LAZER VS. MECHA SONIC
Note from author
This was originally written in a very old scrapbook of mine, and, may I
add, it was rather amateur. However, although this version may also be
amateur, it is MUCH better than the previous version. This is also the
VERY FIRST story concerning Lazer the Hedgehog's
adventures/misadventures. Others will follow.
(Note: this story is what was talked about in the first: The New Freedom
Fighter)
"It has been said that an ending is merely a beginning in disguise."
Quote the Crystalis
(by SNK) game manual
A red dot moved silently through the trees. Forest animals scurried
away from it, the visitor. He remembered the War. The War that had
ended all wars. He had fought in that War, uninvited, but his side lost.
Totally, completely, irreversibly. What used to be his countrymen was now
dust of the scarred earth. Dust to be blown in the wind across the
shattered wasteland that had been the country of Xadra, home to a highly
advanced city where nothing could live again. Ever. Why, he thought. Why
wasn't I destroyed by that bomb, and be at peace with my family and
friends? Because, he thought grimly, because I need to repay the one who
did this... ROBOTNIK! The word nearly choked him as his thoughts delved
into bloody murder. His thoughts shifted...
"I am going to kill him!"
"No, son, never repay a life for a life. You must not be a murderer
like him..."
He would not kill Robotnik. He could not, not after his father had told
him, before his father had died... No more tears to be shed, he had to
have his own type of vengeance.
The red-orange hedgehog now came to a clearing and a pond. He
landed on the soft ground, the spikes on his boots sinking deep.
"The pond! I'm getting close. But first... YAHOOO!!"
The air whipped around him as he leapt upward. He was framed against
the sky for an instant, then came diving down, head first.
SPLASH
He resurfaced. Birds in the trees, startled by the sudden noise, were noisily
flapping off.
"Nothin' like a freezing cold lake after flying hundreds of miles. The
Freedom Fighters can wait." He glided over the surface and down again.
Robotropolis. The city of metal and machines, the fortress of Dr. Ivo
Robotnik, a grossly overweight man with beady eyes almost obscured by a
huge moustache that was the only hair on his egg-shaped head. He was an
evil genius; his mind corrupted by power a long, long time ago. Power
corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, yes, but Robotnik did
not just want power. He wanted Mobius. The power-crazed, evil-genius
scientist was currently shouting orders to his robots and assistant, a small
man with a large nose and a little more hair on his head than his uncle
had.
"SNIVELY! Hurry up with that teleportation!"
"Right away, Sir," he answered wearily. Orders, commands, work for
the entire day. Why didn't he order the robots to do everything, at least
they don't get bored.
"SWATBOTS!!"
"What? Err, Yes Sir?"
"Hurry unloading those armaments!"
"Yes, King Cholesterol!" they chirped, working as fast as their batteries
could go. Robotnik paused to wonder who had told the Swatbots to
address him by that name. He was about to yell at Snively again for typing
too slowly when a blue glow came from the Teleporter.
"He's here, Sir."
"Finally!"
The blue glow materialized into Mecha Sonic, who arrogantly stepped
down (it seemed that way, maybe because he had taken to copying his
master) and saluted.
"Awaiting your orders, Sir"
"Good! Mecha Sonic, I want you to collect six forest animals for an
experiment with a new design I input to the Roboticizor."
Mecha Sonic stared at Robotnik. Such a menial task for his finest
robotic warrior.
"Sir, has there been a shortage of Swatbots to carry out this task?"
"Swatbots! THOSE INCOMPEDENT FOOLS? The last time I sent them to
collect specimens they were attacked by beavers!"
"I do not recall that being input to my data banks…"
"I trust, Mecha Sonic, that you will not be as careless?"
"Never, Sir."
"Take this bag, and be back here with the six specimens in less than
half an hour"
"I will not fail."
The ceiling split lengthways revealing the gray cloud that always
seemed to cover Robotropolis, and Mecha Sonic leaped into the sky, his
boosters blazing behind him.
"Ahhh, that's better."
A strange red glow surrounded him as he floated above the lake,
drying him instantly. He flew above the treetops. The samurai blade, which
he carried sheathed on his back, shone brightly in the sunlight.
