Prison Reprise
She shivered from the cold. At first, she didn't notice it. She thought she was just shivering, to be shivering. But no, she was cold. Extremely cold. Deadly cold.
She attempted moving, but that was restricted. Her arms were held under hard cold clamps, it felt. So were her legs, she couldn't move them either, and her body was held under the same conditions. All clamped down, all with powerful grips, all not moving in the slightest. And boy was the cold unbearable. She couldn't stand it, and her weak sounding shivers.
Where was she? What was going on? All she remembered, was Metal Coffee, G.U.N. Mechs, and fire. Bullets, everywhere. But that's about all she could think on. If she wanted to know anything else, she'd be force to open her eyes.
So she did. Her eyes slid open just barely. The sight before her was bright, yet blurry, making it impossible for her to tell what was going on. A few more blinks of her eyes, and she gained the ability to see.
Glass was above her, sealing her in what must have been a capsule. The blonde agent darted her eyes to and fro, trying her hardest to make sense of this all. She was in a metal capsule, for the bands and clamps holding her down were made of pure steel. It wasn't the biggest, and was constricted to her body, and her body alone. All she had for the sight of the outside, was the glass above her. And it wasn't a very great sight. Just lights, which would blind her, and a few brief glances at the ceiling.
So confused, she was by the sight, that all she did was pant frantically. Then she realized something. Her mouth was freed.
"AAAAAAAHHHHH!" she screamed, hoping she would get some kind of answer, "AAAAAAHHHH!" over and over again, not caring how it sounded like, "WHERE AM I!"
The silence was now unbearable. Save for the sounds of her screams, and the machinery around her, the agent was left in relative silence. And thanks to her frantic and confused nature, she really didn't know how to deal with all of this.
Then, on the outside, she heard a door open. The sound of it made her eyes widen, and forced her to move her body up. It didn't do much, but it gave her some visibility of the room she was in. From what she could make out, she was in the center of the room, on a raised platform. But of course, this was just from what she could make out. The agent wasn't sure, to be honest.
There was footsteps. The sound of it made her quiet down, as those same footsteps moved closer, and closer. Then they stopped, right at the side of the capsule, allowing the agent to see who had entered the room.
Samantha. Samantha Prower. She couldn't believe it. Did she not tell Samantha not to come back? Then why the hell was she here? It made the agent angry, angry than she was before, at least. She started screaming out louder, trying her hardest to break free of her bonds, and wring the neck of the vixen before.
Samantha just stared at her. Not happily though, instead, with this grief filled visage. She couldn't even stand to look at the agent with her eyes, instead finding solace by gazing off into the dark distance. Her hands still dragged up the glass seal, as the victim encased within continued to scream.
"Please... Maria..." Samantha whispered, eyes closing behind her glasses, "Just calm down..."
"CALM DOWN!?" the agent yelled back, "SAMANTHA PROWER! I TOLD YOU TO NOT COME BACK!"
She was so angry, it was getting hard to make complete thoughts. That didn't stop her from berating the fox, however. She continued to spit insults, and rage fueled barks, before sulking in to her situation. The next thing Samantha heard, were sobs. She gazed back down to Maria, seeing her eyes were closed, as tears dragged down her face. The fox had never seen the agent cry like this before, not when she was a grown woman at least. All this served to remind Samantha of the previous projects she performed on the young woman.
"I'm sorry, Maria..." she whispered.
"Bull shit..." Maria responded, though it was grief filled, and filled with sobs.
"No, seriously," Samantha responded, "I'm sorry... I should have known better. You should have known better..." the yellow fox closed her eyes, "No one escapes G.U.N. Maria. No one. Not you, not me. They knew all along..." Maria's eyes opened, and she gazed up. To her surprise, Samantha was now crying, her tears staining the glass seal, "They were spying on us. They watched our conversation, Maria. An Iguana Agent, he was invisible, and listening to everything we said. I couldn't hear or smell him, because I was terrified by you, and you were probably so rage filled, you didn't notice him. But he was there, in that café with us. Listening. When I went back to G.U.N., you know to begin my resignation, they held me up. Orders of treason, and espionage. I guess..." Samantha smiled, "I'm in the same boat as you, Maria. They promised me exemption for my crimes, as long as I finished a project for them."
