Broken Bones
"Its about time you arrived, Sonic.", Dr. Eggman says as he turns from his center console, perching on his captains chair. "I was getting worried, waiting for so long!", he lets out a cackle as the blue hedgehog slides into the doorway of the command center. Sonic smirks, "Huh, well that's nice of you to worry about me, but I think you should get ready to worry about yourself!", a moment later his two tailed companion arrives at the doorway as well. Tails grabs Sonic's arm and points outside, frantically saying, "Sonic! Somethings happening, the building is….", but before he can say another word, the duo is thrown to the floor as the command center begins shaking violently back and forth. "Gah, whats happening?" , Sonic exclaims.
The two tailed fox carefully finds his footing, and glances around the room, asking Sonic, "Still haven't found Eggman yet?", the hedgehog giving his friend a puzzled look. "Whadaya mean, hes right…", Sonic gets up on his feet as well, and looks to where Dr. Eggman had been just moments before, only to notice his absence. "Come on! We better go outside and see whats going on!", Tails motions Sonic outside once again, and the two hurry out of the building and onto a balcony. "W-wait!", the orange fox stammers as they are now several stories above the ground. "This building wasn't so tall awhile ago, I don't remember it looking like this at all!", Tails says as he looks upwards, now noticing that they are no longer on a building, but an enormous robot!
Dr. Eggman lets out a menacing laugh, as he sits in the cockpit of his gigantic humanoid machine. "Well, what do you think? Impressive eh?", he gloats to the two down below. "Actually,", Sonic says, "It looks kinda junky to me!, as he grins, waiting for a comeback. "Rrrr, oh yea? You'll be worse than junk when this things through with you, Sonic!", Eggman scowls. Not a second later, huge metal cords burst out from underneath the balcony on which the two stand, Sonic easily jumps aside them, but Tails clumsily falls on his back. "Look sharp lil bro'! I guess he means business!", exclaims Sonic as he dodges more attacks from the metal coils popping up around him.
"S-Sonic! Help!", Tails yells out as he tries to evade the metal wire being whipped about, a few strands glancing his ears and tails. "Hang on Tai…", Sonic is cut off as he is stuck directly by one of the cords, sending him flying back into the side of the massive machine. "Darn it! Theres so many….", he grits his teeth, and leans forward, rolling himself into a ball as he spins through some of the coils, cutting them in half. The two tailed fox lets out a yelp, as a wire hits and cuts into one of his tails, another hitting him directly, sending him flying off the side of the platform. Sonic freezes in place, and yells, "Tails! No!", but soon he is restrained by the metal cords which now hold his wrists and ankles; Dr. Eggman taking advantage of Tails plight.
The orange fox falls several stories, his wounded tail not allowing him to fly, or even soften the landing. He lands with a heart breaking thud, and now lays motionless on the ground. "Excellent!", proclaims Eggman as he cackles yet again, "One down, one to go…." Sonics heart drops, and tears form in his eyes, "How…. how could you? This is between you and me, what did you do?!", he strains on the wires but it is no use. "Me? I did nothing! You let that pathetic furball come with you, its your fault hes dead, and besides, you'll soon join him!", Dr. Eggman laughs hysterically as he detaches the cockpit of his machine, which then floats down to Sonic; Eggman gets a good look at his enemies moment of misery and smirks.
"This is it! You'll no longer be a pain in my side anymore, Sonic!" , he flips a switch on his control panel and a laser cannon emerges from his machines side, pointing directly at Sonic. Another switch is flipped and the laser begins charging up as Eggman laughs once again, "Its time to get back together with your furry little friend! On the other side that is!", he places his finger on a button, and crisply pushes it down with a click as the laser fires an intense beam towards the hedgehog. At the same moment, a loud bang is heard on the outside of the Doctors floating machine, and the laser beam goes off track, cutting one of the metal cords which restrains Sonics left arm.
"What the?! What happened?!", Dr. Eggman looks down at the side of his machine, noticing a large dent in its body. Sensing an opportunity, Sonics eyes light up, and with a little free movement from his left arm, he is able to slice through the other wire holding his right arm. "Your gunna pay for this, I swear!", Sonic leans forward as Eggman looks back to him, astonished, "W-what?! You've got to be kidding me!", the Doctor hurriedly exclaims. Sonic rolls into a ball once again, easily cutting the wire from his ankles, and launches himself towards Eggmans craft, slamming into it with an enormous amount of force.
Dr. Eggman yells out as he and his machine are thrown across the skyline, "You haven't seen the last of me, Sonic! You got lucky this time, but next time I'll…", his voice fades away as he disappears over the horizon. Sonic falls, holding his arms out to his side to slow his descent, as he then lands and takes a deep breath, he remembers Tails. "Lil bro'!", he yells for his partner, and quickly sees him laying on the ground, in a slightly different position then before. "Tails! Are you….", in less than a second, the blue hedgehog is next to his friend, sitting him up and resting him on his shoulder.
Tears are in the orange foxes eyes as they weakly open, "I-I'm not… okay…, Sonic…", Tails murmurs softly before he passes out in Sonics arms. "N-no! Hang in there little buddy! I wont let this happen…..", Sonic says as he picks Tails up and begins running, though he isn't sure what to do, he has to take Tails to somewhere safe; somewhere that he can treat his wounds, if he can, he knows he can.