"Whoa, whoa! Whoa, whoa! Whoa Yeah! Whoa, whoa! Whoa, whoa! Whoa Yeah!" God I love that song! "No matter how life tries to face me," I LOVE HOW THEY SING THAT PART! Who sings that? Julien-K or Crush 40? Or neither? And does anyone know the band Mushroomhead? Anyway, here's the next chapter.
Draith looked at Rouge and Sonic, who were following him to Eggman's base. He grinned. 'Screw quitting! This will get me big money! From Mastermind AND them!' he thought to himself. He could see the base in the distance. "Almost there! Be ready, because his security is tight!" Sonic gave thumbs up.
"Danger is Go!" Rouge laughed.
"Me? Get ready? I'm a thief, dammit!" Draith smiled even bigger. They pulled up to the shore of the island and Draith hopped off his hoverboard. His leg landed in a hole, and he fell to his knees.
"GOD DAMMIT!" Sonic smiled.
"Good job." Draith frowned.
"Shut up. I'm helping you." Draith walked up to the hand scanner on the left side of the door. He put his hand on it, and then once he heard a beep, he typed in a password. The door opened and the three stepped inside. Draith motioned towards the halls. "We should split here. Find the main Laboratory; I'll be waiting for you. And stay hid. If you find somewhere to hide." The two nodded, and they went different direction.
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Draith skated down the halls, making his way to a Safe Room. Once he arrived in the nearest one, he stepped inside. There were many utensils in there, being handcuffs, boxes, guns, many scientific tools, a shelf of fuses, and file cabinets. He set his hoverboard down and walked to the far left corner, where a billion pairs of handcuffs were. He grinned evilly and grabbed two. He walked out of the Safe Room and headed to the main lab. 'This is going to be fun.'
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Sonic pushed himself against the wall and looked around the corner. There were a few video cameras and a cleaning bot. 'Hmph! This'll be easy!' He waited until the cleaning bot turned the other direction and quietly ran to the other wall, away from camera's view. He waited until the next camera faced him before he took off as fast as he could into a room a few yards away. He waited till the bot once again faced the opposite direction and took off down the hall. He did this consecutively down different halls until he found the main lab's doors. Being he was out in the open and had nowhere to hide and five or six cameras surrounding the door, he took refuge in a room a few feet away from him. As he entered the room, he saw Draith float by on his hoverboard. "Draith!" Draith turned around to face Sonic.
"Oh. There you are. Stay in there and I'll go annoy Mastermind so he'll leave the lab, allowing you guys in." Sonic nodded. 'Hahaha! These people believe me? YES!' he thought menacingly as he entered the Main lab with yet another scan and password.
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(Rouge arrived the same way about three minutes after Draith entered the lab.)
Mastermind paced back and forth in anger. "Damn you Draith! I told you to get Knuckles' friends! Why'd you come back?" Draith sighed. He just walked into the lab, and Mastermind had been arguing with him for five minutes, exactly.
"I told you, I have them here, hidden, but I need my money first." Mastrmind pounded his fist.
"I've trusted you before, and you have FAILED every time!" Mastermind looked to a hooded figure entering the lab. He smiled. "But no worries. I've got a new assistant." Draith looked to the figure and frowned.
"What?" Mastermind smiled even more.
"You heard me. Rass here will serve me much better than you will ever." Draith shook his head.
"So what's it to me?" Mastermind looked at him confused, for he thought he had made it clear by now. But Draith tends to do that sometimes. Mastermind straightened his lab jacket and cleared his throat.
"It means, my dear friend, you're fired." Draith's heart dropped to an all time low. He started to sweat.
"I'm… fi… fired?" Mastermind nodded.
"Yes." Draith held his hands out.
"After all I've done for you, you're just gonna throw me out without a thanks?" Mastermind glared at him.
"You may take your leave." Draith suddenly became very pissed.
"BUT I'VE DONE SO MU-"
"GET OUT OF MY FUCKING HEADQUARTERS OR YOU WILL BE EXECUTED!" Draith stormed out of the lab, very, very, very, very, to the nearest extreme, in every aspect, pissed. He, without thinking, walked into the roome where Rouge and Sonic now hid behind a file cabinet. Draith walked over to the wall and punched it, causing it to crack at the point where his knuckle met the wall.
"GOD FUCKING DAMMIT! THAT STUPID FUCKER!" Sonic came out from behind the cabinet.
"What's up Draith?" Draith punched the wall again.
"He FIRED me! I steal the Master Emerald for him and lure you guys in here and he FUCKING FIRES ME!" Rouge gasped.
"You what?" Draith looked at the two, very pissed.
"That's right. I stole that piece of shit Emerald in here. AND I brought you guys here and were about to capture you and turn you in to Mastermind! That's what THESE were for!" Draith pulled out the two sets of handcuffs. Sonic and Rouge stared. "It was to piss Knuckles off and make him go into deeper insanity. And he FIRES ME! THE PIECE OF SHIT!" Draith turned to the wall and punched it until a large hole was now where his fists had hit. Sonic tried to calm him down.
"It ok, Draith. We'll kick his ass. Plain and simple. Then we'll retrieve the Master Emerald." Rouge agreed. They both looked at Draith. Draith thought a minute and nodded.
"Yeah…" he looked at his fists. "we will." With that, they all looked at each other and headed to the main lab.
