Chapter 7
Shadow awoke with a start, for the first time in perhaps a year he woke up with the sun shining in on him. He jumped up even faster when he saw where he was, in the main living quarters on ARK. The residential area where the scientists rested and also where nonessentials spent their time. He'd only been here on a few occasions, mostly to put a certain someone to sleep when they stayed up too late. The hedgehog jumped when the door opened and the shrunken Delmon and Hazard
entered the room.
"Sorry," Delmon apologized in a childish voice. "We didn't mean to wake you."
"Don't worry about it," Shadow replied. "I'm just glad you two are okay, being the only two people I trust right now."
"At least you saved me a trip and some energy," Hazard said. "Right now, Whelpmon and I've got something to show you."
"Whelpmon?"
"Delmon's lower evolved form. He'll be like this until his memory files have had a chance to repair." She grabbed the hedgehog from his bed. "Let's go already!"
"Wait a sec! What's all this about?" Shadow said as he was practically dragged from the room.
She dragged him from the room and into the long hallway to the elevator shaft. Whelpmon pressed the button without a word and the three of them waited. The elevator sounded with the usual ring and all three walked aboard. 'Fly in Freedom' played in the background as the elevator dropped down through the colony. Shadow noted that the place looked a bit torn up since he'd seen it last, perhaps the drop through the atmosphere melted a few ports. In any case, the elevator stopped on level 13.
How foreboding, Shadow thought as they stepped out of the elevator.
The place they'd stepped into was a dark area that reeked of chemicals and the sounds of machinery filled the air as well. Glass tubes lined the long walls and at the end of the room a large tank stood ready with it's own lights already activated.
"What's all this about, Hazard," Shadow asked as he walked ahead a little, trying to familiarize himself with his surroundings.
Hazard backed up behind Whelpmon and said," First you should know that I didn't rescue you out of the kindness of my own heart, I need your help."
"For what? If it's world domination, forget it! I'm not bothering with 'The Cannon' or any other type of weapon on this colony."
"It happens to concern your and my creator, hedgehog. Not some insipid scheme of the Professor's far-flung grandson."
"He was my benefactor, not my creator. I may not have my full memory back yet, but I know that much. He gave me my powers, bu- "
"But nothing," the lizard interrupted. "You owe the old man and me that much to help me out." Shadow looked around the room contemptuously. "I'm listening..."
Hazard hopped up to a computer console and turned on one of the screens on the wall.
"If you'd paid attention at all during Chaos Controls, you'd see lights streaking in several different directions. Each of these directions is due to a sort of ionic bond between each Emerald, that is why, when brought together, the Chaos Emeralds act as one power. Other objects of power are the same way. Chaos Emeralds, Power Stones, Master Emeralds, Precious Stones, Chaos Rings, and even the Time Stones themselves act in the same fashion."
Shadow snorted. "And what has this got to do with me or you?"
"You were created with data from Project: Shadow, which means you were completed. All of your systems work correctly and so do all of your bodily functions. You are also impervious to disease and most injury. I however have to rely on a life- support system to help me get by. It breathes for me, it pumps my blood, it digests my food, it runs my nervous system, it coordinates my thoughts, it heals me, and it even regulates my hormones. But I can't LIVE for more than a day without it or some Chaos energy to keep me going. That is where each of you come in. I need the data from Shadow's left wrist bracelet and Whelpmon's ability to transport from the digital world mentioned in the databanks to use the objects of power and complete myself."
"Hold on a second," Shadow said. "We have to collect all seven of the Chaos Emeralds as well as the other objects of power you mentioned from Mobius? That's crazy!"
"We don't need all seven, jackass. Weren't you paying attention? The bonds in the objects makes it possible for us to harness the power of seven of each so that it will effect changes in my body in a more predictable way."
"Hmm," the little digimon sitting next to Shadow said. "She wants me to effect a digivolving program for her, then."
Hazard and Shadow both sweat-dropped (yes, I am going to do anime effects in here every now and then). Both said simultaneously "What is digivolving?"
"Argh!"
