More bases, more steps
"Everyone geared up and ready?" Slayde asked as he put on his left glove, Rage gave him a funny look but didn't comment. "We need to head out soon."
"Slayde, I've packed the tent. You store it in yours." Shadow commented as he threw a pack at Slayde, Slayde clicked his fingers and it vanished as it was coming towards him. "Me and Rose are ready. I noticed that Rage and the kids were ready also. Sonic's out his tent so I assume that Terra's getting ready."
"So what's on the hit list today? I haven't much looked at the locations." Slayde asked Shadow while he examined the Yellow Emerald.
"There's one some five miles to the west, and two others within two miles of each other north west of that. Tails believes some Chaos distortion to be coming from one of the three bases, but they're too close to determine which one. These are actually the last three on this large landmass then we'll have to travel to another to continue. Though because we've already got five Emeralds and the last one is likely at the Doctors main base, that should probably be where we should head. The sooner we get them all the better." Shadow told him, Slayde nodded pulling on his right glove. "To be fair we've been quite lucky with the Emeralds. Although a lot of that is down to the fact that this piece of land is the biggest piece on new Mobius. Multiple continents attached."
"Then we could split up to take down multiple bases at once." Slayde commented just as the light of the sun truly shone over the horizon. "It's amazing how much of a difference we've had. Hard to believe it's May, been over four months since we got out of that room." He commented as he looked over towards the clouds in the South. Hanging like a bad smell over the remaining bases.
"It's already the 6th of May. Anyway, the problem with splitting up means that someone has to stay behind and looked after the kids." Shadow commented as he indicated Prosha and Noir.
"The 6th already?" Slayde asked, smiling as if remembering something he had long forgotten. He shook it off. "I doubt that there's anything strong enough around here to be able to take down Alpha and Ebony. I think that they should be able to defend the others just fine. Not to mention that ability of Noir's." Slayde replied. "That way Rage can still be a part of the assault, as he is stronger than he leads us to believe."
"I agree, if we're going to be splitting up and doing all three at once we will need all hands on deck." Shadow responded as he moved to face the rest of the group, busy getting ready to move. "But deciding who's going with who will be a pain."
"Sending Sonic and Terra together would be wise, they'll be worrying about each other otherwise." Slayde commented. "Then if you and Rose go together and me and Rage go together it shouldn't be a problem." Slayde suggested. "Everyone else can make their way to one of the bases and we can all meet up there after we're done."
"Sounds like a plan. We'll met at the middle base, the one me and Rose will be going to. You can go to the one of the left Slayde and Sonic and Terra can go to the base on the right." Shadow concluded. Slayde looked over to Rage.
"You ready to leave?" He questioned. Rage nodded mutely and the two ran off towards the base that Shadow had pointed out to them. Shadow sat on the ground. Allowing himself a few minutes while everyone prepared. He heard Terra approaching from behind him and tried to will her to go away.
"Shadow? Which base do you think that the Emerald is in?" She asked him. Shadow took a deep breath due to his peace being disturbed.
"I'm pretty sure it's in the middle one." He replied despite the fact that it was pretty obvious he thought this otherwise he wouldn't be going there himself.
"Okay, well just don't hog all the fun to yourself." She told him, then started laughing. "Haha, hog." She said before looking at Shadow's dead serious face and feeling a bit awkward. "I guess we'll be off then." Terra stated quickly before leaving rapidly. Sonic chuckled at her.
"Laters Shadow." Sonic mentioned before he left. Shadow watched him run after Terra for a few moments before turning around and looking at Amy who was standing right behind him waiting.
"Are you ready Rose?" Shadow asked her quietly, almost softly, in an uncharacteristic way. Amy nodded, not quite sure what had brought on Shadow's strange mood. "Then let us go." He told her holding his hand out. Amy took it and the both disappeared in a flash of green, reappearing in the midst of the base. It was already in an uproar despite the fact that the others had only just arrived at the other bases, it seemed they had already called for support. This surprised Shadow, they were normally so slow on the uptake.
