ARC 2: Heavy-Bombing

Chapter 4: Heavy & Bomb PT 1

A few days had passed since Burnbot escaped to an unknown location, E-51 Intelligente continued to run the railway smoothly, people encouraging, complimenting and even saying he was better than STH. Though Intelligente had to disagree on that last part, there was no way he could surpass STH's experience. Sonic, Shade and Tails continued to tell the Shijin Warriors about their experiences on the island, and of course got the engine's point of view, who some claimed Sonic stretched some of the details greatly.

Dulcy had gained a liking of Thomas a lot and usually followed him around whenever he was on his branch line. Sometimes she often got distracted too long from the other warriors who were spread out and making sure nothing was out of the ordinary. At one point, Thomas was taking on water while Dulcy chatted with him.

"You think that robot will be back?" Dulcy asked.

"I don't know...everything always seems to come to us lately. What's next? More pirates, a clone of me? Who knows." Thomas sighed.

"Hmph...at least those mobians forms of yours are stable, that magical engine sounds pretty fascinating."

"Yeah, I'm glad to have a friend like Lady."

Just then Rosie came by whistling with a large grin.

"Hi Thomas, hi Dulcy." Rosie greeted.

"Hello Rosie...how are you today?" Thomas asked.

"I'm off to do some goods work, and to make sure that robot stays on good behavior." Rosie said.

"I'm sure he's fine now, maybe a bit too happy." Dulcy shrugged.

"Hmm...well it's never a bad idea to check on him. See ya later!"

She scurried off before Thomas or Dulcy could respond.

"Oh boy, E-51 won't be left alone." Thomas rolled his eyes.

Up ahead Rosie met up with Emily and Mavis by a siding.

"Anything yet?" Rosie asked.

"Nope, so far so good." Mavis said.

"He's gonna catch on eventually." Emily worried.

"Rubbish, he'll slip up." Rosie figured.

Meanwhile, Gordon was busy pulling the express down the main line. He felt so good that day, the weather was nice, no one to bother him, and he got up his hill without a problem.

"Haha, nothing can stop me now! EXPRESS COMING THROUGH!" Gordon yelled.

Up ahead was a signal box, inside, the man was aware Gordon would be coming, so he already had the tracks set for him. However there was about to be a problem. Sipping on some coffee, he nearly dropped it when the door nearby slammed open. Standing there were two strange bots. One was a large coffee kettle-like robot with springy legs, large flat feet and red boxing gloves for hands, the other was a small red and black bomb-like robot with black shoes and yellow gloves.

"ALRIGHT YOU! MOVE OVER WE'RE TAKING THIS PLACE!" The bigger one shouted.

"I'd do what he says." The bomb whispered.

The signalman backed away scared.

"Who are you?" He asked.

"Just two robots bored and wanting to stir up some trouble." The big one said.

Knocking the man out of the way, the boxing gloved robot starting pulling random controls, one redirected Gordon's path. The large engine was almost at the points.

"Huh, what's the meaning of this!" Gordon gasped.

Once he was close enough, the two robots smashed through the glass and fell right onto the express couches just as Gordon moved onto the branch line.

"No! Not the branchline." Gordon groaned.

Further up was Thomas who had just finished dropping off some passengers. Dulcy was lying on top of Clarabel like she was getting a tan.

"That should be it. Time to head home." Thomas said.

As he set off, Clarabel was the first to notice something off.

"Huh? Is that Gordon?" Clarabel asked.

"Where?" Annie asked.

"Coming up behind us!" Clarabel shouted.

Dulcy looked back and saw Gordon steaming towards them, Gordon whistled.

"LOOK OUT THOMAS! I'M ON THE WRONG LINE!"

"BUST MY BUFFERS!" Thomas yelled.

Thomas sped up hoping there would be some points for him or Gordon to switch to. As Gordon got closer, the two robots raced towards the front of the train and jumped onto Clarabel, Dulcy immediately taking a defensive position.

"Great more robots from Eggman!" Dulcy growled.

"Oh we've defected from Eggman a very long time ago." The small one said.

"Yeah we're on our own. Just though we'd have some fun." The bigger one said.

"Easy for you to say, I'm bored."

"What? How is messing with trains boring?"

They were cut off when Thomas raced around a bend so fast he nearly tipped. Gordon barely made it as well. Dulcy was getting annoyed by the two robots arguing.

