A/n: Hey guys, time for another chapter, one that was probably partially written in school. I'm sorry about this taking so long, senior years taking a lot out of me. I own nothing except for OC's and the storyline but like I said before you probably won't find any major OC's this far into the story...so….enjoy. Oh! And thanks to musiclover345 for reviewing.
"This is so stupid!" Charmy yelled kicking his feet in the air childishly.
"What's wrong?" Cream asked. Despite knowing exactly what's wrong she asked anyways hoping it would somehow make the hyper 7-year old-feel better.
"How come Espio, Vector and all the others get to have all the fun! I thought we were a team!"
"There just trying to keep us safe, Charmy. You know that," Cream reasoned.
"I know that but just….ugh!"
Charmy suddenlt got up from where he had been lying and opened the van door.
"Charmy what are you doing?" Cream asked in alarm.
"I don't know yet but anything's better than just sitting here and doing nothing."
"But Charmy, Amy told us to say in the van."
Charmy rolled his eyes and turned to face Cream.
"Tails need us! I don't care if Vector was trying to protect us or not. I'm not just gonna sit here while one of my best friends get's tortured!"
The two stared at each other in silence. Cream closed her eyes and stood up with a determined gaze.
"If you're going then I'm going too."
"What happened to listening to Amy?" Charmy asked.
"One of my best friends got kidnapped, don't think I'm gonna let that happen to my other best friend," Cream said.
Charmy gave her a thankful smile
"We're gonna have to move quickly," He said as he went to the back of the van.
When he came back into Creams view he wasn't wearing his signature skates but instead regular sneakers and he was holding a skateboard. He got on top of the skateboard and ordered Cream to get on.
"Hold on tight," charmy said as Cream situated herself on the board with wheels.
"Shouldn't we be wearing helm-ep!" Cream squeaked as Charmy kicked his foot off the ground and the skateboard started to roll.
Sonic abruptly stopped causing Knuckles to fall flat on his face.
"Ah! What the hell man!" Knuckles yelled.
"Sorry," Sonic said while trying not to laugh.
Knuckled picked himself off the ground and dusted himself off, "So why'd we stop?" Knuckles looked and saw the large metal door blocking their way, "Oh, that's why."
Sonic walked over to the DNA scanner that would unlock the door. He raised his hand ready to place it upon the screen, however Knuckles grabbed him by the wrist.
"What do you think you're doing?"
"What does it look like I'm doing? I'm gonna put my hand on the scanner to see if I can open the door," Sonic said in a matter-of-fact tone.
"Not a good idea, for all we know the thing could cause bombs to fall on us and kill us if we get the identification wrong."
Sonic rolled his eyes, "You watch too many spy movies Knuckles."
"Better safe than sorry. We'll find another way in," Knuckles said as he let go of Sonic's wrist. Letting go of his his friends wrist proved to be a bad idea since once he did Sonic quickly placed his hand on the scanner.
"Sonic!" Knuckles yelled as he grabbed the front of Sonics shirt, "Why I outta-"
Knuckles was cut off by the sound of the metal doors opening. The two glanced at the door before glancing back at each other.
"Could you let go of my shirt?" Sonic asked in an annoyed voice.
With a "hmph!" Knuckles let go of Sonic's shirt and two walked into the room. It looked almost like a forest, much to the two teens surprise.
"How'd they get tree's in here?" Knuckles asked outloud.
"They're not real. They're artificial."
The two looked up to see a teen with silver hair sitting in one of the trees staring down at them.
"Silver!" Sonic exclaimed as he got in a stance. He should have known he would have to fight the physic teen.
"Silver? Isn't he one of the guys who tried to kidnap Tails? I have a bone to pick with this kid," Knuckles spat as he cracked his namesakes.
"Wait!" Silver said before jumping down from the tree, "I don't wanna fight you."
Knuckles let out a growl, "And you think we're gonna believe you? After what you did!"
Silver sighed, "I know you have no reason to trust me but please hear me out, I'm begging."
Knuckles opened his mouth to say something else but was stopped when Sonic held up his hand.
"You have three minutes," Sonic said.
"I don't want to fight you and I need your help. Marine, Blazes little sister is going to be used in a experiment."
"What kind of experiment?" Sonic asked in a slow uneasy voice.
Silver hesitated before speaking again, "Eggman is going to transfer some of Tails blood into Marine to see if she'll become part fox. Please you need to save them. That's why I'm not gonna fight you. While you're trying to save Marine I can focus on find where Sticks is and saving her as well."
