"Silver wake up!" Chris practically screamed, Silver groaned then turned on his side in the tub full of now cooler towels
"See this is what you get for not sleeping well" Robbie stated while shaking Silver trying to get him up
"You guys have to be quiet" Sonic said while putting his finger over his lips, Silver's eyes opened just a sliver making the room a little blurry, he sat up then rubbed the sleep out of his eyes
"What's going on?" Silver asked still rubbing his now itchy eyes
"You were asleep in the tub" Robbie responded "It's time to leave while we have the chance" Robbie said while helping Silver out of the tub
"Oh. Oh yea!" Silver said now fully woken up and excited, but still a little nervous, Silver hasn't been out in the city as far as he was concerned, and didn't know how they operate out there, it was a good thing that Sonic was there to help since he's been out there usually to get groceries or just taking a break from his job.
Chris got the same rope and hook out as he started tying them together, Sonic looked a little worried so Silver decided to go ask and hopefully cheer him up
"What's wrong Sonic?" Silver asked looking up at him
"Oh it's nothing Silver, I'm just thinking about what will happen out there, I mean we don't know for sure if Shadow is still actually here, he might of left or something" Sonic stated, but then started taking quick glances at the door
"That's the same thing I said" Robbie yelled while looking at the two hedgehogs
"Um could you guys excuse me for a second?" Sonic said while starting towards the door
"What. Where are you going Sonic?" Silver asked, Sonic didn't reply he just opened the doors and walked out quickly.
Sonic walked out and brought out his flashlight to act like he was on patrol, he swiftly walked through a few hallways but walked a little slower once he walked passed a few masters before stopping at his door.
Sonic knocked quietly hoping he was still in there when he heard 'come in' it was a little muffled with the door in the way, but Sonic picked it up quickly and opened the door.
"Sonic?" Scourge asked looking at him "Aren't you supposed to be with those kids you told me about?" Scourge got up and walked over towards him
"Yea but, I just wanted to know if your comfortable doing this for me" Sonic stared into Scourges orange eyes, when Scourge smiled
"Of course I am, don't you worry about a thing" Scourge said looking down at him, Sonic smiled a little then quickly walked into a warm embrace
"Please be careful Scourge, the masters and head master are very strict about these kinds of things and you could get hurt from it" Sonic said while burying his head into Scourges chest
"Don't you worry; I'm the one who should be telling you to be careful"
"Well I know but" Scourge cut him off with a warm, passionate, kiss, but just a short one, Sonic did have to get back to the kids
"You be careful out there Sonic" Scourge pulled out some money and gave him a few dollars "you'll need extra" Sonic smiled then planted a kiss on his cheek
"Thank you Scourge" Sonic said smiling then walking towards the door
"Oh yea and tell Shads I said hi" Scourge added before walking towards his chair
"OK bye" Sonic quietly closed the door before closing his eyes then lying back on the wall for a second just to take a quick rest.
---
"Oh yea I finally got it!" Chris yelled while tugging at the rope that was now connected to the ledge
"Yes, but now we need Sonic" Silver said quickly walking over to Chris, the canine grunted and looked at the door
"Can't we leave him, we finally have the chance to go and we don't need anything messing up this opportunity" Chris argued
"Well we can't leave him, besides he knows more about the city then all of us, and we might not make it out there by ourselves" They all looked down, they all agreed that they both had good points, they just didn't know what to pick
"Plus Sonic would be extremely worried about us being gone once he comes back" Robbie responded
"If he comes back" Chris said looking around at the two "he might have been scared and bailed on us" Chris said
"But you don't know that for sure" Robbie argued
"OK guys before this turns into a fight, I say we should wait a little bit longer, and if he doesn't show then we leave deal?" Neither of the two dogs said anything Robbie just plopped down on the floor while Chris walked around a bit.