"Wow, this a bit different to how it normally is." Amy commented. Out of the midst of all the typical robots came a robot that was semi recognisable, yet not at the same time. It looked somewhat like the E series robot Omega, however there were differences. Most notably the fact that the symbol was of a different language other than Greek.
"Rose, get back. This isn't going to be an easy one." Shadow told her as he powered up to Superform, floating upwards slightly. The robot also floated upwards. "Looks like you'll actually be a challenge." He commented before flying at the robot full speed. To his surprised the robot managed to take the attack full on before throwing him backwards and initiating an attack of its own, swiping claw like hands at him. Shadow barely dodged them before kicking the hands away and twirling to deliver a kick to the robot, however the robot managed to dodge the hit. Shadow looked at it in surprise. "Definitely not an easy one." Shadow glanced down to see Amy fighting with all the smaller robots, she had amounted quite a pile of robots, and was close to finishing them off.
His thoughts were quickly interrupted as pain seared though his arm. He quickly jumped back, arm with a shallow cut on it. Shadow growled at the robot and was about to dive at it when a yellow bolt of energy suddenly tore itself through one of the arms of the robot he was fighting. He glanced down again to see Amy standing in the midst of rubble, poised as if she had just thrown a Chaos Spear. He looked at the robot, it was dysfunction slightly now. He quickly made his move tearing the robots head off while it was disorientated and throwing it against the ground with all the might of a super leaving a small dent. He descended to Amy quickly.
"Rose, you shouldn't have done that. What if you had hit me?" Shadow scolded. Amy look at him with irritation.
"But I didn't, I helped you take him down faster. Now can we move on to what we need to do?" Amy asked him bluntly. Shadow stared at her for a few seconds before sighing, did this girl have no fear?
"You are impossible." Shadow commented before he started walking forwards. "I guess that we need to find this Emerald then?" He asked rhetorically as the two of them began their search of the base. Amy paused for a moment wondering how the others were doing before following Shadow.
Slayde and Rage were in the middle of a fight, each with several robots based on the egg emperor attacking them. There were more here than either of them had seen total before this.
"Well I certainly wasn't expecting quite this much resistance." Slayde commented as he knocked down yet another egg emperor style robot. It seemed like there was no end to them, this was definitely a base dedicated to creating this cursed things.
"When I found out I wasn't going with Shadow I thought that I'd get one of the easy bases, with nothing in it but easy mechs so I could just laze around when you destroyed them all. Seems like my life just isn't that easy." Rage commented half jokingly.
"Any chance you know about some kind of self destruct switch?" Slayde asked Rage with a hopeful look on his face as he smashed one robot into another.
"Nope, sorry to disappoint." Rage replied while smirking, tearing out one of their power cores with his bare hands. "Either way, we need to find a way to stop this torrent of enemies." He finished as he threw the power core with enough force that it smashed into one of the robots in front of his and created a tiny explosion just big enough to destroy enough of the robot to make it malfunction.
"Haha, nice take down." Slayde commented as he picked up one of the shields that had been dropped nearby him and threw it through three of them, destroying them all instantly.
"Not bad yourself." Rage commented as he ran through the gap that Slayde attack had just made through a door. Slayde quickly followed.
"Okay, we're inside. Now where?" Slayde commented, throwing a few Chaos Spears through the door they had just come through causing several explosions behind them.
"This way." Rage stated hurriedly as he ran down one of the corridors, ploughing through some of the lesser mechs that had appeared inside with ease. Within a few minutes they had collectively destroyed about 100 of the lesser mechs and the larger ones were left quite far behind. "This here should be the entrance to the power room." He commented as he pried the door open with his hands. In front of them was a nuclear reactor big enough to have powered up the entire base.