After a short explanation and a few minutes to write the program up for a highest grade evolution, Hazard was lowered into the large glass tube without the life- support device. Shadow manned the command console while Whelpmon made sure that the program didn't erode in the middle of the process. Hazard gave a small thumbs-up and Shadow replied in kind, the signal to begin. The red Chaos Emerald was strapped to a power siphon and the green in Shadow's hand, he didn't want it siphoning off his own energy. The screen Whelpmon stood in front of went blank for a second before binary code began stream across a black background. Hazard's orange skin became a solid black lined with green grid. The siphon activated and the red emerald began to glow brightly, six streaks of multicolored energy streamed from the stone. A green beam towards the emerald in Shadow's hand and five others that lanced out toward Mobius, through the walls of the lab.
"Evolution at 10 % and rising," Whelpmon said in a monotone computer generated voice. Shadow looked at each of the readouts on the computer. Pulse, brainwaves, hormone production, and respiration were the same as they were when she entered the tube, below normal. Shadow began to wonder whether this 'digivolving' process would ever work. Hazard began to writhe in the tank as she felt the transformation begin on her skin and then work it's way down to her bones. A tingling electric sensation began to fill her body and then spread out beyond, it was like powering up with the Chaos Emerald to the seventh power. Outside the tank, the grid became a golden light and Hazard's body began to contort a little from it's original form. Shadow watched in awe as each of the seven beams became a pulsing white light until the light show suddenly stopped. An unearthly scream came from the tube and it shattered, pieces of glass showering the room.
Shadow hid behind the console with his dead Chaos Emerald in hand, waiting out the storm. Whelpmon stood at his station, seemingly unaffected by the shards of cutting glass.
"Evolution at 70% and rising..."
The grid disappeared in a flash of light and a slight burst wracked the lab as well as the rest of the colony. The concussion was even felt on Mobius by anyone in the Western hemisphere. Another lower scream pierced the lab as Hazard fell facedown on the floor, covered in the suspension fluid the tube had been filled with. For the next couple of seconds there wasn't a sound in the lab, besides a small beeping sound coming from Shadow's console. Slowly, the black hedgehog lifted himself up and checked the readouts.
"Evolution is 100% complete," Whelpmon said as the screen beside him shutdown. "Was it successful, Shadow?"
Shadow checked his screen again and replied," According to this a few of her systems were reactivated, for loss of a better term. Pulse is normal, which means the circulatory system works. Hormone production is also at normal, which means emotional responses should be okay...or as okay as most females are, anyway in that area. And the respiratory systems are working fine, she can breathe on her own." He looked up from his console. "But what happened to the rest of her systems?"
A weak whimper came from the collapsed orange heap lying in a pool of suspension fluid. "We need the...rest of the objects to...complete my body and mind."
Whelpmon lifted the weak lizard from the tube and hefted her onto his shoulders. There was a look of triumph on that scaled face as the digimon practically dragged her from the room. Shadow didn't even look behind him as they boarded the elevator.
Whelpmon looked behind him and asked," Aren't you coming with us?"
"No," Shadow said, walking to an exit on the other side of the lab. "I'll take the long way back upstairs."
The digimon had no true mouth showing behind the cowl over his reptilian face, but he seemed to frown with his eyes when the doors closed without him. Inside his mind, the repair sequence continued and would do so for the next week or so. The battle with whoever it was that sent Delmon here had damaged a good deal of data. Attack codes, memory data, names, faces, loves, hates; it was all a swirl of information for the Rookie that he couldn't fully understand. The life he'd had before coming to this world was no more than a few flashes of a movie reel, or a thought or two. Each time he looked at Shadow the name 'Sonic' would creep into his thoughts or whenever he looked at Hazard the word 'thief' would seem to pop up, but she'd stolen nothing from him. It was getting increasingly confusing to perceive the world here without someone to explain things or for him to do so for others. Perhaps Hazard would help me out like she did when Shadow transported us here, he thought as the elevator doors opened. And then I can help her sort out this business with the humans she kept talking about. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- "Waddaya mean the engine just stopped working, Tails?"
Sonic and his own group had just gone through their own little drama. The Cyclone's engine stopped functioning at three miles up and they'd plummeted for 2 miles down before power was reestablished. Of course by then Tails had put down the landing gear and set the jet down on solid ground. Bunnie was currently busy 'cascading' in the bushes while everyone else tried to get their heads straight. Sally stood by the craft analyzing it with Nicole while Sonic and Tails took the more 'manual' approach to the situation.
Tails pressed his hand against one of the connector cables to check if it was loose and said," I just don't get it, I checked the entire power matrix before we left Knothole and everything seemed fine."