"And... what would that be?" Maria asked.
"I am to..." Samantha swallowed her spit, "Help them create Super Soldiers, Maria. Using you as a guinea pig. I am to take your blood, and see if I can weaponize it. Turn it into a drug we can give our soldiers, so they can... fight harder, stronger, better, than before."
"You can't do it..." Maria answered, "Samantha, you know as well as I, what kind of problems that can create..."
"She has no choice, Agent Maria..."
The voice came from no where, and immediately jolted both woman. Samantha eventually wilted, turning away, and disappearing from Maria's view. But someone else took her place. A tall man, brown hair, much older than Maria, and once her commanding officer. G.U.N. Commander Samson Taylor.
"Nice to have you back, Maria..." he stated, his face not changing in the least bit.
"Samson..." she whispered.
"COMMANDER!" he yelled, emphasis on the word, "Samson. You know that, Maria, so don't you dare act like it's never been that way."
"You bastard!" she yelled, "Samson, I know everything now! Everything! The Ark, my life on it, Shadow, how G.U.N. killed him. And how you were leading the charge on my home..."
"Ark was never your home, Maria," Samson stated, "I swear, Ivo is playing you like a doll."
"You're still leaning against that lie, Samson?" Maria asked, not believing his adamant nature, "I would be angry, but that's just how you are, isn't it?" she wilted back briefly, "So what's this I hear about Super Soldiers, huh? Trying to make more of me? Trying to make little weapons that'll run around for you? Kill for you?"
"Samantha needs to learn how to keep her mouth shut," Samson whispered, "There are no Super Soldiers, Maria..."
"You are a damned liar!" she yelled, "Just admit to it! Just admit how you attacked my family on the Ark, killed everyone aboard! How you killed Shadow. And how you... killed Grandpa..." Maria leaned back, and her eyes started to quiver, "Just what did you do to Grandpa?"
"Fine then, Maria..." Samson stated, making the agent gaze up, "If you want to believe this all, I'll admit to it. I'll admit to attacking Ark with my men, killing Project Shadow, and shutting the place down. I'll even admit to drugging you all these years with Samantha's pills. I'll admit to all of it, just for you..."
Maria's blue eyes turned red. Though she knew all of this to be true, she was still enraged by what she was hearing. All of her rage forced her to move. She lunged up, but thanks to the restraints, she was held in place, not being allowed to move. She continued to growl however, and gazed angrily into Samson's stoic eye.
"By why are you mad?" he had the audacity to ask, "Why are you angry, Maria? We gave you a life on Earth! We cured you of your NIDS, we trained you, gave you a family to live with, tried are hardest to make you happy! My original orders were to kill everybody. Everybody. Including you. But I couldn't, not a twelve-year-old like you." his hand started sliding up and down the case, "I brought you to Earth, and tried my hardest to give you a normal life. Why are you so unhappy? Why did you ruin everything we gave you? Why did you devolve into that which we hate? Were you not happy with your life?"
Maria's eyes closed, and she thought about his words. Then her eyes opened, and a tear leaked out.
"It wasn't my life..." she whispered.
The one, simple, statement, made Samson gaze away. She watched his head wave back and forth, in a no manner, as he growled with minor rage. Then he gazed back, and waved his hand above her head.
"I see..." he ended up saying, "I guess it's too late for you then, Maria... I wish you were as successful as our other Ark survivor."
"Other, survivor?" Maria questioned, not believing his words, "There's another!? Samson? There's another!?" but he started walking away, "SAMSON! SAMSON ANSWER ME!"
