3

Princess Sally pulled herself from the ground. She was in a prison cell
with Bunnie Rabbot, whose left arm and legs were mechanical, but whose heart and
mind were still pure, and who had a rabbit right arm, head, and torso. Bunnie
had been sent to Robotnik's roboticizer, his machine that turned living beings
into robots, which exist only to serve Robotnik. Sonic had performed a daring
escape, saving her, but not before she had suffered partial roboticization.
Bunnie got up.

"Oh mah stars," she said, "don't you think they were a bit harsh,
sugar Sal?"

"I think," said Sally, "that you should melt these bars with your
laser."

Bunnie activated her laser.

KAZORCH! BAM!

The beam hit the bars, then reflected off them, bouncing back and
hitting the back wall. The wall caught fire. Flames surrounded Sally and
Bunnie.

Nicole, who had fallen out of Sally's pocket when Sally was thrown
into the cell, and was lying in the center of the fire, said, "Extreme heat.
System overload."
"Nicole!" screamed Sally.

Sally dove into the flames after Nicole. Nicole came out of the fire,
in such a manner that you'd believe Sally had thrown her out, but Sally didn't
come out of the fire. Bunnie caught Nicole and Nicole's internal systems
rebooted. Nicole came back to life and she ejected a mechanism which
extinguished the fire.

Bunnie found Sally charred, lying on the ground of the cell, not
moving.

"Computations show no pulse," said Nicole, "Sally's brain is almost
completely shut down."

"Noooooo-----------------" screamed Bunnie.

**********

In the Control Room, within the Main Structure, Antoine was handcuffed
and placed in a seat before Robotnik. His legs were cuffed to the chair legs
and the chair was bolted to the ground.

"Where is Knothole?", asked Robotnik, "Where can I find the
remaining Freedom Fighters?"

"I weel neevar tell!" shouted Antoine.

"I will ask one last time, feeble Freedom Fighter-- Where is
Knothole?"

"Never!" shouted Antoine.

"You are useless to me, Freedom Fighter," said Robotnik.

"You will get nothing from me, Roboh..."

Robotnik raised a gun and shot Antoine in the forehead. A hole was in
his forehead where the bullet had entered. The once shouting Antoine was
suddenly silent. Very silent.




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