CHAPTER 11
Lilly briefly described the plan to everyone. She would head back to the diner with two others and tell them about the cure to the viruses. After that, when they had more people in their group, they could take out the zombies in the city and then the people cured from the viruses will help them clean out the other towns. It was foolproof…hopefully.
"But…what about the people that have the T-virus, but not the G-virus?" Tails asked. "Should we round them all up, infect them, and then give them the cure to it all?"
"If we had a containment unit." Amy said. She got a gleam in her eyes and turned to Eggman. "You can do that, right?"
"Um…yeah. How big do you want it?" Eggman asked.
"Let's say about 1,000 feet in diameter and 1,000 feet in length." Amy estimated.
"Where the heck do you expect me to build this?" Eggman asked.
"Anywhere. Just…you can do that, right?" Silver piped up. "I mean, you won't need backup or anything?"
"I got robots. We should be fine. Do you want this built out of PlexiGlass?"
"Anything hard to break."
Eggman went over to a computer and typed something in. Then about twenty robots suddenly piled out of the nearby wall. It was rather crowded.
"Aaagh, everyone out now! Find a place that's 1,000 feet in diameter and length and build a containment unit!" Eggman shouted.
The robots nodded and climbed up the ladder. "They'll be immune to the viruses and they can get this done in about forty five minuets." Eggman said proudly. "Now we can work on our other part of the plan."
It was agreed upon that Knuckles and Sonic would accompany Lilly to the diner to tell everyone about the virus' cures. Shadow, Amy, Tails, Blaze, Silver and Eggman would remain at the base and make sure the robots weren't ambushed or anything while they built the cage thing.
"So we'll round up the T-virus victims…put a G-virus victim in with them…get them all infected, and then heal them completely?" Silver asked.
"You got any better ideas?" Amy asked hopelessly.
"It's so inhumane and cruel…" Silver shuddered. "I feel evil."
"Hey, Shadow, how're you feeling?" Blaze asked.
"Like someone smashed my head between a rock and another rock." Shadow groaned. Amy had found a pillow in one of the closets and had given it to him, but it didn't seem to be relieving him of his headache. "Are you sure I'm healed of the virus?"
"Lilly's about 98% sure." Silver said unhelpfully.
"I still think we've got some of the painkiller left." Blaze said. "You want it?"
"Please!" Shadow begged.
"Wow, he said please. This must be the headache of the century." Eggman muttered from the other room, where he was watching his robots work like mad.
They sat there for another few minuets. "This is kind of boring." Amy declared.
"At least you can walk." Silver said. "I've been dying to run around for the past six days!"
That was about when one of the screens on Eggman's computer cluster thing changed to Lilly's grinning face. "Guess what, guys?" She asked excitedly. "We've successfully healed three victims of the G-virus. Turns out the longer you've been effected the faster you recover. The group at the diner is great! They're the cause of the first three healings. We'll head back there a little later once we find all the G-virus victims and get them out there and healing."
Lilly's face disappeared from the screen and it went back to the robots working.
"Wow, I didn't expect that to happen." Blaze said. "This is great! Finally some good luck!"
LATER…
It was a little after dark that the group that went to the diner showed back up. "We've healed about twelve people, and then I think those twelve got more people, and it just spread. The only bad thing is that we're running out of syringes and we're out of one pack of blood." Lilly said. "Luckily, one of the survived was type O, and he volunteered to give some of his blood for the cause."
"Great job, Mom!" Tails cried. "Tomorrow I want to help you guys!"
"Remember that we still need to round up any T-virus victims too." Lilly reminded him. "Tomorrow we'll need some people to have that task."
"The cage is complete, so you can use it whenever." Eggman said. "I just can't wait until this nightmare is over."
"You're telling me." Knuckles sighed.
The next morning Lilly met a huge group of survivors at the diner. She handed out belts that she had made the night before that fit twelve syringes and two small bottles filled with blood. Pretty soon they searched the city and came back with more survivors revived from the blood.
Tails, on the other hand, lead a group to go through some of the buildings looking for any T-virus victims. After finding a fair few, he and his group lured them into the containment unit that was on the edge of town and got them trapped.
"This is almost easy." Blaze said. "Now all we need is someone with the G-virus."
"That's the hard part." Tails shuddered. "Maybe my mom can get some virus infected blood and we can just shoot it into them."
"Then that would be easy."
"Yep."
In the next search through the city they found only one person with the T-virus. After luring them into the cage they took a break.
"That luring part has me worried." Sonic mumbled. "That last time that guy almost got me."
"We just have to be careful, and then no one gets hurt." Tails said.
