Here's chapter five. Hope you like it.
"So, where do we find this Cyrus guy?" Eddy asked.
"I know he's around here somewhere." Sonic said as he walked around Freedom Fighter HQ.
"I think he said something about going to Sanctuary to check up on things." Manic said.
"Sanctuary?" Double D asked. "What's that?"
"Sorry, trait Freedom Fighter secret." Sonia said.
"Oh come on!" Kevin groaned. "Why can't you tell us?"
"It's very important to the future of the Freedom Fighters." Sonia explained. "Without Sanctuary, I don't know what we would do."
"Yeah, Robotnik has some times come this close to discovering its' location." Manic said, keeping his fingers about an inch from each other.
"Some attempts we'd rather not go into." Sonia said.
"What's so great about it?" Eddy asked.
"Silly Eddy." Ed said, reading his comic book with the triplets on it. "Sanctuary is where the Freedom Fighters raise their children! Without it, the future Freedom Fighters would not be and the current Freedom Fighters would break and fall apart!"
The triplets gasped at what Ed had just said. Knuckles looked at him in shock, since he had never been to Sanctuary. Double D and Eddy were in awe at this. It seemed to be an amazing.
"You know, I wonder what really is going on at Sanctuary right now?" Manic asked.
At Sanctuary…Nazz slowly sat up. Her head was pounding like crazy.
"She's awake!" She heard a child cry.
Nazz forced her eyes open and slowly sat up. She looked around the room it was the inside of a hut it seemed.
"Hi!"
Nazz looked down and saw what appeared to be a child in a tiger costume.
"Ah, go-go Nazz girl is awake."
Nazz turned her head at the sound of Rolf's voice. What she saw shocked her. There was what appeared to be a goat like creature it was a cross between goat and human really but mostly goat. It stood on two legs that had hooves at the bottom of each leg. The upper half had a few more human features. It had hands complete with fingers, had Rolf's shade of blue hair for fur. Two mall horns came from its head and he wore Rolf's shirt.
"Rolf?" Nazz asked.
"Rolf, do you know her?" The young tiger asked.
"This is Go-go Nazz girl." The goat said in Rolf's voice. Nazz knew that ONLY Rolf would talk like that.
"Rolf, what is going on here?" She asked.
Rolf then started to speak in something that was his own tongue from his life in the 'Old Country'. Rolf noticed her confusion and just sighed.
"Perhaps Go-go Nazz girl would understand better if she saw for herself." Rolf said.
"I've got a mirror right here!" The young tiger said, holding it up.
Nazz just looked into it in confusion. She gasped! Instead of her own reflection, there was one that looked like a hedgehog! Its spines were curved down much like her own hair. It even had two bangs hanging down at the sides of her face. Its fur was the same color of her hair and it looked quite attracting. She still had her clothes but other then that, only her eyes remained the same but they now had much longer eyelashes.
"Rolf, what is this?" She asked.
"We have been brought to the legendary Mobius!" Rolf proclaimed. "And we have taken upon the proper forms."
"Okay." Nazz said in a slightly worried tone.
"ROLF!"
A young fox came running through the doorway.
"PROBLM! BIG!" She cried, mostly from fear.
"What is it?" The tiger asked.
"Robotnik found us!" She cried.
"WHAT?"
"A whole army of SWATbots are just outside they're destroying everything!"
Rolf suddenly screamed something again in his native tongue and charged out the door.
"Come and help us!" The young tiger said to Nazz.
"Oh…um…okay." She said, slightly worried.
"Don't worry, SWATbots are easy to beat." The young fox said.
Nazz raced outside and to her shock and horror, what seemed to be a once beautiful place was being destroyed by a group of robots! Nazz quickly turned and saw Rolf taking out as many as he could. She then noticed that almost everyone who seemed to live there were just children.
"I don't know what's going on but I do know that I need to help!" Nazz cried.
And with that said, she charged.
With the Underground…"Incoming message!" Sonia said as she opened her laptop. "It's from Cyrus!"
"What's it say?" Sonic asked.
"There's not much but what it does say is that there's an emergency at…OH MY GOSH!"
"What is it?" Manic asked.
"There's a bot attack at Sanctuary!" Sonia cried.
"WHAT?!" Her brothers asked in shock.