"Maybe there's somethin' up with the Chaos Emerald," Sonic pointed out while eyeing the blue gem locked inside the machine's core. "We have been flying for ten hours straight. Maybe it just stopped working for ya."
"Or maybe it's a fake," Sally said, sarcastically.
"Ha-ha, Sal. Everything I told you was true, why can't you just take my word for it?"
"Because it sounds like a pathetic movie, Sonic. You can't expect me to believe such an outrageous tale like that."
"Sonic is telling the truth, Aunt Sally," Tails said as he shut the access panel. "It all happened and when we get to the GUN base a few miles away we'll have proof. Any one of those soldiers will tell you it really happened. Besides, a fake emerald I made would have made a machine explode."
"Tails, don't start that up, too. The emerald in the jet is real, it's just a bit drained. Maybe..." Sally seemed to choke on the words. "...Sonic was...um..."
"C'mon, say it Sal," Sonic said cupping his hand over his ear. "The words everyone want to hear."
"...Maybe Sonic was right."
"Yes!" The blue hedgehog pumped his fist in the air. "Please tell me someone recorded that!"
Tails hopped into the Cyclone and restarted the engines, he then hit the transformation switch and began to run a GPS signal sweep. According to the readout from the screen, the base was supposedly a few miles to the south. Unfortunately that wasn't what the freedom fighters found when they climbed through the hills. The base had been leveled. Buildings lay crumpled and burned. Mechs and pieces of them were strewn about here and there as if something had torn them apart. A few vans and trucks were parked around the ruins of what looked to be the main complex.
Sonic and crew walked steadily toward the soldiers, each wondering what had happened.
"You there," One of the larger soldiers yelled at them. "You didn't happen to see anything suspicious around here have you?"
"Like what?" Sonic asked. "I don't know what you would think as odd."
"Huge red monsters slithering around the ground, making floods. Our reports showed that two unidentified mobians led a revolt on the prison in the base. They also said something about a strange looking monster calling an even bigger one."
The words 'strange looking monster' took a moment to click in Sonic's head, then he thought of the business with the Hazard creature and asked," Did the weird monster come out of a ball?" "The reports don't say." The soldier shrugged. "It was mostly screaming and explosions from the warship on patrol in this area."
"You mean that?" Sally asked, pointing at the mountain of flaming slag a few hundred feet away.
"That's what's left of it after...whatever this supposed monster is got through with it."
Tails tapped on Sonic's shoulder. "Sonic, I saw one of those things on Prison Island, well when it was intact anyway. With the thing being stolen I'm beginning to think that he's involved."
"I'll keep that in mind," Sonic whispered and then turned back to the soldier. "Listen, my friends and I need to find out something about the space colony ARK. I was wondering if maybe- -"
"No can do, sir. All information regarding the ARK has been classified."
"What about the Ultimate Life-form? Is there anything we can dig up on that?"
"All information regarding military weapon projects has been banned to the public by GUN military censors." The soldier turned to walk away. "Now if you impede my investigation into this attack any further I will be forced to arrest you."
"He was friendly," Bunnie said. "Now what do we do, ya'll? The base is as good as gone and so is any chance of sugah-hog getting his gizmo back."
Tails looked up from his screen and thought about how Eggman got up to ARK and back. "Sonic, what about the transporters Eggman used to use to get up there? Couldn't we use them?"
Sally let out an exasperated sigh. "Tails, if this ARK does exist and isn't some stupid military cover-up, where would we find a transporter? It's not like Robotnik just leaves his old bases unoccupied and we could saunter in and use the equipment."
"Maybe we could..." Sonic interrupted. "Tails, how far are we from the Mystic Ruins?"
"What?" Sally said.
"Robotnik's old 'Final Egg' base is still there, Sal. All we have to do is find out if he left any transporters intact when he abandoned it."
"Assuming there's anything left after the big fight you had with him," Tails added.
"Let's get going. The faster we get there, the faster we find out."
Tails turned the Cyclone back into a jet and took off with Sonic following on the ground. Just as they left the soldiers had finished uncovering the security tapes from the holding vaults. While each of the tapes was being reviewed APBs were put out on the escapees from the prison and special orders were given to find three particular people from the tape. A black and neon being highlighted against an exploding mech, a deadly orange lizard in GUN guerilla garb (try sayin' that three times fast ^-^), and the worst of all: a black and red hedgehog with jet skates. Project Shadow himself was back on the loose...
