READ! Hi there! Happy Birthday to me! To celebrate, I´ll publish two chapters today! One in the morning, one at night! Also, I can now tell you that this saga is divided into three parts, each with ten chapters. Enjoy!
SURVIVE
-Chapter 3: Memories of Days Gone By-
"Why are the soldiers doing this to us?!"
-O-O-O-
The morning arrived really fast. Shadow was once again gone while Sonic tried to find some food. He mainly scavenged for some chili dogs, but he knew that was impossible to find over there, so he just grabbed some tropical red fruit hanging from the palms and trees that looked like a really, really big strawberry.
Overall, Sonic still felt really sad and confused how everything went down. He was… depressed, and that was not normal for the planet´s hero. But it was just so horrible…
-FLASHBACK-
Sonic was running around as usual, searching for a brand, new venture. The hills where he was passing by were as green as a watermelon with a combination of yellow, like a cantaloupe. He stopped near a cliff with an ocean view. It was gorgeous to see how the colors were so vivid. The ocean was so crystal clear that it looked like being in heaven.
Suddenly, the lone hedgehog heard a sound coming from behind him. It was his best friend, Tails, riding his plane: the Tornado.
"SOOOOOOOOOONIC!"
"Yo, Tails! Long time no see!"
Tails landed near Sonic and got out of the plane. He greet his blue companion and started talking:
"Sonic, I´m afraid I have EVIL news."
"What is it lil´buddy?"
"It´s…" The small fox was now quite nervous.
"Tails, it´s okay. You can tell me."
"It´s Eggman. He has captured all our friends!"
"What?! Tell me everything." Sonic just got mad at this. How was that possible? "He captured everyone?!"
"Unfortunately, yes. He has Amy, Knuckles, Cream and Cheese, Vanilla, the Chaotix, Rogue, and even Big…" Tails by now started quietly crying.
Sonic hugged his friend and let him know that everything was going to be fine.
"I promise."
With that said, they took off to Dr. Eggman´s base.
-O-O-O-
As they arrived, they decided not to get separated. Tails got quite disturbed at the entrance advertisement:
"HOHOHOHOHO! Welcome to Eggman´s secret base! If you want to be my slave, please feel free to enter. If not, please go away or you´ll DIE! J"
Sonic stared for a long time at this ad with a worried look.
"His cruelty knows no bounds!" Tails said with disgust.
They decided to ignore this and enter the base to save their friends as soon as possible.
-O-O-O-
Inside the base everything looked really odd. There was just a few metal boxes and a lot of weapons of mass destruction like bombs and rockets.
"Why does Eggman need all of this?" Tails asked.
Sonic didn´t know how to answer that question. Actually, he didn´t even know why he had that kind of stuff. Talking about Eggman, it was weird. There were also different kinds of robotic parts. Now that they thought about it, they hadn´t seen any fatty, orange robots lurking around. Something was wrong. Very wrong.
-O-O-O-
Sonic discovered a secret door behind a huge shelf full of G.U.N files. It was also really weird to see Eggman investigating about G.U.N. What was happening here?
-O-O-O—
As soon as Shadow discovered the doctor´s evil plan, he decided to take him down. It was so unbelievable what he wanted for the planet.
"He must be stopped at all cost!"
He blazed through the base´s wall and started to look for Eggman. He was going insane. His heinous plan would destroy everything.
Just when Shadow realized it, something punched him. He gave a backflip and stood on guard. There in the darkness, he saw a figure.
"Show yourself!" Shadow demanded. As the figure got closer, he started to freak out. The figure was Shadow himself but in a different stripe color. Orange, to be precise.
Other two showed up surprising him from the back.
"Seems like you want to get yourself in trouble. Very well!" he said.
Shadow started skating around the creatures and gave them a giant and powerful kick in their head. But they protected themselves with a magnetic shield as they attacked Shadow. They were really strong and they won Shadow in number.
"How can this be?" Shadow wondered while he was been dragged and then kicked into the ceiling.
