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Chapter 5: Almost There

The "N" base hadn't been just sitting around the entire time. Ever since the GrieveRs had gotten news from Vex that Swift and Hunter would be approaching they had been preparing day and night for their attack. Once the last few young defenders had been dealt with, the army would destroy the great forest and move in. Their models had even been updated. They knew that the previous model, since they were pure white, would get them spotted too quickly. They now had fully camouflaged-painted bodies and small gas masks on to resist the stink-bombs they used to flush out their enemies. Yes, these robots breathed. The air helped circulate the electricity flow in their bodies. They had their commander with them, a young chameleon named Deltio.

Delito was born when Team Chaotix was captured by Dr. Robotnic. Team Chaotix was a professional detective team specializing in tracking down criminals in either secretly, or by destroying a building. The team included Espio the Chameleon, Charmy the Bee, and Vector the Alligator. During a time when the group was trying to find a Chaos Emerald deep in the confines of the doctor's lair, he captured the team in a pure titanium cage when they were resting. Dr. Robotnic tortured Vector and Charmy until they gave him information on the exact coordinates of the master emerald shrine and finally had them executed. Espio escaped and was never seen again.

Years later, a Chameleon was seen wandering out of the forest. He had orange, glowing eyes that mixed with his pitch black body. Other then that, he looked exactly like Espio. Long pointing nose, curled tail, the works, except he was still a teenager. He identified himself as Delito to the first person that spotted him, which by pure chance just happened to be Vex the Wolf.

Nice job Delito.

Swift and Hunter's journey got worse and worse, Hunter thinking anything Swift did was wimpy, and Swift thinking anything Hunter did was stupid. Although the two were well fed once the two learned to like alligator meat. Apparently the gator tribes were not exactly the smartest bunch in the forest.

"Are we there yet?" asked Hunter eight days into the journey.

"No. For the hundredth time, no!" shouted Swift in an annoyed voice.

"Ninety ninth time."

"Whatever."

"What about now?"

"Ye-No."

"Now?"

"Take the 'w' out."

"Are we there at this time?"

"N-Yes!" Swift said it so joyously that Hunter fell off the nearby cliff. He flew up next to swift and whacked him on the head.

"You scared me there. Don't do that again."

Swift ignored him and slid down the cliff via the branches on the trees. Shadow's shoes were really good for grinding on a rail, since the shoes had small curves in them to help propel the jet's flames in any specified direction. Unfortunately he forgot about his giant sword and missile launcher that sometimes got caught in the trees. Hunter just flew down carefully due to the massive amount of stray branches populating the cliffs. He ended up with many thorns in his wings and leaves in his outfit. Swift chuckled. It was rare to see Hunter in a helpless form like this.

They slipped through a few trenches in the landscape next to the fortress that were nearly covered in spikes. Little did they know that hundreds of GrieveRs were scouting the trenches next to them, and they would soon meat up at the junction.

"WHERE THE HECK IS HE?" screamed Amy as loud as she could as she plowed through the millions of pillow with pictures of Sonic the Hedgehog. Swift had longed to see his father once in his life, and never really grasped the fact that Sonic had died. His room was blue, his laptop was blue, blue, blue, blue.

She had not seen him in over a week and had gotten really irritated and somewhat scared. Rouge walked up next to her. "He probably went with Hunter to stop the GrieveR threat. That's what Knuckles said."

"WHAT?" Amy's head nearly exploded in anger. It even looked from Rouge's point of view that her head was expanding.

"Knuckles claimed that he had a vision." Said Rouge calmly as if nothing had just happened. "He said,'Swift delivered the final blow to the creature of darkness, stopping the shadows from consuming us all. None again shall trouble this peaceful land.' It's actually pretty poetic, if I do say so myself."

"WHERE THE HECK IS THAT LUNATIC?"

"Amy, back off. This is for the good of the land. Even I say so, and Hunter is my son."

"That's just because he's your old husband. I'm gonna give him a little vision of my own." Said Amy as she picked up her new hammer. It had a black shaft and a spiked top which was good for stabbing with.

Rouge just shrugged, making her black armor shake up and down. 'Do your worst, just don't kill him."

Amy just rushed out the door.

"Knuckles is doomed."

Of course, after a few minutes of walking, Swift and Hunter even with their best attempts at trying to sneak past the spikes of the trenches without being notice, found themselves staring down the barrels of two cocked and loaded sub-machine guns, held by a new modeled GrieveR. It was able to signal other GrieveRs with his Sonar communication, saying in some sort of code that Swift and Hunter had been spotted. Slowly the two were surrounded and utterly helpless. Swift remembered his sword and reached for it slowly, as not to make the deadly robots suspicious of his plan.

Once his hand touched the Giant single-bladed sword, he flashed it out and cut the head off the first GrieveR that crossed his path. The others, realizing they were in danger, took their guns and fired in Swift's direction. Hunter, almost as if he was expecting this, pulled out two katanas he always had strapped to his back and was able to block most of the bullets, with the exception of a few stray bullets that just grazed Swift's fur. Hunter took out a few GrieveRs' arms by throwing one of his katanas at them. Swift swung his sword in a wide arc, slicing the control chips inside their chests. He then finished the party by firing the missile launcher he got from "Hammer".

With the group of GrieveRs gone, they were ready to raid the "N" base.

Took them long enough.