(OOC: I'll join^^ looks cool!)

Name: Wraith
Spicies: Echidna
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Fur Color: Maroon
Eye Color: Grey
Story: For full history check out the Character Profiles Thread.

IC:

The speed...that was the killer! It had all happened so fast! Just a week ago everything had been normal...or at least, as normal as things could be fighting Robotnik. Granted it wasn't all fun and games, but it was life...

And then, the takeover. Before he knew what had heppened, he had found himself in this god-forsaken slave camp, forced to work till he dropped, then work harder, with no breaks! How had they taken over so fast? How had they toppled Robotnik...what had they done with him, and the other heroes...Sonic, Tails...Knuckles, his own younger brother...what had they done with Knuckles???

The maroon echidna gritted his teeth, rolling over hin his uncomfortable cot. He hadn't slept a wink...he couldn't, not with all that was going on.

And not with him in the same room!

He stared across at the purple weasel lay on the bunk oppisite. He looked to be asleep, but with Nack, nothing was certain. He had never trusted the guy...just his luck to get stuck with him in this cell. He half expected the weasel to stick a knife in his back, if he could get hold of one.

They'd be here soon, to start them on the day's work. Wraith gritted his teeth and clenched his gloved fists. He couldn't take much more of this work...he was tough, but they were pushing them remorselessly!

It wouldn't last. He had vowed that from day one, and he repeated it to himself many times a day. He would see to it that Mobius was free again, and he would find out what happened to his brother and the other heroes. It was only a matter of time.

Right now he had to bide his time, looking for weaknesses in their cruel taskmaster's opperations, weaknesses that could be exploited. He would probably need help...even (thought he shivered at the thought of it) from Nack, his cell mate/probable future murderer, but his experience as a Freedom Fighter would help him out.

The Teknians would fall.

Name: Craig
Specie: Feline, short hair
Age: 12
Sex: male
Fur color: Smokey Black
Eye color: Ember yellow
Power:
Clairvoyance - Meaning hes able to see or rather sense things with out actually being there to witness it. Its not a skill hes highly adept at using and can only see whats on the other side of a wall or down a hallway. His ability also leaves him with the ability to whats going to happen in the near future, usually small things and in dangerous situations (Falling down, getting hit/whipped, what direction to take). These smaller events offer up more information and usually occur within the next 1-5 minutes) Using it on a grander scale it gets far murkier as its only leaves Craig with a very bad feeling in the pit of his stomach that something huge will happen within the next week (I.E Natural disasters or an Invading Alien force bent on global domination).

Since its not a power thats like super strength would he still get the collar? PM me if its a problem and Ill change it. ^_^

Clothing: a brown loincloth made of torn skin like the rest of the slaves

story: Craig managed to evade the Teknian invading forces for a short time, thanks it part due to his powers, but in the end he was captured. He has been a slave just shy of a week now (5 days) and does his best to keep out of trouble, though, the slave drivers seem to get annoyed at his refusal to scream out in pain. In the short time of being enslaved, Craig as also become quite detached, and has taken on a more apathetic mood toward everything around him.

BiC:

When he first got that sinking feeling in his stomach that week the invasion started, Craig had no idea it would be anything like this. At worst he thought it would be an earthquake or some other natural disaster that was as devastating. It had been a particularly sunny afternoon that day he found out why his stomach was in knots, the day his world changed forever. He could still remember the explosions and the gun fire, with people screaming all around him. He and his family evaded them as best they could, but in all the confusion Craig was separated from them and has no idea what happened.

Four about a day the young feline managed to stay one step ahead of the patrols until eventually it didnt matter which direction he took. They where every where...

So here he was, in a small cell lying down on his cot, curled up into a ball with his back to the wall. It had been a long hard day out in the yard, the small man whipping harder then was necessary wanting him to yell out or scream in pain. But he wouldnt give him the satisfaction of that, no he wouldnt. So he just laid their staring at the far wall with his back ripe with fresh whip marks and holding back the tears of pain swelling up behind his eyes. It would no doubt be the same tomorrow and he didnt exactly need to be psychic to figure that out.

OOC: Let me get a crack at this...

Name: Kanal
Species: Echidna
Age: about 8 years old (actual age unknown)
Gender: Female
Fur Color: Light Orange
Eye Color: Light Blue
Power: Limited Chaos Control, weak Chaos attacks and barriers. Any other abilities have yet to be discovered.
Story: One day her life was normal, keeping Knuckles company on Angel Island, now she's a slave...
(there's more info in the Character Profiles Thread here.)

IC:

It had been only 4 days since she had been captured, and Kanal was exhausted. She hadn't eaten anything in 2 days, and it didn't help that she was being forced to dig every single day for hours and hours on end, either.

She sat on her bunk, facing the rear wall with her knees up to her chest and arms wrapped around her legs. She hated it here... she missed Knuckles. He was like an older brother she never had...

The only thing that kept her from being completely lonely was the green duck that sat across from her. She knew his name was Bean; she had heard others call him that, but she didn't know much else about him accept he used to make bombs, which was he was once called "Bean the Dynamite."

Bean was asleep on his own bunk, turned away from her. She at least wanted to talk to him, to maybe get rid of some of her loneliness.

Tears streamed from Kanal's eyes. She didn't want to be stuck here anymore... she wanted out...

But what could the child do? The collar around her neck prevented her from using any of her chaos abilities, so that was out of the question. She wasn't a good fighter, so she couldn't stand up to any of the cruel slave drivers. She'd just end up whipped like she was today. The lashes on her lower back and arms were still bleeding and throbbing in pain. She couldn't even heal herself.

Kanal lay down on the bunk, emotionally drained and wanting some sleep. She closed her eyes, tears still coming from them, murmuring something very softly... "Knuckles..."

Maybe... just maybe her wish to be free would be granted...

OOC Welcome Wraith the echidna, Prkp and kaze the chao, just so you know when the Teknolia collar gets activated, Teknolia energy flows trought your bodies causing you pain.

