A/n: The only thing keeping me sane through mid-terms is friends, video games and fanfiction. I own nothing except for the plot. Update: 6-29-18, sorry for taking so long with updating. I'd be lying if I said the lack of reviews was a little disheartening. It just feels like no ones reading. Sorry, I probably sound super petty...lets get on with the chapter.
"Charmy, I think we're lost," Cream whimpered as she walked next to Chamry who was slowly skateboarding next to her. Originally they'd had been on the same skateboard but after one too many times of Charmy almost crashing into things Cream demanded off and that she'd rather walk.
"Pfft! We're not lost. We just don't know where we are is all," Charmy scoffed.
"I'm scared. I want Amy," Cream whimpered once more as tears started to form in her eyes.
Charmy noticed this and momentarily got off his skateboard while it was still rolling..
"It's okay Cream. Once we find Tails everything will go back to normal and we can have a sleepover party like you've been wanting to have," Charmy said before he raced off to get his skateboard.
"I hope your right," Cream whispered. Suddenly Charmy let out a surprised gasp.
"Whats wrong?" She asked running to where he was.
"Look. Behind these bars," Charmy ordered.
"I can't see anything it's too dark," Cream said as she squinted, trying to find what her friend was pointing out. Then she saw it, a slight movement of something going up and down as if something was breathing.
"Hey, I think there's someone in there!" Cream exclaimed.
"I know. Creepy huh?" Charmy responded.
Cream placed her hands on one of the bars and started to pull causing alarm in Charmy.
"Hey what are you doing!" He exclaimed.
"Someones in there and they need our help!" Cream stated as she continued to try and pry the aged bars off of its hinges.
"Cream are you crazy! For all we know that could be some kind of crazy science experiment or some kind of monster or maybe even-"
"Hey, who are you people? Are you here to suck out my brains! I wont let you have them!" exclaimed the occupant inside the cell.
The two kids looked at each other not knowing if they should feel scared, confused or both.
"Hello, my name is Cream Rose and this is Charmy Bee!"
"Are you the ones who took her? What did you do to Marine?" The female voice asked aggressively.
"I'm sorry miss but we don't even know anyone named Marine," Cream said feeling confused again.
"She was my sister! Someone took her away from me," The girl said hoarsely before letting out a cough.
"It's okay. Bad people took away my friend. Maybe after we get you out of here we can look for my friend and your sister together," Cream thoughtfully proposed.
"Cream I don't think that's such a good idea," Charmy argued.
"Hwy I don't like it either shorty which is why I suppose we strike a deal. You two don't look ready for combat. I'm honestly surprised you've even made in this far. If you can get me outta here I promise I'll pay you back. It might not be today or tommarrow but somehow someday I will. Please. I need to find her. I need to find my sister," The girl pleaded.
"Don't worry, we wont leave your or your sister behind! Charmy help me! These bars are rusty, I think I can feel them weakening." Cream exclaimed as she tried harder to pry away the bars. Despite his better judgement Charmy grabbed onto the same bar Cream had grabbed onto and started to pull.
"Sticks."
"Huh?" Cream and Charmy both asked as they paused in their bar pulling.
"Sticks. My name is Stick."
"How much farther until we reach the room Tails and Marine are in?" Sonic asked Blaze as he continued to run.
Blaze squinted, having trouble keeping her eyes open with how fast Sonic was running.
"Just a little- there it is!"
Sonic stopped fast causing Knuckles to once again fall flat on his face. Blaze almost fell too but was able to catch herself.
"So, Tails and Marine are behind this door?" Sonic asked for confirmation.
Blaze nodded and watched over to the control panel, her hand hovering over the hand sensor.
"Are you ready?" Blaze asked.
Sonic and Knuckles both nodded. Blaze slowly placed her hand on the sensor. Its scanned her hand before the doors opened revealing 2 children around the same age strapped to lab child on the left was a girl while the child on the right was a boy whose arm was strapped to a machine connected to a large container. Sonic was over there in less than a second. He carefully pulled the tubes needle out of his little brother's arm and unstrapped him from the table. Tails looked awful, he had dark circles under his eyes, his hair was messier than usual and he was pale. He almost looked like a dead body
"Tails? Tails!" Sonic yelled as he helped his little brother's body sit up. Sonic placed his head on his brothers chest. He still had a heart beat, good, he was alive.
"He seems malnourished. We need to take him to a doctor immedietly," Knuckles said to Sonic.
"Are you crazy? If they find Tails they'll-"
"And if they don't treat him he could die!" Knuckles yelled back.
"Guys we need get out of here now before Robotnik notices we got Tails and Marine," Blaze urged, hoisting her unconscious baby sister into her arms.
"Right," Said Sonic. He stepped back, allowing Knuckles to pick up Tails. Sonic grabbed the free arms of both Blaze and Knuckles. They were about to run when Knuckles pushed him down, bringing Blaze down with him. Just as they hit the floor a beam of light soared over them.
A black haired male with red highlights stood in the doorway holding what appeared to be a gun. He stared at the three with a hardened steely gaze.
"Shadow," Sonic whispered. He was wondering when this guy would show up.