"Well that would explain why the door was so thick." Slayde commented casually as if he'd seen thousands of these already. "We need to shut this down properly if we don't want to risk an explosion again. Except this time the base will be full of radiation... Thankfully the blast will be contained by the base since the explosions wouldn't be that big."
"With any luck the base would contain the radiation too... Still, I'm amazed Robotnik keeps dangerous power sources like this around him if I'm honest." Rage commented as he examined the console. "You know these things take a long time to shut down right?" Rage told him as he flipped a couple of switches causing some movement. "And even then the fuel rods will take months to cool down."
"Oh wow. Okay, well just get it to a shut down state and hope that the process is automated. I'll presume the Doctor allowed for the eventuality that he might not use this power source anymore." Slayde commented as one of the larger robots walked past the door. "Looks like I'm going to have to go and be a distraction." He commented as he ran outside the door. Rage could hear noise coming from outside as he pressed more buttons.
"I have no idea what I'm doing." He said aloud to himself as he worked. "Pretty sure dunking the control rods in there is the right thing to do." He muttered to himself as he pressed yet more buttons. "Okay, that should shut down the main reactions, just have to hope the cooling has back up power." He told himself as he turned to the turmoil at the door.
"I could do with a bit of help." Slayde told him as he got hit by a robot that even Rage hadn't seen before. He flew backwards into the reactor, creating a huge dent. "For fucks sake! Can something go right for once!" Slayde shouted as he moved forwards away from the reactor quickly.
"We really need to get out of here." Rage commented as he dodged this robots swipe. Slayde charged directly into it, knocking it into the wall.
"Oh really? I thought I'd have myself a nice radiation bath." Slayde commented sarcastically as alarms started going off stating the reactor was approaching critical temperature. Rage glanced back to the reactor and noticed cracks on the outer shell and that the coolant liquid was leaking all over the floor.
"Yeah, I think that's already started." Rage commented before back flipping to dodge the robot. He quickly realised he was stood right in front of the reactor as he noticed the robot was mere centimetres away from him about to plough him directly into it. Luckily Slayde dragged him out the way just in time. That however did not stop the robot from smashing head first into the reactor. Rage stood there staring for a minute before Slayde grabbed his arm and dragged him out the room a bulkhead doors closed the room down the computer announcing a catastrophic failure and that the reactor would soon reach meltdown. "Okay, sorry. I'm coming." Rage commented as the two of them started running down the corridor. Despite the fact the base was doomed to be flooded with radiation the robots insisted on getting in their way still.
"I guess the tin cans don't need to worry about getting irradiated to death." Slayde commented as he smashed one through the door they needed to head out of.
"I suppose not." Rage commented back. "Kinda wish I had that armour on that the Doctor had placed on me now." Rage joked as he ran through the door with Slayde in toe.
"The tracker too?" Slayde commented teasingly as he nimbly dodged sever missiles that had been sent his way, throwing one of them back to the sender causing the bot to explode in a glorious explosion.
"Well, God. I'd have to think about that. Erm... No. I think I'd rather keep the tracker away from me thanks." Rage replied giving Slayde a glare. Slayde chuckled and was just about to say something when he got tackled by a now familiar robot. "Dammit! Slayde!" Rage shouted as he tried to make his way over to the other Hedgehog. But his way was blocked by the several large robots that had appeared when they got back outside. He made quick work of two of them and dodged through to find Slayde fighting the new robot, it was obvious that he didn't have the upper hand.
"I was hoping I wouldn't have to do this during this attack!" Slayde shouted as he turned super and flung the robot back. He was about to give chase when he stumbled, clutching his head. The power vanished from him as he kneeled, seeming to just evaporate into the air.
