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Robotnik stood in his secondary roboticization chamber, growing impatient from
the delay that Uncle Chuck was giving him in response to the order given to him
to roboticize Rotor.
"Did you hear me?" snapped Robotnik. "I said, 'Roboticize the walrus!'"
Hesitatingly, Uncle Chuck grabbed Rotor, but did not immediately throw him into
a roboticizer.
"Stop delaying! Roboticize the walrus now!"
Uncle Chuck threw Rotor into a roboticizer.
"Noooooooooooo!" screamed Rotor. "Remember me! Don't you remember me?"
Of course, Uncle Chuck remembered Rotor, but he had a plan to save Rotor from
being a slave of Robotnik, and save himself from being realigned, if he hadn't
aroused too much suspicion already.
Uncle Chuck went to the control panel and activated Rotor's roboticizer. Inch
by inch, Rotor became robot.
**********
Main Structure, Robotropolis…
Sally took Nicole from her pocket.
"Nicole, can you override the lock on the door?" said Sally, referring to the
great iron door to the Main Structure.
"Activating security override code," reported Nicole. "Lock disabled. Door
unlocked."
"Thank you, Nicole."
"My pleasure."
"Bunnie, can you push the door open now that it is unlocked?" asked Sally.
"Of course, sugah-Sal!"
Using her robotic arm, Bunnie pushed the iron door open, revealing the entrance
to the Main Structure of Robotropolis.
"I wonder if we'll run into Tails," said Bunnie. "He was roboticized. I saw him
roboticized before my very eyes!"
"WHAT???" yelled Sally. "It took you this long to tell us because…"
"Tails was roboticized?" stammered Antoine.
"Well, I was sort of caught up in the whole, uh, future thing."
"Tails was … roboti … cized?" stammered Antoine.
"Yes, Antoine," said Bunnie.
A couple of SWATbots caught the Freedom Fighters off-guard, in the middle of
their "conversation."
"Priority One: apprehend Freedom Fighters," reported a SWATbot.
"Oh mah stars!" cried Bunnie.
Antoine quickly recovered from his being startled over Tails' roboticization and
drew his sword. He struck one of the two SWATbots. The other SWATbot fired a
stun ray at Sally, who barely ducked out of the way. Sally was still holding
Nicole, and quickly said, "Fire, Nicole!"
"Firing!"
Nicole emitted a laser blast that exploded the second SWATbot. The first
SWATbot recovered from Antoine's attack and was about to fire a stun ray at
Antoine, when Bunnie fired at it with her pulse cannon, taking the SWATbot out
quickly.
"Let's go before we get caught off-guard again," suggested Sally.
"Good idea," replied Bunnie.
The Freedom Fighters proceeded into the Main Structure.
**********
Great Forest…
Sonic and Caero speeded toward Robotropolis, Caero trailing far behind. As
Sonic entered Robotropolis, many SWATbots were alerted. Sonic stopped briefly
to let Caero catch up, then speeded quickly between the laser shots of the
SWATbots, moving so quickly that he appeared only as a blue blur, then went into
spin mode and doubled back to knock out most of the SWATbots so Caero could get
through without hassle.
Seeing that the door to the Main Structure was already open, Sonic thought, "My
friends must be here." Sonic and Caero darted into the Main Structure. Inside,
both SWATbots and Combots patrolled the corridors. After rounding a corner,
Sonic spotted Sally, Bunnie, and Antoine. Sonic signaled to Caero to follow
him. Sonic approached his friends and said, "Hey, guys!"
Sonic's friends were startled, caught off-guard again, and were ready to attack,
but they saw it was only Sonic.
"Sonic, where have you been all this time?" asked Sally. "And who's this with
you?"
"This is Caero, but I'll tell you the whole story later." "Right now, let's
just find Tails and Rotor."
Sonic checked his backpack, but saw that his deroboticizer unit was missing, and
said so.
