The Vigilants: Chapter 3
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The Hideout
They arrive at the hideout, which was in a remote island that surrounded by mountains, and trees.
The team sees their giant warehouse, with a airfield strip with a large open room for the Tornado. Golden Mech piloted the ship, pulled out a device that opened the open room, and landed the ship.
Speedster and Breakmaster again carried the hedgehog to a bed that was apart of a pseudo-medical lab in the far right of the warehouse.
They placed him on the bed. Unaware on what to do with him. Wake him up? That's what they all thought. Until Golden Mech showed up with shackles in his hands.
Speedster then said, "The hell's with the cuffs?" He asked. Golden Mech looked at him and said, "Restraints. We don't who or what he is, and I'm not risking him getting us killed" he explained.
Wielder came forward and said, "I doubt that he'll take us down when all four of us are here together" she said confidently.
Breakmaster came forth as well, and said, "I agree with Gold. Even though I did suggest that he stay here, I do think that he should be restrained. We know nothing about him" he said. Golden Mech pondered on that for a short while.
Speedster chimed in saying, "-We know nothing, other than the fact that he landed from space. Don't forget that" he said, as he saw Breakmaster grunt at him.
Golden Mech then proceeded to attach the cuffs to the hedgehog's hands and to the steel bars.
Wilder looked at the cuffed hedgehog, and realized that it might be a bad thing if he wakes up. So, she went to Golden Mech who was walking to the headquarters room, and said, "Wait," she said, pulling on his jacket, "What happens when he wakes up and thinks that were kidnapping him or something?" She asked.
Golden Mech looked at her questionably, then replied, "How'd you come to that idea?" He asked to her.
Wielder sighed and explains, "Well, once he'll wake up, he'll realize that he doesn't know where he is. Added to the fact that he's cuffed to the bed, and is surrounded by four people in masks" she said to him.
He looked at the hedgehog, and at Wielder. Then, he said, "I did wonder on how he'll act when he wakes up. Assuming he'll wake up at all" he said.
Wielder then commented, "Last time we checked, he was still awake after the crater. So… I'd say a heavy amount of knock-out juice" she said jokingly. As she made her way to the quarters of the hideout.
Golden Mech decided to make research of his own. He grabbed a sheet of paper that was see-through, and a plaster of black ink.
He grabbed the two and made his way to the hanger where the unknown hedgehog, Speedster and Breakmaster are in.
He made his way forward and saw both Speedster hearing some news on a portable radio to his head, and saw Breakmaster eating a sandwich.
Golden Mech went up to the hedgehog on the bed, grabbed his left hand, placed his thumb in the black ink, smudge the inked thumb on the hedgehog and sealed it in a ziplock bag.
Speedster noticed this, and said, "Whatcha doin', buddy?" He asked.
Golden Mech said while zipping up the paper of the inked thumb, "Since we know nothing about him, other than that he landed here. I took the liberty of finding any DNA matches through the Kingdom, and this-" he said while holding the ziplocked bag, "Will help us know who he is on the Kingdoms database" he explained to Speedster.
Golden Mech then walked away and went back into the living quarters of the hideout. As that happened, Speedster looked upon the unknown hedgehog; getting a bit weary on who this person might be, but is hopeful that this person isn't a murderer.
Wielder then appeared for the front entrance of the hanger. She then approached Speedster, say the still unconscious hedgehog, turned back to Speedster and said, "Do you think Gold's right? That he's a threat?" She said as she looked at the hedgehog.
Speedster signed, got and told her, "If he was such a threat, we would've left him back in that pod of his, or to the military. He's just lookin' out for us. Time will tell" he said to reassure her. She smiled at his optimism at this situation.
Golden Mech was in his laboratory; small, but was doable at the moment. He placed the sheet that has the inked thumb print into a machine to analyze it.
