Johnny, Sly and Rose continued walking down corridor through corridor, and dealt with as much guards as possible. It was not easy, for they were both greatly outnumbered from time to time, and their friends weren't their at the moment. Of course, Sly was so used to it since he and his friends pulled out heists and robberies very similar to this, but the same was not said for the two humans with him. Once in a while, he would have to go in front of them to make sure there are no traps like hidden lasers, or if any are in reserve power, or trigger plates on floors like Indiana Jones.

The raccoon made a gasp and whispered "Hold it guys!"

"What is it?" Rose asked. "More guards?"

"No." Sly replied. He reached out his cane and then pressed down on one floor tile that looked lighter than the other ones. A small click was heard and both walls in the hallways opened hatches scattered around, and lots of arrows appeared out of nowhere, and the sounds of arrows hitting the walls were heard.

"Whoa, what was that?" Johnny asked with his eyes wide in disbelief.

"Booby traps." Sly remarked. "That George kid is smarter than i thought, even for a kid who is six years old."

"I know. A boy like him having a gigantic army and mercenaries by his side?" Johnny agreed. "He sounds more dangerous than I imagined."

"You said it. Come on, if there is one trap here, there are sure to be more of them up ahead."

"The others did disable the security around here, did they?" Rose asked worriedly.

"Of course they did. Bentley and the Panda King said so themselves." Sly noted. "Come on, let's just keep moving, but trend lightly."

"Got it." said Johnny. All three of them kept on pushing forward, and only stumbled on a few more traps, but they were finally at the room with the cells. How Johnny can hardly wait to see his brother and his sweet, smiling face again.

“So what did Bentley say Colin is being held up?” Asked the human woman.

“At cell block twenty one eighty seven.” Sly clarified.

And all of them went to the cell block that said the exact same number and found poor Colin sleeping in his bed. Johnny never felt so happy to see his own little brother. He knows that Colin is not unscathed, but he will get him to recovery soon as soon as he frees him from this hellhole.

“Here, let me open this door with these keys.” Sly volunteered. The raccoon used all the keys on the confounded lock, and they all worked. When he tried to open the door, it was still sealed shut like a bank safe. “Damnit, hold on.” The next thing he tried to do was pulling out a small lockpick and try to trick the lock keeping them away from the poor human boy. It took a little while, a couple of minutes to be exact, but there was a loud click sound, and the cell door opened.

“I’ll wake him up.” Said Johnny. “You two stand guard here while I bring him out here.” Both Sly And Rose guarded the open cell door

“Bentley, we have rescued Colin, and Johnny’s bringing him out of the cell.”

“Roger, Sly.” The green turtle replied on the other line. “You guys hear that?”

“Totally!” Murray sajd triumphantly. “Nothing can go against the Cooper Gang. We’re definitely the greatest thieves in the world.”

“Yeah, it was easier than I thought.” Sonic said. “So my bad guys to beat up, I can’t believe that George would have such lousy security to back him up, pfft.”

“Don’t get to cocky, Sonic.” Knuckles said. “We May have gotten out, but when we get Colin out of here, it will be a real challenge to escape from George. He and his followers will come looking for him sooner or later and he will get snatched by them all over again.”

“You speak wisely, Knuckles.” Said Panda King. “All hell will break lose once we free the poor child from his cell. We would probably be in for the fight of our lives anyway.”

Guru made another aboriginal remark in agreement and it sounded a little grave and doubtful.

“We can fight them.” Said Mario. “Take a look at how much baddies we haven taken care of.”

“We can always try plan B.” Luigi added.

“What’s plan B, bro?”

“Ummm... fight every last one of them to the death?”

“Yeah, that’s thinking with your brain.” Dimitri muttered sarcastically through the other line. “We might as well send many of those bad babies to kingdom come with our powerful bling-bling and unstoppable plans.”

Meanwhile, Johnny bent down next to the bed Colin was resting in and gently rubbed his side. “Colin? Colin, wake up.” Said he. “It’s me, your big brother.”

Poor Colin suddenly awoke with a small fright and screamed a little.

“Shh, Shh, Shh, relax.” Johnny whispered. “Calm down.”

“Johnny!”

“Shh, keep it down buddy. I’m busting you out of here.”

Tears of joy appeared on Colin’s eyes and they both hugged one another very tightly. “It’sso Good to see you again.”

“Same with you, dude. Oh man, what happened to your cool hair?” He noticed his shaved head.

The boy didn’t really say anything but bowed his head in shame. “They shaved it all off of me, and Shadow Mavis was hurting me nonstop.”

“What?!” Johnny quietly screamed. A small patch of anger was growing inside of him like he was turning into a werewolf or the Incredible Hulk. Oh how he wanted to butcher that George into a million tiny pieces of flesh and organs. He didn’t let that get to him too much, for he still had a job to do

"Don't worry, I was being strong for you." The boy added

Johnny felt so proud of him hearing that out of him. "That's my little brother." He said, hugging him tighter. "Come on Colin, let's take you home." He gebtly picked him up and carried him in his arms.

