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"Hmmm, now lets see here...Eggcellent! All systems, full power! OHOHHOHO! Now, lets begin our little...word search, Sonic!" Robotnik gleefully rubbed his gloved hands together as he entered the base.
As he began taking a step in his base the building roared to life. Lights flickered on, machines began buzzing around, and noise filled the base, practically making it almost look like it never turned off in the first place. He entered the production system and, surprisingly enough, it was pitch perfect and soundly clean from the robotic maids he created.
'Wait a minute.' he thought as he abruptly stopped in his tracks.
'Why did I call that rodent Sonic! He's nothing more than a tiny punching bag for my superior and state of the art machines! Hmm, I suppose that little good for nothing scientist still lives in me, argh! Not now! I've gotten more than enough distractions! I've waited far tooooooooo long for this day to begin with only for all my dreams come to a sudden halt! All because that little trouble maker just wants me to see that my greatest plan and my grandfathers vengeance will never come to light. No! You know what, I'll deal with him later and I WILL eradicate all thats left of him...personally.' Eggman's voice lowered threateningly as his eyebrows closed onto each other and for a moment, his glasses illuminated from the shadows of the workshop.
Then he began his tracks again, before taking a sharp right around the corner and continued his walking. Though if you were to pay attention to his surroundings, you would notice the lights overhead began to dimmer darker every step he took toward to his lab. Before he began walking more faster and turning more corners, going down stairs and into more corners before facing a dead end. He didn't look the slightest bit surprised. If anything he looked more annoyed at how long he had to take in order to get to the room.
He's gonna need to hide it more closer and more camouflaged near the entrance of the base later on.
"You know what they say, the more the merrier." He spoke to the wall. A humming noise was present for a while and in a split second later the wall screeched and coughed up smoke in the room as the sound of metal shifting and bending echoed around the hallways, till the wall had opened up to reveal that the wall had been a secret hidden room, which is where Robotnik's state of the art machines are brought up in his mind and to be contained there before the work begins on the production of them.
"Access granted. Welcome ." A monotone female voice chirped all around the room.
The room began flickering on to life with the rest of the base as the light from the outside hallway began showing off the spectacles of the room which was barely being illuminated only by the computer screen.
"What service shall I do today, Dr.?" The computer questioned the doctor waiting patiently for a response.
"I'm glad you asked me so nicely. However, I've got big plans for today! And it doesn't even help that I have a tight schedule right now, so lets get down to business. First! Activate all light power directly onto this room, on the double! I want to see my own discovery with as much light as this base can hold, so I can see my arch-nemesis's greatest secret...How his body lives no matter how tough and complicated my machines are! And! While my past life's machine gave that blue sponge his speed, it couldn't possibly have given him his durability, his strength, and the ability to possess all seven of the chaos emeralds, WITHOUT shattering into millions of tiny and certainly microscopic little fur balls from the power of the chaos emeralds. After all from what I remember, that machine was nothing more than a test to see how fast his speed can take him. It was a pretty practical machine really, nothing my grandfather hasn't made before! So, I must see the results of his body's transformation since the hour and millisecond I gifted him his speed. It's only fair he returns a gift to me!"
"Yes sir Dr., I'll be done right away sir." The computer obeyed. The doctor didn't have to wait long as the room was being brightly illuminated with the electrical light being redirected to the room, revealing the state of the room, which had wires, circuits, and unfinished or canceled machine projects and little screws packed around them. While in the center corner of the room was some unrevealed project covered to protect its identity though 2 faint glowing red orbs was all that could be seen from the cloth.
"Computer, remind me to clean and reuse all these useless scrap metal for spare parts and other more...Realistic projects." Robotnik ordered in distaste at the state of the room, wanting to be as curtly clean as possible for other more promising projects such as the current one.
"Understood Mr Robotnik. Orders are being sent around the base at the moment."
"Eggcellent!" Robotnik cheered and laughed excitedly, but however, his fit of excitement was cut shortly when he began coughing on his laughter as some saliva got caught in his throat. After coughing for a minute, he glanced back towards the computer looking embarrassed for coughing up on himself and staining some of the floor with his saliva.
"Emmhprmph! Right." He punched his belly one more time to stop the coughing. After being able to breathe normally again he pulled his left arm back and reached down into his pants revealing a tube of red liquid which was labeled SA3. The label was defined on the side of it (subject's analysis number 3).
"Computer! I want an in depth analysis of this vial...The vial of my greatest foes's blood! Bring me the results of whats in this vial! Everything that makes him live, and everything thats makes him...Sonic!" The doctor ordered as he punched in a select few codes onto the computer before a tube had risen out of the home console. Robotnik placed the vial inside causing the tube and as well as the vial to sink down onto the computer to analyze.
