Sonic the Robotic Crisis

Part Four

Sonic was sitting on a rock, looking at the robotic remains of his old friend. He was waiting for Tails to call and tell him where the next shard of the Time Stone was. He had been waiting for a few minutes now. He kept remembering everything that he and Knuckles had done together. Once Sonic got all of the time shards, the first thing he would do was to set everything back to normal. He was about to lay down when he finally heard Tails' voice.

He said, "Sonic I've located the next shard. It's on Angel Island. There's something weird though. Angel Island seems to be breaking apart!"

"Speaking of Angel Island, I just fought and destroyed a roboticized version of Knuckles!" Sonic exclaimed.

"Then maybe Robotnik is to blame for this. If he is, it won't be long at all before he has the next time shard! You have to get there fast. In fact, you would get there faster if you came to my house. Then I could fly you there on the Tornado," Tails said.

"Alright! I'll be there right away!" Sonic said.

Sonic immediately dashed back toward Tails' house. He zigzagged around rocks, spindashed down hills, all the while wearing a large grin on his face. Going fast was his only relief right now; otherwise, he'd be feeling guilt over Knuckles. It didn't take him much time at all to get to Tails' house. He walked in to see Tails' working on the Tornado. As he took a few more steps, he heard Tails' say, "Finally, I'm done. Oh, hi Sonic. Come on get in the Tornado. Let's go!"

"Ok, I'm on, lets go!" Sonic said as he climbed on the wing of the plane.

Then Tails flipped a switch and started the engine. Within a few seconds, the plane was off Tails' runway and in the air. In two hours, Angel Island emerged into Sonic's line of sight. To his surprise, he didn't see any giant battle ships or massive hordes of robots; all he saw was a group of platforms floating in the ocean. As they approached, a missile flew from the ground and collided with the tornado's wing. The wing was ripped off and sent into the ocean. Without the wing, Tails couldn't keep the Tornado steady. The airplane caught fire started to spiral out of control. Before the Tornado crashed, Tails and Sonic parachuted off the Tornado. They slowly drifted apart in the air, eventually landing on platforms a few miles away from each other. Sonic was on a large western platform, while Tails was on a small eastern platform.

When Sonic landed, he immediately ran toward the center island to meet Tails. Once he got to the edge of his platform, he jumped and landed on the next. Since this platform had trees, Sonic climbed to the top of the highest one and looked around. He saw Tails twelve platforms away. He spindashed down the tree and started running. He broke the sound barrier and jumped. His speed propelled him above the next large platform. When he landed, he started to spindash. He pounded through a nearby rock and into a large forested area. Upon entering, he slowed down so that he could navigate through the trees. There wasn't much light in that area, so Sonic had to strain his eyes just to see a few feet in front of him. In the dark he was easily ambushed by four robots that hid in a rather large bush. They all slammed into Sonic. He lost his breath and he stumbled backwards into a tree. Then he saw the robots come toward him, he dodged their charge by ducking. The four bots slammed into a tree, the tree cracked and fell. Light pored in through gap. That's when he noticed that the four robots looked like one of his old foes, Silver Sonic (Sonic's first robotic look a like, appeared in Sonic2). They all turned toward Sonic, ready to fight.

When Tails landed, he flew in the air to look around. He tried to call Sonic via communicator, but it was damaged when he landed. To remedy this, he started to fly toward the place the time shard was, confident Sonic would find him. After a few seconds, Tails was fired upon. He narrowly dodged the first volley of incoming lasers, but was hit by the second. He was barely able to keep flying, but he had to get the time shard. He dodged the next three volleys and landed on a platform. From there he walked for a few yards, resting his tails so that he wouldn't fall in mid-flight. When he reached a rock, he climbed to its top and resumed flying. He continued to fly until he got on the island that held the time shard. He landed on a large log and started walking. Before he took more than five steps, he was surrounded by Egg Robes (Robots that have lasers and resemble Robotnik). Tails jumped onto a branch of a large tree just in time to dodge the laser fire from the robots. He kept climbing higher and higher into the tree, where the branches would act as shields.

