The Freedom Fighter Adventure
Chapter 4
The next morning, a small group made their way through the Great Forest towards the ruins of what had once been Knothole Village. The two Sonics led the way, followed by Sally, Bunnie, Geoffrey, Hershey, Knuckles, Julie- Su, Tails, and Amy. Sally had wanted to take only a small party and did not really want her bodyguards Geoff and Hershey along, but her father had insisted. Sally feared that the larger the group, the harder it might be for them to get away quickly.
Amy and Tails walked together. "Amy? Have you seen that other version of me yet?" Tails asked.
"Yeah." Said Amy. "He's a cute little guy."
"Yeah, he may be cute; but he sure is nothing like me." Tails said.
"Ha! You should see that other me!" Amy said. "She's still a little kid! I mean, they call her Amy; but that can't really be me!"
"I know what you mean." Tails said. "They're so different from us… or maybe we're so different from them. I actually think it's really interesting, especially how they're so much younger than what we are. Who knows how many other versions of us might be out there? All of them totally different!"
"I suppose we should get to know the Amy and Tails from this world better." Amy said. "After all, they are us… sort of."
"Hmmm, well… can I tell you a secret?" Tails asked.
"Of course, Tails." Said Amy.
"Well, I…uhhhh… you seen that Mongoose that babysits them?" Tails said. "I think I'd like to get to know her better."
"Why, Tails!" Amy said. "Is that the sound of your hormones starting to kick in that I hear?"
Tails said nothing. He just blushed a little.
Sonic and Sonic walked at the front of the group. Sonic heard the other Sonic singing a tune: "Look out when he storms through! Sonic the Hedgehog! Don't doubt what he can do! Sonic the Hedgehog!"
"Hey, what's that?" Sonic asked.
"Oh, just a little song some fans wrote about me!" The other Sonic said with a grin. "Hasn't anybody ever written a song about your exploits?"
Sonic thought: "No they haven't." He had saved his world just as many times as this other Sonic has saved this one, but nobody had written a song about him! But Sonic wasn't gonna let this other Sonic show him up! Suddenly, he remembered a song he had heard on the radio back home that could fit him, so he quickly lied.
"Sure, they've done a song about me! It goes like this: 'It doesn't matter now what happens, I will never give up the fight…'"
"Not as catchy as my song." The other Sonic said.
"Ha! Shows how much you know!" Sonic said.
Sally and Amy were overhearing the whole thing. "There they go again!" Amy sighed.
"Yeah." Said Sally. "About the only thing they can agree on is that neither of them likes Geoffrey!"
"I stopped the Doomsday Project!"
"I stopped the Eclipse Cannon!"
Amy and Sally just rolled their eyes as they continued onward.
After a while, they came to a burned out area of forest; a charred wasteland in all directions.
"We're very close." Sally said.
That was when everyone became aware of the smell.
"God! What is that stench?" Sonic asked.
But before anyone could answer. Sonic saw bones lying before him. Bones… and rotting flesh.
"Holy shit!" He shouted.
"These are the ones who died when Robotnik attacked Knothole." Sally said softly. "He didn't take them off to be roboticized, he just killed them and left their bodies rotting here as a warning to us." Sally was trying to stay composed, but she clearly appeared as if she were about to break down.
"Dear God!" Sonic said as became aware of dozens of more bodies. This was even more than he could take.
Amy saw the body of a purple female hedgehog who looked to be about her age. An image of terror was still frozen on her dead face. Amy cried uncontrollably.
Tails vomited.
"We're sorry you had to see this." Sally said. "But you had to know just what kind of man our Robotnik is."
"He's even worse than our Robotnik!" Sonic said. "If that's possible!"
"You can't bury these poor souls?" Amy asked, still transfixed on the body of the female hedgehog.
"We've had volunteers try." Sally said. "But Robotnik keeps Swatbot patrols around the area. Many of the burial parties have ended up dead or roboticized themselves. That's why we can't stay long."
The green Knuckles, who had been silent up until now, spoke up. "I think we have company right now! I can feel them!"
"Me too, rad re—I mean green!" the other Sonic said.
Before anyone else could react, about twenty Swatbots appeared seemingly out of nowhere!
"Surrender and prepare for complete robotization."
"I don't think so!" Sonic said. He spin dashed the nearest one, smashing it to pieces.
"Just watch this, me!" the other Sonic said. He horizontally sliced through two Swatbots. "Two for one! Top that!"
"Do you two have to compete even now?" Sally shouted to them.
"Sally! Look out!" Amy leaped past Sally, her hammer appearing in her hand. Amy swung like a big league slugger, taking the head right off the Swatbot who had been behind Sally!
"Whoa!" Sally said. "I owe you one! How do you do that thing with the hammer?"
Geoffrey and Hershey rushed to Sally's side. "Princess! Get behind us!" Geoff said.
"I'm not some fragile china doll, you two!" Sally said. "I can take care of myself!"