Suddenly, a noise echoed in the capsule, making Maria grow quiet. She gazed up and around, trying her hardest to figure out the origin of the noise. It sounded like rushing water. Then, vents at the top of her head opened up. She peered at the vents, and watched as they began spitting this clear, vibrant, water. They poured into the capsule, eventually pooling at her feet, and then began to steadily rise. Higher and higher, the water moved, swallowing her feet in a cold substance. Maria began to call, as the water continued to move, eventually swallowing up her legs.
Then she felt this painful prickling in the back of her neck. A needle, she could tell. Her eyes grew heavy then, making it hard to see. Her lids constantly blinked, growing heavier and slower with each moment.
And lastly, she saw darkness. Sweet, beautiful, darkness.
…
He sat in his cold command center, hand digging into his back of pork rinds, blue eyes staring at the screen before him. His greasy other hand danced along the keyboard continuously, bringing various information to his eyes. He scanned them all, grunting when something he didn't like came to view, and smiling when something pleasant, or evil, came to mind. Briefly, his hand left the bag of pork rinds, to shove the fat enriched substance into his mouth. Then, for the next minute or two, his loud chomps echoed through the pyramid walls.
No would think, in a million years, his Hidden Base, would be inside here. Pyramids of all places. No one would have guessed. Sometimes, his own even genius surprised them, an act which also scared him, yet filled him with giddy joy. And this was just one of them, he had hundreds of them around the world.
The screen before him flashed to life, showing a map. The mad Doctor smiled, as he leaned back into his chair. The word 'TRACKING!' filled his screen, as a loading bar appeared at the bottom. Now he just had to wait.
"Oh, I can't believe it!" he heard, this annoying voice, "How could we have left Madame Maria like that!? We should go back, Lord Ivo!"
"Shut up!" Eggman yelled, gazing at Orbot who hovered behind him, "If we stayed for Maria, we'd be trapped up, just like her!"
"I'd rather be trapped with Madame Maria, than to be safe and sound without her!" Orbot announced, valiantly.
"You must have a few screws loose," Ivo whispered, "Because you aren't making any sense, Orbot."
"Then tell me, Lord Ivo," the robot ordered, flying up to be before the screen, "What are you doing about this situation, hm? All I've seen you do, is sit around, eating your disgusting pork rinds! You haven't yet come up with a plan to save Madame Maria! You just sit here, and eat, sit here, and eat, and occasionally look up information! I cannot believe such a lazy baboon as yourself, is related to Madame Maria!"
"Why you!" the Doctor roared, hands reaching forward.
He suddenly grabbed the floating spherical robot, and began punching him over and over again. His words were really beginning to annoy him, and he was showing it. But with every punch he delivered to Orbot, the machine only responded with 'Lazy baboon!', which only made him punch harder. But then, a pleasant-sounding noise stopped the both of them. In unison, their eyes moved to the screen, reading the words, 'TRACKING COMPLETE'. The words then faded away, showing that map once again.
Said map showed a mountainous region. And a base within a cove.
"I knew that tracking device I planted in Maria would come in handy some time..." Ivo snickered, releasing Orbot.
"You planted a tracking device in Madame Maria?" Orbot responded, "How could you?"
"I'm evil," Ivo said, "That's my thing! Now then," he turned and faced the screen, "Let's see how G.U.N. enjoys a little Eggman!"
"I don't know, Lord Ivo," Orbot stated, "That's G.U.N.'s maximum security house. Its even supposed to be stronger than Prison Island. Are you really planning on attacking it?"
"Don't you want to save Maria?" Ivo answered.
"Then let's hurry up then!" Orbot responded, his demeanor making a complete 180.
"I thought so," Ivo answered, smiling evilly, "Prepare the Egg Walker! I'm going on a little retrieval mission!"
…
The heavy footsteps of his black red and white mechsuit, equal nothing to the thunderous sound of gunfire. The cannon that sat perched on to his left, screamed wildly, firing homing round after homing round in the walls around him. The area was left dented and scared, all thanks to his weapons. The bodies of soldiers and robots littered all around him, some dead, some wishing they were dead. But the Doctor cared little. He had a person to recover.