Later that day Lilly came to the unit with a large crowd following her. "I think we've got most of the city." She said happily. "Luckily one of the survivors knew where to get some more syringes because I was really beginning to run out. Anyway, after doing one more sweep of the city we're sending half the group out to another city to cure its inhabitants, and so on and so fourth."
"And if you can, get someone with the G-virus!" Sonic said. "We sort of need it." He motioned to the zombies trying to get at him through the thick wall of PlexiGlass.
"No probablem." Lilly held up a syringe that was separated from the others. "This has the blood of a G-virus infected victim."
Sonic took it and pretty much threw it at the nearest zombie. It stuck in its arm and the blood vanished into its veins. Within seconds it was moaning in agony as it began to grow fangs and claws. Its eyes changed from black to blood red. Its wounds and sores sealed.
Two minuets later the inhabitants of the containment unit were all infected with the G-virus.
"That went fast." Blaze remarked. "Now we just need to cure them."
"Got ya covered." Knuckles threw something that looked like an arm covered in needles over the barrier into the unit. Instantly, all the G-victims swarmed it, but backed off howling as the needles in the meat punctured their mouths. In a matter of five minuets or less, they were normal; their blood red eyes, teeth and claws gone.
"What…what happened?" Asked a white leopard.
"Um...pretty much everything." Amy said. "Come on out of there."
After explaining, the newly survived went with the group to do one last sweep of the city.
"Got any more of that G-virus blood?" Tails asked his mother. "It really works."
"I don't know…I suppose I should try to get more…" Lilly said thoughtfully. "When we rid the next city I'll work on bringing one victim back alive to get some blood."
The next day came and half of the survived moved on to the nearest city. Lilly successfully captured a G-virus victim, took a large amount of blood from them, and then cured them. With the new weapon of the virus, they could infect the T-virus holders and then heal them…all within twenty minuets each. Within twenty four hours, the entire place was almost back to normal. By five the next morning, both Emerald Town and the town closest were rid of the viruses. Many of the survived of both towns went on to the next cities over the next few weeks. It all went smoothly until the source of all the horror was left.
"The only city that's left that we know has zombies is Westopolis." Knuckles said a few weeks later. "We're taking a huge group out there, because it's the largest city out of all these. And we haven't seen Mephiles or Sinister for a while, have we?"
"If they're anywhere, then they'll be there for sure." Shadow muttered. "We have to be prepared to fight them. Out of all infected with the G-virus, I've never seen anyone as dangerous as Sinister."
It was true, after their encounter with Sinister and Mephiles, not one victim had been as dangerous as them. In fact, it was a bit of a shock.
"So when do we leave?" Knuckles asked.
"In about half an hour!" Lilly called from a building she was installing shutters in. The town had changed as well during the last few weeks. In addition to zombie hunting there were also cleanup crews that went into some of the public buildings and cleaned up the remains of zombies and other things. It wasn't the best job in the world, but someone had to do it.
"All right! Let's pack up!" Knuckles practically dived into the 'secret' base they had been camping out in. "Hey, guys! We're getting ready to depart for Westopolis!"
"I'm coming too!" Silver used some real crutches they had gotten from the hospital to go over to the entrance. "I can still fight, even though my leg isn't fully healed."
"Just because you got a real operation on your leg a week ago doesn't make it invincible, Silver." Blaze said, throwing things in a pile. "It still needs time to heal."
"But I can do this! Can you do this?" Silver used his psychic powers to throw all the guns that were lying around the base to come together to form a bizarre gun teepee thing in the middle of the room. "If you can do this then I'll be impressed. And besides, I have awesome defense!"
"Fine, if you shut up." Blaze threw some more things in the pile. "Hand this to Knuckles and tell him to hand it to Sonic and then tell him to put it in the van."
In no time at all they had all their supplies packed up in the van. "Ok, so are we leaving or what?" Knuckles asked from the driver's seat. "Come on!"
Lilly came to the driver's door. "Knuckles, this time, you're not driving."
"Aw, fine." Knuckles got out of the car reluctantly and hopped in the back among all the stuff.
Lilly turned to face the crowd that had gathered behind the van. "We're going to head to Westopolis! Make sure you have plenty of weapons and The Cure!"
Two minuets later they were on the road, in for a day's trip.
"Is it me, or is it kinda cramped back here?" Silver asked.
"It's just you." Eggman, Lilly, and Tails said at the same time.
"Why did he have to come again?" Sonic groaned.
"Because I said so." Eggman hissed. "And I have a laser gun."
"Which won't be used because we have things filled with the G-virus and other things filled with type O blood." Sonic muttered.
Eventually everyone stopped arguing and either looked out the window or fell asleep.
After what seemed like seven years in the car, Lilly finally announced, "We're here.