Author's note:
Hello guys! Sorry for updating a bit late. School has started and they are getting a bit more difficult for me. But do not worry, I will continue to do my best to update this fanfic until it is completed.
Anyways whew, this is the longest single chapter I've ever done. I thought about splitting this into 2 chapters again, but I thought against it. Besides we now have 2 or 3 more chapters to go (plus epilogue). So, it won't be long now. ;)
Shout-outs:
Bajy - Infinite won't be in pain for long. I think something is "pulling" out of him. And we shall see what this big event can be. ^^
RagingWolf2124 - Thank you very much. :D I'm also a little disappointed in SEGA for not adding more to Infinite as well. I also wonder about that too along with the rest of his life before he met Eggman. So many questions about Inf- er, Zero! *screaming at SEGA* We have to know more SEGA! There better be a sequel!
Chrisj32347 - Aww. Thank you and thanks for reading. :)
Thanks for Reading everyone and please review! :)
Chapter 25: The Phantom Death Egg Robot Battle
Saura and her friends had arrived outside of the fortress on a cliff that shows the horrid buildings. To their surprise, the fortress isn't being blown to pieces like they predicted, but it does give time for the rest of their friends to escape. As Amy, Silver, Rouge, Shadow, Omega, and Saura wait for their friends, the wolf helps Infinite down to a sit position. "A-are you okay?" she asks with extreme concern. The wolf watches the jackal deep breath for he's no longer groaning in pain. Just then, Infinite looked down to one of his clawed hands to what he was holding, a shattered gem. Recognizing the ruby color, Saura frowns at what it was. "Oh no," she says quietly. It is bad because Infinite will think he's weak again…
"I should've known," Saura hears Infinite say. The wolf looks to the jackal and sees him looking at the shattered Phantom Ruby. "Once the reactor is destroyed, this Phantom Ruby turns back to an ordinary prototype like the one you had," he explains. He glares at the shattered ruby as it disappears with the wind and rain. "And now, I'm back to being a weak mercenary," he added with anger.
Saura frowns as she sits on her knees next to Infinite. She places her wispon down so, she can place her hand on the jackal's shoulder to have him look at her. "You're not weak Infinite," she reassures him. "Just because the Phantom Ruby is gone, it does not make you weak. You're still strong without it," she added. Before she could have Infinite speak, Saura hugs him gently to comfort him.
Infinite watches Saura hug him and then looks at the others. Everyone else seems to be waiting for their blue savior and the rest of their friends. Seeing it is safe, the jackal hugs the wolf back as he nuzzles to her fur a bit. Just then, he remembered the items he wanted Saura to get! "Saura, do you have the items?" he asks while letting her go. Infinite watches Saura nod as she shows him his red sword. The wolf hands the sword to the jackal with a smile. He looks at the blade and then back to the wolf. "What about the other?" he asks. Saura flinches a little as she looks down a bit. Infinite thought she might have forgot it until she reaches to her pocket. The wolf pulls it out and shows it to him, her crescent moon necklace. Once the jewelry is in his other hand, the jackal looks at it as he places his sword down. "Turn around," he lightly commanded the wolf.
Saura looks at Infinite with a confused look. Why does he want her to turn around? Noticing the jackal is waiting, the wolf turns around until her back is facing him. She noticed Amy and the others are still waiting for Tails, Knuckles, and both Sonics. She really hopes they're okay… She noticed Shadow look back at her and Infinite. Saura slightly shivers a bit at the black hedgehog's glare or his expressionless gaze. She suddenly feels something being placed around her neck. The wolf looks down and noticed her necklace! "Wh-what?" she says in confusion.
"Do not lose that," Saura hears Infinite say. The wolf looks back to the jackal and sees him get his sword while trying to get up. Helping Infinite up, she starts to hear someone coming! The wolf looks and sees the older Sonic and Knuckles come out of the fortress first; and then Tails and the younger Sonic came out next! "Hmph, figures they would come out," the jackal mumbles out. Saura looks to Infinite and then back to the older Sonic and his friends. The wolf sees the pink hedgehog hug the older blue hedgehog as she gives him kisses on the cheek and he tries to gently move her away. Saura giggles a bit at the two until it dies down a bit while she blushes as she thinks of Infinite and herself. Without even thinking, the wolf places her head on the jackal's shoulder. Infinite notices the strange attention along with how close her scent is and looks at her. "What's wrong?" he asks.