-O-O-O-
Tails saw how the door was locked under a password. After a while of decrypting the codes, the little kitsune opened the door. Behind it, there was everyone in a huge metallic cage surrounded by electrical wires.
"Oh, Sonic! I´m glad you´re here!" Amy Rose exclaimed in a great, relief breath.
"What took you so long?" Knuckles angrily asked before Amy punched him in the face sending him to the other side of the cage.
"How´d you end up here?" Sonic in a curious way asked.
"HOHOHOHOHO!" an evil laugh was heard from the distance.
"Mr. Sonic, it´s Dr. Eggman!" Cream shouted while Cheese hid behind her.
Sonic turned and saw a big claw grabbing the cage where his friends were. It took them away while Sonic faced the claw.
Tails also was grabbed by that fiercely enemy and was sent with the others.
"Help us… SONIC!"
"Tails!"
Sonic tried to follow them, but the claw was very strong and didn´t let Sonic to pass. It appeared that Eggman was controlling the claw from the inside in a glass capsule, so there was no access to it unless Sonic crashed it wide open.
After several minutes of fighting, a giant floating T.V appeared in the wall. It showed Sonic´s friends including Tails surrounded by bombs.
"What are you doing Eggman?!"
"What am I doing? I am teaching you a lesson!" He pressed a red button and the bomb countdown started. But it was already too late.
5…4…3...2…1…
Tails was heard calling out for his brother:
"SONI…-"
-O-O-O-
Sonic´s heart stopped. He fell to his knees.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Tears were shed through his cheeks and he ended up lying on the floor. Meanwhile, Eggman quickly grabbed his DNA from a small opened wound Sonic had; and gave life once again to Metal Sonic.
"HEHEHE, BEHOLD SONIC… YOUR COUNTERPART IS BACK!"
Sonic looked up and witnessed how Metal Sonic was approaching to him.
Sonic thought: "My friends… they are all gone..."
"Now, before Metal destroys you, I want to explain to you my ultimate master plan!" Eggman said really happy in an evil way. "I took your DNA for me to build again Metal Sonic. With his help, I will conquer the world eliminating everything on it and push the restart button for a new beginning. HOHOHOHOHO!"
Metal Sonic started to beat up the blue hedgehog really bad so he almost died…
-O-O-O-
"Egg…man… STOP…THIS!"
"Oh, Sonic. Why should I?"
Dr. Eggman laughed. Sonic was so annoyed at this, but it didn´t even matter.
-END-OF-FLASHBACK-
"You can´t stop thinking about that day, right?" Shadow asked as he found Sonic sitting on a boulder besides the peaceful waterfall located at the east edge of the floating island.
"Well, me neither."
"Huh?" Sonic turned to Shadow.
"Yes, I can´t stop thinking about how everything went down." Shadow looked at the water flowing through the small river leading to the end of the edge.
"But the question is, why?"
"I guess we will find out sooner or later."
Shadow floated with his rocket shoes and looked to the city in the south.
"Hey, Sonic…"
"Yeah?"
"You need to check this out…"
Sonic climbed up the tallest tree and witnessed what Shadow just saw.
Station Square was on fire and completely destroyed. Shadow heard screams coming from that way, so he flew up and that´s what he saw. The city was completely in ruins. Eggman was still alive and was causing havoc everywhere.
"This is terrible!" Sonic screamed. "We gotta check the place right now! There might be still some survivors out there."
"If you haven´t noticed, we are dead for Eggman. You can´t risk yourself when you´re not feeling good yet."
"SHADOW! It doesn´t matter if Eggman believes we´re dead, we need to help them."
Shadow didn´t seem to care about it.
"Fine. I´ll go alone."
Sonic took off all by himself to Station Square, hoping Eggman hadn´t killed everyone, at least for now.
Shadow angrily sighed and followed Sonic to the devastating hell that was going on, below Angel Island, leaving behind the strawberry.
Yeah... It was kind of a nightmare to write down this... but, hey! None of this could have been possible without death. So, if you want to, you can kill me :) See ya later!