Sonic exe: the modern murder

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It has been 2 months since Sonic, tails, knuckles and eggman have disappeared. The world of mobius quietly awaits the return of... any of them.

Amy, the stubborn hedgehog she is. Still hasn't given up trying to find them.

Shadow... while occasionally checking in on Amy. Is becoming more and more rarely seen.

The chaotix have been searching in tandem with Sally's search and rescue team to track them down...

Sally tries to help the best she can in the search with all her resources.

The egg carrier now sits immobile in the egg base. Dust gathering where once millions of drones and robots scampered about, fulfilling tasks.

The news is still covering the mysterious forest fire on angel island, as well as the sudden and violent slaughter of many of its local wildlife.

Our story starts with shadow, making his way to the abandoned chemical plant, where knuckles was last seen. Hopping from wall to corkscrew to spring, shadow keeps his eyes peeled looking for any sign of life. He looks up at the sky in the area... it reminds him of the sky over the city when black doom invaded. "The fire on angel island.. the lack of natural wildlife around green hill... the empty egg bases.. nothing of it adds up" 

"Nothing..." shadow huff to himself, about to give up... but then a noise catches his attention, followed by a gust of wind behind himself. "That speed-" he immediately follows the directions of the gust, in the distance he sees a blue... something. Shadow ignites his rocket boots and blasts towards the speck at lightning speed, the environment of the grey, abandoned plant flying by as he pursues. 

...

Meanwhile, Amy is setting up missing posters around station square. The hot sun beats down of her as she presses another staple against a wooden pole. "SNRK" she accidentally pricks her finger "Ow ow ow!" She flings it off... and Leans against the pole, exhausted.

A fluttering, almost wing-like noise comes from overhead. Amy opens her eyes to see it is cream, picnic basket in hand. "Good afternoon miss Amy!" She says cheerfully "I brought you some muffins my mommy made!"

"Thanks cream..." Amy says with a huff "I appreciate it" "you are quite welcome!"  Cream says, bowing like a princess. Amy chuckles, being reminded of herself of when she was young. "Never grow up cream eheh-" 

Amy finishes her muffin and returns to work "well.. these posters aren't gonna staple themselves.." she says laughing exhaustedly. Cream takes the hint and flys away cheerful that she helped her friend rest for a while. 

"Sonic.... Where are you?" Amy says to herself

The poster reads "MISSING:" followed by a group photo of Sonic, tails and knuckles. "If you have any information on the whereabouts of these individuals please contact 1-6712-CHAOTIX"

...

"not even the royal intelligence is getting any valuable info!" 

Vector slams his head on the desk, dark bags under his eyes. ".. it's all garbage.."  Espio, looking over at vector jumps down from a file cabinet and gives his friend a reassuring pat on the back. "There has to be something, someone HAD to have seen something... maybe we're just not loo-" The door to the investigation agency BURST open, revealing charmy "GUYS YOU'LL NEVER BELIEVE IT! I ACTUALLY GOT A LEAD!" 

Both vector and espio look up "lay it on my charmy!" Vector says, reinvigorated by the prospect of progress. "Some guy says he saw eggman going toward his base on the day he disappeared! It's kind of loose but it's something!" Charmy says kicking his legs

"Do you know where the base is located, espio?" Vector asks, looking over at the purple chameleon. "I have info on an abandoned G.U.N. Base near here... perhaps that's what he was talking about" 

"Enough talking, let's head over there now!"

. . . (Egg base 1:02 pm )

"You sure this is where you saw it?" Silver says, keeping behind blaze as she keeps a finger lit for light "no question... there has to be something here." Blaze answers, running her hand along an old egg-robo, feeling the dust on her gloves.

"This place feels so empty... even for a place with no life in the first place." Silver says looking at a few canisters of robotic parts. 

A cold air blows behind the both of them, sending a feeling of dread through their very veins. 

Not wasting any time, they both jump, sliver preparing a psycho-blast to defend himself. 

It's nobody other than rouge. She giggles, "My my, quite the coincidence see you two here..." rouge says with a smug grin, "I wouldn't quite say a coincidence is the right term, probab-" sliver begins to correct, before a loud "CLANG" is heard from behind him, "NO HOSTILES LOCATED: heat seeking set to: false"  omega states as he stands menacingly behind sliver. "Thanks big guy," she snaps her fingers at E-123 as she turns back to the hedgehog and cat.

"I'm guessing your here for the same reason I am... "

"You would guess correctly mrs bat"

"Please Blaze call me Rouge~ we're good enough friends to- skip some formalities."

"-Rouge, what info do you have on this base? If any?" Blaze says as sliver assists omega in moving some heavy containers

"Well hun can't say that I'm allowed to tell you- but eh-" she shrugs "what's G.U.N. Gonna do?

She continues "from what we've gathered this seems to have been a testing site for ol' eggman's robots, however some of these models seem a bit..." she crouches and pokes at an old motobug, motionless on the floor "dated, never took him for the sentimental type..."

...

"This the place charms?" Vector says, looking into the hole in the ground "seems like just an old cave system"    "Well if we've learned anything from our adventures, it's not to take them at face value, isn't that right you two?"  Vector laughs and stretches, limbering up. "Heh guess not-" 

They all leap in...

"Woah, much darker than we thought huh vector!" Charms mentions to vector..... "Vector?"

Charms looks around, and sees that... he's alone... "V-vector?" "Espio? This isn't funny!" 

Charmy looks up, and doesn't see the hole he jumped from... all he hears is the sound of breathing... creeping on his neck...