Chapter 1: Fire Coming Out The Monkey's head
Falling out of aeroplanes and hiding out in holes
Waiting for the sunset to come, people going home
Jump out from behind them and shoot them in the head
Now everybody dancing the dance of the dead,
the dance of the dead,
the dance of the dead
(Fire coming out of the Monkey's head)
This chapter is dedicated to the memory of Hollywood legend Dennis Hopper (1936-2010) who narrated for the Gorillaz song 'Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head' for the Demon Days album.
The strange man was still grinning as he watched his prey go limp in the water. As he pressed more buttons to bring his victim inside he started to laugh insanely at his new plan. For people who knew him would usually expect that he would confront them face-to-face instead of kidnapping them but this time he decided to go off the rails a bit this time, just to surprise his arch-nemesis and his snotty band of freedom fighters.
Soon the chaos emeralds will be mine, all to do now is to wait for the suspect to wake up before I can start interrogation …
He cackled to himself just hoping that a certain enemy of his hadn't done his usual trick and had snuck himself on board his submarine…
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Sonic's POV
"Capturing suspect, complete."
From what I could hear Eggman's captured someone.
I've gotta find out what Eggy's up this time, but from the usual routine I figured that it was something to do with the chaos emeralds, these emeralds were seven gems of infinite power and could cause the apocalypse alone if they fell into the wrong hands (i.e. Eggman's). From what my friend Tails told me there were rumours spreading around our home planet (being the famous Sonic the Hedgehog I had no time for rumours) about a couple of the chaos emeralds had fallen into another world, there had been many guesses as to where this gems had fallen, but to me at the time those rumours seemed stupid.
It was thought to be impossible for the chaos emeralds to work outside our world.
I slipped from one corridor to the next walking through Eggman's security traps as if it was a walk in the park (I've done it so many times that I know the same routine, it Just shows how careless my archenemy could be)
Suddenly I hear loud metallic footsteps heading my way…
BANG!
BANG!
BANG!
I knew that I had to get out of here so I slipped into the shadows. From what I could see there were three giant robots stopping their way through the silent corridor, seriously of all Badniks I have seen in my years fighting Eggman these had to be the strangest. They came along in camouflage, hidden behind dark glasses as if they wanted me to not notice them but they stuck out like a sore thumb in the blue metallic walls and the orange corrugated iron floor. From what I could see they were dragging something behind them and I shuffled along to see what it was. It was a strange looking human, tall and thin with strange dents in his face but what surprised me the most was his hair!
It was the exact same colour and shape as mine!
At first I thought that it some horribly failed attempt at another Metal Sonic (my bad, they were all failures!) but this human was breathing, and from experience robots or androids don't breathe. I decided to slip out of my hiding place and follow the strange badniks down the corridors until they reached a small pod—shaped room, pressed a few buttons on the flashing green keypad, threw the human in and slammed the door shut but I had been so caught up in the events that I was carelessly in view of the strange badniks who as they turned to go back to their master saw me standing in front of them and immediately got into battle stance
Damnit Sonic! I thought to myself and curled up into spin dash position aiming myself at the charging badniks running through every security alarm in my path, the alarms were blaring setting off every badnik in sight in my sight.
"Ha, looks like there's more badniks than I thought, no biggie…" I laughed to myself and spun myself in a circle knocking down every badnik that was stupid enough to try and stop me.
I was unstoppable knocking down every normal badnik in sight but I was too late to find out that the strange badniks were made too tough for me to break through when I was grabbed by the scruff of the neck by one of their giant claws to face their giant dark glasses, boy did I struggle against their grip but they still managed to keep hold of me.
"Bring the intruder to me immediately."
The strange badniks then dragged me to see the owner of the voice over the intercom, their master (and my enemy) Dr. Ivo Robotnik or more commonly known as Dr. Eggman.
After a long drag along the corridors of Eggman's submarine the robots reached the control room and tapped the numbers 5,7,7,13,1,14 and 23 into the keypad.
"Access Granted."
