Welcome to Chapter 3 ladies and gentlemen! Sonic and his friends are stuck at the mall and make a new ally as well. Now folks, let the third chapter rise from the grave and come to life.
Chapter 3-The Gang's all here!
Acorn Mall-Dawn
After being stuck in the mall and surround by hordes of zombie hedgehogs, Sonic and his friends stayed at the mall for the night. As a precautionary, Carson and Hugo volunteered to keep on the doors and make sure they were locked. However, Carson and Hugo fell asleep on their watch but luckily the doors remained locked as the zombie hedgehogs continued to walk mindlessly and disembowel their victims. The sun was rising and the lights at the mall turned on, waking Shadow up first. Shadow slowly opened his eyes and looked outside the doors, it was morning.
"Wake up guys, its morning." Shadow getting up to stretch. Tails, who slept with Cream for the night, woke up next.
"Hey Cream wake up." Tails gently rocking her awake. Cream opened her eyes to a smiling Tails.
"Morning." Cream said. Tails helped her stand up due to her bad ankle. Sonic, Silver, Knuckles, and Amy woke up as Shadow finished stretching and walked over to the sleeping duo; Carson and Hugo. Shadow tripped the two and they immediately fell over, waking up in the process.
"What happened?" Hugo said sitting up and looking around the mall.
"Why the hell did you do that?" Carson said getting up. Shadow just smirked at him.
"You fell asleep on the job." Shadow said. Sonic finished stretching and walked over to help Hugo get up.
"Any problems before you fell asleep?" Sonic asked Hugo.
"Nope, those doors are sealed tight." Hugo said. Amy, Silver, Knuckles, Tails, and Cream came up to the four boys. The gang survived for the first night, for now. Amy and Cream walked over to the food court saw and endless supply of restaurants such as McDonald's, Subway, Panda Express, Taco Bell, Chick-Fil-A, and Pizza Hut. Amy and Cream smiled and got ready to prepare breakfast.
"Anyone want breakfast?" Amy said to the team.
"Yes please!" The boys said happily. Amy and Cream smiled and started to cook breakfast. The boys took a seat at McDonald's and continued to talk about their situation. As they talked, the team began to realize they will eventually have to go back outside and face those zombie hedgehogs. Amy and Cream came to the table with trays filled with plates of eggs, bacon, sausage, biscuits, and cups of orange juice. The girls set the trays down and took a seat with the boys.
"Well, at least we get to eat something delicious and not trying to kill us." Knuckles said. Everyone else nodded in agreement.
"Well let's dig in." Sonic spoke up. Everyone grabbed their plates and ate their breakfast. Everyone was enjoying a peaceful, delicious breakfast with no mentioning of their situation. They continued to eat until their plates were empty and everyone was full.
"That was delicious. Thank you Amy and Cream." Sonic said to the girls. The rest of the boys thanked the girls as well for breakfast. Amy and Cream smiled at the team.
"You're welcome." Amy said. Silver and Tails helped the girls clean up as Sonic, Knuckles, Shadow, Carson, and Hugo talked at their table.
"So how are we going to destroy all of those zombie freaks?" Knuckles asked.
"I don't know, but we need to find out soon." Shadow said. Just then, they heard the sound of a gunshot going off. Sonic heard the shot and realized that it was coming from outside. Sonic stood up and immediately ran up the stairs to the roof. Shadow and Knuckles followed Sonic with Tails, Silver, Amy, Cream, Carson, and Hugo soon joining them. They continued up the stairs until they reached the door to the roof. Sonic came out the door first and heard another gunshot.
"Where's that gun coming from?" Sonic asked looking around.
"It's coming from over there." Shadow said pointing to the ledge. The gang and up to the ledge and saw a dark orange hedgehog shooting a sniper rifle at the zombie hedgehogs from the roof of a gun store. The team watched as the hedgehog continue to shoot at the zombie hedgehogs. Tails looked around and found a pair of binoculars by the door. He grabbed them and it to Sonic. Sonic looked through the binoculars and watched the hedgehog shoot.
"That guy is killing them, but more just keep on coming." Sonic said looking through the binoculars. He handed them to Shadow, who took them and noticed that the hedgehog was looking back at them with his own binoculars. The hedgehog waved at the team, happy he was not the only survivors left.
"He's waving back at us." Shadow said to the team. The team waved back at the hedgehog. Just then, the team heard the faint sound of wings flapping. The sound grew louder as they got closer to the team. Knuckles looked up and saw that it was Rouge the Bat flying towards the team with a purple cat holding onto her. Knuckles got a closer look and realized that it was Blaze the Cat. Knuckles waved back at Rouge so that she can see him.
"Look guys its Rouge and Blaze." Knuckles said to the team. The team noticed Rouge as well and waved at the two. Rouge and Blaze landed safely on the mall roof and greeted the team.
"Hey everyone." Rouge exclaimed, happy to see her friends alive. Amy and Cream greeted their friend while Blaze gave Silver a hug and fist-bumped Sonic, Knuckles, Tails, Shadow, Carson, and Hugo. Rouge and Blaze switch places to greet the others. After greeting each other, Rouge and Blaze sat down by the ledge to rest.
"What happened girls?" Shadow asked.
"Last night, Blaze and I were relaxing at my house when Eggman came bursting through the door." Rouge began to speak.
"Next thing we know, Eggman let's those zombies come through the door. We immediately ran through the back door and hid in the nearby forest." Blaze spoke next. Silver patted her back in comfort, but began to wonder if she was bitten.
"Did either of you two get bitten?" Carson asked. Rouge and Blaze were confused by his question. Tails and Hugo checked the two for any bites on their bodies. Thankfully, Rouge and Blaze came up clean.
