A/n: Its Chibi back to your again writing this from school cus why not….well part of this is being written in school, the authors note is at least….I own nothing.
update 2/4/18: Thanks to everyone who reviewed, Favorited or follows my story.
Tails FT Foxy- I know what cup head is I just never really found it interesting.
Megaman07- Considering some of the stuff out there I guess that's pretty understandable.
IcyPinkFlower- lol, go to bed, this story ain't going anywhere. Seriously though, thank for your continued support.
DawnOfForelsket- I'm happy you think that, grammars always been a challenge for me (just ask my English teacher).
"Espio, why can't you drive faster?" Charmy asked impatiently. He knew exactly how long it would take to get to their destination but he was always a bundle of energy. He just wanted to get out of the van and skate around for a bit.
"If I drive any faster we'll get pulled over," Espio explained.
"Ugh! This is taking forever!" Sonic exclaimed, equally as restless as Charmy.
"Be patient. The place is so far out because it doesn't want to be found," Rouge explained.
"What do you mean?" Amy asked.
Before Rouge could answer Charmy yelled, "Finally! We're here!"
Sonic, Amy, Knuckles, Cream, and Charmy all rushed over to the windows to take a look at their destination. They saw a what looked like a beach.
"Aw, I can't skate on sand!" Charmy yelled out in frustration.
Espio parked the car and the 6 teens and 2 children piled out of the van. Everyone with the exception of Rouge looked around confused.
"Rouge, are you sure this is the right place?" Sonic asked.
"There's nothing here," Amy commented.
Rouge pointed towards the ocean, "Not to far from here is a island. There, Eggman used to have a base. He abandoned it because he got annoyed with having to leave the island to buy food but he left many of his inventions their, including a rocket ship."
"So we're gonna use the rocket to get us to space?" Vector asked.
"Precisely."
Cream and Charmy cheered with glee. Sonic probably wouldn't have cheered with them, if it wasn't for one small detail.
"Rouge, you're not suggesting we swim to the island are you?" Sonic asked, trying his best not to sound nervous. There were three things he hated more than anything else in the world, those three things being, Eggman, needles and swimming. Oh how he loathed swimming. He was fine with taking showers and drinking water but if you try to throw him into a pool the teen will do everything in his power to make sure that doesn't happen.
"Oh course not."
Sonic let out a sigh of relief.
"Well then how are we supposed to get there? What are you gonna do? Steal a boat," Knuckles remarked.
Rouge rolled her eyes at the comment, "Please, I wouldn't be so careless as to steal a boat in the daylight with so many witnesses present. When we were driving here I contacted an old friend of mine who'll bring us to the island. He should be here any minute."
Just then the 8 heard the sound of something being dragged. They turned and saw a large, overweight man with purple hair with a frog on his shoulder and a fishing pole attached to his belt. Behind him he held a canoe.
"That's him. Hey Big," Rouge greeted.
The man walked up Rouge," Hello Miss Rouge," He said in a derpy voice.
"Sir...you do realize you have a frog on your shoulder...right?" Amy asked.
"Hm?" Big picked up the frog and held it towards Amy, "This is Froggy."
Amy backed up a bit at the gesture but smiled politely nonetheless.
After everyone got into the canoe (which was hard since it was so small), Big got in and used the oars and starting rowing towards the island.
"So how long do you think this'll take?" Charmy asked Rouge. Since there wasn't much space he was stuck sitting on Espios lap and even then the canoe was still crowded.
Rouge thought for a moment, "Well, considering the speed were going at….about….3 hours."
Everyone (excluding Big) let out an annoyed groan. This was going to be a long day.
Tails woke up when he felt he felt a warm hand gentle shake him. He opened his eyes to see Blazes amber eyes staring back him.
"It's time," She said in a sad voice.
Tails started to play with the tips of his tails, "D-do I have to?"
Blaze looked away. She couldn't find it in herself to answer the question verbally. That was all Tails needed to see. He crawled out of his cage and followed Blaze to the experimentation room. The two walked in a heavy silence until Blaze spoke up.
