SuperSonic Speed
[Part 2]
Chapter 21: Field Game
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Sonic slowly awoke. He moved his head a little to the left and opened his dark green eyes. His world was blurry and he tried hard to interpret what his blurred eyes were seeing, which wasn't what he expected. The blue hedgehog rubbed his eyes to clear the blurriness. He sat up in his bed, acknowledging the fact that the pain was still very evident in his sides. Groaning, he looked around the room. Interesting, Sonic thought, he most definately wasn't in the escape ship.
No, definately not. He was laying on a very soft, white mattress that reeked with class. The floor below him was tiled in black and white marble, even the walls were bricked perfectly with age old stone. A thought occured to Sonic, "Oh no! I've been captured!" His thoughts raced. Why was he not bound? How was he captured? Where were the others? His thoughts were interrupted when the door opened, and none other than Knuckles the Echidna came through.
"Sonic! You're awake, how are you feeling?" The echidna asked, shutting the door behind him.
"Not as tired, but my sides still hurt awful." Sonic replied, laying back in his bed. "Where the heck am I anyway?"
"Hidden Palace," The Guardian replied.
"Wow, nice place ya got here," Knuckles only grinned.
"Just lay there Sonic, if you're hurting like that, you shouldn't be up." And the Echidna left the room.
Sonic pulled the covers over his head and thought what he had been through in the last year. It had all started back in his home, it had started with three knocks, it had been the emergency signal, and one heck of an emergency had it been. But who the heck was he kidding? He knew when it started. It started when Robotnik trashed Metropolis with his buzzbombers. His real journey, however, hadn't begun until he'd had a face-to-face with the madman himself, who had had a sick pleasure of torturing Sonic with several volts worth of electricity. He knew he would have been dead, had Juke not had a change of heart and saved him. And now, he wa son the floating island, undergoing training with one of the world's strongest fighters. Robotnik would meet Sonic again one day, and a pretty day it would not be.
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Robotropolis
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As Lieutenant Shady walked into the main control room in the bunker, he wished he could close his ears. He knew that this was not going to be fun, he had just destroyed Robotnik's most expensive airship, and the Commander was not gonig to be happy.
"I'm sorry sir." Was all that Shady said quietly, with his head held low. And to the Lieutenant's surprise, Robotnik didn't yell.
"I'm not surprised. Stupid Silver prototype, Lieutenant, you get that thing working right now!!! I don't want one more illegal thought coming from that robot. Do I make myself perfectly clear Lieutenant?"
"Yes sir."
"Now, go, I don't want to hear from you again!"
"YES SIR!" Shady made his way out of the room and sighed with relief.
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Hidden Palace
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Sonic awoke in his be, he figured he must have dozed off. Sonic sat up over the edge, realizing he wasn't hurting nearly as bad as before. He got up, opened the door of the room he was in... and found himself back in the main chamber.
"Hey Sonic!" Knuckles called.
"Hey!" The blue hedgehog called back.
"Are you feeling any better?"
"Tons."
"Good," Knuckles commented going over to a keypad. A tall door opened on the far side of the chamber. "We're going back to the surface, Some recon Juke has done shows that all of our huts are still intact and that the worst damage was down by Hydrocity."
"Way past cool!"
"Hey, can you walk all the way to the surface? Its some stairs and it will take us right to the huts."
"Yeah, should be able to... But I dunno... I just feel real tired..."
"It should go away, if not, I have my hover board here." After several minutes, Sonic and Knuckles made it back to the huts.
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1 month later
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Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Juke were gathered in the Guardian's hut.
"Your training has been going well, but training is not enough. Robotnik has found us, and he struck us first. And now, after two missions, it is clear that we need you two to go through your military technique training early." Knuckles handed light green combat uniforms to Sonic and Tails. "We're playing a little game in the field today, it's called 'Capture the Flag'"
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10 minutes later
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Knuckles and Juke were dressed in black combat uniforms, while Sonic in Tails were dressed in light green. The were all standing in a large, grassy field with several obstacles seperating the two ends of the field. At each end was a flag, one black, and one green.
