Part 3
Resolutions
11
Caero stood, dumbfounded. "Where'd Sonic go?" he thought. Caero
looked around, still mystified by Robotnik's technological disappearing act.
Then he looked to the floor, and saw the deroboticization unit that Sonic had
dropped before being warped away with Robotnik. Caero picked up the unit,
knowing that this was an important key to the mission on which he had embarked
with Sonic, yet knowing not what to do next.
*****
At Knothole, Rotor was attempting to contact Princess Sally,
although, because she had entered the future, radio communication was
impossible. After an hour of failed communication, Rotor decided to embark on
his own mission: to locate Princess Sally and her crew, and to attack
Robotropolis on the way.
"Quack, watch Knothole," shouted Rotor.
"But, Rotor," said the duck Doc, "I won't be able to fend off any
intruders! My strength is medicine, and my weakness is battle!"
"But I sense trouble," replied Rotor, "I haven't been able to
contact the Princess for over an hour now. I must try and find them."
Doctor Quack said, "Okay, Rotor, I'll alert the secondary army if
anything is to happen."
And, with that, Rotor set off on his mission.
*****
Sonic found himself falling through a zany zone, until the zone
collapsed at the end of its path. Sonic fell into the ZIG room, and was
immediately, without a chance to think or act, knocked unconscious by Robotnik.
Sonic was thrown into the second roboticizer, (currently the only working one)
and Robotnik sealed the door…
~~~~~
Robotropolis, Main Structure, That Very Second…
Uncle Chuck stood in front of the ZIG room, unknowing that his
nephew was in a roboticizer that very second. Hesitatingly, Uncle Chuck entered
the ZIG room.
"Sir Ivo Robotnik," he said, in a lifeless way, "there are SWATbots
leaving their assigned areas."
He hoped that Robotnik would leave to check on this (SWATbots are
always leaving their assigned areas, so this was no lie.) for just long enough
for Sonic to "escape." He had no such luck.
"Can't you see I'm busy?" yelled Robotnik.
Uncle Chuck thought for a second, and decided he must save his
nephew if he could.
~~~~~
That Very Second…
At the same time as Sonic's dilemma, Rotor was exploring the Main
Structure. At the same time that Robotnik sealed Sonic's roboticizer, Rotor
bashed into the Power Station. As he saw that no one was inside, Rotor plugged
an artificial-overload-signal (AOS) device into one of the power devices,
unknowing of what sections of Robotropolis it powered.
~~~~~
Meanwhile, in the ZIG room, Robotnik activated Sonic's roboticizer,
initializing the roboticization process. Uncle Chuck flinched, and was ready to
stop Robotnik if Sonic began to roboticize. After the destruction of the ZIG
robot, he was hoping the roboticizer would fail to buy him more time, and so he
would not have to reveal the fact that he was free-thinking.
~~~~~
That very second, Rotor activated the AOS device, which emitted an
artificial complex signal into the power device. After about two seconds, the
power device was overloaded and shut down.
~~~~~
The roboticizer was initialized, and the roboticization process
began. Uncle Chuck knew now that the roboticizer was functional. The process
lasted only for less than a second, however, as the overloaded power device
powered, among other things, the ZIG roboticization station. An overloaded
surge from the power device rippled through the ZIG room, and the control center
exploded. Robotnik was caught off-guard and was severely injured. The control
center emitted a signal to Sonic's roboticizer as it was detonated, and the
roboticizer door opened. Uncle Chuck quickly fled from the scene, to escape
from any suspicion, although he himself wondered what could have caused such a
miracle. Of course, this was no miracle. This was Rotor, accomplishing his
mission with flying colors. He not only sabotaged some of Robotnik's devices,
but he, unknowingly, saved Sonic as well. Sonic, woozy from the roboticizer's
gasses, fell out of the chamber, and quickly run from the ZIG room. Robotnik
quickly warped away.
**********
As the generator was powered down, an alarm signal was activated.
Hundreds of SWATbots stormed into the Power Station, led by MileBot. (Tails,
roboticized -- named after Tails, whose real name is Miles)
"CEASE FIRE," said MileBot, "IDENTIFICATION - GROUP 02 - KNOTHOLE FF - ID - 0688
- JOE 'ROTOR' SUSHI. TAKE PRISONER. COMMENCE."
The SWATbots grabbed Rotor and took him to the Jail Hall. He was thrown into a
normal titanium cell.
A few minutes later, Snively, Robotnik's right-hand man, appeared.
Snively, also Robotnik's nephew, was a short man, bald like his uncle, with a
long, pointy nose.
