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A/N: Just like an original SU episode, there's a song... good thing is, this is NOT a childish short song.
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CHAPTER 11: "Born In The U.S.A."
The sun rose as the SU van drove into the Sanctuary entrance. The van stopped and a crowd of children were playing outside. The three hedgehogs and Ryan stepped outside where they met Cyrus and Trevor.
"Glad you four made it," Cyrus said.
"You sure I'll be safe here?" Ryan asked.
"Of course. Robotnik doesn't know about this place," Sonic said. The five furries walked on leaving Ryan alone. Ryan walked around the forest-like place that looks a bit like Knothole from SatAM.
"You okay Ryan?" Sonic asked from behind.
"Yeah, I'm fine. This place looks a lot like Knothole," Ryan said.
"Huh?"
"Sorry, wrong show," Ryan quickly said.
"We can give you anything you need, Ryan," Sonic said. Ryan smiled at that.
"In case Robotnik does find me here, I need guns. Lots of guns," Ryan said.
"Sorry, we don't have any but we have a bunch of metal and lead and a metal shop," Sonic said.
***
In the metal shop of Sanctuary, Sonia, Manic, and Ryan are inside each with diagram books.
"You two know how to carve and sculpt metal and how to work these tools?" Ryan asked.
"Yeah, I made my motorcycle with this stuff," Sonia said.
"I made my board with this stuff," Manic said.
"Good. You two want to learn marksmanship?" Ryan asked. The two made confused looks on their faces. "You wanna learn how to shoot guns pin- point well?"
"Oh, yeah," the two said.
"Follow these instructions," Ryan said pointing to the books.
Hours and hours later, the three have goggles on while they make and assemble all sort of gun parts. Sonia made all the bullets, Manic made all the gun parts, and Ryan assembled the parts together. Once they were done, they made three MP-5 submachine guns, 1 M-4 Carbine assault rifle, 3 double- bladed, six inch daggers, and two M9 barettes knowing that Ryan already has one of his own.
"Let's test," Ryan said.
***
All afternoon, Sonia, Manic, and Ryan practiced their marksmanship by shooting targets 60 yards away using every gun they have.
Once done, they walked up and looked at their targets. All three of them have hit their marks no more than an inch from the bullseyes.
"Outstanding shooting, you two. If I were an officer, I'd award you two with the marksmanship badges of Expert," Ryan said. Sonia and Manic high-fived.
***
"Go!" Ryan yelled.
Sonia and Manic engaged in a karate fight. Manic was easily taken down in less than three seconds.
"Good job, Sonia. Try again, Manic. Remember, stand to the side and kick for the legs," Ryan said.
Sonia and Manic engaged in another karate fight. As an hour passed, Manic has been able to be good and took down Sonia a few times.
***
Ryan, Sonia, and Manic tossed their daggers at the bullseyes. Manic hit the bullseye dead-on. Ryan's dagger was only a half an inch from the bullseye... Sonia completely missed the target board flew right passed them and into a school room.
"Hey! You ripped my picture!" a kid yelled from the room! Sonia just cringed embarrassingly.
Another hours has gone by, and the three were able to mark their bullseyes dead on!
***
The next few hours were nothing more than PT, obstacle courses, BWT (Basic Warrior Training), and they even made their own Crucible! Both Sonia and Manic were able to beat Ryan a few times.
***
(Victory music) Sonia and Manic ran up the stairs to a huge Capital building and Ryan was trailing behind. Sonia and Manic made it to the top of their stairs and they cheered in victory.
"We did it!" Sonia cheered.
"We're the best!" Manic cheered.
***
That night, everybody was given bunks to sleep in. Ryan had his own. Sonic shared with his brother and sister, and Cyrus and Trevor had their own too. All the kids are fast asleep. Cyrus, Trevor, and Sonic are all asleep, too. Ryan lay in bed still awake. He kept on looking out the window hoping to bet back home.
Sonia and Manic are still outside doing PT. Both are doing push-ups simultaneously.
"46, 47, 48, 49, 50," both of them said. They stopped their pushups. They picked up some towels and wiped their sweaty faces.
"Someday, Sonic will be in trouble and we'll have to save him!" Sonia said happily.
"I hope it's soon," Manic said. The two carefully walked in the room not to wake up Sonic.
Ryan stayed asleep in his bed thinking about home. He had some more visions before he fell asleep.
Ryan's point of view is seen jumping over a wall in a grassy field with a bunch of other teenagers in uniforms.
Next, Ryan visioned a PE teacher in a weight room.
"You grab his arm like this, and you kick behind his leg," the teacher said.
"Thanks for the advice, Mr. Paterson," Ryan said.
Last, Ryan saw himself at the CAP meeting place with a Marine, formerly in the Corps, teaching him Infantry movements.