"King Maximillian's orders, your highness!" Geoffrey said. "We can't let anything happen to you!"
Everyone else, meanwhile, had spread out in all directions to attack the Swatbots. Bunnie faced down a pair of them. "C'mon, you damn Yankee machines!" she said, just before introducing both of them to her metallic fist.
Knuckles and Julie-Su stood with their backs to each other, bashing away at any Swatbot that dared to come near them.
"This is a good workout; isn't it, honey?" Julie-Su said.
No response from Knuckles.
"Y'know, since that whole Chaos Siphon thing I barely get even a grunt out of you!" she said.
Knuckles just smashed his spiked fist into the nearest Swatbot.
The two Sonics were racing about looking for more targets. They both closed in on a lone Swatbot, the last Swatbot still standing, in fact.
"I got him!" Sonic said
"No you don't! He's mine!" the other Sonic said.
In a rare display of intelligence, the Swatbot dodged and the two Sonics ran into each other!
"You dipshit! You let him get away!" Sonic said.
"Me? You're the one, pissbag!" the other Sonic said.
"Will you two stop it!" Amy shouted. "God!"
"Just be glad we got rid of those Swatbots!" Sally said. "Now let's get out of here before that one that BOTH of you blue egomaniacs let get away brings back more."
Suddenly, Sonic realized somebody was missing. "Where's Tails?"
Everyone looked around. Finally, Amy screamed.
"He's over here! Oh my God! Come quick!"
The others raced to where Amy was. What they saw shocked them. Tails was lying on the ground. The burn and stream of blood on his side and chest told the whole story; he had been hit by a laser blast from a Swatbot.
Sonic leaned over his friend, listening for any sign of life.
"Sonic?" Amy asked. "Is he…?"
"He's alive." Sonic finally said. "But not for long if we don't get him back now!"
Without another word, Sonic picked up Tails and raced back towards Floating Island with him.
"Hang on buddy!" Sonic thought. "Just hang on!"
Rather cruel of me to end the chapter at this point isn't it? ^_~ Next up: Tails starts to recover on Floating Island, where he finds himself being cared for by a certain mongoose. (You all saw that coming, didn't you? ^_~) Relations between Sonic and Sonic continue to get worse. It's up to Amy and Sally to patch things up between them. All this and more in chapter 5!
Special announcement: I have another "top secret" project I've been working on at the same time as this chapter. Just keep your eyes open over the next few days. All I can say is it's about Sonic and Amy and it can best be described as a certain citrus fruit that starts with the letter "L" and ends with "emon." :P
Chapter 4
The next morning, a small group made their way through the Great Forest towards the ruins of what had once been Knothole Village. The two Sonics led the way, followed by Sally, Bunnie, Geoffrey, Hershey, Knuckles, Julie- Su, Tails, and Amy. Sally had wanted to take only a small party and did not really want her bodyguards Geoff and Hershey along, but her father had insisted. Sally feared that the larger the group, the harder it might be for them to get away quickly.
Amy and Tails walked together. "Amy? Have you seen that other version of me yet?" Tails asked.
"Yeah." Said Amy. "He's a cute little guy."
"Yeah, he may be cute; but he sure is nothing like me." Tails said.
"Ha! You should see that other me!" Amy said. "She's still a little kid! I mean, they call her Amy; but that can't really be me!"
"I know what you mean." Tails said. "They're so different from us… or maybe we're so different from them. I actually think it's really interesting, especially how they're so much younger than what we are. Who knows how many other versions of us might be out there? All of them totally different!"
"I suppose we should get to know the Amy and Tails from this world better." Amy said. "After all, they are us… sort of."
"Hmmm, well… can I tell you a secret?" Tails asked.
"Of course, Tails." Said Amy.
"Well, I…uhhhh… you seen that Mongoose that babysits them?" Tails said. "I think I'd like to get to know her better."
"Why, Tails!" Amy said. "Is that the sound of your hormones starting to kick in that I hear?"
Tails said nothing. He just blushed a little.
Sonic and Sonic walked at the front of the group. Sonic heard the other Sonic singing a tune: "Look out when he storms through! Sonic the Hedgehog! Don't doubt what he can do! Sonic the Hedgehog!"
"Hey, what's that?" Sonic asked.
"Oh, just a little song some fans wrote about me!" The other Sonic said with a grin. "Hasn't anybody ever written a song about your exploits?"
Sonic thought: "No they haven't." He had saved his world just as many times as this other Sonic has saved this one, but nobody had written a song about him! But Sonic wasn't gonna let this other Sonic show him up! Suddenly, he remembered a song he had heard on the radio back home that could fit him, so he quickly lied.
"Sure, they've done a song about me! It goes like this: 'It doesn't matter now what happens, I will never give up the fight…'"
"Not as catchy as my song." The other Sonic said.
"Ha! Shows how much you know!" Sonic said.
Sally and Amy were overhearing the whole thing. "There they go again!" Amy sighed.