When she heard Infinite, Saura immediately blushes red at what she's doing and quickly backs away a bit. "I-I'm sorry," she says quietly. After all, she still doesn't know if Infinite loves her the same way she does for him. True, there was that time back in the fortress, but that was only because the jackal was raged with the Phantom Ruby. She then sees the others looking at her and Infinite. The first one to try and approach them was the younger Sonic since he seems to be glaring at Infinite. The wolf quickly gets in between the young blue hedgehog and jackal as she protects the jackal.
The younger Sonic skids to a stop to the point he's close to Saura and Infinite. He looks to the wolf with a confused look as he scratches his head a bit. The older Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Silver, Rouge, Omega, and Shadow then came up until they are close and behind the younger Sonic. Saura sees the group all come up and starts to show a nervous look for she isn't use to having so many mobians come up to her at once. She can see mixed emotions in the group. A few are scared while most of them are tensed. Saura realizes she needs to introduce Infinite to the group. She looks at the group a bit more for a few seconds as she gulps with a little scared look herself. Taking a deep breath, Saura hides in her fear as she looks to the group with a tiny smile. "G-guys, I want you to m-meet Infinite. He is here to h-help us to take out E-Eggman's army," she says to the group while moving away a bit to show everyone the jackal.
The older Sonic and his friends watch Saura trying to introduce them to Infinite. When she finished, he looks to Infinite and noticed the tensed expression he's giving them as the jackal grips on to his sword tighter. The older blue hedgehog looks to his friends and noticed they're tensed as well. Looking back at Infinite, he lets out a smile. "Well, we don't really need any help taking out Eggman since his army is butt kicked," he says to Saura. He watches the wolf stop smiling as she looks down a bit as the jackal looks at her. The older Sonic then looks to Infinite with the same smile. "But, any friend of Saura's is a friend of mine," he says with a grin. The wolf and jackal look at the older hedgehog with surprise along with everyone else. The older Sonic then held his hand out to Infinite. "I'm Sonic, Sonic the hedgehog. It's nice to meet you Infinite," he says to the jackal.
Amy smiles to the older Sonic as she shows a dreamy look on her face. Tails, the younger Sonic, Knuckles, and Silver continue to show their surprised expressions. Rouge just gives out a small smile and Shadow and Omega remain expressionless. Saura starts to show a smile when she realizes the older Sonic wants to be Infinite's friend. She looks to the jackal and gives him a reassuring nod. Infinite looks to Saura until he notices the nod and looks back to the older Sonic. He watches the older blue hedgehog with suspicion as he slowly raises his hand a bit.
Before Infinite could shake the older Sonic's hand, the earth started to shake. This caused caution to rise on everyone! "Oh come on, now what?" the older Sonic complains as he looks around. "Can't we just win and have that to be the end if it?" he added.
Tails looks around until he sees something come up from below the cliff. "Look" he says to everyone! Everyone turned to see what Tails is pointing at. They all see a huge metallic, black robot with red glowing spots all over. Could it be-
"Gotcha," Dr. Eggman's voice shouted through the robot speakers! The large group glares at the doctor. "The fortress reactor was just a decoy. A true winner always keeps his trump card hidden until the end," he added with a dark chuckle.
Knuckles glares at Eggman with the others until he suddenly hears the communicator going off and picks it up. "Guys, what's going on?! There aren't less enemies, there's MORE," Vector's voice was heard through the communicator!
Everyone but Infinite gasps in shock. The jackal shows a shocked look. "There's so many of them," Charmy's voice shouted through the communicator.
"We have confirmed sightings on Shadow, Metal Sonic, Chaos, and Zavok, there are thousands of them," Espio exclaims through the communicator! "We don't know how much more our forces can take," he added!
Both Sonics glare madly at Dr. Eggman. "What have you done?" the older Sonic asks with anger!
Dr. Eggman lets out a short evil laugh. "I merely incorporated the Phantom Ruby into this Death Egg Robot," he replies with an evil smirk.
