Visit From The Future

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Chapter 11 — Flying Lessons for dumbasses, only 99 cents

With Mac, Crystal & Sonic; Medical Bay

"What now?" Mac asked sitting down on a table.

"We need to get help, or at least find a way off this base." Sonic said as he held the cloth over the wound. It stopped bleeding but they couldn't find anything to wrap it with. He sat up, but he couldn't walk.

Crystal sighed, looking around. It was quiet; no one was in the medical bay, which kept bugging her.

"Okay then, I'll look for a safe way out, Crystal you watch my dad." Mac hopped off the table and began to walk towards the door.

"Wait, you can't do that. Boy you'll get killed! And that means Amy's gonna kill me!" Sonic said grunting as he tried to move his leg.

"What do we do then? Huh, you can't move, I don't want Crystal to get hurt. I have no other option!" Mac looked at Crystal.

Sonic saw his son's feelings for the girl. They were strong ones too, which really came as a shock to him. Mac didn't seem like the type that would stick with one girl.

"I'll be back, don't worry. You know me, I'll be fine." Mac winked at Crystal and opened the door. He peaked outside and walked out.

A weird silence covered the room. Sonic looked around whistling, he had no idea what to do. Crystal sat on a table and began to swing her feet. These two had never directly talked to each other. And now alone in the room, well it was awkward for them.

Sonic began to examine the girl carefully. She was red like Knuckles, and had short dreadlocks similar to him. She had Rouge's dark colored wings and was growing similar curves at very young age, noticing this made him feel like he was R. Kelly. She had the guardian symbol below her neck. Her dressing habit confused Sonic; it was almost like she was wearing short sweatpants and a short dress at the same time. They were colored pinkish red, something like that. She was wearing boots kinda like Amy's, they went up to just below her knee, and they were solid red.

This moron needs to think before he speaks;

"Crystal are you a virgin?"

Crystal eyes went wide and her cheeks flushed heavily, "Uh…yeah, I'm only thirteen."

"Oh…how long have you and Mac uh…"

Crystal felt awkward talking about this, "Not very long…it happened while we were here."

"Is he a virg—"

"—yeah he is, um…can we talk about something else?" She said cutting him off.

"Okay…oh, what's it like in the future? What am I like?" Sonic prayed in his mind that he was still the same.

Crystal decided to mess with him for a little bit;

"Umm there's no good way to put it," Sonic's eyes grew small, "Your bigger, as in fat…Ms Amy has gotten a bit 'thicker' and Mac and Katie aren't the only kids…"

Sonic was on the verge of crying…fat? And more kids?

Sonic gulped, "F-Fat? M-More kids? Like how many, all together, I mean."

Crystal hid her smirk, "Eight…"

Sonic's eyes were so small that all you could see the inside of his skull. His mouth now had huge drop, from his head to the ground. Eight kids? And Amy is fat too?

Crystal noticed to hedgehog begin to whimper. She couldn't hold in her laughter;

"I'm kidding, you're basically the same." She continued to chuckle.

Sonic wiped the sweat off his brow as his eyes returned to normal along with his jaw, "Whew…wait what to you mean basically?"

Crystal brushed back her short dreads, "Well you a bit taller and you're slightly more mature."

Sonic sighed with great relief, "A-And Amy? You were kidding about her too right?"

Laughing once more, Crystal nodded, "Yes, she's fine. My mom and her work out, so she's in shape."

Sonic sighed once more, if it had to happen, then at least she's in shape.

"Do you love Ms Amy?" Crystal asked because she had never seen him actually show affection for her.

"I don't know…and really right now I don't care, I'm only seventeen," Sonic sighed;

"This whole thing has me screwed up…its not that I don't care about Amy, its just that I don't want to know who I'm going to settle down with, and according to you guys; the future says it's her. Don't know how it happens, don't really care," He looked up at the ceiling;

"Right now I am dating Sally but same goes for her, don't care what happens. If it happens, it happens, that's just the way it is. If I end up with Amy, whatever, If I end up with Sally, whatever…anyone else; whatever. I don't want to think about my life as a father or husband," He leveled his head;

"I don't know about love…at least I don't think I do…Amy is nice girl and all but she's not at my level if you get what I mean. Sally, I don't know, she's okay and all but royalty is something I don't want to be a part of."

