"I'm so bored." Amy groaned as she dragged her feet. "And I'm hungry."
"And your complaining isn't helping," Sally grunted still marching, ignoring her hunger.
"Whining is the only thing motiving me to keep going because my entire existence is to annoy you." Amy smirked.
"Why? I mean I'm flattered, but seriously why?"
"Because the Source of All wants you to be miserable, I enjoy annoying you, and you are not allowed to live happily ever after with Sonic." Amy snickered.
"Apparently not," Sally grinned at her. "But be careful because I'll return your favor."
"You two are very amusing," Omega commented cheerfully. "Especially, when displaying your obvious affections for each other. It is a wonderful break for me. I'm quite sick of listening to Shadow and Rouge quarrel."
Amy's face flushed bright red, but she chose to ignore Omega's comment. "What is their relationship anyway?"
"I don't know," Omega answered thoughtfully. "Sometimes they seem like siblings, other times they seem like a grumpy elderly couple or two people that want to rip each other's clothes off with their mouths, but won't because they fear they'll lose their jobs."
"I don't know how to respond to that," Sally said glancing at him before they turned sharply as they reached another dead end.
Amy gasped as if hit by a breakthrough. "Omega can't you use your awesome roboto abilities and get us outta here?"
"No, I can only lift my own weight for a few moments or use my power thrusters for momentum. I do have almost a limitless amount of weaponry so I could simply blow up every enemy that we come in contact with."
"Ugh," Amy groaned. "I guess that will do . . . But I still wish you could just transform into a plane or a tank or something." She continued to drag her feet behind Sally. After a few minutes she turned back to the robot. "I'm bored."
"The Earth echidna is an egg-laying mammal and in my opinion is more hideous to look at," Omega stated matter-of-factly.
"That was random, but kinda funny," Amy chuckled before noticing Sally had stopped walking. "What's wrong?"
"We've got company," Sally whispered in a monotone. Ahead of them was an Egg Pawn, the replacements for SWAT Bots in their time. "They were all supposed to be wiped out by Enerjak."
"Can I destroy it," asked Omega in a childlike voice.
"No, I want to," Amy argued like a spoiled brat not getting their way.
"Let's just get it!" Sally shouted interrupting what was surely going to end in the two of them bitching until the Egg Pawn spotted them. Sally did realize she'd lost her bracelet blades, but that didn't mean she couldn't kick ass.
They charged. Omega tackled it, bringing all its attention to himself. Omega had the advantage being stronger and larger. He threw giant hand across the Pawn's face, clawing across its eyes and screwing with its sensors. Amy was behind them in an instant, bringing her piko hammer to her out of thin air. She swung the hammer underneath the Pawn's feet; the Pawn fell backward with Omega on top crushing it with his weight. Using its shield the Egg Pawn threw Omega off. He flew past Sally and the ground shook as he collided with a wall. Sally grabbed a piece of bent metal that probably used to be part of classic badnik, she needed a weapon and in the field you had to emprise. The Pawn was on its feet again and lunging towards her. She dodged and then lodged the metal into its chest. It staggered right into Omega, who punched it in the chest. It tore through the air toward Amy. She jumped toward it and twirled her hammer straight into him. The Pawn flipped in midair and fell face first on the ground.
"Omega, now's your chance," Sally shouted, adrenaline pumping through her veins as she grabbed a large stone from the ground.
Omega threw his metal foot between the Pawn's legs which launched him into Amy's hammer once again. The Egg Pawn was getting impatient as this battle was proving to be more of a heated game of hot potato than a fight to the death. Amy's hammer guided the robot into a wall; it smashed then crumpled to the ground. The robot took no hesitation springing back onto its feet and pouncing at Sally, but she was ready for him. She ducked between his legs swiftly then slammed her rock onto its unsuspecting head. It dented deep into the Egg Pawn's metal skull. The Pawn's vision went haywire as it swung its sword arm blindly. Sally summersaulted out of its reach. Omega went in to finish the job. He dodged the Pawn's last attempts to save itself and brought his giant clawed hand onto the Pawn's head. It had been extremely weakened by Sally so one punch to the top of the head, the robot fell in defeat. The Egg Pawn's eyes died as it slumped to the ground.
"That was easy," Amy panted, whipping her hand so making her hammer disappear again.
"I enjoyed that," Omega responded in a somewhat humbled tone. "I hope we meet more of Eggman's hostile creations."
"I hope we don't," Sally said, dusting herself off. "We have no way to treat injuries out here so I think its best we avoid as much confrontation as we can."
"I'm still hunger," Amy whined as they began to walk again.
Sally groaned. I'm going to go crazy if I have to listen to her whining for another day.
. . .
The loading dock on the Death Egg was surprisingly bigger than Sonic originally imagined. The group ducked behind a stack of boxes before being noticed by two passing badniks that were carrying a large crate. Fortunately, for them it was very dark so the badniks would have to be really looking to spot them.
