DAY 2, 1200 HOURS
Cyber gasped as she awakened in utter blackness. She tried blinking her eyes a few times to quell it, but nothing worked. She wondered what was going on, as her eyes could normally see perfectly, in even the darkest of conditions, but eventually she figured out the truth. Her eyes weren't working. At all.
She was blind.
She tried to lift her arms, to feel her way around her environment, but only her shoulders responded, and her lower arms were simply limp and lifeless. Her legs had a similar response. She could tell by the weight that her cybernetics were still attached, but nothing she could do would make them move. "Cyber?"
Cyber whipped her head in surprise at the voice in front of her, startled by its abruptness, and somewhat frightened at her current situation. Quickly, however, the owner of the voice placed his hands on her shoulder...She'd know those hands anywhere. "-Jack?-" She tried to say, but her voice was still scrambled. "It's me, Cyber. It's Jack. We're safe...For the moment." Cyber could hear Jack sitting down next to her, feel his hand brushing the side of her face in an attempt to comfort her. At a time like this, it was what she needed. "I know you've probably got a lot of questions. I've been spending the past few hours piecing it together, myself. But we're not gonna be getting anywhere with your voice being scrambled like that. It seems like your beak is among the few things that survived the blast, but the electrical interference must've messed it up. I need to take it off to reset it."
Desperate to have any form of communication back, Cyber closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and nodded before Jack pressed the two release buttons on the sides of her beak carefully, and began fiddling with the internal switches. Jack wasn't usually the one to do this kind of work with her cybernetics, preferring to leave it to Cyber(and Tails whenever the fox happened to stop by), but he had some experience working with the more sensitive areas Cyber's larger fingers couldn't get a good hold on. At the very least, he knew how to reset her voice whenever she needed him to, so her beak was re-attached pretty quickly. "That better?"
-Testing, one two, testing one two...Yeah, that seems to have worked. Now mind explaining why I'm blind and basically paralyzed?-" Cyber said. In spite of her stressed tone, Jack was somewhat elated to hear her voice again. He quickly explained what had happened, how the gang led by that dingo seemed to have used some sort of weapon to disable all of Jack and Raccoon's electronics, along with all but the most essential of Cyber's cybernetics(They were lucky that Eggman had shielded those against such attacks when building her), and how Jack had carried her off into a cave that, so far, seemed to be outside of the gang's patrols.
"-And what about Raccoon? I haven't heard him since I woke up. Where is he?-" Although she couldn't see it, she could practically hear Jack's fist tightening in anger. Though whether it was at the gang, or at himself was in question. "He...He distracted them so we could get away. I...I don't know what happened to him."
Cyber nodded, knowing what Jack was feeling. "-So what do we do?-"
Cyber could hear Jack taking a seated position by the entrance to the cave they were in, clearly watching for anything that may come their way. "The Restoration knows where we were, and we never got a chance to report in. The bio-trackers we got implanted when we joined up were probably fried when the attack happened, but they SHOULD have our location data from just before they went offline."
"-So, all WE have to do is wait?-"
Jack took a moment to respond. "If we're lucky. Let's just hope they send in the big guns."