Tails frowns a bit as he thinks out loud. "But, that means the Phantom Ruby no longer has a vulnerable energy supply," he says in disbelief. Then it hit the two-tailed fox! "It's an invulnerable ruby?" he asks with shock!
While he glares at Eggman, Infinite hears Tails's theory. The jackal remembers all the info the doctor gave to him about the Phantom Ruby which had his clawed hands to fists. "I'm afraid so," he says to the fox while ignoring the surprised stare he received.
"A good deduction Tails," Dr. Eggman comments while rubbing his moustache a bit. He then stops. "This Death Egg Robot has-" he stops to adjust what he said. "No, I have surpassed Infinite to become the complete and ultimate form," he added with determination.
So, the human was going to betray Infinite sometime soon. He should've known better! Infinite had a chance to stop Eggman before! He should've done it before the war started! The jackal growls at the human with anger. "Why that pathetic human," he growls out in anger.
"You all will be crushed by this Death Egg Robot, powered by the Phantom Ruby, and in the end everything will be just as I planned," Eggman shouts as he lets out an evil laugh! The robot spread out its front arms and shoots out red aura around the area.
Everyone held their ground as the red aura makes contact with them. Once the red aura dies down, Saura and both Sonics recovered quickly as they help their friends up, including Infinite. When that's done, the older Sonic steps forward. "Your plan will end like all your plans do with you sitting in a pile of busted robot parts wondering how you failed so badly," he says to Eggman with a glare.
Saura watches the older Sonic look towards his friends as they all nod while she looked confused with Infinite. And then, she sees Shadow pull out his yellow gem. Knuckles pulls out two gems similar to Shadow's, but one is red and the other is turquoise. Amy pulls out another one except it's purple. Rouge pulls out the same gem, only this one is white. Tails pulls out another gem, but this one is blue. And finally, the older Sonic pulls out the same, but it's green. "Seven gems?" Saura questions quietly.
Infinite noticed the gems the older Sonic and his friends have float in the air and surround both the older and younger blue hedgehogs. Now understanding what those gems are, the jackal takes a step back. According to the legend he read, those seven gems are known as Chaos Emeralds! Both Sonics were soon swallowed by a bright light with the emeralds! When the light finishes, both Sonics are now yellow instead of blue and are surrounded by a light aura. "Th-This can't be," Eggman shouts!
The two Sonics glare at Eggman in determination. The older Sonic looks to the younger one. "Let's get him," the older Sonic says. Once the younger Sonic nods, he and the older Sonic float in the air and fly towards Eggman as they start fighting him.
As the battle of both Sonics and Eggman rages on, the group on the ground realizes how the Phantom Ruby is being overclocked! Whenever the Sonics get close to the human, the ruby will counter back which leads the two yellow hedgehogs back to the way they were at before they fought the mad doctor. "Are the emeralds really useless against the Phantom Ruby?" Knuckles asks with shock. Everyone started to worry for both Sonics especially Amy.
Tails suddenly gets an idea! "Perhaps we should counter back! One of us should help Sonic out! Someone who knows more about the Phantom Ruby than any of us," he says to the group. And Tails knows who can help! The fox turns to the jackal. "Infinite, you can help us," he says.
Infinite narrows his eyes at Tails in confusion. "What?" he questions the fox's idea. He watches the fox walk up to him and Saura.
"You've known about the Phantom Ruby longer than any of us! Plus, you've got one too! Maybe you can stop Eggman from using his tricks," Tails explains to Infinite. But then, the fox notices the jackal no longer has his own Phantom Ruby on his chest! "Wh-what happened to your-"
"Gone for good thanks to your blue savior," Infinite interrupts Tails as he growls. "When the reactor was destroyed, the Phantom Ruby I had becomes a regular prototype and shatters because of how much it was used," he added with anger. The jackal watches the fox back up a bit as Knuckles glares at him. Infinite glares back but stops when he feels someone's hand on his shoulder. Knowing the one mobian who can do that, he tries to calm down as he gently looks to the wolf behind him who is staring at him with a worried frown. He sighs to finally calm down.
"Guys, look out," Silver warns the group for he sees one of the metallic robot's hands heading straight for him and the others! The white hedgehog starts using his telekinesis to stop the arm from getting any closer, but it is still coming closer. Silver cringes as he continues to try and hold the hand away from the others. "I… I can't hold on to this forever," he announces as he continues to struggle to hold the arm.
