SONIC AND CINOS- BROTHERS IN CRIME
Fan fiction by Cara Rosado (ccatclaw)
Overview:
In last we left off, Sonic and Cinos had finally reached Dr. Quack. Sonic is appalled when he finds out that not only Dr. Quack, but his parents and Uncle Chuck had been keeping his brother's whereabouts a secret from him for all this time. But just before Sonic can object thoroughly, Dr. Robotnik suddenly appears along with his fleet of robians (mobians that had been robotized). He seems to know Cinos. But how? How would Robotnik know Cinos? Not even Sonic had known his brother existed! The secrets are revealed in the sequel to Cinos the Hedgehog, which is Brothers in Crime. Enjoy! Also, let me know what you think. I'd love to hear your opinions. REVIEWS PLEASE!
Cinos' large green eyes widened with panic, "J-Julian K-Kintobor? B-but, you're D-doctor R-Robotnik. B-but how-"
"Oh please Cinos, I can't listen to your stuttering," Robotnik said, "Here, take this before you drive us all nuts".
Robotnik threw a small metal chip at Cinos, and Cinos caught it in his mouth, and swallowed with ease.
"Julian, how?" Cinos was speaking clearly now! "Your name is not Ivo Robotnik!"
"It is now," Robotnik said sternly, "You will call me by my true name! Julian Kintobor is no more! Bow down to me, Cinos the Hedgehog, or walk beside me as you did long ago".
"What?!" Sonic exclaimed, "So that's why you two know each other! Cinos, why would you side with Robotnik? How could you? I was starting to trust you!"
"We were both outcasts," Cinos growled, "Neglected by society, shut up in institutions, and abandoned by our own families! What else was I supposed to do? Jules and Bernie liked you better! They didn't give a rat's ass about me".
"No, Cinos, that's not true!" Dr. Quack exclaimed, "Jules and Bernie wanted what was best for you! They were not trying to neglect you! You were very premature at birth, you had to stay in the hospital so you could be taken care of. You were too sick to go home with them!"
"Bullshit!" Cinos yelled.
"I know it hurts, Cinos," Dr. Quack said, "But I speak the truth. My brother, the other doctor Quack, he specializes with premature newborns. That is why you were taken to him. Jules and Bernie did visit you, you remember them. So don't say that".
Cinos crossed his arms and looked away.
Suddenly, Sonic did a spin dash, crashing right into his brother. Growling, Cinos tried hard to fight back. But his speed was still slow, and the voice chip had only cured his slurred speech temporarily.
"How does that work on you anyway, scumhog?" Sonic asked critically, throwing angry punches,"What are you, a robot? Only robots need voice chips".
"Humph, I was born with no ability to talk," Cinos said, just barely dodging Sonic's punches, "So Julian-"
"Dr. Robotnik!"
"Robotnik installed a mechanical mouth for me," Cinos said, "My mouth may look normal, but its just fur covering it. It's like a robot mouth. But it requires a voice chip once in awhile".
"How dare you lie to me!" Sonic tried to kick Cinos in the stomach, but Cinos surprisingly caught his foot and pushed him back.
"I wasn't lying! I knew him as Julian Kintobor," Cinos snapped, "Not Ian Robotnik. Now stop attacking me".
"Ivo Robotnik!" Robotnik roared amongst the crowd, "How many times are you going to get my name wrong, Cinos?"
"Sorry, not my fault your voice chip sucks," Cinos said.
"Then I'll take it right out and you'll have that annoying stuttering going on," Robotnik threatened, "You want that?"
Cinos shut up right away.
Sonic still couldn't get over this, and he had to know the truth. But there was no time. Robotnik was ordering his fleet of stink bots after them. So he had to team up with his supposed brother for now.
Sonic spin dashed full speed ahead and destroyed ten robots instantly. Cinos immediately dived into a nearby sewage puddle.
"What're ya trying to do, get poisoned?" Sonic questioned harshly, "That's toxic waste!"
