#5-Sonic Heroes Adventures: Tower Prison Escape

(A/N: Preceded by#4- The Knothole Mobotropolis Exploits: New Teams Arise.

Well here it is. Fans have been waiting for it a while now, and I've got it down fully, so chances are the number of chapters I put up a day will be generally two, maybe three depending on my mood, or more. I know in the last one I at first had the next story down as Vile Files, but after writing this story fully, I changed it to Sonic Heroes Adventures. Hopefully you aren't all too confused. This one is better than my last, in my opinion. I hope you enjoy it. In fact, there may be two or three up today. Fogive me for the following, but I couldn't resist. It was my favorite theme song and still is pretty much. Took the lyrics from the wiki page.)

(Sonic)
Triplets born, the throne awaits.
A seer warns of a deadly fate.
Give up your children, separate
Bide your time, lie in wait!

Sonic Underground (Sonic)
Sonic Underground
They made a vow, their mother will be found.

The children grow, learn what's right
Leaders of the freedom fight
They seek their mother, she knows they do
Is it time? If she only knew
Will the prophecy come true?

Sonic Underground (Sonic)
Sonic Underground
I long for my children, but I have to wait
To act too soon could seal their fate
They made a vow, their mother will be found
Sonic Underground!

Nic's Dilemma

After Fiona had escaped from Nic, she just ran.* She didn't know where to go, but she needed to go somewhere. Her wound was still bleeding. She needed medical attention. She had to go to someone. One name kept playing through her head, but she had no idea how glad he would be to see her. She had no choice, however, plus she had all the juicy stories about the Sonic Heroes to relate. Maybe that would get his attention. It would have been a shocker if she hadn't heard the stories, actually, seeing as how they'd spread so quickly throughout Knothole. People just couldn't keep quiet. She smirked wryly. She was one to talk. She ran to where she knew she would find him as fast as she could.

Scourge was pacing angrily. He was agitated. Sonic, Shadow, and Silver, his biggest challenges, had practically disappeared off the face of the Earth. What fun was that? He had nothing to do, and he was bored. It had been far too long. He had no idea how much more waiting he could take. All of a sudden, however, the door burst open, making him whirl. He gasped on seeing the figure, badly limping towards him. He could hardly process who it was before she had stumbled into his arms, clutching his fur.

"Fiona!" he exclaimed, tone both angry and worried at the same time. Rare for him. He never cared what happened to anyone.

"Scourge, please don't send me away, you have to listen to me! I have news about…" she began.

He had spotted her wound, though, and asked sharply, "What happened? Please tell me that Sonic, Silver, or Shadow is back."

"Help me, and I'll tell you everything," Fiona replied.

Scourge thought a moment. He wasn't really big on helping others, but then again, her tone was telling him she had news he'd want to hear. "Deal," he finally replied, picking her up and racing off to a place where she would be treated.

She had held up her end, thankfully, but as he heard the stories, he could tell why. No one could keep quiet about something that big. He was flabbergasted, another rare thing for him. He couldn't believe it. He hadn't believed her at first, but who could come up with a story like that out of the blue? Sonic was a prince! He had siblings! Sonia was the girl, and the other, green and looking a lot like him, much to his intrigue, named Manic. Their mother was once Queen of Mobotropolis, Queen Aleena, forced to give them up when Eggman Robotnick took over. It was hard to wrap his mind around.

Eggman re-recruited his old bounty hunters, Sleet and Dingo, and that annoying sniper Nack. The three had formed a team capable of destroying the Sonic Heroes, and they almost had. How was that possible! Even he had trouble beating them. In fact, he'd never actually gone against every one of them. This, Team Vile, had no outstanding traits except for strength in Dingo, the ability to out-shoot Shadow in Nack as well as fly with his air bike, and whatever their leader Sleet could contribute, which apparently was a lot. A regular jack of all trades. This was unbelievable. This was a team he needed to get to know, or fight. Besides, Nic had hurt Fiona. What better way to get back at her than to kill her baby brother? He didn't like the weasel anyway.

