This chapter you'll know the reason why I made Omega crazy... I like him crazy. No that's not the reason; hah that would be silly.
I own Mascara, Cress, and Lela...all the ones that aren't part of Sonic Team. Okay? Okay. Celestial belongs to CelestialTheHedgird! Finally! The first one that pops up with wings isn't her. The one named Sky is named after one of my friends, Sky The Hedgehog! Bet you didn't think I liked you that much.
Rouge followed Cress easily... Now making sure Omega was following was a whole different issue. "OMEGA! Those are plastic flowers! Not real!" Rouge kicked the robot on the side and then grabbed his arm and proceeded to drag him down the hallway.
Cress pressed a button on the wall as he stood in front of large double doors of a bronze colour. "The elevator is the quickest way." Everything went dark as the lights went out and the elevator failed. Cress looked at the roof with an annoyed look. "Okay God. We have talked about this... If you want me dead, just say so."
"What?" Rouge stared at the wolf like he was crazy.
"Power failure... That hasn't happened for eleven years...and there was an incident with a priest; where he got shot and after that I've had the worst luck."
"You shot a priest!"
"It was an accident... Anyway we don't have the time to stand here and talk! Let's go." They went through the door that was labelled 'stairs.'
Deep within the base only minutes before power failure
"It looks like him..." A soft almost silent voice whispered.
"I think it is." Another with a deeper tone of voice whispered.
Shadow flinched a little when something touched his head, most of his body felt numb and his chest hurt badly. "It is... I thought so." The soft voice spoke and he felt its hand stroke his head. "Shadow? It is you, isn't it?"
"Wha-" Pain struck his chest before he finished speaking, he groaned painfully and curled up.
"I'm not surprised that it hurts..." The coarse voice spoke again. "It looks like they already had a pick at you."
"Hey, that's not nice... The important thing is you're okay." It continued to stroke his head and also hummed quietly.
"Where am I?" Shadow whispered, avoiding the pain.
"You are... In the depths of a GUN base my friend... Like all of us here..." Shadow opened his eyes and was met with a dim light and two dark figures, one large and the other around the same size as himself.
"Who are you and how do you know me?" His eyes focused more and he could see a large bulky creature that resembled a warthog and the other had large eyes and wings but didn't seem to resemble any creature he knew of.
"It has been too long... None of us could ever recall our names...but we have never forgotten yours..." The creatures eyes looked intently into Shadows. "We lived with you once Shadow... We lived on Ark." Shadows eyes widened as he stared at the creature.
Despite the pain; Shadow sat up and stared in bewilderment at the two. "Yo-you are from Ark? Where are the others?"
The large creature turned away and the other sighed. "One by one they never got put back in here... We are the last ones..."
"I heard once they were kept in the lower levels...but I also heard most of them died..." The larger creature pointed to the walls. "The numbers on the walls are what they gave us... Each one crossed out...didn't come back..." What looked like hundreds or thousands of names crossed out along the walls, only two remained.
"They used us to try make another Shadow..." The winged one sighed again.
"What are they going to do?" Shadow looked for an answer more in the smaller one than the large one.
"They have tried to make us into something... I have only the brain of a scientist and these wings I cannot use... As for my friend here... He may be large but he cannot lift anything bigger than me... They used us because we were claimed dead... As the others most likely are." He sat on the cold steel floor and looked out at the bars. "Neither of us can get through these bars... They run thousands of volts through them."
Shadow stood up and looked at the two. "If I find a way out of this cell... Would you know the way out of the base?" The large one looked at him with a look to say he was crazy. He walked towards the bars and grabbed onto them. The smaller creature gasped in shock as zaps and crackles echoed in the empty hall. The room went dark and the two creatures stared as Shadow pulled the bars so they moved into the roof.
"Whoa! I didn't know you could do that!" The bigger one ran out and just looked at Shadow, who smirked with almost demonic intentions. "That way is the way to the lab... So we better try the other way if anything." The smaller one jumped onto the large ones back for a ride, as it was obvious that it was not a good runner.
"Just before we go... What can I call you two?" They all looked at each other.
"Well... I've always liked the name Cloud...or Sky...but I think Sky is a girls name... How about Justin...or Nathan."