"We have to get there now!" Sonia cried.
"Right! Lets' do it to it!" Sonic said.
"Everyone to the van!" Manic ordered.
Everyone climbed as fast as they possibly could into the van and Sonic climbed behind the driver seat. Manic had just slammed he door shut when Sonic slammed on the pedal and sent everyone to the floor. Double D grabbed onto a seat and pulled himself into it while the other followed.
They had lost track of time while trying to keep themselves, steady as Sonic drove. It was a wild ride at that. Just when Double D thought he was going to be turned into a puddle there was a 'pop' and the van came to a halt.
"Oh man! Don't tell me we hit a flat! Not now!" Manic cried as he jumped out of the van.
"Hurry it up, bro!" Sonic called. "We have to get to Sanctuary on the double!"
A minute went past and they heard a loud grunt. Another minute went by. Manic still didn't return.
"I'm going to go check it out." Sonia said and jumped out of the van before anyone could stop her.
Sonia looked around. Manic was nowhere in sight.
"Manic!" She called. "Manic!"
She felt something under her foot and looked down. It was Manic's medallion and his drumsticks!
"Oh my gosh!" She said.
"Sonia, what is it?" Sonic asked, sticking his head out.
"I didn't find Manic but I did find his medallion and drumsticks." Sonia said, showing him the objects.
"Oh man, this is not good." Sonic said, taking the medallion. "Manic can't bear to take off his medallion but his drumsticks too?"
Sonic looked to Sonia and she just had tears building up in her eyes.
"Is something wrong?" Double D asked, poking his head out.
"Manic's gone missing." Sonia explained.
"Could be possibly be fooling with you?" Eddy asked.
"No, Manic would never do that." Sonia said. "Something must have happened."
There was something moving around in the bushes.
"Whoever it is, I'll grab them." Knuckles said and charged into the bushes. Almost as soon as he entered the bushes he screamed.
"What just happened?" Sonic asked.
"I think he's in trouble." Sonia said.
"I'm going in." Kevin said. "Come on Johnny."
The two raced into the bushes with Plank following and like before, they screamed.
"Come on, Sonia, lets' check it out." Sonic said.
Right." Sonia said and followed her brother into the bushes.
Like those before them, they screamed and as soon as they were out of sight.
"Looks like we'll have to go in after them." Eddy said.
"Are you certain, Eddy?" Double D asked.
"Yeah, now lets' go!"
Knowing he was going to be pulled into it anyway, Double D followed Eddy and Ed into the bushes. They suddenly realized why all the others had screamed: there was a pit and they had fallen into it!
It was too late for the Eds they were already falling in. When they finally hit, Eddy fell on top of Double D and Ed fell right on top of Eddy.
"Well, this is nice." Double D grumbled.
"You guys alright?" Sonia asked as she pulled them to their feet.
"I believe so." Double D said getting up. "I don't believe anything was broken."
"Well that's good." Sonia said.
They suddenly heard something that only the Eds recognized and they feared it. It was that rhyme! That horrible rhyme! The one that had led them into the quicksand in the forest near their homes, the one that had led them to the Kanker Sisters!
"Ed, Edd, and Eddy, sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-NG!"
They looked up to the entrance of the hole and saw the three pairs of eyes that scared them into the quicksand.
"KANKERS!" They cried.
"You know who they are?" Sonia asked.
"They're the Kankers!" Eddy cried.
"They used this trick to get us to their trailer!" Double D said.
"We're doomed!" Ed cried.
The rhyme continued.
"Ed, Edd, and Eddy, sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G!"
"THAT'S IT!" Eddy cried. "EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF!"
With that said he, Double D, and Ed charged out of the hole as fast as they possibly could and took cover in the van.
"ED! FIRE UP THE ENGINE!" Eddy cried.
The lump quickly climbed behind the driver's seat and slammed on the pedal. The van sprang to life and charged will the flat tire still on.
"Hey! What about us?" Sonic cried.
"That's it!" Knuckles cried. "I'm digging our way out of here! And when I get my hands on those three they're going to regret it!"
Knuckles started shoveling at the ground beneath them and started digging a tunnel. Sonic and Manic also started clawing at the dirt before them with Knuckles and soon a tunnel was formed.