Ryan then fell asleep.
***
"What do you mean Ryan escaped?!" Robotnik yelled. In front of him are a nervous Sleet and Dingo.
"Well, you see, sir, he got away," Sleet said.
"Yeah, and he knows about the information about the Dimensional Matter Displacer. I told him," Dingo said.
"Dingo! You idiot!" Sleet yelled.
"It's okay. We can make a copy of the files," Robotnik said. He turned his chair around and faced a computer. After typing a few things on it, he turned around again.
"Files are being copied. They'll be done in exactly 12 hours. That way, Ryan will never get home and we can take as many civilians as we please. Just make sure Ryan doesn't know about this and keep him away from it," Robotnik said.
"We will, your humble, sir," Sleet said.
Not too far, Queen Aleena is hiding in the vents as he heard Robotnik.
"Shit," she said to herself as she slowly crawled backwards.
***
Ryan walked around the dirt path of Sanctuary as the sun shown bright. Sonic sped up to Ryan with Cyrus and Trevor.
"Ryan, have you seen Sonia and Manic?" Sonic asked.
"We can't find them anywhere," Cyrus said.
"Haven't seen them," Ryan said. Then a voice spoke behind them.
"We're right here," Sonia said.
"How do we look?" Manic asked.
The four turned around to face the two hedgehogs... their jaws dropped when they looked at them. Both Sonia and Manic are wearing camouflage BDU's and combat boots. Not only that, they had web gear and packs on their backs. Also, they had camouflaged bucket hats, and their faces are covered in green and black paint! In their arms are two M-4 Carbines with M-203 grenade launchers.
"Whoa..." Sonic, Cyrus, and Trevor said at the same time.
"You two look like me when I'm at work," Ryan said smiling. Sonic, Cyrus, and Trevor were just stunned to see Sonia and Manic dressed as if they're going into combat.
"Glad you like them. Took us all morning to make them," Sonia said.
"Don't worry, the kids love the uniforms," Manic said.
"Well, at least we found you two, another thing, my medallion is missing!" Sonic said in fear.
"It's okay, I had with me all morning," Ryan said taking it out of his pocket.
"What were you doing with Sonic's medallion?" Cyrus asked.
"Playing guitar," Ryan said.
"You play guitar?" Sonic asked.
"But of course. I'm really good at it," Ryan said.
"Can you play songs really well?" Trevor asked.
"Very well. In fact, there's a song that describes me here on Mobius that I know of. Wanna hear it?" Ryan asked.
"Sure, play away," Sonic said. The kids overheard the conversation that a song was going to be played. They all ran from what they were playing and ran to watch the music.
Ryan touched Sonic's medallion and Sonic guitar formed around Ryan.
Manic touched his medallion and his drumset appeared in front of him.
Sonia touched her medallion and her keyboard synthesizer appeared fore her!
They all got ready to play a song!
(The song started out as hard drum beating and synthesizer playing. Ryan sung:)
Born down in a dead man's town The first kick I took was when I hit the ground, You end up like a dog that's been beat too much'Til you spend half you like just to cover it up,
Born in the U.S.A. I was born in the U.S.A. I was born in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A.
(Ryan played the guitar along with the music)
Got in a little hometown jam So they put a rifle in my hand, Sent me off to a foreign land To go and kill the yellow man,
Born in the U.S.A. I was born in the U.S.A. I was born in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A.
Gone back home to the refinery Hiring man said, "Son, if it was up to me," Went down to see my VA man He said, "Son, don't you understand,"
(it was instrumental for about a minute)
I had a brother at Ka Sahn Fighting off the Viet Cong, They're still there He's all gone,
He had a woman he loved in Saigon I got a picture of him in her arms, now
(it was instrumental for a few seconds... as soon as Ryan sung again, the music slowed to just drum beats)
Down in the shadow of the peneterery Out by the gas fires of the refinery, I'm ten years burning down the road No where to run, no where to go,
Born in the U.S.A. I was born in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A. I'm a long gone daddy in the U.S.A.
(music kicked up again)
Born in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A. I'm a cool rocking daddy in the U.S.A.
(the music kept up on playing)
"Whoa whoa whoa whoa," Ryan sung as the music kept playing. "Whoa whoa whoa whoa."
(music kept going)
Ryan began yelling to the music. He soon stopped.
(once he stopped, the music went wild! Manic banged his drum all over the place and Sonia played all the keys everywhere, and Ryan kept strumming the guitar everywhere, music was going wild!!!)
"1, 2, 3, 4!" Ryan yelled.
(the music went back to it's correct tune. The music slowly faded...)
TO BE CONTINUED...
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A/N: "Born in the U.S.A." is copyright Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, 1984. Lyrics and music by Bruce Springsteen.