Mikey layed exhausted over his chest panting heavily on his bunk after the Tekdroid slavedriver pushed him in his cell and activates the barrier, he was captured this morning when his home place Green hill was raided by Tekdroids Corps and taken to the slave workshop, a Teknolia collar was clamped around his neck so he couldnt use his full natural strenght and his right ankle got painfully branded with the name of K.H, the dwarf like Teknian slavedriver who is now his owner and it still hurt as much as his bruised body and whipped back. unlike the rest of the slaves who got their little ration of gruel, bread and water today, Mikey got punished by K.H because of his rebellious aditude when he was put to work, he was taken to the torture room, hanged about a foot from the ground by his wrists and got his back whipped for two minutes, after the torture he was sent to his cell with no food or water as part of his punishment. Mikey shivered then curled up to get warm because of the cold weather in the night and feel asleep. After seven hours have passed K.H could be heard from the speaker as one Tekdroid slavedriver entered the cell in wich Mikey was in.
"Time to work slaves" said K.H his voice booming from the speaker, Mikey moved uncomfortably dont wanting to stand up.
"Wake up slave!" ordered the Tekdroid slavedriver as he started to whip him. gritting his teeth in pain Mikey struggled standing up while the Teknolia whip lashed across his back holding back in wanting to smash the Tekdroid slavedriver into pieces, he was pushed into a small group of slaves and looked at his suroundings it was still night but in some minutes it will be morning and it will start to get very hot because of the ubication where the Teknians had installed their base and slave workshop that was in the arid dry grounds of Mobius. the slave drivers began to herd Mikey and the slaves in his group toward the tunnels underground, if working outside with the intense heat was terrible then it was worse underground wich was what Mikey hated.

OOC:Allow me to join in! I'll use my personal fav character, Flaming Chaos! His profile can be found in the character profile thread!

IC:
He still could not believe he had been captured! The once great Guardian of the Chaos Force now lay in a bitter cold cell. It was a matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong time! He knew his brothers were laughing at him right now. They hated his very exsitince, and was jealous of him for being a Guardian! It didn't matter now, he was stuck here he didn't even have the ability to use his CHaos powers. Upon his arrival a strange collar was placed on him preventing him form using his powers!

He did have some comfort in knowing that he wasn't alone. Across from hi setting in the floor sat a black armodilo! Flaming thought he heard him call himself Mighty or something like that!

He knew it was almost time to get to work. He could see the Tekdroids gathering the other slaves and leading them to their work station. He saw one of them pull out its whip as it approached.
"Get up, and get your carcasses in gear!" it ordered.
The Tek droid threw open the door, and sent the whip across Flaming's face. Mighty got up and exited first, but as he left he was punched right in the gut!
"MOVE FASTER!" the Tekdroid ordered then turned to Flaming, "What the heck are you waiting for? We can't keep K.H. waiting!"

Flaming started to leave, but felt his feet being pulled out from under him. The whip was wrapped around his ankles, and as he fell he thought he heard on of the droids laugh! It was going to be another hard day!
TBC

OOC:Hope that is alright! I can edit if needed!

"What?"

"..."

"What? What are you staring at?"

"You."

"Well duh! I mean what are you staring at me for???"

"Three guesses." muttered Wraith. "And the first two don't count." He was sat cross-legged on his bed, his arms folded, leaning back against the wall.

Nack snorted a chuckle. "Well I'm not exactly jumping for joy being stuck here with you, echidna-breath. You're just lucky they don't let us fight each other for fun."

"You're welcome to try anytime, weaselboy."

"Sez you." retorted Nack as he picked up his rations from the floor and took a bite. "My how the mighty have fallen...I knew you heroes would never ammount to anything."

"I don't exactly see you on easy street here either."

"Now that's where you're wrong! Sure I'm working now, but everyone has a weak spot. All I have to do is find out what our guards want, and boom, I'm outta here and into a better life!"

Wraith almsot laughed out loud at this. "Not even you could bribe these guys, you lunatic! Besides, what would you wager? Your ration for a week?"

"Underestimating me is a fatal flaw." murmured Nack, a sly grin on his face. "I would vow to kill you for it, but it'll be so much more gratifying to see you still stuck here in this slave camp while I'm elevated to master. I'll remember you that day, Wraith."

Wraith shook his head slowly. "Keep dreaming, you fool, just keep dreaming." he muttered, grinning slightly.

At that point the door to their cell was thrown open. "Move, now. Time for work."

Both occupants of the cell stood up from their beds and moved over to the door, Wraith purposefully hanging back to make sure the weasel went through first. Granted there was a guard right outside, but he still wanted to keep an eye on him, and never turn his back. He wouldn't put anything past that guy.

Some time during the night Craig had drifted off into a dreamless sleep. He was great full for them since the alternative where usually nightmares filled with the faces of people he knew. Each one dead found in some state of decay. Craig hated these dreams, not just because they were horrible, but because he felt that these dreams where far more then they seemed to be. This was what left him with a horrible feeling each time he woke up.

Craigs eyes shot open, a minute prior to the routine wake up whipping, and was ready before the slave drivers reached his cell. As always the tekbot deactivated the barrier and started barking out orders and snapped its whip at him, only grazing the side of his cheek. Craig of course did the smart thing and complied with out argument and started moving out into the growing line out side. He would be sent back down into the mines again during another hot scorching day no less.

GET A MOVE ON! it shrieked, violently tossing Craig into the crowd, hitting an echidna in the process. What ever hope of rescue that still remained within the young cat was dwindling bit by bit now with each crack of those damned whips those slave drivers use so maliciously.

Mikey gets hit by Craig after being pushed at him, he growls and turns around thinking it was a Tekdroid slavedriver who had tackled him but when he notices it was just a young cat and was getting whipped his face softened and helps him, he pulled Craig quikly in front of him into the group of slaves so that the Tekdroids slavedrivers leaved him alone receiving some whippings in the process.
"Are you alright?" Mikey asked him while continuing walking toward the entry of the tunnels where some Tekdroids slavedrivers where giving pickaxes to the slaves, he knew the wasnt going to receive one since the Teknian General found out that Echidnas where good natural diggers and will have to work using his bared knuckles.

Craig felt his feet lift of the ground as some one gripped his arms rather tightly in the process. Still he didnt mind it so much and was rather great full the echidna didnt shove him off. Craig was even more thankful when the echidna positioned himself between the slave divers whips and him self, taken aback by his attempts to protect him. Usually in a place like this it becomes every fur for them selves really quickly.

