Chapter 4 Secret Base

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Rouge sat in her seat on the X-Tornado with her eyes closed. Tails and Sonic were sitting in the first compartment, Rouge and Amy in the second compartment, And Shadow on the wing.

"Are you okay Rouge?" Amy asked with a concerned look on her face.

Rouge's eyes shot open and she gave Amy a dirty look. "Of course I'm okay," Rouge muttered sarcastically, "You know, except for the fact that the person I care about more than anyone else in the world was kidnapped by some psycho!"

Amy looked at her, "Is anything wrong besides that?"

"Actually there is," Rouge replied, "I knew it was all going to happen."

Amy looked at her quizzically, "What are you talking about?" she asked.

Rouge took a deep breath and told Amy about her dream and how she was afraid it would come true.

"Rouge it's not your fault at all that this happened. How were you supposed to know that dream would come true?" Amy told her.

"I know. But still, I think that thing kidnapped Knuckles because it doesn't want us to be together. Maybe if I just broke up with him it would-"

"Stop right there!" Amy snapped cutting Rouge off, "Rouge it doesn't matter if that thing doesn't want you two together! You two belong with each other. I've known Knuckles longer than you have Rouge. He's been different since he met you. He's so much more outgoing, so much sweeter."

"Really?" Rouge asked.

Amy nodded. "Rouge, you mean so much to Knuckles. I couldn't stand to see something that important to him be taken away."

Rouge nodded in agreement, and then they were silent for a few minutes. "Amy?" Rouge asked suddenly.

"Yeah?"

Rouge smiled, "Thanks."

Amy looked at her. "For what?" she asked.

"For talking some sense into me. I almost made the worst mistake of my life."
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Rouge looked up from her seat, "We've been flying for two days," she muttered, "Knuckles could already be dead by now."

"Calm down," Amy told her, "I'm sure we're almost there."

Just as Amy said that the plane started to land. "Told ya," she teased with a smile.

"We finally found the secret base!" Tails exclaimed, jumping out of the plane.

They looked up at the base. It was a huge metal dome, with the words "SECRET BASE" printed in red across the top.

"Kinda hard to miss," Shadow remarked.

They walked to the front entrance and found a huge robot standing guard. "Let me take care of this," Sonic bragged. He rolled into a ball, ready to do a spin dash, only to be blasted by one of the robots lasers.

"That hurt...." Sonic whined as he rubbed his head.

"Watch a pro take care of it," Shadow told him. He ran behind the robot, jumped up, and hit it behind the knee, causing it to fall. (A/N this actually works on people if you catch them by surprise) When the robot made contact with ground, it shattered. "That wasn't so hard," he remarked, kicking at the pieces of metal.

"Okay.... this person makes worse robots than Eggman," Tails commented as they walked in.

They soon came to the next "obstacle." A pit of molten lava.

"Shit!" Sonic muttered, "If only there was a row of rings here, then I could light dash across!"

"Uh Sonic," Shadow started, "ever try this?" With that he easily homing-attacked to the other side.

"That works," Sonic replied as he and Amy homing attacked across as well. Rouge and Tails simply flew.

Next came a room with a giant maze. "Tails, use your laptop to find a map of this room so we can get through the maze!" Sonic suggested.

"Or we could do this," Shadow suggested. With that, he rolled into a ball and spinned dashed right through the walls, making a straight path.

"That's a lot easier," Rouge commented as they walked through the holes.

Next came a large moat filled with crocidiles. "It's too big to jump across," Sonic observed.

"We could fly," Tails suggested.

"No way," Rouge argued, "We would never make across because we'd have to carry the others."

"We could swim," Shadow suggested.

"Two problems," Sonic started, "One, there are crocs in there. Two, I don't swim."

Shadow shrugged, "You got any bright ideas blue boy?"

Sonic shook his head. "Didn't think so," Shadow remarked.

"Oooh! I've got an idea!" Amy exclaimed.

"That's a first….." Sonic muttered.

Amy's eyes turned to fireballs as she pulled out her hammer. "What did you say?" she demanded.

"Uh, nothing at all," Sonic claimed.

"That's what I thought," she responded as put away her hammer.

"You better watch it, she's smarter than you, ya blue pin cushion." Shadow remarked. Then in a sweeter voice he said, "Go on Amy, what's your idea?"

"I thought we could take that bridge," she explained.

"WA!!" everyone else exclaimed. She pointed to the left, and everyone looked in that direction. Indeed, there was a huge steel bridge standing there.

"It seems too easy," Tails commented as they made there way to the bridge.

"Gee, do you notice a pattern?" Shadow remarked.

The next obstacle would have been a room with a robot army, except the robots were all turned off.

"Be careful and quiet," Tails warned, "we don't want to wake them up."

"Let's not and say we did," Shadow remarked as he stormed loudly through the room. Not a single robot woke up. "This person is dumber than Sonic," he observed as the group walked by the lifeless robots.

About two minutes later Sonic spoke, "Hey that was mean!" he snapped.

"What was?" Shadow asked.

"You said this person is dumber than me, implying that I'm pretty dumb!"

"Wow Sonic, for the world's fastest super-sonic hedgehog, you're pretty slow!" Shadow remarked.

Soon they came to an empty room. "Oh boy," Shadow muttered, "what's the next challenge?"

"I see you've made it past the difficult obstacles," a mysterious voice commented.

"Difficult?" Shadow muttered.

The mysterious figure made its way down to them. "Okay, you've had you fun!" Rouge spat, "Now show us who you really are!"

"Oh but that's where you're wrong!" the figure teased, "The fun has just begun!" With that, the figure removed its cloak, revealing itself as……..

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Oooooooooh!! Cliff hanger! You hate me don't you? Oh well. I promise the next chapter will be up soon, in like 1-3 days. That is, provided you review. No reviews, no update. So remember, review! Bu bye now.