The machine then used this to scan the thumb print to all DNA matches in the Kingdom. Which included: Military, Social Service, Medical, Business, Schools, Scientific Lab, and Criminal Records. None came up.
This somewhat confused the Golden Mech. Thinking, 'This hedgehog isn't on a list. Not a single one?! What the hell…' he thought.
He decided to look at every case. He knew it would take a long time, but it would confirm who this person is.
A few hours passed as they picked up the unknown hedgehog from a pod. Speedster, Wielder and Breakmaster were still in the living quarters, waiting on who this person was and chilling to pass the time.
Speedster and Wielder were eating a sandwich, then they saw Breakmaster approaching them. He came up to them and said, "Have y'all been hearing the news?" He asks. The two both shook their heads.
Breakmaster then lifted up his arm, pushed something on his device on his wrist, and brought it closer to the two. With that, "Listen" he said.
As they did, they heard a reporter's voice on the radio frequency. They heard the following: "Hello again New Mobotropolis. I, Kel Smite with New Mobotropolis News Network is here to present something that happened about four to five hours ago," said the reporter, "Neighbors complained that they heard a large sound near the outskirts of New Mobotropolis" said the reporter.
They both peared their ears closer to the radio. They heard the report continue, "A pod that seems to be apart of Robo-Tek. We've made contact with the Senior Manager and nephew of the CEO (Ivo Robotnik) of Robo-Tek, Snively Robotnik. What is the reason for the pod here?" The reporter asked.
Snively said over the radio, "I apologise for the mishap of what occurred presumably a few hours ago. One of our pods must have malfunction during a test, and crash landed to Mobius. I hope nobody was injured" he said over the radio.
Breakmaster snickered at the idea of anyone in high corporate ranks caring if anyone was injured, especially if it's Snively Robotnik; who has accessed of corruption for years.
The reporter then said, "Nobody was hurt. Unless you count their disturbance as an injury" he said joking. Snively laughed and said, "Good, good. Well, I'm happy to hear that it is all okay. Must take my leave now. Have a good day and don't forget to support your local Robo-Tek appliances" said Snively before leaving off the radio.
"Well" started the reporter, "That's the latest new of today, New Mobotropolis. Next up is-" said the reporter, before Breakmaster turned off the radio frequency on his device.
Speedster layed on the seat and said, "There goes salvaging the parts." Wielder looked at him and said, "Wait. You were gonna go pack there for parts?" She asked. He looked back and said, "Yeah. If it's from Robo-Tek, then it's bound to be good metal" he said.
Breakmaster looked back at the two and said, "Robo-Tek does have lots of goods. You can even ask Gold; considering the fact that he works there" he said to them.
"That reminds me" said Speedster, "He's been in the quarters for a while. I'm gonna check up on him" he said to Wielder and Breakmaster.
He walked out of the room, and entered into the living quarters. He entered into Golden's room to see a bunch of papers everywhere, and him laying his head on the table. With his hands around his temples. Seemingly stressed.
Speedster then said, "Hey, buddy, you alright?" He asked him. Golden looked back at him. He said, "No. I'm not. This doesn't make any sense" said Golden, as he pointed to the various papers around the room, "I mean, I scanned every damn surface of the Kingdom, and any other database throughout the world! There's literally nothing on him" he shouted. Standing up at this point.
Golden looked back to see Speedster back a little bit, "I-Im sorry… It's just-" he sat back down to his chair, "I'm getting a little stressed because of the fact that I can't find anything about him…" he said quietly to Speedster.
Speedster came up to him and said, "It's alright, Miles. I know that your worried or scared that this person can be a threat to all of us, but I'm sure that he'll do just fine. With enough convincing, I'm sure that we can help him" said Speedster with that same convincing smile he gives everyone. Golden smiled, hoping that Speedsters words are true.
As Breakmaster and Wielder were in the room, they began to hear a noise in the medical part of the hanger. They thought it was Speedster returning, but they heard more grunting louder and louder. That's when they realized that the black and red hedgehog awoke…
Golden Mech and Speedster sat down together on the chairs to the table; reviewing papers and finding any evidence that would lead to who this hedgehog was.
