Sonic Heroes Adventures: Tower Prison Escape
(A/N: To my reviewer Ghostkid. Please, tell me who you suspect the third Team Evil member is, because I really just pulled one out of a hat. I don't really know many Sonic Villains. I've had to look most of them up. I only have an idea as to who it will be, and I think there might be a better choice than the one I've picked. Back to the regular author's note. Team Evil won't come back in for a while, yet, but possibly the next story I do will focus on Team Evil, Team Vile, and Snively. Two chapters will be up today. Enjoy.)
Surprise
"Nic, come in sis, come in," Nack pled again. After a moment he jammed the communicator back into Sleet's hands with an annoyed growl.
"Hey, I know what you should call yourself mate," Dingo said to him. "Fang Nack the Weasel Sniper."
Fang blinked blankly, not turning, then slapped his own forehead at Dingo's attempt to lighten the mood. "Why isn't she picking up?" Sleet demanded.
"Because she can't be bothered to lift her finger," Nack replied in a sardonic tone, as if it were obvious. "The girl is useless."
"If she were, we wouldn't have heard of the robots until they were knocking at our door," Sleet said.
"Since when do you stand up for anyone?" Fang demanded.
"Never," Sleet easily replied.
"Except for…" Dingo began.
"Silence you misbegotten mongrel!" Sleet barked.
"Sorry Sleet," Dingo muttered.
"Give me the communicator!" Nack ordered, snatching it back. He turned on the screen again, saying, "Nicolette Weasel, pick up!"
Just then a voice replied, "Son of a dog, what are you tryin' to do Nack, blow my cover!"
"If you had answered right away I wouldn't be repeating myself!" Fang shot.
"If I could have I would have!" she barked. "Where are you guys? These bots memory chips are ninety percent complete," she added in a more strained tone.
"We had a bad run-in with Scourge and your old friend Fiona," Nack replied.
"What, and you're still alive!" she asked in amazement.
"We're Team Vile, sis," Fang responded.
"You really are getting attached to that team, aren't you?" Nic wryly asked.
"Highest success rate I've had so far," Nack boasted.
"That ain't nothing to brag about little brother," Nic teased.
"Coming from you!" Nack barked.
"Enough! We'll be there in five minutes," Sleet declared.
"Sleet, we might not have five minutes!" Nic protested.
"We'll be there Sheila," Dingo reassured for Sleet. Sleet didn't appear convinced, even looking slightly worried, but Nic felt obligated to believe the dingo. In this situation, any optimism was welcome. "Signing off," Dingo said, shutting down the communication line.
"Sleet…" Nack began.
"Step on it," Sleet merely ordered. Nack pushed the 'Marvelous Queen' as fast as he could.
"Ninety-nine, one-hundred," team Acorn, Snively, and Bokkun counted down.
"All memory restored, data banks complete," Orbot said. They cheered, Snively not knowing why he was joining them. Maybe memories of the old days when he was a freedom fighter too.
"I remember where they are now!" Decoe exclaimed.
"So do I" Bocoe agreed. The two leapt up, laughing, and began to dance around.
"Hey Orbot, can we do that?" Cubot questioned. Orbot glared at him.
"Can you please fill us in already?" Sally demanded, jumping right to the point.
"Where are they ya'll?" Bunnie pressed.
"Eggman's been fighting against Sonic and co in a place called…" Decoe began.
Just then, however, a voice stated, "Nowheresville as far as you're concerned."
Everyone gasped and whirled. Bokkun screamed in terror and darted behind Bunnie. Sally's eyes widened as she exclaimed, "You three!"
"Surprise," Dingo said.
"Princess Sally, long time, no see," Fang taunted, grinning at her coldly.
"You freak Fang!" Sally yelled.
"Princess, that ain't no way to talk to an old friend," Nack declared.
"You're no friend of mine!" she shot.
"Ya'll must be Team Vile, Sleet, Dingo, and Nack! Sonic told us all about you! You ain't gettin' in our way, ya here!" Bunnie declared.
"Oh no? What was you bot heads about to say?" Dingo challenged the four robots who knew.
"Oh man, these guys are worse in person," Bocoe said as he and Decoe clung to each other, shaking.
"You're the ones who Eggman replaced us all with!" Scratch shot angrily.
"The pleasure was all ours," Sleet replied. "Seeing you all now, I can see why you were scrapped."
"Go away and leave us alone, or we'll teach you a lesson!" Grounder declared, shaking his fist though his voice shook.
"Will you now?" Sleet questioned, cocking his gun.
"Uh, he was kidding, hee hee, just kidding," Coconuts quickly covered, putting his hand over Grounder's mouth as Scratch retreated fearfully.