Shadow awoke with a start, for the first time in perhaps a year he woke up with the sun shining in on him. He jumped up even faster when he saw where he was, in the main living quarters on ARK. The residential area where the scientists rested and also where nonessentials spent their time. He'd only been here on a few occasions, mostly to put a certain someone to sleep when they stayed up too late. The hedgehog jumped when the door opened and the shrunken Delmon and Hazard
entered the room.
"Sorry," Delmon apologized in a childish voice. "We didn't mean to wake you."
"Don't worry about it," Shadow replied. "I'm just glad you two are okay, being the only two people I trust right now."
"At least you saved me a trip and some energy," Hazard said. "Right now, Whelpmon and I've got something to show you."
"Whelpmon?"
"Delmon's lower evolved form. He'll be like this until his memory files have had a chance to repair." She grabbed the hedgehog from his bed. "Let's go already!"
"Wait a sec! What's all this about?" Shadow said as he was practically dragged from the room.
She dragged him from the room and into the long hallway to the elevator shaft. Whelpmon pressed the button without a word and the three of them waited. The elevator sounded with the usual ring and all three walked aboard. 'Fly in Freedom' played in the background as the elevator dropped down through the colony. Shadow noted that the place looked a bit torn up since he'd seen it last, perhaps the drop through the atmosphere melted a few ports. In any case, the elevator stopped on level 13.
How foreboding, Shadow thought as they stepped out of the elevator.
The place they'd stepped into was a dark area that reeked of chemicals and the sounds of machinery filled the air as well. Glass tubes lined the long walls and at the end of the room a large tank stood ready with it's own lights already activated.
"What's all this about, Hazard," Shadow asked as he walked ahead a little, trying to familiarize himself with his surroundings.
Hazard backed up behind Whelpmon and said," First you should know that I didn't rescue you out of the kindness of my own heart, I need your help."
"For what? If it's world domination, forget it! I'm not bothering with 'The Cannon' or any other type of weapon on this colony."
"It happens to concern your and my creator, hedgehog. Not some insipid scheme of the Professor's far-flung grandson."
"He was my benefactor, not my creator. I may not have my full memory back yet, but I know that much. He gave me my powers, bu- "
"But nothing," the lizard interrupted. "You owe the old man and me that much to help me out." Shadow looked around the room contemptuously. "I'm listening..."
Hazard hopped up to a computer console and turned on one of the screens on the wall.
"If you'd paid attention at all during Chaos Controls, you'd see lights streaking in several different directions. Each of these directions is due to a sort of ionic bond between each Emerald, that is why, when brought together, the Chaos Emeralds act as one power. Other objects of power are the same way. Chaos Emeralds, Power Stones, Master Emeralds, Precious Stones, Chaos Rings, and even the Time Stones themselves act in the same fashion."
Shadow snorted. "And what has this got to do with me or you?"
"You were created with data from Project: Shadow, which means you were completed. All of your systems work correctly and so do all of your bodily functions. You are also impervious to disease and most injury. I however have to rely on a life- support system to help me get by. It breathes for me, it pumps my blood, it digests my food, it runs my nervous system, it coordinates my thoughts, it heals me, and it even regulates my hormones. But I can't LIVE for more than a day without it or some Chaos energy to keep me going. That is where each of you come in. I need the data from Shadow's left wrist bracelet and Whelpmon's ability to transport from the digital world mentioned in the databanks to use the objects of power and complete myself."
"Hold on a second," Shadow said. "We have to collect all seven of the Chaos Emeralds as well as the other objects of power you mentioned from Mobius? That's crazy!"
"We don't need all seven, jackass. Weren't you paying attention? The bonds in the objects makes it possible for us to harness the power of seven of each so that it will effect changes in my body in a more predictable way."
"Hmm," the little digimon sitting next to Shadow said. "She wants me to effect a digivolving program for her, then."
Hazard and Shadow both sweat-dropped (yes, I am going to do anime effects in here every now and then). Both said simultaneously "What is digivolving?"
"Argh!"