"I'm immune to it," Cinos said calmly, as he smashed a nearby stink bot with his tail, that was slightly longer than Sonic's and had a lot of muscle tone, "Think of me like Bunnie. She's half robot. I'm also half robot, sort of. I owe my life to Dr. Quack and Robotnik. I don't know what quarrel you have with Robotnik, but he has my full gratitude".
"Then why are you attacking my robots, Cinos?" Robotnik interrupted, "You are supposed to show me gratitude. You should be fighting by my side. Leave that pesky rodent brother of yours, come and help who was really there for you".
Cinos cringed, "I'm sorry. I wasn't thinking," then turned sharply to Sonic, "You are my enemy now!"
"Traitor!" Sonic lunged at him.
Cinos smacked his tail against the water and sprayed sewage on Sonic. Coughing and gagging, Sonic staggered backwards.
I can't let this stop me! I have to defeat him!
Sonic bounced on some nearby robots, one by one, and eventually, he was hovering over Cinos, who was up to neck level in waste. He bounced again and crashed right on to his brother's head. Grinning, Sonic then leaped back out of harms way.
Cringing, Cinos glared at him, "You'll pay for that!"
Sonic tapped his foot on the ground, "You just gonna stand in that puddle and rot? Or are you gonna fight me?"
"Are you just gonna stand on land and rot?" Cinos shot back, "Coward!"
"Oh, I'm the coward?" Sonic taunted, "I'm not the one who travels at the speed of molasses".
"That's a disability!" Cinos growled, "I'm not a coward. Fine, I'll come out!"
Cinos flipped up gracefully out of the water, but then staggered immediately as he hit land.
"Ha! Weakling!" Sonic dashed toward him.
Cinos turned to the robots,
"Stink bots! Behind me!"
Sonic skidded, what was Cinos planning?
Cinos dipped his head into the sewer water and turned to the stink bots, and yelled in a gurgling voice,
"ONE...TWO...THREE...FIRE!"
Sonic was washed away by sewage. He came to a point where he swallowed too much and passed out. The brown scenery turned to black.
Sally awoke with a start. She didn't know why, but she had a feeling something was terribly wrong.
She pulled her boots on and threw on her usual blue vest as she ran out the door. She couldn't stop moving.
Sally went to knock on Rotor's door, to see if Rotor was finished with his invention yet. The freedom fighters would need it if they were to stop Robotnik.
Sally banged on the metal door of Rotor's workshop,
"Rotor! You in there? It's me, Sally".
After a little while, the large metal door opened and a groggy Rotor came out. His eyes were baggy, he had obviously just woken up.
"Sally?" he said, yawning, "Isn't it a bit early?"
But Sally ignored him, "How's that invention coming along".
"It's doing great, but what's up with you? You seem...stressed".
"Stressed? No no," Sally stammered, although she was feeling quite stressed, "I was just wondering, that's all".
"It's six in the morning," Rotor said, "I'm doing the best I can. I was working all night on the invention, so please, give me some time to sleep".
"Yes, of course! Will do," Sally said quickly, "See you later".
With a confused yet sleepy expression, Rotor shut the door.
Bunnie! I should see if she needs a new upgrade on her robotic limbs!
Sally sprinted over to Bunnie's house, her boots swishing in the mud. She was running so recklessly and fast that she almost slipped and fell face first on the soggy, wet ground.
Once Sally arrived at Bunnie's front door, she banged on it like there was no tomorrow. She kept this up until a groggy Bunnie stumbled to the door,
"What gives, Sally girl?"
Sally could see that Bunnie was a little bit annoyed.
"Are you okay? Do you need an upgrade?" without asking, Sally grabbed Bunnie's stubby metal arm.
"Hey! Cut it out! What's goin' on with ya, Sally?"
All of a sudden, Sally just let go of Bunnie's arm, realizing for the first time how crazy she was acting,
"I-I...there's something wrong...somewhere".
"What?"
"I don't know!" Sally yelled suddenly, "I just feel that something bad has happened to Sonic! I don't know why".
"Ah, Sally girl," Bunnie said, chuckling a little, "I know you're worried about the sugah hog, but he can take care of himself. I'm sure he'll be back soon".