"Eggman can be found in…" Orbot began, quickly trying to get it out, always belittling Eggman's plans anyway. Just then, however, Sleet shot, temporarily paralyzing the bot!
"Nothing personal, in fact I like you, you're like me, you even have an idiot partner, but we can't have you ruining everything now, can we?" Sleet said to the frozen bot.
"Orbot, no!" Cubot exclaimed, going dramatic and falling to what passed as knees for him.
"Stop being a baby. Unless you want to join him, you'll keep quiet," Sleet threatened.
"How dare you intrude on my base! These are my enemies now!" Snively yelled at the wolf.
"Oh, you must be Snively. What a pleasure," Sleet sarcastically replied. Nack chuckled as Sleet met his eyes, catching the order, then aimed at him. Snively gasped, falling silent. "I've heard you were a treacherous little fellow. How's your sister Hope? Was she your half-sister or step sister?" Sleet growled.
"Get out of my base before I get Metal Sonic here!" Snively ordered, fury rising up, uncertain if it was a threat, but not wanting to find out.
Team Acorn looked surprised, but then quickly realized what he was trying to do. He was trying to bluff his way out, and bringing them with him, though they couldn't guess why. Possibly mutual dislike? He couldn't summon Metal Sonic. Snively wasn't anywhere near his communication station. Metal would return, but not to Snively, just to the dock. Vile didn't know that, though.
Team Vile looked startled alright. "Metal Sonic! Sleet, what are we gonna do?" Dingo asked.
"He doesn't have all the Chaos and Sol Emeralds anymore. He'll be as difficult as Scourge was. Maybe even easier," Fang quickly said, though uncertainty was in his tone.
Just then Sleet spotted Clack coming at him. He gasped and quickly shot the metal bird with the gun he'd used on Orbot. Clack made a sound of pain and fell to the ground, dazed. "Clack!" Snively exclaimed. True, he never really liked the bird at first, but Clack was becoming a useful help to him. Grudgingly he admitted he was starting to like him. The bird had grown on him. He saw the appeal he had, had to Eggman.
"Try it. Call Metal," Sleet challenged. Snively cursed the wolf a million times over. He'd called the bluff, probably without even knowing it was a bluff. From what he'd heard, Team Vile probably really did think they could beat him. Without the Chaos Emeralds, Sol Emeralds, or Super Emeralds, basically just the upgraded Chaos Emeralds, Snively didn't doubt it.
"Curse you and your infernal team," Snively grumbled.
"Nack ya useless traitah! Nic's your sister! How can ya go through with it?" Bunnie demanded.
"You're kidding, right?" Fang asked, glaring hatefully at Nic.
"Oh, that hurts so much bro," Nic snidely retorted, sneering at him.
"You can't do this to us!" Bokkun exclaimed, getting brave and flying right up to Sleet, startling the wolf who stared at him in a mix of horror and amazement.
"What are you?" Sleet asked.
"It don't matta," Dingo declared, seizing Bokkun from the air and squeezing him tightly. The little thing cried out in pain and fear.
"Miss Bunnie, mommy!" he cried, bursting into tears, trying to get sympathy in his ever classic way, weeping. It had saved him enough times before. Dingo looked startled, hold loosening, yet still Bokkun couldn't pull free.
"Mommy? When did that happen?" Fang questioned Bunnie, confused.
"He isn't really her son idiot," Sleet growled.
"Don't ya dare hahm him! Let him go ya big brute!" Bunnie ordered, worry in her eyes.
"Then again, he wouldn't have to be," Sleet remarked to Team Vile, so the others couldn't hear. Facing the others once more, he asked, "Oh, you don't want him hurt, do you?" A malicious glint lit up his eyes. "Squeeze a little harder Dingo," Sleet ordered.
"But Sleet, he's a kid," Dingo protested.
"Do it!" Sleet barked.
"Okay mate. Sorry little guy," Dingo said, squeezing, making Bokkun's sobs choke off. "So much for that plan," the little one gasped.
"Let him go!" Bunnie demanded, trying to run forward. Sally and Nic, though, held her back quickly. "Get off a me! Bokkun!" she cried.
"You seriously liked him?" Nic incredulously asked.
"He's a child Nic!" Bunnie defended.
"Ugh, maternal instinct. I'm so glad I'm not a girl," Snively remarked coldly.
"You and me both," Sleet said to him.
"Sleet, I think I'm really hurtin' him," Dingo said worriedly. Sleet slapped his own forehead.
"Then again, I suppose there's paternal instinct too," Sleet remarked wryly, glaring bitterly at his partner. Dingo nervously grinned.
"Let Bokkun go you bullies!" Decoe ordered, anger coming to him.
"Yeah, or we'll make you!" Bocoe added.