Yea Im fine, replied in a small voice, rubbing the side of his cheek as he rejoined the line. Thanks.

Still the reprieve would be short lived as he was now mere moments from receiving a pick axe and sent down into the tunnel network. The closer he got to the tunnel opening a huge sense of dread was starting to swell inside him. Craig could be sure what it was, but something bad usually followed. By feeling of it, what ever was to come wasnt huge, but it was dangerous enough to warrant such a strong feeling. His ears flattened against his head as his tail started to sway. These where tell tale signs that Craig was getting anxious over something.

"No problem" says Mikey smiling then sees Craig getting anxious as they got closer to the tunnel.
"I can keep you company if you want?, my name is Mikey" says the dark green Echidna presenting himself to Craig.

OOC Have a Happy new year Wraith the Echidna, Prkp, kaze the chao and Eggpire.

Craig jumped slightly forgetting all about his helpful new friend and glanced back toward him, getting the distict feeling he had picked up on his body language. "Okay," replied Craig, in his same quiet voice. "Craig." he then added shortly returning his gaze forward.

He struggled for a moment on whether or not to tell him about what might happen. Give him a bit of a warning, but he was at a lose for words since he didn't quite know how to explain it. He never talked about his gifts to outsiders and he was fairly certain many of them wouldn't believe him either. He did step in to help me though... Craig thought for a moment before being pulled back into reality when a Tekbot shoved a pick axe unceremoniously into his arms, shoving him and others into the dimly lit tunnel.

"GET UP, INSECTS!! TIME TO WORK!!"

Kanal sat bolt upright on her bunk. Looking out through the cell, her eyes widened with fright as she saw the slave driver standing there, whip in hand.

"COME ON ALREADY!!" he growled. "GET GOING!"

"Yeah, yeah, we heard you the first time," Bean grumbled, rolling out of his bunk. "Jeez, can't even get any sleep around here anymore..."

The slave driver grew furious. "Insolent little maggot--"

He grabbed Bean by the neck. "You're coming with me," he said nastily. As he dragged the duck away, he turned back to Kanal. "YOU! Get on to work!"

The light orange echidna wanted to cry... she was alone again. Half heartedly, she hopped off from her bunk and headed out of the cell, which was still left open.

She hadn't taken two steps forward when another slave driver, herding another small group of slaves, grabbed her and forced her along with the others to the tunnels.

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(continued)

EDIT: OOC- Happy New Year, people! I had just posted here because I won't get another chance until next week. See you then!

Flaming and Mighty were walking down the tunnel, or shall I say being LEAD down the tunnel.
"I can't take much more of this!" Mighty whispered to Flaming.
"I know what you mean," Flaming responded, "Maybe we will get lucky and escape someday!"

The backside of a hand came down across his face. Flaming almost lost his footing.
"You will remain in silence until otherwise ordered!" a Tekdroid told him, "If you do that again it will result is limited food consumption!"

"What does that mean?" Flaming asked without thinking.

He was soon lying on the ground grasping his nose as blood poured from it. Mighty stood there in shock.
"Is there something wrong?" the droid asked Mighty.
Mighty just shook his head.
"Well keep MOVING!" the Tekdroid ordered then turned to Flaming, "And as for you, Next time you act out of line, the boss will be seeing you!"
With that they were thrust down the hall!
TBC

Wraith and Nack wondered down the corridors of the slave block, the soldier that had taken them out of their cell following a short way behind.

"Say there," started Nack, turning to face the soldier and walking backwards as he spoke, "I've been thinking, is there anything that you guys need...you know, info on the planet, or maybe some of the dangerous fools that call themselves heroes, you know, stuff to help your campaign?"

"Silence." replied the Tekdroid in a monotone.

"It's just that I'm kinda a sage among my friends, but I'm getting bored of them, you know what I mean?" continued Nack regardless. "I've seen you guys opperate as you took over, and wow, I'm impressed! I just wondered if you wanted an advisor to help you with any unexpected hitches in your plans?"

Wraith had to bite his lip to stop himself from laughing out loud! He couldn't wait to see where this was going!

"We need nobody. We've already taken over and everything is under control. Now keep quiet."

"Ah, but that's where you have to be careful! You see, I believe there's a secret underground resistance being plotted against your forces! The masterminds behind it are the selfsame heroes who tried to overthrow this world's last leader, Doctor Robotnik! This echidna here, for instance..." Wraith shot the weasel a murderous glance. "...is one of those heroes, and he's plotting your downfall with a number of others!"

WHOP! Nack was thrown against the wall of the corridor as the butt of the soldier's gun smashed across his face. "We need no advice." retorted the Tekdroid angrily. "We are supreme, and even if a rebellion is being planned, it will be crushed without mercy before it begins! We also do not tollerate disobedience!" The guard turned to Wraith, pointing down the corridor towards a long line of slaves shuffling past the end. "You, join the line immeadeately."

Wraith turned and moved off down the corridor, nodding his head in a sarcastic salute at Nack as he passed him. That was fun!

The guard watched him as he joined the line, then once satisfied Wraith was under supervision of the guards watching the line, he turned back to Nack to administer further punishment. Wraith grimaced as the movement of the line took him round the corner and out of sight. He didn't know what was in store for Nack, but even if he was sly, evil, and nasty, he didn't deserve what he would probably be put through. Despite his mistrust of Nack, Wraith couldn't help feeling a little sorry for him.

He turned back to the line, trying to clear it from his mind. There were more important things to worry about right now.

Suddenly his eyes caught sight of a figure a little way ahead, a fugure with light orange fur...

Could it be? The blue ribbons in her hair were gone, but still...it had to be!

He glanced around, looking carefully at the guards, watching their movements. As they turned away for a moment, he quickly increased his pace, stepping past the few Mobians in between him and her and slotting into the line behind her.

Carefully he reached forward, grabbing her arm at her wrist. She jumped and made as if to turn round, but he quickly whispered behind her, keeping his voice low enough not to be noticed by their guards: "Shhhh...don't turn around, and keep your voice down! If you step out of line, they'll punish you!"

She nodded slightly, almost imperceptably, and Wraith let go of her wrist, reassured that she wouldn't turn round. I'm Wraith...Wraith the Echidna." he muttered, following her closely so she could hear him. "Kanal...is it you?"

