Damages

Sides Taken

The echidna fled into a nearby alley as his unknown ally walked away without a care. He quickly took out his phone and contacted the dark hedgehog who was impatiently waiting for a response. The red head knew this after hearing him answer the phone in a annoyed tone, "What!" "I got some information I think you ought to know." "Spill it." "...You're assistant, the one with the brown coat, he.. He was escorted to investigate the area and back-up is on his side." "Are they watching him?" "Yes, but meanwhile, Margaret is finding a way to free Sonic from prison." "THAT BITCH, I mean... this may sound strange. But I need those back up officials gone. I don't care how it's done, I just want it to be." They both hung up.

Knuckles sighed, "Now what?..." as he began to ponder, he decided to contact the strange assistant to tell him what was to occur. Silver, of course , already knew what was to happen and answered his phone when he heard it ring, "What is it?" "Am I suppose to kill them?" "... I don't know what you are talking about.." "Your back up team..." "...." He didn't say anything and hung up on the echidna. Shadow and Silver always seemed to be of few words. He knew it would all pay off, so he decided to let the back-up team get near the solitary area of the abandoned house.

He then glided his way over there with his super 'flying abilities.' When he got there, Silver had already gotten inside and the troop was catching up. He climbed down the hill he was on. He took out a lighter, lit up a cart of hay and pushed it over the hill and onto the upcoming workers. They were surprised and did not move , but panicked when they were sent on fire. Most of them panicked and rolled on the ground to save themselves, while others rolled themselves off the road and into an unfortunate fate. As he watched them perish in flames and falls. His eyes were absorbing the action and it seemed to much for him, and just when he was about to break, Silver called Knuckles in, who rushed inside to avoiding hearing anymore of the screams for help.

Knuckles closed the door behind him and looked around. Everything was a mess. The floors were unsteady, filled with rodents, bugs, and other critters. Ten as he looked around with those clear violet eyes, he spotted blood on the floor. It wasn't recent, but it was there not to long ago. The walls were chipped and nails were sticking out. "What happened here?" he asked. The white one turned around, "I don't know why you know about my boss' plans," he approached to the echidna in a threatening way despite being shorter than him, "But you better watch you're back cause I know I got mine." He backed away and began looking around.

The echidna blinked, 'What the hell was all that about?' he thought. He shrugged at the thought and began looking at the rooms. As he looked around, he hardly noticed anything since it was very dim inside and the sun was beginning to set. 'This must be how dark it was for Sonic' he thought and then, without caution, tripped on a hard object and hurt his knee. He fell to the ground and quickly got back up to see what he tripped on. When he saw it, he could not believe his eyes, He lifted up the object. Its sharp doges were dulling and the motor wasn't used in over a short time. The chainsaw in his hands were filled from an unknown blood source and smelled like a penny in a sweaty palm. He placed it on an almost invisible desk and moved on.

As he passed a hallway, he spotted an halfway closed door. He decided to close it, so he pushed it shut, but it bounced back. He pushed harder, and nothing happened. He tried peeking inside to see if there was something in the way and when he stuck his hand in to reach for anything, his hand came back out with blood. He then opened the door a little wider while looking in an felt something squishy and hard fall on his foot. He widened his eyes and stepped back without looking at what had landed on his sneakers. He gulped and looked down. When he saw it, he quickly kicked it back and closed the door. He shook his head to get the idea slowly in his head. Then took deep breaths and began to move on after having a bloody head without a neck rolling down to his shoe as very unforgettable as well as unpleasant moment.

--Silver and Knuckles return--

"So, how was you're little field trip?" asked the old woman while taking a sip of her coffee. "Um.. Very unpleasant quite frankly." Knuckles responded. She nodded her head and looked at 'Matt' "So, Matthew, what did you find?" Nothing of assurance ma'am." "Hm..." She looked down then back at Knuckles, "I need you to stay here for a moment. I have something to discuss with you." The echidna gulped, not knowing if this was a good or bad thing. Her eyes moved towards the hedgehog, "Nothing more from you. You're free to go." Though she sounded polite, this was her way of saying, 'get the hell out'. Matt nodded and left, but stood at the edge of her door and decided to wait for her to excuse the echidna so he could later ask what happened later on.

Margaret smiled at the echidna and asked him, "Do you know what happened to the group that was following you two?" The red head grew nervous, he felt very guilty for killing those men... but what choice did he have? "... W-we were both inside already and I heard screams out the window, and they were there, burning to ash or rolling off the cliff. By the time I tried to save them.........they were all gone." She took another sip of her coffee and remained quite for a moment. He hoped that she would believe his words... but what she said next confused him, "I need you to see Sonic and give him this.." She handed him a piece of notebook paper folded in fourths into a small square, "Take this to him. Make sure he gets it.... Also, try to figure out anything else that's going on; his cell mate might notice something." Knuckles nodded in response to show that he understood and walked out the door. "jakcasses these days." muttered Margaret before he left.
As Knuckles went out the door, Silver, or Matt, began following him and began poking him to grab his attention saying, "What she say?" The echidna did not respond and began to walk off faster. Silver stopped, 'why did he walk off like that?' he asked himself.

The red head had no time to waste. He was very concern about his friend and if he had to be rude to help him and join forces with someone he has no total confidence in, he would. He left the automatic doors and walked 4 blocks to the prison. His violet eyes caught a glimpse of a teenager staring back at him as if saying, 'What the fuck are you doing here?' he didn't care though, his main concern was for Sonic's freedom. He knew that his friend hates to be enclosed and he could only imagine the agonizing pain if he was struck by the wired gates of high voltage that were above him. As he entered the main gates of the prison, he noticed most of the prisoners were nothing but a bunch of ruthless characters. Knuckles followed the directional arrows and went over to subscribe himself to a visit.