"No! Bunnie, you don't understand," Sally said, "It's just this feeling I have that Sonic's in deep trouble".
"He's been gone for one day, Sally," Bunnie said, "Not a week, or a month. Just one day. He needed to find out about his brother".
"But it doesn't take that long to get to Dr. Quack's hospital from here!" Sally protested, "I swear, somethings not right here! As leader of the freedom fighters, I'm going to lead a search party for Sonic and Cinos".
Bunnie shrugged, "Well, if ya think it's necessary".
"It's completely necessary!" Sally snapped, then looked at Bunnie apologetically, "Sorry, I'm just really stressed out".
"That's alright," Bunnie replied, "You're the leader and all, but if I must say one thing. With these stink bots goin' around, there's gotta be some freedom fighters left in Knothole to guard the village. We can't have everybody goin' ta find Sonic".
"You're right, Bunnie," Sally said, "I will leave some freedom fighters here. You can stay, since you're a good fighter. Rotor should stay behind too, since he's working on an experiment to help fight off the stink bots. Geoffrey and all the other extra fighters can stay too. I'll just take Tails and Antoine with me".
"Sounds good," Bunnie said, "Tails provides flight support, and Antoine has sword fighting abilities. Then you got me and Geoffrey protecting the village, as well as Rotor if he has to".
"Correct," Sally said, "And I'll take Nicole with me too, to help find Sonic as soon as possible".
"You do that," Bunnie said, "I'll go round up Tails and Twan for ya, so get yer stuff ready".
Sally nodded and dashed back into her own home. She grabbed her leather knapsack and stuffed some food, water, and weapons inside. She straightened out her vest and turned to her doorway sharply.
Don't worry, Sonic. I'm coming to help you.
Sonic awoke in a dark room. It was so pitch black he couldn't see anything. Not even his own white gloves. He tried to move but he bumped into a nearby wall.
Am I dead? Is this hell?
Sonic's eyes were starting to adjust, so he took a look around. It was still hard to see, but he could make out bars in front of his face, and a cold cement wall behind him. He was imprisoned!
"Yo, Buttnik! What gives?" he yelled out.
No answer.
Sonic shivered, it was starting to get cold. His spines stood up even more.
"Is anybody there?" he whimpered.
Still silence.
Sonic jumped as he saw his bare feet. His shoes were gone! How could they have slipped off? Or did somebody steal them?
Sonic felt a flash of anger draw through him, as he thought of one possibility.
Cinos! That jerk! He probably took my shoes so he can run faster!
Sonic took a moment to think about the mess he'd gotten himself into. Cinos had dropped in on Knothole village, uninvited, and claimed to be his twin brother. Sonic had never heard of him being a twin at all. Cinos had seemed so innocent and shy, but now, the hedgehog had turned on him.
It made Sonic mad that he could be fooled that easily. He was just beginning to trust Cinos too. But the stupid hedgehog had back stabbed him.
Suddenly, a small light flickered, it attracted Sonic's eyes toward it.
"Hello? Anybody there?"
The light continued to flicker, and Sonic became more certain that there was something or someone else in the room with him.
"Yo, I'm friendly," he called out, although he wasn't sure if the other thing was friendly.
The light became brighter and Sonic gasped. He couldn't believe what he saw. Two robots' eyes were shining on and off, and Sonic knew who they were immediately. They were robotized robots, one of them was blue with a tuft of white hair on top, and the other was purple. They were robians, robotized hedgehogs, but not just any robotized hedgehogs, yes, these were Sonic's parents! Whom he thought were dead for all of the past year.
"Mom! Dad!" Sonic called to them, but the couple didn't seem to hear him. Finally, Jules opened his mouth and his robotic voice spoke these words,
"Robotnik's word is law. Destroy all enemies!"
"Dad! Hey! It's me!" Sonic tried desperately to get his attention, to make them realize he was not their enemy, but their son.
Jules turned his head toward him, his eyes still blinking rapidly, "Destroy! Destroy all intruders!"
