Here is the scoop for this one:
In order to give more storyline for this episode, it is told by Trip so we can have diversity. Lets get the story from the other members of Julie's team…
Episode 2: Pathways
Hello there I am Trip the Timber wolf; I am nineteen years old and live in neo Robotropolis with my friends.
I am one of the last members of the Malganic tribe, a slowly dieing Mobian race. I normally wear red shirt, white gloves on my hands, blue pants and green sneakers.
My first meeting with Julie Ann was interesting, I remembered being frightened when she came down to greet me. Silver coated roboticized cat with bright red eyes, which looked like something that came out of a horror movie. But soon she seemed nice and kind, someone who I can trust and rely on. Julie Ann might not be fur and blood anymore but I think she has a heart of gold.
Mint was also interesting, she was a cute little mint colored hedgehog that always wore that sonic fan club hat on her cute head. She told great jokes and had a huge smile on her face.
Scott seemed depressed, his poor wife was roboticized at the battle of Foxes/ Robots row [now neo Robotropolis] however he had good stories to tell, I liked him quite a lot.
Vash was the strange one, she seemed hateful and hurt and no matter how many times I tried to get through to her she backed off. She had that power suit of hers that had incredible power, and she was just as strong as Julie.
Cammie was Julie's aunt, she seemed troubled by the fact that Julie was roboticized and almost became a mindless drone. She was hurt but not like Vash, she was still a nice girl and she became a good friend of mine.
Any way to our next mission, we made our way to the next town called Robotown, the former home of Bunnie Rabbot. It was a miserable place and security was much more tight here then Mobicana. A worker bot plant was here, this place was a torture chamber and I wanted it gone soon.
I had lost my Malganic powers until next week but I was still willing to fight, I knew a lot of fighting techniques thanks to sparing matches with Vash, she taught me all sorts of things and gave me scars to remember them by.
The plan was for Julie to go in alone, with Mint inside her metal shell. Julie discovered that she could remove some of her parts and put small Mobians in her chest, the reason for that was when Julie was done destroying things she could trap Mobian in this compartment so he or she can be roboticized.
However Julie was free from Robotnik and now was using that compartment for carrying Mint into the main base so Mint could sabotage the main reactor.
From what Mint told me later she said that it was stuffy inside her, but she did enjoy the ride.
Julie told her to keep quiet as she made her way to the town. Julie made sure she disguised herself so she used the parts she took out and made herself look like a normal worker bot.
She walked down to the town and was successful in putting Mint inside the base. She kept watch over Mints progress and when it was safe, she put her parts back and charged up to full power. We waited for our signal and when it came we headed out, Vash lead the charge and she blasted every swat bot in sight.
I had my fists ready and I knocked out swat bots left and right, I had the duty of retrieving Mint.
Mint awaited me at the corner, she had been fighting off some of the swat bots with her twin yoyos and she ran to me screaming "MAN THEASE BOTS ARE NASTY! HELP ME TRIP!" I was ready for them; I gave them kicks and punch and knocked them down. Of course my body hurt afterwards but for now I was the victor, my new techniques would useful when I couldn't use my Malganic powers.
I saw Julie up in the sky; the roboticized cat had made sure that we were covered from above. Mint and I ran around each street and headed for the center of the town, where the master tower was. The master tower was where the main control room was, this is where worker bots were stationed to control other worker bots and they were controlled by one of Robotniks badniks or a master computer.
This one was controlled by a badnik called Metalious who we heard of thanks to some of the free Robians, they knew of him because he roboticized some of them. Mint and I made our way into the tower and went up, Julie was outside making sure no one was coming from behind. Vash was already ahead of us, she had cleared a path for Mint and I.
A few floors up we had to fight some more squads of bots, Scott and Cammie were waiting for us here. The building was packed with bots, a swat bot here a worker bot there this was a building of bots.
We finally made our way up to the last floor, Vash was standing there waiting for us and she said, "It's about time you got here!" She blasted the door and we came in.
When we saw him Metalious looked like a robot dragon, with large metal wings and red eyes. Vash came up to him and said "Metalious your time has come, you will feel my pain!" Metalious looked at her and said "Ah Vash, its about time you came! And I see you brought friends!"
Vash looked furious and said "You will pay for what you done!" She didn't explain what exactly what he did other then roboticizing and ruling this town but she blasted him several times, I saw great rage coming from her absolute hate and vengeance.
She blasted him again and again and soon those red colored eyes faded out, she took a deep breath and I sort of heard her say "I wish that was him…" and at the time I thought it was Robotnik she was talking about. Later after Julie was able to free the worker bots from Robotniks control, she introduced me to some of our new friends. Vash was sitting down on the ground doing something with her arm, I couldn't see what she was doing but she seemed hurt and agitated.
Mint was playing with a robotic fox kid who she made friends with, she didn't seem as scared of Robians thanks to Julie.
I eventually caught up with Julie, Scott and Cammie. Scott and Cammie were talking over the battle results and when I came close they knew I wanted to talk to Julie, they went over to another part of the main square and I sat down. The roboticized cat was checking over her metal body, she looked at me with those red eyes, and said cheerfully "Hey Trip how are you!" I knew she might have been smiling on the inside because she couldn't smile on the outside thanks to the roboticizations affect on her, it had turned her mouth into a speaker and she always talked in a synthesized version voice despite her free will.
I rubbed my hands and said "I am fine, and how was your day?"
"Same as usual" she said cheerfully but I knew what she saw in the heads of those poor robots, she told me before what kind of mental torture they had suffered and that she knew the same thing could of happened to her. She came closer to me and said "Hey trip do you like me?"
"Of course I do! You are a good girl, and I think that even if you are a robot you have a good heart."
She looked at me, her red eyes glowed bright and went back to normal. For a second I thought that Robotnik got to her but she said "Trip, because I cant smile I will try to let you know I am happy by lighting my eyes up, okay?" I smiled and said "okay" and her eyes lit up bright red again.
Story by queen mecha.