[\\-{Sonic The Hedgehog: Flightless Hope}-//]

A rabbit hopped out of the bush and just hopped out of sight.

"Well... what's your speciality?" Ramsten asked out of concern, his guitar still slung over his back.

"Reconassiance, and being a marksman." Valen said. "And mimicry."

Heart looked at Dex, then back at Valen.

"Who can you mimc?" Atika asked.

Heart sensed a dark presence near the group, she looked around and spotted the man in the dark hood watching the group from a mountain. The man realised Heart had spotted him so he smirked evilly.

Vlad looked up to the sky, noticing something shooting towards them with what appeared to be four small wings, along with some sort of fire appearing behind it. Just then he realised what it was, but it was too late.
"MEESSILE! Vlad yelled, but just before anyone had time to react, the missile slammed into the ground close to them, detonating and creating a rather large explosion. Miyo, Vlad, Atika and Ramsten were all knocked off their feet and sent over the edge of the cliff, falling down to the lake.

Heart was knocked off her feet also, but since she wasn't very close to the edge of the cliff, she didn't fall off the cliff. The man on the mountain grinned he saw this as a perfect opportunity, he disappeared in a puff of smoke and reappeared near Heart.

Back at the Dark Army headquarters
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"Positive hit, sir. If they aren't dead, we'll send in some more units." A soldier sitting in front of a monitor and a rather futuristic keyboard called out to Gabe, who was stood on a podium at the back of the intelligence room, which had almost 100 other monitors and soldiers occupied. Two large maps of Mobius were located on the other side of the room, showing the location of several other Dark Army bases and factories, and some showing where their armies were occupying.
"Send in an Ogre unit just in case." Gabe ordered.
"Yes sir." The soldier typed in some co-ordinates, opening up a new window on the monitor showing every single D.A unit available, then chose to deploy an Ogre unit.
"Done sir."

The man in the dark hood started walking towards Heart slowly, two dark energy balls in each of his hands, growing bigger every second.

The four splashed into the lake. Atika looked down, noticing that there seemed to be no lake bed. Her eyes widened a bit, and swam up to the surface. Once she had done that, Miyo, Ramsten and finally Vlad all did the same. They stayed afloat, looking at each other.
"Where's Heart?" Miyo asked, worried. She looked up the cliffside to see she was hanging on. Miyo gasped in shock, whilst the others just hoped she could stay on.

(She's not really hanging onto it, but she's laying down on it, half of her body just floating, the other half on land)

Heart rolled away from the cliff's edge then quickly stood to her feet. A rustling was heard in the bushes, The man in the hood just kept walking towards Heart, he combined the two energy balls making one large one.

They all sighed in relief.
"Now how do we get back up there..." Ramsten mumbled in annoyance. Atika started swimming towards the nearest bank side, with the others swimming after her.

A black hedgehog jumped out of the bush and kicked the man in the dark hood over the cliff's edge. Heart saw a dark energy beam fly up in the air. The man in the dark hood had shot the dark energy beam accidentally, then disappeared in a puff of smoke. "Thanks" Heart thanked the newcomer, the black hedgehog just started walking off, "Where are you going?" Heart asked, she could feel something coming from him, but she didn't know what. The hedgehog looked at her, then just looked forwards again and continued walking.

Atika was close to the bank side... however, she suddenly felt something wrap round her right leg.
"Uh-oh." All of the sudden, she was tugged down into the water and down to the depths. Ramsten noticed her all of the sudden get pulled down, and he reacted by dipping down into the depths and started to swim down to save Atika from whatever was dragging her down. Miyo and Vlad looked at each other, then did the same thing.

Heart shrugged and walked over to the side of the cliff and looked down, she didn't see anybody, just the lake, she gasped.

Ramsten continued swimming, even though now Atika was out of sight. He came across some sort of cave with a large boulder blocking the way. Once he set his feet on the lake bed, he did his best to push against it, but it didn't work. At that time, Miyo and Vlad had arrived. Once they were ready, the two helped Ramsten push the boulder out of the way. It started to budge, before slowly sliding to the side and out of the way. The three were nearly out of oxygen, so they quickly swam back up to the surface to catch their breath.
"Gah... are you sure she's been pulled behind that thing?" Miyo asked, thinking it wouldn't be possible.

Heart let out a sigh of relief, "Are you ok?" Heart called to them.

Ramsten didn't reply, simply diving back down under the surface and swimming back down to the cave.
"Atika's gone!" Miyo called back out to her, just before Vlad swam down after Ramsten.

(Back)

I slowy stood up looking around. My ears were ringing slighty so I could not hear. I shook my head and ran to the edge of the cliff looking down.

"what do you mean she's gone?" Heart called as she looked for a way down rather then jumping.

Miyo patiently waited for her. At this time, however, Ramsten and Vlad had disappeared down the underwater cave.

I took her hand then teleported us both down. "There we go. Now where are they?"

"Ramsten and Vlad have swam down to see where Atika's gone. I don't know what happened... one moment we were all swimming towards the bank side, then all of the sudden she gets tugged down and... vanishes!" Miyo explained with a worried tone.

"Right" I took a run then dove into the water teleporting down.