"Processing...Please wait a minute doctor. I have not analyzed blood before, let alone a hedgehogs blood that has it's original blood patterns or chromosomes altered by the speed of sound." The computer updated as a website popped up to update the process of analyzing the blood sample.
"Hmmm very well! I shall wait for the process to continue. After all, I've got other business to tend to." He ended. Glancing to the covered machine before walking towards it.
He stopped on front of it. He got on one knee and rubbed the top of it, grinning proudly.
"Soon, my creation, the world shall see the gift of my genius mind. Isn't that right, Superior Metal Sonic."
"Yes. Master." Responded a voice with a tinge of metal and humanoid voice almost like a fusion, talking.
"Dr., the results are in. Would you like to come see them now?" the computer spoke up again, it's screen flashing between a yes or a no box.
Robotnik typed in YES.
"Very well Dr., here's what I have been able to collect on the hedgehog that you speak of." the computer screen flashed again as numbers, letters, sentences, recordings, percentages, decimals, and fractions began piling up the screen.
Robotnik grinned crazily, and even split a demented smile afterwards.
"Now hedgehog...It's time to see what you're truly made of, old friend." He began reading the analysis of the substances found in the blood. However in the center corner of the room, two glowing orbs looked towards the data received from the hedgehog and began recording the video.
Superior Metal Sonic and the computer stopped on the last data entry found from the hedgehog's blood.
In the last recording found the screen had written down, Robotnik looked paler than usual and his crazed smile faded from his face and his expression had changed drastically, looking more worried than even when the hedgehog went super and his eyebrows curved upwards, the smile was replaced with a frown too. The frown of fear of the readings and in the screen it had read.
"Negative chaos energy levels: VERY HIGH. PROCEED THE HEDGEHOG WITH EXTREME CAUTION."
Robotnik's breathing stopped and he held his breath.
The room became more quieter than it already was.
Slowly and shakily Robotnik asked the computer the amount of negative chaos energy stored in the blood.
"56 percent." The computer answered.
'What?! That can't be! This blood was barely contained nearly two years ago when I gave him his speed!...WHO gave him this much power, and how did he get it?!' Robotnik thought.
How much has this dormant negative chaos energy increased?!
He must know...
"M-multiply that b-by two years c-computer." Robotnik requested again, more afraid for what number he was going to get.
"Beyond 100 percent, Dr." The computer calculated.
Superior Metal Sonic stopped recording and began to power down...
This was more than enough information to finish Sonic...
For good...
G.U.N HEADQUARTERS
The commander was seething in anger, barely being controlled in order to put on a good impression on the G.U.N. soldiers behind him waiting for instructions.
He faced the giant screen in front of him and glanced toward the other screens meant for tracking fugitives and world leaders slightly, before facing the screen again which had been broadcasting the controversial video of Kintobor's death.
"Sir...?" one of the soldiers asked. The other G.U.N. units glanced towards the one in question, waiting for him to continue.
The commander only grunted in response, not bothering to turn around to face him as he continued to watch the video.
The soldier hesitated slightly as he was put into the spotlight, but he continued to speak, not wanting to be on the commanders bad side.
"The G.U.N. units have already launched a search party in request of the president to find the blue hedgehog, Sonic-"
"Well?! Get to the point, my patience is running thin! Have they found him?!" The commander interrupted as he faced the soldiers behind him who had straightened their bodies in synch save for the one who had spoke up.
He was glaring hardly at the soldier
"W-well n-no sir n-not house the hedgehog had resided in had been blown up...From what the fire marshals can infer the explosion came from the inside of the building...nothing useful had been found. Everything had been destroyed even the equipment inside...the hedgehogs body hasn't been found either." The soldier finished weakly.
The commander sighed at the news. His glare softened and looked more disappointed. He lowered his head slowly to the ground and shake'd sideways before closing his eyes.
The image of a young girl in a blue dress with golden hair and emerald blue eyes looked happily at him and smiled sincerely, as she closed her eyes before disintegrating into dust from a black and red figure who had slashed through her and laughed darkly.
'Maria, I'm sorry. I thought...I really hoped that...This wouldn't happen again.'
'I thought I could give them one more chance...'
'But now...I've seen their true colors..'
'They'll pay for what they did to us...'
'Starting with the blue demon...'
He opened up his eyes again. The solders waited expectantly.
His glare returned twice as harder than the last one he made sure each and every word was spoken through with directions given clear.
