A/n: What another chapter already? Yeah, I'm in gym and we have a sub so I'm currently editing this, it should be posted soon after doing so. Thanks to everyone whose supported me.
Tails FT Foxy- So what does that make Eggman? After all he's not part animal (maybe part egg?)
IcyPinkFlower- I can't say anything due to spoilers, sorry
Megaman07- It was so the shark would be more viscous the more the intruder was injured.
I own nothing...okay well maybe the plot and designs
"Land ho!" Charmy yelled while pointing to something in the distance.
Everyone looked and saw an island made of rock with a volcano and a white building sprouting out of the volcano's lip.
"So that's his base?" Sonic asked.
Rouge nodded, "He used to use it but G.U.N found out about his activities and he had to go into hiding, so he built another lab under the disguise of a donut shop."
"G.U.N?" Cream asked with confusion.
"Guardian Units of Nations. Eggman is a dangerous man, however like I said before he went into hiding before they could catch him," Rouge explained.
"Do you know what kind of experiments he was conducting?" Sonic asked.
"I'm afraid not. Eggman only told me so much and that's only because I was his most trusted employee, excluding Shadow."
Once they got close enough to shore Big anchored the canoe and everyone unloaded.
"Thanks again Big," Rouge said with a smile.
"Oh it's nothing Miss Rouge. Just call me again if you need help. Me and Froggy are gonna go fishing," Big said in his derpy voice.
Rouge nodded, "Will do, see ya later," She said waving goodbye as he paddled away.
The group walked up the small volcano. When the reached the door a small camera with a laser attached came out and scanned them.
"Intruder alert!" A robotic voice said before lasers started shooting at the group.
"Get to cover guys! Leave him to-"
Before Sonic could finish his sentence Espio threw one of his throwing starts at the lens part of the camera laser causing it to spark and stop shooting.
"Great job Espio!" Charmy cheered.
"Show off," Sonic muttered while crossing his arms.
Sonic and Knuckles walked up the large doors of the fortress and looked at eachother before each of them placed both hands on the doors and pushed as hard as they could. The doors creaked up and sunlight entered the darkened room.
The seven entered the room carefully remembering to stay cautious.
"It's too dark, I can't see anything," Knuckles stated.
"Amy, I afraid of the dark," Cream whimpered grabbing her big sister's hand.
"Guy's I think I found the light switch," Rouge said. With a flick the room lit up revealing a dirty, messy lab with various broken pieces of equipment lying around.
"This place is disgusting!" Amy exclaimed.
"And I thought the chaotix base was a mess," Knuckles said under his breathe.
"I heard that!" Vector snapped.
"Hey Rouge, what exactly are we doing here?" Charmy asked as he roller skated over to her, avoiding broken objects and papers along the way.
"This was Eggman's old base, if my guess it correct it may also have a spaceship somewhere."
"I say we split up and look for it," Vector said.
"Bad idea, for all we know this place could be booby trapped or even swarming with enemies."
"There's a corridor, I say we go down it and see if we can find any-"
Before Knuckles could finish his sentence a blur blur zoomed by him and down the corridor, stunning him.
"-thing...hey I wasn't done Sonic!" Knuckles yelled running after his friend.
"Oh boy," Amy groaned while rolling her eyes.
"Some things just never change," Rouge said before the rest of the group followed the two.
Knuckles ran down the corridor after his friend. He had no idea where Sonic went but if he had to guess he's say the room at the end of the hall. He'd see if their was one and then he'd check all the side doors.
He reached the end of the hallway and like he predicted there was a door there. He entered the room and looked around. It looked like a garage of some sort but the stuff inside wasn't the normal stuff you'd see in a garage. Knuckles did see a couple of motor vehicles that resembled cars but they were also different seeing as one of them had a giant spike attached to it. He looked around and finally found his blue haired friend inside a weird motor vehicle.
"Sonic what are you doing?" Knuckles asked.
"Trying to find a manual or something. I need to learn how to drive this thing in less than a minute because once everyone gets in here were leaving."