"Hey, after the experiment do you want me to try and get you some ice cream?" Blaze asked.
"No thanks I'm not hungry," Tails responded sadly.
"Oh that's okay...how about we take a look at one of Eggman's inventions and-"
"Unless it can take me home then no thanks," Tails responded. In a way he felt bad for Blaze. He knew she was trying hard to make up for this whole situation and attacking Sonic and him. No matter what she did though nothing could make him happy unless that thing was taking him home.
The two remained quiet until they reached the room. When they got inside they saw Eggman waiting there with Shadow. Tails's eyes filled with fear and he moved behind Blaze in an unsuccessful attempt to hide himself. Blaze placed a protective hand on the boys head and turned her gaze to Eggman. She had a bad feeling about this.
"Doctor, what's the meaning of this?" Blaze asked, referring to Shadow. It wasn't normal for him to actually be present in the lab during experiments involving Tails.
The scientist smiled gleefully and looked towards Tails who grabbed hold of Blazes coat tail, "I'm glad you asked. Today the experiment will be facing Shadow."
"Y-you can't be serious!" Blaze exclaimed in shock. After getting no response to her comment Blaze knew that this wasn't a joke, "Doctor you can't do this. Please allow me to be his opponent instead."
Shadow was strong enough to kill an army and she knew he wouldn't hold back. Not even if his opponent was a child.
"I want to push him to his limits. If you fought him I know you'd go easy and muddle up my data. Now leave room, or do I need to remind you what will happen if you disobey me."
Blaze flinched and lowered her head. Before leaving she knelt down besides Tails and hugged him. She wasn't a very touchy feely person but he needed it.
"Stand tall," She whispered in his ear before getting up and leaving.
Once she was outside the room and the door shut she slumped against the wall. Here she was again, having powers yet not being able to use them to save the people that mattered most. She lifted a hand to wipe away a tear that was sliding down her face.
"Marine, Sticks, Tails, Sonic...please...forgive me…"
Tails watched Blaze, his only source of kindness leave the room. Tails wrapped his tails around himself in hopes that they could somehow protect him from whats to come.
Eggman cleared his throat bringing Tails back to reality, "Now then, I will go through that door and watch the battle through the one way window and record the data. Remember Shadow, do not hold back," He said before leaving, an eye glint in his eye. Even though he said it was for research this wasn't the only reason he was having his experiment fight Shadow. A large portion of it was because if he wanted control his experiment. It was too rowdy, too spirited. He would first have to put it in its place and who better to do such a thing than Shadow?
Once Eggman was in the safety of his booth behind the one way window the match began. Shadow started to walk towards Tails, who backed up out of fear. He had to think fast. He couldn't fly away because Shadow would just grab his ankle. This guy had beaten Sonic so there's no way Tails could overpower him….but maybe he could outsmart him? It was worth a shot!
Tails kept backing away but as he did he got his tails ready to start spinning. He kept doing this until he felt the wall against his back. Once it was he spun his tails as fast as he could and propelled himself at Shadow and headbutted him in the stomach. Tails wasn't sure if Shadow was hurt by the attack but he was dazed and Tails took advantage of that and kicked his exposed neck. Before he could land another blow Shadow grabbed him by the wrist and flipped him over. He then stomped on Tails chest causing the child to cough up blood.
Tails managed to open one of his eyes a crack to see that Shadow was livid and even scarier than before. He was starting to think he would have been better off if he hadn't tried to fight back.
Shadow gazed down at the child who was already panting heavily and had blood on his chin.
"Pathetic," Shadow scoffed before he kicked Tails in the side sending him rolling until he hit the wall.
Tails watched as Shadow turned his back and was getting ready to leave. They just expected him to give up didn't they? To just lie here and accept defeat? No, Tails couldn't. He couldn't give Eggman, the guy who took him away from his family what he wanted. Mustering all the strength he could Tails shakily got up and started to walk towards Shadow. Shadow heard the hybrids foot steps and stopped walking, however he kept his back turned towards Tails.