It's been about a minute before the doors opened and Sonic appeared, he walked over to the three smiling a little then noticed the rope attached to the ridge
"Yes, we finally got it up there and could have gone earlier but someone wasn't here and held us back!" Chris snapped
"Hey I had to take care of some business" Sonic said sternly while pointing a finger at him
"That's enough, let's just go before anything bad happens that could ruin this chance" Robbie said while walking over to the rope and cluching onto it "Let's go"
Silver had butterflies in his stomach along with everyone else, they didn't know what would happen once they got out to the outside, and they were all nervous yet eager to find out
Robbie stared at the wall then jumped, slanting back a little while placing his feet on the wall, he had to make sure to put some pressure on so he wouldn't slip, he moved one hand up above the other letting him move up just a little, his hands and feet were going at the same speed while moving up towards the window ledge.
After there was some space Chris jumped up there as well, forgetting to put pressure on his feet, he slipped a few times, but got halfway as well making room for Silver to jump up there.
Once on the ledge Robbie, started opening the window, it was a good thing that the ledge was possibly big enough to hold all of them since they would have to take the rope and put it on the outside to slide down.
Chris put his hands on the ledge and pulled himself up with Robbie, he sat back and panted for a few seconds before swallowing then looking outside.
It was dark, you had to walk downhill to the gate which they would probably would have to jump over, and then they were in the city.
Silver pulled himself up moving over next to Robbie to make room for Sonic once he got up on the ledge also, Silver was excited about this whole thing, he did have a big feeling he was going to get sick but that was because of the eagerness in his stomach.
Sonic finally got up then dragged up the long rope to throw outside, while the boys started moving back against the wall more thinking about who would go first.
Sonic drew the rope up, and then turned around, he stuck the hook into the ledge of the widow, Sonic gulped, as he leaned forward and tugged on the rope a little to make sure it was secure.
"You guys ready? There's possibly no going back" Sonic said, they all nodded "I'll go first" Sonic said turning around so that his rear was facing outside, he started crawling backwards but then got insecure and turned around again afraid he might fall
"It's OK Sonic, just take it slow" Silver said staring at him, Sonic turned back around then stuck his foot out there hoping to find a brick that was a little out of place for his foot to stay on while he grabbed onto the rope.
Sonic did find one but it was a little to close to the top; he just had to take it dangerous by putting his whole body out there and quickly grabbing onto the rope before anything bad happened.
Sonic gulped again while sliding back and out the window a little, he then turned panicking and grabbed onto the rope hoping that this would work, he then pushed himself out while holding on with all the strength he had.
He was now holding onto the rope, his feet were dangling making there be more pressure pulling him down, Sonic lifted up his feet then pushed it against the wall, and he took three deep breaths before proceeding.
The boys were staring at him, observing what he was doing hopefully making it easier for them to do themselves.
"Who wants to go now?" Robbie asked looking around at the other two.
"I'll go" Silver said crawling towards the rope "See you guys on the other side" Silver said while grinning, making the other two smack there heads with there hands.
"Be careful Silver" Robbie said
"Yea don't fall" Chris said as Robbie shot a glare at him
"Alright" Silver thought of how to do it, hoping that it would work since he only had one chance in life and he didn't want to use it up because he broke his back.
Silver turned around then moved back towards the window, he moved his hand back to the ledge leading to the outside then grabbed onto it while moving back some more, once he was closer to the window he used his other hand to grab onto it while trying not to loose his balance.
He crawled backwards before he was on the edge, he looked at his two friends then jumped a little to get outside, at first Silver felt the wind at his body, he closed his eyes in fright but it only happened for a second before he opened them and saw his hands grabbed onto the ledge forcefully holding him up.
Silver smiled in triumph that his plan worked, he then let go with one hand, hoping that his other one wouldn't give up on him and quickly swung over to the rope and grabbed onto it.
Sonic finally got down the rope and looked up to see Silver dangling making him go wide-eyed.
"Silver be careful" Sonic yelled quietly, Silver tried to look down but shot it right back up as soon as he did, afraid he might get nervous and fall.