Crystal sat there, blown away. One simple question and she got all this, wow. She scratched her head and laughed nervously.

Sonic chuckled as he noticed, "Sorry, didn't mean for all that to come out. Love? I don't know, what happens, happens, that's all I know."

Crystal was about to say more went crashing came from the window near the door.

She screamed as she saw Mac's body on the floor. He had a few cuts on him and groaned as he got up;

"Get out of here! Now!" He yelled gripping a long slash on his arm. The corner of his mouth was bleeding and his cheek had a few cuts.

Crystal ran to him and looked at his wounds, "Crystal, I said now—"

Suddenly a soldier hopped through the window, he had a shotgun on his back. He had a black torso (Bulletproof vest) and his pants were a faded black. His gloves were solid black and he had a mask on. It looked all black metal; he had small eye pieces and some metal knee protectors. He had no weapon his hand; he probably threw Mac through the window.

Sonic ignored every pain in his body began to slide his body off the table and behind it for cover. Crystal wouldn't move;

"I'm not going anywhere! You get out of here!" She brought up her fists, her knuckle barbs were small.

The soldier chuckled, "You really think you stand a chance?"

He took the shotgun off his back and cocked it. Crystal flinched at his actions. She let out quiet whimper.

"What? I'm not scared to shoot you; it's not a problem for me. To me shooting you; is just another thing I do from day to day…" His chuckle sent a chill down her spine.

With the others; lower cells

Everyone looked at the red hedgehog, still hugging Julie-Su. She fighting back on account of everyone's safety. Rouge was in the cell with Cindy and the wounded Shadow. Knuckles growled as he could nothing, Knikatu was still being held hostage with a shotgun to his chin. Katie watched in fear as the heavy machine gun holder kept an eye on her. Everyone watched the hedgehog and the leader argue and cursing at one another.

"That's a direct f—king order! Don't think I won't shoot you," He drew a handgun from a holster on his rib area and aimed in the red hedgehog's general direction, "I said let her go! The order was to retrieve them and bring them here!"

Julie-Su looked away, scared for her life and fearing of what the red hedgehog might do to her, "I deserve this. After all my hard work? Being stuck on this damn island the only good thing here is my paycheck! You really think Eggman gives a f—k if I have some 'fun'?" He softly pet Julie-Su's cheek. She tried to leave his grasp only to be force back into a tighter hug. She flinched and whimpered as he nuzzled her again.

The leader clicked a button on the side of the gun. A blue beam came out, he slowly moved it to the hedgehog's forehead, "Last f—king chance, let her go," He lifted the gun a bit and fired a warning shot that just barely missed grazing the top of his head, "This time I won't miss, remember what I did to Tyrone?"

Tyrone: An elite Covert Op's class sniper, terminated by Special Op's leader, six days after being assigned with their group. Their objective was to raid a factory, but they crossed a village on their way.

He refused to obey his leader's instructions to leave women in a small village alone. When word reached his leader that he had raped one of the locals, his leader put a long silver steel bullet through his head. He left the body buried somewhere, stuff like that happen, never reached Eggman though; he only received reports of K.I.A's nothing more. Not that Eggman really cared that much about who died and how.

The red hedgehog growled, "…fine…open up the damn cell!"

The heavy gunner moved to the side keeping an eye and laser on Katie. He pushed some buttons;

"Katie, don't move. Do you understand me?" Amy whispered as she stood next to her daughter. She could tell what her move would have been, bolt out the door and go for help.

"Yes mom…I won't move." Katie gritted her teeth as she obeyed, glancing over quickly at the blue dot on her mom's chest. Her mind refused to do what her heart's intentions were; she stood still and watched Julie-Su walk in.

The leader put the gun back in its holster. He came up to the red hedgehog;

"There, f—king happy now?" He said with an attitude.

Instantly the leader threw a crushing punch to the hedgehog's stomach. He fell to his knee's gasping for air and coughing. He looked up and yelled some curses.

"Now I am, f—king asshole…" The leader turned around and walked to Knikatu and the soldier holding him hostage;

"Watch the red one, put him in the cell." He looked at the gunner and then at Katie, "Don't take your eyes off her," As the gunner open the cell again, the leader looked at the red hedgehog who was now trying to get up;

"And you, get your ass to the armory!" The hedgehog growled and began to walk away, he spoke to both of his soldiers as the door closed, "Don't let him near this cell—shoot him if you have to."

