Chapter 6: Infiltration

"Did unit T-2 capture those fools?" Asked the black chameleon. His orange eyes scared the elites in the room, although they did not admit it.

"Unfortunately, they were easily dispatched by Swift and Hunter. They seem to have a specialty in swords." All of the GrieveRs in the room clutched their pistols in case Delito had another of his mad spasms. They were known around the different GrieveR units as 'deadly' and 'evil'. Amazingly, Delito took this news rather well. Not even a twitch, but a laugh.

"Good. I hope they get here, so I can deal with them myself. I need a bit of entertainment, since being here watching all the action is rather boring. However, I'd like you numbskulls," he turned around with a very evil grin. "To toy and weaken them. I happen to know Swift's number one weakness. And it is our leader."

All the elites knew what he was talking about and what to do. Clouds of dust replaced each robot that was previously in the room. Delito laughed again, felling so glad that he would be able to watch the torture from the master camera room.

Swift and Hunter discovered that all the trenches led to one door. It was blood red with a crossed wood covering. A giant stone dragon was perched on the top of the doorway with the symbol of the conspiracy with the name on top. It had a giant Falchion sword with two scythes on top of a purple heart, labeled Followers of Über.

Hunter and Swift had realized that these armies had not been controlled by Dr. Robotnic, but possibly this Über person.

There is only one remaining question. Why was this vital information posted right outside the main entrance?

Swift hurriedly dialed Tails's phone with the solar powered cell phone he always carried with him and told him what he had figured out.

"Swift? Where've you been? Amy's been worried sick about you!" was the reply he got.

He sighed. "I'm near the GrieveR 'N' ba-"

"WHAT? You're gonna get killed!"

"Knuckles sent me due to one of his visions. Besides, I've been training a lot lately and Hunter is also with me."

Luckily, Tails knew he could trust Knuckles. "Ok good, just don't get hurt. I'll alert the rest of the town, but right now I'm kinda busy."

"Why?"

"Uh…" Swift noticed that he heard someone moaning loudly in the background.

"Never mind." He said and quickly ended the chat.

Knuckles had been standing on Chaos for hours, contemplating whether sending Swift and Hunter alone was a good idea. The way he took his visions were not always correct. Once he had taken seeing a ham and cheese sandwich as the GrieveRs using their plan Hacs in which they would sabotage Knothole's security system. Actually, it meant Rouge would eat a ham and cheese sandwich, which she did. He knew Swift would get far in his journey, but he just didn't know how far.

He decided to set his mind on something else. He thought about the Battle of Leaky Valley, the day Sonic died. He could have sworn he had seen something coming out of the Metal Overlord's head once it was dismantled. It could have been Dr. Robotnic, but no, he was much to fat to fit in the pod. He smirked at the thought of Dr. Robotnic trying desperately to fit in a small pod half the size of him. But if it was not him, who could it have been?

He was broken away from his train of thought by a sharp crack on the head. It was Amy, Angry and ready to kill this piece of filth that sent away her son. She landed a few more bows to his head before Knuckles spun around and held the sharp edge of his cane to her neck. "Stop that!" he shouted. "If you want to be so mad about your son than go to him! I was only doing what the vision of chaos told me to do!"

"Oh please! You could have just as easily sent some of the stronger people in this village. There was no reason to send two teenagers to some dangerous fortress."

"But you know as they say. 'For there to be a land of perfect light, the being of perfect darkness must be eliminated.'"

"So, what? We just gotta kill Dr. Robotnic for good, right?"

"Dr. Robotnic isn't behind this. Even he could not be able to create such a powerful force by himself. He wouldn't be able to use such dark power to build simple robots. It was not him."

"Then who Mr. smart man?"

"I…"

"Knuckles!" shouted Tails as he ran up the hillside. He looked as if is clothes had been thrown on him and were not ironed in ages.

"Why do you look like that?" asked Amy.

"Uh… more on that later. Anyways, Swift just called and informed m-"

"Did he say hi to me?" said a much exited Amy. Knuckles just sighed. He knew this was important, and that Amy would never shut up.

"Be quiet for once!" shouted Tails. The two just stared at him. It was very rare that Tails ever got this mad, so they immediately knew it was urgent. "He said that they were called the Followers of Über or something."

"Über!" Asked Knuckles, very surprised that he had heard that name again.

"What's so special about him?" asked Amy.

"I know a lot about this legend of Über the Echidna. He was a friend of my ancestors. Über was a young, white echidna swordsman that lived in Fiagra. He usually wore rings on all of the fingers on his left that had long claws attached to them to aid him in battles if he lost his strangely big katana. It was about one-and-a-quarter meters long with a spiked flat edge. He had long, uncut spiked hair that fluttered in the wind, and blood-red piercing eyes that could scare the teeth off a great-white shark. He always wore a long black fur coat that went down to his ankles and a collar that almost reached his ears. He was always known as a troublemaker around the village of Phoenixa, making pranks and getting into fights with the toughest warriors in the army. The most amazing part is that he destroyed them all with his unique fighting style and weapons.

"He was known around the world after the curious incident of the government of Fiagra. They had started a monarchy from the massive amount of unused power at their disposal, and were commanding the population unruly behavior. Über, knowing that this was going to tear the land apart, made an army of rebels and attacked the main capitol building in Ironforge. While a civil war started, he and a few friends sneaked through Angel Island to try and gain the power of the Master Emerald. Unfortunately, he slipped past the previous guardian and stumbled across the Black Temple of Chaos, where all the negative energy of the Chaos Emeralds were stored. He was attacked by a black blob and he absorbed it. Suddenly the whites of his eyes turned black and a black energy surrounded him. His mind turned to pure unimaginable evil and uncaring selfishness. He single-handedly took down the rich monarchy and replaced with an even worse dictatorship that sent all of Fiagra, friends and family, into slavery.

"The Six Priests of The Regions used all their power to take down Über and sealed him inside a sword. It was then on known as Soul Falchion and sealed in a stone catacomb in Fiagra, never to be seen again." Knuckles ended his speech by closing his eyes. By the look on his face you can see he was afraid.

Tails and Amy were shocked. "We need to inform all of Knothole of this new threat." Said Knuckles again, and headed off to his cave where he usually meditated.

Tails and Amy ran as fast as the could back to the mainland, unknowing that this threat was growing stronger with every step they took.

The dark caverns under the 'N' base were getting deeper and falling into a large maze. Hunter and Swift decided to split up and join back together at the end. Hunter, hating walking for long distances, tried flying, but something shot from afar and hit him straight in the arm. Immediately he was surrounded by multiple shadows and had his wings clipped. He was just out of reach of his knife, and helpless… again.

Swift ran down the dark hallway until he found something standing in the door way to his right. He tried approaching it, but something jumped out of nowhere and drove something into hiseft arm. Swift screamed loudly as traces of blood started appearing on his shoulder.

"There is nothing you can do…"