Saura looks at the metallic robot arm that Silver has a hold of along with both Sonics trying to fight off Eggman while looking like they are struggling. Without even thinking, she lets go of Infinite, grabs her wispon, and charges towards the Death Egg Robot. The jackal noticed the wolf's actions and tries to stop her. "Saura, what are you doing?" he tries to ask and runs off after her. Silver looks and notices Saura running towards the huge robot and Infinite running after her. That one second was all Eggman needed to have his robot's arm break out of Silver's psychokinesis. Unfortunately, Saura quickly uses her grabbling hook to grab on to the upper arm of the robot. Infinite came close to catching her, but her grabbling hook pulled her away from him. "Damn it Saura," he mumbles in anger and worry.
Once Saura got on the Death Egg Robot's upper arm, she sees the lower arm is free from Silver's grasp. She quickly uses her Lightning Wispon to take out the lower half of the arm along with managing to toss it away from the others on the ground. When that was finished, the wolf looks at the robot she is on and glares at the red glow at the center as she starts running towards it.
When the younger Sonic had managed to break his little forcefield at the center of the robot, Dr. Eggman had to find a way to stall the two Sonics. He noticed Tails talking to Infinite and evil smirks. Once he used the Phantom Ruby to push the two yellow hedgehogs away, he uses one of the Death Egg Robot's arms to attack their friends and the traitor. Apparently, Silver caught his actions and tries to hold his arm down, but he knows the white hedgehog can't hold it for long. Just when the arm is finally free, the lower half of it had suddenly been sliced off and tossed away thanks to a lightning whip. The human looks to the source and notices the blond wolf heading towards him on his robot! He glares at her as he launches some missiles at the wolf.
Saura noticed the missiles heading towards her, so she uses her wispon to deflect them back at the Death Egg Robot. While the missiles are aimed towards the huge robot, the wolf continues to run towards the center in order to get to Eggman and the real Phantom Ruby. As soon as the missiles hit the robot along with both Sonics using the missiles as cover to attack, Saura took the chance to bust the red center and sneaks in! The wolf looks around once she's inside as she sees all the wires and red holograms everywhere! She would've been distracted by the scene until she hears a familiar sound, the sound of glitch. Recognizing what that sound means, Saura glares at the direction and starts heading towards that sound.
Dr. Eggman glared at the wolf when he sees her deflect his missiles. He bangs on his hidden white robot with eight arms attached to his Death Egg Robot. That wolf is about as annoying as Sonic and his meddling friends. Then again, she is one of Sonic's friends, but he knows nothing about her. What was her name again? Sabrina… no, Sable… not that- The human's train of thought was interrupted when the missiles hit his Death Egg Robot. He tries to find the wolf until he was interrupted by Sonic and his other dimensional self who are still using the Chaos Emeralds. He summons more missiles along with red cubed like auras and aims them at the two yellow hedgehogs. He watches them dodge with an evil smirk as he gets ready to smash them. Suddenly, he hears a loud crash inside his robot! Looking around, Eggman then sees the blond wolf break in as she looks at his other robot that was hidden with shock until she glares at him. "You annoying pest," he shouts at the wolf! He quickly activates one of his white robot's arms to attack her.
Saura, stared at this other robot that is in the Death Egg Robot with her and Eggman in shock. Could that robot be one of the human's backup plans in case both Sonics defeat this robot. When the wolf sees the human, she lets out a glare and growls quietly at him. She then sees the arm of the white robot being released from the Death Egg Robot as it starts heading towards her. Quickly, she dodges the arm and charges towards Eggman with her wispon.
Dr. Eggman glares madly at the wolf as he now activates the lasers in his white Death Egg Robot. The wolf avoids the lasers the best she could and managed to get hit on her left arm and side from one of the lasers since the human heard her yelp in pain. And then, the human notices the lasers are also hitting his dark metallic Death Egg Robot. He tries to stop his lasers but sees it's already too late. He glares towards the wolf and finally catches her with one of the white robot's arms and brings her close to him. "Curse you," he shouts at the wolf! "Not only you helped Sonic and his friends, but YOU also took away my best soldier," he added as his glare deepened! The human watches the wolf trying to break out of his robot's grip while glaring back at him. "Who are you?" he asks in a demanding tone.