Once Silver was confident enough he let go and grabbed onto the rope with his other hand now dangling by the rope.
"Don't worry Silver, we'll try to catch you if you fall" Chris said
"Chris! Your not going to fall Silver don't listen to him"
"I was just telling him that so he didn't have to worry"
"Well maybe he wasn't even worrying until now"
"Guys this is no time to be arguing, this is serious" Silver yelled while moving down another step "Now which one of you are coming down next?" he two dogs looked at each other when Robbie went towards the window, Chris smiled evilly.
"Don't fall Robbie" Chris said while staring at him
"Chris shut up I'm serious that's not cool" Robbie said staring at him with hatred, Chris just grinned
Robbie started moving down the rope once he got on, but almost slipped because he was going to fast.
"Be careful Robbie" Silver said almost to the ground, Chris was then about to get up there, he practically jumped on there making the whole rope shake
"Chris!" Silver and Robbie yelled in perfect unison
"Well sorry" Chris said before hearing a terrible noise with his dog ears "guys I think the door just opened"
"What?" Robbie asked "Chris I told you this is no time to be playing games"
"I'm not playing games now, I seriously just heard the door open, I think someone's in the exercise room!" At that moment Chris heard mumbling about the light entering from the window
"Who's there?" A master yelled while shining the light on the open window, Chris panicked and let go of the rope falling down and hitting Robbie making him let go.
Sonics stomach almost flew out of his mouth, he sped over to the bottom to catch them, Robbie tried to hold in a scream but couldn't, since first, Chris hurt him second, he scared him, and third he was falling.
Silver jumped off of the rope since he was closer to the ground before spreading his arms out hoping to catch them, Sonic practically stepped on Silver tripping over him a little when he caught them both in his arms.
Robbie and Chris were panting heavily trying to catch there breaths from the long fall, they thought they would be dead sure enough if Sonic wasn't there.
Sonic put then down on the ground letting them sit for a while before they actually hit towards the city.
"I think…..we should…..rest in…..the bushes" Chris said swallowing after that
"Why?" Silver asked
"Because….Robbie let off a little scream when we were falling….and the master in there might have heard it" Sonic looked at them, then walked over
"You know we should get going quickly, because if he had of heard Robbie's scream he's probably getting people too search the whole place" Sonic said while crossing his arms
"OK then" Silver started "come on guys we have to go" he walked over and helped them both up
"We need to go quickly" Sonic said while walking towards the huge gates, the boys were finally up and they started running over to Sonic who also started running.
They started running down the hill when they heard a bunch of voices coming from the top
"Holy crap!" Chris yelled after hearing them while running faster then the other two not wanting get caught
"Chris wait up" Silver said
"Come on we have to jump the fence now!" Sonic said, he crouched down a little then cupped his hands "Put your foot in my hand so I can throw you over" Chris ran over and stuck his foot in there not even giving Sonic a warning first making him fall forwards.
"Wait throw?" Robbie said not liking the idea of being thrown to the other side
"Well it's the only way" Sonic said while getting into the same position, Chris tried again, he stuck his foot down in Sonics hand while getting forcefully pushed up over the gate, Chris smiled and pulled himself onto the top then turned over falling onto the grown with a loud 'thump'
"Oh, are you OK Chris?" Silver asked concerned
"Yea I'm fine" he responded a little hoarsely while getting up and dusting himself off, Robbie was next he walked over to Sonic and stuck his foot in, Silver thought this was taking too long and walked over to the gate to try and climb it.
"Hurry guys we might not have that much time!" Sonic said while pushing Robbie on top of the gate, Silver was halfway up there when Sonic said that which made him panic so he reached as high as he could to the top of the gate and just pulled himself up from there.
Sonic did the same as Silver, climbing the gate, but of course it was easier for him since he was taller, and more energetic.
