Hard to Forget (By RAWN)

Chapter 9: Escape

Now that his basic needs had been tended to, and generally feeling a lot better. Sonic again had time on his hand to plot another escape plan.

Exactly how, he didn`t know, since he was literally chained to the bed. His attempt at picking up these locks had proven unsuccessful, due to

them being locked by a card key.

He crossed his arms and pouted.

"How am I supposed to get out of this mess?"

For some reason he suddenly got an unwanted image in his head including a feral animal chewing off its own legs to get out of a trap. He shook

his head in horror "I`ll never be that desperate".

"Besides, if…" he cringed just to think about it "…IF I were driven to such extreme measures, I couldn`t `go` anywhere, and would probably

bleed to death long before I could crawl my way out of here too. No…It has to be another way".

Suddenly his ears perked. He had heard something. It came from outside the window, which immediately became the center of all his attention.

"That sounded just like the X Tornado" he mused.

"Tails!" he exclaimed happily, when seeing his little brother peeking through the window, using his two tails to keep him airborne.

The fox kit's face lit up as he saw his brother smiling at him "Don`t worry Sonic! I`ll get you out of there in no time" he said cheerfully and

returned to their beloved plane.

Seconds later, a strong metal claw easily ripped out the bars Shadow so carefully had put up, and now went for the chains around Sonic`s

ankles, snapping them off like they were made of nothing more than dry twigs.

The blue blur didn`t waste any time, and he was in his seat behind Tails` in a mere millisecond, already putting up a more confident and

laidback attitude. The fox, being used to this kind of behavior and speed display, merely smiled at him before taking off.

Back home, Sonic briefly told Tails about his time in captivity, leaving out some of the more embarrassing details. Like the examination and

most of Shadow`s `visit`.

Thinking back at what had happened these last few days, made Sonic realize something. Eggman had almost been kind of…nice to him, in his

own creepy twisted way, and actually helped him back to health.

That was something he wouldn`t forget any time soon.

"Uh, Sonic, is that a ribbon around your neck?"

Scratch that last part. This was something he would NEVER forget, no matter how hard he tried.

"Never mind that" Sonic said in what he hoped was a casual couldn`t-care-less tone, while he frantically tried to remove the insulting fabric as

soon as the fox wasn`t looking.

"How did you know where I was anyway? Did Shadow tell you?"

"Shadow?" Tails looked confused "What does he have to do with this? I got an anonymous letter that told me exactly where you were, and I`m

pretty sure it wasn`t in Shadow`s handwriting"

Now it was Sonic`s turn to be confused "Then who? No one else knew…Except… No way! …It couldn`t have been…Could it?"

His little brother gave him a puzzled look.

Sonic shrugged his shoulders and grinned, "Forget about it. Nothing to worry about, but for now I believe it`s about high time I took that good

long run I promised myself" he said and took off feeling that thinking was way overrated in this case.

The End
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