Chapter 21, New prisoner.

Resistance HQ.

Silver entered the Resistance base alone, he had a very depressed look on his face, he knew that he had to tell the others that they had lost Blaze on their last mission.

Silver was about to walk deeper into the base when he was stopped by Cream, she had been eagerly waiting for him and Blaze to get back from their mission.

Cream immediately noticed that Blaze was missing and that Silver looked very sad, "Mr Silver, where's Ms Blaze is she running late" asked Cream, Silver was silent for a second, he knew that Cream and Blaze was friends and he didn't want to upset her.

"Don't worry Cream, Blaze just had to go away for a little while" said Silver trying to sound convincing, luckily for Silver Cream seemed to accept his lie, "Ok, I hope that she'll be back soon" she said happily.

"I hope that too Cream" thought Silver as he walked towards the war room to inform the others about what had happened at Soleanna.

Death EGG.

Sonic was laying on his metal bed, he was in intense pain, Eggman had decided to use Sonic to test his new robots, Sonic hoped that he would never see another one of those weird ostrich robots again.

Suddenly Sonic heard the sound of footsteps coming his way, Sonic dreaded what was coming the only time anyone ever came to his cell was to ether torture him or to test some new machine on him.

However to Sonic's great surprise no one came to his cell door, instead Sonic heard the sound of the cell next to his being opened and then someone was thrown inside.

After a couple of minutes Sonic heard groaning coming from the other cell, clearly whoever had been placed there must have just woken up.

"Hey is anyone there, are you ok" asked Sonic hoping for a response, "Sonic is that you" asked a familiar voice that was filled with both surprise and confusion, "Blaze, what are you doing here" asked Sonic.

Blaze stood up, her body was still in pain after her loss to Infinite, "I was protecting Soleanna when I was attacked by Infinite, where are we anyway" asked Blaze, "I have no idea" said Sonic.

Blaze sighed "Sonic we thought you was dead" she said, "If Eggman doesn't start feeding me some real food I might be" Sonic half laughed although he was being serious.

"Don't worry Sonic I'll get us out of here" said Blaze as she walked towards one of the walls, Blaze focused her power into her hands with the intention to melt through the metal wall.

However as soon as Blaze's hands began to heat up a sensor in her cell went off and the walls and ceiling sprayed the entire cell with extinguishing foam soaking Blaze from head to toe.

Blaze coughed and spluttered as she spat out some of the foam, "What just happened" asked Sonic, "I think Eggman designed this cell specifically to hold me" said Blaze as she tried to wipe the foam from her fur.

Seeing that her powers was useless in this cell Blaze sat down on the hard metal slab that was her bed, "So Sonic what's this place like" she asked although she was sure that she wasn't going to like the answer.

Sonic sighed, "It's like hell" he said, "Eggman only shows up to torture me, sometimes he tests his new robots on me, and the only way I can describe the food is yellow slime" he explained.

Blaze was shocked at what she heard, "Eggman's been torturing you" she said, "Yeah, he comes around every couple of days, or whenever he gets bored" said Sonic, Blaze felt a great amount of sympathy at hearing what Sonic had gone through for the past few weeks.

"Blaze, how's everyone doing, are the others alright" asked Sonic, he had no idea what was going on outside this prison, "We started a group to fight against Eggman, we've been calling ourselves the Resistance" explained Blaze, Sonic smiled, "Well it's nice to know the others are still fighting" he said.

Blaze told Sonic about how everyone was coping during the war, Sonic felt pretty bad to hear how badly some of his friends had taken his apparent death, although he wasn't surprised to hear that Amy still believed that he was alive.

1 hour later.

Both Sonic and Blaze heard footsteps coming their way, Sonic had a felling he knew who was coming, within a few seconds Eggman appeared in front of Blaze's cell.

"My, my, if I had known that royalty was visiting then I would have worn my best suit" said Eggman as he looked at Blaze, Blaze scowled at the Doctor, "You won't get away with this Eggman" she said.

"My dear, I'm afraid that I already have, and things will go much smoother once you tell me the location of the Resistance base" said Eggman, "I'm not going to tell you anything" said Blaze, "Now, now, behave and I might give you a ball of yarn to play with" said Eggman.

This was enough to spark Blaze's anger, which unfortunately for her also caused her body to heat up setting off the cell's extinguishers soaking Blaze again, Eggamn laughed at Blaze who now looked like a drowned cat, "I think you'll find that the sensors are very sensitive" he said.

Eggman's expression suddenly became much more serious as two fireproof EGG fighters entered the room, "Now then little kitty, shall we discuss the location of your base" he said with a sadistic smile.

Null space.

Shadow ducked out of the way of the Biolizard's tail, the Biolizard then turned around and attempted to swallow Shadow whole, however Shadow jumped onto one of the Biolizard's cables and grinded on it to the creature's life support system.

"Chaos blast" shouted Shadow as he unleashed a chaos blast that completely destroyed the Biolizard's life support system, the Biolizard cried out in pain as it quickly died without it's life support system.

Shadow almost collapsed to the ground, he was starting to get tired from all he fighting he had been doing, Shadow blinked and suddenly he was no longer on board the ARK, he was now inside a large stone room that looked to be a part of some type of ancient ruins.

Shadow's eyes widened in horror, he remembered this room, he had been here in a timeline that he thought was erased, and if he was here then he also had a feeling that he knew who else was here.

Shadow heard someone nearby laugh, it was a laugh that Shadow had hoped to never hear again, "Oh, how truly cruel fate can be, I'm sure that you never thought that you would see me again" said a familiar voice.

Shadow turned around and came face to face with Mephiles the dark, "How is this possible, you was erased from existence" said Shadow already on guard, "Did you really think that I could be destroyed so easily, I am immortal Shadow I can never die" laughed Mephiles.

Shadow shook his head "This can't be real, there's no way you could have survived" said Shadow, "And yet here I am, surely you can't deny what your own eyes show you" said Mephiles.

Before Shadow could question things further Mephiles summoned a small army of his shadow minions and commanded them to attack, Shadow jumped out of the way just in time to avoid the attack.

Shadow remembered just how powerful Mephiles was and he knew that this was going to be a very difficult battle.