You know, I haven't been making the chapters for this story that long. I apologize for this. I just don't seem to be able to make myself do longer chapters for this story. I have no excuses! Oh well…here is Chapter 14.

While Eggman was speaking with Mech, the twins were in one of Eggman's "guest rooms" which was more like a slightly nicer, larger jail cell without bars in it. There was a bunk bed in the corner, a bathroom off to the side, and a small table in the center of the room. The walls were an undecorated gray, and there were various cobwebs in the corners. Currently, Yume was lying on the bottom bunk, and Akumu was on the top one.

"Quite an adventure we've gotten ourselves into, isn't this Akumu?" The bat-boy turned his head down to look at his sister.

"Yeah, I suppose," Akumu admitted, positioning an arm under his head like a pillow (the beds didn't have any).

""You suppose?" Yume asked. "Well, if this isn't an adventure, then I don't know what this is."

"A mission," Akumu suggested. "You're enjoying this whole thing, aren't you?"

"It's more exciting than anything back home," The hedge-girl replied. "I mean, come on. In the last few days, we killed a robot, got put in jail, busted out with our parent's arch-enemy, and are now hiding in an underground base. At home, the only exciting things that happen are when we go steal stuff with Mom, and that won't be happening if we don't save her."
"Don't you realize the risk in this sis?" Akumu asked, leaning over the edge of his bunk to look his sister in the eyes. "There are lives at stake, especially our own. We're with a madman, a cowardly robot, an emotionless Chaos Magician, and we're against a huge army of cyborgs!"

"The risks are what make it exciting," Yume explained. "If there were no risks in life, it wouldn't be very fun, now would it? Everything would be dull and boring without a chance that something out of the ordinary able to happen. That's why people gamble, or play sports. It's for the excitement and testing of skills, even though you can lose something. That's one of the reasons we steal stuff, or why Mr. Sonic fought Eggman. It's for the risk, and excitement of getting past it."

"Nice lecture," Akumu muttered. "I will admit, you have a point. So then, do you know what we do now?"

"Planning is usually your job, remember?" Yume reminded him. "Besides, I'm sure Eggman will come up with something. He is supposed to be an evil genius, after all."

"Whatever," Akumu said, lying back down. "My watch says it's three in the morning. I'm going to sleep."

"Three a.m. already?" Yume asked. "That was fast. 'Kay then, good night Akumu."

"Night Yume." With that, the twins eventually drifted off to sleep.

In a similar room in Cybex Capital, a certain white bat woke up. The room was quite dark, only illuminated by a dimmed light in the ceiling.

"Where am I?" thought the bat. This was none other that Rouge the Bat, who quickly remembered what was going on. "I was captured, and taken somewhere by…Shadow? It sure didn't seem like him. I mean, the hedgehog that kidnapped me looked exactly like him, but it couldn't have been him. How long have I been here?"

With her eyes adjusting to the light, Rouge looked around at the other cells nearby. She could make out the figures of people she knew nearby, all so still. Knuckles and Blaze. Cream and Tails. Sonic, Amy, and even their daughter were present, all of them not moving. Were they dead? Rouge's sensitive ears picked up the sound of breathing. They were asleep.

"How did we all end up here?" Rouge asked in her head, the question answering itself. "Somebody wants us for something." It was obvious, but "why" was still uncertain. Rouge also wondered why everyone was sleeping. Surely some of them would be awake, right?

"I wonder if this means Shadow is here." The thought was sudden, but it was possible. Maybe Shadow was thrown into a cell like this when he went after Eggman, and he couldn't get out. Whoever kidnapped them had taken Shadow first, and only now had decided to finish the job. Suddenly, Rouge heard footsteps coming toward her.

"Ay, it seems as if this one woke up," a voice said. A figure, most likely male in the dark came into view, features shrouded by the lack of light. Another joined him, female this time.

"I'll take care of it," The woman figure said, sliding open the door. Before Rouge could escape, she felt something cold on her arm.

Then there was nothing at all.

Blah. Unexciting chapter. Blah. Oh well, it works, I suppose. No real comment, otherwise. Yay. See you later.