A/N:
Another redone chapter. After this it's all new stuff, folks!
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Sonic T (R3NOVATED) - Boom
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--- Chapter Two: Boom ---
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"And how did such a debacle come about?!" The angered evil genius grabbed the robot before it could safely make it beyond arm's length.
The robot, caught, started to shake with fear. "Um, we're not exactly sure, sir, but it does appear that someone had played with the, um, data..."
"Oh, really? I WANT TO KNOW WHO!!!!"
"We do not know, sir. We discovered her just a few minutes ago, and well, ... I tried to tell you..."
The host growled. Snickers and giggles erupted throughout the rest at the table.
"However," continued the robot, rather quickly, too, "Aside from the whole... gender... mix-up... thing... Um, everything seems to be in order. Mechanical arms with a retractable weapon, an organic-looking outer layer, certain scanning capabilities, a speed that's right up there with Sonic's..."
"I DON'T WANT 'UP THERE WITH,' I WANT 'BEYOND SONIC'S,' WITH NO COMPARISON! No! This won't do! This creation is a dud!"
"HAAAAAHAHAHAHA!"
Someone just couldn't hold the laughter in any longer. The rest fell into suit.
"SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT." The mustached one chucked FB-19 across the room, who then, with no hesitation, promptly made his getaway from the room.
One of the other evil geniuses in the room put in his two cents-worth, saying something about how a female clone of a male hedgehog won't ever be able to accomplish what a perfect look-alike could. Muttering erupted in the room, in between the snickering and laughing. Suggestions and snarks were exchanged through out the rest of the meeting.
"Well... it could still be evil..."
"Yes, it can still be useable…"
"But I demand PERFECTION!!"
"He's right. This'll never work."
"Hmmm…The spikes make more sense on a girl... it's like she's got long hair..."
"MY Plan is WAY better than this!"
"Well hey, if you don't want her, I'll take her..."
"You made Sonic a girl. Great joke. Call us again next year when you want to make him a mermaid."
Damn it. All those resources...wasted... The head of the meeting reached down toward the red button in front of him to lower the "dud" clone back to the laboratory. "Meeting dismissed. We'll try again later."
Overall, the meeting had gone into the wee-hours of the morning. It was then that things exploded.
Literally.
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It was too early in the morning for this. Sonic ran towards the city limits. If only he had coffee. If only he had a coffee maker. But nooooooo. He hasn't had one since that day about six months ago…
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Six months ago:
Knuckles walked up to the door of Sonic's house. It was a nice, quiet place on the edge of town. Or at least, it usually was quiet. Today Knuckles found that strange noises were being emitted, which included many crashes and a few yelps. Knuckles stopped at the front porch and pondered for a second. He then looked at the door with a very inquisitive look, shook his head, and sighed.
"Aw, man, he's at it again..."
Finding the door to be unlocked, Knuckles invited himself in, and looked around. Finding no one there to greet him, he proceeded to search the rest of the house. It was in the bathroom where he found a very disgusted Sonic, with his arms crossed and his injured leg completely wrapped up in bandages, and Tails, with a first aid kit sitting beside him and several items laid out in front of him. Tail had a roll of bandages in one hand, and was deep in thought.
"Um, should I ask…?"
Sonic looked up at the echidna while Tails, realizing what he had forgotten, looked around for the pair of scissors. The miffed hedgehog then averted his gaze and glanced to the side. "Nothing really. Just a scratch."
Knuckles shook his head. "Tails..."
The paranoid fox looked up at the echidna for the first time since he walked through the door. His eyes widened...
"OhmygoshKnuckleswhyaren'tyouwearingthebandaidonyourarm?!"
"Uh... Because it healed?"
Tails, stilling holding the roll of bandages and pair of scissors, lunged at Knuckles, who just simply pushed him away. Knuckles took a deep breath before asking the question:
"Tails, how many cups of coffee did you have this morning?"
Tails gave him the cute and innocent look. One of those annoying Bambi eyes. "One," he replied. This response earned him a glare from his two friends. Knowing that he can't get away with lying this time, Tails sighed and gave a second response, this time with the number "seven." Sonic groaned and Knuckles shook his head. Again.
"Tails, I'm sorry that it has to come to this," Knuckles began, "but I'm afraid that I'm going to have to take all of the coffee-stuff and the coffee maker out of this house."
"WHAT? Knuckles… just… what??"
"NOOOOOOOOOO...!" screamed Tails. Although while Sonic was satisfied with arguing with Knuckles, Tails, however, took it a step further and decided to run out of the bathroom and announce the problem to every household appliance in the house.
Knuckles waited until Tails was a good distance away. In other words, until he was able to hear himself and Sonic talk. "Listen, Sonic, I know that this might not be fair to you, but think about Tails..."
Sonic stopped pouting. "Yeah, you're right, Knuckles."
Knuckles smiled, trying to hold back a laugh, "Do you want me to help you remove those bandages from your leg?"
"Please, and thank you!"
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Sonic cringed. How he would love to forget that day… How he would love for Knuckles to forget that day…
But that was unlikely, especially given what had just happened
"Oooh, speaking of which, I should pick up the pace." Having thought of that, the blue hedgehog quickly dashed off, having not stuck to the window for long. He had gotten distracted by a Mr. Coffee shop along the way. Just a few a little bit earlier, Tails had gone berserk, and wouldn't stop talking about something going "boom." Or something like that.
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What happened earlier that day:
"SonicSonicSonicSonicSonic!!" Tails ran into his room, waking the blue hero up.
"Wha…?"