"Mother, two brothers, all the little twerp needs is a father," Nack snickered, loving every minute of this.
"Nack, leave him alone! What do you want!" Sally demanded, feeling sorry for Bokkun.
"We'll get him!" Scratch declared, cutting off any answer she might have gotten. "Charge!" he ordered. He, Grounder, and Coconuts ran towards them, only to have Sleet shoot them with the paralyzing device for robots.
Cubot floated up to them, saying, "Scratch, Grounder, Coconuts, no!"
"You didn't even know them," Bocoe remarked, annoyed.
"Alas, I knew them not, Decoe and Bocoe," Cubot said. Bocoe and Decoe slapped their own foreheads.
"Idiots, don't attack until I say! You're too out of practice!" Snively ordered, cursing himself for not reactivating them long ago; but come on, how was he to know he'd be attacked randomly by old enemies of Sonic's who were thought long dead and only just showed up recently with absolutely no clue what was going on?
"Back to the spoiled princess's question," Fang said, put off by being so rudely interrupted. "We want you three girls to come along quietly. We have plans for you," Fang continued, grinning evilly at Team Acorn.
"You're getting yourselves caught in the middle of two separate battles, you know," Snively warned them with no hostility.
"It doesn't matter," Sleet said simply. "It will become one, soon enough. Come along girls. We've got a long journey ahead of us," Sleet ordered.
"Oh no we don't!" Sally shot. "Come on girls, let's do it to it!" Sally ordered.
"Oh gods, don't remind me of that song!" Sleet groaned, remembering the Underground's number. Dingo began to hum the song. Sleet twitched then whirled on him, yelling, "Silence you bumbling dunderhead!"
Dingo quickly snapped out of it, snarled, then squeezed Bokkun tighter, making him scream out in pain. "Mommy!" he called.
"Sal-gal, no!" Bunnie exclaimed, grabbing back Sally. "He's gonna hahm the poor little thing!"
Sally looked back venomously at the trio and their hostage. She knew they had no loyalty to Bokkun. He'd turn on them in a minute, if he wanted to. He was their enemy. All these robots were their enemies, or would be tomorrow if not today. However, at the moment, Team Vile was an enemy to them all. My enemy's enemy is my friend. Besides that, she couldn't bring herself to risk having the mutual threat hurt him. He was a child, robot or not. "Princess Sally, you cannot let them hurt Bokkun!" Decoe exclaimed.
"Please, he is like a brother to us," the silver Bocoe agreed.
"An annoying pest of one, yes, but one nonetheless," the gold Decoe chimed.
Sally looked at them. They had forsaken Eggman before to join Sonic. They must be neutral, to a degree, and it was obvious they liked Bokkun. Finally she turned to face Team Vile, defeated, saying, "All right, you win."
Fang grinned giddily, almost bouncing up at down on his tail, grabbed her hands, then said, eyes flashing maliciously as he spun her around, "Oh Sally, you have no idea how happy you've made me with those four words! I've never felt anything like this before!"
"Can it Nack!" she ordered hatefully, furiously pulling away from him. Nack just laughed. Immortals, Sleet suddenly had a craving to best a certain someone like this. He couldn't begin to imagine the satisfaction he'd get out of her surrendering to him. Tears and begging would make it all the sweeter. In time, Sleet, in time.
"Best of all, I've pulled one over on my sister too! How could this day get better?" Nack continued excitedly.
"Hey mate, you're actin like a kid who got a present he always wanted," Dingo remarked.
"I am!" Fang replied.
"Fang, last warning!" Nic barked. Fang shut instantly up and stopped bouncing, catching the double meaning. She was playing the part, but he hadn't really caught her in the way he had the other two. She could tell Team Acorn that little fact just as easily as one, two, three, and betray them. She knew about Station Square now too, and South Island, and all the places Sonic might go to. He calmed down, though he was reluctant, very tempted to call her bluff, seeing her obvious attraction to his co-worker Sleet.
"And just for good measure, we'll be bringing this little black…thing, with us," Sleet said, gesturing at Bokkun. He still wasn't sure whether Bokkun was a robot or flesh and blood. If he was a robot, he was one of Eggman's better ones.
"Fine," Bunnie said in defeat, answering for all Team Acorn.
"Sonic will come for us," Sally hissed at Team Vile.
"Oh, we hope he does," Sleet replied. Team Acorn waited icily as Sleet and Fang cuffed them all, then dragged them away, leaving behind the paralyzed and out of practice robots.
When they were gone, Snively turned to the bots, who were beginning to recover, and said, "First things first, training. The Knothole and Mobotropolis Freedom fighters are mine, and no one, especially not Robotnick, is going to take them from me. He gave up his right to attack them long ago." The robots nodded in understanding, ready to learn, and determined to save their own.