Return to the Underground

Sleet and Dingo

Get ready for some brotherly fluff, because Sonic and Shadow have a short but sweet, brotherly moment in this chapter!

The van was zooming by at top speed. They had to hurry. The biggest group of Mobians Robotnik had ever captured was headed to the Roboticizer. They had to get to them before it was too late.
"How did they nab so many people?" Shadow questioned the small communicator Manic was wearing. Cyrus had stayed in contact the entire time after he gave the news to give directions and explain just what on Mobius happened!
"Apparently, a few years ago one of the planes for transporting Robotnik's prisoners went out of control and were never heard from again," Cyrus' voice came in fussily through the watch. "The passengers were deemed dead, but it turns out they were alive and made a small... village, I guess you'd say." A sound like paper rustling could be heard from his side, as if he was gathering notes. "They were trying to keep a low profile so that Robotnik didn't try to go after them again. A lot had to leave family behind. Sleet and Dingo must have stumbled on their village somehow and captured them."
That's when something struck Sonic's mind. Maybe it was wishful thinking, but... "Cyrus, just how many years ago was it?"
"Um..." Obviously surprised by the question, the lion paused. "Well, I think you'd have been about four or five so-"
He was interrupted by a groan from Sonic.
"Sonic?" Cyrus, who couldn't see him, sounded very worried and confused by the loud groan from his friend. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine." He took his face away from his hands, "I'm just going to be sick is all."
"Are you guys near water or something?"
"No," Sonia assured him, glancing at her brother, who was now holding a steady poker face. "It's nothing."
Shadow gave his little brother a worried glance, noticing the straight face. Tails had also spotted it and he was now even more anxious to go faster.
'I wish they had let me fix up the van so it would go faster,' Tails thought as he looked out the front window. The terrain was just a vast plain. Nothing but the land and the few trees dotted every once in a while. There was also a dot in the distance ahead of them. Wait, a dot? "Guys! Look! I think it's the transport!"
The four hedgehogs leaned in closer to the window, trying to get a better view. "You're right, Tails!" Sonic and Shadow could just see the figure of the vehicle and the trail of dust behind it. "Nice job!"
Tails beamed at his big brother's praise. He pointed it out to the other two, since they were having trouble locating it. As soon as they found it, Sonia hit the gas, making them zoom forward.
They soon were driving level with the transport. It was about five times as big as a normal transport vehicle, with dark purple paint. There was a small window in the side. Probably so that the passengers could get a last glimpse at the world they were about to leave. Cruel and a bit kind at the same time. But mostly cruel.
Sonic inclined forward to see through the small frame into the van. He was half-expecting it too. What he saw were his adoptive parents, sitting across from the window with their heads down. And it broke his heart.
He moved to the back of the van, next to the door and knelt down, ready for action, without a word. Everyone could tell what was wrong. Unfortunately, they didn't have time to talk about it. Right now, they had to get those people away from Sleet and Dingo.
Shadow walked over and knelt beside him.
"What's wrong?" he asked gently, looking at him with concern. Sonic glanced at his big brother.
"My adoptive parents are in there," he whispered.
Shadow comfortingly nuzzled Sonic's ear as he whispered in it. "Don't worry, Sonic. We'll get them back."
Sonic nuzzled back, purring. "Thanks, Shads."
Manic grabbed his hover board and jumped out of the van with Sonic and Shadow right behind him. Sonic and Shadow bolted off somewhere to the right of the van while Manic boarded over to the van. Making sure that the people inside would see him, he starting hooking up the transport to start hijacking it. As he worked the controls, a bright laser passed right by his nose, temporarily blinding him.
When the stars faded away, the hedgehog looked up to see the bounty hunters, Sleet and Dingo, on their flat hover bike. Sleet had his laser gun pointed toward the prince.
"Well, well, well. Looks like we've got a little rat on our hands."
"Not rat. Hedgehog. Wrong species." Manic kept a calm appearance, although he probably had alarms going off in his head.
"Well, rat or hedgehog, you're still about to be roadkil-!"
He didn't get to finish his sentence. He had just been blindsided by a certain Blue Blur and Ultimate Lifeform. "Geez. What's with all the villains not knowing the difference between hedgehogs and rats?"
"You've been called that before?"
"Yeah. I'll tell you about it later." Sonic was running in front of the transport, keeping an eye on the two bounty hunters as they gathered their bearings, Shadow skating beside him.
When they did they were very mad and very shocked. "What? How is this possible? How are you possible? And who is this creep?!" Sleet was slightly red with anger, waving his gun around like the maniac he was. Shadow seethed in rage, but restrained himself from murdering the wolf on the spot.
"First question is obvious. Second question: my sibs found me. Third question: I'm pretty sure you know the answer to that. Fourth question: he's not a creep; he's the Ultimate Lifeform. His name is Shadow, and he's my big brother."
The wolf gave a deep growl from deep in his throat. Sonic had definitely kept his knack for annoying his enemies. He'd had enough. He shot at the cobalt and ebony hedgehogs, missing them by a mile. Several miles actually. Sonic had dashed behind them as soon as he had pulled the trigger while Shadow had simply Chaos Controlled behind them.
"Do remember nothing?" The two turned to see a kick and a punch aimed right at their faces.