The Apocalypse [The Original]

Ch. 8

"Ow." Wave said as she gained consciousness. She pushed a red button inside the escape pod and the door opened. She crawled out and just laid on the ground. "Oh. That... was close." She closed her eyes for a second. Then she opened them. "Jason? Jason!" She yelled as she quickly sat up. She looked around and saw nothing but trees. "The blast must've shot the pod far away from the ship. How am I gonna get back?" She stood up and started walking in the direction she thought she got shot from. She must've been walking for at least an hour when she heard a clanging sound. She headed towards it to see what it was. She entered a clearing and saw a blue hedgehog with a sword cutting down a group of robots. When the last one fell, she walked towards him. Once she got close enough he noticed her.
"Hey. Who are you?"
"I'm Wave. And you are..."
"I'm Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog. Are you alright?"
"No. Not really."
"What's wrong?"
"Well... it's a long story."
"I have time."
"Okay. I was captured by Mekkaku. Jason tried to save me, but Mekka threw him off of his ship. After that the ship exploded."
"It exploded?"
"Yeah." Wave said with a sigh. She looked up at the sky. "Jason... where are you?"

"Where do you think she went?" Blaze asked.
"I don't know. But I'm not going to stop looking until I find her." Jason said with determination. Blaze looked at him with a small smile.

"Where are we?" Wave asked.
"In Metaru territory."
"Metaru?"
"It's what we call Mekkaku's robots."
"We?"
"The ones who have encountered them..." he looked at her. "and lived."
"So how many have encountered them and lived?"
"Not many. I only know of three."
"Who?"
"My friends, Knuckles and Tails."
"Who's the third?"
"You."
"Oh. Right."
"Come on. We'd better go before more robots come."
"Right. So, uh... where to?"
"This way."

Jason, Blaze, and Silver came to a stop. In their path was a cliff.
"Hm. Lovely." Jason remarked.
"What now?" Silver asked.
"Well... um." Jason looked down. He saw the pieces of the bridge that used to be there. "I have an idea. Silver..."
"Yeah?"
"Come here."

"Where are we going?" Wave asked
"To the base. Knuckles and Tails are waiting."

"Where are they?" Mekkaku yelled.
"We're tracking them now." Metal Sonic responded.
"Hurry up!"
"Knuckles! Tails!" yelled Sonic.
"Hey, Sonic. You're back." Tails said as he walked towards them."
"Where's Knuckles?"
"He's in the back." Tails said, pointing to the back room. "Who's this?" He asked looking at Wave.
"This is Wave. She's lost and doesn't know where to go."
"Hello, Wave. I'm Miles Tails Prower, but it's just Tails for short."
"Well, Tails," Wave began. "What to you do here?"
"We monitor Metaru activity, and when they get too close..."
"I take them out." Sonic finished.
"Knuckles scavenges for any clues to the whereabouts of Mekka's base. I work on the Tornado II and make devices to look for Chaos Emeralds, Metaru activity, or the location of one of our friends."
"So you're looking for Mekkaku's base?" Wave asked.
"Yeah, why?" Tails asked.
"You're not looking for his battle ships?"
"He has battle ships now?" Sonic asked.
"Yeah. I already told you, remember?"
"You never said anything about them being battle ships!"
"Well, I'd figured you would've known that."
"I..."
An explosion cut him off.
"What was that?" yelled Sonic.
Knuckles came running in. "I think it was an explosion!"
Wave looked at him. "Really."
Knuckles looked at her. "Who are you?"
"I'm Wa--" another explosion cut her off.
"What's happening?" yelled Tails.
They all ran outside to see what was going on. There were explosions in the distance.