"Not to worry, Sonic," said Caero, "I have it!" Caero took out the unit and
handed it to Sonic. Sonic put the unit in his backpack and said, to the trio,
"I got a deroboticizer from Uncle Chuck, to deroboticize Tails. Wait, you didn't
know Tails was roboticized."
"Yes, we knew," said Antoine. "Bunnie told us."
Again, the Freedom Fighters were caught off-guard by robots, except this time,
it was a SWATbot and two Combots.
"Uh-oh," said Caero, "these green robots (referring to the Combots) look
stronger than the ones we've met so far."
"Less talk, more action," said Sonic, who spun into one of the Combots.
The Combot quickly recovered from the attack and fired a net to capture the
Freedom Fighters. Antoine was caught in the net, but quickly drew his sword and
escaped before the Combot could do anything. Bunnie tried to fire her pulse
cannon, but was knocked down by the second Combot before she could do so. Sally
kicked the first Combot, knocking it to the floor. Caero, using his strength,
decapitated the robotic minion. The SWATbot was easily taken out by Sonic's
spin maneuver. Antoine struck the second Combot, but it was not quite enough to
defeat it. The Combot knocked Antoine into Sally, and both fell to the ground.
Attacking from behind the Combot, Caero knocked the Combot down, and Sonic
finished it off with a spin.
Phew!
**********
Secondary Roboticization Chamber, Robotropolis…
Robotnik smiled.
"It seems as if you are still my slave," he said to Uncle Chuck. "Good work."
Robotnik pressed a button and red beams surrounded him. The red flashed and
Robotnik was gone. The Combots exited the room, leaving only Uncle Chuck and
Rotor. (still in the roboticizer) Uncle Chuck opened the roboticizer and
released the robotic Rotor.
Rotor looked at himself and cried, "What happened?"
"Quiet!" spoke Uncle Chuck. "In order that Robotnik would not suspect me of
having free will, I had to roboticize you. I used a neural-override chip so you
would become robotic, but would keep your free will.[3] Until I can
deroboticize you, you must pretend to be under Robotnik's control. Or somehow
escape from Robotropolis. Come with me."
Uncle Chuck exited the chamber, and Rotor quickly followed him.
**********
Robotnik's Control Center ("Headquarters"), Robotropolis…
Robotnik appeared in the room via warp from the secondary roboticization
chamber. He sat in his control chair and ordered, "Send newly-created SWATbots
to Great Forest. In need of replacements. Snively, report to the control
center immediately."
**********
Main Structure, Robotropolis…
Antoine, Sally, and Bunnie got up. Sally pulled out Nicole and said, "Nicole,
can you locate Rotor or the roboticized Tails?"
"I don't have the internal structure of Tails in roboticized form, and cannot
find one individual robot that stands out as having an internal structure close
to matching that of Tails," reported Nicole.
"And Rotor?" asked Sally.
"I am unable to find Rotor."
"Damn." "Well, we'll just have to search Robotropolis."
"But weel neevar find them in thees huge place," whined Antoine.
Sonic, Caero, Sally, and Bunnie all proceeded down the corridor, leaving Antoine
behind.
Realizing that he had been left behind, Antoine cried, "Wait for me!" and ran
after the Freedom Fighters. (and Caero)
**********
Control Center, Robotropolis…
Snively entered the control center.
"Yes, master?" he called.
"My computer detects that the rodent and some of his rabble rousers are in the
corridors of my main structure. Take a group of Combots and find the Freedom
Fighters."
"Yessir."
**********
Main Structure, Robotropolis…
Uncle Chuck quickly sneaked toward the exit from the Main Structure, and Rotor
followed him out of the Main Structure. Chuck led Rotor to his hideaway in the
metal pile. Uncle Chuck entered his code and the door opened outward and
upward. Uncle Chuck went inside, and to Rotor he beckoned, "Come in!"
Rotor stepped inside and the door to Chuck's hideaway closed.