"Make sure that hedgehog is found. I want all of G.U.N. from the soldiers, to the machines active and on patrol."
"But sir-." One of the other soldiers spoke up.
"I'm issuing a world wide search of that damn hedgehog! Do I make my self CLEAR!" The commander ordered.
"I gave you an order soldier! I want him found, and bring him back to me...in a body bag or alive." He issued threateningly right as the controversial video ended in a brief explosion making the commanders orders more hostile.
"Sir!" the soldiers responded in synch before storming off to contact the rest of the G.U.N. soldiers for their next orders.
The Commander looked back to the screen watching the explosion spreading out of the area and the blur of blue escaping from it.
"Finally... justice will be served for you..."
"Maria.."
The gun in his hand cocked.
SOMEWHERE ELSE:
"Psst, Tails..." Someone asked gently as the young cub was nudged slightly.
"Pssssssst..Tailss..."
"Tailsssss..."
"Tails!"
"TAILS!"
"HEY! WAKE UP TAILS!"
"Hmm?...*yawn* who's...there?" The young kit groggily asked opening up his eyes to meet the silhouette of a black being with black iris's and red pupils and a wide crazed smile... because of this he woke up fully and backed away fast till his back smashed against the bark of a fallen tree...
His breathing hitched and tears threatened to spill before he covered his face with his arms.
"Ta-"
"STAY BACK YOU Y-OU MONSTER!" He screeched. His voice was caught with the tears spilling from his eyes.
"T-tails whats wrong!...Buddy!.."
"I SAID, STAY BAC-"
"Tails!..I don't know whats gotten into you but please...stop crying!" the figure spoke up and introduced the fox into a tight hug.
"L-LET ME G-Go!" Tails screeched and tried in vain to escape the figures grip on him.
"It's okay Tails! I'm here! Please don't make this hard! Please, look at me it's your bro!"
"N-NOO!"
"PLEASE, LOOK AT ME!"
"N-"
"Please!"
"n-"
"Please...I'm not gonna hurt you...just look at me that's all I ask... please...little bro."
Tails couldn't take the fear anymore and hugged the figure back crying in their chest for a very long time.
"Tails...don't scare me like that again...I-I'm sorry for waking you up like that...I wont do it again...I'm sorry please, forgive me."
The figure sat there asking...for the fox's forgiveness.
"W-who a-are y-you..." Tails asked. his tears and shivering had stopped.
He made no attempts yet, to look at the figure in question.
"Did you forget already?...It's me...Sonic, Sonic the hedgehog..."
"S-sonic!" Tails gasped and looked up, quickly squinting his eyes from the bright sun before covering his face with one hand until his vision began to refocus.
"Sonic! It really is you!" Tails squealed in happiness and tightened his grip on Sonic even harder.
"Whoa there Tails! Your grip is really strong! Don't hug any tighter'er or you might crack me up like an egg!" He joked.
"Wait...Tails, what do you mean it really is me?" Sonic asked.
"Sonic...I was so worried! I waited a long time for you to come back to get me...but you never did and when I came to find you the f-forest was g-g-gone EVERYTHING! The animals, the leaves, the trees. I thought they came for you...I couldn't find anything I-I-I thought you died!"
Sonic looked down in regret and adorned a frown. He closed his eyes and softly patted Tails on the back.
"I-I'm sorry you had to see that Tails. I promise from this time on I'll let you know where I'm going... Is that okay?"
"I-It's okay..just please...tell me next time where you're going." Tails looked up onto Sonic's now opened eyes. A little frown was kept in his face and some tears stayed making him look younger and innocent. Sonic coo'ed him and ruffled his hair in a brotherly manner earning a happy whine from the young fox.
"Tails. Do you really think that "they", even in a number of thousands, would catch a hedgehog that is faster than the speed of sound?!" Sonic asked flabbergasted.
"I am Sonic The Hedgehog! And so long as I live, nothing is gonna take me down without the coolest fight the world has ever seen!" He said and jump onto his feet and raised his right arm into the air heroically.
"N-no I just thought that you...left me like..my parents..." He ended somberly.
Sonic looked back at him in shock his eyes widening and his mouth open and agape before reassuring his best friend as best as he could.
"Tails, you know I wouldn't do that. I know what you feel...An accident happened a long time ago, for me at least, that took away someone I saw as a dad." He ended nostalgically as he walked toward the edge of a cliff and stared down at it, remorsefully.
"Sonic.."
"Yeah...Li'l bro"
"What happened...that caused the accident?"