Mikey and Craig where sent to the end of the tunnel with some other slaves.
"Atention slaves, you will continue digging toward that direction, start working!" ordered the Tekdroid slavedriver pointing to the right of the tunnel. Mikey flexes his arms and starts to dig, meanwhile outside the tunnels a Tekdroid Corp was talking with two short Teknians.
"K.H you will oversee the slaves in the tunnels, you T.H will oversee the slaves here" ordered the Tekdroid Corp, both slavedrivers nodded and the Tekdroid Corp walked away to his post on the great wall surounding the slave workshop.
"Good luck brother and remember, slaves are called by the whip not by their names" says K.H holding up his right Teknolia arm with his hand transformed into a Teknolia whip.
"Yes I know brother" says T.H doing the same with his right Teknolia arm, K.H goes into the tunnels while T.H started to walk around the slave workshop but with a diferent idea, to not make the day to hard for the slaves, still he feelt sorry for the slaves underground with his brother.

"Kanal... is it you?"

The young girl nodded in reply. Wraith seemed relieved.

"Thank goodness," he sighed. "It's nice to see that at least you're okay..."

"I guess," Kanal said softly. "You're Knuckles' brother, right? Do you know what happened to him?"

"I don't know. I haven't seen him around here..."

Her heart sank. "Oh... I didn't know..."

The Tekdroid guard walking ahead of the two of them turned around suddenly. Kanal looked up, almost afraid that he had heard her, and nearly stopped in her tracks. Wraith paused behind her.

A short distance away, there were slaves already hard at work clammering away with their pickaxes on the hard rock.
The Tekdroid guard motioned to the group behind him.

"GO ON!" he bellowed. "GET DIGGING, WORMS!"

Kanal walked quickly by the guard, not wanting to look him in the face. If she didn't have this collar around her neck, she probably would have wounded him already. She almost turned to look at Wraith, but she stopped herself.

Another Tekdroid slavedriver stood at the entrance of the caves with a rather nasty grin on his face. He was rather short to even be a Teknian (but he was still taller than her), as all the others she had seen towered over her. She hated the sight of him all the same, and seeing that whip didn't help matters, either; it was making her feel sick to her stomach.

She was going to be in for a rather rough day...

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continued

Wraith made sure he got a space in the digging site next to Kanal as he prepared to work. He had seen her on his regular visits to see his brother, and they had spoken a little, enough to become reasonable friends. Her quiet nature had made it tough for them to get to know each other very well, plus the fact that he never usually stayed very long (He had joined the Freedom Fighters, and was often needed on some mission or other), but any friendship was better than none right now!

He began to dig away at the rocks with the spikes on his gloves, calving into the face like a knife through butter. Fortunately this rock was quite soft...when they hit mineral deposits it was terrible! All the time he kept digging, he also kept an eye on the slavedrivers watching over them. As soon as their back was turned he spoke again, once again in a whisper.

"I'm gonna get us out of here Kanal."

"What? How?"

"I don't know yet, but I'll figure it out. I'll need your help though, along with as many others as we can get. It'll be dangerous, but we have to try. You up for it?"

Kanal's eyes lit up at the thought. Without a moment of hesitating, she nodded, smiling.

"Good." Wraith resumed digging. "The sooner we get outta here, better. Then we could go searching for Knuckles."

Kanal nodded again, and continued to dig as well.

Unlike some other echidnas, she didn't have spikes on her hands, which made her work more difficult, so instead of digging with her bare hands, she would use a pickaxe that was lying around. It saved her a lot of energy, and it gave her hands a chance to heal from the numerous times she had cut herself on the rocks.

Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed some more Tekdroid guards approaching with more slaves. Among the group was Bean, who looked like he had just been beaten, and some purple weasel wearing an ugly expression on his face.

The short Tekdroid met them at the entrance, spoke with the others briefly, then shoved the new group forwards toward the work site.

Wraith must have seen this, too, and narrowed his eyes at the weasel, who was glaring angrily back at him.

Kanal pretended to look like she was still working at this point, but the weasel's attention shifted to her.

"Hmph," he muttered, "so what, you're into young girls now?"

"Leave her alone," Wraith growled. "She hasn't done anything to you."

The weasel was smirking now. "Getting defensive, are we? So, what have you been up to, hmm?"

"Quit it, or you're gonna get us in trouble," the maroon echidna shot back, becoming more infuriated, "along with the girl..."

"Whatever..." the weasel picked up an axe and began digging right next to Wraith. "I don't care what happens to the kid, as long as you get what's coming to you..."

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continued

Flaming had just started digging when he got those thoughts in his head again. He could see his brothers laughing at him. Picking at him for getting caught in the situation he was in! He was powerless all because of that collar they threw around him! He had to get it off! He threw his arms around his neck and grasped what he thought was the clasp and tried to pry it off. With that the Teknolia activated sending its energy through his body! He cried out in pain causing the attention of the Tekdroids. He fell to the ground as they rushed over toward him!
"He tried to take the collar off!" one of the droid said.
"Foolish child!" the other replied.

Flaming tried to pukk himself up, but the sole of one of the droids foot came down on his head. He could taste the dirt and filth in his mouth as his face went deeper in the dirt. Suddenly he felt a hand gr4ip him by the fur on top of his head and pull him up.

"You will NEVER attempt that again!" A Tek droid boomed, "Now pull yourself up and get back to work!"

Flaming crawled to his feet and slowly began to dig again!
TBC

Time seemed to pass by slowly in the tunnels. Soon, it was early afternoon, and the tempurature was rising quickly.

For Kanal, it was like the sun was beaming harshly down on her behind her back. Despite this, she was filled with renewed energy, with the hope that she could get out of here.

She briefly looked over to her right and saw that Bean was just a few yards away, digging away. He seemed hardened and broken. She wanted to tell him of Wraith's plan, but she decided against it; he was too far away. Maybe later, she thought as she lifted the pickaxe in her hands...

"Hey, guard!" a voice yelled out.

Kanal turned around. It was that weasel again, yelling out to the Tekdroid in front of him.

"There's someone here who's got an axe!" he shouted. "An echidna!"

