Tails' Journey

Chapter Four

Sigh...BHE owns Kai, Sil owns Jayln, Shadow T Hedgehog aka Gahlik owns Gahlik, I own Flash and Vinny, as well as Shinu and Maetea. Everyone else belongs to Sega and Sonic Team.

Tails was walking through a space of pure blackness...he could only see himself, and nothing more...Tails kept walking, unsure of what to do. A tanish-orange rabbit appeared in the far distance. Tails recognized it as Cream. Tails ran towards her, his heart leaping with joy. But every step he took, it was as though he took two steps back. Cream kept moving further and further away from him...

"Nooo! A...a...ashiteru, tu kai. I love you, my love. Cream..." Tails heard himself say, as everything, including himself, went black.

Tails' nightmare as he's knocked out from the shot

"Brother? You mean..." Gahlik started in amazement. Flash nodded, before striking Vinny in the back of the head.

"Of course not, idiot! It's the GUN soldiers, and the only way we're gonna get through this is to work together! More importantly, they captured an orange rabbit!" Flash exclaimed.

"Cream!" Kai exclaimed, as more bullets fired through the clearing. Kai and Vinny immediately dove for the nearest tree. Lightning bolts as well blasted through the trees, shredding them into pieces. Jayln and Gahlik then decided to fight back; put a simple shot to Gahlik's arm prevented that.

"My arm!" Gahlik exclaimed, crying out in pain. Jayln looked in horror, and a net captured Gahlik and Jayln. It closed on them, trapping them. Tails and Flash were caught in a similar net, and then Kai and Vinny were caught as well.

"No!" Kai exclaimed, struggling to break free of the net. A GUN soldier grabbed the end of the net, and started dragging them against the ground. Flash, Tails, Gahlik, and Jayln were going through the same thing.

"Sorry kids, but no one can know the location of the new Gun headquarters." said the GUN soldier, as he shot them all with knock-out darts. Everything went black, and everyone collapsed onto the ground.

Tails slowly woke, his tails hurting him. Tails blinked his eyes once to regain focus, and gasped. He and Flash were in a small, gray room that had no windows or anything. Just a small screen in front of him that worked as a one-way window. Tails had no idea where he was, but it couldn't be good. Flash started waking up, and rubbed his eyes. Flash looked startled, and immediately shot a bolt of lightning at the far wall. It bounced off, and started ricocheting all around the room quickly. Flash quickly snapped his fingers, and the lightning bolt disappeared.

"Looks like we're in this together, Tails." Flash said, a look of deep determination in his eyes. Tails grinned, before nodding.

"Yeah. We're a team now Flash, and we're gonna get through this!" Tails exclaimed. Flash started whispering something, and Tails only caught part of it.

"Shinu...I'm sorry for what I did...you too, Maetea...please, forgive me!" Flash whispered. Tails shrugged, before examining the room for a way out.

Somewhere else...

Kai had just woken up to find Vinny leaning back against the far wall, looking off to the side. They were in a pure gray room, with nothing except wall and a square of the wall that was a lighter shade of gray then the rest of the room.

"Where are we?" Kai asked, still a little groggy. Vinny shrugged, before looking up at the light-gray square. An old man's face appeared. He had pure white hair, no wrinkles, and a beard.

"I am the head of GUN. We've brought you here to conduct experiments. Resistance is futile, there's no way out. Food and water won't be an issue here." The man said, before his face disappeared.

"That was weird..." Kai said, still staring. Vinny merely shrugged, before freezing.

"No...NOOO!" Vinny exclaimed, shaking. He fell to the floor, clutching his head. Kai ran over to help him.

"What's wrong, Vinny?" Kai asked. Vinny was shaking rather badly, and he was real upset about something.

"The experiments... odds are they're going to dissect me and find out how I use Chaos Control and Chaos Control...probably a similar thing with Flash's electricity, and Gahlik with his voodooism...but then they may keep the three of you...Tails, Jayln, and yourself...to witness our demises...and to help them." Vinny said, shaking rather badly. Kai froze, but didn't get afraid.

"We can get through this. I just know we can." Kai said strongly.

Elsewhere... (This is getting old already, isn't it?)

Gahlik and Jayln had just watched the Head of GUN speak, and were unsure as to how to react. Gahlik wanted to simply find a way to get out of the prison-like room, and Jayln wanted to think about what their actions might cause.

"Look, the point is we can't do anything if we're locked up in here! The others need us!" Gahlik exclaimed.

"True, but if we plan ahead, we can anticipate GUN's moves, so we can save them with as little trouble as possible!" Jayln exclaimed defensively.

"Look, who knows what may happen to them? WE have to try and help before anything can happen to them!" Gahlik exclaimed.

"We can't help them if we get caught because we didn't anticipate their moves!" Jayln exclaimed.

In the Fourth Room...finally...

Cream was wide awake. She had been given a small, moldy piece of bread and water. She was cut and scraped all over her body, and she was very tired. She'd been kidnapped not long after she ran away, and now GUN was taking tests on her to see how it was that a rabbit could walk and talk like a human, as well as feel strong emotions. And slowly but steadily, it was killing her. Her clothes were tattered; her usual dress was replaced by a simple dress made of a cheap fabric. It was pure white, but was stained red almost everywhere. Her chocolate eyes that normally showed fun and caring showed pain, misery, and grief. She'd never been through anything like this before, and wished she had never run away. Looking back, she saw that it was a stupid argument, only what encouraged it was a drunken man that Vanilla was dating. He had argued with her over whether Vanilla was rich or not, and Cream was physically abused. Cream had run away, despite her mother calling her.

"What...what have I done?" Cream asked herself, tears rolling down her eyes. She just wished that Tails was here. He was intelligent; he would know what to do in this situation!

"Tails...I think I...I think I love you..." Cream said from the very bottom of her heart, before breaking out in heart-wrenching sobs. She had never meant for this to happen, not at all. And knowing her mom, she had sent someone to have Tails look for her...

"Tails...I'm sorry...I'm sorry..." Cream gasped between sobs. She allowed the tears to flow, staining her white dress.

Central Control Room, GUN HQ, Prison Island Evacuation Island, 13:47

The leader of GUN stepped into the room, where he was instantly saluted by two guards in uniform standing at the door. The leader took a seat at a swivel chair, and multiple holographic screens appeared, four of them, larger then the rest, had live surveillance of his captives.

"Send the captives from the room Delta-Spec-H-27 to the research wing. The experimentation process will begin shortly." The leader said, as heavily armed solders stomped out of the room to retrieve the prisoners.

Cliffhanged! Sorry for the lack of updates, but...actually, I have no good excuse. You can flame me, or review, I don't really mind. So, anyone want to hazard a guess as to who's in room Delta-Spec-H-27? Delta-Species-Hero-27? Meh, whatever.

Pyro Hedgehog4ever (A new penname to match my love of fire...woo hoo!)