"Slayde?!" Rage called as he was taken down by one of the robots he had neglected to destroy. He felt the weight on him and started to gather some power until he realised the weight was no longer on him. Several explosions occurred at once and Rage push himself up to see Slayde in dark Superform, his eyes red and the scar over his eye faintly shimmering with light energy rather than the darkness it usually made him feel when Slayde was super. He was holding the head of the robot in one hand and the body in another. He looked over to Rage as he rolled himself into a sitting position. He started walking to him as he threw the pieces of robot to either side of him. Before he spoke in a voice that was his own, yet slightly deeper.
"Ah, Rage. I'm glad that I can finally-." He started before clutching his had again, hands over his face. His dark Superform vanishing just as the normal one had done earlier. He moved his hands away from his face, scar back to normal and eyes back to blue.
"I seem to be losing control." He stated to no one but himself as he looked into the sky, taking in a deep breath.
"Losing control of what?" Rage asked as he stood. Slayde looked over to him.
"Sorry Rage, I didn't see you there." Slayde stated as he glanced back to the base. "We need to move, who knows how much radiation could be leaking out of this place shortly." Slayde told him briefly as he went to leave, Rage stood in his way.
"You know who I am, unlike the others, so you know that you can trust me to know, even if it's only based on mutual secrets rather than trust." Rage told him. Slayde shook his head in frustration.
"Haven't you realised yet Rage? I don't know. I have no idea who I am. I have small inklings and nothing more. I don't refuse to tell you who I am out of principal, but because I'm not entirely sure myself. All I know is that I was also aboard that ARK with Shadow at some point. But as a researcher? As an experiment? I have no idea. Please stop asking, it's as annoying for me as it is for you. Probably even more so." Slayde finished his rant abruptly as he ran off, leaving Rage simply gawping at his dust trail.
"For some reason I just don't believe you Hedgehog. But I shall leave it for today." Rage commented almost darkly to himself before running after the Hedgehog.
Terra flung one of the mechs into the wall, slowly walking down the corridor while the black Chaos clung to her fur.
"I can't believe this." She announced angrily as she dispatched about ten more robots in a single go with an arced bolt of Chaos. "All there is here is fodder. We've been at this for ten minutes and nothing decent has come to attack us." She announced as she used the nearest robot as a bowling ball and took down several others in front of her.
"You're too focused on fighting sometimes, at least we get to relax." Sonic replied as he opened the next door to check what was inside. "We'll be able to go to Shadow's base and look for the Emerald there if we can finish this one fast enough." He pointed out. Suddenly Terra's eyes lit up.
"I didn't think of it that way!" She said somewhat excitedly. "Chaos Arc!" She announced as two more arc like bolts cut several of the robots in half. She grabbed Sonic's hand, teleporting him on top of the base almost dead central.
"I thought we said that we wasn't going to do this again because it tired us out far too much?" Sonic questioned her, he already knew what she was going to suggest. She shrugged.
"This is gonna get us finished a whole lot faster. Anyway, we'll make it weaker this time, we only need to destroy the base itself, not the entire area around the base too." She told him as she started powering up, ready for the attack. Sonic rolled his eyes and followed suit, taking her hands and combining the energy in the middle.
"Ready?" He asked after a couple of minutes had passed. She nodded mutely. The both of them took a deep breath.
"Chaos Blast!" They shouted in unison. The whole base was evaporated in second, only the structures made of Chaosanium remained. The two of them grinned at each other a little breathlessly.
"Let's go then." Terra said as she zoomed off to the other base. Sonic couldn't help but roll his eyes and followed a few seconds later. He caught up to her in no time because despite the fact she was stronger than him he was still faster. A thought crept into his mind because of Terra and her constant games so he shouted over to her as they flew next to each other.
"Hurry up slow poke!" And then zoomed off leaving her in his trail. He arrived at the other base in mere seconds and stood on the wall surrounding it, grinning and waiting. He was slightly out of breath because of the move they'd done but it'd be worth it. A few seconds later he could see a black dot, another couple of seconds and a black Echidna was floating next to him.
"You're so funny." She told him sarcastically. Sonic just grinned at her for a second.