With every step he took Tails body screamed at him to stop but he ignored it. He had to prove he wasn't as weak as they thought. As he got closer and closer to Shadow he felt his vision begin to swim. But still he kept going.
After a couple more steps Shadow finally turned around. Tails stopped walking and the two just stared each other down in silence.
"I'm….not...finished…" Tails said before falling to the ground unconscious
Shadow stared at Tails unconscious body until Eggman came into the room looking quite annoyed.
"I don't understand. How could he still have the will to fight even though he knew he'd lose. Looks like I'll have to work even harder if I want to control my experiment. For now however, Shadow could you take it to its cage."
Shadow nodded his head and slung the unconscious child over his shoulder. When he finally reached Tails dog kennel he placed the child inside before locking it. He stared at Tails unconscious body. The way he refused to give up. It almost reminded him of-
Shadow shook his head before a memory could resurface. No, thinking about it would only make him weak. What happened happened. All he cared about now what this experiment's success. Then maybe the damage could be undone.
"Are we there yet?" Charmy asked.
Everyone groaned. Not this question again.
"Hm, let me think, since we weren't there the 52 other times you asked, I'm guessing the answer is still NO!" Vector yelled.
"Hey chill out would ya?" Charmy responded in a cheeky tone.
"Amy, it's really hot here," Cream said in a sad voice.
"I know Cream. Don't worry, we're almost there….I hope," Amy responded.
Rouge who had been quiet until then suddenly spoke up, "Uh….guys?"
"What is it?" Cream asked.
"I think we have an issue."
Everyone turned their gaze to where Rouge was looking only to find a metal fin poking out of the ocean.
"Sh-sh-sh-shark!" Amy squeaked.
"No it's not just any old shark," Knuckles started noting the metal fin.
"A robot shark," Sonic said.
Suddenly the robo-shark headbutted the boat.
"This is bad," Amy stated.
"Amy, I don't know how to swim," Cream said sounding like she was about to cry.
"I don't either kid," Sonic comment when the boat was once again violently shaken.
"We've got to do something," Charmy said.
Sonic looked around before his eyes landed on the oar Big was holding.
"I'm borrowing this," Sonic said snatching the object before Big could respond.
Sonic shifted towards the side of the boat the shark was swimming near and placed part of the oar in the water and held on the to stick part of it and tried to hit the roboshark on the nose. He successfully did so but once he did the wooden oar broke against the metal snout. Sonic pulled the oar out of the water and stared at it.
"Good going genius!" Knuckles snapped.
Sonic threw the broken oar down and twisted around to he could face the redhead, "I'd like to see you do better knuckle head!"
"Would you two knock it off! Unless you hadn't noticed we need to come up with a plan before that thing comes back!" Amy exclaimed.
Rouge gasped, "Sonic you quills!"
"Quills?" Amy asked in confusion before looking back at Sonic and gasping when she saw blue quills poking out if his blue hair.
"What about them?" Sonic asked.
"Use them to slice through the roboshark," Rouge explained.
"Unless you havn't noticed that things in the water and I can't swim," Sonic argued.
"It's coming back!" Charmy yelled.
"Sharks are attracted to blood, maybe we can use the blood on one of Sonics bandages to make the shark jump out if the water," Espio stated calmly, as if they weren't just about to be attacked by a shark.
"Good thinking Espio!" Amy exclaimed as she started to unwrap a bandage wrapped around Sonics arm.
"Wow Mr. Espio, your really smart," Cream said with a smile.
Espio shrugged, "Unlike some people I actually pay attention in aquatics class," He said while looking at Vector earning a "What?" from the 20 year old.
"Okay, it's off but how are we gonna get it high enough to make the shark jump?" Amy asked while holding the bloodied bandages.
"Leave that to me," Rouge said taking the bandages from Amy. She made her way over to Knuckles placed her hands on his shoulders.
"What are you-?"
Before he could finished she jumped up putting her weight into his shoulder causing him to almost fall over and then jumped again, this time off his head, causing him to fall over and right onto Vector.
