Chapter 4: The Operation
"Ok so to kill heavy bots I just need to hit em till there shields are down while robots, or preferably smash em' before they unfold, that what your saying?"
"You got it Blue boy"
I was actually having a good time to this point, talking to Shade over how to beat up robots. And her calling me "Blue boy" was marginally better than Sonic. We where waiting on a bridge similar to the one that GUN saw Shadow on back home, back when they still thought Shadow was Sonic in disguise or something (how else could they mess up Shadow with me or Sonic? I mean we aren't even the same colour)
"And there are no other robots than trooper bots and Heavy bots?"
"Give the hedgehog a coconut"
"How long till go time?"
"When we get the signal, which will be when Nite and Shadow are in position"
"I Wish they would hurry up, I'm getting bored"
"You and me both, I'm used to sneaking around, not waiting doing nothing. Amy is still obviously very swore still. Then again she isn't used to working with three year olds"
I'm NOT three
"My memory is still fuzzy, what exactly happened?"
"Well you and her where on a diversionary mission, much like we are today. But they where waiting for us. The set up a trap for you, there weapons where targeting at both of you, you did your whole "you can't catch me!" routine and ran grabbing her, and with your usually tactless self got blasted off a roof onto the highway bellow. you got KOed, only Robotnik knows what happened to you next, and she was lucky to make it out alive, her arm was broken from a hookshot she fired, strain of sudden stop you know? Good thing the Prof is so good, healed her up in no time. That mission was also when Nite got his arm robotosized, we lost Trance and Shadow got his scar"
So he IS still around!
"Where was… Gerald by the way? I didn't see him at the Base"
"Gerald? Usually you call him dad… amnesia must be worse than I thought. Well he was up at our central city base helping our man there, Bark with recruiting."
Bark… another one who was at my … "birth"
"Its hard to get recruits these days, pretty much anyone who isn't with us, or dead are robotosized, but there are still a few people, mostly all with military training. You would need that to survive these times…" Said Shade… almost sadly.
I don't know why but I felt sorry for her… and I felt like I was on the same wavelength… she was the last of her kind, where as I always keep myself to myself. Both of us where alone… I shook myself mentally
Why the heck am I thinking like this? Its not me! I don't care weather I'm alone or not; I was created to destroy for crying out loud!
I looked back in Shade's direction and yelped at what I saw
"Er Shade, looks like we are on now signal or no!"
"What?"
"Look behind you!"
She looked back and saw what I had seen, a squad of flying trooper bots and heavy bots.
"STAY WHERE YOU ARE" they all said at once
"CR P!" she yelled
I grabbed her wrist and jumped off the opposite side, ignoring her protests I grinded down the steal cable of the bridge.
"Sonic! Slow down! I'm being torn in half cause my wings cant keep up!"
"When I get off this rope I'm going to let go, when that happen, put your arms around my neck and hold on tight!"
"What?"
"Trust me!"
When we where on concrete she immediately did what I asked. Now was the time for fun.
"Here, we GO!"
I bolted down the road, checking back as I did so, the robots where still right on my tail. I grinned, they wouldn't know what hit em! Then I remembered before I went any further. I had been given a head mounted radio before this. I spoke into it
"This is… Sonic" I cringed "looks like the party started a little early, they spotted us and we are already on the move, over."
Rodger Sonic, we just got in position anyway, operation is a go Replied Shadow
"Got ya, over and out."
I checked behind again, the heavy bots where gaining, not that it mattered cause a good number of the robots would be gone after my next move. We where closing in on a building with a tunnel through it, instead of going through it I jumped the side of the road.
"What the! WHOA!" Shade yelped.
As I had planed I landed so my feet touched the building glass and I started running full force, going up the side of the building. a number of the robots that followed smashed into and where destroyed by the wall. A number though continued the pursuit. About 4 or five from the original 10. I looked back forward to see I had almost ran out of wall, not that it mattered, as I pushed myself straight up bypassing the building and going high into the air. Forcing myself forward I aimed for the centre of the roof, landing just forward of it.
This Is Espio, me and Amy got in with… little difficulty, the security system should be down now, Sonic, Shade, unless you run into more guards the ones on you wont be getting backup, Nite, Shadow, you have the green light for your phase now
Got it came Nite's voice
"Got it" I echoed. "Ok Shade, looked like we can go head on now"
"Good, I can't do anything back here."
I grinned before looking for a good spot.
"Down there" I said, I got out my Blue emerald and Chaos controlled to the roof of a building near the highway we where on. I remembered Shade told me, as long as they are close robots can track Chaos control, so now it was a waiting game for the robots.
"You ready?" I asked Shade, who was now standing next to me.
"You better believe it"
Two Heavy bots and Two Trooper bots landed in front of us.
"Hmm… the odds seem to be two against one in their favour, they have us out numbered. Hardly fair"
"Yeah, they don't stand a chance."
I grinned and nodded "I'll get the two on the left, you the two on the right"
"Gotcha."
I rushed into action, running around the heavy bot on the left first; it would be the biggest problem, having a shield. However it wasn't very bright, I threw a insulting stuck out tongue face at it. It fired, and I dodged. It got the trooper behind where I used to stand, mangled by its lasers.
"To slow, and you hit your friend!"
"MUST ELIMINATE" was its reply
it didn't get a chance, before it came near to hitting me I decided to pull out an old attack, the Blue Tornado from during the time period between Metal becoming Overlord and the revival of Apocalypse.
It threw the shielded robot of its feet, the thump it got removed its shield, just long enough for me push it off the building, I watched it get a antenna from the next building get impaled in it's chest. Just like a normal Eggman or Gun robot, it fell to bits. Not even a challenge.
"HELP!" I heard Shade yell, she had already Dispatched her Trooper bot but the Heavy bot was about to get her. There was no way to get her in time, and if I used a Chaos wind, it would shred her too. Only one thing for it, something I had been planning during my race with Sonic to take out Shadow. An altered Chaos attack. I raised my hand and brought it down, utilizing Chaos energy.
"Chaos… THUNDER!" I yelled, the blue emerald sung with delight and a purple lightning bolt struck the robot was and it was instantly vaporised, Shade was left unscratched.
"Whoa…" she said shakily.
"Not bad huh?"
"I heard you had used that attack but never saw it before…" said Shade as she got up
Before?
"Part of your memory must be coming back, how else could you use Chaos Thunder?"
I was Stunned, not only did this worlds Sonic Look like me, but he seemed to have an attack I had invented too? And he STILL acted like Sonic rather than me?
"Uh… maybe your right" I lied, keeping up the charade. Just then the lights went out across this part of the City. Only the limited red hazy glow of the sun thought the clouds was lighting the place now.
Uh this is Shadow, as you can probably guess we installed the virus. Everything is offline, including lighting and emergency lighting.
"I never would of guessed…" I muttered. Shade Chuckled. "You able to get out of there, or is it to hard for you o get out of that… Shadowed place."
Ha ha ha Sonic. Nite is a wolf, his Sight will be able to get me out no problem.
Being a Ninja I'm used to working in the dark… me and Amy will be fine too.
"Good, guess we will see you back at base." I replied.
Right came both replied.
"You coming then Shade."
"Sure" she Said, she grabbed around my neck again. I was thrown off balance by the unexpected act. "Make it quick huh?" I could have sworn I saw her wink out of the corner of my eye. Something about her reminded me alot of Rouge.
I Shrugged and began to run back to base. I was beginning to find it awkward to see how easily I fitted in…