"I always thought so." He replied with a smirk. She rolled her eyes at him before jumping down Sonic followed her with his smirk still on his face. The two of them paused for a moment, breathing still heavier than what they would have liked for it to be. Sonic noticed a robot not too far away that looked vaguely familiar. "I think that's Omega." He said loudly to Terra, she looked over to the robot in question as it started flying towards them, the differences now becoming apparent. "Okay maybe not." He stated as the thing charged at Terra, she barely dodged it due to her tired state.
"I knew it'd be more fun here." She stated to Sonic and she jumped for the robot, but it was faster and stronger than she expected and it managed to block her hit. She noticed the rune on its shoulder. And jumped backwards. "Hey Sonic, I think that's Anglo-Saxon runes. This thing is pretty strong."
"It looks like a continuation of the E-series. Egghead used Greek letters last time." Sonic replied while watching the battle. "Need some help?" He asked teasingly as she barely dodged another of its attacks.
"No I've got it!" Terra told him just as a hit connected to her and knocked her through on of the walls.
"Terra!" Sonic shouted in rage. His light blue eyes suddenly vanished. He was back to the old dark Sonic.
He charged at the robot as if he hadn't been out of breath just moments before, smashing it and sending it flying backwards. He raced faster than it and kicked it into the ground before jumping on it and smashing it repeatedly with his fists until it was nothing but scrap metal. Then he continued hitting it, and hitting it, until blood seeped out of his knuckles and stated to soak his gloves. The sight of his own blood finally made him stop as he panted before realising he had something more important to think about. As his thoughts turned to Terra his eyes returned to their light blue state as he quickly flew back again to see if Terra was alright. She has just pulled herself out of the wall, but she was no longer in her Superform, making it seem like she had probably lost consciousness.
"Are you okay?" He asked her in concern as he helped her up and pulled her into a hug. A few bruises evident but other than that she seemed fine.
"Yeah I'm fine blur. That was an impressive display of power there, was it all for me?" She asked him. He blushed.
"Yeah, I kinda lost it there." Sonic mumbled to her. She just smiled at him.
"You're a mystery sometimes. It makes me wonder if you've got even more hidden potential in that body of yours." Terra told him calmly. Sonic simply shrugged. "We should go and find Shadow and Amy." She suggested, the two of the walked towards the centre of the base, holding hands as they went.
Shadow and Amy had both been searching for the Emerald but to no luck, and now two more of these new robots had appeared in front of them.
"Looks like you're going to have to join in with this one Rose." Shadow commented as he jumped for the one on the left, powering up again. Amy almost jumped for joy at the opportunity to fight and immediately threw a Chaos Spear at the robot before charging. The robot dodged the Chaos spear, but in doing so Amy managed to smash it with her hammer. Unfortunately it didn't do too much damage and the robot managed to tear the hammer out of her hand. Dammit. She muttered, taking a quick glance to Shadow. Shadow was dodging a blade that this one had, that being the reason he chose it so Amy wouldn't have to deal with more than she could handle, he managed to catch the blade between his hands and wrenched it out of the robots grip. Throwing it behind him. He spun into a spin dash and smashed into the robot, pushing it backwards and making it fly a few meters before glancing over to Amy.
"Shadow!" Amy shouted as she dodged a swipe intended for her face. She had a very slightly yellowish aura around her just like Slayde had when he was fighting Sonic back in Aragot. Shadow was forced to dodge an attack from the robot he was battling.
"What is it Rose?" He asked as he kicked the robot in the chest knocking it back again. Amy had her hammer out again and was relentlessly trying to smash the robot with it.
"If we get them directly in between us and spin dash them into each other we might be able to take them both down." She suggested, slightly out of breath from her constant pounding of the hammer. Shadow did a spectacular aerobatic move to dodge another attack of the robots and put the two robots directly in between Amy and himself in one go.