"G.U.N., G.U.N., G.U.N.," he whispered, disappointed that the army was pulling off such a vain action of defense. Not even the wall mounted turrets were enough to stop him, for they were destroyed just as soon as they popped up, "Is this all you have?"
The light from the hall he stood in was all natural, pouring from sun outside. All around him, these robots stepped in. Badniks, the newest kind. Much like his Shadowbots, the Swatbots were humanoid, and deadly. Their red visors scanned the area around them, as they held high-powered weapons in their hands. But that wasn't all.
From behind, the newest designs in Eggman's weapons of destruction. The E-100 series. They were all vaguely humanoid, this destructive cast of colorful robots, and with Greek lettering symbols and numbers on them. There was E-101 Beta a black machine, E-102 Gamma a red machine, E-103 Delta a blue one, E-104 Epsilon an orange, and finally, E-105 Zeta a purple one. All these machines were high-end models, and appeared to be it as well. Their shimmering exterior, and powerful arm cannons, whatever Dr. Eggman did to create them, it appeared to be working.
"Do not worry Madame Maria!" Orbot suddenly yelled, flying up, "We are coming to save you!"
"Shut your trap, Orbot!" the Doctor screamed, his hand pulling on the trigger of his walker cannon.
A burning blue rocket flew from Ivo's gun, and straight down the hall. The steel door used to keep him out, was blown completely open, and smoke was tossed into the air. The next second, bullets rain through, and stepping from said smoke, G.U.N. bots. The humanoid machines carrying rifles fired at Ivo and his robots, before being shot down by one of Ivo's Swatbots. The next moment, wind and fire screamed, as Ivo's individual E-100 bots, flew down the halls, arm cannons screaming with explosions.
The entire hall was riddled with fire and rockets, machines tossed up, while people screamed out in pain. Ivo's laughs were soon intermixed with the screams, as his Egg Walker marched down the hall ever so slowly. He suddenly brought up his PDA, however, fining a blue dot, with a distance marker showing how far he was from said dot. The sight of it made him smile, before he was rudely interrupted.
"INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT! ASSUALT BEING WAGED IN SECTION ONE OF THE BASE!"
"Oh shut up!" Ivo yelled, releasing a rocket on the horn system, destroying it, "Now let's see," he grumbled, returning his eyes to his PDA, "It seems as if they're holding Maria in the lowest areas of the base..." the sight of it made him smile, "Good plan, G.U.N, Geeks! But not good enough to stop, Doctor Ivo Robotnik!"
And then his mech suit started running, further and faster down the hall.
…
Samantha gazed up. The booms and explosions of gunfire was audible, even to her. She may have been a mile underground, but the sound was all the same. All the destruction. It made her swallow her spit.
She wanted so badly to run, to break free of all this, but she couldn't. G.U.N. had the place rigged with cameras, making trapping her within. If she was thinking on running, it sure as hell wasn't going to happen. She just needed to continue working, and praying that God would forgive her for what she was about to do.
She slowly made her way back to Maria's capsule. Gazing through the glass seal, he saw the woman was still unconscious thanks to the tranquilizer placed within her. It was funny because, the blonde agent within looked so peaceful in her rest. Her hair was dancing lightly in the submerged case, the vibrant and shining water brought definition to her face. Samantha found her hands touching the casing, as her glasses started to fog up.
She felt so wrong and evil. Twelve years ago, she was experimenting on this girl. And now, she was experimenting on the same exact person, doing the same exact thing she wanted to stop long ago. She was really hating herself, hating the weakness she was born with. All she could do, was pray that her children was blessed with some heroism, the kind she was born without. That is if she were lucky enough to have children. She was sure G.U.N. wasn't going to make good on that promise of exemption, leave her trapped within these steel halls forever. She felt like she deserved it, honestly. Atonement, if you will.
The vixen scientist reached into her lab coat. When her hand returned, it was holding a recording camera. She turned it on, making a red light appear, showing that it was recording.
