Chapter 38, Escape and reunion.

Death EGG.

Gadget led the group down the halls towards the hangar where he had left the shuttle, along the way they encountered a couple of squads of EGG pawns and EGG fighters, but Gadget and Espio quicky delt with them.

Overall the hallways was almost completely deserted, it seemed that the explosion in the sector 23 hangar was keeping all of the robots busy.

Soon the group reached the hangar, "Come on, it's this one" said Gadget as he ran to the shuttle that he had used to reach the Death EGG, the group boarded the shuttle and Gadget ran to the controls.

Gadget piloted the shuttle out of the hangar and away from the Death EGG.

Space.

Everything seemed so quiet and peaceful despite everything that had just happened, Gadget set the shuttle onto auto pilot, they would arrive back at Earth in about one hour.

Gadget couldn't believe their luck, the Resistance had thought that only Sonic was on board the Death EGG, he had never expected to find the others there as well, Gadget stood up from his seat and headed to the back to check on the others.

Vector had strapped both Sonic and Blaze into a couple of seats, the two looked like they could barely keep their eyes open, however the two both had looks of relief on their faces.

Ray was worrying next to Mighty, however Mighty kept assuring him that he would be ok.

Vector and Espio being in the best conditions was both doing everything that they could to make sure that the others was ok.

"How's everyone doing" asked Gadget, "A lot better now that we're out of those cells, thanks, err, Gadget was it" said Vector, Gadget gave Vector a nod assuring him that he had gotten his name right.

"Hey Gadget, mind if I talk to you for a moment" asked Sonic, "Sure" said Gadget as he walked over to the blue hedgehog, Sonic was clearly fighting off sleep while Blaze had already fallen asleep.

"I heard that your Tails's lab assistant, is that true" asked Sonic, "yeah, I've been doing everything that I can to help him" said Gadget, "Wow, I never thought that Tails would ever be the one giving orders" thought Sonic.

"And how's he doing, is he still holding things together" asked Sonic unsure of how Tails would handle a war like environment, Gadget looked a little unsure of how to answer this question.

"Well, when I first joined the Resistance he did seem a little lost, he didn't seem to know what to do, but don't worry, he get better" said Gadget hoping to reassure Sonic, "Thanks" said Sonic satisfied that Gadget had told him the truth.

"I sure hope that you're ok little buddy" thought Sonic as he drifted off into a much needed sleep.

Resistance HQ.

The group entered the Resistance's HQ, they then began to make their way towards the war room where the others would be waiting, along the way the group received astonished looks from everyone that they passed, it seemed that no one could believe that Sonic and the others was alive.

The group entered the war room and found Knuckles, Tails, Amy, Silver, Rouge and Shadow waiting for them, for a moment no one said a word, everyone was far too shocked at seeing Sonic and the others.

Suddenly Amy ran up to Sonic and wrapped her arms around him in a tight hug, "Sonic, I'm so happy that your back, I was worried that I'd never see you again" said Amy with tears in her eyes.

Before his capture Sonic would have probably run away from Amy, or at the very least he would have tried to get away from one of her hugs, however right now Sonic was honestly just happy to see her again, "I missed you too Amy" said Sonic as he hugged her back.

Shadow saw that no one seemed to know what to say right now so he decided that he would have to take charge, "While I hate to cut this reunion short, I think that these guys should head to the infirmary, the Doctor's prisons aren't known for their hospitality" he said, "Shadow's right, you guys look half dead" said Knuckles.

Soon Sonic and the other former prisoners was laying in hospital beds in the infirmary, Vanilla was checking everyone's condition and Amy was sitting right next to Sonic's bed tending to some of his injuries.

Suddenly Charmy burst into the room and flew up to Vector and Espio, "Guys, your alive, I thought you was dead, how did you survive, what happened to you" said Charmy so quickly that the others could barely understand him.

"Calm down Charmy, we're fine" said Vector hoping to calm the excited bee down before he made everyone in the room deaf, "But what happened to you guys" asked Charmy, "Sit down for two minutes and I'll explain" said Espio.

The next person who walked through the door was Cream, Cream seemed very happy to see Blaze again, "Ms Blaze your back, Mr Silver said that you had to go away for a while" said Cream.

Blaze could already guess that no one had the heart to tell Cream what had really happened to her, "But, why are you in here now, you didn't get hurt did you" asked Cream sounding worried.

"Don't worry Cream, its nothing serious" said Blaze although in truth Blaze had no idea how serious her injuries was.

Vanilla sighed as she looked over her reports on everyone's condition, Vector and Espio should be able to leave the infirmary tomorrow, and Ray shouldn't need much more time than that.

However the other three was in far worst condition, Mighty was covered in injuries, Vanilla didn't even want to know what Eggman had done to him, as for Sonic and Blaze they both appeared to have been beaten half to death, and they was both so thin than it broke Vanilla's heart just to look at them.

Based on what Vanilla knew it would take at the very least a week for Mighty to recover enough to leave the infirmary, and Sonic and Blaze would take even longer.

Vanilla already knew that Sonic wouldn't like being stuck in a bed for that long, but he simply didn't have a choice, but at least his friends was here to keep him company.