Addiction
Chapter 1: The beginnings, AKA: Bounty Hunters need to get a REAL job.
Danelle slowly dragged herself out of bed. Her room was the same as usual, a scattered mess with it being mixed up between her games and tools. She went over to her bathroom, and looked at herself in the body mirror. She hadn't bothered to change out of her outfit, as she rarely did. She wore a plain long white lab coat open, revealing a plain blue shirt and some regular blue jeans.
She then paused, looking at her face. She was a beaver, seemingly a rarity when she took into account how many of her kind she ran into. She had bright purple eyes, and her natural fur color was brown but she had dyed it bright yellow, although it looked like it was fading. Later on she would have to fix that.
Danelle sighed and shook her head. Dying her fur always took longer than she liked, but she greatly disliked her regular fur color. She decided it could wait though since she had no plans on going out that day anyways. As she left her restroom, she saw a small yellow robot, almost legolike in some ways, standing there with a stupid grin on it's face, holding up a plate of warm food.
Danelle grinned as she leaned over to pick get her food, and patted the robot on the head. "Thanks Servie." Servie was the pet nickname she gave her replica Servbot she made, the first project she ever undertook.
The replica Servbot saluted her, and responded with a high pitched "Thank you Miss Tron!" before wandering off to take care of it's other duties. At the time she wasn't sure how to program it's language banks properly to say her name, and Tron was easier for it to handle. She could fix it now, but she found it to be cute.
Danelle pulled some of the buttered toast off the plate she was handed and munched on it as she headed towards her living room. She ran into none of her other robots, which was unsurprising considering that they should be busy with either maintenance or patrols. She plopped down on the sofa in front of her television, and turned it on before turning on her 360.
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"Sir, we are ready to proceed!" A black haired soldier, saluted the larger and much more imposing figure in front of him.
The figure nodded towards the soldier, acknowledging him, but saying nothing otherwise. He wore a blue GUN uniform, decorated in dozens of medals. He had brown hair that seemed to point forward near the front of his head, and blue eyes that seemed to bore into whatever it was that was unfortunate enough to be in front of him at the time.
The figure took one look at the large base that stood in front of them. A criminal resided there, although her crimes weren't violent in nature, just rebellious. Unfortunately for her, they were rebellious against the government so they had been sent to deal with it. They were often considered to be one of the best units in GUN, a group considered to be the elite in most circles being made up of veteran soldiers who were scouted out for special operations.
The figure grinned. His group would do something many considered impossible and capture the known criminal Danelle. It would be a massive boost for his already famous unit. He drew the decorative blade that all GUN Squad Leaders were given, and pointed towards the base.
"Charge!" He shouted, his grin widening.
The soldiers rushed the base, all of them cheering for victory.
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The lights inside the base turned off, instead being replaced by red lights, and a blaring siren. Servie rushed into the room, a horrified look on his face as he tugged at Danelle's coat.
"Miss Tron! It's awful! We're being raided!" Servie tugged at her coat some more, his high pitched whine continuously trying to bring the raid to her attention.
"Yes, I'm aware of the raid Servie. It's not like it's not a monthly issue." Danelle treated the raid with little interest. The raids started almost two years ago now, her robots were brought to the attention of the government, many of them considered dangerous and she was ordered to dismantle them immediately.
At the time she responded by pulling a DS out and turning her attention to Mario.
Whenever they decided to arrest her on the spot, she walked out of the room after the place was bombarded by a mixture of several dozen robots she made. It was a shame that she lost her Angelus robot though, the large dragon had taken the better part of a year to make. She made the mistake of programming it with it's personality from Drakengard though, it was used as an example of how dangerous her robots were, and it kept commenting on it's disdain for humans. It was an obvious target once the bombardment started.
The alarm went on for almost an hour, with Servie constantly tugging at her lab coat and wailing at her about the raid. She then heard a gasp from the small Servbot as the door behind her opened. She saw a battered human in her door, wearing a torn GUN uniform that clung to the few medals it had left on the ruined outfit.
"D-Danelle..I'm placing you under a-arrest.." Breathing, seemed to be a tough task for him at the moment, let alone talking. The red light was replaced by the bases normal lighting as the raid was declared over.