"His lordship, Robotnik," snarled Snively, "is unable to welcome you right now.
I shall do the honors. Welcome to the Robotropolis jail. You've been here
before, but this time you shan't escape. The bars, at least in this cell, have
been upgraded to titanium, so your feeble inventions shan't make so much as a
dent in these bars. Have fun!"
Snively laughed, and off he walked. Rotor growled, and removed one of his laser
devices from his backpack.
"Let's see if these bars are as strong as he says they are," mumbled Rotor.
Rotor took out a power booster, and attached it to his laser. Fire! The laser
surged toward the bars of the jail cell. Rotor inspected the damage.
"Snively's almost right," said Rotor to himself, seeing the small dent made by
the boosted laser, "these bars are strong, but, as long as I'm not caught
firing, I should, in time, escape."
**********
Meanwhile, in the future…
"Okay, to set the time you want to warp to, you press the digital buttons," said
the future Sally, "and then to warp, press the red button. But before you go,
make sure you've set the right time and date, because the time machine is set to
warp back to Knothole 3240 after thirty seconds of releasing its passengers.
And, persevere always. You have the strength to defeat all evil."
The future Sally winked at her past self, and then her and the future Sonic left
the room.
"TM-ACCESS DOOR CLOSED," said the computer voice.
The door to the time machine opened.
"Well, sugah-Sal, I guess this is it," said Bunnie.
"Yeah, Bunnie," replied Sally, "I sure hope this works."
Sally, and Bunnie, carrying Antoine, boarded the time machine. The door closed.
"Welcome to the KFF 4D device," said the time machine's on-board computer,
"please set destination time and date now."
Sally used the digital keypad to set the year to 3234 and the date and time to
seven minutes before Antoine's destruction.
"Here goes nothing," said Sally, pushing the red button.
"KFF 4D device engaged," said the on-board computer.
Outside the time machine, power orbs upon steel poles began to rotate around the
time machine. Quicker and quicker, they spun. They began to surge with power,
until the power overflowed onto the time machine, and then, all of a sudden, the
time machine flashed and Sally and Bunnie, with the still-unconscious Antoine,
found themselves floating through a realm of warped reality, falling through
time. Back through six years they fell, until finally, true reality surged into
the dimension where Sally and Bunnie were, and they fell into the location where
they had been seven minutes before Antoine's demise.
"KFF 4D device warping in fifteen seconds," said the time machine's computer.
The time machine sat there, half real, and half a dream of warped reality.
Fifteen seconds later, the time machine faded away, and Antoine became
conscious.
Sally, Bunnie, and Antoine were outside Robotropolis. They had been planning to
return to the Main Structure to find Sonic. They had just been chased out of
the Main Structure by some SWATbots.
To Bunnie, Sally whispered, "Should we go back to Knothole and come back later,
to avoid any possible reoccurrence of the unfortunate mishap?"
"That might be a good idea this time," replied Bunnie.
Antoine got up and said, "Okay, now weel retreat!"
"Okay, but we'll have to come back later," said Sally, "because we can't just
leave Sonic."
The three Freedom Fighters returned to Knothole, after a long walk. (Sally and
Bunnie were still trying to remember exactly what happened)
*****
It turns out that Sally had left her radio communicator in the future, and
therefore Rotor was unable to contact her. Rotor embarked on his mission, and
the same thing happened. Sonic was spared from roboticization at the last
minute, and Rotor was imprisoned. By the time Sally, Bunnie, and Antoine had
returned to Knothole, Rotor had already left.
*****
Knothole…
Sally, Bunnie, and Antoine enter Knothole.
"Princess Sally!" shouted Doctor Quack.
"Hello, Doctor Quack," said Sally. "What's happened while we were gone?"
"Rotor was unable to contact you!" said the doctor. "He left for Robotropolis to
try to find you!"
"Uh-oh," said Sally, and then whispered to Bunnie, "I left my radio in the
future."
*****
Robotropolis…
Caero was still thinking about what to do with the deroboticizer, and what his
next move should be, when Sonic raced around the corner and grabbed Caero,
speeding out of the Main Structure.
"What's up?" asked Caero. "What happened? Where'd you go?"
Still running, Sonic replied, "Robotnik warped me to the ZIG room. Y'know, the
place that turned your arm mechanical. I was almost roboticized, but, all of
the sudden, the power to the ZIG room shut off. Robotnik was fried."
Sonic came to a halt outside Robotropolis.
"Was that you?" he asked.
"Was that me, what?" asked Caero, confused.
"Did you shut down the power to the ZIG room?"