"Leaving? None of us know how to pilot a spaceship!"
Sonic stopped his searching and gave Knuckles a condescending look, "I'll drive."
Knuckles laughed in his face," Ha! Let you pilot? You can barely drive a car!"
Sonic gave his friend a dirty look before continuing his search.
"Sonic calm down. I know you wanna save Tails as soon as possible but we can't do anything rash."
"I know but...just imagining him in that place...ever since Mom and Dad died he's been my responsibility. I'm his big brother, I'm supposed to protect him and I failed," Sonic said that last part in a whisper. He wasn't one to cry in fact he hated tears, however imagining his brother all chained up and screaming in agony it made him both furious and distraught. One of those emotions, whether it was rage or sorrow he was not sure, but it caused a single tear to slowly make its way down his cheek.
Knuckles simply placed a hand on Sonic's shoulder, however refused to face him. He knew he wouldn't want anyone to see him crying.
"Sonic! Knuckles! Where are you guys!" Amy yelled.
"Over here!" Knuckles yelled before asking Sonic quietly, "Are you gonna be okay?"
Sonic nodded, "I'm fine."
He wasn't.
The 6 made their way over to the other 2 and gawked at the supposed space ship.
"So this is a spaceship? I've seen one in real life!" Charmy gushed.
"It's so big," Cream commented.
"Probably so it can fit Eggman's fatass," Rouge mumbled causing Vector to let out a loud, "HA!"
"Are you sure this is even a spaceship?" Amy asked as she climbed inside.
Sonic (who was reading a set of instructions he found) nodded, "It's built by Eggman and everything. I just wish these instructions were easier to read. It looks like it was written by a 4 year old."
Vector snapped the set of instructions out of Sonics hand and looked them over, "This guys handwriting is worse than Charmy's!"
"Hey!" Charmy yelled out.
Espio took the paper out of Vectors hands and looked it over for a minute before nodding, "I'll pilot the spaceship."
"Are you sure? This stuff looks kind of advanced," Sonic said.
"Looks can be deceiving. He made it look complicated but the basic functions of this thing should be easy enough," Espio said getting into the pilot's seat.
Once everyone was on board Espio hit the button that closed the door. Everyone buckled into their seats as Espio started to get ready to launch. He hit a button that caused the roof to open up and caused the platform the ship was on to raise and extend outward. From where Sonic was sitting he could see the orange sky from Espio's seat. When his parents were still alive going on things like planes was fun because of the vacation that awaited them. Now he was on a plane getting ready to fight for the one person he cared about most.
"Hold on everybody. Launch in 5, 4, 3, 2…"
"Blast off!" Charmy finished as Espio pulled the gear that plane the spaceship start moving forward before taking off into the sky.
Tails looked up when he heard the door to the room he was in open. More training already? No that couldn't be it. Eggman was probably just coming in to mock him more. In preparation for this Tails channeled what little energy he had to muster a dirty glare.
To his surprise though, instead of Eggman being their is was Silver, and even stranger he was holding a small bag.
"Hey Tails, listen I can't stay long but I brought you something."
Silver pulled a cupcake out of the bag, inside of a container so the frosting wouldn't get everywhere.
Tails stared at the cupcake in the container in confusion and then looked back at Silver with the same confused look he gave the cupcake. Silver looked to his left, and then his right. He leaned in towards the bars that were separating them. Tails knowing what he was trying to do, turned his head to the side so he could use his fox ear to hear what the silver haired telekinetic teen had to say.
"Just be careful of the middle. I put something good in there," Silver whispered.
"Huh?" Tails asked.
"Well I gotta go, see ya!" Silver said.
"Wai-" Tails started but Silver was already gone.
Tails looked at the cupcake curiously. What did he mean by 'be careful of the middle?' Tails looked both way before carefully started to use his hands to break the cupcake apart. In the middle was a paperclip. That's when Tails realized what Silver meant by 'something good.'