Danelle gave the man a glance, and she smiled some as she recognized him. "They're sending GUN after me, and this is the best they can do? How disappointing. Especially when it's the legendary Skull Unit led by Spike Kanaki."
Spike straightened himself up with some noticeable effort, then grabbed the hilt of his decorative sword, having been long since disarmed of his firearm. "You're coming with me or you'll die here."
"Oooh, how scary," Danelle taunted as she smirked, standing up from her sofa now, facing her attacker. "You get past a few robots, and you think that's all it takes to capture me?"
Spike suddenly charged her without warning, his sword already moving out to cut Danelle. Before it even got near her though, a figure dropped from the ceiling, a flash of metal lashing out. Spike screamed out in pain as he right eye was cut and he stumbled, grasping at his bleeding eye.
A ninja-like robot faced him, it's entire body covered in a blue outfit. It said nothing as it flicked the blood from the blade off, and it then readied it again, preparing for the next strike.
Spike tried to stand up but the effort from it, as well as the rest of the raid finally took it's toll on him as he fell over and fainted.
Danelle watched the man faint and she sighed with relief. If he fought much longer, he probably would have forced her robot to kill him. That's the problem with trying to simply restrain the more persistent types. She patted her ninja robot on the head. He was one of the few not based on any character she particularly liked, she just wanted a stealth robot without a personality.
"That will do." She said, checking the now unconscious Spike as she made sure she removed his blade from him. "Get him to the medical room before you send him back to his squad, his eye probably can't be saved, but there's no point in letting that wound get infected."
The ninja robot nodded and slung Spike over his shoulder, before taking off faster than her eye could follow. Danelle sighed again before turning back towards her game. She continued playing it for a few more minutes before a huge grin came over her face.
"..Hehe. That would be perfect for a bodyguard." Danelle pulled out some paper as she started to take notes on a new robot, but she frowned a few seconds later. "...But how can I make a drill that big?"
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A cloaked figure stayed hidden as he watched robots toss the wounded Skull Unit soldiers out of the base. It looked like their raid was about as successful as the ones before it. That would probably be a major blow against the pride Spike was known to have for his team.
But however unsuccessful the raid was, It did weaken Danelle's base, giving him a chance to sneak in. He didn't care much for bringing her to justice, the reasons for it seemed to be frivolous to him. Maybe she attacked a Government Installation, but only after they told her to dismantle her robots for reasons he felt amounted to jealousy.
But trying to make a living as a bounty hunter wasn't easy, especially when you're not a well known one. Danelle was quite probably the most famous target of the decade, being the target of an untold amount of hunters, army, and GUN units. None of them ever succeeded, but a few of them came close to doing so.
The cloaked figure removed his hood, revealing his face covered in black fur, with the excess amount of fur on his head treated as hair and spiked back and dyed orange with black tips. He had also dyed his ears white.
He looked kind of stupid, but he caught attention in a crowd, which was also important for an relatively unknown bounty hunter. His mind was on none of that though. He was instead focusing on how to sneak into the base. He already had the basics of it worked out, he just needed to work out the rough parts of it.
"Eh, I'll wing it." He muttered to himself after a few minutes of brainstorming. Unsurprisingly, "Winging it" was his usual plan, he relied on his unnatural amount of luck to get through a lot of hunts.
He focused to bring about an amount of Chaos Energy around him, creating a small electromagnetic field around him that normally disrupted visual sensors on mechanical machines. He walked out into the opening, and the robots working in front of the base seemed to not notice him.
He grinned and walked for the opening, as soon as he reached it though, a bullet went flying by his head and he froze, slowly raising his hands into the air, letting the electromagnetic field around him die away.
A green robot floated towards him lazily and smirked as he motioned for the mini-Zaku worker robots to continue their work. "Do you seriously think that we wouldn't notice the chaos energy? We're not that old you know."
The cat laughed nervously turned to face his new captor. "Would you believe me if I'm here to sale bibles?"
"By sneaking in?" The green robot raised an eyebrow.
"Uh..yeah. I'm a Ninja Salesman." He laughed again, a little less nervously this time.