"Justin and Nathan are fine I think." Shadow nodded at his comment.
"I'm Nathan then..." The smaller one said as they ran down the hall.
Back with Rouge
"We should be close soon enough." Cress ran side by side with Omega and Rouge.
"I don't get it... If you're the leader of GUN, how come you're so...happy and energetic."
"I'm actually filling in for the real leader, whoever it is... It had a job to do for some almighty dumb reason."
They spun around a corner, and if not for Rouge, Omega would have gone further. Steel stairs led down to a large area of metal, nothing too important usually except now there was what looked like an army. "I don't get it... They should have come up this way... It's the only way out." A familiar voice echoed.
"It's her..." Rouge growled and pointed to the black bat among the army... Strangely enough, the army were facing away from them.
"Oh whew..." Cress sighed and wiped his head.
"What?"
"Lela isn't down there... Which means she's not against us."
"So?"
"I think she's hot." Cress had a look of happiness playing on his white muzzle.
"Looks like we have company..." Rouge and Cress looked and apparently they forgot where they were...Mascara spotted them easily. "Hmph...and I thought you were dead." She directed her question to Rouge.
"Well sorry but the beautiful have a tendency not to die...unless it's an act." She was about to jump down to take on Mascara but then she noticed all the weapons aimed at them.
"This is not good..." Cress muttered under his breath. Omega pushed him out of the way and swung his arms up in gun mode and shot out. A loud explosion rang out through the complex. As the smoke cleared Cress and Rouge saw that everyone was still standing. "Oh yeah... That was really smart Omega..." Cress slumped and pouted.
"Wow! That's the robot that help defeat Metal Overlord...or so I heard... This thing couldn't defeat a tree! A baby tree!" The worst was not over yet as thousands of flowers fell from the roof and landed amongst the army. Mascara burst out laughing uncontrollably as did some of the other soldiers. It wasn't until that the whole army collapsed that Rouge and Cress looked at Omega.
"Omega..." They said in unison. "Just what did you do?" Rouge walked over to him.
"Flowers are nice!" Omega shouted.
"I want one... Where can I get one?" Cress happily grabbed Omegas' arm and looked at it intently.
"Sorry. He's one of a kind." Rouge pat his back. "Good work Omega." She pulled out her cell phone and punched in what seemed to be a random number. "I need a team sent to GUN base in Station Square." She put it back and looked at the two. Cress of which was still observing Omega while he looked rather bored.
Another rumble but not from the explosion shook the entire building. "What in the heck was that?" Cress whispered. "Just my luck... I get to be head for a day and I get all the bad stuff happening."
Lowest floor in the base, Minutes before
"What do you think that explosion was." Justin set down Nathan and looked at the large doors they were stuck at.
"I don't want to stay around to find out." Nathan muttered and walked to the computer.
"Do you know the password?" Shadow walked up beside Nathan and watched as he typed in some simple commands.
"This is not like Ark, not all the passwords are the same, nor are they names." Nathan squinted. "Pick a number between eight and ten." He smirked and looked at Justin.
"What? You mean nine?" Nathan laughed a little and typed in a bunch of random numbers and they heard the locks on the door unhinge. "How did you know the password?"
"It came in handy when the scientists here thought I was unconscious." They all stood in front of the door until it was fully opened.
The room had a thin layer of mist along the steel floor, capsules lined the walls but they seemed to be empty. "If they are not here..." Justin muttered. "They are dead."
"Compared to the hundreds that survived the attacks... It looks like we may be the only ones that survived the experiments..." Nathan shivered as their footsteps echoed in the large room.
"Why would they be in here? Why not in a cell like you?" Shadow watched the capsules but every single one seemed to be empty.
"If they became what they wanted them to be... Then they were to be locked away until the day came where they had enough." They walked to the end of the room and in two capsules, two creatures slept in the capsules. The only ones floating in the green liquid. "Well I'll be damned... Two made it..."
One creature had red and yellow wings on its back and a bird like appearance but it still had the look of a human.
The other looked like a black hedgehog with wings and bird feet, her black quills reached her shoulders and her eyes reminded Shadow of Rouge. Her fur was strangely thick, covering her female figure.