Saura continues to remain silent as she tries to break out of the white robot's grip and glaring at Eggman. She refuses to speak anything to the human for what he's done to her, and everyone else. The wolf is also in pain after that laser managed to hit her left arm and side along with the fact she is being squeezed by the white robot. Then, she and the mad doctor hears some kind of warning sound going off along with the Phantom Ruby sound effect.
Outside, both Sonics and their friends waited for Eggman's next attack, but nothing came out after the two Sonics managed to land a hit on him. They suddenly noticed lasers being shot out of the Death Egg Robot and looked surprised. Infinite watches with worry as he grips on to his sword. He feels so helpless when he sees those lasers continue to fire. His fear deepened when the lasers stopped. "Saura," he calls out for the wolf! Sonic and his friends look at the jackal and then back to the black metallic robot.
The Death Egg Robot suddenly stops functioning; but soon, a hole in the middle started to pulse a bit as it shatters the red glass protecting it until a white floating spider looking robot pops out of the other robot. Its six back arms have claw-like grabbers while the two front arms look like they launch missiles and lasers. The front of the robot's face has three purple like glowing dots. The older Sonic noticed the robot holding someone familiar, someone with blond fur. "Buddy," he says in shock and worry for his friend! The yellow hedgehog glares at Eggman as he charges towards him and his new robot.
Eggman noticed the older Sonic heading towards him. He uses the Phantom Ruby to push the older yellow hedgehog away. He lets out an evil chuckle as he uses one of the front arms of the white Death Egg Robot to shoot out a laser at both Sonics. "I will destroy you Sonic and your little resistance will be next," he shouts at the older Sonic! To prove his point, Eggman had the robot's arm, the one that is holding Saura, start to crush her.
Saura glares at Eggman as she tries to break out of his robot's hold until she feels it trying to crush her. She groans from the pain as she tries to endure it the best she could. Remembering her mental abuse from her uncle, the wolf ignores the robot's grip as she looks around for a way to escape.
"…give in and all of this will end right now…"
Saura flinched at the memory of that little phrase of the lullaby Nevil did when she was young. Shaking the memory away, she continues to try and endure the pain the best she could. However, the wolf knows that she has her limits and that could happen soon.
Infinite noticed Saura being crushed by Eggman's robot and knew he must do something! Without even thinking, the jackal starts heading towards the white robot by getting on to the busted metallic black robot. He heard one of Sonic's friends call for him but ignores them. Infinite jumps and runs on the busted robot until he manages to grab on to one of the white robot's back arms. Hanging on to the arm tightly, he starts climbing until he reaches to the body of the robot. As he glares at Eggman, the jackal notices the real Phantom Ruby in the power storage of the robot! This could be his chance to take back the power he had for six months! He slowly tries to reach for the gem until he hears Saura start whimpering in pain. Infinite looks to her and sees she is trying to hold back a scream for how much pain she is in. The jackal needs to hurry and rescue the wolf!... but if he doesn't he'll risk the opportunity to get his power back. Infinite looks back to the Phantom Ruby then to Saura and repeats the cycle. Every time he looks back to the wolf, the jackal memorizes all the times he was with her including the very first encounter at the city. He shut his eyes tight for he struggles to go to what he desires most.
"No matter where this g-goes, I did and still do l-love you…"
When that memory replayed in his head repeatedly, Infinite shot his eyes wide open as he looks back to Saura, who is now struggling to breath. "No," he shouts! The jackal quickly uses his sword to chop off the arm holding the wolf and frees her from its grip. Once she's free, Infinite grabs Saura with his free arm and uses his sword to hold them in place even though he's damaging the white Death Egg Robot. "Hang on Saura," he says to the wolf. The wolf looks to Infinite with surprise as she deep breaths a bit and wincing in pain.
Eggman suddenly noticed Infinite by the time the jackal had sliced the white robot's arm that held Saura. He glares at the jackal and wolf. "Infinite, how dare you betray me after I've given you the power of the Phantom Ruby," he exclaims in anger! "For what you've done, I will make sure you and the one you've chosen suffer through the same power I have given you," he added. The human then has the other front arm of the robot aimed at Infinite and Saura as it charges a laser beam.
