No Brotherly Love

Chapter 11: The Descent

Sonics POV:

I'd been walking for hours now, hoping to find any sign of sane life. I hadn't been attacked…yet. The shadows so I've come to call them have been everywhere, but I'm sure to keep my distance. I mean, I could barely handle one, never mind twenty.

I've been scavenging whatever I can from corner shops and stands, or what's left of them. But I find nothing. No water to drink and no food to eat. Ever tried going through a destroyed city, avoiding monsters and had a growling stomach? I didn't think so.

Of course, at the time, the last thing on my mind was food. I was busy trying to process what I had seen on that holo-tape, back at the hospital. I still couldn't believe I had a son, not to mention that it was Shadow. He may have been from the future but he was still my son. He and his mother didn't know it, but I did. I couldn't even believe that Amy, my once annoying, obsessed and cranky fan girl was to be the mother of MY child.

Of course, because of this, my feelings had changed for Shadow. I mean, at one time I could hardly call him my friend, but now he had changed from my rival to my son. So it's pretty natural that I felt that I had to protect him, but he was with Metal at the time, someone who also thought of him as a son. Now I was fighting for more than a few survivors, I was fighting for a family, my family. But I guess, looking back now, I did in the first place. I had Tails, Cream, Vanilla, the Chaotix, Knuckles, Rouge, Shadow and Amy. But when I left, they all went their separate ways. Was I really that important?

It didn't matter now. I had Amy and Shadow to take care of now, well, I guess Cream as well, seeing as her and Amy come in a package together. They both reminded me of how Tails and I were. Tails…damn I forgot all about him because of all this.

But thinking of Tails now, I realized where I was. I was outside the very factory that I'd been sent to investigate. Seeing as this was possibly a one way trip anyway, I decided it was best to make something of it.

When I was at the door, I remembered the pistol strapped to my side. 'How could I forget I had this? It would've been damn useful against that freaky demon girl a few hours back. Darn my stupid brain, never bloody working properly!'

After I finished my mental rant, I carried on with my mission; gain entry to the secret underground base. 'Sounds easy enough,' I thought to myself with confidence.

When I entered, the first thing that caught my eye was how dusty the reception was. Sure there were a few stains and tears on the floor and walls, but other than that it was just heaps of dust.

I hadn't realized I'd left the door open until a ray of light shined on me and I could see my shadow on the floor. I could see all the specs of dust in the air and all the tears in the once clean fabric chairs. I looked around the room until I saw something that broke my heart. It was a teddy bear that was sitting up with a letter in its right paw. I grabbed the letter and it said, 'Dear Maggie, I'm so sorry for missing your sixth birthday. I hope that this present I send to you will keep me in your mind. I am sorry, sweetie. I promise to be home for Christmas. Love daddy xxx.' I could feel tears in my eyes. The guy mustn't have been able to send the present to his daughter before…all this.

I carried on with my mission, exploring the factory until I found something suspicious in the janitor's room. 'I always knew that janitors were evil,' I thought with a small smile across my face. I looked at the object trying to gain some knowledge as to what it was. 'Well let's see. It's against a wall, in a creepy little room, and it looks to have two lights of some sort in the two top corners.' I touched the one on the left, it turned red, but nothing happened. 'Damn! Don't tell me its colour coded!'

I then pressed the one to the right, it turned green. The room seemed to shake and a thunderous noise could be heard. 'I did it!' I thought happily, yet also with surprise.

A few seconds passed and then suddenly, it stopped. 'Oh come on!' I shouted in my head. I just huffed and decided to carry on searching. But before I could leave the room, it shot down like an elevator on nitrous. "HHHOOOLLLYYY CCCRRRAAAPPP!" I yelled in fear. 'Funny!' I thought, 'I always knew I'd die in an elevator going at top speed to the ground until CRASH! I'm as flat as a flipping pancake!'

After a minute or so of wetting myself, the elevator stopped. 'At the speed I was going, I must be in hell right about now.' But the truth was far worse, because as the elevator doors opened, I could see what was on the other side. 'Mama mia.'