Sonic and Silver flipped over at the same time landing on the gravel, Robbie and Chris ran over and coaxed them up so they could get out of there
"Come on guys you have to get up" Robbie reached for Silver arm and put it around his shoulders, while Sonic finally stood up
"Come on we have to go as fast as we can until this house is out of sight" Sonic said as he quickly walked away with Chris behind him
"Hold on" Robbie said then looked over at Silver
"Don't worry I'm fine Robbie you can let go now" Robbie let go and watched to make sure Silver wouldn't fall over, Silver leaned over a little but got back onto his feet
"OK let's go" Chris said running with Sonic followed by the other two.
None of them knew how this would turn out, but it's too late to go back now so they might as well make this best of it.
--- Two years ago
Silver was walking down the hallways with that duck, neither saying a word to each other, Silver had a nervous feeling inside of him but tried to hide it.
"Stay here" the master ordered while walking into a room, the door was huge, there was a light pouring out from the bottom Silver wondered what the room was for, or what it held inside.
Silver sat there swinging his legs back and forth, and looking around even though there was nothing to look at except bare walls and two green chairs across from him.
Yea the house seemed boring, the plain gray walls, floors, and ceilings and there were hardly any pictures on the walls but it was a fun place.
Silver once learned about a place where boys and girls stayed and after a while a couple comes and picks them up to take them to a new home, orphanarium it was called, Silver wondered why they didn't get to go to new homes.
Silver sighed, it was getting boring just sitting there, at least they actually had something to do and people to talk to in the kickball game, Silver then sighed again, no one believed that he didn't know why he picked the ball up, Silver looked down.
'Where did these powers come from? And why haven't I ever used them before, why haven't I known about it' Silver stared at his hands before the door opened
The duck came out along with a lynx; they walked over towards Silver and stared at him in the eye
"This is him?" the lynx asked he concentrated on the young hedgehog, while moving parts of his bodies like his arms, legs, and looking into his ears
"Yes Silver, the kids call him" The lynx closed his eyes then chuckled a little
"You don't even know his name?" The duck looked a little puzzled after being asked that
"Uh, well we have to heed a lot of children and it's difficult to remember everything about them"
"Well why do you take care of them all then?" Silver was quiet as ever just staring up at them and looking from the lynx to the duck as each person spoke
"What's your name son?" Silver was confused, he wasn't his son, and besides, wouldn't he already know his name if he was
"Uh Silver" Silver spoke quiet and shyly, the lynx smirked at him, Silver didn't know why he was here in the first place, first of all Silver never saw this master before, and second why was he asking him all these questions?
"So how old is he?" the lynx asked, walking smoothly towards the duck
"Well he's about ten" The duck answered staring at him, the lynx made an "aw" noise then looked back at the confused hedgehog
"He's really cute though, do you suppose we can make a deal?" the lynx asked as he pulled out some money from his coat
"I'm sorry that is unacceptable, it's only the fourteen year-olds, but if you would like me to go find you one I would be happy to be of assistance" The lynx just sighed
"No thank you, me and my wife wants a young fresh one, and not one that already hit puberty" the lynx put his hands in his pockets and started towards the door
"W-Wait I'm sure we can find you one that's just as good as a new one" the lynx looked back
"No thank you it's not the same" he walked over to Silver and lifted his head up with his thumb "you take care of yourself" he said quietly, Silver just nodded still not knowing what was going on.
The lynx let go of Silvers chin then walked out with the duck following, Silver didn't know what was going on right then but with the sight of money and them talking about the kids, Silver guessed that they were selling them, it was just for fourteen year-olds though.
Silver sighed and put his head down, he wanted to be bought to go to a real family, but at the same time he was glad he wasn't bought because now he could go back to Robbie and continue there lives that is until they turn fourteen, but that's a while from now.
--- The present
Silver and everyone else finally got to a lazy dark part of the city, there were people wearing dark blue, black, and gray trench coats with light brown bags asking people to come over and buy things.
"Hey let's go buy something as a souvenir from this place" Chris said looking at one of the guys
"Let's not" Sonic responded as he grabbed the three and quickened there pace, Silver grew a little closer to Sonic as he started getting a cluster of bad vibes from the alley.