"Sorry, but that wasn't me. Ever since you left, all I've been doing was
thinking about what to do next."
"Hmm, then I wonder who it was…"
*****
The Jail Hall, about ten minutes later…
Rotor was still firing away at the bars to his cell. He had made a nice-sized
dent in one of the bars, but it would still be a long way to go before he could
get out of the cell. He had been trying to contact Knothole, and Sally's
personal radio (left in the future), but no signal made it through.
"Rotor, can you… do… read me… if you copy… respond… this is… over…" came a
broken signal, all of a sudden.
Rotor quickly took out has transmitter and sent a reply, "I copy, but your
signal is weak. Who is this? I am in Robotropolis, in a jail cell. Over…"
"Rotor, do you copy… Sally… this is Sa… respo… do you… over…"
Apparently, the message sent by Rotor had not gotten through to Knothole. So,
Rotor sent another message.
"This is Rotor. I am in jail at Robotropolis. This is Rotor. I am…"
Rotor's message was cut off by a SWATbot's laser. The SWATbot began to send a
message to Snively. Rotor quickly took out a laser and fired at the SWATbot,
but it was too late. Two minutes later, Snively appeared with two Combots at
his side.
"This is no game, walrus. I was going to let you rot here, give you a chance to
escape," said Snively. "Well, that wasn't really my purpose, but, anyway, now
that you're trying to contact your friends, I'll have to roboticize you."
"That doesn't make any sense," snapped Rotor.
"Shut up," retorted Snively. "It doesn't have to. I'm going to roboticize you,
and that's that."
Snively opened Rotor's jail cell and the two Combots grabbed him.
"Combots, take him to the secondary roboticization chamber!" Snively ordered.
© 1997, 1999, 2001 Brandon, aka Escee "SC" Takeshi.
Sonic, Tails, Robotnik, and related characters and indicia, are trademarks of
SEGA. Other characters such as Princess Sally, Bunnie, and Antoine, are
trademarks of DiC or Archie Comics. Caero, Ruben, and other related characters
are works of Escee.
Sonic: Take it All the Way is a work of Brandon. See http://www.escee.com for
contact information for Brandon, aka Escee "SC" Takeshi.
Escee.com and related companies are subsidiaries of JB Computer Technologies
(http://www.jbcomptech.com) and are owned by Brandon.
Resolutions
11
Caero stood, dumbfounded. "Where'd Sonic go?" he thought. Caero
looked around, still mystified by Robotnik's technological disappearing act.
Then he looked to the floor, and saw the deroboticization unit that Sonic had
dropped before being warped away with Robotnik. Caero picked up the unit,
knowing that this was an important key to the mission on which he had embarked
with Sonic, yet knowing not what to do next.
*****
At Knothole, Rotor was attempting to contact Princess Sally,
although, because she had entered the future, radio communication was
impossible. After an hour of failed communication, Rotor decided to embark on
his own mission: to locate Princess Sally and her crew, and to attack
Robotropolis on the way.
"Quack, watch Knothole," shouted Rotor.
"But, Rotor," said the duck Doc, "I won't be able to fend off any
intruders! My strength is medicine, and my weakness is battle!"
"But I sense trouble," replied Rotor, "I haven't been able to
contact the Princess for over an hour now. I must try and find them."
Doctor Quack said, "Okay, Rotor, I'll alert the secondary army if
anything is to happen."
And, with that, Rotor set off on his mission.
*****
Sonic found himself falling through a zany zone, until the zone
collapsed at the end of its path. Sonic fell into the ZIG room, and was
immediately, without a chance to think or act, knocked unconscious by Robotnik.
Sonic was thrown into the second roboticizer, (currently the only working one)
and Robotnik sealed the door…
~~~~~
Robotropolis, Main Structure, That Very Second…
Uncle Chuck stood in front of the ZIG room, unknowing that his
nephew was in a roboticizer that very second. Hesitatingly, Uncle Chuck entered
the ZIG room.
"Sir Ivo Robotnik," he said, in a lifeless way, "there are SWATbots
leaving their assigned areas."
He hoped that Robotnik would leave to check on this (SWATbots are
always leaving their assigned areas, so this was no lie.) for just long enough
for Sonic to "escape." He had no such luck.
"Can't you see I'm busy?" yelled Robotnik.
Uncle Chuck thought for a second, and decided he must save his
nephew if he could.
~~~~~
That Very Second…
At the same time as Sonic's dilemma, Rotor was exploring the Main
Structure. At the same time that Robotnik sealed Sonic's roboticizer, Rotor
bashed into the Power Station. As he saw that no one was inside, Rotor plugged
an artificial-overload-signal (AOS) device into one of the power devices,
unknowing of what sections of Robotropolis it powered.