"Oh, sorry to take up your time then. You're free to go." The green robot turned away and started to float off as the cat grinned and started to open up the door.
Several more shots rang out, and hit the door, barely missing the cat as the green robot floated back over towards the cat. "How stupid do you think I was programmed to be?"
The cat sighed and raised his hands above his head again, turning to face the green robot with a hopeful smile. "Really stupid?"
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Harupia muttered something underneath his breath, visibly annoyed at the current situation. He had to take time off his current work schedule to escort a new intruder to Danelle. To top it off, the prisoner was quite annoying.
Harupia turned to watch and make sure the Mini-Zaku's were keeping the cat in place. He noted with some pleasure that the cat was rubbing his eye, something to do with that Harupia punched him in the face once after his sarcastic comment.
They reached the entrance to Danelle's room and opened the door, and Harupia landed, bowing down as she turned to face them.
"Mistress, we have detained an intruder trying to sneak into your base." Harupia grabbed the cat and dragged him out in front of him, but still holding onto him. "He used the chaos energy to try and disrupt out sensors, so we waited for him to reach the entrance so we could corner him."
Danelle nodded to Harupia, a satisfied smile on her face. "Very good Harupia. I shall wish to speak with him."
Harupia hesitated for a moment, then nodded as he released the cats arm. He floated back towards the Mini-Zaku's, and motioned for them to surrond him on either side and be ready for the command to fire.
Danelle got off the couch and stepped towards the cat, walking around him as she examined him. "Open your cloak." She ordered.
"My my, feeling frisky tod-" Before he could finish, Danelle made a hand motion towards Harupia, who quickly floated over towards the cat, and punched him in the back of the head, causing him to stumble forward a little, and rub the back of his head.
"I care not for your humor. Open the cloak." Danelle ordered again, anger in her voice that wasn't there earlier.
The cat sighed and opened up his cloak, revealing an empty sheath, at his waist, kept in place by blue jeans, with orange mesh pockets, and a red strap around the sheath keeping it there.
"Your weapon?" Danelle asked, looking at him suspiciously.
"Your robots confiscated it from me when I got caught obviously." The cat sighed as he went back to rubbing the back of his head. "You know, you should tell the green one to work on his temper. I tried to joke with him and h-"
"Good god, you don't know when to shut up, do you?" Danelle asked, glaring at him again, and then looked over at Harupia. "Did he carry any identification on him?"
Harupia landed again as he knelt down. "Mistress, I am sorry to say he didn't. He did however have a Bounty Hunters card on him. It would appear you have a price on your head now."
Danelle didn't really care about that, it was unsurprising that she did now. "Whats your name?" She turned to face the cat again.
"Dark. It comes with a number if your intere-" Dark was cut off from his sentence as Harupia punched him in the back of the head again, letting out a yelp of pain. "Seriously! Stop with the punching!"
"Stop with the jokes and he'll stop punching you." Danelle said, a hint of a smile on her face. "Oh and Harupia? One more time for good measure."
"My pleasure." Harupia grinned as he pulled his metallic fist back, readying it to hit Dark again. A small whimper was heard clearly by everyone in the room before it hit.
Hiya . I'm Light Inside Darkness also more commonly known as Dark, but the name was already taken. Well this wouldn't be the first story I've ever wrote, but it's the first one I've felt sufficiently pleased with enough to upload.
I know there are probably some questions, so I'll go ahead and answer them. Yes, this is in the Sonicverse, but none of the characters, except for maybe Eggman MUCH later will be appearing. I like (most) of them, but as it is, I'd rather like to keep this to be a unique affair. I don't want this to turn into a ''My characters interact with the Sonic characters" thing when I could instead focus on trying to do something new.
And I'm always open for constructive criticism. Writing is an art that is hard to perfect, and I would much appreciate helpful advice on how to make myself better. Also, if you have an idea for any other robots, let me know, but don't be dissapointed if yours doesn't get tossed in there. I don't want to give Danelle any robot thats too close to being human.
But thank you for reading my story, and I hope to keep you all enjoy it, and choose to come back to read it as I continue to update it.
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