After a short explanation and a few minutes to write the program up for a highest grade evolution, Hazard was lowered into the large glass tube without the life- support device. Shadow manned the command console while Whelpmon made sure that the program didn't erode in the middle of the process. Hazard gave a small thumbs-up and Shadow replied in kind, the signal to begin. The red Chaos Emerald was strapped to a power siphon and the green in Shadow's hand, he didn't want it siphoning off his own energy. The screen Whelpmon stood in front of went blank for a second before binary code began stream across a black background. Hazard's orange skin became a solid black lined with green grid. The siphon activated and the red emerald began to glow brightly, six streaks of multicolored energy streamed from the stone. A green beam towards the emerald in Shadow's hand and five others that lanced out toward Mobius, through the walls of the lab.
"Evolution at 10 % and rising," Whelpmon said in a monotone computer generated voice. Shadow looked at each of the readouts on the computer. Pulse, brainwaves, hormone production, and respiration were the same as they were when she entered the tube, below normal. Shadow began to wonder whether this 'digivolving' process would ever work. Hazard began to writhe in the tank as she felt the transformation begin on her skin and then work it's way down to her bones. A tingling electric sensation began to fill her body and then spread out beyond, it was like powering up with the Chaos Emerald to the seventh power. Outside the tank, the grid became a golden light and Hazard's body began to contort a little from it's original form. Shadow watched in awe as each of the seven beams became a pulsing white light until the light show suddenly stopped. An unearthly scream came from the tube and it shattered, pieces of glass showering the room.
Shadow hid behind the console with his dead Chaos Emerald in hand, waiting out the storm. Whelpmon stood at his station, seemingly unaffected by the shards of cutting glass.
"Evolution at 70% and rising..."
The grid disappeared in a flash of light and a slight burst wracked the lab as well as the rest of the colony. The concussion was even felt on Mobius by anyone in the Western hemisphere. Another lower scream pierced the lab as Hazard fell facedown on the floor, covered in the suspension fluid the tube had been filled with. For the next couple of seconds there wasn't a sound in the lab, besides a small beeping sound coming from Shadow's console. Slowly, the black hedgehog lifted himself up and checked the readouts.
"Evolution is 100% complete," Whelpmon said as the screen beside him shutdown. "Was it successful, Shadow?"
Shadow checked his screen again and replied," According to this a few of her systems were reactivated, for loss of a better term. Pulse is normal, which means the circulatory system works. Hormone production is also at normal, which means emotional responses should be okay...or as okay as most females are, anyway in that area. And the respiratory systems are working fine, she can breathe on her own." He looked up from his console. "But what happened to the rest of her systems?"
A weak whimper came from the collapsed orange heap lying in a pool of suspension fluid. "We need the...rest of the objects to...complete my body and mind."
Whelpmon lifted the weak lizard from the tube and hefted her onto his shoulders. There was a look of triumph on that scaled face as the digimon practically dragged her from the room. Shadow didn't even look behind him as they boarded the elevator.
Whelpmon looked behind him and asked," Aren't you coming with us?"
"No," Shadow said, walking to an exit on the other side of the lab. "I'll take the long way back upstairs."
The digimon had no true mouth showing behind the cowl over his reptilian face, but he seemed to frown with his eyes when the doors closed without him. Inside his mind, the repair sequence continued and would do so for the next week or so. The battle with whoever it was that sent Delmon here had damaged a good deal of data. Attack codes, memory data, names, faces, loves, hates; it was all a swirl of information for the Rookie that he couldn't fully understand. The life he'd had before coming to this world was no more than a few flashes of a movie reel, or a thought or two. Each time he looked at Shadow the name 'Sonic' would creep into his thoughts or whenever he looked at Hazard the word 'thief' would seem to pop up, but she'd stolen nothing from him. It was getting increasingly confusing to perceive the world here without someone to explain things or for him to do so for others. Perhaps Hazard would help me out like she did when Shadow transported us here, he thought as the elevator doors opened. And then I can help her sort out this business with the humans she kept talking about. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- "Waddaya mean the engine just stopped working, Tails?"
Sonic and his own group had just gone through their own little drama. The Cyclone's engine stopped functioning at three miles up and they'd plummeted for 2 miles down before power was reestablished. Of course by then Tails had put down the landing gear and set the jet down on solid ground. Bunnie was currently busy 'cascading' in the bushes while everyone else tried to get their heads straight. Sally stood by the craft analyzing it with Nicole while Sonic and Tails took the more 'manual' approach to the situation.
Tails pressed his hand against one of the connector cables to check if it was loose and said," I just don't get it, I checked the entire power matrix before we left Knothole and everything seemed fine."
