Chapter Seven

A/N: You know a story is getting too dramatic when the author doesn't even know what's going to happen. Eh, one more change the little stars don't show for some reason so the 'thoughts' signs denote thoughts, ... for scene changes. Damn...I better get on with doing this in html...even though I hate that thought. -cringes-

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"Maria I?" Everyone chimed altogether.

Shadow had this dream like look on his face. "Its all so very clear now...everything." he turned to the everyone else. "Maria II didn't have a way to escape the space colony when the army took the Professor under arrest. And she still wanted to get her revenge on me...so she hypnotized Maria I to send me to earth. I saw it in her eyes...and she'd been shot...the pain would have been too much."

"When the soliders came and killed Maria...that's why the Professor wanted revenge in the first place." Rouge noted.

Shadow glared towards the direction of what he could guess was Eggman's base. "I have to go save him."

"By yourself? Shadow, it'd be dangerous..." Knuckles responded, going to stop him from running.

"You don't get it...I had doubts. But now their all gone." He had a relieved look on his face. Like he was suddenly at peace.

"Doubts? About what?" Fiona piped in.

"Tails was right. I had at first thought it was just an infatuation. But now I see I was the one at fault." Shadow turned to the two-tailed fox.

"Sorry I ever doubted your feelings for Sonic." Tails looked down, embarassed. He looked up again at Shadow, determined look on his face, "I'll help you...we'llhelp you get into the base."

"Yeah, anything you need us to do, I'll do it!" Rouge and Fiona chimed.

"Me too!" Knuckles agreed happily. "Well, I can't help you if you need someone to join in to make a threesome."

Everyone sweatdropped. "Where do you get these ideas, Knuckles?" Rouge sweatdropped.

"Hell if I know!" Knuckles laughed, amused at the look of pure terror/lemmie think about it on Shadow's face.

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Sonic woke up from the dark to find himself tied painfully to a wall. He tried to struggle out of his handcuffs and anklecuffs but to no avail. "Hello? Where am I?" He then noticed the Eggman crests everywhere. "Eggman? Where are you? Come out here and fight!"

But from the door didn't come the evil morbidly obeese doctor; there came the morbid-looking Maria. "So your awake."

"YOU! You robbed the bank! Your the girl Shadow told me about." Sonic cried.

"Yes, the girl Shadow told you about. Is that all I am to him?" she said, mocking worry.

"Look, its not his fault! He doesn't remember anything that happened on ARK! The memories he does have are all a confused jumble of mess! Whatever he did...please forgive him."

Maria found a nearby stool and sat down on it, leaning forward and resting her arms on her legs. She looked at Sonic with intrest. "You know nothing. Let me set you straight. How would you feel if you were suddenly thrown away for not being perfect enough? How would you feel if the only person who ever loved you suddenly forgot about you? I don't care how he forgot, he forgot and that's enough for me...to kill him."

Sonic looked away in anger, "Your insane."

"Yes, I get that alot." and she let out one of her insane cackles which brought Eggman into the room. She glared at him and turned away. "Oh god, its Doctor Robitchnik."

Sonic laughed at the insult and Eggman blushed in anger. "That will be enough out of you, Maria." he turned to Sonic, "Think that's funny, don't you? We'll see who'll be laughing when your dead."

"My friends will be here soon. You'll both see."

Maria swept her hand in the air as if to blow away an unwanted smell, "Yes yes, we all know about that damn 'love prevailing shit'. And that's what I want to happen. I want him to come here thinking love will prevail. That way it'll be all more sad when he dies." she then left the room, leaving him with Eggman.

"Yeah, what she said." Eggman noted.

Sonic looked around the room at anything other than the Doctor. "Hey, I see you have a TV and a gamecube over there. Whatcha got on it?"

"Oh, nothing much. I got that Resident Evil remake and Sonic Heroes--" he shut his mouth suddenly.

"Waitasec...did you just say Sonic Heroes?" Sonic arched an eyebrow in confusion.

"No. HAHA! DOOM APON YOU, HEDGEHOG!" he screamed, running from the room.