"And how do we know this isn't some kind of trap?" Knuckles asked.
"I can't say the choice falls onto you," silver said quietly before glancing over to Sonic. Knuckles turned towards Sonic who seemed to be thinking.
"I say we don't trust him. After all he's working for Eggman! For all we know Eggman could have put him up to this."
Sonic let a sigh and looked at Silver, "I trust you."
"Are you outta your right mind!" Knuckles yelled.
"Knuckles, I may not have known Silver for that long but I know him well enough to know he wouldn't lie, at least not about this."
"Thank you Sonic," Silver said.
"Don't mention it. You just focus on finding and saving Sticks," Sonic replied about to leave the room, however before he could Silver stopped him.
"Wait!"
Sonic and Knuckles turned to face him. Silver's face which had been happy and filled with hope became saddened, "Blaze is in the next room over and I'm not sure what kind of condition she's in. Just be careful."
Sonic nodded, "You got it. Come on Knuckles."
"Knuckles nodded and followed the blue haired boy out of the room.
"Good luck," Silver whispered before leaving.
"That's the last of them," Amy announced as she broke open the last robot allowing the mouse inside to escape.
Small forest animals littered the floor, tables and some even climbed on top of Vectors large body causing him to brush them off.
"What are we supposed to do with all these animals?" Rouge asked in a bored voice as Vector became increasingly frustrated with the number of animals climbing onto him.
"The only thing we can do. Bring them back to Earth," Espio responded.
"Are you sure they'll all fit?" Amy asked in shock.
"Get off me ya little-gr!" Vector yelled in the background, not that the other 3 noticed.
"We don't really have a choice in the matter. We can't just leave them here."
"Well what are we supposed to do now?" Rouge asked.
"ARGH!" Vector yelled finally getting the attention of the others.
"You okay over there Vector?" Rouge asked.
Before he could answer a silver haired teen in.
"Scoose me! Pardon me! Coming through!" She said as he practically pushed Amy to the side causing her to whine out "Hey!" The teen was about to leave but before he could vector grabbed him by the back of his shirt eliciting a surprised yelp from him.
"Hold on! Just who the hell are you?" Vector asked.
"Silver, long time no see," Rouge said as she got a better look at who the teen was.
"You know this guy?" Amy asked.
"Of course she does. I used to be her co-worker. Now could you put me down!" Silver hissed as Vector.
The 20 year old let out a growl, "No! I'll do whatever the hell I damn well please!"
"Vector, put him down," Rouge ordered.
"Hmph! Whatever!" Vector growled dropped the teen causing him to fall on his butt.
"What are you doing here?" Rouge asked.
"I should be asking you the same question," Silver responded as he got back up.
"We're here to save Tails," Amy said.
"Thats great!" Silver exclaimed, "Sonic and Knuckles are on their way to save him and I really need your help. There's a 12 year old girl who Eggman's taken prisoner and we need to save her!"
"And why should we trust you?" Vector asked.
Rouge rolled her eyes while Silver got the weirdest sense of Déjà Vu. She turned her attention towards the 14 year old in front of her.
"Silver this girl your talking about, is she one of Blazes sisters?"
"Y-yeah, how'd you know?" Silver asked in awe.
"They don't call me a thief for nothing."
Silver nodded and turned his attention towards the rest of the group, "So will you help me?"
Amy nodded, "Of course. Do you know where she is?"
"No. That's why I'm looking for her. Come on!" Silver said running out of the room. Making sure he didn't trip on or crush any animals.
"Vector and I will help him look for the girl. In the meantime Amy, you and Rouge try to find a control room. See if theirs a way to land the ship," Espio ordered.
"You got it," Amy said with a nod.
"Whatever you say," Rouge said with a shrug.
Espio opened his mouth to say something else but Vector who had started running after Silver while he was talking to the girls was already way ahead of him.
"Espio, hurry up!" Vector ordered.
"We better get going too. Good luck!" Amy exclaimed before running off.
There was a moment of silence before Rouge spoke up.
"I better go after her before she ends up injuring herself," Rouge said, making her departure.
"Espio!" Vector yelled.
"Coming boss."
"How many long hallways does this place have?" Knuckles asked as Sonic ran, dragged him along.
"I don't know but it seems kind of wasteful," Sonic said as he abruptly stopped causing Knuckles to smash in Sonic and making them both fall on the ground.
"Woah! Hey watch what you're doing!" Knuckles yelled angrily at Sonic. When Sonic didn't reply Knuckles anger turned into concern.