"I would deroboticize you now, and say Sonic and the rest of the Freedom
Fighters must have done it, but I gave my last deroboticizer to Sonic in order
to try and deroboticize Tails," said Uncle Chuck.
"Tails got roboticized?"
"Robotnik's files, and Sonic, say so."
"Damnit," yelled Rotor, "I should have tried harder to save him - I was in the
ZIG room when he was put to sleep, but I escaped and left Tails."
"It's not your fault!"
"I know, but I still feel bad."
"I am sad about it too - I only hope my nephew can save him," said Uncle Chuck.
"Follow me," said Uncle Chuck, who headed for a stairway leading to a lower
level of his hideaway. Rotor followed him.
They went down the stairs into what Uncle Chuck used as his laboratory.
Uncle Chuck said, "I have been working on various experiments, as well as making
deroboticizers down here. I'll concentrate on working especially on the
deroboticizer I've started. Hopefully, soon, we'll get you back to normal. I'm
so sorry I had to do this to you. I hope you can forgive me."
"I forgive you, Chuck," said Rotor. "If it weren't for you, I would have been
roboticized by Robotnik anyway, and I'd be under his control right now."
Uncle Chuck smiled, and then said, "Well, I'd better get to work on the
deroboticizer. You'd might as well stay here, until I can devise a plan to get
you to Knothole, or finish the deroboticizer."
"Thanks, Chuck."
**********
Main Structure, Robotropolis…
The Freedom Fighters worked forward, along the corridor.
Sally suggested, "Let's go to the robot hangar. Maybe we'll find Tails there."
"But what if we meet some robots?" whined Antoine.
"Of course we'll run into some robots! It's called a robot hangar!" said Sonic.
"No need for arguing. I've got a better idea!" came a voice from behind the
Freedom Fighters.
The Freedom Fighters turned around to face Snively, who had an army of about
twenty Combots.
"Combots, attack!"
Even the five warriors of Sonic, Sally, Bunnie, Antoine, and Caero could be no
match for twenty battle-programmed Combots.
© 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.
Robotnik stood in his secondary roboticization chamber, growing impatient from
the delay that Uncle Chuck was giving him in response to the order given to him
to roboticize Rotor.
"Did you hear me?" snapped Robotnik. "I said, 'Roboticize the walrus!'"
Hesitatingly, Uncle Chuck grabbed Rotor, but did not immediately throw him into
a roboticizer.
"Stop delaying! Roboticize the walrus now!"
Uncle Chuck threw Rotor into a roboticizer.
"Noooooooooooo!" screamed Rotor. "Remember me! Don't you remember me?"
Of course, Uncle Chuck remembered Rotor, but he had a plan to save Rotor from
being a slave of Robotnik, and save himself from being realigned, if he hadn't
aroused too much suspicion already.
Uncle Chuck went to the control panel and activated Rotor's roboticizer. Inch
by inch, Rotor became robot.
**********
Main Structure, Robotropolis…
Sally took Nicole from her pocket.
"Nicole, can you override the lock on the door?" said Sally, referring to the
great iron door to the Main Structure.
"Activating security override code," reported Nicole. "Lock disabled. Door
unlocked."
"Thank you, Nicole."
"My pleasure."
"Bunnie, can you push the door open now that it is unlocked?" asked Sally.
"Of course, sugah-Sal!"
Using her robotic arm, Bunnie pushed the iron door open, revealing the entrance
to the Main Structure of Robotropolis.
"I wonder if we'll run into Tails," said Bunnie. "He was roboticized. I saw him
roboticized before my very eyes!"
"WHAT???" yelled Sally. "It took you this long to tell us because…"
"Tails was roboticized?" stammered Antoine.
"Well, I was sort of caught up in the whole, uh, future thing."
"Tails was … roboti … cized?" stammered Antoine.
"Yes, Antoine," said Bunnie.
A couple of SWATbots caught the Freedom Fighters off-guard, in the middle of
their "conversation."
"Priority One: apprehend Freedom Fighters," reported a SWATbot.