"Ooomph! Hey watch it bud!" Vector snapped.
Rouge held the bandage above the water while in the air and just like predicted to roboshark shot out of the water. Sonic jumped towards it and curled into a ball and sliced right through the robo shark.
"Go Sonic!" Amy and Cream.
Sonic unfurled from his ball form and smirked only for it to dissipate when he realized he was falling. The teen let out a yell before hitting the water and sinking like a brick.
"Sonic!" Amy cried worriedly.
Rouge gasped when she saw Sonic hit the water and angled her body so she'd land in the water near the area he was in.
The eight (including Big and Froggy) watched the area in the water Sonic and Rouge disappeared into intently.
"What's taking so long? That's it I'm going in!"
Knuckles was about to jump in the water before Cream's voice stopped him.
"Wait! Look!"
Suddenly a patch of bubbles appeared as Rouge's head breached the water, Sonics unconscious body slung over her shoulder.
Rouge swam over to the boat and had Big load Sonics body onto the boat without capsizing it.
"I don't think…...he's breathing," Rouge said gasping for air.
"Oh no Sonic!" Amy cried worriedly and she crawled over to Sonic as his body was laid on the canoe floor.
"Don't worry, I know CPR. Amy placed your ear on his chest and tell me if you hear a heartbeat." Knuckles said as he to perform chest compression's.
"It's not working!" Amy panicked after a couple of seconds of not hearing a heartbeat.
"Looks like we'll have to take drastic measures. Amy I want you to pinch Sonics nose and perform mouth to mouth."
"Y-you mean kiss him?!" Amy exclaimed, her face becoming beat red.
"No! There's a difference! Just do it! We don't have much time!" Knuckles yelled as he continued his chest compressions.
Amy looked at Sonics and slowly started to into her face closer and closer to his. Right when her lips were inches from his he suddenly coughed up water.
"Sonic!" Amy yelling happily as Sonic started to gasp for air between coughs.
"Mr. Sonic!" Cream yelled.
"He's alive!" Charmy yelled equally as happy as Cream.
"Easy there," Knuckles said as he helped his best friend sit up.
Amy suddenly started crying.
"Amy, what's wrong?" Sonic asked, his voice horse.
Amy instead of responding, launched herself towards Sonic and gave him a hug.
"I thought I lost you again," She cried into his shirt.
Sonic wrapped an arm around Amy and rubbing her back in a soothing manner, "Hey it's alright, I'm okay, see?"
Right when Big finished hauling Rouge onto the boat Cream gave her an excited look.
"Ms. Rouge you missed it!"
"Missed what?" Rouge asked.
"It was Mr. Knuckles. He thought you were taking too long and was getting ready to jump into the water after you."
"Oh was he?" Rouge asked before looking at Knuckles and smirking.
"N-no! The only reason I was gonna jump in was because I couldn't let my best friend drown," Knuckles hastily defended a slight blush dusting his cheeks.
"Yeah Knux, I'm sure that's the only reason," Sonic said sarcastically causing the others on the canoe to laugh.
Knuckles turned his head away from the group and muttered a gruff, "Whatever."
"Hey Rouge, how did you know about my quills?" Sonic asked.
"When we saw the shark, they started to poking out and last time I checked hair doesn't get super pointy when stressed. So I'm guessing your part hedgehog or something?"
Sonic nodded, "I drank a hedgehog serum I saw lying around when I was trying to escape the lab with Tails."
"It's ironic really, the hedgehog used to be Eggman's favorite animal. After having to put up with you he probably hates them," Rouge stated.
Sonic smirked.
"Well looks like we'll never find out if he does hate hedgehogs or not. We're stuck in the middle of nowhere!" Charmy exclaimed, looking down at the destroyed oar.
"Don't worry, I always keep a spare oar attached to the boat," Big said before grabbing said spare oar.
"Big you're a lifesaver," Amy said.
With another distraction taken care of the group slowly, but surely continued their journey to the island.
A/n: I started this when Christmas vacation 2016 started and finished right before it ended. I'm going to bed now, see you guys later.