"Sonic?"
No response.
"Sonic?"
No response.
"Come on dude answer me!"
"Tails?"
Knuckles whipped his head to see what Sonic was looking at. It was Tails tied up with a cloth tied around his mouth so he couldn't talk tied up. Knuckles couldn't help but feel that something was off however before he could voice his concerns Sonic was of like a rocket running towards him.
"Sonic, wait!" Knuckles yelled, however it fell to deaf ears as Sonic had already reached Tails.
Sonic put his hand on Tails so he could untie the cloth around his mouth, only to find that his hand went through him. Suddenly Tails disappeared and before Sonic could comprehend what was happening, the floor below him disappeared revealing a deep, deep hole with a watery gave at the bottom. Just as quickly as the floor disappeared so did the teen as he started plummeting down.
"Sonic, no!" Knuckles yelled. Anyone who knew Sonic knew that he just couldn't swim. Once he hit the water he'd be a goner. Knuckles started to run towards hole, ready to jump in after his best friend but before he could he saw a girl about a year or two younger than him with purple hair jump in.
The girl angled her body so she'd fall faster and reach the blue haired male. Once she was next to him she wrapped one of her arms around his waist and used the other to shoot a stream of fire at the water below making it start to bubble before taking the form of a crust-like substance that could be used as solid ground.
The two landed on the ground ungracefully with a the girl panting due to exhaustion.
"B-Blaze?" Sonic exclaimed after seeing who his savior was.
"Hey! Are you two okay down there?" Knuckles asked from above.
"Yeah, We're fine, at least I think we are!" Sonic yelled back.
"I'm glad," Said Blaze
"Blaze, that was amazing!" Sonic exclaimed.
"Nifty huh? It's a new trick I learned. But that's not all it can do. Come over here and I'll show you."
Sonic walked towards the purple haired 14 year-old and like before she wrapped an arm around his waist.
"Hang on tight," She said before fire shot out of her hand once more propelling them upwards and out of the pit. They landed on the side opposite of where Knuckles was standing.
"Wh-what the heck was that?!" Knuckles yelled in shock.
Blaze walked over to a control panel on the wall and placed her hand on it. Once she did the floor reappeared and so did the holographic image of Tails.
"So that Tails isn't real…" Sonic whispered as Knuckles walked over to it to place his hand on it only for his hand to go through it.
"I'm sorry Sonic. It was Eggman's idea. He was going to have me fight you but due to what was happening he didn't think I'd be in fighting condition so he set up this trap instead. When I found out about his plan I rushed over here as fast as I could," Blaze explained.
"It's okay Blaze. None of this was your fault. The only reason you and Silver are even doing this is because Eggman kidnapped your sisters. Silver went to go save...I think her name was Sticks. Me and Knucklehead are on our way to save Tails and Marine," Sonic said.
"S-Sonic…" Blaze said as she fought back tears.
Sonic smiled reassuringly and placed a hand on her shoulder, "When all of this is over maybe you can properly introduce me to your sisters. They're your sisters so they must be two awesome girls."
"S-Sonic...please...save Marine….save Tails…" Blaze whispered as tears started to fall.
"I will." Sonic said , "Ready Knucklehead?" Sonic asked once his red haired friend reached him.
"Wait," Blaze said. Sonic turned around and looked at her, "I'm coming too."
"But Blaze-" Sonic started only to get cut off by Blaze.
"Marine is my sister and just like its your duty to protect Tails it's my duty to protect Stick and Marine. I failed once, I won't let that happen again," Blaze stated as she wiped away her tears.
Sonic didn't want her to come along, he really didn't. He was afraid that despite her pyrokinetic powers she'd get hurt. He didn't want Knuckles with him for the same reason. He didn't want anymore people he cared about getting hurt. But seeing Blaze's face, her determined eyes that contained traces of fresh tears, it sparked a sort of kinship within him. Sonic was in the same boat she was. He had failed his duty as a big brother and now he was trying to atone for his mistake by saving his little brother and he knew Blaze felt the same way.
"Alright, you can come along."
"Thank you Sonic," Blaze said, a small, yet rare smile gracing her face.
Sonic grabbed her wrist and then Knuckles, "Hold on tight both of you," He said before dashing off with both in tow.
A/n: I'm gonna end it there because a lot happened in this chapter. Also just in case anyone forgot, in this story Sticks is Blazes younger step sister and Marine is Blazes younger half sister. Anyways, see you guys next chapter!