CHAPTER 13

Without a second to spare, Lilly and Tails returned with more of The Cure. Shadow wasn't fully infected, but it had been close, once again. Sonic was saved by Amy's bullet, and now both Sonic and Shadow were sitting on the ground, looking confused.

"Um…Ok, all I remember is that Mephiles stabbed me in my gut, and then I died, or something. Now I'm here." Sonic said. "And why did he die and I'm still here? You friggen' shot me in my leg, I should have bled to death!"

"Amy pretty much blew out Mephiles' heart, he couldn't have survived that if the bullets had The Cure on them. Your wounds healed because they weren't severe." Knuckles said.

"Why am I still alive?" Shadow asked.

"Because Lilly and Tails saved you…again." Knuckles sighed, looking bored. "That past few minuets were quite a scare for us all."

Blaze and Silver pulled up in the red van outside the alley. "Hey, you guys! Are you coming or what?" Silver called out the passenger's window. "But if you're coming, I'm not moving from the front seat!"

"You won't believe how good Eggman is at killing off the G-virus." Blaze added. "It's kinda scary."

Everyone loaded up in the back of the van where Eggman was sitting. "How many zombies did you turn back to normal? I got twelve." He said proudly.

"Yeah, well, we killed the zombie of all zombies." Sonic said.

"Even though he technically killed two of us." Amy added.

"So how much of the town is back to normal?" Sonic asked.

"A good half of it. It's going pretty fast, and I'm surprised." Blaze said. "So what happened with you?"

Everyone quickly launched into their epic tale of death, pain and fear.

"Wow, you killed him?" Silver asked excitedly. "Geez! I wish I could have been there."

"No you don't." Shadow shuddered. "I think I lost like, a gallon of blood."

Blaze parked the car outside of the city hall, where a lot of other cars were gathered around and parked. "This is our new base." She said. "Come on, let's see if they need more supplies."

Everyone entered into the hall to find a huge group of people busy making belts equipped with The Cure and some G-virus ones, just in case.

"How's it going, guys?" Blaze asked.

"Pretty good. I think about half the town's back to normal." Said one of the workers. "We're doing really well."

"I wish I could help more." Silver muttered, clunking over to a chair nearby and practically flopping onto it. "Stupid leg and stupid crowds and stupid zombies!"

"You did kill one." Eggman said.

"Yeah, that's right!" Silver puffed out his chest. "It was really hard, because he was about to eat Blaze, but I got him! It was epic!"

"Good for you." Knuckles said lamely.

For the next hour everyone helped supply the zombie hunters with belts full of The Cure. Then it began to get dark.

"I'm going to do another sweep of the city before it gets too dark." Blaze said. "Who's coming?"

"I will." Sonic said.

"Me too." Knuckles said. "Let's go."

The three of them headed out to the car. Blaze got into the driver's seat and began to drive.

"So where are we off to?" Sonic asked from the back. "Somewhere dangerous, I hope."

"Sort of." Blaze replied. They drove to a small park thing. "This is where Sinister was last spotted."

"Oh, we have to get him now?" Knuckles said, glancing around. "Shouldn't be too hard."

"I don't know." Blaze handed them both a shotgun. "Just in case. I have The Cure, just make sure he doesn't sneak up on me."

The three of them got out of the car and looked around slowly. "How long ago was he spotted?" Sonic asked.

"About an hour ago." Blaze said. "He either decided to stick around here or he's long gone by now."

"I sort of hope he's gone." Sonic muttered.

The park seemed to be bathed in dark light. Everything around them seemed to be a great place to hide and wait to ambush. They went back to back. "What are the chances that we'll survive?" Knuckles asked.

"One in ten." Blaze said plainly. "Possibly less."

"Great, this aughta be fun."

"Um, guys?" Sonic squeaked.

"Yeah?"

"I'm gonna say chances of survival went down somewhere to the 0.38 percent range, because he's charging us!"

Blaze and Knuckles spun around to see Sinister launch himself at Sonic, who shot wildly.

Blaze whipped out her sword and sliced through Sinister's arm. He backed off looking very angry. Blaze gripped the syringe filled with The Cure tightly. She just needed an opening to get at him…

Sinister charged at Knuckles, who began to parry his attacks and shoot at his face. While he was distracted, Blaze jammed the needle into Sinister's neck.

Sinister fell to the ground and tried to run away but Blaze had stomped her foot firmly onto his back. "You're not going anywhere but to jail." She hissed.

"What happened? Where am I?" Sinister yelled, trying to break free. "What's going on?"

"You know. Don't play dumb." Sonic growled. "You're the cause…and finish…of this terror."