The gunner nodded, and the shotgun holder saluted him with two fingers. The leader began to walk off in a different direction.

Knuckles looked at the leader who grumbled to himself. Knuckles began to think about how he could be a killer and yet have respect for women like that. It struck him as weird as he could take Rouge hostage and yet save Julie-Su from the red hedgehog's sick intentions;

'Least he has some morals, f—king assholes.'

Knuckles walked towards Julie-Su, who was slightly crying and whimpered a little;

"Hey, you okay?" He asked very concerned, "I'm sorry, but they had Knikatu and Ro—"

"—its okay, I know…I know you would've helped if they weren't." She looked away, rubbing her arm. She wiped her eyes and sniffled a little.

"It's okay Julie, its okay." Knuckles comforted her by hugging her. Julie-Su shook a little in his arms.

With Crystal, Mac & Sonic; Medical Bay

Crystal flinched as pellets ripped through the metal of desk she hid behind. Mac sat with his dad, both badly wounded.

The cocking stopped after three shots, Crystal peaked over the desk. She saw the shot gunner reloaded. She heard few glass breaks.

Suddenly he fired at the window. He cocked it once more and shot at the floor in front of Crystal. He fired at the shelves; he was firing in a circle motion.

Suddenly she saw a purple figure appear in front of him. He jumped up and spin kicked him in the face. The metallic mask cracked and part of it broke off.

Espio kicked him in the face again, sending him through the windows. Crystal could hear the groans from the other side of the window. She stared at the figure, she could slightly remember him. She rarely ever saw him, he noticed her and took a defensive pose at first then relaxed when he notice the colors and that she was very young.

"Who are you?" He asked coming closer.

"Crystal, are you E-Espio?" She was still a bit shook up.

"Yeah, it's alright, relax. I'm here to help, where are the others?" He held out a hand. He pulled her to her feet.

"Mac and Sonic are over there," She pointed to the two wounded hedgehogs down on the ground, "We were separated from the others."

Espio scratched his head and sighed, "Damn, this is gonna be harder than I thought."

"Who sent you?"

"Well, Tails called me in, it was supposed to be a stealth mission, but the entire island is lit up with flashes and alarms. What happened?"

"I guess it's because we broke out earlier." Crystal looked at Mac.

He tried to smile but frowned when his wound stung him again. Espio walked over and crouched down in front of them;

"Like father like son," He chuckled, Sonic glared at him, "Hey it's true, you're an idiot for letting him go," he looked at Mac, "And you're even bigger idiot for trying to take on that soldier."

Mac flipped him off, "I was trying to protect them. If you can't appreciate that, then f—k you!"

"Damn, you are his son, you're only what? Twelve and you're already a shit talker." Espio looked at Sonic who now also held up a finger.

"Shut the hell up and help me up," Espio grabbed Sonic by his shoulder and pulled him up, "How do we get off this island?"

"I saw a ship port not far from here," Espio looked around, "Any idea where the others are?"

"No, we were put in different cells in different places." Crystal helped Mac up and let him lean on her.

"They're on the lower levels, by some armory. Eggman was stupid enough to tell me, he had so much faith in his two assassins," Sonic grew a smirk, "Dumbass made a bad move and now she's after him."

"It's a she? That thing had like a foot long tongue." Sonic rolled his eyes; Mac didn't always catch on as quickly.

"I'm talking about the red one—ah shit!" Sonic gripped his leg wound.

Espio crossed his arms as Sonic held his wound, "Damn, what are we gonna do? Look you can't run, he's injured and the others are in a completely different areas."

Mac wiped his lip, "Go look for them, we can hold out here."

"Hmm I dunno…that's big risk…"

Sonic grunted as he lifted his body up on to the table, "Just go, I'll look after them."

"You can't even walk—"

"—damn it Espio just go! Go find the other before something bad happens to them." Sonic closed his eyes as he pressed on his wound.

"Damn, what's eating you? Whatever, I'll be back."

"And hurry up! I'm still bleeding over here incase you forgot!" Sonic gripped his wound again.

Espio rolled his eyes as he walked out the door.

15 Minutes later; Near Cell

"You're an idiot you know that?" Rouge yelled hiding at the corner of the wall.

"Hey I got us out didn't I?" Knuckles cover his face as the bullets chipped the concrete pillar he was hiding behind.

