Nite slowly walked into the room where he guessed Streak was born from Sonic's dark past. There was a single machine in the room with two chambers on each end and a console between them. The same console they had found a Chaos Emerald in.
The remains of the Eggcrusher lying just to the side of it.
Nothing seemed any different from the last time he was here, but just then something caught his attention. A familiar yet rather weak scent in the air, so weak that he nearly couldn't smell it.
"What?" his disposition changed, he had adopted a more serious façade and his voice was somehow much deeper. It was something he usually only did around GUN and several times around Gerald's creations. He didn't understand why though…
"Why can I smell myself…from long ago…"
He sniffed the air to catch the scent again and followed it. He was very surprised to have found such a strange clue, one that perhaps led to more information to his past. He took off running in the direction of the scent as fast as he could; it was getting stronger the closer he got to the wall on the left hand side of the room. When he made it over there he found a large console that wasn't powered and looked slightly out of place.
Maybe I can move it.
He stood to the side of the machine and pressed his hands against it, pushing and moving it to the side with surprising ease. He then stood back, his eyes wide as he beheld a secret passage and he fell back into his usual persona.
"The Prof. really went all out with this place; it has secret passages and everything…"
As he stepped closer to the door it opened automatically, seemingly disappearing into the wall on hidden hinges.
"I bet he really liked those trashy Spy novels…better be careful…"
He slowly stepped into the corridor, even more amazed now that his scent was so strong in the tight hallway; he was so engrossed in what he was looking for now that he didn't even register the door sliding shut behind him and several secret ones opening on the ceiling.
That was until he heard several robotic voices yell: "INTRUDER ALERT, INTRUDER ALERT"
"What! An intruder! Where?"
He grinned as he hopped back dodging as one of the machines tried to ram him. There were six in total and all of them looked similar to GUN drones, just flying robotic heads. But there was something different about them, they seemed older, out-of-date.
He grinned as he upholstered his Magnums and took aim, he could make short work of them with his firearms but as he aimed and pulled the triggers. Nothing happened.
"Huh?"
He dodged again as two more of the drones tried to ram him and pulled out his Bazooka as he did so, but once again as he aimed and tried to fire nothing happened.
"Something must be blocking them…"
He dodged once again and put his Bazooka back into no-where while he was in the air. He then fell into his fighting stance and clicked his neck.
"Looks like I'll be doing this the old fashioned way"
Once again the lead drone charged at him, but he hopped above it and slammed both his feet hard down on top of it slamming it into the ground, destroying it. He then threw on a mock Confucius voice: "Ah, young grasshopper breaks very easily…"
Another two drones charged at him from front and back, he leaped into the air again and the two slammed into each other getting destroyed instantly, while in the air he grinned as he landed on the fourth drone's head and slammed his fist into it and pulled out a mass of wires. The machine spasemed before shutting down. The fifth drone then made its attempt at ramming him but he merely sidestepped it and it slammed hard into the wall, and eliminated itself from the equation.
But just as Nite was about to revel in his victory the final drone slammed itself into his back knocking him to the floor with a loud thud. He rolled over and if he didn't know better could have swore that the robot was laughing at him. He grinned, still using his Confucius voice: "Great happiness often followed by great pain"
Before the drone knew what was happening Nite had quickly leaped to his feet and slammed both his fists deep into what could be considered its underbelly, he then slammed it into the wall like a hammer where it promptly fell to pieces.
"Well…that wraps that up"
He smiled once more at his single-handed conquest and then took off in a sprint down the hall now positive that he would find out something about his past. If his weapons didn't work in here then it could only mean that someone was prepared for him to attack and was roughly prepared to stop him.
But as he opened the door at the end of the long corridor he switched back to his serious, deep voiced persona and fell to his knees, grasping his head in pain.
"Ohhh my head! My scent! It resonates from here!"
OOO
Spike entered the huge room where he had fought alongside his friends and the other Sonic Heroes a long time ago; he turned slightly to see Nack also entering the room and smiled. The purple weasel looked rather tired.
Guess Miles' tunnel was a little too much for him.
"Hiya Nack!"
"Huh…oh mate!"
The weasel was about to run over to his friend when he saw the huge pile of what he guessed was junk laying in the middle of the room. His imagination ran haywire on what he could make out of it.
"Wha…what's that mate?" he was practically drooling.
Spike looked at the pile of metal and walked over to it, his eyebrow raised. He recognised it as the remains of Pluto.
"It's…Pluto I think…"
"Huh?" Nack was a tad confused "he wasn't THAT banged up when we left him here last time mate, what happened"
"I guess he went all to pieces on us" he said it rather dryly as he kicked a part of the one time robot "must be Nite's handy work, if he still has that Red Emerald"
"Oh really, what ever gave you that idea? Could it be the huge melted hole in the centre of its chest or maybe the giant scorch mark on the wall?" the sarcasm seemed to drip from every word, but Spike smiled none the less.
"We better go find him quick; if we don't then there won't be any badniks for us to fight"
He chuckled softly before running in the direction of the door at the other side of the room, closely followed by his fellow treasure hunter friend.
OOO
Shadow sat staring out over the lake in the Green Hills; it was the place that Sonic had shown him before his ever so noble sacrifice to save all life on the planet. Just then a cold shiver ran up his spine.
"Something…big and bad is coming…"
With that he produced his favourite green emerald and concentrated on heading to Rouge's place.
"Chaos…CONTROL!"
With that he disappeared in a green aura.