Chapter 34, Sonic is alive.
Resistance HQ.
All of the high ranking members of the Resistance was heading towards the War room, Knuckles had just called them all to meet him there since he had something important to tell them.
Everyone was clearly nervus about this meeting, the last time that Knuckles had called a meeting like this was when he had been planning Operation big wave, and they all remembered how badly that ended.
Everyone entered the War room and found Knuckles who was looking very serious, all of the high ranking members was now here including Gadget who had been promoted after Operation big wave in order to fill in of their lose of Vector and Espio.
"Knuckles what's going on" asked Tails, "Thanks for coming so quickly, I think that you all should sit down this might be a big shock to you" said Knuckles.
Everyone sat down, "Lets hope that he's not planning another attack on New metropolis" thought Silver.
Knuckles took a deep breath "I just received an important communication from Shadow, Sonic is alive" he said, everyone was shocked into silence, no one knew how to respond to this information.
"Yes, yes, I knew it, I knew it, I told you all he was still alive" shouted Amy who was crying tears of joy, no one said a word to Amy, they was all far too ashamed of themselves for believing that Sonic was dead when she had never given up hope.
"Where is he" asked Amy when she saw that no one else was going to talk, "According to Shadow he's on board the Death EGG" said Knuckles, "The Death EGG, oh no that's bad" said Tails as he thought about how difficult it had been to destroy the original Death EGG.
"I'm afraid that it gets worst, Shadow heard Eggman mention torture, we believe that he may have been torturing Sonic all this time" said Knuckles in a bitter tone, "What, how could he, we need to go and rescue Sonic right now" said Amy with pure rage in her voice.
"How can we, the Death EGG is nearly invincible" said Tails, "That's why I called you all here, so that we can discuss what we should do" said Knuckles.
"Well we can't really think of any ideas without knowing what the Death EGG's defences are like" said Rouge, "Did Shadow say if there was anyway to get on board" asked Silver.
"No, Shadow said that he needed to inform G,U,N about where Infinite was going, he told me that he would call us back once he was done" said Knuckles, "Do you think that G,U,N will help us to rescue Sonic" asked Tails, "Shadow said that he would ask them, but he told me that we shouldn't get our hopes up" said Knuckles sounding disappointed.
Suddenly there was a beeping sound signalling that they was getting a communication, "Lets hope that that's Shadow" said Knuckles as he answered the call, Shadow's face appeared on screen.
"Shadow what did G,U,N say" asked Knuckles, "G,U,N are too busy to help with Sonic, they're currently on their way to evacuate as many people from Holoska as possible" said Shadow.
"So I guess that means that we're on our own" sighed Silver, "Shadow have you learned anything about the Death EGG that could help us" asked Tails.
"From what I've learned the Death EGG is being powered by a Chaos emerald, the station is completely AI controlled and its programmed to destroy any enemy ships in range with full force, plus it's also protected by an entire fleet of heavy armed battleships" explained Shadow.
Everyone was silent as hope seemed to leave the room, "So that's it then, there's no way we can get through all of that" said Rouge, "What, we can't give up now, we only just found out where Sonic is, we have to save him" said a determined Amy.
"What are we supposed to do, Eggman's battleships will shoot down any of our ships that go near that thing, and even if we did make it pasted all of them we'd be torn to shreds by the Death EGG" said Tails.
"What about one of Eggman's ships" asked Gadget, everyone turned to the young wolf in confusion, "What if we took one of Eggman's ship, surly the battleships wouldn't recognise us if we did that" explained Gadget.
"Hey, he's right" said Tails, "If we was inside one of Eggman's ships then the Death EGG and the battleships would perceive us as an ally and let us through" he continued.
"Good thinking, but there's one problem, how are we supposed to get a hold of one of Eggman's ships" said Knuckles, neither Tails nor Gadget had an answer to this question.
"Shadow do you have any ideas" asked Rouge, Shadow thought for a moment, "There is a Spaceport located to the north, thanks to its remote location its lightly defended" said Shadow.
"That sounds perfect, lets go" said Amy, "Hold on Amy, even if that place is lightly defended we still might not had the resources to steal a shuttle" said Silver, Amy looked like she was about to hit Silver with her hammer.
"Shadow is there anything you can do to help us" asked Rouge, Shadow thought for a second "I could deactivate some of the defences, that would give you a chance to get inside before being detected" he answered.
"Great, that should work" said Tails, however Shadow didn't look like he agreed "But if I do this then it will blow my cover and I doubt that the Doctor will allow me to slip into his ranks again" he said.
"So does that mean that you wouldn't help us" asked Tails sounding disheartened, "Please Shadow, Sonic would do the same if it was you up there" begged Amy.
Shadow thought for a moment, on one hand he could stay undercover and continue to try and assassinate Eggman, or he could help the Resistance and rescue Sonic.
After some time of thinking Shadow had an answer, "Fine, I'll help you" he said.
Death EGG.
Sonic was thrown into his cell by two of Eggman's robots, once the force field of his cell was activated Sonic dragged himself to his bed.
Sonic had just experienced a very unpleasant torture session with Eggman, today the torture had involved burning hot irons being pressed against Sonic's feet, Sonic was sure that he wouldn't be able to stand for days.
Inside of the other cells the others was all in varying conditions, Blaze was almost in as bad of a state as Sonic, Might had certainly suffered for lying to Eggman and he currently lacked the strength to stand.
Ray was in a better condition mostly because he had so far avoided any serious torture, Vector and Espio being the newest prisoners was in the best condition.
Sonic didn't know what to do anymore, it felt like more of his friends was being brought here every day, Sonic had completely run out of ideas on escaping this place and he lacked the strength to escape anyway.
Sonic's thoughts shifted to some of his closest friends like Tails, Knuckles and Amy, he desperately hoped that they was ok and that they would never have to experience being in a place like this.
Still thinking of his friends Sonic fell into and uneasy sleep.
