My Own Rapture
By The Tears of a Madman
Chapter One
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They gave me more drugs today...
They gave them to me to block my sense of being, so I can't think straight...so I can't get away. God, I don't even remember what I did to get into this...why did they put me in here? I thought they were my friends...but they turned on me, like everyone else did. The men in white came in to hold down Stan today. He had a temper tantrum again, and threw the checker board at the TV...Everyone got mad, it was almost another riot, just like last week. Oh well, the drugs seem to be kicking in...good night...
. . .ugh. . .
. . .sigh. . .
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"Sonic, look out!"
He dashed to the right quickly, barely dodging the photon particle beam. The spot where the hedgehog once stood was now nothing but a black, smoldering hole. Heavy amounts of smoke pooled from it, having completely disintegrated anything that may have once been there. That may have been our hero, had Tails not screamed from his entrapment.
Sonic skidded to a stop, couched down, hand on the ground, panting slightly. He looked forward and up as a bit of sweat dripped down his face. A slight distance from him stood a massive metal beast, made of nothing but hatred and fucking pain. It towered as a symbol of destruction, its shadow covering him, his two tailed friend, and most of Tails runway. Most of this was because of the angle of the sun, not sheer height. Sonic couldn't take Tails and escape even if he wanted too, their backs were to the sea and the only way out was through...that. The hatch atop it opened with a sickening hiss, sliding back to reveal the pilot. He stood up, bruised and battered, yet still somehow proud.
"You...foolish being...time and time again you manage to escape my grasp...but no more..."
Robotnik always wore a ridiculous grin, but today it seemed to be different. Not more cunning, not more sinister, but...different.
Close to Sonic was Tails, trapped, tied up, caged, and completely unable to move. He was bound with his feet to the bottom of the steel cage and he hands at the top. His tails were tired together and then taped to his body. Robotnik had somehow captured Tails and had used him as bait to draw our blue hero into battle. It wasn't difficult, Robotnik had attacked and trapped Tails as he was talking on the phone to Sonic...
"I built this machine for you, hedgehog," He continued, "just for you...today I'll end this, one way or another."
Sonic scoffed. 'Buttnik building machines simply to destroy him was nothing new, why bother mentioning it? "Old news, butthead." Sonic managed through pants, "Same old news, over and over again. Why can't you ever come up with anything new?"
Robotniks grin and stare remained unchanged by Sonics mock-taunt. No response, either. Very strange for Eggman. He usually has some retarded come-back or some run-on sentence about how smart he is and how stupid the rest of us are. Whats even stranger is this sudden attack. Once again, Robotnik attacking was nothing new, but Sonic had recently laid complete and total waste to Robotniks main lair. How he managed to build a new 'bot, hell, how he even managed to live was beyond Sonic. He made sure he ended Robotniks reign of terror once and for all, or at least so he though. He had placed bombs through-out Eggmans complex with the help of GUN and various other do gooders in one last strike against the man who continued to tarnish this planet. The explosion was seen from miles around, and had taken out a good chunk of forest with it. Robotnik obviously hadn't cleaned up much since then, but how..
"Ying and yang." Huh? "You and I, hedgehog...we are ying and yang. Everyone and everything needs an opposite force to define their own existence...yet you still insist and ridding the planet of me..." Its very un-like Robotnik to talk like this. Hes not one for deep philosophy or anything of the sort.
"Understandably, I am the yang. The black. The evil. Your sole purpose is to stop me, but its also mine to stop you. The yang destroys, the ying creates." Robotnik suddenly twitches his stubby little neck to the side and pops it. "But we differ other then that, hedgehog...we differ greatly...for I plan to end this cycle." This was bizzare. Way bizzare. Did Eggman hit his head on something during his escape or what? It made no sense...
Before Sonic could finish his thought, Robotnik had retreated back into his mechanical monster. As the seal of the cockpit hissed shut, the advanced, souped up Egg Walker was brought back to life. Within moments it sprang forward, charging like all four horsemen ready to bring the entire apocalypse down on this one mammals head. Sonic jumped to his feet, a furrow in his brow, ready to destroy any fucking horseman that may cross him. Right as it began the charge, a loud hiss sounded from the mech. Two large hatches opened from its rounded underside, exposing large, red, metal containers built within it. Sonic and Tails both caught a glimpse of what was labeled on those containers just as loud sirens began sounding off from the machine.
C3H5(NO3)3
Tails eyes widened. "Thats N-N-Nitroglycerin!!"
Oh fuck.
Bombs.
Nasty ones.
Wait a minute...that means...this is a suicide run! What?!
"If the gods are truly against me, you and your little friend will live through this! If thats the case, just know you were the best foes any villain could ever ask for! I shall see you on the other side, hedgehog! Adieu, for the last time!" Robotniks maniacal laughter echoed endlessly through the external speakers built onto the mech. The kamikaze charge continued, the mech slamming its metal feet down, heavily damaging the runway, smacking it the like back hand of an angered god. The laughter continued as he drew closer.
Sonics brain finally took in all what was happening and quickly sprang to action. Regardless of the urge in his head RUN THE FUCK AWAY, he knew he had to free Tails. Now. He grabbed the bars that held his friend, tugging, pulling, but all in vain. He spun his head back to the mech as it got closer.
"SONIC!!" Tails screamed, panic obvious in his voice and eyes. "OH GOD SONIC GET ME OUT OF HERE!!" He obviously knew what happening, even if he didn't understand it either. Taking a step back, Sonic went into a spin, and with everything in his body and will, slammed into the bars, slicing into them. The bars resisted the impact and bounced him back, nearly off the edge of the runway. With nothing on his mind but freeing his life-long friend, Sonic went into another spin and slammed into the bars again, this time only managing to badly damage his quills. He bounced off, a bit of blood flying from his back as he sped back up to the bars and grabbed them, attempting to pull them apart with everything he had. "UUUUUUGG-AAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" He screamed, he grunted, he fucking tried, but to no use, they would not budge. He stopped for a moment and looked up into Tails eyes. Both pairs instantly read the exact same thing.
Hopelessness.
By the time Sonic looked back to the approaching mech, it was too late.
Boom.
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End of Chapter 1
And thus, the re-write begins.