"Alright," Shadow growled lowly as he hid his Chaos Emerald back in his quills. "We spilt up and meet back here in an hour. I don't care if you find Sally, Rose, or Omega; don't do anything unless the fox boy is there to disable the alarms. Destroy badniks if you have to, but the point of this is to not let on that we're here."
Sonic smacked his palm to his face as if he realized something important. "Shadz, what about your emerald? Can't the fat man's tech alert him that another Chaos Emerald just magically appeared on his ship?"
Tails gasped. "I installed the Tornado with warnings so it could tell me when a Chaos Emerald is close by. There's no way Eggman doesn't have the same kind of technology. He probably already knows somebody's here."
Shadow groaned inwardly. "Fine, I'll distract the Doctor while you idiots look around. All his attention will be on trying to get the emerald away from me so it should be easy for you morons to search this shit in the sky."
"But, Shadow, if Eggman does get the emerald away from you we are all stuck up here," Rotor commented as he put on his Nanite Battlesuit.
"Don't worry, Walrus. The Doctor will never be able to take my emerald from me. Now leave before you are seen with me." Shadow turned on his rocket skates and without even another glance at them he was gone.
"We should spilt up in teams," Bunnie stated as she grabbed Antione's arm, making him smile.
"Splendid, I'm with the fox boy," Rouge said smirking at him.
"Wait, what-why," Tails stuttered, shuffling his feet nervously.
"I used to work here, Foxy. I actually know where the holding cells are. Come on." Rouge flew up over the stack of boxes without making a sound.
Tails glanced at Sonic with a question obviously on his mind, but Sonic just nodded at him with a grin. "It's okay, bro. She's not gonna bite you just make sure she doesn't steal your wallet."
Tails returned Sonic's grin with a scold before flying after the bat.
"Good, now, Boomer it's you and Nicole and me," Sonic said cheerfully. He looked down at Nicole, who was in her hand held form. "You cool with that, Nicole?"
"Of course," Nicole said her voice sounding a little more robotic. "I think I might be able to map the Death Egg out for you if I can hack into Eggman's system."
"Just be careful Nicole," Rotor stated. "We don't want Eggman to know we're here."
"See ya'll later," Bunnie said as she and Antione disappeared smoothly out a side doorway.
"Ok I'm in the system, follow them through that door," Nicole informed them. "It appears Eggman has almost all of his badniks after Shadow so we shouldn't run into too much trouble."
"Great," Sonic said as they walked into a bright-lighted corridor. "Where is the Shadow-man anyway, Nicole?"
"He's on a higher level at the moment. I believe he teleported again to the cockpit to gain Eggman's full attention before running around and destroying things . . . Pick up your pace guys! Go right and run along the wall. I think I can get you to Eggman's record room."
"Aw, that sounds like fun! I wish the Shadz and I traded places." Sonic grinned. He always enjoyed destroying Eggman's toys.
Rotor and Nicole ignored Sonic. "I didn't know Eggman kept records of his wins and fails. Do you think we can figure out what he did with Amy, Sally, and Omega by looking through his documents," Rotor questioned from behind Sonic.
"That's what I'm hoping for. Take a left," Nicole responded.
Rotor and Sonic followed Nicole's directions quickly. The bright lights of the corridors almost blinded them and red alarm lights flashing bright enough to give someone a seizure. The sight reminded one of a hospital with fire alarms going off. Their footfalls echoing loudly down the hallway no matter how quiet they tried to run, but luckily Eggman's irritating voice kept booming over the intercom which outranked their footsteps. "YOU WASTES' OF METAL CAPTURE THAT DAMN BLACK RODENT BEFORE HE DESTROYS THE EVERYTHING!"
Sonic held himself back in a light jog so Rotor could keep up with him. "Of course, the fat man's racist," Sonic chuckled. "Where to now Nicole?"
"Just keep going straight, but there's a pair of badniks is ahead." Seconds after she completed her sentence the pair of badniks appeared before them. "Destroy them before they alert Eggman of our presence!"
Rotor threw himself at the bigger one. His weight alone made the badnik collapse. He used his Nanite suit to crush it with his hand once it was down. It amazed he that they were so much harder to destroy when he was just a kid.
Sonic mocked the second badnik. Speedily dancing around it as he dodged it's slow attacks. He grabbed it's claw, spun it around, until he threw it with all his might into a wall smashing it into scrap metal. He wiped his brow although he hadn't even worked up a sweat. "That was fun."
"Alright," Nicole spoke again. "Ahead there should be an elevator."
Sonic and Rotor jogged forward. "Yeah, here it is, Nicole," Rotor said, eyeing the lights above it.
"Ok, don't use it. Turn to your right and there should be a stairwell. This way your less likely to run into more badniks. Go up about three levels."
"Arugh," Rotor groaned. "I can handle facing death, but not stairs."