"When I give the signal, our teams are will go across the course, you can take any route, but you have to get to the flag and bring it back here. BUT theres a catch. Black team has pistols set on a stunner setting, Green team can only use hand-to-hand. Either way, if you're hit, and I mean hit, not just bumped, one hit, and you go back to your base, stay there for a minute. During that minute, you cannot hit anyone, talk, move or do anything to the benefit of your team. When the minute is up, you may go again. The first team to capture one flag wins. Oh, and Sonic, Twenty mile per hour speed limit," The blue hedgehog smirked, "NOW get ready!"
The two teams went to their opposite ends and Sonic readied himself to run. "Tails, you ready?"
Tails grinned, "Yeah!" and with that, a loud buzzing sounded. Sonic ran forward, Tails barely keeping pace behind him. "Sonic slow down!!!"
And sighing, the hedgehog did. "We're gonna lose because of you!!!"
The blue hedgehog ran to the left sideline, into a highly wooded area. He ran through it, ignoring the sharp branches thrashing against his fur. He could see it! The black flag was in his sights! However, on the black team, something else was in sight...
"Target Acquired," Juke whispered into her headset.
"Black Sniper: Fire," Knuckles whipered back. And Juke complied, and the next thing she whispered through the microphone was, "Tango Down."
Tails shrieked, "Sonic!!!" his friend had fallen to the ground, clutching his left arm.
Juke was crouched across the field from Tails, looking at him. "I have Tango in sight, no clear shot." She had no choice but to engage him in close quarters. Keeping her head low, she crouched and moved behind the cover of rocks. "He's just looking at Tango 1."
"What are you going to do?" Knuckles asked, almost to the flag.
"Only one thing TO do." She snuck closer. She was about fifteen feet from the orange fox when she pulled out a silver cannister. "Fire in the hole!" She turned her head and plugged her ears. After hearing the familiar ringing in her ears, she turned her head, ran toward the startled (and probably blinded) fox. Taking careful aim, she targeted his left shoulder (headshots were strictly prohibited). Pulling the trigger, she watched the fox fall. "Clear."
Knuckles darted across the field, jumping over rocks, and climbing over logs. At last he saw his home base and plunged his flag into the empty flag hole. A computerized voice droned, "Black team has captured the flag" followed by, "Black team wins!"
Sonic was in shock. "No fair! You cheated!"
And Knuckles only replied, "You heard it, 'Black team wins."
[Part 2]
Chapter 21: Field Game
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Sonic slowly awoke. He moved his head a little to the left and opened his dark green eyes. His world was blurry and he tried hard to interpret what his blurred eyes were seeing, which wasn't what he expected. The blue hedgehog rubbed his eyes to clear the blurriness. He sat up in his bed, acknowledging the fact that the pain was still very evident in his sides. Groaning, he looked around the room. Interesting, Sonic thought, he most definately wasn't in the escape ship.
No, definately not. He was laying on a very soft, white mattress that reeked with class. The floor below him was tiled in black and white marble, even the walls were bricked perfectly with age old stone. A thought occured to Sonic, "Oh no! I've been captured!" His thoughts raced. Why was he not bound? How was he captured? Where were the others? His thoughts were interrupted when the door opened, and none other than Knuckles the Echidna came through.
"Sonic! You're awake, how are you feeling?" The echidna asked, shutting the door behind him.
"Not as tired, but my sides still hurt awful." Sonic replied, laying back in his bed. "Where the heck am I anyway?"
"Hidden Palace," The Guardian replied.
"Wow, nice place ya got here," Knuckles only grinned.
"Just lay there Sonic, if you're hurting like that, you shouldn't be up." And the Echidna left the room.
Sonic pulled the covers over his head and thought what he had been through in the last year. It had all started back in his home, it had started with three knocks, it had been the emergency signal, and one heck of an emergency had it been. But who the heck was he kidding? He knew when it started. It started when Robotnik trashed Metropolis with his buzzbombers. His real journey, however, hadn't begun until he'd had a face-to-face with the madman himself, who had had a sick pleasure of torturing Sonic with several volts worth of electricity. He knew he would have been dead, had Juke not had a change of heart and saved him. And now, he wa son the floating island, undergoing training with one of the world's strongest fighters. Robotnik would meet Sonic again one day, and a pretty day it would not be.
---
Robotropolis
---
As Lieutenant Shady walked into the main control room in the bunker, he wished he could close his ears. He knew that this was not going to be fun, he had just destroyed Robotnik's most expensive airship, and the Commander was not gonig to be happy.
