Chapter 3:
"Do you think anyone knows we're here Sonic?" Asked Amy, her head rested on his shoulder, "I don't know, but someone will find us." Said Sonic in a cheerful voice, he didn't feel cheerful though, every day, some new kind of torture was tested on the prisoners, Darlaska always watched them and robots conducted them. Mighty and Honey had been there the longest, "Someone find us? Here? Sonic, stop lying, we're twenty feet beneath the ground, no one is going to find us here. At least, no one that will survive long enough to free us." The conversation was interrupted as the cell door opened and Shadow was tossed in, in his place, Rouge was dragged out. "Hey Shadow, what's up?" "Don't you dare be funny with me, hero." Snarled Shadow, Sonic blinked, that had stung. "Now just wait a moment..." "Stop it!" Pleaded Tails. "Tails is right Sonic, Shadow, we shouldn't be fighting, we're all we have." Quiet descended on the prisoners after Amadeus's statement, even though some of them ignored the truth, Amadeus was right, they were all they had.
"So what now?" Asked Charmy who was getting bored with watching Vector trying to learn how to ride an EX G board. "We could play a video game." Suggested Wizard, Charmy had aced the test that Wizard gave him with an EX G that the green fox had given him that Wizard had made himself, it was called Flash Sting. "I want to play candy land!" Proclaimed Charmy. Espio watched, expecting Wizard to say no, to his surprise, Wizard smiled and said yes. "Yay!" Charmy zoomed away to get the game. Wizard caught Espio's puzzled glance. "Well which would have been better? To accept or refuse? And besides, I like Candy land." "You've finally got it Vector!" Said Jan-la, her voice full of praise. Vector smiled, "Well how could I have failed with such a pretty instructor?" Asked Vector, Espio, Wizard, and Ahri all pretended to hurl at the same time, then they rolled their eyes at each other to say, "Sometimes our friends can be disgusting can't they?"
Amikus looked at his hut, and then at the bow and quiver hung on the wall, he took it off the wall and put it on. and took the pistol from it's case and put it in it's holster, the sword had been at his side since the morning. He looked around, gathered the last few of his more important possessions and left unimportant ones that he couldn't carry, such as extra food, for the animals. He carefully took apart his house and then looked at the pile of neatly stacked wood that had served him so well, but he was practical, and being practical in this case meant not moping about a hut that was now just a pile of wood, he turned his back on it and walked off, towards the Chaotix detective agency were he and his team would be staying.
The other members of the Jan had vacated their homes and come to the detective agency, Vector was suddenly unsure that they would be able to hold all the guests until Espio pointed out that Vector had the biggest room and that he usually fell asleep with his headphones on in the office so he could give his room to three of the guests. Espio had the smallest room so he could only share with one, Charmy could share with two. In the end, Amikus found himself with Espio, Espio, seeing that he would need to hang his bow and quiver up, took down some of his pictures. "You don't need..." "It's my choice, and it could get snapped on the floor, Charmy sometimes whacks himself and lands on the floor." Amikus thought about this for a moment, then he bowed, "Thank you Espio, I really appreciate your thoughtfulness." Espio bowed back to him, "I accept your thanks, your very welcome, if you need anything else let me know and I'll get it for you if I can." Suddenly a high pitched, annoying voice sounded, "Oooh, Espio's finally found a freak friend like himself!" Yelled Charmy. "Shut up!" Amikus and Espio roared.
Darlaska spun his chair to face Fang, "Now Fang..." The sound of Nack swallowing seemed very loud, "Y...yes?" "Why did you desert me all those years ago?" Silence. "Well now you have a chance to redeem yourself, if you succeed I won't kill you." Nack was immediately bowing and practically scratching his nose against the floor, "What is it you need me to do? I'll do it without fail sir!" Darlaska smirked, Nack was now completely under his control. "Yes, you have to if you want to live, now here is what I want you to do..." Nack's eyes widened in fear, "Kill the Air Masters and Babylon Rouges?"
