Chapter 2: Rescuing Sonic
As Silver, Vector, and Saura arrived to Spaceport, Espio had decided to cause a distraction that way it's easier to grab a shuttle. He brought in Eggman's army's attention to him. In the mean time, Vector, Silver, and Saura will look for a shuttle.
The communicator soon had someone speaking through. "Espio here," Espio's voice announces. "I'm engaging the enemy in the orbital tunnel! I think I can hold them off," he added. Vector, Silver, and Saura nod to each other. Silver soon had a light blue aura around him and is in the air. "No wait," they suddenly hear Espio shout out! "Watch out! The masked one is here, the monster that took out Sonic," he warned.
"Oh, what ever shall you do? The one who also made you weak and pathetic is here as well. I wonder what you'll do if you see him."
Saura stopped and starts shivering at the thought of the masked figure being here. Vector noticed the wolf standing there. "Hey rookie stay focused," he calls out. Saura jumps a bit and looks to Vector. "Remember, we're here to find a shuttle," he reassures her. Silver nods to show Vector is right. Saura does a deep sigh to try and calm herself. Once she's good even though she's slightly shaking, she nods to Vector and Silver and runs with them.
As Vector, Silver, and Saura continues to look for a shuttle, they've been running into a lot of Eggman's robots. Silver was able to handle them will thanks to his telekinesis. Vector would use brutal force whenever Silver holds some down. Thanks to the Lightning Wispon, Saura was able to take down some of the robots whenever they're in a row or surrounding her. The group noticed a gap along with a train coming by. They managed to get through it thanks to Silver's abilities and Saura's grabbling hooks. They would often hide at times due to so many robots in the area guarding the shuttles. But with all of the commotion from Espio, the robots had left their posts. "Come on! Let's head in while Espio keeps them busy," Silver says to Vector and Saura as he flies in to the chamber.
When they arrived in the chamber, Saura noticed a group of robots behind her. To stop the robots, she used her Lightning Wispon to send them flying away from her, Vector, and Silver until they were destroyed. She looks back and notices Vector and Silver are already ahead of her. She quickly runs after them, so she won't get left behind.
"It's all quiet at the launch pad for now. Grab a shuttle before they sound the alert," Amy says through the communicator. Silver and Vector nodded as they continue to look for a perfect shuttle to use. It's important to get to Sonic in time. After searching a few rooms, along with uniting with Espio, they find a perfect shuttle.
"Perfect, I'm sure they won't mind if we borrow this for a while," said Vector as he smirks a bit.
Silver nods in agreement with Espio as he looks around to make sure everyone is present. He becomes worried when he doesn't see Saura. "Hey, where's the rookie?" he asks while still looking around.
Espio and Vector start to look around as well. They suddenly hear someone running in to the room. To their relief, it was only Saura. "There," Vector points out. "Hey rookie, hurry up," he calls out! Once Saura, Silver, Espio, and Vector are in the shuttle, they started it up as it moves to the launch pad. As soon as it is there, the shuttle immediately takes off as Vector and Epsio drive it.
"Well, you didn't see the figure after all. You got lucky. However, I wouldn't celebrate too soon if I were you. Who knows if he can catch up quickly. He is faster than the blue hero."
Saura shivers at that possibility. The resistance did say this figure is faster than Sonic. Is it really possible for it to catch up. The group's communitcators start beeping. "Did you guys get a shuttle?" Knuckles's voice asked through the communicator.
"We sure did," Silver responds for the group. "So, where is our destination commander?" he asks Knuckles through the communicator.
Before Knuckles could answer, the communicator beeps from an incoming caller. "Knuckles, can you hear me?" a feminine voice asks.
Saura showed no recognition on the voice, but Silver, Espio, and Vector knows who that is, even Knuckles. "Rouge, it's about time," Knuckles responds. "How's Sonic doing?" he asks the user with the feminine voice.
"He's been better," Rouge answers. "They're getting ready to banish him into space," she then added.
This caused the group to gasp. "What? You can't be serious," said Silver with shock.
"Eggman has been keeping Sonic alive all this time. He's been waiting to show him his completed empire before banishing him," Rouge explained as she points out what Dr. Eggman had done.
The Silver, Vector, Espio, and Saura can hear Knuckles growling in the communicator. "Torturing Sonic just to pass the time," the echidna growled out in anger. "That's low even for Eggman," he added.
"It seems Eggman got wind of our rescue plan and is moving forward with his plan ahead of schedule," Rouge warned to explain Eggman's plan. "The clock is ticking boss," she says to Knuckles with a serious tone.
"But we don't even know where he's being held captive," Amy points out through the communicator with a worried tone like she's about to panic.
"Yes, we do," Rouge says to hopefully calm Amy down. "Eggman rebuilt the Death Egg. That's where he's keeping Sonic," she added.
"The Death Egg?" Vector questions. Saura shivers a bit at the thought of the place. "Oh man, that's not good," the crocodile points out with a frown. Apparently, his comment didn't make anyone feel better.