"The lake, then north east," he muttered to himself. Then, like a bird
(although he possessed no wings, nor feathers), he flew away, his shadow
upon the trees.
Not very far from the visitor came the roar of an engine.
"My master should find a more fitting use of my abilities," Mecha
Sonic grumbled, holding the sack that already contained four specimens.
Scanning the forest floor below, he suddenly shot downward and picked up
two rabbits that fumbled in the large sack.
"Six," he noted, looking at the time inside his helmet, "Within three
minutes. Not bad for the fastest robot on Mobius."
Residual traces of Sonic's brain patterns still remained after he had
been re-designed.
"Now, to… what is that? It is too large to be a bird."
After re-checking his data banks for information on this new subject,
and finding none, Mecha switched to magnify-vision. He scrutinized this
unlikely flying animal, which was definitely a hedgehog, which resembled a
species he had seen before.
"The Red Hedgehog," read his data on the subject, "Supposedly
eliminated in the War of Adrax. What is left of their species now reside in
other countries. The fur of a Red Hedgehog is a shade of red, the skin also,
from light pink to dark crimson. Males wear a V shaped patch of fur on
their forehead, females wear a curved patch of fur." Mecha Sonic saw that
this was a male. The data also indicated that the spines of this species
were usually over 24 inches long in adults.
"Well, well. My master will be pleased if I brought back a Red
Hedgehog, especially one that can fly."
The sky was still bright as the red hedgehog continued to fly, closely watching
the forest beneath for a single hut, or even a clearing. Then, he saw a blue streak zoom underneath
him. It flew up to his height and they both stopped in mid-air, each sizing up the other.
"What on Mobius?"
The two faced each other, one a hedgehog, and one an
imitation.
"I am Mecha Sonic, my Master is Dr. Robotnik. I was sent to collect
some specimens for one of his experiments, and you will make a fine
specimen."
"Robotnik!" he repeated, rage choking him. "Robotnik destroyed my
country, and YOU are HIS robot!"
"I am. Do you wish to come without resistance, or will you resist?"
The Red Hedgehog looked at his adversary. He grinned wryly.
"I shall resist. Prepare to die, Mecha Sonic," he said simply.
Mecha Sonic's eyes narrowed. His foe began to glow strangely.
"You will be crushed!"
His punch smacked the red hedgehog's head to one side.
"Ugh! You're some fighter."
"I have had many experiences."
"Likewise. Hee-yahh!!"
The roundhouse kick sent Mecha Sonic staggering backward, with a
loud CLANG. Spikes on the shoes of the red hedgehog had formed a number of small
holes in Mecha's chest. The dark blue robot recovered and flew into the red hedgehog, and
the two tumbled through the air. Breaking away, his foe rocketed toward him,
blazing with red energy, and the fist connected with his jaw, nearly
dislodging his metallic head as he was sent flying. In response, the robotic
warrior held up the bag.
"Do you want me to drop this?"
"Why should I care?"
"It contains living animals. If I drop it they will die."
"You are as cold-hearted as your Master!" he shouted.
"I have no heart," he said. The bag slipped from metal fingers, and
fell a long, long way downward.
"NO!"
Mecha Sonic seemed to grin as the Red Hedgehog shot downward
after the bag, from which feeble cries of terror came.
"Gotcha!" he said, snatching the bag. He landed and let out the
animals that fled into the safety of the forest. He looked upward.
"Where did that flying piece of scrap metal go?"
That was all he said when a fireball slammed into his back, and sent
his crashing into a tree, nearly cracking it in half. He slid to the ground
and groaned, smoke rising from his body. Mecha Sonic, still glowing, walked up to him.
"I knew that you would save those animals. Your compassion has led
to your defeat."
Pain lanced through his body as he slowly opened his eyes.
"I… am not… defeated yet!"
Mecha Sonic stepped backward in surprise as a blaze of light came
from the hedgehog as he floated off the ground, and once more flew into
the sky. Mecha Sonic followed. What kind of red hedgehog gave off laser-type energy?
He had to capture this very interesting specimen.
"You do not give up easily," Mecha Sonic noted, once again hovering high above the ground.