"Are you two done?" Dulcy asked.

"Sorry dragon, Heavy here got struck by some lightning yesterday, never been the same since." The small one explained.

"Oh shut it Bomb, I'm fine." Heavy insisted.

"Yeah right."

Heavy grabbed Bomb and tossed him at Dulcy who just caught him.

"He's insane." Bomb shuttered.

"I'll knock him back into place." Dulcy bared her fangs.

Up ahead was another signalbox, the man inside saw the two engines panicking.

"POINTS!" Thomas yelled.

The signalman let Thomas passed, then sent Gordon onto another line that led back to the main line.

"Phew, we did it!" Thomas cheered.

Gordon was thankful to be back on his own line. But he was sure going to talk to the mobians later about all this. Back with Dulcy, she was now arguing with Heavy. She had noticed something glowing in a small compartment on Heavy's side.

"What do you have?" Dulcy asked.

"Nothing for you that's for sure. But it's valuable to me." Heavy said.

Being with Sonic for so long, even she could detect something familiar, like chaos energy.

"WAIT! IS THAT A CHAOS EMERALD?" Dulcy snarled.

"Uh...I have no idea what you are talking about." Heavy shook no.

"LIAR!" Dulcy yelled.

She angrily threw Bomb back towards Heavy knocking the both off Clarabel and into some bushes.

"What's going on Dulcy?" Thomas asked.

"You go on ahead, I got to get a chaos emerald back!"

Dulcy then gave chase to the robots who were already escaping to the Quarry. Thomas arrived at Knapford Station where Gordon and James were talking. James was laughing at Gordon's misfortune, he didn't really believe his story.

"Haha, seriously Gordon, you were sidetracked by robots? Oh come on." James rolled his eyes.

"No it's true! They were so weird looking, nothing like what we're used to. Just ask Thomas." Gordon said.

Thomas came up to them and whistled.

"Dulcy chased after those robots, don't know where they went." Thomas said.

"Wait you were telling the truth?" James gasped.

"Of course James, I don't make up stories like you would. Now if you excuse me, I got more important work to do." Gordon huffed.

After he left, E-51 Intelligente arrived.

"Ah Thomas, I'm sure you had a safe travel." He said happily.

"Uh...not really. But I made it, that's what counts." Thomas said.

"Oh? What happened?"

"Some robots sent Gordon on the wrong line, then Dulcy chased them off believing them to have a chaos emerald." Thomas explained.

Just then Shade teleported on the station, curious about the conversation.

"Did I hear something about chaos emeralds?" Shade asked.

"Yeah...I think those new robots have one." Thomas said.

"New robots?"

Over at the quarry, Heavy and Bomb were busy scrambling trying to avoid Dulcy who was determined to get that chaos emerald, or whatever it really was. But Heavy and a reluctant Bomb were going to play a few tricks on her. They stood under a coal hopper blocking Henry's path who was about to collect coal into his trucks.

"More robots?" Henry gasped.

"Calm down green steamie!" Heavy waved him off.

Dulcy came flying at them and Heavy looked over to Bomb.

"NOW!"

Bomb yanked the chain and the two hop away as Dulcy gets covered in a large pile of coal. She popped her head out looking very annoyed. The robots scurried over into the some empty trucks that were about to be shunted away by Edward who hadn't noticed them. Dulcy flew out of the coal pile and now had to find them. The robots stayed quiet as Edward push the trucks into a siding. Dulcy flew over frantically.

"Edward, have you seen two strange robots?" She asked.

"Um no Dulcy. Why?"

"They have something I think they stole, we might need it."

"I see, well I'll look out for them."

Suddenly Heavy popped out with a small rock and chucked it at Dulcy's chest hitting her.

"OW! YOU!" Dulcy clenched her gloved fists.

"HA!" Heavy pointed out.

"You're gonna get us pummeled Heavy."

"OH SHUT IT AND LET'S GO!"

"You need to be repaired."

The two race away with an enraged dragon right behind them. Dulcy blew fire from her mouth trying to burn them, but they dodged it. Then she tried her ice breath and managed to freeze Bomb.

"Oh no not again!" Bomb groaned.

Once again Dulcy grabbed Bomb and threw him at Heavy knocking the bigger mech down. But before Dulcy could get to him, Heavy crawled into a nearby shed hoping there would be something to hide behind...there was nothing. Dulcy then entered and shut the doors behind her.