"None of this is a good Vector," Knuckles replies. "That's why this is called "war,"" he added. "You all know what to do now?" he says to the group in the shuttle. "Go to the Death Egg and get Sonic," he tells the group seriously.
"Roger that," Espio replies while Vector and Silver replies with a "yeah." Saura just nodded to the group nervously. It's obvious she's not looking forward in going to the Death Egg.
Once the shuttle arrives into the Death Egg, the group, or rather Espio, Silver, and Vector, decided to it would be best to split up to look for Sonic. With their communicators, they can let each other know if they found him. Apparently, the paths Espio, Vector, and Silver took made them have to deal with Eggman's robots. Saura, on the other hand, was lucky. Her path appears to be clear of enemies. Her communicator was on the entire time since she still isn't speaking. That way, Knuckles and the others can know what's going on through her stand. The communicator beeps as Knuckles's voice was announced. "Listen up Rookie," he calls out to Saura. "Our other forces are busy dealing with enemies. It sounds like you took the best route," he points out. Saura does a quiet sigh of relief. "It's up to you to save Sonic now. Go find him," he says to her.
Saura shivers as she looks around the place after Knuckles's finished talking to her. This place scares her. If she remembers the story, the Death Egg use to be where Eggman had a "Death Egg" robot to destroy Sonic and the rest of the world. She shakes her head a bit to get the thoughts out of her head. Knuckles and everyone else is counting on her. Once the thoughts are somewhat cleared, she continues to move forward, while still shaking a bit.
As Saura moves forward, Rouge announces through the communicator about the prisoners being held in an interment facility and Sonic might be there. Although, it seems security there is tight. It took Saura a bit of time to knock out the enemies without being spotted and to calm herself down a bit. Silver, Vector, and Espio mentioned a few rooms they were in with nothing or was used along with more angry talks about Eggman.
Saura continues her search quietly along with taking out a few control systems that controls the facility. However, that triggered the alarm system. This, of course, had caused more enemies to go after her. "Everyone, go back to the shuttle! The control systems in the facility appear to be shut down. Make sure you wait for Sonic or get him to the shuttle when you see him," Knuckles announces through the communicator. Saura nods silently as she runs back.
Saura got to the room where the shuttle she, Silver, Espio, and Vector were in with; then suddenly, Eggman's robots had her surrounded! She tries to fight back, but they've managed to shoot the wispon out of her hand. She's trapped! Saura shivers as the robots got closer. However out of nowhere, something blue came out and attacked the robots. Once the enemies were destroyed, the blue blur landed, and it shows a hedgehog, - No, not just a blue hedgehog, it's him! It's Sonic the Hedgehog!
Once Sonic lands, he looks to Saura and smiles. "Don't worry, everything's cool," he reassures her as he held out his hand to her. Once Saura shyly and gently grabs his hand, Sonic helps her up. He watches the blond wolf go get the wispon and looks confused a bit. "Are you here to rescue me?" he asks. The blue hedgehog watches Saura look at him and nods to answer. Sonic smiles more since he knows she's on his side. "Sweet! I can't tell you how much I appreciate it," he says to her. He looks back at the robots. "It's been a while since I've seen a friendly face," he added as he looks back to the wolf.
Saura smiles, but soon hears her communicator beeping which caused her to pull it out. "Hey rookie, you still in one piece?" Knuckles asks through the communicator. She thought about responding but doesn't since she still doesn't want to speak due to being afraid to.
Luckily for Saura, Sonic answers instead. "Oh sure, don't even bother to ask how I am," he answers sarcastically.
"Sonic," Amy shouts through the communicator! This caused both, Sonic and Saura, to flinch at the high scream Amy made. "I'm so glad," she added with excitement.
Sonic shrugs a bit as Knuckles talks to Amy to calm her down. In the meantime, the blue hedgehog turns to Saura. "Is there an exit around here?" he asks the blond wolf. In response, Saura points to the shuttle up ahead. Sonic nods to Saura as he starts walking to the shuttle with her. "Your concern is touching Knuckles," he says once Knuckles finished his conversation with Amy.
Saura soon sees Sonic run up ahead and follows using her grabbling hooks. Once she and Sonic are inside the shuttle and closed its door, the shuttle takes off with Silver, Espio, Vector, and both of them in it.
Author's note:
Hello again! Another update of the next chapter for this fanfic! I won't be able to update it for a bit. There are several reasons for this case.
1. I need a title. - I'm still not comfortable with the title for this fanfic and I'm going to go ahead and look up other ways to call this fanfic. And, I might make a poll about it here.
2. I need to make a cover image. - Yes, just like my other fanfics, this fanfic will get a cover, but apparently I haven't got to it yet. So, I need to get started on that.
3. College. - Eh, I'm sure you guys can get where this goes. School comes first after all.
Because of these working in process steps for this fanfic and real life, updates may take a bit. So please bear with me on this. On the side note, FINALLY Sonic has been rescued! Let's see how the resistance will do from here on out (even though most of us already knows what happened. ^^;). Also, thank you all so much for already 100+ views. I'm actually shocked on how fast it's been seen. I really appreciate it. Thank you all for reading! :D