Hey there! Sorry for the wait! I was East Peoria over the weekend and didn't have access to a computer. Sorry 'bout that. Anyways, thanks for the reviews! Things really heat up this chapter, and I hope you like it. If you have any questions, or ideas, just PM me.
Chapter 6
It was around midnight. Tails was sleeping in his room, Amy in a guest bedroom, Knuckles in Sonic's room, and Shadow in the living room. Sonic stayed on the living room couch where he was before.
Everyone but Sonic was dead asleep. He was in that half conscious, half unconscious state. That's why when some kind of aircraft landed outside the house, he was the only one to wake up. However, when he looked out the window, he couldn't see the source of the noise, and it shut off almost immediately.
Sonic stayed alert, wondering if Eggman had turned a whole aircraft invisible. He didn't think so. He went back to sleep.
That was his mistake.
A minute later, Sonic woke up again, in chains. He was being lifted by something!
Then things got even worse. He was thrown into some sort of cage. It was too strong to break out of with his bad shoulder. And, if that wasn't bad enough, the invisible robot picked up the cage, and began walking towards a giant hole in the wall. Sonic was being kidnapped!
He looked around in desperation. There!
"SHADOW!" he screeched.
The midnight hedgehog jumped up. "Sonic! What-" he saw what was going on, and ran over. He punched empty air, and hit the robot that was about to carry the cage outside. He then dismembered the machine. When he was done, he too tried to break open the cage.
"I can't break the bars!" he shouted.
By now, the noise had woken up the other three. They came running down the stairs.
"What's going on? I heard a crash, and shouting," Tails said. Then they saw the cage, with Sonic inside, and ran over.
"Come on!" Shadow said. "We need to get him out of here before Eggman sends more robots!"
"Hold on! Why does Eggman want to capture Sonic? What's the point?" Knuckles asked.
"Because I'm the only one who knows the location of the last chaos emerald." Sonic said gravely.
All of them looked at him blankly. Amy was the first to get over the shock. "Oh, no. We have to get you out of there before Eggman sends reinforcements!"
Then Sonic remembered the airship outside. "It won't be enough! There could be a whole army out there!"
"AND SO THERE IS! Hahahahahaha! Your mine, Sonic the hedgehog!" The Egghead himself yelled from outside.
The wall imploded, and a ton of robots piled in, all headed in the direction of the cage.
"Noooo! Guys! Surround the cage! Keep them away from Sonic!" Amy ordered.
They did as she said, destroying anything that came close. Then Eggman brought out his invisibility ray. "Time to bring out the big guns!" he said.
Then he shot every single robot he could see. "Focus, gang!" Knuckles said. "They could be anywhere!"
No sooner had he said that, a robot nailed him in the gut, so hard he turned pale. Then he was down. The rest of the robots converged on the cage.
"Get me outta here!" Sonic shouted. His cage was lifted up, so it looked like it was floating in mid air.
"Sonic!"Amy shouted. She tried to knock down the robots with her hammer, but there invisibility made it easy for them to dodge. They hit her over the head, and she went down also.
Tails flew up to Sonic and tried to pick the lock, but Eggman started shooting at him. He dropped, and the robots fell on him too. "Oh no you don't! I'm gonna hold on to this one!" he taunted as he looped a rope around Sonic's cage.
Then Shadow spindashed his eggcarrier, and smoke started pouring out of it. "Robots!" he ordered. "Cover my retreat! And Shadow..." Eggman pointed a remote at Sonic. "Don't try anything. I've got the cage wired to explode."
The midnight hedgehog froze.
"No! Shadow, don't listen to him!" Sonic yelled. "Please!"
Shadow slowly shook his head in defeat. "I'm sorry, faker! I can't be responsible for your death."
"SHADOW!" the blue blur bellowed. His cage was lifted up by the eggcarrier. He was loaded into the invisible aircraft and disappeared.
"You chose right, Shadow. I'll take good care of him," Eggman said jokingly.
Then he too disappeared into the flying ship. The engine started up, and they were gone.
Shadow couldn't believe it. All they had gone through, for nothing. Because Sonic the Hedgehog was gone.
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Inside his cage in the airship, Sonic sighed. He hoped Tails picked up on the 'last chaos emerald' thing. It was Sonic's only chance if they wanted to rescue him. Either that, or he escaped.
He inspected the cage, looking for weak spots, a loose screw, anything. Eggman saw him.
"Don't even think about it. You can't escape. I made this cage specially for you." he said.
"I'll get out. I always do, Egghead. You always make some kind of mistake," Sonic replied.
"Don't annoy, hedgehog. I have plenty of plans, and if you anger me enough, I'll use them."
"Ohhhh, I'm soooo scared!" the blue hedgehog said in mock terror. Then he smirked. "I know what you want, Eggman. And your not gonna get it. You can do anything you want to me and it won't make a difference."
"You got one thing right. I can do anything I want to you." Eggman smiled as he pressed a button on the remote. It sent a charge through the cage and electrocuted Sonic.
"AHHHHH!" he screamed as he fell to the floor, writhing in pain. Then Eggman pressed another button, and it stopped. Sonic was breathing heavily.
"You see? And that's just a taste of what I can do! Hahahahahaha!" His laugh boomed into the night.