"Hey" Golden Mech started, "Do you think we're doing too much?" He asked to Speedster.
Speedster looked at him weirdly, and replied, "Finding who the dude is? I think it's reasonable to know who is in our hideout" he said with a small chuckle.
"No" said Golden Mech, "I mean, like, this. All this hero stuff. It just seems like we're taking a huge step" he said to Speedster.
Speedster didn't think about it like that. Taking a big step in the direction of vigilantes. He always took risks; he knew that it would lead him to good and bad, but he took them anyways. He saw this no different from becoming a vigilante with his friends.
Speedster signed and said, "Miles, becoming a vigilante was a big step for us. You know that, but… Taking risks is what less people do. They want to take the easy route and hope for the best. While us: You, Knuckles, Amy and I became something better. While the rest of New Mobotropolis, Megaopolis, Central Square, or Echidnaopolis ignored the problems, and went about their day - we stepped up and took at challenge. That's how I see it" he said to Golden Mech. Hand on his shoulder, smiling at him.
Golden Mech chuckled a bit, saying, "Thanks, Sonic. That helps with now" he said.
As he said that, they had both of their devices go off. They heard the calls of Wielder saying, "Speed, Gold, we need your help ASAP! He woke up" she shouted through the device.
Both of their eyes widened as they heard this. Without hesitation, they ran to the hanger where the hedgehog was.
They came in to see Breakmaster, and Wielder holding down the hedgehog with all the force they got. They seemed to be struggling as this one was more and more persistent. Speedster dashed over to hold him down as well, as Golden Mech ran over to get some sort of anesthetic to calm the struggling hedgehog.
Breakmaster screamed to the black and red hedgehog, "WE'RE NOT TRYING TO HURT YOU. STOP!" He said to his face, but it didn't budge as the hedgehog rocked more. Speedster shouted across the room to Golden, "How's the knockout juice?!" He said. Golden replied, "There isn't enough! This is so bad…" he said.
Golden decided to run over to assist with the three. They all were applying pressure to the hedgehog; hoping to tire him from using so much energy.
As the hedgehog began to rock back and forth against the three, his arms and hands began to grow a bright green, which was getting more vibrant. They noticed what was happening to his hands.
Suddenly, the light grew so large that it shined through the hanger. As a result, the force of that pushed the four blasted them back a few feet, and anything else in that radius.
The cuffs were now shackled to bits. The confused hedgehog saw his escape from the slightly opened hanger door. He budged out of the lower shackles and dashed to the hanger door barefoot.
The other were just getting up from the blast that the hedgehog did to them. As they got up, they saw him rushing to the front entrance.
Breakmaster, Wielder, and Speedster hauled to the dashing hedgehog; who was now already outside on the runway pads. Golden Mech hopped into the X-Tornado to chase after him above.
All of them were outside of the hanger now, and the hedgehog ran to the wooded areas. Hoping that the dark and his dark fur would blend in the night. Breakmaster, Wielder, and Speedster thought they lost him, until they saw the X-Tornado hovering above them, and shining a spotlight on the hedgehogs location.
The four saw where in the forest where the hedgehog was. They ran at top speed, and so did the hedgehog. It was like that, until the hedgehog blindly found himself in an open patch of the island. Golden shined the spotlight in his face; obstructing his vision.
The three on the ground circled him to they can try to calm him down, or knock him out in a last ditch effort, but what he did back in the hanger; they weren't sure that that would be the case.
The distraught hedgehog looked at every corner to see the three and the craft hovering with a light. Without thinking, the hedgehog used the same green energy to barricade himself, but felt more tired each moment doing so.
The three looks at what he was doing; they had no idea in how to counteract whatever he was doing. Physically stopping him would pressure him to attack them with that green energy. Not even Golden Mech had a theory on how to stop this; considering that he's a genius.