Sonic looked up from the cliff, and glanced back to Tails. Before looking forward again. Facing the almost endless looking forest.
"Just an accident..." he muttered.
"That's all..."
SOMETIME AFTERWARD:
"...And thats the gist of it." Sonic finished walking with Tails before stopping suddenly drawing near their secret base of operations.
"WOW! So that change in your body last night was actually a new super form!? And you can fly too, WITHOUT THE CHAOS EMERALDS!? And you can teleport! And its even stronger than the super!" Tails said excitedly jumping all around feeling relief and fear being lifted off his shoulders.
Sonic smiled proudly and pointed a finger at himself and nodded.
"If its even stronger than the super, we can beat Eggman even more easier than ever!" He added as he practically bounced from the trees and around Sonic.
"Hold on..." Tails stopped bouncing and looked at Sonic quizzically as he floated downwards.
"If it's stronger than the chaos emeralds...Then why did you ask me to get as many chaos emeralds as I could?"
"Oh! Well you see Tails, even though the new form is stronger than the chaos emeralds, I just learned how strong this new form was after we left the house...Well that and I have another reason...I guess you could say, a backup plan." He explained thoroughly, sitting down so that Tails could listen too, by sitting down closely which he did waiting in anxiety curiosity and mostly EXCITEMENT!
"Well! What is it?!" The cub asked childishly and innocently.
"Alright the backup plan is...Well...How do I say this...The backup plan is you." Sonic told Tails simply.
"Me?.." Tails asked dumbfounded. He tilted his head in confusion.
"Yeah, you!"
"What do you mean Sonic?" Tails asked not knowing where the conversation was going and was looking more confused by the second. He looked towards Sonic expectantly to give him a clearer answer.
"*Sigh* It's exactly what I mean all else fails and even this new form can't stop Eggman's new plans then...you'll be the one to stop him with the chaos emeralds." He said without emotion as he laid on his back laid his arms behind his head and stared across the bluish sky, noticing a butterfly land on his nose.
"B-but Sonic! I-I'm not ready for this responsibility. You never fail! You never give up! You're the one who saved the world...twice and found me when I needed help the most! Sides I'm only eight! You're twelve and thats a big difference Sonic!" He tried convincing Sonic.
Sonic looked at Tails sternly, a little startled to see the butterfly up close flying away from his nose before he twisted his head straight again to watch the skies.
'If only you knew Tails... How much I gave up.' His emotionless expression changed and grew more sombre as he looked towards tails again more slowly.
"Tails did you forget...I was on adventures just like these already since I could run. If anything you're more prepared than I was. You're smart, you can fly naturally without forms if even for a moment, and destroyed one of Eggmans' bases just to prove to you can be a hero like me! I couldn't even spell my name right when I started and I STILL have trouble spelling and writing! And don't even get me started on MATH, I hate math!"
"But math is super easy! If anything, junior jumble is the one that is really hard!"
"Nah... Its crossword puzzles! Those are wayyyyyyy harder than junior jumble!" He said trying to make light of the mood and actually smiled from what he told Tails.
"Whatever..." Tails scoffed and looked away, closing his eyes and pouting as childishly as possible.
"Plus...you didn't live with what I had seen, been through...to an extent, and done to others..." he added solemnly and quietly and turned his head to look at his left hand. Tails hardly heard it, and could only make out some words.
He looked confusingly at him with an eyebrow raised.
Then Tails thought of an idea.
He'd done it once to Sonic on the past Christmas to buy him a Sonic action figure.
Tails looked at him, and mustered up on the cutest frown and whine he could make up.
"Oh Tails! Don't you dare do that again, because it isn't gonna work this time!" Sonic jokingly threatened as he tried looking at him more sternly and brotherly.
But Tails refused.
He continued to whine determinedly and make his face even more cuter.
"Tails! Stop that, I am not changing my mind! Or else I'm gonna give you a bad time!"
Tails tried harder until his face and his body began turning red from lack of air.
"Tails! Stop!"
But he still refused.
'Oh, this kid is gonna be the death of me.' Sonic thought amusingly and smiled a genuine smile outwardly.
"Alright, Alright Tails you win! Besides I think I got another backup plan." Sonic smirked.
"UGHHHHHH!*cough , cough* Why didn't you tell me! I almost passed out from no air!"Tails asked slightly angrily.
"Anyways, Sonic I got a gift for you."
"Huh?!" Sonic gasped startled.
"Close your eyes!" Tails instructed as he took his right hand behind his back the shifting of some equipment was heard.
"But wh-"
"Just do it."
"Alright."
"Now Open!"
