Of Thieves and Hearts
Mondo apologies for the gap of time. It took me a little while to finally make the chapter long enough to where I was sure it wouldn't be too short once transferred to the computer (this chapter is about 7 note book pages front and back). I hope everyone enjoys it!
Disclaimer: I don't own anyone except Marisha and Todd…and Manic! (I wish)
Still With Sonic
The mobian prisoners looked like regular mobians, their species stuck to cats, dogs, mice and foxes. Their colors were various shades of tan, gray, brown and black. All seven were dressed in rags like all the other people who usually awaited robotisization. Although, even from where he was he had to admit something just wasn't quite right about them. He couldn't say what exactly, he just had the feeling something was amiss. He shrugged it off, whatever it was could wait, right now he had prisoners to save.
Quickly he scanned the area for any cameras or bots. Seeing none he pushed open the vent and it swung down on its hinges. He sped through the open vent and down in front of a cell housing three prisoners.
"Hey guys, I'm here to bust you out." He said gesturing in greeting.
The prisoners made no sound though, they didn't even move. This slightly vexed Sonic.
"Uh, am I talking to a bunch of manikins or what?" he asked eyeing the shadow cloaked prisoners with his hands crossed impatiently over his chest.
As soon as he said this, the cell doors swung open with long creaks and groans. Sonic raised a perplexed eyebrow at the odd event.
"Well," he commented to himself. "This makes things easier."
He moved to step up to the open doorway but a prisoner stepped up instead.
"Oh good! So you're not a dummy after all." He began but couldn't speak anymore for in the slightly dim light of the dreary dungeon he could see the glow of two red, robotic eyes hidden under the figure's cloak hood.
"Uh-oh…" Sonic muttered quietly to himself.
He began to slowly back away and the cloaked figure stepped even closer. Sonic noticed the "prisoners" in the other cells were stepping out too. Sonic backed up until he couldn't go any farther. He was surrounded and trapped.
Sonya, Marisha and Manic; Ventilation System
Manic and Marisha were still crawling through the air ducts; they were just a few feet away from Sonya now. Sonya heard them but couldn't tell who it was.
"Sonic?" she whispered to where the other two hedgehogs were.
"No, it's me, sis." Manic whispered back.
He and Marisha were now next to Sonya. The pink hedgehog eyed the other female.
"So this is the prisoner? Nice to meet you." She greeted, trying to hide her disgust of the girls clothing.
Marisha nodded in acknowledgement.
"My name is Marisha, you may call me Mari for short if you want."
"My name is Sonya. You already know Manic." She motioned to the green hedgehog.
"Any sign of Sonic?" he asked changing the subject.
Sonya shook her head,
"Unfortunately, no. He's been gone the whole time. I'm really worried, he usually doesn't take this long." Sonya replied with worry.
For a moment Manic looked worried but got his concentration broken by Marisha.
"Who's Sonic?"
The other two hedgehogs looked at her.
"He's our other brother, you might've heard of him. He's the fastest hedgehog on Mobius." Manic replied.
"Ah, I see. I'm sorry it's just, it's not talked about a lot on the street the dealings of the outside world or The Resistance."
Sonya cast a glare at Manic who grinned, feigning innocence. He knew he was dead once they got back to the base.
"Should we go find him?" Manic asked hoping to get Sonya's mind off of the harsh verbal lectures he was in for.
"I think its best we do." Sonya replied.
Manic nodded, mentally sighing with relief.
"Where should Mari go? We can't leave her here or let her leave by herself. It's SWATbot city out there." He stated.
"She'll have to come with us with us for now. Come on, we have to find Sonic, he could be in trouble!"
The other two hedgehogs nodded in unison. With that decided all three hedgehogs traveled down the vent pipes in the direction Sonic had presumably gone.
'With luck, maybe she'll forget about the whole mentioning the Resistance thing.' Manic thought hopefully.
"Oh, and Manic?" Sonya turned her head around to look at him. "Don't think this gets you out of the lecture your in for when we get back." She then presumed crawling.
'Then again, maybe not…' he thought, his hopes now crushed.
With Sonic Again
The robots were advancing closer. Sonic tried to think of a good plan but he came up with nothing. If he tried to jump over them they could try to attack. There was no way he could run past them; they were too close together to allow it. He'd just have to take his chances.
Revving up he began running and leaped into the air. He almost got over one robot but it was faster than he expected it to be. With one quick movement the robot (disguised as a brown cat mobian) had its hands tightly around Sonic's middle.
"Ahhh! Let me go!" he cried out trying to break free of the robot's tight grip.
"Sonic! You were having a party and you didn't invite us? For shame, bro, for shame." Came Manic's voice from the vent Sonic had first went through.
All the robot prisoners looked up as Manic, Sonya, and Marisha jumped down to the ground.
"Manic! Sonya!" he paused looking at Marisha. "Whatever your name is. Who are you anyway?"
"We'll explain later, right now we have to get you out of there. Let him go, bothead!" Sonya ran towards the robot and quickly high kicked it; releasing Sonic and sending the bot flying.
"Great job, sis!" Sonic congratulated giving Sonya a thumbs up.
"There's still them!" Marisha exclaimed pointing to the other robots.
"We don't have time! 'Buttnik and his bed buddies might come at any moment. We gotta get out of here!" Sonic noted.
"But how?" asked Sonya. "We're surrounded. How can we get out?"
Sonic looked around and saw that indeed the robots had again surrounded them. He had to think of something quickly. He searched the room with his eyes until they fell upon the still open vent. A lone robot stood just below it. Sonic smirked; his plan was perfect.
"Time to juice 'n' scram!" he shouted grabbing his siblings by one of their hands.
Manic quickly grabbed Marisha's hand with his free one just as Sonic zoomed forward, jumped and propelled off of the robots head and up into the open vent. Upon reaching the vent he ran at full speed back the way they had come when they first came to the base with the other three hedgehogs in tow.
It…is…FINISHED! At long last:faints from exhaustion: I'm so glad I have this chapter done now. I've basically plotted out all the plot holes and scenes in the chapters to come but when they'll all be done I can't say. Like I said I only work on this at school 'cause I'm too lazy to work on it at home. What should you expect in the next chapter? Well…..lots of plot twists, let's just leave it at that. Until next time! And please review, I love reviews! All people who review will get feedback next chapter. And by the way, thank you to the one person who has reviewed this story so far!
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