"Sorry, bud," Sonic smirked as he opened the door and looked at the first concrete steps. They were after all on the bottom floor. "I'm not going to carry you. I only do that for the chicks and for my little bro. I'll wait for you at the top." He dashed up the steps in a flash.
Rotor frowned in sorrow. "Ugh." He started walking up. "Note to self, fix Nanite suit to have better speed not just strength."
Sonic grinned down at his comrade as he got an idea. He hopped onto the railing and flew down again. "Hey, Boomer," he shouted happily as his shoes had embers flying from behind them.
"Cut it out you show-off," Rotor growled, but smiled despite himself.
. . .
Shadow sat in Eggman's "throne" with a bored expression. "Doctor, have I already beaten you?"
Eggman was at the speaker system yelling orders over the intercom. He didn't dare try to take on the Ultimate Lifeform himself, he was too smart for that. "Don't try my patience, Shadow! Hand over that emerald and get out of my Death Egg!"
"I'd rather not," Shadow said not even looking at Eggman. "I'm not finished humiliating you yet, Doctor. And I was considering taking a nap in this chair of yours."
"Your surrounded by my empire," Eggman scoffed. "There is no way for you to escape!" He turned away from the hedgehog, pushed his intercom button again and leaned into the microphone. "ALL BADNIKS GET INTO THE CONTROL ROOM IMEDILITLY! THE SCUMBAG IS IN MY CHAIR! SNIVILEY STOP HIDING IN YOUR BATHROOM AND GET IN HERE THIS INSTANT!" He huffed and glared back at the hedgehog.
Shadow stood up and smoothly walked toward the doctor. Shadow grabbed him toughly by the mustache, making Eggman wince in pain, and dragged him down to his level. "The only scumbag in this room is you." He shoved Eggman away enough to slap him sharply with the back of his hand. Shadow believed Eggman didn't deserve a punch like a man. He couldn't believe his creator Gerald Robotnik and his Maria were even related to the mad man.
Eggman fell to the floor after the assault to his face. He was furious. "HOW DARE YOU!" He stood up and slammed his hand over the intercom again. "SILVER SONIC V 3.0 GET YOUR ASS INTO COCKPIT AND KILL THIS FUCKING BLACK HEDGEHOG!"
Shadow smirked, showing his fangs. "Finally, a challenge, I would love to use your own technology to destroy your sky station, Doctor." He spun his green Chaos Emerald on his index finger casually.
All the color left Eggman's face and he became as pale as a ghost. He realized what the pest was saying all too well. Shadow was going to have the Silver Sonic chase him around the flying base, destroying everything in his path to get to Shadow. "You fucking sly motherfucker! You tricked me, damn it!"
"It wasn't difficult," Shadow sneered as he strut towards a window. "You're a fool, Doctor, an embarrassment to your family. You've taken friends of mine and you will pay the consequences. Oh, and, Doctor?" He turned and looked at Eggman, an amused expression on his face. "I can leave whenever I want. With this emerald I can teleport wherever I choose, you fool. Trying to beat me is a fruitless effort."
"Is it," Eggman snarled. "I may lose some of my ship and a few replaceable badniks, but you will meet your end, Shadow!" The sound of Silver Sonic's footfalls could be heard as he made his way up the stairs.
. . .
"Sonic," Rotor shouted in a startled tone. "We've got trouble!"
Sonic stopped running back up the steps and looked back at the walrus. "What's up, Rot? Is your body dying from use?"
"No," Rotor whispered, running past Sonic, grabbing his arm and dragging him up a few steps before Sonic turned around. "It's one of those Silver you's."
"Of course Egghead takes it everywhere," Sonic groaned in a whisper. "Great just what we need." He stretched his arms over his head with a grin. "I guess we'll just have to fight it."
"No you won't," Nicole said in a low volume. "We can't fight it. If it sees you guys it will alert Eggman and our mission to find Sally, Omega, and Amy will be scrubbed. You have to let Shadow handle it. Now get moving before it catches up with you. Go through the door and take a left."
"This mission sucks," Sonic scowled running ahead a little.
"Well, it's not like Amy and Sally got kidnapped for your amusement," Rotor grumbled bitterly under his breath.
"He didn't mean it like that Boomer," Nicole exclaimed.
"I know," Rotor responded as he jogged through the door after the speedy hedgehog. "It's just most of the time . . . I don't think he deserves either of them."
Sonic paused when his friend's words hit his ear drums. He felt guilt weight him down. Rotor's right. They both deserve better. The only reason Eggman kidnapped them was to get to me and now I'm acting like all this is a joke . . . I don't know how to handle this. I never know what to do when stuff like this hits us. The pain comes and goes in waves. I miss them so much.
Aw, Sonic's all depressed now. Shadow's pissing off the evil fat man. Amy, Sally, and Omega don't seem any closer to getting out from when they started. I need to speed up this fricking story, I guess. I'll finish it though. I can't stand it when people start stuff then never finish it. Its annoying.