With Amy and Rouge, they had just beaten their robot and were now trying to find a way out of the base. "The second we try to avenge one of our own, we end up like this." Amy sighed, kicking a stone out of her path.
"This is what happens sometimes when Shadow gets mad." Rouge said, shrugging with her arms folded. "I should've stopped him from wanting to- What the-?!" the bat said but interrupted herself as a figure sped past them, and two voices, a male voice and a female voice, on their communicators spoke. "Follow us if you ever want to see each other again." they both said just as the figure sped past them again.
"Should we trust them?" Rouge asked, "What other choice do we have?" Amy countered, and went after the figure. Rouge sighed and went after her.
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With Shadow and Knuckles, they also had defeated their robot, and were currently locked in a verbal battle for whatever reason. Just then, when Shadow was about to say a comeback after Knuckles said something about Maria, a strange calmness filled them both, shutting them up as a soothing female voice spoke inside their heads.
"Fighting won't solve anything, work together and you will successfully escape with your lives." it said, leaving both of them with a 'what the heck?' look on their faces. Suddenly, like what happened with Amy and Rouge, a figure sped past them, and they got the same message Rouge and Amy got; "Follow us if you ever want to see each other again.".
Knuckles looked at Shadow and the black hedgehog shrugged, "We might as well.". And with that, they took off in the same direction as the figure in an attempt to catch up.
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Back with Tails, Sonic and Iris, they were still fighting their robot, as Sonic and Iris weren't as strong as they are when combined with each other. "Iris! You get one side and I'll get the other side! We're gonna try to take control of it!" Sonic shouted in the latex animals' own language, as they needed to be together if they wanted to speak proper English.*
The orange cicada nodded, flew onto one arm of the giant robot, and worked on spreading over the robot while in liquid form, while Sonic did the same on the other side. Tails continued to fight the robot as he watched as the two colors eventually met and caused the it to stop moving for a few seconds before it began to move under the latex creatures' control.
Then, it dug it's fingers into the ground beneath the wall and forced it open and did the same to the other walls, revealing the debris of the other two robots. "Whoa." was all Tails could say about the destruction. 'Scanning… No sign of any other lifeforms found.' the infected robot said and smashed a huge hole in the wall before the latex animals controlling it suddenly contracted, crushing the robot so it couldn't attack anymore once they released it from their grip.
Once the latex creatures had released the robot, they immediately fell to the ground in liquid form, exhausted from controlling something so large. "Guys?" Tails asked, walking towards the two pools that were the latex animals and they slowly made their liquid forms touch. "We're fine, just exhausted." a female voice that came from the orange part said.
"Do I need to carry you?" Tails asked, putting his hands up to the two puddles. He yelped as he put his hand in and the two puddles separated and crawled up his arms, stopping just above the elbows. "I take that as a yes." he said and shuddered at the coldness of the latex as he ventured into the building in search of his friends.
Somewhere deep inside the base, two other latex creatures had just reunited Shadow, Knuckles, Amy, and Rouge and had managed to slip away in the resulting confusion as the two duos met. "Great job back there, Gold." the green one praised. "They were stubborn, but I managed to lead them here." the yellow one said.
Before the group had arrived at the base, the two latex animals had rushed ahead to do a reconnaissance so they could lead the group back together once they got separated from each other.
They watched and held back laughed as Rouge started to flirt with Knuckles, making the echidna's face turn redder than his fur as Amy tackled Shadow in a hug, thinking he was Sonic and blushed when she saw that it wasn't Sonic.
Just then, they heard a loud booming noise. "What was that?" Rouge asked. "I don't know…" Shadow said before running in the direction where the boom came from.
After a few minutes of navigating the labyrinth of halls, they finally saw Tails. "Tails!" Amy called out to him just as the young fox turned around to walk in the opposite direction. "Amy?" Tails asked and squeaked as the pink hedgehog hugged him out of relief. "You're okay!" she cried.
"How did you guys get back together?" Tails asked as Amy let go of him. "Someone led us to one of the halls, where we met up." Rouge said. "But now that I think about it… Who were they and where did they go?" she asked. It was just then that Knuckles noticed the orange and blue latex creatures resting on Tails's arms.
"Hey Tails, what's on your arms?" the echidna asked, pointing to the living latex. "Oh, um, it's something I found on the floor while fighting a giant robot. I stuck my hand in it and it attached itself to my arms." Tails said after getting the message from Sonic that he and Iris didn't want to be revealed just yet, touching the orange with one of his tails and causing it to ripple with stifled giggles.
"Well, we need to find a way out of here before Eggma-." Knuckles said but was interrupted by a metal door opening to reveal an army of badniks. "You've gotta be kidding me." he deadpanned as he and the others got into battle stances.
A few minutes later, Amy screamed as one of the robots took her hammer, knocked her down, and with a sickening crack!, slammed it down onto one of her arms (Sorry if this was a little violent, I needed to get something I planned out done.). "Amy!" Knuckles shouted and was about to run towards her before one of the colors on Tails's arms actually snarled and rapidly slid down the fox's side towards the robot.
"What the-?" was all Amy could get out before the goo covered the robot and contracted, crushing the robot into a ball. Seeing as it was now in the battle, it took control of another robot and fought off the others robots, swapping robots as the rest of the robots tried to destroy the one it had taken control of, ending up destroying the robot just as the latex let go of it to go to another robot.
About two minutes later, the battle was won and the blue goo took a voice chip from one of the robots and went in front of Amy. "Make arm useful again?" it asked. "Um, sure?" Amy answered and squealed as the goo went up her leg, traveled up the outside of her dress, and attached itself to her arm, holding the bone inside firmly together. "Try it!" the goo said, urging Amy to pick up her hammer.
Amy looked to Tails, who shrugged, and picked up her hammer with her broken arm. It slightly hurt, but otherwise, she could carry her hammer just fine. "Oh, um, wow!" she said.
"We should find a way out of here before we get ambushed again." Knuckles finally said and started to travel down a random hallway. "Wait, I know where an exit is." Tails said and went down the hallway he came from while the others followed him.
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Back at Vanilla's house, the blue blob had reattached itself to Tails's arm while the coney+ properly set Amy's arm. "Why did we think that doing that was a good idea?" Knuckles groaned as he bandaged his arm that was hit during the ambush.
"This is what happens when negativity gets the best of people." Rouge shrugged, "But next time, if we try again, can we do it with an actual plan?" Amy asked, and the others nodded.
To be continued…
A/N: Woo! Another chapter done! I apologize for the bad writing, but hey, it's better than nothing, right? Let me know if you want a profile (if you can even call it that) on Sonic and his latex friends in the reviews, because I'm currently working on it! I don't know what else to put here, so please review, as it encourages me to write more! Kittygamer, out!
*They need to be together in order to do most/half of the things they do combined most of the time. Latex animals (Or at least to me.) are flawed like that, because they have to have some sort of disadvantages.
(The + sign is something I'm going to use every time I feel like explaining the definition of a word is necessary. A coney is an adult rabbit.)