Both Sonics watched Infinite choose between grabbing the Phantom Ruby or saving Saura while dodging the laser beams Eggman kept launching at them. They were a bit surprised when he chose the wolf over the gem. Once they see the jackal and wolf in danger, the older Sonic looks to the younger Sonic. "Come on, our friends need us," he says with determination. When the young yellow hedgehog nodded, he and the older yellow hedgehog fly towards the white robot. The younger Sonic attacks the front arm aimed at Saura and Infinite to distract Eggman. Apparently, the distraction also caused the jackal's sword to release the robot which has him and the wolf start to fall. The older Sonic quickly catches Saura and Infinite before they could fall down any further. "Are you guys alright?" he asks the jackal and wolf.
Infinite glares a bit at the older Sonic; however when he sees Saura is with them, he sighs a bit quietly in relief. She's safe and that's what matters to him. Saura, on the other hand, continues to wince, but doesn't show it to the older Sonic and Infinite. She nods to the older yellow hedgehog. "Y-yeah," she replies. The wolf looks back up to the older Sonic. "B-but, Eggman is t-too strong," she says with a frown.
The older Sonic looks to the white robot and noticed it seems to be struggling a bit since it's having a hard time stopping some of the younger Sonic's attacks. "No, I think Infinite had managed to damage it enough to weaken it," he says to Saura with a smile. He then looks to Infinite. "Thanks for the hand pal," he says to the jackal.
Infinite growls quietly at the older Sonic. Before he could bark back at the older yellow hedgehog, the jackal and the wolf were gently placed down on the ground next to the others. The older Sonic then floats back up to help the younger Sonic fight Eggman. Infinite looks around and noticed the others, aside from Saura, looking at him with either shock or suspicious look. "What are you all looking at?" he mumbled with a glare.
The group suddenly hear the white robot being attacked as Eggman yells at both Sonics in anger. And then, both yellow hedgehogs surround themselves with a bright light as they charge towards the human and his white robot. The light goes through the robot and caused it to explode as a red light appears around it. When the white robot is destroyed, the red light spreads out to millions of red sparkles. "They did it," Knuckles shouts in excitement! The echidna's friends cheered in joy as both Sonics fly down and their fur turns back to blue when they landed. Everyone then noticed Vector, Espio, and Charmy heading towards them.
"We've got excellent news! All the enemies have disappeared," Vector says with joy! The older Sonic and his friends smile to Vector, Charmy, and Espio. The crocodile then notices Infinite standing next to Saura. "Hey that's-" Vector tries to say as he got ready to attack the jackal.
But then, the older Sonic stops Vector and his two friends from charging towards Infinite. "Relax you guys. He's cool," he says to the crocodile, bee, and chameleon. The older blue hedgehog walks to the jackal and wolf. "Thanks for the help! You two did great up there," he says to the two. Infinite turns away from the older Sonic until he sees Saura give the older blue hedgehog a smile. The wolf looks to the jackal and gives him a smile as well. Infinite sighs a bit quietly and gives the wolf a tiny smile.
Everyone then noticed someone glowing! They turned to the source and see the younger Sonic starting to glow, Everyone, but Saura and Infinite, knows what's going on. Tails walks up to the younger Sonic. "I guess this is goodbye," he says to the younger hedgehog as he holds his hand out. "Get home safely Sonic and thanks for everything," he added. The younger Sonic shakes Tails's hand and shows a thumbs up to the fox. The young hedgehog looks at the rest of the group and nods as they said their goodbyes.
Saura frowns when she hears Tails say bye to the younger Sonic. She had no idea that the young hedgehog would leave once the war is over, but that's the way it is. When she sees the younger Sonic look at her and Infinite, the wolf smiles sadly a bit and waves. "B-bye Sonic," she says to the younger hedgehog while ignoring Vector, Espio, and Charmy's surprised expressions.
"Saura….."
The younger Sonic smiles to Saura, but his body soon starts to fade a bit. He looks to Tails and holds his fist out to the fox. Tails smiles and has his fist to the younger Sonic's fist gently. After the younger hedgehog starts waving, he completely fades. Tails has his hand out to the younger Sonic but sees that it's too late. The fox looks down sadly with tears in his eyes.
