Chapter 3 A true friend
"Is he going to be all right?" asked a female voice that sounded like the women from earlier.
"Yes, he'll be fine, the anthesia should be wearing off right about now." replied a male voice.
Sonic's eyes opened partually.
Though he could see and hear everything he felt numb and wasn't able to move.
At that moment someone sat on the side of his bed.
She wore a red head band and a red dress with a coller and white ruffles along the end of it. Her body and head were pink except for her sand colored face and arms.
Her dark green eyes looked down at him with concern.
Sonic tried to speak her name, but the words wouldn't come out.
"It's a wonder you didn't die," she said stroking his head, "the lead in those bullets could have killed you."
Sonic moved his numb lips slowly mouthing her name trying to speak it.
"Aimeh," he mumbled
She looked down at him and blinked, "What?"
The hedgehog finally forced the name from his lips, "Amy."
"Amy?" the women repeated as her complexion faded from Amy's, "oh, I see, your trying to say "feed me" aren't you?"
The women threw back her long brown hair, "I'll be right back."
After the women left Sonic started to get some feeling back and sat up in his bed.
He flinched at the sudden pain in his back.
The blue hedgehog looked around himself.
Judging by the metal walls and steel doors the place looked like a prison. There wasn't any windows or any look of hospitality any where.
"Wherever I am, now would be the best time to make a break for it." he told himself. Sonic struggled trying to stand to his feet, but they were so numb and relaxed that he wasn't able to move them.
"Come on you guys, this is no time for a nap!" he said smacking his right leg.
"I'm back," the women called as she brougt in a silver tray, "here, have something to eat."
"No thanks," the hedgehog said pushing the tray away, "I just want to go home."
The women frowned, "I'm afraid we can't let you do that."
"Why not?" he questioned.
She put her hand on his, "Don't worry, we're going to take you to a safe place where no one can hurt you, you'll be safe there I promise."
Sonic's eyes enlarged, "Hey, you've got the wrong guy my names-"
"Renee," a pilot interrupted peaking his head in the door way, "Put that hedgehog in a cage or something and let's go."
"Yes sir," Renee saluted.
"A cage?" Sonic gulped, "you're not really going to put me in a cage are you?"
Renee picked up a large carrier, set it on the bed, pulled out a gun, and pointed it at Sonic.
"Get in," she motioned with her gun.
"You can't be serious," the hedgehog folded his arms, "I can hardly move let alone get in a cage."
The women pulled his blankets down revealing to Sonic a meduim sized cast around his left leg.
"Come on," she said grabbing him around the waist and putting him in the carrier.
Sonic was carried out of the room and down some stairs.
He was taken down a couple hallways until the women turned to go down more stairs.
"I got to get out of this place before they lock me away forever." the hedgehog said under his breath.
She finally stopped at a door and opened it.
"Here, Frank," Renee said setting the carrier on the floor.
Sonic crawled to the edge of his carrier.
A rather plump man darted his face in front of the cage giving Sonic a start,"Well, look what we have here!"
"Ahh!" the hedgehog jumped.
"Our little secret weapon back from summer camp," the man laughed.
"Frank, just put him in the cell," Renee rolled her eyes before she left.
Sonic backed up to the back of the cage.
"Welcome home buddy," the man said reaching in and grabbing the hedgehog, "have a nice stay."
Sonic was whirled into the cell with the door slamming behind him.
Frank threw his head back laughing merrily showing Sonic his lettus lunch.
"Eww, gross!" the hedgehog said raising his hand in front of his eyes," you should really stick to mouth wash and gum, pal."
Frank threw his sandwhich and walked up to the cell grabbing the bars, "Laugh all you want blue bird, soon you won't be able to laugh at all. WAHA HA HA!"
"Frank!" yelled a man swinging the door open, "knock it off! We can hear you all the way from outside! And stop teasing that hedgehog and give him some lunch!"
The man slammed the door.
"Give him some lunch?" Frank shouted, " give him some lunch! I'll give him some lunch!"
Frank picked up the sandwhich and threw at the hedgehog.
"HA HA HA!" the man laughed as he left slaming the door behind him.
Sonic shook his head, "What's wrong with that guy?"
The blue hedgehog looked down at the sandwich then growled, "I'll show that blubber ball!"
Sonic picked up the sandwhich and whirled it out of the cell onto the man's seat, "Ha! Eat that!"
The hedgehog pulled his legs to his chest and wrapped his arms around them.
"I have got to get out of here." he said resting his head on his knees.