Soon enough, Jules had staggered to his feet, his wife, Bernie, following him.
"Robotnik's word is law. Destroy all enemies!" Bernie was chanting those cursed words as well.
"Mom! Dad! Snap out of it!" Sonic screamed at them, "It's me, Sonic! Your son! Please listen! Please remember!"
The two robots continued to waddle toward him. But Bernie stopped suddenly. Jules took no notice of this, so he kept making his way toward Sonic's cage.
"Mom?" Sonic called out softly, "Do you remember?"
Bernie's eyes were flashing uncontrollably, "Memory! Overload! Error!"
Jules turned to her and then the same thing started happening to him,
"Memory! Overload! Error!"
Sonic became scared that his parents were going to blow up right in front of him. But there was no smoke emanating from his parents. The robots were coming to their senses.
A solid light shined from both of the robots' eyes. Rather than the flickering.
"Sonic?" Jules spoke in a metallic voice.
"Dad! You remember!" Sonic exclaimed.
"Sonic, I'm so glad you're okay," Bernie ran up to the cage bars. It was impossible to hug her son through the bars, but she tried anyway.
"But Uncle Chuck told me you guys were dead," Sonic said.
"He probably thought we were," Jules said, "I thought I was until I woke up as a robot. I couldn't control anything, not even my mind. I was trapped inside myself, and forced to obey Robotnik's commands. Your mother also had to".
"It wasn't pleasant," Bernie admitted, "But I'm glad to see you're okay, Sonic".
Sonic nodded, "Yeah, but I have to ask you something".
Sonic took a deep breath. This was going to be intense, he could tell. So he started from square one. About this short, very slow purple hedgehog with slurred speech arriving in Knothole Village, he had to tell them about the secret hideout as well, and who else had survived. So Cinos didn't come up until the very end.
"So, is it true?" Sonic's voice was shaking, "Do I have a twin brother that you two never bothered to tell me about?"
Jules looked down, and Bernie looked at him sympathetically, "We're so sorry, dear. We thought Cinos had died. We didn't want to have you deal with that kind of pain".
"He was very premature at birth," Jules said, "He was born with no voice, and his life was at stake. Robotnik, known as Doctor Kintobor at the time, worked with Dr. Quack's brother to give Cinos a mechanical mouth. They applied amplifiers that didn't sound robotic, so he would sound normal. But his speech was slurred. Recently, Robotnik has designed a voice chip for robots with slurred speech. That probably works on your brother too, Sonic".
Sonic's fist was shaking.
"Honey, I know you're upset," Bernie said, "But we had our reasons to keep this from you".
"And did Uncle Chuck happen to know about this too?" Sonic growled.
Jules and Bernie looked at each other worriedly.
"Great! Just great!" Sonic yelled, "Wonderful! Now my whole family was lying to me".
"Sonic, it was for the best," Bernie tried to comfort him, "We-"
"Shut up!" Sonic slammed his bare hand against the iron bars. He then realized his white gloves were gone too. His furry hand started to bleed.
"Stop, Sonic, you'll hurt yourself!" Bernie cried.
"No," Sonic said, his voice was shaking like mad now.
"Sonic, please calm-"
"NO!"
"What's all that ruckus?"
Sonic turned sharply to see Robotnik's ugly shape in the doorway. With all of the arguing going on, nobody had heard the metal door creak open.
"Robian #045 and Robian #046!" Robotnik roared, addressing Sonic's parents, "Come! Back to work!"
Robotnik then clicked a green button on his wrist, and Jules and Bernie's eyes went back to flickering.
"These robots should not have feelings from memory!" Robotnik yelled, "You got lucky, Sonic. I had equipped Jules and Bernie with lasers. They were going to kill you, but they stopped when they temporarily had their memories back. You won't want to fight your parents, would you Sonic?"
Robotnik's voice was challenging, a wide grin stretched across his fat face from ear to ear,
"Attack!"
Sonic's parents were once again mindless robots. They charged toward Sonic,
"Robotnik's word is law!"
"All hail Robotnik!"