All they can do was to try calming the hedgehog from his current state of paranoia, fear, and confusion.
Suddenly, the hedgehog's green energy on his arms and hands began to disappear slowly. His legs seemed to be giving out slowly as well. It was like that, until he completely collapse on the ground.
They saw this as their chance, so they quickly ran over to the collapsed hedgehog to counter him before he can get up, but they saw that he was already down. So, they picked him up once again, and take him to the Tornado.
As they arrive back shortly, they placed the bed back to it's sopt, and placed him back in. They were extra weary now. Speedster still felt that he needed more time to adjust to whatever was happening.
As they placed him, the hedgehog slowly opened his eyes. Not fear, but somewhat droopy. Breakmaster, Wielder, and Golden still looked at him; bracing if he'll do the same trick again, but Speedster didn't think so, as he knew that the hedgehog was exhausted from his acts a little bit ago.
Nobody said anything, so Speedster decided to say something to ease the environment. He said to the hedgehog, "Are you alright?" He asked.
The hedgehog stared at him, looked down, and nodded to him. Speedster saw this as a good thing, because he was being responsive to him. Then, he asked, "Do you know who you are? Do you know anything?" He asked.
The hedgehog shook his head to Speedster, and shrugged to the question after that. Speedster signed; he knew that the other question wouldn't make sense. So, as a follow-up, he asked, "Do you speak Mobian? Or do you understand, but can't speak it?" He asked him.
He stared once again at Speedster. Looked around the room to the other three and signed to himself . Possibly in contemplation.
"Yes" he spoke quietly to Speedster. The four were dumbfounded; they didn't think that he could respond to those trivial question, but to speak.
Breakmaster looked at the hedgehog, and asked, "Why did you attack us?" He asked, with a hint of irritation in his voice.
The hedgehog didn't respond, but gave him a stare. Breakmaster saw this, and said, "So you not gonna talk all of a sudden, huh?" He said with a more aggressive tone.
Wielder pulled Breakmaster aside and said, "What the hell? He just spoke once and you're already interrogating him?" She asked. Already not liking how he's approaching the hedgehog.
Breakmaster replied with, "What? Dude blasted us, which could've killed us and was gonna do it again!" He said, trying to defend himself.
"But he didn't" said Wielder. Almost getting irritated by Breakmaster trying to intimidate the hedgehog.
"But-" that was all Breakmaster could say, before Golden looked at Breakmaster and said, "Stop. You're not helping the situation"
Breakmaster threw his arms in the air in a childish manner before saying, "Whatever" he said as he was walking to the living quarters, "If guys need me, i'll be in the living room" he said, disappearing to the quarters.
Wielder and Golden followed Breakmaster to talk some sense into him. As they left, all there was were Speedster and the mysterious hedgehog.
Speedster then said, "If you haven't noticed, they're my friends. We get into squabbles, but we make up at the end of the day" he said as he slightly chuckled.
He then looked at the hedgehog, who was still silent, and he asked, "Do you have any friends, family, or some other?" He asked; hoping that his encounter with Breakmaster didn't discourage him to talk.
To his surprise, the hedgehog said, "No… I don't have any that I remember…" he said while looking down to Speedster.
He felt pity for this hedgehog. Doesn't know what he is, no friends, or family, and not even his own name. Made him think that he wasn't just a survivor of the pod they found him on, but something else entirely.
Speedster looked down at himself. He was thinking of what he was about to do was safe for him and his friends. But, if he was going to have the hedgehog trust him, then he had to do it.
He took off his mask; revealing his civilian identity to the man, and said, "My name is Sonic, and my friends and I are The Vigilants: a group of vigilantes, or heroes if you will"
Author's Notes: Wooooo. Finally done with the third chapter. I felt that it was perfect to end it right there. Once again, feedback is appreciated, and see ya later!