Author's Intro: Hello everybody! This is my first Sonic fanfic, although I've always been a big fan of the series. So uh, I guess I have to start off my saying I don't own any of these characters…although I don't think forgetting to put this line would get me in any legal trouble. Well, I hope you guys enjoy my first chapter, review if you have time. I plan on updating regularly and I promise I won't leave you hanging for too long!

Chapter 1: Rebellion, Destruction, and Love

"Ready, aim, fire!" the commander of the swatbot squadron yelled. Six bots all opened fire on their target, a mysterious robed figure that had been moving quickly through Robotropolis, causing all sorts of mayhem and destruction. The laser fire came close to hitting the target, but before the swatbots could even register what had happened, the figure was behind the squadron. The commander turned his head in time to see the stranger dash towards them at high speed and cut through his squadron like a hot knife through butter.

"This is beta squadron leader to all swatsquads in the area," the commander said with the last of his energy. "The high speeds of the intruder along with the short stature suggest that he is none other than Sonic the Hedgehog. Robotropolis must be sent into a code red lockdown immediately to prevent escape!" Once that message was relayed, the Swatbot leader ran out of energy and went offline.

"Things have just been complicated," the robed figure said as he stepped over the remains of the squad and continued his trek through Robotropolis.

******************************Robotnik's Main Fortress*******************************

"Damn that hedgehog!" the evil Dr. Ivo Robotnik fumed as he watched his swatbots be thrashed one by one. Today had been full of frustrations. It was raining heavily, which normally wouldn't be so bad except that it was slowing robot production due to difficulty navigating the city while it was so slippery. Along with that there were no animals to capture because of the rain. They were all likely in their homes waiting out the storm. And now, Sonic the Hedgehog was storming through his beautiful city.

"Snivley!" Robotnik snarled to his loyal henchman. The pale little man twiddled his thumbs nervously and looked up at his master.

"Y-y-yes, oh Round One?" he asked carefully.

"Do we have any of the hedgehogs accomplices as prisoners?" Snivley checked the database for prisoners. At the moment they weren't holding any live creatures, so he shook his head. "Then why the hell is this little blue bastard ruining my day??!!" Snivley knew that this was a rhetorical question, but he felt that he had an answer that may shed light on Sonic's motives today.

"Sir, I've been monitoring Sonic's movements through the city," he said as he brought up visuals on the screen. "I began the trace on the east side of the city, and have followed him on his journey west. What's odd is that he's visited every robot building facility, but has done minimal damage to them. The damage he has caused today has been more or less restricted to swatbots bent on his capture." Robotnik took in this information and began to ponder what was going on.

"Where is the next construction facility on his route Snivley?" Robotnik asked as he forced himself off of his chair and climbed into his notorious egg shaped ship.

"That would be the one in the heart of Robotropolis sir. Our biggest and most productive one."

"Then I'll catch the rodent there," Robotnik said as he flew his ship to the heart of the city. When he left, Snivley shook his head and continued sending wave after wave of swatbots to Sonic's destination.

**************************The Main Construction Facility*******************************

The robed Sonic smashed through the initial line of defense for the main facility. Inside, a large number of swatbots were waiting for him and opened fire. When would they learn? He was far superior to any number of those rejects.

Suddenly, there was a loud ratatatatatatatata! Noise and Sonic barely managed to get back as the area he was previously standing in erupted into a flurry of smashed metal and bullets. Looking up near the ceiling he noticed a team of three robots holding a massive minigun and slowly turning the thing to point at him.

"Projectiles?" the robed hedgehog laughed. "Have you forgotten what I can do?" The robots lines up the minigun with Sonic again and opened fire. But this time instead of running Sonic stood his ground. After emptying 100 rounds, the gun ceased fire and looked at the results. Or rather, were about to see the results when their own bullets sped back towards them and pierced their metallic heads, causing them to explode. The minigun fell to the floor and landed with a loud clang!

"Listen up," the robed figure said as it extended its arm and pointed toward the machine gun. The heavy gun lifted up off the ground and positioned itself so that the barrel faced the largest cluster of robots. "I'm giving you all one chance to back off. I'm not here to cause too much trouble for Robotnik right now, I just require the use of his robot construction machine for a bit." The robots obviously weren't listening to him, because they cut him off by opening fire.

"Fine, have it your way," the hedgehog responded as his skinny finger extended from the robe and curled back as if he were pulling the trigger of a gun. The minigun roared to life and began shredding through the robots while the presumed Sonic dashed around the facility to dodge laser fire. When there was but one robot left, the stranger speared it through the chest with the minigun and slammed the gun into the wall, leaving the bot helpless to move. The figure then advanced towards the construction machine.

"Hold it right there!" a deep snarly voice roared, and suddenly the stranger was hit with a jolt of electricity from Dr. Ivo Robotnik's egg mobile. "You think you can suddenly come back to Robotropolis and do whatever you please?" The robed stranger shook off the shock and then seemingly flew towards Dr. Robotnik. When they were but inches from being face to face, a force field knocked the stranger back and onto the floor.

"Just as I thought!" Robotnik yelled as he pointed a chubby finger at the robed stranger. "You are not Sonic the Hedgehog! In fact, you aren't even alive! I watched you take out my robot minions and you gave yourself away when you began reflecting the bullets and using the minigun! At first I thought it could be Silver, but that force field is specifically designed to repel the metal that I used to create you! So what say you now, Metal Sonic?"