Cindy and Julie-Su were trying to attend to Shadow's hand wound. It was bleeding slowly. He had torn glove and some skin from his knuckles to part of his fore arm. Cindy was ripping one of her gloves into a thin strap, so she could wrap the long wound in something.

"Shit, shit, shit! We got six more!" Knikatu yelled ducking behind small disable robotic attack droid. Shadow II crouched by Amy, watching her carefully. Katie hid behind them both of them as she watched Knuckles and Rouge argue.

"Knuckles, if you had just waited we could've avoided this!" Rouge yelled peeking around the corner quickly. Yep six more, a total of seven soldiers pinning them down.

"Hey, I got us out, be grateful!" Knuckles yelled over the gun fire.

Knuckles had strange feeling in his gut, like something was going to happen, and then he felt a tap on his shoulder. A soldier touched him with a hand gun. Knuckles acting on reaction quickly struck him in the chest before the same trick used on them before happened again. The blow loosened the soldier's grip on the gun and he fell to his knees. Knuckles kicked the gun over to Rouge, and picked the soldier up and had him in a choke hold.

"Call them off," Knuckles tightened his hold, "Now!"

A radio click sounded and static was in the background of his voice, "F—k you!"

Knuckles moved to the side a little bit and pinned the soldier against the wall, pull his head towards him and slammed it into the pillar causing a few cracks. The soldier fell to his knees and then flat, he wasn't dead, just out cold.

"Shoot back at them Rouge, they don't care if he's here!" Knuckles looked at Rouge who seemed kind of nervous holding the gun.

Knuckles looked around and kept his guard up. The soldiers had perfect view of everything. If he moved they'd see him, if anyone else moved, they'd see them. Although he still didn't get why they had them pinned down with constant gun fire.

"Do these guys ever run out of ammo?"

"They have a runner—"

Knuckles jumped as he suddenly saw Espio standing in front of him, "Damn! Don't do that, you almost gave me a heart attack Espio…wait what are you doing here?"

"I'm here to take you and your wife home," Knuckles growled at his comment as Espio smirked. He suddenly flinched when a bullet whizzed right behind his head, "Need some help?"

"Wow, how'd you figure that one out? Of course we do!"

"Jeez, whats your problem. You're just as edgy as Sonic!" Espio peeked around corner quickly, "Alright here's my plan, you bolt over to Rouge, as they focus on you, I'll go over there and take em out alright?"

"Why do I have to be the decoy?"

"Cause dumbass, they have us pinned down on both sides of this pillar!"

"I hate you people…"

"Just shut up and do your job!" Shadow finally shouted getting aggravated with the argument. Knuckles frowned and turned around and got ready.

"Knuckles don't worry, I'm sure if you get hit someone here knows how to pull a bullet out."

Knuckles looked back and glared at Espio, "Shut up…"

Espio turned around and crouched and counted down, "On three, one…two…three!"

Knuckles leapt forwards to the left and ran for his life. It was a ten foot sprint but it felt like a mile. Knuckles could hear the bullets cut through the air behind him. He jumped out of instant just to become a harder target. He looked to side and saw some still shooting at him and other firing randomly into the air beside themselves. One soldier suddenly flew forward and slammed into another soldier.

Knuckles wasn't paying attention for no less than six seconds and this idiot run straight into Rouge. I mean c'mon, bodies flying around are cool and all but how bad is your A.D.D. that you forget where and why you're running. (Sigh) Well, as I was saying, Knuckles ran straight into Rouge knock her down with him on top.

"Can't touch me, dun, dun, dun, dun," Espio turned invisible and back visible as he taunted the soldiers, "(Sigh) Okay I'm bored…let's get this over with." Espio turned visible and kicked one of the soldiers straight in the face. The area was quiet now. The soldiers were all knocked out and lying on the floor.

"Man, I was expecting more of a fight… (Sigh) how very disappointing." Espio dusted his hands and yawned. He walked back to where he expected Knuckles to be;

He looked around the corner and scratched his head, "Uh, Knux? You can get up now, you know that right?" Espio crouched down near him and noticed who he was on top of "By the way you two, there's kids around you so don't get to comfortable."

Knuckles was frozen stiff staring Rouge in the face, both of them red in the face and nervously trying to move, "Um…uh…I can't feel my body…"

"Alright lover boy, c'mon, get your lazy ass up, we need to get out of here." Espio yanked some of his dread and pulled him up.

