I am... More than anything else... Hurt... Not by what anyone has said but by the fact we lost all the data on the computer. Shadow art that I had collected for over a year on various Shadow sites, sprites that took me months of work, four stories including this chapter...were lost... But eh! I'll see what I can remember. Lost cavern is going to take a lot longer because I was almost done with it... I'm going to make sure I backup now...
From what I remember... I had to say about Omega, because of making him stupid last chapter... Now, in sonic battle in Rouge story mode then she says how one of the Gamma robots look like Omega, then sometime later someone says that Eggman used pieces from an old robots, even our poor Omega. So I made Omega some how turn up in the dumpster but the only thing was he was missing a lot of pieces! So Shadow replaced what he could and Omega somehow got his clawed hands on some flowers and water. So really I would be putting out of character if I made him work perfectly fine and I have a reason he's silly. Don't worry either... He gets fixed properly later. If he gets fixed too soon he wouldn't be able to help.
They walked far enough away from the destroyed area. It did not take Rouge long to get suspicious of the large robot, she spun on her heel and watched as he stopped not to close to her. "What is going on? Earlier you just wanted to make a mess of everything and now your actually following me? Not to mention listening to me?"
Omega beeped a few times before responding. "Shadow said we are a team and that I should listen."
"Aw! He said that." She couldn't help feeling a little happy from that.
"Then he said only to listen to Rouge when she is saying something important because she might just be saying something stupid."
Her face changed within the amount of second it took him to say the last part of his sentence. "Okay... We go rescue Shadow and then I kick his sorry butt." Rouge was about to continue walking but was interrupted by Omegas obnoxious laughter. "What?" She said rather angrily and glared at the robot.
"You said sorry butt...and butts can't be sorry!" He continued to laugh until something landed in front of them.
"So GUN has captured Shadow?" The blue hedgehog himself was standing in their path.
"You shouldn't listen to other peoples conversations, it's rude." Rouge shoved Sonic to the side as she went passed.
"And ignoring your friends isn't?" Sonic snickered a little.
"He has a point." Omega commented. Then walked up to beside Sonic.
"Hey think of it this way... He seems to listen to me." Sonic leaned against Omega. Sonic looked quite proud of himself until he felt claws encircle him. "Huh?" Omega picked he up and held him to his face.
"You are the colour of two things..." Sonic looked at the robot queerly as it spoke. "The colour of late afternoon sky and the colour of the ocean."
"Yeah... I guess I am... Umm...will you put me down now?" Sonic pointed to the ground in an attempt to reason with Omega.
"HEY!" Omega turned his head around and looked at the intruder of his 'fun'. "Put my Sonic down." Amy stood beside Tails, her hammer in hand.
Omega turned around completely and walked over to Amy. "Here. All yours." He put Sonic down right next to Amy. Amy happily took advantage of the situation and grabbed Sonics hand. "Well maybe he isn't so bad." Sonic and Tails both rolled their eyes.
Rouge clapped a few times then turned to the way she was originally heading. "Come on Omega. We got a ultimate life form to save."
"Affirmative!" Omega turned away from trio and followed Rouge... They could hear him talking to her from where they were. "The pink one looks like a lollipop and the other one looks like an orange."
"Well... That was weird... What happened to Omega?" Tails scratched his head and looked at Sonic for maybe a suitable answer but instead Sonic just shrugged.
Office building just on the outskirts of Station Square
Two figures approached a building, from where they stood they could see the windows of the second floor. There seemed to be nothing else...just two floors?
"This is the place." Rouge walked forward to the double doors.
"This is what place?" Omega spun his head around.
Rouge looked over her shoulder at the robot. "Well... Never mind just follow me."
The two entered the building, the walls were a white in colour but had tiny blue dots all over, the floor had white tiles with the same pattern and there was a desk just opposite of the door and two hallways leading off left and right. "It's abnormally cold in here..."
"It's called air conditioning." She walked over to the desk. "And don't-" She was cut off by a crash as one of the walls went down. "Touch anything..."
A blue echidna sat at the front desk, obviously the secretary. She stared at the destruction that the robot caused. "Can I help you?" She looked at her computer screen for a second before focusing on them entirely.
"Why yes, I think you can." Rouge walked over to the desk and leaned on it casually. "I'm from the government, you might know me. I'm Rouge the bat." She leaned forward using the desk for support. "I'm sure I'm on that computer if you want to check." She looked at her tag. "Lela."
Lela typed a few commands into the computer and sure enough a file came up on Rouge the bat. "Government Spy Rouge. Works for government secretly. Has high access to any GUN base..." She scrolled down the page. "She currently has the duty of watching over the GUN project; Shadow..." Her eyes went wide. "GUN Project? Shadow?" She looked at Rouge and at the robot. "Don't tell me he escaped?"
Rouge looked at her, dullness in her eyes. "Can I just talk to the leader?"