"This is Samantha Prower," she said into the machine, recording herself, "Lead Scientist of G.U.N.'s Science Ward, and expected terrorist... it seems..." she turned the camera over, showing the blonde woman within the case, "This is Maria Robotnik, former agent of G.U.N. After being kidnapped in her hiding spot, and arrested on charges of terrorism, murder, treason, among other things. This is the Project Shadow holding cell, created specifically for her. It's an infinite cell, designed to hold her forever, if necessary, also designed to lethally inject her if the need arises. My mission here, and possibly until I die, is to extract pieces of Maria's blood, and some how make it that it doesn't kill other soldiers upon introducing it into their blood lines..." she sighed, "They think I'm some sort of god..."
She shook her head, and pulled away. Ultimately, she laid her camera on one of the room's many command devices, and pointed it toward Maria's capsule. Then she waltzed her way over to the man computer. The screen on said computer showed everything going on within Maria. Brain activity, body activity, even Chaos activity. And those numbers were off the charts. Samantha wasn't sure if this was because of Shadow's blood or if it was within Maria herself. Whatever the case may be, it was something she would have to investigate further when she administers the blood to other soldiers. Will they get Chaos Powers too? Ugh, she didn't really want to think about it.
There was a sudden shake in the room, knocking her off her feet. The gunfire had gotten louder, and Samantha didn't notice it until now. It was constantly shaking the room, making the vixen quake with fear. The shootout had apparently gotten closer. Gazing up, the loud fire made the room shake briefly. How was she supposed to work under these conditions?
The door slid open, making the fox freeze up. To her pleasure, stepping in was Samson, and a group of G.U.N. soldiers.
"Damn Ivo..." he grumbled, before trekking his cold gaze to the fox, "Samantha, what are you doing, get to work."
"Work!?" she said, surprised, "Under this!? Samson, there's a freaking war zone going upstairs.
"I don't care..." Samson retorted, "You better get that blood extracted, and this minute, woman!"
"Commander!" one of his soldiers called, "Ivo and his robots have cleared level 4! Their taking the elevator down as we speak!"
"Damn..." Samson grumbled, "He's working faster than I originally intended... So be it... If it's a battle he wants, it's a battle he gets..." he suddenly faced the door, "Listen men! Our mission is to protect this room with your life! Do you understand!?"
"But sir!" one soldier called, "Agent Maria is a traitor! Why are we protecting her!?"
Samson smirked.
"Ivo wants his cousin," he answered, "Not dead, alive. With that, we'll make it impossible for him to retrieve her, understand!?"
"YESSIR!" all the men announced.
A second later, they all took strategic places of cover around the area. Their guns were all drawn on the door at hand, as the loud explosions over head came to a roaring stop. All that echoed for a while, was the elevator. Lower and lower it dropped, the sound of it moving down echoing through the room. Tensions were running high, as all awaited the oncoming battle. Even Samantha, who was supposed to be working, took safety behind her command console, her blue eyes gazing at the door with equal intensity to those of the soldiers guarding her.
Then silence. Brief silence.
Then explosions. The door was blown open, and debris was tossed every which way. The guards holding the room aimed their guns through the area the door once occupied, and fired wildly. Samantha ducked down and covered her ears, as the sound of bullets screaming, and casing hitting the floor, filled the air for what felt like forever.
Then it all grew silent again. Samson raised his hand, ending his allies gunfire, as he peered through the hole. No one had given back any kind of return fire, which was odd. And this went on for a minute or two.
Then something red flew out from the smog. E-102 Gamma flew into the air, his jets screaming through the wind. His arm cannon aimed down, and started firing. Burning blue rockets escaped his limb, destroying the areas it touched, and killing the soldiers unfortunate enough to be caught in the vicinity. Samson gazed up to the murderous robot for a little while, before leaping away to dodge a blast aimed for him.
After rolling to safety, he quickly reloaded his rifle, prepared to continue the fight. When he glanced back up, he saw a black machine, much akin to the flying red one, step out.
