Chapter 2: Saving the Saviour

 (To make sense of the story, please read the previous chapter/chapters if you have not already)

A year has passed since Eggman’s unrelenting attack across Mobius and times are grim. Large groups of freedom fighters disbanded for safety and setup smaller factions to reduce the chance of being tracked, most of the cities were converted into plants for manufacturing robots and retaining prisoners, and the world’s most depended on hero is still nowhere to be found. Most have given up hope in finding the blue blur, but few still believe he is out there... alive and waiting to be rescued.

During a dark and dreary night in Spagonia, a yellow and red hedgehog dressed in green and white is seen traversing the rooftops of what was once a city of beauty and culture, now a city of metal, pollution and danger. Keeping to the shadows for safety from the mechanised terrors, she stops for a moment and talks to a unknown contact through a burst transmission communicator. The hedgehog states; “I am closing in on the target area now, but security is becoming heavier by the moment... can you confirm this is where Sonic is?” Awaiting a reply, she ducks into the shadow and barely avoids getting caught by airborne e-units. A synthesized voice on the other end of the communication replies; “I have been tracking Eggmans important files. A series of files was marked the downfall of a blue rat, which one would indicate to be potential information about Sonics condition. It also stated the location of where he would be held... let’s just hope for our sakes, he is there, and alive!”

The hedgehog sighs and heads towards the plant where she and her contact believe that Sonic is being held. Backtrack to a few hours prior, and a group can be found making a plan, consisting of female hedgehog resembling Shadow, the same yellow and red hedgehog from the rooftops, and a charcoal fox with a scar over one eye. A white chameleon with pink hair runs in urgently with some seemingly important news. “Sorry to interrupt your planning guys, but I just received a interesting transmission.” She plays the transmission on her laptop back on the laptop which contains the synthesized voice from a unknown contact. “This is a message to the factions within the Spagonia area. I have hacked into Eggmans files and camera feed and found a blue hedgehog trapped inside one of his bases. If intel serves right, this hedgehog is the same one who disappeared over a year ago. For the sake of our world being returned to its former beauty, we must save him.  Attached are frequency codes for my contact and location of the target.” The fox, referring to himself as Pyrus, looks over at the others and commands; “Suzuki! You’re the best at getting through the city without detection, and the skills for keeping yourselves alive. If this info is genuine, I want this blue hedgehog on our team. Got it?!” Suzuki, who had been meditating at the time, agrees to the challenge ahead of her, collects some gear and heads out of the HQ on her mission.

Returning to the current time, Suzuki had manages to climb into a air vent that had been left unguarded and infiltrated into the headquarters of Spagonia Base Epsilon. She drops down from the air vent in a corridor and stealthily traverses the corridors and locates the room where Sonic had been held. She walks up to the force field prison that Sonic is within and follows instructions to disable the force field.  Sonic uncurls and opens his eyes to Suzuki, clearly weak and broken from his solitude and failure. Suzuki kneels down to the fallen hero, offering some water to Sonic, in which he drinks but not completely under his own strength. Suzuki looks around at the monitors and comments: “With conditions like these... anyone would go crazy or feel broken after a few months... let alone over a year...” She helps sonic out of the room in which he says “It feels good... to be out of that... prison”, with Suzuki replying ”Don’t get too confident just yet, we need to get out of this base first.”

Just as she finishes commenting on their situation, a alarm goes off and robots start flooding to their position. Looking around, trying to keep herself composed, she rushes with Sonic through the hordes of robots, avoiding turrets and getting locked in, the 2 escape the Base and head to the nearest rooftop. As Suzuki rests Sonic against a wall, Eggmans voice projects across the city, echoing “All E-Series units in Spagonia, Sonic the Hedgehog has been broken out of Base Epsilon. Prioritize the location and capture of Sonic and his helping assailant. HE MUST NOT BE ALLOWED BACK UPTO SPEED!!!” Suzuki breathes a sigh of relief to the situation they’re in, and looks at Sonic who is clearly exhausted. She nudges him, waking the blue blur up and says “Hang in there... okay, once I’ve gotten energy back, I’ll get us to safety. I just need you to stay with me.” In which Sonic lets out a exasperated chuckle and replies “you sound just like Amy...”

Suzuki remembers the name Amy Rose, with her giant hammer smashing through robots as if they were mere stand up cut outs of the real things. Suzuki smiles and comments “Well, my team is planning to reunite the factions... all we need is the return of the worlds saviour to help out.” She picks up Sonic and traverses the city all the way to her factions HQ. Suzuki heads over to the medical section where they are greeted by Lilly, a hedgehog nurse, which Sonic picks up on immediately on the fact that she shares resemblance with Shadow the Hedgehog. Lilly comments: “I was cloned from Shadow and my creator. I not only share his looks, but also have Chaos flowing through me as well. However, I prefer to help people with mine instead of bringing harm.” Suzuki lays Sonic on one of the beds and nearly collapses herself.

Lilly attaches a life support machine to Sonic and then checks on Suzuki, who reveals a bullet wound on the right side of her waist. Suzuki tells Lilly “I’m fine... please just, concentrate on monitoring Sonic as he’s the one in a worse off condition.” Lilly helps Suzuki remove the bullet lodged within her and places some dressing on the wound for Suzuki to apply pressure with. Sonic looks at the 2 girls and thanks them for their help, explaining what he went through before he was captured and eventually rescued, explaining Eggman’s hostile takeover, being driven close to insanity and the brink of death. Suzuki comments: “The fact you lasted that long Sonic is a testament to how strong of a hero you are, in body and spirit. Anyone else would’ve cracked and begged for a merciful death.” Pyrus watches on from outside the medical room, glaring at Sonic and thinking whether or not the risk had been worth it to save him. For the time being however, he’d have to allow Sonic to stay, for he was in no condition to defend himself. 

To be continued in Chapter 3: Reminiscing and Rehabilitation