The figure pulled it's hood back to reveal that it was indeed Metal Sonic. The pseudo-hedgehog 's red eyes glared directly at the doctor. "Do not attempt to hinder my progress Robotnik!" he said. "I must fufill the primary objectives that have so long eluded me. I must destroy Sonic the hedgehog, and dominate this planet, creating a new robot dominion."

"I know that you dumb bot!" Robotnik rasped. "I programmed you! You've been trying to fufill your objectives as long as you've served under me! That is until about a month ago. Where did you leave to Metal Sonic? And why have you come back?" Before Robotnik could go on, he heard the sound of metal slamming on metal, and the noise was getting closer and closer. He maneuvered his ship to do a 360, and was pleased to see two swatbot squads had arrived to back him up. Turning back to Metal Sonic, he said, "Well, now you're outnumbered and outmatched Metal! Will you surrender and cease this mutinous behavior, or will I have to scrap you?" Robotnik's triumphant smiled faded when he noticed Metal Sonic hadn't even flinched or tried to assess his situation.

"I am not the one outnumbered, dear creator," Metal Sonic said coldly.

"What are you-" Robotnik began, but the stopped as a laser shot whizzed past his face so close that he could feel the heat. He turned back to his swatbots and saw that they were taking up arms…against him.

"Are ALL my robots planning a rebellion??!!" Robotnik raged as he turned back to Metal Sonic.

"They are just following the instructions that I wired into them at your construction sites before this one. I have rewired all sites in the east portion of the city, and by taking this one I can tip the balance of power in my favor. This is necessary for the plan I have mapped out to fulfill my objectives."

"You moron!" Robotnik said as he pressed a button in his ship to let Snivley know that backup was required. "You are supposed to help ME conquer the planet! You are to serve under your master!"

"You are incompetent," Metal Sonic said. "I have deemed you a threat to the mission due to your lackadaisical approach to dealing with Sonic and his allies. I'm taking Robotropolis to enact my own operations. You are free to serve under me if you wish."

"I'd rather die," Robotnik spat.

"That can also be arranged," Metal Sonic said as his eyes glowed deep red and the swatbots took aim.

********************************Station Square*************************************

"Sure come on over Sonic!" Amy spoke into her telephone. "I'd love to have you over!"

"I'm uhh…sure you would," the blue hedgehog replied. "Anyways, I'll be there in about 10 minutes. Later!"With that, there was a click on his end, and Amy fell back onto her couch. She couldn't believe her luck! Sonic the Hedgehog had dialed her number on the phone and asked if he could come spend this rainy afternoon with her!

"Ok, calm down," Amy told herself. He probably wasn't thinking of doing anything romantic with her. In fact, he probably just wanted to eat something and maybe see a movie. Anything beyond that was up to her imagination.

"But it would be so romantic if we watched a movie, then in the middle of it he yawned and put his arm around me, and then I'd lean in and lay on his chest, then he'd look down into my eyes and….ohhhhh!" Amy covered her face with a pillow from the couch and then threw it on the ground. Even if he didn't like her, she could dream.

Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic blasted through station square for the seventh time today. He could have been at Amy's apartment in less than 5 minutes, but he needed time to think of a way to tell her what was bugging him. He had a huge crush on her and he knew she felt the same way. But until now, Eggman had been ruining everything, and Sonic had been afraid to admit his feelings for fear that Eggman would capture her and use his feelings against him. Sure Eggman had captured her before, but he'd do something much more diabolical if he knew just how much Sonic cared. But for the past six months Robotnik had been quiet, and although Sonic was sure he was up to something, he figured now was better than never.

Finally resolving to just come out and say it, Sonic stopped in from of Amy's apartment building and buzzed her room. As she came down, he started to get butterflies in his stomach. Here we go, he thought.

Amy Rose

Amy walked quickly to the front door of her apartment building where Sonic was waiting. She was so excited yet nervous at the same time. She had thought about walking slowly, but it would only give her more time to doubt Sonic's reasoning for wanting to come over. She needed every scrap of confidence to not break down and beg him to go out with her.

Finally she reached the front door. Her hand trembled as she reached up and pressed the button to allow the doors to slide open. She swallowed hard, then finally pressed the button, and slowly, Sonic the Hedgehog was revealed, standing outside in a raincoat , blue jeans, and his favorite running sneakers. She was about to say hi, when Sonic spoke first. She noticed that he was blushing slightly and his eyes were closed. Could this be…?

"Amy!" Sonic said quickly. I just wanted you to know that I-" but he never got to finish his sentence. Well, he did, but neither he nor Amy heard his voice because at that moment, there was an extremely loud explosion. It came from quite a distance away, but the noise it made was undeniably loud.

"Sonic!?" Amy tried to yell over the noise. She covered her eyes because the explosion was so bright and even from the great distance it had to cover, it was powerful enough to shine all the way in station square. She watched as Sonic disappeared from her eyesight in a brilliant flash of light, then she closed her eyes.

Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic cursed loudly, but nobody heard it. It was because he knew where the explosion had come from. This always happened. Whenever he and Amy were about to have a moment where he thought he could confess his feelings, something messed up like this had to happen. And unfortunately, before becoming blinded by the light, he had seen the direction of the explosion.

It came from Robotropolis.

End note: So how did you guys enjoy that? Review please? I'm kinda nervous that I made a lot of repetitive errors because of all the red squiggles in MS word, but a lot of those are because 'Robotropolis' isn't a word! Anyways, Review and I'll see ya next time!