~~~~~
Meanwhile, in the ZIG room, Robotnik activated Sonic's roboticizer,
initializing the roboticization process. Uncle Chuck flinched, and was ready to
stop Robotnik if Sonic began to roboticize. After the destruction of the ZIG
robot, he was hoping the roboticizer would fail to buy him more time, and so he
would not have to reveal the fact that he was free-thinking.
~~~~~
That very second, Rotor activated the AOS device, which emitted an
artificial complex signal into the power device. After about two seconds, the
power device was overloaded and shut down.
~~~~~
The roboticizer was initialized, and the roboticization process
began. Uncle Chuck knew now that the roboticizer was functional. The process
lasted only for less than a second, however, as the overloaded power device
powered, among other things, the ZIG roboticization station. An overloaded
surge from the power device rippled through the ZIG room, and the control center
exploded. Robotnik was caught off-guard and was severely injured. The control
center emitted a signal to Sonic's roboticizer as it was detonated, and the
roboticizer door opened. Uncle Chuck quickly fled from the scene, to escape
from any suspicion, although he himself wondered what could have caused such a
miracle. Of course, this was no miracle. This was Rotor, accomplishing his
mission with flying colors. He not only sabotaged some of Robotnik's devices,
but he, unknowingly, saved Sonic as well. Sonic, woozy from the roboticizer's
gasses, fell out of the chamber, and quickly run from the ZIG room. Robotnik
quickly warped away.
**********
As the generator was powered down, an alarm signal was activated.
Hundreds of SWATbots stormed into the Power Station, led by MileBot. (Tails,
roboticized -- named after Tails, whose real name is Miles)
"CEASE FIRE," said MileBot, "IDENTIFICATION - GROUP 02 - KNOTHOLE FF - ID - 0688
- JOE 'ROTOR' SUSHI. TAKE PRISONER. COMMENCE."
The SWATbots grabbed Rotor and took him to the Jail Hall. He was thrown into a
normal titanium cell.
A few minutes later, Snively, Robotnik's right-hand man, appeared.
Snively, also Robotnik's nephew, was a short man, bald like his uncle, with a
long, pointy nose.
"His lordship, Robotnik," snarled Snively, "is unable to welcome you right now.
I shall do the honors. Welcome to the Robotropolis jail. You've been here
before, but this time you shan't escape. The bars, at least in this cell, have
been upgraded to titanium, so your feeble inventions shan't make so much as a
dent in these bars. Have fun!"
Snively laughed, and off he walked. Rotor growled, and removed one of his laser
devices from his backpack.
"Let's see if these bars are as strong as he says they are," mumbled Rotor.
Rotor took out a power booster, and attached it to his laser. Fire! The laser
surged toward the bars of the jail cell. Rotor inspected the damage.
"Snively's almost right," said Rotor to himself, seeing the small dent made by
the boosted laser, "these bars are strong, but, as long as I'm not caught
firing, I should, in time, escape."
**********
Meanwhile, in the future…
"Okay, to set the time you want to warp to, you press the digital buttons," said
the future Sally, "and then to warp, press the red button. But before you go,
make sure you've set the right time and date, because the time machine is set to
warp back to Knothole 3240 after thirty seconds of releasing its passengers.
And, persevere always. You have the strength to defeat all evil."
The future Sally winked at her past self, and then her and the future Sonic left
the room.
"TM-ACCESS DOOR CLOSED," said the computer voice.
The door to the time machine opened.
"Well, sugah-Sal, I guess this is it," said Bunnie.
"Yeah, Bunnie," replied Sally, "I sure hope this works."
Sally, and Bunnie, carrying Antoine, boarded the time machine. The door closed.
"Welcome to the KFF 4D device," said the time machine's on-board computer,
"please set destination time and date now."
Sally used the digital keypad to set the year to 3234 and the date and time to
seven minutes before Antoine's destruction.
"Here goes nothing," said Sally, pushing the red button.
"KFF 4D device engaged," said the on-board computer.
Outside the time machine, power orbs upon steel poles began to rotate around the
time machine. Quicker and quicker, they spun. They began to surge with power,
until the power overflowed onto the time machine, and then, all of a sudden, the
time machine flashed and Sally and Bunnie, with the still-unconscious Antoine,
found themselves floating through a realm of warped reality, falling through
time. Back through six years they fell, until finally, true reality surged into
the dimension where Sally and Bunnie were, and they fell into the location where
they had been seven minutes before Antoine's demise.