"Um, why isthere an alley behind the house?" Robbie asked
"I don't actually know myself, but I'm always walking out here so I'm pretty used to it" Sonic replied
"Does anything bad ever happen?" Robbie asked while clinging onto Silver's arm
"Shut up Robbie" Chris snapped "I mean look at Silver, he looks totally freaked out already" Robbie looked over at his friend's face which looked perfectly normal, and then back at Chris which had a pinch of fear mixed into it, Robbie smirked then looked forward again.
"Nothings going to happen Robbie, don't worry" Sonic responded "Beside we're almost out of here" Robbie looked over at the walls of dark buildings and saw someone smirk at him.
"I don't want to be here anymore, I want to go back" Robbie said hastily
"Robbie, stop being such a 'fraidy cat" Chris snapped
"Oh your one to talk" Robbie snapped back
"This is no time to fight, you guys are the ones who are attracting attention" Silver said
"I can't help it, I usually attract attention when I'm nervous" Robbie said while getting hot
"Well don't be nervous" Silver replied, Sonic rolled his eyes then smiled
"Here, we're on the streets now" Sonic said while looking looking around and smiling, Silver's mouth fell open as he scanned his surroundings.
"Wow look at the lights!" Robbie responded not actually seeing stores before, Chris ran over to a window
"Look!" He yelled, they all ran over and looked into the window which had stuffed animals lined up and toy cars set up on display.
Sonic chuckled observing the children getting so excited over the toys; he then saw them headed towards the door
"Hey!" Sonic yelled "we have no time to go into a store, we need to get to a train station" Sonic said, he knew that Shadow had left the city, it's just he didn't know where
--- three years ago (A converse with Shadow)
Sonic was walking out the door preparing to go to the store for food that one of the masters apparently forgot to do, he opened the door immediately getting a force of cold air blown onto him.
Sonic sighed, why they had to pick him to go get the food, especially on cold days; I guess they figured that with his speed it would be easier and quicker to do.
Sonic stepped out when he saw a figure in the yard sitting down on the cold, wet grass.
"Who's there?" Sonic yelled, he saw the figures head move then stand up and start walking towards him "Oh it's just you" Sonic ran over and looked up at him "What are you still doing here?" he sighed
"I don't know" Sonic gave a look of concern towards his friend
"Do you want to talk about it" he just shook his head
"I have to go" he turned to leave but got held back by Sonics hand
"Shadow…" Shadow looked down "come on, let's get out of the rain, you can come to my room and talk about it" Shadow just stood there; Sonic got tired of standing in the rain and decided to just drag him.
The ebony hedgehog winced as Sonic started to pull him towards the house, he then decided to make it easier for the him and started walking towards the door
--Sonics room
"Now tell me" Sonic started while serving some tea "What's bothering you" Shadow sighed then looked up
"I want to leave this place" Sonic choked on his tea hearing Shadow say this
"What?" Sonic asked "You want to leave? Wait you mean the city?" Shadow nodded
"There's nothing happening in my life, it's just uninteresting" Sonic blinked
"There are people hiring" Sonic yelled trying to convince him to stay
"No Sonic, I have already made my decision, I'm leaving and that's final" Sonic looked down, he didn't want him to go, he was one of his best friends and crushes, Shadow sighed "Sonic I need to do something with my life, instead of just getting kids and bringing them here, what's that doing for me?"
"You're being a good citizen" Sonic said quietly, Shadow rolled his eyes then got up
"I'm sorry Sonic" He then headed towards the door
"Well where are you going?" Sonic asked getting up and running after him
"I don't know right now, but once I do, I'm leaving this place for good" Sonic stopped
"I guess there's no stopping you is there" Shadow looked back at Sonic and a small smile spread across his face
"Oh Sonic, you know me so well" he then ran off leaving Sonic standing there replaying his last words over and over in his head again, not actually because of what he said, but because it was the last thing Shadow was probably going to say to him for a long time.