Just then the door opened.
"I'm back," Frank declared.
Sonics' eyes closed halfway grinning as the man aproached his chair.
"What are you so happy about? Pretty soon you're-," the man sat down to an unpleasent squeashing,"AHHH! YOU LITTLE FREAK!"
Sonics' grin widend as he supressed a laugh.
"Oh you think it's funny do you?" Frank growled breaking the leg off a nearby table, "I'll show you funny."
The man opened the door tapping the table leg against his palm.
Sonic stood but fell.
The man raised the table leg and brang it down hard on the little hedgehog beating him bruitaly.
Sonic tried to fight back, but was knocked down at every attempt.
When the man hit him down face first on the floor he tried to roll out of the way, but after Sonic did it a few more times Frank became wise to it hiting Sonics' face causing his mouth to bleed.
"Ha!" the man panted heavily,"you can just stay here and rot until someone comes!"
Frank left only this time he closed the door more quietly.
Sonic could here someone in the hall ask, "Did you feed him?" and Frank replied, "Yes he's fast asleep."
The hedgehog lay on the cold cell floor in a bundle flinching and shivering.
Sonic brought his hand up to is face and felt his lip, he stared at the blood on the fingers of his shaking hand.
The hedgehog forced his black, purple, and blue arm up to his face wiping the blood from his mouth.
He grabbed the bars of his cell coughing." Even if I got out of here," Sonic thought, "I would have to out run the guards to escape."
The hedgehog rested his back against the bars.
Bringing his left leg up to his chest he began to exercise it slowly.
Suddenly Sonic heard a sound from behind him, it sounded like a power tool.
He glanced behind him when he heard a thud.
"Tails!" Sonic exclaimed recognizing the fox.
"Sonic! Are you ok?" the fox whispered staring at Sonic.
"How did you know where I was?" the blue hedgehog questioned.
"I saw a news report that they had captured Shadow," Tails began fumbling his screw around in the lock, "when they showed a picture of them taking "Shadow" into a helicopter I knew it was you! I was lucky enough to catch up with the helicopter that took you and I followed it here."
The lock clicked and Tails opened the door.
"They've hurt you!" Tails said kneeling beside his friend, "can you stand?"
Sonic stood wobbly to his feet, "A little."
"Come on we have to get you out of here," Tails urged helping Sonic.
"Hey what's going on here!" shouted a voice from outside.
"What?" asked another
"There's a big blue plane on the roof!" the man answered.
"Oh no, they're on the roof!" Tails gasped, "hurry!"
Tails wrapped his arms under Sonic's.
The two dashed out the door.
The little two tailed fox ran up the stairs seeing there was no way to escape from their previous level.
Tails ran as fast as he could down the hallways trying to keep a good hold on Sonic.
No sooner did they arrive alarms started to go off saying, "SUBJECT ESCAPING! SUBJECT ESCAPING!"
Tails came screeching to a stop when he came to a sign that read "UP."
"How do you get out of this place." the fox panted.
"I think there's an exit door down that way." Sonic pointed out.
The fox followed Sonics' instructions and soon enough they came to an exit door.
"We made it!" Tails exclaimed.
The fox pushed the door open with a welcoming party of about a hundred guns pointing him in the face.
"Drop the hedgehog." a man ordered.
"Just leave me, I'm not worth getting shot for," Sonic sighed.
"I won't give up!" the determied Tails argued.
The fox spun his tails like a fan making the two sustain flight.
"What are you doing!" Sonic exclaimed.
"We're going to make it." Tails assured him.
"Fire!" a man shouted.
Sonic exspected millions of bullets to shoot up that would make pin cushins out of Tails and himself, but to his surprize only one was shot.
Tails cried out as the bullet hit his arm causing him to drop the blue hedgehog.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" he screamed.
A net was spread out giving Sonic a safe landing, but not welcome.
One of the men tangled the hedgehog up in the net, Sonic struggled, but wasn't able to free himself.
"That fox must have bit him." said a man pointing at Sonic mouth, "should we shoot it, Sarge?"
The sargent nodded, "Fire!"
"Tails!" the hedgehog exclaimed.
The fox was almost out of reach.
Sonic could hear his heart beat as Tails jumped back at the impact then fell to the ground.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!" Sonic screamed.
"Take him inside." the sargent ordered.
Though his efforts to escape now were stronger than ever he wasn't able to get away.
Sonic gripped the net tightly as a tear ran down his cheek. Looking
down and closing his eyes he whispered softly, "Tails."