"Good idea Rose! Ready?" Shadow asked, back flipping to dodge the robot without ruining the direct line between him the robots and Amy. Amy's hammer vanished and she started to spin dash first. Her spin cloaked in a yellow energy as she smashed into the robot and started pushing it towards the other. Shadow quickly followed suit and the two robots quickly met in the middle, smashing backs into one another as the two hedgehogs started burrowing through the metal casing that protected their circuitry. Within seconds the two Hedgehogs met in the middle and bounced off each other. Both landing on their feet and looking over to the robots. They were both sparking and moving incredibly slowly, but still somehow moving, Shadow looked to Amy and smirked as she clicked her fingers for her hammer. The two of them changed at the robots, Shadow letting loose a flying kick and Amy smashed the robot with all her might, feeling the vibrations through her arms from the force of the impact. The two robots smashed into each other, leaving nothing more than scrap metal. "Well done Rose." Shadow commented as he looked at her with a hint of pride on his face.
"Back to the search then?" Amy asked with a smile. Shadow nodded, however just as the two of them were about to move Terra appeared in front of them, looking slightly beaten up along with Sonic who seemed quite worn out too.
"What are you two doing here?" Shadow asked in surprise, yet he could guess at what the answer was going to be.
"We finished up our base and thought we'd come here. We met up with something new, a successor to the E series robots and it managed to gain the upper hand on Terra before I helped her kick its ass." Sonic told him.
"I suspected as much from the faint feeling of power coming from the bases direction. Did you blow it up again?" Shadow questioned them. They both grinned and he knew his answer. "Well we haven't found the Emerald yet, so if you want to help be my guest, though there seems to be more of those robots around... Me and Rose have dealt with three already." Shadow told the two of them as he went to turn, just to be knocked off his feet by something hard and metallic. He quickly stood up and turned around, seeing a robot extremely similar to the ones they had all fought previously. Except this one had an obvious red glow coming from its chest.
"I think we've found the Emerald." Sonic commented in his old school cocky manner. Shadow frown at it.
"Rose, hang back and let us deal with this one." Shadow told her calmly deciding quickly that it was probably wise that she stay out of it because of the fact that she didn't have her Superform yet. Surprisingly she didn't object, likely thinking the same thing. All three of them jumped the robot at once, and all of them found their attacks blocked or deflected. Shadow jumped back as the other two continued attacking and threw a Chaos Spear at it. It just deflected off the robot like it was nothing.
"Okay, this isn't just a standard robot." Sonic commented as he and Terra backed off. The robot would likely have smirked if it could. Luckily it had no mouth.
"We'll just have to keep attacking until we can find an opening if it can deflect Chaos moves." Terra told the group. The three of them redoubled their attack. A shout was heard not too far off from a familiar voice.
"Hey guys, we caused a nuclear meltdown." Slayde informed everyone as soon as the two of them got close enough to the group for all to hear.
"Yeah, I think we're a little busy to hear about what you've broken at the moment." Shadow retorted coolly as the three of them continued their assault, trying to find a weak point.
"You seem to be having a lot of fun so we probably shouldn't join in. Unless of course you want us to?" Slayde asked jokingly.
"This isn't the time for sarcasm hedgehog." Shadow snapped back as he got knocked backwards into Rage who stopped him flying any further.
"Damn, this thing is tough." Slayde stated before he looked at Rage and nodded in some unspoken agreement. "Shadow, can you distract it?" Slayde asked. Shadow immediately dived head first at the seemingly dentless robot, forcing it to face him as he unleashed a flurry of moves. Quickly Rage grabbed one arm and Slayde grabbed the other. With a horrible sound of metal tearing apart they pulled both the arms off and dropped them to the floor.
"Yeah! Got cha!" Rage shouted as both the robots arms sparked on the floor. The robot however seemed utterly unbothered and tendrils of wire shot out to both of the arms, picking both of the pieces of metal back up.