E-101 Beta marched through the room, his twin arm cannons firing in alternative blasts. The glowing rockets of power collided with command consoles, causing explosions to toss fire into the air. Samson tried in vain to stop the machine, by firing upon it. But that served to only anger the bot, as it shifted its red gaze toward the G.U.N. Commander. Arm cannons aiming forward, it fired. But Samson was no normal soldier.
He quickly leaped out-of-the-way, landing safely a distance away. He returned fire, but this did little to the machine's tough body. Beta just continued his rampage, firing upon anything that decided to move within the large area.
More colorful robots stepped from the foggy doorway, joining their allies. Rockets and bullets were spread out, striking down soldiers, and destroying consoles. It seemed that no matter how many times Samson fired upon the machines, he couldn't damage them. They were impervious to all he was giving. Not even his grenades were enough to shake up the machines.
Then he noticed something. Gazing left and right, he saw that he was alone. All his soldiers were dead, their blood staining the floors and pooling about. Samson could only wonder how things went to hell so quickly. They were caught of guard, there was little else to say. Then he heard a laugh. A sadistic, insidious laugh, one that child him to the bones.
"Well, well, well, Commander..." a man said, stepping from the smog and revealing himself to be Dr. Robotnik, "It looks like your defense was... terrible... just plain terrible..."
"You've got a lot of nerve coming through here, Ivo!" Samson yelled, despite the dire situations, "We aren't just going to let you waltz out."
"Oh you will, Samson, you will..." Eggman answered.
"MADAME MARIA!" Orbot suddenly yelled, flying up from Ivo's Egg Walker.
The small black and white machine flew all the way over to the capsule, gazing upon the blue woman beneath. If he could gasp, or make any facial feature other than that smile, he may have been freaking out. But instead, all he said was,
"MAAAADAAAME!"
Samson gazed at the weird display of affection, before feeling a warm muzzle move to his head. Turning around, he saw Beta staring at him, his arm cannon aimed directly at his head.
"Today, Samson," Ivo snickered, "You! Are my prisoner! And first things first! Release Maria! She appears cramped in there, does she not..."
"Go ahead, kill me," Samson ordered, "I'm not afraid. Nor will I free Maria..."
"Fine then, your choice..." Ivo stated, "Beta, kill him..."
The robot's arm cannon began to glow, and Samson braced for impact. But a sudden gasp got everyone's attention. Their eyes trekked to the yellow vixen behind the command center, the very one who watched the violence unfold before her.
Her blue eyes were peering at the screen before her, the one showing all of Maria's vitals. And the Chaos activity was growing to near unmeasurable levels.
"Maria's waking up..." she stuttered, "MARIA'S WAKING UP!"
Everyone's eyes snapped to the capsule then. They watched as the girl before them went from sweet sleepy bliss, to fervent animalistic rage. Then her eyes opened, showing nothing but red. Through the clear shining water, they watched Maria scream, as she shook on the bonds holding her. The sight of it made Ivo angry.
"FREE HER!" he yelled, "THIS INSTANT YOU LITTLE FOX!"
Samantha began to struggle with the commands then. Samson may have been fearless, but she sure as hell wasn't. Seeing what those robots did to trained individuals, she wouldn't last a second. So, fingers dancing on the command console, she caused the capsule to produce noises. It moved down from its elevated platform, while the clamps within unhooked themselves. Despite Samson's calls, Samantha didn't cease her actions in the least bit. She just worked and worked until.
The capsule exploded. Metal, glass, cords, water, everything was thrown everywhere. As those cords flailed wildly with electricity, a being arose from the capsule. A being bathed in a flaming red aura, whose eyes were as white as light.
Maria, or Chaos Maria, surged with Chaos Powers never seen before. From her fingertips, she produced these red orbs. She constantly lobbed these Chaos rich attacks into the walls, floor, and ceiling, destroying them with explosions. Steel and debris was thrown in every which way, as this woman constantly roared with rage.
In awe, everyone gazed at her, not really sure what to do. Then Maria's eyes snapped onto Samson's frame.