The child unfolded the paper clip until it was straight. Holding the paper clip, Tails stuck his hand out between the bars of the cage and inserted half of the paper clip inside the keyhole of the lock and started to move it around.
Tails didn't have much experience with lock picking. He remembered a year or two ago Charmy had shown him how to pick locks but that was still a while ago. He only hoped he would be able to figure it out, somehow.
He jiggled the paper clip around some more when suddenly he heard a dull thud sound. He placed his free hand on the door as it slowly swung open. Tails poked his head out of the cage before crawling out.
Knowing that once Eggman or Shadow noticed he was gone they'd start searching for him Tails looked around the room. In the corner he noticed a mop. He separated the stick and mop part of the mop and placed the mop part in the cage. He folded it in a way that made it look like he was in the corner with his tails wrapped around him. He knew it wasn't the best but it should buy him some time.
He opened the door a crack and peeked out. The coast was clear. He fully emerged from the door and closed the door before going left. If he went right he'd reach the training room. There had to be an escape pod or something that can get him off this ship.
As he traveled down the hall he kept coming across doors. He couldn't see through the small window, since he was to short so he used his tails he fly up so he could see into the room. When he came across the fourth door he flew up and saw Blaze and Silver talking. He didn't know exactly about what but Blaze looked distraught and Silver was trying to comfort her.
Although Tails wanted to know what was going on so he could help but he had to keep moving. He wouldn't forget this. Once he got off this ship he'd find Sonic and they'd find a way to save Blazes sisters and in turn Blaze and Silver.
After passing a couple more doors Tails made it to the main room. The main room held the controls and a large window in front, allowing a view of space and Earth. Tails looking around the room and noticed a door way with a sign above it that read, ESCAPE PODS. Smiling broadly he started to run towards it when a voice stopped him.
"Going somewhere?"
'Oh no.'
Tails turned around and saw Shadow leaning against the corner on the other side of the room, arms crossed and keeping a firm glare on the fox-child hybrid.
Tails spun his tails ready to fly away but before he could get far Shadow, using his speed came up behind him and grabbed him by one of his tails
"LET ME GO!" Tails screamed. He came this far, he couldn't give up now.
Shadow ignored the flailing child he was holding by the tails and started to walk back towards the experiments containment unit. Once he reached it he unlocked the kennel and placed Tails in. Once he let go out his tails however the child tried to make a break for it by pushing past Shadow. Shadow of course blocked his way and locked the cage.
Tails grabbed at the bars and gave Shadow an angry look, "Let me outta here!"
Shadow shot the hybrid a glare reverting him back to the child that was afraid of him before.
"Why try to get away even if you know you'll fail?" Shadow asked. If he knew he was no match then why bother. It just didn't make any sense.
"H-huh?"
"You know you can't escape from me. so why bother trying?"
"B-because I j-just had t-to try! A-and no matter what happens to me, no m-matter if it takes me a year or a whole lifetime I w-wont give up until I'm f-free!" Tails exclaimed his voice become more and more confident with each word he spoke.
Without saying another word Shadow left the room leaving Tails in the dark all alone. When he was outside the room he closed his eyes and took a deep breath. How? How could he out of all people in this world, act so much like her?
"Why do you keep doing that?"
A little girl about the same age as the boy turned around, "Keep doing what?"
"Trying to escape? You know the guards won't let you."
"Come over here and I'll show you."
The boy complied and looked out the big window.
"You see that big blue orb over there?"
The boy nodded, "Yeah."
"That place is called Earth. My Uncle is from there and someday I want to visit! Maybe I'll even have parents!"
"Yeah, but you know you'll just get caught."
The girl smiled, "I still have to try don't I? After all the worst that can happen is that they bring me back."
The boy nodded before speaking again, "Someday we should go to Earth together."
The girl nodded and a gave the boy a smile, "I agree. Let's make a promise!" She said holding out her pinky finger
The boy looked back to her and smiled before linking his pinky finger with hers. Making a vow that someday they would visit Earth together.
A/n: Originally this was gonna be shorter but I figured why not lengthen it? Anyways I gotta go so bye!