Part 5
We were all thanking the gods that the full robot army was still unoperational. We were sure that if there were more ragebots we would have been in BIG trouble. We were, however slowed down by the constand pressence of the seekerbots. There must have been millions of them. Every corner we passed another pair of them poped out. They wernt too hard to beat but they became very annoying. Max reffered to our constand pressure like bieng stuck in a cave stuffed full of blood sucking oversized bats. and thats basicly what the seekerbots looked like. One of them managed to singe one of my tails. It put a black streak straight across it. Of course it never got the chance to fire again. Marble had made a clean cut straight across it. Every time I saw him fight he became better and better. It was strange watching him fight. He remindes me of Sonic so much... Enough! Its all in the past and i cant change it.
We are still on the lookout for leftover bots. They are still after us. Ah but im distracting myself from what happend to Knuckels. You probably have figured it out by now. He was robotized. I have never seen anything so frightening in my life. It looked like he was created by throwing together bits and pices of technology long forgotten in the old robosonics. And even the one Robotails. I still have nightmares about how i couldnt bring myself to kill him... it. Exept in the nightmares sonic is already dead and... i cant do anything while robotails rips my body apart. And then I wake up.
And when I woke up i found the dark gloomy structures of robotropolis towering over me. It makes me feel chills even now. As we walked twards the main controll center of the humungous city Max said that it was too easy I agreed with him but marble (in his state of egoness) though that all the bots were just too scared to hang around with us on the loose. We both bonked Marble on the head after he said that. I gess even in a gloomy place like this humor is still possible I said to Max Wait, whats that? Marble said and we all looked up at where he was pointing. We saw a... its hard to describe. It looked like a huge dome. It must have taken up 1/3 of the city! I'm going to get a better look I said starting to twist up my two tails. It had been a long time since a flew, and i dont think ive ever flown as a full adult. As I used my tails more in my youth they became slighty longer then some of the other foxes. I twirled my tails and started to fly up to the building. Max started to climb one of the nearby buildings and marble just... jumped. I still cant believe that he made the tower in just three jumps. Even Sonic probably coudnt have done that.
As the dome became clear... i cant say that there was much to say about it. It was solid black. Blacker then even the sky and that was saying somthing about robotropolis at night. It looked like it was half of a perfect cyrcle. It looked like sombody burred a ball in the sand. exept the giant that buried this thing would have to of thought the whole contenent was a beach. Evry once in a while a bright white ribbon would cross its middle. I couldnt figure out what it was. That was stupid of me. I saw the sparks coming from it. I should have realized that it was just heated metal. Heated from the immense speed of the thing on the inside. We still didnt know what was in store for us when we finaly got to it. One of the Seekerbots had damaged my arm. I think it was broken. The time between when we left the tower and when we got to the dome is hazy now. I must have goten knocked out or somthing. The last thing i remeber before entering to dome was Max saying that he felt a familiar presence inside, But he couldnt place it.
I remeber feeling my fur start to stand up on end when i entered. It was like... Walking into a huge electromagnetic feild. My Tails bushed up when i walked in that dark passage. Also i noticed Maxe's and Marble's spines on end as well. After that i didnt see much. It was pich black inside the cavern that enterd the dome. Man its dark in here. Max said summoning some light into his hand. I'm not sure how he did it yet but i suspect the emeralds had somthing to do with it. I am truly sorry i ever went inside that blackness.
Even with Maxe's light it was dark. On one occasion it became so bad i had to fire my cannon to see what was ahed. About half way through the tunnel we made camp. Well we called it camp. It wasn't much more then a old cloth stuck up on sticks. But it was betting then nothing. While I was sleeping Marble clobered me. OOOF! What? MARBLE GET OFFA ME! Marble was panting hard and he seemed pale in the darkness. (Max had set his light on a post) Ta-Tails! Isawthisbigredthinganditwasscaryandihidand he stuttered over his words. Woh Marble slow down. Now whats up?
I saw these big set of eyes! Two sets! Both of them were glowing red! Tails it was scary! Marble was crying in my sholder now. hey im sure it was just a nightmare it wasnt real guy.
IT WAS REAL! I WASNT DREAMING! I SAW TWO PAIRS OF BLOOD RED EYES RIGHT OVER THERE! he pointed twards where we were heading. I pricked up my ears. I thought i had heard some of that electric whine that comes from running hardware. It was faighnt and i thought i was imagineing it. It was so STUPID of me! I was such an idiot! There i was in the middle of robotropolis thinking i only imagined an electric sqeak! The whole city is full of the noise.
By this time Max (who was supposed to be keeping guard) had woken up and walked over to us.
It took us a while but we finnaly calmed Marble down. That little hedgehog. So scared and immature. and yet... so like his father...
We finaly got to the end of the Cavern. Inside was a complete contrast to the outside. We were instantly blinded as the bright light mercyleslly beat down upon us. ROBOTS OF ALL VERSIONS NOW ENTERING THE ARENA... THE PITIFUL LAST HOPE OF ALL MOBIOUS! The voice that spoke was cold. It was like ice and death all wraped up in one pagace. But the second voice was worse... much worse! HA HA HA HA HA... AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! the laugh was that of... i can hardly stand it. It was the voice of Naki. But... i coulnd believe it. Thats when Marbles dream had become reality. As our eyes adjusted two things stood out. One was the mass of robots booing and hissing as hard as they could. And the other was... Two blood red eyeys. The first set i instantly knew belonged to Robosonic. The second set belonged to the once great person that saved our world. Knuckes. He was standing right there infront of us... no... he was dead. The bieng we saw was Roboknuckles. However Max blind with his unconditional love for his brother didnt realize. Knu-Knuckels is that you! Oh my god! Knuckles its me! Maximulan! Roboknuckels eyes flashed at this. Now now knuckels... wait till the turnament begins! Robosonic anounced
WHAT TURNAMENT! wha? MAX MAXIMULAN HE ISNT YOUR BROTHER ANYMORE! but too late as soon as Max had touched Roboknuckels he was knocked back. Knuckels laughed! The croud of robots were cheering him on. Now now. The turnament begins in half an hour! Both partys will be in seprate rooms and can do what they wish. Robosonic said in his icy tone. You hear that Max? Only half an hour to pray to the gods to spare your wreched life! HA HA HA! i bearly had time to draw out my cannon when treads on the ground swept the three of us to a locked room.
End part five