Chapter 13, Escape from the town.

Sunset heights.

Gadget woke up slowly, the first thing he noticed when he opened his eyes was that the battle was still raging around him, Eggman's forces had almost completely destroyed Sunset heights.

Gadget sat up and saw that Beat and Gum was still laying on the ground, "Guys, wake up, we have to get out of here" said Gadget, nether Beat or Gum responded.

Gadget pulled himself to his feet and walked over to check on his friends, to Gadget's horror he found that nether Beat or Gum was breathing, "No, no, wake up, please wake up" said Gadget as he shuck Gum, however she remained lifeless.

Tears began to form in Gadget's eyes as he realised that his friends was dead, Gadget was about to fall to the ground and have a breakdown when an explosion went off a little too close to where he was.

Gadget didn't want to leave his friends here, but he knew that there was nothing he could do for them now, so a little hesitant and very terrified Gadget decided that he had to continue to try and find a way out of town.

Gadget ran as fast as he could, by now most had already evacuated or been killed, it seemed that Eggman's forces had forced the Resistance to retreat, this only made it more difficult for Gadget to find a way out of town alive.

Gadget ducked down and hid behind a broken down car to avoid being seen by a squad of EGG pawns, while he was hiding Gadget wondered what he would do if he ran into that monster that had killed his friends, Gadget shock his head and tried to get that thought out of his head, he had to focuse on getting out of the town right now.

Gadget watched the EGG pawns leave and then he jumped out of hiding and continued on his was, things was going surprisingly well for Gadget, he hadn't drawn the attention of any robots and if he continued going this way he would soon reach Red gate bridge one of the main ways out of town.

Gadget ran in the direction of the bridge keeping an eye open for any robots, soon he reached Red gate bridge, Red gate bridge was a long red metal bridge that led out of the town, the bridge had clearly taken heavy damage during the attack.

Gadget was about to step onto the bridge when he heard something behind him, Gadget turned around and saw that one of the giant Death crabs had just destroyed a nearby building and was now looked directly at him with its red glowing eyes.

The Death crab took a step towards Gadget causing the red wolf to panic, Gadget looked around quickly for somewhere to hide, however there was no good hiding places in sight and even if there was it would do Gadget little good now that the Death crab had seen him.

With no other option Gadget did the only thing he could think of, he ran onto the bridge as fast as he could and hoped that the Death crab would be too heavy to follow him.

Unfortunately for Gadget the metal bridge was strong enough to support the Death crab's wight and the robot continued to chase Gadget gaining more speed with every second.

Gadget ran as fast as he could however the robot was beginning to catch up to him and he had no way of defending himself, Gadget's fear only increased as the stomping footsteps of the Death crab got louder and closer.

The Death crab was now right behind Gadget, in only a few seconds it would crush the little wolf, knowing that his end was here Gadget closed his eyes, however the Death crab never reached Gadget, Gadget opened his eyes and saw that he was being carried through the air by a strange force.

The strange force carried Gadget to the top of the bridge where the white hedgehog Silver was standing, "Stay here" said Silver as he used his Psychokinesis to place Gadget on top of the bridge and then flew down towards the Death crab.

From the top of the bridge Gadget watched at Silver battled the Death crab, Silver used his psychokinesis to pick up any cars that was on the bridge and then hurled them at the robot, while the Death crab attempted to crush Silver with its huge legs.

Soon one of the thrown cars hit the Death crab in its joint severing one of its legs, seeing his opportunity Silver sent out a blast of energy that knocked the Death crab off of the bridge and into the water below.

With the Death crab destroyed Silver flew back up to Gadget, "Are you ok, nothing broken" he asked, "I'm fine, thanks" panted Gadget, Silver looked back towards the town "Your lucky, I was just about to head back to camp, are there any more survivors back there" he asked.

Gadget shook his head, "I don't think there's anyone left" he said sadly thinking about his friends, Silver sighed "Ok then, come with me and I'll take you back to camp" he said, Gadget agreed.

Survivors camp.

Soon Gadget and Silver arrived at a small camp that the Resistance had set up for any survivors of the attack, Gadget looked around and saw a depressing sight, everyone was scared and some was injured and being treated by a Resistance medic.

"Guys I found another survivor" said Silver, "Good that brings the total up to eighty three" said a yellow eagle who was holding a clipboard, this shocked Gadget he know that the population of Sunset heights had been more than triple that number.

Gadget sat down with some of the other survivors and tried not to think about the amount of people who had died today, however no matter how hard Gadget tried he couldn't stop thinking about Beat and Gum.

After about an hour two Resistance airships arrived at the camp and the yellow eagle stepped forward to say something, "Everyone, first I would like to say that I am very sorry about what has happened to you all today" he said.

"The Resistance will do everything it can to find you safe places to live until this war is over, however if any of you would like to join the Resistance and help us fight back against Dr Eggman, we are always ready to accept you" said the Eagle.

"Now then any of you who would like to join the Resistance please board the ship on the left and it will take you to HQ, and anyone who doesn't want to join please board the ship on the right and it will take you to a safe place" said the eagle.

As soon as the eagle had finished his speech most of the survivors started to board the airship on the right, very few boarded the ship on the left, Gadget was about to board the ship on the right when he stopped and thought about his lost friends.

Gadget knew that there was more people out in the world dying right now, and many others was probably losing their friend just like he had, filled with both a desire to save lives and avenge his friends Gadget turned away from the right airship and boarded the left one with the few others who had decided to join the Resistance.