"I do not."
Mecha Sonic came at him, again in a blazing fireball. The Red
Hedgehog held his two hands to one side, and a huge red ball formed
between them.
"HA-DOU-KEN!!" he yelled, thrusting his hands forward, and the red
ball turned into a huge energy blast, roaring through the air and exploding as
Mecha Sonic collided with it. The robot was hurled toward the ground, amid shockwaves, trailing
smoke in his wake.
"Very cool explosion. I hope he never bothers me again. Now, for more
important matters and finding Knothole…"
After flying north east for several minutes, scanning the trees beneath
him, he noticed a small lake and then saw the thatched roofs of huts
almost hidden by trees. He stopped and looked downward.
"Is that Knothole? Is my quest finally over?" he asked himself. He was
then aware of the roar of an engine behind him. Turning in mid-air, he
faced Mecha Sonic again!"
"Mecha Sonic! You survived that?"
"Is it really that surprising? Now DIE!" He brought his arms together in front of him and fired!
Red beams of lethal laser energy struck the other hedgehog on his
chest. The hedgehog did not scream, did not writhe in death's agony as
Mecha Sonic expected. Instead, he laughed.
"Mecha, do your sensors notice your power levels?"
"W- what? Power… levels… low…"
"Exactly. Laser energy is my friend, you know…"
He was surrounded by an even larger aura of energy again, as Mecha
Sonic tried desperately to keep his booster working.
"You… drained all of my energy!"
"Oh, Mecha Sonic…"
"Ugh…?"
"Do you know what it's like to be fried robotic hedgehog?"
"This… does not… compute…"
"Say hello to your master for me! Tell him that LAZER THE
HEDGEHOG has arrived with a vengeance!"
Lazer stretched out his both arms toward the spiked robot, and a
gigantic power beam erupted from them, blasting Mecha Sonic somewhere
over the horizon amid a shower of nuts and bolts. Exhausted, all of the
absorbed energy lost, Lazer looked down at the small village.
"Finally, to see if the Freedom Fighters will accept me…"
***TO BE CONTINUED***
Note from author
This was originally written in a very old scrapbook of mine, and, may I
add, it was rather amateur. However, although this version may also be
amateur, it is MUCH better than the previous version. This is also the
VERY FIRST story concerning Lazer the Hedgehog's
adventures/misadventures. Others will follow.
(Note: this story is what was talked about in the first: The New Freedom
Fighter)
"It has been said that an ending is merely a beginning in disguise."
Quote the Crystalis
(by SNK) game manual
A red dot moved silently through the trees. Forest animals scurried
away from it, the visitor. He remembered the War. The War that had
ended all wars. He had fought in that War, uninvited, but his side lost.
Totally, completely, irreversibly. What used to be his countrymen was now
dust of the scarred earth. Dust to be blown in the wind across the
shattered wasteland that had been the country of Xadra, home to a highly
advanced city where nothing could live again. Ever. Why, he thought. Why
wasn't I destroyed by that bomb, and be at peace with my family and
friends? Because, he thought grimly, because I need to repay the one who
did this... ROBOTNIK! The word nearly choked him as his thoughts delved
into bloody murder. His thoughts shifted...
"I am going to kill him!"
"No, son, never repay a life for a life. You must not be a murderer
like him..."
He would not kill Robotnik. He could not, not after his father had told
him, before his father had died... No more tears to be shed, he had to
have his own type of vengeance.
The red-orange hedgehog now came to a clearing and a pond. He
landed on the soft ground, the spikes on his boots sinking deep.
"The pond! I'm getting close. But first... YAHOOO!!"
The air whipped around him as he leapt upward. He was framed against
the sky for an instant, then came diving down, head first.
SPLASH
He resurfaced. Birds in the trees, startled by the sudden noise, were noisily
flapping off.
"Nothin' like a freezing cold lake after flying hundreds of miles. The
Freedom Fighters can wait." He glided over the surface and down again.