Knuckles still red in face cleared his throat, trying to ignore what just happened. He couldn't move when he was staring in her right in the face, "Uh…yeah, so where do we go?"

"Alright is this everyone?" Espio looked around at everyone approaching him.

"What are you doing here?" Amy asked as she supported Shadow.

"I'm her backup." Espio pointed at Julie-Su. Everyone looked at her for answers

"Took you long enough to show up!" She shouted angered a bit.

"You should have waited! Why can't you wait for half an hour?"

"You're too damn slow! I left because I had to." Everyone's head changed from side to side as they watched the two argue.

"So why are you complaining? You left; it's your fault tha—"

"—don't make me kick your ass—" Amy grabbed and held Julie-Su from pouncing on Espio.

"—we don't have time for this! Let's get out of here before we get caught…again." Shadow II said stepping in.

"Alright," Espio looked at the wounded Shadow, "What happened to you?"

"I got shot, what do think? Now then, can you please get us out of here?" Shadow shouted getting annoyed with the constant subject changing.

"Wait, what about my dad?" Katie asked suddenly stopping everyone from moving.

"First of all, let's not stop, we already know that's a bad idea." Shadow yelled gripping his wound.

"Calm down, jeez what's wrong with you people. Breath and relax, Sonic's fine, he's in a med bay in the upper levels with the little red bat girl slash echidna thingamajig and the blue kid." Rouge glared at Espio for his little insult;

"Alright c'mon you bunch of lazy bums, let's move!" Espio led the group back towards their cell.

He showed them a staircase on the side of the side, it was a small passage way hidden. They moved quickly up the stairs and through the maze of the internal structure of the facility, lots of big words in that sentence.

Later, Medical bay

"I'm bored…" Mac whined again as he rocked his hanging feet as he sat on the table.

"Will you shut up? You've been bitching non-stop lately, damn you're annoying!" Sonic's tiny nerve line finally snapped.

"See dad, if mom was here you would've slapped twice already—"

"—how many times do I have to tell you to shut up, god I wish I a had something hard to hit you with—"

"Sonic the hedgehog! How dare you talk to him like that?" Sonic recognized the voice immediately, Amy, "Oh my baby! Mac what happened to you?"

Amy ran over to Mac and looked at his body. She examined every little blood stains and bandages wrapped around his head. She hugged him tightly and glared at Sonic;

"Don't you ever talk to him like that again!" She slapped him suddenly.

"Ow! What? He is, he's been bitching—" Another slap ended Sonic's sentence, "Damn it Amy!"

"You deserved it." Amy crossed her arms and held her chin up.

"Espio, couldn't you have left her behind?" Amy gasped at him.

"Alright, that's it! Enough, lets get off this freaking island before you guys drive me insane! Damn I haven't been with you guys more than an hour and already my head hurts!" Espio grabbed the nearest roll of cloth;

"Here, wrap Shadow's hand with this and let's get the hell out of here!" Espio tossed it to Cindy who was undoing the glove cloth wrap on Shadow's hand. Shadow II caught the roll and started attending to his father.

"Okay, quick question. How do we get out of here?" Knikatu asked speaking up.

"We have two options. First one, we could take the tiny boat thing I came on," Espio looked around, everyone shook they're heads, "Okay…anyone know how to fly a helicopter or steer an assault boat? Cause I have no idea how…"

"Say what?" Knuckles couldn't believe what he was hearing, "Wait, wait, wait, you mean to tell me you came here to save us and you don't even know if you can get us off this island?"

"Hey it's not my fault, this was rushed. Tails panicked and forgot to tell me this was an island! So what, we don't know how to drive a helicopter how hard could it be?"

Knuckles growled, "Whatever, let's just take the boat, how small is it?"

"Eh…" Espio shook his hand gesturing a way that meant 'okay'.

"Eh? What the hell, how many could it fit?"

"Umm probably all the kids, and maybe me and two others. We'd be cramped though, but thing about that is…"

"The rest can't fly and follow along." Knuckles crossed his arms and growled to himself silently.

"We could steal an assault boat like I said before—"

"I said we take the helicopter!" Mac said loudly, "I don't like boats, makes me sea-sick."

"Mac this is not the time! No one here knows how to fly a helicopter!" Sonic said struggling to stand up.