"O...kay." Sonic sighed, "Hurry up guys, things are getting seriously weird here."

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'Don't worry, Soniku, we're coming.' Shadow thought, getting into place on one of Tornado's wings. Knuckles soon got on the other one.

"I fixed up the Tornado a while ago. It was kinda what I was doing the night Sonic found you, Shadow." Tails explained, "I made it so another person could sit in the cockpit."

Fiona hopped in behind Tails, laying her head on his shoulder. "This is nice." she sighed. Tails blushed when he felt the air hit his ear.

"R-Rouge, you can fly behind us, right?" Tails stammered.

"Yeah. I'm gonna fly into the base and bring down the security system to give us the element of suprise." she explained.

"She sounds like she's done this before." Knuckles said.

Shadow shrugged in response. 'Sometimes people say their gonna stop doing something they love when they go around and do it anyway. We all know Rouge is still a treasure hunter.' he smiled, remembering when Sonic decided they weren't spending enough time together because of all the saving the world stuff. Then Shadow himself decided to join in and they both worked together. 'Don't worry, we're coming.'

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Tails was flying over the town in the middle of the afternoon. Everyone seemed to be gone from the streets, fearing Eggman's wrath now that Sonic had been captured. If only they'd glanced out their windows they'd have seen five brave heroes, coming to the rescue, as if on the wings of God, bringing all the town's citizen's hope.

"We're coming close. Get ready to dive, Rouge." Tails cried as they left the town and over the beach towards Eggman's base. (A/N: at least I think its on the friggin' river. Or the coast or whatever.)

"Okay." Rouge suddenly dived.

"I LOVE YOU, ROUGE!" Knuckles cried dramatically, but the bat didn't hear him.

"That's the smartest thing I've ever heard you say." Shadow laughed.

"Yeah, if only I'd said it sooner." Knuckles pouted.

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Rouge dived through the air. The sense of falling to her death sending a wave of adrediline through her body. She suddenly lifted up, only feet away from the ground, flying at high speed towards the base along the coast, the ocean spray hitting her face.

She landed in the back of the base, as to not be seen. After taking out a camera with her claws, she walked through the back entrance, noticing at once that there weren't any robots around. 'This is odd. I better keep on my toes.'

She crept through the base's halls, finally finding the security room. It was oddly empty too. "Well, the sooner I do this, the sooner I can leave." She walked over to the security computer and did her techie thing and knocked out the alarm system and the cameras. She was just leaving the security room when the robots finally appeared. "Oh shit!" she cried, running away from them when she noticed they had lasers.

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"There's Rouge!" Knuckles pointed at the bat girl, flying full speed towards the airplane. Half-way there, she was shot by the opposing robots through her right wing and she dropped like a brick into the ocean below.

"ROUGE!" Knuckles cried, dropping from the Tornado's wing into the air, flying after the place in the water where Rouge had fell. A few minutes later, Knuckles came back over the the plane, carrying his girlfriend. "Are you okay?"

Rouge weakly smiled, "I've lost a little blood, but after my wing heals, I'll be fine." she turned to Shadow, "Go kill that bitch and bring back Sonic."

"I will." Shadow said, not knowing a away to kill her. He held up the emerald he was once trapped in, now not threatening with alot of energy humming through it. "Don't worry."

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End of Chapter Seven

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Um...halfway through I noticed that Eggman had that base in the pyramids in SA2: Battle but in Sonic Adventure, he had one in the flying ship thing...hell I'm confused. And I swear in Sonic X his base is on the coast. So lets go with the coast thing.

My sister was the one that created the Doctor Robitchnik joke. Unless someone else has created it, then it wasn't her, she just went along with that person. But I'm pretty sure she made it...so ALL BOW DOWN TO DARLENE!!! Haha...she's also my beta. WHO NEVER WORKS. Which explains all the typos. XD!!! Okay, enough ranting...review, dawgs. Cause for some reason, the Sonic fans are more laid back than the Harry Potter fans or Matrix fans...and that makes me happy. Except for like those 7 flames I got out of pure ignorance. 'laughs at flamers.'