonic said, turning back to the hologram. "Bring the codes to this location, Mr. Vice President, and come ALONE." Before anyone could respond, the man disappeared, leaving the hologram of the earth with a blinking dot on it.

"Did you get it Tails?" "No, he hung up just a few seconds before the trace was finished." "Damn it" Sonic said, jumping off the table and taking his seat. "So what do we do?" Amy asked. "We give him the codes." The Vice-President replied.

To Be Continued

Well, that's all for now. I'll get on the next chapter soon.