Hey peeps, thanks for the reviews.

I had a great day, if you live in England you may know that it SNOWED!!!  Sozza I had great day, anyway, I don't own Sonic or anything related.

Now, on with the fic.

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Sally awoke to the sound of loud knocks on the door.  She blinked her eyes, adjusting to the light, as she walked over to it and pulled it open.  She looked around but saw nothing.  With a confused look on her face, she went to close the door, when she spotted something out of the corner of her eye.  A letter.  She picked it up and looked at it, it was written on a white/brown piece of square paper and in motor oil, the writing was jagged and uneven.  She frowned and began to read,

Dear Sal,

            I'm sorry that I could not give this to you in person, but I only had a few seconds to drop this off.  One day I will return, please hold on till then.  Don't lose the war, keep the team and most importantly don't give up.  Remember what you once told me, remember that no matter what happens and no matter who is lost, you can never give up the fight.  Take care of everyone until I return, especially Ta-

She tried to make out the rest of the writing, but it was too smudged to read.  She began to fold it when she noticed something on the back.  She quickly turned it over and stared at the sight on the page.  It was a picture of a waterfall leading into a glistening, blue lake, of green, fresh, undisturbed hills and a clear blue sky, with the bright sun shining down on the water below.  She recognized it immediately; Sonic always carried it with him in his shoe.  It was a picture Tails once drew him, a picture of what Tails thought peace would look like from what Sonic had told him.  Her frown quickly turned to a smile as she realised what this meant.  Sonic was alive!  She ran out the room and down the hall to the infirmary.  She burst in the door, waking up Tails and Knuckles who were still asleep on the bed.  Knuckles was about to say something when a piece of paper was shoved in his face,

"Wha-what's up Sally?"  He asked jumping back in surprise at her good mood.

"Read it, then look at the back." She commanded almost jumping for joy.  Knuckles and Tails read it through then turned to the back.  The first smile Tails had made for days crossed his features,

"He-he's alive?" Sally nodded.  He looked up at Knuckles, who didn't seem to believe his eyes.

"He's alive!" He hugged Tails tightly and picked him up.  Sally frowned again and picked up the letter again.

"Hmm, but where is he.  He said that he would come back one day, but where from?"  Knuckles nodded, catching on,

"Yeah, why did he have such a short time to drop the letter off?"  Tails hugged closer to Knuckles as a cold wind blew throughout the caves,

"Maybe he's stuck somewhere." He said quietly.

"Yeah, maybe." Sally said bewildered, "I say we wait for a week before we look into this, I mean, he did say he would come back."  The other two in the room nodded.

            And so they waited for a week, and another week, and another week until a month had past and still nothing.  Sally was beginning to get worried, a few weeks ago she had sent a scout group to try and find Bunnie and Antoine, but they had not returned.  So she sent another group, this time bigger, still they had not returned.  She sat in her dorm after another failed attempt at contacting someone else.  She sighed and picked up the letter,

"Sonic, where are you?" She asked to no one.  "Why haven't you come yet, we need you.  You're our only hope, please come back soon."  Hot tears began to roll down her cheeks, dripping onto the already smudged writing.  She lay back and thought of happier times, when she and Sonic used to play together in the woods, when peace had settled throughout the land, even when Robotnik had been easy to beat, at least then he was there, at least then- She was snapped back to reality as she heard the door squeak open.  She sat up and looked at Knuckles as he entered with a sad depressed look on his face.  He waved hello to her before climbing onto his on bed.  Knuckles hated it, they were supposed to win the war, not be forced underground by machines.

"How did this happen?" He asked sighing.

"How did what happen?"

"How did we get beaten by a bunch of metal gears and electronic wires?  We're organic, we shouldn't be forced to hided underground, losing more people everyday, by something created by a giant talking egg!  And another thing we-" He stopped his rant as he heard something move in the shadows, he turned his head to look at them and jumped of his bed, fists drawn.

"Who's out there?" He demanded as he glared at the figure.  Knuckles prepared to fight as he saw them step forward.  Instead he dropped his arms to his sides and gaped.  Sally gasped as she saw what Knuckles saw, it was him, it was Sonic.

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