"Scourge?" Fiona was asking.

He looked at her blankly, then replied, "Fiona, we have a team to meet." Fiona blinked in disbelief, then smirked coldly, willing to follow along.

Team Acorn, Sally, Nic, and Bunnie, backed away from the reviving robots with gasps. "Get ready girls," Sally declared, preparing to fight back in case they attacked. "Don't worry girls, they won't bite," Bokkun declared. All at once they heard the tall yellow one groan as its eyes flashed back to life. The shorter silver one quickly followed. They heard a robotic squawk as the chicken one sat bolt upright.

"Ooh," the short fat one with a sharp nose groaned, having been dumped.

"Doctor Eggman, your most foolish idea yet was to shut us down. We were ever useful to you," the small roundish one Bokkun had called Cubot said.

"Well hey, I'm seeing the light of day again," the square one, Cubot declared.

"Oh boy," Snively grimaced.

"Hey, I'm awake again," the one called Grounder said, looking around.

"Squawk, Doctor Robotnick, dad, where are we!" the chicken one named Scratch asked.

"Hey, hey, hey, I'm awake! Now I can get back to catching Sonic and proving myself to Doctor Robotnick!" the monkey robot named Coconuts exclaimed.

"Doctor Ivo Eggman Robotnick is no longer your master. He abandoned you. Luckily, I was able to save you and bring you here," Snively declared matter-of-factly.

"What? Doctor Eggman abandoned us," the silver robot, Bocoe, asked. "Oh no."

"Decoe, Bocoe!" Bokkun cried.

"Bokkun, what are you doing here?" Decoe asked.

"When Doctor Robotnick got rid of you all, he left me and Clack, his pet robot bird, alone. Mr. Snively found us and took us under his wing. Then these girls came here to find Snively, Eggman's nephew by the way, and…" Bokkun began.

"Let's just start from the beginning," Sally declared. Turning to the robots, Team Acorn introduced themselves then started the long, long, narrative of all their adventures and the adventures they'd been told, Bokkun going to Bunnie and sitting on her lap to listen. Bunnie smiled at him.

Hours later, the robots were staring in disbelief at them. Snively looked amazed, not knowing every detail, or that Sonic had siblings, a mother who wasn't Bernie, and was a prince. The robots could hardly process it. Finishing, Sally finally said, "We've come here to find out where Sonic and the other heroes are, and information on Robotnick we may not have known before."

"He's capable of love," Grounder offered as unknown information.

"He is?" Bunnie asked in disbelief.

"Sonic screwed up his marriage, and his robot son took off with another robot named Breezy that he built, but yeah," Scratch backed up.

"Marriage, a son!" the three girls, Snively, and the bots who didn't know exclaimed. Scratch, Grounder, and Coconuts clung to each other, taken aback by the outburst, but quickly relaxed.

"Okay, that's… weird. Now where's Sonic? Bokkun won't talk, but we know that, Decoe, Bocoe, Orbot, and Cubot, know," Sally said.

"Of course we know. His location is…" Orbot began. He then made beeping noises, however. "His location is…" he tried again. More beeps. The girls were confused.

"Let me try," Cubot said. "The Doctor is in…" silence. "Why do I not remember?" he asked.

"Eggman is in a city somewhere. I just wish I knew where," Decoe offered.

"A city, great, that narrows things down," Nic sarcastically said.

"Well forgive us," Bocoe harrumphed, crossing his arms.

"You can't remember because your memory chips haven't been rebooted yet. Until they're back working, you won't remember anything about where Eggman is," Snively explained.

"Well that's just great," Decoe said angrily.

"Hold on, I'll check your progress. I started the reboot a couple minutes or so ago," Snively said with a sigh, knowing he couldn't go anywhere with Team Acorn watching him. Besides, it wasn't as if he had much loyalty to his uncle anyway. He walked towards a computer and typed in a few things. "Two percent so far," he declared.