"Yeah." Said Sally. "About the only thing they can agree on is that neither of them likes Geoffrey!"
"I stopped the Doomsday Project!"
"I stopped the Eclipse Cannon!"
Amy and Sally just rolled their eyes as they continued onward.
After a while, they came to a burned out area of forest; a charred wasteland in all directions.
"We're very close." Sally said.
That was when everyone became aware of the smell.
"God! What is that stench?" Sonic asked.
But before anyone could answer. Sonic saw bones lying before him. Bones… and rotting flesh.
"Holy shit!" He shouted.
"These are the ones who died when Robotnik attacked Knothole." Sally said softly. "He didn't take them off to be roboticized, he just killed them and left their bodies rotting here as a warning to us." Sally was trying to stay composed, but she clearly appeared as if she were about to break down.
"Dear God!" Sonic said as became aware of dozens of more bodies. This was even more than he could take.
Amy saw the body of a purple female hedgehog who looked to be about her age. An image of terror was still frozen on her dead face. Amy cried uncontrollably.
Tails vomited.
"We're sorry you had to see this." Sally said. "But you had to know just what kind of man our Robotnik is."
"He's even worse than our Robotnik!" Sonic said. "If that's possible!"
"You can't bury these poor souls?" Amy asked, still transfixed on the body of the female hedgehog.
"We've had volunteers try." Sally said. "But Robotnik keeps Swatbot patrols around the area. Many of the burial parties have ended up dead or roboticized themselves. That's why we can't stay long."
The green Knuckles, who had been silent up until now, spoke up. "I think we have company right now! I can feel them!"
"Me too, rad re—I mean green!" the other Sonic said.
Before anyone else could react, about twenty Swatbots appeared seemingly out of nowhere!
"Surrender and prepare for complete robotization."
"I don't think so!" Sonic said. He spin dashed the nearest one, smashing it to pieces.
"Just watch this, me!" the other Sonic said. He horizontally sliced through two Swatbots. "Two for one! Top that!"
"Do you two have to compete even now?" Sally shouted to them.
"Sally! Look out!" Amy leaped past Sally, her hammer appearing in her hand. Amy swung like a big league slugger, taking the head right off the Swatbot who had been behind Sally!
"Whoa!" Sally said. "I owe you one! How do you do that thing with the hammer?"
Geoffrey and Hershey rushed to Sally's side. "Princess! Get behind us!" Geoff said.
"I'm not some fragile china doll, you two!" Sally said. "I can take care of myself!"
"King Maximillian's orders, your highness!" Geoffrey said. "We can't let anything happen to you!"
Everyone else, meanwhile, had spread out in all directions to attack the Swatbots. Bunnie faced down a pair of them. "C'mon, you damn Yankee machines!" she said, just before introducing both of them to her metallic fist.
Knuckles and Julie-Su stood with their backs to each other, bashing away at any Swatbot that dared to come near them.
"This is a good workout; isn't it, honey?" Julie-Su said.
No response from Knuckles.
"Y'know, since that whole Chaos Siphon thing I barely get even a grunt out of you!" she said.
Knuckles just smashed his spiked fist into the nearest Swatbot.
The two Sonics were racing about looking for more targets. They both closed in on a lone Swatbot, the last Swatbot still standing, in fact.
"I got him!" Sonic said
"No you don't! He's mine!" the other Sonic said.
In a rare display of intelligence, the Swatbot dodged and the two Sonics ran into each other!
"You dipshit! You let him get away!" Sonic said.
"Me? You're the one, pissbag!" the other Sonic said.
"Will you two stop it!" Amy shouted. "God!"
"Just be glad we got rid of those Swatbots!" Sally said. "Now let's get out of here before that one that BOTH of you blue egomaniacs let get away brings back more."
Suddenly, Sonic realized somebody was missing. "Where's Tails?"
Everyone looked around. Finally, Amy screamed.
"He's over here! Oh my God! Come quick!"
The others raced to where Amy was. What they saw shocked them. Tails was lying on the ground. The burn and stream of blood on his side and chest told the whole story; he had been hit by a laser blast from a Swatbot.
Sonic leaned over his friend, listening for any sign of life.
"Sonic?" Amy asked. "Is he…?"
"He's alive." Sonic finally said. "But not for long if we don't get him back now!"
Without another word, Sonic picked up Tails and raced back towards Floating Island with him.
"Hang on buddy!" Sonic thought. "Just hang on!"
Rather cruel of me to end the chapter at this point isn't it? ^_~ Next up: Tails starts to recover on Floating Island, where he finds himself being cared for by a certain mongoose. (You all saw that coming, didn't you? ^_~) Relations between Sonic and Sonic continue to get worse. It's up to Amy and Sally to patch things up between them. All this and more in chapter 5!
Special announcement: I have another "top secret" project I've been working on at the same time as this chapter. Just keep your eyes open over the next few days. All I can say is it's about Sonic and Amy and it can best be described as a certain citrus fruit that starts with the letter "L" and ends with "emon." :P