DP2
It should be noted that I do know Sonia is capable of taking care of herself in the show. What you have to realize though is that this chapter will actually focus on 2 years BEFORE her training, when she would have been taught that sort of behavior is unladylike.
Chapter 2
"But he didn't stop there...it's actually how I met Bartleby..." she trailed off as she remembered.
"What happened?" Sonic asked, frowning. How had Bartleby won his sister through this rich geek?
Sonia thought back to that day. "It was two years before I met you guys..."
At 16 years old, Sonia had yet to learn what life was really like. She was just another noble daughter. Good for naught but to be waited on and to marry, was what other nobles said of her. She was glad her adopted mother didn't see it that way. Lady Wyndimere encouraged her to be herself. Most noble parents would be arranging the marriage of their daughter to a higher ranking noble man if at all possible. Again, Lady Wyndimere was different. The victim of an unhappy marriage because of her own arrangement, she was determined that Sonia marry for love and have the marriage she always wanted for herself.
So when Samuel Codeine, an anthro-raccoon, heir to the duke and duchess of Lindenberry, came to pay her to arrange a marriage between him and Sonia, she had been quite offended. Her refusal was well-heard and the embarrassment of being kicked into a flower bed and forced to repair it had left him wanting revenge.
Naively, Sonia walked home from the mall. Her bots had been sent back to her home with her purchases. It was getting dark. The girl didn't notice anything suspicious. She had no idea something was amiss until a hand twisted hers behind her back. A knife was pushed into the small of her back.
"Into the alley, scream and you die," a harsh whisper entered her ears.
Frightened, she allowed her attacker to force her into the next alley. A large bear forced her against the wall.
"I got her, sir," the big man said as Samuel entered the scene.
Sonia grit her teeth. "You! Let me go or I'll tell Lady Wyndimere!"
Samuel gave her a most sadistic smile. "You can tell her nothing if you are dead. She humiliated me as did you, you little harlot. I don't take kindly to rejection. Now I'm going to give you a choice. You can accept my proposal, or Marcus here can ruin your pretty little face."
Sonia trembled under threat of the knife. "I'll never marry a worm like you!" She forced out.
"Hmm, what an illogical answer, most unexpected. Perhaps we should proceed with test 1 and see what you think," Samuel snapped his fingers in a wordless command to his minion.
The knife was placed at her flesh and Marcus was about to make the first cut.
"What is going on here?" a pompous male voice at the head of alley called.
Marcus dropped Sonia and the knife in surprise. Before the brute could recover her, she had fled towards the voice.
Samuel sneered. "Bartleby, Lord of Dresdin correct?"
The mink turned his nose up at the lower noble. "That would be correct. Now, what is going on here!" The blonde turned to look at the pink hedgehog behind him. "Did he and that big brute hurt you my dear?"
She couldn't answer, her mind racing with how close she'd come to losing her innocence and perhaps even her life.
Bartleby glared at the other noble as he realized what must have almost happened. "You would dare to force yourself on a young lady? Shame, Samuel Codeine, for shame indeed. Imagine if your mother was to learn of this heinous crime. Or perhaps, Doctor Robotnik himself."
"Like he would care," Samuel pointed out.
"He would if I told him you were aiding the Resistance," the Lord of Dresdin said with a grin as the cocky sneer fell from the other man's visage. "I assume you're going to leave the dear lady alone then and I won't have to lecture you again." He offered a kind hand to the 16 year old Sonia. "Come my dear, let us leave this barbarian and his petty thug. You look like you could use some tea"
"And that's how I met Bartleby. He actually kind of saved me," Sonia finished recounting the tale.
Manic waved a hand. "He just happened to be passing by or something? It sounds very convenient."
Sonia frowned. "Actually, if you have to know, he said he'd been following a figure in a purple cloak." Her eyes went wide as she considered the ramifications.
"A purple cloak!" Both Manic and Sonic reiterated. They looked at each other.
"Mom?" Sonic asked aloud. "You mean Mom set you up with him?"
She shrugged. "I don't know. It could be she knew he was the only one with enough influence to get that sleaze to leave me alone. All I know is that he took me back to his home and served me a cup of rosebud tea. We talked and he walked me home. He did ask if he could take me to dinner the next night. We got to know each other. I thought, at first, that he was like other noblemen but he showed me a different side to him."
Manic looked contrite. "Sorry sis, I really need to think before I speak."
Cyrus was looking intently at the plans on the screen, pretending not to hear the story. He gripped his hand into a fist. "Well, maybe we should focus on this for now. We need to do something about this new factory and these new bots before he actually starts using them."
Sonic nodded. "Do you have a plan Cyrus?"
"Sure do, Sonic," Cyrus replied. "Trevor is getting some of the best explosives he can from our demolitions expert. We move at 18:00 hours."
Deep in the forest...
A young man sat before a roaring bonfire, watching his people dance and rejoice their catch earlier in the day. In his lap was a pile of papers, including a blueprint of the new Swat-Bot models.
"As you can see, Boss, Robotnik thinks these new bots will have the power necessary to wipe out the Resistance," a partially-roboticized rabbit explained.
"Thank you Bunny. Robotnik sure seems to have covered his bases with these new bots. All except for this," he pointed at the heart of the bot on the blueprint. "Any word on the Freedom Fighters?"
A young female squirrel stepped forward. "Princes Sonic, Manic and Princess Sonia will be going after the new factory tonight at 18:00 hours."
"18:00 hours," he looked up at the sun high above them. "About 4 hours then. Prepare to move out. Antoine, how did we do earlier today?"
"We managed to lift about a ton of goods, Leo, zey are being packing for the zee people right now," the coyote responded. "Zey will be ready for delivery very soon."
The man nodded. "Nicely done. Our mission tonight is simple. Feed the people. I must prepare for battle."
AN: Yes this is sort of, VERY loosely crossing with SatAM. Sally is not princess of Mobotropolis but rather a neighboring kingdom that Robotnik has also seized. I will be doing SonicxSally. Tails will also be appearing.
Oh, when I say man, I'm trying to keep the character unrevealed since revealing the anthro-species would reveal who he is.