The guard whirled around at once, and looked directly into the child's eyes.

"YOU!" he boomed. "Drop that at once!"

Kanal remained still, frightened out of her mind.

"I said, 'DROP IT!'"

Her hands let go of the pickaxe; it clattered as it hit the ground.

"Now get back to work! And don't let me see you with it again, or you're headed to the boss!"

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continued

"Leave her alone!"

The Guard's head swung to face Wraith, who had paused his work and was looking round at the scene. "You have a death wish, furred freak?"

"No, but I have a heart." retorted Wraith angrily. "She's only young, and she doesn't have knuckleduster gloves like we adults have! She can't use her fists!"

Kanal turned to look at Wraith, her back to the guard, a worried expression on her face. She mouthed quickly: Wraith, no! Stop!

"I missed the part where this was your concern!" spat the guard, striding forward menacingly, his eyes fixed on the maroon echidna. "You're lucky I'm feeling linient, or you'd be dead right now!"

Wraith's brow dipped. "That a threat? Oh wow, I'm quaking." he retorted, his voice dripping with sarcasm. Instantly the guard lashed out with his whip, slashing Wraith across the chest with a crackle of energy! The echidna cried out and folded to the floor, clutching his chest.

"Don't try me, sonney!!!" shouted the guard, his voice echoing around the cave. "Now get back to work...now!"

Gritting his teeth against the pain, Wraith slowly picked himself up and began to hammer away at the rocks once again with his fists. The guard watched him for a moment, then muttered quietly: "I got my eye on you...troublemaker!" With that he turned and set off down the tunnel again, checking on the other slaves.

Kanal looked round as he left, staring at Wraith with wide eyes. "Why did you do that? He could have killed you!"

"It got the attention off you didn't it?" grunted Wraith, grinning despite his aching joints. "Besides, the implant in my forehead dissipated some of the energy. I'll be okay." He turned to face Nack, who was clearly watching them with sidelong glances, a wide grin on his face. "And you," he muttered, his voice becoming noteably darker, "try anything like that again...I don't care how many guards there are around...you're dead!"

Nack just smiled slightly, as though shrugging the threat off. Wether it actually hit home or not Wraith couldn't tell...

Mikey had watched how Wraith had protected Kanal and grimaced when he saw how the maroon Echidna got whipped by the Tekdroid slavedriver.
"What a brave Echidna" Mikey whispered to Craig and continued working, the dark green Echidna looked over to his left and gets surprised when he notices Bean working beside him.
"Hey, arent you Bean the Dynamite?" Mikey whispered to the green Duck. K.H was informed by one of his Tekdroids slavedrivers about the slaves Wraith and Nack.
"Two troublemakers slaves? I will take care of them" he says smiling cruely enjoying the idea while caresing his beard.
"Okay boss" says the Tekdroid slavedriver, K.H goes where Wraith and Nack are and watches them nearby.

OOC Just so you know Tekdroids and Tekbots doesnt have a face and they only have one big purple eye.

Kanal noticed the short Teknian move, and became filled with dread and despair. She wasn't working, and had no idea what she was going to do.

She turned to face the wall, looking at her hands. The cuts still hadn't fully healed. And the rock was very sharp....

She glanced sideways at K.H. again. He was still looking at Wraith.

She couldn't reach out for the pickaxe now; she'd be caught. The only thing she could do was the best she could.

Kanal reached both hands out for the rock, and tried to break a piece of. Suddenly, she cried out in pain.

Wraith stopped his work immediately and turned to her.

"Kanal, what's wrong?!"

Painfully, the girl opened her hands. Blood oozed from the fresh cuts on them.

Then the sound of a whip lased out at the two echidnas. Kanal swung around to see where it had come from... and gasped.

K.H. had his eyes on her...

"Why arent you working slave!" yells K.H at Kanal and shoves her violently to the ground with his left hand. Mikey waited Bean to answer but then noticed that the green Duck looked angry so he decides to leave him alone for the moment and continued working.

Wraith reached down, helping Kanal to her feet again. K.H. was looking on, but the movement was short enough for him not to bother punishing. "Get working and stay at it!" he ordered, pointing at the rock ahead of them.

Wraith didn't say anything, but he made sure Kanal saw the reassuring nod he passed her before turning to the face again.

Just as soon as he found a weakness he could exploit...however small...

OOC: Jet's profile is on the character profile thread.
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As the day dragged on and the workers slaved away in the tunnels of the workshop, the nightmare was just beginning for a new arrival.

He was captured not two hours ago and was brought to the workshop as a new slave. He was a weasel, but didn't look a thing like Nack. He was a different kind of weasel than Nack. He was still reeling from it all.

How had this happened to him? Would he ever see Amanda again? What happened to her? Where were they taking him? All these questions floated around in his mind as he was lead to a room where he would be stripped of everything he had on him.

First to come off was his earrings. Instead of simply taking the backs off and removing them that way a tekdroid simply ripped them out tearing his ear. "Well then! I'd say that's an improvement!" the tekdroid snickered as the others laughed too.

All Jet could do was flich as they then took his hat off and then went to his coat, shirt, they worked their way down until noting was left on him. Then he got the typical loincloth all the other males had.

Jet was humiliated, but there was nothing he could do except as he was told. He didn't want trouble...yet.

He was then lead to the tunnels to work with the other slaves. After he was given a pickaxe he went to work on the tunnel wall.

K.H decides to look around a bit to make sure the slaves where doing their work until his atention got placed on Jet.
"Atention slave!" says K.H while whiping one time across Jets back to get his atention.

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Jet cringed as the whip stung his back. He just turned to face K.H.

"Yes sir?" He asked half expecting something unpleasent.
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OOC: Bah! I'll have more later. =P

"I see you are a new slave" says K.H then looks down at Jets right ankle and smiles cruely "You havent been branded yet as my posesion, I will take you to the torture room now!" says K.H and gripped hard Jets right arm to drag him outside the tunnel and towards the torture room in the slave workshop.

