CHAPTER FOUR
It was dark at the prison where Shadow the Hedgehog is standing.
It was snowing lightly, not as hard to make a blizzard. As he ran with super speed through the tress to the robots, as the robots spotted him they started firing their guns at him, but with his speed they missed him, Shadow got up to the robots and started to exploded as he went through them, he ran and ran up the wall of the prison and jumped over it and landed on his feet, he could hear more robots exploding behind him.
Shadow looked at his surroundings outside of the prison, soon came a light, Shadow walked a few steps away from the light, so they wouldn't know he was inside.
Shadow was looking around the prison, until his radio on his wrist, started talking.
"Transmission from HQ. There's an SOS coming from Dr. Eggman's Base. Our last communication with our agent was 26 hours ago. We expect an immediate rescuse. Shadow The Hedgehog." the person assigned.
Shadow copied. "Understood." Shadow put down his wrist and continued to talk.
"Initiating the mission now." then Shadow used Chaos Control to teleport himself in the prison.
Soon Shadow was in the prison he looked around to which way to go and find Rouge.
Rouge The Bat.
Shadow went to his left and found the whole place booby-trap with robots, machine guns, and lasers. It was easy for Shadow because he can get through anything, with the power of Chaos Control.
"Chaos Control!" Shadow yelled, and disappeared to the other side.
He knew he was close to Rouge.
He was running around for sometime now, but found a cell that looked heavily guarded. Shadow used all his power and kicked down the door, and found what he was looking for, Rouge.
"Well, took you long enough." Rouge smirked and smiled at the same time.
"Come on, we don't have time to talk. We have to get out before more of Eggman's robots find us." growled Shadow.
"Ah... You just ruin my fun, don't you?" Rouge smirked again.
Shadow just turned around and left, not wanting to play anymore of Rouge's games.
As he left, he heard Rouge's bat wings flying to catch up with him.
Once there outside, they had a little bit of trouble inside the prison with some robots, but easy to deal with.
Rouge was walking pretty slow right now.
Shadow slowed down a little to let Rough catch up with him, he heard some mumbling from Rouge, until she spoke louder.
"Don't you want to know what this is?" Rouge questioned Shadow, with a turned around and look at the scepter, with wings that go around the top and the middle, with a gem that is purple on top and light on the bottom, that is also purple.
"My assignment was to rescue you, nothing more." even though Shadow was curious, he still didn't ask.
"Fine. With you, it's always business." said Rough, when she gave up.
Suddenly the grounded started to shake.
That's when trouble was near, until the ground was splitting into two. More robots were rising up, had there guns aim at Shadow and Rough.
"It seems like they don't want us to leave." Rouge observed.
"Let's get this over with" Shadow growled.
The battle was easy cheesy for them.
Shadow ran through them, they exploded, while Rouge took the sky to watch over Shadow's back and hers also.
Soon they were teleported, to Eggman's Base. Inside had a big computer showing The City of Water, on their left side was a picture of a girl, that Shadow hasn't seen before.
Soon Rouge started talking. "Ah. Soleanna, the City of Water. It has a constitutional monarchy, you know. The primary industries are tourism and crafting machinery."
Shadow walked up to the painting that had a girl, around the age of seventeen or younger.
"The current sovereign is Princess Elise the Third."
"Why does Eggman's base lead to an odd place like this?" Shadow asked, with his arms crossed.
"How should I know? I just followed my orders and retrieved the item. Anyway, I have a little favor to ask you. Could you escort me to the G.U.N rendezvous point?" Rough asked to politely.
"Where's the rendezvous point?" Shadow asked Rouge. Rouge pointed to, what looked liked an island.
"It's the ancient castle of Soleanna, in Kingdom Valley."
And they both left to Kingdom Valley.
Today what seemed like everything was ok, but it wasn't.
Everyone in Soleanna are worried, if the Princess is ok, priests around the city asking if they have seen Miss Elise, and guards of the Princess going to all homes asking if they also seen the Princess after the Sun Festival.
But no luck.
As Sonic saw all of this, he knew he had to find the Princess, for all citizens, priests, and guards to know she was safe and saved.
All citizens knew Sonic, but they never saw him in person, they called him, 'The Blue Wind' or 'The Blue Tornado', because of Sonic's speed.
As soon as Sonic was about to run, wherever he can get information fast before the doctor can do anything he would regret as soon as Sonic gets there.
He was stopped by his best buddy.
"Sonic!" the fox yelled.
"Tails! Long time no see!" Sonic announced.
"I'm glad that you're here. I heard that you tried to save their Princess from Dr. Eggman. You're going to rescue her aren't you?"
Sonic looked away from his best buddy Tails, to not let him see him blush a little.
"Let me help. I may not know what Eggman's up to, but it can't be a good thing!" Tails said.
Sonic gave his friend a smile and a thumbs up.
"Ok! With your help, this should be a piece of cake." as Sonic patted Tails back and ran.
"Heh heh. I'll do my best!" Tails laughed and started running, then lifted his feet off the ground and flew on his two tails, to catch up with Sonic.
They were both off to save the Princess, but will they both make it on time before Eggman finds them?