The trio of Sonic the Hedgehog, Knuckles the Echidna, and Snively Kintobor burst through the door of a decrepit old building. It was an old hospital that now served as a guard tower of sorts. With all the sirens going off to signal Knuckles and Snively's escape many of the swatBOTs were flooding the lower two levels of the Master Control Tower.
"Were we spotted?" asked Snively.
"Not a chance," replied Sonic, "when we left the other building I took off at warp speed carrying the three of us across that road in a second flat. No chance they saw us,".
"Yeah," agreed Knux, "I don't think they saw us,".
"Well still," Kintobor responded cautiously, "we should probably take it easy heading up to the fourth floor,".
The Echidna and Hedgehog nodded in response as they started walking across the lower level to the elevator.
"No stop!" warned the former sergeant, "there are cameras directly across from the elevators on the upper levels. If we took them we would be located by Robotropolis' security teams in no time. We take the stairs,".
Sonic and Knux let out small exasperated sighs and proceeded to trudge up the stairs with Snively taking the front.
As the three temporary allies reached the second floor landing they heard a pair of metallic voices ahead of them and retreated down a few stairs to stay out of sight.
"Did you hear?"
"What?"
"I just heard from BOT SC-316 that the sergeant and the red one escaped from the dungeons over in the main control tower,".
"Really? How did they manage that? Wasn't JB-007 watching their cell?"
"No, it was MS-068... Anyways he said that the blue one is with them and that he aided in their breakout,".
The trio waited until the bots voices faded beyond the second floor door before proceeding towards their destination level.
"Huh," snorted Sonic, "sounds like they know you guys are free,".
"Yes," began Snively, "but what worries me is that they know you are here,".
"Why does that worry you?" questioned Knuckles sounding somewhat confused.
"Because, that passage that we took," Snively started as they reached the fourth floor door and passed through it, "I never installed cameras in it. On top of that none of the SwatBOTs ever made the control room alert that Sonic is here,".
"Could one of the BOTs have used their optic sensors to take a picture of me and send it to them?"
"No, they simply don't have that capability," Snively answered the blue blurs' question as they reached the door leading to the outside walkway between their current location and the Control Towers fourth floor, "I don't like this,".
"I hear ya Snivels. But if they can't do that and there are no cameras in that area then that means," concluded Knuckles as they reached the halfway point between the buildings,"
"You were followed," finished a heartless metallic voice from behind them.
The three turned to see Metal Knuckles perched on top of the roof of the building they had just been in like a gargoyle, "and unfortunately for you," he paused…
"WE CANNOT ALLOW YOU TO GO ANY FURTHER!" finished another soulless synthesized voice from behind them.
The next thing Sonic and Knuckles saw was a blindingly fast blue metal buzz saw fly past them, hitting Snively square in the back of his head. He landed on the ground with a hard thud, out cold, and bleeding from a deep cut on the back of his head.
Sonic glared at his robotic clone as it stopped a scant fifteen feet in front of him. It's shiny red companion dropped down to join it.
"Our Lord Robotnik," began Metal Sonic, "Has authorized us to eliminate the three of you at any cost. It would appear that a third of our task has been completed,".
Sonic just continued to stare at the blue and red robots with anger. Knuckles knelt down by Snively to assess his condition. "Damn! Sonic, this isn't good. We need to get him medical help quickly,".
"Find something to cover that wound Knux," instructed the blue blur still not taking his eyes off of their metal selves.
Knuckles noticed a pole bearing the flag of Robotropolis. He quickly lowered it and tore it in half to wrap around the injury on the back of Snively's head. "Sonic, we need to end this quickly or we'll lose him,".
"Then let's shred these metal heads," exclaimed the flesh and blood hedgehog as both he and Knuckles leapt toward their metal counterparts.
"Show us what you've got,".
Authors Notes: Sorry for the terrible delays everyone. I hope you all are enjoying the story still. Let me know what you think so far and feel free to comment and leave honest feedback.
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