Chapter 24, Sonic's escape.
Death EGG.
Since being captured Blaze had been brutally tortured of information regarding the Resistance, however no mater how much pain Eggman put her though Blaze refused to say a word.
Blaze was returned to her cell after another torture session, she was so weak that she couldn't even stand, "Blaze are you ok" asked Sonic from his own cell, Blaze could only moan in response.
"Sonic, you shouldn't worry about her, you should worry about what I'm about to do to you" said Eggman as he walked in front of Sonic's cell.
Eggman pressed a button on his coat and Sonic's cuffs sent an electric shock through his body that was enough to knock him out, Sonic dreaded what was about to come as he lost consciousness.
Death EGG, Testing room.
Sonic woke up in a large room that was too dark to see anything, "What's Eggman planning this time" thought Sonic as he stood up, it was then that Sonic realised that his cuffs was gone allowing him to run properly.
"Sonic, finally awake I see" came Eggman's voice it sounded like the Doctor's voice was coming from a speaker, "What do you want with me this time Eggman" said Sonic, "Nothing much, I just wanted you to help me test my new invention" said Eggman.
Suddenly the lights turned on and Sonic saw that the room he was in wasn't just large in was huge, and standing in the centre of the room was a gigantic robot.
The robot resembled the Death EGG robot, but it was much larger and coloured entirely black and white, also unlike the Death EGG robot which had a head that resembled Eggman's face this new robot had a plain dome shaped head with a single red eye.
"I'd like to introduce you to my newest creation, I call it the Death sentinel, now be a good hedgehog and try not to die too quickly, I want to collect lots of data on this battle" said Eggman sounding incredibly joyful at what was about to happen.
The Death sentinel activated and looked at Sonic with its glowing red eye, "This isn't good" thought Sonic as the huge robot tried to crush him with one of its arms only for Sonic to jump to the side.
Sonic started to run around the room at high speed, under normal circumstances he would be glad to stretch his legs but this wasn't the time to think about such things.
The Death sentinel took a step forward and tried to stomp on the little hedgehog but Sonic was far too fast, Sonic dashed at the robot at high speed and tried to tear through its body only to harmlessly bounce off of its armer.
Sonic quickly dodged another one of the robot's huge feet, the Death sentinel was obviously very strong but fortunately not very fast, Sonic continued to run around the robot while trying to think of a plan.
Suddenly the Death sentinel stood still and looked directly at Sonic, then it fired a large laser from its eye that came so close to hitting Sonic that it singed his fur, the robot then fired another laser but Sonic safely dodged this one.
Sonic looked up to the robot's head, "That eye looks like the only part that's not armoured" he thought, Sonic dodged another laser and then quickly ran behind the robot.
While the slow moving robot was turning around Sonic used his speed to run up one of the walls, as soon as the robot was facing him Sonic jumped off of the wall and cured up into a ball.
Sonic now a lightning fast blue ball hit the Death sentinel directly in its eye shattering it to pieces, Sonic landed on the ground and watched as the now blind robot thrashed around wildly trying to find him.
Soon the blind robot smashed into a wall head first, the wall collapsed onto the robot destroying it, Sonic zoomed up the destroyed robot and saw that it had left a large hole in the wall leading out of the Testing room.
"I think that it's time to get out of here" thought Sonic as he jumped through the hole, "Attention everyone, Sonic is trying to escape, all units must stop him immediately, don't let him leave this station" said Eggman's voice over the speakers, "I should probably get moving" thought Sonic.
Sonic spent the next few minutes running down hallways and destroying robots as he tried to find a way out, however the Death EGG was like a maze and Sonic soon found himself becoming lost.
"Man, how does Eggman get around this place" thought Sonic as he destroyed a group of EGG fighters, a group of EGG gunners entered the hallway and Sonic was forced to retreat before he got shot.
Sonic was quickly realising that his time in captivity had affected him, not only was he rusty from a lack of exercises he was also malnourished and badly beaten from all of the torture, Sonic could tell that he wasn't as fast as he should be and he also felt much weaker physically.
Sonic ran down another hallway and stopped at a large window, Sonic looked out of the window and saw the planet Earth not far away, "We're in space, no wonder no one's been able to find me" thought Sonic.
As Sonic continued to search for a way out he considered looking for the prison cells in order to help Blaze, however he knew that it was too dangerous to try that and if he could escape now then he could tell the others where she was and save her that way.
"Eggman's got to have some kind of space shuttles somewhere on this thing" though Sonic as he ran down a hallway only to run back when he ran into a squad of silver EGG pawns.
After what felt like an hour of searching Sonic finally found a hangar filled with shuttles, "Finally, now I can get out of here" thought Sonic as he ran up to one of the shuttles.
Sonic was about to bound the shuttle when suddenly a laser come out of nowhere destroying the ship and knocking Sonic down, "What now" said Sonic as he stood up amongst the burning mess that used to be a shuttle.
Sonic looked up just in time to see Metal sonic flying towards him, Metal sonic smashed into Sonic slamming him into the ground, then he picked Sonic up and throw him across the hangar.
Unfortunately for Sonic this wasn't one of Infinite's copies this was the real Metal sonic.
Metal Sonic charged at Sonic and tried to deliver several slashes with his claws however Sonic blocked every attack, Sonic punched Metal sonic twice in the head but neither attack seemed to do any damage.
Sonic tried another punch but Metal sonic caught him by the fist, Sonic tried to punch with his other hand only for Metal sonic to catch that one as well, Sonic tried to kick but this did little to no damage.
Metal sonic's chest began to light up and Sonic realised that he was charging his laser, Sonic tried to get away but he couldn't break out of Metal sonic's grip, Metal sonic fired his laser and hit Sonic at point blank rang sending him flying across the hangar and dealing a significant amount of damage.
Sonic knew that he was in trouble as he struggled to get back onto his feet, usually he would be able to fight Metal sonic on equal terms, but in his current condition he stood little chance.
Metal sonic came at Sonic again and Sonic was only just able to dodge a slash aimed at his throat, Sonic managed to score a roundhouse kick onto Metal sonic that knocked the robot down, however Metal sonic quickly recovered.
Metal sonic grabbed a hold of Sonic and flew him into the air, then he slammed the blue hedgehog into the metal ceiling hard enough to leave a dent, before Sonic could recover Metal sonic slammed him into the ceiling a second time and then allowed him to fall to the ground.
Sonic with what little strength he had left ran as fast as he could towards the nearest shuttle desperate to get away, however Metal sonic fired his laser again and destroyed the second shuttle just like he had done to the first.
This time the explosion from the shuttle was enough to knock Sonic out and he lay unconscious on the floor, Metal sonic flew down next to Sonic and picked him up by the throat, "Finally" thought Metal sonic as he readied his claws to finish Sonic off.
"Metal sonic stop" said a commanding voice, Metal sonic turned to see Dr Eggman entering the room, "Don't kill Sonic yet, return him to his cell, I haven't finished having fun with him" said the Doctor.
Metal sonic looked at Eggman and then at Sonic, he wanted nothing more then to kill the blue hedgehog right now, but his programming was demanding that he obey his creator.
"Metal sonic, I order you to return Sonic to his cell alive" ordered Eggman, Metal sonic both reluctantly and bitterly obeyed his creator and returned Sonic to his cell, although he did painfully drag him along the ground as he did so.