"What the heck?" Sonic asked mirroring everyone else's thoughts. As soon as the robot put itself back together, which took less than a second, it fired two missile like things out of each of its arms towards Terra and Sonic. The both of them went to dodge them, but they suddenly shot nets out and sealed themselves somehow, leaving the both of them in bundles on the floor.
"Dammit this thing can regenerate!" Slayde shouted as Shadow back flipped to move out of the way of the robot, but it had some kind of strange ability to manipulate its limbs now that it was using the emeralds power to the full. It managed to get him in a vice grip and despite his Superform still being active it was crushing him slowly. Shadow started choking as Slayde and Rage flung themselves at the robot, but to no avail as the robot was still managing to defend from their attacks. "Quick guys! We need to get Shadow out!" Slayde shouted to Terra and Sonic as they tried to wrestle with the metal nets that had been shot at them, but to no avail.
"I think these are made of Chaosanium!" Terra shouted back as she continued to struggle. Slayde looked behind the robot as he noticed movement, fast movement.
"Get your damn hands off him!" Amy cried as she charged at the robot full speed, hammer aloft. For a split second before the strike, her fur turned a creamy yellow-white and the aura extended through her hammer as she smashed it over the head, the power of the hit successfully causing the robot to malfunction slightly, her fur returned to normal before she had even pulled the hammer back out of the robot. Shadow quickly moved back, looking at Amy in awe. "Ha! Take that you damn robot!" She cried as she pulled the Emerald from out of its mainframe preventing it from repairing itself again. Everyone looked at her with surprise as the nets just seemed to fall away from Terra and Sonic. Before anyone could say anything or Amy noticed their expressions however, parts of the base suddenly started collapsing as if in response to their victory. Before they knew it almost the whole of the base above ground level had collapsed into nothingness.
"I swear that he's put all the bases on self destruct so they can't fall into enemy hands." Slayde commented offhandedly. Though Shadow had to agree... It just seemed to convenient that the bases never seemed to survive an encounter with them.
"It's getting dark. We'll set up camp in the middle where there were no buildings." Shadow commented as he ran towards where the ones that didn't fight would be coming from to tell them.
The dark took over as Rage threw some wood on the newly kindled fire, just Rage, Shadow and Slayde were at the fire. The others were either putting up tents or looking for more wood.
"The speed of Rose's progress is beginning to frighten me Shadow. She went super for a split second then. I don't think she even realised it herself." Slayde commented to Shadow. Shadow looked bothered also.
"It is startling. She's progressing far faster than she should be. My only thoughts are that the boosts that me and Sonic received are also effecting her... But her boost is more gradual than ours was." Shadow responded. Slayde looked unconvinced.
"That is a possibility. But if it's not that than she might still have that to come... And if that's then she'll probably be the strongest in the group in the next year or two." Slayde replied to him. The two of them just sat silently for a while, Rage looking at the two of them to see if they were going to continue their discussion. Since neither of them seemed like they were going to continue the conversation Rage spoke up.
"So what now?" He asked calmly as he got some more wood from the pile he had collected together. "We've finished getting rid of all the bases on this continent. This super continent. Do you think we should return to Aragot for the time being? Or should we just go to the next continent and continue?" He questioned what little of the group that was there. Still only Shadow and Slayde were sitting nearby him, the both of them trying to work out the same thing, even if they were both more preoccupied with Amy. Everyone else was busy setting up the tents.
"I'm going to go and check out the inside of the base and see if I can find something that may help us decide on what we should do next." Slayde told the others decisively. "I'll be back in about two to three hours. Just get some rest and try to think about what you want to do next." He suggested as he walked to a small hole in the rubble nearby. "Laters." He told them before they could say anything against it.
"That damn Hedgehog better not get lost." Shadow commented. Amy came up to the remaining two.
"Where's Slayde?" She asked. Rage grinned at Shadow from behind with a look that said 'Good luck explaining this one.'
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