"It's...A watch?"
"Not just any kind of watch. It's a watch that tells you what time you have left before Eggman launches his plan." Tails explained as he tossed the watch to Sonic who had caught it easily with his left gloved hand and tucked the watch on his right gloved wrist.
"Just make sure wherever you go, the time will may be different than where we are now or you know, you might somehow manage to end up in a different planet. Which in those cases make sure to recalibrate the watch on the green button." Tails pointed on the green button affixed on the watch.
"Ohhh, alright then. Well in that case, it's time." Sonic said quickly standing up and doing a little bit of a warmup as the sounds of popping and bones cracking slightly filled the silent forest.
"Time?" Asked Tails confused again. He stood up fully and walked over to Sonic who had finished his quick warmup and was staring at the forest path way. A contempt smile was put in his face as he took a deep breath of air.
"Tails do you have the chaos ring tracker?" Sonic asked not bothering to change his position.
"Uhh hold on let me see...Yup! I got it right here, so now what?" Tails asked Sonic again and walked up to him and began staring at the rest of the forest.
"Now... It's time for our next adventure to begin!" Sonic proclaimed and quickly grabbed Tails hand.
"So Tails, where's the next chaos emerald!" Sonic asked waiting for Tails to respond.
"Oh umm...that way." Tails pointed to a direction of the forest.
"Alrighty then...Here we, GO!" And so Sonic and Tails blasted to the direction of the last Emerald.
"W-wahhhah! Careful Sonic I can't...K-keep up with you!" Tails screamed in excitement as they blasted through the forest in the speed of sound and everything around him looked like a blur. It was soo amazing!
"Then use your two tails to propel us even faster cause this may take a while!" Sonic shouted over the air that was rushing through their ears.
Tails stared into some area of the forest looking dumbstruck. 'Of course! Why didn't I think of that?!'
So he used his two tails and Sonic's speed to propel them even faster than than before.
"Alright! Bring it on!" Sonic shouted, and took off at the speed of light. Leaving a sonic boom behind several times over.
After a while of running and zagging across tree stumps and branches and running across water, the hedgehog looked behind him to catch a glimpse of Tails.
"So!" Sonic yelled again. Catching Tails' attention
"How much farther is the chaos emerald?!"
"Almost there! Keep running a little bit more Sonic!"
"You betcha Tails!" Sonic replied cockily as he quickly sped up even more.
"Wait for it..." whispered Tails, glancing to Sonic before glancing towards the watch again.
"WAIT for it..." He half whispered half yelled in order for Sonic to hear.
"WAIT FOR IT!"
"Anddddddddd STOP!" Yelled Tails, quickly stopping his propelled tails before crashing onto Sonic's back as they stumbled around for a few moments on the water before stopping on some kind of cliff."
Tails looked over, slowly groaning in discomfort at the speed they stopped. His head was very dizzy and soon, colors and places seemed mismatched around them.
He held down the feeling to puke and covered his mouth tightly, several times.
"Mannn..." Tails heard Sonic groan groggily as well.
"Thattt...wasss...INCREDIBLE!" Sonic yelled in triumph and quickly shot up in the air and landed gracefully on the floor without the sound of bones crunching.
"MAN I'VE NEVER RAN SO FAST IN MY WHOLE LIFE BEFORE! YOU WERE INCREDIBLE TAILS! DID YOU SEE THE OCEAN FALLING BEHIND US OR THE BREEZE OF THE AIR OR... Oh, you okay there buddy?" Sonic asked Tails looking at his current green faced state.
"O-other, than f-feeling m-m-motion sick. I'm f-fine." Tails choked out, some saliva was falling out of his mouth.
"Oh, umm...sorry back there Tails, I probably...should've been more careful around you, huh?"
"Y-yeah, ya t-think." Tails grumbled irritated.
"By the way...where are we Tails."
"I dunno S-Sonic I haven't r-read the globe o-often. Just technology only..."
"Hmmm I'll scout around and see what I can get! I'll be right back tails!" Sonic promised and flashed away in an instant. After a few minutes he returned.
He looked gravely white.
And his expression was deadly serious...
He was holding a piece of paper on his right hand...
"Tails..." Sonic commanded.
"Y-yeah sonic?"
"Have you...*sigh* ever heard of Mount Ebott?"
The cool air around them had stopped.
There was a grave silence.
None of the two spoke a sound.
Tails's eyes widened incredibly and removed his hand from his mouth.
Sonic's eyes were narrowed in deep thought as he looked down onto the ground.
Tails felt a chill running down his spine.
And he finally threw up.
