Alright. Not much response to these new chapters… BTW, I've got a new story coming up. I call it, 'A Dark Vacation'. Anyway, this is the 3rd part of the alternate ending. The next is the final chapter to this installment.

Never Look Back: Director's Cut
Chapter XII
Execution

Part I - Espionage

Espio turned invisible as the guard came by. The guard saw Vector near the bars and thought nothing of it, but as it was about to go out of view, Vector reached out, grabbed it's arm and pulled it in. "Hey guard! What's up! What's up! Huh! Huh! Huh! Ya got a problem with that! Ya got a problem with that!" Vector repeatedly pulled the guard robo's arm into the cell, knocking its head against the bars. Vector twisted the bot's arm around in the right position and started hitting the guard robo in the face with it's own hand. "Stop hittin' yourself! Stop hittin' yourself!"

"STOP THAT." The robot pulled its arm out of the cell and stepped back. Vector moved further back into the cell.

"Ooh, whatcha gonna do about it now, biatch!" The guard robo grabbed the bars and bent them, allowing him through. This was Espio's chance to slip by. After the robot walked in, Espio took the chance to escape. When he got out of the cell, he knocked twice on the wall, signifying that he got out. The guard turned around to see what made that noise, but when it detected nothing, the robot thought nothing of it. It turned back around and was about to take care of Vector, but he said to the robot he would comply.

"TRY THAT AGAIN NEXT TIME, YOU'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS." The guard stepped out of the cell and bent the bars back into shape, albeit crookedly. A form of Espio quickly shined, with him doing a 'thumbs up.' Vector did the same back to him.

Lunch break came, and Espio snuck into Mighty and Charmy's room. When they came back, Espio notified them about the plan. "Ok!" Charmy whispered. The next day, when lunch break came around, Espio and Charmy sneaked around the cafeteria, trying to find a way out of the prison. "Let's try the lunch room. Maybe there's a roundabout way we could take." After everyone was done getting their food, Espio and Charmy worked their way to the other side of the lunch bar without making too much noise. The cafeteria workers were done, so they went off to the side of the room to a door. The two followed them in, and it was a supply room. They (E&C) went to another door. This led to a hallway. At the end was a security camera. "I'm losin' it, Charmy! I can't stay much longer!" Espio whispered.

"Whaddya mean, Espio?"

"My invisibility! We're gonna hafta rely on stealth to get through, now!" At that point, the invisibility wore off, and the two became visible. Luckily though, they were out of the camera's sight.

"I've got an idea!" Charmy flew as close to the ceiling as possible, while trying to stay out of the camera's view. When the camera turned away, he forced the camera to stay in that position while Espio ran by. He pressed against the wall below the camera, using its blind spot as an advantage. Charmy maneuvered himself around the camera, making sure it didn't see him. Relieved from Charmy's grip, the camera turned down the hall they came from. The two ran down the hall they DIDN'T come from. They heard guardbots come by. 'How are we going to evade THIS!' the two thought. They looked in each other's eyes and knew exactly what the other was thinking. Espio and Charmy ran to opposite sides of the hallway (short side, not long side). Each jumped into the wall and kicked off, giving them an extra boost. When Espio kicked off, he did a 180-degree turn to face in Charmy's direction. Charmy on the other hand, he didn't turn around. The two pushed their feet off of each other's to gain even more height, almost touching the ceiling. Espio turned towards the wall and pushed his hand on it, as did Charmy, then the two's feet pushed against each other's to keep their spot on the ceiling. The robots walked under them and stopped right below them.

"WHEN IS THE NEXT LAUNCH TIME."

"10 MINUTES. IT'S AT THE FRONT ENTRANCE."

"OK. I WILL GUARD." One walked one way, while the other walked the other way. When the robot walked out from under them, Espio's foot slipped. He and Charmy put his feet back together, but when Espio's foot slipped, dirt fell from it and landed on the ground. "…" The robot turned around and looked to the ground and saw the dirt. It bent over and picked a piece up and studied it. "5 YEARS, 2 MONTHS, AND 12 DAYS." The robot turned around and thought nothing of it, but it stopped suddenly, then carefully processed that information. "BASE IS 4 YEARS AND 6 MONTHS OLD. DIRT IS 5 YEARS, 2 MONTHS, AND 12 DAYS OLD…!" The robot looked up and around for any intruders, but saw none around. The guard lifted its hand to its speaker. "CALLING ALL GUARDS. BE ALERT. THERE ARE INTRUDERS. TIGHTEN SECURITY IN CELL BLOCK C IN BUILDING 180." The robot turned around and left. The camera kept its view to where the robot kneeled. After a few moments, the camera turned down the other hallway. At that point, Espio's invisibility gave in, and so did his strength. He fell flat on his face, while Charmy landed on his feet. Charmy grabbed him and carried him through the doorway.