Robotropolis. The city of metal and machines, the fortress of Dr. Ivo
Robotnik, a grossly overweight man with beady eyes almost obscured by a
huge moustache that was the only hair on his egg-shaped head. He was an
evil genius; his mind corrupted by power a long, long time ago. Power
corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, yes, but Robotnik did
not just want power. He wanted Mobius. The power-crazed, evil-genius
scientist was currently shouting orders to his robots and assistant, a small
man with a large nose and a little more hair on his head than his uncle
had.
"SNIVELY! Hurry up with that teleportation!"
"Right away, Sir," he answered wearily. Orders, commands, work for
the entire day. Why didn't he order the robots to do everything, at least
they don't get bored.
"SWATBOTS!!"
"What? Err, Yes Sir?"
"Hurry unloading those armaments!"
"Yes, King Cholesterol!" they chirped, working as fast as their batteries
could go. Robotnik paused to wonder who had told the Swatbots to
address him by that name. He was about to yell at Snively again for typing
too slowly when a blue glow came from the Teleporter.
"He's here, Sir."
"Finally!"
The blue glow materialized into Mecha Sonic, who arrogantly stepped
down (it seemed that way, maybe because he had taken to copying his
master) and saluted.
"Awaiting your orders, Sir"
"Good! Mecha Sonic, I want you to collect six forest animals for an
experiment with a new design I input to the Roboticizor."
Mecha Sonic stared at Robotnik. Such a menial task for his finest
robotic warrior.
"Sir, has there been a shortage of Swatbots to carry out this task?"
"Swatbots! THOSE INCOMPEDENT FOOLS? The last time I sent them to
collect specimens they were attacked by beavers!"
"I do not recall that being input to my data banks…"
"I trust, Mecha Sonic, that you will not be as careless?"
"Never, Sir."
"Take this bag, and be back here with the six specimens in less than
half an hour"
"I will not fail."
The ceiling split lengthways revealing the gray cloud that always
seemed to cover Robotropolis, and Mecha Sonic leaped into the sky, his
boosters blazing behind him.
"Ahhh, that's better."
A strange red glow surrounded him as he floated above the lake,
drying him instantly. He flew above the treetops. The samurai blade, which
he carried sheathed on his back, shone brightly in the sunlight.
"The lake, then north east," he muttered to himself. Then, like a bird
(although he possessed no wings, nor feathers), he flew away, his shadow
upon the trees.
Not very far from the visitor came the roar of an engine.
"My master should find a more fitting use of my abilities," Mecha
Sonic grumbled, holding the sack that already contained four specimens.
Scanning the forest floor below, he suddenly shot downward and picked up
two rabbits that fumbled in the large sack.
"Six," he noted, looking at the time inside his helmet, "Within three
minutes. Not bad for the fastest robot on Mobius."
Residual traces of Sonic's brain patterns still remained after he had
been re-designed.
"Now, to… what is that? It is too large to be a bird."
After re-checking his data banks for information on this new subject,
and finding none, Mecha switched to magnify-vision. He scrutinized this
unlikely flying animal, which was definitely a hedgehog, which resembled a
species he had seen before.
"The Red Hedgehog," read his data on the subject, "Supposedly
eliminated in the War of Adrax. What is left of their species now reside in
other countries. The fur of a Red Hedgehog is a shade of red, the skin also,
from light pink to dark crimson. Males wear a V shaped patch of fur on
their forehead, females wear a curved patch of fur." Mecha Sonic saw that
this was a male. The data also indicated that the spines of this species
were usually over 24 inches long in adults.
"Well, well. My master will be pleased if I brought back a Red
Hedgehog, especially one that can fly."
The sky was still bright as the red hedgehog continued to fly, closely watching
the forest beneath for a single hut, or even a clearing. Then, he saw a blue streak zoom underneath
him. It flew up to his height and they both stopped in mid-air, each sizing up the other.
"What on Mobius?"
The two faced each other, one a hedgehog, and one an
imitation.
"I am Mecha Sonic, my Master is Dr. Robotnik. I was sent to collect
some specimens for one of his experiments, and you will make a fine
specimen."
"Robotnik!" he repeated, rage choking him. "Robotnik destroyed my
country, and YOU are HIS robot!"
"I am. Do you wish to come without resistance, or will you resist?"