"Come here!! Come! Quick!" While Tails shouted nonsense as he managed to drag Sonic out of bed and was pushing him towards the kitchen.
"Mmmm… Tails…? What time is it…?"
"HURRY!"
Tails then grabbed a hold of Sonic's arm and pulled. They both stumbled into the room.
There, at the kitchen table, sat Knuckles. He had crashed at Sonic's place the night for the night, and being the morning person that he was, he was up and about, and was in the process of reading a newspaper.
"The things these silly human beings will write reports on…"
"IT'S GONNA GO 'BOOM'!!"
Knuckles slowly lowered the newspaper, with a baffled look on his face which soon turned to one of annoyance. Sonic blinked and yawned. It was way too early for this…
"Ok, Sonic," Knuckles laid the newspaper on the table, "you take care of whatever it is he's yapping about, I'll take care of the critter." Knuckles glared at Tails, who gulped and tried to make a break for it.
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Now outside of the city, Sonic picked up his speed.
That whole scenario didn't faze Sonic all that much. One, he knew Tails shouldn't have had those extra Dr. Peppers that morning. Or whatever he had. Yes, he had pulled an all-nighter working on one of his little pet projects, but he had a lot of caffeine that night to keep him going. He was definitely going to suffer for it later today. Anyways, that was reason number one. Two, Sonic had been expecting something like this for a while now. Oh well, better late than never. Well, maybe not in this case. Anyways, it was time to confront the source of the current little problem.
It didn't take him long to reach his destination.
Sonic ran through the lair of his adversary, dodging several traps and robots with great ease, until he finally reached his destination. Having accomplished that, Sonic rammed through the door.
"Robotnik!" Sonic looked around the dark room that the infamous evil genius called his office, "I know you're in here!!!" He eyed the large, red cushy chair in front of a colossal screen in the back of the room. Slowly, the large cushy chair turned around.
"BWAHAHAHAHAHA! I knew you'd show up soon, Sonic!"
"Yeah, I have something to ask you." The blue hedgehog pulled out an object. "What's with this?" He pulled out a small robot. This robot looked just like one of those toy wind-up mice. However, most people don't consider miniature bombs to be "toys."
Tick. Tick. Tick.
There was a moment's pause, in which the two just stared at each other.
"...."
"You're running out of ideas, aren't you?"
"WHAT?! How dare you! I... It... Um... Yes. Yes I am..."
"... Hiding bombs in cookie jars...?"
"... I was kind of hoping that you wouldn't find that for another two hours and thirty-eight minutes..."
"You know, that's really low. Even for you..." Sonic disabled the bomb.
"..."
"Why don't you quit now while you still have some dignity left?"
"Because one of these days… I… will… WIN!!" With that, Eggman pulled out some sort of remote control with a single, large red button on it, which he quickly pressed, causing the floor beneath Sonic to fall out.
Such an optimist, Sonic thought as he fell toward whatever the evil doctor had in store for him next…
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She woke up with a jolt.
Looking around, all she saw was rubble and smoke. And was that half a house…?
She sat up. How did she get here? What happened?
Wait a minute… What DID happen?
It was with a start she realized that she had no recollection of anything. Nothing. Not even her own name.
Who am I? What am I doing here? She looked down at herself. What am I? Hmmm… Hedgehog… I appear to be a hedgehog… And I'm blue…?
"Good morning"
The blue hedgehog jumped and whipped around. There stood a lone figure, draped in a thick, grey cloak which hid the features of her face. Strands of red hair made their way from underneath the hood, and a smile was visible from the shadows.
"Who are you?"
The woman tilted her head. "Hm? Should you not ask the same of yourself?"
Pause.
"I already have."
"And?"
The hedgehog narrowed her eyes. "Nothing. I came up with nothing. Do you kno-"
"Soniya."
"What?"
"So-nee-ya."
Another pause.
"You know, that's a pretty craptastic name."
"I like 'Bob,' too."
"Huh?"
"Would you like to be 'Bob' instead?"
"…………. You know what? I don't like you."
The woman's grin grew even larger. She tilted her head back and laughed. Quite an evil laugh, too. It sent chills up the spine of the recently awakened rodent.
Wait a minute. Why was she putting up with this? Soniya pushed herself up. And looked around again. She still had no idea where she was at. But she had a feeling she should get away from here. She started to walk away. Away from this place, away from this freaky lady…
Away from this madness.
"Where are you going?" The woman had stopped laughing now. But there was an amused tone present in her question.
The female hedgehog stopped, her back turned toward the annoying unknown person. Where was she going? Is there a town somewhere around here? Maybe someone there will know who she is…
"Where are you going?" Footsteps could be heard, apparently the woman was walking towards her. Soniya grinded her teeth, but kept her back towards the person. Dammit, will she just go AWAY?
"Somewhere. Anywhere. Away from here. And away from you."
"Oh? Why away from me?"
"I don't trust you"
The cloaked one continued to walk towards the hedgehog. Along the way, she reached down and obtained a metal pipe. "Oh my. You've got good instincts."
WHACK.
Soniya crumpled, and the woman picked up the unconscious body and hauled it over her shoulder like a sack of potatoes.
"Now, let's drop you off somewhere in town, and let's get this game started before the others manage to crawl out from all this rubble, too."
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A/N:
On the second chapter of the old version I had this little plea for more reviews. I thought it was cute, so I decided to keep it:
dontcha like this stoRy? however, i nEed a little motiVation In order for mE to Write another chaPter! so, pLease think of somEthing that would bring me hAppiness, something that will motivatE me into continuing!