=====================================================
A/N: Just like an original SU episode, there's a song... good thing is, this is NOT a childish short song.
=====================================================
CHAPTER 11: "Born In The U.S.A."
The sun rose as the SU van drove into the Sanctuary entrance. The van stopped and a crowd of children were playing outside. The three hedgehogs and Ryan stepped outside where they met Cyrus and Trevor.
"Glad you four made it," Cyrus said.
"You sure I'll be safe here?" Ryan asked.
"Of course. Robotnik doesn't know about this place," Sonic said. The five furries walked on leaving Ryan alone. Ryan walked around the forest-like place that looks a bit like Knothole from SatAM.
"You okay Ryan?" Sonic asked from behind.
"Yeah, I'm fine. This place looks a lot like Knothole," Ryan said.
"Huh?"
"Sorry, wrong show," Ryan quickly said.
"We can give you anything you need, Ryan," Sonic said. Ryan smiled at that.
"In case Robotnik does find me here, I need guns. Lots of guns," Ryan said.
"Sorry, we don't have any but we have a bunch of metal and lead and a metal shop," Sonic said.
***
In the metal shop of Sanctuary, Sonia, Manic, and Ryan are inside each with diagram books.
"You two know how to carve and sculpt metal and how to work these tools?" Ryan asked.
"Yeah, I made my motorcycle with this stuff," Sonia said.
"I made my board with this stuff," Manic said.
"Good. You two want to learn marksmanship?" Ryan asked. The two made confused looks on their faces. "You wanna learn how to shoot guns pin- point well?"
"Oh, yeah," the two said.
"Follow these instructions," Ryan said pointing to the books.
Hours and hours later, the three have goggles on while they make and assemble all sort of gun parts. Sonia made all the bullets, Manic made all the gun parts, and Ryan assembled the parts together. Once they were done, they made three MP-5 submachine guns, 1 M-4 Carbine assault rifle, 3 double- bladed, six inch daggers, and two M9 barettes knowing that Ryan already has one of his own.
"Let's test," Ryan said.
***
All afternoon, Sonia, Manic, and Ryan practiced their marksmanship by shooting targets 60 yards away using every gun they have.
Once done, they walked up and looked at their targets. All three of them have hit their marks no more than an inch from the bullseyes.
"Outstanding shooting, you two. If I were an officer, I'd award you two with the marksmanship badges of Expert," Ryan said. Sonia and Manic high-fived.
***
"Go!" Ryan yelled.
Sonia and Manic engaged in a karate fight. Manic was easily taken down in less than three seconds.
"Good job, Sonia. Try again, Manic. Remember, stand to the side and kick for the legs," Ryan said.
Sonia and Manic engaged in another karate fight. As an hour passed, Manic has been able to be good and took down Sonia a few times.
***
Ryan, Sonia, and Manic tossed their daggers at the bullseyes. Manic hit the bullseye dead-on. Ryan's dagger was only a half an inch from the bullseye... Sonia completely missed the target board flew right passed them and into a school room.
"Hey! You ripped my picture!" a kid yelled from the room! Sonia just cringed embarrassingly.
Another hours has gone by, and the three were able to mark their bullseyes dead on!
***
The next few hours were nothing more than PT, obstacle courses, BWT (Basic Warrior Training), and they even made their own Crucible! Both Sonia and Manic were able to beat Ryan a few times.
***
(Victory music) Sonia and Manic ran up the stairs to a huge Capital building and Ryan was trailing behind. Sonia and Manic made it to the top of their stairs and they cheered in victory.
"We did it!" Sonia cheered.
"We're the best!" Manic cheered.
***
That night, everybody was given bunks to sleep in. Ryan had his own. Sonic shared with his brother and sister, and Cyrus and Trevor had their own too. All the kids are fast asleep. Cyrus, Trevor, and Sonic are all asleep, too. Ryan lay in bed still awake. He kept on looking out the window hoping to bet back home.
Sonia and Manic are still outside doing PT. Both are doing push-ups simultaneously.
"46, 47, 48, 49, 50," both of them said. They stopped their pushups. They picked up some towels and wiped their sweaty faces.
"Someday, Sonic will be in trouble and we'll have to save him!" Sonia said happily.
"I hope it's soon," Manic said. The two carefully walked in the room not to wake up Sonic.
Ryan stayed asleep in his bed thinking about home. He had some more visions before he fell asleep.
Ryan's point of view is seen jumping over a wall in a grassy field with a bunch of other teenagers in uniforms.
Next, Ryan visioned a PE teacher in a weight room.
"You grab his arm like this, and you kick behind his leg," the teacher said.
"Thanks for the advice, Mr. Paterson," Ryan said.
Last, Ryan saw himself at the CAP meeting place with a Marine, formerly in the Corps, teaching him Infantry movements.