"Will you people just make up your minds?" Shadow growled, this stupid argument was getting on his last nerve.

"What are our chances of taking the assault boat?" Julie-Su asked walking into the conversation.

"Eh…"Espio made the same hand gesture.

"You have no clue what your talking about, do you?" Sonic asked sarcastically.

"Now I wouldn't say that, it's that these people have guns, tanks—"

"Alright that's it; we're taking the damn helicopter! Because I said so and if anyone wants discuss it they tell it to my foot when I shove it down your throat now lets get the f—k outta here! Now!" Everyone stare at the little red bat girl that just a rage breakout.

"Okay! You heard the lady; we're risking our lives and taking the helicopter!" Crystal glared at Mac who motioned everyone to get going.

"Everyone cool with that?" Espio asked around group. Everyone answered with a nod or a 'Yea'

"We're gonna listen to a thirteen year-old? Are you out of your damn minds?" Knikatu asked like if everyone in room right now was an idiot.

"Knikatu, don't start it again, let's just get the heck outta here." Shadow II said quickly before anyone else could start bitching again.

"(Sigh) Dumbasses…" Rouge looked back and glared at him, "I meant the dad and the others mom! You know that, I'm not trouble am I?"

Helicopter Depot & Airfield; Everyone

Outside looked like a bomb squad was on alert. Sirens were running like crazy and red lights were flashing. They hid in a small ditch like area on the edge of the airfield. It was dark outside, without the lights it'd probably be pitch-black. Sonic and Shadow lay next to each other as Espio and the others peeked over the ditch edge and kept a look out.

"Okay, who wants to run out in the open, and risk their life dodging millions of armor piercing bullets, while I get us to a helicopter?" Espio looked around for a volunteer.

"(Deep breath) I…" Shadow paused, "Volunteer…that Knuckles risks his life."

"You must be out your damn mind." Knuckles spiked back, "Why can't you be the decoy?"

"Because I'm special—"

Knuckles rolled his eyes, "—got that right."

"Shut up and get your ass out there." Espio yanked on Knuckles's dreadlock and pushed him towards the air field.

Knuckles growled as he move forward, "Stupid wussy-ass chameleon." He crouched down and kept out of sight. He moved towards a parked armored vehicle.

Espio turned around and looked at Sonic and Shadow, "(Sigh) now the hard part…how do we get you on a helicopter without attracting attention? I can't carry Sonic without slowing down a lot."

"Rouge could take him, she shouldn't have a problem." Rouge shrugged at Cindy's suggestion. It really didn't matter to her.

"Hmm…this seems too simple, you know what I mean?" Rouge asked having a weird gut feeling.

"Who cares, dad's got them distracted right now; let's get the hell outta here!" Knikatu stepped on the road of air field, "C'mon let's get going before something happens, it's clear!"

Rouge walked over to Sonic and lifted him onto her shoulder. Shadow rose to his feet and began to follow Amy and Cindy. Crystal and Mac followed behind Julie-Su and kept close just incase anything happened. Shadow II and Knikatu followed Espio closely. They walked in the darker area of the road and headed towards where Espio had seen some helicopters before.

Eggman's Base; With Night

She turned the door knob and looked inside. A few blinking lights and the slight view of a long hallway. She tried to look ahead. She walked on and noticed there were no more lights.

It was dark, so dark she could even see the slight outline of her hand. She pressed the side of her helmet and looked around. Through her eyes the room was dark blue, she could see vague shapes. She looked at her hands and body, mix of yellow, orange, and red. She looked ahead and could see a path the turned to the right.

She went ahead and followed it. She peeked around the corner and saw a big room. She crept into the large room. She turned off the heat vision and looked around. A few bright screens were on the surface of a long row of computers. She walked up to one and examined the screen.

It was a radar screen with a simple picture of the island. It was on a gridline map, and it read; Outlying sea ships destroyed. She read the bright warnings in red, Incoming SS-1 Drop ships…general infantry assault boats on approach.

"Gotcha," Night heard a gun cock right next to her, "Drop it…it's a magnum. One shot goes straight through your head…"

Night dropped her weapon in her left hand, "Lucky…" She turned her head slightly and saw his shape, the room was dark and the only light came from the dim screens.

"Give me the sword," Eggman adjusted his fingers on the gun, "Now."