"YOU'RE TRAPPED NOW!" Dulcy cracked her knuckles.

"Whatever! You're not getting this!"

He held up the item which was in fact a red chaos emerald.

"GIVE IT UP! You have no idea what power that has!" Dulcy said.

"No way, I don't care about the power. But it's cool-looking!" Heavy said.

Dulcy stormed up to the robot who was only half her size. But the robot didn't back down.

"Look lady, I don't wanna have to rough you up over this."

"Go ahead and try."

Bomb backed away from them.

"Heavy that lightning really messed up your head, you need to find someone to fix you."

"I'M FINE!"

"NO YOU'RE NOT!"

Dulcy thought he was distracted, so she lunged for the emerald, only for Heavy to punch her in the gut.

"I warned ya!" Heavy said.

"WHY YOU-"

Bomb raced away when Dulcy tackled Heavy and the two started to brawl, the chaos emerald rolled away towards Bomb who picked it up and exited the sheds just as Shade arrived outside.

"AAHHH!" Bomb screamed.

"HOLD IT RIGHT THERE ROBOT!" Shade pulled out a leech blade.

"WAIT! HERE TAKE THIS!" Bomb handed the emerald to her.

"What? Where's Dulcy?"

"Uh fighting my friend Heavy. Listen, during that storm, some lightning electrocuted my friend causing his processor to go bonkers, you need to fix him!" Bomb explained.

"Sure thing, I know just the person. Now about the-"

Suddenly Heavy and Dulcy came barrel-rolling out of the sheds and towards them. Shade simply picked up a rock and threw it hitting one of them as the fighting ceased. The rock had hit Dulcy.

"Enough hitting me with rocks!" Dulcy growled.

"Chill out Dulcy, we got the emerald. Sonic will be pleased...as for Heavy." Shade glanced at the robot.

Heavy just pouted, not realizing he was standing on train tracks. Just then, he's accidentally knocked into the air by Mavis who was pushing some coal trucks out the way, and then he fell on the ground defeated.

"Whoops, what did I hit?" Mavis asked worried.

"Nothing important." Dulcy smirked.

Tails and Sonic later arrived to help fix up Heavy. Dulcy had left, too irritated by the situation and decided to get cleaned up and find the other warriors.

"Heavy and Bomb, haven't seen you guys in awhile. Knuckles, Mighty and the Chaotix would be surprised to see you." Sonic said.

"I bet, actually we did meet up with Mighty during our travels." Bomb explained.

"Sweet, I hope he's okay." Sonic said.

Tails finished fixing Heavy who looked around in confusion before focusing on Bomb.

"Bomb what happened? Last thing I remember there was a storm." Heavy rubbed his head.

"Oh nothing important, it was so windy you ran into a couple of these freight cars." Bomb half-lied.

"Oh okay...hey Sonic, Tails, and uh new guys." Heavy waved.

"S'up." Shade said.

"I guess this was just one of your traveling spots?" Sonic asked.

"Yeah, we just got here actually." Bomb said.

"Huh, maybe you guys could stay here for awhile." Tails suggested.

"Yeah I think we should, Dulcy ain't gonna like it though." Bomb chuckled.

"Who's Dulcy?" Heavy asked.

Meanwhile Mavis had scurried off and was informed by Rosie and Emily that E-51 Intelligente was being taken by Thomas to the docks where they were getting a visitor. They wanted Mavis to follow him, so she did. On the way to the docks, Intelligente stood on Thomas' cab trying to surf.

"This is fun! I should do this more often!" He cheered.

"Be careful! We're coming up on a bridge." Thomas warned.

"No worries."

When they got to it, some children were waving him.

"THERE'S THOMAS AND THAT ROBOT!"

"HE'S SO COOL!"

Intelligente then flew over the bridge giving kids a high-five before landing on the other side successfully on Thomas' cab.

"Nothing to it."

He and Thomas laughed as they closed in on the docks, Mavis following him far behind. Thomas was planning on meeting someone he really wanted to see again, finally this was his chance. Once they arrived, they saw that the engine was already there talking with Salty, Porter and Cranky. When the engine saw Thomas, their eyes beamed.

"THOMAS!"

"ASHIMA!"

To be continued...