Chapter 5: Out of Unreal Ed Jokes For Now

A/N: No one reviews...

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Malcolm walked along the pathway towards the rusted GUN base, with his Assault Rifle ready for any sort of trouble headed his direction. I need to relax for once... I mean, there shouldn't be anything at an abandoned base, right?

Soon enough, the path led straight to the half-demolished base. Malcolm let his gun swing idly to his side, with one hand holding it as he walked through the base. He saw and heard absolutely nothing except for the rustling of the wind every second or so. "Anyone here?" Malcolm yelled out suddenly, causing a piece of metal to fall from a building. "This place is just ready to collapse any second..."

A slight sound emitted from a small clearing ahead of Malcolm, seeming to be behind a non-rusted machine that was broken to pieces. Curious, Malcolm walked over to investigate the sound. Whatever made it was either alive only slightly, or was operating barely. Finally going past the robot, Malcolm turned to look at the front of the robot, and found himself looking at an unconscious Sonic.

"Uh guys? We have a problem!" Malcolm said into his communicator.

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"Uh guys? We have a problem!" Borck and Lauren recieved the transmission immediately, and snapped into full attention suddenly, causing Tails to stop and turn to them.

"What is-" Tails said before Brock cut him off with a hand signal to stop.

"Malcolm? What's wrong?" Lauren asked, starting to think in overdrive. Was he in some sort of trouble? Was he able to find anyone?

"I found Sonic alright. But... his left leg is broken and he unconscious. I think this robot I'm standing next to has to do something with this." Malcolm's voice said into their headpieces.

"What? Is he alive?" Lauren yelled, and Tails looked over, fear evidently growing in his eyes. Tails then grabbed at Brock's headphone set, pulled it off, and put it on himself, making Brock utter a small 'hey!' at him.

"Yeah, but just barely. Weak heartbeat. He's gonna need medical attention within the next few hours, or he might not be able to keep alive." Malcolm explained.

"Sonic's hurt? What's going on?" Tails shouted into the headpiece, causing Lauren to cringe, since the broadcast was especially loud in the fact that hers was turned to the max volume already.

"What the? How'd you get on our frequency?"

"Ignore that for now Malcolm. What's your location?" Lauren got out a GPS radar and fixed their location to (0,0), and set it to feet.

"In the military base, next to a robot in a clearing, I'll be behind it. Malcolm out." Malcolm's headset shut off, leaving a small beep.

Lauren messed with the radar a bit, and got a fix on where Malcolm was. According to their current location, it was north 1278 feet, and east 437 feet. "Okay, got a fix on the base location. And next time Tails? Just ask for a headset. I've got extras."

And with that, Lauren tossed one of her extras to Brock, who put it on immediately, and set the frequency to the correct channel. "Kid can't get much more annoying, can he?" Brock wondered, hoping to not have the answer soon.

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(15 minutes later)

The group walked up to the base, quickly finding the broken bot, and then Malcolm, obviously sticking out form behind the thing. "Took you guys long enough. I don't know how much blood he's lost, but it's serious now," he paused, taking a breath, " and he's gonna need medical attention. You know where a hospital is?"

Tails looked over, instinctively knowing Malcolm was talking to him, "Yeah, it's about 3 miles from here. But... that'll take at least 2 hours minutes to get there on foot!"

"No worrying Tails. I found us a little transport." Malcolm walked away for a moment and soon came back, pushing a paint-less car. "All I need is for Lauren to hot-wire it for us, and it'll go. I filled up the tank and checked for any cracks in the engine block."

"I'm on it boss. Just... I need to have a minute to concentrate since I've never had to hot-wire such an old car before."

And with that, Lauren started to work on the car. It was more of an SUV than a car, but it still would work. And a minute later, Lauren got the vehicle started and Brock helped Malcolm get Sonic inside the back area, with Tails going to sit in the front to direct Malcolm as he drove. Lauren and Brock would sit in the back, making sure nothing else happened to the unconscious hedgehog during the trip to the hospital.

Pulling out of the base slowly, as to not crash in the narrow corridors of the base's clutter of broken parts strewn around the outside, Malcolm pressed on the gas as they left, the SUV responding amazingly quickly.

"Where did you learn to drive so well on this terrain?" Tails asked as the SUV sped through the forest, narrowly missing trees on both sides.

"... Onslaught vehicles were so crappy at turns, you had to be good to drive well offroad. I've been doing this for years, although this one seems to be better than all the ones I've ever driven before. It actually is gripping the road worth half a damn..." Malcolm replied.

A shadow began to overtake the vehicle as they drove quicker through a clearing, leaving the car to be blind nearly to any trees quickly. "Hey! There's some kind of Helix vehicle above us Malcolm! But it's a LOT bigger!" Brock said as the ship above began to lower itself. Malcolm responded by going faster and suddenly making a quick right hand turn and shooting back left, inducing a drift through the dirt, blinding the ship driver from seeing the SUV as it entered the forest again.

"I see it... Shoot it if it decides to attack us, and only then." Malcolm ordered, shifting to his Assault RIfle, and handing it to Tails. "You know how to shoot?" Tails nodded slowly, unsure of what to say really. "Then shoot the ship when it attacks. I have a feeling it's about to fire on us. And... hang on everyone!" The ship fired a laser, but Malcolm twisted the car just in time to dodge the slow beam (okay, it was going fast, but not that fast) and near miss yet another tree.

"Adrenaline full."

"Huh?"

"Ignore that, that was the announcer voice for telling me my adrenaline is full." Malcolm said, activating his special adrenaline, one unique to him.

"Reflex Booster! Reflexes increased to 200."

"Uh, that should be good, right? Tails asked, looking around for the voice, hearing it from all sides.

"Yeah, that would be good. Now let's take this thing down!" Brock yelled as he stuck his head out the rear window and fired his gun at the ship.

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A/N Review please! And oh, cliffhanger! And soon, to literaly be a cliff-side chase! All that in... chapter 6 of UC!