At least for a little while.

The four robots quickly spindashed toward Sonic. He dodged by jumping in the air. When he looked down, he saw that the robots did the same. So he spindashed downward, and collided into them. He drove them straight into the rocky ground. When he stood up, he looked down and saw the four robots with half of their bodies in the ground. Then he dashed off toward his destination.

When he got to the final platform, he heard Tails scream. So he started to run in that direction.

The Egg Robos were all around Tails, they had shot down the tree he was on. Tails was lying on the ground. Tails thought he was going to die. The robots were charging their lasers. He was too scared to move. Then there was a blue flash. All twenty Egg Robos fell to the ground in pieces, and Sonic was standing in front of them.

"Sonic! I'm so glad you're here!"

"It's alright Tails. I'll always be here to save you,"

"Ok, its time to get the next shard!"

"Right Tails!"

Then they both dashed off toward the next time shard. When they were approaching the next shard, something started to come out of hiding. It was an enormous ship! When Sonic and Tails stopped to look at it, something shot out of the side. It was Robotnik in a newly designed machine that had spikes all over it. Sonic, upon seeing him asked, "How are you here? I thought you fell in the ocean!"

"Hoho! I'm not the one that you should be worrying about! Robo Sonic is! When you spindashed him and sent him into the Crystal Generator, there was an explosion. But Robo Sonic didn't get scratched! He was actually super charged! Right before my flying city sank; Robo broke out, went in the water, and saved me! And now he'll destroy you! Robo! Kill Sonic!" Robotnik commanded.

Then a blue streak flew from the ship and landed in front of Sonic. It was Robo Sonic, and this time he had a blue aura around him. Sonic instantly jumped in the air, and Robo Sonic followed. Before Sonic could try to spindash downward, Robo Sonic grabbed him and threw him straight into a large rock. When Sonic got up, he tried to jump off it before Robo could tackle him, but to no avail. Robo slammed Sonic deep into the boulder. Then Robo Sonic flew out with Sonic's time shards and punched the rock. The boulder crumbled, with Sonic trapped inside. Tails tried to save Sonic, but Robo flew down and grabbed him. He threw Tails in the air and dashed toward him. Right before Robo hit Tails; Sonic burst out of the rubble and collided with Robo. Robo fell to the ground, Sonic on top of him punching away. Sonic's punches seemed to be having no affect, so he jumped in the air and spindashed downward. He slammed into Robo and kept spinning. When he finally stopped, Robo was, to Sonic's dismay, merely covered in scratches. The attack hadn't done nearly as much as Sonic thought it would've. Sonic stepped back in disbelief. How could he endure that attack? In the time it took for Sonic to blink, Robo leapt from the ground and grabbed Sonic's neck. His claws started to dig into Sonic's skin. Robo was about to try and rip out Sonic's lungs when something hit him from behind. Tails had spindashed straight into him. When Sonic was fell to the ground he said, "Good work Tails! That that was a great spindash!"

"Thanks Sonic! Let's finish this!" Tails replied.

Robo Sonic was sent soaring for a few yards before he landed in a bush. When he stood up, he immediately dashed toward Sonic. Sonic quickly slid to the side to dodge the oncoming attack. Robo detected the movements and instantly turned toward Sonic who was bracing for impact. The strength of Robo's attack was reduced because Sonic held out his hands, but Sonic was still sent flying.

While Robo was busy fighting Sonic, Tails took the bag of time shards from him and dashed off. He was running toward the next shard when Robotnik floated in front of him. Tails quickly spindashed under him and grabbed the shard. After he put the shard in the bag and turned around, he was surprised to see a group of spikes flying toward him. He tried to jump out of the way, but was hit. A spike had pierced through one of his tails, pinning him to the ground. He looked up to see Robotnik hovering toward him. Eggman crossed his arms and screamed, "Hahaha! You've failed fox! Your fate has been sealed! I'll kill you now, but first, of course, I'll be needing those shards. If you refuse, I'll put you through excruciating pain. You've already seen how painful these spikes are! So give up! You have no hope!"