Night had no choice; she slowly pulled it out and slid it off to the side. Eggman motioned her with the gun to get up. He held it to her head;

"Don't even try it," Eggman put his foot on the gun she had her foot on, "Now then, you're going to be my escort out of here, understand?"

Night growled under her breath, she had no choice.

With Knuckles

"Yo momma was my bitch for the past seven years and then I left because you came out!" Knuckles yelled ducking under gunfire. This was the most fun he had ever had considering what was currently happening. He took a liking to his distraction job, though he was pissing off a lot of people with his remarks.

"Tell your mom to stop calling me! I don't do humans!" Knuckles smirked as he sprinted for a wedge in between two cargo crates next to each other. He crouched down and ran back out jump quickly to the side when he saw a spark or heard a ping off the corners and sides of stuff.

"You can kiss my red ass, I already have your sister sucking my—" A loud and deep whipping sound shut him up. He looked up and saw a helicopter scouting for him.

For some reason the speaker was on and he could hear an argument, "He's right there! The only red guy down there! Are you f—king color blind?" One said, Knuckles noticed a gunner sitting on the side of the helicopter holding something. Knuckles started running in any direction.

"Shoot that asshole!" Someone shouted as it chased him from above;

"If you would steady the damn thing I could!" Someone yelled back.

"Damn it Mike, help that idiot! I'm going in lower; make sure he has the safety off this time!" Man, no wonder Eggman never uses an air force.

The helicopter lowered in height and came closer to the ground. Knuckles was running so fast that he would give Sonic a run for his money, "Headshots are fun, but this time; nuts here I come!"

Knuckles eyes went wide; these people were having too much fun. Knuckles was amazed at how fast he was running. Then again a helicopter chasing you, and a dude aiming at your area might have been the best motivation. He heard ping just in between his legs as he ran;

"You have no f—king aim! Give me that damn sniper rifle," It was a third person, "Say goodbye punk!"

Knuckles looked to the side and saw a small wedge between two tank cargo crates (Long steel things that house tanks that on not in use but being moved.)

Who ever was the shooter shouted; "Shit, it missed? Dan, stop playing with the f—king slinky and help me!"

"He's right there get him—arrgh f—k it! Let's drop in and get him." One long rope was thrown down the side of the helicopter and unrolled close to the ground. Another was thrown down too, immediately a soldier slid down holding a gun and another holding a long barreled rifle.

"Hurry the f—k up, I'm running out of gas up here! And make sure you kill the right one this time!" The pilot shouted over the speaker.

With Espio and the others; finally found a helicopter

"How do you work this damn thing?" Espio hit the dash board, "Arrgh, where's Tails when you need him?"

"Espio, the stupid radio can wait, just get us in the air!" Julie-Su yelled shaking the seat that he was in.

"Alright calm down, is everyone in safely?" Espio started turning knobs and flipping switches.

"I think so," Julie-Su looked back and started counting heads, "Amy, Cindy, blue kid, Crystal, both Shadows, Sonic and…wait we're missing Rouge and the other kid!"

"Go get them! I just found out this thing has an E-Z-auto pilot, so hurry up!" Julie-Su rolled her eyes as the helicopter's blades sliced through the air as the started up.

Julie-Su ran out the side and looked around for Rouge and Knikatu. She walked carefully around the depot area. It was almost like a simple maze, easy to get out but hard to find something in it.

"Mom, we have to go now!" She could recognize that voice; she turned the corner and saw Knikatu trying to drag Rouge back towards the direction of the helicopter.

"Knuckles is still out there! We can't leave without him!" Knikatu ignored her shouts; he kept trying to pull her. But his mom was just as strong as him.

"Rouge, c'mon we have to get out of here!" Julie-Su said as she ran towards them.

"We have to get Knuckles, we can't leave without him!" Rouge struggled to get out of her son's grip.

"C'mon help me, get her hands," Julie-Su with hard work finally gripped Rouge's hands and then Knikatu grabbed her legs and they took her away. Rouge kicked, wiggled, and cussed but they wanted to get off this island and she wasn't going to stop them.

They made it to the helicopter; although Rouge's constant kicking was getting on Julie-Su's last nerve. Well as they forcibly strapped Rouge and had Knikatu watch her and make sure she didn't jump out.