"TAAAAAAYYYYLOOOOOOORRRR!" she roared.
She stepped toward him, her footstep creating a dent in the ground. Maria roared again, as she stepped threateningly toward the G.U.N. Commander. He was so shook up, he didn't know what to do, other than stare at her. In his ear, he heard Ivo cackle and laugh, like the sadistic bastard he was.
"YES! Kill him Maria!" he commanded, "Destroy the man whose been lying to you for all these years!"
It sounded like such a good idea, it made Maria nod. She raised her hand, charged up an attack, glared forward toward Samson, then fell.
Right onto her knees, the fire died out, ending her tirade. And that's how Maria remained, silent, and unconscious. No one knew what to do, to be honest, other than stare at the woman who once held so much power.
Then Ivo started growling. And at the same time, gun fire echoed out. Reinforcements arrived from the busted elevator, firing upon the mad doctor. Ivo could only growl, as he dashed for his cousin, and scooped her up into his Egg Walker.
"Retreat!" he ordered, "Swatbots, hold them off while E-100s and I escape!"
The Badniks, always faithful to their creator, shifted their guns to fight the invaders. As individual robots were shot down, Ivo shifted his gaze to the door on the other end of the room. From what his map told him, that lead to a secret hangar on this side of the mountain. Egg Walker moving, he started off for the door, but something stopped him.
"Please!" Samantha cried, running up, "Take me with you!"
"WHAT!?" Ivo retorted, "NO!? You stupid G.U.N. Geek! Get away!"
"Just please! If I stay, they'll kill me! I'm sure of it!"
"I don't care!" Ivo answered, waving his hand, "Get away you little brat!" he suddenly turned around, "Espilon, kill her!"
The orange machine aimed his arm cannon at Samantha, making her wilt in fear. Fortunately, someone saved her.
"No..." Maria cried weakly, "Stop..."
"What!?" Ivo responded.
"It seems Madame Maria has requested you save Madame Samantha. I say we do it!"
"Shut up you!" Ivo responded, before a stray bullet coursed pass him, "Okay, okay! Gamma! Pick her up, we're busting out of here!"
The red machine suddenly scooped Samantha up in its arms, making her scream out in fear. The next thing she knew, they were flying at high speeds, as Beta and Zeta destroyed the door holding their escape. Down the halls, the terrorists rushed, moving at speeds the fox never felt before.
Ivo's plans were right, a hidden hangar was stationed at this end of the hall. As they arrived to one of the drop ships, Gamma suddenly aimed his arm cannon at Samantha's head, making her wilt.
"Get this thing running!" Ivo ordered, "Or else!"
Samantha nodded, before leaping from Gamma's arms. She ran up into the drop ship, and rushed to its command center, sitting down behind the wheel. She pressed and flipped switches, turning the massive vehicle on. Turning around, she saw Ivo and his individual machines fill the ranks of the plane. Good thing their was a small number of them, because they were so heavy, they equaled the amount of usual soldiers. Speaking of which.
G.U.N. had finally gotten to the hangar, raining bullets on their position. As the drop ships doors closed, Ivo returned fire, breaking their ranks. The great plane finally took to the air, and drove off for the hangar's closed-door. Samantha began to fret, but Ivo saw this coming. Grinning, he pressed a hidden button on his Egg Walker, making the hangar doors explode.
With that gone, Samantha was freed to fly off safely. She took to the air outside this secret base, and disappeared through the airs. But she knew this safety wouldn't last for long.
"They'll be coming for us soon..." she whispered.
"Not exactly..." Ivo answered, laughing dementedly, "I left them a little... present..."
His laughs grew louder and louder, as he tapped a button on his machine. Through her window, Samantha stared at the hidden mountain G.U.N. base. And it suddenly exploded. Puffy, fiery explosions riddled the base, up and down. And from all that, Ivo laughed and laughed and laughed. This situation she had placed herself in, made Samantha think.
"Oh my... what have you gotten yourself into...?"