"Oh, I HATE getting dirty!" Sonia cried.
On the surface, the Eds were fighting over who was going to drive.
"ED! IF YOU KEEP DRIVING YOU'RE GONNA KILL US!" Eddy cried.
"A MIGHTY SPACEOUTLAW ALWAYS PILOTS HIS OWN SHIP!" Ed snapped back.
"Gentlemen please, lets' not behave like children!" Double D cried, trying to get them to stop.
Finally, due to all the confusion, the Eds ended up driving the van into another pit. When they realized what was happening, they screamed and braced themselves. When they finally hit, they look around, the van was in no shape to continue going. The entire front was smashed the windows were cracked if not broken.
"Are we dead?" Eddy asked.
"No." Double D said.
"Ed is scratched!" Ed sadly said.
"Ed, Edd, and Eddy, sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G!"
The three friends snapped to attention. The Kankers had found them!
Ed tore the door off the wall and ran out followed by Eddy and Double D. They looked up and saw the three pairs of eyes getting close until they could see their figures and colors only.
Looks like we found what we were looking for, huh girls?" The red one asked.
"Yeah, Lee." The blue one said.
"I get the big dopy one!" The yellow said.
"We are doomed!" Ed said.
"Hi guys!"
The Eds looked down and saw Knuckles' head sticking out from a tunnel.
"Knuckles, are we glad to see you!" Eddy cried. "You have to get us out of here man! The Kankers are coming!"
Knuckles looked up and the saw the strange figures.
"Alright, follow me." Knuckles said and pulled his head back into the tunnel. The Eds got down on their hands and knees and followed Knuckles through the tunnel. After a while, they heard the Knankers' laugh, echoing through the tunnel.
"They're following us!" Double D peeped.
"Hurry up!" Knuckles said.
They crawled as quickly as they possibly could through the tunnel and into a chamber. There were the triplets, Kevin, Johnny, and Plank.
"You guys are in so much trouble!" Sonia said.
"We have more important things to worry about, the Knankers are following us!" Eddy said. "If they catch us, then we're dead!"
"I have an idea." Kevin said and pushed his way past Knuckles and the Eds.
Kevin reached to the ceiling on the tunnel and pulled a large chunk of it down. He then did it again and again until some of the ceiling started coming down on its own.
"Kevin, what are you doing?" Sonia asked.
"I'm trying to cause-" Kevin was cut off when the whole ceiling started to come down.
"A CAVE IN!" Kevin cried.
"Let's move." Sonic cried and started moving farther down the tunnel.
The others followed Sonic down the tunnel until they were far from the caved in dirt.
"Now they won't be able to follow us." Kevin said. "It'll take them a while to find us."
"Okay but can we get out of here?" Sonia asked.
"I'm on it!" Knuckles said and started digging another path that pointed upwards.
After about ten minutes Knuckles managed to gasp a breath of fresh air. He quickly climbed out and let the others out as well. They all breathed in the fresh air hungrily.
"Where are we?" Double D asked.
"I'm not sure." Sonia said. "I lost track of where we were when we were underground."
"Say, what happened to the van?" Sonic asked.
"They drove it into a hole." Knuckles answered.
"What?" Sonic and Manic cried.
"The whole front was smashed." Knuckles explained.
Sonic and Manic looked at the Eds like they were looking at a robotizer.
"GUYS!"
Sonia looked over her shoulder and saw a lion in a dull blue jumpsuit come running in their direction.
"Guys, guys, its Cyrus!" She called.
Sonic and Manic looked away from the Eds and to the lion.
"Where were you guys?" Cyrus asked. "I called you nearly ten times!"
"We had a bit of trouble getting here." Sonic said.
"Doesn't matter, Sanctuary is still under attack. Some of us have been able to slow down the attack but it's ongoing." Cyrus said.
"Just tell us how far away we are and we'll get there as soon as possible." Sonic said.
"The bridge is less then ten yards away. You have to hurry! I'm only here to get help now go!" Cyrus ordered.
The group nodded and ran in the direction they were told not knowing what horror, awaited for them in Sanctuary.
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Hope you guys enjoyed it. R&R please. And in the next chapter, a few of my own characters are going to show up along with a few old faces and one that wasn't going to be in Sonic Underground. No flames.