Chapter 37, Rescue mission, part 2.
Death EGG.
Gadget left his shuttle and looked around, the hangar that he had docked at was mostly empty, there was only a couple of robots nearby unloading supplies, Gadget quickly made his way out of the hangar before he was seen.
Gadget was now in a hallway, he began to make his way down the hall but stopped when he heard the sound of metal footsteps coming his way, Gadget thought quickly and climbed into the air vent above him.
From the air vent Gadget watched as a squad of EGG pawns passed him, once the EGG pawns had passed Gadget started to crawl through the vent as quietly as he could.
For a moment Gadget thought about how ironic his situation was, if he still had his team with him then they wouldn't have been able to all fit in the vent together and they would have been discovered by now.
Gadget continued to crawl through the vent hoping that it would lead him somewhere, the vent was small and cramped, and it was a little hot in some places, but Gadget knew that it was better than fighting his way through all of the robots.
However Gadget soon learned that the vent could only take him so far until he reached a dead end, Gadget knew that he would have to leave the vent but there was too many robots nearby for him to fight alone.
Luckily for Gadget it was at this moment that the alarm went off, "Intruders in sector 23, intruders in sector 45, all units report to sector 23 and sector 45 immediately" said a computer voice.
From the vent Gadget watched as every robot that he could see left their posts and headed to one of the two sectors that had been announced.
Gadget waited a minute and then he climbed out of the vent, the halls now seemed completely deserted but Gadget stayed on guard just in case.
After some time Gadget came to a large circular room that had a large hole in the centre of it, this room was filled with prison cells, Gadget immediately recognised some of the prisoners, there was Sonic, Blaze, Mighty, Ray, Vector and Espio.
Gadget saw that there was a small team of silver EGG pawns guarding the cells, unfortunately Gadget couldn't see any way around the EGG pawn, this meant that he would have to fight them.
Gadget gripped his wispon and then ran into the room firing lasers at the nearest Egg pawn destroying them, all of the other robots in the room immediately opened fire at Gadget.
Gadget fire his wispon at the EGG pawns and used the downed robots as cover, whenever a robot would get too close Gadget would use one of his mini bombs to destroy it.
The prisoners had now noticed the fight going on outside of their cells, "Hey, what's going on" asked Sonic who struggled to sit up, "It looks like someone's fighting the robots outside" said Vector who was trying to get a better look at what was going on.
"Wait, do you mean that the Resistance has finally come to rescue us" said Ray excitedly, "I sure hope so" said Sonic.
"Who's out there, is it Silver, Knuckles, or someone else we know" asked Blaze, "I can't tell, whoever it is their hiding behind a destroyed robot" said Vector, Blaze knew that Silver would have no reason to take cover from these robots so it must be someone else that had come to save them.
Finally after a difficult battle Gadget destroyed the last of the EGG pawns, Gadget took one last look around to make sure that it was safe then he stepped out of his cover in order to unlock the cells.
When Sonic saw Gadget he was immediately confused, "Wait, who's that, I don't think that I've ever seen him before" he thought, "Hang on, isn't that Tails's lab assistant" said Vector, "Indeed, his name is Gadget I believe" said Espio.
Gadget was just about to access a control panel that he hoped would unlock the cells when there was a loud thud behind him, "Kid watch out, behind you" warned Vector.
Gadget turned around and saw that a copy of Zavok had just dropped down from one of the higher levels, this copy was huge it was at least twice the size of the real Zavok.
The Zavok copy charged at Gadget and the young wolf was only just able to jump out of the way in time, Gadget scurried to his feet and fired a couple of lasers at Zavok, however this did little damage.
Gadget dodged a crushing punch and then a swing of Zavok's arm, Gadget switched his wispon to burst mode and hit Zavok in the face with his weapon's flame thrower.
The fire did significant damage but the copy lacked any sense of self preservation and it continued to attack, Gadget dodged another couple of attacks but then a stray punch knocked his wispon out of his hands and across the room.
Gadget panicked for a second and the Zavok copy grabbed him and then throw him into a wall, Gadget moaned in pain as he struggled to stand back up.
"Kid move now" shouted Vector, Gadget looked up and saw that the Zavok copy was coming straight for him, Gadget fired his grappling hook at the ceiling and pulled himself up going right over Zavok's head.
Gadget dropped back down and landed on Zavok's shoulders, Zavok reached up for Gadget but the young wolf thought quickly and he used his electro gloves to send a shock right into Zavok's head.
The electric shock slowed Zavok down but it didn't stop him, Zavok grabbed Gadget and pulled him off of his shoulders, Zavok began to squeeze Gadget in an attempt to crush him.
Gadget reached into one of his pouches and pulled out a small pocket knife, Gadget then rammed the knife as hard as he could into Zavok's wrist, this was enough to make the copy drop Gadget.
While Zavok was pulling the knife out of his wrist Gadget ran over to his dropped wispon and retrieved his weapon.
Zavok ran at Gadget but the young wolf switched his wispon to lightning mode and struck Zavok in the face with an electric whip, the attack was enough to knock Zavok away and leave a nasty burn on his neck.
Gadget continued to swing his whip at the copy, with each attack the copy was forced further and further back, Gadget forced the copy towards the centre of the room, then with one last attack the copy took one too many steps back and fell into the hole.
Gadget wasn't sure how far down the hole went but he was sure that the copy couldn't have survived, with the copy gone Gadget made his way back to the control panel and started to hack into it.
In only a minute Gadget had deactivated the prison cell forcefields and freed the prisoners, "Wow, thanks buddy, I didn't know that you had it in you" said Vector as he walked out of his cell.
Suddenly the group heard the sound of someone falling to the ground, the group looked in the direction of the sound and saw that Sonic had fallen down, Blaze was also still in her cell leaning against a wall, it seemed that Sonic and Blaze was too beaten and exhausted to walk.
"Oh man, it looks like we'll have to carry them" said Vector as he ran over to Sonic and Blaze and throw the two onto his back, "Mighty are you ok" asked Ray, "Don't worry, I can make it" said Mighty, Mighty was in a bad condition but at the very least he still had the strength to walk.
Suddenly there was a loud boom and the entire Death EGG shuck, "Emergency, emergency, explosions detected in sector 23, all units report to sector 23 and perform immediate repairs" said a computer voice, the voice then began to repeat the message over and over again.
"What was that" asked Ray, "I don't know, it must have been one of the others" said Gadget, "Wait there are others here" asked Sonic, "Yeah, three teams of us made it here" explained Gadget.
"If that's true than this should keep the robots distracted, we should move now" said Espio, "Alright, follow me, I know the way out" said Gadget.