"Espio! You okay?" Charmy whispered.

"Y-yeah. I'll be fine." Espio got on his knees and stayed in that position for a moment. "We… have to continue the mission…" Espio got back on his feet. "Turning invisible for a few seconds… Really drained me. I've been invisible too long."

"Look. Let's try to get through here without turning invisible, okay? Like we've been doing."

"I HAD to, to avoid getting caught by that guard."

"Let's continue." Charmy grabbed Espio's arms and flew him around the corner to another hallway. He took him on top of a dangling fluorescent light.

"Don't move! A guard's coming by!" Espio told Charmy.

"Luckily, these things are dangling from steel poles." The guardrobo walked under them and walked on. They flew to another light, and stayed there for a while. When nobody came, Charmy flew down and towards the door. He looked into the window and saw nobody coming. He gestured for Espio to come. He jumped off the lights and ran towards Charmy. He slowly opened the door and walked through. Inside was a control room. Nobody was in it. There was a janitor's closet to the side of the room.

"C'mon! In there!" The two ran into the closet and left the door open a crack. He looked out, continued to look out, and finally, the robot that was supposed to supervise the launch came out of the door Espio and Charmy came out of. The robot walked towards the control panel and pushed a button to release the lock on the door. Espio and Charmy silently ran towards the robot and hid behind its legs. The guardbot walked down the hallway and stopped in front of a door. A robot on the other side opened the door. The robot, along with Charmy and Espio, walked through. They snuck around the robots legs and the robot stopped and turned towards the other robot. The two snuck outside and around the door.

"I can't believe we got away with that!"

"Me neither. Let's go."

"Alright!" The two boarded the rocket at the time before the guardrobo came out.

"5." The robot inside announced. "4. 3. 2. 1. Launch." The rocket launched into the air, and out of this world!

Part II – Eggman

The two were on the outside of the Death Egg, Eggman's ultimate battleship. They managed to get inside the ducts of the ship. They meandered around until they found Eggman. He was tinkering with another machine. "We can't risk him making another machine." Espio pulled out one of the shurikens. "Hasta Luego." He tossed the star at Eggman's neck. Eggman ran around the room, writhing in pain until he died. The guardbot outside came in to see what was happening. Espio jumped out of the ducts and ran towards the 'life generator'. The robot shot at him, but to no avail. Espio jumped the desk and, while he was over the desk, tossed the other shuriken at the tiny generator. The robot lifted its arm for another shot, but at that point, the robot stopped. It stood in that position for a minute or two. Espio cocked his head, and the robot fell to the floor in pieces.

"YES! WE DID IT ESPIO! YOU KILLED EGGMAN AND DESTROYED ALL THE ROBOTS!"

"But I couldn't have done it without you. You did good!" The two got off the Death Egg before it exploded and disintegrated into the deep reaches of space.

Part III - A Damn Good Job!

Upon their arrival to the planet, they were greeted with cheers of joy and happiness. "Look at that sunrise!"

"I haven't seen anything that beautiful in years…" Espio commented.

"I haven't seen ANYTHING beautiful in years!" Charmy yelled. Tails and Amy ran up to Espio and congratulated them.

"Good job guys! You saved us from Eggman!"

"I don't know how to thank you, but now I know that I still have my life to live for! You've given me hope to live! Thank you so much!" Amy gave them both hugs.

"Aw, it was nothing, really…" Charmy blushed.

"Job well done, boys! When we get our business back up and running, I'm giving you both a raise!"

"Seriously!" Asked Espio.

"Of course! You deserve it for carrying out the plan so well. I wasn't sure if you were able to do it, but ya proved me wrong! Good job!"

"Well, we've got a lot of work ahead of us." Espio yelled to Vector.

"Of what?"

"Restoring the planet!"

"Oh. That."

Sonic looked down upon the planet. "Nicely done!" Sonic turned around and looked down into 'The Pit of Fire' and saw Eggman down there. "How's the weather Eggy? It looks like there's going to be some heat waves coming around for quite some time!"

Well, that's the end of the alternate ending. The end of the story. I've got another one coming so don't leave me just yet! Until then, Hasta Luego! (See you later in Spanish.)