"Wait so this is the guy that Rouge was talking about?" Knuckles asked.
Sonic nodded and looked towards Shadow. He didn't want to fight him and stared into his eye, hoping that he could see the same reluctance to fight that he had. However he didn't see any.
Knuckles stood up, "I'll hold him off," Knuckles said.
"I'll fight too" Blaze announced as she held her sister towards the speedster. "Sonic, take Tails and Marine and get outta here," Blaze ordered.
"Knuckles, Blaze I can't just leave you two here to fight by yourselves," Sonic said. He had already lost his parents and now was on the verge of losing not just his little brother but his new family, his friends.
"You're the only one quick enough to get the two to the ship asap. We'll hold this guys off, just go!" Knuckles ordered.
Sonic knew that he was right. He was the only one that could get the two to the ship fast enough and out of harms way. The blue haired teen reluctantly slung both Tails and Marine over each of his shoulders and with difficulty. He looked towards his friends, whose backs were facing him.
"I'll come back for you guys," He said before running off.
"Take that!" Amy yelled as she smacked a bot with her hammer causing a little bird to fly out. The two girls had been on their way to the control room only to be ambushed by more bots. "Rouge, Why are their tiny animals in Eggman's robots?"
Rouge shrugged, "Beats me."
"Come on! We better keep moving. The sooner we find the control room the better," Amy said leading the way. It had been like this for 10 minutes now. Walk, get attacked by a bot defeat the bot, continue walking. Rouge knew something was bound to change eventually. Excluding Shadow she had known Eggman the longest and he was never the type of person to make things easy for people. Something had to be up ahead, something big and it was only a matter of time before her and Amy had to face it. The only reason she hadn't told Amy was because she knew how rash she was and the last thing she needed was for her to charge headfirst into something and get herself killed. At long last the two stopped walked when they reached a pair of metal doors.
"Is this the control room?"
Rouge nodded, "I'll go in first. Have your hammer ready just incase there's an ambush waiting for us."
Rouge carefully opened the door and to the duos delight, no robots greeted them at the door.
Amy strolled right in and Rouge followed. Even though nothing had tried to kill them as of yet, something still felt...off...
Amy walked up to a table that had multiple buttons on it that sat in front of a chair and behind a large window, "This must be the control desk. These controls look more complicated than I thought. Hey Rouge could you come over here and help me?" Amy asked.
Rouge was about to walk over when she felt something land on her cheek. She brought a gloved hand up and touched the substance to look at it. It was a black liquid, almost like...oil? She looked up and was horrified to find around 50 writhing buzz bombers and motobugs.
"Hey Rouge, I think I found the start up lever to this thing!" Amy called.
Rouge eyes widened.
"Amy don't-!"
It was too late. Once the lever was shifted the bots came pouring down. Amy let out a surprise shriek and started waving her piko piko hammer around aimlessly in an attempt to fight off the badnik onslaught.
Rouge knew that using her feet to kick the robots like last time wouldn't do good against 50 robots when their was only 2 of them.. She looked around the room and on one of the walls spotted a space suit, a space helmet and a gun. Rouge picked the gun, aimed it at a motobug and fired. A ray of green shot out of the gun and hit the motobug causing it to explode and releasing the animal trapped inside. Rouge looked at the gun, amusement dancing in her eyes.
'A laser gun, nice.'
Rouge took aim and shot a couple more bots. This was going to be fun.
On another part of the ship silver ran as fast as he could with Espio and Vector trailing behind..
"Hey kid…..do you have any idea…..where we're heading?" Vector asked through pants. He wasn't much of a runner and rather not waste his breathe following some albino who had no idea what he was doing. Much to his annoyance Silver didn't say anything. "Hey kid!" He tried again, this time louder.
Silver stopped abruptly. Espio stopped gracefully however the abrupt stop caused Vector to run into Espio, knocking them both over.
Espio let out a groan of pain when his boss/friend (who was much larger than him) landed ontop of him. Vector glaring up at the Silver haired teen who wasn't even paying attention to what just happened.
"Hey you! What's the big idea?!" Vector yelled.
"Boss...please get off of me…." Espio managed to say.
Vector got up keeping his gaze of the physic teen in front of him who had his head in his hands
"You're right, I don't know where I'm going. I'm just running around hoping I'll find a clue somehow. I'm never going to find Sticks at this rate!" Silver yelled as he raked a hand through his hair.
"Calm down. If we can find a computer that's hooked up to surveillance we can probably find out where she's being held," Espio said.
"Erm...yeah, what he said," Vector piped up, obviously not liking being shown up considering he was supposed to be the leader of the three (at least in his head).
'Oh! I know the place where surveillance is. Follow me!" Silver ordered running in the opposite direction from where they just came.
"Hey I'm the leader and wjat I say goes! Right Espio!"
Espio followed Silver wordlessly while Vector muttered a few curses before following. Vector was starting to think that he didn't like the Silver haired teen too much…
A/n: Oh Vector...such a character. Originally in the scene where Sonic was being told to escape by Blaze and Knuckles the dialog between Knuckles and Blaze came across as kind of...shippy so I changed it. Anyways tell me what you think and see you guys next chapter.