"KFF 4D device warping in fifteen seconds," said the time machine's computer.
The time machine sat there, half real, and half a dream of warped reality.
Fifteen seconds later, the time machine faded away, and Antoine became
conscious.
Sally, Bunnie, and Antoine were outside Robotropolis. They had been planning to
return to the Main Structure to find Sonic. They had just been chased out of
the Main Structure by some SWATbots.
To Bunnie, Sally whispered, "Should we go back to Knothole and come back later,
to avoid any possible reoccurrence of the unfortunate mishap?"
"That might be a good idea this time," replied Bunnie.
Antoine got up and said, "Okay, now weel retreat!"
"Okay, but we'll have to come back later," said Sally, "because we can't just
leave Sonic."
The three Freedom Fighters returned to Knothole, after a long walk. (Sally and
Bunnie were still trying to remember exactly what happened)
*****
It turns out that Sally had left her radio communicator in the future, and
therefore Rotor was unable to contact her. Rotor embarked on his mission, and
the same thing happened. Sonic was spared from roboticization at the last
minute, and Rotor was imprisoned. By the time Sally, Bunnie, and Antoine had
returned to Knothole, Rotor had already left.
*****
Knothole…
Sally, Bunnie, and Antoine enter Knothole.
"Princess Sally!" shouted Doctor Quack.
"Hello, Doctor Quack," said Sally. "What's happened while we were gone?"
"Rotor was unable to contact you!" said the doctor. "He left for Robotropolis to
try to find you!"
"Uh-oh," said Sally, and then whispered to Bunnie, "I left my radio in the
future."
*****
Robotropolis…
Caero was still thinking about what to do with the deroboticizer, and what his
next move should be, when Sonic raced around the corner and grabbed Caero,
speeding out of the Main Structure.
"What's up?" asked Caero. "What happened? Where'd you go?"
Still running, Sonic replied, "Robotnik warped me to the ZIG room. Y'know, the
place that turned your arm mechanical. I was almost roboticized, but, all of
the sudden, the power to the ZIG room shut off. Robotnik was fried."
Sonic came to a halt outside Robotropolis.
"Was that you?" he asked.
"Was that me, what?" asked Caero, confused.
"Did you shut down the power to the ZIG room?"
"Sorry, but that wasn't me. Ever since you left, all I've been doing was
thinking about what to do next."
"Hmm, then I wonder who it was…"
*****
The Jail Hall, about ten minutes later…
Rotor was still firing away at the bars to his cell. He had made a nice-sized
dent in one of the bars, but it would still be a long way to go before he could
get out of the cell. He had been trying to contact Knothole, and Sally's
personal radio (left in the future), but no signal made it through.
"Rotor, can you… do… read me… if you copy… respond… this is… over…" came a
broken signal, all of a sudden.
Rotor quickly took out has transmitter and sent a reply, "I copy, but your
signal is weak. Who is this? I am in Robotropolis, in a jail cell. Over…"
"Rotor, do you copy… Sally… this is Sa… respo… do you… over…"
Apparently, the message sent by Rotor had not gotten through to Knothole. So,
Rotor sent another message.
"This is Rotor. I am in jail at Robotropolis. This is Rotor. I am…"
Rotor's message was cut off by a SWATbot's laser. The SWATbot began to send a
message to Snively. Rotor quickly took out a laser and fired at the SWATbot,
but it was too late. Two minutes later, Snively appeared with two Combots at
his side.
"This is no game, walrus. I was going to let you rot here, give you a chance to
escape," said Snively. "Well, that wasn't really my purpose, but, anyway, now
that you're trying to contact your friends, I'll have to roboticize you."
"That doesn't make any sense," snapped Rotor.
"Shut up," retorted Snively. "It doesn't have to. I'm going to roboticize you,
and that's that."
Snively opened Rotor's jail cell and the two Combots grabbed him.
"Combots, take him to the secondary roboticization chamber!" Snively ordered.
© 1997, 1999, 2001 Brandon, aka Escee "SC" Takeshi.
Sonic, Tails, Robotnik, and related characters and indicia, are trademarks of
SEGA. Other characters such as Princess Sally, Bunnie, and Antoine, are
trademarks of DiC or Archie Comics. Caero, Ruben, and other related characters
are works of Escee.
Sonic: Take it All the Way is a work of Brandon. See http://www.escee.com for
contact information for Brandon, aka Escee "SC" Takeshi.
Escee.com and related companies are subsidiaries of JB Computer Technologies
(http://www.jbcomptech.com) and are owned by Brandon.