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Jet was expecting it to be bad, but not like this!
"They want to brand my ankle? What do they think I am? A cattle?", he thought as they approached a long tunnel with a door at the end.
It was dark in there, but Jet could see fine in the dark. He could read the words "Torture Room" on the door and he became nervous. He wondered how they expected him to work if they burned his ankle like that, but it didn't matter. There was nothing he could do that wouldn't get him hurt even more.
Finally, they reached the door and Jet was thrown through the door while K.H stepped inside after him and immediately went to prepare the branding iron he would use. All Jet could do was watch as K.H. heated the iron to get it red hot.
"If I hear so much as one yelp from you, it'll be a 5 minute whipping and no food or water for the day!" K.H. snapped.
Jet could handle pain. He had experienced a lot of it in his past adventures. So he gritted his teeth and clenched his fists as the Teknian brought the iron close to Jets ankle and pressed it hard against him.
Jet wanted to scream, but he was able to stop himself. It was the most horrible pain imaginable! Even worse than whipping! K.H held it there longer than neccessary hoping the weasel would cry out in pain, but he removed it when he decided this guy wasn't saying a word.
"GAURD!" K.H growled. "Take this furball back to the tunnel!"
"Yes sir!" replied the tekdroid. Jet was then dragged right out the door by the arm and led back to the tunnel. It was hard for Jet to walk though. His ankle made it difficult for him.

Kanal's hands throbbed in pain, and her head hurt from being shoved into the ground. Fighting back tears, she saw K.H. walk away with some other slave. She didn't know who this new person was, but in her mind, he would suffer the same pain she had gone through the first day she was forced down here.

She noticed that there were no guards watching, but that weasel next to Wraith was looking at her with a sly grin. He was waiting for her to do something so he could start yelling for a guard again. She wasn't going to let that happen.

<i>Chaos Spear,</i> she thought, and a very weak spark of chaos energy struck a large piece of rock in front of him. Almost at once, the pain shot through her body as the Teknolia collar activated, sending out its draining energy. It was worth it, though. The rock cracked, and when the weasel hit it with his pickaxe, it landed right on his foot!

"AAAUUGGHH!!"

Kanal took this opportunity to snatch up the pickaxe she had dropped and continue digging before the Tekdroids ran over to see what the commotion was. Wraith glared at her in shock; he was speechless.

Kanal smiled to herself, though. "That was payback for getting me in trouble," she said.

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Bean was not in a good mood.

First, he had been rudely awakened by those stupid guards, then he was sent to the torture room just for speaking his mind. Now, he was battered, beaten, dirty, and hungry, and they expected him to work...

"What a day this has been so far," he muttered to himself as he dug away at the rock.

He was in such a bad mood, he ignored the question of some dark green echidna digging next to him.

<i>"Aren't you Bean the Dynamite?"</i>

It actually was some time before he decided to reply.

"I once was. Who are you, anyway?"

"My name is Mikey." He pointed to a cat to his right. "This is Craig."

"Hello," the cat spoke in a small voice. "Nice to meet you."

Bean paused and raised an eyebrow. <i>What was with this kid?</i>

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OOC: Where's Prkp? He hasn't been around here in a while...
EDIT: OOC: Oh, Alex, just a question about the collars. Are they breakable by being overloaded with some sort of power or something? Because due to Kanal's age, she doesn't really have full control of her abilities.
And (a belated) welcome to the forum and RP, Jet K!

(I have decided to join in)
name:Ice
race:echidna
age:16
bio:Ice was frozen for 100 years until awakining with none of his past memories. He fought and destroyed levithan and retrived the emrald eye. The eye could restore his memory. Unfortounatley, the tekians stole the eye and imprison him before he could get his memory back
special abilitys:can frieze objects,create snow or ice,make objects out of snow or ice.
clothes:same as every one else
I was mad.
a bunch of robots stole the emrald eye which was all I needed to get my memory back.
Then they put a strange collar on me that prevnted my from freezing them.
I've been doing slave labor for them for a week
But today 2 echidnas defied them
me and my cell mate brk are going to get all the help we can
and then we will ecscape

(OOC: Welcome to the RP Guild Mar^^)

IC:

The two guards first examined Nack, then began to kick him until he got back on his feet, which took quite a while. Wraith watched out of the corner of his eye, continuing to beat away at the rocks with his fists.

Suddenly an idea came to him. Glancing around, he noticed that the guards beating Nack were the only two in the area, and they were destracted at the moment...

"Hey, you wanna do something insane?" he muttered to Kanal quietly. She looked up at him, confued.

"What?"

"Get out of here...right now!"

"You can't be serious!"

"We have to do it sometime, and now is as good a time as any."

"Wraith...!"

"Get ready!" Slowly Wraith turned, trying not to make a noise and destract the guards from Nack. He stepped forward, stepping up behind them, then suddenly, he grabbed their heads, slamming them together hard!

They collapes, uncontious. The slaves stood nearby looked around in shock, staring at the disabled guards in disbelief! Nack, bruised and bleeding, looked up, his face grudgingly thankful. "Thanks for the help." he muttered, spitting out a tooth onto the floor.

"Believe me, it's not something I'm proud of." muttered Wraith, looking down at him, then he raised his head and looked around. "Okay everyone, I say we get out of here and we do it now! Everyone in this tunnel is now free for the moment, so lets make use of that! That other Guard should be back soon, so when he arrives, we capture him and hold him! Who's with me?"

OOC The collars can be destroyed by breaking them of but then you will have to resist alot of pain to do so Kaze, im also wondering what happened to Prkp, he must be on vacation. Welcome Mario.

Mikey looked wide eyed at the two disabled Tekdroid slavedrivers, he was going to say something to Wraith but got interupted as a Tekdroid slavedriver came to see what happened.
"What the heck happened here, who is the responsible!" yelled the Tekdroid slavedriver.

EDIT: OOC: Changed my entire post because I didn't notice you had posted just before me, Alex. And thanks for the info.

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Kanal said nothing. She just kept working as best she could without letting the guards notice the pickaxe in her hands.

She didn't want to be caught again. She kept facing the wall, slowly clammering away at the rock.

A Tekdroid guard spoke to her.

"YOU!" he boomed. "Turn around!"

The light orange echidna did as she was told, keeping the pickaxe hidden behind her back. She glared up at the guard, full of contempt.

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OOC: Welcome again to the forum, Mario.