Nathan walked over to the capsules and pressed some buttons on the simple console. The liquid vanished into the floor and the creatures slumped in their containers. As soon as the glass slipped into the floor Justin grabbed the two before they fell. He carefully eased them onto the ground.
"Ugh... These awful scientists just gave them numbers as names... How demonic." He hissed and knelt down to look at the two.
"Do you know if they are okay?" Shadow whispered.
"I was on the biology team that studied the very process that made you alive... I think I may know a bit..."
"You somehow remember all of this but you can't remember who you were?"
"When you have a choice of things to forget and things to remember... You tend to remember what you don't want to and forget what you want to remember..."
The two on the floor stirred and groaned a little. The one that looked like a human bird opened his eyes and looked upon his saviour. "Wha-?" He pushed himself up into a sitting position. "Shadow?"
"Long story short... We need to get out of here." Nathan elbowed Justin for saying something so impolite. "Well we do..." He finished under his breath.
The other one sat up immediately and then opened her mouth wide and yawned. She felled back down and curled up. "Just a few more minutes..." She yawned again before dozing off.
"Wow! She'd be great in the army!" Nathan said very sarcastically while poking her in her side. Justin elbowed him this time, only softer.
Her eyes opened wide and she jumped away from them and flew on top of a capsule. Her claws clicked rather loudly on the metal top of the capsule. "Okay... Maybe you're a little right..." Justin whispered to Nathan.
"You're the military? I demand you to let me go!" Her wings visibly tensed and her fur puffed up. She was obviously not hesitating to hurt them.
"We are not part of the military." Shadow stood up and walked near the capsule. "We were all part of Ark... Long ago. We are here to get out." She flew down and walked towards Shadow, each step echoed around the room.
"You're... Shadow?" Shadow only nodded to her question. "I thought I recognized you!" She smiled and then glared at the other three, who just backed away slightly. "Don't mention the army when I'm around." Nathan and Justin gulped and nodded while the other just rolled his eyes.
"We need a way out...don't we?" The human bird looked at the others to confirm his question.
Justin scratched his head and sighed. "Yeah... But it is probably been blocked by now..."
"Nothing to worry about..." He signalled them to come closer, when they did a strong wind blew about them.
"What the?" Nathan shivered and moved closer to Shadow. "What's going on?"
"Just don't panic..." He closed his eyes and the wind focused around them; within seconds they could smell the fresh air and feel warm sun of the outside world.
The wind around them acted like glass with leaves and other debris carried in its invisible grasp. "A-amazing!" Nathan carefully touched the wall then recoiled quickly as if expecting something to happen. He placed his hand fully on it. "This is spectacular!"
"Pity about the mess..." Justin pointed below to a large hole through the base, most of which was smoking.
"We need to find somewhere to stay." Shadow stated simply with little actual emotion in his voice.
"Where have you been staying?" The girl that was sitting on the ground from the ride asked innocently.
Shadow shrugged. "No where really... That's why we have to find a place; they will probably put us as wanted criminals now."
She pouted and crossed her arms. "I didn't do anything." She growled as Nathan walked close to her.
"Hi, I'm Nathan." He pointed to Justin. "That's Justin. You already know Shadow and I don't know the other guys name. Do you remember yours?" She shrugged and looked at the human bird.
"Hey what's your name?" He shook his head and kept silent. A sudden movement in the wind made them all fall to the floor of the wind wall.
The wind wall disappeared and a land of green trees and grass with nothing but the sound of birds to disrupt them. "Where are we?" Shadow stood up and looked at the serene surroundings.
"I saw an island...so I thought we could stay here." He shook his feathers and puffed them a little before they flattened against his skin.
"We're gunna live here?" The girl whispered as her ears went down. "But what if there are wolves or bats or.. cats that wanna eat me." They all sweat dropped and looked around the area.
"I have the power of the wind...like a bird that uses the wind to travel..." He turned to Shadow. "I want my name to be Sky." Shadow nodded and looked at the girl.
"I'll think of a name...just as long as it isn't cat food." She muttered and everyone laughed.
"Okay I think we need to find some shelter or something first."
Nathan tapped Sky on the shoulder and he turned around. "Isn't Sky a girls name?"
Sky shrugged. "I think it is like the name Joe...kinda neutral." Nathan nodded and scratched his head.