"Maybe there's somethin' up with the Chaos Emerald," Sonic pointed out while eyeing the blue gem locked inside the machine's core. "We have been flying for ten hours straight. Maybe it just stopped working for ya."
"Or maybe it's a fake," Sally said, sarcastically.
"Ha-ha, Sal. Everything I told you was true, why can't you just take my word for it?"
"Because it sounds like a pathetic movie, Sonic. You can't expect me to believe such an outrageous tale like that."
"Sonic is telling the truth, Aunt Sally," Tails said as he shut the access panel. "It all happened and when we get to the GUN base a few miles away we'll have proof. Any one of those soldiers will tell you it really happened. Besides, a fake emerald I made would have made a machine explode."
"Tails, don't start that up, too. The emerald in the jet is real, it's just a bit drained. Maybe..." Sally seemed to choke on the words. "...Sonic was...um..."
"C'mon, say it Sal," Sonic said cupping his hand over his ear. "The words everyone want to hear."
"...Maybe Sonic was right."
"Yes!" The blue hedgehog pumped his fist in the air. "Please tell me someone recorded that!"
Tails hopped into the Cyclone and restarted the engines, he then hit the transformation switch and began to run a GPS signal sweep. According to the readout from the screen, the base was supposedly a few miles to the south. Unfortunately that wasn't what the freedom fighters found when they climbed through the hills. The base had been leveled. Buildings lay crumpled and burned. Mechs and pieces of them were strewn about here and there as if something had torn them apart. A few vans and trucks were parked around the ruins of what looked to be the main complex.
Sonic and crew walked steadily toward the soldiers, each wondering what had happened.
"You there," One of the larger soldiers yelled at them. "You didn't happen to see anything suspicious around here have you?"
"Like what?" Sonic asked. "I don't know what you would think as odd."
"Huge red monsters slithering around the ground, making floods. Our reports showed that two unidentified mobians led a revolt on the prison in the base. They also said something about a strange looking monster calling an even bigger one."
The words 'strange looking monster' took a moment to click in Sonic's head, then he thought of the business with the Hazard creature and asked," Did the weird monster come out of a ball?" "The reports don't say." The soldier shrugged. "It was mostly screaming and explosions from the warship on patrol in this area."
"You mean that?" Sally asked, pointing at the mountain of flaming slag a few hundred feet away.
"That's what's left of it after...whatever this supposed monster is got through with it."
Tails tapped on Sonic's shoulder. "Sonic, I saw one of those things on Prison Island, well when it was intact anyway. With the thing being stolen I'm beginning to think that he's involved."
"I'll keep that in mind," Sonic whispered and then turned back to the soldier. "Listen, my friends and I need to find out something about the space colony ARK. I was wondering if maybe- -"
"No can do, sir. All information regarding the ARK has been classified."
"What about the Ultimate Life-form? Is there anything we can dig up on that?"
"All information regarding military weapon projects has been banned to the public by GUN military censors." The soldier turned to walk away. "Now if you impede my investigation into this attack any further I will be forced to arrest you."
"He was friendly," Bunnie said. "Now what do we do, ya'll? The base is as good as gone and so is any chance of sugah-hog getting his gizmo back."
Tails looked up from his screen and thought about how Eggman got up to ARK and back. "Sonic, what about the transporters Eggman used to use to get up there? Couldn't we use them?"
Sally let out an exasperated sigh. "Tails, if this ARK does exist and isn't some stupid military cover-up, where would we find a transporter? It's not like Robotnik just leaves his old bases unoccupied and we could saunter in and use the equipment."
"Maybe we could..." Sonic interrupted. "Tails, how far are we from the Mystic Ruins?"
"What?" Sally said.
"Robotnik's old 'Final Egg' base is still there, Sal. All we have to do is find out if he left any transporters intact when he abandoned it."
"Assuming there's anything left after the big fight you had with him," Tails added.
"Let's get going. The faster we get there, the faster we find out."
Tails turned the Cyclone back into a jet and took off with Sonic following on the ground. Just as they left the soldiers had finished uncovering the security tapes from the holding vaults. While each of the tapes was being reviewed APBs were put out on the escapees from the prison and special orders were given to find three particular people from the tape. A black and neon being highlighted against an exploding mech, a deadly orange lizard in GUN guerilla garb (try sayin' that three times fast ^-^), and the worst of all: a black and red hedgehog with jet skates. Project Shadow himself was back on the loose...