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Jet was digging away at the wall in front of him. It was quite dull. It felt like time had stopped while he was digging.
All he could hear was the chattering of the two tekdroid guards and the sound of the pikaxes the other slaves were using. The noise was a bit uncomfortable due to his sensative ears, but he could do nothing about that now.
He was about to take a swing at a large rock in the wall when he heard a commotion from quite a ways down the tunnel.
Had he imagined it? The two tekdroids hadn't reacted at all. He was about to dismiss it as his ears playing tricks on him when he was able to distinguish a voice amoungst the commotion.
"Wraith?" He thought to himself. Knuckles brother was here too? He'd met him once before a couple years back. He wasn't sure if Wraith remembered him though.
Jet had to think a moment. Maybe Wraith had something to do with the commotion. He had a hunch, but couldn't act on it now. He didn't want any more trouble from guards or K.H today. He decided to try and find Wraith later on.
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The Tekdroid slavedriver picked up Kanal by her neck.
"If any of you dont tell me who did this, this girl will be sent to the torture room for a four minute whipping!" treated the Tekdroid slavedriver.

Kanal felt the Tekdroid's grip tighten on her throat. She gasped for air, and nearly dropped the hidden pickaxe.

Out the corner of her eye, she noticed Wraith had lunged at the guard, but became held back by another Tekdroid that had showed up.

"Well?" the guard gripping her neck questioned again.
"Who's the one responsible, child?!"

Kanal kept silent. She wasn't getting Wraith in trouble. Instead, one of her hands remained gripped on the pickaxe.

"Answer me!!" The guard growled.

"KANAL!" Wraith called out.

The Tekdroid was still glaring right into the girl's eyes when there was a sudden "THUNK!" At once, his grip loosened on her throat as he sank to the ground in a crumpled heap with the pickaxe sticking out of his side.

Kanal fell back on the hard ground, gasping and coughing.

Wraith, the Tekdroid guard that was restraining him, Nack, and all the slaves in the tunnels seemed to freeze.
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Flaming was startles by a loud racket coming from down the tunnel. The Tekdroids looked at one another, and ran off leaving one to watch over Flaming and Mighty.

Flaming leaned down and whispered into Mighty's ear, "Whatever's going on I'm going to find out what it is!"

Mighty tried to stop the crazed echidna, but Flaming jumpped up and rammed a huge rock into the droid's face! He crashed to the floor, and Flaming looked back at Mighty. Mighty shook his head. Flaming took off down the tunnel catching up to the other Tekdroids. Whatever was happening, he didn't want reinforcements to interfere!

he could hear the clank clank of their footsteps up ahead, so Flaming slowed down a bit trying to creep up on them! With a yell Flaming jumpped out in front of them! They were took by suprise as one of them dropped its whip. Flaming spun around kicking dirt around him to keep him veiled in its clous as he retrieved the whip. The droids were blinded as Flaming lept out of the dust cloud wrapping the whip around the first one's neck. As it stuggled to pull it off, dragging Flaming around on the ground, it picked up a sledgehammer and tried to strike Flaming. The other bot came near trying to grab Flaming, and flaming spun his body around tripping the droid. Then he pulled back on the whip causing the Tekdroid to slam the hammer into his comrade! Flaming let go of the whip with one hand and grabbed the hammer with the other. In a matter of seconds it was over. The Tekdroid lie on the ground in several pieces! With one breath of air, Flaming threw the whip across his shoulder and took off to see what was going down that was causing so much attention!
TBC

Ice saw wraith and froze then all of a sudden he felt a sharp pain in his neck. "ow" Ice said he looked at the floor and saw shattered piecies of his collar and then saw brk who hd hi pick axe and relized what bark had done "thanks" Ice said "don't mention it but could you do me now?" bark asked Ice froze and then broke the collar "halt"the slave driver yelled then Ice froze and broke him releasing wraith from the droids grip "comon all of you let me break you're collars

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Jet wanted to get involved badly, but wasn't sure if the risk was worth it right now. He had to wait longer. He had to see what happened as a result of this.
He went back to digging, but kept an ear in their direction while he did so. If his chance came, he had to be ready!
In the meantime, he waited.
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OOC: I'm just gonna see where all this goes and post based on that. This is getting good though! =3

OOC:

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Howdy there! I'm just posting to ask whether there is room for another player within this RP?

I have read almost all of this RP's current progress and I'm already quite interested! i've never partaken in an escape survival roleplay before, but it definitely looks like fun!

If there are already too many people, i can understand if you would prefer that i don't enter.

Could you either send me a note or reply to me via this message please? thankyou for your time.
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Kanal didn't quite know what to do. Another echidna just showed up from who knows where and freed Wraith and there was another commotion going on elsewhere in the tunnel.

Maybe this is the time to escape, she thought.

Before she could do anything, though, more Tekdroids were showing up. Whatever they were going to do, something told her she couldn't allow them to harm anyone.

"Halt at once!" the guards shouted. "Get back to work!!"

"Why don't you make us, then?!" called an unfamiliar voice.

Kanal watched as another orange echidna leaped forward and tackled the first Tekdroid, slamming it into the ground.

Before the others could do anything, Bean had also decided to attack them head-on, sinking his own pickaxe into a Tekdroid's eye.

"All right!" said Wraith. He looked at the echidna who freed him. "Thanks a lot--"

"Ice," replied the echidna.

A large polar bear appeared behind him.

"More Tekdroids are coming," he said. "We'd better get prepared."

Ice and Wraith nodded. Wraith turned to Kanal.

"You ready, kid?" he asked. "Things are going to get dangerous, you know..."

"I don't care," Kanal answered. "I'm going to try... for Knuckles!"

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OOC: Whew!
EDIT: OOC: YOU BEAT ME TO POSTING!! Oh, well... I think all the positions are filled. You're going to have to contact Alex for that one.

OOC I want to anounce I let Eclipse James to join my Roleplay, we are enough players so its closed now to join, so you know the Tekbots have a very deep voice like Potemkim from Guilty gear, I hope Prkp doesnt mind If I used his character a little for this part.