A green hawk known as Jet yawned and stretched as much as he could in his armchair. Someone knocked on the door, "C..." Suddenly the door burst open, Wave and Storm fell in, Storm on top of Wave. "Get off me you great klutz!" Storm rolled off her, "Sorry." "What is it?" Asked Jet irritably. "You have a visitor." Said Wave, "Hey! I was supposed to say that!" Complained Storm, "Oh be quiet! Who is it?" " An echidna named Scarrvy." "An echidna? I thought that red echidna was the only one left?" "It appears not." "No, there are others, but few." Said an orange echinda walking in. "Hope I'm not intruding." "Just get on with it, what's this job?" The echidna was orange, with blue EX G racer glasses, two locks of green hair, a dark blue bandana around his neck, chest fur, blue eyes, a blue shirt, white gloves, blue camo pants, and blue, white and black runners. "I have a job for you, I'd like you to assist the Air Masters in finding and defeating the person trying to assassinate them, because if I'm right, you'll probably be safer that way, from what I know, they are also trying to assassinate you." "Too right we are." They whirled, Nack stood in the door way grinning insanely, the gun sounded four times, glass shattered, and four figures fell towards the distant ground. Nack grinned down at the receding forms, "Sayonara suckers."
"What's going on?" Asked Espio waking up to clamor, Amikus was swinging his quiver over his shoulder, "They found the Babylon Rogues and an echidna, all shot, they're alive, but that's only a miracle, thanks to one of Company Chaos's members." "Which one?" "One called Endristin." "I wondered." "Why, do you know them?" "Oh yes, I've known them for awhile." Said Espio swinging out of bed.
Scarrvy lay in bed, his eyes closed, the pain was almost unbearable, did death hurt? Or was he already dying? Surely not, those were voices he heard, maybe angels? "Is he going to live Dr.?" "I think so, as long as he doesn't overwork himself when he wakes up." Scarrvy spoke up, "So I'm not dead then?" "No sir, you're very much alive, what is your name?" "Is it safe to tell you? How do I know you aren't a spy or something like that?" The Dr. smiled, "Oh I'm not a spy, I'm only a doctor." Scarrvy looked at him for a few more seconds before shrugging, "My name is Scarrvy, I guess it doesn't matter if I tell you." "Well Scarrvy, do you know these three?" Jet was on his right, Wave and Storm were on his left. "Oh yeah, I know them." "Do you know who shot you?" "A purple weasel." Said Scarrvy immediately. "I see. Well you have some visitors so I'd better leave now. Do not stress yourself please." Scarrvy gave the Dr. a puzzled look, "Stress myself? How could I stress myself?" "Oh there are many ways," Said the Dr. darkly.
Knuckles looked at the hospital, if it was true and an echidna was here, then he had to talk to him. Because Knuckles wasn't very sure he acted like a normal echidna should, "Then again who would act normal with Sonic buzzing around every few weeks." Knuckles grumbled. To tell the truth he'd been unsettled lately, Sonic hadn't been coming around to bug him or anything as usual, he'd even left a message on Sonic's phone, and he hadn't gotten any reply. Upon his entering a secretary looked up, "Hello, how can I help you Mr...?" "Knuckles, just Knuckles." "Knuckles." "I was wondering if I could talk to the echidna who's been brought in?" "He has some visitors, but sure you can go up, here, he's in room 16 on the second floor." "Thanks." Said Knuckles, slightly awkward. "No problem." She smiled at him.
"So it was Fang." Said Espio after Scarrvy described the weasel, the Rogues were still out. "That was Fang? He looked kind of insane." Said Scarrvy. "I bet he did, Darlaska probably recruited him, Fang once worked for Darlaska, he was probably told he'd die if he didn't kill you. And he didn't succeed so he'll be coming back to complete the job." Scarrvy's gaze became stony, "If he does, and if it's a matter of kill or be killed, I'll kill him." Vector coughed, "Excuse me for asking, but how could you kill him?" "I can handle a pole pretty well, and I have this to power my punches and kicks." Scarrvy pulled a glowing yellow ring from his pocket. "That's a power ring!" "Sonic's used those!" "Sonic? Who's that?" Everyone blinked, Vector laughed uneasily, "Okay, were do you come from?"
Author note: My proper author note is in the next chapter.