"Oh my gosh... I mean, of course." She picked up the phone that was on her left and pressed a single button. "Good afternoon sir... Yes... Yes those came in this morning... Sir...there is Rouge the bat to see you... No she is here now... Thank you." She put the phone down with a click and looked at Rouge. "Go on in. It's down that hall. "She pointed to Rouges left.
"Thanks." Rouge began to walk down the hallway.
"Wait! Don't leave your robot!" She shouted, Rouge came back quickly.
"Omega you're meant to follow me." The robot finally moved and proceeded down the hallway with Rouge. Lela picked up the phone again.
"Hi! I'd like to get someone in here that can fix a wall... Thanks!" She hung up the phone and then began typing away on the computer but actually just playing solitaire.
Second floor office room
The duo entered the double doors, making a loud screech as a broken piece of metal scrapped against the tiled floor. Red tiles spread about the floor that clashed badly with the cream coloured walls and brown roof. A single wooden desk was opposite of them, its polished surface reflecting the roof and the light grey fox sitting in the black chair.
"Good afternoon Rouge. What can I do for you." He didn't even look up from the papers on his desk.
"Well... You can tell your little prissy..." She resisted from swearing as she walked up to the wolf. "Okay here's the boot. Some bat came round my place and attacked and destroyed everything I own... You can think you are lucky that my jewels aren't kept there..." She put her hands on the papers and the wolf looked up at her. "Apparently... She tried to kill me... She also took Shadow and claimed that..."
The wolf raised an eyebrow. "That?"
"That she was from GUN!" She hit the desk and a few items went flying. "If you don't give me Shadow. Then I will get this robot to destroy everything here, including your cute little secretary." Rouge pointed to Omega who was apparently arranging some weapons at the time. "Here name is Mascara; I want her fired."
"Mascara?" The wolf sighed. "Look Rouge... Mascara was fired two months ago when she demanded that we capture Shadow and take control of everything... I declined and fired her... No one has seen her since..."
"WHAT? But she had GUN soldiers, a GUN badge and I know I saw the trucks."
"Some trucks?"
"Yeah the big grey ones that have the emblem on the side."
"I saw some of them come in this morning...but I know that I didn't order anything... My secretary confirmed me. I'm wondering that maybe Mascara is working with some of my more demonic workers... The ones only doing it for money..." He stroked his furry chin as he thought it through.
"That doesn't work... Where would she get the funding..."
"Oh, that's easy. She inherited her family fortune when her parents died."
"Let's go ask my secretary." He jumped over the desk, just missing Rouge but failed a landing and fell down.
"Why don't we just use your computer..." She looked at the wolf funny and pointed to his computer.
"Mines broken and hers doesn't freeze." He got up from the floor and dusted himself off. "By the way... My name is Cress." He looked at the robot. "And who is this mass of destruction?"
Omega turned to the wolf known as Cress and aimed his arm at him, set in gun mode. "Omega." Rouge heard Cress scream as a loud explosion took place.
When the smoke cleared flowers floated from the roof. "Wow, that's clever..." Cress checked that he was okay then looked at Rouge. "Do you purposely make him do that to scare people."
"I wish..." They all left the room, making sure to close the door on the way out...crushing the nice flowers by doing so.
It didn't take them long to reach the secretary. "Oh! Good afternoon sir." She stood up to greet him.
"Hey Lela... Can I use your computer..." She moved away and swang the seat for him to sit on. "Thank you. You can have a second lunch if you want."
"Yes sir." She went off down the same hallway they came from.
"Okay, what I'm going to show you... You can't tell anyone." He opened a folder and a box popped up asking for a password. Cress quickly slid his fingers over the keys to hide the letters. When the file opened, one program sat inside. He clicked on it twice and a new window appeared.
"So what is it exactly." Rouge watched from over his shoulder.
"Camera program, I have cameras throughout most of this building." He covered his mouth and moved a little closer to Rouge. "Don't tell the staff... They don't know."
"I won't tell if you don't have any in the bathrooms." She stood straight and crossed her arms.
"Oh please... That is clear violation of privacy."
"I want a yes or no."
"No." He stated simply.
Cress clicked on a number around the middle of the screen. "Is it me or do you hear beeping?" Rouge flicked her ears around but heard nothing and shook her head. "Okay just me then." He typed in the time when the trucks just parked at the back of the building.
"That's her!" Rouge pointed to the fuzzy screen, the black bat easily seen. The soldiers carried something into the building but could not be seen from the camera point.
Cress quickly changed to a different camera and set a time only minutes after the event outside. "So that's what Shadow looks like... I've only heard rumours..."
He changed the camera again. This time the soldiers took their load into a door. Cress got up and closed the window. "Hey!"
"I know that room... They are downstairs in the lab testing facility." Cress ran down the right hallway and Rouge followed. She quickly came back and grabbed Omega; she dragged him behind her.