"That's it, yes, yes!" the mad doctor was getting excited now, "Kill him! Kill the rodent! Yes, oh yes! My plans will finally be accomplished with you out of the way, Sonic! And you won't smash your own parents".
"I wouldn't smash any robian!" Sonic said, "Those who were once animals, do not deserve to be spin dashed. I never kill living things, but for you, Buttnik, I might make an exception".
"Ah, try as you might, rodent," Robotnik taunted him, "You're behind bars, and I have your own beloved parents as my slaves! You're finished! Stop talking all cocky and just admit that you, my blue nemesis, is soon going to burn in hell!"
Hardly listening, Sonic spin dashed with all his might against the metal bars, opposite the way his parents were approaching him.
"They are made of copper and nickel, not metal," Robotnik chucked evilly, "I made sure that you were trapped inside for good! I've learned that from many encounters before!"
"Oh yeah, Robo Butt?" Sonic said, "How about my folks? How are they gonna get in here and kill me if the bars are strong against blades?"
Robotnik stopped for a minute, his hands shaking, "NO! I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG!"
"Same old song and dance, my friend," Sonic chuckled, "Now, how am I gonna get outta here?"
"We'll be the answer to that!"
Sonic turned around sharply and was surprised to see Sally, Tails, and Antoine at the doorway. Antoine looked nervous as usual, but little Tails was so excited to finally be treated as a proper freedom fighter. Sonic was surprised Sally had let him come.
"Sonic! Hi!" Tails waved.
"Hiya, little buddy," Sonic waved back, still shocked to see them. But they had come just in the nick of time.
Sally was asking Nicole how to get Sonic out of his cage,
"Just a moment, Sally," Nicole was deep in thought, "Fire. You must melt the bars with fire".
"Thank you, Nicole," Sally said, "So where do we find some fire?"
"Aha! Thank you, Nicole, you just gave me the answer," Robotnik was all confident again, "Robians! AKA Sonic's parents! Come to me. I shall equip you with fire guns".
"There's your solution, Sal," Sonic chuckled, "Robotnik's gonna get me out".
"Sonic, are those your parents?! They'll burn you to bits!"
"Calm down, Sal, I'm too fast for that," Sonic was already doing a practice jog around his cage, "Time for this hedgehog to bonk a fat man in the head!"
"You just never change, do you?" Sally sighed, "Fine. Just be careful".
"Aw come on, that's no fun," Sonic complained.
"Just do it!"
"Okay okay, you have no sense of adventure".
Jules and Bernie were coming toward his cage now. Their new guns were steaming with power, Sonic could tell they were put together sloppily, since Robotnik had literally just installed them into his parents' laser busters.
"Come on, I'm waiting!" Sonic tapped his foot impatiently, wincing at the cold ground. He realized again that he was barefoot. He wouldn't be able to run as fast, but his normal speed would be just enough to get him out of harms way.
Jules and Bernie shot flames at the bars, and once they started to melt through, Sonic got ready to spin dash underneath the fire. As the bars caved, Sonic ducked down, under the burning hot flames. His top quill got singed a bit, but overall, he escaped just fine.
Sally grabbed his hand,
"Come on! We have to get out of here!"
"Okay okay, chill Sal".
The four freedom fighters, reunited with their hero, fled the strange building. Although Sonic was safe, there were still a bunch of questions Sally had for him, and still a bunch that Sonic had for his parents about Cinos, and where Cinos had gone. He also wondered if Dr. Quack and his family were okay. Had they been robotized also?
I HOPE YOU ENJOYED CHAPTER 2 OF CINOS THE HEDGEHOG. FIND OUT WHERE CINOS RAN OFF TO, WHAT HAPPENED TO DR. QUACK'S FAMILY, AND HOW SONIC IS GOING TO RESTORE HIS PARENTS. ALL OF THESE ANSWERS WILL BE FOUND IN CINOS THE HEDGEHOG CHAPTER 3: FAMILY REUNION. THANK YOU FOR READING AND LOOK FORWARD TO CHAPTER 3, COMING SOON!
To be continued...