"Two percent, oh man!" the robots all chimed together.

Nic was feeling a panicky feeling in her. This wasn't good. If they remembered where Sonic was, that would be it for her, Team Vile, and Eggman. The teams would converge, and as if Eggman didn't have enough problems, they would all be there helping, despite Sonic's protests. They couldn't be allowed to know. She had to do something, and something drastic at that. "I've got to make a quick call," Nic said to Sally and Bunnie.

"Go foah it Nic," Bunnie replied as she and Sally waited for the bots to fully reboot.

Nic crept outside the base, worry in her eyes. She drew out the communication device, saying, "Team Vile, come in." No answer. "Come on…" she pleaded.

"Nic, what is it sheila?" a voice asked.

"Dingo, about time one of you picked up," Nic said in relief.

"Sorry Nicolette, we was busy tryin' ta care about Eggman's latest rant," Dingo apologized.

"It's fine. Give me Sleet. This is urgent," she quickly said.

"Sleet's gone up to the mountain to look out for any intrudas," Dingo said.

"Then get to him! I can't stress how urgent this is," Nic said, tone growing sharper.

"Hang on Nic," Dingo said. Dingo turned to the door, calling, "Nack, we've gotta get ta Sleet! Nic's got some urgent news!"

Fang looked over at Dingo, catching the tone, nodded, then raced off. Seconds later he was outside a window on his air bike, calling, "Dingo, get on!" Dingo obeyed, and the two flew towards the mountain. "What's going on Nicolette?" Fang inquired.

"I'll explain it when all three of you are listening," Nic quickly replied. She didn't have time to go over the story twice. With her luck they'd reach Sleet half way through and she'd have to restart.

"There he is Nack," Dingo said to Fang, pointing out Sleet. The wolf was standing near the top of the mountain on a plateau.

"Gotcha," Nack said, confirming that he'd spotted their friend, using the term lightly, and leader. "Sleet!" he called, bringing the bike down.

Sleet turned as they landed, catching the urgent tone. "What's going on?" he demanded.

"We've got ourselves a situation. Nic says it's urgent," Fang replied.

"Catch mate," Dingo chimed, tossing Sleet the device. He caught it then turned to face over the ledge once more, Fang and Dingo watching the screen over his shoulders.

"What's going on?" Sleet instantly demanded.

"Team Acorn has found our way into what looks like an abandoned storage area, or base, of Doctor Eggman's. We've just discovered an area full of old helpers of his, and let me just say, you and Dingo are lucky you weren't robots. You're probably lucky the incident happened in the first place. Death is more permanent than deactivation or robotocization once was. He told you stories, we've got it all. They're all here guys! Scratch, Grounder, Coconuts, Decoe, Bocoe, Orbot, Cubot, need I go on? And get this, they're being watched over by Eggman's nephew, our old friend Snively, Fang. That robot bird Clack has become his pet, and that thing named Bokkun, who Robotnick apparently saw fit to spare, is still here!

"What!" Team Vile exclaimed.

"Team Vile, Decoe and Bocoe know about Station Square, so do Orbot and Cubot! Bokkun knew too, but he won't talk. Guys, they're rebooting their memory files as we speak! If they get them back, you're in trouble! What should I do?" she worriedly asked.

"How fast are they rebooting?" Fang swiftly questioned.

"Hold on," she said. Quickly she went back to the room and peeked inside. Hurrying back out, she replied, "Not too fast. It's been all of five minutes, and they're only at ten percent."

"Hold tight. Don't move and keep us posted. If it gets too far, delay it. We're on our way," Sleet answered, signing quickly off. Nic worriedly returned to her teammates, hiding all traces of nervousness. Now she had to rely on Vile to get here on time. Until then, she had to keep her cool. She couldn't start to seem afraid or worried.

*See story #3 The Royal Archives-Return To Origin.