Ryan then fell asleep.
***
"What do you mean Ryan escaped?!" Robotnik yelled. In front of him are a nervous Sleet and Dingo.
"Well, you see, sir, he got away," Sleet said.
"Yeah, and he knows about the information about the Dimensional Matter Displacer. I told him," Dingo said.
"Dingo! You idiot!" Sleet yelled.
"It's okay. We can make a copy of the files," Robotnik said. He turned his chair around and faced a computer. After typing a few things on it, he turned around again.
"Files are being copied. They'll be done in exactly 12 hours. That way, Ryan will never get home and we can take as many civilians as we please. Just make sure Ryan doesn't know about this and keep him away from it," Robotnik said.
"We will, your humble, sir," Sleet said.
Not too far, Queen Aleena is hiding in the vents as he heard Robotnik.
"Shit," she said to herself as she slowly crawled backwards.
***
Ryan walked around the dirt path of Sanctuary as the sun shown bright. Sonic sped up to Ryan with Cyrus and Trevor.
"Ryan, have you seen Sonia and Manic?" Sonic asked.
"We can't find them anywhere," Cyrus said.
"Haven't seen them," Ryan said. Then a voice spoke behind them.
"We're right here," Sonia said.
"How do we look?" Manic asked.
The four turned around to face the two hedgehogs... their jaws dropped when they looked at them. Both Sonia and Manic are wearing camouflage BDU's and combat boots. Not only that, they had web gear and packs on their backs. Also, they had camouflaged bucket hats, and their faces are covered in green and black paint! In their arms are two M-4 Carbines with M-203 grenade launchers.
"Whoa..." Sonic, Cyrus, and Trevor said at the same time.
"You two look like me when I'm at work," Ryan said smiling. Sonic, Cyrus, and Trevor were just stunned to see Sonia and Manic dressed as if they're going into combat.
"Glad you like them. Took us all morning to make them," Sonia said.
"Don't worry, the kids love the uniforms," Manic said.
"Well, at least we found you two, another thing, my medallion is missing!" Sonic said in fear.
"It's okay, I had with me all morning," Ryan said taking it out of his pocket.
"What were you doing with Sonic's medallion?" Cyrus asked.
"Playing guitar," Ryan said.
"You play guitar?" Sonic asked.
"But of course. I'm really good at it," Ryan said.
"Can you play songs really well?" Trevor asked.
"Very well. In fact, there's a song that describes me here on Mobius that I know of. Wanna hear it?" Ryan asked.
"Sure, play away," Sonic said. The kids overheard the conversation that a song was going to be played. They all ran from what they were playing and ran to watch the music.
Ryan touched Sonic's medallion and Sonic guitar formed around Ryan.
Manic touched his medallion and his drumset appeared in front of him.
Sonia touched her medallion and her keyboard synthesizer appeared fore her!
They all got ready to play a song!
(The song started out as hard drum beating and synthesizer playing. Ryan sung:)
Born down in a dead man's town The first kick I took was when I hit the ground, You end up like a dog that's been beat too much'Til you spend half you like just to cover it up,
Born in the U.S.A. I was born in the U.S.A. I was born in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A.
(Ryan played the guitar along with the music)
Got in a little hometown jam So they put a rifle in my hand, Sent me off to a foreign land To go and kill the yellow man,
Born in the U.S.A. I was born in the U.S.A. I was born in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A.
Gone back home to the refinery Hiring man said, "Son, if it was up to me," Went down to see my VA man He said, "Son, don't you understand,"
(it was instrumental for about a minute)
I had a brother at Ka Sahn Fighting off the Viet Cong, They're still there He's all gone,
He had a woman he loved in Saigon I got a picture of him in her arms, now
(it was instrumental for a few seconds... as soon as Ryan sung again, the music slowed to just drum beats)
Down in the shadow of the peneterery Out by the gas fires of the refinery, I'm ten years burning down the road No where to run, no where to go,
Born in the U.S.A. I was born in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A. I'm a long gone daddy in the U.S.A.
(music kicked up again)
Born in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A. Born in the U.S.A. I'm a cool rocking daddy in the U.S.A.
(the music kept up on playing)
"Whoa whoa whoa whoa," Ryan sung as the music kept playing. "Whoa whoa whoa whoa."
(music kept going)
Ryan began yelling to the music. He soon stopped.
(once he stopped, the music went wild! Manic banged his drum all over the place and Sonia played all the keys everywhere, and Ryan kept strumming the guitar everywhere, music was going wild!!!)
"1, 2, 3, 4!" Ryan yelled.
(the music went back to it's correct tune. The music slowly faded...)
TO BE CONTINUED...
=====================================================
A/N: "Born in the U.S.A." is copyright Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, 1984. Lyrics and music by Bruce Springsteen.
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