"Sonic wouldn't give in to you, so neither will I!" Tails replied.

"Very well! I'll kill you!" Eggman exclaimed.

Right before Robotnik could fire, something slammed into his vehicle from behind. Sonic had spindashed Robo Sonic into it. Robotnik fell to the ground, with Robo Sonic stuck on one of the spikes. Tails took this time fly back to the Tornado to try and fix it. Sonic, on the other hand, started to slowly walk toward Robo Sonic. He was going to make sure that Robo was finally destroyed. When he got within a few feet of Robo, he stopped. Robo's hand had twitched, which meant he was still alive. Sonic waited for twenty seconds before he took another step. It had been a bad move. Robo Sonic used his engine to blast off of the spiky vehicle and kick Sonic. Sonic was sent flying through a tree and into another. His impact caused the tree to crack and fall. Before it landed on Sonic, he rolled to side. He quickly jumped to his feet, but was immediately thrown down. Before he hit the ground, Robo Sonic flew below him and punched him. When Sonic was sent in the air, Robo dashed toward him. Sonic twisted to dodge the oncoming attack. When Robo flew past, Robotnik's vehicle started to float once again. Sonic looked at Robo Sonic who was still heading up. Then Sonic saw Robo turn around to start coming down and thought, "How does Robo function that well with a gaping hole in his back? He flew into a freaking spike at five-hundred miles per hour! Is he invincible?"

That's when Sonic jumped to the side in order to dodge Robo Sonic. Robo hit the ground legs first and jumped toward Sonic. Sonic barely jumped in time to dodge the attack. Sonic had aimed his jump so that he would land on Robo Sonic. Once on top of Robo, Sonic pushed down hard. Robo was forced to the ground were he started sliding. Right before Robo slid into a tree, Sonic jumped off. He watched Robo break through two trees and finally stop when he hit a rock. To his surprise, Robo jumped to his feet, with his aura glowing brighter than ever.

Meanwhile, Robotnik was preparing to fire on Sonic (He had to repair his machine after Robo was sent flying into it). Robotnik had a lock on Sonic. He looked at Sonic for a second, then pressed the trigger. Spikes were sent soaring toward Sonic.

Robo stayed still for a second, then launched straight toward Sonic. He moved so fast that Sonic couldn't react. Robo tackled Sonic at 2000 miles per hour. His attack caused Sonic to fly to the edge of the platform, thus knocking Sonic out of the way of the spikes. Then Robo walked up to Sonic, staring straight down at him. When Robo lifted his leg to kick Sonic off the platform, he was suddenly knocked to the side. Tails had rammed into Robo with the tornado. The force of the attack sent Robo Sonic flying off the edge of the platform and into the water. Then Tails turned around to try and land by Sonic, who was barely standing. When Tails did so, Sonic wearily asked, "Is he gone for good?"

"I think so. There's not much of a chance of him surviving after already being that injured," Tails replied.

"I don't think you get it. He kept getting stronger and stronger the more I fought him. His aura kept glowing brighter. I think he got the aura when I knocked him into the Crystal Generator." Sonic said.

"Oh, so it glows brighter the more he fights, and the brighter it glows the more powerful he becomes. I get it," Tails said.

"I have to make sure he's dead. I must wait here!" Sonic replied.

"Sonic! Look out behind you!" Tails screamed.

Robotnik had shot five spikes toward Sonic. Despite his best efforts, Sonic ended up getting cut in the side. As he fell to the ground, Tails jumped out of the tornado and grabbed him. He pulled Sonic beside him in the pilot seat and took off. Tails had to turn the Tornado sharply to dodge dozens of oncoming spikes. He had to keep swerving to avoid all of the many projectiles. It only took a few minutes to get far enough away so that the spikes couldn't reach him, but it seemed like hours. Tails took a quick glance over at Sonic; he didn't look good. He was bleeding badly. That spike really did allot of damage. Tails had to get Sonic to his house -- and fast. He had to treat Sonic's wounds quickly, or he'd surely die.

To be continued...