"Oh mah stars!" cried Bunnie.
Antoine quickly recovered from his being startled over Tails' roboticization and
drew his sword. He struck one of the two SWATbots. The other SWATbot fired a
stun ray at Sally, who barely ducked out of the way. Sally was still holding
Nicole, and quickly said, "Fire, Nicole!"
"Firing!"
Nicole emitted a laser blast that exploded the second SWATbot. The first
SWATbot recovered from Antoine's attack and was about to fire a stun ray at
Antoine, when Bunnie fired at it with her pulse cannon, taking the SWATbot out
quickly.
"Let's go before we get caught off-guard again," suggested Sally.
"Good idea," replied Bunnie.
The Freedom Fighters proceeded into the Main Structure.
**********
Great Forest…
Sonic and Caero speeded toward Robotropolis, Caero trailing far behind. As
Sonic entered Robotropolis, many SWATbots were alerted. Sonic stopped briefly
to let Caero catch up, then speeded quickly between the laser shots of the
SWATbots, moving so quickly that he appeared only as a blue blur, then went into
spin mode and doubled back to knock out most of the SWATbots so Caero could get
through without hassle.
Seeing that the door to the Main Structure was already open, Sonic thought, "My
friends must be here." Sonic and Caero darted into the Main Structure. Inside,
both SWATbots and Combots patrolled the corridors. After rounding a corner,
Sonic spotted Sally, Bunnie, and Antoine. Sonic signaled to Caero to follow
him. Sonic approached his friends and said, "Hey, guys!"
Sonic's friends were startled, caught off-guard again, and were ready to attack,
but they saw it was only Sonic.
"Sonic, where have you been all this time?" asked Sally. "And who's this with
you?"
"This is Caero, but I'll tell you the whole story later." "Right now, let's
just find Tails and Rotor."
Sonic checked his backpack, but saw that his deroboticizer unit was missing, and
said so.
"Not to worry, Sonic," said Caero, "I have it!" Caero took out the unit and
handed it to Sonic. Sonic put the unit in his backpack and said, to the trio,
"I got a deroboticizer from Uncle Chuck, to deroboticize Tails. Wait, you didn't
know Tails was roboticized."
"Yes, we knew," said Antoine. "Bunnie told us."
Again, the Freedom Fighters were caught off-guard by robots, except this time,
it was a SWATbot and two Combots.
"Uh-oh," said Caero, "these green robots (referring to the Combots) look
stronger than the ones we've met so far."
"Less talk, more action," said Sonic, who spun into one of the Combots.
The Combot quickly recovered from the attack and fired a net to capture the
Freedom Fighters. Antoine was caught in the net, but quickly drew his sword and
escaped before the Combot could do anything. Bunnie tried to fire her pulse
cannon, but was knocked down by the second Combot before she could do so. Sally
kicked the first Combot, knocking it to the floor. Caero, using his strength,
decapitated the robotic minion. The SWATbot was easily taken out by Sonic's
spin maneuver. Antoine struck the second Combot, but it was not quite enough to
defeat it. The Combot knocked Antoine into Sally, and both fell to the ground.
Attacking from behind the Combot, Caero knocked the Combot down, and Sonic
finished it off with a spin.
Phew!
**********
Secondary Roboticization Chamber, Robotropolis…
Robotnik smiled.
"It seems as if you are still my slave," he said to Uncle Chuck. "Good work."
Robotnik pressed a button and red beams surrounded him. The red flashed and
Robotnik was gone. The Combots exited the room, leaving only Uncle Chuck and
Rotor. (still in the roboticizer) Uncle Chuck opened the roboticizer and
released the robotic Rotor.
Rotor looked at himself and cried, "What happened?"
"Quiet!" spoke Uncle Chuck. "In order that Robotnik would not suspect me of
having free will, I had to roboticize you. I used a neural-override chip so you
would become robotic, but would keep your free will.[3] Until I can
deroboticize you, you must pretend to be under Robotnik's control. Or somehow
escape from Robotropolis. Come with me."