A Tekdroid slavedriver manages to get out of the tunnels and runs toward one Tekdroid Corp that was guarding.
"The slaves are fighting back!" the Tekdroid slavedriver yelled alarmed.
"They dare to to stop the progress of the Imperium of our creator Emperor C.R?, dont worry we will stop them" says the Tekdroid Corp to the Tekdroid slavedriver, the Tekdroid Corp calls a team of Tekdroid Corps and a team of Tekbots.
"Remember team change the cartridges of your rapid fire Teknolia guns and heavy Teknolia machine guns to paralize Teknolia Energy cartridges, I want the slaves alive" says the Tekdroid Corp to the team of Tekdroid Corps and Tekbots.
"Afirmative" they all said while they changed their cartridges and then walked into the tunnels. Ice froze Mikeys Teknolia collar and breaks into pieces.
"Thanks Ice." says Mikey while rubing his neck, the dark green Echidna felt a tug on his arm and looked down at Craig.
"We have to get out of here Mikey!" says Craig desperate after seeing what could happen in some minutes, the dark green Echidna looked strangely at Craig a moment but after seeing the fear in the young cats eyes he decides to take him to safety.
"Okay come with me" says Mikey and runs holding Craigs hand to get away from the commotion.

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After thinking again Jet decides to find out what Wraith's planning.

The two guards who were supposed to be watching his end of the tunnel had now run to where all the commotion was.

This was Jets chance to go find Wraith! So he took off down the tunnel and found Wraith and a young girl echidna.

"I don't know if you remember meeting me, but I remember you!" Jet began, "Do you have a plan?"
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OOC: Hope my post is ok with you Wraith. ^^; I'll change it if needed though.

Flaming reached up for his collar and tried to pry it off. The pain went through his body rapidly, but he wouldn't give up. He yelled and howled in pain, and finally ripped it apart. He threw it on the ground, and then he realized where he was at. He had secretly hidden something of great value to him nearby. His Mystic Flaming emerald that harnessed his CHaos powers! He was shocked when he finally dug it out from the ground. It was broken! In the current posistion it was in he wouldn't be using any powers for long!
He looked down the tunnel and saw others revolting, but decided not to join them. He would go back and retrieve Mighty, and then he would follow far behind them watching their back in secret until the time occurs! Even without his emerald he still had power! Lots now that he was free of his collar, it was a matter of time beofre he was free!

(OOC: Dang this is moving fast! Sorry for the delay in post from me all, I've been ill recently, and really buisy too! No IC just now, it's 2:45 AM here, but letting you know I'm still here and I'll try to post tomorrow if I can^^)

EDIT IC:

Wraith was amazed just how well everything was working...this was going far better than he could ever have hoped! The other slaves were getting involved, and they had even found a way of breaking the collars on their necks!

"I don't know if you remember meeting me, but I remember you! Do you have a plan?" asked a voice behind him. Wraith span round, and his eyes opened wide in supprise!

"Jet???" he asked, shaking his head. "Dang man, how long has it been???"

Jet grinned. "Quite a while! I didn't realise you were in here too!"

"Likewise! How's Tech?"

"I hate to break up the endearing reunion or anything," interrupted Nack, his voice dripping with sarcasm, "but might I remind you that we're about to be swamped by a battalion of Teknians? They're gonna be comming after us when word gets out!"

Wraith shot the purple weasel a look, but nodded. "You're right, we need a plan."

"The plan is simple!" muttered the large polar bear that had spoken earlier. "We go out there and bust heads!"

Kanal looked up with wide eyes at this. "They outnumber us twenty to one or more! If we were to go outside we'd be slaughtered!"

"Just what's the point of staging an uprising if we're too scared to escape???" muttered Nack angrily.

Wraith was deep in thought. "She's right." he muttered. "We don't stand a chance against them in an all-out battle, but I think I have an idea." He looked up at Jet. "Hey man, you were further down the tunnel...was there an entrance down there?"

Jet nodded. "Yeah, a small one."

"What about the other end?" asked Wraith, turning. "Where's that orange echidna that was here?"

"He's gone back that way," replied the polar bear, jerking a thumb over his shoulder, "but I came from down there too. There isn't an entrance there."

"Only two entrances then." continued Wraith, looking at the entrance near them. "There has to be about forty of us in here right? I say we barricade the entrances and kill anything that comes in! They'll be forced into bottle-necks because of the narrow entrances, so they'll only be able to come in one or two at a time!"

"And what if they seige us?" asked Nack, scowling. "They're in control of the food here, remember? They can starve us out!"

"Not nessecerily!" Wraith moved down the corridor a little way, putting his hand on the rock wall. "We're here to dig, right? Why don't we dig our way free? Kill anything that enters, and while we're guarding the entrances, maybe some of us could be digging a tunnel to another part of the complex where they don't expect us! Once we're there, we free anyone we can find and start breaking out!" He span round to face the others again, a gleam in his eye that Kanal recognised from when he had been with the Freedom Fighters fighting Robotnik! "What do you say all?"

OOC: Wow! This IS moving fast! I better try to sneak Ray in here now. It's not much, but oh well.
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IC: The group had made up their minds! They were going to escape! All the commotion had gotten the attention of another slave from further down than Jet. He was a yellow squirrel and reminded folks of sonic because of his eyes and ears. Ray caught onto what was happening and decided to try joining up too!
"If they wanna get out of here they'll need all the help they can get!" he said as he darted off to be with the group.
"what's going on here?" he asked the brown weasel.

"Whoa!" Jet exclaimed as he turned around. "RAY?!?" Jet asked a bit surprised to find him here too.

"Yeah that's right. What's going on here?"

Kanal seemed to like this idea.

"Yeah!" she said happily.

"Sounds reasonable," added the polar bear. He looked down at Kanal. "You might want that Teknolian collar off, kid. It's going to be nothing but trouble later on."

"Um, okay... thank you, uh..."

"The name's Bark."

"I'm Kanal," the young echidna said. "Nice to meet you."

"Stand still, Kanal," Bark told her, "I'm going to break the collar now."

"All right."

The polar bear placed both hands on the Teknolian collar and tugged. Almost instantly it snapped in two.

"You're free of it now," he said, dropping the pieces on the ground.

"Thanks again, Bark. You're pretty strong."

"Don't mention it."

Then a familiar voice called out to them. It was Bean, running over to the group waving his arms.

"Hey, Bark!! Long time no see!!"

"Great," Nack muttered, annoyed. "Not another reunion..."