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http/mercury. pic of Ray

http/mercury. pic of Shadow

Chapter 11

Ray crawled on and on through the vent. It seemed like it would take him days until he'd reach the basement. He stopped to catch his breath and turned on his communicator.

"Tails, can you hear me?"
"Load and clear!"
"Can you tell me how far I am from the basement?"

A pause.

"Not long now Ray, but you know I'm unhappy about this, don't you? You and your father shouldn't be splitting up in a place like this."

"Please don't worry. My dad knows what he's doing." Ray replied. "Now come on. Which way do I go from here?"

"Straight ahead then right at the last passage. There'll be some kind of grill on the side of the duct. That'll be your exit."

"Thanks Tails, and please don't worry about us. We'll be fine, OK?" Ray said.

…

Meanwhile, Shadow continued on toward the prison. He began to see a small grill below his hands. He carefully looked through it.

"I think this is it…" he said quietly, to himself. "Time to make a surprise entrance…"

He held his hand up slightly and began to gather energy for a chaos spear.

…

Sonic lay asleep against the uncomfortable wall. He twitched a little as he heard a shuffling sound from the air duct, in the ceiling. Slowly waking up, Sonic blinked and rubbed his eyes. He looked up at the duct, confusedly.

Just then the ceiling exploded with a loud booming sound. Sonic was completely taken by surprise and gasped as he shielded his face from debris.

…

Eggman was blown back too and blinked as he saw the explosion from the security camera.

"What the hell!" he yelled.

He quickly grabbed a microphone, which projected his voice on the speakers.

"Attention all Guard Robots. Something is going on in the prison. Go there immediately!" he yelled into the mic.

…

Sonic saw a shape jump down from the duct. He couldn't make out who or what it was, as its identity was shielded by the dust and smoke from the explosion. The figure stood facing Sonic and took out a gun.

"Stand back Sonic!" the figure said.

The shape aimed the gun at the control panel above the cage door. It controlled the electric barrier of the cages. The stranger fired the gun and the circuitry of the barrier system blew. The current, preventing Sonic from escaping, vanished.

Sonic blinked as he saw this happen and stood up, backed against the wall.

"Who…who are you?" he asked nervously, not quite taking in what was happening.
"Sonic, it's me." Came the reply and the figure stepped out of the smoke and into the light.

It was Shadow.

Sonic gasped.

"Sh..Sh..Shadow?" he stammered.

Just then the main door opened and a ton of guard robots ran through.
Shadow span around and gathered more chaos spears.

He madly fired at the robots, each one exploding as it took a hit. Sonic remained in the sanctity of his cell, shielding his face.

…

Eggman was horrified to see this happen. He sat upright in his chair, jaw dropped. But as the mysterious figure identified himself as Shadow, Eggman suddenly smiled.

"So…" he said "He's finally arrived…"

He chuckled evilly.

Just then one of his slaves got his attention.

"Sir! We've spotted another intruder on camera. He's in the basement."

Eggman looked at the screen and saw Ray jump down from the air duct. The hedgehog looked around before spotting the camera. He then got out his gun and shot it. The screen went dead.

"Don't worry about him for now." He said evilly. "Send more robots to take care of Shadow. We mustn't let Sonic escape! I will take a few of my captains down to the basement myself. Turn off the security alarms in the basement. We'll let Ray walk into our hands… Then he'll soon be on our side…"

Eggman laughed madly.

…

Ray finally found the grill that Tails was talking about and kicked it down. The hole was big enough for him to jump through. He landed on the basement floor.

The basement was a dark orange coloured and not a lot of the lights were working. They flickered and looked as if they were going to die out. Just ahead of Ray were a few steps which lead up to platform. This then turned a corner to a door with "RESTRICTED" painted on it.

Ray looked around and, almost immediately spotted a camera. He whipped out his gun and shot it. His aim was perfect but Ray knew that it had probably been looking at him long enough for someone to figure out where he was.

He slipped on his spy glasses and saw that they were, strangely, no laser security devices about.

"That's strange…" Ray thought.

He shrugged and walked up the steps, eyes open for any hidden robots. He reached the door and saw that there was an ID card swiper.

"Identification Required." Said a computerized voice form the swiper.

Ray shot the swiper and it sizzled and sparked. The door opened and a strange glow came from it.

"How's that for identification?" Ray said and walked through the door.

What he saw certainly did take him aback. He gasped.

Before him stood 7 brightly coloured emeralds, each a different colour, and one huge green emerald in the centre. The emeralds were connected to some kind of machine, which was bleeping and swirling away.

"These must the chaos emeralds…" Ray said quietly to himself.

He took off his spy glasses and walked toward the emeralds. He pressed a button on his wrist watch and scanned in the emeralds. He didn't noticed figures walk in and close the door.

"I was right. This is the main power supply!" Ray said looking at his watch.

Suddenly, something whacked Ray around the back of his head. He yelled out in pain and fell to the floor. He lay on his side, unconscious. Blood dripped from his wound.

"Don't forget, young hedgehog, curiosity killed the cat…" Eggman said. He was stood above Ray's body, with two large robots. One of the robots had blood on its arm.

Eggman then noticed Ray's watch. He unfastened it from Ray's wrist and held it in the air. He grinned then turned to his robots.

"Take him to the mind room." Eggman ordered.

The robots picked up Ray by the arms and dragged him off.