Suddenly they heard shouting;

"Hey wait! Don't leave me!" It was Knuckles running for his life. They could see the floor chip away behind as the bullets hit the ground. Knuckles jumped towards the opening of the side, only to be instantly hugged by Rouge;

"Go!" He shouted as caught his breath. Knuckles noticed no motion in the helicopter, "C'mon let's move!"

"I can't this stupid thing in the air! It won't go up, the autopilot isn't working!" Espio hit the control handles in front of him, they all felt a rise in the helicopter, "Damn I'm good!" Everyone rolled their eyes.

"Idiot…" Julie-Su said to herself. She was sitting in the seat next to him.

"Okay…which direction now?" Espio looked to Julie-Su for an answer. She groaned with aggravation beyond belief.

"Oh my f—king god…" Sonic smacked his face.

"Yep, we're gonna die…" Shadow crossed his arms and awaited their fate.

I wonder if Eggman has anti-air guns on his base, or is he just as stupid as Mac? He might be, the only airborne helicopter doesn't have mini gun or rockets, just gunner positions which aren't good for aircrafts.

"C'mon man, we don't have time for this! Just pick one!" Knikatu shouted waving forward harshly.

"Okay, let's hope we don't die!" Espio tilted the controls forward a little bit, the helicopter moved forward.

To their amazement nothing came after them. Knuckles kept looking back and notice the island had its own, more important concerns. He saw armored boats land on the beach side. Other helicopter landed as well, he saw two jets cut through the air and bank around the island. To everyone's relief they were being ignored as they fled, probably because it was dark, and the helicopter was silent…or something close to that.

"Aww…that's so cute!" Julie-Su looked back and couldn't help but say it.

Mac and Crystal had both fallen asleep and were leaning on each other. Crystal had her head on his shoulder and he rested on her.

"I'm about to go to sleep too…I'm so damn bored…can we go back and help in the assault?" Espio said looking back for answer, only to receive several glares.

"What think happened to Eggman?" Knikatu asked, it had been on his mind constantly. It was the original reason of there voyage, till everything else happened.

"I don't care, I'm gonna go home and I'm gonna eat something and go to sleep for next few days…um Rouge?" Knuckles raised an eyebrow as he just now noticed.

"Yeah?" She looked at him;

"Can you let go of me now?"

"Oh!" She let go of him and blushed slightly, "Sorry."

"Well…drop me off at the hospital, incase you forgot, I have a bullet wound and it's still bleeding!" Sonic shouted softly, not waking up the little red bat girl that could kick his butt easily.

"You'll live," Amy glared at Shadow who made the smart remark.

"And what about you?" She asked.

"Whats it to you?" He spiked back playfully.

Shadow II kept to himself, as did Cindy and both chuckled quietly at some the talking. Katie was sitting down quieter than ever, in deep thought. She leaned against the inner walls of the helicopter;

"All this…for nothing…" She said sadly.

"Huh?" Sonic focused on her now, "What'd you say Katie?"

"We went through all this…for nothing." She looked out the side of the helicopter and down at the dark blue waters.

"I wouldn't say that, look we've all bonded greatly; I think all this happened for a reason." Amy smiled as she looked around, it was kind of true.

"I don't know what you're talking about; the only thing I bonded with was a bullet and medical cloth." Amy glared at Sonic, who only smirked back;

"Espio how far are we?"

"Eh…"

"Okay that's getting annoying now, are we close or what?"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're almost to a good landing site on the beach."

"Why the beach?" Sonic asked because it made no sense to him.

"You know what they're gonna do if we fly an unidentified military class helicopter over the city?"

"Oh…" Sonic looked out the side and saw the city light; it looked like they were right at the beach not too far away from the Mystic Forest;

"Finally…we're home, okay, who wants to help me get to a hospital?"

"Sorry you're on your own there buddy!" Knuckles chuckled as he felt the helicopter slow down and lower down.

"Shut up lover boy." Amy rolled her eyes, here we go again.

"And what about you? You seemed pretty happy hugging Amy for what? An hour at her house?"

"But who's the one kissing Rouge in the back room and on the island; out of free will might I add." Knuckles blushed heavily, he did do that.

"Well you know what? I say—"

"—do you two ever stop? Shut up already, you're both in love just admit it!"

"Nobody asked you Shadow!" Sonic and Knuckles yelled in unison.

Ha, I'll never stop this, it's too much fun.

I think I'm addicted to this…

Well I'm out R&R