The Red Hedgehog looked at his adversary. He grinned wryly.
"I shall resist. Prepare to die, Mecha Sonic," he said simply.
Mecha Sonic's eyes narrowed. His foe began to glow strangely.
"You will be crushed!"
His punch smacked the red hedgehog's head to one side.
"Ugh! You're some fighter."
"I have had many experiences."
"Likewise. Hee-yahh!!"
The roundhouse kick sent Mecha Sonic staggering backward, with a
loud CLANG. Spikes on the shoes of the red hedgehog had formed a number of small
holes in Mecha's chest. The dark blue robot recovered and flew into the red hedgehog, and
the two tumbled through the air. Breaking away, his foe rocketed toward him,
blazing with red energy, and the fist connected with his jaw, nearly
dislodging his metallic head as he was sent flying. In response, the robotic
warrior held up the bag.
"Do you want me to drop this?"
"Why should I care?"
"It contains living animals. If I drop it they will die."
"You are as cold-hearted as your Master!" he shouted.
"I have no heart," he said. The bag slipped from metal fingers, and
fell a long, long way downward.
"NO!"
Mecha Sonic seemed to grin as the Red Hedgehog shot downward
after the bag, from which feeble cries of terror came.
"Gotcha!" he said, snatching the bag. He landed and let out the
animals that fled into the safety of the forest. He looked upward.
"Where did that flying piece of scrap metal go?"
That was all he said when a fireball slammed into his back, and sent
his crashing into a tree, nearly cracking it in half. He slid to the ground
and groaned, smoke rising from his body. Mecha Sonic, still glowing, walked up to him.
"I knew that you would save those animals. Your compassion has led
to your defeat."
Pain lanced through his body as he slowly opened his eyes.
"I… am not… defeated yet!"
Mecha Sonic stepped backward in surprise as a blaze of light came
from the hedgehog as he floated off the ground, and once more flew into
the sky. Mecha Sonic followed. What kind of red hedgehog gave off laser-type energy?
He had to capture this very interesting specimen.
"You do not give up easily," Mecha Sonic noted, once again hovering high above the ground.
"I do not."
Mecha Sonic came at him, again in a blazing fireball. The Red
Hedgehog held his two hands to one side, and a huge red ball formed
between them.
"HA-DOU-KEN!!" he yelled, thrusting his hands forward, and the red
ball turned into a huge energy blast, roaring through the air and exploding as
Mecha Sonic collided with it. The robot was hurled toward the ground, amid shockwaves, trailing
smoke in his wake.
"Very cool explosion. I hope he never bothers me again. Now, for more
important matters and finding Knothole…"
After flying north east for several minutes, scanning the trees beneath
him, he noticed a small lake and then saw the thatched roofs of huts
almost hidden by trees. He stopped and looked downward.
"Is that Knothole? Is my quest finally over?" he asked himself. He was
then aware of the roar of an engine behind him. Turning in mid-air, he
faced Mecha Sonic again!"
"Mecha Sonic! You survived that?"
"Is it really that surprising? Now DIE!" He brought his arms together in front of him and fired!
Red beams of lethal laser energy struck the other hedgehog on his
chest. The hedgehog did not scream, did not writhe in death's agony as
Mecha Sonic expected. Instead, he laughed.
"Mecha, do your sensors notice your power levels?"
"W- what? Power… levels… low…"
"Exactly. Laser energy is my friend, you know…"
He was surrounded by an even larger aura of energy again, as Mecha
Sonic tried desperately to keep his booster working.
"You… drained all of my energy!"
"Oh, Mecha Sonic…"
"Ugh…?"
"Do you know what it's like to be fried robotic hedgehog?"
"This… does not… compute…"
"Say hello to your master for me! Tell him that LAZER THE
HEDGEHOG has arrived with a vengeance!"
Lazer stretched out his both arms toward the spiked robot, and a
gigantic power beam erupted from them, blasting Mecha Sonic somewhere
over the horizon amid a shower of nuts and bolts. Exhausted, all of the
absorbed energy lost, Lazer looked down at the small village.
"Finally, to see if the Freedom Fighters will accept me…"
***TO BE CONTINUED***
