Time Of Need Full Summary: Set during #235, but not going by storyline, just after Silver arrives, NICOLE is banned from the city and Rotor resigns from the Council, everything after that is my idea. With Sally roboticized, Antoine in a coma, NICOLE being banned from the city and Bunnie's left for somewhere, hope seems lost for the Freedom Fighters. But Mecha Sally attacks new Mobotropolis with a bunch of robots to capture the citizens, but when an attack by Sally gets sent at a citizen, Sonic gets in the way. What happened to Sonic? And he's the last strong Freedom Fighter left.
Chapter 1
Unthinkable
It was a harsh time for the Freedom Fighters. Sally had been roboticized again by Dr. Robotnik. Antoine went to stop Metal Sonic, but he exploded in Antoine's face and now he is in a coma. Bunnie felt like it was her fault Antoine and Sally ended up like they were so she left. And NICOLE was banned from the city by the Council of Acorn because they thought it was best for the citizens of new Mobotropolis. The only Freedom Fighters left were Sonic, Amy, Rotor and Tails now.
Even Sonic's Uncle Chuck had decided against NICOLE and had sided with the other Council members. After that Rotor had resigned from the Council and joined back up with the Freedom Fighters. With Robotnik's forces growing and the feeling of dread in the pit of Sonic's stomach for Sally's sake, he couldn't take it upon himself to hurt or … fight her.
Sonic sighed as he stared at the ceiling of Freedom HQ's roof. He wanted everything to go back to the way they were before Sally was roboticized, before Robotnik created the Death Egg Mark II. He liked it better when he was fighting Robotnik, not Sally. He leaned forward and stood up from the couch. He wanted to go for a run to clear his head and started for the door. But it opened before he got there and a distressed Amy was there.
"Amy! What's wrong?" Sonic asked.
"Robotnik, somehow … got into the city!" she panted, scared.
Sonic frowned.
"The Council made a bad decision getting rid of NICOLE from the city and leaving her here. Because if she's not in charge of the Nanites, then the force-field isn't up," Sonic sighed.
Sonic grabbed Amy's hand and ran off for the city. They needed to get there fast, to see what the mad doctor was up to. They arrived at the gates and quickly ran through the city and found where the attack was. The robots were running around everywhere, grabbing any citizen in sight. Sonic growled and let go of Amy.
"Amy, find Tails. We're gonna need his help," Sonic ordered Amy.
She nodded and ran off to find Tails. Since Sally had been roboticized it felt like Sonic had been promoted to the leader of the Freedom Fighters while she was a robot slave. Sonic spin-dashed at the robots in front of him and landed on his feet after he had come out the back of the last robot. The citizens cheered, because they saw that they're hero was there to help them. Sonic smirked and got into a fighting position as more robots came down from Robotnik's Death Egg.
But his smile faded when he saw who was coming with those robots. It was Mecha Sally. Her beautiful, sapphire blue eyes were now evil. Sonic kept his emotions under control and stood his ground as she and the robots landed. She glared at him and he glared back.
"You will remove yourself from your position or we will use force," she said without emotion.
Sonic folded his arms and frowned.
"I ain't moving," he said.
She frowned as well and pointed at him.
"Destroy him and take the citizens," she ordered.
"You can use force all you want, but I ain't moving," Sonic said.
She moved her arm to point at the citizens behind Sonic and robots went after them, while she was left for Sonic. He approached his roboticized girlfriend with caution.
"Sal, I know you're still in there and that you don't want to do these things and I'm saying this because I care about you. FIGHT IT!" Sonic shouted.
"Insufficient data. Why are saying you care for a machine such as myself?" she asked.
Sonic looked as if someone had just stolen something precious from him. That was partially true. Sally was one of the most precious things he had in his life and he wasn't gonna let her stay this way forever.
"I know for a fact, Sal, that I will get you back to normal, but I … guess for … the time being we have to … fight!" Sonic shouted, running at Mecha Sally.
She dodged his attack and flew into the air and banged him on the head with her fist. He fell face first into the ground. He growled and jumped onto his feet. He twisted around quickly and ran at her. He kicked at her head, but missed. She punched him in his stomach. Sonic held his stomach in pain and smirked.
"Is that … all you … got?" he teased.
She frowned and punched him and he dodged the attacks. Sonic got into a ball and spun towards her. Mecha Sally grabbed him in his ball and threw him at a building. He got out of the ball just as he hit the wall and fell to the ground. Mecha Sally approached Sonic, smiling to herself. She will make her master very pleased to know that his worst enemy has been killed. And by the hand of his own girlfriend. She picked Sonic up from the ground and started choking him. He gagged and tried making her release her grip.
"Sal, please … don't do this. I know … you don't want to," Sonic gasped.
"You have me confused with someone else, hedgehog. I. Want. To. Do. This," She snarled.
Sonic's eyes widened at what she just said.
Sally didn't mean that. It's that … robotic mind that's controlling her, Sonic thought.
A noise caught their attention and they both looked in that direction. A robot had just blown up due to a punch from Jules.
"Dad…" Sonic gasped.
It seems that Jules and Bernadette had come outside their house to help Sonic fight the robots. Mecha Sally, then, saw Bernadette and smiled wickedly to herself and dropped Sonic. Sonic landed on his tail and looked over at where Mecha Sally was flying. He gasped when he saw it was his Mother she was flying at. He got onto his feet quickly and ran after her. Mecha Sally lifted her blue, laser sword into the air and was about to strike Sonic's Mum in the back.
Amy arrived with Tails in time to see what was about to happen. The two young Freedom Fighters gasped.
"SONIC!" they shouted in both fear and shock.
The sword came down and made contact with flesh.
"NOOOOOOOOO!" Sonic shouted as he pushed his Mum out of the way of the sword.
It made contact with his flesh and burned his skin. He screamed in pain and fell to ground. Clutching the long cut that went from his right shoulder to the left side of his waist. Mecha Sally smirked evilly, it was a better bargain than what she had planned for and slashed a few more times at the weakened hedgehog, then flew off.
"Priority one: hedgehog, terminated," she reported back to Robotnik.
The robots fell back and ran out of the city. They broke a hole in new Mobotropolis' wall that led into the city. They ran under the Death Egg and waited for it to land and bring them back on board.
Bernadette got onto her feet and ran over to her son. She got onto her knees and held his head in her arms. Amy and Tails ran over to them and looked down at the fallen hero. Amy hugged Tails and tears welled up in her eyes and Tails hugged back, tears in his own eyes. Jules saw the whole thing and ran over to his wife and son. He knelt down beside his wife and son. Bernadette looked at him with tears in her eyes.
"J...Jules," she said through a sob.
Jules looked down at Sonic and took him out of Bernadette's grasp.
"Tails, take Sonic to Dr. Quack and hurry," he ordered the two-tailed fox.
"W...Why me?" Tails asked, after a finished sob.
"You're nearly as fast as Sonic, now hurry," he told the young fox.
Tails nodded, hesitantly and picked up Sonic's wounded body and flew off to Tommy Turtle Memorial Hospital. Bernadette hugged Jules and she started crying into his shoulder.
"Hurry Tails!" Amy shouted, sobbing.
Tails spun his tails faster and tried to get there quickly because the hedgehog was bleeding … badly.
Yeah, I know first chapter name is the same as the name of #234, but it was all I could think of for this chap. Because it IS about something unthinkable happening. Hope you enjoyed this chapter, because there are more surprises along the way.
VFMH OUT!