Sonic noticed the sadness Tails is showing so, he walks up to the fox and gently places a hand on Tails's shoulder. "Cheer up Tails. I'm sure we'll run into him again," he reassures the fox. Once Tails nods and wipes the tears off, Sonic nods and looks to him and everyone else. "Alright guys! It's time we clean up the mess that Eggman left this world in, and I'm not talking about those illusions he dreamed up for us! We need to fix the real world we all live in," he says to the group.
Tails smiles as he nods. "True dat," he mumbles. He looks to everyone and sees them all but Saura and Infinite nod in agreement. The jackal just makes a hmph noise and looks away a bit. The wolf on, the other hand, starts to look like she's having a hard time breathing a little bit while continuing to hold her arm and side like she's covering something. What could be wrong with-
"What about him?" Charmy asks as he points to Infinite. Tails looks to the jackal who is now looking back at the group like he's ready to fight. Saura quickly hides in her pain as she walks in between Infinite and the group to protect the jackal.
Sonic noticed Saura defending Infinite and smiles. "Don't worry, Infinite is friends with Saura. He helped us take out Eggman," he says to the group. Vector, Espio, and Charmy looked to towards Sonic with a shocked look.
Saura looks to Sonic with a smile. "Th-thank you," she mumbles to the hedgehog. Suddenly, the wolf feels the pain on her arm and side increase. She starts deep breathing quietly a bit as she tries to not show her struggle.
"Saura…."
Saura flinches as she feels the pain continue to grow and deep breaths a bit more. However, she can't let it show to her friends. The wolf can't let them worry, now that the war is finally over…
Tails, apparently, caught Saura's struggle and looks worried. He notices Sonic getting everyone ready to head back. "Wait Sonic," he calls to the blue hedgehog. The fox steps a bit closer to the wolf with worry. "Saura, are you okay?" he asks.
Saura noticed Tails caught her and now everyone is looking at her in concern especially Infinite. She tries to smile for the group, but the pain becomes unbearable. In fact, she's already struggling to stand and drops her wispon! The jackal notices the wolf is about to fall. "Saura," he calls out to the wolf and catches her! Now Sonic and his friends are worried, aside from Shadow and Omega since it's hard to tell. They all gathered around Saura to see what's wrong. Infinite noticed Saura covering her arm and side. He gently removes her hands away from those spots and noticed both spots are covered in blood! This only increased the jackal's worry. "Saura, what happened?" he asked.
Saura, seeing Infinite and her friends looking at her with worry, notices there is no use into hiding it. She looks to jackal even though it is hard to keep her eyes open. "E-Eggman landed… l-laser… wh-while also… his D-Death Egg Robot…" she tries to reply but finds it hard to.
"Saura…"
Espio notices Saura is struggling to speak and tightens his hands to fists with worry. He quickly pulls out his communicator and turns it on. "Espio here. We have an injured soldier. Requesting medical attention. I repeat, requesting medical attention," he says through the communicator.
Knuckles watches Espio calling out for help and then turns back to watch Saura. "Help is on the way Rookie. Hang on until then you got that?" he says to the wolf. The echidna notices the wolf nods but is struggling to keep her eyes open. Growling a bit, he gets up. "I'm going to go look for the rest of the resistance," he announces.
Silver looks to Saura with worry as she tries to stay strong. He then hears Knuckles and nods. "I'll go with you," he says to the echidna with determination. When Knuckles nods, he and the white hedgehog took off to find the rest of their team.
Sonic, Tails, Amy, Vector, Espio, Charmy, and Rouge continue to watch Saura with worry. The wolf leans towards Infinite, who seems to be the most scared for her, and clings on to him like her life depends on it. Sonic places his hand gently on to Saura's head. "Don't worry Buddy, Knuckles and Silver will be back with reinforcements and everything will be okay," he tries to reassure the wolf.
Saura looks to Sonic with a tired smile. Infinite noticed how tired the wolf looks along with how she clings on to him. The jackal pulls to wolf closer to him and watches her gently. "Please hang in there Saura," he mumbles so only Saura can hear him.
Saura looks back up to Infinite and grips on to him. That way, she can show him she will try. But the wolf suddenly feels herself losing conscious. The last thing she heard was Knuckles calling out with help.