"I'm sorry sir." Was all that Shady said quietly, with his head held low. And to the Lieutenant's surprise, Robotnik didn't yell.
"I'm not surprised. Stupid Silver prototype, Lieutenant, you get that thing working right now!!! I don't want one more illegal thought coming from that robot. Do I make myself perfectly clear Lieutenant?"
"Yes sir."
"Now, go, I don't want to hear from you again!"
"YES SIR!" Shady made his way out of the room and sighed with relief.
---
Hidden Palace
---
Sonic awoke in his be, he figured he must have dozed off. Sonic sat up over the edge, realizing he wasn't hurting nearly as bad as before. He got up, opened the door of the room he was in... and found himself back in the main chamber.
"Hey Sonic!" Knuckles called.
"Hey!" The blue hedgehog called back.
"Are you feeling any better?"
"Tons."
"Good," Knuckles commented going over to a keypad. A tall door opened on the far side of the chamber. "We're going back to the surface, Some recon Juke has done shows that all of our huts are still intact and that the worst damage was down by Hydrocity."
"Way past cool!"
"Hey, can you walk all the way to the surface? Its some stairs and it will take us right to the huts."
"Yeah, should be able to... But I dunno... I just feel real tired..."
"It should go away, if not, I have my hover board here." After several minutes, Sonic and Knuckles made it back to the huts.
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1 month later
---
Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Juke were gathered in the Guardian's hut.
"Your training has been going well, but training is not enough. Robotnik has found us, and he struck us first. And now, after two missions, it is clear that we need you two to go through your military technique training early." Knuckles handed light green combat uniforms to Sonic and Tails. "We're playing a little game in the field today, it's called 'Capture the Flag'"
---
10 minutes later
---
Knuckles and Juke were dressed in black combat uniforms, while Sonic in Tails were dressed in light green. The were all standing in a large, grassy field with several obstacles seperating the two ends of the field. At each end was a flag, one black, and one green.
"When I give the signal, our teams are will go across the course, you can take any route, but you have to get to the flag and bring it back here. BUT theres a catch. Black team has pistols set on a stunner setting, Green team can only use hand-to-hand. Either way, if you're hit, and I mean hit, not just bumped, one hit, and you go back to your base, stay there for a minute. During that minute, you cannot hit anyone, talk, move or do anything to the benefit of your team. When the minute is up, you may go again. The first team to capture one flag wins. Oh, and Sonic, Twenty mile per hour speed limit," The blue hedgehog smirked, "NOW get ready!"
The two teams went to their opposite ends and Sonic readied himself to run. "Tails, you ready?"
Tails grinned, "Yeah!" and with that, a loud buzzing sounded. Sonic ran forward, Tails barely keeping pace behind him. "Sonic slow down!!!"
And sighing, the hedgehog did. "We're gonna lose because of you!!!"
The blue hedgehog ran to the left sideline, into a highly wooded area. He ran through it, ignoring the sharp branches thrashing against his fur. He could see it! The black flag was in his sights! However, on the black team, something else was in sight...
"Target Acquired," Juke whispered into her headset.
"Black Sniper: Fire," Knuckles whipered back. And Juke complied, and the next thing she whispered through the microphone was, "Tango Down."
Tails shrieked, "Sonic!!!" his friend had fallen to the ground, clutching his left arm.
Juke was crouched across the field from Tails, looking at him. "I have Tango in sight, no clear shot." She had no choice but to engage him in close quarters. Keeping her head low, she crouched and moved behind the cover of rocks. "He's just looking at Tango 1."
"What are you going to do?" Knuckles asked, almost to the flag.
"Only one thing TO do." She snuck closer. She was about fifteen feet from the orange fox when she pulled out a silver cannister. "Fire in the hole!" She turned her head and plugged her ears. After hearing the familiar ringing in her ears, she turned her head, ran toward the startled (and probably blinded) fox. Taking careful aim, she targeted his left shoulder (headshots were strictly prohibited). Pulling the trigger, she watched the fox fall. "Clear."
Knuckles darted across the field, jumping over rocks, and climbing over logs. At last he saw his home base and plunged his flag into the empty flag hole. A computerized voice droned, "Black team has captured the flag" followed by, "Black team wins!"
Sonic was in shock. "No fair! You cheated!"
And Knuckles only replied, "You heard it, 'Black team wins."