The doors automatically parted to reveal my fat nemesis sitting on a futuristic grey chair (slowly breaking from his incredible weight) surrounded by flashing buttons. Eggman saw me, grinned a toothy grin and with a simple wave of his gloved hand the strange badniks threw me to the floor in front of him, hitting my nose on the floor.
"Oh how surprising of you Sonic, you know that its rude to eavesdrop on people?"
I sat up and rubbed my nose.
"I know you're up to something Eggman." I snapped back at him
"Bingo," He laughed, "I need those chaos emeralds, Sonic and there's nothing you can do to stop me."
I laughed at the fat man.
"I can't believe you actually fall for rumours Eggy, the chaos emeralds are safe back on dry land, I don't see why you're in the middle of the ocean and kidnapping weirdoes that look like me…"
"I see that you are blinded by your own ignorance," Eggman smirked, "we're not even on Mobius."
I looked at him confused.
"From my scanners I have tracked at least 4 of the chaos emeralds on Mobius three of which are in the hands of your two-tailed friend…"
Damn he's not as stupid this time… I foolishly growled at Eggman, giving the game away. He smirked at me and continued.
"I have one of the chaos emeralds in my possession, but the remaining two are missing…"
"Yeah, everyone knows that chaos emeralds don't work outside of Mobius!" I chuckled
"Sonic, you really underestimate the power of chaos don't you, I managed to chaos control the Eggoctopus from the Mobian Universe to this one. Doesn't that prove anything to you?"
I looked around.
"Enough of the bragging, EggMonkeys!"
I saw the strange badniks marching towards me.
"Put this hedgehog with the suspect thief, I've got a surprise for both of them later…"
As the strange badniks marched towards me I took this second to escape, I ran as fast as I could in the short distance and jumped over the badniks and sped into the hallway.
"ATTENTION ALL BADNIKS! THE HEDGEHOG HAS ESCAPED! GET HIM AT ALL COSTS!"
I heard Eggman scream over the intercom. From what I guessed Eggman was in a panic and would try to get back to Mobius as soon as he could. I sped down the halls with Eggman's badniks running after me. I headed to the pod shaped room where Eggman's prisoner lay unconscious with the badniks still chasing after me, but luckily for me Eggman hadn't built them to reach my speeds (yep, Eggman has been fighting me for 5 years and still doesn't try to keep up with me, very careless Buttnik, very careless)
Suddenly I felt the ground shake below me as if the submarine was alive, a flash of light blinded me and I was swept around in the swirls of chaos control
Its funny when you chaos control, your eyes are blinded by a white light and you feel as if you're flying, round and round in circle until you arrive at your destination, or in my case floating above the coastline outside Soleanna (since when can submarines float? Then again this is Robotnik I'm talking about).
The robots took chaos control as an opportunity to gain on me, I ran as quickly as I could towards the pod-shaped room where Eggman's prisoner was unconscious
That's weird, Eggman doesn't usually kidnap people…
I ran up to the keypad
Damn! What code again was it 5.7.7…
I began to type in
13…
BANG! BANG! BANG!
Hurry up Sonic their almost here! Err…
My mind started to blank and turned around to see more badnik stomping their way across the corridor towards me
1.14.23 Gotcha!
"Access Granted"
The door flung open to reveal the strange man slumped against the wall, still limp from being knocked out but he groaning so he was still alive but in pain.
"Oohh…me head…it hurts…" I grabbed him by the arm and shook him in an attempt to get him awake but still he was groaning about his head so I dragged him out of the pod shaped room back into the corridor, with the badniks almost touching us, bullets flying all over the place.
I then noticed a vent below my feet
Bingo!
After a few good kicks the vent floor gave way to expose my face to the world outside. I looked up at the badniks, gave them a trademark grin and thumbs up.
"Sayonara Suckers!"
I cried out to them before jumping out with the man onto the clear blue coastline.
Luckily the water was only knee deep when we landed on the ground.
"Oooowww, where's me pills?" I saw the man behind me staring to stir, blinking rapidly in the sunlight.
What the heck's with his eyes?
Of course any normal human would have white outsides with pupils but this man, there were no eyes! Only black circles!
I knew that I should now take him to Tails' workshop maybe he could work out why Eggman wants this man and maybe do something to help him…
To be continued...