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Sally hit her alarm clock, turning the annoying high pitched beeping off, she slowly got out of bed, got washed and went to breakfast. The dining hall was silent apart from the occasional sigh or shuffling of chairs. No one uttered a word; they were all in a state of mourning, for their home, for their loved ones, for their beloved hero. After the long tense breakfast, Sally went back to her dorm. When she entered she found Antoine sitting on his bed talking with Bunnie. Sally smiled sadly as they saw her enter. Bunnie climbed off the bed and walked over the wooden floor to Sally,
"Sally-girl, me and 'toine think we should go and scout outside, you know see if the bots are gone and if there...are any survivors." She quietened down as she said the last part and suddenly found the floorboards very interesting. Sally nodded,
"Ok, but be careful and please, come back in one piece." Sally said, her eyes filling with tears as she thought of Sonic's fate. Bunnie nodded and beckoned for Antoine to follow, as they walked out the room Antoine whispered in Sally's ear,
"It will be alright, my princezz." Sally smiled slightly and walked over to her bed. 'It will be alright, it will be alright, it will be-'
"Oh who am I kidding?" She sobbed, burying her face in the soft cream pillow on her bed. "Without Sonic, the war will be lost. Mobius needs Sonic, Tails needs Sonic, I need Sonic!" She clenched her fists together tightly, 'No!' She thought. 'I have to be strong! I can't give up, not now. Sonic wouldn't want me to; he would want me to keep fighting, to be strong! I'll do this for him!' She got up and strode out the room.
Knuckles walked aimlessly around the long, dark corridors. He sighed, since when had his life turned so upside-down, he was supposed to be guarding the master emerald, but he ended up here, mourning his rival! Well technically, he was still guarding the master emerald; he had just moved it here. He sighed again. Why did he feel utter sadness and emptiness without Sonic, he wasn't ever particularly that greater friend, they were always fighting, and arguing, and competing, and yet he felt empty without him. Of course he was going to feel sadness, but this? He snapped out of his train of thought and looked at where he was, he was standing outside the infirmary that he had been at last night. He silently opened the door and crept in. He walked over to Tails' bed and sat down beside it. Tails looked up at Knuckles for a few seconds, before lowering his head to look at the plain, white bed sheets again.
"Tails..." Knuckles whispered sympathetically. Tails turned away, to stop Knuckles from seeing the tears that were now pouring down his cheeks. After a while Tails turned back to face Knuckles, he stared at him for a while before hugging him tightly.
"Knuckles." He whispered, burying his face in Knuckles' chest.
"It's ok, I'm here kid." Knuckles said stroking the young kitsune's head softly. "Things will turn out ok, don't worry." Tails looked up at Knuckles,
"How? Sonics gone, I need him!" Tails cried. Knuckles felt sorry for the fox; he had been through so much, and now this? 'Poor kid,' Knuckles thought 'this isn't fair, he shouldn't have to suffer this.' Knuckles noticed that Tails was now curled up in a ball in the middle of the bed, shaking uncontrollably. Knuckles crawled over to where the fox cub was trembling on the bed and picked him up. Knuckles forgot the time as he sat on the bed, gently rocking Tails in his arms.
Sally sighed exasperated as she walked down the corridor. 'Two other freedom fighter groups, only TWO!' she thought. The main problem was, that she didn't know whether they had just lost contact, or if they had suffered the same fate as the Knothole. Trouble plagued her mind as she journeyed to her dorm. As she walked, she passed the infirmary and looked in. She smiled slightly at the sight she saw, Knuckles was asleep with Tails, also asleep, in his arms. She decided against waking them and continued on her way. When she got to her dorm, she opened the large wooden door and walked in. She found Rotor sitting on his bed typing frantically at a laptop.
"Argh! I can't figure it out, those robots were just like SWAT bots with a few extra weapons, but it was like they adapted to their battle situation." He said reviewing the data on his screen over and over.
"Rotor," Sally said, breaking his trance "Rotor, have you seen Bunnie?"
"No, sorry Sally. I've been here most of the day." He replied, keeping his eyes glued to the screen.
"Oh, well tell me if you do." She said before walking out the room again, leaving Rotor to his work. She continued to attempt to contact other freedom fighter groups as night fell into place.
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