"Their clean Carson." Tails announced. The group let out a sigh of relief. Sonic stood up and walked over to Carson in order to ask him a question.
"Carson, why are you worried about bites?" Sonic asked Carson. Silver and Hugo looked at each other and back at Carson. Carson let a sigh and spoke up to Sonic and the team.
"Last night, when we were running from Eggman, we saw one of those zombie hedgehogs bite a rabbit on the arm. Hugo took out the zombie while Silver and I took the rabbit to safety." Carson began to speak.
"When we took the rabbit to safety, Carson and I saw her slowly die apparently from the bite. We were about to leave when all of a sudden, the rabbit came back to life and try to attack Carson until Hugo came and killed the rabbit." Silver said, finishing were Carson left off. The team was shocked at Carson's experience.
"Apparently, a bite from a zombie hedgehog can turn a living creature into a zombie as well." Hugo said to the team. The news made the whole team shiver in fear, knowing they could possibly be turned into zombies.
"Aw man, Eggman really went all out to bring us down." Shadow spoke up. The team nodded in agreement. Cream, on the other hand, was becoming worried about her mother's safety. Amy and Tails noticed her worried expression and walked up to her. Cream walked away from the team with Tails following along.
"Cream, what's wrong?" Tails asked Cream. Amy sat down next to Cream and wrapped her arm around her.
"I'm really worried about my mom." Cream announced to her friends. Tails completely understood her, praying in his mind that she made out alive. Rouge and Blaze overheard the conversation and walked up to their rabbit friend.
"Cream?" Blaze asked. Cream looked up at Blaze, who gave a reassuring but guilty smile.
"Yeah Blaze." Cream replied.
"Rouge and I found your mother lost in the forest looking for you." Blaze began to speak. "The zombie hedgehogs were closing in on us and we took your mother to safety. We dropped her off with of the president's security. She's safe and alive." Blaze finished speaking. Cream happily smiled, thankful Blaze and Rouge saved her mother. Blaze, however, spoke up again to Cream.
"But I do have bad news." Blaze said. Cream, Amy, and Tails waited for her response. Sonic, Silver, Knuckles, Shadow, Carson, and Hugo joined in on the conversation.
"When we dropped off your mother, Rouge saw a horde of zombies attacking something." Blaze said. She tried to find her words, but instead reached into her pocket and pulled out an item. She kept clenched in her fist and handed it to Cream. Cream opened her hand and saw what it was, a pink bow tie. Tears came into Cream's eyes as Blaze found her words.
"We couldn't save him. They killed Cheese, I'm sorry." Blaze said in a hurt voice. Immediately, Cream cried very hard, mourning the loss of her best friend. Tails wrapped his arms around Cream as she cried harder. Amy let a few tears drop, Shadow angrily punched the door, Carson and Hugo lowered their heads in sadness. Knuckles hugged a sadden Rouge with Silver doing the same with Blaze. Sonic clenched his fists, now wanting to defeat Eggman and his zombies to avenge their fallen friend.
"I'm sorry Cream." Tails whispered into Cream's ear. Cream just hugged Tails harder and continued to cry. Shadow walked away from the group as Sonic took noticed. Sonic tugged on his arm and spoke to him.
"There was nothing we could've done to save him." Sonic said to Shadow. Shadow closed his eyes and let out a sigh as he opened his eyes again.
"I know. I just need to stay away from Cream at the moment." Shadow said to Sonic. Sonic nodded his head in agreement. Shadow walked back over to the ledge and stared at the zombie hedgehogs. He was feeling hurt because, like Cream, he thought about his best friend Maria. Now, Cream lost her best friend Cheese and all he wanted to do was take the axe and start swinging at the zombie hedgehogs, but he knew that revenge would lead to his death. Shadow looked back up and saw the dark orange hedgehog holding up a whiteboard.
Any news? The sign said. Shadow looked around and found a white board on the ground. Shadow grabbed a blue marker and began to write something on the white board. Once he finished writing, Shadow held up the white board for the dark orange hedgehog.
My friend's mother is safe, but her best friend was killed by those freaks! Shadow's sign read. The dark orange hedgehog erased his white board and wrote something different. He held the board back up for Shadow to see.
I'm sorry. His sign read. Shadow just smiled, glad someone understood their current situation. For the next couple of hours, Shadow and the other hedgehog communicated with their white boards. Shadow learned that the other hedgehog's name was Tracy and that he owns the gun store across the mall. Both Tracy and Shadow wrote about their past lives and their current situations. As the sun was beginning to set, Shadow and Tracy said goodbye to each other for the night.
It was now night and everyone was getting ready to sleep. Knuckles and Silver volunteered to be lookouts for the night. Everyone was now asleep, except for Tails who was comforting Cream. She was having a hard time sleeping because she still thought about Cheese. Cream then heard Tails whispering a song into her hear. Cream recognized the song was Mockingbird by Eminem. Cream closed her eyes and let Tails sing the song. As she was falling asleep, she had a little smile on face; happy Tails and her friends with there in her time of need. When Tails finished the song, he saw that Cream fell asleep in his arms and smiled to himself.
"Don't worry Cream. I will never leave you. I promise." Tails whispered in her ear. Cream silently slept in peace with Tails petting her ears. Tails closed his eyes and soon fell asleep. What Tails did not noticed was that Cream opened her eyes as soon as Tails fell asleep. Cream looked up at Tails and gave him a peck on the cheek.
"Thank you Tails." Cream quietly whispered. She saw Tails smile in his sleep and rested her head back on his chest and fell back asleep. Cheese may be gone, his spirits still lives within their hearts.
Chapter three is done! Read and review people!