Uncle Chuck exited the chamber, and Rotor quickly followed him.
**********
Robotnik's Control Center ("Headquarters"), Robotropolis…
Robotnik appeared in the room via warp from the secondary roboticization
chamber. He sat in his control chair and ordered, "Send newly-created SWATbots
to Great Forest. In need of replacements. Snively, report to the control
center immediately."
**********
Main Structure, Robotropolis…
Antoine, Sally, and Bunnie got up. Sally pulled out Nicole and said, "Nicole,
can you locate Rotor or the roboticized Tails?"
"I don't have the internal structure of Tails in roboticized form, and cannot
find one individual robot that stands out as having an internal structure close
to matching that of Tails," reported Nicole.
"And Rotor?" asked Sally.
"I am unable to find Rotor."
"Damn." "Well, we'll just have to search Robotropolis."
"But weel neevar find them in thees huge place," whined Antoine.
Sonic, Caero, Sally, and Bunnie all proceeded down the corridor, leaving Antoine
behind.
Realizing that he had been left behind, Antoine cried, "Wait for me!" and ran
after the Freedom Fighters. (and Caero)
**********
Control Center, Robotropolis…
Snively entered the control center.
"Yes, master?" he called.
"My computer detects that the rodent and some of his rabble rousers are in the
corridors of my main structure. Take a group of Combots and find the Freedom
Fighters."
"Yessir."
**********
Main Structure, Robotropolis…
Uncle Chuck quickly sneaked toward the exit from the Main Structure, and Rotor
followed him out of the Main Structure. Chuck led Rotor to his hideaway in the
metal pile. Uncle Chuck entered his code and the door opened outward and
upward. Uncle Chuck went inside, and to Rotor he beckoned, "Come in!"
Rotor stepped inside and the door to Chuck's hideaway closed.
"I would deroboticize you now, and say Sonic and the rest of the Freedom
Fighters must have done it, but I gave my last deroboticizer to Sonic in order
to try and deroboticize Tails," said Uncle Chuck.
"Tails got roboticized?"
"Robotnik's files, and Sonic, say so."
"Damnit," yelled Rotor, "I should have tried harder to save him - I was in the
ZIG room when he was put to sleep, but I escaped and left Tails."
"It's not your fault!"
"I know, but I still feel bad."
"I am sad about it too - I only hope my nephew can save him," said Uncle Chuck.
"Follow me," said Uncle Chuck, who headed for a stairway leading to a lower
level of his hideaway. Rotor followed him.
They went down the stairs into what Uncle Chuck used as his laboratory.
Uncle Chuck said, "I have been working on various experiments, as well as making
deroboticizers down here. I'll concentrate on working especially on the
deroboticizer I've started. Hopefully, soon, we'll get you back to normal. I'm
so sorry I had to do this to you. I hope you can forgive me."
"I forgive you, Chuck," said Rotor. "If it weren't for you, I would have been
roboticized by Robotnik anyway, and I'd be under his control right now."
Uncle Chuck smiled, and then said, "Well, I'd better get to work on the
deroboticizer. You'd might as well stay here, until I can devise a plan to get
you to Knothole, or finish the deroboticizer."
"Thanks, Chuck."
**********
Main Structure, Robotropolis…
The Freedom Fighters worked forward, along the corridor.
Sally suggested, "Let's go to the robot hangar. Maybe we'll find Tails there."
"But what if we meet some robots?" whined Antoine.
"Of course we'll run into some robots! It's called a robot hangar!" said Sonic.
"No need for arguing. I've got a better idea!" came a voice from behind the
Freedom Fighters.
The Freedom Fighters turned around to face Snively, who had an army of about
twenty Combots.
"Combots, attack!"
Even the five warriors of Sonic, Sally, Bunnie, Antoine, and Caero could be no
match for twenty battle-programmed Combots.
© 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.