When the boy saw Rose, a big smile appeared on his face. "Rose it's you." He whispered.

"Hello Colin." Rose replied. She gave him a gentle kiss on his forehead for affection. "It's good to see you again. Are you okay?"

"Well... mostly." Colin replied.

"I know you guys are happy to see each other, but we have to get out of here and regroup with the others."

"Wait!" Colin said. "I want to get some friends out of here too."

"Friends in jail?" Johnny said. "That's stupid."

"No it's true, Johnny."

"He's right." Said a prisoner. It was Comet Onyxtail, looking on at what was going on. "So you must be Johnmy Fraser."

"Uh-huh. Who wants to know?"

"Me and my boys are big fans of your music and we have been helping him survive here and give him the protection he needs."

At first, the three were unsure about this, but Johnmy looked at his younger sibling and asked him if Comet was telling the truth.

"He's right." Colin remarked. "Comet and his friends are my friends."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes."

He took a little breath and was a little hesitant, but Johnny said "well, we can always have some extra backup." Then he went to get Comet and all his closest friends out of jail.

"I knew this day would come." Said Clover Venture.

"Yeah, freedom at last." Wild Lightning agreed.

"We can do introductions later." Said Sly. "For now we have to regroup woth the others and get out of here."

"Right." They all said in agreement. They all quietly rushed and sneaked pass multiple corridors, and everyone regrouped outside of the prison.

Just as when they had won and successfully pulled this heist off, a really bright, blinding spotlight hovered over them.

"Well well well." Said a voice. It was George riding on a small ship with Eggman. "The heroes decided to come and rescue Colin."

Shadow Mavis was right next to him with her hand on his shoulder. "Ooh, and it looks like that troublesome Comet Onyxtail and his boys are free, too." She said

"We can take them." Said Johnny, pulling out his nimcha.

"Oh I wouldn't be so sure about that, Johnathan." George sang. "You and your meddling friends are very outnumbered."

"Pfft, bring it on!" Knuckle exclaimed, pounding his fists together, looking more than ready for a fight. "It doesn't matter how many minions you bring out, there's no way i'll back down."

"And we have beaten you time and time again, Eggman. This won't be any different!"

The mad scientist made a cackle. "That's where your wrong, Sonic!" He said. "Now that I have George and other friends by my side, we are unstoppable! Mwahahahahaha!"

“Yeah right. I kicked all you’re robots mechanical butts and look where me and my friends are now.” Sonic gloated.

“You make a good point, Sonic.” George mildly praised the blue hedgehog. “Matter of fact. I would have to give praise for all of you for your efforts, but I am afraid I will have to deal away with all of you.” And with a big change of voice, he barked “Krusha, and my loyal followers, kill them all! Oh, except Colin. I still need him for World domination.”

“Got it, boss.” Said Krusha, cracking both his knuckles. “Get them boys! Make them suffer fates worse than death!”

Just like that, a whole army of kremlins charged at the heroes with full Zeal, and some of eggman’s machine henchmen charged with them. Bowser was also leading an army of goombas, koopa troopas, and hammer Bros with him as he let out a blood curdling battlecry.

“Come on bro, let’s get this tyrant a beating.” Mario said

“Right behind ya, Mario.” Luigi Said. “Although I am feeling a little nervous about this.” And in a change of demeanor, he said more comfidently “But in Bowser’s case, I will make exception.”

“Rose, you go and take Colin somewhere safe away from this. The rest of you on me!” Johnny instructed. “To the death!” And he raised his sword into the sky.

“Come on, sweetie. Let’s go.” Rose Said, And she tried to keep Colin as safe as possible so he wouldn’t get hurt.

The others charge at the large army in front of them, as a matter of fact, they didn’t care if they were obviously outnumbered. If they will go down, then they will all die fighting. The sounds of clashing steal, punches, kicks, and poundings were heard here and there.

George and Eggman just watched from above and Shadow Mavis decided to have some what she called “fun” down there. “I’ll be back, Cutie.” And she kissed her boyfriend before flying down there on the battlefield.

Rose was trying to comfort and console Colin in any way possible so he wouldn’t be so stressed or scared. “Will they be okay?”

“I’m sure they will, Colin.” Rose replied in a modest tone of voice.

Johnny was face to face with Krusha, and his large cleaver as a weapon. Both he and the Kremlin were face to face in an interesting match between one another. One kick or punch would be from Johnny, and the other would be from his opponent. Of course, Krusha was slightly getting the upper hand since he is way larger than the young human. Despite the few bruises and scratch marks he was receiving, Johnny kept on fighting and fighting with all his might.

Thus, the battle between the heroes and George has just begun.

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